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Buffy the Vampire Slayer is an American supernatural drama television series created by writer and director Joss Whedon. The concept is based on the 1992 film, also written by Whedon, although they are separate and unrelated productions. [12]
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Buffy, a Caça-Vampiros, no Brasil, e Buffy - Caçadora de Vampiros, em Portugal) é uma série de televisão estadunidense de drama sobrenatural criada por Joss Whedon com a Mutant Enemy Productions e coprodutores executivos sendo Jane Espenson, David Fury, e Marti Noxon.
- Overview
- Origins
- Human awareness of vampires
- Psychology
- Reproduction
- Society
- Physiology
- Feeding
- Health
“Vampires are a paradox... Demon in a human body. You're a hybrid. Natural and unnatural. You walk in both worlds, and belong to neither.”
―Adam
“The last demon to leave this reality fed off a human, mixed their blood. He was a human form possessed... infected... by the demon's soul. He bit another, and another... and so they walk the Earth, feeding. Killing some, mixing their blood with others to make more of their kind.”
―Rupert Giles
According to Rupert Giles, before departing Earth the last of the Old Ones mixed his blood with a human's, thus creating the first vampire. Maloker, the Old One responsible for siring the first vampire, was eventually sealed within the Deeper Well.
When Xander briefly tapped into Maloker's memories, he became aware of a time when magic-wielding early humans were busily driving the Old Ones into the Deeper Well. Fearful that his time was up, Maloker sought to raise an army using his vampiric bite on a human.
The Old one was responsible for the creation of vampires, but extradimensional demons were responsible for the essence that would enter their body and animate them. The demon lord Archaeus, for example, was the one who inhabited the Master's bloodline.
Like many demons, the Old One Illyria referred to vampires with the derogatory term "half-breed," and considered them abominations due to their direct human ancestry.
Throughout most of history, the majority of humans remained ignorant or in denial of the existence of vampires, which notable exceptions including the Watchers Council, (informed) Slayers, and certain vampire hunters like Daniel Holtz and Charles Gunn. Giles once explained that people have a tendency to "rationalize what they [could] and forget what they [couldn't]." The singer Aimee Mann once remarked that she hated playing in "vampire towns" after witnessing a fight during her presentation at the Bronze.
For a period of time in Sunnydale, existed a group of vampire wannabes taking place at the Sunset Club. Though they were aware of the existence of vampires, they were oblivious to their evil nature, and referred to them as the "lonely ones," believing them to be gentle and misunderstood. They ultimately did discover the truth when they were attacked by Spike and his followers; they were saved by the Slayer, Buffy Summers. When meeting Angel, the actress Rebecca Lowell had also a similar perspective and became intrigued by the possibilities offered by Angel's immortality to resume her career. Initially, she thought that vampires had total control over their instincts. However, she was clearly terrified by Angelus's brutality as he talked about decapitating her and carrying her head on a pike to show off after killing someone famous for the first time. Additionally, there was a vampire den in Sunnydale where humans could pay vampires to feed on them to get a rush from blood loss. Riley Finn made regular visits there until it was burned down by Buffy in retribution.
The Sunnydale High School board and the Sunnydale Police Department also appeared to be aware of the supernatural goings-on in Sunnydale, and often covered up supernatural events under order from the mayor Richard Wilkins. When Spike and the members of the defunct Order of Aurelius attacked Sunnydale High to kill Buffy, Principal Snyder and the police chief wrote it off to the public as an attack by a gang on PCP; apparently, that excuse had been used before. The U.S. government was also aware of the existence of the supernatural to some extent, and even built special units specifically meant for hunting them, such as the Initiative.
All the people present in Los Angeles became aware of vampires when the city was moved to a hell dimension by the Senior Partners of Wolfram & Hart in 2004, during the event known as the Fall of Los Angeles. Although, Angel eventually became the only one who could remember it.
In the early 21st century, the existence of vampires became public knowledge, causing them to become a subject of a fad that capitalized on the fact that many humans experienced a thrill when bitten by vampires. Harmony Kendall became the face of vampires to the media, and began starring in her own reality show called Harmony Bites. In response, during this vampire craze, two vampire movements appeared: Reform Vampirism, in which vampires drank only from willing humans and never took enough blood to kill or sire, and Vampire Supremacism, in which vampires considered humans nothing but cattle and wished for things to return to the way they were before Harmony made them public. However, with increasing attacks by zompires, mindless vampires sired after the end of magic, public opinion of vampires began to shift, leading the San Francisco Police Department to create a supernatural task force.
