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Resurrection of Buffy Summers

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Although this article is based on canonical information, the actual name of this subject is conjectural.

The resurrection of Buffy Summers was an event performed by Willow, Xander, Anya, and Tara in late 2001[1] with significant repercussions.[2][3]

Prelude[]

During the battle of the Tower, Doc performed a ritual bleeding of Dawn, opening the portal Glory had intended to use to return home. In the imminent apocalypse the portals were causing, Dawn decided to sacrifice herself to close them. Buffy prevented her from jumping from the Tower and chose to sacrifice herself, realizing her blood was just as capable of closing the portals. The portals were successfully closed, but the mystical energy killed Buffy in the process.[4]

Buffy's sacrifice saved the world, and her friends used the Buffybot to keep up the illusion that she was still alive to protect Sunnydale. However, they knew it wouldn't last long and agreed they would resurrect the Slayer.[1]

The resurrection[]

Months after the battle, Anya uncovered the last surviving urn of Osiris on eBay, and Willow announced they would bring back Buffy the next night. Xander, Anya, and Tara were unsure it would be the right thing to do because of the risks, but Willow insisted on its importance; because Buffy had been killed by mystical energy, they had a chance of bringing her back. Willow also worried that Buffy was suffering eternal torment in a hell dimension and refused to leave her there. Xander, Anya, and Tara supported Willow's decision and agreed that Giles, Spike, and Dawn could not know about their plans until they were successful.[1]

The following day, Willow invoked Adonai in a summoning spell and a baby deer approached her. She stabbed it in the throat and collected its blood for the resurrecting spell. She returned it to her friends in the Magic Box, claiming she had gotten the Vino de Madre from the black market. That night, Willow, Xander, Anya, and Tara headed to the cemetery. They sat around Buffy's grave, and Willow began the spell. Her skin was cut by invisible blades, creatures appeared to crawl under her skin, and a large snake was produced from her mouth; Tara explained she was being tested and insisted they couldn't stop.[1]

At that time, a gang of Hellion bikers attacking Sunnydale interrupted the spell by breaking the urn of Osiris and scattering the Scoobies' circle. Convinced the spell was a failure, the Scoobies escaped the cemetery. However, the magic restored Buffy's decaying body inside her coffin and restored the confused Slayer to life.[1] She crawled out of her grave and found the Hellions' destruction, being forced to fight the demons to protect her friends. Dawn followed Buffy to the Tower from where she had jumped to death and convinced her sister to return home.[5]

Aftermath[]

Despite the resurrection spell being a success, it was not without its repercussions. Unbeknownst to her friends, Buffy had been pulled out of what she believed to be heaven,[2] and its loss affected her psychologically for months. She eventually revealed it to her friends under the effect of Sweet's musical influence,[6] and Buffy began to recover in May of that year.[7]

The resurrection spell also triggered thaumogenesis through the creation of a demon. It began terrorizing the Scooby Gang, possessing them individually, and taunting them for meddling with dangerous magic. The demon also attacked Buffy to end the Slayer's existence and preserve its own. Unwilling to break the resurrection spell, Willow and Tara performed a spell that made the demon solid, allowing Buffy to kill it by decapitating it with an axe.[2]

Buffy's resurrection also made the Slayer line vulnerable, which the First Evil intended to exploit to destroy Slayers forever.[3] The First had its followers kill multiple Potential Slayers[8] and destroy the Watchers Council.[9]

Despite never regretting it,[10] Willow considered herself selfish for her decision of resurrecting Buffy[11] and blamed it for causing the misery and violence the Scoobies faced that year, which ultimately cost Tara her life.[12]

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