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|First = "[[Tales]]"
  
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|Name = mʔ
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|Alternative Names = Scythe<br>Slayer's Scythe
  
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|Alternative Names = Scythe
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|Nature = [[Magic]]al
  
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|Type = Weapon
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|Owner(s) = The [[Slayer]]
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*Weapon
  
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*[[Sineya]]
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*Magical instrument
  
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|Function = Killing demons
  
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*[[Melaka Fray]]
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|Related items = [[Stake]]<br>''[[Vampyr]]''
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|Last = ''[[Finale]]''
 
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{{Quote|It is not for thee. It is for her alone to wield.|Glyphs engraved upon the wall of an old church.}}
  
   
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{{Quote|It is not for thee. It is for her alone to wield.|Glyphs engraved upon the wall of [[Gilroy mission]].}}
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'''Mʔ''', often referred to as the '''Scythe''', was an ancient weapon designed for the [[Slayer]], with a wooden stake on the handle. Its name was "Mʔ", "ʔ" being the symbol for a [[Wikipedia:Glottal stop|glottal stop]]. It embodied the mystical [[Shadow demon|essence]] of the Slayer. Slayers who wielded it were capable of sensing its innate power and felt an initial sense of ownership.
  
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'''mʔ''', often symbolically referred to as the '''Scythe''', was an ancient weapon designed for the [[Slayer]],<ref name="endofdays"/> embodying their [[magic|mystical]] essence.<ref name="Chsn"/> Although the Slayer of any time had rights over it, [[Sineya]],<ref name="endofdays"/> [[Buffy Summers]],<ref name="Chsn"/> and [[Melaka Fray]]<ref name=":6"/> had been the only known owners of the weapon.
   
 
==History==
  
==History==
 
===Origins===
  
===Origins===
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{{Quote|A weapon. A scythe. Forged in secrecy for one like you...|The [[Last Guardian]]|End of Days}}[[File:Scythe.png|thumb|The scythe embedded in solid rock.]]
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{{Quote|A weapon. A scythe. Forged in secrecy for one like you…|The [[Last Guardian]]|End of Days}}
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In prehistoric Africa, a group of powerful mystic women (The [[Guardians]]) secretly forged The Scythe for The First [[Slayer]] to kill the last of the [[Old Ones]] that walked the earth. It was kept hidden from the [[Shadow Men]], who <span style="font-size:14px;">watched the Slayers and would</span><span style="font-size:14px;"> later become the </span>[[Watchers Council]]<span style="font-size:14px;">. The Guardians became watchers of sorts to the </span>[[Watchers]]<span style="font-size:14px;">, and sought to help and protect the Slayers. These women put the Scythe in a rock, for when the time came and it was needed again, the Slayer would find and use it.</span><ref name=endofdays>"[[End of Days]]"</ref>
  
   
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[[File:Scythe.png|thumb|The scythe embedded in solid rock.|left]]
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===21st Century===
  
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{{Quote|It’s old... It’s strong and it feels like... Like it’s mine.|[[Faith Lehane]]|End of Days}}[[File:Slayeractivationspell2.png|thumb|Willow uses the scythe to activate slayers all around the world.]]
  
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In 2003, the [[Scooby Gang]] were researching ways to defeat the [[First Evil]], and [[Spike]] found an inscription carved in stone, in a secret room in an abandoned mission in Gilroy, which translated to "It is not for thee. It is for her alone to wield." [[Buffy Summers]] found the Scythe in a [[Sunnydale]] vineyard and pulled it out of the rock.<ref>"[[Touched]]"</ref> With this weapon in her hands, Buffy managed to kill [[Caleb]]—who had merged with the First Evil and was extremely powerful. Later, [[Willow Rosenberg]], using the power of the Scythe, performed a [[Slayer Activation spell|spell]] that activated all [[Potential Slayers]] around the world, making them full-fledged Slayers. Buffy and the Slayers then shared the Scythe among them to defeat the numerous [[Turok-Han]] in the depths of the [[Hellmouth]].<ref name=Chsn>"[[Chosen]]"</ref>
  
   
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In the [[Primordium Age]], a group of powerful mystic women, who called themselves the [[Guardians]], secretly forged the Scythe for the First Slayer, Sineya, to kill the last of the [[Old One]]s that walked upon the [[Earth]]. The weapon was kept hidden from the [[Shadowmen]], as well as from their later formation into the [[Watchers Council]]. The Guardians magically embedded the Scythe in a rock, for, when the time came and it was needed again, the Slayer would find and use it.<ref name="endofdays">"[[End of Days]]"</ref>
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Several months later, Buffy was still in possession of the Scythe, and used it to rescue her friend Willow from the U.S. military, injuring many soldiers in the process.<ref>"[[The Long Way Home, Part Four]]"</ref> It was then stolen by the [[vampire]], [[Toru]],<ref name=":2">[[Wolves at the Gate, Part One]]</ref> who wanted to reverse the spell Willow did to activate the potential Slayers of the world. After Buffy recovered the Scythe, it crossed its own timeline as Buffy was summoned to the future of Haddyn.<ref>"[[Time of Your Life, Part One]]"</ref>
  
