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{{Character
{{character
 
|Image = Dana.jpg
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|Image = Damage Dana 03.jpg
|Appear = "[[Damage]]"
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|Appear = "[[Damage]]"
|Name = Dana
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|Name = Dana
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|Born = ca. 1979
|Status = Alive
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|Status = Alive
|Classification = [[Slayer]]
 
|Affiliation = [[Slayer Organization]]
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|Classification = [[Slayer]]
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|Affiliation = [[Slayer Organization]]
 
|Known relatives = Unidentified parents
 
|Known relatives = Unidentified parents
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|Actor = [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0712550/ Navi Rawat]<br />[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1228813/ Jasmine DiAngelo]<small> (flashback)</small>
|Powers = See [[Slayer]]
 
|Actor = Navi Rawat<br>Jasmine DiAngelo <small>(young Dana)</small>
 
 
}}
 
}}
   
{{Quote|She's an anomaly that no one could have foreseen—tortured, traumatized... Driven insane by Yoda knows who.|[[Andrew Wells]]|Damage}}
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{{Quote|She's an anomaly that no one could have foreseen — tortured, traumatized… Driven insane by Yoda-knows-who.|[[Andrew Wells]]|Damage}}
   
'''Dana''' (last name unknown) was one of the hundreds of New [[Slayer|Slayers]] whose powers were activated by the spell cast by [[Willow Rosenberg]] during the [[Chosen|Battle at the Hellmouth]].
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'''Dana''' was one of the hundreds of new [[Slayer]]s whose powers were activated by the [[Slayer activation spell]] cast by [[Willow Rosenberg]] in 2003.
   
== Biography ==
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==Biography==
=== Childhood ===
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===Childhood===
 
{{Quote|She's an innocent victim.|Angel|Damage}}
 
{{Quote|She's an innocent victim.|Angel|Damage}}
   
[[Image:DanaYoung.jpg|thumb|left|Dana at age ten, being held captive by Walter Kindel.]]
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[[File:Young_Dana.png|thumb|Dana at age ten, being held captive by Walter Kindel.|left]]
   
Dana's background remains unrevealed. Like many hundreds of girls, she was born a [[Potential Slayer]], though she was never identified by the [[Watchers Council]]. When she was 10 years old, her family was murdered in her home by a psychopath named [[Walter Kindel]], who kidnapped her and kept her caged in the basement of a distillery. For months, Kindel drugged and tortured Dana until she managed to escape. She was found naked and bleeding, nearly catatonic, and taken to a psychiatric hospital; her ordeal at Kindel's hands left her traumatized beyond treatment.
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Dana's background remains unrevealed. Like many hundreds of girls, she was born a [[Potential Slayer]], though she was never identified by the [[Watchers Council]]. When she was 10 years old, her family was murdered in her home by a psychopath named [[Walter Kindel]], who kidnapped her and kept her caged in the basement of a distillery. For months, Kindel drugged and tortured Dana until she managed to escape. She was found naked and bleeding, nearly catatonic, and taken to a psychiatric hospital; her ordeal at Kindel's hands left her traumatized beyond treatment.<ref name=":0">"[[Damage]]"</ref>
   
=== Slayer ===
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===Slayer===
 
{{Quote|Can't hurt me anymore|Dana|Damage}}
 
{{Quote|Can't hurt me anymore|Dana|Damage}}
   
 
[[File:Dana_escaping.png|thumb|Dana escapes her hospital and goes on a killing spree.]]
After 15 years at the hospital, her condition changed when Willow performed the spell that activated the powers of all living Potential Slayers. Dana became frenzied and violent; not even thorazine was enough to subdue her. All Slayers have a connection to the lives of the Slayers before them. Normally these memories come to them in dreams, but Dana's unstable mental state caused her to experience these visions while awake and take on the personalities of deceased Slayers for brief periods of time (speaking in their native tongues, including Romanian and Chinese). She made drawings of various girls killing demons.
 
