Buffy the Vampire Slayer Comic BookThe thing with changing the world is, once you do, the worlds all different. This is a page for the current Dark Horse Comics series based on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The following examples may contain major spoilers for anyone who hasnt finished watching the television series, or who hasnt read the comics yet. Consider yourself forewarned. VERY forewarned. Two years have passed since the series ended and Willow activated all the Potential Slayers. Buffy had turned to stealing diamonds to help fund the Slayer Army and trying to find them all while still fighting vampires, demons and the forces of darkness. With the destruction of Sunnydale now everyone knows about the supernatural, unfortunately vampires and demons look like the innocent victims persecuted by Slayers and the government and army are out to stop them. Meanwhile a far greater threat lurks in the shadows, Twilight, aided and abetted by those closest to Buffy. Every last one of them. Almost Dead Guy Combining this with Heroic Sacrifice and Redemption Equals Death, Ethan Rayne gives his life to help Buffy. Arc Welding The end of the season sets up the the background of Fray, written 1. Art Shift In. Well Be Right Back Comics Dawnie is all over the place. Bathtub Bonding Occurs between Faith and Genevieve Savidge. Batman Grabs a Gun Series long she has had a deep seated hatred of firearms, even refusing to arm up herself when facing an army. Its rare that the first version of something is not considered canon, but such is the case with the 1992 feature film Buffy the Vampire Slayer, starring Kristy. Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 7 Characters WalkingWhen confronted by the psychotic Simone however Buffy does indeed grab a gun, using it to Shoot Out the Lock holding a Giant Spider to attack the crazed Slayer. Behemoth Battle One issue of the Season Eight comics features a fight between Giant Dawn and Mecha Dawn, while a delighted Xander watches. Betty and Veronica Willow is torn between Kennedy and Aluwyn. Bittersweet Ending The group manages to win the day and avert the apocalypse once more. But Giles is dead due to Buffys hesitation. All magic is gone with the destruction of the Seed of Wonder, meaning Willow is de powered. All slayers are viewed as terrorists thanks to much idiocy of a few rogue slayers, who squarely put the blame on Buffy. While vampires are accepted by society. On the upside, Faith takes Angel in to rehabilitate him and Buffy, despite everything thats happened, continues to fight the good fight. Bland Name Product Happy Cat, obviously intended to be Hello Kitty. Bookends Issue ones cover is similar to the last issues, Buffy, wearing a maroon tanktop and wielding the ax. The first issue, shes in a confident stance, while the final issues the page image above. Boom, Headshot Happens to Ethan Rayne and The General. Borrowed Catchphrase Buffy calls Twilight an ass clown. Brought Down to Normal Aiko a Slayer who squees when Buffy personally calls her after she is impressed the Japanese girl had killed a bunch of demons, is used as a test subject by vampires who want to depower the Slayers. They easily beat her to death and string her up as a warningthreat to Buffy. The Bus Came Back Actress Elisabeth R. Satsu kills him, retorts. All the characters have been stuck at the same age for the last three real world years. Season 8 takes place a year and a half after Season 7half a year after Angel Season 5 with the Angel and Spike comics in the half year between. Crossover Fray in Time of Your Life. Future Willow transports Buffy to the future. Detail Hogging Cover The covers are near photorealistic renditions of the actors, and the actual comics are much less detailed and much more stylized. The resemblance of the comic art to the actors can also vary greatly depending on the panel. An example of this would be here. Compare the art on the left to the art on the right, for instance. Distracted by the Sexy Subverted with Angel who, after seeing two attractive woman kiss, just wants to get on with the fight. Does This Remind You of Anything In Universe On the run Faith first hides in a bunker waiting for the end then escapes by train. Both are in Berlin, and she is disturbed at the implications. Doesnt Like Guns Its official, Buffy hates guns. The one time she allows the other Slayers to arm up when the army is gunning for them she still refuses to use one herself. The Doll Episode Dawn is transformed into a porcelain doll by a curse from her ex boyfriend. Double Entendre One possible trope this quote could be, the other being Accidental Innuendo. In Season 8, after Xander is forced to ride Centaurette Dawn causing her to get soaking wet, this exchange happens also repeated almost word for word in the Angel comics Xander Howre you feelingCentaurette Dawn Like I was ridden hard and put away wet. Xander AGH Dawn, thats dis oh. Its just true. Dramatic Unmask Subverted by Twilight in the Season Eight comics. His neck just itches. He later pulls this on Buffy. Exactly What It Says on the Tin Them F. Its Buffy and Angel. Flying Brick That one persons. You know the ones. They become this after getting a power up in Season EightGender Flip Done In Universe in Angel. There was a Hollywood movie Very Loosely Based on a True Story about The Fall, which had Spike as a