In the 23rd century, vampires were called "lurks" and remained public knowledge. However, most humans believed lurks to be simply an infectious and particularly vicious form of mutants.
“You die, and a demon sets up shop in your old house, and it walks, and it talks, and it remembers your life, but it's not you.”
―Buffy Summers
The demons present in vampires appeared to have no more intelligence than solitary predatory animals, and were incapable of human speech. The principal evidence for this came from Angel's visit to the dimension of Pylea; whilst there, whenever he took on his "vampire face," he unexpectedly lost control and became a mindless beast. His behavior was remarkably similar to that of zompires (vampires who had been sired in a world void of magic). A vampire's demon core had no personality of its own; ordinary vampires gained the qualities of the people they were in life, including memories, fears and desires. As Darla put it, "What we once were informs all that we have become." Mentally, the root of a vampire's evil nature was their lack of a human soul, which allowed them to act without conscience or remorse.
While all vampires were essentially corrupt, soulless versions of their prior selves, they still represented an expression of the potential they had in life. For example, after Jesse McNally was turned, told Xander that he was nothing but a "shadow" to him, but he still wanted Cordelia Chase for himself after having a crush on her in life. When Gunn was sired, he continued to want to help people, and still despised vampires (himself included); however, his actions were held unchecked, and he eventually lost his way.[citation needed] In contrast, William Pratt retained affection for his mother, Anne Pratt, after his siring, and even turned her in order to free her from death by consumption; only after she came back as a vampire and attacked him, he staked her, which greatly traumatized him.
Vampires, despite lacking souls, were somewhat capable of human emotions like love, but tended to take twisted, obsessive forms, like Spike's affection for Buffy and James's for Elisabeth. While Angelus and Darla were nearly inseparable throughout their history together, Angel later commented that what they had was never true love, as they were both incapable of feeling love, and sometimes abandoned one another out of self-preservation. Despite Angel's words, Darla came to rescue him from Holtz, and, even after sired again by Drusilla, Darla expressed some of the same longing she had for him as a human, causing Angel to flee, unable to kill her again.[citation needed] Duncan Fillworthe observed that vampires were nothing but regret personified, and had a "hunger for life that's been damned to never be satisfied."
The evil of individual vampires seemed to vary widely. Dalton retained enough humanity for the Judge to burn him, but a soulless Angel did not. The Judge blamed Dalton's status on his human trait of reading, and commented on Spike and Drusilla sharing the human traits of jealousy and affection.
Siring
To create a vampire, blood exchange was needed. Victims of vampire attacks did not turn into vampires unless they consumed the sire's blood when near death after being fed on by said vampire. If the vampire drained all of the victim's blood, the victim would simply die. A human who imbibed vampire blood when not at the point of death would not change. The destruction of the Seed of Wonder by Buffy cut off the world from magic, interrupting the normal process of becoming a vampire. Thus, all vampires sired after that point became a mindlessly feral variety that Xander christened "zompires," speculated to be the result of the siring process still taking place but the vampire demon no longer able to manifest in the resulting corpse. Once magic was restored by the creation of a new Seed, the outcome of the siring process returned to normal, albeit to a new breed of vampires.
Vampires' rebirth
“Welcome to my world.. It hurts, I know. But it won't for long. Birth is always painful.” ―Darla to the newly risen Liam Following the blood exchange, the victim died of blood loss and, according to Wesley, would reawaken on the night after the siring, sometime between sunset and sunrise. However, certain other vampires rose a few hours after the blood exchange. No special preparations, such as burial, were required for the vampire's rebirth; vampires mostly rose from graves because they spent a time between death and rebirth as corpses and were buried. Some vampires however, preferred to bury their progeny out of some form of tradition. After an initial disorientation in their awakening, vampires experienced a sensation of clarity that was new and unique, and which they would express in different ways: •Jesse McNally: "I feel good, Xander! I feel strong! I'm connected, man, to everything! I can hear the worms in the Earth!" •Andrew Borba: "He is risen in me! He fills my head with song! You're the chaff, unblessed. I'll suck the blood from your hearts, he says I may!" •Darla and Angel: "It all makes sense now, doesn't it?" — Liam: "Yes. Perfect sense." •Alonna Gunn: "Don't be sad. I'm not. On this side there is no guilt, no grief. I got the greatest guilt cure ever. I can free you!" •Spike: "Becoming a vampire is a profound and powerful experience. I could feel this new strength coursing through me. Getting killed made me feel alive for the very first time. I was through living by society's rules. Decided to make a few of my own." •Holden Webster: "No, it feels okay. Strong, and I feel like I'm connected to a powerful all-consuming evil that's gonna suck the world into fiery oblivion." •Anne Pratt: "It's as though I've been given new eyes. I see everything. Understand... everything.
