I always considered it such a waste on Buffy

[giandujakiss]

that nothing ever became of the fact that Dawn is actually an ancient ball of energy with immense power.

Did the comics ever do anything with that?

Comments

[hazelk]

Dawn having been a key gets mentioned two or three times in the last couple of arcs but plotwise the point is that she's human now (which makes more thematic sense when you know how it ends). The earlier transformations are more like metaphorical growing pains while she's not sure what she is or how she fits in.

[giandujakiss]

Well, I don't know how it ends but I find that disappointing. Esp. since they said in the canon that the reason the monks made her instead of destroying her was so that her power could be harnessed for good.