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Let me tell you something about Willow. She's a loser. Always has been. She got picked on through junior high, high school, right up until college. With her stupid mousy ways. And now? Willow's a junkie. The only thing Willow was ever good for...the only thing I ever had going for me were those moments...just moments...where Tara would look at me and I was wonderful. And that will never happen again. [...] Please! This is your pitch? You hate it here as much as I do! I'm just more honest about it. You're trying to sell me on the world? The one where you lie to your friends when you're not trying to kill them? Where you screw a vampire just to feel and insane asylums are the comfy alternative? This world? Buffy, it's me! I know you were happier when you were in the ground. The only time you were ever at peace in your whole life was when you were dead. Until Willow brought you back. You know, with magic?
~ Willow explaining her then-new nihilistic outlook on life to Buffy Summers after she nearly harmed Buffy's sister, Dawn Summers.

Dark Willow is the name given to the evil alter-ego of Willow Rosenberg following the death of her lover Tara, which coupled with her addiction to powerful and dangerous magic ultimately caused her to lose her sanity and she sought to end her suffering via bloody vengeance against the "Trio" she viewed as responsible for Tara's death then destroy the world.

She is the secondary antagonist of Season 6 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and later returns in the season 8 comics in the 23rd Century and is known by her new alias "The Madwoman."

Much like her Wishverse counterpart, she was portrayed by Alyson Hannigan.

History[]

First Dark Emergence in the 21st Century[]

The history of Willow before becoming corrupted is a fairly complex one but she had always been a fairly sweet-natured and attractive individual, starting off as a rather socially-awkward individual she grew in confidence as she grew older and somewhat famously became engaged in a same-sex relationship with Tara: the two of them becoming powerful witches.

Sadly it was Willow's involvement with witchcraft that would become her undoing as she was unable to truly limit herself, drawn towards powerful and forbidden sorcery she had always had a problem with magic similar to addiction, however with help from her friends she usually overcame her dark desires.

However during the course of season six Willow's addiction became far worse than before and she endangered her friends on several occasions, to the point she even broke her promise to Tara to stay away from magic from a week (trying to erase her memories of the effects) - eventually Willow's behavior caused Tara to dump her.

Willow continued to abuse her talents, going as far as seeing an evil warlock known as Rack - who was basically a supernatural drug dealer - eventually Willow was forced to realize the effects she was having on others when a demon summoned by one of her spells hospitalised Dawn, who she was supposed to be looking after.

After Willow promises to never use magic again (or at least not until she can control herself) Tara decides to forgive her and the two resume their relationship. Willow's happiness was short-lived, however, as Warren Mears decided to exact his revenge on Buffy via opening fire on the group, and killed Tara with a stray bullet.

Overcome with grief and anger, Willow transformed into "Dark Willow" and began her vengeance - tracking down Warren and torturing him before flaying him alive using magic. She then proceeded to absorb the powers of Rack before going after Warren's accomplices, Andrew Wells and Jonathan Levinson suspecting that they provided warren the gun and also unfortunately bullets that he unfortunately used in Tara’s murder and Buffy’s attempted murder and also possibly unfortunately Buffy’s location and residence.

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Nevertheless, Willow pursued them relentlessly and clashed with her former friends as a result.

When Giles attempted to battle Willow with the power of an English coven, she simply stole his power as well. As a result of these actions, she lost her grip on reality, and sought to end the world to stop the unbearable pain she suffered after losing Tara.

As Willow began to summon the power of the apocalypse via the effigy of the demon Proserpexa she was confronted by Xander. He told Willow that no matter what she became or what she did he would always be her friend and as she attacked him he simply told her repeatedly that he loved her. Willow broke down, finally letting her grief out, and became her old self again. However, she sometimed resumed the appearance of Dark Willow when her powers were pushed to their limits or when angered, such as battling the Grimslaw demon, and Amy.

The Second Coming of Darkness in the 23rd Century[]

Willow remained youthful for centuries and eventually resumed her "dark" appearance of black hair and veins. Approximately 200 years into the future, Willow was located in Haddyn—otherwise known as Manhattan—and was the one responsible for bringing Buffy Summers through time. Willow was allied with Harth Fray, the vampiric brother of current Slayer Melaka Fray. Harth considered Willow to be a "madwoman" but believed her claims that Buffy's presence in the future would cause that future to exist. However, Willow also manipulated Melaka into viewing Buffy as her enemy, telling her that if Buffy returned to her own time, Melaka's time would cease to exist. Melaka and her sister Erin captured Buffy, who was shocked to see what her friend had become. When Harth arrived at Melaka's home, both parties learned that Willow was lying to one of them. Buffy managed to escape and fought her way across Haddyn to get to a rift in time and return to the present, battling Melaka in the process. When Buffy arrived at the rift, Willow stood in her way. Before Willow could reveal her true agenda, Buffy stabbed and killed her friend with the Scythe, which it has been hinted was Willow plan all along to have a best friend end her sad existance. At that point, present Willow—blindfolded so as to avoid seeing the future—grabbed Buffy and pulled her back in time.

Traumatized by the sights of Melaka's time, Buffy began to express concern over how much she relies on Willow's powers, fearing that she may eventually go overboard again if she was pushed too far.

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