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{{character
|Image = Hank-Summers.jpg
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|Image = Hank Summers.jpg
|First = [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (film)]] (non-canon)<br>"[[Nightmares]]"
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|First = [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (film)]] (non-canon)<br />"[[Nightmares]]"
|Last = "[[Normal Again]]"
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|Last = ''[[Freaky Giles Day]]''
 
|Name = Hank Summers
 
|Name = Hank Summers
 
|Status = Alive
 
|Status = Alive
 
|Classification = [[Human]]
 
|Classification = [[Human]]
 
|Affiliation = [[Summers family]]
 
|Affiliation = [[Summers family]]
|Known relatives = [[Buffy Summers]] <small>(daughter)</small> <br>[[Dawn Summers]] <small>(daughter)</small> <br>[[Joyce Summers]] <small>(ex-wife)</small><br>[[Celia]] <small>(niece)</small>
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|Known relatives = [[Buffy Summers]] <small>(daughter)</small><br />[[Dawn Summers]] <small>(daughter)</small><br />[[Joyce Summers]] <small>(ex-wife)</small><br />[[Celia]] <small>(niece)</small><br />[[Paige Summers]] <small>(second wife)</small><br />unnamed stepchildren
 
|Actor = James Paradise <small>(non-canon)</small><br />[[Dean Butler]]
|Powers =
 
|Actor = James Paradise (non-canon)<br>[[Dean Butler]]
 
 
}}
 
}}
   
'''Hank Summers''' was the father of [[Buffy Summers|Buffy]] and [[Dawn Summers]] and the ex-husband of [[Joyce Summers]].
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'''Hank Summers''' was the father of [[Buffy Summers|Buffy]] and [[Dawn Summers]], and ex-husband of [[Joyce Summers]].
   
== Biography ==
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==Biography==
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Hank met Joyce during a homecoming dance in her freshmen year at college.<ref name=":0">"[[Prophecy Girl]]"</ref> They married, and had their daughters Buffy and Dawn in Los Angeles. He took Buffy trick-or-treating until she was twelve.<ref>"[[Fear, Itself]]"</ref> At the end of 1996, he and Joyce divorced. Their fights and separation happened around the time Buffy was called as a [[Slayer]],<ref>"[[Becoming, Part One]]"</ref><ref name=":1">"[[Nightmares]]"</ref> making her believe her troubles caused their disagreements.<ref name=":1" /> Joyce, Buffy, and Dawn then moved to [[Sunnydale]].<ref>"[[Welcome to the Hellmouth]]"</ref>
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 to accept [[Rupert Giles]] as a father figure.
 
   
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During the first year after the separation, Hank still visited Buffy and Dawn on some weekends,<ref name=":1" /> and Buffy spent a summer vacation with him in Los Angeles, when he noticed she was distant and disconnected (due to her death fighting the [[Master]]<ref name=":0" />) so he overcompensated, "spoiling" Buffy with shopping, since "at least when she was burning stuff down [he] knew what to say."<ref>"[[When She Was Bad]]"</ref> On her eighteenth birthday, Hank cancelled an ice show with Buffy, a previous yearly tradition, promising he would make it up to her.<ref>"[[Helpless]]"</ref> Later in the same year, Buffy went to Los Angeles to see her father.<ref>"[[I Will Remember You]]"</ref>
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.
 
   
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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During Joyce's sickness and following death, Buffy tried to contact Hank leaving "messages all over the place," with no response; at the time, the last she'd heard from him was that he was in Spain with his secretary.<ref>"[[Family]]"</ref><ref>"[[Forever]]"</ref> During Buffy's death, though, Dawn indicated she had spoken with him, but hid her sister's absence in fear that she'd be taken away. After her resurrection, Buffy described Hank as a "shiftless and absentee father."<ref>"[[Life Serial]]"</ref>
   
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In 2002, when Buffy was stabbed with a [[Glarghk Guhl Kashmas'nik]] [[demon]]'s skewer, it gave her visions of being a patient in a mental asylum, in which her last years as a Slayer in Sunnydale were part of her delusion. In [[Buffy Summers (Normal Again)|this world]], Hank and Joyce were together and deeply caring for their sole daughter.<ref>"[[Normal Again]]"</ref>
Hank was still married to Joyce in the alternate reality created by Buffy's hallucinations.
 
   
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Years later, Hank had started working at the Silicon Valley, and reunited with his daughters in San Francisco. He has left [[Francesca]] and was then engaged to [[Paige Summers|Paige]], who was also the mother of two teenagers and has moved with him. In one of his monthly reunions with Buffy and Dawn, he announced he and Paige have decided to exclude Buffy from their wedding ceremony "for safety reasons," based on her public reputation as a Slayer, which enraged Dawn and saddened Buffy.<ref>''[[Freaky Giles Day]]''</ref>
== Behind the Scenes ==
 
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When Buffy left to the [[Safe Zone]], she asked Dawn to "fill dad in on everything," implying they still maintained contact.<ref>''[[A House Divided]]''</ref>
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==Behind the scenes==
 
*He was portrayed by [[Dean Butler]].
 
*He was portrayed by [[Dean Butler]].
   
