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The television show does not recognise the events of the movie as canon; it is intended to be an independent realisation of the same concept rather than a continuation of the movie's plot. This article deals with the character of Buffy Summers from the television show only.

At the beginning of the show Buffy is a teenage high school student, a vampire slayer and the daughter of a divorced single mother. She struggles to reconcile her life as a teen — and all of the usual difficulties that entails — with her destiny as the "chosen" defender of humanity against " vampires, demons and the forces of darkness". She often professes a desire for a "normal" life but, gradually, as the series progresses, accepts her fate.

During the first season of the show, Buffy and her mother Joyce relocated from Los Angeles to Sunnydale, CaliforniaCalifornia is a state located in the western United States, bordering the Pacific Ocean. The most populous and third largest state in the U. California is both physically and demographically diverse. The state's official nickname is "The Golden State", wh after Buffy's expulsion from Hemery High School for burning down the gymnasium. Buffy enrolled in Sunnydale High (actually, Torrance High School), where she met Xander HarrisBuffy characters Alexander ("Xander") LaVelle Harris is a fictional character in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer''. He is a friend and helper of the title character. One of his remarkable qualities is that, unlike most of the series's regul, Willow RosenbergWillow Rosenberg is a fictional character in the popular television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer played by Alyson Hannigan. Willow was introduced in the first episode of the show as a naive and fairly stereotyped brilliant high school nerd capable of per, and the Watcher, Rupert GilesRupert Giles is a character from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer television series played by actor Anthony Stewart Head. He is a British Watcher given the responsibility of teaching and training Buffy Summers in her role as Slayer. In his early years with Bu, who replaced her Los Angeles Watcher, Merrick. She also met Cordelia ChaseBuffy characters Angel (series) characters Cordelia Chase is a fictional character in the television shows, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel''. Cordelia is played by Charisma Carpenter. The Buffy Years Cordelia was originally introduced as a cheerleader, a popular but arrogant, condescending, and patronizing cheerleader. The first season focused on Buffy's fight against The MasterThe Master is a fictional character in the U. television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer played by Mark Metcalf. The Master first appeared in " Welcome to the Hellmouth", the first episode of Buffy as Buffy's first Big Bad. The Master has had a gang, the (vampire) and his protégé, the Anointed OneThe Anointed One is a fictional character in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer''. The character is played by Andrew J. Introduced in season one to help The Master escape his confinement, he is killed by Spike in the season two episode " Schoo. The season ended with Buffy's death at the hands of The Master and her subsequent resuscitation by Xander.

The second season centered on Buffy's forbidden love for AngelAngel is a fictional character on the television shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel played by David Boreanaz. Angel is a vampire with a soul. Born in Ireland in the 18th century under the name Liam he was turned into a vampire by Darla. He became An, a vampire. It also introduced the new Slayer, Kendra, who was "called" as a result of Buffy's death. At the end of the season, Buffy dispatched Angel to hell and ran away from home, working as a waitress in a restaurant called Helen’s Kitchen, after the infamous section of New York, Hell’s Kitchen. She later returned to Sunnydale.

Season three introduced a renegade Slayer, Faith, who was "called" after Buffy's initial replacement, Kendra, was killed by Drusilla, a sometime-paramour of Angel and another vampire known as William the Bloody, or Spike. In a terrible struggle, Buffy stabbed Faith, but the rogue Slayer escaped by falling from the roof of her apartment, into a passing flatbed truck.

According to Joss Whedon, the show’s creator, the theme of the fourth season was “Oh, grow up!” Buffy and her friend, Willow Rosenberg, having graduated from high school now attended UC Sunnydale, while Xander, also having graduated, worked at various odd jobs, finally becoming a carpenter. At the university, Buffy encountered her second lover, Riley Finn, a member of a covert military organization, The Initiative, which was collecting demons and vampires in an effort to create humans with superpowers. Their affair did not last, and Buffy next took up with the vampire Spike.

In season five, Buffy defeated an evil god, Glory, who sought to kill Buffy’s newfound “sister” Dawn, a cosmic "key" given human form by a group of monks in order that Dawn might both be hidden from Glory and protected by the Slayer. Buffy dies a second time when she commits suicide by leaping from a tall tower to save Dawn.

Brought back from the grave by a spell cast by Willow, Buffy returned to fight a trio of nerds in season six. The finale pitted Buffy against Willow, who temporarily turned to the dark side in the process of seeking revenge against the killers of her girlfriend, Tara.

The seventh and final season saw Buffy thwart The First Evil by converting every potential slayer in the world to an actual slayer, at the price of the complete annihilation of the evacuated city of Sunnydale.

After the events of the final season, Buffy's continued presence was felt in the spin-off series Angel, even though she is not physically seen in it, in the episode Damage - when Andrew explains sharply to Angel that his orders to take the psychotic Slayer Dana with him came from Buffy herself.

Buffy started out as a carefree, superficial, and rebellious teen and ended up as a world-weary but powerful and self-confident young woman who, having survived not only attacks by vampires, demons, and monsters but also the death of her mother, passed her power to hundreds, perhaps thousands, of other Slayers.

In part, Buffy is modeled on Sailor Moon and Shadowcat of Marvel Comics' X-Men. In addition, the character was born, so to speak, of Whedon's annoyance at having a blonde teenage girl ending up as the victim of a horror movie's monster. He decided to invert this stereotype and have the monster that attempts to kill the blonde teenage girl (Buffy) be the one who is killed.