Buffy the Vampire Slayer · Season 4
“Superstar” · Season 4
In this episode: Buffy Summers (3), Anya Jenkins (3), Rupert Giles (2), Xander Harris (1), Willow Rosenberg (1), Spike (1), Riley Finn (1), Adam (1)
But someone could wish the whole world to be different, right? That's... possible?
Sure. Alternate realities. You could, uh, could have, like, a world without shrimp, or with, you know, nothing but shrimp. You could even make, like, a freaky world where Jonathan's like some kind of not-perfect mouth-breather, if that's what's blowing up your skirt these days. Just don't ask me to live there.
I'm not entirely sure that we can trust our memories. Anya, tell them about the alternate universes.
Oh, okay. Say you really like shrimp a lot or we could say you don't like shrimp at all. "Blah, I wish there weren't any shrimp" you'd say to yourself-
Stop! You're saying it wrong. I think that Jonathan may be doing something so that he's manipulating the world and we're all, like, his pawns.
Or prawns.
Stop with the shrimp! I'm trying to do something here.
Giles, do you have a Jonathan swimsuit calendar?
No... Yes... it was a gift.
I wasn't exactly pining for a noisy visit from Wonder Jonathan and his fluffy battle kitten.
[At Giles' place. Riley pages through a spellbook.]
These spells, they really work? I mean, can you really turn your enemies inside out? Or... learn to excrete gold coins.
That one's not so much fun.
They work, Riley, but they take concentration. Being attuned with the forces of the universe.
Right, you can't just go librum incendere and expect --
[The book catches on fire; Xander closes it rapidly.]
Xander, don't speak Latin in front of the books.
I wish you'd get rid of that body. The smell's making me hungry.
You wouldn't want it. It had a blood disease. He didn't know it, but it would've been dead within the year. Human sense so little of what they carry inside.
Huh. All right. Well, you're the evil messiah guy, so... Oh, hey, there's something new in town. Yeah, attacked a girl, 'caused a little fuss. Oh, he was there. [chuckles] Jonathan.
Jonathan. Tell me, who is he?
[chuckles] You're joking, right? Jonathan is... Jonathan! Look!
[He points at Jonathan getting celebrity attention on various TV shows]
These are lies. None of this is real. The world has been changed. It's intriguing, but it's wrong.
Feels okay to me.
You're under his spell, just like the others. I seem to be the only one who's not.
Really? Well, what makes you so special?
I'm aware. I know every molecule of myself, and everything around me. No one, no human, no demon, has ever been as awake and alive as I am. You're all just shadows.
Oh... So, what do-what do you do now? Hey, you could kill Jonathan. Well, or, you could try. The guy's, like, a dynamo of action.
I don't need to do anything. These magics are unstable, corrosive. They will inevitably lead to chaos. And I am interested in chaos.
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