Amy Madison

“All right! You want to fry a witch? I’ll give you a witch!“

Played by Elizabeth Anne Allen

First Appearance: Witch

Amy Madison grew up under the shadow of her mother Catherine, a powerful witch whose obsession with reclaiming her youth led her to swap bodies with Amy in order to relive her cheerleading glory days. When Catherine began harming competitors with dark magic, Buffy uncovered the truth and reversed the spell, leaving Catherine imprisoned in an unknown mystical realm. Amy moved in with her father and soon developed an interest in witchcraft herself. Her early experiments were reckless — including a disastrous love spell cast with Xander that nearly tore Sunnydale apart.

A year later, Amy transformed herself into a rat to escape being burned at the stake by a demon masquerading as murdered children. Willow, still a novice witch, was unable to reverse the spell, and Amy remained trapped for three years. When Willow finally restored her, Amy turned on her, resentful of the long delay. She fed Willow’s growing addiction to dark magic by introducing her to Rack, and later hexed her in retaliation for “squandering” her power. Kennedy uncovered Amy’s plot, but Amy banished her before she could intervene. Amy then vanished from Sunnydale before its destruction.

After the Hellmouth collapsed, the U.S. Army discovered Amy living sixty feet underground with her “boyfriend,” the skinless Warren Mears. Amy immediately offered to help kill Buffy in exchange for full immunity and access to the government’s magical arsenal. She later attacked Buffy at the Slayer Organization’s Scottish headquarters, placing her under a “true love spell” and raising an army of kilted zombies. She duelled Willow mid‑air before being crushed by giant‑sized Dawn, only to escape through a portal with Warren.

Amy and Warren continued their campaign under Twilight’s orders, constructing a magically enhanced missile aimed at the Scottish Slayer citadel. Their partnership frayed, with Warren threatening to build a robot version of Amy “with no mouth.” Amy later summoned goat‑demons to attack the Slayers in Rome and tracked them across the globe, spying on them in Tibet in the form of a cat. When Twilight betrayed them, Amy and Warren briefly allied with Buffy’s forces. Amy survived the final battle, but the destruction of the Seed of Wonder caused her magic to collapse — and Warren finally died.

With the rise of new magic on Earth, Amy resurfaced in London’s Magic Town, harvesting bottled magic and taking control of Corky Smallwood’s minions after Angel captured him. She approached Angel seeking the secret of Giles’s resurrection, claiming she wanted to restore Warren’s body, which she kept preserved in a jar. In truth, she hoped to provoke Angel into summoning Willow so she could exact revenge. Angel instead recruited Nadira Kureishi, whose connection to Magic Town allowed her to turn Amy’s stolen magic back on her.

Amy’s schemes collapsed in an instant as Nadira’s power overwhelmed her, transforming her back into her rat form — a fitting end for a witch whose life had been shaped by envy, obsession and the dark magic she could never quite control.

APPEARANCES

Buffy SEASON 1