In this case, Buffy is empowered through her supernatural calling. However, the fact that she is benevolent and fights evil forces does not make her immune to the evil she fights. In the episode of Dracula verses Buffy', Buffy becomes drawn to his evil temptations, both sinful and sexual. She does not completely resist him when he bites her and even attempts to hide it from her friends, including her lover Riley. She then drinks his blood, alluding to a crucial scene in Dracula where Mina does the same thing. It is therefore implied here that Buffy is not unlike Mina or Lucy because, like them, she is victimised by Dracula. This is a direct allusion to the text, along with the idea of Riley playing the role of the male protector, much like the characters of Arthur Holmwood and Jonathan Harker. The strange settings in the show also conform with the code of the gothic genre. There are plenty of cemetery scenes in which Buffy is seen fighting the countless vampires, and in the Dracula verses Buffy' episode, there is also a castle, a direct reference to Dracula's home. Giles tells of his need to go back to his home town in England although he is aware of the fact that if he leaves, he would be abandoning Buffy and his role of the "watcher-, which alludes to when Jonathan Harker leaves Mina. Later in the episode, Giles is seduced by three vampiric women in Dracula's castle, an explicit allusion to the three vampire women in Bran Stoker's novel. This again emphasizes the connection between the two characters of Giles and Jonathan Harker, who was also seduced in Dracula's castle by the three women. Giles also somewhat parallels Van Helsing as they are both portrayed as paternal figures. They are also the main source of information through their knowledge and books, perhaps Van Helsing to a greater extent than Giles, as Buffy is the main protagonist who is very independent in her knowledge of the underworld.
