During her tenure on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Faith's backstory was rarely covered and when it was, it was only ever in tiny fragments here and there.
We never got an in depth Faith origin story. Released in , it follows a young Faith living as a loner from a broken home in Boston. Things get even tougher on the girl when she is taken from her mother by Social Services and taken to Foster Care, but things take a strange turn when she's introduced to her first Watcher.
The novel's place in canon is questioned by fans, but if it counts for anything, the novel needed to be approved by Fox before its release. No word if Whedon himself had to approve the novel though. The character of Faith has a tribal tattoo on her right arm. At the time of playing the character, Eliza Dushku had no real tattoos of her own to speak of, but as a gag, she brought a spoofed version of Faith's tattoo onto the set of Bring It On for a scene in the movie.
Although, in the film, the tribal mark appears on Dushku's left arm instead of the right one. In the movie, Eliza Dushku's character is prepping to audition for the cheerleading team when one cheerleader reminds her that tattoos are forbidden on the cheer team. With a lick of her middle finger, Dushku wipes away the tat revealing it to be fake. Buffy the Vampire Slayer frequently featured scenes where its characters would strip down and indulge in sexual situations. Whether it was Buffy losing her virginity or Spike having a nude tryst with an invisible Buffy, most of the actors among the cast have appeared on-screen almost nude.
Except Eliza Dushku. While on the show, Eliza Dushku decided against appearing nude on-screen because she grew up as a Mormon and stripping down for the world to see acted against her Mormon beliefs.
While she no longer is active in the Mormon church, she is still close with her mother, Dr. Judith Dushku, who is a well-respected feminist professor and scholar within the Mormon community.
After leaving the Mormon church, Dushku appeared nude in the slasher horror thriller, The Alphabet Killer. Many fans look at the very complicated love-hate relationship between Buffy and Faith and perceive it as lesbian subtext. One of the writers on the Buffy staff, Douglas Petrie, admits he was well aware of such subtext while writing Faith's scenes with Buffy.
Eliza Dushku herself has said that she thinks Faith "swings both ways" and has a "thing for Buffy. This should be enough to convince anyone to at least be open to the idea of Faith being attracted to Buffy, but the show's creator needed a little more convincing.
When this subtext was first brought to Whedon's attention, he completely dismissed it, telling fans to "get over it" and they "just want to see girls kissing.
She also started a relationship with her schoolmate Scott Hope which ended after a number of weeks. While this was happening, she discovered Angel had been returned from the hell dimension in a feral state.
When the Scoobies discovered this, they were disgusted, confused, and furious, though they begrudgingly accepted him back into the team when he saved Willow from being killed by Gwendolyn Post , a corrupt ex-Watcher. Meanwhile, a rebellious new Slayer, Faith Lehane , arrived in town, immediately winning over Buffy's friends and family and providing Buffy with a new ally. Contrary to Kendra who was the model slayer, Faith was a fun-loving brawler that rejected responsibility more so than Buffy did.
After averting the problem by slaying the vampire, Buffy and Faith started a complicated sisterly relationship, learning each others' strengths and weaknesses.
Though Buffy and Angel attempted to simply be friends and nothing more, they eventually continued dating, though they took great care to keep their relationship celibate.
Shortly before her eighteenth birthday, Buffy was de-powered in preparation for her Cruciamentum , a Slayer rite of passage organized by the Watchers Council meant to test the Slayer's practical capabilities. This pitted her against a psychotic vampire which she initially avoided though packed the courage to take him on when he held her mother hostage and she ended victoriously.
Giles' reluctance to see Buffy hurt and subsequent interference in the test led to him being fired as her official Watcher and replaced with Wesley Wyndam-Pryce , though Buffy quickly rebelled against Wesley and refused to take him seriously when he turned out to be little more than a bumbling idiot and a coward.
Eventually, Faith led Buffy on a rebellious tour of her side of Slaying, which did entice Buffy to some degree. This proved disastrous when Faith accidentally killed the Deputy Mayor Allan Finch and refused to recognize the problem and take responsibility for her actions.
Buffy and Faith's relationship would be then changed from that point on. As the Senior Prom was closing in, Buffy expressed excitement in having her perfect high school experience with Angel as her date.
