![]() ![]() She is assigned a "Watcher" from an Ancient Conspiracy dedicated to finding and training Slayers. In spite of that, she learns Sunnydale is sitting on top of a Hellmouth, a well of evil that attracts all types of demons. Hoping to elude her Slayer responsibilities, she and her mother move to Sunnydale, a sleepy town in Southern California. She can't fully explain this to the authorities, making her a social pariah. The pilot treats the motion picture as originally scripted (not the film that resulted) as canon: Buffy learns that she is the most recent in a line of warrior women chosen by fate to fight evil, and in a pitched battle sets the school gym on fire to kill the vampires inside. In 1997, the fledgling WB network raised Buffy the Vampire Slayer from the dead with an abbreviated first season. He did love the original concept and the film did end up a Cult Classic, so when he was given the opportunity to revisit it as a television series a few years later, he wasted no time saying "yes." Since Whedon, a mere writer, lacked creative control over his work, he viewed the actual film as a disappointment note His intent was for the film to have some self-referential comedy but still be a largely serious take on the genre the producers made it more campy and incorporated slapstick. In a postmodern twist, the blonde cheerleader is the "Slayer," a powerful warrior that the monsters are afraid of meeting in dark alleys. In 1992, the film Buffy the Vampire Slayer, written by Joss Whedon, played with a bog-standard trope: the fragile (and doomed) blonde Damsel in Distress cheerleader attacked by monsters in a dark alley. She is the Slayer.īluntly put, this show is why TV Tropes exists. 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 numbers. Into every generation a Slayer is born: one girl in all the world, a Chosen One. ![]()
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