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[-'''[[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Sunnydale]]''': [[Characters/BuffyverseScoobyGang The Scooby Gang]] ('''Buffy Summers''' / [[Characters/BuffyverseWillowRosenberg Willow Rosenberg]] / [[Characters/BuffyverseSpike Spike]] / [[Characters/BuffyverseAngel Angel]]) | [[Characters/BuffyverseBuffyTheVampireSlayerBigBads Big Bads]] | [[Characters/BuffyverseSunnydaleResidents Sunnydale Residents]] | [[Characters/BuffyverseSunnydaleHigh Sunnydale High]] | [[Characters/BuffyverseBuffyTheVampireSlayerVampires Vampires]] | [[Characters/BuffyverseBuffyTheVampireSlayerDemonsAndMonsters Demons and Monsters]] | [[Characters/BuffyverseWatchersAndSlayers Watchers and Slayers]] ([[Characters/BuffyverseFaithLehane Faith Lehane]]) | [[Characters/BuffyverseBuffyTheVampireSlayerOtherCharacters Other Characters]]\\
'''[[Series/{{Angel}} Los Angeles]]''': [[Characters/BuffyverseAngelInvestigations Angel Investigations]] ([[Characters/BuffyverseAngel Angel]] / [[Characters/BuffyverseWesleyWyndamPryce Wesley Wyndam-Pryce]] / [[Characters/BuffyverseSpike Spike]]) | [[Characters/BuffyverseWolframAndHart Wolfram and Hart]] | [[Characters/BuffyverseLosAngelesResidents Recurring Los Angeles Residents]] | [[Characters/BuffyverseLosAngelesResidentsOneShot One-Shot Los Angeles Residents]] | [[Characters/BuffyverseAngelBigBads Big Bads]] | [[Characters/BuffyverseAngelOtherCharacters Other Characters]]\\

** In Season 8, she engages in a brief relationship with Satsu, one of the new slayers. She explicitly calls their first night together the best night of her life. However, Joss Whedon refers to this as her "being young and experimenting", so her canon orientation is unclear.

* BadassAngster: Often angsts about her destiny of vampire slayer, but especially in Season 7, which was outright depression.

* Bittersweet17: The events of her 17th birthday are in one of the most important episodes in the series. She loses her virginity to Angel, who is said to reverse to his evil self called Angellus when he is the happiest in his life, ie: having sex with Buffy. Buffy would finally realise that Angel is definitely not the man (or Vampire) she liked and realises he must be defeated.

* BoyMeetsGhoul: Or rather, girl meets vampire. Twice. She's even gained a reputation for it, as in season 10, she's asked by a vampire she meets while speed dating if she's the infamous slayer with a [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys "vampire]] [[AllAmazonsWantHercules fetish".]] Buffy refuses to comment, but points out indignantly that she [[HasAtype likes her vampires with a soul]].

* FlyingBrick: [[spoiler:After getting a power-up in Season 8, she can fly in addition to her slayer super strength.]]
* {{Forgiveness}}: Takes Giles' "Forgiveness is an act of compassion" speech in Season 2 to heart, full stop, and becomes the most forgiving characters on the show. She forgives Angel for the deeds of Angelus; forgives Giles for poisoning her and nearly getting her and her mother killed as apart of the Council's twisted test in Season 3; forgives Riley for [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything going to a vampire brothel behind her back]]; forgives Spike for nearly raping her; forgives [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor Faith again and again]] for all of her numerous betrayals, etc.

* MommyIssues: With Joyce because she had to keep the slayer thing secret. Then her mother becomes more supportive of her.
* MonsterSlayerRomance: She's the Slayer and she's got the affections of the only two [[FriendlyNeighbourhoodVampire non-evil]] vampires on Earth.

* PintsizedPowerhouse: Her most obvious noted feature was her relatively small size and slender frame, somewhat of an ironic statement given her physical strength and superior slayer agility. Lampshaded by Jenny Calendar:

* ResignedToTheCall: Her attitude for most of the series. She tries to refuse the Call at various points, especially at the beginning, and the hope she feels when other Slayers start showing up is just ''heartbreaking'' when it becomes clear that she can't just step down and let the new Slayer take over. She also implies, at various points, that the job itself is pretty cool - her objections to it are based in the masquerade killing any chance of her ''ever'' having a normal relationship - or in some cases any relationship (count her exes, folks: Angel (vampire); Riley Finn (super soldier); and ''Spike'' (vampire) and a string of normal men) and the fact that "retirement" means ''dying''. Also, the Call keeps dragging her friends and family into the mix, which she really objects to. Plus, by age 18, she's one of the oldest slayers ''ever'' (by the end of the series when she is in her early 20's, she's ''the'' oldest slayer in history) and she's been revived twice.

** With regards to Angel. She nearly rips Kendra's head off when she finds out she left him for dead when she tries to kill Angel. And later, when Faith poisons Angel and the only cure is for him to drain a slayer, she doesn't even hesitate in hunting her down so she can feed her to him. Even her friends are worried she's going too far with that last one.

* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld: Early seasons were split between Buffy's slayer duties and her studies/dating life.