The scythe which Buffy finds in 7.20 Touched comes from the Slayer comic book called Fray, created by Joss Whedon. In the comic, future slayer Fray is using the scythe to fend off vampires, so it gets passed down through generations after Buffy has it.
Related episodes: 7.20 Touched
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labtec21 on December 12th, 2005 at 4:00 am
I have Fray. It’s a super comic but I got it after the last ep so I didn’t think that the scythe could have gone from comic to TV thats kinda cool to know. Sweet trivia.
Sunnydalehigh on June 2nd, 2006 at 2:18 am
According to the Fray comic, Buffy was the last slayer called before Fray. When the First was defeated (maybe temporarily) in the battle at the end of season 7 and all the potentials became slayers, the demons retreated so that there was no great evil to be fought. The slayer line was dormant until the forces of evil rose again in Melaka Fray’s time. The scythe was given to Fray by a demon, but even he didn’t know how it got from Buffy to Fray. We don’t really know that it was “passed down through generations” (of potential watchers?). It might have been lost for many years and then rediscovered later, just like it was before Buffy got it.
Maybe Joss’s season 8 comics coming out in November will clear some of this up.
whatsyourdamage on November 26th, 2006 at 5:05 am
I don’t think Fray ever explicitly said that the last slayer was Buffy…
mymostbeautiful on April 21st, 2008 at 12:15 am
Joss mentions in the commentary (for Chosen, i think), that he was writing Fray at the time, which is where the scythe came from
Meghann on April 29th, 2008 at 7:21 am
I’m so excited for the Fray/Buffy crossover!!!