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Bringers of the First Evil
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Bringers of the First Evil
Buffy the Vampire Slayer character
 
First appearance
"Amends"
Created by
Joss Whedon
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Affiliation
Caleb, The First Evil
Notable powers
Collective consciousness under the control of the First and Caleb.
Spectral sight allows them to perceive their surroundings.
Summon the First's presence and project it through the performance of dark rituals.
Poisonous aura infects their surrounding areas, leaving them barren and sterile.
Superhuman agility, reflexes and stamina.
 
The Bringers of the First Evil, or Harbingers of Death, are the acolytes of the First Evil in Joss Whedon's TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
The Bringers are priests and foot soldiers for the non-corporeal First Evil. They are humans who have been corrupted by the First and undergone rituals that include self-mutilation: their eyes and tongues are removed, and their eyelids covered by rune-like scars; yet they are perfectly aware of their surroundings.
It is implied that the First's high priest, Caleb, has played an important role in indoctrinating the Bringers. He possesses extensive knowledge of their habits (such as knowing that they pant instead of sweating) and refers to them as "my boys". Indeed, The Harbingers of Death themselves refer to him as their "teacher".
The Bringers also have a poisonous aura which is capable of rendering earth and living beings sterile:
For they are the harbingers of death, nothing shall grow above or below them, no seed shall flower, neither in Man nor...
Despite their apparent disabilities, Bringers are swift assassins capable of highly organized attacks thanks to their collective consciousness, which is under the control of the First. Besides their deadly fighting skills, Bringers are also capable of summoning manifestations of the First to haunt people, and create psychic links between dreamers through their dark rituals.
In season 7, The First declared war on the Slayer line. The Bringers became assassins of Potential Slayers around the world. When the First set up camp in Sunnydale, Bringers begin to swarm the town to hunt down arriving Potentials and to unearth the Scythe, a mystic weapon created by Guardians: ancient, powerful women who cared for the Slayer.
Appearances[edit]
"Amends"
"Lessons"
"Beneath You"
"Sleeper"
"Never Leave Me"
"Bring on the Night"
"Showtime"
"Potential"
"Dirty Girls"
"Touched"
"End of Days"
"Chosen"
See also[edit]
List of Buffyverse Villains and Supernatural Beings


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D'Hoffryn
Buffy the Vampire Slayer character

Andy Umberger as D'Hoffryn
 
First appearance
"Doppelgangland"
Created by
Joss Whedon
Portrayed by
Andy Umberger
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Affiliation
Arashmahaar
Classification
Vengeance demon
Notable powers
Wish-granting.
 Superhuman physical attributes, teleportation, telekinesis, invulnerability.
D'Hoffryn is a fictional character on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, played by Andy Umberger. He is a powerful entity high in the demonic hierarchy. He's the master of the vengeance demons, a cabal which includes humans who are "elevated" to demonic status and endowed with mystical powers enabling them to invoke revenge at the behest of mortals who believe they have been wronged. D'Hoffryn rules over a hell dimension known as Arashmahaar.
During the Dark Ages in Sweden a young woman named Aud comes to the attention of D'Hoffryn. Aud has recently used magic to turn her cheating boyfriend into a troll. (The character Aud is recognizable as Anya; her name is pronounced "odd"—this is a play on the fact that people are always telling Anya she is odd.) Impressed by her imaginative revenge, D'Hoffryn offers her a position as a vengeance demon, and she becomes "Anyanka," an avenger of scorned women. When Anyanka, under the guise of Anya, is robbed of her powers by Giles while attempting to exact vengeance on behalf of Cordelia, D'Hoffryn refuses to help her, leaving Anya stuck in a teenage body. In season four, D'Hoffryn attempts to convince Willow to become a vengeance demon after Oz leaves her and a spell she casts goes awry, resulting in a series of disasters for her friends which D'Hoffryn assumes she's done on purpose. She declines, but D'Hoffryn leaves his talisman (a tool to summon him) in case she changes her mind.
In season six, D'Hoffryn is a guest at the failed wedding of Anya and Xander.[1] After Xander leaves Anya at the altar, D'Hoffryn reinstates her powers and the grief-stricken Anya once again becomes a vengeance demon.
Anya's second stint as a vengeance demon in season seven proves short-lived, and after wreaking a terrible vengeance on several college males using a spider-like Grimslaw demon, Buffy confronts and fights her. Willow uses the talisman D'Hoffryn had given her to summon him, asking him to help put a stop to the fighting. D'Hoffryn asks Anya what she wants, and she says that she wants to reverse the vengeance she had done. D'Hoffryn grants her wish, telling her that it'll require the sacrifice of a vengeance demon's body and soul. Believing she is about to die, Anya is resigned to her fate only to watch helplessly as D'Hoffryn summons her friend Halfrek - another vengeance demon whose specialty is granting the wishes of unhappy children - and incinerates her instead. D'Hoffryn then leaves, disgusted with Anya.
In Season 7 of the series D'Hoffryn sends at least two demons to kill Anya, but they are both thwarted.
Appearances[edit]
Season 3: "Doppelgangland"
Season 4: "Something Blue"
Season 6: "Hell's Bells"
Season 7: "Selfless"
Notes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Series 6 Episode "Hell's Bells', Region 2 DVD, Timecode 10:05


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Halfrek
Buffy the Vampire Slayer character

Kali Rocha as Halfrek
 
First appearance
"Fool for Love" (as Cecily)
 "Doublemeat Palace" (as Halfrek)
Created by
Joss Whedon, Douglas Petrie, Jane Espenson
Portrayed by
Kali Rocha
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Classification
Vengeance demon
Notable powers
Wish-granting.
 Superhuman physical attributes, teleportation, telekinesis, invulnerability.
Halfrek or Hallie is a recurring fictional character on the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She appears as a vengeance demon in seasons 6 and 7, and has previously appeared as Cecily in season 5. She is played by actress Kali Rocha.


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2 Cecily
3 Identity
4 Appearances

Halfrek[edit]
Halfrek is a long-time associate and sometime friend of Anya, who knew her from her days as a vengeance demon. The two had worked together in the past, notably during the Russian Revolution of 1905. However, Halfrek's raison d'etre differed from Anya's. Whereas Anya was an avenger of scorned women, Halfrek's "thing" (as Anya put it) is to perform vengeance for children who have been wronged by their parents or guardians. Anya attributes this to "daddy issues". Even after Anya ceases to be a vengeance demon, she continues her friendship with Halfrek. Like Anyanka used the name Anya when masquerading as human, Halfrek's mortal persona goes by the name Hallie.
In her second appearance in season 6, Halfrek poses as a guidance counselor and coaxes Dawn into making a wish. Feeling that no one wants to spend time with her, Dawn wishes that people would never leave; Halfrek therefore casts a spell that prevents anyone from leaving the Summers residence. The crisis ends when Halfrek herself is caught in the spell and has to break it. Halfrek also appears as a bridesmaid at the failed wedding of Anya and Xander. Early in season 7, Halfrek attempts to coax Anya back into vengeance, but Anya has spent too long as a mortal to return to her old life; while she was initially successful in her return to demonhood, she subsequently regrets the deaths she has caused. D'Hoffryn asks Anya what she wants, and she says that she wants to reverse the vengeance she had done. D'Hoffryn grants her wish, telling her that it'll require the sacrifice of a vengeance demon's body and soul. Believing she is about to die, Anya is resigned to her fate—only to watch helplessly as D'Hoffryn summons her friend Halfrek and incinerates her in front of Anya.
Cecily[edit]
Kali Rocha, the actress who plays Halfrek, also earlier played another character in the season 5 episode "Fool For Love": Cecily, the upper-class object of the then-human William's affections in Victorian England circa 1880. Cecily spurns William's advances, saying he is "beneath her", and upsetting him greatly. This sets in motion the events that lead William to accept comfort from Drusilla, and become a vampire. (Cecily's surname was implied to be Underwood in the episode "Lies My Parents Told Me", but stated to be Addams in the script and credits of "Fool for Love" and the non-canon tie-in novel These Our Actors.)
Identity[edit]
In the season 6 episode "Older and Far Away", Halfrek recognizes Spike and calls him by his human name, William. Spike also recognizes Halfrek, but when asked to explain this they both sheepishly deny being acquainted. This implies that Halfrek had previously been Cecily. However, Halfrek and Anya witnessed the Crimean War (circa 1853) which is mentioned in "Lessons" and shown in "Selfless". The timing of this event would indicate that Halfrek existed as a demon at least three decades prior to the adoption of the youthful human form in Cecily. Joss Whedon and Kali Rocha have both stated that, in their minds at least, Halfrek and Cecily were indeed the same entity.[citation needed]
Halfrek later appeared in the comic Spike: Old Times, which established that she was 'on a job' at the time that William fell for Cecily. She seems to have had at least some pity for William in spite of her rejection of him, as the night he became a vampire, she caused the deaths of the rude party-goers who had laughed at his poetry.
Continuity-wise, the comic story takes place in Buffy Season 6, and assumes that an ensouled Spike briefly left Sunnydale and visited LA.
Appearances[edit]
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Halfrek/Cecily has appeared in 7 Buffy episodes as a guest.Season 5: "Fool for Love" (as Cecily)
Season 6: "Doublemeat Palace"; "Older and Far Away"; Hell's Bells"; "Entropy"
Season 7: "Lessons"; "Selfless"


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Anointed One (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
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The Anointed One
Buffy the Vampire Slayer character

Andrew J. Ferchland as The Anointed One
 
First appearance
"Never Kill a Boy on the First Date"
Created by
Joss Whedon
Portrayed by
Andrew J. Ferchland
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Affiliation
Order of Aurelius
Classification
Vampire
The Anointed One is a fictional character in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The character is played by Andrew J. Ferchland.
Character history[edit]
Introduced in season one to help The Master escape his confinement, he is killed by Spike in the season two episode "School Hard".
A prophecy foretold the coming of the Anointed One:

And there will be a time of crisis, of worlds hanging in the balance. And in this time shall come the Anointed, the Master's great warrior... The Five will die, and from their ashes the Anointed shall rise. The Brethren of Aurelius shall meet him and usher him to his immortal destiny. ...the Slayer will not know him, will not stop him, and he will lead her into hell.
In the episode "Never Kill a Boy on the First Date" a bus passing through Sunnydale was attacked by a group of the Master's vampires. The driver and four passengers were killed, and two of them were made vampires. One of these, a little boy named Collin, became the Anointed, a bloodthirsty companion to the Master (Buffy killed the other new vampire, psychotic Andrew Vorba, and mistakenly assumed that he was the Anointed.)
As foretold by Aurelius, the Anointed One later led Buffy to the lair of the Master. Though it wasn't the literal hell, Buffy would be defeated and killed by the Master. Buffy states that she recognized the Anointed One for what he was as Giles and Ms. Calendar realized he was a child, defying the prophecy (although it is possible the prophecy referred to Buffy mistaking Vorba for the anointed one).
Following the Master's defeat, the Anointed One rallied the remaining members of the Order of Aurelius under his command, employing the vampire Absalom as his leading acolyte. The Anointed attempted to resurrect the Master but was ultimately defeated. Weeks later, he was killed by newcomer Spike. Spike placed him in a cage and hoisted it into the sunlight, destroying him.
Joss Whedon said that early on the plan was to use the Anointed One as the principal Big Bad for Season Two. However, these plans were changed because actor Andrew J. Ferchland was still growing and would not be believable as a perpetual child for very long.
"Anointed [one]" is the literal meaning of the Hebrew word מָשִׁיחַ Mašíaḥ (Messiah), and of its Greek translation Χριστός Khristós (Christ).
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Darla (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
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Darla
Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel character

Julie Benz as Darla in the Angel episode "The Trial", after learning she will die from Syphilis, a disease she had before becoming a vampire.
 
First appearance
"Welcome to the Hellmouth" (Buffy, 1997)
Created by
Joss Whedon
Portrayed by
Julie Benz
Information

Affiliation
Order of Aurelius
Wolfram & Hart
 The Whirlwind
Classification
Vampire
Notable powers
Supernatural strength, speed, stamina, agility, and reflexes, acute sensory perception, rapid healing and immortality.
Darla is a recurring fictional character created by Joss Whedon and played by Julie Benz in the first, second, and fifth seasons of the American supernatural television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The character later appeared in the Buffy spin-off series Angel, making at least one appearance in every season. The character made her last television appearance in 2004, appearing as a special guest star in the fifth and final season of Angel.
Darla is introduced in "Welcome to the Hellmouth", the first episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, in 1997. It is revealed early on that she is a vampire, initially in league with the Master, Buffy Summers' primary antagonist in the first season. Darla's backstory is disclosed in the episode "Angel", where it is revealed that she is Angel's sire (the one who turned him into a vampire) and former longtime lover. The character appeared in numerous flashback episodes, until she received a significantly expanded role in Angel. In Angel, she is resurrected by the evil law firm Wolfram & Hart in an attempt to weaken Angel. She later became intertwined in many of the story arcs in the second and third season. Darla becomes pregnant, a unique occurrence for a vampire. She sacrifices herself in order to give birth to her and Angel's human son Connor, ending her run on the series. However, Benz continued to appear in flashback episodes during the next two seasons.
The character has been well-reviewed by television critics, with Eric Goldman of IGN saying "Not even dying (twice!) could keep Darla from being an important part of the story behind Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the spinoff series Angel."


