Top Episodes
- Becoming, 2.21-2.22
Flashbacks showing the history of both Angel and Buffy are intertwined
with the final showdown between Buffy and Angelus. At the end of part 1,
Kendra is killed by Drusilla, Willow is in a coma, Xander is left with a
broken arm, and Giles is kidnapped. Buffy tries to stop Angelus from
awakening the demon Acathla and bringing forth armegeddon while Willow tries
a spell to restore Angel's soul.
- The Gift, 5.22
It's all-out war as Buffy and Co. pull out every stop in a desperate
attempt to stop the goddess Glory from bleeding Dawn to death in a ritual
to open a gateway between all dimensions that would allow all sorts of powerful
demons to pass through to our dimension and end the world. Buffy realizes
what the First Slayer meant by "death is your gift" in the ultimate sacrifice.
- The Body, 5.16
Buffy, her friends, and Dawn try to cope with the unexpected death of
Joyce, Buffy's mother, due to natural causes.
- Surprise/Innocence, 2.13-2.14
Spike and Drusilla have been gathering pieces of the demon known as the
Judge to reconstruct him. He was brought forth to separate the wicked from
the righteous and burn the righteous, and once restored to full strength, can
kill with a look. He cannot be killed by any weapon forged, but had been
dismembered and buried all over the world. Buffy and Co. try to stop this
(on Buffy's 17th birthday) but are too late and she and Angel narrowly escape
death and end up having sex for the first time back at Angel's place.
Unbeknownst to either of them, there is a clause in Angel's curse that if
his suffering stops and he reaches a moment of true happiness, his soul is
taken back away from him, so in the second part Angelus returns.
- End of Days/Chosen 7.21-7.22
Buffy prepares for her final showdown with the First and Caleb. She
learns more about the scythe she took from Caleb's vinyard and with
Angel's help confronts him once more. She then leads the SITs
into the Hellmouth, in a last desperate battle to save the world from
the First's deadly army. Willow tries to pull off a powerful spell that
can change the tide of battle, and Spike makes the ultimate sacrifice to
save the world.
- Graduation Day, 3.21-3.22
Faith shoots Angel with a poisoned dart, the only cure for which is the
blood of a Slayer, prompting a climactic showdown between the two Slayers.
The Mayor has been invincible for months, but can be killed after he ascends
and becomes pure demon at the graduation ceremony. But it took a volcano to
kill the last demon of his kind, so Buffy recruits the entire school's help
for the war.
- Passion, 2.17
Angelus steps up his torment of Buffy and her friends with tragic results
as they realize how evil Angelus can be.
- Once More With Feeling, 6.7
The acclaimed musical episode of Buffy. A musical demon named Sweet is
summoned, who makes everyone sing and dance (and reveal all their secrets)
until the spontaneously combust. Music and Lyrics by Joss Whedon.
- Hush, 4.10
The award-winning "silent" episode. The Gentlemen, monsters out of a
fairy tale, steal the voice of everyone in Sunnydale and need to take 7
human hearts before they leave. They can only be killed by the scream of
a human girl.
- Primeval, 4.21
Buffy and her friend have a final showdown with Adam, the part man,
part demon, part machine that has taken over the Initiative. As Buffy cannot
defeat it alone, they look to magickly combining their essences (complete
with Matrix-style special effects) to defeat Adam.
- Villains, 6.20
After Warren shot Buffy and Tara, seriously wounding Buffy and killing
Tara, Willow falls back into the blackest magicks, losing control of herself
completely. She becomes just as bad a villain as Warren is as she hunts him
down and tortures him to death.
- Conversations With Dead People, 7.7
The First reveals itself for the first time to Buffy and Co. Buffy gets
psychoanalyzed by a vampire whom she knew from high school, and at the end
learns that Spike has been killing again. Willow confronts The First,
masquerading as the ghost of Cassie with a message from Tara. Dawn confronts
what appears to be a ghost of Joyce and something that is preventing Joyce
from delivering a message to Dawn. And Jonathan and Andrew return to town,
accompanied by the First masquerading as the ghost of Warren, with lethal
consequences.
- Restless, 4.22
The episode that gets better every time you watch it. Restless follows
Primeval and first of all deals with the consequences of the spell used to
defeat Adam: the First Slayer tries to kill them all in their dreams. But,
beyond that, Restless is the key to everything major that happens in seasons
5, 6, and 7. Every scene in Restless is meaningful for the future of the show.
- Two To Go/Grave, 6.21-6.22
Willow (or Darth Rosenburg) has gone completely off the deep end and is
out to kill Jonathan and Andrew, even though they had nothing to do with Tara's
death, and she won't hesitate to kill anything in her way, even her friends.
Giles returns to try to help out as Willow tries to destroy the world.
- This Year's Girl/Who Are You, 4.15-4.16
Faith awakens from her coma and has a confrontation with Buffy. The
Mayor left her a gift, which she uses to switch bodies with Buffy, and Buffy
is taken away by the Watcher's Council to be put to death.
- The Wish, 3.9
After breaking up with Xander, Cordelia is feeling very scorned. She meets
a new girl at school, Anya, and utters the fateful words "I wish Buffy Summers
had never come to Sunnydale." Anya, it turns out, is a vengence demon, and
grants the wish. In the alternate reality, the Master has completely taken
over Sunnydale.
- Selfless, 7.5
After Anya literally fulfills a girls wish that a group of frat guys
would "just for once feel what it's like to have their hearts ripped out,"
Buffy decides that she has to kill Anya. Intertwined with this are hillarious
flashbacks throughout Anya's life.
- Prophecy Girl, 1.12
Buffy learns that according to prophecy, she will die at the hands of the
Master, and he will rise.
- Angel, 1.7
Buffy finds out the truth about Angel, that he is a vampire. But a
vampire with a soul.
- Doppelgangland, 3.16
Through a botched spell, the vamp-Willow from "The Wish" is brought into
this reality.
- Never Leave Me, 7.9
Buffy realizes that they are facing The First. The Watcher's Council is
blown up. The First's Harbingers kidnap Spike and bleed him, opening up a
seal, which unleashes a Turok-Han (or uber-vamp).
- Tabula Rasa, 6.8
A spell by Willow goes awry (again) and everyone ends up with amnesia.
- Enemies, 3.17
Angel pretends to have gone bad again in order to learn everything Faith
knows about the Mayor's planned asencion.
- Tough Love, 5.19
Glory decides that Tara must be the key since she's the newest member of
the group, but when she learns she's wrong, she just brainsucks Tara. Willow
goes to a book of darkest magicks, seeking vengence.
- Intervention, 5.18
Warren finishes the "Buffy-bot" that Spike had him build, and as Buffy is
away, the robot is mistaken for her. But "Buffy's" increased attention to
Spike makes Glory's minions think Spike is the key, and he is captured and
tortured by Glory.
- Lovers Walk, 3.8
Spike returns after being dumped by Drusilla and kidnaps Willow and Xander
to make Willow do a love spell so that Dru will love him again.
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