Who Is Buffy? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Buffy is a Company-Licensed comic book character, the alter ego of Buffy Anne Summers, with over 504 comic issue appearances. Buffy Summers is a Vampire Slayer who was activated at the age of fifteen. After burning down the gym of her old high school, she moved to Sunnydale where she became friends with Willow Rosenberg, Xander Harris and her new Watcher, Rupert Giles. Over the years Buffy fought many villains and became one of the longest-lived Slayers, having returned from death twice. During the war with the First Evil, Buffy enacted a plan to activate all Potential Slayers abolishing the traditional Slayer line.

Who is Buffy?

Creation Buffy the Vampire Slayer was created by Joss Whedon in a screenplay that later, in 1992, became a movie of the same name. The story's main character, Buffy Summers, is a young high school student living in Los Angeles who is fated to become a Slayer, a Chosen One who is destined to fight against Vampires and other evil creatures that roam our world. As a Slayer, Buffy Summers has had a very interesting life. From her relationship with her friends and family to her duty as a demon and vampire killer. She was the first and one of the only slayers to balance a social life with her supernatural life. The story of Buffy has continued in different media, mainly a successful television series in the mid-to-late nineties and in comic books. Formerly, non-canonical to the story but recently reinstated in the official Buffy the Vampire Slayer story thanks to a new comic series that continues right where the TV shows seventh and last season left off. Origins Buffy Buffy was just another regular fifteen year-old high school student in the City of Los Angeles, California .

Key facts

Buffy is of human origin and first appeared in "Big TV Issue!". The character is published by Company-Licensed. With 504 recorded issue appearances, Buffy ranks among the most featured characters in comics.