Amy Madison
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Amy Madison is a fictional character in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, played by Elizabeth Anne Allen.
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[edit] Character history
[edit] Sunnydale High
Amy is a classmate of Buffy Summers' at Sunnydale High School. She first appears in the episode "Witch", when she and Buffy both try out for cheerleader. Amy performs poorly in the tryouts, but a series of strange injuries to other contestants move her up in the standings. Buffy suspects that Amy is a Witch who is using her powers to harm the other girls so that she can be a cheerleader. It is revealed that Amy's mother Catherine, a very powerful witch, has switched bodies with Amy because she wants to relive her youth. Buffy and the Scooby Gang succeed in restoring Amy to her own body and (unknown to them) trapping her mother in an old cheerleading trophy.
Amy continues to attend Sunnydale High and appears in several more episodes. She has inherited her mother's powers and become a potent, if sometimes ineffective, witch. This is demonstrated in the episode "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered", when she performs a spell for Xander to help him win the love of Cordelia. However, the spell goes awry and causes the entire female population of Sunnydale, sans Cordelia, to desire Xander. Caught in her own spell, a jealous Amy temporarily turns Buffy into a rat.
In the Season Three episode "Gingerbread", the townspeople (under an evil influence) prepare to burn Amy, Buffy, and Willow at the stake. To escape her bonds, Amy turns herself into a rat, but then, being a rat, she is unable to remove her own spell. Willow captures Rat-Amy and keeps her in a cage until she can be restored. Willow makes several unsuccessful attempts to "de-rat" Amy over the next two seasons. On one occasion, Willow accidentally succeeds in returning Amy to human form for a few seconds, in the Season Four episode "Something Blue", but does not realize it and so turns her back into a rat immediately.
[edit] Season six onward
By Season Six, Willow has become an extremely powerful Witch and permanently "de-rats" Amy by simply conjuring up an incantation. The two become friends again, though Amy now seems to be somewhat different than she was before, possibly from her long experience of being a rat. She had apparently been involved with the warlock Rack before being transformed, and gets Willow involved as well; this leads Willow into a magical addiction of sorts. Later, when Willow decides to give up magic, Amy casts a spell on her, causing an effect that Willow magically manipulates things she touches for a while; Willow complains to Amy that this makes her attempts to give up magic even harder, and cuts Amy out of her life.
Amy returns for a final time in the Season Seven episode "The Killer in Me", when she casts a spell on Willow which causes her to assume the form of Warren Mears, whom Willow tortured and killed in a rage over the murder of her girlfriend, Tara Maclay. Initially oblivious to Amy's involvement, Willow first approaches Amy with the intention of asking her old friend for help. However, Amy deliberately misleads an oblivious Willow and maintains she can do nothing to resolve the situation.
When Willow and Kennedy first stumble upon Amy, it appears as though Amy is attempting to rid herself of the magic addiction she was clearly suffering from during Season Six. Along with a group of fellow magic users, Amy is apparently undergoing a rehabilitation not all too dissimilar from that Willow went through under the tutelage of Rupert Giles and a coven in the first two episodes of the same season. Here, Amy openly admits her bitterness and envy towards Willow, complaining that Willow was so gifted with power when she initially only got into magic as a hobby, while Amy, a naturally born witch, had to struggle twice as hard as Willow to achieve half as much as she did. Amy was still harboring resentment toward Willow for not changing her back into a human earlier, having already expressed some bad blood toward her old friend in Season Six after complaining about the three years of life she missed out on.
[edit] Post-Sunnydale
In Season Eight, the canonical comic book continuation of the series, Amy is discovered by the United States Army during an expedition to be living sixty feet under the Hellmouth after its collapse with her "boyfriend," an unrevealed creature whom General Voll meets with disgust. Her first words to an exploratory member were, "I'm gonna help you kill her." In exchange for their cooperation, Amy requests unlimited access to all the government's magical hardware as well as a weapons lab for her "boyfriend"; and if they succeed in taking Buffy down, Amy wants full immunity and release for the both of them.
Previews of and press releases for further issues of the comic book reveal that Amy seems to develop an ability in raising zombies, and that she'll have a witch battle royale with Willow.
[edit] Trivia
- Elizabeth Anne Allen appears in every season of Buffy at least once, with the exception of Season Five.
- Although initially starting off as a seemingly good-natured individual, Amy gradually grows to misuse magic, eventually ending up exceeding her mother, who had grossly misused magic in the episode "Witch" for selfish purposes.
[edit] Appearances
Amy has appeared in:
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer : Amy appeared as a guest in 8 episodes:
- Season 1 (1997) - "Witch"
- Season 2 (1997, 1998) - "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered"
- Season 3 (1998, 1999) - "Gingerbread"
- Season 4 (1999, 2000) - "Something Blue"
- Season 6 (2001, 2002) - "Smashed"; "Wrecked"; "Doublemeat Palace"
- Season 7 (2002, 2003) - "The Killer in Me"