woman. She then posesses The Slayer so she can guide her to where she is imprisoned. Groin Attack Buffy just cant stay away from Angels privates can she Heroic Build While Angel from the show is known for his hunky yet not overly lean body that gets generously shown, he has a standard bodybuilder build in most of the comic continuations. The same goes for Spike, Xander and Riley, even though each of their television incarnations have different physiques. Even Connor has this in the Angel comics, despite being pretty skinny in the show. Heroic B. S. O. D. Angel at the end of Season 8 after realizing he killed Giles. Heroic Sacrifice Ethan. Horror Hunger Dawn, when changed into a centaurette, mentions a craving for hay. Remember, she still looks human from her body up. Humongous Mecha Dawn fights a Mecha Dawncomplete with a tail in Tokyo while still a giant. Immediate Self Contradiction Buffy works out that she was woken by a True Loves Kiss from Satsu, a fellow slayer. She tells her that they cant be with each other. Then Buffy sleeps with her. Then reverting to the way she was with Spike Buffy again tries to break off the romance, then sleeps with Satsu again. Incredibly Lame Pun The next universe is started by Buffy and Angel having sex all over the planet and in space. Brings a new meaning to Big Bang, doesnt it Another slayer says they really fucked things up, literally. Insistent Terminology Centaurette, not centaur. It Always Rains at Funerals Giles funeral. Karma Houdini Spike points out that almost everyone has been evil at one point, and that most of them get away with it after he Becomes The Costume in a season six Angel comic. Kill It with Fire Renee lures a vampire before Buffy attacks it, then flicks a lighter and gives a Psychotic Smirk as Willow douses him in petroleum. After Buffy interrogates him he pleads for his life, saying he answered her questions, she has to let him go. Like You Would Really Do It Angel dying in After The Fall. Of course theres a Reset Button. The Magic Goes Away. Mildly Military Buffy treats the Slayer army as a real one, however as she was a shockingly bad instructor and Xander is the only one with any military knowledge they make do as amateurs. The Mole Riley. Moment Killer. Willow blames Angel. No Bisexuals Similar to Willow in the TV series, but reversed after Buffy and Satsu hook up, several good reasons are given why they cant stay together, but apparently the main reason is that the former is The possibility isnt so much as alluded to. Later, we get Kennedy saying. Her straightness is treated as just obvious. An offhand comment by Faith indicates she isnt bisexual. Really into a Romantic Two Girl Friendship perhaps, but as she says if you want her to go down on a woman you have the wrong chosen one. Buffy the Vampire Slayer Premiered 2. Years Ago Today Pic. Spam canceled TV shows. Id sing, Happy Birthday, but like the course of true love, Buffy birthdays never did run smooth, so this is decidedly an anniversary celebration, instead. Twenty years ago today, on Monday, March 1. Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV show premiered on the now defunct netlet, The WB. Television, and the internet too, have never been the same. Check out our epic Bt. VS picspam from the two part premiere episodes, Welcome to the Hellmouth and The Harvest, with a promo shot and bonus screencaps from later episodes, all courtesy of screencapped. From creator Joss Whedon, Buffy the Vampire Slayer starred Sarah Michelle Gellar in the title role. Over its seven seasons and 1. Anthony Head, Alyson Hannigan, Nicholas Brendon, Charisma Carpenter, David Boreanaz, Kristine Sutherland, Seth Green, Robia La. Morte, James Marsters, Emma Caulfield, Michelle Trachtenberg, Amber Benson, Seth Green, Marc Blucas, Danny Strong, Tom Lenk, Eliza Dushku, and Armin Shimerman and more. On March 1. 0, 1. A Clinton was President of the United States. Life is so very different now, so lets re establish the mood. Into every generation a slayer is born one girl in all the world, a chosen one. She alone will wield the strength and skill to fight the vampires, demons, and the forces of darkness to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their number. She is the Slayer. Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV Series Premiere Part I Welcome to the HellmouthBt. VS was a lovely, subversive work, from the start. Remember Darla Julie Benz breaking into Sunnydale High with a guy, and it looked like she was going to be vamp kibble, any secondYeah, that happens much less often on Joss y good TV. Welcome to the Hellmouth, bitca. It wasnt the cute blonde girl in the parochial school uniform in danger. She was the thing that went bump in the night. Meanwhile, her boy toy ended up as the extreme dead guy in Auras locker. Good times. The next morning would see Buffy Summers Sarah Michelle Gellar wake after an unsettling prophetic dream about The Master Mark Metcalf and a horde of vampires. It was in the light of day that she had to face something even more terrifying, though her first day at a new High School. Say it with me, Slayerettes High School is Hell. Fun fact because Bt. VS premiered mid season, the whole first season was shot before the premiere episode aired. This allowed Joss to sift through footage from all 1. Buffys season one dream sequences. Oh, look at poor Joyce Kristine