Buffy Summers

Buffy Anne Summers is the Personnage of fiction principal of the film Buffy, tueuse of vampires , the televised series Buffy against the vampires and of many spin-offs (novels, comics and video games). The character is interpreted by Kristy Swanson in film, by Sarah Michelle Gellar in the series and by Gisele Loren in the video games. In 2005, the American television channel Cheer TV which it was the 13th best character of all times.

Biography

History of the character

Buffy was born the January 19th 1981 from Hank & Joyce Summers with Los Angeles in California. At the eight years age, Buffy was very friendly with his/her Celia cousin, and have pleasure to play super heroin. It looked it without anything to be able to make while Celia was assassinated by Der Kindestod, a demon which killed the ill children and was only visible with those which were feverish. This experiment developed a fear of the hospitals in Buffy.

Buffy came to idolâtrer the Olympic skater Dorothy Hamill while she even learned ice-skating. It became a popular Pom pom girl with the college of Hemery with Los Angeles. During its years with Hemery (1995 - 1997), Buffy was elected princess of the ball of students and queen of the fiesta. At the fifteen years age, it started to have strange dreams and violent one about women of various times which fought the vampires. One day, Buffy was approached by Merrick, a mysterious man who revealed to him his destiny as a tueuse of vampires and became his first Observateur. After a little drive, Buffy overcame its first principal enemy, a chief of vampire called Lothos, but not before it kills initially Merrick.

In the battle with the vampiric henchmen of Lothos, Buffy put fire at the room of gym of its college and was returned later. After this combat, disorientated, she entrusts to her parents about her destiny of Tueuse of vampires. Anxious for its mental health, the parents of Buffy send it in a psychiatric medical center. It is from there that Buffy realized that it was useless of informr other people of the existence of demons and vampires. It kept thus its calm and was released after a few weeks. Buffy and its parents spoke again never again of that. Joyce and Hank divorced thereafter, and Buffy and its mother moved in 1630 Revello Drive with Sunnydale, a small town in California.

College of Sunnydale

At the time of the season one of the series, Buffy starts to accept the responsibilities and the dangers for which she was elected as tueuse. Hoping to be a coed like the others, Buffy fits in the local college and meets its friendly better futures, Alexandre Harris and Willow Rosenberg, as well as its new observer, Rupert Gilles. She also meets Cordelia Chase, surface, arrogant pom pom girl, and Angel, a vampire with a heart. Buffy is quickly of return in its role of tueuse while she and her new friends fight against the vampires, the monsters, and the demons. She approaches more close to Gilles, becoming thereafter the image of a father for her.

The first season relates to the battle of Buffy with a chief of vampire known under the name of the main old of a thousand of years, its protected, the Juste of the Juste, and the order of Aurelius. When Gilles studies Perganum codex works infallible prediction, he predicts the death of Buffy in a combat against the Master, Buffy plans to leave the city, but accepts his destiny after Willow discovers the bodies of his/her friends killed by the vampires inside the school. At the time of the combat, Buffy was made bite with the blow then drowned by the Master; its death releases the Master and opens the doors of the hell, but Angel and Alex find Buffy and Alex makes him mouth with mouth. Buffy reinforced pushes the Master of the roof of the Lycée of Sunnydale, impaling it on the wood remainders of a broken office. After the end of school year, Buffy spends the summer with his/her father to Los Angeles.

In the second season, Buffy continues to fight the forces of the evil with his/her friends. It finds the love prohibited with Angel and of new combat with Spike and Drusilla, the new vampires downtown. It also made the meeting of the news Tueuse, Kendra Young, that which was done activated when Buffy drowned in the first season. Buffy loses its Virginité with Angel, raising the curse of Kalderash placed on him one century earlier. This made him lose its heart and becomes again then Angelus, the most infamous and bad vampire of the history. It is put at work to destroy the life of Buffy and joint Spike and Drusilla, which are put at the rebuilding work of a supernatural monster called the Judge. Facilitated by military knowledge and the weapons of Alex, Buffy thwarts their plans and carries out the Judge, but the pathological abuse Angelus continuous to take a heavy toll on Buffy and its friends.