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2 Characterization
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Conception and casting[edit]
Julie Benz initially auditioned for the role of Buffy Summers,[1][2] but that later went to Sarah Michelle Gellar, who had previously won the part of Cordelia Chase.[1] However, Benz was offered the small role of the vampire Darla in the pilot episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Her performance was so well-received that her character appeared in a few more episodes.[2] In an interview with TheTVAddict.com, Benz said of her casting: "I was supposed to die in the pilot, but about halfway through the pilot Joss Whedon was like, 'We’re giving you a name and we’re not going to kill you.' And he did that for a while until it finally came time to kill me, and kill me, and kill me and killed [sic] me."[3] She later went on to say:

For me, I was a new actor to Los Angeles, didn’t know the TV business very well so I was just excited to work and play a vampire. I had no clue what I was going to do or how I was going to be scary. Until that is, they put the vampire makeup on me and I went into the trailer and smiled, which I thought was creepy. Joss always said he was intrigued that someone who looked like me and talked like me was like the scariest vampire ever. That’s what he wanted, my sweet voice and demeanour until all of a sudden I’m just this vicious vampire."[3]
Darla is first killed in the seventh episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In that episode, it is revealed that Darla was once romantically involved with Angel and that she made him a vampire.[4] Angel stakes her through the heart.[4] Benz was asked to return to the role three years later, but not on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Joss Whedon wanted her to appear on the spin-off Angel, which focused on Angel's adventures in Los Angeles. Benz said in an interview: "I was shocked, really. When they sent me the script [for Angel] I kept asking, ‘Where’s Darla?’ I remember calling my agent asking, ‘Are you sure they want me for this episode because I can’t seem to find me?’ And then I get to the last page and there I am… naked in a box. Awesome. It was exciting."[3]
When asked in an interview with Robert Canning of IGN about how she felt about being asked to come on to Angel after previously being killed off, Benz commented: "I was shocked. I just thought once you poof'd, you poof'd! I thought that was it. So when they threw it out to me that I was coming back… They didn't tell me they were bringing her back to life. They just sent me the script for the season finale for season one of Angel, when they rose me from the dead. I was reading the script, and half way through, Darla still hadn't shown up."[5] Benz went on to add, "I was like, 'Alright…' I get three quarters of the way through and I think, 'Maybe they sent me the wrong script…?' And then I get to the last page, and I was like, 'Oh my god! I can't believe this! This is so cool!' At that time I'd been committed to another project too. We didn't even know if I was going to be available or not. But it all ended up working out."[5]
She appeared in twenty Angel episodes, mainly as an evil antagonist. The character is known for dying the most in the Buffy The Vampire Slayer franchise. She later emphasized: "I just didn’t know how it was going to happen. So when they sent me the script [for my last episode of Angel]—which I basically had to sign my life away to read—I was sitting in my trailer and I just started to cry. I thought it was such a beautiful ending, it was the payoff and just really brought her whole life kind of to that one moment. So I was really upset my last day of filming because I really thought it was over to me."[3]
Characterization[edit]

 

 The transformation into Darla was complicated. Benz was not a fan of the process.
Darla is presented in the series as a wicked vampire with, as Benz put it, generally "pure" intentions. In an interview with TheTVAddict, Benz said:

"Darla’s just misunderstood. Her intentions are pure, they’re just kind of warped. From her perspective—first she has to eat—she just happens to eat people! Second, she was in love with Angel, and I always viewed Darla as the jilted ex-wife that could never get over being dumped. If you really look at her, you can have sympathy and empathy for her. In the beginning of her life she was a prostitute, Joss and I actually talked about that a lot, that she was probably abused growing up. She did what she needed to do to survive, she just lacked the people skills."[3]
Achieving Darla's look was a struggle for Benz. She said: "Taking that makeup off, it was like having six layers of skin ripped off your face every time. It was miserable and the contact lenses were terrible. I don’t wear contacts and I don’t know how people do it, sticking things in their eyeballs all the time."[3] The character's sense of fashion is vital to understanding her past. Benz says Darla is "dressed to the nines" in every time period in which she lives, and "she fully goes after a certain look. If she’s going to be living during the Boxer Rebellion time, she’s got the big Gibson Girl hair style and the beautiful kimono-style clothes." Benz points out that in the Buffy pilot episode, Darla—attempting to dress like a high school student—exaggerates it with a "little twist", wearing a Catholic schoolgirl uniform instead. "I think I influenced Darla fashion-wise in the second season of Angel where she was a little more classic-looking and tailored," Benz says, explaining she collaborated with the costume designer to transition Darla into a "hipper look" when she became a vampire again.[6] Darla shockingly becomes pregnant in the third season of Angel. In an interview with the BBC, Benz admitted:

Yeah, I really felt at that point she was pretty strung out. Her whole world was rocked. She never thought she could get pregnant and then all of a sudden she's carrying this child and she's experiencing this soul for the first time in four hundred years. [There's] the realisation that as soon as the baby's born the soul's going to go away, and it's the first time she really experienced true love, so she was going through a lot emotionally. I just didn't think that she would have time to really think about how she looked. I don't think it was a priority, and so for me as an actor it was important that I reveal that. Not get caught up in my own vanity as an actress, and portray the character as where she really was.[7]
In an interview with the BBC, Benz described Darla as being strong: "I have an amazing stunt double, Lisa Hoyle who looks exactly like me. She’s just brilliant and fearless and she does about 90 per cent of the stunts. I think part of the element of Darla is how strong she is and how fierce she can be and Lisa definitely adds to that element. I would be a doing huge disservice to Darla if I didn’t allow her to do the work that she does and to help add to that element that’s so important to Darla, which is her strength."[6]
Storylines[edit]
Darla is born in the late 16th century in the British Isles. Her birth name has never been revealed in either series, and Darla herself eventually forgets it. As a young prostitute, she emigrates to the Virginia Colony in North America and becomes independently wealthy but also contracts a fatal case of syphilis.[8] By 1609, Darla lies dying in the luxurious house she owns. She scoffs at a "priest" who comes to her deathbed before he reveals his true identity: the Master, leader of the elite cult of vampires known as the Order of Aurelius.[8] Darla despises the clergy and religion, a trait that would follow her as a vampire. The Master turns her into a vampire and renames her "Darla," meaning "dear one" in early modern English ("darling").
She spends four centuries torturing innocent people, often accompanied by Angel (until his soul is restored), before showing up in Sunnydale.[8] Darla's first appearance is in "Welcome to the Hellmouth", the first episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, aired in 1997. She breaks into Sunnydale High School with a student who goes there. Darla first toys with the youth, then her face morphs into that of a vampire, and she bites the boy.[9] Darla later appears in the episode "The Harvest", where she participates in the ascension of the Master, a very old and powerful vampire.[10] Darla's role in the series is more prominent in the episode "Angel", where it is revealed that she was Angel's sire and former lover.[4] Darla bites an unsuspecting Joyce Summers (Buffy's mother), making it look as if Angel did it. Angel eventually kills her.[4] She later appears in numerous flashbacks, illuminating her involvement not only with Angel, but also with Spike.[11][12]
Darla's role in the franchise increased dramatically after her resurrection by the law firm Wolfram & Hart in the final episode of Angel's first season, titled "To Shanshu in L.A."[13] In the second season opener, "Judgement", Wolfram & Hart lawyers Lindsey McDonald and Lilah Morgan question Darla about her past. She talks of how she can feel Angel, and slowly her memory begins to return.[14] In the episode "First Impressions", Angel begins having romantic dreams about his maker. The dreams sap his strength. In "Dear Boy", Angel is shocked to see Darla walking the streets. When he tells his partners, Wesley Wyndam-Pryce and Cordelia Chase, they think he is starting to lose his sanity. During the course of a stakeout by Angel Investigations of a woman suspected of having an affair, Angel confronts the woman, who looks exactly like Darla. She, however, claims she is DeEtta Kramer. When she runs away from him, she walks outside into the sunlight, meaning Darla has not only been resurrected, but is now human.[15] However, Darla and Lindsey's plan to convert Angel back to evil fails. In the end, Wolfram & Hart bring in Drusilla to make Darla a vampire again.[16] Drusilla and Darla unsuccessfully attack Angel and leave Los Angeles.
Knowing that Angel has been cursed so that if he ever experiences pure happiness, he will once again lose his soul, Darla later returns and sleeps with him, but her plot fails; being with her only brings Angel despair. Instead, their one-night stand leads to an unexpected development for the both of them. Darla reappears in season three, surprisingly pregnant with Angel's baby, despite vampires cannot normally conceive.[17] Her pregnancy also allows Darla to again experiencing emotions that had previously lost to her in the presence of a human soul of her unborn child. Admitting that creating life with Angel was the only good thing they ever did together, Darla makes sure Angel will relay that to their child before she stakes herself through the heart, sacrificing her life so their baby, Connor, can be born. Darla turns to dust, but the baby remains.[18] Darla later appears as a spirit, trying to persuade her son in an effort to save him from the renegade deity Jasmine's manipulations, as the latter's actions is bringing Connor into the same dark path as both Darla and Angel had taken.[19]
Reception[edit]
The character of Darla has been well-received by Eric Goldman of IGN. He said: "As the very first character seen on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Julie Benz instantly made an impression as the vampiress Darla. For the next 8 television seasons, she would get to show many different facets of the role, as not even dying (twice!) could keep Darla from being an important part of the story and mythos behind Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the spinoff series Angel, the latter of which allowed Benz to greatly expand her character."[5]
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b Havens, Candace, Joss Whedon: The Genius Behind Buffy Benbella Books (May 1, 2003), p35–36.
2.^ Jump up to: a b "Julie Benz: Biography". TVGuide. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved July 3, 2011.
3.^ Jump up to: a b c d e f "Live From Toronto’s Comic Con 2011: Julie Benz Talks BUFFY, ANGEL, DEXTER and NO ORDINARY FAMILY". TheTVAddict.com. Retrieved July 3, 2011.
4.^ Jump up to: a b c d Scott Brazil (director), David Greenwalt (writer) (April 14, 1997). "Angel". Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Season 1. Episode 6. Fox.
5.^ Jump up to: a b c Goldman, Eric (October 4, 2006). "IGN Interview: Dexter's Julie Benz". IGN. News Corporation. Retrieved 2007-09-18.
6.^ Jump up to: a b "Interview with Julie Benz: Fashion Victim". BBC Online. BBC. Retrieved 2007-09-18.
7.Jump up ^ "Angel- Interviews with Julie Benz and John Kassir: Bun in the leotard". BBC Online (BBC). Retrieved 2007-09-18.
8.^ Jump up to: a b c Tim Minear (writer and director), Joss Whedon (executive producer) (November 14, 2000). "Darla (Angel episode)". Angel. Season 2. Episode 6. The WB.
9.Jump up ^ Joss Whedon (writer and executive producer), Charles Martin Smith (director) (1997-03-10). "Welcome to the Hellmouth". Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Season 1. Episode 1. The WB.
10.Jump up ^ Joss Whedon (writer and executive producer), John T. Kretchmer (director) (March 10, 1997). "The Harvest (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)". Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Season 1. Episode 2. The WB.
11.Jump up ^ Joss Whedon (writer, director, and executive producer) (May 12, 1998). "Becoming (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)". Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Season 2. Episode 21. The WB.
12.Jump up ^ Nick Marck (director), Doug Petrie (writer) (November 14, 2000). "Fool for Love (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)". Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Season 5. Episode 7. The WB.
13.Jump up ^ David Greenwalt (writer and director), Joss Whedon (executive producer) (May 23, 2000). "To Shanshu in L.A.". Angel. Season 1. Episode 22. The WB.
14.Jump up ^ Michael Lange (director), David Greenwalt (writer) (September 26, 2000). "Judgement (Angel)". Angel. Season 2. Episode 1. The WB.
15.Jump up ^ David Greenwalt (writer and director) (October 24, 2000). "Dear Boy". Angel. Season 2. Episode 5. The WB.
16.Jump up ^ Bruce Seth Green (director), David Greenwalt (writer) (November 28, 2000). "The Trial (Angel)". Angel. Season 2. Episode 9. The WB.
17.Jump up ^ David Greenwalt (writer and director) (September 24, 2001). "Heartthrob". Angel. Season 3. Episode 1. The WB.
18.Jump up ^ Tim Minear (writer and director) (November 19, 2001). "Lullaby (Angel)". Angel. Season 3. Episode 9. The WB.
19.Jump up ^ Steven S. DeKnight (writer and director) (April 2, 2003). "Inside Out (Angel)". Angel. Season 4. Episode 17. The WB.
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Harmony Kendall
Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel character

Mercedes McNab as Harmony Kendall
 
First appearance
The Harvest" (1997)
Created by
Joss Whedon
Portrayed by
Mercedes McNab
Information

Affiliation
Wolfram & Hart
Classification
Vampire
Notable powers
Superhuman strength, speed, stamina, agility, and reflexes
 Acute sensory perception, rapid healing and immortality
Harmony Kendall is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon for the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off Angel. The character is portrayed by Mercedes McNab. Originally cast as a minor character, McNab's credited status elevated to guest star and ultimately series regular over the course of her tenure in Buffy and Angel.


