... honestly, give David Boreanaz a shave and eye his salt-and-pepper and unless I'm going from watching an episode of Angel I would probably be able to accept him as still being the vampire Angel.
Hell, we had to just accept 40 year old Hayden Christensen as teenaged Anakin from around Episode II and his face has completely changed since Episode III.
Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.The mass empowerment definitely shows girls as young as 12. Though the watchers council and the first evil isn't shown to know of potentials this young (it's noted that both the watchers and the first evil vastly underestimated how many potential slayers there are at any moment. Perhaps potentials at the extremes of this bracket are just less likely to be called)
Buffy was freshly 15 when she was called (prior to coming to sunnydale) if I remember correctly, and the watchers council had identified her prior to that. When she would have been 14 or younger.
Meanwhile at the upper range, Kennedy is 18 when she appears in series 7 and it's mentioned that she's probably too old to still be a potential slayer, but is confirmed to still be one when called. (Did not realise she was that young, had to check the wiki)
Edited by Whowho on Feb 5th 2025 at 11:07:57 AM
I assume that the line of Slayers just goes to the next oldest and down, down the line. Buffy (or technically maybe Faith) survived unexpectedly long thus the Potentials were older.
The younger they are, the farther they are from the natural "call" of the Slayer so it's pretty easy for me to handwave this as making them hard to identify. I can tell you the first five next in line to take over as president, but it's entirely possible number 59 doesn't even know they're in the line of succession.
Presumably, in my theory, if every other potential Slayer died, then we could have a six-month-old Slayer.
Not really, when you factor in the fact that the Slayer is treated as disposable by the Watchers. Even if they know exactly who is next, they don't know how long each one will last. So you watch them concurrently so that there's no risk of a newly appointed Slayer being ascended without some kind of training/mentoring.
Edited by Larkmarn on Feb 5th 2025 at 2:41:44 PM
Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.I don't believe that personally.
Simply because given there's thousands of potential slayers, the oldest of the potentials would all be at the cusp of aging out at all times, so all Slayers would be 18 or so.
Also it wouldn't make sense for the watchers to follow multiple potential slayers (such as most of the ones in series 7) if they can very exactly deduce who the next one in line is.
So the new slayer can be as old as 12. Cool. This will support my predictions for the new series.
Another question, besides Sunnyvale, are there other hellmouths?
Edited by BigBadShadow25 on Feb 5th 2025 at 3:00:18 PM
You’re Gonna Carry That Weight.Okay the wiki confirmed Cleveland and Easter Island. So there MIGHT be others.
Third question. Angels. Not Angel as in the vampire. Angels as in seraphim. Winged messengers of a higher power. Have they been found in the Buffyverse?
You’re Gonna Carry That Weight.The whole thing is a vague process from a Background Magic Field, so it's probably not a strict and literal line of succession. It's also inconsistent on how attentive the Watchers were in getting to the next Slayer, Buffy didn't know hers until after she was empowered but Kendra and Faith came in with the attitude they've been training with their Watcher for years when it was only a couple months.
Boreanaz and Marster still look pretty good for their age, the right makeup and keeping them appropriately in the shadows and I don't see a big hurdle. Of the entire cast, Boreanaz probably visibly aged the most between Buffy season 1 and Angel season 5. He was just a very youthful, skinny guy at the start before bulking up.
Edited by EmeraldSource on Feb 5th 2025 at 12:50:12 PM
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The Watchers have, for an Omniscient Council of Vagueness, been absolutely terrible at their jobs. Like, both in-universe and from an audience perspective. They're not effective at what they try to do, and what they try to do isn't necessarily very logical.
The watchers mostly work in their own interest. They do the bare minimum to ensure the slayers have a fair chance to stop humanity from being destroyed, and then all their remaining energy is spent on making themselves feel important.
Like the whole ritual about putting Slayers in a death trap on their eighteenth birthday seems to exist only to cull slayers off when they get old enough to be independent. With some flimsy justification of it being a training exercise.
What, exactly, the Watchers do besides locate and train the Slayer was never clearly defined. Giles and Wesley seemed like nervous recent college graduates before real world experience hardened them up. That gave the impression Watchers were more an academic group than an N.G.O. Superpower barely keeping The Masquerade in place. Buffy even said as much when looking for information on Glory, that they are useless without a Slayer to control.
Comics are just words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures.They are pretty much a knowledge hub and self appointed Slayer bullies.
Outside of holding a monopoly on the slayers they don't seem to have much power in the global supernatural community beyond having a lot of collective knowledge.
I bet a lot of their funding is just trading research other parties.
Wolfram & Hart absolutely dwarf them in terms of influence.
Do we think this will be tackled in the new series? The Watcher organization being overblown and more impotent than they let on compared to W&H?
You’re Gonna Carry That Weight.The Watcher’s Council no longer exists, its Buffy, her friends, and the other Slayers’ job to create a new organization that maybe more Slayer forward and working with Watchers hand-in-hand.
Maybe Slayers who no longer or was never interested in field work can be Watchers (aka trainers and researchers).
I sure hope they don’t follow the comics template where Buffy turns to crime to fund the Slayers org when they could just inherit the vast fortunes of the Watchers. And this time Slayers can finally get paid and have benefits.
(But also in the comics Whedon destroyed the Slayer organization and Buffy and Faith had to end up as cops at the end of the comic run. Blech. No thanks.)
Okay, then Wolfram and Hart could be Buffy’s benefactor?
Edited by BigBadShadow25 on Feb 5th 2025 at 6:15:21 AM
You’re Gonna Carry That Weight.So, no watchers left, Buffy is on her own.
She’s gotta be the Giles for the new slayer.
Edited by BigBadShadow25 on Feb 5th 2025 at 6:21:10 AM
You’re Gonna Carry That Weight.I had a character concept, that I would have liked to see.
I always thought it would be fun to have a potential who had some sort of disability like brittle bones or some weak muscles. After being called, her superpowers would boost her to be basically a normal human (or maybe just a bit stronger). She would still have deamons coming atfer her (extra weak slayer, easy prey) so she would learn magic to compensate for lack of strength. Basically a Slayer who fights non physical.
You lost!There's no reason why a slayer can't learn magic (other than many folk who would otherwise train or provide resources to a wiccan might be fearful of a Slayer)
Regarding post series 7 Watchers, Angel series 5 had Andrew in a watcher role commanding a platoon of slayers. Series 7 also heavily implied Dawn was going to become the first of a new generation of watchers too when it turns out she is very academically gifted. While I would rather slayers self governed post series 7, Andrew does make some sense in the role given he'd been practicing demonology for over half a decade by the time the new slayers were a year into their role.
I'd love for the new series to have the protagonist slayer discover a mysterious student who attends her same school who seems to know a lot about the school counselor Buffy Summers and keeps giving cryptic warnings, but then it turns out they'd one of Dawn's kids and Buffy is literally her aunt.
I would like to see a more… physically unqualified girl as the slayer. Not nessecarily disabled, though that is an option, but scrawnier, maybe nearsighted. Someone less athletic than Buffy. Less cheerleader, more gamer.
Edited by BigBadShadow25 on Feb 5th 2025 at 7:05:36 AM
You’re Gonna Carry That Weight.

It's not reincarnation, it's dependent on the timing of when the Slayer dies (which is currently Faith, Buffy hasn't been THE slayer since season 1). The potentials in season seven seemed exclusively older teenagers and early 20's and the empowerment montage at the end showed some girls who looked closer to 12, there might be a Buffy-esque metaphor about "aging out" of being a potential slayer.
Edited by EmeraldSource on Feb 5th 2025 at 10:06:07 AM
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