SUMMERS,
Buffy Anne
(Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
1630 Revello Drive near Hadley
Sunnydale, CA (pop. 30,000)
Buffy is a teenager. She is blond with green
eyes, perky and destined by fate to become a
Slayer, a killer of demons. Born in January 1981
to Hank and Joyce Summer, Buffy originally
attended Hemery High School in Los Angles as a
cheerleader, Fiesta Quenn and Prom Queen. On
her 16th birthday she met a man named Merrick
who informed Buffy that she was the “Chosen One,
The Vampire Slayer.” Buffy soon realized the man
told the truth and she began training to slay
vampires and other assorted demons. Her
enthusiasm got her high school gymnasium burned to the
ground, her watcher mentor killed, and
earned Buffy a one way trip out of town.
Relocating to Sunnydale with her recently
divorced mother Joyce [who opened an art
gallery] Buffy enrolled as a sophomore at
Sunnydale High. Unfortunately, Sunnydale rested
on the center of a mystical convergence called "Hellmouth,"
which is a evil supernatural portal between this
reality and the next that attracts all sorts of
demonic undesirables. But fortunately, for
Sunnydale, Buffy is a “Slayer” a person
appointed by fate to battle evil. With the
assistance of her new watcher, high school
librarian Rupert Giles, Buffy battled to save
the residence of Sunnydale from a variety of
blood-sucking creepy-crawlies. She dispatched
the demons with karate kicks and mortal stabs
with wooden stakes.
Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy
the Vampire Slayer
(Photo courtesy of Warner Brothers)
Buffy’s high school friends
[dubbed the “Scooby Gang” and “The Slayerettes”]
included Willow Rosenberg, Buffy’s shy best
friend and computer nerd; Cordelia Chase, the
sexy BGOC [Big Girl on Campus]; Alexander
“Xander” Harris, who had a crush on Buffy and
later on Cordelia]; and Oz, a musician who fell
for Willow [Yipes! but he’s a werewolf]. They
hangout at a club called The Bronze [a local
watering hole for demons and such].
Buffy’s
enemies included a sadistic vampire with a
British accent named Spike; The Master, an evil
demon who tried to open the Hellmouth portal and
destroy the world of the humans [Buffy busted
that plan]; Angel, a vampire once under the
Master’s control who turned good and fell in
love with Buffy [she fell for him, too];
Drusilla, Spike’s nasty girlfriend; Faith, a
Slayer gone bad [Buffy killed her and took her
blood to save Angel’s life]; and Mayor Richard
Wilkins III, [a demon in disguise] whom Buffy
destroyed at her graduation ceremony when
Wilkins turned into a giant serpent]. After all
this excitement Buffy and Willow transferred to
The University of California at Sunnydale where
they lived at Kresge Hall. But
despite their climb up the academic ladder, they
couldn’t keep the demons from climbing up after
them.
Buffy’s mother, Joyce supported her
daughter’s vocation but still worried about her.
Joyce’s love life since her divorce from Hank
included a guy named Ted who turned out to be a
mass-murdering psycho robot; and a quick affair
with Giles the librarian after eating enchanted
candy that made both of them act like randy
teenagers. Sadly, Joyce [born 1958], died on
February 21, 2001 from an aneurysm resulting
from her brain tumor surgery [low grade glioma].
Just before that Buffy learned she had a bratty
15-year-old sister named Dawn who in reality was
an orb of pure energy called “The Key” put under
Buffy’s protection. A veiling spell convinced
Buffy and her mom that Dawn was human and a
member of their family. Only the mentally ill
and certain animals could see Dawn’s true form.
Reilly Finn, a member of a elite black
ops demon fighting group called “The Initiative”
was Buffy’s new boyfriend until he left town on
assignment. Meanwhile, Buffy’s greatest challenge was a
hell-god named Gloriface [a.k.a “Glory”] who
wanted to kill Dawn and bring forth hell on
earth. After defeating Gloria, Buffy sacrificed
her life to close the riff between dimensions.
Her friend Willow later cast a resurrection
spell and brought Buffy back to life. Buffy now
regrets being brought back from the dead. She’s
also taken on some bad habits like wanting to
have hot, steamy sex [against her better
judgment] with Spike the vampire. When Buffy discovered that Reilly Finn had
gotten married, she broke up with Spike. She
realized she was being weak and selfish by using
him. Ah, such is the life of a Slayer.
