The spin-off should have been the Tales of the Slayer. Could jumped around different time periods, from the start of humanity, up to modern times, vastly different slayers, in different social political period: a slayer in the Second World War, during the French Revolution, a West African tribe during the 16th Century, a Black teenager in the Jim Crowe South. So much potential for fascinating stories.

The Spike and Faith spin-offs sounded awesome!!

I wish we had more shows like Buffy nowadays.

I would have liked to see The Giles/Ripper spin off show

GOD if there had been a Spike movie to come out when I was a teenager, I think I would have exploded

"Ripper" would have been massively popular in England! writes an English fan!

Personally I would've liked to have seen more prequel action from Angel and Spike. I love all the flashbacks from their evil days. More origin stuff. I loved the twist about Spike killing the slayer mother of Robin Wood.

Buffy the Animated Show would had me hooked. I remember something that I read in the Buffy fan club Magazine that most of the animated episodes in this series would have had elements that were pitched in season one and in season two that couldn't been done at the time due to budgetary restraints. It would have been cool to see a monster formed out of hellish cafeteria food be the big bad for one episode or Angel fight a giant Black Dragon.

Tru calling was my shizz but I would’ve loved a faith spin off. I think I related so much to that character. Eliza really brought a lot to that role and all her follow ups, Dollhouse was really good as well.

Absolutely loved Buffy and Angel. I wish we had gotten another spin off series to keep it all going 😢

Ripper always kind of reminded me of John Constantine. I do remember talk about a Ripper project.

Angel season 6. That one still hurts.

And the irony of this is that all this was thanks to the movie starring Christy Swanson and Luke Perry 😂

Faith is my favorite Buffyverse character so I would have been absolutely down for a Faith spin-off. Also a Spike and Illyria show would have been amazing!

I would've been down for a Giles spin off, the whole aunts who don't age thing sounds pretty cool

The only one I would have watched personally would have been a Faith series.

The Faith TV series would have been cool. I always liked Faith.

6:00 He was also busy with Bones, if I recall it right.

The whole thing with Dawn in the animated series was it was supposed to show us the memories that were implanted into Buffy that we didn't get to see because well she didn't exist until season 5.

History was re-written to include Dawn, she was there in everyone's memory, that's how.

If the cartoon was never aired, why do I remember watching a buffy cartoon when I was younger?

Used to have the BIGGEST crush on that cutie Eliza Dushku ❤ such a beautiful woman

They should try and do another take on a Buffy animated series with Sarah Michelle Gellar back!

Damn, I still want a spin-off show with Spike. He's probably my favorite character of all time.

I think dawn being in the animated series could be how the gang remembered the events after she was made and their memories altered ... or time travel

I wouldn't have minded seeing a Charmed-ish Willow spin-off series. The Giles spin-off sounds pretty cool too. I should probably check out the comics someday. I'm mostly disappointed the animated series never got greenlit. They could've played it back-to-back with the Sabrina animated series.

Ripper sounds like the best idea. Tough to do anything with Spike or Angel with the actors aging. The cartoon probably would have been more for kids so continuity doesn't matter. Supposedly, even if Dawn wasn't there for real, everyone's memories would have her there.

I know how Dawn would've worked. When she was created everyone's memories were changed to make it seem like she was always around so the animated shows would've been their memories of the events, rather than the events themselves. Also, it's possible that maybe these memories were messed with which is why the live-action series never mentioned them.

I think Giles was a wasted idea. He had such an interesting background and I think the show could’ve done well if it had been done right, which, sounds like they couldn’t find the right way to do it right. Dollhouse is only 2 seasons but it’s totally worth watching. And it ends well.

The spike spin off sounds too much like Angel's backstory.

The ultimate spin-off was written into the show's theme..."In every generation, a slayer is born." Just do a show where every episode or season is dedicated to a different slayer from a different time period. Use the watchers as a framing device, since they recorded the exploits of all the slayers throughout history. You could even do future slayers, since Buffy didn't destroy all evil, just the hellmouth in Sunnydale. You could also do a contest and have the fans vote on which slayer stands out as the best, and give her her own series. Netflix would be a great platform for this and would allow them to get away with way more than they could on a network show. The Buffyverse has so much potential for characters and ideas, seems a shame to focus on just one character. What do you guys think?

