Willow Rosenberg

Willow Rosenberg is a fictional character in the popular television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer, played by Alyson Hannigan.

Family and relationships

• Season 2, "Halloween" (taking charge)
• Season 3, "Gingerbread" (relationship with mother)
• Season 3, "Doppelgängland" (realising and rejecting her friends' image of her as "Old Reliable")
• Season 4, "Wild at Heart" (Oz's departure)
• Season 4, "Hush" (meeting Tara for the first time, and achieving something useful with magic for the first time)
• Season 5, "Triangle" (her fear for Xander over his relationship with ex-vengeance demon Anya)
• Season 6, various (main narrative arc of the season is Willow's magic addiction)

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Willow appears to have survived an unenviable family life. Her supercilious and unaffectionate mother Sheila, a psychologist, appeared in only one episode, Season 3's "Gingerbread"; Willow appears to have inherited from her a strong sense of political injustice, reflected particularly in her attitudes to Native Americans. Her father Ira, never seen, is hinted to be equally distant. No siblings have ever been mentioned, and Willow refers to herself at one point specifically as "Ira Rosenberg's only daughter" while she is putting up a protective cross (erroneously called a crucifix) on a wall in her house. Willow is the only Jewish member of the core characters.

Related Topics:
Gingerbread - Native American - Cross - Crucifix - Jew

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She had a hopeless crush on her lifelong friend Xander Harris, who ignored her to pursue his own equally hopeless crush on Buffy and later a relationship with Cordelia Chase (despite the fact that he and Willow were charter members of the "We Hate Cordelia Chase" Club and he was the treasurer). Subsequently Willow had a more satisfying relationship with Oz, a guitarist in the local band Dingoes Ate My Baby. The relationship survived her discovery that Oz was a werewolf, and a more trying crisis when Oz and Cordelia caught Willow and Xander kissing.

Related Topics:
Xander Harris - Buffy - Cordelia Chase - Treasurer - Oz - Dingoes Ate My Baby - Werewolf - Kiss

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After graduation, Buffy and Willow moved across town to UC Sunnydale, where, after Oz's departure, Willow attended some meetings of the campus Wicca group, a disappointing experience except for the presence of one student, Tara Maclay. After discovering their magic was more powerful if they performed in unison, they became friends, and later, lovers and soulmates. Willow's interest in women had been hinted at as early as the Season 3 episode "Doppelgängland" when her vampire Doppelgänger from an alternative reality showed a distinct lust for the "real" Willow. Willow and Tara formed one of the very few lesbian couples portrayed in American television.

Related Topics:
UC - Oz's departure - Wicca - Tara Maclay - Magic - Doppelgängland - Doppelgänger - Lesbian - Television

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Willow uses mostly Apple Computers, and the show faithfully follows the evolution of the iBook line.

Related Topics:
Apple Computer - IBook

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