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After 15 years at the hospital, her condition changed when Willow performed the spell that activated the powers of all living Potential Slayers. Dana became frenzied and violent; not even Thorazine antipsychotic medication was enough to subdue her. All Slayers had a connection to the lives of the Slayers before them, and these memories came to them in dreams, but Dana's unstable mental state caused her to experience these visions while awake. She acted reviving moments from deceased Slayers for brief periods of time, even speaking in their native tongues, and made drawings of various girls killing demons.
   
 
The doctor attending her case, [[Rabinaw]], taped his sessions with Dana and kept his recordings a secret, as he planned to write a book on her. Eventually, Dana escaped thanks to her superhuman strength and because a nurse gave her the wrong drug; she murdered a male nurse in the process and painting her face with his blood. Disoriented, Dana returned to the distillery where she had been tortured, though on the way she murdered several men.
 
The doctor attending her case, [[Rabinaw]], taped his sessions with Dana and kept his recordings a secret, as he planned to write a book on her. Eventually, Dana escaped thanks to her superhuman strength and because a nurse gave her the wrong drug; she murdered a male nurse in the process and painting her face with his blood. Disoriented, Dana returned to the distillery where she had been tortured, though on the way she murdered several men.
[[Image:DanaBlood.jpg|thumb|right|Dana escapes her hospital and goes on a killing spree.]]
 
   
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[[File:Dana_in_shop.png|thumb|A policeman aims at Dana, but it's no problem for her.]]
[[Spike]], who initially believed Dana was possessed by a demon because she spoke in tongues, tracked the Slayer. However he was captured by Dana, who had recognized him from her dreams because he killed [[Xin Rong]] and [[Nikki Wood]], though in her state of mind she had come to believe Spike and Walter Kindel were one and the same. Dana used the same drugs Kindel had used on her to subdue Spike and cut off his hands with a saw. Spike, desperate, explains that he, while he had done many horrible things, had never done anything to her; while Dana realizes this, she doesn't seem to care and tries to decapitate Spike, but Angel stops her and explains that the man who tortured her was killed while attempting to rob a liquor store. Still upset, Dana attacks Angel and is ultimately tranquilized by Wesley.
 
   
 
[[Spike]], who initially believed Dana was possessed by a demon because she spoke in tongues, tracked the Slayer. However he was captured by Dana, who had recognized him from her dreams because he killed [[Xin Rong]] and [[Nikki Wood]], though in her state of mind she had come to believe Spike and Walter Kindel were one and the same. Dana used the same drugs Kindel had used on her to subdue Spike and cut off his hands with a saw. Spike, desperate, explains that he, while he had done many horrible things, had never done anything to her; while Dana realizes this, she doesn't seem to care and tries to decapitate Spike, but Angel stops her and explains that the man who tortured her was killed while attempting to rob a liquor store. Still upset, Dana attacks Angel and is ultimately tranquilized by [[Wesley Wyndam-Pryce]].
Dana's unconscious body was taken by [[Wolfram & Hart|W&amp;H]]'s [[Wolfram & Hart Special Operations Team|Special Ops Team]], though they were interrupted by [[Andrew Wells]] and a team of Slayers, who had been sent by [[Buffy]] to retrieve Dana under any means necessary. Understanding that the [[Scooby Gang]] no longer trusted them, Angel agreed to hand over Dana to Andrew.
 
   
 
Dana's unconscious body was taken by [[Wolfram & Hart Special Operations Team]], though they were interrupted by [[Andrew Wells]] and a team of Slayers from the [[Slayer Organization]], who had been sent by [[Buffy Summers]] to retrieve Dana under any means necessary. Understanding that the [[Scooby Gang]] no longer trusted them, Angel agreed to hand over Dana to Andrew.
Proceeding this, Angel and a hospitalized Spike discussed Dana: Spike believed that she was too far gone for the Scoobies to help and that she was a monster just like the two of them, while Angel remarked that she was an innocent victim, causing Spike to remark that ''they'' were innocent victims at one point.
 