However, realizing he could never give her a normal life, Angel broke up with Buffy the day before. Despite her sadness, Buffy made it her duty that she and her friends enjoy themselves at the event. She went forth and killed a group of mind-controlled hellhounds released by a dateless nerd, Tucker Wells , before attending prom dressed in formal wear.
To her surprise, she was presented with a Class Protector Award , acknowledging the countless times she saved the student body.
Just as she thought it couldn't get any better, Angel arrived in a tuxedo, not wanting to take her back but to give her the slow dance she desired. Faith became increasingly alienated from the Scoobies and found a friend in the affable yet sinister Mayor of Sunnydale Richard Wilkins , [59] who was preparing to become an Old One on the Sunnydale High Graduation Day and devour the student body.
Faith impeded these efforts by poisoning Angel with Killer of the Dead , leaving him on the verge of death; when the Watchers Council refused to help on the grounds that Angel was a vampire, a furious and disgusted Buffy chose to stop following the Council's orders altogether, severing all ties with them.
When the Scoobies learned that only the blood of a Slayer could save Angel's life, Buffy attempted to sacrifice Faith to save him, willing to kill a human in this case. Buffy then led her classmates in a climactic battle against the Mayor, ascended into the Olvikan , and his minions, which culminated in an explosion that destroyed the Mayor as well as the school.
After the smoke cleared, Angel left for Los Angeles so that Buffy could try to have a more normal life without him. After the explosive events of her high school graduation, Buffy experienced difficulties adjusting to life as a college freshman at University of California, Sunnydale She was injured during an encounter with a group of on-campus vampires, [63] and came off as unstable to her friends when she suspected her unpleasant roommate Kathy Newman to be demon which she was eventually proven correct in her assumption , and she began rooming with Willow after the Mok'tagar demon departure.
Her troubles were only worsened by Angel's recent departure, and she sought comfort with fellow student Parker Abrams and slept with him a few weeks after meeting him. He then brushed her off as a one-night stand despite having made her believe that this was the start of a new relationship. Her experience with Parker was made more difficult by Spike, who had returned to Sunnydale after Drusilla left him once again.
He uncovered the Gem of Amara — a ring that made any vampire who wore it invulnerable to vampiric weaknesses — and attacked her on campus.
Though she managed to defeat him and take the ring back, Spike escaped into the sewers. During Thanksgiving, Buffy was forced to deal with Hus , the vengeful spirit of a Native American warrior, after he was released by Xander's construction crew.
Buffy — who had been determined to have a safe and normal holiday meal with her friends — was also shocked when Spike arrived unexpectedly at Giles' flat, begging for help. Spike had been captured by the mysterious Initiative ; a group of army-clad individuals Buffy had previously encountered on campus who implanted Spike with a cerebral microchip that made it impossible for him to harm humans.
Buffy was aided in the battle against Hus by Angel, who had returned to Sunnydale without her knowledge. When Xander accidentally revealed that Angel had reappeared, Buffy immediately traveled to Los Angeles to confront him as she was hurt that he had spoken to everyone but her.
Buffy and Angel agreed to remain apart; just as she was about to leave, they were attacked by a Mohra demon. They tracked the demon down into the sewers and succeeded in wounding it before it escaped. The demon's blood had mixed with Angel's during the confrontation, causing him to become human again. Buffy and Angel reveled in finally being able to be together, but Angel soon discovered that The Powers That Be had not yet offered him redemption.
When Angel was almost killed by the regenerated Mohra demon, Buffy managed to slay it. After Angel discovered that Buffy would die much sooner if he remained human, Angel had The Oracles create a temporal fold to reverse his transformation into a human. Buffy was left with no memory of the incident. Back in Sunnydale, Buffy and the Scoobies kept Spike tied up in Giles' flat as he bartered information about the Initiative for shelter and blood.
At school, Buffy eventually attracted the sincere attention of her psychology teacher's assistant, Riley Finn , and began to wonder how she could balance her Slayer duties while dating a seemingly-normal boy.
While fighting the Gentlemen , however, Buffy came to discover that Riley had a secret of his own; he was a member of the Initiative, which Buffy learned was a government task force led by Buffy's psychology professor, Maggie Walsh, which was created to research mystical and demonic creatures. Buffy briefly joined forces with the Initiative, but her relentless questioning of the organization's motives, as well as her relationship with Riley, began to unsettle Professor Maggie Walsh , who tried to have her killed in action.
