The Buffyverse or Slayerverse is a media franchise centered on the supernatural drama television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, created by Joss Whedon.

The Buffyverse is a fictional construct created by hundreds of individual stories told through TV, novels, comics and other media.

Joss Whedon wrote an eight-issue miniseries for Dark Horse Comics entitled Fray, about a futuristic vampire slayer.

[citation needed] The Buffyverse is distinguishable from the real world in that it contains and engages with supernatural elements, although only a small proportion of the human population is aware of these phenomena in canon.

Any who remained were then vanquished or imprisoned in the "Deeper Well", which manifests as a hole through the earth, with one opening hidden within a tree in England.

Killing Methods Vulnerabilities Features As within historical werewolf mythology, werewolves are people who suffer from lycanthropy.

In the Buffyverse, the term "demon" is inexact; it has been applied to just about every creature that is not a god, robot, unmodified human, or standard terrestrial animal.

Many demons in Buffy are shown to be inherently evil and solely interested in causing suffering, death, and harm.

The line of Slayers is maintained over the years until Buffy's two deaths and revivals cause a disturbance that ultimately leads to the awakening of the First Evil.

The Slayer is given great strength, lightning reflexes, fast healing powers and is naturally highly skilled with many weapons and martial arts.

For example, a group of socially disadvantaged youth in L.A. organized to battle the vampires destroying their community (See Charles Gunn).

And, although some of their methods and goals proved questionable, a government-funded group known as The Initiative was also long aware of the existence of demons and was revealed to be fighting a secret war against them.

Others, like Marcie Ross from the episode "Out of Mind, Out of Sight" or the trio of Nerds, gain their powers by other magical, non-magical, or "scientific" means.

The multiverse is set within a wider cosmology of "hell dimensions" inhabited mainly or primarily by demons, whose existence drives the plot of Buffy season five, some of which are also visited in episodes of Angel.