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She could leap to great heights and distances; [44] [80] [81] [38] [3] [78] [82] though the maximum is unknown. Buffy was capable of reaching the roof of the original Sunnydale High School in a very short period of time, after running up a sloping rail, and then flipping onto the roof.

Buffy once utilized her agility and speed to avoid Caleb's attacks which caused him a noticeable amount of frustration. Melaka was seen reaching a roof top by leaping across multiple flying cars, something Buffy claimed she couldn't do herself.

A Slayer's agility could work by mere instinct. An amnesiac Buffy was flipped over by a vampire and landed perfectly on her feet, much to her own surprise.

A Slayer's body was substantially more durable and resistant to blunt force trauma than an ordinary human's. Slayers also had several times the endurance of a common human, so it was difficult, though not impossible, to bruise them, break their bones or strain their joints.

Despite these feats, the Slayer was far from invulnerable. For instance, Buffy has been knocked out by blunt force trauma, such as being hit over the head with a lead pipe by a possessed Cordelia Chase [94] and with a detached mannequin arm by Ethan Rayne , [95] and rendered unconscious when Drusilla jabbed her with a cattle prod, [96] though it should be noted that it took two jolts from the cattle prod to knock her out.

In addition, the Slayer could be injured by conventional bullets, bladed weapons, and more advanced weaponry just as easily as an ordinary human can. Slayers were also susceptible to drugs, mystical or otherwise; Buffy has fallen unconscious to chloroform and rohypnol though the latter appeared to take longer as Cordelia was already long out by the time Buffy succumbed to its effects.

Usually, Buffy was completely healed within 24 hours of being injured, though more serious injuries have taken at least a few days; Buffy suffered from a severe stab wound to the belly that required at least a few days to heal, [96] and, according to Violet , was heavily bruised for several days after her second encounter with the Turok-Han.

Slayers possessed great stamina. Buffy claimed she had the endurance of ten men and that it took a lot to wear her out when Riley propositioned her for sex immediately after the two already finished having sweating-inducing intercourse.

Faith underwent an intense physical evaluation that involved a lot of running and reflex training. She showed no signs of tiredness or exhaustion following a training session at the obstacle field while her Watcher, Wesley Wyndam-Pryce , was still winded and even claimed he was going to need defibrillators to recover. Since Faith was the one being evaluated, she would have had to do more physical activity than he did.

Buffy managed to stay at pace with an airborne Willow on foot while Xander a physically fit male of the same age could hardly keep up and was seen heavily panting and sweating at the end. Buffy was totally fine. Slayers possessed a heightened awareness of their surroundings.

This heightened awareness could, with experience, allow the Slayer to know the position of an attacker and fight them blindfolded or in the dark. Buffy senses Spike from behind a tree and pulls him out.

According to Giles, the Slayer had the potential to sense a vampire's presence within the area. This skill must be honed through practice and the Slayer usually must focus to achieve the full benefit. Buffy has never appeared to really hone in on this ability as she confused a couple of human thugs as vampires one time.

All Slayers through the ages shares a psychic link, manifested in dreams. A Slayer would frequently dream of herself as a Slayer in another time and place, even before being called, which would hint if they were Potential Slayers. They could also experience prophetic dreams related to upcoming crises. Dreams existed in their own dreamspace where, for a Slayer, precognitive sense and the inherited memories of other Slayers could manifest themselves. These experiences helped hone their skills and aid them in future battles.

Faith provided the first cryptic reference to Dawn Summers' arrival. Melaka Fray, a Slayer of the 23rd century, lacked these abilities, which caused her to be unaware of her status, as well as have a different fighting style than most Slayers.

Her twin brother, Harth, received these visions instead. To the best of her temporary mentor Urkonn of the D'Avvrus ' knowledge, it was unheard of for a Slayer to have a twin before.

A Slayer naturally had formidable fighting abilities. Buffy easily fended off multiple vampires at the same time while under a memory loss spell, with no memory of her combat training — relying entirely on her natural Slayer instincts this could be attributed to muscle memory though.

The Slayer's Watcher trained her to hone these talents, and to teach her specific combat practices, such as various martial arts.