Contents  [hide]
1 Appearances 1.1 Television
1.2 Literature
2 Powers and abilities
3 Appearances 3.1 Canonical appearances
4 References
5 Bibliography
6 Further reading

Appearances[edit]
Television[edit]
Harmony appeared in the unaired pilot as a member of Cordelia Chase's clique, the "Cordettes."[1] She subsequently appears in the second episode of Season One, "The Harvest," and makes appearances throughout the first three seasons, and then a larger role in another two. When Cordelia begins dating Xander Harris, Harmony shuns her from their clique and usurps her position as leader of the group. After Cordelia and Xander's breakup, Harmony cruelly tricks Cordelia into thinking she has been re-admitted into the clique, only to humiliate and reject her. In the episode "The Wish," a vengeance demon grants Cordelia's wish that Buffy had never arrived in Sunnydale. Harmony appears in the alternate, hellish reality, again a follower of Cordelia's "Cordettes."[2]
In the final showdown with Mayor Wilkins during his Ascension in the episode "Graduation Day," Harmony (as part of an attempt by Buffy to help organize a student resistance) is killed/sired by a vampire. She reappears in the episode "The Harsh Light of Day" as a vampire, having retained her characteristic pettiness, susceptibility to stronger-willed people, and an affection for unicorn figurines). Harmony begins a sexual relationship with Spike, her "blondie bear." Neither Spike nor Harmony are satisfied with their relationship; Spike is frustrated by Harmony's ignorance and clinginess while she is exasperated with his endless broken promises and repeated attempts to kill Buffy. They separate, although she agrees to rekindle their relationship after Spike escapes from the Initiative. Harmony quickly regrets this decision after recognizing Spike's renewed campaign against the Slayer, and even chases him out of her lair with a stake when he desperately seeks her help in the episode "Pangs."[3]
Spike's ambition to kill the Slayer apparently rubs off. After separating from Spike, Harmony wants to be an independent, strong vampire who can get by on her own; accordingly, in the episode "Real Me," she gathers her own gang and makes her own attempt to kill Buffy, which ends in disaster. Her minions destroyed, Harmony returns to Spike for protection until it becomes clear that Spike's infatuation with Buffy has become an obsession (cf. "Crush").[4]
Having departed Sunnydale, Harmony is next seen in the Buffy spin-off Angel, in the episode "Disharmony." She visits her old friend Cordelia in Los Angeles, not telling Cordelia she has become a vampire. Harmony tries to connect with Cordelia, but has difficulty controlling her demon side. She enters Cordelia's bedroom at night, driven by bloodlust, but apologizes for her actions and intentions when Cordelia wakes up. Cordelia misunderstands her explanation, believing her to be a lesbian until the matter is cleared up by Willow in a phone call. Despite this, Cordelia insists on giving Harmony a chance, while rest of the team grows increasingly frustrated with her habits such as popping gum or tearing pages out of old, irreplaceable books. She accompanies the Angel Investigations team on a mission to investigate a new vampire cult, but soon betrays them to their enemies. Cordelia nearly kills Harmony, but, out of some respect for the friendship they once shared, allows her to leave.
Over two years later, Harmony tries to make a life for herself in L.A. She gains employment at the L.A. branch of Wolfram & Hart, as a member of the secretarial pool. Harmony is attracted by the building's necro-tempered glass windows (designed to protect vampires from sunlight which would otherwise cause them to burst into flames), as well as the firm's non-judgmental workplace culture and dental plan. A few weeks into her employment with the firm, Wesley Wyndam-Pryce hires her out of the blue to be Angel's new personal secretary, after Angel and his staff are given control of that branch of Wolfram & Hart; Wesley apparently thought a familiar face would be good for Angel. Angel reluctantly agrees, on the strict condition that Harmony continues to refrain from drinking human blood.[5]
Harmony is reunited with Spike when he returns, first as a ghost and then in corporeal form. She tries to connect with him, and initially hopes to renew their relationship now that he has a soul. Spike shows no interest for Harmony until he regains his corporeal form and proceeds to seduce her into a brief, disastrous fling, after which neither of them puts any effort into rekindling their tumultuous relationship.
At this point in her un-life, Harmony feels isolated and alone. She knows that she is incompetent as an evil vampire, but her struggle to lead a more normal life is hindered because she lacks a soul. Angel often treats her with distrust and barely masked hostility, and her input, ideas, and presence are generally ignored by his team. Harmony also experiences an inability to connect with her co-workers, who resent her quick rise to the position of the CEO's secretary. In the episode "Harm's Way," she is framed for murder by Tamika, another vampire secretary who wants her job; Tamika also substitutes human blood for her supply of otter blood, to make it appear as though Harmony drank from the victim.[6] She clears her name and ironically saves a demon summit by staking her scheming rival on a conference table with a pair of chopsticks, since the demons required a W&H employee's death to seal their deal. Despite her incompetence, Harmony manages to prove a 'sort of' asset to the team, 'torturing' Eve (i.e. hitting Eve in the face a few times) to get information, helping Wesley search for information about Knox's plans, and aiding Lorne in protecting Eve from her replacement as their liaison to the Senior Partners. She strikes up a brief friendship with Fred Burkle, though her relationship with Illyria, the demon who later inhabits Fred's body, is quite frosty.
Harmony becomes a member of the regular cast starting with the episode "Underneath". In the series finale, "Not Fade Away," she betrays Angel, revealing his plans to go after Archduke Sebassis to Marcus Hamilton, the Senior Partners' new liaison, with whom she has a sexual relationship. Angel, however, always expected her to betray him at some point, so he had only confided information he wanted her to reveal. After her betrayal (which Angel blames on her lack of a soul, and she blames on his lack of confidence in her), he fires her, but not before providing her with a letter of recommendation (which he had already written and signed, in anticipation of her disloyalty). As Angel and Hamilton prepare to fight each other, she runs off, wishing them both luck: "May the best man win!"[7]
Literature[edit]
In the canonical continuation of Buffy, Season Eight, Harmony features in the twenty-first issue, "Harmonic Divergence" by Jane Espenson, which begins a story-arc about the public revelation of the existence of vampires and Slayers. Harmony becomes a MTV reality television star in her own TV series, Harmony Bites, which also stars Clem. Harmony came to instant notoriety after she killed a Slayer who attacked her on live camera. Thanks to Harmony, Buffy and her Slayer army were publicly outed by Anderson Cooper on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360° later that day. Dark Horse Comics created a MySpace page for Harmony,[8] and the Myspace Dark Horse Presents features a special comic book 'episode' of Harmony Bites written by Jane Espenson.[9] Harmony is now considered a vampire rights spokeswoman. At the end of the twenty-second issue, "Swell", she is seen being interviewed on TV about the destruction of the Vampy Cat toy line by the Slayers, which she blames on their blind hatred of anything vampire-related (in actuality, the toys were possessed demonic creatures). This, in combination with the criminal activities of rogue Slayer Simone Doffler, the destruction of Sunnydale and the machinations of the villain Twilight has forced the Slayers into retreat as the whole world now views them as terrorists.
Harmony appears twice in Angel & Faith. During "In Perfect Harmony" it is revealed she used her fame to create rules that when vampires feed from humans they can never kill nor sire and must bite only after the human gives permission. The vast majority of vampires follow these rules for the easy food. Harmony is being threatened with a sex tape that shows her siring a man who was dying of cancer. Angel & Faith reluctantly agree to help her find the blackmailer so vampires continue following her rules and do not start killing humans again. Harmony's staff create a plan to restore Angel's image after his actions as Twilight have left him hated by both humans and demons. The blackmailer is revealed to be Clem who has fallen in love with Harmony and wanted to be her hero by stopping the blackmailer. Harmony won't date him but is easily willing to forget people's past actions and says Angel should do the same with his guilt. Angel tells Faith famous people are crazy and instantly throws the image plan into the trash. In "Spike & Faith" Angel gives Spike Harmony's phone number when Spike is trying to get over his depression about his relationship with Buffy. Spike and Harmony have loud sexual activities in Faith's home; much to Angel & Faith's discomfort.
Powers and abilities[edit]
Harmony has the standard powers and vulnerabilities of a vampire. Several episodes make comedy of her subpar fighting skills, though after later training she holds her own against Riley and Spike, and in "Harm's Way" she kills another vampire after a long battle. In "Harmonic Divergence", she kills a Slayer, though partially by accident. In the Harmony Bites e-comic, she easily kills Justin, a vampire she sired, by quickly deflecting his attempt at staking her.
In "Conviction", she claimed to "type like a superhero, if there was a superhero whose power was typing."
Appearances[edit]
Canonical appearances[edit]
Harmony has appeared in 32 canonical Buffyverse episodes:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV series) Harmony appeared as a guest in 15 episodes:Season 1 (1997) - "The Harvest"; "Out of Mind, Out of Sight"Season 2 (1997–1998) - "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered"Season 3 (1998–1999) - "The Wish"; "Graduation Day, Part One" and "Part Two"Season 4 (1999–2000) - "The Harsh Light of Day"; "The Initiative"; "Pangs"; "Restless"Season 5 (2000–2001) - "Real Me"; "Out of My Mind"; "Family"; "Fool for Love"; "Crush"AngelHarmony joined the cast of Angel as a recurring character at the start of the show's fifth season. Harmony became a series regular in the seventeenth episode, "Underneath," until the series finale, "Not Fade Away." She made appearances in 17 episodes in all with guest appearances in:Season 2 (2000–2001) - "Disharmony"Season 5 (2003–2004) - "Conviction"; "Just Rewards"; "Life of the Party"; "Destiny"; "Harm's Way"; "Soul Purpose"; "Damage"; "You're Welcome"; "Smile Time"; "Shells"Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight She has appeared in two issues so far:"Harmonic Divergence""Swell"
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Joss Whedon (Unaired 1996). "Unaired pilot". Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
2.Jump up ^ Joss Whedon, Marti Noxon, David Greenwalt (1998-12-08). "The Wish". Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Season 3. Episode 9. WB.
3.Jump up ^ Joss Whedon, Jane Espenson (1999-11-23). "Pangs". Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Season 4. Episode 8. WB.
4.Jump up ^ Joss Whedon, David Fury (2001-02-13). "Crush". Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Season 5. Episode 14. WB.
5.Jump up ^ Joss Whedon (2003-10-01). "Conviction". Angel. Season 5. Episode 1. WB.
6.Jump up ^ Joss Whedon, Elizabeth Craft, Sarah Fain (2004-01-14). "Harm's Way". Angel. Season 5. Episode 9. WB.
7.Jump up ^ Joss Whedon, Jeffrey Bell (2004-05-19). "Not Fade Away". Angel. Season 5. Episode 22. WB.
8.Jump up ^ "Harmony at Myspace.com". Myspace.com, Dark Horse Comics. Retrieved 9 January 2009.
9.Jump up ^ "Myspace Dark Horse Presents Issue 18: Harmony Bites". Myspace.com, Dark Horse Comics. 7 January 2009. Retrieved 9 January 2009.
Bibliography[edit]
Abbott, Stacey. Reading Angel: The TV Spin-off With a Soul. I.B.Tauris, 2005. p. xvii. ISBN 1-85043-839-0
Topping, Keith. The Complete Slayer: An Unofficial and Unauthorized Guide to Every Episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Virgin Books, 2004. ISBN 0-7535-0931-8
Tracy, Kathleen. The Girl's Got Bite: The Original Unauthorized Guide to Buffy's World. St. Martin's Press, 2003. pp. 33–34. ISBN 0-312-31258-X
Further reading[edit]

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Gallagher, Diana G. Prime Evil. Simon and Schuster, 2001. p. 66. ISBN 0-7434-3154-5
Jowett, Lorna. Sex and the Slayer: A Gender Studies Primer for the Buffy Fan. Wesleyan University Press, 2005. p. 83. ISBN 0-8195-6758-2
Kaveney, Roz. Reading the Vampire Slayer: The Complete, Unofficial Guide to Buffy And Angel. Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2004. p. ix. ISBN 1-86064-984-X
South, James B. Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy: fear and trembling in Sunnydale. Open Court Publishing, 2003. p. 70. ISBN 0-8126-9531-3
Stevenson, Gregory. Televised Morality: The Case of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. University Press of America, 2004. p. 233. ISBN 0-7618-2833-8
Wilcox, Rhonda V. Why Buffy Matters: The Art of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I.B. Tauris, 2005. p. 81. ISBN 1-84511-029-3


