History WMG / BuffyTheVampireSlayer

* In the Series/FantasyIsland episode "I Want to Get Married/The Jewel Thief" (written a couple of decades before BuffyTheVampireSlayer) Tattoo decided to go into the greeting card business. He wrote three unusual greeting cards.

[[WMG: Buffy shares a universe with FantasyIsland and Tattoo is a prophet]]
* In the FantasyIsland episode "I Want to Get Married/The Jewel Thief" (written a couple of decades before BuffyTheVampireSlayer) Tattoo decided to go into the greeting card business. He wrote three unusual greeting cards.

Hence why every heterosexual female in the coffee shop, as well as the [[DeathOfTheAuthor bisexual female]]([[SuddenlySexuality s]]) and ''the explicitly'' (but [[DeathOfTheAuthor arguably]] [[KinseyScaleOfTropes not necessarily]]) ''lesbian female'' swoon over his voice, but the only other male present starts to [[BuffySpeak get the wiggins]].

[[WMG: The First is the [[{{Exalted}} Ebon Dragon]]]]

The first is reasonably generic but could easily tie in with Joyce's divorce recently before the start of the series and the fact that the next time she got serious with someone he turned out to be an insane robot. The second one, more darkly, could quite clearly be linked with the fact that Joyce did die in her early 40s. For the third, alright technically the school blew up more then it burned down at graduation (it was the gym that burned down) but it's still a pretty big coincidence.

* Most UK viewers aren't fooled by James Marsters' British accent, and they shouldn't be. Spike, who has travelled the world, hasn't lived in England for over a century. Arnold Schwarzenegger needs an accent coach to maintain his iconic Austrian accent, because living in California for most of his life would have decimated the accent. Spike is too proud to remove his accent, even though it now sounds a bit fake to British ears. He keeps it when losing his memory because his tongue retained its muscle memory. Notably, neither Angel nor Angelus keep up the fake accent charade, because they find the idea of clinging to an accent to be hokey. (David Boreanaz's accent as 18th-century Liam, however, was simply just a bad acting accent.)

* The basic plot has basically become a SuperRegistrationAct where vampires, Slayers, witches, the supernatural, they need to be monitored and watched by the government, after a horrific disaster breaks the masquerade. Buffy, Willow, Spike and the like are dead set against the idea. Dead set against Slayers working for the government trying to control the situation. Kennedy had been recruited. Kennedy is in favor of guns and military tactics that kind of automatically makes her evil. InUniverse Kennedy is considered TheScrappy of scrappies, to say nothing of what the fans think of her. And Kennedy has always had this...unfettered maybe attitude in that it doesn't matter what others think about the use of guns, doesn't matter that stopping Wolfram & Hart involves corporate terrorism. Outside of some new threat or that there is an evil left that had not been dealt with then Kennedy is a...hmmm, [[JustForPun potential]] antagonist. Well more antagonistic anyway.

** Or maybe there is a secret test, hidden in SATs...

These lifetimes include Series/{{Castle}} and [[{{Series/Firefly}} Mal]]. He's currently on his final lifetime, NathanFillion. The PTB are just getting a good laugh out of it now.

[[WMG: ''{{Warehouse 13}}'' (and by extension, ''Series/{{Eureka}}'' and ''{{Alphas}}'') takes place in the "Normal Again" world from ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', and Creator/BeatrixPotter was the pen name of Anyanka the Vengeance Demon.]]

Magic clearly hasn't overrun the world in ''Normal Again'' as it had in the Wishverse and the "What if Buffy died" verse, so the [[RightHandVersusLeftHand bureaucratic confusion]] amongst various government agencies ensures that the [[{{Warehouse 13}} Secret Service]] and [[{{Alphas}} DCIS]] are unaware of the Watchers and the Slayer, and the British are still ticked about Warehouse 12 being moved so the Slayer and most Watchers don't know of the existence of the Warehouse. Most of the creators of artifacts put their own brand of energy into the artifacts by the focus and near-ritualistic repetition of what they did (see: witchcraft and its demon-worshipper equivalents), strengthened (or even [[TheThemeParkVersion changed outright]]) by their [[CommonKnowledge public]] [[TheThemeParkVersion image]]. Alphas are probably unrelated to magic, and more closely tie into the MadScience of Series/{{Eureka}} and [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Warren Mears]].

Voldemort had killed the original Muggle Studies teacher, and his regime replaced the teacher with one who taught that Muggles were inferior. After Voldemort was defeated, Hogwarts needed a new Muggle Studies teacher, and [=McGonagall=] chose Giles, who was a Muggle who knew a lot about magic. But he couldn't explain this to his friends in Sunnydale, and he couldn't return to Sunnydale until the school year was over.

[[WMG: XenaWarriorPrincess was a Slayer.]]

* Buffy is one of XenaWarriorPrincess's many incarnations
* Faith is one of XenaWarriorPrincess's many incarnations.

Voldemort had killed the original Muggle Studies teacher, and his regime replaced the teacher with one who taught that Muggles were inferior. After Voldemort was defeated, Hogwarts needed a new Muggle Studies teacher, and McGonagall chose Giles, who was a Muggle who knew a lot about magic. But he couldn't explain this to his friends in Sunnydale, and he couldn't return to Sunnydale until the school year was over.