This training helped her to battle the occasional demon whose physical strength outclassed her own. For most situations, however, her strength sufficed. Her fighting prowess also appeared to extend to her weapon proficiency. When Giles trained Buffy to spar with a quarter staff for the first time, she easily outmaneuverd him.

Despite his initial insistence that he would teach her how to use a crossbow in steady time after mastering the quarter staff which needed "countless hours of vigorous training," he quickly decided that Buffy was now ready after she bested him. Faith was able to head-shoot vampires after only recently learning how to shoot. Potential Slayers had innate ability in combat, even before being called, as Amanda was able to defeat a vampire and ward off a couple of Bringers without any previous combat training.

The Slayer's fighting talent can likely be attributed to their dreams of past Slayers. When Buffy fought Melaka who had currently the advantage, Buffy managed to overcome this because she had "dreamed every battle a Slayer's ever fought" and Melaka hadn't because she lacked the Slayer's psychic abilities.

Sometime after establishing the Slayer Organization, Buffy gained a multitude of new powers: her strength, speed, agility, and reflexes were greatly enhanced, and she developed telescopic vision, superhuman hearing, flight, and a level of invulnerability. Willow initially theorized that these powers were a result of Buffy unwittingly absorbing the collective powers of all of the Slayers who had died since they began the Slayer Organization, but it was later discovered that these abilities were granted to her by the Universe as a reward for changing the world and the balance of the grand design.

However, Buffy lost these new powers when she destroyed the Seed of Wonder. The blood of the Slayer could be consumed by vampires to either strengthen themselves or to cure affliction. For instance, the Master used Buffy's blood to break himself free from his mystical prison. Beginning with the Primeval One, the Slayer was always meant to act alone, traditionally accompanied only by her Watcher's guidance. Sineya herself was isolated from the villagers she protected, as they were in fear of her power.

That sure wasn't on the brochure. Buffy and her friends Willow, Xander, and Giles channeled the spirit of the First Slayer by performing the enjoining spell , infusing mind Giles , heart Xander , and spirit Willow , with Buffy's strength to become omnipotent and have enough power to kill Adam. Buffy was known to be unique, as she had a support system stemming from the Scooby Gang , her mother, and later her sister. According to Spike, Slayers die quickly because their self isolation cuts them off from family and friends, therefore making them lose their will to live.

As she had argued with Kendra, "my emotions give me power. They're total assets! Notably, while her love for the people around her made Buffy sacrifice herself for saving the world, directly resulting in both her deaths, these allies were the responsible for saving her from death, resurrecting her twice. Love… give… forgive. Risk the pain, it is your nature. Love will bring you to your gift. Still, Buffy constantly felt alone in her position of the Slayer, even while living with hundreds of Slayers, as she was only their leader.

Robin Wood , the only known child of a Slayer — Nikki Wood —, once referred to this as "isolationist Slayer crap. No matter how much she wanted to be with me. She wasn't strong enough to ignore it. She had to be a Slayer," in reference to her frequent patrols and eventual death, even though she was allowed to leave from her Slayer duties. Although, Nikki had observed during the pregnancy: "You saw what I did today when that vamp threatened my baby.

I dug down deep and fought back. The baby could be my reason to fight. By , all the graduating class of Sunnydale High School were aware of the role Buffy Summers played in their continued survival, though many of them remained unaware of the institution of the Slayer. Members of the U. In the early 21st century, the existence of vampires became public knowledge. Harmony Kendall , the exposed vampire, gained her own reality show, Harmony Bites , which got to film the lone Slayer Soledad attempt to slay Harmony.

The vampire, though, killed her and sucked her blood, and the scene was a success of audience, and Slayers became the show's villains. Buffy Summers and her organization were classified as terrorists by the military and general public. The Watchers Council was descended from the Shadowmen, and the institution continued to guide and train Slayers and Potentials Slayer.