   
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The Scythe was named "mʔ." According to [[Rupert Giles|Giles]], while the "ʔ" was the international phonetics alphabet symbol for the glottal stop, it also represented a hieroglyph thought to symbolize a sickle or a scythe, which in turn were symbols of death. The picture was present in carvings in Egypt, throughout the ancient world, and in pagan temples, such as the [[Guardian's tomb]].<ref name="endofdays"/>
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In the battle of Sunnydale, Buffy, reeling from the death of [[Rupert Giles]], used the scythe to break the [[Seed of Wonder]], the heart of magic, which in turn, broke the scythe.<ref>"[[Last Gleaming, Part Five]]"</ref> After moving to [[San Francisco]], Buffy kept the ruined Scythe in a chest. However, the Scythe was soon taken by Willow, who believed it to be the key to restoring magic; using the residual magic in the Scythe as a "battery", she carved various sigils on [[Connor]] with the Scythe, performing a ritual that allowed her to access [[Quor'toth]].<ref>"[[Family Reunion, Part One]]"</ref> After succeeding in restoring her magic within Quor'toth, due to Giles holding the Scythe during his death, Willow allowed [[Angel]] to absorb the fragments of Giles' soul that still latched onto it so that he could continue his quest to [[Resurrection|resurrect]] him via a [[Tooth of Ammuk]].<ref>"[[Family Reunion, Part Four]]"</ref>
  
   
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Later in Willow's journey, the Scythe was restored by the witch [[Vulcana]] (an associate of [[Aluwyn]]) who referred to it as a counterpart of [[Excalibur]]. With the Scythe now at full power, Willow could easily cut rifts between any two worlds with magic. <ref name=":0">"[[Wonderland, Part Three]]"</ref>
  
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{{Quote|It's old… It's strong and it feels like… Like it's mine.|Faith Lehane|End of Days}}
   
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When Willow returned to Earth, she returned the Scythe to Buffy. During her battle with the newly-[[Slaypire|vampiric]] [[Simone Doffler]], Simone easily outmatched Buffy and impaled her through the shoulder with the Scythe<ref>"[[The Core, Part Four]]</ref>. Despite her wounds and Simone's superior abilities, Buffy eventually gained the upper hand and used the Scythe to stake Simone, openly admitting her regret that she ever used the Scythe to make Simone a Slayer in the first place<ref>"[[The Core, Part Five]]"</ref>.
  
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In 2003, while the [[Scooby Gang]] was researching ways to defeat the threat of the [[First Evil]], they discovered its servant [[Caleb]] had visited [[Gilroy mission|a mission in Gilroy]]. [[Spike]] went there to investigate, and [[unidentified monk|a monk]] showed him an inscription carved in the stone of a secret room, words that had angered Caleb once he read them. Written in Latin, they translated to: "It is not for thee. It is for her alone to wield."<ref name="EP">"[[Empty Places]]"</ref> At the time, the Slayer Buffy Summers reasoned that Caleb was protecting something crucial at the [[Shadow Valley Vineyards]], his base of operations. She found the Scythe and pulled it with ease out of the rock Caleb had been attempting to excavate.<ref>"[[Touched]]"</ref>
   
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Researching the weapon online, [[Willow Rosenberg|Willow]] found on the website ''[[History of the Axe]]'' the name "mʔ" — in lowercase. Giles identified "ʔ" as a symbol for scythes in ancient Egypt, which in turn was a common symbol of death, which directed Buffy to a pagan tomb in Sunnydale. There, she found the [[Last Guardian]], who told her about the history of the Scythe until Caleb killed the woman.<ref name="endofdays"/> With this weapon in her hands, Buffy finally managed to defeat Caleb — killing him even after he merged with the First Evil and had received its empowerment.<ref name="Chsn"/>
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===23rd Century===
  
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{{Quote|That Scythe is my only connection to the whole Slayer heritage thing. And it kills great.|Melaka Fray|Tales}}
  
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[[File:Scythe_broken.jpg|thumb|left|The Scythe Broken.]]Sometime in the 23rd century, the Scythe was given to [[Melaka Fray]], the
 
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Slayer of that time, by her ally, the [[demon]] [[Urkonn]]. Melaka used it to defeat dozens of vampires led by her vampire brother [[Harth Fray]], as well as the Old One [[Neauth]], saving the world.
  
   
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[[File:Slayeractivationspell.png|thumb|Willow uses the scythe to activate slayers all around the world.]]
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Some time later, during her battle with Fray, a time-displaced Buffy smashed the Scythe clean in half with a backhanded punch.<ref name=":1">"[[Time of Your Life, Part Four]]"</ref>
  