Sutherland. Dont you miss her and her stilted stabs at positive parenting Have a good time. I know youre gonna make friends right away. Just think positive. Try not to get kicked out. Wanting to be a good daughter, Buffy said, I promise. And she did try, Joyce. Its just that these things werent always in her control, but Im getting way ahead of myself. Since a new school can be so daunting, its a shame none of Buffys prophetic dreams introduced her to some of the people whose love, support, and assistance would make her into the most successful slayer, ever her friends. Here comes one, now. Meet Xander Harris Nicholas Brendon. Never shying from visual anvils, Whedon made sure we understood that with just one look. Id say he was slain, but the connotations of that word are far more serious, on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Still, Willow Rosenberg Alyson Hannigan was there to help him to his feet, as well as with his problem with the math. Check out Theories in Trig. Jesse Eric Balfour summed up his in depth analysis thusly New girl. I agree, Xander. Jesse certainly was a font of nothing. Meanwhile, Buffy had to meet with Principal Bob Flutie Ken Lerner. Although at first he tried to act all cool and progressive, once Flutie ripped up Buffys record from Hemery High School in L. A., he got a gander at it, and began taping it back together. I really did. But youre not seeing the big picture, here. I mean, that gym was full of vampi asbestos. After Flutie serviced her needs, the discomfort was far from over. Upon leaving the Principals office. Buffy walked smack dab into two students in the hallway and spilled the contents of her purse onto the floor. It seems her slayer reflexes were having an off day. This gave Xander the chance to swoop in for the rescue, which he promptly blew by blurting out, Can I have you He corrected himself and provided Buffy with a sorely needed chuckle. His awkwardness, however, did not dissipate. From, Xander is me, to Maybe Ill see you around. Maybe at school He didnt even get to give her back her stake. From there, Buffy would meet pretty, popular Cordelia Chase Charisma Carpenter. While it first it seemed they might become fast friends, Buffy couldnt quite stomach Cordys softer side of Sears snark at Willow. It was then I realized this little blonde chick might well win me over. At first blush, Buffy couldnt stomach Sunnydale High librarian Rupert Giles, either. After he slammed that moldy old Vampyr book down on the counter, Buffy said, Thats not what Im looking for, and fled. Being a social hero as well as a supernatural one, Buffy purposefully sought out Willow on the premise of getting some help catching up, even though Willow was pretty sure that Buffy couldnt legally hang out with both her and Cordy. Buffys determination to reach out to this uneasy genius warmed my heart. Once they spotted Willow and new girl Xander and Jesse rushed over to chat them up. Xander, as Jesse so aptly put it, immediately turned into a bibbling idiot. He did, however, manage to return Buffys stake and didnt even laugh in her face when she claimed it was for self defense. Everyone has them in L. A. Pepper spray is just so pass. Totally dead. So not just a little dead, then, and no Cordy, Xander does not have an elsewhere to be. After investigating, and finding the boys corpse and noting the fang marks in his neck, Buffy seeks out Giles. When he asks if the victim will rise, Buffy says, No. To make you a vampire, they have to suck your blood, and then you have to suck their blood. Its like a whole big sucking thing. He reminds her of her duty, and explains Sunnydale is a monster magnet. Watch Sivaji Download Full on this page. Buffy doesnt care. Shes all, Go ahead, prepare me for the lives not a typo of suckitude shes about to experience, and then storms out. Its then, a confused Xander emerges from the stacks. Meanwhile, The Master is mystically trapped in the ruins of a church. His minion Luke Brian Thompson prays for the Sleeper to wake and the world to bleed. Amen. That night, Buffy departs for the Bronze, and on her way, realizes this fine, young fellow is stalking her. She gets the jump on him, though. Hey Angel, we thought youd never get here. Hello, Salty Goodness TM Cordelia. Gorgeous in an annoying sort of way, Angel laughs at her wee size, then gives Buffy some cryptic warnings about the Hellmouth, being ready for The Harvest, as well as some utilitarian jewelry, to boot. Finally at the Bronze in the bad part of town, just half a block away from the good part of town Buffy catches up with Willow, who isnt large with the mingling. I can usually make a few vowel sounds, and then I have to go away. Buffy laughs and shares her philosophy Life is short. Although she says its skanky for him to party with students, he insists hed rather be at home with a cup of Bovril and a good book. Together, they scan the Bronze for vampires and she tells him about Angels warning regarding The Harvest. Its then that Buffy spots the De. Barge vampire, leading Willow out of the Bronze. Buffy springs into action to save her fledgling friend, but almost stakes Cordelia, in the chase pun not intended, but enjoy it, all the same. Cordys all, What is your childhood trauma Once Buffy slinks off, Cordelia addresses her Cordettes. Meanwhile, beneath Sunnydale, Luke meets with The Master about The Harvest.