r/buffy Jul 25 '25

Content Warning 2025 Buffy Poll Results

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Hello Scoobies!

Thank you to everyone who took time to respond to our poll. Having direct feedback from the sub users ensures that we are moderating in accordance with reddits rules and our user base. While we aren’t making major changes to our moderating, we do want to restate and clarify the subreddit rules.

Rule 1 – Episode & Comics Spoilers

If a user indicates they are a New Viewer by using the No Spoilers Flair, do not spoil them on purpose with future plot points.

Rule 2 – Self-Promotional Content

Users are allowed to post their own content about Buffy once per week, not including the first post to announce the content to the sub . All sales must take place in DMs if necessary, not in a comment on the post.

Rule 3 – No Pirates

No unofficial sources of any content related to the Buffyverse.

Rule 4 – Low Effort/Quality Content

This rule has been updated to include the following: - Daily Polls - Rankings - Rhetorical posts that are not promoting a discussion - Content unrelated to the Buffyverse -“Does anyone else” “Am I the only one” posts that do not promote a discussion - The hotness of an actor or character - Hating on a character or actor - Posts that do not promote a discussion and it simply rehashes a common topic

Rule 5 – Repeated Posts

Content that has been posted/thoroughly discussed recently will be removed with a link to the previous post to continue the discussion. Training Pickle, perhaps we can mention the wiki here to let users know that it exists and it should be used?

Rule 6 – Scooby Reddiquette

All posts must adhere to Reddit’s rules regarding behavior and etiquette. Furthermore, we do not allow personal attacks, doxxing, or any toxic behavior. Treat all users as you want to be treated. There is a zero-tolerance policy in place regarding attacks on users sexuality or gender.

Rule 7 – Karma &Account Age

Posts and Comments are only allowed from user accounts that are over 24 hours old and a combined Karma count of 2 points.

NEW Rule

Rule 8 – No Politics

This sub is safe space from the harsh light of reality. No political posts are allowed.

Final Thoughts:

Thank you again for all your input into making sure the sub can be the best it can be! As always, please use the report button or send a Modmail request with any questions or concerns. In accordance with the poll results, all Requel/Sequel/Reboot topics should be discussed in a weekly thread that will be posted on Sundays.


r/buffy Jul 24 '25

First casting news!

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131 Upvotes

r/buffy 5h ago

Good Vibes Only Devon appreciation post!

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294 Upvotes

Can we all marvel at the hotness that is Devon please.


r/buffy 4h ago

Costume Costume nods to Buffy on Bones & How I Met Your Mother

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152 Upvotes

Buffy: Halloween & How I Met Your Mother: The Goat

Buffy: Dopplegangland & Bones: The Man With the Bone

https://recycledmoviecostumes.com/costume/postedwardianmodern014/


r/buffy 21h ago

Buffy Does anyone else feel like people look at Buffy way too much through a modern lens?

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1.8k Upvotes

Maybe it’s just me (or maybe I’m just getting old), but I feel like people go way too far dissecting Buffy with modern 2020s standards. At the end of the day, it’s a vampire show. A fantasy. Yes, it had real emotional depth and some of the most brilliant character arcs on TV — that’s why it’s still beloved — but sometimes the way people get worked up over the relationships and characters almost overshadows the actual show.

I’m honestly glad I got to enjoy Buffy before all this over-analysis was the norm. The reboot? Yikes. They’re going to have to tiptoe around everything like walking through a minefield just to avoid someone being offended.

These days, it feels like everything gets put under a microscope. Sure, the debates can be interesting, and I’m not saying people shouldn’t have opinions. But sometimes it feels like the joy of the show gets buried under endless moral arguments, with everyone trying to prove their interpretation is the “right” one and yours is “wrong.”

For me, Buffy was always about exploring life’s messiness through a supernatural lens. It was never meant to be a handbook on how to be perfect or how to live your life.

