Buffy's New Era Makes the Show's Darkest Fan Theory Even More Horrifying
As BOOM! Studios continues to expand upon the lore of Buffy, the Vampire Slayer with the introduction of the Slayerverse, it also manages to expand on the show's darkest, most popular fan theories. When BOOM! Studios first decided to reboot Buffy for the comics, the rebooted series simply seemed to serve the purpose of modernizing the classic television show. However, in more recent memory, BOOM! has managed to find a way to add something substantial to the legacy of the franchise rather than just update it. Specifically, BOOM! has done so by means of its Slayerverse.
The Slayerverse is the equivalent of a multiverse, giving BOOM! more leeway to tell fresh, original stories within the franchise without disrupting the official Buffy continuity by focusing on alternate realities. For instance, Buffy can pass the mantle of Slayer to Willow in The Vampire Slayer or she, as an old woman, can take on a post-apocalyptic world overrun with vampires in Buffy, The Last Vampire Slayer. BOOM! Studios don't have to constrain themselves to the rules of a specific canon when they focus on different dimensions.
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A term coined by Buffy herself in Buffy the Vampire Slayer #34 by Jeremy Lambet and Marianna Ignazzi, the Slayerverse allows the opportunity to re-contextualize the original show, thus solidifying longstanding fan theories like the one which originates in Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Season 6 episode «Normal Again.» In the episode, Buffy encounters a demon that forces her to hallucinate a world where all of her adventures as a Slayer were figments of her own imagination. In «real life,» both of her parents are still alive and she herself is in a psychiatric
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