History Characters / BuffyverseWillowRosenberg

* AddictiveMagic: A big part of her character arc in Season 6, where magic is treated as a ''very'' clear metaphor for drug abuse.

** Later, as Dark Willow, she's so far gone that she actively attacks the other Scoobies simply for trying to stop her from killing Andrew and Jonathan, even threatening to turn Dawn back into an EnergyBall simply to [[TakeThatScrappy put an end to her constant whining]].

* InformedJudaism: She mentions celebrating Hanukkah, and outright calls herself Jewish on multiple occasions. Her actress is also half-Jewish.

* LesbianVampire: Vamp Willow. It's basically normal Willow (Lesbian) plus a vampire's lack of morals and boundaries.

%%* LesbianVampire

* ScrewYourself: Does some LecherousLicking of Willow, which the latter finds SickAndWrong. "Does this mean we'd have to...snuggle?"

* BewareTheNiceOnes: After Riley gets her to help court Buffy, she threatens to beat him to death with a shovel if he hurts her ("A vague disclaimer is no one's friend"). This was after she suggested ax-murdering Parker on Halloween in the spirit of the holiday after he hurt Buffy. When Glory messes with Tara, she tries her very best to kill the attacker. This culminates into becoming season 6's BigBad after Tara's murder. Warren gets flayed after she did some ColdBloodedTorture on him. This transformation is foreshadowed a number of times: in "Doppelgangland": the vampire version of Willow is sadistic; vampire personalities reflect the human's inner selves, with no soul.

* ClothingReflectsPersonality: Initially, she dressed like a little girl, and her mother still picked out her clothes for her. Cordelia cruelly stating, "Good to know you've seen the softer side of Sears!" After Buffy encouraged Willow to "seize the moment," her fashion sense began to reflect the growing confidence that her friendship with the Slayer granted her.

* EasilyForgiven: For her rampage as Dark Willow, all she had to do for entry-level forgiveness was go to Magic Addiction Therapy. True, she was hopped up on BlackMagic at the time, but Willow ''chose'' to absorb said BlackMagic of her own volition to begin with. Amy even lampshades it in "The Killer in Me," claiming it's one of the reasons she chose to hex Willow:

* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: As Dark Willow during the final few episodes of Season 6. She goes from [[PayEvilUntoEvil killing]] [[AssholeVictim Warren]] for shooting Tara, to trying to [[MisplacedRetribution kill the other members of the Trio who had nothing to do with it]], to hurting/trying to hurt Buffy, Dawn, Giles, and Anya, the last of whom actually sympathized with her before then, to trying to destroy the world to "[[PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery end all pain]]." All of this is within the span a couple of episodes that, together, take place over less than a single day.

* LipstickLesbian: From Season 4 onwards. "I'm not good with the butch."

* PromotionToParent: She's Dawn's favorite person; Dawn treats [[HonoraryUncle her and Tara like parents]], and in the Season 8 comics, Dawn says "Will is like a Mom to me."

* RecoveredAddict: Willow's storyline in Season 6 involves her becoming [[AddictiveMagic addicted to magic]], using it excessively and for [[MundaneUtility mundane tasks like getting dressed]]. It reaches a head in "Wrecked," where her addiction [[KickTheMoralityPet nearly kills Dawn]], and she swears off its use. She spends several episodes recovering... until Warren shoots Buffy and Tara, resulting in Willow going OffTheWagon and absorbing massive amounts of BlackMagic, becoming [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Dark Willow]] and nearly destroying the world. After that fiasco, Willow spends the TimeSkip between seasons and the early part of Season 7 on a rehab course with the Devon Coven in England, and when she returns, she spends most of the season [[AfraidOfTheirOwnStrength terrified of using magic again]].

* ScrewYourself: In "Doppelgangland," Vamp Willow openly flirts with her human counterpart and even gropes her.

* SympathyForTheDevil: Her attitude towards the [[RestrainingBolt chipped Spike]] in Season 4, to the extent that she refuses to let him stake himself in "Doomed." This is especially noticeable compared to Buffy and Xander, who not only have NoSympathy for Spike, but actively enjoy taunting him.

* {{Dominatrix}}: "It was you. Except for the part about being a dominatrix." Thanks Buffy.

* TeensAreShort: Much like Buffy she's at least a head shorter than the actress playing her mother.

* AmbiguouslyBi: She claims to be a lesbian, yet has shown authentic attraction to Oz, to the point where even in the episode that ended up with her getting her first girlfriend she claimed to love him (a claim that she never tried to deny at any point in the series). she also said that she had a crush on Giles after she came out, and that she did want to date Xander (who she also has shown genuine attraction towards, to the point of cheating on oz with him) in the past. It is very possible that since bisexuality wasn't a vary well-known concept at the time, she just assumed that if she is interested in a woman, that must make her a lesbian.

* SweaterGirl: Season 3 Willow.
-->'''Vamp Willow:''' ''[looking Willow over]'' Well, look at me. I'm all fuzzy.

->'''Played By:''' Creator/AlysonHannigan & Creator/AdamBusch

-->''"You're the Slayer and we're, like, the Slayerettes!"''

* PromotionToParent: She's Dawn's favorite person; Dawn treats her and Tara [[HasTwoMommies like parents]], and in the Season 8 comics, Dawn says "Will is like a Mom to me."

* StepfordSmiler: By the series' end, she could wipe out the human race with a snap of her finger, which she sometimes [[GallowsHumor makes light of]]. Realizing the threat she poses to her loved ones, she hammers on the {{moeblob}} mask and wears it to the end -- but she's clearly not the same person we knew.