Looking back, I find that there are so many great Buffy badass moments that no individual one really stands out, though I have some favourites: the alley-fight in The Gift, most of the ones people mentioned above...
The badass moments which really stand out for me are those which are memorable because they're from unexpected characters: Joyce hitting Spike with the axe in School Hard; Xander hitting Glory with the demolition-ball-thing.
And the very early fights in Tabula Rasa, just after they've had their memories wiped, as she discovers her Slayer powers. Those are sort-of Buffy.
The ones that immediately come to mind for me are:
-Joan from Tabula Rasa
-Buffy reclaiming her calling in Anne.
-Joined!Buffy in Primeval
-Buffy jumping into the pit with the Bezoar..and crawling back out. And Lyle's reaction.
-In Bargaining, fighting off the demons en masse and tossing them off her back like so much kindling.
That's my initial list, others have commented on them, I see.
Or in "Anne" with the "I'm Buffy."
With Polter-cow in liking "Anne" a lot.
Yay for Anne. And yes, that thing with Sunday. Hmmm, everyone's mentioned most of the good ones - oooh! When Ted hits Buffy: 'I was *so* hoping you'd do that.' Episode itself is pretty freaky, but that's cool.
Ooh, Principal Snyder is guest starring on Crossing Jordan.
I wonder if Principal Snyder--sorry, I can't spell your name!--gets bigger notice at cons for being Snyder or for being Quark on Deep Space 9.
gets bigger notice at cons for being Snyder or for being Quark on Deep Space 9.
He was also on Beauty and the Beast. I expect Trek geekery rules over all, though. He was a regular on DS9 for many years. BtVS semi only for three.
Who was he on Beauty and the Beast? I watched that religiously.
I thought Richard Benjamin was Quark