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Turok-Han
The primitive Turok-Han
The primitive Turok-Han
 
Leader(s)
The First Evil
Base of operations
Hellmouth
First appearance
"Never Leave Me"
Creator
Joss Whedon
The Turok-Han vampires (nicknamed the "ubervamps") are fictional characters from Joss Whedon's TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. First mentioned in the Buffy spin-off Angel season 3 episode "Offspring", they finally appear in the 7th and final season of the original series, making their first on screen appearance in the episode "Never Leave Me", when the Seal of Danzalthar is opened under the basement of Sunnydale High, over the Hellmouth.
They are a race of ancient powerful vampires stronger and fiercer than the regular vampires from the series, stated to be to vampires what Neanderthals are to humans. Sunlight and beheading do kill them, but they are immune to crosses, and holy water only causes minor burns that do not deter them in the slightest. They are also resistant although not invulnerable to being staked through the heart (they have denser sternums), and can enter human residences undeterred. Though they are incapable of language and limited to animal instinct, the Turok-Han are intelligent enough to forge their own weapons. Turok-Han are raised by blood offerings/rituals performed on the seal of the Hellmouth.
An interesting note is that the Turok-Han are similar in appearance to the ancient vampire leader, The Master, whose immense age resulted in his human appearance being lost forever; possibly reverting to the vampire's primal state.
Appearances on Buffy[edit]
The First Evil, via its Bringers, first used Spike's blood to open the Seal, thus releasing the first Turok-Han on the series. Buffy's first encounter with the primordial vampire nearly killed her as she was caught off-guard, tired from two days lack of sleep and worried about the fate of her friends. She managed to kill it in a staged fight in the next episode "Showtime".
The Shadow Men later show Buffy a vision, wherein it is revealed that there are actually thousands of Turok-Han, all living below the seal. The First Evil apparently plans to open the Hellmouth and release them all, allowing them to conquer the world. It is also mentioned that somehow, the First would be able to take physical form when its "forces" (presumably referring to the Turok-Han) outnumbered humanity in this world.
Eventually, a few more Turok-Han are released, as seen in the episode "End of Days". Still more waited under Sunnydale for the time when the First would be able to free them all.
In "Chosen", Buffy and the other Slayers go into the Hellmouth itself to fight the Turok-Han. In the end, all of them are apparently killed, including thousands by the mystical amulet that entraps Spike.
The Turok-Han army's performance in the final battle of the series is noticeably worse than the performance of the first Turok-Han. While the first Turok-Han nearly killed Buffy, forcing her to use every possible resource to defeat it the third time around, the later Turok-Han seem evenly matched against the newly activated Slayers and even normal humans such as Xander and Dawn. In the audio commentary for the episode, creator Joss Whedon explains he is aware of the continuity issue with the Turok-Han's powers. He acknowledges that early in the season the demon was nearly unstoppable, yet in the final episode the Slayers can defeat the Turok-Han much more easily. Whedon explains that the story behind the season/episode he wanted to get across to viewers was more important than the continuity.
See also[edit]
List of Buffyverse villains and supernatural beings


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Jennifer Calendar
Buffy the Vampire Slayer character

Robia LaMorte as Jenny Calendar
 
First appearance
"I, Robot... You, Jane" (1997)
Created by
Joss Whedon, Ashley Gable, Thomas A. Swyden
Portrayed by
Robia LaMorte
Information

Affiliation
Scooby Gang
Jenny Calendar is a fictional character in the fantasy television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003). Played by Robia LaMorte, Jenny is the computer teacher at Sunnydale High School. The premise of the series is that a teenage girl, Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar), is given superhuman powers through mystical forces to defeat vampires and other evils in the fictional town of Sunnydale. Unlike the long line of Slayers before her, Buffy accomplishes this with the help of her friends (dubbed the Scooby Gang), including her Watcher, Giles, who is also the school librarian. Buffy also has an ally in Angel, a unique vampire who had his soul restored to him a century ago by Jenny's ancestors after torturing and killing one of their most beloved young women. They cursed him in this manner to make him suffer remorse for all eternity. Angel works closely with Buffy both to assuage his ongoing pangs of conscience as a result of his murderous past, and because he is in love with her. Unbeknownst to Buffy or anyone else, Jenny Calendar has been sent to Sunnydale to keep an eye on Angel.
In the first two seasons of the series, Jenny Calendar is Giles' primary romantic interest. She serves to counter his technophobia and is a rare adult female role model for the young women in Buffy's circle. During the second season her true identity is revealed: she is Janna Kalderash, a member of the Gypsy tribe that cursed Angel. In response to an elder's visions that Angel is suffering less due to his growing romance with Buffy, Jenny is instructed to impede their relationship. As a result of events during the second season storylines, Angel loses his soul and becomes evil, reverting to his former ways of torturing and killing, eventually making Jenny his victim. Among the main cast, she is the series' first recurring character to die, and the manner of her death is noted for its disturbing effect on audiences.


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1 Creation and casting
2 Progression 2.1 Season 1
2.2 Season 2
3 Death
4 Influence
5 Citations
6 Bibliography

