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[Buffy the Vampire Slayer] Why doesn't Sunnydale descend into a mass orgy or chaos whenever Buffy is away?

She was gone the summer break betweem season 1 and 2 as well as the break between seaskn 2 and 3 though the Scoobies were there to help. Then again, how much help were they when they had difficulties fighting 1 vampire? after she died following season 5, the robot Buffy kept up the facade of a Slayer in town.

Edit- should read "mass orgy of chaos"
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The Slayer doesn't actually do much to protect people, most of the time.

Sure, she saves people every night, but that's a tiny fraction of the people taken by the massive population of vampires and other ghoulies that call Sunnydale home.

And then there are the other Hellmouths, like the one in Chicago. They don't have a slayer at all, but they get along just fine. Well, for certain definitions of the term.

The Watchers intentionally limited the power of the Slayers because they were afraid of them, and wanted someone the could control. The *Slayers*, multiple, could have put a serious damper on supernatural violence, if not ended it outright, but the Watchers decided that millions of lives over the course of centuries was a price worth paying, if it meant they could keep their power.

While Giles and Buffy believe that the nightly patrols are making a difference, they are really just a tool to train the Slayer and keep her sharp. What the Slayer is *really* for is stopping the apocalyptic events that tend to happen in their vicinity. The Master arising, the Hellmouth opening, the First Evil waking up hung over and hangry. *That* is why there's a slayer, and fate has a way of making sure that the Slayer is in the right place at the right time to keep the world from tipping completely into darkness.