History ComicBook / BuffyTheVampireSlayerBoomStudios

** Gunn is more even-tempered and less of an AngryBlackMan. He's still introduced as a man who goes out fighting demons as way of revenge, but here he does so while livestreaming messages of hope and positivity to a surprisingly appreciative audience.

* ContinuityReboot: Naturally. For one, it brings the setting into TheNewTens rather then late 90s of the original series. For another, characterization is different, these aren't the same folks from the TV series. So keep that in mind when reading this.

** [[spoiler:Later subverted, at least somewhat, as Angel #6 reveals that the original Master still existed in this continuity - and in Buffy #15, Xander refers to himself as "the Master" after having become a full vampire.]]

* AdaptationalBadass: Drusilla in the series was a CloudCuckoolander often played for laughs, and not even considered dangerous enough to put down permanently. Here she's seemingly fully lucid, dominant over Spike, and the BigBad.

** Cordelia is much less helpless than she was originally, actually actively taking part in taking out some baddies right from the get-go and seemingly fully aware that Supernatural phenomena tends to happen in Sunnydale.

** Issue #24: [[spoiler:While Willow attempts to fight off her dark side, Faith fights Xander and ends up getting bitten. She is rescued by Kendra while Willow breaks free from her dark side... just in time to see Faith stake Xander. Overcome with grief, she opens a portal into time and space to see if she can find some way back to him and accidentally sucks Wesley and Ethan into it, while Giles, Buffy and Kendra follow after Willow. Robin shouts after them that they have no idea if they can even come back, but nobody listens to him. This leaves only Faith and Robin in their universe, while Wesley and Ethan appear to have been dropped right in front of Giles from the main universe... only he's in his "Ripper" persona.]]

** Helen, Angel's partner in #0 who lost her father to a demon, and he's started training to work with him, is exclusive to the comic.

** Lilith, who may or may not be the Lilith of myth and who appears as a guide and ally to Angel, is likewise original to the comic. Unlike Helen, she continues to play a major part in the series past her first appearance.

* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:After Fred seemingly transforms into a goddess, she saves the group by taking them through an interdimensional rift into the multiverse, where alternate versions of Angel and Spike greet them.]]

* AdaptationalDiversity: Jamaican Slayer Kendra is ''not'' killed off, African-American Robin Wood has a more prominent role as Buffy's high school boyfriend and Kendra's Watcher, CanonForeigner Latina Rose Martinez is added to the cast, and the series doesn't seem to be hiding the fact that Cordelia is Latina like her actress Creator/CharismaCarpenter.
* AdaptationOriginConnection: Inverted. In the original show, Angel seeing Buffy's struggles as the Slayer was the catalyst that convinced him to make something of himself and become a hero. Here, Angel has already been active as a hero in Los Angeles for some time before his first appearance.

** As of the end of the series, there's been no appearance by Dawn Summers.

** As Willow is an out-and-proud lesbian from the start, her early-series crush on Xander is written out.

* AdaptedOut: In contrast to a lot of other characters making Adaptational Early Appearances, Willow's original-timeline girlfriend Tara is nowhere to be seen. Although, there is a blonde witch in the last few issues of the ''Willow'' miniseries spinoff whom Willow rescues who goes unnamed and [[AmbiguousSituation may or may not be Tara]]. Tara finally shows up by name in the epilogue of the final arc on an interrupted date with Willow.

* TomboynessUpgrade: Buffy, Willow, Cordelia, and to a lesser degree, Drusilla. Buffy and Cordie still [[TheFashionista dress chic to the times]], however to reflect late 2010s popular fashion trends, they tend to dress more in neutral crop tops and jeans instead of the colourful numbers they were known for in the original series. Willow, prone to conservative dresses and Mary Janes in the original show, wears a lot of ripped jeans, shorts and combat boots in this adaptation. Drusilla wears sleek pantsuits as opposed to the eccentric gowns she'd worn originally, though she is still shown to wear dresses in a few scenes, and clearly likes her hair done up.