Faith then awakened from her coma and used a Draconian Katra left to her by the Mayor to switch bodies with Buffy. She managed to escape and convince Giles of her true identity. With the help of Willow and Tara Maclay , Buffy reversed the body swap. Upon discovering that Faith had traveled to Los Angeles and was attempting to kill Angel, a furious Buffy traveled to L.
This put Buffy into direct conflict with Angel, who insisted that Faith could be rehabilitated. Though understandably unwilling or unable to believe that Faith was capable of redemption, Buffy ultimately had no choice but to work together with her to fight back against the Watchers Council Special Operations Team.
Faith subsequently surrendered herself to the Los Angeles Police Department , and Buffy got into a heated exchange with Angel, climaxing when she used her relationship with Riley to put Angel on the defensive, who then harshly ordered her to go back to Sunnydale after reminding her that he himself could not move on from their relationship.
Angel subsequently returned to Sunnydale to apologize, and after running afoul of the Initiative in the process, succeeded in mending things with Buffy, with both sides admitting that they had been wrong. The Scoobies, helped by Riley and Spike, subsequently helped save the Initiative's soldiers from the rampaging demon hordes within the complex; the Initiative was subsequently closed down by the U.
Soon after her confrontation with Sineya, Buffy started to wonder about what it meant to be the Slayer and this encouraged her to start patrolling every night. On one of these patrols, she encountered the world-renowned vampire Dracula , who had traveled to Sunnydale with the intention of making the legendary warrior his bride. Buffy — among others — was at first left powerless to Dracula's thrall , but managed to overcome his control over her and forced him to leave town.
Her battle against the infamous Count combined with her encounter with the first Slayer made Buffy realize the inherent "darkness" behind the Slayer legend and made her want to learn more about the other slayers.
She began to fully accept her duty as the Slayer for the first time in her life and enlisted Giles to put her through more extensive training in order to make her a better Slayer. Meanwhile, a younger sister, Dawn Summers , had mysteriously appeared in the Summers' household; her existence had been seamlessly integrated into the memories of all those she had ever known.
A group of monks had caused the Key to take human shape in order to protect it from a mentally unstable higher being known as Glorificus ; they had chosen to put the Key in the Slayer's care, as a sister, in the hopes that she would protect it with her life. Though Buffy was understandably skeptical of Dawn when she learned that she had been fabricated and integrated into her life without her prior knowledge, she quickly came to accept her responsibility as Dawn's protector, not because she felt obliged to carry out the monks' wishes, but because she slowly realized that she truly did love her sister, regardless of the circumstances of her existence.
Buffy continued to patrol Sunnydale and fight evil with the Scoobies, despite the looming threat of Glory. After an encounter with an average vampire left her badly wounded, she became interested in learning the deaths of past Slayers and poured through old Watchers Diaries with Giles in an attempt to better understand her situation. She eventually went to Spike for information instead, who, having killed two Slayers in his lifetime, proved particularly knowledgeable on the subject.
He brought her to the Bronze , where he described his experience as a vampire and his encounters with the Slayer. Spike imparted to her his own personal philosophy in regards to Slayers — that everyone had a death wish — before Buffy shoved him to the ground. Upon returning home, she had to confront her mother's worsening state. Buffy was crying on the back porch when Spike appeared, armed with a shotgun.
Instead of shooting her as he had told Harmony, he sat beside Buffy and comforted her. Buffy's relationship with Riley slowly began to deteriorate as she repeatedly failed to give him the emotional intimacy he craved. Riley began visiting a vampire brothel where he would allow vampires to bite him; when Buffy discovered this as a result of Spike's interference, she destroyed the brothel and confronted Riley, after which he left her and returned to the military. Buffy's pain over having had two failed relationships caused her to take an interest in Ben Wilkinson , a handsome medic.
However, an encounter with April , the love-struck robot girlfriend of Warren Mears , made her realize that she was overly dependent on men and decided she needed to be by herself for a while. This proved to be greatly fortunate as Ben was secretly Glory's human vessel. The Watchers Council eventually came to Sunnydale with information about Glory but refused to give it up until Buffy passed a test they had prepared for her.
The Council interviewed Buffy's friends and allies in order to ascertain if she was "worthy" of the knowledge they had to deliver. Though Buffy at first failed to meet their high standards, it was a conversation with Glory who threatened to kill her and her friends that gave her the confidence to stand up to the Council. Through a rousing speech, she managed to convince them to give her all the information they and reinstate Giles into the Council as her paid Watcher.
