Living on a Hellmouth means that the Scooby Gang sees a lot of death in Buffy the Vampire Slayer , but one character's demise in particular was meant to be much more shocking for the audience than it was. With plenty of blood shed throughout its seven seasons, the iconic '90s teen series proves early on that nobody is safe, and Buffy herself even dies three times in the show.

Some of Buffy 's most tragic deaths are character love interests like Jenny Calendar and Tara Maclay, whose passings are as heartbreaking as they are surprising. Perhaps the biggest mortality plot twist is Joyce's death, who succumbed to natural causes as opposed to supernatural ones. Then there's Warren, who totally had it coming, though the violence of his murder still made me gasp. But while all these

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