“But I digress. I digress...” that moment totally got me! 🤣 I would have the same reaction. I’m all about that continuity!

I totally wanted to see the Faith the SErie show but I get why it didn't happen. That whole potentials thing always got me becasue i was just talking to someone the other day. They said that anyone who would be a slayer was a slayer so did that mean there was a 2 month old baby somewhere beating the shit outta there mother or even worst being born into this worth already a superhero. As for my man David Boreanaz, do you realize that he hasn't been off tv since buffy ended. he went to his own series Angel, then he became Seeley Booth, and now that man is on Navy Seals. What ever he touches turns to gold

Oh my god, I never knew - thanks for covering this! I‘d have LOVED to see the animated series and Angel movie as well as more of Faith, Giles and Spike 😍

I absolutely adore Buffy. Angel was also a classic

The Dawn being in the Animated Show despite not being created in the live show till years later was reused for the Buffy comics. Buffy comics towards the end of that run had the premise that Dawn was remembering the fake memories the monk gave her.

I read the After the Fall comics as they were published as well as some of the one shots that came out at the time. They were really good from what I remember. Any chance of an in depth look at that series at some point?

I'd pick the Giles spinoff.

Eliza did start a series with Joss called Dollhouse. She walked away from that as well for Tru Calling.

Boom studios have a Willow spin-off. It’s pretty decent. Giving her a show would’ve been a good idea.

Yo can you never mention Kennedy again? I wanna go back to pretending she never existed

Finally someone who loves angel as much as I do.... if you haven't checked out tpn buffy and angel guided... then what are u even doing with your life

spike is a HUGE comfort character to me so i would’ve loved to see a spike movie sm grrrrrrr

This spin off about faith I definitely would have watched it could of been up there with the angel spin off! You make her an angel meet backup and do cross overs etc so many good ideas

That's not the actress Gisele Loren in that picture, that's Giselle Loren Lazzarato aka Gigi Gorgeous, a fabulous trans youtube star :-)

Dude you are awesome. I've never subscribed so fast in my life.

Faith spin off was a Tim Minear pitch to Joss. Faith traveling around the country on a motorcycle etc Eliza said she said no because Joss didn't want to run it day to day (I guess the idea was similar to Angel: with Tim running it on a day to day basis and Joss as the big boss without doing it 24/7 like his Buffy days)

"Ripper" Probably would have made a great prequel series, like 20 years prior to Buffy the Vampire Slayer with Giles in his teenage years.

The slayers have amazing storylines in the comic series.

Love Felicia Day. Wish there would have been a spin off with her and the other be potentials

Anything Spike related I would've been behind 100%, even the idea of him showing up in a later season of Firefly would've been fantastic.

Every play the first Buffy game on Xbox? Surprisingly good.

They should be a prequel series of Ripper, an anthology series which focuses on a different slayer from the past each season, a Willow The Witch Show AND a show dealing with with 5 international slayers that have to come together to look for a now missing Buffy

Spike spinoff with witchy Willow? I'd have loved that the most!

I would love to see a remake, but Sarah is against it. Or a continuation. She could come back as a watcher and still slayer and train the other slayer that is floating about.

I would have been all-in on Buffy: The Animated Series.......as a matter of fact, if any of those projects had been done with animation, they would have been just as cool, or even cooler, than the comics. And....... the comic versions could still have been created right along side of them. Plus, with animation, you have so much more potential to use concepts that just wouldn't work in live action. I don't know, I just love cartoons!! "Scooby Dooby Doo!" Thanks for the vid, there were a few things on this list that I hadn't heard of, but had read in the comics, and now I understand why they were in there. Peace & Love, Y'all !!!!