Slayers typically used weapons to fight vampires and other demons. Simple wooden stakes , crosses , and holy water were common components to a Slayer's inventory due to their effectiveness against vampires, though Buffy would usually only be seen armed with nothing but a stake during patrols because her physical power was enough to subdue them. Swords, axes, and knives were also the most common implements used for dispatching demons, though other melee weapons generally of medieval European design were also used.

Ranged weaponry was usually confined to crossbows. On occasion, more sophisticated weaponry was used; Buffy Summers used a military-issue rocket launcher to defeat the Judge.

Rogue Slayer Simone Doffler and her group, on the other hand, were enamored of guns. The Slayer Melaka Fray used weaponry native to her time period, such as ray guns , as well as traditional Slayer weapons. She used it to activate every Potential Slayer in the world, and it became a prominent weapon in her arsenal ever since.

In the 23rd century, the Scythe was passed onto Melaka Fray. The Slayer Emergency Kit was, according to Robin Wood, a Slayer heirloom which should have been passed on to the next Slayer, but he kept it, probably because he didn't have much to remember his mother by. At the time Buffy received it, the brown leather bag contained several things including the following:.

These objects, when used, recreated the story of the first Slayer, and opened a portal that allowed the current Slayer to speak directly to the Shadowmen.

The Slayer Handbook , also known as Vampyr , was a manual given to Slayers by their Watchers to instruct them on how to operate as the Slayer. Initially a study of vampires — the most pressing threat — its scope grew over time, as did the book's power. It became, by common acceptance, the definitive guide to magic on Earth. Giles had presented it to Buffy Summers when she first arrived in Sunnydale, [1] but then decided she wasn't one to follow rules and put the book away.

Sam Zabuto, Kendra Young's watcher, owned himself a copy. According to Kendra, the handbook insisted that Slayers study demonology. With this gesture, Faith said Giles meant that Buffy was the one true Slayer and he believed in her strength.

After the new Seed of Wonder was formed, the Slayer Handbook's pages had turned completely blank. Slayers were capable of being sired into vampires just as ordinary humans were. The resulting "Slaypire" would have the combined strengths of both vampires and Slayers, but retain vampiric weaknesses.

Because the creation of a Slaypire involves a Slayer's death, it also called a new Slayer. This means that there has been at least one incident — Yuki Makimura — where there were two Slayers before Buffy and Kendra's time. However, as one was a vampire and no longer a true Slayer, Buffy and Kendra arguably maintain their status as the first two contemporaneous Slayers. Buffyverse Wiki Explore.

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Will her powers return? A powerless Buffy has already entered the fray. She had no choice when the especially dangerous vampire — Kralik , an unhinged serial killer even before he became a vamp — kidnapped her mother. Using her wits, Buffy survives the ordeal, of course. Always safe.

But no other writer can make comedic dialogue sparkle quite like Espenson can. Season six is the Buffy season most rich with metaphor. Hence this episode, which is maybe more clever than genuinely good , but boy, is it clever! A rare funny episode in a dour season. Buffy teased out his darker, younger self plenty of times but never delved into that past entirely.

A long-teased BBC spinoff about the character never materialized. This episode is so stupid, but in that early Buffy way where it all kinda works regardless. Xander and his pals are infected by a demon while, uh, visiting a hyena exhibit at the zoo, and they start to act more and more like awful teenage bros.

Ted is like that, but much more sinister, and Buffy is the only one who realizes it. Hey, someone has to tell the Scoobies how dumb their plans are. Speaking of Spike! Dawn was always a tough character for Buffy to deal with.

On top of everything else season five tosses at her, Buffy has to deal with medieval knights. In and of itself, this episode could have felt too over-the-top or silly.

Is that scythe Buffy finds, plus the bonus information from a mysterious, never-before-mentioned mystical lady in a mysterious, never-before-mentioned mausoleum, just a bit of a deus ex machina? Sure is! Is it really cool-looking regardless?

Until, well, you know. But all the same, the new darkness of the tone allows for killer moments like Buffy, having just clawed her way out of her own coffin, watching her robot double get dismembered right before her eyes.

Now, do we suspect there could be any kind of link between Ben and Glory? As played by the ageless Bianca Lawson , dutiful and studious Kendra is an illuminating foil for Buffy and her more anarchic slaying style.

