Hank Summers
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Hank Summers was the father of Buffy and Dawn Summers and the ex-husband of Joyce Summers. He was portrayed by Dean Butler.
He first appears in the episode "Nightmares", in which Buffy worries that he will not show up for their father/daughter weekend. In the Season Two opener "When She Was Bad", Hank admits to Joyce that Buffy was distant with him during their summer together. In Season Three, Hank is supposed to take Buffy to an ice show for her eighteenth birthday, but cancels at the last minute. In later seasons, Hank's character is developed further off-screen into the archetype of the upper-class deadbeat dad. Despite relative wealth and prosperity, Hank cannot be relied on to keep his promises, nor will he play the role of the father. In "Conversations with Dead People", Buffy says her parents' divorce was mostly Hank's fault, because he was unfaithful. When Buffy last heard from Hank, he had moved to Spain with his secretary, but she is unable to contact him when her mother dies in Season Five. Dawn indicates in "Bargaining" that she has spoken with her father at some point over the summer between Seasons Five and Six, but she and the others are hiding Buffy's death from him. Hank's final onscreen appearance is in the episode "Normal Again", set in an alternate reality where the events of the show are simply Buffy's hallucinations. Hank appears in the comic book stories Viva Las Buffy, Slayer, Interrupted and A Stake to the Heart, which flesh out events prior to the show, including Joyce and Hank's divorce and the effect it has on Buffy and Dawn. Hank also makes appearances in the novels Power of Persuasion and How I Spent My Summer Vacation.
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Appearances
Buffy Season 1
Buffy Season 2
- When She Was Bad
- Becoming, Part One (voice only during flashback)
Buffy Season 5
- The Weight of the World (in dreams)
