Amy Madison
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Amy Madison is a fictional character in the U.S. 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's at Sunnydale High School. She first appears in the season one 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. Investigation reveals that Amy's mother, a very powerful witch, has switched bodies with her because she wants to relive her youth. Buffy and the Scoobies 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 has become a potent, if sometimes ineffective witch. This is demonstrated in season two episode 16 "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered", when she performs a spell for Xander to help him win the love of Cordelia. The spell goes awry and causes the entire female population of Sunnydale, except for Cordelia, to desire Xander. Caught in her own spell, a jealous Amy temporarily turns Buffy into a rat.
In season three episode 11 "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. Then, being a rat, she cannot 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 this Amy 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, a man Willow tortured and killed while in a rage over the murder of her lover, Tara. 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 mantains 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 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. Amy was still harbouring 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. Amy's fate following the destruction of Sunnydale in "Chosen", remains to be determined.
[edit] Trivia
- Elizabeth Anne Allen appears in every season of Buffy at least once, with the sole exception of Season Five.
- Although initially starting off as a seemingly good natured individual, Amy gradually grows to misuse magic throughout her appearances on the show, eventually ending up exceeding her mother Catherine, who vastly misused magic in the first season episode "Witch" for selfish purposes.