Creation and casting[edit]
Buffy the Vampire Slayer was first created by Joss Whedon as a feature film in 1992. Unhappy with the film, Whedon later revived for television the concept of an adolescent girl who is given superhuman powers by mystical forces to defeat evil. The film only touches on the adult world surrounding Buffy Summers, while the series explores it in greater depth.[1]
Originally trained as a dancer who toured and appeared in music videos with Prince, Robia LaMorte won the part of Jenny Calendar. LaMorte had appeared in contemporary television series such as Beverly Hills, 90210, but remarked specifically that she knew at once the material given to her to read in the audition for Buffy was different: "Sometimes you get scripts, and you just know. The words just fit in your mouth a different way when you know you're supposed to speak them. And I kind of knew I was going to get it." Anthony Head, who plays Giles on the series, had already been cast and was scheduled to read with LaMorte so the casting department could gauge their chemistry—which Head acknowledged, later saying, "She's gorgeous, like a David Bailey picture."[2] LaMorte spent a few minutes before the audition speaking and joking with Head, assuming he was a producer. When it came time for them to enter the audition room together, she handed him the chewing gum from her mouth only to learn that he was the actor cast to play opposite her.[3]
Progression[edit]
Season 1[edit]
Jenny Calendar's first appearance is in the episode "I Robot, You Jane", which deals with the risks of online romance. Willow Rosenberg (Alyson Hannigan), one of Buffy's friends, is spending time online with someone she knows as Malcolm, who turns out to be a demon named Moloch the Corrupter. The series regularly employs monsters and elements of dark fantasy to represent real-life problems.[4] As a Watcher, Giles is extremely knowledgeable about the creatures that Buffy must face. He has a large collection of books detailing the demon realms, upon which he relies as the main tool of research and problem-solving. Jenny challenges his traditional approach and helps him to solve the problem of how to find and kill the demon when Giles reveals himself to be a technophobe; she both frustrates and flirts with him in the process.[5] Jenny's character was not intended to be recurring, but the chemistry exhibited between LaMorte and Head encouraged the writers to make her a regular member of the cast.[6]
Jenny's role as a recurring character was cemented in "Prophecy Girl", where she acknowledges that she is aware of the many evil forces in Sunnydale and indicates she is willing to join the Scoobies in their fight against them.[7] Jenny frequently helps through her access to, and knowledge of, technology; she and the related role of Willow represent the marriage of science and magic on the series.[8] Jenny refers to herself as a techno-pagan, not a witch. She says she does not have the necessary power to be a witch, but is adept at researching demons and other occult topics to assist Giles and Buffy. Jenny introduces viewers to the series' expression of magic. In contrast to the more cliched portrayals of magic in the media as an evil force akin to Satan-worshiping tinged with sexploitation, magic in Buffy instead represents a more earth-bound force that can be harnessed for a physical price.[9] Jenny tells Giles that email and bone-casting are equally valid forms of receiving information.[10] The combination of technology and magic represent the joining of masculine and feminine fields, which Jenny Calendar embodies.[11]
Furthermore, many of Jenny's qualities demonstrate a closer kinship with the adolescent characters than the adult ones. In the first season, the female adolescents—Buffy, Willow, and Cordelia (Charisma Carpenter)—establish their identities in contrast to older women, usually parents or teachers. Jenny's youthful style and her rejection of a staid way of life indicate that she is a role model for the young female characters. They do not see her as an adversarial adult.[12]
Season 2[edit]
The conflicts in the second season broaden to explore the difficulties faced by Buffy as she becomes torn between love and duty—a theme which is also reflected in Jenny's storyline.[13] Jenny and Giles begin dating in the episode "Some Assembly Required", and his attempts to ask her out force him into facing issues far more frightening than the monsters and demons with which he is familiar, and bring her into direct conflict with her secret reason for being in Sunnydale.[14] Their romance is at the center of "The Dark Age", where it is revealed that Giles' past includes a youthful exploration into dark magic, when he was known to his friends as "Ripper".[15] The result of this experimentation 20 years ago calls a demon named "Eyghon" to Sunnydale; the demon temporarily possesses Jenny, prompting her to halt their relationship. At the end of the episode, she tells Giles she needs some time away from him.[16] Although the make-up requirement for LaMorte's appearance as Eyghon nearly gave her an anxiety attack,[17] she considered this the most fun episode she filmed. She was called upon to throw Giles across the room and slam his head onto a table.[3]
Jenny and Giles tentatively reignite their relationship in "Ted".[18] According to Lorna Jowett, Jenny Calendar—and later, Olivia (Phina Oruche)—serves to assure viewers that Giles, despite being a bookish man who spends most of his time with adolescents, is heterosexual and has no sexual interest in the teenage characters. His relationship with Jenny also allows them to emphasize the generation gap between themselves and adults: they consider the idea of him as a sexual being "gross".[19]
Each season presents viewers with a primary villain which Buffy and the Scooby Gang must learn how to defeat, called the Big Bad. In the first season Buffy allies herself with a 242-year-old vampire named Angel (David Boreanaz). Angel was not only amoral and murderous as a vampire, but was known to become obsessive and extravagantly cruel. A recurring pleasure for him was choosing a vulnerable woman whom he tormented by killing her friends and family. When he murdered a beloved member of a Gypsy tribe, they exacted vengeance upon him by cursing him: they conjured back his soul and re-invested him with it, thereby restoring his conscience. Newly ensouled, he became horrified at his own acts, spending the next 100 years in a state of overwhelming guilt and deep misery about what he had done as a vampire. To alleviate his guilt, and because he is drawn to Buffy, he assists her with her cause, and they fall in love.[20][21]
Author Tracy Little asserts that in addition to the theme of love vs. duty, "you are not who I thought you were" applies to the second season, and notably, centers around Jenny Calendar.[22] In "Surprise" it is revealed that Jenny is an emissary from the tribe that cursed Angel. Her true name is Janna (pronounced Yannah) Kalderash, and she has been sent to ensure he continues to suffer for his past brutality. Janna's Uncle Enyos (Vincent Schiavelli) comes to remind her of her duty to her people and he expresses his disappointment that, as a woman from a group of people wary of technology and intermarriage with outsiders, she has become a computer teacher in a relationship with a non-Gypsy.[23] Angel's ongoing torment allows the curse to continue working and must be maintained. However, an "Elder Woman" has had visions that Angel's pain is lessening and that this cannot be allowed to happen—Jenny must separate him from Buffy, as she is the cause of his relief. Enyos does not tell her a significant element of the curse: should Angel ever experience even one moment of true happiness, his soul will again disappear, making him "Angelus", the evil vampire he was. This factor comes into play when Buffy and Angel have sex in "Innocence" as in the intimacy of that experience he feels happiness deep enough to trigger the loss of his soul. Angelus becomes the second season's Big Bad and begins to terrorize Buffy and her inner circle by stalking and threatening them.[13] Buffy subsequently figures out that Jenny is involved in Angel's transformation and confronts her. This revelation causes a deep rift between Jenny and the rest of the Scoobies and effectively halts her romance with Giles. Buffy demands that she curse Angel again, but Jenny does not know how to do this. Angelus' first act is to kill Enyos, thus revealing that Angel already knew Jenny's true identity and motives prior losing his soul at some point. For most of the rest of the second season Jenny remains estranged from Buffy's circle; only Willow, who Jenny asks to teach her computer class for her, regularly interacts with her.
Death[edit]
By the episode "Passion" it has become clear that Angelus is targeting Buffy's friends and family and has, in Giles' words, "regained his sense of whimsy", demonstrated by petty cruelties that keep the group unsettled and frightened. In their first real conversation since estrangement, Giles warns Jenny to beware of the increasing danger to them all; during this conversation she admits to Giles that she has fallen in love with him and they agree to meet later. Despite the improbability of success and without telling Giles or Buffy, Jenny attempts to restore Angel's soul by using her computer to translate the ancient curse. Upon learning what she is doing, Angelus destroys the computer, taunts Jenny, then laughs as he chases her through the school, finally killing her by snapping her neck. He then takes Jenny's body to Giles' apartment and sets up music, champagne, and roses, as if she is awaiting him in his bedroom for a romantic encounter; Giles then finds her dead body arranged on his bed.[24] To derive the maximum pleasure from what he has done, Angelus waits outside Buffy's house to watch their shock and distress as Buffy and Willow receive the call that Jenny has been murdered.
Steve Vineberg, a film and theater professor, asserts in a 2000 article in The New York Times that the character's death marked "the most terrifying and upsetting phase of the show".[25] Similarly, author Kathleen Tracy states that "Passion" is, among the first two seasons' episodes, the most "viscerally disturbing" not only for Jenny's death and its brutality, but because the series killed off a regularly recurring and sympathetic character, something which was unprecedented in television history.[26] Joss Whedon recognized this when he stated in an interview that killing Jenny, and the manner of her dispatching, was precisely devised to make several points. It was integral that the show make clear to the audience that "not everything is safe, that not every one is safe...to show that death is final and death is scary", and to signal that any character, at any time, could die. Jenny's death was also used to make clear that Angel, in his incarnation as Angelus, is truly evil and now Buffy's mortal enemy whom she must kill. After much discussion, Whedon and the writers decided that Angel should not bite Jenny, but instead break her neck as a show of his contempt for her: "I'm not even going to feed" is the attitude Whedon wanted to communicate, as well as Angel's evident pleasure in the act. Whedon also felt that it was important that Angel do so wearing his vampire face as they planned to bring the re-ensouled Angel back later, and it would be "too disturbing" to the audience to accept Buffy ever kissing him again had the murder been committed while in his normal visage. Whedon stated that the writing team wanted the prospect of bringing Angel back after the murder of Jenny Calendar to be very difficult and so fraught with consequences that even the characters would not be sure they wanted him to return.[27]
Influence[edit]
Following her death, Jenny Calendar's character continues to have an influence on the series. Among the female Scoobies, it is Willow who most looks up to Jenny. Willow is skilled with computers and her mother is emotionally distant from her; Willow expresses several times that her parents are mostly uninterested in her. As Jenny offers both mentoring and validation for Willow, she becomes a substitute mother for her.[28] Jenny furthermore argues that traditionally, knowledge has been kept from people as a result of systemized patriarchy, and she champions computers and the Internet because she believes they will create a new society. Author J. P. Williams asserts that Jenny Calendar's feminist viewpoints resonate with Willow, as Willow receives similar commentary about patriarchy in the media on the rare occasions her mother speaks to her.[29] Jenny is limited, however, by the very patriarchy she fights. Her first lessons from her people are about vengeance, and she is fully committed to her duty to watch Angel. Although she treats Giles as an equal and demands the same from him, her deference to her uncle stifles her. Enyos' withholding information from Jenny is echoed in Giles' frequent ignorance of facts the Watcher's Council deliberately withholds from him.[30] Because Jenny is not told the full details of the curse, she is unable to warn Buffy and Angel, thus her ignorance essentially kills her. Williams writes, "Whether Buffy will eventually provide an alternative model of womanhood is perhaps the series' most intriguing cliffhanger."[29]
In an analysis of the treatment of Romani people in literature and media, Nikolina Dobreva asserts that the show deserves to be criticized for associating Gypsies with curses, primitivism, and for stereotyping Gypsies as "irrevocably foreign" in clothing, speech, and for perpetuating the persistent air of mystery surrounding them. However, Dobreva praises the character of Jenny Calendar, writing in 2009: "Jenny’s character, despite the reversion to a few stereotypes, is arguably one of the most multi-faceted and positive representations of a female Gypsy in the past 20 years. In sharp contrast to all other Gypsy portrayals, she is technologically savvy, and, instead of resorting to incantations or obscure rituals, is able to create a computer algorithm that would make possible the restoration of Angel’s soul."[31]
In the episode "Becoming", Willow finds the spell that Jenny translated and casts it herself, successfully restoring Angel's soul and leading to her own foray into magic. Willow attempts to learn more about magic in the fourth season by joining her college Wicca group, only to be met by women who are ineffectual, whom she labels "wanna-blessed-bes". She takes magic very seriously, becoming competent enough in the fifth season to achieve what Buffy cannot. By the seventh season, Willow's magical gifts are so powerful that she is the strongest person in Buffy's circle. Additionally, Jenny's comfort in expressing sexuality is a model for all the young women. Her "sexual (or sensual) aggression" is noted by Buffy studies writers.[2][32] Williams asserts that Jenny's influence on Willow is evident when, in the fourth season, Willow falls in love with another woman, Tara Maclay (Amber Benson), expressing little self-doubt when she realizes she has.[29]
Jenny appears twice more in the series, first in "Becoming", as part of an illusion the vampire Drusilla (Juliet Landau) creates to beguile Giles into telling Angelus, who is torturing him, what he needs to know.[33] She again appears in the third season episode "Amends" as the guise of the First Evil, who assumes the faces of many people Angel has killed, tormenting him and insisting he kill Buffy.[34][35]
Citations[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Tracy, pp. 6–37.
2.^ Jump up to: a b Tracy, p. 55
3.^ Jump up to: a b Golden and Holder, pp. 219–221.
4.Jump up ^ Wilcox, p. 18.
5.Jump up ^ Tracy, pp. 158–162.
6.Jump up ^ Stafford, pp. 137–140.
7.Jump up ^ Tracy, pp. 172–175.
8.Jump up ^ South, p. 85.
9.Jump up ^ Wilcox and Lavery, pp. 187–188.
10.Jump up ^ South, p. 220.
11.Jump up ^ Jowett, p. 38.
12.Jump up ^ Jowett, pp. 174–175.
13.^ Jump up to: a b Kaveny, pp. 20–22.
14.Jump up ^ Tracy, pp. 179–182.
15.Jump up ^ Tracy, pp. 197–200.
16.Jump up ^ Golden and Holder, pp. 94–95.
17.Jump up ^ Stafford, pp. 159–161.
18.Jump up ^ Stafford, pp. 164–165.
19.Jump up ^ Jowett, pp. 127–131.
20.Jump up ^ Golden and Holder, pp. 23–24.
21.Jump up ^ Wilcox and Lavery, p. 144
22.Jump up ^ South, p. 291.
23.Jump up ^ Stafford, pp. 167–168.
24.Jump up ^ Golden and Holder, pp. 110–112.
25.Jump up ^ Vineberg, Steve (October 1, 2000). "Television: Yes, She's a Vampire Slayer. No, Her Show Isn't Kid Stuff", The New York Times. p. 42.
26.Jump up ^ Tracy, pp. 221–223.
27.Jump up ^ Whedon, Joss (2008). Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Complete Second Season; "Interview with Joss Whedon: Passion" Featurette. [DVD]. 20th Century Fox.
28.Jump up ^ Wilcox and Lavery, pp. 53.
29.^ Jump up to: a b c Wilcox and Lavery, pp. 69–72.
30.Jump up ^ Wilcox, pp. 115–116.
31.Jump up ^ Dobreva, pp. 209–213.
32.Jump up ^ South, p. 308.
33.Jump up ^ Tracy, pp. 232–235.
34.Jump up ^ Stafford, pp. 197–198.
35.Jump up ^ Holder, et al, pp. 161–163.
Bibliography[edit]
Dobreva, Nikolina (2009). The Case of the Traveling Dancer: Romani Representation from the 19th Century European Literature to Hollywood Film and Beyond, University of Massachusetts (Ph.d. dissertation)
Golden, Christopher; Holder, Nancy (1998). Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Volume 1, Pocket Books. ISBN 0-671-02433-7
Holder, Nancy; Mariotte, Jeff; Hart, Maryelizabeth (2000). Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Volume 2, Pocket Books. ISBN 0-671-04260-2
Jowett, Lorna (2005). Sex and the Slayer: A Gender Studies Primer for the Buffy Fan, Wesleyan University Press. ISBN 978-0-8195-6758-1
Kaveney, Roz (ed.) (2004). Reading the Vampire Slayer: The New, Updated, Unofficial Guide to Buffy and Angel, Tauris Parke Paperbacks. ISBN 1-86064-984-X
South, James (ed.) (2003). Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale, Open Court Books. ISBN 0-8126-9531-3
Stafford, Nikki (2007). Bite Me! The Unofficial Guide to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, ECW Press. ISBN 978-1-55022-807-6
Tracy, Kathleen (1998). The Girl's Got Bite: The Unofficial Guide to Buffy's World, Renaissance Books. ISBN 1-58063-035-9
Wilcox, Rhonda (2005). Why Buffy Matters: The Art of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I. B. Tauris. ISBN 1-84511-029-3
Wilcox, Rhonda and Lavery, David (eds.) (2002). Fighting the Forces: What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 0-7425-1681-4


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Jonathan Levinson
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Jonathan Levinson
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"Inca Mummy Girl"
Danny Strong as Jonathan Levinson
 
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Joss Whedon, Matt Kiene, Joe Reinkemeyer
Portrayed by
Danny Strong
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Affiliation
The Trio
Classification
Sorcerer
Notable powers
Powerful magical abilities
Jonathan Levinson is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon for the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The character is portrayed by Danny Strong.


Contents  [hide]
1 Biography 1.1 Character history 1.1.1 Season 2
1.1.2 Season 3
1.1.3 Season 4
1.1.4 Season 6
1.1.5 Season 7

2 Writing and acting
3 Powers and abilities
4 Appearances 4.1 Canonical appearances
4.2 Non-canonical appearances
5 Notes and references

Biography[edit]
Character history[edit]
Jonathan was born in 1981 and raised in Sunnydale, California. He attended Sunnydale High School where he was often bullied, ridiculed, and ignored by his more popular peers, thereby developing low self-esteem.
Season 2[edit]
In 1997, while attending the World Culture Dance, Jonathan is singled out by Ampata Gutierrez, a resurrected Incan princess, who wants to kiss him and transfer his life-force to her own. Not knowing her true nature, he does not resist, believing his luck in love has changed; he is only saved when Xander Harris shows up and, feeling uncomfortable because of Xander's attitude towards Ampata, Jonathan leaves them alone. A week later, Jonathan is picked by Cordelia Chase to accompany her to The Bronze after she has a bad date. The relationship does not last though, and Cordelia soon moves on to Xander. Soon after, he is used momentarily as a hostage by a member of the Order of Turaka, but is quickly let go.
The following year, like many others in the school, Jonathan becomes possessed by a Bezoar that has been given to the class by Mr. Whitmore. As soon as Buffy Summers kills the mother Bezoar, he is freed from the Bezoar's control, believing himself to have been caught in a gas leak, as did Buffy's mother, Giles, Willow, Cordelia and others. Jonathan's self-esteem is dealt another crushing blow later that year when he tries out for the school's swim team and does not make it only to be picked on by Dodd McAlvy, who repeatedly dunks his head in a bucket of ice cold water to see how long he is able to hold his breath. Buffy saves him, but she also further bashes his esteem, and he goes on to urinate in the swimming pool, which he later confesses to Willow Rosenberg under duress.
Season 3[edit]
The following academic year, Jonathan becomes a senior and he is invited to a "welcome back" party for Buffy at her house. Zombies raised by Ovu Mobani crash the party and Jonathan is one of the few guests who make it out alive. Prior to the Homecoming Dance, both Cordelia and Buffy are campaigning to become Homecoming Queen, allowing Jonathan to show his mercenary side by trying to get as much out of both of them as he can in exchange for his vote. Towards the end of that year, while minding his own business, he is singled out by socialite Harmony Kendall and the Cordettes as a possible boyfriend for Cordelia, who has just broken up with Xander. The incident is humiliating for Jonathan and is yet another incident that contributes to his ever-decreasing confidence.
Having had enough, Jonathan takes steps to commit suicide atop a bell tower at the high school, leaving a suicide note for Freddy Iverson to publish in the Sunnydale High Sentinel, the school newspaper. Buffy soon tracks Jonathan down, mistakenly believing that he plans to kill other students with his rifle, and informing him that everyone in the school is dealing with just as much pain as he is, but then discovers he was actually going to kill himself. For bringing a gun into the school, Jonathan is suspended for a couple of weeks and ordered to attend counseling.
Upon returning to the school, Jonathan's confidence has marginally increased and at the senior prom, he has a date with a girl much taller than he is. At the prom, he also finds the confidence to present Buffy with a Class Protector award. On graduation day, Jonathan joins the rest of the Class of 1999 in fighting against Mayor Richard Wilkins III who has completed his Ascension to become the demon Olvikan. During the battle, he aggressively pounces on many vampires and survives to see the school be blown up and catch a jumpy Cordelia in his arms.
Season 4[edit]
After trying to kill himself, Jonathan enters into counseling where he meets another suicidal person who teaches him an augmentation spell. The spell revises history, making some of Buffy's accomplishments into Jonathan's (including the destruction of the Master's skeleton, receiving the Class Protector Award, and blowing up Sunnydale High), and enhancing Jonathan's fame and popularity. The spell creates a monster (metaphorically and literally) as though to contrast with the ideal image that Jonathan has created for himself. He is also believed to have starred in The Matrix despite never having left Sunnydale, which is one of a few things that tips off Buffy, whom he has supposedly led in fighting vampires, to discover the spell he has cast. Jonathan reluctantly assists Buffy in killing the monster and thus breaking the illusion; he apologizes to Buffy the following day after the Swedish twins Ilsa and Inga leave him at his mansion and he loses his job as tactical consultant at the Initiative.
Season 6[edit]
Over a year later, Jonathan, in a moment of boredom, joins Warren Mears and Andrew Wells, and they agree to take over Sunnydale, with Jonathan using his expertise in magic to help them; within the Trio, Jonathan often suggests non-violent plans and is the most reluctant to hurt anyone or kill Buffy, whom he has a soft spot for due to his history with her. A month later, Andrew summons a M'Fashnik Demon to cause a distraction in the Sunnydale Securities Bank while they rob it. Buffy interferes and almost ruins the plan. Over Jonathan's objections, Warren steers the demon into a fight with Buffy, who kills it. Soon afterward, the Trio spend some time harassing Buffy with mystical and technological tests of her abilities, making it a competition among themselves for ingenuity; Jonathan uses a magic bone to put Buffy in a time loop which can only be broken if she performs a seemingly impossible task for a customer at the Magic Box. On escaping the loop, Buffy suspects that she was being tested and nearly succeeds in tracking down the Trio; to shake her, Jonathan uses magic to impersonate a horned demon. It doesn't give Jonathan any increased abilities and he is forced to take a blow from the Slayer, a difficult thing to do.
A few weeks later, Jonathan aids the other two in stealing a large diamond from a local museum. A security guard is hit with their freeze ray during the incident. The three are later confronted by Spike, who wants Warren to examine his defective behavior modification chip that forbids him from harming humans. Warren agrees only after Spike threatens to break their Boba Fett action figure.

