We've all wondered and probably suspected that the Buffy and co. were completely crackers. I mean, after all the trauma, mistake identity, alternate personas, switchy-body experiences and evil twins, I'm amazed they haven't gone completely off their rock! Here's a file on the characters showing, cases of intense schizo-isms. Beware, after this report, you'll undoubtedly agree with me that these poor characters have been through Hell and back. Mental stability is in question. Thanx to Joss!

BUFFY:

Buffy the Vampire

In Nightmares, Buffy turns into a vampire when her fears are brought to life. Buffy the Vampire Slayer Vampire? Definitely would have like to see this played out beyond this episode but alas...The idea did come up in the Buffy book Tempted Champions - where Buffy meets a previous Slayer - who is now a vampire.

Trauma: Buffy's fear is brought to reality. She's horrified at first but overcomes her horror to save Billy.

UGLY MAN: Lucky nineteen!
BUFFY: Scary! I'll tell you something, though. There are a lot scarier  things than you. And I'm one of them.

Buffy the Victorian

In Halloween, Buffy is turned into her costume, a Victorian girl, losing her memory and becoming the persona of her costume, utterly helpless (useless). Buffy looks nice in the dress and brown hair.

Trauma: Almost got killed. Yet two yrs later, what does she wear for Halloween in Fear Itself? Little Red Riding Hood.

XANDER: She must be right. We must have some kind of amnesia.
BUFFY: I don't know what that is, but I'm certain I don't have it. I bathe quite often!

Buffy the Rat

In Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, Buffy is turned into a rat, both physically and mentally.

Trauma: Many years later, poor Buffy is still suffering post-rat symptoms of cheese liking (see The Initiative). Or possibly she just likes cheese.

XANDER: You remember, huh?
BUFFY: Oh, yeah. I remember coming on to you, I remember begging you to undress me... And then a sudden need for cheese.

The Wish Buffy

In The Wish, we see an alter ego of Buffy as a hardened Slayer who lived only for the kill, as a lack of Giles' guidance and her friends - almost like Faith. It's amazing in the final fight where Angel is dusted and Buffy walks right through his falling ashes, stakes Xander and dies - definite OMG moments.

Trauma: Nothing. Wish Buffy is killed by The Master.

BUFFY: World is what it is. We fight. We die. Wishing doesn't change that.
GILES: I have to believe in a better world.
BUFFY: Go ahead. I have to live in this one.

Buffy the Cavewoman

In Beer Bad, Buffy drinks magic beer which reverts her into a Neanderthal type Buffy. Long straggly hair and side ways limp walking? Not the best of episodes but Caveslayer is cool.

Trauma: Gets a hangover. Gets to club Parker on the head. Yay!

BUFFY: Beer? Buffy want beer.
GILES: You can't have beer.
BUFFY: Want beer!
XANDER: Giles, don't make cave slayer unhappy.
BUFFY: Buffy strong!

Buffy the Bride

In Something Blue, a spell wills Buffy into falling in love with Spike and planning to get married with him. This is hilarious especially the gang's reaction to it.

Trauma: Season Six and Seven of Spuffy love. Need I say more about the long term trauma of Something Blue?

BUFFY: Spike and I are getting married!
XANDER: How? What? How?
GILES: Three excellent questions.
SPIKE:  What are you lookin' at?
BUFFY: The man I love. (kissing)
XANDER: Can I be blind, too?

Buffy as Faith

In This Year's Girl, Buffy and Faith swap bodies, their minds moving to the other's body. Brilliant episode with amazing acting by Eliza Dushku and Sarah Michelle Gellar who pull off each other's characters subtly and perfectly down to tone and behavior.

Trauma: Buffy as Faith experiences Faith's life and is horrified when she learns that Faith as Buffy slept with Riley.

BUFFY: Oh! ‘Cause, uh, Ethan Rayne. And-and you have a girlfriend named Olivia. And you haven't had a job since we blew up the school --which is valid, lifestyle wise. I mean, it's not like you're a slacker type, but . . . Oh, oh! When I had psychic power, I heard my mom think that you were like a stevedore during sex. Wh--?  Do you want me to continue?
GILES: Actually, I beg you to stop.
BUFFY: What's a stevedore?

Buffy-bot

In Intervention, Warren builds a Buffy robot for Spike that manages to fool everyone. The Buffy-bot is hilarious especially what she says to Spike.

Trauma: Buffy realizes that Spike built of robot of her to....*ewww*....play checkers with!

WILLOW: A-and Spike wasn't like that. So, just this one time, you just did something kinda ... crazy.
BUFFYBOT: It wasn't one time. It was lots of times. And lots of different ways. I could make sketches.
WILLOW: No! Buffy, there is something seriously wrong here! I ... Okay, yeah, you've been with a vampire before, but Angel had a soul.
BUFFYBOT: Angel's lame. His hair grows straight up, and he's bloody stupid.