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Later, the [[witch]] Willow used the power of the Scythe to perform [[Slayer activation spell|a spell]] that activated multiple [[Potential Slayer]]s around the world into full-fledged Slayers. Buffy and the Slayers then shared the Scythe among them to defeat the numerous [[Turok-Han]]s in the [[battle at the Hellmouth]].<ref name="Chsn">"[[Chosen]]"</ref>
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Several months later, Buffy kept possession of the Scythe, hanged on the wall of the armory room in the [[Slayer Organization command center]] in Scotland.<ref name="WatG1"/> She used it to rescue her friend Willow from the U.S. military, injuring many soldiers in the process.<ref>''[[The Long Way Home, Part Four]]''</ref>
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One night, the [[vampire]] [[Toru]] stole the Scythe<ref name="WatG1">''[[Wolves at the Gate, Part One]]''</ref> to use it to undo the activation of all Slayers.<ref name="WatG2">''[[Wolves at the Gate, Part Two]]''</ref><ref name="WatG3">''[[Wolves at the Gate, Part Three]]''</ref> [[Kumiko Ishihara]] successfully tested the Scythe's power against the Slayer [[Aiko]],<ref name="WatG2"/> and Toru used the weapon to kill [[Renee]].<ref name="WatG3"/> The [[Slayer Organization]] retrieved the Scythe in a confrontation with [[Toru's pack]] in Tokyo.<ref name="WatG4">''[[Wolves at the Gate, Part Four]]''</ref>
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Soon later, Buffy crossed into the possible future of [[Haddyn]] while wielding the Scythe,<ref name=":5">''[[Time of Your Life, Part One]]''</ref> successfully returning with it.<ref name=":1"/>
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During the [[Twilight]] crisis, [[Faith Lehane|Faith]] used the Scythe to fight the hordes of [[Placenturian]] creatures invading the Earth.<ref name="LG3"/> Giles asked the weapon from her to give it to Buffy, who was fighting Twilight-[[possession|possessed]] [[Angel]] near the [[Seed of Wonder]], which made the Scythe glow in proximity. Twilight killed Giles, and Buffy used the Scythe to break the Seed, which expelled Twilight, the Placenturians, and the source of magic on Earth. The impact broke the Scythe in turn.<ref name="LG4"/>
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[[File:B8-40-00b.jpg|thumb|140px|Buffy with the destroyed Scythe.]]
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After moving to San Francisco, Buffy kept the ruined Scythe in a chest below her bed. However, Willow soon took the Scythe, which Sineya had signaled into a dream to be the key to restoring magic.<ref name="SI">''[[Slayer, Interrupted]]''</ref> Using its residual magic as a "battery," Willow carved various sigils on [[Connor]] with the Scythe, performing a ritual that allowed her to access [[Quor'toth]].<ref name="FR1">''[[Family Reunion, Part One]]''</ref>
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After succeeding in restoring her magic, Willow allowed Angel to absorb the fragments of Giles' [[soul]] that still latched onto the Scythe — due to Giles holding it during his death — so that he could continue his quest to [[resurrection|resurrect]] him via a [[Tooth of Ammut]].<ref>''[[Family Reunion, Part Four]]''</ref>
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====Restoration====
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In Willow's journey, the Scythe was restored by the witch [[Vulcana]], who referred to it as a counterpart of [[Excalibur]]. With the Scythe at full power, Willow was able to cut rifts between any two worlds with magic.<ref name=":0">''[[Wonderland, Part Three]]''</ref> Upon returning to the Earth [[dimension]], Willow gave the Scythe back to Buffy.<ref>''[[The Watcher]]''</ref>
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Buffy equipped herself with the Scythe when she went to the [[Deeper Well]] in her mission to restore magic.<ref>''[[The Core, Part One]]''</ref> In her fight against [[Simone Doffler]], the newly [[slaypire]] outmatched Buffy and impaled her through the shoulder with the Scythe.<ref>''[[The Core, Part Four]]''</ref> Despite her wounds and Simone's superior abilities, Buffy eventually gained the upper hand and used the Scythe to stake her, declaring her regret that she ever used the Scythe to make Simone a Slayer in the first place.<ref>''[[The Core, Part Five]]''</ref>
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Buffy then had the opportunity to use the weapon in less [[apocalypse|apocalyptic]] circumstances, such as destroying [[flesh golem]]s in a cemetery<ref>''[[Love Dares You, Part One]]''</ref> and wrestling a vampire for [[VampCon]].<ref>''[[In Pieces on the Ground, Part One]]''</ref> She constantly carried the Scythe for various missions and patrols;<ref>''[[New Rules, Part Five]]''</ref><ref>''[[I Wish, Part One]]''</ref><ref>''[[Return to Sunnydale, Part One]]''</ref> otherwise, she kept it hung on her bedroom's wall.<ref>''[[Triggers]]''</ref>
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In Oakland, the [[Sculptor]] proposed Andrew rob the weapon from Buffy in exchange for a body for the then holographic [[Jonathan (copy)|Jonathan]]. At the time of the exchange, Andrew had made his choice and arrived with the Scooby Gang, who attacked the Sculptor and successfully killed the [[demon]] lord.<ref>''[[In Pieces on the Ground, Part Three]]''</ref>
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[[File:B10-20-01b.jpg|thumb|140px|The Scythe became Buffy's most common weapon of choice.]]
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Under the [[Supernatural Crisis Act]], Buffy was taken to the [[Safe Zone]] in solidarity with the vampire Spike and the witch Willow. She was allowed to maintain her Scythe with her under the second amendment,<ref>''[[A House Divided]]''</ref> and she used it during her patrols as a trustee peacekeeper.<ref>''[[Desperate Measures]]''</ref><ref>''[[Back to the Wall]]''</ref> In an investigation on the [[Pandora Project]], the Scooby Gang infiltrated the Safe Zone headquarters, but, having given up her powers for her freedom, Buffy lent the Scythe to Faith.<ref name=":8"/> Buffy received the weapon back as soon as she recuperated her powers.<ref name=":9"/>
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Buffy used the Scythe to fight the Pandora Project's leader, [[Joanna Wise]], who had turned herself into a magic-infused cyborg — and much stronger than Buffy. To protect all supernatural beings from Wise's destructive plans, Buffy performed with Willow a [[Slayer power spell]], reversing the activation of the Potential Slayers they had done years later. Willow explained that Buffy had shared her power with the Potentials, which had grown in each of them. Using the Scythe, Willow put the power of thousands of Slayers back into Buffy, giving her abilities that included cut magic with the Scythe's blade.<ref name=":10">''[[Revelations (comic)|Revelations]]''</ref> After defeating Wise and eventually healing herself, Buffy and Willow used the Scythe to return the power to the other Slayers.<ref name=":11">''[[One Girl in All the World]]''</ref>
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One year later, to defeat an army of demons during the [[Reckoning]], Willow and Buffy began to use the Scythe to combine the power of all the Slayers into Buffy once again. However, [[Harth Fray]] interrupted the spell by interlocking the Scythe with an original [[Shadowmen's staff]], channeling the power into himself.<ref>''[[The Reckoning]]''</ref> The Slayer connection, though, was too much for the vampire to handle, and Buffy used this moment of vulnerability to stake him with the Scythe. Harth's death allowed the power to flow from him back to its owners, and this new Reckoning changed the future into the collective Slayer line continuing up to the 23rd century.<ref>''[[Finale]]''</ref>
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{{Quote|That Scythe is my only connection to the whole Slayer heritage thing. And it kills great.|Melaka Fray|Tales (story)}}
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In the 23rd century of the original timeline, the demon [[Urkonn of the D'Avvrus]] gave the Scythe to Melaka Fray, the Slayer of that time.<ref name=":6">''[[Alarums]]''</ref> She used it to defeat dozens of vampires led by her brother Harth, as well as the Old One [[Neauth]].<ref>''[[All Hell]]''</ref> She eventually found [[Fray's library|an abandoned apartment]] full of past [[Watchers Diaries]] and a mosaic illustrating the Scythe on its floor.<ref name=":13">''[[Tales (story)|Tales]]''</ref>
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Sometime later, Fray and a time-displaced Buffy dueled with their respective Scythes.<ref name=":5"/> In their final fight, Buffy destroyed Fray's Scythe with a backhanded punch.<ref name=":1">''[[Time of Your Life, Part Four]]''</ref>
   