Once confronted with the following plan of Angelus to destroy the world, Buffy accepts with back-plate an alliance with Spike, which wants to also stop Angelus. While preparing a plan with Spike, Buffy is forced to reveal its identity as tueuse with his/her mother, who requires that Buffy remain at the house to discuss it, saying to him that if it crossed the door, it will not return; Buffy, however, “will save the world, still. ” While Buffy fights Angelus, trying to prevent it from opening a vortex with a dimension of the hell, Willow recites a magic charm for Angel the purpose of which is to return its heart to him. The charm of successful return, and Buffy sees Angel returning to him; however, Angelus had already activated Acathla to open the passage and the death of Angel is the only manner of closing again it. Buffy stabs with Angel back-plate with a sword, sending it in Enfer and saving the world. Shocked by the test to have killed Angel and the sentence of her mother prohibiting to him to return, it leaves Sunnydale for Los Angeles.

In the season three, Buffy must include a contact with his/her friends and his family after her departure, as well as to make difficult decisions in the life relating to Angel. With Los Angeles, Buffy is waitress in a restaurant car under a false identity (it uses its second first name, Anne), trying to turn the back on its destiny. However, after the delivery of a démoniaque camp, Buffy returns in Sunnydale to face its own demons. At the same time trying to put an end has its relations with Angel. However, Angel returns mysteriously from the hell and Buffy is still in love with him.

While waiting, a tueuse news rebels, Faith, makes its appearance, it had been activated after the death of Kendra and has just arrived downtown. Faith is at the beginning allied powerful for Buffy, but their personalities in opposition lead to antagonism and acrimony while Faith shows its black side. Buffy tries to help Faith, which becomes increasingly destructive and unfair. Faith finds then a friend, the Mayor however sinister Richard Wilkins, which had at the founded beginning Sunnydale as asylum so that the demons feed there. The Mayor employs Faith so that it helps it to prepare the rise to which he will become a real demon the day of the handing-over of the diplomas, Buffy then works to thwart its plans and to organize a resistance. When she learns that Angel at the edge of death, is poisoned by Faith, the only means of curing it is the blood of Tueuse, Buffy, tries to kill Faith to save Angel in vain, their battle leaves Faith in the Coma, and Buffy saves finally Angel with its own blood. Then, it leads her classmates in a battle to his apogee against the mayor transformed into demon and its henchmen, outcome with an explosion which destroys the mayor as well as the college of Sunnydale. After smoke got clear, Angel leaves for Los Angeles so that Buffy can try to have a more normal life without him.

University

Season four, Buffy must balance its functions of tueuse with its new life as a coed at the university. Its difficulty of adjusting its life at the university is still complicated vis-a-vis the mystical threats (including/understanding, inter alia, a companion of démoniaque room, wolves-garous on the campus, a magic beer), the return of Spike, and to a one night history with Parker Abrams, a charming playboy. Buffy also tests a certain unhooking of his/her friends, which seems all to want to leave in various directions. It draws the sincere attention of Riley Finn, which is a member of the Initiative, a governmental work group of the United States created to seek and capture the mystical and démoniaques creatures. Buffy joint briefly its forces with the team of Riley, which is carried out by the Dr. Maggie Walsh, chief of the secret military organization and professor of psychology in Sunnydale. However, Riley and Buffy leave the initiative after professor Walsh has betrays Buffy, and thereafter Buffy, Riley, and his/her friends discover that professor Walsh had creates a race of superb warriors robots, fruits of the démoniaque research of the initiative. Its first project is Adam, a human hybrid demon cybernetics which escapes and tries to link all the races of demons against the human ones.

During this time, Faith awakes of its coma and, using a mystical device which is given to him by the mayor, permutes its body with that of Buffy. In the body of Faith, Buffy is captured by the members of the Council of the observers, which try to send it in England. She however manages to escape and convince Gilles who she is Buffy, and with the assistance of Willow and Tara, retransferer towards its body. Faith escapes from Los Angeles, where Buffy is dismayed to find it under the protection of Angel, which hopes to give it in the right way. Buffy must also to deal with Spike, which returns in Sunnydale and which is captured by the initiative, which establishes a chip in its head, making it unable to harm the human ones. Spike then provides its assistance and its information to Buffy and its friends in exchange of his protection. Buffy tolerates its presence but thinks that one cannot trust him, a confirmed suspicion when it is combined temporarily with Adam in a desperate attempt which it removes the chip of his head.

Although Buffy and its friends are distant during the season, Buffy, Alex, Willow and Gilles reconcile and combine their gasolines by a charm which helps Buffy to destroy Adam. In the final analysis, the government of the United States decides to stop the initiative which was decimated by the demons, as for Riley, it receives a honourable discharge of the armed .

