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27-466: On Thanksgiving, Buffy encounters the restless and vengeful spirit of a member of a fictionalized portrayal of the aboriginal Chumash tribe, who, in the show's setting, were wiped out by white settlers. During a tense confrontation, the Slayer fights a losing battle against her formidable foe - but a mysterious protector watches over her from the shadows. Buffy scholar Rhonda V. Wilcox has written, "It

54-478: A bear! Undo it! Undo it!") and the enjoyable runner of Angel being back in town and revealing himself to all the Scoobies but Buffy is capped off by the tiny, perfect clink of Buffy’s fork falling on her plate that plays over the final credits, as the ex-boyfriend-shaped cat finally comes out of the bag." Billie Doux, giving a rating of 4 out of 4 stakes, enjoys how "poor, alienated, new-to-college, post-Angel Buffy

81-495: A blanket to protect him from the sun, Spike shows up at Giles's place, asking for help. Buffy is reluctant to give in, but after he offers inside information on the Initiative and Willow helps him explain that he cannot bite anyone anymore, she allows him in. Giles conjures that Hus is seeking out figures of authority as his targets, and Buffy worries that Guerrero could be next. When Willow feels bad about how their people treated

108-464: A chair, all Spike can do is try to move out of the way as he gets hit with arrows. Willow, Xander, and Anya encounter Angel on their way back and they determine that the Chumash went after Buffy, realizing that she must be a figure of authority. Angel shows up and helps them out. Buffy cuts Hus with his own knife, and reaches the conclusion that his own weapon can kill him and his warriors. Hus turns into

135-421: A customary burial . In cases where the person has been killed and the body disposed of unceremoniously, the cadaver may be exhumed and reburied according to the proper funerary rituals in order to appease the spirit. Another option is to salt and burn their remains (bones). Vengeful ghosts have been featured in many contemporary movies of different countries such as Candyman , The Grudge , The Pit and

162-405: A large black bear , causing Spike to panic and knock his chair over. Buffy struggles with Hus and then stabs him, causing the spirits to disappear. Angel walks away without being seen by Buffy, and later the gang sits down to Thanksgiving dinner, with Spike joining them whilst still tied up. Xander accidentally lets it slip that Angel was in town. Wilcox writes, "As Espenson says, "The core of it

189-491: A living person goes back to ancient times and is part of many cultures. According to such legends and beliefs, they roam the world of the living as restless spirits, seeking to have their grievances redressed, and may not be satisfied until they have succeeded in punishing either their murderers or their tormentors. In certain cultures vengeful ghosts are mostly female, said to be women that were unjustly treated during their lifetime. Such women or girls may have died in despair or

216-633: A vision of Buffy in danger. Willow goes to get coffee and runs into Angel. He tells her he is just looking out for Buffy because she might be in trouble. Buffy attempts to find a reverend in a church for information on the Chumash, but finds him having been hanged by the Native American man, Hus, who attacks her before fleeing. When Willow researches the Chumash, she discovers that they were imprisoned into slavery and forced labor for various supposed misdeeds, and that they attacked their accusers by severing their ears in retaliation. Buffy realizes that Hus

243-407: Is compelled to create her own version of a Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, all the while being attacked by perhaps justifiably homicidal Native American spirits. Whedon et al. continued to make Spike more sympathetic, starting with that hilarious Dickensian scene of Spike, frozen and starving, peering into a window at vampires feasting... and secondly, having him tied to a chair and hit with arrows during

270-484: Is recreating the wrongs done to his people in vengeance. After overhearing the conversation from the bushes, Hus returns to the Mission where he resurrects his warriors. Covered in a blanket and in terrible shape, Spike runs through the woods, trying to escape Riley and his Initiative team as they look for him. Starving, Spike tries to get food from Harmony , but she threatens him with a stake and he leaves. With only

297-431: Is said to be the spirit of a dead person who returns from the afterlife to seek revenge for a cruel, unnatural or unjust death . In certain cultures where funeral and burial or cremation ceremonies are important, such vengeful spirits may also be considered as unhappy ghosts of individuals who have not been given a proper funeral. The concept of a vengeful ghost seeking retribution for harm that it endured as

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324-436: Is unquestionably one of the most controversial episodes of Buffy . It is also one of Buffy creator Joss Whedon's declared favorites." Buffy, patrolling, finds a vampire , engages, and then slays him, while Angel watches her from behind some bushes. The college's Dean Guerrero orates for the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Anthropology building, and Xander is one of the construction workers. Xander begins to dig, but

351-681: The MOBA videogame Dota 2 . Black and white hat symbolism in film In American films of the Western genre between the 1920s and the 1940s, white hats were often worn by heroes and black hats by villains to symbolize the contrast in good versus evil. The 1903 short film The Great Train Robbery was the first to apply this convention. Two exceptions to the convention were portrayals by William Boyd (active 1918–1954), who wore dark clothing as Hopalong Cassidy , and Robert Taylor 's portrayal in

