| Filmography - 2000 to 2003 - Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Dawn Summers
Episodes: She first appeared in the episode Buffy vs. Dracula (5.01)
and her final episode was the last of the series Chosen (7.22)
Creator: Joss Whedon
Main Episodes: Real Me, Blood Ties, The Body, Forever, The Gift, All the
Way, Older and Far Away, Grave, Lessons, Him, Potential, Chosen.
Also Starring: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Alyson Hannigan, James Marsters,
Nick Brendon, Anthony Stewart Head, Emma Caulfield.
Dawn was introduced in season five as the sister Buffy never had. Over season
five it was discovered that she was The Key and her relationship with Buffy
grew. At the beginning of season six Buffy returned from her grave and she
pushed her friends and Dawn away. Dawn responded by stealing and crying out for
attention and love. The year ended with Buffy telling Dawn that she wanted to
show her the world. In season seven (the shows final year) Dawn helped out Buffy
and the Scoobies both fighting battles and researching. There is a ton of
information on the series Buffy and the character Dawn, I don't want to give too
much away! All seasons are available on DVD and I highly recommend it, not just for
Michelle as Dawn, it is one of my favourite shows.
Episodes
5x01 Buffy vs Dracula
5x02 Real Me
5x03 The Replacement
5x04 Out of My Mind
5x05 No Place Like Home
5x06 Family
5x07 Fool for Love
5x08 Shadow
5x09 Listening to Fear
5x10 Into the Woods
5x11 Triangle
5x12 Checkpoint
5x13 Blood Ties
5x14 Crush
5x15 I Was Made to Love You
5x16 The Body
5x17 Forever
5x18 Intervention
5x19 Tough Love
5x20 Spiral
5x21 The Weight of the World
5x22 The Gift |
6x01 Bargaining Part 1
6x02 Bargaining Part 2
6x03 Afterlife
6x04 Flooded
6x05 Life Serial
6x06 All the Way
6x07 Once More, with Feeling
6x08 Tabula Rasa
6x09 Smashed
6x10 Wrecked
6x11 Gone
6x12 Doublemeat Palace
6x13 Dead Things
6x14 Older and Far Away
6x15 As You Were
6x16 Hell's Bells
6x17 Normal Again
6x18 Entropy
6x19 Seeing Red
6x20 Villains
6x21 Two to Go
6x22 Grave |
7x01 Lessons
7x02 Beneath You
7x03 Same Time, Same Place
7x04 Help
7x05 Selfless
7x06 Him
7x07 Conversations with Dead People
7x08 Sleeper
7x09 Never Leave Me
7x10 Bring on the Night
7x11 Showtime
7x12 Potential
7x13 The Killer in Me
7x14 First Date
7x15 Get It Done
7x16 Storyteller
7x17 Lies My Parents Told Me
7x18 Dirty Girls
7x19 Empty Places
7x20 Touched
7x21 End of Days
7x22 Chosen
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Season Five
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Six
Season Seven
Other
Videos
Interviews
Miscellaneous
Promotional
Scenes
Quotable: Dawn
Buffy: Doesn't matter how well prepped you are or how well armed you are, you're
a little girl.
Dawn: Woman.
Buffy: Little woman.
Dawn: I'm taller than you.
Dawn: I like music. I'm very into Britney Spears' early work, before she sold
out. So mostly her finger painting and macaroni art.
Dawn: There's blood on this. Lots. Looks like The First made another sacrifice.
Or a music video.
Joyce: "Buffy, if you're going out, why don't you take your sister?"
Buffy & Dawn in unison: "Mom!"
Dawn: "Can we go now?"
Dawn: "No one has an older sister who's a Slayer. People wouldn't be so crazy
about her if they had to live in the same house with her every single day.
Everybody cares what she thinks, just 'cause she can do backflips and stuff.
Like that's such a crucial job skill in the real world!"
Dawn: "Killing things with wood? Ooh, scary vampires--they die from a splinter."
Buffy: "We're just going to the magic shop--no school supplies there."
Dawn: "Yeah, Mom, I'm not going to Hogwarts. Hog--Geeze, crack a book sometime."
Dawn: "I don't think Buffy's Watcher likes me too much. I think it's 'cause he's
just so... old. I'm not sure how old he is, but I heard him use the word
'newfangled' one time, so he's got to be pretty far gone."
Spike: Shouldn't you be tucked away in your beddy-bye all warm and safe where
nothing can eat you?
Dawn: Is that supposed to scare me?
Spike: Little tremble wouldn't hurt.
Dawn: Sorry, it's just - Come on, I'm badder than you.
Spike: Are not.
Dawn: Am too. You're standing in the bushes hugging a bent box of chocolates,
and I'm...
Spike: What? sneaking out to braid hair and watch Teletubbies with your mates?
Dawn: You never know what's coming, the stake is not the power, To Serve Man is
a cookbook. I love you. Go away.
