Joyce Summers

Buffy Summers faced a lot of death during her tenure as Sunnydale's supernatural slayer, but nothing could have prepared her for the very human loss of her mother, Joyce.

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Underscoring one of Buffy The Vampire Slayer's most important tenets (that for all her power and strength and responsibility, Buffy is, to quote Glory, "just a girl"), The Slayer realized how powerless she can be at times as The Summers girls and The Scooby Gang struggled to come to terms with this senseless act of ... life. Watch!

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