Faith's New Buffy Role Could Finally Heal Her Dark Origin
Warning: Contains spoilers for The Vampire Slayer #2
The most dangerous woman in the Buffy: The Vampire Slayer franchise, Faith, has returned with a brand new role in the latest The Vampire Slayer comic book series by BOOM! Studios, set in an alternate universe. This new version of Faith has a very different role from the original, which could finally redeem the character's dark origin story.
Fans of Buffy have recently been introduced to the Slayerverse, the franchise's own Multiverse, which allows creators to expand the story of the original TV show by giving new outlooks to familiar characters. BOOM! Studios' latest series, The Vampire Slayer, shows a very different universe in which Buffy's friends, to relieve her from the stress and emotional trauma of being a Slayer, cast a spell that goes really, really wrong. Buffy has lost her memories of being a Slayer, which the spell then imbued into Willow, who now has to take on the job of monster hunter without being really prepared for it.
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In The Vampire Slayer #2 by Sarah Gailey, Sonia Liao, and Valentina Pinto, Willow meets Faith, a new Slayer who was «activated» when Buffy lost her status. Willow is struggling with the weight of Buffy's memories and is unable to cope with the duties of a Slayer. Faith, on the other hand, has been training for years, and she has a much better understanding of what being a Slayer means. What makes this version of Faith completely different from the original, however, is that she decides to help Willow, acting as a mentor and guiding her through her battles, taking over for the Watcher, Giles, who is too busy trying to reverse the effects of the spell.
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