"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" Season Eight- Part 1 Quiz

Answer: Anya was haunting Xander.

Joss Whedon wrote the script for "The Long Way Home".
While I would completely expect to find this out at some point, Anya was not haunting anyone in the first issue. Dawn had been warned that her boyfriend Kenny was a thrice wise by several people (Buffy, Xander and Giles). Buffy believed it was Dawn sleeping with Kenny that caused her to become a giant. Dawn wouldn't confirm or deny that theory, and was miserable with her new condition. She was supposed to be off at Berkeley getting a first rate education.

The definition of what a thrice wise is was not given in this issue, first released in March 2007 by Darkhorse Comics. Buffy also revealed that there were two decoys of herself out there, one of which gave Angel and Spike an entertaining goose chase around Rome when they believed Buffy to be involved with The Immortal. That was in the finale season of "Angel", in the episode "The Girl in Question". Apparently this was all Andrew's idea, and Buffy did not know why it was as humorous as he'd made it out to be. Their frustration, and recalling of Darla and Dru's entanglement with The Immortal, was highly entertaining.

So, I say "kudos" to Andrew! At the end of the first issue, it showed the government had rescued crazy (and formerly rat) Amy from the crater that was once Sunnydale. The men alluded to her nasty new boyfriend (maybe an ubervamp) and possible cannibalism used for survival.

Answer: Xander

She dreamt that she was seducing Xander, not for the first time, when his head literally came off of his body! Then she was jerked out of her castle and into the claws of a dragon. After he breathed fire down upon her, the scene switched to Amy Madison standing over Buffy in the real world, ready to plunge a dagger into her heart!

The real Xander came in at that moment with some slayers, and told Amy that Buffy's sleep was always magically protected. Amy was locked inside the room magically, but she had a horde of undead coming up the wall. Nothing seemed to kill the monsters, and the slayers were becoming desperate, when Willow showed up to help save the day! Part two was also written by Joss Whedon.

Answer: Warren Mears

Buffy received her kiss from someone who held a passionate love for her and awoke from her mystical coma. We did not know who kissed her before the comic ended, as Willow told everyone they could close their eyes so the person wouldn't feel conspicuous. Willow then reported that she'd been gone so long (from the gang) because Kennedy had died for a month and then the time afterward had been awkward between them. She held Amy in a binding spell in the castle basement for awhile, which allowed Willow to run mystical traces on her.

Finally, Willow was able to see that Amy had been with the military and speculated about the Initiative being back in action. Then, Willow was suddenly sucked into a portal and transported back with Amy. And, while they'd been after Buffy all along, Warren was only too happy to have a chance at revenge for Willow skinning him at the end of "Buffy" season six. Part three was written by Joss Whedon.

Answer: a faerie

The faerie claimed to have laid her eggs inside Buffy's ear canal, and didn't want to lose Buffy before they hatched. The story started off with Yamanh showing his followers that he'd killed the slayer. This issue made clear the connection that all of the slayers had with one another, and for all intents and purposes 'Buffy' was really a decoy.

It wasn't stated clearly that this was one of the decoys who died at Yamanh's hands, but the dialogue didn't feel like the real Buffy, the girl died, and she called herself 'weak and expendable'. Joss Whedon wrote this script as well. It has been mentioned several times in the "Buffyverse" that leprechauns are not real.

Answer: Robin Wood

Apparently, Faith had been dispatched to the other Hellmouth underneath Cleveland, after Sunnydale went crater-side. Wood called her there and explained about a single mom who'd been vamped. Since he decided to drop the shop talk and get a bit personal, Faith hung up on him and traveled to the location. What she did not have time to find out was that the children had all been vamped as well! She made short work of the baby vampires and headed home.

When she got home, she found Giles waiting to send on her on a mission made for her special talents. He needed her to kill a rogue slayer in England. Her name was Genevieve Savidge and Faith would have to learn some social skills to infiltrate her world. The comic ended with Faith decked out in a gorgeous green ball gown. Each segment of "No Future For You" was scripted by Brian K. Vaughan.

Answer: Roden

Roden's mission was to end Buffy and take over the slayers. He found Gigi (Genevieve's nickname) to be the most likely slayer candidate to take out Buffy. After meeting her, Faith seemed to relate to Gigi a little bit and the two sort of hit it off. But, in the end, Faith does have to kill Gigi to save Buffy. Of course, she doesn't do this before Buffy thinks she's gone evil again.

Hamilton and Drogan were characters that originally appeared on the TV series "Angel".

Answer: True

Giles coached Faith in all practical manners. Faith even had to fake an accent. She went under the alias Hope Lyonne, and Hope was the daughter of a Viscount. After Faith was captured by Gigi and Roden, Giles and his pal Trafalgar tried to break through the protective barrier around Gigi's castle.

They were not successful. Faith and Gigi took a bath together, shared a smoke together, and briefly discussed similar musical tastes before Faith killed her.

Answer: He inserted a containment spell inside Roden.

The first part of season eight has dealt heavily with a military presence wanting to stop the slayers. But, there has been no proof that it has any tie with season four's military operation known as the Initiative. Faith was losing the battle with Roden, a highly skilled witch (or as he said, warlock). Giles saved her by sending a nice containment spell inside Roden's body, which ended up tearing him apart from the inside out.

Afterward, he escorted Faith home, they commiserated over their mutual killing of humans, and then decided to become teammates. At this point Buffy was feeling betrayed that Giles had gone to Faith behind her back. In season five, Giles suffocated a badly injured Ben. Since Ben housed Glory inside his body, it was the only way Giles could be sure Glory was gone for good. Sadly, Roden was NOT exchanged to Osiris for Tara, who had predicted that Giles would kill Ben before it happened.

Answer: Yes

Buffy wasn't in love with the idea of flying aboard the Willow Express, so to speak. She fantasized that she was lying on a beach and Daniel appeared to give her some sun block. Willow interrupted the sequence, telling Buffy that the hot guy on the beach with lotion was more or less old hat. Willow couldn't teleport them to the location they needed to, as she was unsure of its exact location.

She had to fly overhead until she felt she was in the correct spot.

Answer: Nick

Dawn told Xander that her boyfriend Kenny had been a great guy, and that he never tried to push her into anything. Then one day she met Nick, Kenny's roommate. Nick was in band, had dirty hair and smoked cigarettes. Dawn called herself a skank, and that now she was "acres of skank" due to her size. Apparently, after Kenny discovered the act he performed some kind of mojo on Dawn that caused her to become huge.

At the end of number ten, "Anywhere But Here", Buffy killed the demon Sephryllian after Willow confessed her secret. She told Buffy she'd been keeping Kennedy away from her so that she would never again chose Buffy over the woman she loved. She felt that bringing Buffy back to life in season six had caused Tara's death. It was true that Buffy' resurrection set off a chain of events that led to the death of Tara Maclay, played by actress Amber Benson.