Maybe I really am turning into Giles — time to shut down the “blinking box,” grab a book and a tea… (no to Bovril & I say that as Brit 🤣🤮)! 😅


r/buffy 18h ago

Sequel Taylor Momsen loves Buffy and wants to be on the sequel. Sarah Michelle Gellar says “I know some people”

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709 Upvotes

Taylor Momsen talked to Page Six at the VMAs yesterday about her love for Buffy and her desire to be on the sequel series. She said she is really excited for the sequel and that she “gotta make some phone calls” about being a part of that. Sarah Michelle responded to her on instagram saying “I know some people”. Taylor is a massive fan of the og series and I wanna see her acting again even if that is for a small cameo. That would be great to see.


r/buffy 5h ago

Fan Art Who remembers the OG Xbox game?

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23 Upvotes

Hey all! Was working on a new buffy pixel art piece and decided to add a version of the Xbox game UI and turn it into a demake. Hope you enjoy ☺️

I hope with the new series there’s appetite for a new video game!,


r/buffy 18h ago

Fan Art Buffy Fridge Magnets and Coasters

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215 Upvotes

Hello everyone! I’ve made some additional designs for the coasters I posted before and now have added magnets to them all so they can double as fridge art!

Some of the designs are the same as last time but I added 4 more: -“5x5” -“The Gentlemen” -“Spikes Angel” -“Mark of Protection”

I do sell these in packs of four. I do put quite a bit of time into each one, and can make them in any color or combo you want.

Just PM me for information or if you like, I can send you to my Etsy shop.

Thanks!


r/buffy 23h ago

NEW VIEWER - No spoilers please! I am watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer for the first time: done with S3 and reporting back!

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452 Upvotes

Hey hey guys, I finished season 3 a few minutes ago and I'm here to report back with my comments and impressions :)

For those who have missed the previous episodes of my commentary, you can find them here:

S1E1-S1E7

S1E8-S2E10

S2E11-S3E2

Let's get right into it:

