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Fictional character from Buffy and Angel

"Darla (Angel)" redirects hither. For the eponymous episode of Affections, see Darla (Angel episode).

Darla
Buffyverse character
Julie Benz as Darla in Angel
First appearance	Welcome to the Hellmouth (1997)
Last advent	Dark Reflections, Role 1 (2017)
Created by	Joss Whedon
Portrayed by	Julie Benz
In-universe data
Affiliation	Club of Aurelius Wolfram & Hart The Whirlwind
Classification	Vampire
Notable powers	Supernatural strength, agility, reflexes, and acute sensory perception

Darla is a recurring fictional character created past Joss Whedon and played past Julie Benz in the starting time, 2d, and fifth seasons of the American supernatural television serial Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The graphic symbol later on appeared in the Buffy spin-off series Affections, making at least one appearance in every season. She made her last tv appearance in 2004, actualization as a special guest star in the fifth and final season of Angel.

Darla is introduced in "Welcome to the Hellmouth", the kickoff episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, in 1997. Information technology is revealed early on on that she is a vampire, initially in league with the Main, Buffy Summers' primary antagonist in the first season. Darla's backstory is disclosed in the episode "Angel", where it is revealed that she is Angel's sire (the ane who turned him into a vampire) and former longtime lover. The character appears in numerous flashback episodes, until she receives a significantly expanded role in Angel. In Angel, she is resurrected by the evil law house Wolfram & Hart in an try to weaken Angel. She after becomes intertwined in many of the story arcs in the second and tertiary flavor. Darla becomes pregnant, a unique occurrence for a vampire. She sacrifices herself in order to give nascence to her and Affections's human son Connor, catastrophe her run on the series. Still, Darla continues to appear in flashback episodes during the adjacent 2 seasons.

The character was well-reviewed by television critics, with Eric Goldman of IGN saying "Not even dying (twice!) could keep Darla from beingness an important part of the story behind Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the spinoff series Affections."

Conception and casting [edit]

Julie Benz originally auditioned for the role of Buffy Summers,^{[i] [2]} only that later went to Sarah Michelle Gellar, who had previously won the part of Cordelia Chase.^[1] Benz was offered the modest function of the vampire Darla in the airplane pilot episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Her performance was so well-received that her character appeared in a few more episodes.^[2] In an interview with TheTVAddict.com, Benz said of her casting: "I was supposed to dice in the pilot, only about halfway through the pilot Joss Whedon was like, 'Nosotros're giving you lot a name and we're not going to kill you.' And he did that for a while until it finally came time to impale me, and impale me, and impale me and killed [sic] me."^[3] She later went on to say:

For me, I was a new actor to Los Angeles, didn't know the Tv business very well so I was just excited to work and play a vampire. I had no inkling what I was going to do or how I was going to be scary. Until that is, they put the vampire makeup on me and I went into the trailer and smiled, which I thought was creepy. Joss always said he was intrigued that someone who looked similar me and talked like me was like the scariest vampire ever. That's what he wanted, my sweet vocalization and demeanour until all of a sudden I'm just this vicious vampire."^[three]

Darla is first killed in the 7th episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In that episode, it is revealed that Darla was once romantically involved with Angel and that she turned him into a vampire.^[4] Affections stakes her through the eye.^[iv] Benz was asked to return to the function three years later, but non on Buffy. Joss wanted her to appear on the spin-off Angel, which focused on Affections's adventures in Los Angeles. Benz said in an interview:

I was shocked, really. When they sent me the script [for Affections] I kept asking, 'Where's Darla?' I remember calling my agent asking, 'Are yous sure they want me for this episode because I tin can't seem to observe me?' So I go to the concluding folio and there I am... naked in a box. Awesome. It was exciting.^[3]

When asked in an interview with Robert Canning of IGN virtually how she felt about being asked to come on to Affections after previously being killed off, Benz commented:

I was shocked. I but thought one time you lot poof'd, you poof'd! I thought that was information technology. Then when they threw it out to me that I was coming back... They didn't tell me they were bringing her dorsum to life. They just sent me the script for the flavour finale for season one of Affections, when they rose me from the dead. I was reading the script, and one-half fashion through, Darla still hadn't shown up.^[5]