Dawn: But, he's new. He doesn't know his strength. He-He might not know all
those fancy martial arts skills they inevitably seem to pick up.
Dawn: I've been kissed before. I-I kiss all the time. Not that I'm a kiss slut.
Just, you know, with-with the lips and-and the pressing together and stuff. Hey,
expert here. Okay, okay, it was my first kiss. I know, I know, I suck. My-my
lips are dry and my tongue's all horrible and sticky and I'm pretty sure I
drooled on you.
Dawn: You know, my big sister could really beat the crap out of her. I mean,
really, really.
Dawn: [about M'Fashnik demon] I'm guessing on how you say it. It's got an
apostrophe. I think it's MmmFashnik. Like "Mmm... cookies!".
[singing]
Dawn Summers: Anchovies, anchovies, you're so delicious. I love you more than
all the other fishes.
Dawn Summers: [accidentally smears pizza sauce on one of Buffy's shirts] Ahh! Hm,
she'll think it's blood.
Dawn: Spike. You sleep, right? You. Vampires. You sleep.
Spike: Yeah. What's your point, niblet?
Dawn: Well, I can't take you in a fight or anything, even with a chip in your
head. But you do sleep. If you hurt my sister at all... touch her... you're
gonna wake up on fire.
Dawn Summers: See, that's why we don't point the weapons in the kitchen.
Vi: It's not loaded.
Dawn Summers: That's always the lead quote under the headline, "Household
Crossbow Accident Claims Teen."
[Dawn kicks Buffy in the shin]
Buffy: Ow.
Dawn: Dumbass.
[Buffy looks at Xander]
Xander: Don't look at me. This is a Summers' thing. It's all very violent.
[Glares at Dawn]
Buffy: If you get killed, I'm telling.
Dawn: We destroyed the mall? I fought on the wrong side.
Xander: All those shops, gone. The Gap, Starbucks, Toys "R" Us. Who will
remember all those landmarks unless we tell the world of them?
Dawn: Yeah, Buffy? What are we gonna do now?
Quotable: Michelle
"It’s almost as if no one really wanted to go out there and make
a female a positive, strong lead before someone else did it. The second Joss
Whedon put out the fact that there is this great show that has quality writing.
A lot of the writing, it’s a collaborative effort, basically, when it comes down
to “Buffy.” Not only is it the idea of just females can take charge (no offense,
honey), the writing is great, we have a really great ensemble cast. I know I’m
using the word, “Great.” like 30 times, but I mean it is what it is.""Here’s
where my agreement with Joss was, I said that I would dance, I would not sing.
Apparently that didn’t go very well. I ended up singing."
"But my last day, my last shot, was of me fighting."
[on the future of Buffy] "I"m sure that in some way, shape
or form "Buffy" will be continued or the story, through the fans, because we do
have such devoted fans and that's always been very sweet".
"Oh yeah, I am a really huge fan! I'm like Little Miss
Buffy encyclopedia."
"Buffy's certainly presented many challenges to myself.
That's why I have been happy to be around as long as I have."
"I did, I stole some clothes, I stole a couple of wooden
spikes which are just sorta in a drawer like I'm not going to use a wooden spike
on anyone but its fun to have one day for my old memorbilia room."
"I gave myself psychosomatic laryngitis when I heard I had to sing. But
somehow with lots of tea and lemon... I think I'm the only one who's not on the
DVD of the singing because my face was so puffy from crying."
"Obviously I'm honoured to be a part of such an amazing episode, I know that
being a fan of the show from the very beginning then and actually being on it
was very surreal for me so when I read the episode it was like I was loosing a
part of myself to be honest and Joss has an amazing way of just really making
you feel everything.. the stage directions you just knew where you were at that
very moment. The interesting part of the episode in the scene we shot was that
it had dialogue when Sarah comes to tell me that our mom has passed away. It was
a whole back and forth conversation, the whole break down and everything and
obviously you guys know that in the end result there is no sound and I think
that was one of the most brilliant ideas you've ever had as it allows everyone
to attach their own emotional plug to whatever might have happened in your lives
and everything. I think it allowed the audience to really connect with Dawn for
the first time."
"It's really great actually being on the show. Being on your favorite show is
just wonderful, to be able to see all the behind the scenes stuff, to actually
be with the people every day. "
Quotable: Others on Michelle
"She got to a very real, dramatic, intense place that nobody else had come
close to, she tucked it under her arm and walked away with it."
Trivia
The character of Dawn was originally intended to have the power to speak to the
dead. She was also supposed to be able to move objects with her mind. These
powers were later dropped.Joss Whedon is known to plan his season storylines
years in advance. Clues to Dawn's arrival can be found as early as the third
season, but she doesn't actually show up until the fifth.
Michelle visited the set of Restless (season 4) because she was a big fan of
the show. Michelle met Joss and later he asked her to audition for the role of
Dawn.
Michelle had the last line ever on Buffy.
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