  • man... Faith is very annoying and she's only been here for 5mins
  • I wish Kendra had survived and moved to Sunnydale instead :(
  • the concept of a Watchers' retreat in the Cotswolds is sending me 🤣 are all Watchers British? It would make perfect sense
  • Willow, Xander and the others have been pissing me off for a couple of episodes now. I get that they didn't know Buffy killed Angel after the spell came into effect, but even without that piece of information, surely they must have realised that Buffy has been through a fucking lot? Don't tell my girl that the should be having fun... she's grieving and trying to get back to her "normal" life already. None of them would be as strong as she is, in her place
  • my man Giles is the only one who gets it... he knew something was up and worked his way through getting Buffy to open up
  • I know this episode is literally called The Beauty and the Beast, but to me it looks like Angel is more in his Tarzan era
  • what are Xander and Willow doing. WHAT ARE THEY DOING
  • the Slayerfest slaps!! Mr. Trick and his dapper suit are very cool! I hope he's this season's villain, though it looks like it might be the Mayor instead
  • teenager Giles is unhinged, I'm dying
  • I know Joyce and Giles getting together would be Buffy's worst nightmare lol
  • I like that Giles defended Buffy in front of the others but then told her in private how disappointed he was in her after the Angel thing... this is how you do it
  • Buffy telling Xander that he only wants Angel dead because he's jealous... music to my ears
  • SPIIIIIIKEEE!!!!!!!!
  • the Joyce and Spike saga continues, and I thank the gods for it
  • Angel's face when he saw Spike inside Buffy's house LMFAOOO
  • "I may be love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it." TELL THEM BABY.
  • Spike is exactly how I like my men: down bad to the core
  • CORDY!!! I had a heart attack, thought she'd died. She really didn't deserve any of this, and Oz didn't deserve it either
  • Xander and Willow got on my nerves fuck this shit
  • "We're not friends. We never were. And I can fool Giles, and I can fool my friends, but I can't fool myself. Or Spike, for some reason." I said oh I'm sure
  • The Wish gave me anxiety. Buffy dying like that... it just doesn't feel right, don't put that kind of thought into the world
  • although she looked amazing with that lip-scar and the whole outfit... wish she would slay me too
  • Xander and Willow only make sense together as vampires, the writers could have stopped at that instead of ruining the relationships with Cordy and Oz (yes, I'm still salty)
  • Giles and Angel's long awaited reunion, this hurts
  • I love Oz... he's really great. I'm scared he will die a horrible death
  • Angel is so dramatic, man, just get inside
  • sigh Joyce. What the fuck are you doing
  • not to sound like a 17th century European peasant, but witches are dangerous - I think compared to other humans with supernatural powers or even demons, they are more resourceful, they can use their power in many different ways and can potentially set off, well, anything
  • for instance, I wonder if a spell would be able to make a vampire human again... or give Angel the opportunity to have sex without turning back into a psycho vampire lmfao
  • in any case, very curious to see where this newfound power takes Willow
  • I don't even know what an ice show is supposed to be but I sure as hell would have liked to see Buffy and Giles go together :(
  • betrayal hurts x100 more when it comes from Giles 💔
  • HE GOT FIRED??? oh fuck off
  • I mean the old guy said it himself, Giles loves Buffy like a father loves their child. my man is not going anywhere!!
  • Xander and Faith???? Man what's going onnnn
  • rectifying my earlier question. Are all Watchers attractive British men
  • who will win: a 243yo vampire or a 18yo horny teenager
  • GILES WITH A SWORD!!
  • Xander and Cordelia are back to their pre-relationship banter btw. there's still hope #delulu
  • I was warming up to her, but now I'm afraid Faith needs to go
  • you know it's bad when Xander is 100% right and reasonable
  • you know it's even worse when Angel has to chain you up and psychoanalyse you
  • "she could have left me there to die, but she didn't" actually she was about to do exactly that, Buffy is way too nice to Faith
  • rip Mr. Trick, I will miss your drip and your soothing voice
  • every time Buffy cries I have to stare intently at the screen and hope I will get sucked into the story so that I may cradle her in my arms
  • I LOVE VAMPIRE WILLOW
  • they could have kept her, I mean she wasn't that bad, right :( she goes back to her world and gets instantly killed by Oz, this is no fun
  • I've had enough, I'm gonna kill Faith myself
  • something's not right here though, it feels like Angel is pretending to be Angelus (when he was tying Buffy up, he looked at her in an almost sweet way...?)
  • AND I WAS RIGHT!! they were working together, oh I like this, I wish we had seen more of this
  • the fact that Buffy hadn't realised before that Joyce and Giles did in fact have sex 😬 oh sweet summer child
  • what's in the booooox
  • Willow is a better person than me because I would have been on that plane to Oxford
  • dear Buffy, what Angel was trying to say is that he's going to have his own spin-off and that's why he's leaving you out of the blue
  • I think the writers were not great with break-ups this season... you can tell they'd dropped the ball on Buffy and Angel completely even before this ep, because that's a lame ass excuse for a break up lol after the whole Angelus thing, no way the "I'm immortal, you're not" shtick is going to sound believable. Also, I vehemently disagree with Angel: I think I've seen enough of Buffy to say that she wouldn't be happy in a "normal" relationship with a "normal" human being. My girl is freaky!
  • that's a very sweet thing Xander did... and this is how he and Cordelia can still get back together, in this essay I will-
  • BUFFY IS GETTING AN AWARD???!!! MY BUFFY! 🥹
  • Giles putting on his proudest smile for her... that whole sequence had me in tears
  • Angel showed up... stupid 243 old boy, go and make Buffy happy even if only for one night. I need Buffy to have just one moment of happiness
  • Buffy beating Faith to a pulp can be so personal (I'm sure she'll recover, come on)
  • Angel feeding from Buffy!! Yeah boiii
  • aaand he's back to tortured guy
  • Xander leading the Battle of Blackwater let's fucking gooo
  • why is it that every scene with Buffy and Giles this season was manufactured to make me cry
  • RIP Snyder....... teach the Hellmouth how to bully teenagers

r/buffy 20h ago

Giles "The Earth is Doomed" - Giles @ "The Harvest" such an iconic line

172 Upvotes

I loved that they revisited it again in "Chosen"


r/buffy 11h ago

Sequel Excited for “New Sunnydale vfx”

17 Upvotes

I know there has been alot of hate for the new sequel series. I think we are in good hands and we will get something good! The writers ✅ The Director ✅

And who else is excited that we are going to get monsters that look amazing??