With the Council's knowledge, Buffy discovered Glory was not a demon at all, but a deity. Later, Dawn casually revealed to Buffy that Spike had fallen in love with her, much to Buffy's surprise and disgust. She confronted him about it on a stakeout; while she attempted to tell him that his feelings were impossible, he kidnapped her in order to proclaim his devotion to her via murdering his sire and ex-lover, Drusilla.
Buffy managed to escape, and subsequently alienated Spike from the Scoobies and had Willow recant his invitation into her house — something she had not bothered to do since he first helped her during their fight against Angel. Buffy and Dawn were then devastated by the death of their mother shortly after.
Joyce had been experiencing health problems for months, and only recently received surgery for a brain tumor when she died unexpectedly from an aneurysm. Meanwhile, Giles decided to take Buffy on a Vision Quest to help her discover what being the Slayer truly meant. It involved the first Slayer, her vision guide, cryptically telling her that death was her "gift. Upon her return, she discovered that Spike had forced Warren to build Buffybot , a robotic sex toy in her likeness, which had resulted in him being captured by Glorificus' minions in the belief that he was the Key.
Despite her understandable rage and disgust over the robot's existence, Buffy saved Spike and subsequently discovered that he had endured intense torture — and come close to dying — at the hands of Glory in order to protect Dawn's identity as the Key. Moved by his sacrifice, Buffy rewarded Spike with a kiss and reconciled with him, welcoming him back into her circle of friends.
When Glory finally discovered that Dawn was the Key, Buffy immediately had her and the gang rushed out of Sunnydale in a Winnebago piloted by Spike. This attempt was hampered when the Knights of Byzantium , a militia intent on killing the Key to stop Glory, attacked the Scoobies on the road. The Scoobies then held up inside an abandoned gas station and called in Ben to treat Giles who had been injured in the assault.
He then unwillingly turned into Glory who kidnapped Dawn, despite Buffy and the others' attempts to protect her. Believing she had failed, Buffy broke down retreated into her subconscious, where she battled with the guilt of having failed to protect her sister. Via magic, Willow successfully dove into Buffy's mind and helped her overcome her helplessness.
Although she knew that Dawn's death would destroy Glory's plan for good, Buffy refused to allow her sister to be harmed. She prepared for the battle with the Scoobies; whilst retrieving weapons from her house, she granted Spike permission to enter again, after which he expressed his gratitude to her for treating him "like a man.
Willow weakened Glory's mentality, while Xander hit her with a wrecking ball and Buffy beat her repeatedly with Olaf the Troll God's Enchanted Hammer before she finally reverted to Ben's weaker form. Not wanting to kill an innocent human, Buffy allowed Ben to live, warning him not to go after Dawn again.
Giles, however, knew that Glory would rise again and killed Ben with his own hands, thus destroying her. Spike climbed the tower where the ritual was to be performed in an attempt to rescue Dawn, but was outmaneuvered and thrown off the tower by Doc , secretly one of Glory's followers. Despite all the Scoobies' best efforts, Dawn's blood had already been used to open the interdimensional portal by the time Buffy reached her atop the tower. Dawn offered to sacrifice herself in order to stop the ritual, but Buffy, who at that moment understood the meaning behind Sineya's message, chose instead to sacrifice herself for the good of the world.
She leaped into the portal — her blood, which Dawn's had been modeled after, effectively closed the rift. Buffy's allies stood over her body and wept openly. She was buried on the outskirts of Sunnydale with the epitaph: "She saved the world. A lot. With her death, Buffy was moved onto what she would refer as " heaven ," where she apparently found peace. After crawling from her own grave, Buffy wandered the streets of Sunnydale before being found [91] and taken back to her house by Dawn.
Buffy was comforted by Spike, who had been serving as Dawn's protector and sitter in Buffy's absence. Her transition back to life was very difficult; she experienced an overwhelming sense of loss after being — as she put it when confessing to Spike — ripped out of heaven and thrust back into a world of pain. Struggling to feel alive and seeking someone who understood her, Buffy began a violent sexual relationship with Spike which left neither of them satisfied, keeping it secret from everyone but Tara out of fear of their reaction.
