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Buffy’s death in Prophecy Girl, albeit very brief, was enough to activate another Slayer, Kendra. The two met in season two’s What’s My Line? (Part 1). Giles said in that episode that the event was unprecedented. |
| Suggested by: | › Jess |
| Added: | › 13th October 2004 |
| Updated: | › 1st April, 2006 |
| Hits: | › 1216 |
August 20th, 2005 at 4:04 pm
Seems likely that the council would:
a) have found out about this earlier (slayers fight a lot and heal fast - can’t imagine this was the first time this happened)
b) capitalize on it now that they know. how hard would it be to stop the slayer’s heart for a minute–they do it in flatliners :)
Anyway, this is still one of the coolest plot developments in the history of television. remember how amazing it was the first time Kendra said “I’m Kendra…the vampire slayer”.
August 24th, 2005 at 10:02 pm
I think it could well have been the first time. Buffy is certainly the first Slayer to have a ‘gang’ - and the other Watchers all seem a bit crappy in the fighting department, thus not giving them time to revive any dead Slayers.
August 25th, 2005 at 11:27 am
Plus, isn’t it often stated that Buffy is an ‘Exception,’ in the fact that she has a group of friends who help her, and know her secret identity?
August 25th, 2005 at 12:10 pm
Yeh it is. Kendra comments on it in Whats My Line Part Two
December 29th, 2005 at 12:18 am
I always thought that when Buffy died in season 5’s The Gift there was no other Slayer called as Faith was still a Slayer, however this cant be true as Faith was called even though Buffy was still alive. Therefore there must have been another Slayer after Buffy’s second death. Some of my friends and I were talking about this and they believed that the first ‘potential’ killed by the Bringers in the 1st scene in Lessons in Istanbul was actually the Slayer called after Buffy’s 2nd death. Although this is probably not true, and there is no proof of this it was interesting to think that maybe there was a Slayer out there that was killed by the Bringers without Buffy or the Scoobies knowing it. Though I am probably completely wrong i thought I would tell you all what I thought!
December 29th, 2005 at 12:41 am
but technically, Buffy wasn’t alive. Because she died at the hands of The Master, Kendra was called. So according to the mystical line of the slayer, Kendra was the only slayer alive with slayer powers. So, in comes Faith when Kendra dies. I hope that made sense.
December 29th, 2005 at 12:47 am
The prophecy is that when one slayer dies another one is called, which we all know (god, we’re so smart), so when Buffy died, Kendra became the activated slayer, the ‘main’ one, if you like…. tell ya what, I’ll make it easier. The mystical line is treating the activation thing as if Buffy was never revived. According to them, Buffy was dead since she firt died (god, I ramble on)
December 29th, 2005 at 12:50 am
Yes, that made it better, its just I always assumed Buffy was the ‘main’ Slayer which is foolish of me as she stopped being that after she died in Prophecy Girl. The name of the show should have been changed then to ‘Buffy, the vampire slayer again’ just to help easily confused people such as myself!
January 19th, 2006 at 9:02 am
When Dawn thinks she’s a potential, she says that Buffy would have to die for her to become the slayer. Shouldn’t someone have corrected her, and told her that Faith would need to die?
January 19th, 2006 at 9:41 am
Quick thought, a lot of people have questioned that the council should have known a slayer could die and be revived so two slayers could co-exist: All the other slayers worked alone when their watcher sent them on their missions, who would be with the slayer to revive her if she was, in fact, killed?
January 20th, 2006 at 12:44 pm
I thought the best idea would be to kill a slayer and then revive her in the council’s headquarters or whereever. Like the film Flatliners, the slayer dies and then is revived by cpr etc.
April 23rd, 2006 at 12:39 am
Hey, can anyone tell me why there isnt a THIRD slayer when Buffy dies in The Gift? It would have become a bit of an over-used arc, but TECHNICALLY there should be another slayer!
April 23rd, 2006 at 1:20 am
I think this has been discussed elsewhere on the Trivia Site
April 23rd, 2006 at 2:47 pm
Actually it has been answered above by AnyaRocks. Buffy was the slayer, she died, Kendra was called, Kendra died, Faith was called. Faith has never died. Simple.