 
==Appearance and qualities==
  
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[[File:MelakaScythe.jpg|thumb]]
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[[File:MelakaScythe.jpg|thumb|left|140px|Melaka first wields the Scythe.]]
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Despite its name, the Scythe actually resembled a lochaber axe with a red, steel head and a sliver edge on the border of the blade, a steel shaft holding the head with nails stamped along it and reaching down was a brown haft that had a simple wooden stake below it connected via an assembly of metal spikes. Its stake seemed apparently sharper and stronger than basic wood as it could be jammed against a stone wall without any visible damage to it afterwards.<ref name=endofdays/>Buffy could easily stake several Turok-Han vampires despite their harder sternums.<ref name=endofdays/><ref name=Chsn/> Buffy also used the Scythe's blade to shield herself from D'Hoffryn's energy blasts.<ref>''[[Own It, Part Four]]''</ref>
  
   
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Despite its name, the Scythe actually resembled a Lochaber ax with a shiny red blade and (initially) a silver border. A metal shaft held the head with nails stamped throughout it, and, connected via an assembly of metal spikes, a brown haft with a simple wooden stake in its other extremity.<ref name="endofdays"/> Since it was restored, the blade was changed to be completely red,<ref name=":0"/> and this aspect was preserved as well in the 23rd century.<ref name=":13"/><ref name=":6"/> For some reason, this differentiation didn't happen during Buffy's time travel, when both Buffy's and Fray's Scythes had their original colors.<ref name=":5"/>
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Willow displayed the capacity of the Scythe to be used in magic. The weapon itself is like a "battery" that contained magic even if the Earth itself didn't have any magic left. This fact allowed Willow to use the Scythe's power to tear open a rift in reality to gain access to Quor'toth. She used the power of the Scythe to activate every single Potential Slayer on Earth. The Scythe could also be used to tear open portals to other dimensions and could even be used as a means to cast very powerful spells, such as immense streams of magic power that can match the strength of an Old One.
  
   
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Its stake seemed stronger than common wood, as it could be jammed against a stone wall without any visible damage to it afterward.<ref name="endofdays"/> Buffy could easily use it to stake several Turok-Hans<ref name="endofdays"/><ref name="Chsn"/> despite their harder sternums,<ref name="EP"/> as well as use its blade to shield herself from [[D'Hoffryn]]'s energy blasts.<ref name=":12">''[[Own It, Part Four]]''</ref> The blade was also capable of simply rebounding the rays from a [[ray gun]].<ref>''[[The Gateway]]''</ref>
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The Scythe's metal was initially red with silver blade<ref name="endofdays" />. Since it was restored, it was changed to be completely red<ref name=":0" />, and this aspect is preserved as well in 23rd century<ref>''[[Tales]]''</ref>. This differentiation didn't happen during Buffy's time travel, when both Buffy's and Fray's scythes had its original colors<ref name=":1" />.
  