Buffy consulted with Tara on whether her resurrection changed who she was and thus no longer made her a human according to the chip. Tara discovered that the chip was merely confused due to her mystical resurrection, upsetting Buffy as it made her come to terms with the fact that her relationship with Spike was her own doing and not anything outside her control.
In order to deal with her increasing financial problems, Buffy started working at the fast food restaurant Doublemeat Palace. Meanwhile, Willow, following Buffy's resurrection, developed an addiction to magic and began to use it excessively, which Buffy, faced with her own problems, failed to notice and largely ignored at first, even when confronted with evidence by Anya Jenkins and Xander.
When Willow made another trip to Rack's place with Dawn in tow, the two were attacked by Mandraz , who Willow unwittingly summoned during her high, and Willow's carelessness caused a car accident that left Dawn severely injured. Buffy and Spike arrived in time to save them and, despite being understandably furious with Willow, relented slightly when Willow begged her for help. With Buffy's help, Willow renounced the usage of her magic altogether and was put on the road to recovery. In contrast to the ruthless hell-goddess Buffy faced the year before, her newest "nemesises" consisted of her old nerdy classmates that formed the Trio , with the intent of committing crimes, obtaining women, and eventually taking over Sunnydale.
Seeing Buffy as a foil in their plans, they made it their top priority to take the Slayer out, proceeding with several, ongoing minor annoyances against her, though she never had any interest in directly stopping them. One of their games led to accidentally turning Buffy invisible. At first, Buffy enjoyed this new power, by tricking the mentality of the social worker Doris Kroeger , who had been unimpressed by Buffy's ability as Dawn's guardian; and by going to Spike for sex, without the risk of their affair being discovered.
Upon learning that if she were to continue being invisible her molecule structure would break down, Buffy sought to stop the Trio and made herself visible, not wanting to die despite her current grime state of life. The Trio's schemes finally reached the breaking point when their leader, Warren Mears , accidentally killed his ex-girlfriend Katrina Silber after a mystical date-rape attempt. With the use of Jonathan Levinson 's magicks and Andrew Wells ' demon summoning, he manipulated events to make Buffy think she killed Katrina.
Convinced, Buffy was ready to confess to the police, although this was thwarted when Spike dumped the body to save her. In a combination of grief and denial in her relationship with Spike, Buffy beat him severely. Luckily for her, Buffy discovered that she wasn't actually the perpetrator of the crime and the death was ruled as a suicide; nonetheless, Buffy realized that the Trio was becoming too dangerous for her to ignore and resolved to bring them to justice.
Buffy soon met Riley again when she enlisted her help with a demon he was tracking. While Riley had been married and demon-hunting along his wife, Sam , Buffy was turning to Spike for relief. Riley then discovered the demon dealer was Spike, so Buffy destroyed his crypt while killing the demons he had been holding.
After Riley left again, Buffy broke up with Spike, admitting to him that she was just using him and it was killing her. Confused and angry, Spike later got drunk with Anya, who had recently been left at the altar by Xander, and the two had sex in the Magic Box , which the Scoobies discovered through hidden cameras that the Trio had planted in the Bronze, the Magic Box, and Buffy's house.
Xander subsequently attempted to kill Spike in a jealous rage, but Buffy intervened, revealing her secret relationship with Spike in the process; though Willow, Dawn, and Anya accepted it with relative grace, understanding what Buffy had been going through, Xander reacted exactly as Buffy feared, though he eventually realized why Buffy had kept it secret and apologized.
Later, Spike cornered her in her bathroom, and in a misguided attempt to force her to admit her love for him, tried to rape her. She managed to fight him off, and in tears, dared him to ask again why she couldn't love him.
Frustrated with his own inability to be either a man or a monster and disgusted with himself for his own actions, Spike fled Sunnydale. After yet again foiling the Trio's plan, an enraged and embarrassed Warren tried to kill Buffy by shooting at her while she was caught off-guard in her backyard. Buffy used the split-second she had after being made aware of Warren's presence to push Xander out of the way and take the bullet in the process.
Meanwhile, one of Warren's stray bullets accidentally killed Tara. Willow, enraged and grief-stricken, suffered a relapse and recklessly absorbed a large amount of dark magic. Willow saved Buffy at the hospital by removing the bullet with telekinesis , before proceeding to hunt down Warren and exacting bloody revenge against him; Willow flayed him alive before the eyes of her friends who came to stop her.
