What is the saddest episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer?

"The Gift" (S5, E22)
One Redditor said that "The Gift" is the saddest episode, writing, "Sacrifice always gets me." It's hard to think of a more emotional episode than this one, as Dawn wants to go into the portal and die so Buffy can be saved, but Buffy decides to die instead so she can let her sister live.

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What's the worst episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer?

WORST: "Beer Bad" (Season 4, Episode 5)

For every amazing episode of a series, there's one that just drags the show down — "Beer Bad", like "Go Fish" is as underwhelming as it is out of place. After seeing the heights Buffy was capable of even by the beginning of Season 4, "Beer Bad" is disappointing.

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Which season of Buffy is the darkest?

Season 6

Season 6 is the darkest Buffy ever got, with a heavy addiction subplot and an attempted assault scene that I still can't get through. But it does have the zaniest villains, known as “The Trio,” two emotionally stunted nerds led by a cold–blooded misogynist who gets scarier the older I get.

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What episode is Buffy in a mental hospital?

After Buffy is stung by a demon, she begins to have vivid day-dreams about a mental asylum.

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Why did Buffy sacrifice herself?

Realizing that since Dawn has her blood and that her own death can stop the ritual, Buffy throws herself into the portal, which closes when she dies, leaving her friends devastated.

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How did Buffy get pregnant?

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.

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Is Buffy actually a mental patient?

According to this world, Buffy had been a patient in an inpatient mental health facility for the previous six years, when she was diagnosed with a form of schizophrenia after claiming to see vampires.

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What episode does Buffy get pregnant?

Last month's issue, "Slayer, Interrupted," ended with Buffy discovering she's pregnant, and in this month's issue (the sixth in the Season 9 series), she turns to the person who best knows what it means for a Slayer to have a child: Robin Wood (played by D.B.

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Is Buffy all in her head?

The doctor explains to her parents that she's been catatonic from schizophrenia for all of the past six years, except for the brief period of lucidity which Buffy dimly remembers as her time in "heaven," and that her life as the Slayer has been an elaborate improvised hallucination she has constructed for herself in ...

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What episode does Angel find out Buffy died?

"There's No Place Like Plrtz Glrb"

In the season 2 finale of Angel, the Angel Investigations team arrives back to the hotel to find a grief-stricken Willow sitting, waiting for them with some bad news: Buffy is dead.

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What is the hardest thing Buffy?

Buffy: “The hardest thing in this world is to live in it. Be brave. Live.”

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Who is the oldest vampire in Buffy?

Kakistos was an old vampire whose hands and feet had turned cloven. Its Greek name meant "the worst." After killing Faith's first Watcher, Kakistos sought the Slayer in Sunnydale to avenge the scarring she left on him.

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Who is the most powerful villain in Buffy?

Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Every Major Villain Ranked From Weakest To Most Powerful
  1. 1 GLORY.
  2. 2 DARK WILLOW. ...
  3. 3 FAITH. ...
  4. 4 ANGELUS. ...
  5. 5 SPIKE. ...
  6. 6 MAYOR RICHARD WILKINS. ...
  7. 7 CALEB. ...
  8. 8 THE GENTLEMEN. ...

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Who is the strongest Slayer in Buffy?

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Every Major Hero Ranked From Weakest To Most Powerful
  1. 1 WILLOW ROSENBERG.
  2. 2 BUFFY SUMMERS. ...
  3. 3 FAITH LEHANE. ...
  4. 4 ANGEL. ...
  5. 5 SPIKE. ...
  6. 6 KENDRA YOUNG. ...
  7. 7 TARA MACLAY. ...
  8. 8 RUPERT GILES. ...

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Is Buffy the Vampire Slayer ok for 13 year olds?

Parents need to know that while even grade-schoolers may be drawn to the high school setting, humor, and fun horror movie aspects of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, this hugely popular vampire series' dark, mature themes aren't a good fit for younger kids. Violence increases in intensity over the seasons, with…

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How many kills does Buffy the Vampire Slayer have?

Accounting of Buffy Summers' known kills through time. This accounting considers a total of at least 323 slays, which includes over 201 vampires, 100 demons, 8 spirits, 9 humans, 2 cyborgs, 1 robot, and 1 zombie.

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Who replaced Buffy after she died?

Buffy retains her Slayer powers, but her clinical death is enough for the next Slayer to be called. For the next year there are two Slayers in the world: first Kendra, who was called on Buffy's death, and then Faith, who was called when Kendra was killed by Drusilla.

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Does Buffy choose Angel or Spike?

Buffy – a young woman whose mystical powers allowed her to battle evil forces – dated Angel during the show's first three series, before she ultimately chose vampire and initial villain Spike (James Marsters) to be her partner.

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Who did Buffy marry?

Sadly, at the end of the series, Buffy did not end up with Angel, or anyone at all. Despite the show ending, a comic book series produced by Buffy creator Joss Whedon has continued. In the final issue of Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Reckoning, Buffy also did not end with Buffy romantically involved with anyone.

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Who is the father of Buffy's baby?

Rupert Giles is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon for the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The character is portrayed by Anthony Stewart Head. He serves as Buffy Summers' mentor and surrogate father figure.

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Did Angel and Cordelia have a baby?

Cordelia fell into a coma giving birth to Jasmine, and a season later she died offscreen in a hospital bed, the events leading up to her death erased from history.

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Who gets Cordelia pregnant?

Wilson and Cordelia kiss again and spend the night together in lovemaking. She wakes the next morning to an empty bed and is horrified to find she has grown very pregnant.

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Does Buffy ever admit she loves Spike?

Buffy finally told Spike that she loved him — the first time she used the words "I love you" romantically to anyone since Angel —, but Spike replied: "No you don't, but thanks for saying it," and told her to leave him behind.

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Does Buffy ever tell her mom?

In the season two finale "Becoming, Part Two" Joyce discovers Buffy's secret identity as the Slayer when Buffy is confronted by vampires outside her family home and is forced to slay them in front of her mother. Unable to hide the truth any longer, Buffy explains to her mother that she is a vampire slayer.

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Did Buffy date a girl?

Her first crush was Xander, her first love was Oz, but her true love was Tara. In the comics that were released after Buffy the Vampire Slayer was over, Buffy had her first and only (to date) same-sex relationship with another Slayer, so perhaps her and Will are still a possibility down the road.

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