Buffyverse | |
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Creator | Joss Whedon |
Original work | Buffy the Vampire Slayer |
Print publications | |
Comics |
Buffy: The Origin Season Eight Season Nine Season Ten Angel: After the Fall Spike Angel & Faith Others: Fray Tales of the Slayers Tales of the Vampires |
Films and television | |
Television series |
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Angel |
Audio | |
Soundtracks |
Buffy: The Album The Score Radio Sunnydale Once More, with Feeling Angel: Live Fast, Die Never |
Original music |
Buffy: Christophe Beck Thomas Wanker Robert Duncan Sean Murray Shawn Clement Walter Murphy Douglas Romayne Nerf Herder (Theme) Angel: Christophe Beck Robert J. Kral Darling Violetta (Theme) |
Miscellaneous | |
Other music |
Dingoes Ate My Baby Velvet Chain (The Buffy EP) |
List of all Buffyverse canon |
The Buffyverse or Slayerverse is the shared fictional universe in which the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel are set. This term, originally coined by fans of the TV series, has since been used in the titles of published works, and adopted by Joss Whedon, the creator of the fictional universe. The Buffyverse is a place in which supernatural phenomena exist, and supernatural evil can be challenged by people willing to fight against such forces.
The Buffyverse is a fictional construct created by hundreds of individual stories told through TV, novels, comics and other media. It began with the first episodes of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer television series in 1997 and expanded with the spinoff TV series Angel in 1999. The popularity of these series led to licensed fiction carrying the Buffy and Angel labels.
Outside of the TV series, the Buffyverse has been expanded and elaborated by various authors and artists in the so-called "Buffyverse Expanded Universe". The Buffyverse novels, Buffy video games and the vast majority of Buffyverse comics, are licensed by 20th Century Fox. The works sometimes flesh out background information on characters. For example, Go Ask Malice provides information about the origins of the character, Faith Lehane.
The Buffyverse comics were first published by Dark Horse who have retained the right to produce Buffy comics. IDW now hold the license to produce Angel comics. Joss Whedon wrote an eight-issue miniseries for Dark Horse Comics entitled Fray, about a futuristic vampire slayer. Its final issue was published in August 2003. Pocket Books holds the license to produce Buffy novels, but their license to produce Angel novels expired in 2004.