10 Best Battles In Buffy The Vampire Slayer History

3. Buffy And Faith Body Swap

Buffy The Vampire Slayer Buffy Faith Graduation Day, Part One
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In the season four episode, This Year's Girl, Faith returns to seek out revenge on Buffy for almost killing her at the climax of season three. After an earlier meeting and fight that was broken up by the police, the rogue Slayer has taken Joyce captive at home and rambles at her.

Buffy makes her grand entrance by smashing through the window, and the battle that follows sees the slayers rampage through the house. They find plenty of time to pause for witty one-liners as they go at each other. While they fight, Joyce calls the police.

The entire house ends up trashed as they smash furniture, tables and glass and throw all they've got at each other. It ends with one of the greatest surprises, though, when Faith grabs hold of Buffy's hand and uses a magical device to body swap with her.

Joyce enters, not knowing what happened and she asks what the device in Buffy's hand is. Faith in Buffy's body claims she doesn't know and smashes it. The police arrive to take Faith (who is actually Buffy) away and Buffy (Faith) utters "five by five" with a psychotic grin. Iconic.

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