 

 The Trio fight over a device that can turn objects invisible.
In 2002, after accidentally making Buffy invisible with another of Warren's gadgets, Jonathan agrees with Andrew that they should return her to normal before she disintegrates. A confrontation between the two sides leads to the Trio's identities being discovered. With the Scooby Gang now knowing who the Trio are and where they are based, the Trio flee Warren's booby-trapped basement.
Jonathan suggests turning themselves in to the police when Warren accidentally kills his ex-girlfriend Katrina Silber. Warren decides to frame Buffy for the murder. Although Warren's plan fails, Katrina's death is ruled as a suicide. As neither Warren nor Andrew show remorse, Jonathan feels increasingly alienated from them, and soon finds that they are keeping some of Warren's plans from him. He finally betrays Warren by telling Buffy how to defeat an altered, magically enhanced Warren. Ultimately, Warren escapes, betraying the other two.
In jail, Jonathan makes sure that Andrew knows Warren will not be coming to save them, insisting they will be forced to spend time in prison. To make matters worse, while the pair have been in jail, Warren has killed Tara Maclay in an attempt to kill Buffy, causing Willow to go on a homicidal rampage. With Warren dead, Jonathan and Andrew are her next targets. Anya teleports to warn them and Buffy helps them escape, driving them to the Magic Box for protection. Willow eventually tracks them down and the pair accompany Xander and Dawn to safety as Buffy fights Willow. Andrew becomes nervous though and threatens Xander with a sword. Jonathan draws a sword on Andrew, telling him that after Willow is defeated, they will be going back to jail.
On the way to another hiding spot, an attack by Willow leaves the two able to flee. They hitch a ride with a trucker and head for Mexico.
Season 7[edit]

 

 Jonathan's body over the Seal of Danzalthar
While in Mexico, both Jonathan and Andrew begin having dreams that lead them back to Sunnydale where they know a great power is rising. This is the First Evil. The two return on November 12, with Jonathan having the intention of finding the Seal of Danzalthar and alerting Buffy to it so she can stop the coming evil and allow Jonathan to join the Scooby Gang. As they make their way into the newly rebuilt high school basement to uncover the seal, it is revealed that Andrew is being guided by an ethereal image of Warren. While digging, the two engage in a conversation and Jonathan reveals that he has achieved redemption of a sort: all the pain and hurt associated with his high school years, the pain that shaped his life, has faded away. He wishes the people he spent six years with well, even if they don't care about him (echoing back to "Earshot"). Andrew is not impressed and with a glance at Warren, stabs Jonathan, letting his blood flow on the seal. Jonathan dies, but his blood isn't sufficient to open the seal due to anemia. Robin Wood, the principal of the new Sunnydale High, discovers and subsequently buries Jonathan. In later episodes, Jonathan's form occasionally appears as an avatar of the First Evil.
Writing and acting[edit]
Strong described the early development of his character in an interview with the U.K. Buffy the Vampire Slayer magazine. He described his character as the "Kenny of Buffy. Except that he never dies."[1] Strong had initially auditioned for the role of Xander, but lost out to Nicholas Brendon. He first appeared in the Unaired Buffy the Vampire Slayer pilot in a bit part simply named "Student", and subsequently appeared in a number of episodes. He said that often he appeared in scenes that could have been done by other characters but that "They'll have Jonathan do it, to keep the continuity of the world".
Writer/directors David Greenwalt and Marti Noxon both stated in the DVD commentaries for "Reptile Boy" and "What's My Line", respectively, that Danny Strong was the actor that they would call on whenever they needed a good victim, both citing his good "victim face". Eventually the character grew out of this frequent use.[2]
Explaining the potential appeal of the character, he said, "I think everyone is sort of like Jonathan. Either they're like Jonathan or they're trying to cover up their Jonathan qualities. Either they're awkward and shy, or they're doing everything they can not to appear awkward and shy. I'm not really very shy, but I certainly can be awkward at times."[1]
Powers and abilities[edit]
Over the course of the series Jonathan becomes an accomplished sorcerer, capable of performing reality alterations (cf. "Superstar"), time loops and glamours (cf. "Life Serial").
Appearances[edit]
Canonical appearances[edit]
Buffy the Vampire SlayerJonathan appeared as a guest in 28 episodes:Season 2 (1997, 1998) - "Inca Mummy Girl"; "Reptile Boy"; "What's My Line, Part Two"; "Bad Eggs"; "Passion"; "Go Fish"Season 3 (1998, 1999) - "Dead Man's Party"; "Homecoming"; "The Wish"; "Earshot"; "The Prom"; "Graduation Day, Part Two"Season 4 (1999, 2000) - "Superstar"Season 6 (2001, 2002) - "Flooded"; "Life Serial"; "Smashed"; "Gone"; "Dead Things"; "Normal Again"; "Entropy"; "Seeing Red"; "Villains"; "Two to Go"; "Grave"Season 7 (2002, 2003) - "Conversations with Dead People"; "Never Leave Me" (as the First Evil); "First Date" (as the First Evil); "Storyteller" (flashbacks and dreams)
Non-canonical appearances[edit]
Season 1 (1997) - "Unaired Pilot"
Jonathan also appears in Buffy expanded universe. He appears notably in the Buffy comic: Jonathan.
Notes and references[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b Springer, Matt, "Big Man on Campus", from Buffy the Vampire Slayer magazine #13 (UK, September 2000), page 20-21.
2.Jump up ^ Buffy the Vampire Slayer second season DVD set. 20th century Fox (region 1, 2002), disc two and three.


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Amy Madison
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Amy Madison
Buffy the Vampire Slayer character

Elizabeth Anne Allen as Amy Madison
 
First appearance
"Witch"
Created by
Joss Whedon, Dana Reston
Portrayed by
Elizabeth Anne Allen - TV Series
Shay Astar - Motion Comics
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Classification
Witch
Notable powers
Powerful magical abilities
Amy Madison is a fictional character on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Elizabeth Anne Allen plays the character in the original television series, and Shay Astar plays Amy in the Season 8 motion comics. The character appears in every season of Buffy except Season Five (during which time the character was stuck in the form of a rat due to a spell cast in Season Three).
In the show, Amy is a witch. Although initially a seemingly good-natured individual, Amy gradually begins misusing her magic, eventually becoming an enemy to Willow (Alyson Hannigan) and her friends. In the series' comic book continuation, the character is more of an outright villain.


Contents  [hide]
1 Appearances 1.1 Television
1.2 Literature
2 Powers and abilities
3 Romantic interests
4 Appearances
5 References
6 External links

Appearances[edit]
Television[edit]
Amy is a classmate of Buffy Summers at Sunnydale High School. In junior high, she would often go over to Willow's house and eat brownies to escape her mother's abuse. The character first appears in the Season One episode "Witch", when she and Buffy both try out for the cheerleading team. At first, Amy performs poorly in the tryouts, but when a series of strange injuries to other contestants move her up in the standings, the Scooby Gang suspects that something is afoul. It is revealed that Amy's mother Catherine, a very powerful witch, has switched bodies with Amy because she wants to relive her youth. Buffy and the Scooby Gang succeed in restoring Amy to her own body and (unknown to them) trapping her mother in the cheerleading trophy she won while a cheerleader for Sunnydale High (her nickname was Catherine the Great due to her cheerleading prowess). Afterward, Amy talks to Buffy and mentions that she is now living with her father and step-mother, and that she is much happier.
The character appears as a Sunnydale student in other episodes. Along with Jonathan Levinson and Harmony Kendall, she is one of many recurring student characters. In the Season Two episode "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered", Xander Harris discovers that Amy inherited her mother's power, having become a potent, if sometimes ineffective, witch. Xander blackmails Amy into helping him perform a love spell on Cordelia Chase, however, the spell goes awry and causes the entire female population of Sunnydale, sans Cordelia, to become psychotically obsessed with Xander. Under the influence of her own spell, a jealous Amy invokes the goddess Hecate and temporarily turns Buffy into a rat. Eventually, Rupert Giles forces Amy to undo both spells.
In Season Three, the character has joined a coven with Willow (now a practicing witch) and warlock Michael Czajak. In the episode "Gingerbread", the parents of Sunnydale (under the influence of the demonic Hans and Greta) become paranoid about the supernatural's influence on their children, and prepare to burn Amy, Buffy, and Willow at the stake. To escape her bonds, Amy turns herself into a rat, but then, being a rat, she is unable to remove her own spell. Willow captures Rat-Amy and keeps her in a cage until the spell can be reversed. Willow makes several unsuccessful attempts to dispel of Amy's rat form over the next two seasons. In the Season Four episode "Something Blue", Willow, who, at this time, has the power to make anything she wants happen, accidentally turns Amy back into a human; however, Willow does not even notice, and a few seconds later accidentally changes the character back into a rat. Doug Petrie, a writer on the show, describes this series of events as "as cruel and funny as anything could be".[1]
By Season Six, Willow has become an extremely powerful witch and permanently "de-rats" Amy simply by conjuring an incantation. The two become friends again, though Amy now seems to be drastically different than she was before she turned into a rat. The character had apparently been involved with the warlock Rack before becoming a rat. Amy gets Willow involved as well, leading her to become addicted to black magic. Later, when Willow decides to give up magic, Amy casts a spell on her, causing her to magically manipulate everything she touches for a while; Willow complains that Amy's actions are encumbering her attempts to quit magic. Amy responds by mocking her, implying that she did it as revenge for being trapped as a rat for years. As a result, Willow cuts Amy out of her life entirely.
Amy's final appearance in the television series occurs in the Season Seven episode "The Killer in Me." When asked her feelings about Amy's actions in this episode, Elizabeth Anne Allen said, "I think after all the things that she went through, there were a lot of reasons why she was so angry."[2]
Having physically transformed into Warren Mears, whom she tortured and flayed in a rage over the murder of her girlfriend Tara Maclay, Willow seeks help from the UC Sunnydale Wicca Group and discovers that Amy is a member. Amy explains that she had hit "rock bottom", and was doing much better now. It is soon revealed, however, that Amy is in fact responsible for Willow's transformation, the result of a hex placed on her apparently out of jealousy and spite. However, in the Season Eight comic book, it's made known this seemingly random event is actually part of a larger plan orchestrated by Warren, after Amy rescued him from death in the earlier episode "Villains."
Allen says she would have liked to explore Amy's struggle to overcome her anger, so that she could "get a grip and come back to the fold with her friends."[2]
Literature[edit]
In the first issue of the Season Eight comic book story "The Long Way Home," an expedition of the United States Army finds Amy living sixty feet under the Hellmouth after its collapse with her "boyfriend," an unrevealed creature whom General Voll regards with disgust. Her first words to an exploratory member were "I'm gonna help you kill her." In exchange for their cooperation, Amy requests unlimited access to all the government's magical hardware as well as a weapons lab for her "boyfriend"; and if they succeed in taking Buffy down, Amy wants full immunity and release for the both of them.
Amy attacks Buffy at the Slayers' base in Scotland, putting her under a mystical sleep which only a kiss of someone's love can undo. Raising an army of kilted zombies to battle the Slayers, Amy battles Willow mid-air before being stepped-on by Buffy's now-giant sister Dawn Summers. As Willow magically probes Amy's whereabouts, she is pulled through a portal to be "greeted" by a saw-wielding and skinless Warren Mears. As Warren tortures Willow, Amy faces off against Satsu and an awakened Buffy, who manages to channel enough of Willow's magic to defeat a demon which Amy conjured. Having seen her dreamspace while asleep, Buffy takes the form of Amy's worst nightmare: her mother. Distracted, Amy fails to notice a grenade thrown at her feet by Satsu, and as Buffy and Satsu charge into the room containing Willow, they see Amy appear and teleport away with Warren in her arms.
Later, in "Time of Your Life", Amy and Warren are shown working under direct orders from Twilight, under whom Voll served. Together they construct a missile covered in mystical runes and candles, and use it to destroy a Scottish citadel, killing seven of the many Slayers residing there. The couple continue to squabble over tactical and romantic disagreements; it is Amy who is able to identify the Slayers' location and powerless status in Tibet using a cat disguise, after previous magical and military attempts at detecting them failed in the "Retreat" arc.
Powers and abilities[edit]
Amy is a powerful witch with abilities inherited from her mother. These powers grow throughout the series. While initially more powerful than Willow, casting a spell to become a rat that Willow cannot initially reverse, Amy acknowledges in Season Seven that Willow has surpassed her. Willow comments that Amy's newfound power in Season Eight (which she claims has grown since the events of "Chosen") has been technologically augmented to some degree, with Amy commenting that she has grown consistently stronger stranded in the ruins of Sunnydale. In battle, Amy is able to stand up against Willow and fly by force of will.
Romantic interests[edit]
Xander Harris - After a spell Amy casts which was supposed to make Cordelia love Xander goes wrong, she, along with every other woman in Sunnydale, falls in love with Xander ("Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered"). This attraction ends after Rupert Giles gets Amy to reverse the spell.
Larry Blaisdell - Amy stated that she thought Larry was considering asking her to the prom, apparently unaware he was gay and the fact that the graduation of her class occurred three years before, when Larry died.
Warren Mears - Amy's skinless boyfriend in Season Eight. It is revealed in "The Long Way Home" that the two had been in a relationship since "Villains", where after Warren was flayed alive by Willow, Amy saved his life. Amy refers to Warren as "sweetie", while he claims that "her magic is my skin."
Appearances[edit]
Amy has appearead in 15 Buffyverse episodes and comics.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Amy has appeared as a guest in 8 Buffy episodes:Season 1 (1997) - "Witch"
Season 2 (1998) - "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered"
Season 3 (1999) - "Gingerbread"
Season 4 (1999) - "Something Blue"
Season 6 (2001–02) - "Smashed"; "Wrecked"; "Doublemeat Palace"
Season 7 (2003) - "The Killer in Me"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight Amy has appeared thus far in seven issues:"The Long Way Home, Parts 1-4"
"Time of Your Life, Part 1 & 4"
"Retreat, Part 2"
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Doug Petrie discusses Amy the Rat". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2011-03-20.
2.^ Jump up to: a b "Interview with Elizabeth Anne Allen". Retrieved 07//17/2007.
External links[edit]
Amy Madison at the Internet Movie Database
 