== Appearances ==
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==Appearances==
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===Canonical===
*"[[Nightmares]]"
 
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{{AppearancesBuffyOrigin
*"[[Prophecy Girl]]" {{Om}}
 
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|issue1=yes
*"[[When She Was Bad]]"
 
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}}
*"[[Ted]]" {{Om}}
 
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{{AppearancesBuffySeason1
*"[[Becoming, Part One]]" <small>(Only voice during flashback)</small>
 
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|episode3=note
*"[[Helpless]]" {{Om}}
 
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|episode10=yes
*"[[Choices]]" {{Om}}
 
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|episode12=note
*"[[Fear, Itself]]" {{Om}}
 
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}}
*"[[I Will Remember You]]" {{Om}}
 
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{{AppearancesBuffySeason2
*"[[Something Blue]]" {{Om}}
 
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|episode1=yes
*"[[Family]]"{{Om}}
 
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|episode9=note
*"[[Blood Ties]]" {{Om}}
 
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|episode11=note
*"[[Forever]]" {{Om}}
 
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|episode18=note
*"[[Tough Love]]" {{Om}}
 
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|episode21=yes
*"[[The Weight of the World]]" <small>(Only in dreams)</small>
 
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}}
*"[[Bargaining, Part One]]" {{Om}}
 
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{{AppearancesBuffySeason3
*"[[Life Serial]]" {{Om}}
 
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|episode5=note
*"[[Normal Again]]" <small>(Only in hallucinations)</small>
 
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|episode8=note
*"[[Help]]" {{Om}}
 
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|episode12=note
*''[[Viva Las Buffy]]''
 
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|episode19=note
*''[[Slayer, Interrupted (2003)|Slayer, Interrupted]]''
 
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}}
*''[[A Stake to the Heart]]''
 
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{{AppearancesBuffySeason4
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|episode2=note
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|episode4=note
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|episode9=note
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|episode14=note
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}}
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{{AppearancesAngelSeason1
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|episode4=note
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}}
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{{AppearancesBuffySeason5
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|episode6=note
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|episode13=note
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|episode17=note
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|episode19=note
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|episode21=vision
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}}
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{{AppearancesBuffySeason6
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|episode1=note
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|episode5=note
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|episode17=vision
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}}
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{{AppearancesBuffySeason7
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|episode4=note
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|episode7=note
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}}
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{{AppearancesBuffySeason10
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|issue1=note
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|issue5=note
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|issue6=vision
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|issue9=note
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|issue19=yes
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|issue20=note
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}}
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{{AppearancesBuffySeason11
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|issue1=note
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|issue3=note
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}}
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===Other===
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*[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (film)|''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' film]] (non-[[canon]])
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;[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer novels|''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' novels]]
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*''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (novel)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''
 
*''[[Power of Persuasion]]''
 
*''[[Power of Persuasion]]''
 
*"[[Dust]]"
*''[[How I Survived My Summer Vacation]]''
 
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*"[[No Place Like...]]"
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;''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer Classic]]''
 
*''[[MacGuffins]]'' {{Om}}
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*''[[Note from the Underground, Part Three]]'' {{Om}}
 
*"[[The First Time]]" {{Om}}
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*''[[Broken Parts]]''
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*''[[Deuces Wild]]''
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*''[[Dawn and Hoopy the Bear]]''
 
*''[[Slayer, Interrupted, Part One]]''
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*''[[Slayer, Interrupted, Part Two]]''
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*''[[Slayer, Interrupted, Part Three]]''
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*''[[A Stake to the Heart, Act One: Deceit]]''
 
*''[[A Stake to the Heart, Act Two: Guilt]]''
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*''[[A Stake to the Heart, Act Three: Abandonment]]'' {{OV}}
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*''[[A Stake to the Heart, Act Four: Trepidation]]''
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}}
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==References==
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{{References|scroll=1}}
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[[Category:Summers family]]

Revision as of 16:15, 28 January 2020

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

Biography

Hank met Joyce during a homecoming dance in her freshmen year at college.[1] They married, and had their daughters Buffy and Dawn in Los Angeles. He took Buffy trick-or-treating until she was twelve.[2] At the end of 1996, he and Joyce divorced. Their fights and separation happened around the time Buffy was called as a Slayer,[3][4] making her believe her troubles caused their disagreements.[4] Joyce, Buffy, and Dawn then moved to Sunnydale.[5]

During the first year after the separation, Hank still visited Buffy and Dawn on some weekends,[4] and Buffy spent a summer vacation with him in Los Angeles, when he noticed she was distant and disconnected (due to her death fighting the Master[1]) so he overcompensated, "spoiling" Buffy with shopping, since "at least when she was burning stuff down [he] knew what to say."[6] On her eighteenth birthday, Hank cancelled an ice show with Buffy, a previous yearly tradition, promising he would make it up to her.[7] Later in the same year, Buffy went to Los Angeles to see her father.[8]

During Joyce's sickness and following death, Buffy tried to contact Hank leaving "messages all over the place," with no response; at the time, the last she'd heard from him was that he was in Spain with his secretary.[9][10] During Buffy's death, though, Dawn indicated she had spoken with him, but hid her sister's absence in fear that she'd be taken away. After her resurrection, Buffy described Hank as a "shiftless and absentee father."[11]

In 2002, when Buffy was stabbed with a Glarghk Guhl Kashmas'nik demon's skewer, it gave her visions of being a patient in a mental asylum, in which her last years as a Slayer in Sunnydale were part of her delusion. In this world, Hank and Joyce were together and deeply caring for their sole daughter.[12]

Years later, Hank had started working at the Silicon Valley, and reunited with his daughters in San Francisco. He has left Francesca and was then engaged to Paige, who was also the mother of two teenagers and has moved with him. In one of his monthly reunions with Buffy and Dawn, he announced he and Paige have decided to exclude Buffy from their wedding ceremony "for safety reasons," based on her public reputation as a Slayer, which enraged Dawn and saddened Buffy.[13]

When Buffy left to the Safe Zone, she asked Dawn to "fill dad in on everything," implying they still maintained contact.[14]

Behind the scenes

Appearances

Canonical

Other

References