Joan

In Tabula Rasa, Buffy loses her memory and adopts the name Joan.

Trauma: Buffy loses her memory for a while but when she regains them, it also brings back her feelings of pain and loneliness after heaven.

BUFFY: I think I know why Joan's the boss. I'm like a superhero or something!

Invisible Buffy

In Gone, Buffy becomes invisible when the Trio accidentally fire their invisible gun at her.

Trauma: Buffy finds it fun at first. However, she soon finds that she's going to fade away into nothing.

INVISIBLE BUFFY: I don't know what happened. I left Main Street after getting my hair cut, and-
ANYA: You cut your hair?
INVISIBLE BUFFY: Oh, yeah!
ANYA: Really? How short?
INVISIBLE BUFFY: Um, about up to here ... well, if you could see my hand, it's kind of above my shoulders.
ANYA: Ahh, that sounds so adorable! I was thinking about getting my hair cut before the wed...

Double Meat Palace Buffy

In Double Meat Palace, Buffy gets a job at DMP with the entire uniform to wear. Buffy looks rather cute in the uniform.

Trauma: Just watch the episode and you'll understand the trauma Buffy is put through, with the uniform, pictured buttons, smell, grease in your ear. Note that in As You Were, Buffy is actually singing the DMP song.

VAMP: What's that smell? Geez, Slayer, is that you?
BUFFY: I've been working!
VAMP: Where, in a slaughterhouse?!
BUFFY: Double Meat Palace.
VAMP: Ohhh... You know what? Let's just call it a night. If it's all the same to you, and you've been eating that stuff, I'm not so sure I wanna bite you.
BUFFY: You're dead! You smell like it! How do you get to say I'm the one who's stinky?

Buffy the Bridesmaid

In Hells Bells, Buffy dresses up as Anya's bridesmaid. I actually really like the dresses and Buffy looks lovely with the hair and earrings.

Trauma: Radioactive green dresses make Buffy look like she's glowing according to Spike.

WILLOW: Buffy, it's hideous. Oh my god, Buffy. Look at its arms!
BUFFY: I know. But it's my duty.
BUFFY: I'm ... Buffy the bridesmaid.

Buffy the Insane

In Normal Again, Buffy is convinced that her world is a figment of her imagination and the past 6 yrs she has been sick at a mental institution. Great episode - Buffy's rationalization of everything that's happened in her life is eerily convincing and dangerous.

Trauma: She almost kills her friends. The doctor's diagnosis of Buffy is disturbingly convincing.

BUFFY: Sure it is. 'Cause what's more real? A sick girl in an institution...
DAWN: Don't. Please. Listen to me.
BUFFY: Or some kind of supergirl ... chosen to ... fight demons and... save the world. That's ridiculous.

Buffy the First

In Buffy Season 7, the First is able to appear in the form of Buffy since she is considered dead. Amazing ending to Lessons.

Trauma: Buffy, surprisingly, shows no reaction when she sees the First morph into herself.

BUFFY/FIRST: Into every generation, a slayer is born. One girl in all the world. She alone will have the strength and skill to— There's that word again. What you are. How you'll die. Alone. Where's your snappy comeback?

WILLOW:

Willow the Eskimo

In Inca Mummy Girl, Willow dresses up as an Eskimo for the cultural exchange dance.

Trauma: Willow wishes she wore something more sexy but it is this outfit that first catches Oz's attention.

WILLOW: Wow. You guys look great.
AMPATA: I-I love your costume. It's, it's very authentic.
WILLOW: Thanks.
XANDER: Yeah, you look, um... snug.

Willow the Ghost

In Halloween, Willow dresses up as a ghost and is actually turned into one through Ethan's spell.

Trauma: She died and became non-corporeal. Couldn't even flip pages of a book.

WILLOW: Right. Xander was a soldier and Buffy was an 18th-century girl.
GILES: A-and, uh, your, your costume?
WILLOW: I'm a ghost!
GILES: Yes. Um... w, uh, uh, uh, the ghost of what, exactly?
WILLOW: ...Well, this is nothing! You should see what Cordelia was wearing. A-a, a unitard with cat things, like ears and stuff.

Willow the Vampire

In The Wish, Willow is a vampire who works for the Master. She is killed by Oz. In Dopplegangland, Willow meets her vampire self. After some confusion, Willow sends her back to her own world.

Trauma: Willow gets hit on by her vampire self, who is kind of gay. Later, Willow herself turns out to be gay. In Season Six, Willow turns evil and says Vampire Willow's popular line: Bored now.

WILLOW: It's horrible! That's me as a vampire? I'm so evil and... skanky. And I think I'm kinda gay.
BUFFY: Willow, just remember, a vampire's personality has nothing to do with the person it was.
ANGEL: Well, actually...That's a good point.

Willow as Willow

In Tabula Rasa, their memories are erased. Willow finds out her name is Willow and thinks that Xander is her boyfriend.