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Ethan Rayne
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Ethan Rayne
Buffy the Vampire Slayer character
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Robin Sachs as Ethan Rayne
 
First appearance
"Halloween"
Last appearance
The Long Way Home
Created by
Joss Whedon, Carl Ellsworth
Portrayed by
Robin Sachs
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Gods of Chaos
Notable powers
Sorcery
Ethan Rayne is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon for the television program Buffy the Vampire Slayer, portrayed by Robin Sachs. He serves as a foil to Rupert Giles.


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1.2 Post-Sunnydale
2 Powers and abilities
3 Appearances 3.1 Canonical appearances
3.2 Non-canonical appearances
4 See also
5 External links
6 References

Character history[edit]
Little is known about Ethan's early years, although his accent suggests he is English. The first time he appears is in the episode "Halloween", when he reveals his dark nature. More information is revealed in the second season episode "The Dark Age". In the early 1970s, Ethan met and became friends with Rupert Giles, then known as "Ripper." Giles had dropped out of Oxford University and traveled to London to seek out the worst crowd that would have him. Associating with the dregs of the supernatural subculture that exist in the Buffyverse, he was in a phase later described by Xander Harris as an "electric Kool-Aid funky Satan groove."
The group practiced small magics for pleasure and gain, until Ethan and Ripper discovered something bigger: the demon known as Eyghon, or the Sleepwalker. Tattooing themselves with the Mark of Eyghon, they would take turns falling asleep, and the rest of the group would summon the demon into the sleeper. According to Giles, it was an extraordinary high, a euphoric feeling of power, but was also incredibly risky. When Eyghon took control of Randall, one of their group, the others tried to exorcise the demon, resulting in Randall's death. Giles was changed by the event, leaving London and returning to the Watchers' Council. Ethan, on the other hand, went in the opposite direction, delving deeper into the black arts. When Ethan asked, years later, why they had stopped being friends Giles replied, "When you started to worship chaos."
Sunnydale[edit]
Ethan was first introduced in the second season episode "Halloween" as the seemingly benevolent owner of a costume shop. His worship of chaos served as a convenient plot excuse for random supernatural occurrences. Becoming a magical subcontractor and making deals with demons, vampires, and humans alike in his varied jobs, Ethan gained a reputation for getting the job done. He has performed magic without apparent financial reward, but simply for the amusement of chaos.
Opening a small costume shop in Sunnydale's business district around October 1997, Ethan curses his costumes in the name of the Roman god Janus, so that the wearer becomes whatever they are dressed as. For example, once the spell is cast, Xander Harris becomes a soldier, Buffy Summers becomes an 18th-century noblewoman, and Willow Rosenberg becomes an actual ghost. Upon discovering that Ethan is responsible, Giles describes the spell as "sick, brutal, and it harms the innocent", and proceeds to beat Ethan until he reveals how to break the spell.
Later, in the episode "The Dark Age", Ethan comes looking for Giles in the Sunnydale High School library. He has been having dreams of Eyghon, and the fate of the others who wear "the Mark." Ethan knows that somehow the demon has returned again and is roaming free upon the world. The Mark of Eyghon on the original group members acts as a beacon for the demon to locate them, kill them, and possess each corpse in turn to hunt his next victim with. Ethan plans to 'hide behind the Slayer', exploiting her desire to protect Giles and thus protect Ethan in the process. Knocking Buffy unconscious, he waits for her to wake up before tattooing the Mark of Eyghon on the back of her neck and removing his own Mark with acid. The substitution works, and the demon loses interest in him, instead going after Buffy. But Giles arrives, and then her friends, who stop Eyghon from killing both of them.
In the Season Three episode "Band Candy", the vampire Mr. Trick, in the employ of Mayor Richard Wilkins, calls on Ethan's services when he needs Sunnydale's adult population distracted during a tribute ceremony for the demon Lurconis. Ethan curses candy bars that are distributed to adults through Sunnydale High School students. The curse on the chocolate makes adults act as if they are teenagers, leaving many areas of the city unprotected, including the hospital where the tribute of small babies needs to be taken from. Buffy and Giles uncover the plot, and stop Mr. Trick and Ethan (who claims ignorance of the nature of the tribute), but they both escape.
In the fourth season, Ethan returns to Sunnydale in the episode "A New Man". Discovered lurking in a crypt by Giles, he talks him out of a promised beating, and instead, they go for a drink together. Ethan warns Giles that the Initiative is throwing the worlds out of balance, which goes "way beyond chaos", into "one hell of a fight." Giles doesn't seem to take the warning seriously, instead being somewhat envious of the Initiative. After spending the night reminiscing and drinking with Ethan, Giles wakes the next morning in the form of a Fyarl demon. After being forced to reverse the spell, Ethan is arrested by the Initiative, who apparently place him in military custody pending determination of his status, before sending him to a rehabilitation facility in Nevada. Afterwards, despite not trusting Ethan, Giles had Buffy to be cautious with the Initiative, eventually leading the Scooby Gang to discover its corruption and dangerous plans.
Post-Sunnydale[edit]
Ethan appears in the first arc of the series canonical comic book spin-off, Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, titled "The Long Way Home" (2007). A projection of Ethan initially appears to Buffy in her "dreamspace" after she is attacked by the witch Amy Madison. Ethan acts as a guide and offers her cryptic messages about an approaching 'Twilight', and also helps Buffy find a fragment of Amy's own dreamspace to find a memory to use against her. At the conclusion of the arc, Buffy infiltrates the military facility where Amy is and while there attempts to break Ethan out of his prison cell. Buffy finds him dead, having been shot and apparently killed by a United States army general.
The character subsequently appears in the sequel series Angel & Faith, in the story arc "Death and Consequences" (2012-3). Exposition reveals that Ethan's corpse was possessed by Eyghon—who survived his original defeat in "The Dark Age"—upon his death and thereafter used to steal Giles' dead body prior to his burial. Eyghon possesses zombies of both Giles and Ethan and uses them as part of a plot to convert the Slayer population into his slaves as well.
Powers and abilities[edit]
Ethan's years of experience in the world of the supernatural made him a skilled sorcerer and chaos magician, adept at performing curses and transmogrification. He also had great knowledge of demonology and black magic as well as possessing fluency in Latin. The Mark of Eyghon granted him a psychic link of sorts to the demon, and gave him visions when the demon was in close proximity. He also claims to have "missed [his] calling as an artist" after tattooing Buffy with the Mark of Eyghon.
However, his fighting skills are mediocre, as Giles repeatedly beats him up with little-to-no effort; whenever Giles does this, Ethan doesn't even try to fight back.
Appearances[edit]
Canonical appearances[edit]
Ethan has made 6 canonical Buffyverse appearances:
Buffy the Vampire SlayerEthan has appeared in 4 Buffy episodes as a guestSeason 2 (1997, 1998) - "Halloween"; "The Dark Age"
Season 3 (1998, 1999) - "Band Candy"
Season 4 (1999, 2000) - "A New Man"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season EightEthan appeared in two issues:"The Long Way Home, Part 3 and 4"
Non-canonical appearances[edit]
Ethan has also appeared in a number of Buffy expanded universe material such as comics and novels.
Possessed by the First Evil, he was a boss character in the 2003 video game Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds.
See also[edit]
List of Buffyverse Villains and Supernatural Beings
External links[edit]
The official Robin Sachs Fansite
Ethan Rayne @ Comic Monster Guide
References[edit]





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Andrew Wells
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For the mayor of St. John's, Newfoundland, see Andy Wells.

Andrew Wells
Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel character
 
First appearance
"Flooded"
Created by
Joss Whedon, Jane Espenson, Douglas Petrie
Portrayed by
Tom Lenk
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Affiliation
The Trio
Scooby Gang
Watchers' Council
Classification
Watcher
Notable powers
Demon summoning
Andrew Wells is a fictional character in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, played by Tom Lenk. The character also appears in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, the canonical continuation of the series.