Season five, Buffy still faces a greater danger, but always continues its destiny of tueuse. A little sister, Dawn, appear mysteriously in the life of Buffy. Its existence apparently integrated memories into Buffy, its friends and his mother, whose health starts to worsen. Buffy discovers after Dawn is not his/her true sister when it launches a fate which reveals the magic, and it learns soon that a group from monks with “transferred” in an human body (Dawn) the “key”, a cosmic energy which can open the interdimensionaux gates, of a mentally unstable and dangerous goddess known under the name of Gloria. Gloria seeks to use the key in order to open the gate between the ground and its démoniaque dimension, to seek revenge on those which had exiled it; unconscious that the barriers which separating the Earth from all the hells will tear, destroying fabric of reality. The monks had chosen Buffy to protect the key because it is the tueuse one and they know that it will protect her sister with her life.

During this time, Spike realizes that it fell in love with Buffy, there then help regularly Buffy with hunting for the demons, however, the night he remains hours in front of the house of Buffy, which irritates much Buffy. Gilles involves Buffy to produce a fate in the search of his identity of Tueuse, there the spirit of the first tueuse indicates to him that death is its gift, a message which it includes/understands with difficulty. The relationship between Buffy and Riley breaks, mainly because Riley does not feel concerned by their relation and prefers to leave with the initiative. While Buffy tries to recover another missed relation, it pushes back Spike of its advances and the désinvite of its house. Buffy is devastated shortly after by the death of his/her mother of a brain tumor.

While Gloria discovers which is the key, Buffy and its friends escape with Dawn, Gloria and the knights of Byzantium, an army of warriors, with the continuation. After a battle prolonged in the desert, Dawn is captured by Gloria and to be sacrificed. Buffy, feels guilty removal of Dawn, and fall into a psychic coma, Willow penetrates the spirit of Buffy to give again confidence to him. After that, Buffy, Spike, and his/her friends attacks in force the troop of Gloria. Dawn is attached and in spite of efforts of each one, a demon employs the blood of Dawn to open the gate interdimensionel. Buffy overcomes Gloria and, finally, included/understood the significance of the message of the first tueuse one, was thrown then in the mystical source, sacrificing its life to save Dawn, closed again the gate and the magic economy of the world. It is buried with the cemetery of Sunnydale with like engraving, “It has often to save the world”. Finally able to rest, Buffy goes up to the Paradis and finds peace.

Resurection

Season six, Buffy faces its with dimensions black that it qualifies Dépression and of loss. Buffy is ressuscitée by his/her friends during a ritual malefic carried out by Willow. His/her friends believe that the ritual does not function, but Buffy awakes in its coffin and is forced to extirpate itself some. Its return to its terrestrial life is difficult to support, it considers it regrettable that his/her friends brought back it on ground, it must now raise Dawn besides only and must face the money problems. Since his/her friends believe that they saved it of a démoniaque dimension (As Angel had been in Achatla), she does not say to anybody that she returns from the sky, she will entrust later to Spike and insists on the fact that it must maintain the secrecy.

After that, Buffy falls into a major depression and begins sexual relations with Spike, but which do not satisfy it at all. She will admit to him later that she did nothing but make use of him and decides to stop this relation which is killing her. Later, Spike tries to violate Buffy in its bathroom; Buffy is defended and been able to push back it, and Spike, disgusted of what it has just done, leaves Sunnydale in the search of its heart.

Buffy is forced to repair the problems which its close relations encounter, as well the Cleptomanie of Dawn as leaning the magic disproportionate one of Willow. She is also frustrated by her new enemies, the Trio, which is composed of Warren Mears, Andrew Wells and Jonathan Levinson, whose rather comic crimes develop and become maléfiques during the Season. Thereafter, Warren, furious that Buffy thwarted its plans once again, car on Buffy and key accidentally Tara. Willow employs mystical magic powers to save Buffy, but Tara died on the blow. Revolted, Willow becomes a malefic witch nourishes revenge against Warren and plans then the destruction of the world. At the time when it seems that nobody can stop Willow any more, his/her older friend, Alex, come to bring back it to the reason. After having fought the demons sent by Willow, Buffy promises in Dawn to change its behavior seeking to destroy itself, in order to be there for it.

