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A series of Buffy Season 6 UPN promos were aired by UPN to promote Buffy the Vampire Slayer in 2001. These clips hold interest for fans because unlike most other promos these featured the actors playing in character without resorting to using footage from the material being promoted. Thus the promos make up part of the fictional universe known as the Buffyverse.

Content and analysis

::The promos are available for download below

The promos consist of individual members of the Scooby Gang, briefly talking about coping with life without Buffy (who had passed away in the episode "The Gift". Anya, Dawn, Spike, and Xander each have two promos, whilst Willow has one.

Anya (1) - "If she was here right now, I know she'd tell us how proud she is of us. She'd say 'Yay, You guys. Fighting evil without me' That's what she'd say. You know... if her vocal cords aren't all decomposed and stuff."

Anya (2) - "Death is stupid. You plummet off a tower, and that's it. It's shocking and I don't like it."

:::Anya had already recently experienced death in "The Body" where for the first time, she emotionally came to an understanding of what mortality meant. Here Anya has moved on from grief.

Dawn (1) - "My sister died saving the world... saving me. Who's gonna save us now?"

:::Dawn is referencing events that happened in "The Gift", Buffy jumped from the pillar to save Dawn.

Dawn (2) - "All my life, one person has kept me safe in Sunnydale. But she's gone. Now it's up to me to stay alive".

:::Dawn seems to place value on her own life likely due to the events of "The Gift", where Dawn's life was saved at the cost to Buffy's life.

Spike (1) - "Knew this girl once, not like me at all. They say the good die young, they weren't lying. "

:::This simple statement contains considerable foreshadowing. Spike implies that because he has lived a long time, he is not 'good'. He says that Buffy is not like him, suggesting he believes she is human, and fundamentally good. However when Buffy returns, she is not quite human, Spike later discovers he can hurt her despite his implant which prevents him causing injury to humans. Furthermore Spike finds a darkness in her that is not unlike his own, and the two embark on a sexually violent relationship.

Spike (2) - "It hurts when I think about her, but soon I'm not going to be the only one, 'cause without her, all hell is going to break loose."

Willow - "Even in high school she warned me, she told me she'd die young. I never believed her, until now."

Xander (1) - "The Slayer is dead. Everybody else... We're next."

:::Xander looks into the future fot the Scoobies. He later tells Dawn in "Potential", that because he has no powers of his own, he is the one that "sees everything". Ironically Caleb takes an eye from him in "Dirty Girls",

Xander (2) - "We live on a Hellmouth and we're down one slayer. If my calculations are correct, we're in big-ass trouble."

Production details

Buffy the Vampire Slayer aired for Seasons 1-5 on the WB network. After five seasons WB opted not to continue airing the show. The final episode of Season 5, The Gift featured Buffy Summers dying. However the show was transferring to the United Paramount Network (UPN) for its final two seasons. UPN produced promotional clips of individual members of the Scooby Gang commenting on recent fictional events in character. The promotional clips aired until the airing of the sixth season opener on October 2, 2001.

Continuity

Canonical issues

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The canonicity of the clip is debatable, partly because Whedon's degree of involvement in the making of the promotional clips is unknown. The clips do not contradict anything established by canon. However the characters are eithor talking to an unseen character off-screen else they are breaking the Fourth wall.

Timing

These all take place shortly before the episode Bargaining I
Buffyverse stories taking place around these times:

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