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That's not how canon works. Disliking something doesn't make it non-canon, and assumptions about a series that doesn't even exist yet don't make it canon.
Whatever happened before is already canon. Whatever comes after that has to prove itself.
No! If the reboot declares itself as the "new canon," we'll probably treat the new series as an alternative reality.
Seasons 8–12 are canon, that's an indisputable fact on this wiki and everything about them will remain the same. We'll have to wait and see if the new series will receive the same treatment.
For example, the audio series Slayers: A Buffyverse Story does not contradict the canon continuity, even though it doesn't refer to anything from the comics. Like the new series, the story takes place years after the comic finale, so it's easier not to contradict because any difference can be explained by the simple passage of time.
However, there are publications that explicitly do not consider the comic seasons and contradict them completely, which is the case of the novel series The Next Generation (which also takes place in a rebuilt New Sunnydale). These novels are non-canon, their stories are ignored from characters' biographies, and maybe the new series will be too depending on what the authors say.
Finally, the comics series The Origin was not only sufficiently adapted with the canon continuity in mind, but the authors came out and declared it as canon, so we have its events included in Buffy's biography. It also might be the case with the new series.
I believe she is talking about the creature from the Hellmouth coming out in "Prophecy Girl" and "The Zeppo."
Izzerial is the "only one" in the way that he is the only devil the series featured. It's the same with Clem, Kulak, Talamour, Kamal, and many other demons who we know are part of whole species despite no other specimens appearing in the series.
The series had Izzerial as a devil just for a joke in "You're Welcome" (Angel making deals with a devil-like creature just after telling Cordelia she was exaggerating) and kept the descriptor "devil"/"red devil" in his credits to reference this first appearance. Nothing indicates he is an entity known as the Devil himself. Also, in a universe with so many demons, gods, and different hells, you can't expect mythical figures to have the same importance.
As a matter of curiosity, Angel non-canon comics even feature "devil" as a job title among many demons rather than a species.
Izzerial was just a demon from a species named "devil," not the religious Devil himself with power over all the evil or whatever.
Who are you talking about?
Television with a Bite is up now! You can add any information you may think is missing, or let me know if you were looking for other information.
For now, we only have articles on the original DVD features, the PaleyFest 2008 reunion, and the EW magazines for the Buffy and Angel cast reunions. Television with a Bite does deserve its own article because it was even included on DVDs! But, you know, the wiki is always a work in progress...
The Buffy finale is not generally considered a cliffhanger, but the writers have explained why they do not view the Angel finale as one:
"The word 'cliffhanger' is really a misnomer here. This was not the final grace note after a symphony, the way the Buffy finale was. We are definitely still in the thick of it [at the end]. But the point of the show is that you're never done; no matter who goes down, the fight goes on. Did I end it this way so that it could lead into an exciting sixth season? Yes, but this is still a final statement, if that's what it needs to be." (Joss Whedon for TV Guide, 2004)
"The point of Angel was always that the fight never ends. He'll always fight. It's an eternity of fighting. You can't ever win but the fight is worth fighting. That was a perfect 'going out' scene... Any proper resolution of, 'Oh, we've defeated the demons, they've gone back to hell, let's get a beer,' just would have been absolutely wrong for that show." (David Fury for Meanwhile... The Blog, 2005)
"That ain't a cliff. I understand why people would want closure, but for me, that would be like adding a cliff note to the end. What I always wanted to say is, trying to become worthy of the life that you have is a life's work. The fight is for always." (Joss Whedon for Entertainment Weekly, 2019)
Both series continued in comic form, but even the comic finale could be considered a cliffhanger by some standards. It ends with the same message from the Buffy finale: we fought and the world changed, now that we survived we continue to live. The "cliffhanger" is that there is always something next; a fight or life itself.
I don't know the scene for certain, but I found a website with crossword clues listed "charming and disarming" as a clue for the Buffy season 3 episode "The Zeppo" in the category "Buffy DVD Chapter Titles & Episodes (Season 3)." Now that you know where to search, someone who has the DVDs could confirm it for you.
Angel did not slay the dragon and Slayers did not come to the battle, but you can learn what really happened in the comic series Angel: After the Fall.
His name appears in the script for the first episode of the show.
Do you have an example of Britain being mocked? I mean, both shows consistently have British guys as main characters (Giles, Wesley, Spike), which is a big thing considering they take place in California. I can only think of situations in which characters banter with each other like they also do with the United States.
It's because the Buffy comics continue with seasons 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12! But the show only has 7.
She does! In Season 10, Dawn discovered she could express "god-like" powers in dimensions that were entirely magic-based, such as:
sense possible portals;
open portals to other dimensions;
destroy barriers separating dimensions (which can lead to an apocalypse);
shrink and destroy powerful demons;
create force fields;
and sense poison.
Spike then created a magic rule about the Key retaining her power to open portals even on Earth, and, in Season 12, Dawn used it to time travel and banish demons with the help of Willow and Illyria.
You can read more in the Dawn Summers article:
We could move the series to Angel (2022 series) to give place to the character's article and have the characters using the (2022) after their names, which we already have with the articles Winifred Burkle (2022) and Buffy Summers (2022) from that series. Of course, you are welcome to come up with a better idea.
Considering the canon text, no. The said favorite daughter of the Kalderash is shown in flashbacks during the episodes "Becoming, Part One" and "Five by Five", and she's not Drusilla.
However, there's space for a retcon/headcanon. We can make up that Drusilla secretly was a descendant of the Kalderash, which would even explain her psychic powers. Enyos told Jenny in "Innocence" that Angelus "destroyed the most beloved daughter of [their] tribe" and "killed every man, woman, and child that touched her life"; the event is seen in the episode "Darla", but, if Dru is a secret member of the Kalderash, the description could apply to her too ("Dear Boy").
There's the problem of dates because Dru was sired in 1860 and Angelus was only ensouled in 1898. You can be creative to explain the delay: the Kalderash spent 38 years to create the curse or trying to find Angelus, or didn't learn Dru's fate until they crossed paths with her, or only decided to act when Angelus attacked them again...
"So she isn’t really Buffy sister"
Yes, she is.
"She just made up to life to be in the family"
Yes, she did.
"They all seem to remember her so where was she to them all this time for years with the father"
No, she was not.
If you really want to know without watching, you can read yourself the article Dawn Summers.