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'''Hank Summers''' was the father of [[Buffy Summers|Buffy]] and [[Dawn Summers]], the ex-husband of [[Joyce Summers]], and the husband of [[Paige Summers]].
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'''Hank Summers''' was the father of [[Buffy Summers|Buffy]] and [[Dawn Summers]], the ex-husband of [[Joyce Summers]], and the fiance of [[Paige Summers]].
   
 
== Biography ==
  
== Biography ==
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Hank lived with Joyce, Buffy, and Dawn in Los Angeles. He and Joyce started fighting around the time Buffy was called as a Slayer in 1996, making her believe her troubles were a cause for their parents' divorce<ref>"[[Nightmares]]"</ref>. During the first year after the separation, he still visited his daughters on weekends, and Buffy spent a summer with him in Los Angeles. He cancelled an ice show with Buffy in her eighteenth birthday at the last minute<ref>"[[Helpless]]"</ref>, and then became a "shiftless and absentee father" <ref>"[[Life Serial]]"</ref>.
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Hank often had father/daughter weekends with Buffy and Dawn immediately following his divorce from Joyce. Hank eventually turned into the archetype of the upper-class deadbeat dad. Despite relative wealth and prosperity, Buffy and Dawn could not rely on him to keep his promises, nor would he play the role of the father. This led to both siblings accepting [[Rupert Giles]] as a father figure.
  
   
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With Joyce's death, Buffy tried to contact him leaving "messages all over the place," with no response; at the time, the last she'd heard from him was that Hank was in Spain with his girlfriend.<ref>"[[Forever]]"</ref> During Buffy's death, tought, Dawn indicated that she had spoken with him at some point over the summer of 2001, but hiding her sister's absence in fear she'd be taken away.
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Hank spent the summer of 1997 with Buffy. Hank was supposed to take Buffy to an ice show for her eighteenth birthday, but canceled at the last minute.
  
   
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In 2002, Buffy was stabbed with a demon skewer which gave her visions of being a patient in a mental asylum with being the Slayer merely her delusion. In [[Asylum Buffy]]'s world, Hank was still married to Joyce and deeply caring for his sole daughter<ref>"[[Normal Again]]"</ref>.
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Buffy said her parents' divorce was mostly Hank's fault, because he was unfaithful. When Buffy last heard from Hank, he had moved to Spain with his secretary, but she was unable to contact him when her mother died. Dawn indicated that she had spoken with her father at some point over the summer of 2001, but she and the others were hiding Buffy's death from him, stating that if he knew Buffy was dead, he would take Dawn away.
  
   
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Five years later, Hank had started working at the Silicon Valley and reunited with his daughters in San Francisco. He has left his secretary Francesca and is currently engaged to another woman, Paige, who is also the mother of two teenagers and has moved with him. In one of their monthly reunions, he announced he and Paige have decided to exclude Buffy from their wedding ceremony "for safety reasons," based on her reputation as a Slayer, which enraged Dawn and saddened Buffy<ref>[[Freaky Giles Day|''Freaky Giles Day'']]</ref>. When Buffy left to the [[Safe Zone]], she asks Dawn to "fill dad in on everything"<ref>[[A House Divided, Part Three|''A House Divided'']]</ref>, implying they still maintain contact.
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Years later, Buffy was stabbed with a demon skewer which gave her visions of being a patient in a mental asylum with being the Slayer merely her delusion. In [[Asylum Buffy]]'s world, Hank was still married to Joyce and deeply caring for his sole daughter. The episode's ending left it deliberately ambiguous as to whether this was simply a hallucination, or if Buffy being the Slayer was in fact simply a seven-year-long delusion beginning when she 'met' Merrick and ending with her regaining her sanity at the conclusion of [[Chosen]].
  
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Five years later, Hank reunited with his daughters in San Francisco when he started working for Silicon Valley. He explained that he left his secretary Francesca and is currently engaged to another woman, Paige, who is also  the mother of two teenagers. However,  Paige refused to have Buffy at the wedding as her reputation would attact the attention of demons. Dawn then cut ties with him.
  
   
 
== Behind the Scenes ==
  
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*He was portrayed by [[Dean Butler]]..
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*He was portrayed by [[Dean Butler]].
   
 
== Appearances ==
  
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Revision as of 04:18, 14 May 2017

Hank Summers was the father of Buffy and Dawn Summers, the ex-husband of Joyce Summers, and the fiance of Paige Summers.

Biography

Hank lived with Joyce, Buffy, and Dawn in Los Angeles. He and Joyce started fighting around the time Buffy was called as a Slayer in 1996, making her believe her troubles were a cause for their parents' divorce[1]. During the first year after the separation, he still visited his daughters on weekends, and Buffy spent a summer with him in Los Angeles. He cancelled an ice show with Buffy in her eighteenth birthday at the last minute[2], and then became a "shiftless and absentee father" [3].

With Joyce's death, Buffy tried to contact him leaving "messages all over the place," with no response; at the time, the last she'd heard from him was that Hank was in Spain with his girlfriend.[4] During Buffy's death, tought, Dawn indicated that she had spoken with him at some point over the summer of 2001, but hiding her sister's absence in fear she'd be taken away.

In 2002, Buffy was stabbed with a demon skewer which gave her visions of being a patient in a mental asylum with being the Slayer merely her delusion. In Asylum Buffy's world, Hank was still married to Joyce and deeply caring for his sole daughter[5].

Five years later, Hank had started working at the Silicon Valley and reunited with his daughters in San Francisco. He has left his secretary Francesca and is currently engaged to another woman, Paige, who is also the mother of two teenagers and has moved with him. In one of their monthly reunions, he announced he and Paige have decided to exclude Buffy from their wedding ceremony "for safety reasons," based on her reputation as a Slayer, which enraged Dawn and saddened Buffy[6]. When Buffy left to the Safe Zone, she asks Dawn to "fill dad in on everything"[7], implying they still maintain contact.

Behind the Scenes

Appearances

References

  1. ↑ "Nightmares"
  2. ↑ "Helpless"
  3. ↑ "Life Serial"
  4. ↑ "Forever"
  5. ↑ "Normal Again"
  6. ↑ Freaky Giles Day
  7. ↑ A House Divided
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