The sire's psychic link
Angel dreamed of his progeny Penn's actions, later telling his friends: "I used to have a connection with those I sired. It just means he's close. That's all." Angel also demonstrated this to track down Drusilla when she first appeared in Sunnydale. Darla was later able to use this ability in combination with Calynthia powder to manipulate Angel's dreams. Various Watchers had speculated that this link was the result of all vampires in the same bloodline sharing a fragment of the essence of the original vampire demon that created them, which was apparently proven when Spike fell under the influence of Archaeus, the demon lord responsible for the Master's bloodline.
Clans, packs, and cults
“You will show proper respect.” ―The Master Vampires largely preferred working alone, though were sometimes found living in groups organized like packs or prides. These groups were commonly organized with the purpose of protection and feeding. The leading vampire was known as "master," usually the sire of the group, the eldest one or the most powerful; in any event, the dominant vampire was the one capable of achieving the top position and enforce his authority through strength and violence.[citation needed] There were also some cases in which the leading position was occupied by a dominant couple, like Spike and Drusilla or James and Elisabeth. The followers were commonly known as "minions" or "lackeys," though sometimes they could also be referred as "acolytes." These were commonly the progeny of the master vampire, or vampires that fell under the authority of the master due to their own weakness or youth. While minions were expected to follow the commands of their master and were punished when failing, there were examples of vampires rebelling against their masters, or even choosing to serve a new one.[citation needed] •The Order of Aurelius; •Darla, Angelus, James, and Elisabeth; •Darla and the Roman vampires who rescued Angelus from the Inquisitore; •The Whirlwind: Darla, Angelus, Drusilla, and Spike; •Spike and Dru and their minions: Dalton, Julia, Lucius, etc.; •Angel and his "boys" and girls (like Theresa Klusmeyer and the "Immolation-o-gram"); •Kakistos and the vampires that lived and died for him, including Trick and a female vampire, though these two refused to die for him; •Zachary Kralik and Blair; •In an alternate reality, the Master and the Order of Aurelius, which included Willow and Xander, his most powerful acolytes; •Vampire Willow and Alphonse and the other ex-minions of Mayor Wilkins; •Sunday and her gang: Dav, Rookie, Tom, Jerry, and Eddie; •Spike and the Gem of Amara diggers: Brian and other vampires; •Russ and his punk vampire pack; •Knox the skinhead vampire and his pack, including Ty and Alonna Gunn; •Dracula and the Three Sisters; •Harmony and her gang: Brad Konig, Mort, Cyrus, and Peaches, until they rebelled against her; •Whip and his vampire bite den; •Doug Sanders and the vampire pyramid scheme; •Carl and the rebel vampire posse: Justin, Zach, Christy, Maria, Glenn and other vamps; •James and Elisabeth and their vampire pack; •The vampire cult of Ul-Thar; •Angelus and his "fans": Karl, Paco, and others; •Charles Gunn and his "Team Gunn," including Tank, Vic, Rod, Truck, Dave, Todd, Pat, and Derick; •Toru and his pack, including Raidon and Kumiko Ishihara; •Judas Cradle and his "army" of five other vampires; •Tessa Freer and her zompire nest; •Vicki and her gang of new vampires; •Walt Zane and his Amazonian vampire army; •Drusilla and her evolved vampire pack, including Annabelle, Blythe, Shane, and child ballerinas.
Vampires as minions of non-vampires
Vampires were considered hybrids and in general looked down by other, "purer" demon species. Described as "abominations" for mixing with human blood, it was unusual to have vampires getting along with other species. Although, there were cases in which vampires wound up in the service of non-vampires, such as very powerful sorcerers or demons. •Richard Wilkins and his lackeys: Trick, Lenny, Alphonse and other ex-minions of Spike and Angel; •Balthazar and El Eliminati; •The Scourge, an army of self-proclaimed pure-bred demons obsessed with scouring the world of "impure" demons who had a part human ancestry, briefly counted Angel among their ranks under the pretense that he despised his own humanity; •Adam and his vampire minions, including Boone and his pack, Jape, and Spike; •The drug lord demon and his henchvamps; •Deevak and his vampire thugs; •Bro'os the loan shark and his vampire thugs; •The First Evil and its Turok-Han army; •Senator Helen Brucker and Ernesto and the rest of her "campaign staff"; •Wolfram & Hart employed vampires, including Angel, Harmony, and Tamika, and had others as freelancers, including a vampire agent, Darla, and Drusilla. •Archaeus and his vampire army, including Drusilla, Angus, Boyo, and Brandt.[citation needed]
Vampire masters with non-vampire minions
There were some cases in which a powerful vampire required the service of human minions and lackeys, and sometimes even demons: •Spike assumed leadership of a group of revelers and trick-or-treaters transformed into demons and monsters by a bust of Janus one Halloween; •Russell Winters and his hired muscle, butlers, bodyguards, lawyers and executives; •Spike mentions that he once employed two Fyarl demons; •Dracula and his "manservants": Xander and Butterfield; •As Lord of Beverly Hills, Spike kept a harem of demons, his Spikettes.
