Whedonite

English

Etymology

Whedon +‎ -ite

Noun

Whedonite (plural Whedonites)

  1. (slang) A fan of screenwriter and director Joss Whedon and his work, which includes the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly.
    • 2011, Dean A. Kowalski & S. Evan Kreider, "Introduction", in The Philosophy of Joss Whedon (eds. Dean A. Kowalski & S. Evan Kreider), The University Press of Kentucky (2011), →ISBN, page 5:
      In this way, on the one hand, Whedonites can better appreciate Joss's corpus by examining how certain themes have continued and evolved post–Buffy the Vampire Slayer; […]
    • 2012, Douglas A. Van Belle, A Novel Approach to Politics: Introducing Political Science through Books, Movies, and Popular Culture, CQ Press (2013), →ISBN, page 7:
      Unfortunately, this pop-culture reference was cancelled before most students even got their hands on the last edition of this textbook, and chances are that only the geekiest of Whedonites know anything about it, […]
    • 2014, Ethan Alter, Film Firsts: The 25 Movies That Created Contemporary American Cinema, Praeger (2014), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
      Devoted Whedonites (who are among the most passionate fan bases around) gave the 42-minute episode the full Rocky Horror treatment, including costumes, reenactments, and homemade props.

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