   
 
Proceeding this, Angel and a hospitalized Spike discussed Dana. Spike believed she was too far gone for the Scoobies to help, she was a monster just like the two of them. Angel remarked that she was an innocent victim, but Spike remarked that even they were innocent victims at one point.<ref name=":0" />
Dana's whereabouts remain unknown, though it is likely she remains under the custody of the [[Slayer Organization]].
 
   
== Powers ==
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==Powers and abilities==
 
{{Quote|Strong. Slayer.|Dana|Damage}}
 
{{Quote|Strong. Slayer.|Dana|Damage}}
   
Dana possesses the power of a regular Slayer: superhuman strength, accelerated healing, enhanced agility and reflexes. She demonstrated the strength to battle Spike on even terms and the reflexes necessary to dodge [[Andrew Wells]] attempt to tranquilize her with a dart gun.
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Dana possesses the power of a regular Slayer: superhuman strength, speed, accelerated healing, prophetic dreams, enhanced agility, durability and reflexes. She also appeared to be more in tune with the Slayer "subconscious" than other Slayers; while most only experienced occasional dreams of their predecessors and a broad general knowledge of combat, Dana was shown to access specific Slayer memories, such as drawing on the memories of the ones Spike had killed while confronting him.<ref name=":0" />
   
== Personality and traits ==
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==Personality and traits==
{{Quote|The destruction of a human being. I would've considered Dana a masterpiece.|[[Angel]]|Damage}}
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{{Quote|The destruction of a human being. I would've considered Dana a masterpiece.|Angel|Damage}}
   
Due to her extremely traumatic experience at Kindel's hands, Dana developed a paranoid and violent personality, which was exacerbated by the dreams she experienced as a potential Slayer. These visions caused her to lose her already tenuous hold on reality, confusing the events in the lives of previous Slayers with those of her own and merging the identity of her attacker with those of the past Slayers' fiercest opponents, such as Spike. However, although her brutality allowed her to tear through most opponents, her madness hampered her ability to deal with Angel when he went up against her with a definite plan of attack in mind rather than Spike's traditional "brute force" approach.
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Due to her extremely traumatic experience at Kindel's hands, Dana developed a paranoid and violent personality, which was exacerbated by the dreams she experienced as a potential Slayer. These visions caused her to lose her already tenuous hold on reality, confusing the events in the lives of previous Slayers with those of her own and merging the identity of her attacker with those of the past Slayers' fiercest opponents, such as Spike. However, although her brutality allowed her to tear through most opponents, her madness hampered her ability to deal with Angel when he went up against her with a definite plan of attack in mind rather than Spike's traditional "brute force" approach.<ref name=":0" />
   
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==Gallery==
== Behind the Scenes ==
 
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<gallery widths="100" spacing="small" orientation="portrait">
*She was portrayed by Navi Rawat and Jasmine DiAngelo.
 
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Damage Dana 01.jpg
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Damage Dana 02.jpg
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Damage Dana 03.jpg
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Damage Dana 04.jpg
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Damage Dana 05.jpg
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Damage Dana 06.jpg
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</gallery>
   
== Appearances ==
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==Behind the scenes==
 
*She was portrayed by [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0712550/ Navi Rawat] and [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1228813/ Jasmine DiAngelo].
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==Appearances==
 
*"[[Damage]]"
 
*"[[Damage]]"
*''[[Queen of the Slayers]]'' {{Om}} <small>(Non-Canon)</small>
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*"[[You're Welcome]]" {{Om}}
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*''[[Queen of the Slayers]]'' {{Om}}
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==References==
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{{References}}
   
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Revision as of 01:16, 16 January 2020

She's an anomaly that no one could have foreseen — tortured, traumatized… Driven insane by Yoda-knows-who.
Andrew Wells[src]

Dana was one of the hundreds of new Slayers whose powers were activated by the Slayer activation spell cast by Willow Rosenberg in 2003.

Biography

Childhood

She's an innocent victim.
―Angel[src]
Young Dana

Dana at age ten, being held captive by Walter Kindel.

