A popular "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" fan theory suggests that her mother's death and the emergence of her sister Dawn are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The surprise passing of Buffy’s (Sarah Michelle Gellar) mom, Joyce Summers (Kristine Sutherland), during season 5, episode 16, ...

The episode, which first aired in 2001, opens with Buffy finding Joyce deceased on the couch in the Summers home. The eventual revelation that she’s really gone hits especially hard considering that ...

Joyce Summers forever.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer fans are pretty tough — and many built up a tolerance to death after hero Buffy Summers took down one vampire after the next from 1997 to 2003. However, one death is still ...