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Hi Quartz members,Hi Quartz members,I’ve always loved gritty-yet-quippy stories about teen girls facing down darkness, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Pretty Little Liars and Veronica Mars.

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Before the film made headlines for shattering records, the Demon Slayer franchise was already amassing a dedicated global fanbase.

From Time

Davis’s frontal boasted of course an undefeated lay executed by self-proclaimed “wig slayer,” Kira Dior.

But a page devoted to the metal band Slayer has garnered the likes of “Dick Cheney,” “Manuel Noriega,” and “Israel.”

Support for the royals rose to 35-year highs, leading some wags to dub Prince George “the Republican slayer”.

Even Slayer frontman Tom Araya announced in 2010 he was retiring his signature helicopter and figure-eight style thrashing.

And references to Trogdor the Burninator, are everywhere from sports nicknames to Buffy the Vampire slayer comics.

The next thing you see is, indeed, what would have happened to Sunnydale if Buffy, the vampire slayer, had never hit town.

In one hand the lad held up a brazen crucifix, and stretched it forth—defence against the slayer.

Thangbrand abode three winters in Iceland, and was the slayer of three men or ever he departed thence.

The son, whom I had once seen, was a tall, dry fellow who also passed for a fierce slayer of game.

He slipped the automatic into his pocket and straightened beside his inert would-be slayer.

It seems good to me, therefore, that the Bintang Burung call down Djath's curse on this slayer of one of your people.

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On this page you'll find 27 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to slayer, such as: assassin, butcher, criminal, cutthroat, enforcer, and executioner.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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