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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.

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