In the seventh season, Buffy increases a new vision in connection with its destiny, its power, and its female condition, when she is confronted with the threat of the Force, that she had already met in the season three. Bringers, the agents of the Force, detect and kill the tueuses potential ones everywhere in the world in order to try to eliminate made lines the tueuses ones. The house of Buffy quickly becomes a hearth for the potential ones which comes in Sunnydale to be made protect. Buffy quickly becomes their chief whom they respect. Buffy works to form an army against the Force, however, its methods, its tactics and its decisions start soon to alienate the potential ones. Sunnydale becomes a phantom city thereafter when the inhabitants (and some demons such as Clément) are run away because of the increasing démoniaque activity in the city.

When it realizes that their forces are insufficient to eliminate the vast armies of the Force, Buffy seeks the councils and the assistance of the men of the shade, which created First Tueuse. Buffy refuses their offer to increase his power by making him ingurgity the gasoline of a demon, which would destroy part of its humanity. The potential ones lose more and more faith in the control of Buffy and the dangers that it makes them run, driving with a revolt, Gilles, Dawn, his friends and all the potential ones choose Faith as a new chief and Dawn asks for Buffy of leave the house. Seul Spike remains faithful to Buffy, it spent two nights with him before the final battle against the armies of the Force. Only, it saves the potential ones after Faith carried out them in a disastrous trap, regaining their confidence then.

Angel returns in Sunnydale to help in the combat, but Buffy requires of him gone back to Los Angeles. Buffy admits that Spike now has a place in its heart and expresses the hope that it and Angel could be likely new to be together in the future. Angel gives him a mystical amulet, which it will give to Spike at the time of the great battle.

The experiment of Buffy with the men of the shade carries out it to again examine the parameters of its destiny, and she asks Willow to use the magic to activate each one of Tueuses potential in the world. The band the potential ones is transformed into an army of Tueuse, which fights the armies of the Force. Spike, using the mystical amulet, is sacrificed to destroy the army of vampires and firm for good the mouth of the hell. Before he dies, Buffy called to Spike that she likes it. Then, she and the survivors escape while Sunnydale becomes an enormous crater.

After Sunnydale

Except the mentions of Angel and an aspect in Ancient Comic , Buffy did not make its next canonical aspect until 2007, when the series was ressuscitée as a comic book. In the Season eight , the troop of Buffy is dispersed around the world to involve Tueuses activated. With a mystical entourage and a broad technological arsenal, Buffy and its friends supervise the démoniaques threats on a world level. For the protection of Buffy, certain Tueuses are placed to distract the demons. During this time, American a soldiers group carried out by the General Flight starts to look at the tueuses ones as an army of terrorists following the destruction of Sunnydale. In The Long Way Home, Voll recruits the assistance of Amy Madison and of are boyfriend ressuscity Warren Mears, to help it has to destroy Buffy. During confrontation, the General Flight explains that its mistrust towards Tueuses is anchored in its fear that démoniaque nature their powers will lead them to becoming malefic and an enemy of the human race.

Powers and capacities

Buffy is tueuse and thus has the same powers as the other tueuses ones, which includes/understands the superhuman force, speed, the agility, the reflexes, and the fact of curing very quickly. Buffy also has kinds of Précognition which informs it danger by its dreams. For example, one as of its dreams informed it death of Angel, a little later Angel lost its heart and is become again Angelus, which showed a share of truth in its dream. Moreover, Buffy shows a strong capacity to carry out the others in the battle.

Tueuses are also supposed capacity to feel the vampires, to be able that Buffy, Faith and Kendra seem beings stripped, although Buffy recognizes some times the vampires by their antiquated vestimentary style. Like all the tueuses ones, including Buffy, in their sleep the “Dreamscape”, they sees the old combat of Tueuses and prophecies to come.

In the Season eight, Alex mentions that Buffy is equipped with a mystical protection against the attacks, at least when it sleeps. When somebody tried to stab it, the dagger broke. Connection with Buffy is now rather strong, so that Willow can give him its gasoline in order to give him more power, similar to the episode " Final stage ".

Provisional capacities

In the episode " Interior Voices " , Buffy obtains the aspect of a demon which it killed, and acquires the capacity to hear the thoughts of people (although it does not hear those of the vampires, which, as in a mirror, do not reflect anything). Little by little, the capacity became unverifiable and Buffy heard all the thoughts in head, thus Angel killed a second demon of this type (that which had fled) and makes him drink a magic beverage containing the heart of the demon, stopping the capacity.
In the episode " Final stage " , Buffy was the center of a complex magic spell which briefly gave him the capacities of Gilles, Alex and Willow, the charm also drew from the sources of the power of the tueuses ones. It quickly became, stronger and have magic capacities. For example, it stopped the balls of Adam by making them disappear and transformed its missile into dove. It could bore the armor-plated skin of Adam and come out from it his core of radioactive Uranium from which its power without bad impressions came. Just after Buffy overcame Adam, the charm grew blurred.