ITS TIME FOR A BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER ANIMATED SERIES OR MOVIE! #ANIMATED

I still love the idea of a Buffy animated universe, it could explore alot of ideas

For the Dawn thing in that animated series when she was created the idea was the monks had melded her into the timeline so that it was completely believable to Buffy and friends that she was Buffy’s sister. This means she was always in Buffy up to her introduction point. I believe they actually have a comic story where a flash back shows Dawn as a little kid. So having her in in the animated series would just be keeping with the altered cannon that Joss made.

Angel is my favorite too. You have good taste!.

"It's one of my all time favourite shows" Oh dope, Vee's got my taste. "Which ended up spinning off into one of my favourite shows, Angel" THIS GLORIOUS LAD LIKES ANGEL? Literally my favourite show! Dang I'm glad I found you

I would’ve watched the hell out of that Spike/Willow/Illyria movie

I would have watched a Faith series. I bet they could have gotten at least 3-4 seasons. Harmony could even show up in an episode or 2. We never actually seen Faith and Harmony interact

Man i miss Buffy it was great, and was fun to watch after school. Got me back in horror a bit, and rewatch my old Universal Monster collection but out of these i’d be down on the animated series as i was on my Cartoon resurgence at that point in Mid to Late Jr.High early High School.

I would have loved a Giles’ origin story. I understand why they couldn’t do a live action because honestly, who could ever measure up to Anthony Head and play a younger Giles? but it’s weird to me how they never (as far as I know) considered the idea at least for a comic or something. I think it would have even more potential than a Willow spin-off. I remember the Giles craze at the time, at least in the teen and pre-teen female population of my corner of the world 😂

I loooved Tru Calling, and I remember being in school and going on the computer circa 2004/5 and reading on the official website that a Giles/Ripper spin off was coming. or it could have been a a Spike one. I was so excited

Hey, Vee, I have a video suggestion. You should do a video on the bizarre series production of and absolutely insane final season of Fox's "Til Death".

Yo, how awesome was that last episode of Angel? Best series finale I've ever seen.

Dollhouse is really good!!

Buffy & Angel are two of the best written shows I ever watched

You should check out Dollhouse - the first season is rough, and I don't think Elizas character ever quite gelled, but it does get good

I’m trying to design a Buffyverse mobile game. I miss the series so much, this is what it has come to. I’m going to learn unity or find friends that can design games. Do something like Marvel Strike Force or Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes, where you collect shards of characters to level up and battle other teams, etc. then I’m gonna email Joss or Disney/Fox, whoever has the rights, these days, the Alpha version and beg him for the rights to do it. Hopefully, someone one who loves Buffy and designing video games reads this lol. I’ll find you one day, Firefly 😙🤌🏻

I love how After the Fall actually shows exactly what happened after the huge cliffhanger in the series finally. Still weird that they decided to end it like that. The Buffy comics follow up are great too and bat shit crazy. I’m planning to re-read them again as I haven’t caught up with the last few seasons yet. I hope they did a decent job wrapping up the series.

I really wish we had gotten that cartoon

The best reboot they could do now is a animated series i think, Maybe a slayer academy, focusing on 4 slayers staying there. there was a fan fictiion script series written a long time ago like that which was really good.

I can give Eliza Dushku major props for doing Tru Calling instead. I did watch that when it came out and it showcased her acting abilities as a different type of character. She was smart not to sign on as the Faith series.

I just wish Angel, the original series, had continued on forever and ever. When I'd heard rumors of the show possibly rebooting, I kind of wanted to cry, because Andy Hallett can never return, and without Lorne, it could never be the same.

Are you kidding? I love Willow but Faith is totally my favorite slayer character. I would have loved to see her get her own show!

I think the Buffy animated series was going to be like the 90’s Sabrina series; based off of the series but more aimed for younger audiences and with no continuity, every episode Is it’s own story. It’s a shame that didn’t get made the art style was so nice.

Great video man, a treat for us, the Buffy fans

Yo vee is your video about the undertaker's streak gonna be reuploaded? I wasn't able to finish it unfortunately

Seems like comics ended up being the obvious choice of media for Buffy, it was definitely a good fit for the series.