378-480: The Chumash and refuses to cast a spell to kill the spirits, Spike calls the gang out on their apologetic behavior towards them. He especially points out that Hus would not accept anyone's apologies for rightfully killing his people as a conquering nation, and that Buffy must persevere and kill him in order to survive. Willow, Xander and Anya leave to warn Guerrero as Buffy and Giles prep for dinner. The spirits attack Buffy, Giles, and Spike with arrows. Helplessly tied to

405-468: The Chumash warrior is portrayed here as speaking in a highly clichéd way. Vox , ranking it at #67 of all 144 episodes, writes, " Buffy takes the 'main character suddenly possessed by manic need for perfect holiday' trope and raises it a rather uncomfortable story about a Native American vengeance demon, which dances around discussing America's ugly legacy of genocide but never actually comes to any conclusions. Still, there are some funny moments ("You made

432-626: The Pendulum , Mostly Ghostly: Who Let the Ghosts Out? , Poltergeist , Ghost , The Fog , High Plains Drifter , The Ward , Cassadaga , Kaal , Left for Dead , Bees Saal Baad , Darling , ParaNorman , Ragini MMS , Stree, Dark Shadows and the Troublesome Night film series , as well as the television series Spooky Valentine , Spooky Nights , Charmed , Ghost Whisperer , Supernatural and

459-424: The context within which white is worn." The convention also carried a practical benefit -- it helped audiences identify heroes and villains during fast-paced fight scenes in black and white films, even when one actor was filmed from behind. In the 21st century, Western films referenced and spun the convention in different ways. In the 2005 film Brokeback Mountain , one of the two starring cowboys wears black while

486-516: The film The Law and Jake Wade (1958). The book Investigating Information Society said the convention was arbitrarily imposed by filmmakers in the genre with the expectation that audiences would understand the categorizations. It said whiteness was associated with "purity, cleanliness, and moral righteousness", which is reminiscent of a woman's wedding dress traditionally being white. The book said, "The difference, of course, has to do with particular cultural conceptions of gender and sexuality and

513-469: The ground suddenly caves out under him, and he drops into an old abandoned building, which is soon discovered to be a long-lost Mission, buried underground in an earthquake centuries ago. Buffy, upset that her mother is going to be out of town for Thanksgiving, decides to cook her own Thanksgiving dinner and invite all her friends. Anya arrives at Xander's house to find him incredibly sick, and right away starts taking care of him. A green haze comes up from

540-530: The issue of race. Its moral complexity is symbolised by Buffy's initial appearance in a black hat , traditionally the sign of a Western villain, and the program makes several references to the Western genre. The episode was however criticised in The Truth of Buffy: Essays on Fiction Illuminating Reality (2008) for stereotyping Native Americans, particularly Chumashes, who actually have a complex culture, while

567-645: The old Mission and goes to the Cultural Center where some weapons are being kept. After the haze comes in contact with a knife, it turns into a large Native American man and kills the curator. Buffy and Willow later secretly investigate the murder, and wonder why the curator's body is missing an ear. They discover that a Chumash knife is missing. After Giles agrees to look up information on the Chumash people , and Buffy leaves, Angel appears from Giles's back room, having come to Sunnydale because his friend had

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594-468: The other wears white. The film does not disclose any standard conventions for the symbolism other than the wearer of the black hat being shot like in early films. In the 2007 film 3:10 to Yuma , a remake of the 1957 film , a henchman hiring local gunmen to free his boss from jail, tells them not to shoot at "the black hat", a light reference to the convention. The black and white cowboy hats play an important role in characterization in " Westworld ", where

621-548: The popular Thai television soap opera Raeng Ngao and a popular K-television series Hotel Del Luna. They are also part of the theme of novels such as Tamír Triad and Tamsin , comic books such as the character the Gentleman Ghost , animated television series like Danny Phantom and adventure games such as the Chzo Mythos . Finally, there is also a female, controllable character called Vengeful Spirit in

648-402: The protagonist chooses to wear a white cowboy hat while an antagonist wears a black hat. The series re-uses the trope with another character, Logan, who dons a black cowboy hat before shooting up a saloon. This convention gave rise to the terms black hat and white hat to refer to malicious and ethical hackers respectively. This article related to film or motion picture terminology

675-421: The second half of the episode." The A.V. Club called it "an outrageously entertaining episode", noting the many funny moments but also the complex moral debate over the Native American "evil". Persephone Magazine called it the start of a run of three excellent episodes, including Something Blue and Hush . Vengeful spirit In mythology and folklore , a vengeful ghost or vengeful spirit

702-456: The suffering they endured may have resulted in early death caused by the ill-treatment or torture they were subject to. Exorcisms and appeasement are among the religious and social customs practiced by various cultures in relation to the vengeful ghost. The northern Aché people group in Paraguay cremated old people thought to harbor dangerous vengeful spirits instead of giving them

729-417: Was something Joss had wanted to do for a long time, which is have a dead Indian at Thanksgiving — a very poetic illustration, I think, that we do kind of live in this country by virtue of some very ugly conquest. And the next thing you know we had a very non-threatening bear and some funny syphilis." ("Writing" 111)" Sally Eamons-Featherston comments that it stands out from other Buffy episodes for dealing with

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