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Some demon carapaces exhibited resistance to the Scythe's blade, such as the [[Morituri demon]]<ref>''[[Old Demons, Part One]]''</ref> and [[Vermis mysteriis]].<ref>''[[The Spread of Their Evil]]''</ref> D'Hoffryn, while having the ''[[Vampyr]]'' book and its magic rules under his control, was resistant to the Scythe's attack,<ref name=":12"/> but he was hurt and eventually decapitated with it under normal circumstances.<ref>''[[Own It, Part Five]]''</ref> The Scythe was capable of breaking the Seed of Wonder, although being destroyed in return.<ref name="LG4"/> Notably, Buffy herself was capable of destroying Fray's future counterpart Scythe with a single punch.<ref name=":1"/>
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[[File:Scythe Portals.jpg|thumb|right|Willow slashing open portals with the Scythe.]]
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Willow displayed the capacity of the Scythe to be used in magic. She used its power to activate thousands of Potential Slayers,<ref name="Chsn"/> retrieve,<ref name=":10"/> and eventually give the power back to the Slayers.<ref name=":11"/> The weapon itself also contained magic even after the [[end of magic]], which allowed the witch to use the Scythe's power to tear open a rift in reality to gain access to Quor'toth.<ref name="FR1"/> The Scythe could also be used to tear open dimensional portals<ref name=":0"/> and cast powerful spells, such as streams of magic power that could match the strength of an Old One.<ref>''[[Family Reunion, Part Three]]''</ref>
   
 
==Wielders==
  
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The following Slayers have wielded the Scythe:
  
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*[[Sineya]]<ref name="endofdays"/>
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*[[Faith Lehane]]<ref name="endofdays" /><ref name="Chsn" /><ref name=":3">''[[Last Gleaming, Part Four]]''</ref><ref>''[[Ordinary People, Part Eight|Ordinary People]]''</ref><ref>''[[The Great Escape, Part Nine|The Great Escape]]''</ref>
  
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*[[Faith Lehane]]<ref name="endofdays"/><ref name="Chsn"/><ref name="LG3">''[[Last Gleaming, Part Three]]''</ref><ref name="LG4">''[[Last Gleaming, Part Four]]''</ref><ref name=":8">''[[Ordinary People]]''</ref><ref name=":9">''[[The Great Escape]]''</ref>
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*[[Kennedy]]<ref name="Chsn" />
  
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*[[Kennedy]]<ref name="Chsn"/>
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*[[Satsu]]<ref name=":4">[[Wolves at the Gate, Part Four|''Wolves at the Gate, Part Four'']]</ref>
  
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*[[Satsu]]<ref name="WatG4"/>
 
*[[Simone Doffler]]<ref>''[[The Core, Part Four]]''</ref><ref>''[[The Core, Part Five]]''</ref>
  
*[[Simone Doffler]]<ref>''[[The Core, Part Four]]''</ref><ref>''[[The Core, Part Five]]''</ref>
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*[[Jordan]]<ref>''[[Disempowered, Part Seven|Disempowered]]''</ref>
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*[[Jordan]]<ref>''[[Disempowered]]''</ref>
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*[[Melaka Fray]]<ref>''[[Alarums]]''</ref>
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*[[Melaka Fray]]<ref name=":6"/>
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*[[Rupert Giles]]<ref name="endofdays" /><ref name=":3" />
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*[[Rupert Giles]]<ref name="endofdays"/><ref name="LG4"/>
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*[[Willow Rosenberg]]<ref name="endofdays" /><ref name="Chsn" /><ref>''[[Slayer, Interrupted (Buffy Season 9)|Slayer, Interrupted]]''</ref><ref>''[[Family Reunion]]''</ref><ref>''[[Willow: Wonderland]]''</ref><ref>''[[Welcome to the Team, Part Four]]''</ref>
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*[[Willow Rosenberg]]<ref name="endofdays"/><ref name="Chsn"/><ref name="SI"/><ref>"[[Family Reunion]]"</ref><ref>''[[Willow: Wonderland]]''</ref><ref>''[[Welcome to the Team, Part Four]]''</ref>
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*[[Last Guardian]]<ref name="endofdays" />
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*[[Last Guardian]]<ref name="endofdays"/>
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*[[Caleb]]<ref name="endofdays" />
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*[[Caleb]]<ref name="endofdays"/>
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*[[Toru]]<ref name=":2" /><ref>[[Wolves at the Gate, Part Three|''Wolves at the Gate, Part Three'']]</ref><ref name=":4" />
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*[[Toru]]<ref name="WatG1"/><ref name="WatG3"/><ref name="WatG4"/>
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*[[Kumiko Ishihara]]<ref name=":2" /><ref>''[[Wolves at the Gate, Part Two]]''</ref>
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*[[Kumiko Ishihara]]<ref name="WatG1"/><ref name="WatG2"/>
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*[[Spike]]<ref>[[Relationship Status: Complicated, Part Two|''Relationship Status: Complicated, Part Two'']]</ref>
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*[[Spike]]<ref>''[[Relationship Status: Complicated, Part Two]]''</ref>
   
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==Behind the Scenes==
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*The Scythe appeared in object cameo and owned by Rumpelstiltskin in the episode "[http://onceuponatime.wikia.com/wiki/Skin_Deep Skin Deep] " in ''[http://onceuponatime.wikia.com/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time_Wiki Once Upon A Time]'' which was also written by ''Buffy'' writer [[Jane Espenson]] though it was different in appearance from when it was seen on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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*The Scythe appeared as a [[References to the Buffyverse|cameo]] among objects displayed in the episode "[[w:c:onceuponatime:Skin Deep|Skin Deep]]" (2012) from ''[[w:c:onceuponatime:Once Upon a Time|Once Upon a Time]]'' television series, which was also written by ''Buffy'' writer [[Jane Espenson]].
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*In ''[[Willow: Wonderland]],'' it is stated by the witch Vulcana in her ritual to repair it that it is the counterpart to Excalibur.
  
