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.

In Get It Done, he Scoobies open a portal using items from an old Slayer bag. Buffy jumps into the portal and meets the Shadowmen who made the First Slayer and discovers how she was made: “First there was the earth, then came the demons, after demons came men, they …

Buffy became the Slayer in 1996, which turned her life around completely. She was expelled from Hemery High School for burning down the gym (which was full of vampires). Buffy and her mother moved to Sunnydale where she met her new Watcher, Rupert Giles, and her friends Willow and Xander …

In Chosen, Buffy, with the help of Willow, turns Slayer mythology on it’s head. They give the power of the Slayer to every potential in the world, rather than to one girl at a time. Female empowerment has been the predominant theme during the show (if you didn’t get that …

Beljoxa’s Eye informs Giles and Anya in Showtime that something has disrupted the line of the Chosen, giving the First a chance to wreak havoc. This explains why the First has been dormant for so long. The Slayer herself is the source of the disruption, and Anya realises that she …

Faith was chosen as a vampire slayer when Kendra died. She was tough, sexy and flirtatious and she and Buffy immediately found conflict with each other (Faith, Hope and Trick). Faith spent some time helping Buffy in her slaying work but felt overshadowed by the older slayer and became jealous …

In End of Days, Buffy tries to find out more about the shiny weapon she found in Touched. She discovers a tomb in Sunnydale where she runs into an old woman, who tells her she is the last guardian of Slayers and has been waiting and watching over the Slayer …

Faith told the Scoobies in Faith, Hope and Trick that slaying vampires makes Slayers “hungry and horny”. Prudish old Buffy simply replies after Faith’s comment, “Well… sometimes I crave a non-fat yogurt afterwards” though the evidence points otherwise: In The Zeppo, Faith has sex with Xander after escaping a …

Kendra was chosen as a vampire Slayer when Buffy died briefly in Prophecy Girl. The two Slayers had different styles - Kendra was considered a model Slayer as she had been training with her watcher Sam Zabuto since she was tiny. She and Giles hit it off straight away, much …

In The Puppet Show, Sid the Dummy reveals to Buffy that he previously worked with a Korean Slayer in the 1930s.

Angel met Giles for the first time in Out of Mind, Out of Sight (”A vampire in love with a Slayer. It’s rather poetic, in a maudlin sort of way.”) and revealed to the Watcher that he could get copies of the Tiberius Manifesto and the Pergamum Codex, which are …

In Fool For Love, Spike says to Drusilla, “You ever hear them saying the blood of a Slayer is a powerful aphrodisiac?”

The rule book for Slayers, which also suggest study material. Giles decided not to bother with one for Buffy as soon as he met her (which explains why he told Buffy he had no “rule book” for her in Never Kill a Boy on the First Date), as he realised …

The revelation in First Date that a Slayer had a child is a new one to Buffy, who believed that most Slayers died before they reached an age to have kids. We learn that children of Slayers don’t inherit any powers from their mother, but they do like a good …

The theme of ‘Slayer power’ is explored deeply in the episode Ted. Buffy feels that there is something wrong with Ted, but we’re never sure whether this is down to her Slayer intuition or whether she’s just jealous of Ted’s relationship with her mother. A similar theme is explored in …