If they got Chloe onboard then the budget must be huge!


r/buffy 1d ago

Season Seven What do you think The First was thinking during the "Get out of my face" moment?

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247 Upvotes

r/buffy 15h ago

Season Seven Where was Willow gonna sleep in "Get It Done"?

32 Upvotes

Kennedy has been sleeping in Willow's room since she arrived. At the end of the episode, Kennedy, upset that Willow drained her energy, goes into Willow's room to sleep alone and says "I'll see you tomorrow." Willow goes to talk to Buffy, but then where's she supposed to sleep that night? Did Kennedy kick Willow out of her own room?


r/buffy 23h ago

Spike Meeting James soon

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69 Upvotes

I’m really excited it’s the first time I’ll get to meet a celebrity, and the fact that it’ll be James makes it even special. I heard he’s really nice so don’t hesitate to post your experience meeting him (it’ll probably make me less nervous 😅)


r/buffy 1d ago

Spike Spike

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151 Upvotes

r/buffy 1d ago

Spoilers inside! Willow and Xander romance arc 🤮

102 Upvotes

We’re rewatching Buffy over on Evil Monkey and we’re on season 3 and idk why but I forgot how long that Willow/Xander romance arc went on for before they got caught kissing.

The footsie, glances, and stolen touches made me wanna vomit 🤢🤢🤢!!

Why’d they do that? To just set us up for some drama and break ups?? To get the actually much less vomit inducing vamp willow/xander romance in the next episode? WHAT WAS THE REASON (cardi b voice)

Also, why am I wayyy less grossed out by vamp willow/xander together?? 🤔


r/buffy 17h ago

Spoilers inside! Willow’s portal in 7x15

12 Upvotes

In the 7x15 episode “get it done” Willow creates a portal to bring Buffy back from meeting with the creators of the first slayer. A lot of attention is drawn to the fact that Willow sucks energy from Kennedy because she’s the strongest in the room; what really doesn’t get highlighted is she also sucked energy from Anya. Does this mean she is also one of the strongest? Has the most knowledge of magic ? I’m curious


r/buffy 1d ago

Buffy As an immunocompromised person, this made me love her so much

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2.3k Upvotes

r/buffy 14h ago

Whedonverse What would you want from a sequeI?

6 Upvotes
186 votes, 6d left
A full on teen HS show, minimal/no returning characters
A balance of old and new teen characters
A show mostly about Buffy/old characters/adults
A spinoff about something else entirely
Another option?

r/buffy 1d ago

Season Six Once more with feeling

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1.1k Upvotes

I love Anya almost as much as she loves money


r/buffy 1d ago

Season 1 Familiar face

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33 Upvotes

Me watching Hacks: hmm his face looks familiar somehow 3... 2... 1...

HOLY SHIT IT'S JESSE


r/buffy 1d ago

Content Warning In my 5th rewatch I just finished Entropy and I have to press play for Seeing Red. Help.

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34 Upvotes

Just Help.


r/buffy 3h ago

Whedonverse Grr Arrgh?

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0 Upvotes

Yes - “And You and I” section: III. The Preacher, The Teacher Album: Close to the Edge (1972)

I had somehow never caught the inspiration for the production company name before.


r/buffy 1d ago

Riley Every rewatch I remember why

193 Upvotes

Every time I rewatch and I get to Riley I think he's not so bad, and good with Buffy. Why didn't I like him? Then Maggie tries to kill her and he's just like.. but what about that vampire? What about me?? And he's just a downhill douche from there.

Someone please remind me next time I get to Riley, why he sucks


r/buffy 1d ago

Costume 1880 Fashion Accuracy

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18 Upvotes

Now I’m no fashion historian, but when I saw Cecily’s outfit for the first time, I couldn’t help but think this is not period-accurate for 1880.

Can anyone who is more knowledgeable about historical fashion speak to this?


r/buffy 19h ago

Costume Amy #1

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r/buffy 1d ago

Spoilers inside! Riley/Linda Buffy/ATS

9 Upvotes

So I just found out that Christian Kane who plays Lindsey in ATS auditioned for the part of Riley in BtVS. Trying to picture it. Would it have made a difference to how Riley was viewed as a character? And who would've played Lindsey?!