“No more sickness. No more dying. You'll never age another day.”
―William to Anne Pratt
When a human was sired, their human soul left their body and a demon soul took possession of the corpse, reanimating it and altering its physiology.
While their body lacked physiological functions such as having a heartbeat or breathing, vampires were able to move, feed, talk, and feel, despite inhabiting dead bodies. Most showed no outward signs of not being living humans while not in "vamp face," except the lack of a pulse. The term "undead" was much more fitting because, while not alive, vampires weren't dead either.
Vampires were able to cast vocalizations such as hissing and roaring reminiscent of tigers whenever they were angered or trying to intimidate their opponents.[citation needed]
Facial alterations such as pronounced brow ridges, golden/yellow eyes, disappearance of eyebrows, elongated upper canines, and pointed upper incisors would appear when feeding or fighting. In addition to this, a vampire may also show their "vamp face" unintentionally, when generally angered,[citation needed] sexually aroused, or suddenly and/or unexpectedly injured.[citation needed] This was the vampire's true face, and their ability to disguise themselves with the face of their human predecessor was one of the vampire's most useful powers.[citation needed] Harmony implied that maintaining "vamp face" took effort and could not be maintained for too long. However, older vampires like the Master, Kakistos, and the Prince of Lies were in vamp face permanently. In the future, the vampire Harth Fray described that most vampires were too primitive to know they could assume human form, while Icarus maintained it for pride.
“Blood is life, lackbrain. Why do you think we eat it? It's what keeps you going, makes you warm, makes you hard, makes you other than dead.”
―Spike
A vampire's normal diet consisted solely of mammalian blood. Though human blood was most common, the blood from other mammals such as rats, pigs,[119][135][136] and otters[137][138] seemed to suffice. After their ensoulment (and before, in Spike's case), vampires Angel and Spike regularly purchased pig's blood from butcher shops,[139][140] but they needed to keep it in the fridge to keep it fresh.[120][141] Angel also consumed bottled[142] and bagged human blood, often type o-negative.[142] The demon bar Willy's Place also served pig's blood,[143] although some vampires would steal human blood from hospitals.[144][127]
While vampires would most often kill while feeding from their victims,[145] they were capable of drinking in small portions at a time enough to keep the human alive.
Feeding on the blood of supernatural, human-appearing beings, often had added benefits, such as a child of the Senior Partners[146] (see #Strength). According to Trask, vampires did not feed on the blood of other demons.
If a human's blood was tainted in some way, such as through steroid use, it tasted bad to vampires.[147] Certain other factors about the human may also affect their interest on the blood, such as youth and virginity. The blood of an elderly or middle-aged person was considered unappetizing. Adam once warned Jape, one of his vampire minions, to not feed off a corpse of a woman who had a blood disease.