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*There is only one known metal "Hero" Scythe that was used on ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'', but multiple copies were made of it using plastic and rubber for stunt purposes. [[Joss Whedon]] has claimed in many interviews that he kept the "Hero" metal Scythe.{{Cite}}
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*The original prop was fabricated by Tony Swatton who then sold the rights to it to a company named Factory X. Unfortunately Factory X follows a little known copyright clause which states that any "replica" they create must be 10% smaller than the original prop. Factory X, which no longer produces the scythe, followed a business model of sending a model of the scythe to China where it was mass produced using the cheapest known materials. The Factory X "Slayer Scythe" was made using Zinc for the main blade, untempered steel for the main handle, cheap pine for the stake and a plastic vinyl wrap for the handle that has a printed pattern on it of Ostrich Leather. Finally, because of the contractual copyright clause, the Factory X "Slayer Scythe" is roughly 3 to 4 inches shorter than the screen used prop (even though it states on every box "The Slayer’s Scythe was made using Joss Whedon’s personal souvenir prop scythe as reference.")
  
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*The original prop was fabricated by Tony Swatton who then sold the rights to it to a company named Factory X. Unfortunately, Factory X follows a little known copyright clause which states that any "replica" they create must be 10% smaller than the original prop. Factory X, which no longer produces the scythe, followed a business model of sending a model of the scythe to China where it was mass produced using the cheapest known materials. The Factory X "Slayer Scythe" was made using Zinc for the main blade, untempered steel for the main handle, cheap pine for the stake and a plastic vinyl wrap for the handle that has a printed pattern on it of Ostrich Leather. Finally, because of the contractual copyright clause, the Factory X "Slayer Scythe" is roughly 3 to 4 inches shorter than the screen used prop (even though it states on every box "The Slayer's Scythe was made using Joss Whedon's personal souvenir prop scythe as reference.").{{Cite}}
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*There is only ONE known metal "Hero" Scythe that was used on Buffy the Vampire Slayer but multiple copies were made of it using plastic and rubber for stunt purposes.
  
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“It is not for thee. It is for her alone to wield.”
―Glyphs engraved upon the wall of Gilroy mission.

mʔ, often symbolically referred to as the Scythe, was an ancient weapon designed for the Slayer,[1] embodying their mystical essence.[2] Although the Slayer of any time had rights over it, Sineya,[1] Buffy Summers,[2] and Melaka Fray[3] had been the only known owners of the weapon.

History

Origins

“A weapon. A scythe. Forged in secrecy for one like you…”
―The Last Guardian[src]
Scythe

The scythe embedded in solid rock.

In the Primordium Age, a group of powerful mystic women, who called themselves the Guardians, secretly forged the Scythe for the First Slayer, Sineya, to kill the last of the Old Ones that walked upon the Earth. The weapon was kept hidden from the Shadowmen, as well as from their later formation into the Watchers Council. The Guardians magically embedded the Scythe in a rock, for, when the time came and it was needed again, the Slayer would find and use it.[1]

The Scythe was named "mʔ." According to Giles, while the "ʔ" was the international phonetics alphabet symbol for the glottal stop, it also represented a hieroglyph thought to symbolize a sickle or a scythe, which in turn were symbols of death. The picture was present in carvings in Egypt, throughout the ancient world, and in pagan temples, such as the Guardian's tomb.[1]

21st century

“It's old… It's strong and it feels like… Like it's mine.”
―Faith Lehane[src]

Discovery

In 2003, while the Scooby Gang was researching ways to defeat the threat of the First Evil, they discovered its servant Caleb had visited a mission in Gilroy. Spike went there to investigate, and a monk showed him an inscription carved in the stone of a secret room, words that had angered Caleb once he read them. Written in Latin, they translated to: "It is not for thee. It is for her alone to wield."[4] At the time, the Slayer Buffy Summers reasoned that Caleb was protecting something crucial at the Shadow Valley Vineyards, his base of operations. She found the Scythe and pulled it with ease out of the rock Caleb had been attempting to excavate.[5]

Researching the weapon online, Willow found on the website History of the Axe the name "mʔ" — in lowercase. Giles identified "ʔ" as a symbol for scythes in ancient Egypt, which in turn was a common symbol of death, which directed Buffy to a pagan tomb in Sunnydale. There, she found the Last Guardian, who told her about the history of the Scythe until Caleb killed the woman.[1] With this weapon in her hands, Buffy finally managed to defeat Caleb — killing him even after he merged with the First Evil and had received its empowerment.[2]

Slayeractivationspell

Willow uses the scythe to activate slayers all around the world.

