In The Wish’s alternate reality Giles states that, “In order to defeat Anyanka, one must destroy her power centre. This should reverse all the wishes she’s granted, rendering her mortal and powerless again.” However, that turns out not to be the case. While, indeed, Cordelia’s wish is revoked and Sunnydale returns to its former condition, we later learn of at least one of Anyanka’s prior wishes that was not revoked, i.e., the demon who appears on Anya and Xander’s wedding day and shows Xander the bogus vision of his life with Anya. Presumably, if Giles was correct, that vengenge spell/wish she used to turn that philanderer into a demon would have been revoked, and the demon would have returned to a human and never have arrived to disrupt their wedding.
March 27th, 2006 at 4:22 am
It could be said that Anya changed him into a demon before she was a vengence demon. We do know that Anya was making mischief before her demon days and that’s the reason D’Hoffryn offered her the job.
March 27th, 2006 at 5:26 am
Yeah, but D’Hoffryn demonises her in dark ages Viking land, and the wedding crasher demon rants about Chicago in the 1940s (I think), so guess she cursed him on the job and not in her amateur spell-casting days. Slightlyem made a good point here. I noticed though that Anya doesn’t seem to get an amulet on her brief second chance at Vengeance Demonhood.
April 8th, 2006 at 12:21 am
Also, wouldn’t reversing a thousand years worth of vengeance wreak more havoc world-wide than just removing Buffy from Sunnydale? Thousands or tens of thousands of men would suddenly have lived decades longer. Buttefly effect, anyone?
July 9th, 2006 at 6:12 am
Would have been *nice* if they’d kept continuity here and found another device to break up the wedding. Could have been the same demon with the same intent but make up a different reason for him to want to get back at Anyanka than a spell that she’d cast. Hell, make the wronged party more recent, something in the past few years. This was just sloppy. The writers should know and respect the continuity.
July 10th, 2006 at 8:36 am
But it was never that all of her wishes were unrevoked, I didn’t think, but rather just the wish for Cordellia. I could be wrong, but I always just assumed that anyway.