Dana's background remains unrevealed. Like many hundreds of girls, she was born a Potential Slayer, though she was never identified by the Watchers Council. When she was 10 years old, her family was murdered in her home by a psychopath named Walter Kindel, who kidnapped her and kept her caged in the basement of a distillery. For months, Kindel drugged and tortured Dana until she managed to escape. She was found naked and bleeding, nearly catatonic, and taken to a psychiatric hospital; her ordeal at Kindel's hands left her traumatized beyond treatment.[1]

Slayer

Can't hurt me anymore
―Dana[src]
Dana escaping

Dana escapes her hospital and goes on a killing spree.

After 15 years at the hospital, her condition changed when Willow performed the spell that activated the powers of all living Potential Slayers. Dana became frenzied and violent; not even Thorazine antipsychotic medication was enough to subdue her. All Slayers had a connection to the lives of the Slayers before them, and these memories came to them in dreams, but Dana's unstable mental state caused her to experience these visions while awake. She acted reviving moments from deceased Slayers for brief periods of time, even speaking in their native tongues, and made drawings of various girls killing demons.

The doctor attending her case, Rabinaw, taped his sessions with Dana and kept his recordings a secret, as he planned to write a book on her. Eventually, Dana escaped thanks to her superhuman strength and because a nurse gave her the wrong drug; she murdered a male nurse in the process and painting her face with his blood. Disoriented, Dana returned to the distillery where she had been tortured, though on the way she murdered several men.

Dana in shop

A policeman aims at Dana, but it's no problem for her.

Spike, who initially believed Dana was possessed by a demon because she spoke in tongues, tracked the Slayer. However he was captured by Dana, who had recognized him from her dreams because he killed Xin Rong and Nikki Wood, though in her state of mind she had come to believe Spike and Walter Kindel were one and the same. Dana used the same drugs Kindel had used on her to subdue Spike and cut off his hands with a saw. Spike, desperate, explains that he, while he had done many horrible things, had never done anything to her; while Dana realizes this, she doesn't seem to care and tries to decapitate Spike, but Angel stops her and explains that the man who tortured her was killed while attempting to rob a liquor store. Still upset, Dana attacks Angel and is ultimately tranquilized by Wesley Wyndam-Pryce.

Dana's unconscious body was taken by Wolfram & Hart Special Operations Team, though they were interrupted by Andrew Wells and a team of Slayers from the Slayer Organization, who had been sent by Buffy Summers to retrieve Dana under any means necessary. Understanding that the Scooby Gang no longer trusted them, Angel agreed to hand over Dana to Andrew.

Proceeding this, Angel and a hospitalized Spike discussed Dana. Spike believed she was too far gone for the Scoobies to help, she was a monster just like the two of them. Angel remarked that she was an innocent victim, but Spike remarked that even they were innocent victims at one point.[1]

Powers and abilities

Strong. Slayer.
―Dana[src]

Dana possesses the power of a regular Slayer: superhuman strength, speed, accelerated healing, prophetic dreams, enhanced agility, durability and reflexes. She also appeared to be more in tune with the Slayer "subconscious" than other Slayers; while most only experienced occasional dreams of their predecessors and a broad general knowledge of combat, Dana was shown to access specific Slayer memories, such as drawing on the memories of the ones Spike had killed while confronting him.[1]

Personality and traits

The destruction of a human being. I would've considered Dana a masterpiece.
―Angel[src]

Due to her extremely traumatic experience at Kindel's hands, Dana developed a paranoid and violent personality, which was exacerbated by the dreams she experienced as a potential Slayer. These visions caused her to lose her already tenuous hold on reality, confusing the events in the lives of previous Slayers with those of her own and merging the identity of her attacker with those of the past Slayers' fiercest opponents, such as Spike. However, although her brutality allowed her to tear through most opponents, her madness hampered her ability to deal with Angel when he went up against her with a definite plan of attack in mind rather than Spike's traditional "brute force" approach.[1]

Gallery

Behind the scenes

Appearances

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Damage"


Preceded by:
Buffy Summers and Faith Lehane
Slayer

concurrently with Buffy, Faith, and thousands of others
2003–

Succeeded by:
None, Slayer succession line abolished