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- “World is what it is. We fight. We die. Wishing doesn't change that.”
- ―Buffy Summers[src]
The Wishverse is a fan-term used to refer to the alternate timeline created by Anyanka after Cordelia Chase wished Buffy Summers had never moved to Sunnydale. It was referred to as Bizarro Land by Cordelia, and as Bizarro World in Slayer: An Unofficial and Unauthorized Guide to Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Keith Topping.
Background
In this new reality, while Angel and Rupert Giles did move to Sunnydale, Buffy Summers didn't, so there was no one capable of preventing the Harvest. Thus The Master succeeded in escaping from his mystical prison.
With the Master free and no Slayer present to oppose him, the Order of Aurelius successfully overran and took over Sunnydale. In the process of conquering the town, Angel, considered a traitor, was captured and imprisoned, while others were killed or turned into vampires; such was the case of Willow Rosenberg and Xander Harris, who were sired and took the place of Darla and Luke as the Master's leading acolytes. In order to keep the vampires in check, Giles formed a team of vampire hunters formed by Larry Blaisdell, Daniel Osbourne and Nancy. However, they had little resources and abilities to actually affect the Order, who had come to dub them the White Hats.
Meanwhile, after the fire in Hemery High's Gym, Buffy and her mother moved to Cleveland, where she met her new Watcher. However, this Watcher had no control of the actions of the Slayer, who over the years developed a tough, grim personality (similar to Faith Lehane), shunning friends or family, living only to slay.
Final Fate
When Cordelia Chase found herself in this time line, after learning what had become of Sunnydale in Buffy's absence, she managed to make contact with the White Hats and explain to Giles at least some details of what had happened, although she was killed by Xander and Willow before she could give too much detail. As the Master began preparations to open a blood factory that would make feeding far easier, turning humans into little more than food, Giles contacted Cleveland and had Buffy sent down to provide assistance, although Buffy showed little interest in his talk of another world. Freeing Angel from his bonds to provide her with aid in the assault (although she only believed that Angel wanted the Master dead for torturing him rather than that he was willing to help her), Buffy attacked the factory, staking Xander, and allowing Oz to kill Willow, although Angel was staked by Xander and Buffy's neck was subsequently broken by the Master.
Meanwhile, however, Giles performed a risky ritual to summon Anyanka, subsequently removing her amulet as he had realized that destroying the amulet would negate Cordelia's original wish. As Anyanka asked him how he could be so certain that the other world was any better than this one, Giles grimly stated "Because it has to be" and shattered the amulet, apparently erasing this timeline and all its consequences from existence (except for the continued destruction of Anyanka's amulet and her subsequent loss of power).
Although "Doppelgängland" featured a brief return to the Wishverse, suggesting that it still exists in some form, it should be noted that all actions witnessed in the Wishverse occurred before the amulet was shattered, suggesting that Giles's actions did indeed negate the existence of the Wishverse as a continuous timeline and no further events would take place within it after the destruction of the amulet.
Appearances
Gallery
- See Wishverse/Gallery