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Cult classic series Buffy the Vampire Slayer changed the nature of media discourse, ushering in a new era of pop culture analysis. The show also had a lasting impact on the depiction of women in television and film at a time when female action stars remained a rarity. The series spawned multiple supernatural dramas replicating the "Scooby Gang" character dynamic.

Buffy 's cultural impact is impossible to replicate, though rumors of a reboot suggest that 20th Century Fox may attempt to do just that. Here are ten of the best. After getting her ass kicked repeatedly by Big Bad hell goddess Glory, a desperate Buffy turns to the Watcher's Council, an organization that's overseen slayer activities for hundreds of years, for advice.

The Council, who behaved in similarly poor form in Season 3, make Buffy jump through a series of hoops before she finally snaps. In this deeply satisfying speech, she lets them know that she holds all the cards. At the beginning of Season 3, the two are "just friends," but a speech from lovelorn vampire Spike shatters this illusion.

Many of Buffy's classmates and random townspeople killed by vampires and demons were sort of treated as “So-and-so died?

The final season of Buffy is not the most popular among fans, who found the addition of multiple new characters — the "potential slayers" — unwelcome and often irritating. Nevertheless, Season 7 does have some memorable moments, and a rousing speech from Buffy, bruised and battered and facing the ultimate foe — the source of all evil — is among them.

In this season, an army of potential slayers forms at the Summers' house. For much of the episode, Buffy's little sister suspects that she, too, is a potential slayer, only to discover that a schoolmate is the actual potential. Dawn accepts this blow with a maturity that the character lacked in earlier seasons, something that only the perceptive Xander notices — and praises her for.

As the series progresses, his contributions to fighting the forces of darkness begin to pale compared to his supernaturally endowed friends, who are all slayers, werewolves, watchers, witches and vampires, something that is comically addressed in the Season 3 episode "The Zeppo. So it is refreshing that "Grave" sees Xander single-handedly saving the world where the others have failed, using no more than some heartfelt words to his old friend Willow, who is hellbent on inciting an apocalypse after Tara's death.