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Hank Summers

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Hank Summers was the father of Buffy and Dawn Summers, and ex-husband of Joyce Summers.[2]

Biography[]

Hank met Joyce during a homecoming dance in her freshmen year at college.[3] They married, and had their daughters Buffy and Dawn in Los Angeles. He took Buffy trick-or-treating until she was twelve.[4] At the end of 1996, he and Joyce divorced. Their fights and separation happened around the time Buffy was called as a Slayer,[5][2] making her believe her troubles caused their disagreements.[2] Joyce, Buffy, and Dawn then moved to Sunnydale.[6]

During the first year after the separation, Hank still visited Buffy and Dawn on some weekends,[2] and Buffy spent a summer vacation with him in Los Angeles, when he noticed she was distant and disconnected (due to her death fighting the Master) so he overcompensated, "spoiling" Buffy with shopping, since "at least when she was burning stuff down [he] knew what to say."[7] On her eighteenth birthday, Hank cancelled an ice show with Buffy, a previous yearly tradition, promising he would make it up to her.[8] Later in the same year, Buffy went to Los Angeles to see her father.[9]

During Joyce's sickness and following death, Buffy tried to contact Hank leaving "messages all over the place," with no response; at the time, the last she'd heard from him was that he was in Spain with his secretary.[10][11] During Buffy's death, though, Dawn indicated she had spoken with him, but hid her sister's absence in fear that she'd be taken away. After her resurrection, Buffy described Hank as a "shiftless and absentee father."[12]

In 2002, when Buffy was stabbed with a Glarghk Guhl Kashmas'nik demon's skewer, it gave her visions of being a patient in a mental asylum, in which her last years as a Slayer in Sunnydale were part of her delusion. In this world, Hank and Joyce were together and deeply caring for their sole daughter.[13]

Years later, Hank had started working in Silicon Valley, and reunited with his daughters in San Francisco. He had left Francesca and was then engaged to Paige, who was also the mother of two teenagers and had moved with him. In one of his monthly reunions with Buffy and Dawn, he announced he and Paige have decided to exclude Buffy from their wedding ceremony "for safety reasons," based on her public reputation as a Slayer, which enraged Dawn and saddened Buffy.[14]

When Buffy left to the Safe Zone, she asked Dawn to "fill dad in on everything," implying they still maintained contact.[15]

Behind the scenes[]

Appearances[]

Canonical[]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 2
"When She
Was Bad"

Appears 		"Some
Assembly
Required"
Absent 		"School
Hard"

Absent 		"Inca
Mummy
Girl"
Absent 		"Reptile
Boy"

Absent 		"Halloween"


Absent 		"Lie
to Me"

Absent 		"The Dark
Age"

Absent 		"What's
My Line,
Part One"
Mention 		"What's
My Line,
Part Two"
Absent 		"Ted"


Mention
"Bad Eggs"


Absent 		"Surprise"


Absent 		"Innocence"


Absent 		"Phases"


Absent 		"Bewitched,
Bothered
and Bewildered"
Absent 		"Passion"


Absent 		"Killed
by Death"

Mention 		"I Only
Have Eyes
for You"
Absent 		"Go Fish"


Absent 		"Becoming,
Part One"

Appears 		"Becoming,
Part Two"

Absent


Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 3
"Anne"


Absent 		"Dead
Man's
Party"
Absent 		"Faith,
Hope
& Trick"
Absent 		"Beauty
and the
Beasts"
Absent 		"Homecoming"


Mention 		"Band
Candy"

Absent 		"Revelations"


Absent 		"Lovers
Walk"

Mention 		"The
Wish"

Absent 		"Amends"


Absent 		"Gingerbread"


Absent
"Helpless"


Mention 		"The
Zeppo"

Absent 		"Bad
Girls"

Absent 		"Consequences"


Absent 		"Doppelgangland"


Absent 		"Enemies"


Absent 		"Earshot"


Absent 		"Choices"


Mention 		"The
Prom"

Absent 		"Graduation
Day,
Part One"
Absent 		"Graduation
Day,
Part Two"
Absent


Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 4
"The
Freshman"

Absent 		"Living
Conditions"

Mention 		"The Harsh
Light
of Day"
Absent 		"Fear,
Itself"

Mention 		"Beer
Bad"

Absent 		"Wild
at
Heart"
Absent 		"The
Initiative"

Absent 		"Pangs"


Absent 		"Something
Blue"

Mention 		"Hush"


Absent 		"Doomed"


Absent
"A New
Man"

Absent 		"The I
in Team"

Absent 		"Goodbye
Iowa"

Mention 		"This
Year's
Girl"
Absent 		"Who
Are
You?"
Absent 		"Superstar"


Absent 		"Where
the Wild
Things Are"
Absent 		"New
Moon
Rising"
Absent 		"The
Yoko
Factor"
Absent 		"Primeval"


Absent 		"Restless"


Absent

Template:AppearancesAngelSeason1

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 5
"Buffy
vs.
Dracula"
Absent 		"Real
Me"

Absent 		"The
Replacement"

Absent 		"Out of
My Mind"

Absent 		"No Place
Like Home"

Absent 		"Family"


Mention 		"Fool
for
Love"
Absent 		"Shadow"


Absent 		"Listening
to Fear"

Absent 		"Into
the
Woods"
Absent 		"Triangle"


Absent
"Checkpoint"


Absent 		"Blood
Ties"

Mention 		"Crush"


Absent 		"I Was
Made to
Love You"
Absent 		"The
Body"

Absent 		"Forever"


Mention 		"Intervention"


Absent 		"Tough
Love"

Mention 		"Spiral"


Absent 		"The Weight
of the
World"
Vision 		"The
Gift"

Absent

Template:AppearancesBuffySeason6 Template:AppearancesBuffySeason7 Template:AppearancesBuffySeason10 Template:AppearancesBuffySeason11

Other[]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer novels
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  • Power of Persuasion
  • "Dust"
  • "No Place Like..."
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Classic
  • MacGuffins (Only mentioned)
  • Note from the Underground, Part Three (Only mentioned)
  • "The First Time" (Only mentioned)
  • Broken Parts
  • Deuces Wild
  • Dawn and Hoopy the Bear
  • Slayer, Interrupted, Part One
  • Slayer, Interrupted, Part Two
  • Slayer, Interrupted, Part Three
  • A Stake to the Heart, Act One: Deceit
  • A Stake to the Heart, Act Two: Guilt
  • A Stake to the Heart, Act Three: Abandonment (Only in visions)
  • A Stake to the Heart, Act Four: Trepidation

References[]

  1. ↑ Buffy the Vampire Slayer (film)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Nightmares"
  3. ↑ "Prophecy Girl"
  4. ↑ "Fear, Itself"
  5. ↑ "Becoming, Part One"
  6. ↑ "Welcome to the Hellmouth"
  7. ↑ "When She Was Bad"
  8. ↑ "Helpless"
  9. ↑ "I Will Remember You"
  10. ↑ "Family"
  11. ↑ "Forever"
  12. ↑ "Life Serial"
  13. ↑ "Normal Again"
  14. ↑ Freaky Giles Day
  15. ↑ A House Divided


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