Despite Warren's actions, Buffy was adamant that Willow had done the wrong thing and worked to protect Andrew and Jonathan who had no involvement in Tara's murder to prevent further deaths and to prevent her friend from becoming completely evil.
Buffy even battled her best friend one-on-one so that the remaining Trio members could escape, but was promptly defeated before Giles came to her rescue. In the ensuing battle, the Magic Box was destroyed and Willow tried to kill Andrew and Jonathan with a homing fireball which Buffy managed to stop, though this resulted in Dawn and herself being trapped underground in the cemetery where the fireball impacted.
Willow then tried to destroy the whole world to end everybody's pain, which caused a number of demons to spawn and attack Buffy and Dawn. Xander finally got through to Willow in the end. The trauma of Tara's death, Willow nearly destroying the world and seeing Dawn's showing her proficiency with a sword allowed Buffy to realize that life was worth living after all.
With that, Buffy promised to stop her self-destructive behavior in order to be there for Dawn when Dawn needed her; with this crisis resolved, Buffy was finally ready to live again.
When Dawn enrolled in the recently rebuilt Sunnydale High as a freshman, Buffy was offered a job as a guidance counselor by Principal Robin Wood , which she gratefully accepted. She soon became concerned when a girl with psychic powers, Cassie Newton , came to her claiming she would soon die. Buffy at first thought she was suicidal, but after learning it was an upcoming event, she saved her from being sacrificed by a group of demon-worshipping students.
Afterward, Buffy discovered that Cassie would actually die from a congenital heart condition. Cassie would be the first of numerous young women Buffy wouldn't be able to save in the following months.
Meanwhile, Buffy had discovered that Spike was living in the basement of the high school. Though at first taken aback by his madness, she eventually came to realize that he had regained his soul in order to prove himself to her.
Recognizing that he had changed, she brought him out of the basement and helped him to recover. It eventually became apparent that he was being controlled by an evil force to feed on, kill and sire humans in town. Buffy tied Spike to a chair in order to prohibit him from moving; after he went into a frenzy and attacked Andrew Wells, she chained him in her basement. When he begged her to kill him, she refused and expressed her belief in him.
He was later kidnapped by the agents of the First Evil. These Potentials were brought to Sunnydale for protection and training at Buffy's home; [32] the house was quickly overrun with teenage Potentials. Andrew, who had been under the influence of the First and captured by Buffy and her friends, led them to the First's area of focus, the Seal of Danzalthar , situated on the gateway to the Hellmouth; Spike's blood had been used to open the Seal.
Upon investigating the creature that had been released, Buffy encountered an ancient and powerful vampire known as a Turok-Han. Afterward, she delved into the First's lair, where she rescued Spike, who had been brutally tortured by both the First and the Turok-Han.
She used this to contact the Shadowmen for assistance. In response, they took her into another dimension and offered to increase her powers via the essence of a demon. Buffy refused, unwilling to sacrifice her humanity in exchange for power. Meanwhile, a reformed Faith, having escaped from prison to help Angel, traveled to Sunnydale to aid the Scoobies in the battle. Upon learning that the First's minion Caleb had something of hers, Buffy led the Potentials into battle at a Vineyard to retrieve it, which resulted in the loss of several girls as well as Xander's eye.
Spike followed Buffy to the house and expressed his love and admiration for her. Because of his belief in her, Buffy was able to find the strength to keep fighting. With a surprise visit from Angel, [] Buffy finally defeated Caleb and killed him by cutting him in half. The First confronted her once more, then Buffy realized her revolutionary idea.
Willow used the Scythe to perform a spell that activated Slayers all around the world. This happened just as Buffy led an army of potential Slayers down to the Hellmouth through the Seal of Danzalthar in the then abandoned Sunnydale High. Played by April Weeden, the flashback depicted her similarly engaging Spike in an ill-fated battle, albeit aboard a subway train in New York City. By that point, Nikki had been the Slayer for an impressive seven years.
The character would also later be revisited on-screen in Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 7. She first appeared in a new flashback, showing an earlier, less fatal clash with Spike in Central Park. Nikki was this time played by K. D Aubert. Once it was revealed that Robin Wood D. Woodside was her son, The First assumed her form to torment and manipulate him.
The comics would further flesh out her tenure as a Slayer. After Li was killed by a vampire named Le Banc, Nikki would personally get revenge upon both him and the giant bat he called a pet. It was also revealed she'd been forced to undergo the traditional Tento di Cruiiamentum trial battling a vampire without powers despite being pregnant.