* AdaptationalSexuality: Angel and Spike's BelligerentSexualTension is played up compared to the TV series, and their alternate selves seen at the end of the last issue appear to be co-habitating in the Hyperion Hotel. Oz also makes a comment about the kinkiness of Spike having him on a leash.

** [[spoiler:Later subverted, at least somewhat, as Angel #6 reveals that the Master still exists in this continuity - and in Buffy #15, Xander refers to himself as "the Master" after having become a full vampire.]]

* AdaptationalSexuality: Angel and Spike's BelligerentSexualTension is played up compared to the TV series, and their alternate selves seen at the end of the last issue appear to be co-habitating in the Hyperion Hotel. Oz also makes a suggestive comment about Spike having him on a leash.

** Possibly with Oz, who has already graduated from Sunnydale High and moved to LA. He was already a year older than Buffy, Willow and Xander in the original continuity, but here there's no reference to ever having matriculated with or known them although Sunnydale is still his hometown.

** Possibly with Oz, who has already graduated from Sunnydale High and moved to LA. He was already a year older than Buffy, Willow and Xander in the original continuity, but here there's no reference to ever having matriculated with or known them.

* AgeLift: Spike states that Lilith had warned him about Drusilla in a dream 200 years ago, implying that he's older than his original series counterpart, who would be around 160 in the 2010s (including his human lifespan).

* AdaptationalSexuality: Angel and Spike's BelligerentSexualTension is played up compared to the TV series. Oz also makes a suggestive comment about Spike having him on a leash.

** Drusilla and Spike's dynamic has changed significantly, with Dru being portrayed as the clear dominant in the relationship, and Spike being the (albeit [[ServileSnarker snarky]]) underling rather than the caretaker. Drusilla also unambiguously holds little genuine affection for Spike; she puts him down constantly, mocks his preferred nickname, and [[spoiler: stabs him in order to open the hellmouth with no remorse. Their breakup happens not because Drusilla foresaw Spike's infatuation with Buffy, but rather because ''Spike'' left ''her'', having felt betrayed and abandoned by Drusilla once she opened the hellmouth.]]

** Rather than her early-series crush on Angel, Cordelia meets and develops a crush on Spike--who she barely exchanged a word with in the original series.

* AdaptationalSexuality: Kendra begins dating Willow's ex-girlfriend Rose and seems to be falling in love with her.

* FaceHeelTurn:[[spoiler:Morgan Palmer, a former Slayer. She describes her Watcher as having stuck "a thousand knives in [her] back over the years", and what pushed her over the edge was when she overheard her Watcher and the head of the Council plotting to have her murdered because they felt that at 25, she was "too old" to be a Slayer. During her research to find a way to escape, she came across Anya, and the two set up a plan to fake Morgan's death - she would pretend to go along with the Council's plan but fake her death instead, and then she and Anya would plot to destroy the council from there.]]
** [[spoiler:Anya herself, as it turns out - in this universe it's revealed that Anya was formerly the last female Watcher and was punished for "allowing" her Slayer to survive to 22 years of age, leading her to become a vengeance demon.[[/note]]

** Issue #15: [[spoiler: Xander is shown still alive... but now refers to himself as "The Master" and seems to have gone full vampire.]]

** Issue #25: [[spoiler:Anya reveals that she had intended for the gang to end up in a different universe rather than the main one, but she manages to bring everyone back to their own universe. As Willow and Buffy converse, they mention that they don't know what shrimp is, revealing that their universe is the "World Without Shrimp" mentioned in a few episodes of the show. Meanwhile, the Mayor gets Faith and Robin out of trouble with Snyder.]]

