From: daviderl31@yahoo.com   
      
    https://screenrant.com/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-biggest-twists-ranked/   
      
   Buffy the Vampire Slayer is one of the most innovative, creative, and   
   memorable TV shows to hit the small screen in the past quarter-century. The   
   impact of the show is still being felt, and even though it's been gone for a   
   decade and a half, its popularity has barely dimmed.   
      
   But anyone who has ever seen the show will understand why. BtVS is an   
   unforgettable series for all the right reasons, and its ability to surprise   
   and thrill its audience is still unmatched. Buffy was going for some   
   seriously shocking twists before shocking twists were cool, and unlike many   
   of the shock value moments that litter the TV landscape today, Buffy's plot   
   twists were always high impact moments that affected the show for the rest   
   of it's run. But out of all of those twists and turns that kept people's   
   attention for seven seasons and beyond, which were truly the best of the   
   best?   
      
      
   10 ANGEL IS A VAMPIRE   
      
   You know how it goes. Boy meets girl. Girl crushes on boy. Boy finally   
   kisses girl after a few episodes of tension building. And boy abruptly   
   transforms from boy into monster because GOOD GOD HE'S A VAMPIRE!   
      
   Everybody loves a star-crossed lovers story, and how does anyone one-up the   
   classic Montague falling in love with Capulet standard? Well, turn it into a   
   vampire Slayer falling in love with a vampire, of course. Clearly, Buffy is   
   not your average Slayer and Angel is far from your typical vampire, but the   
   abrupt revelation that Buffy's dreamy-eyed suitor was actually a vampire was   
   one of the great early twists of the series.   
      
      
   9 BUFFY IN HELL   
      
   After Buffy's untimely death, the whole Scooby gang (minus Giles) set about   
   bringing her back to life, fearing that the worst had happened since Buffy   
   took a swan dive into a portal that could have taken her soul to any manner   
   of horrific Hell dimensions. And when Buffy came back she told her friends   
   that she was grateful for them "saving" her from death, and that seemed to   
   be that. However, Buffy then told Spike that it was a lie. She had in fact   
   died and gone to a heavenly dimension, and ironically her friends had   
   resurrected her into a world that felt like Hell in comparison.   
      
      
   8 KENDRA THE VAMPIRE SLAYER   
      
   In every generation, a Slayer is born. One girl in the whole world: the   
   chosen one. That is, until Buffy became the chosen one. Miss Summers was   
   always the type of Slayer that marched to the beat of her own drum, but even   
   she was thrown for a loop when Kendra the Vampire Slayer showed up in   
   Sunnydale.   
      
   But when one Slayer dies, the next one is called, and the Master did kill   
   Buffy before she was resuscitated. And in a classic BtVS switcheroo, when   
   Buffy and Kendra finally meet face to face they start trading blows because   
   they believe the other is a big bad, only to realize that they're now the   
   chosen two.   
      
      
   7 ANGEL GOES EVIL   
      
   If there was one thing that Buffy was great at, it was taking the typical   
   experiences of teenagers and putting a more extreme supernatural twist on   
   them. But one of the most shocking and heartbreaking instances of this was   
   when Angel lost his soul. Unbeknownst to Buffy, the curse that returned   
   Angel's soul to him came with the caveat that if he ever felt truly happy   
   and wasn't suffering under the weight of his remorse then he would be   
   "freed" from the curse, and it just so happens that getting loved up with   
   Buffy was the key to making that happen.   
      
      
   6 ANGEL GETS HIS SOUL BACK   
      
   BtVS managed to break our hearts when Angel lost his soul and reverted to   
   the evilest of evil vampires, Angelus. But then it managed to crush our   
   hearts with a sledgehammer when Angel finally got his soul restored just a   
   few moments too late.   
      
   Buffy was obviously desperate to get her boyfriend back, but she eventually   
   came to grips with the fact that if Angel couldn't be saved then Angelus   
   needed to be stopped. And while Buffy was prepared to kill Angelus, she most   
   definitely was not prepared to kill Angel. Willow managed to make Angel   
   whole again in the bottom of the ninth, but Buffy still had to send him   
   straight to Hell.   
      
      
   5 BUFFY GETS A SISTER   
      
   And how does one get a sister, exactly? Well, in standard families they're   
   just born, but in Buffy's world some magical blob of light gets squished   
   into a human form and a bunch of monks implants fake memories in Buffy and   
   friends so that Buffy will protect said magical blob at all costs. When it   
   was initially announced that Buffy would be getting a little sister, the   
   response was an appropriate level of confusion, but the addition of Dawn   
   Summers brought a new dynamic to the show and ended in one of the most   
   heartbreaking and unbelievable plot twists in Buffy history.   
      
      
   4 WILLOW IS THE BIG BAD   
      
   The standard season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer usually revolved around   
   Buffy confronting and defeating the big bad of the year, but in season six   
   the writers decided to throw the audience for one heck of a loop.   
      
   The beginning of the season took on an unusually comic turn, with the "evil   
   trio" of Jonathan, Andrew, and Warren finding newer and nerdier ways to   
   torment the Slayer. But the writers pulled off the shock of the century by   
   killing Willow's girlfriend Tara, which in turn triggered Willow into going   
   on a super dark murder spree that she was hoping to conclude with a literal   
   world-ending finale.   
      
      
   3 BUFFY'S MOM DIES   
      
   In a fictional world that revolves around the supernatural, no one is ever   
   expecting to be hit by a Mack truck of realism. But Buffy was nothing if not   
   a genre-bender, and they managed to crush the souls of their audience when   
   Buffy's mom died suddenly of natural, almost mundane, causes.   
      
   Buffy's mom initially got sick in season five, but it luckily looked like   
   things were turning around for her, and she seemed to be doing great despite   
   having a brain tumor removed. Buffy spent most of her teenage life literally   
   saving the world, but the most earth-shattering moment for her was that   
   small, simple moment of realization that her mom was really gone.   
      
      
   2 BUFFY DIES   
      
   When those monks said that they designed Dawn because they wanted to make   
   sure that Buffy would protect her with her own life, they weren't kidding.   
   After months of helplessly fighting against a literal God of Hell, Buffy   
   manages to best Glory, but once again it's just too little too late. The   
   walls separating all dimensions are collapsing, and killing Dawn seems to be   
      
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