Voldemort had killed the original Muggle Studies teacher, and his regime replace the teacher who taught that Muggles were inferior. After Voldemort was defeated, Hogwarts needed a new teacher, and McGonagall chose Giles, who was a Muggle who knew a lot about magic. But he couldn't explain this to his friends in Sunnydale, and he couldn't return to Sunnydale until the school year was over.

With one issue left in the season ten comics it ends with Ghost!Anya turned back into a vengeance demon and turning Xander to ash because of what he did to her. Now we may be thinking it's a trick or there'll be a way to reverse it but there's the unfortunate personal situation with his actor Nicholas Brendan. With alcoholism and the recent domestic abuse it may just be that the character will be retired and this death will take.

[[WMG:Buffy did not fight {{Dracula}}, who is (or was) a fictional character even in the Main/BuffyVerse.]]

[[WMG: Season ten spoilers: [[spoiler: Xander will be KilledOffForReal.]]

Was this part of the First's plans? An army of vampires driven by monstrous impulses, but with enough soul to make them more pliable? Souled enough to work together, but not so souled as to avoid an evil plan?

When we see a flackback of Anya as a human, she was always a bit odd and literal but she also nice. Yet now she’s become blunt and rude, albeit without meaning to be. This could be put down to living life as a demon for centuries, but she actually spent centuries interacting with people, frequently under cover, and if anything should have developed a great understanding of social customs. However, in “Prom” Anya refers to having been stuck in this “persona” when she lost her powers. The persona she adopted was originally one to allow her to get close to Cordelia. Maybe the reason why she’s blunt and lacks empathy in spite of centuries of impersonating people and human observation is actually because the personality she took on and got stuck in was one designed to emulate Cordelia. As a consequence, she adopted many of Cordelia’s own mannerisms (bluntly speaking the truth, not really understanding how her words would impact people, ordering people around).

These people would include General George Washington (badass motherfucker who managed to lead a RagtagBunchOfMisfits against the British Army and then proceeded to lead a country), Adolf Hitler (managed to take over Germany just via charisma, most likely broken at some point, hence his horrid leadership), Gene Simmons (leader of the rock band {{KISS}}, massive asshole who's still loved, bedded over 1000 women and counting while still in a stable relationship with children) and more. Most of them were smart enough to tone down the awesomeness they get out of it, but Jonathan was, to put it nicely, a noob.

This appears to be a contradiction (and I know I’m far from the first person to raise it) but there is a possible explanation. In “Lover’s Walk” Willow was working on a “De-Lusting” spell, a sort of reverse love spell, to stop her from being attracted to Xander. She didn’t get to use it in that episode. However, what if she did eventually get to use that spell, either for her attraction to Xander or possibly to help her get over her feelings for Oz? Further, what if it backfired in the same way that the love spell Xander had once used did? When Xander had used a love spell on Cordelia and it backfired, every woman except Cordelia ended up in love with him. What if Willow’s “De-Lusting” spell backfired, causing her to no longer be attracted to men (either to every man or at least to every man except the target of the spell)? So if she was bisexual before the spell was cast, she’d effectively be a lesbian after the spell was cast.

Similarly to the whole Willow restored Amy as a Demon idea, Willow restored Amy as…Willow. Basically, it’d been so long since Amy was human that her human identity was lost or at least damaged. In fact, since, Amy turned back to a human older than when she was a rat this version of Amy had never really existed before (even her hairstyle had changed). The only way Willow was able to make Amy human again was to “extrapolate” and use a spell that filled in the gaps, using herself as the base. In other words, the changes that had occurred in Willow over the years occurred in Amy as well. The reason why Amy was suddenly more powerful than she had been before was because Willow was more powerful than she had been before. The reason why Amy was more willing to misuse magic was because Willow was more willing to misuse magic. The reason why Amy was suddenly a less moral character was because Willow was too (and since Amy started from a less moral base she was worse than Willow was). Of course that doesn’t really explain why Amy magically had contacts in the magical underworld that she wouldn’t have had before, though it’s not unreasonable to think that with her mother’s history she may have met them previously and only now that she was evil did she decide to contact them.

Similarly to the whole Willow restored Amy as a Demon idea, Willow restored Amy as…Willow. Basically, it’d been so long since Amy was human that her human identity was lost or at least damaged. In fact, since, Amy turned back to a human older than when she was a rat this version of Amy had never really existed before. The only way Willow was able to make Amy human again was to “extrapolate” and use a spell that filled in the gaps, using herself as the base. In other words, the changes that had occurred in Willow over the years occurred in Amy as well. The reason why Amy was suddenly more powerful than she had been before was because Willow was more powerful than she had been before. The reason why Amy was more willing to misuse magic was because Willow was more willing to misuse magic. The reason why Amy was suddenly a less moral character was because Willow was too (and since Amy started from a less moral base she was worse than Willow was). Of course that doesn’t really explain why Amy magically had contacts in the magical underworld that she wouldn’t have had before, though it’s not unreasonable to think that with her mother’s history she may have met them previously and only now that she was evil did she decide to contact them.