Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Willow from Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Pay no attention to immensely powered witch who hooked up with the ladies and occasionally flayed bastards alive — underneath that person is Willow Rosenberg, the gawky, overall-wearing computer genius who was overjoyed to be befriended by a cool kid like Buffy and longed for smart aleck Xander. Eternally made fun of by Cordelia and the other cheerleaders, young Willow would use her smarts to research news and demons on the burgeoning World Wide Web, which was a mystery to even Giles (he preferred his books). It was that nerdiness that in fact led her to research magic and become the magical badass she ended up at the end of the series. The lesbianess? That appears to be Oz/Seth Green’s fault.