* AntiClimax: The series finale. Following months of buildup about Fred and [[spoiler:her being manipulated into working for Wolfram and Hart, possessed by Baphomet and also suddenly discovering she has an apparent goddess living inside her]], as well as Gunn's hunt for the vampire who killed his cousin, the appearance of Oz and the group fighting against a vicious pack of werewolves, plus the discovery that Kate is [[spoiler:a reincarnation of Mara, one of Angel's previous lovers]], what actually happens is [[spoiler:they beat the werewolves, immediately find out about Wolfram and Hart, enter the building ([[TheCameo meeting Harmony in the process]]) and easily kill Lilah (who gives them all the information they need). Then Fred somehow expels Baphomet from her body, discovers she's not actually human, becomes a super powerful magical being and uses an interdimensional rift to save the group from a massive wave of attacking demons and take the group to the Hyperion Hotel. Kate tells Angel they need to talk about the reincarnation thing... and then they're greeted by alternate versions of Spike and Angel, who tells them they've just discovered the multiverse about ten years before they should have.]] Note that all this happens in about ''23 pages''.

* AlternateUniverse: After [[spoiler:Faith stakes Xander]], Willow uses a magical portal in an attempt to find any trace of [[spoiler:him]], causing the majority of the others to either get pulled in (in the case of Ethan and Wesley), or run after her (in the case of Buffy, Kendra and Giles). It's not yet known where Buffy, Kendra and Giles ended up, but Wesley and Ethan have been dropped right in front of [[spoiler:a version of Giles - who is drawn to look a lot more like Creator/AnthonyHead]].
** Interestingly, the cover for the issue implies that some members of this universe's Scoobies are alternate versions of those in the main universe - specifically Rose (for Tara), Kendra (for Xander) and Robin (for Spike).

* AdaptedOut: In contrast to a lot of other characters making Adaptational Early Appearances, Willow's original girlfriend Tara is nowhere to be seen. Although, there is a blonde witch in the last few issues of the ''Willow'' miniseries spinoff whom Willow rescues who goes unnamed and [[AmbiguousSituation may or may not be Tara]].

* CanonForeigner: Willow's high school girlfriend Rose.
** The Slayer seems to have some connection with [[spoiler:a magical creature known as the Camazotz, which Buffy likens to having her own pegasus.]]

* TomboynessUpgrade: Buffy, Willow, Cordelia, and to a lesser degree, Drusilla. Buffy and Cordie are still [[TheFashionista dress chic to the times]], however to reflect late 2010s popular fashion trends, they tend to dress more in neutral crop tops and jeans instead of the colourful numbers they were known for in the original series. Willow, prone to conservative dresses and Mary Janes in the original show, wears a lot of ripped jeans, shorts, and combat boots in this adaptation. Drusilla wears sleek pantsuits as opposed to the eccentric gowns she'd worn originally, though she is still shown to wear dresses in a few scenes, and clearly likes her hair done up.

[[folder:Tropes that apply to ''Angel''/''Angel & Spike'']]

** Xander, by contrast, is much more reserved and less upbeat, and seems to be suffering from some kind of depression. He's also kind of a StalkerWithoutACrush towards Willow, and [[spoiler:has now become much more antagonistic now that he's been transformed into the Master.]]
** This version of Cordelia is much kinder from the get-go, seeing her relationship with Willow as more of a friendly rivalry and going out of her way to befriend Buffy and even Spike. She's also no longer a RichBitch, as she's seen holding down a part-time job in a fast-food chain restaurant.

** Kendra is far less awkward, more forward and unlike her original counterpart, fully at home and integrated in normal society. She's also now [[AdaptationalSexuality lesbian (or at least bisexual)]], whereas in the show/expanded universe she seemed to be straight.

** Ethan Rayne is already dead when the series begins, and is a (seemingly) much less antagonistic ghostly companion to Wesley. His animosity with Giles is still there, though, as he blames Giles for getting him killed.

Two standalone books "Chosen Ones" and "Every Generation" have been released detailing stories of previous slayers, and one alternate universe Buffy.

Two standalone books "Tales of the Chosen" and "Every Generation" have been released detailing stories of previous slayers, and one alternate universe Buffy.