On her first day of her new school she makes friends with the most unlikely people she first meets the goofy Xander Harris and his childhood nerdy friend Willow Rosenberg. Both who will be there for Buffy the entire series. Harris and Rosenberg are the complete opposite of all of Summers friends in the movie, or example Willow cares more about making a high grade on her test and less about the latest fashion trends, and Xander is her dorky friend that would love to have conversations about the latest sci-fi movie than football. Not only has Buffy changed but so have the history, destiny, and powers of other slayers. The movie goes in to little detail about previous slayers; the only other slayer mention in the film was from the Renaissance Era as a young girl of sixteen. The first slayer is introduced as a young girl from ancient Africa, who was given her powers from the shamans of her tribe. The show also mentions different slayers from diverse eras and races, always shown in different flashbacks. Another change about slayers is that they have a guide called a Watcher. A watcher is a man or woman that guides and trains the slayer they are assigned. In the movie a man named Marrick comes to Buffy at her school and tells her of her fate however he does not state what he is or who/if watchers exist. In the show Buffy’s watcher Rupert Giles not only doses his job as a watcher, but he plays …show more content…
Spike a British punk vampire who was also turned by Angel in 1880, was introduced to the show when he came to Sunnydale to kill Buffy who would have been the third slayer he’s killed. The two first starts out having a normal slayer, enemy relationship which involves mostly trying to kill each other. But later on in the series Spike begins to have an obsession with Buffy, making him think he is in love with her. The two begin to have a physical relationship filled with a dangerous combination of lust and hate that only leaves them both filled with self-loathing, guilt and hate for each