Meanings
- slanglifestyleThe dark alternate universe featured in the episode "The Wish" of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Whedon couldn't resist the pull of the Wishverse either.
2015, Anne Jamison, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, page 1322 more examples
Even though the later episode 'Doppelgangland' (Buffy 3.16) suggests that the 'Wishverse' exists parallel to the Buffyverse and that characters can move from one parallel universe to another by magic, none of the characters except vengeance demon Anyaka can remember anything about the other world.
2005, Gaby Allrath, “Life in Doppelgangland: Innovative Character Conception and Alternate Worlds in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel”, in Gaby Allrath, Marion Gymnich, editors, Narrative Strategies in Television Series, pages 144–145In the Wishverse, many of the good characters have been turned bad or are dead.
2015, Pamela Achenbach, “A Tempting Narrative or a Temporal Gimmick: A Look at the Use of Time Travel in Unconventional Series”, in Gillian I. Leitch, Sherry Ginn, editors, Time-Travel Television: The Past from the Present, the Future from the Past, page 64
Origin
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Wishverse. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Wishverse
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