Benz went on to add,

I was similar, 'Alright...' I go 3 quarters of the way through and I remember, 'Maybe they sent me the incorrect script...?' And then I get to the terminal page, and I was like, 'Oh my god! I can't believe this! This is so cool!' At that time I'd been committed to another projection too. Nosotros didn't fifty-fifty know if I was going to be available or not. But information technology all ended up working out.^[5]

Darla appears in twenty Angel episodes, as an small-scale antagonist and later as an dearest interest of Angel. The character is known for dying the most in the Buffy The Vampire Slayer franchise. Benz afterwards emphasized:

I merely didn't know how information technology was going to happen. And so when they sent me the script [for my final episode of Angel]—which I basically had to sign my life away to read—I was sitting in my trailer and I only started to cry. I thought it was such a beautiful catastrophe, it was the payoff and just actually brought her whole life kind of to that one moment. So I was really upset my concluding day of filming because I really thought information technology was over to me.^[three]

Label [edit]

The transformation into Darla was complicated. Benz was non a fan of the process

Darla is presented in the series both as a homo and as a vampire with, as Benz put information technology, more often than not "pure" intentions. In an interview with TheTVAddict, Benz said:

Darla's just misunderstood. Her intentions are pure, they're just kind of warped. From her perspective—starting time she has to eat—she merely happens to consume people! 2d, she was in love with Angel, and I e'er viewed Darla as the jilted ex-wife that could never get over existence dumped. If you really look at her, you lot tin have sympathy and empathy for her. In the beginning of her life she was a prostitute, Joss and I really talked virtually that a lot, that she was probably abused growing up. She did what she needed to practice to survive, she just lacked the people skills.^[3]

Achieving Darla's await was a struggle for Benz. She said: "Taking that makeup off, it was like having half dozen layers of skin ripped off your confront every time. Information technology was miserable and the contact lenses were terrible. I don't wear contacts and I don't know how people do it, sticking things in their eyeballs all the fourth dimension."^[3] The character's sense of fashion is vital to understanding her past. Benz says Darla is "dressed to the nines" in every time period in which she lives, and "she fully goes after a certain look. If she's going to be living during the Boxer Rebellion time, she's got the big Gibson Girl hair style and the beautiful kimono-manner apparel." Benz points out that in the Buffy pilot episode, Darla—attempting to wearing apparel like a high school student—exaggerates it with a "footling twist", wearing a Catholic schoolgirl uniform instead. "I think I influenced Darla fashion-wise in the 2d season of Angel where she was a piddling more archetype-looking and tailored," Benz says, explaining she collaborated with the costume designer to transition Darla into a "hipper look" when she became a vampire once again.^[6] Darla shockingly becomes pregnant in the 3rd season of Angel. In an interview with the BBC, Benz admitted:

Yeah, I actually felt at that point she was pretty strung out. Her whole world was rocked. She never idea she could get pregnant and then all all of a sudden she'due south carrying this child and she's experiencing this soul for the first time in four hundred years. [In that location's] the realisation that as soon equally the babe's born the soul's going to go away, and it'southward the first time she actually experienced true love, so she was going through a lot emotionally. I only didn't think that she would accept time to really recollect about how she looked. I don't remember it was a priority, and and then for me as an actor information technology was of import that I reveal that. Not get caught up in my own vanity equally an actress, and portray the character equally where she actually was.^[7]

In an interview with the BBC, Benz described Darla as strong: "I take an amazing stunt double, Lisa Hoyle who looks exactly like me. She's just bright and fearless and she does about xc per cent of the stunts. I retrieve part of the element of Darla is how strong she is and how tearing she can exist and Lisa definitely adds to that element. I would exist a doing huge disservice to Darla if I didn't let her to practise the work that she does and to aid add to that element that'due south so important to Darla, which is her forcefulness."^[6]

Storylines [edit]

Darla is born in the belatedly 16th century in the British Isles. Her nascence proper noun is never revealed in either series, and Darla herself eventually forgets it. As a young prostitute, she emigrates to the Virginia Colony in North America and becomes independently wealthy simply also contracts a fatal case of syphilis.^[8] By 1609, Darla lies dying in the luxurious house she owns. She scoffs at a "priest" who comes to her deathbed before he reveals his true identity: The Master, a very one-time and powerful vampire and the leader of an elite cult of vampires known every bit the Club of Aurelius.^[8] Darla despises the clergy and religion, a trait that follows her as a vampire. The Principal turns her into a vampire and renames her "Darla," pregnant "dear one" in early on modern English ("darling").