India Cohen's inclusion in the official canon has been widely debated over the years. She was never directly named on either of the shows, nor did she make an appearance in the subsequent comic book continuations. However, appearing in The Book of Fours novel and a short story titled The Code of the Samurai, she perfectly fills one of the most questioned gaps in the Slayer timeline. Active between and , India was Buffy's direct predecessor. As such, she is held in official esteem by many Buffy the Vampire Slayer fans.
Equally, nothing ever overtly contradicted her position. She would ultimately sacrifice herself to save both him and her family. India's ghost would go on to briefly possess Willow before she once again sacrificed herself.
India was briefly referenced in Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 2 , episode 21, "Becoming, Part One" — when Angel's associate, Whistler Max Perlich , remarked that Buffy was " prettier than the last one ". With a history that already felt lived in, Buffy would go on to save the world She would occasionally lose her life in the process. However, much like the quality of the show itself, she would always bounce back. With Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 7, episode 22, "Chosen", the journey of Buffy Summers was left with a brief smile and the question of, " What are we gonna do now?
The answer to that question would come in the official Buffy the Vampire Slayer comic books. Having turned every potential Slayer into a full-fledged one, Buffy helped to establish the Slayer Organization. As the world became more and more aware of the supernatural elements among them, Buffy remained steadfast in her duty to protect it.
Firstly, she became aware of an ancient and prophesized threat known as Twilight. Though Buffy successfully defeated it, she did so at the cost of all magic in the world. Buffy then settled in San Francisco and continued her duties as fresh threats emerged from the new status quo. Once magic was restored, Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 12 saw her tackle one last apocalypse in the form of The Reckoning — an event that, even when defeated, irrevocably affected the entire timeline.
When last seen, Buffy sat down to enjoy the closest thing she'd had to a day off since her brief tenure as a rat in season 2. Acknowledged as a potential Slayer from a young age, her parents gave up custody of Kendra to her Watcher. As a result, she would grow up extremely well-versed in the lore, and became fiercely dedicated to her calling. After Buffy briefly died at the hands of The Master, Kendra was officially activated.
Her interactions with the Scooby Gang served to soften and lighten her demeanor. During that episode, she was tragically killed by Drusilla. Throughout the show, she never had a surname. Whedon himself, however, attributed one to her ahead of a subsequent video game. Kendra would only make one brief appearance in the comics, courtesy of a vision in the last issue.
Like Kendra, she initially wasn't given a last name until the video game. Activated in the wake of Kendra's death, Faith fled to Sunnydale when her Watcher was murdered.
She quickly joined the Scooby ranks, operating as the Yin to Buffy's Yang. After killing the Deputy Mayor, mistaking him for a vampire, she quickly descended to the dark side. Siding with The Mayor, who became somewhat of a father figure, she murderously helped him towards his ascension.
After his defeat and some time in a coma, Faith would engage in some more acts of villainy. Also while in London mentoring displaced Slayers, Faith was the only one who was able to defeat an enraged Nadira whereas a squad of fully trained Slayers couldn't handle her.
Before initially coming to Sunnydale, Faith experienced a number of failed relationships with "losers" who destroyed her confidence in men. Romantic and sexual liaisons aside, Faith's most profound relationships were formed with paternal or maternal figures who she quickly latched onto. The most obvious example of this was the Mayor, although prior to her alliance with him, Faith fell into similar situations with her watchers.
Over the years, she eventually formed a stable relationship with Buffy's former watcher, Rupert Giles, seeing him as the best father figure she ever had.
Faith however somewhat moved past this, still wanting a father figure but no longer willing to allow herself to place her morals and ethics second. The bond that Faith shared with her fellow Slayer was complex and unique. They had unique insight into each other's personality and the burdens that they shared, but they disagreed about what it meant to be a Slayer.
Buffy was alienated by Faith's enthusiasm for violence and lack of responsibility, and Faith did not understand why Buffy compartmentalized her destiny as if it were a job.
The First Evil later commented that Faith always wanted Buffy to love her. Additionally, Faith was jealous of the life Buffy led, surrounded by friends and family. Buffy, never one for rules herself, was somewhat drawn to Faith's rebellious nature, but was horrified when Faith descended into reckless abandon and accidentally killed a man.