Trauma: Almost gets killed by vampires.

WILLOW: Oh, hey, I have a name on my jacket. Harris.
XANDER: Harris? That's my last name. Maybe I have a brother and you go out with him. Or maybe you go out with me.
WILLOW: Well, we did wake up all snuggly-wuggly. Maybe you're my boyfriend.
XANDER: Either that, or I got one pissed-off brother out there somewhere.

Willow the Junkie

In Wrecked, Willow becomes addicted to magic, turning her eyes black.

Trauma: Almost kills Dawn in a car crash and loses all her friends.

DAWN: Willow. I'm serious. I'm going home.
WILLOW: Uch, then go! God, I thought we were gonna hang.
DAWN: Well, you're not coming with me?
WILLOW: Well, I don't know. Maybe I could just, uh, pop you back!
DAWN: With magic?

Willow the Bestman

In Hells Bells, Willow is chosen to be Xander's best man.

Trauma: Still gets to wear a dress, so no harm done.

WILLOW: I'm supposed to be best man. Shouldn't I be all ... Marlene Dietrich-y in a dashing tuxedo number?
BUFFY: No.
WILLOW: Oh.
BUFFY: That would be totally unfair. We must share equally in the cosmic joke that is bridesmaids-dom.

Evil Willow

In Grave, Willow turns evil and tries to end the world after Tara is killed by Warren.

Trauma: Veins are bad. World getting destroyed in bad. Poor Willow takes a trip to the dark side of magic.

WILLOW: So. Here we are.
BUFFY: Are we really gonna do this?
WILLOW: Come on, this is a huge deal for me! Six years as a side man, and now I get to be the Slayer.
BUFFY: A killer isn't a Slayer. Being a Slayer means something you can't conceive of.
WILLOW: Oh, Buffy. You really need to have every square inch of your ass kicked.
BUFFY: Then show me what you got. And I'll show you what a Slayer really is.

Willow as Warren

In The Killer In Me, Amy casts a penance spell on Willow, which turns her into Warren.

Trauma: Willow is horrified when Warren starts to take over. She thinks that she killed Tara when she kissed Kennedy.

WILLOW/WARREN: I'm Willow.
XANDER: Are you sure?
WILLOW/WARREN: There are other stories from kindergarten. Non yellow crayon stories in which you don't come out in such a good light. An incident involving Aquaman underoos, for example. You want me to start talking?
XANDER: Hey, Willow!

XANDER:

Xander the Soldier

In Halloween, Xander is transformed into his costume - a soldier. Although he doesn't get many good lines and is basically the stereotype solder, he does get to beat up Larry. And his soldier knowledge helps out in later years.

Trauma: Gets to be manly, beat up Larry and next Halloween, Xander dresses up in a tux in case he turns into a cool, secret agent guy. Buffy breaks it to him that he'll probably end up cool head waiter guy.

XANDER: It's strange, but beating up that pirate gave me a weird sense of closure.

Xander the Vampire

In The Wish, Cordelia wishes up an alternate universe where Xander is a vampire and favorite follower of the Master. Vampire Xander is cool and surprisingly dresses kind of like Angel with the leather coat and white shirt. Wished we could have seen more of him. he ends up being dusted by Buffy though.

Trauma: Willow is horrified when Warren starts to take over. She thinks that she killed Tara when she kissed Kennedy.

XANDER: So, um, in your reality, I'm like this bad-ass vampire, huh? People afraid of me?

(Vampire-Willow just looks at him and rolls her eyes)
XANDER (gleeful): Oh, yeah. I'm bad.
 

Xander the Replacement

In The Replacement, Xander thinks a demon/robot has assumed him appearance, taken his life and done better at it than him. However, it turns out that the double is actually him - they're BOTH Xander. Except that they each have different aspects of him. Hilarious episode and the Xander-Xander double act is great at the end.

Trauma: Nothing. He regains his confidence in his life.

ANYA: So ... you Xanders really do have all the same memories, all the same ... physical attributes?
SUAVEXANDER: We're completely identical.
SCRUFFYXANDER: Yeah, we checked out some stuff in the car on the way over...Fingerprints!
ANYA: Well, maybe we shouldn't do this reintegration thing right away. See, I can take the boys home, and ... we can all have sex together, and ... you know, just slap 'em back together in the morning.
SUAVEXANDER: She's joking.
SCRUFFYXANDER: No she's not! She entirely wants to have sex with us together. Which is ... *wrong*, and, and it would be very confusing.

Xander the Pirate

In All The Way, Xander dresses up as a pirate while working at the Magic Box.

Trauma: Nothing except that no one is scared by Xander with his hook.

BUFFY: What happened to Xander?
GILES: He kept poking me with his hook. I sent him over to charmed objects. With any luck he'll poke the wrong one and end up in an alternative dimension inhabited by a 50-foot Giles that squishes annoying teeny pirates.