Later, the witch Willow used the power of the Scythe to perform a spell that activated multiple Potential Slayers around the world into full-fledged Slayers. Buffy and the Slayers then shared the Scythe among them to defeat the numerous Turok-Hans in the battle at the Hellmouth.[2]

Several months later, Buffy kept possession of the Scythe, hanged on the wall of the armory room in the Slayer Organization command center in Scotland.[6] She used it to rescue her friend Willow from the U.S. military, injuring many soldiers in the process.[7]

One night, the vampire Toru stole the Scythe[6] to use it to undo the activation of all Slayers.[8][9] Kumiko Ishihara successfully tested the Scythe's power against the Slayer Aiko,[8] and Toru used the weapon to kill Renee.[9] The Slayer Organization retrieved the Scythe in a confrontation with Toru's pack in Tokyo.[10]

Soon later, Buffy crossed into the possible future of Haddyn while wielding the Scythe,[11] successfully returning with it.[12]

Destruction

During the Twilight crisis, Faith used the Scythe to fight the hordes of Placenturian creatures invading the Earth.[13] Giles asked the weapon from her to give it to Buffy, who was fighting Twilight-possessed Angel near the Seed of Wonder, which made the Scythe glow in proximity. Twilight killed Giles, and Buffy used the Scythe to break the Seed, which expelled Twilight, the Placenturians, and the source of magic on Earth. The impact broke the Scythe in turn.[14]

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Buffy with the destroyed Scythe.

After moving to San Francisco, Buffy kept the ruined Scythe in a chest below her bed. However, Willow soon took the Scythe, which Sineya had signaled into a dream to be the key to restoring magic.[15] Using its residual magic as a "battery," Willow carved various sigils on Connor with the Scythe, performing a ritual that allowed her to access Quor'toth.[16]

After succeeding in restoring her magic, Willow allowed Angel to absorb the fragments of Giles' soul that still latched onto the Scythe — due to Giles holding it during his death — so that he could continue his quest to resurrect him via a Tooth of Ammut.[17]

Restoration

In Willow's journey, the Scythe was restored by the witch Vulcana, who referred to it as a counterpart of Excalibur. With the Scythe at full power, Willow was able to cut rifts between any two worlds with magic.[18] Upon returning to the Earth dimension, Willow gave the Scythe back to Buffy.[19]

Buffy equipped herself with the Scythe when she went to the Deeper Well in her mission to restore magic.[20] In her fight against Simone Doffler, the newly slaypire outmatched Buffy and impaled her through the shoulder with the Scythe.[21] Despite her wounds and Simone's superior abilities, Buffy eventually gained the upper hand and used the Scythe to stake her, declaring her regret that she ever used the Scythe to make Simone a Slayer in the first place.[22]

Buffy then had the opportunity to use the weapon in less apocalyptic circumstances, such as destroying flesh golems in a cemetery[23] and wrestling a vampire for VampCon.[24] She constantly carried the Scythe for various missions and patrols;[25][26][27] otherwise, she kept it hung on her bedroom's wall.[28]

In Oakland, the Sculptor proposed Andrew rob the weapon from Buffy in exchange for a body for the then holographic Jonathan. At the time of the exchange, Andrew had made his choice and arrived with the Scooby Gang, who attacked the Sculptor and successfully killed the demon lord.[29]

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The Scythe became Buffy's most common weapon of choice.

Under the Supernatural Crisis Act, Buffy was taken to the Safe Zone in solidarity with the vampire Spike and the witch Willow. She was allowed to maintain her Scythe with her under the second amendment,[30] and she used it during her patrols as a trustee peacekeeper.[31][32] In an investigation on the Pandora Project, the Scooby Gang infiltrated the Safe Zone headquarters, but, having given up her powers for her freedom, Buffy lent the Scythe to Faith.[33] Buffy received the weapon back as soon as she recuperated her powers.[34]

Buffy used the Scythe to fight the Pandora Project's leader, Joanna Wise, who had turned herself into a magic-infused cyborg — and much stronger than Buffy. To protect all supernatural beings from Wise's destructive plans, Buffy performed with Willow a Slayer power spell, reversing the activation of the Potential Slayers they had done years later. Willow explained that Buffy had shared her power with the Potentials, which had grown in each of them. Using the Scythe, Willow put the power of thousands of Slayers back into Buffy, giving her abilities that included cut magic with the Scythe's blade.[35] After defeating Wise and eventually healing herself, Buffy and Willow used the Scythe to return the power to the other Slayers.[36]

One year later, to defeat an army of demons during the Reckoning, Willow and Buffy began to use the Scythe to combine the power of all the Slayers into Buffy once again. However, Harth Fray interrupted the spell by interlocking the Scythe with an original Shadowmen's staff, channeling the power into himself.[37] The Slayer connection, though, was too much for the vampire to handle, and Buffy used this moment of vulnerability to stake him with the Scythe. Harth's death allowed the power to flow from him back to its owners, and this new Reckoning changed the future into the collective Slayer line continuing up to the 23rd century.[38]

23rd century

“That Scythe is my only connection to the whole Slayer heritage thing. And it kills great.”
―Melaka Fray[src]

In the 23rd century of the original timeline, the demon Urkonn of the D'Avvrus gave the Scythe to Melaka Fray, the Slayer of that time.[3] She used it to defeat dozens of vampires led by her brother Harth, as well as the Old One Neauth.[39] She eventually found an abandoned apartment full of past Watchers Diaries and a mosaic illustrating the Scythe on its floor.[40]

Sometime later, Fray and a time-displaced Buffy dueled with their respective Scythes.[11] In their final fight, Buffy destroyed Fray's Scythe with a backhanded punch.[12]

Appearance and qualities

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Melaka first wields the Scythe.