During these dreams Faith gave Buffy a clue to the Mayor's weakness and predicted the appearance of Dawn. After eight months in a coma, Faith set out to wreak her revenge on Buffy for ruining her life "That's the thing about a coma. You wake up all rested and rejuvenated and ready for payback". In the very last stages of her coma, Faith had nightmares of Buffy coming to kill her again.
Faith was outraged that Buffy had started a relationship with Riley when she had tried to kill her to save Angel's life, reducing her "death" as meaningless damage. She mocked and provoked Buffy on the UC Sunnydale grounds, rejecting her attempts to reach out and help her.
After a brief fight, Faith reminded her that she would get payback. When Faith later tied up Joyce. Faith ranted to her how Buffy had forgotten about Joyce and would not come back to help her. She connected this to herself even more strongly, angrily noting how Buffy had forgotten about her and moved on with her life without any need for either of them. This heavily implied that most of Faith's anger and desire to ruin her life came from feeling abandoned and a lack of appreciation from Buffy herself.
Faith's jealousy of Buffy's life culminated when she stole Buffy's body by swapping bodies with Buffy. She enjoyed taking advantage of the perks of having her body, though acted like Buffy poorly in many ways. Faith blew off the responsibilities Buffy so highly valued and mocked her "self-righteous, goody-two-shoes" behavior several times. She still strongly stuck to her initial views on Buffy's serious and "joyless" demeanor, describing her contemptuously as a "stuck-up tight ass with no sense of fun" to a thoroughly confused Spike.
Faith had no qualms at all for taking advantage of Buffy's body to seduce and sleep with her boyfriend for "payback. However, it was brief. Faith furiously punched Buffy almost instantly when they ran into each other to save the people in the church, projecting her self-hate over herself on the body Buffy was in. After the body swap was reversed, a tired and beaten Faith stole away on a train to Los Angeles.
After being taken in and comforted by Angel to come to terms with her guilt and the good still inside her, Faith was shown to be most upset and regretful over what she had done to Buffy. She said that Buffy was the first person who ever really tried to help her and be a friend, yet she had given her nothing in return. Buffy was furious after her "body swap" act and believed Faith incapable of redemption or remorse. Faith tried to apologize to her, only for Buffy to angrily threaten her.
Buffy's animosity towards Faith increased when Angel jumped between them and defended Faith. Faith and Buffy had an angry confrontation on the rooftop in LA. While Buffy continued to lash out at her for taking everyone important away from her and pushing her away every time she tried to help her, Faith argued that Buffy couldn't understand what it was like to be lost, and have nothing but pain and hate in life.
Again, Faith tried desperately to get Buffy to forgive her or at least allow her to make things right, but before getting an answer, the Council attacked. Despite the anger Buffy held towards Faith, when the Council attacked Faith, Buffy willingly fought by her side to protect her and personally took out one of the team.
In the end, Faith turned herself in and went to prison as punishment for her crimes, including murder. Buffy had wanted this from the start, but never expected Faith would do it willingly. When Faith returned to Sunnydale to help fight the First Evil, Buffy again accepted her as an ally although not before punching her.
Faith tried to follow Buffy's lead, and was hesitant to become the leader after a brief mutiny against Buffy. However, Buffy surprised Faith by encouraging her to embrace the leadership role.
After Buffy and the gang were reconciled, Buffy and Faith discussed their contentious history, and Faith concluded that the reason they had never gotten along was because two Slayers were never meant to exist at the same time. With this, Buffy and Faith finally made peace. However, when Buffy was transported to London where Faith had gone undercover in order to defeat a homicidal Slayer, she jumped to the conclusion that Faith had turned evil again and proceeded to attack her with Faith getting the upper hand and nearly killing her in an act of desperation.
Later, Buffy and Faith made peace again when they were forced to get rid of their powers, appearing to finally develop a somewhat strained friendship.
After the destruction of the Seed of Wonder , Faith told one of the Slayers she guided that her relationship with Buffy was "complicated. Frustrated, Buffy promptly hung up on her. At the occasion, Buffy received her amicably and invited her to stay, [82] although Faith couldn't help but feeling left out by Giles's choice in staying with Buffy.
Happily surprised by her arrival, Buffy hugged her, to much of Faith's discomfort, and gave her the Scythe, while Faith promised it would be temporary.
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