Buffyverse

Definitions

The fictional world, or universe, which serves as the setting for the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

slang

Examples

“Buffy the Vampire Slayer (BtVS) is a televisual artifact that contains apocalyptic rhetoric in most episodes—apocalyptic in the sense⟳ that something is about to end⟳ in the Buffyverse, and rhetorical in the sense⟳ that something is going to change⟳ in the Buffyverse.”

“2009, Kevin K. Durand, It's All about Power, in Kevin K. Durand (editor), Buffy Meets the Academy: Essays on the Episodes and Scripts as Text, Part I: Power and the Buffy Canon, page 46, In the Buffyverse, we encounter a true representation of shared power, of partnered power. Further, the “bad guys” are not the only paradigms of patriarchy in the Buffyverse that are overcome⟳.”

“We can hardly be surprised when Buffy and Satsu find⟳ what warmth they can, as Willow does with her demon lover, in an intercut sex scene of the kind which typically precedes an apocalypse in the Buffyverse (#15, p. 26). Scenes like⟳ this confirm⟳ Em McAvan's point⟳ that the Buffyverse associates bisexuality with kink (paragraph 15).”

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