Drugs and poisons
Vampires could be affected by any kind of drugs and poisons just like humans, though lethal drugs and human poisons did not kill them: •Spike smoked tobacco, but wasn't affected by the smoke. Despite free of the danger of cancer, he still could have yellowed teeth.[129] •Spike reported that at Woodstock he "fed off a flower person and spent the next six hours watching [his] hand move," presumably an effect of LSD. •Angel tried to feed on Gage Petronzi, but spat out his blood because either the steroids in it or the ongoing transformation into a fish creature gave it a bad taste.[147] •Vampires could become intoxicated by normal alcohol to the point of unconsciousness, but they had a much higher tolerance for it than humans.[157] •Kralik was treated with and dependent on anti-psychotic medication; without them, he suffered extraordinary pain. •Vampire Willow was knocked out by a tranquilizer dart commonly used on Oz in his werewolf form. •The Killer of the Dead was a mystical poison. It caused a severe fever and killed the vampire in a matter of days. The blood of a Slayer was the only known cure.[158][148] •Angel was paralyzed by a neural paralytic drug that would kill a human being, but he managed to shake off the effects shortly after his attacker left him in his office.[159] •Vampires captured by the Initiative were fed drugged packets of blood to be incapacitated for vivisection. •Rebecca Lowell slipped Angel a "happy pill," which gave him a false sense of bliss and for a limited time caused him to act as if he didn't have a soul, making him an immediate threat to Wesley, Cordelia, and Rebecca. •Calynthia powder seemingly augmented Angel's synapses enough to keep him in restless sleep, plagued by dreams, and rendered him more suggestible. •Tara Maclay once hit a vampire with sobri root dust which was intended to confuse him, only to make him "peppy" instead.[105] •Vampires got high from feeding off junkies using intravenous drugs, such as the mystical Orpheus.[112] •When going to the Wolfram & Hart Halloween Bash, Archduke Sebassis secretly armed himself with poison darts which he claimed were powerful enough to kill humans "before their next heartbeat," but only enough to render Angel comatose for a week.[122] •Wolfram & Hart employee and vampire Tamika was able to make fellow vampiric co-worker Harmony pass out by slipping rohypnol into her drink. •Dana incapacitated Spike with the drugs previously used to disable her, to the point where she was able to cut off his hands before he regained consciousness.[160]
Injuries
Vampires could suffer severe injuries and required a long time to recuperate. Blood deprivation also slowed the rate in which they healed.[citation needed] •Drusilla, after being caught by an angry mob in Prague and suffered long sessions of torture,[161] was left weakened for months, until she was cured by a special ceremony requiring the blood of her sire, Angel.[162] Angel, in turn, required weeks to recuperate from the ordeal.[156] •It had been mentioned that Angel had well above average healing.[115] This was demonstrated by his recovery from being run through by a wooden beam. •Spike was forced into a wheelchair when an entire church organ collapsed on him, but months later he was back on his feet.[162] •In an alternate reality, Angel had burning scars on his chest from Willow's torture using matches. •Modern vampires could lose appendages, and could not regrow them.[128] However, they could be surgically reattached.[160] •After being tortured by Glory, Spike was left with numerous cuts, bruises, and a swollen black eye.[109] Days later, his face was still heavily bruised and he walked with a noticeable limp,[163] the marks still visible until they eventually disappeared.[105] •Dawn attacked a vampire with a burning chemical substance found in a school science lab. Even though it left visible burns on the vampire's face, it did very little to deter it as holy water would.[164] •Breaking a vampire's neck would incapacitate them, but not kill them. Balthazar broke the neck of one of his vampire minions, who fell to the ground but didn't turn to dust. •A demon dissected a vampire and mangled his organs as part of an ancient ritual. The vampire was in immense pain but was still conscious enough to beg for death, telling his torturer to "just stake [him] already." Wesley explained to the demon that vampires survived dissection because they were already dead.[131]
Mental health
Humans suffering from some sort of mental illness would keep it as vampires, though in a different and less ailing form. This illness would also be central to the formation of the vampire's persona: •Drusilla's visions and her subsequent ordeal at Angelus' hands left her traumatized, and her insanity persisted after her siring. Drusilla regained her sanity after a Lorophage demon siphoned out her trauma and pain, and she decided to "help the helpless" removing the pain from others,[165] though the demon's death restored her insanity.[166] •Andrew Borba was a religious fanatic who seemed to have carried his zeal as a vampire, despite fearing the cross (which he was quite baffled of). •Zachary Kralik still relied on his pills to cope with his headaches even after he was sired. •Vampires did not experience the same revulsion to blood and death that a human normally would, soulless or not. When Angel was temporarily turned human, he was taken aback by the sight of bloody corpses. Doyle told him that it was part of being human.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a television series created by writer and director Joss Whedon, which aired from 1997 – 2003. It featured the exploits of the Slayer Buffy Summers and her group of friends, the Scooby Gang, as they protected Sunnydale from vampires, demons, and the forces of darkness.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer is an American television series created by Joss Whedon that premiered on March 10, 1997. It concluded on May 20, 2003, after seven seasons with 144 episodes in total, plus an unaired pilot episode.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Created by Joss Whedon. With Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, Anthony Head. A young woman, destined to slay vampires, demons and other infernal creatures, deals with her life fighting evil, with the help of her friends.
The Buffyverse is a fictional construct created by hundreds of individual stories told through TV, novels, comics and other media. It began with the first episodes of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer television series in 1997 and expanded with the spinoff TV series Angel in 1999.
