However, Xander's unique position as both outside and within the main group enhances his insight into the other characters, especially as the series continues; in Season Eight, he is Buffy's unofficial "Watcher", who watches over her and has a clear perspective.
For other uses, see Xander. Alexander LaVelle "Xander" Harris was the best friend of Slayer Buffy Summers and a founding member of the Scooby Gang. Being the only one of his group of friends to not possess any supernatural abilities, Xander was usually the one who saw everything beyond the supernatural.
Xander then sacrificed his soul back to her and seemingly disappeared. But while his friends grieved for him, he had actually become a full-blown vampire, just like Spike wanted, and was underneath Sunnydale becoming the leader of a large group of demons and fellow vamps.
Wesley is introduced in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer season three (1998–1999) episode "Bad Girls" as the new Watcher of Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and Faith (Eliza Dushku).
After the death of Tara and Willow's subsequent rampage, Andrew returned in Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 7. Enjoying something of a redemption arc, he fully aligned with The Scoobies against The First Evil. Following the conclusion of the show, Andrew was taken under Giles' tutelage as a Watcher-in-training.
Merrick was a member of the Watchers Council and the first Watcher of Buffy Summers.
Rupert Giles was Buffy's Watcher in the beginning of the series. It was revealed that he has never been invited to the Watchers' retreat. After being fired by the Council for having "a father's love" for the Slayer in season 3, he remained her unofficial Watcher for much of the rest of the series.
After his dismissal from the Watchers Council, Wesley styled himself as a "rogue demon hunter" and eventually made his way to Los Angeles in his motorcycle, where he was reunited with Angel and Cordelia.
Dawn is, however, a real girl, Buffy's biological sister, and has real memories of her fictional childhood. She struggles in a very human way when she discovers the truth about her origins and later endures problems with self-harm and kleptomania.
Buffy bares her neck to Angel. He does drink her, and he walks away. From start to quasi-finish, their relationship is a trust game between two powerful people who pose an equal threat, one to the other. Buffy trusts Angel to drink enough of her blood to cure him without taking so much that he kills her.
Motivated by the fear of turning into an abusive drunk like his father, Xander refuses to marry Anya as he does not want to ever hurt her in that way. Anya tries to convince him otherwise, but fails, and sadly, the two part ways.
Season seven episode "Conversations with Dead People" is the only Buffy episode in which Xander does not appear. In the episode "Dirty Girls", Xander's left eye is gouged out by the evil preacher Caleb (Nathan Fillion), and he begins wearing an eyepatch.
She eventually rejoins the Scooby Gang as Season Seven focuses on the long fight against the First Evil and eventually becomes friends with Xander; although Xander and Anya still love each other, they never officially resume their relationship.
Xander told Buffy that he had truly fallen in love with Dawn. However, he admitted it was "not unweird, knowing her since she was little," but he also claimed she had grown as a person. After the Twilight crisis, Xander moved with Dawn into an apartment in San Francisco and they were officially together a couple.
Darla becomes pregnant, a unique occurrence for a vampire. She sacrifices herself in order to give birth to her and Angel's human son Connor, ending her run on the series. However, Darla continues to appear in flashback episodes during the next two seasons.
One couple that did end up together was Xander (Nicholas Brendon) and Dawn (Michelle Trachtenberg) and are raising their daughter Joyce. At the end of both the comics and the TV series, Buffy ended up with friends with her two romantic interests, vampires Angel and Spike.
Season nine continues, after issue five's cliffhanger revelation that the Slayer was pregnant, with Buffy deciding what to do about the unwanted pregnancy – the result of a drunken night at a party. Eventually she decides to have an abortion.
Freddie Prinze Jr has been married to Sarah Michelle Gellar for 20 years but he's still "never" seen an episode of her iconic show 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer'.
No, the big surprise is that the newly discovered slayer-to-be is NOT Dawn, despite all of the clues, rumors, and spin-off speculations.
An unidentified woman was Faith Lehane's first Watcher. She was killed by Kakistos.
Fred and Illyria thereafter remain with Angel for the remainder of Season 10 and throughout Angel Season 11.
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Dawn Summers was a member of the Scooby Gang, sister of Buffy Summers, and daughter of Hank and Joyce Summers. Originally a mystical power of living energy known as the Key, she had been transformed into a teenage human under the protection of the Slayer to hide her from the hell goddess Glorificus.
Giles ashamedly admits to Buffy that he was responsible for summoning the demon in his youth, and is horrified when Jenny becomes possessed by Eyghon.
Sophia Crawford (born 19 May 1966 in Hammersmith, London) is an English actress and stuntwoman. She was Sarah Michelle Gellar's stunt double on the first four seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Mister Pointy was the stake Kendra Young gave Buffy Summers.