The focus of this episode is all on our core four Scoobies and their relationship; the Initiative is just there to give them something to punch.

Plus, it continues the proud tradition of giving Buffy a terrible birthday every single season. The first two episodes of season three mostly served to clean up season two. Now Faith is here, and things can really get started. So Spike gets most of his character development over on Buffy and only transfers to Angel after his character arc is mostly complete, and Faith will end up completing the bulk of her arc on Angel and only come back to Buffy for her redemption tour.

But all that lies ahead. Willow and Tara barely touched onscreen, but everyone knew what it meant when Tara blew out that candle and the screen went black: T hey were going to kiss. And maybe more! Changed the locks. It raises the dead. The smart, moving twist, as penned by Marti Noxon, is that when Buffy and Angel excuse me, Angelus end up possessed, the gender roles are reversed, with Buffy consumed by the guilt and self-loathing James feels for killing the person he loved.

Via an elaborate ruse orchestrated by Buffy and Angel with an assist from a demon for whom Giles once played matchmaker , it finally comes out that Faith has been working for the Mayor. It also, by dint of neither Buffy nor Cordelia winning the crown, underlines that Cordelia — a key player in Buffy as well as, eventually, Angel — is just as much a misfit as the rest of the Scooby gang, try as she might to deny it. This is the episode that sees the now-irrelevant Watchers Council come to Sunnydale to try to bully Buffy into taking them back.

And it all works so well here that you can see why season two would revisit and expand on the storyline. No one would ever accuse young David Boreanaz of being a great actor good job on Bones , though, dude!

Thank god for Faith, who livens up every story she enters. It highlights again just why the Initiative, which means almost nothing to Buffy, makes for such a poor villain, while Faith is such a great one.

But mostly her newfound ability serves to set up a mystery of who plans to murder a bunch of her fellow students, which leads to a rather heartbreaking conversation between her and Jonathan about the fundamental loneliness and pain of human existence.

But this episode, which sees him sidelined by his friends as they try to stop yet another impending apocalypse, is truly Xander-centric: Isolated from the gang, he falls in with a bad read: dead crowd, has a, uh, romantic encounter with Faith, and eventually averts an apocalypse of his own. Which is, in some ways, even more noble. This episode neatly, elegantly lays out the trauma that season six will spend the next 19 episodes trying to unpack.

It will do so with mixed results, but here, when Buffy stands in the frigid-looking sunlight and flatly tells Spike that she was in heaven when she was dead, you feel every bit of her numb anguish. And the last scene, with Giles sweetly lying to Buffy about the simplicity of life, is a lovely, poignant moment that captures one of the themes of season two: Growing up is about realizing the bad guys are sometimes people you love.

And sometimes, the bad guys are people who remind you of yourself. But before she offers to work for the Mayor, she reminds Buffy of just how easily Buffy could do the same, of how much she enjoys killing, of how much fun she would find it to just slip gently over the edge.

Once he realizes Willow can cook up a love spell for him, he kidnaps her and Xander, leaving Oz and Cordelia to search for their respective partners and Buffy and Angel to fight off the vamps who come looking for Spike.

It dissolves all the core romantic relationships of the show — and sets up the eventual return of Spike, cured of his lovesickness through his yen for violence and back to his old, evil self. There are some great visuals, both creepy in the haunted frat house and hilarious the perfect duo of bunny-costumed Anya and chainsaw-wielding Giles , plus a glimpse at the still-mysterious commandos we later come to know as Initiative soldiers.

Before the big season-ending two-parter comes this lower-stakes episode, full of lovely moments between the core characters. As much as we understand on an intellectual level that our parents and elders were once just as young as we are, it can be hard to truly internalize. But the thing that really gets me is the speech Buffy gives the Potentials about what it means to be Chosen.

And, though the plot is only moved forward via the murder of Jonathan, there is a clear statement being made about the evenly matched forces of good and evil, and the kind of resolve it will take for one to defeat the other. Yes, I was confused. Come for the memory loss, stay for the loan shark pun. Plunging a show into a parallel universe is bold.