Darla spends four centuries killing civilians, oftentimes accompanied by Angel (until his soul is restored), before actualization in Sunnydale.^[viii] Her first advent is in "Welcome to the Hellmouth", the offset episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which aired in 1997. She breaks into Sunnydale Loftier School with a student who goes at that place. Darla get-go toys with the youth, and so her face up morphs into that of a vampire and she bites the boy.^[9] Darla later appears in the episode "The Harvest", where she participates in the attempted ascent of the Master.^[10] Darla'south role in the series is more prominent in the episode "Angel", where it is revealed that she is Angel's sire and former lover.^[4] Darla bites an unsuspecting Joyce Summers (Buffy'due south female parent), making it look every bit if Angel did it. She then attempts to shoot Buffy but Angel intervenes and stakes Darla.^[4] She later appears in numerous flashbacks, illuminating her involvement not simply with Affections, but also with Fasten.^{[eleven] [12]}

Darla'southward office in the franchise increased dramatically after her resurrection past the police firm Wolfram & Hart in the final episode of Affections'southward first season, titled "To Shanshu in Fifty.A."^[13] In the second flavor opener, "Sentence", Wolfram & Hart lawyers Lindsey McDonald and Lilah Morgan question Darla nearly her by. She talks of how she can experience Angel, and slowly her retention begins to render.^[xiv] In the episode "First Impressions", Affections begins having romantic dreams nigh his maker, which sap his force. In "Beloved Boy", Affections is shocked to come across Darla walking the streets. When he tells his partners, Wesley Wyndam-Pryce and Cordelia Chase, they think he is starting to lose his sanity. During the course of a stakeout past Angel Investigations of a woman suspected of having an affair, Angel confronts the adult female, who looks exactly like Darla. She claims she is DeEtta Kramer. When she runs away from him, she walks outside into the sunlight, significant Darla has not only been resurrected, only is at present human being.^[15] However, Darla and Lindsey'southward programme to convert Angel back to evil fails. In the end, Wolfram & Hart bring in Drusilla to make Darla a vampire again after her syphilis returns and she starts to dice. Ironically, she is turned back into a vampire every bit she accepts her fate after a failed attempt by Affections to relieve her.^[16] Drusilla and Darla unsuccessfully assail Angel and get out Los Angeles.

Knowing that Angel has been cursed so that if he ever experiences pure happiness, he will once over again lose his soul, Darla later returns and sleeps with him, but her plot fails; existence with her simply brings Angel despair, every bit well equally providing him with a new agreement of his role every bit a champion. Their 1-dark stand leads to an unexpected evolution for the both of them: Darla reappears in season 3, meaning with Affections'southward child, despite the fact that vampires cannot normally conceive.^[17] Her pregnancy allows Darla to feel emotions that had previously been lost to her in the presence of the homo soul of her unborn kid. Admitting that creating life with Affections was the only good thing they ever did together, Darla makes certain Affections will relay that to their child before she stakes herself through the middle, sacrificing her life and then their son, Connor, can be born. Darla turns to dust, but the infant remains.^[18] Darla later appears as a spirit, trying to persuade her son in an effort to save him from the renegade deity Jasmine'south manipulations, equally the latter's actions are bringing Connor into the same path both Darla and Angel had taken.^[19]

Reception [edit]

The grapheme of Darla was well-received by Eric Goldman of IGN. He said: "Equally the very first character seen on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Julie Benz instantly made an impression as the vampiress Darla. For the next eight television seasons, she would become to evidence many unlike facets of the role, as not even dying (twice!) could go on Darla from beingness an important function of the story and mythos behind Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the spinoff series Affections, the latter of which allowed Benz to greatly aggrandize her character."^[5]

Appearances [edit]

Darla has 31 canonical appearances in the Buffyverse.

