10 Weirdest Storylines In The Whedonverse

8. The Buffybot Gets Knocked Up - Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Season 8

Well, one of them does, anyway. It€™s kind of hard to keep track of quite how many there are these days. Toward the start of the comics-only continuation Season 9, Buffy has a few too many at a house party and ends up blacking out shortly before missing her period and coming to the conclusion that she€™s pregnant. What follows are a couple of issues detailing her indecision over whether to keep the child or not, the result of which would have been a bold statement to make in comics and popular fiction in general€except that decision is taken completely out of her hands by the story€™s conclusion.

Which is€well, the title kind of gives it away, doesn€™t it? It turns out that Buffy missed her period because she was actually inhabiting the body of one of the Buffybots Warren Mears invented and his old friend/former villainous counterpart Andrew still keeps on hand for those times when he needs to drug Buffy at a party and switch her minds with an automaton to €œkeep her safe€.

At least his heart was in the right place, eh?

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