Characterization

Origins

The character of Buffy Summers was at the beginning created so as to reverse the stereotype of the typical girl of Film of horror which is made kill by the monster. Ironically, Sarah Michelle Gellar played in this kind of role in films, Souviens… last summer and Scream 2 , before parodying the pretty young lady in distress, Daphne Blake in Scooby-Doo . Inspired by the force of his/her own mother, Joss Whedon declared that “Rhonda the immortal waitress” was the first incarnation of Buffy in its head, an apparently unimportant girl who proves in fact extraordinary being. Although the vision of Whedon de Buffy did not have the big hit which he would have liked in film of 1992, a second chance was given to him, when Gail Berman approached it with the idea to recreate it in televised series.

Adapting the concept of film in televised series, Whedon decides to rehabilitate the character of Buffy slightly. Pom pom girl surface of original film became riper and opened spirit, being identified more with the excluded social ones such as Willow and Alex, the character of Cordelia was created to incarnate old Buffy which it was in the past. Ironically, the actress who played Cordelia, Charisma Carpenter, in the beginning had auditioned for the role of Buffy, but it was allotted to Sarah Michelle Gellar thereafter. Whedon admitted that the personality of Buffy was mainly based on that of Kitty Pryde, a character of the Comics of the Super-héros X-Men, of which the Chief, Scott Summers, division the family name of Buffy.

Personality

The personality of Buffy changes significantly during the series, with the college it is enough egocentric person, to become an adult responsible and a mentor for Tueuses Potentielles activated. She frequently defies the rules of the Council of the observers and other conventions of tueuse.

Appearance

Earlier in the televised series, the supervisor of the make-up, Todd McIntosh was charged to make of Buffy " soft and an earthy kind personnage". He made in Sarah a soft green make-up and preserved a natural look. However, it was decided later that it was inappropriate to the character, and that Buffy needed to have a look plus Valley Girl. McIntosh replaced its make-up, gave him a tone frosted to the make-up with eyelids and with the colors of the lips, posed nail varnish to him and made a discoloration with its hair, which with fact of evolving/moving the character. The distinctive signs of Buffy include a scar coming from a bite of the left side of its neck. It, in the beginning received this scar of the Master, but has ansuite bitten by Angel " ceremony, part 2 " and Dracula " Buffy against Dracula ". In " the hidden side " , Buffy received a tattooing of the mark of Eyghon that Ethan Rayne made him, but later spent its pocket money to remove it.

Deaths of Buffy

First died of Buffy is held in the episode " the manuscript " , it was a brain death, in which the heart ceases beating, but there remains an activity of the brain. The people who lived the experiment of a brain death often could leave themselves there. This death activated Kendra as Tueuse, and the death of Kendra activated Faith. This is why no tueuse news was called when Buffy died at the end of the episode " the apocalypse ". The line functions around Faith (at least until all Tueuses Potentielles is activated in the final episode).

The second true death of Buffy arriving at the culminating point of the episode " the apocalypse " , at the moment when it was sacrificed while being thrown to body lost in a mystical gate to close again it, saving Dawn and the rest of the world. Buffy remained died during 147 days until Willow, Alex, Tara, and Anya it ressuscitée in the episode " Chaos, Share 1 ". No tueuse news was selected in this case Ci because the line of Tueuses is now centered on Faith, not Buffy, Buffy had already clinically died and had thus activated its successor, and could not make one second time.

Buffy also died in a mystical nightmare in the episode " Nightmare " and in an alternative reality in the episode " Better wishes of cordelia ".

Stories In love

The stories in love important with Buffy in the series are Angel and Spike. The two characters have their resemblances and their competitions. When Angel and Spike sought Buffy, Andrew Wells indicated to the two vampires that Buffy likes them both, but that it must live its life. In the Comics books of the Season eight, Buffy is shown dreaming of the two naked vampires holding it. They are all the three connected and surrounded by small let us cupidons or Putto, and Buffy carries a behavior of nurse. In the final episode of the series Buffy , " end of time, part 2 " , Buffy indicates to Angel and Spike that she likes them both, although they react differently.

Other interests of love in the series were of more or less short duration, including Pike (Marcel) of film and of the adaptation “The Origin” as well as Riley Finn, contrary to Angel and Spike, which was its third more skirts history in love.

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