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“I designed the show to create that strong reaction. I designed Buffy to be an icon, to be an emotional experience, to be loved in a way that other shows can't be loved. Because it's about adolescence, which is the most important thing people go through in their development, becoming an adult. And it mythologizes it in such a way, such a romantic way—it basically says, ‘Everybody who made it through adolescence is a hero.’ And I think that's very personal, that people get something from that that's very real. And I don't think I could be more pompous. But I mean every word of it. I wanted her to be a cultural phenomenon. I wanted there to be dolls, Barbie with kung-fu grip. I wanted people to embrace it in a way that exists beyond, ‘Oh, that was a wonderful show about lawyers, let's have dinner.’ I wanted people to internalize it, and make up fantasies where they were in the story, to take it home with them, for it to exist beyond the TV show. And we've done exactly that.—Joss Whedon, Onion TV Club Interview
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Scooby Road / Abbey Road
Fanvids by Luminosity
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BtVS Characters
BtVS Characters
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The Scooby GangThe Scooby Gang
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Significant Others
Significant Others
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BtVS Character: Other Slayers (also Big Bad, Season 3)
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BtVS Characters:
Big Bads
BtVS Characters:
Big Bads
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Cult TelevisionCult TelevisionBtVS Character: Big Bad Season 5
BtVS Character: Big Bad Season 5
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BtVS Character: Big Bads Season 6
The Nerds/The Troika/Buffy’s
Nemeses
The Nerds/The Troika/Buffy’s
Nemeses
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