Idiot box [edit]

Julia Benz guest starred every bit Darla in 25 episodes.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

• Season ane (1997): Welcome to the Hellmouth, The Harvest, Angel
• Season 2 (1998): Condign, Role 1
• Flavor 5 (2000): Fool for Love

Angel

• Season 1 (2000): The Prodigal, Five by Five, To Shanshu in Fifty.A.
• Season two (2000-01): Judgment, First Impressions, Untouched, Honey Boy, Darla, The Trial, Reunion, Redefinition, Reprise, Epiphany
• Flavor 3 (2001): Heartthrob, That Vision Thing, Offspring, Quickening, Lullaby
• Season 4 (2003): Within Out
• Season five (2004): The Girl in Question

Comics [edit]

Darla appears in 6 canonical issues.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

• Season x (2015): Relationship Status: Complicated, Part 1

Angel

• Season 9 (2012): Daddy Issues, Office 2
• Season eleven (2017): Time and Tide, Parts one, 3 & four, Night Reflections, Role 1

References [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b} Havens, Candace, Joss Whedon: The Genius Backside Buffy Benbella Books (May 1, 2003), p35–36.
2. ^ ^{a b} "Julie Benz: Biography". TVGuide. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved July three, 2011.
3. ^ ^{a b c d e f} "Alive From Toronto's Comic Con 2011: Julie Benz Talks BUFFY, Angel, DEXTER and NO ORDINARY FAMILY". TheTVAddict.com . Retrieved July 3, 2011.
4. ^ ^{a b c d} Scott Brazil (director), David Greenwalt (writer) (April 14, 1997). "Angel". Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Season 1. Episode 6. Play a joke on.
5. ^ ^{a b c} Goldman, Eric (Oct 4, 2006). "IGN Interview: Dexter's Julie Benz". IGN. News Corporation. Retrieved 2007-09-18 .
6. ^ ^{a b} "Interview with Julie Benz: Fashion Victim". BBC Online. BBC. Retrieved 2007-09-eighteen .
7. ^ "Angel – Interviews with Julie Benz and John Kassir: Bun in the leotard". BBC Online. BBC. Retrieved 2007-09-18 .
8. ^ ^{a b c} Tim Minear (writer and director), Joss Whedon (executive producer) (Nov 14, 2000). "Darla (Angel episode)". Affections. Flavour 2. Episode 6. The WB.
9. ^ Joss Whedon (writer and executive producer), Charles Martin Smith (director) (1997-03-10). "Welcome to the Hellmouth". Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Season 1. Episode ane. The WB.
10. ^ Joss Whedon (writer and executive producer), John T. Kretchmer (managing director) (March 10, 1997). "The Harvest (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)". Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Season ane. Episode 2. The WB.
11. ^ Joss Whedon (writer, director, and executive producer) (May 12, 1998). "Becoming (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)". Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Season 2. Episode 21. The WB.
12. ^ Nick Marck (director), Doug Petrie (author) (November xiv, 2000). "Fool for Love (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)". Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Season five. Episode vii. The WB.
13. ^ David Greenwalt (writer and director), Joss Whedon (executive producer) (May 23, 2000). "To Shanshu in L.A.". Angel. Season i. Episode 22. The WB.
14. ^ Michael Lange (managing director), David Greenwalt (writer) (September 26, 2000). "Judgement (Angel)". Affections. Season 2. Episode 1. The WB.
15. ^ David Greenwalt (writer and director) (Oct 24, 2000). "Honey Male child". Angel. Season two. Episode 5. The WB.
16. ^ Bruce Seth Green (director), David Greenwalt (writer) (November 28, 2000). "The Trial (Angel)". Angel. Flavor ii. Episode 9. The WB.
17. ^ David Greenwalt (writer and director) (September 24, 2001). "Heartthrob". Angel. Season 3. Episode one. The WB.
18. ^ Tim Minear (writer and manager) (November 19, 2001). "Lullaby (Angel)". Angel. Flavour 3. Episode nine. The WB.
19. ^ Steven S. DeKnight (writer and director) (April two, 2003). "Inside Out (Affections)". Angel. Flavor 4. Episode 17. The WB.

External links [edit]

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darla_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)

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