Amy Madison
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Amy Madison is a fictional character on the American
In the show, Amy is a
Appearances
Television
Amy is a classmate of
The character appears as a Sunnydale student in other episodes. In the second season episode "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered", Xander Harris discovers that Amy inherited her mother's power. Xander blackmails Amy into helping him perform a love spell on Cordelia Chase, however, the spell goes awry and causes the entire female population of Sunnydale, except Cordelia, to become infatuated with Xander. Under the influence of her own spell, a jealous Amy invokes the goddess Hecate and temporarily turns Buffy into a rat. Eventually, Rupert Giles forces Amy to undo both spells.
In season three, the character has joined a coven with Willow (now a practicing witch) and warlock Michael Czajak. In the episode "Gingerbread", the parents of Sunnydale (under the influence of the demonic Hans and Greta) become paranoid about the supernatural's influence on their children, and prepare to burn Amy, Buffy, and Willow at the stake. To escape her bonds, Amy turns herself into a rat, but is then unable to remove her own spell. Willow captures Rat-Amy and keeps her in a cage. Willow makes several unsuccessful attempts to return Amy to human form over the next two seasons. In the season four episode "Something Blue", Willow accidentally turns Amy back into a human, but Willow does not notice, and accidentally changes the character back into a rat. Doug Petrie, a writer on the show, describes this series of events as "as cruel and funny as anything could be".[1]
By sixth season, Willow has become an extremely powerful witch and permanently "de-rats" Amy. The two become friends again, though Amy now seems to be drastically different. The character had been involved with the warlock
Amy's final appearance in the television series occurs in the season seven episode "The Killer in Me." Elizabeth Anne Allen said, "I think after all the things that she went through, there were a lot of reasons why she was so angry."[2]
Having physically transformed into Warren Mears, whom she tortured and flayed in a rage over the murder of her girlfriend Tara Maclay, Willow seeks help from the UC Sunnydale Wicca Group and discovers that Amy is a member. Amy explains that she had hit "rock bottom", and was doing better now. However, Amy is responsible for transforming Willow, apparently out of jealousy and spite. Allen says she would have liked to explore Amy's struggle to overcome her anger, so that she could "get a grip and come back to the fold with her friends."[2]
Literature
Amy makes minor appearances in several ambiguously canon novels set before the season 3 finale, most notable The Gatekeeper (novel series), where she helps defend Sunnydale from a horde of magical threats while Buffy and her friends are busy elsewhere.
In the first issue of the Season Eight comic book story "The Long Way Home," Amy works together with the US Army to locate and attack Buffy.
Later, in "
Amy also appears in the second volume of Angel & Faith, tying into
Powers and abilities
In the television series, Amy possesses formidable witchcraft abilities that she has inherited from her maternal lineage, and these powers undergo significant augmentation over the course of the series. Initially, Amy's magical prowess surpasses that of Willow, as demonstrated when she casts a rat-transformation spell that initially stumps Willow's attempts at reversal. However, in season seven, Amy concedes that Willow has eclipsed her in magical proficiency. In the comic book, Season Eight, she is significantly stronger.
Romantic interests
- Xander Harris - After a spell Amy casts which was supposed to make Cordelia love Xander goes wrong, she, along with every other woman in Sunnydale, falls in love with Xander ("Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered"). This attraction ends after Rupert Giles gets Amy to reverse the spell.
- graduation of her classoccurred three years before, when Larry died.
- Warren Mears - Amy's skinless boyfriend in Season Eight. It is revealed in "The Long Way Home" that the two had been in a relationship since "Villains"; after Warren was flayed alive by Willow, Amy saved his life. Amy refers to Warren as "sweetie", while he claims that "her magic is my skin."
Appearances
Amy has appeared in 32 canonical Buffyverse episodes and comics.
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Amy appeared as a guest in eight episodes:
- Season 1 (1997) - "Witch"
- Season 2 (1998) - "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered"
- Season 3 (1999) - "Gingerbread"
- Season 4 (1999) - "Something Blue"
- Season 6 (2001–02) - "Doublemeat Palace"
- Season 7 (2003) - "The Killer in Me"
- "Bad Blood, Part Three: A Boy Named Sue"
- "The Long Way Home, Parts 1-4"
- "Time of Your Life, Part 1 & 4"
- "Retreat, Part 2, 3 & 5"
- "Twilight, Part 1-4"
- "Last Gleaming, Part 1, 3 & 4"
- "Where the River Meets the Sea, Part 1 & 4"
- "Lost and Found, Part 1-5"
References
- ^ "Doug Petrie discusses Amy the Rat". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2011-03-20.
- ^ a b "Interview with Elizabeth Anne Allen". Retrieved 2007-07-17.