Despite its name, the Scythe actually resembled a Lochaber ax with a shiny red blade and (initially) a silver border. A metal shaft held the head with nails stamped throughout it, and, connected via an assembly of metal spikes, a brown haft with a simple wooden stake in its other extremity.[1] Since it was restored, the blade was changed to be completely red,[18] and this aspect was preserved as well in the 23rd century.[40][3] For some reason, this differentiation didn't happen during Buffy's time travel, when both Buffy's and Fray's Scythes had their original colors.[11]

Its stake seemed stronger than common wood, as it could be jammed against a stone wall without any visible damage to it afterward.[1] Buffy could easily use it to stake several Turok-Hans[1][2] despite their harder sternums,[4] as well as use its blade to shield herself from D'Hoffryn's energy blasts.[41] The blade was also capable of simply rebounding the rays from a ray gun.[42]

Some demon carapaces exhibited resistance to the Scythe's blade, such as the Morituri demon[43] and Vermis mysteriis.[44] D'Hoffryn, while having the Vampyr book and its magic rules under his control, was resistant to the Scythe's attack,[41] but he was hurt and eventually decapitated with it under normal circumstances.[45] The Scythe was capable of breaking the Seed of Wonder, although being destroyed in return.[14] Notably, Buffy herself was capable of destroying Fray's future counterpart Scythe with a single punch.[12]

Scythe Portals

Willow slashing open portals with the Scythe.

Willow displayed the capacity of the Scythe to be used in magic. She used its power to activate thousands of Potential Slayers,[2] retrieve,[35] and eventually give the power back to the Slayers.[36] The weapon itself also contained magic even after the end of magic, which allowed the witch to use the Scythe's power to tear open a rift in reality to gain access to Quor'toth.[16] The Scythe could also be used to tear open dimensional portals[18] and cast powerful spells, such as streams of magic power that could match the strength of an Old One.[46]

Wielders

The following Slayers have wielded the Scythe:

Others:

Behind the scenes

  • The Scythe appeared as a cameo among objects displayed in the episode "Skin Deep" (2012) from Once Upon a Time television series, which was also written by Buffy writer Jane Espenson.
  • The Scythe was featured as an accessory in three Buffy the Vampire Slayer action figures, five Deluxe action figures, a Tooned Up maquette, and an exclusive Sideshow Collectibles statue.
  • There is only one known metal "Hero" Scythe that was used on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but multiple copies were made of it using plastic and rubber for stunt purposes. Joss Whedon has claimed in many interviews that he kept the "Hero" metal Scythe.[citation needed]
  • The original prop was fabricated by Tony Swatton who then sold the rights to it to a company named Factory X. Unfortunately, Factory X follows a little known copyright clause which states that any "replica" they create must be 10% smaller than the original prop. Factory X, which no longer produces the scythe, followed a business model of sending a model of the scythe to China where it was mass produced using the cheapest known materials. The Factory X "Slayer Scythe" was made using Zinc for the main blade, untempered steel for the main handle, cheap pine for the stake and a plastic vinyl wrap for the handle that has a printed pattern on it of Ostrich Leather. Finally, because of the contractual copyright clause, the Factory X "Slayer Scythe" is roughly 3 to 4 inches shorter than the screen used prop (even though it states on every box "The Slayer's Scythe was made using Joss Whedon's personal souvenir prop scythe as reference.").[citation needed]

Appearances

Canonical

Other

References

  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 "End of Days"
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 "Chosen"
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Alarums
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Empty Places"
  5. ↑ "Touched"
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Wolves at the Gate, Part One
  7. ↑ The Long Way Home, Part Four
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Wolves at the Gate, Part Two
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Wolves at the Gate, Part Three
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Wolves at the Gate, Part Four
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Time of Your Life, Part One
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Time of Your Life, Part Four
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Last Gleaming, Part Three
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 Last Gleaming, Part Four
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Slayer, Interrupted
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Family Reunion, Part One
  17. ↑ Family Reunion, Part Four
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 Wonderland, Part Three
  19. ↑ The Watcher
  20. ↑ The Core, Part One
  21. ↑ The Core, Part Four
  22. ↑ The Core, Part Five
  23. ↑ Love Dares You, Part One
  24. ↑ In Pieces on the Ground, Part One
  25. ↑ New Rules, Part Five
  26. ↑ I Wish, Part One
  27. ↑ Return to Sunnydale, Part One
  28. ↑ Triggers
  29. ↑ In Pieces on the Ground, Part Three
  30. ↑ A House Divided
  31. ↑ Desperate Measures
  32. ↑ Back to the Wall
  33. ↑ 33.0 33.1 Ordinary People
  34. ↑ 34.0 34.1 The Great Escape
  35. ↑ 35.0 35.1 Revelations
  36. ↑ 36.0 36.1 One Girl in All the World
  37. ↑ The Reckoning
  38. ↑ Finale
  39. ↑ All Hell
  40. ↑ 40.0 40.1 Tales
  41. ↑ 41.0 41.1 Own It, Part Four
  42. ↑ The Gateway
  43. ↑ Old Demons, Part One
  44. ↑ The Spread of Their Evil
  45. ↑ Own It, Part Five
  46. ↑ Family Reunion, Part Three
  47. ↑ The Core, Part Four
  48. ↑ The Core, Part Five
  49. ↑ Disempowered
  50. ↑ "Family Reunion"
  51. ↑ Willow: Wonderland
  52. ↑ Welcome to the Team, Part Four
  53. ↑ Relationship Status: Complicated, Part Two
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