- “Goodbye stray cat, who lost its way. We hope… you find it.”
- ―Joyce Summers[src]
Patches was the name Oz suggested for a dead stray cat found by Buffy Summers in her basement. It was transformed into a zombie by the demon Ovu Mobani, whose spirit was bound to a Nigerian mask bought by Joyce Summers.[1]
Biography[]
After Buffy found his corpse in her basement, she and her mother buried the cat in their home's backyard. The mask of Ovo Mobani brought him back as a zombie, and Patches came out of his improvised grave to enter the Summers residence in the following morning, attracted by the mask.[1]
In order to investigate the cause of his return, Rupert Giles captured and kept Patches at a small cage in Sunnydale High School library. The Scooby Gang commented the cat had a noticing bad smell, due to his decomposing as a corpse.[1]
Eventually, Buffy defeated Ovo Mobani, causing all the zombies he had raised to disappear.[1]
Behind the scenes[]
- Patches is a likely reference to living dead cats in the classic horror movies Night of the Creeps (1986) and Pet Sematary (1989).
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References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Dead Man's Party"