Buffy the Vampire Slayer is full of memorable characters, among those Oz, played past Seth Light-green, who abruptly left in season iv – and hither'south why. The 1990s saw many unforgettable TV shows that, with fourth dimension, accept become classics, and one of those is Buffy the Vampire Slayer, created by Joss Whedon. Based on the 1992 movie of the same proper name (written by Whedon), Buffy the Vampire Slayer premiered on The WB in 1997 and lived on for 7 seasons, coming to an end in 2003, and it was a big success with critics and viewers, even making mode for a franchise with spinoffs, novels, comic books, and video games.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer follows Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar), a high school pupil who comes from a long line of young women chosen by fate to battle evil forces, and are referred to as "slayers". This grants her powers that increase her physical forcefulness, endurance, agility, healing, intuition, and even some degree of precognition, usually in prophetic dreams. Buffy does her best to live a normal life just also learns to embrace her destiny as a vampire slayer. Over the course of seven seasons, Buffy and company met a diverseness of characters, including a werewolf thanks to Daniel "Oz" Osbourne (Seth Green).

Oz made his debut in Buffy the Vampire Slayer in flavor ii as the atomic number 82 guitarist for the band Dingoes Ate My Infant, and he stood out for his discrete and ironic approach to life. Oz set his eyes on Willow (Alyson Hannigan), who he started dating, and wasn't surprised when on a date with Willow he saw Buffy defeat a vampire, merely saying that it "explains a lot". Oz joined the Scooby Gang and non long later on was revealed to be a werewolf. During his time in college, he met Veruca, a female werewolf, with whom he cheated on Willow and who made him run across that he's "the wolf all the time". This led Oz to leave in the first episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer season iv in order to effort to better understand his lycanthropy, and he returned in the final episodes of the season only to learn Willow was at present in love with Tara Maclay, and so he left Sunnydale for good.

Oz'southward difference was abrupt, merely leaving in Buffy the Vampire Slayer flavour 4 wasn't part of the original plan. In an interview with The AV Gild in 2007, Seth Green explained that he approached Whedon as he didn't feel they were seizing the character'due south potential and what they were doing with Oz was "in desperate opposition" to that, and as he was getting other opportunities exterior the earth of Buffy, he asked to be let out. Green added that he was "bound to a series-regular contract" yet Oz didn't exercise much, and he had an opportunity to do a movie (the comedy Knockaround Guys), then he requested to exist let out for six episodes. However, the writers decided it would exist easier to write Oz off entirely, and so he only returned for a couple of episodes to wrap upward his arc.

Although that was the end of Oz'south arc in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series, the comic books continued to tell his story, peculiarly in the 2009 story arc Retreat, where information technology's revealed that he returned to Tibet where he met fellow werewolf Bayarmaa and formed a family with her. Oz became one of the most memorable characters from Buffy the Vampire Slayer , and it's a shame that his character didn't reach his full potential and had to exit so soon.

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