Looking back on Buffy season 7 I like it even more now. I always thought it succeeded thematically in being the perfect end, but compared to every final season of shows that have come and gone, it’s even masterpiece-ier. So many shows falter in their final season, even on a thematic level. Buffy ended with her sticking it to the establishment like she always has, but on such bigger level. She rejected the shadowmen that created the slayer and shared her power with every potential. She and the show stayed true to what Buffy was always about and did it without stepping out of bounds. She changed the game and inspired an army. It was perfectly conceived and only just missed being perfectly executed by the smallest of margins. It did all that with 22 episodes a season, before tv grew up and figured itself out, and there is only one or two shows that have a finale as good as Buffy.

I was really appreciative of the comics because I feel they went into the world more than any show or movie could have afforded to do. I'm really glad they steered away from that animated show staying within the confines of season 1 because that would have been underwhelming.

"Oh so we had to wrapped-up/cancel the show but here are the cartoon+20 gazillion different timelines of comics+the video game+toys+novels+spinoff+clothing line+Lego Buffy+pointy sticks dildos..." *roll eyes*

I spitballed a bit regarding a Faith fanfic spinoff. Would've been set in New York. Had a supporting vampire character that would've been a more eccentric type (named Oskar). Had Ville Valo in mind.

love buffy i will re watch it again and again

Dollhouse was actually a really good show

Can we just agree that they absolutely nailed Once More With Feeling? If you disagree, you have the right to your opinion, and I'll see you in the parking lot after the video.

I remember the talk of the Faith spin-off and I wanted it. Tru Calling was a paled in comparison so I didn't last after the pilot. I agree though, it probably would not have been successful for the reasons you stated. Years ago I was reading the post-show comics for both Angel and Buffy and loving them but I fell off so I have no idea what went on after a short while.

I'll never get tired of the intro.

if they made the animated series, odds are it would be based on the season 5 continuity. that is: that dawn had always been there, as the 'magic' altered past events / time. (thus buffy always had a sister, starting from season 1)

An Oz spinoff would have worked i think. we saw him being able to control hes wolf side. what if he also could drain power from it and use it to fight evil. it would be in the buffyverse yet not be another slayer series

man, was i surprised to see the wrong Giselle Loren in this video! For a minute there I wondered how on earth could I miss Gigi Gorgeous` involvement with the Buffyverse XD

This is so weird like a month ago i went down a hole of looking into the spinoffs that never came

If you read the "Slayer" series of novels, the newest works in that universe, you find out that her first watcher's daughters, basically the stepsisters to her "Cinderella" really do make a big joke of her to their friends- the first of those two reads as something of a peacemaking, presumably a Divinely originated peacemaking, due to the personality of the "Head of the Powers that Be" would have to have for existence to happen- resolving fights and the like, and boy, do those two make a big joke of her; she's the "Cinderella" to their "wicked stepsisters" and in that fairytale, Cinderella's sisters would have been bullying her at that, as well as making a joke of her to their friends- at her expense at that... well, that's kind of how Merrick's daughters treated Buffy: made fun of her doesn't come close to how they treated her- she was the Cinderella to their family situation based on classical era mindset about how a teacher was a second father to the student. Well, the "Watchers" are supposed to take on a parental role in their charges' lives; Giles does a wonderful job of that, as did Merrick before him. And if Merrick was basically a kind of spiritual stepdad to Buffy, then his twin daughters would easily fit into the categories of Cinderella's stepsisters, especially if they blame her for his death., which Merrick's daughters do in the stories.

Id love to see that cartoon made again today. Aet style is awesome. Was too young to catch Buffy but I've heard about it my entire life so it'd be a neat appetizer

Another series that was planned that also didn't make any headway was an Oz series. Also, prolly a good idea it didn't make it, didn't sound like it had much substance to it, and I'm pretty sure none of the ideas were repurposed into something else.

I actually loved Tru Calling and glad she decided to do it wish it lasted longer

I still want to read the Angel & Faith comics. I'm real upset the Ripper series with Giles didn't get made, I think that would've been a lot of fun to watch. Plus to watch old Buffy characters come back for different epis would've been super cool.