Contents  [hide]
1 Character history 1.1 Sunnydale
1.2 Watcher
1.3 Life in San Francisco
2 Sexuality
3 Appearances
4 References

Character history[edit]
Andrew Wells is the younger brother of Tucker Wells, who summoned hellhounds to attack the Prom in the Season Three episode "The Prom". Andrew himself has skills in demon-summoning and animal control, although these were never used after Season Six; in the Buffy finale "Chosen" he credits his brother with having given him the courage to develop this talent.
At some point during Buffy's senior year in high school, he summoned "flying demon monkeys" to attack Sunnydale High's production of Romeo and Juliet, apparently for no other reason than to amuse himself. Years after the fact, both Jonathan (Danny Strong) and Warren (Adam Busch) recall the incident with amusement; since Warren, Buffy's contemporary, is known to have spent only his senior year at Sunnydale High (he attended the prom to which Tucker sent the hellhounds), his memory of the occasion proves that it occurred during his senior year, which was also Buffy's. The Scooby Gang have no memory of this whatsoever; viewers are left with the impression that the attack ranks among any number of less-memorable supernatural incidents which plagued Sunnydale. They also have no recollection of who Andrew is, until he informs them of his relation to Tucker. This becomes a running joke, as from then on, he is often referred to as "the other guy," "Tucker's brother," and so on.
Sunnydale[edit]
Andrew is only introduced (long after the destruction of the school) in Season Six, as a member of the Trio, Buffy's self-styled "arch-nemeses". He is a crucial member of the group, since many of their endeavors rely upon his ability to summon and control various demons. Warren, the leader of the gang, is almost entirely driven by greed and lust for power; whereas Jonathan apparently joined the gang for excitement, being shocked by Warren's ruthlessness and eventually helping to save Buffy's life. Andrew occupies a sort of middle ground between these two, initially, as before, simply seeking power and amusement, but becoming more evil as the show progresses, for example, cheering "kill her!" as Warren fights Buffy. When Warren accidentally kills Tara Maclay while aiming for Buffy, Tara's vengeful girlfriend and powerful witch Willow Rosenberg hunts Warren down and skins him alive. Andrew and Jonathan then flee to Mexico to avoid a similar fate. While living in Mexico with Jonathan, Andrew is approached by the First Evil, who, in the guise of Warren, convinces him to open the Seal of Danzalthar. Returning to Sunnydale in Season Seven, Andrew murders Jonathan in an attempt to open the seal, but is soon discovered and held hostage by the Scooby Gang. At first, the Scoobies are hostile towards Andrew, partially because he murdered Jonathan, partially because of his alliance with Warren and partially because of his annoying habits. Andrew provides much of the comic relief in Season Seven along with the advancement of major plot points. In his own episode "Storyteller", Andrew decides to document the Scoobies' adventures for future generations using a video camera. Andrew has a tendency to exaggerate, or tell his own version of the "truth," routinely relating overly-dramatic personal narratives. Although Xander, Anya, Spike, and Dawn are happy to let him interview them, Buffy is angered by his attempt to turn everything into a story and forces him to finally face up to the seriousness of his actions. After this, he becomes somewhat remorseful and repentant, joining Buffy as a comic sidekick in the fight against the First, surviving the apocalyptic battle at the end of Season Seven. Thus, Andrew is an example of the show's strong emphasis on redemption. When Anya dies in the battle, Andrew comforts Xander by lying to him that she died saving his life. Joss Whedon comments on this in his commentary for "Chosen"; "The thing that [Andrew] is sort of reviled for, making up stories, becomes the thing that he helps Xander with. Becomes the thing that he actually is good at, giving her the epic death she didn't actually get to have."
Watcher[edit]
Andrew returns in two episodes of “Angel”’s fifth season, and he appears to have matured slightly. Now under the mentorship of Rupert Giles, who is training him as a Watcher, Andrew comes to Los Angeles to help contain psychotic Slayer Dana (cf. “Damage”). When Angel tried to take Dana back to Wolfram & Hart, Andrew asserts his authority, standing up to Angel (one of the few who do) and explains that she belongs with them, not him, also revealing that the Scooby Gang no longer deems the Angel Investigations team trustworthy due to their association with Wolfram & Hart, Buffy herself having ordered Andrew not to leave Dana with Angel.
In Italy, Andrew reappears in the “Angel” episode “The Girl in Question”, explaining to Spike and Angel that Buffy is now dating the Immortal, a longtime rival of Angel and Spike. It is later retconned in the “Buffy” Season Eight comics that Andrew had fabricated the notion of Buffy dating the Immortal, both as a measure of protective misdirection and as a way of pranking Angel and Spike due to their history with the Immortal. In the Season Eight comics, Xander refers to Andrew as the leader of a Slayer cell in Southern Italy. He is seen giving a group of Slayers a lecture about why Slayers never use guns, which had somehow progressed into a commentary on Lando Calrissian. He is transferred a difficult Slayer named Simone into his care from Rona, but Simone eventually goes rogue.
In “Wolves at the Gate, Part I” Willow flies Andrew to the Scottish castle where Buffy, Xander, Dawn and the other slayers operate. He is among the group that walks in and catches Buffy and fellow slayer Satsu in bed together. Assisting the team against a shrewd cabal of Japanese vampires, he instructs Dawn on how to destroy a mecha version of herself. Later, in “Predators and Prey”, Andrew and Buffy team up to hunt down his former charge and rogue Slayer, Simone. Andrew is responsible for recreating an extinct species, the Ragna Demon, through recombinant DNA experiments. The Ragna falls into the hands of Simone’s rogue squad. Although Buffy and Andrew are unsuccessful at capturing or killing Simone, Buffy reminds Andrew that he is “part of the family” and so forgives him for his mistakes.
Following Harmony Kendall’s reality show, in the new anti-Slayer, pro-vampire social order (“Harmonic Divergence”), Andrew is on the run from humans and demons alike. While underground in “Retreat, Part I”, he encounters Twilight’s minion and former best friend Warren, who is now skinless. Warren claims to have been dumped by Amy and left for dead, and takes credit for the First’s actions under his disguise. When demons attack, Andrew figures out the distraction ploy, fights back and escapes with his Slayers. From there, they head to Scotland to reunite with Buffy’s squad. Suspecting a traitor in their midst, Andrew willingly reverts to his annoying ‘film documentarian’ persona as a way to spy on the group. He discovers the spy is a local feline (Amy, magically disguised).[1] When Twilight’s forces eventually attack, Andrew is captured along with Giles and Faith.
In “Twilight”, Andrew finds himself hostage in Twilight’s headquarters. Andrew attempts to attack Twilight with a composite Captain America and Iron Man armor, but is rebuffed. After Twilight—revealed to be Angel—and Buffy play their part in an age-old prophecy and bring about the birth of a new universe, extra-dimensional demons begin flooding the current one. Warren and Andrew squabble over ownership of the armor until Andrew is severely wounded by one of the demons; Warren protects him using the Iron Man repulsor gloves. Buffy and Angel then return and save the Earth, temporarily. Andrew survives his injuries and works with the others to protect the universe from the threat posed by the sentience of the new universe. For his part, Andrew is left knocked senseless in the ruins of Sunnydale.
Life in San Francisco[edit]
Months after the Twilight crisis is averted, in Buffy Season 9 Andrew Wells has gathered a team again and formed an ad-hoc disaster relief for former Slayers. He attends 'house-warming' party for Buffy's new life in San Francisco. In "Apart (of Me)" it is revealed Andrew misinterpreted Spike's request that he look into and protect Buffy from threats. At the party Andrew drugged Buffy's drink and then switched her mind into a robotic body that accidentally made Buffy think she was pregnant. He placed a dim-witted robotic mind into Buffy's human body and sent her to live an ideal life in the suburbs. Both Buffy and Spike are furious with him. Rogue Slayer Simone Doffler captured Buffy's real body and is confused when it seems so weak and is able to convince it to join with her against the real Buffy, Spike, Andrew, and Spike's crew of space insects. Buffy's real body is recovered after Simone kills several insects and escapes. Andrew transfers Buffy's mind back into her human body however, she is still angry with him. Andrew next appears in "Welcome to the Team" when Xander calls him and Andrew is unable to diagnose what is wrong with a comatose Dawn. Xander and Andrew break Dawn out of the hospital and take her back to Andrew's apartment where an attempt to transfer her mind into a robot fails. In "The Core", Willow returns to San Francisco and is able to buy Dawn time and wake her up. Buffy, Willow and Xander head to the Deeper Well in England in hopes to find enough magic to save Dawn. Andrew is present when Spike returns to San Francisco to comfort a rapidly fading Dawn even as everyone's memories of her grow weaker and she eventually vanishes from sight. Andrew celebrates with everyone after Willow uses magic and Buffy's blood to restore Dawn.
Sexuality[edit]
Andrew is occasionally hinted to be gay in the series. However, in the Angel episode "The Girl in Question", Andrew is shown leaving for the opera with two attractive women, commenting that "people change". In January 2008, gay men's website AfterElton.com awarded Andrew the status as the tenth best gay or bisexual character in modern science fiction, despite commenting upon the textual ambiguity of Andrew's sexual orientation.[2] This prompted creator Joss Whedon to more formally comment on Andrew's sexuality, on Whedonesque.com.

"It has to be said: the Andrew scene in 'The Girl in Question' was a victim of me dropping the ball. I specifically said there should be a party of men AND women, all glamorous and Italian, waiting for Andrew. I wasn't there when it was shot, and didn't have the time/money/energy to change it after the fact, though it made me crazy. Andrew's sexuality is always on the cusp of self-awareness because Andrew is stunted emotionally and because it's hilarious." [...] "The 'people change' thing is a hold-over from the fact that the scene was originally written for Dawn (but Michelle turned us down). The idea was, there's little Dawn, then in the last scene there's hot grown-up Dawn going out on the town, a heavy visual support of people changing (since Spike and Angel always see her as older brothers do)."[3]
In November 2008, Tom Lenk came out as gay in The Advocate magazine. Joss Whedon was interviewed for the article, and revealed that it was decided that the character of Andrew was to be gay when they decided to cast Lenk in the role.

"Tom has a bit of a fey thing going on in his persona that, you know, you can't really deny. When I first looked at his audition tape, I said 'OK, he, uh, he seems kinda gay. Do we want to make that decision [about the character]? There's no reason why he couldn't be, so, great, let's pick the funniest actor.' [...] The character became very charming in his complete lack of awareness about, among other things, his own sexuality."[4]
Appearances[edit]
Andrew has been in 41 canonical Buffyverse appearances.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Andrew appeared as a guest in 26 episodes:Season 6 (2001, 2002) - "Flooded"; "Life Serial"; "Smashed"; "Gone"; "Dead Things"; "Normal Again"; "Entropy"; "Seeing Red"; "Villains"; "Two to Go"; "Grave"
Season 7 (2002, 2003) - "Conversations with Dead People"; "Never Leave Me"; "Bring on the Night"; "Showtime"; "Potential"; "The Killer in Me"; "First Date"; "Get It Done"; "Storyteller"; "Lies My Parents Told Me"; "Dirty Girls"; "Empty Places"; "Touched"; "End of Days"; "Chosen"
Angel Andrew has appeared as a guest in 2 episodes.Season 5 (2003, 2004) - "Damage"; "The Girl in Question"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season EightAndrew has appeared in thirteen issues so far:"The Long Way Home, Parts II and III"
"The Chain"
"Wolves at the Gate, Parts I-IV"
"Harmonic Divergence" or "Predators and Prey, Part I"
"Predators and Prey" or "Predators and Prey, Part III"
"Living Doll" or "Predators and Prey, Part V"
"Retreat, Parts I-V"
"Turbulence"
"Twilight, Parts I-IV"
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ “Buffy The Vampire Slayer” #28 (2009)
2.Jump up ^ "Ten Best Gay and Bisexual Science Fiction Characters". AfterElton.com. 2008-01-20. Archived from the original on 23 January 2008. Retrieved 2008-01-21.
3.Jump up ^ Caroline van Oosten de Boer, Milo Vermeulen. "Comments on 15286 : Ten Best Gay and Bisexual Science Fiction Characters". Whedonesque. Retrieved 2011-03-20.
4.Jump up ^ "Coming Out But Canceled". The Advocate (1019). November 18, 2008.


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Wesley Wyndam-Pryce
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Wesley Wyndam-Pryce
Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel character

Alexis Denisof as Wesley Wyndam-Pryce
 
First appearance
"Bad Girls" (Buffy, 1999)
Created by
Joss Whedon, Douglas Petrie
Portrayed by
Alexis Denisof
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Affiliation
Watchers' Council
Scooby Gang
Angel Investigations
Wolfram & Hart
Classification
Watcher
Notable powers
Sorcery
 Highly proficient marksman
 Encyclopedic knowledge of demons
 Genius-level intellect
 Polyglot
Wesley Wyndam-Pryce (also spelled Wyndam-Price[1] and Wyndham-Price[2]) is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon for the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. Played by Alexis Denisof, Wesley first appeared in nine episodes of Buffy's third season in 1999 before moving over to spin-off series Angel where he became, and remained, a main character for five seasons. Following Angel's final season, the character's story is continued in the 2007 canonical comic book series Angel: After the Fall.
Wesley is introduced as a member of the Watchers' Council—an organization which trains Slayers to fight monsters such as vampires and demons. Created as an irritating foil for the character of Rupert Giles, he was intended to be killed off shortly after his first appearance, but the character was popular with his creators and was instead written into Angel where he joined a supernatural detective agency. Over the course of Angel, Wesley went through dramatic character developments, becoming darker and less comedic.


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1 Appearances 1.1 Television
1.2 Literature
2 Concept and creation
3 Characterization
4 References
5 External links

Appearances[edit]
Television[edit]
Wesley is introduced in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer season three (1998–1999) episode "Bad Girls" as the new Watcher of Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and Faith (Eliza Dushku). Pompous and ineffective, he fails to elicit any respect from either his Slayers or his predecessor, Rupert Giles (Anthony Stewart Head), all of whom frequently ridicule and undermine him. He develops a crush on high school senior Cordelia Chase (Charisma Carpenter), and their mutual flirting throughout the season culminates in a pair of awkward kisses in the finale "Graduation Day, Part Two".[3] When Faith goes rogue after accidentally killing a human being, the Scooby Gang neglect to inform Wesley, and his subsequent interference ruins Faith's brief chance at redemption.[4] When Wesley fails to convince the Watchers' Council to help save the life of her vampire lover Angel (David Boreanaz), an enraged Buffy severs all ties with them. Despite this, Wesley offers his assistance in the fight against the Mayor, proving entirely useless in battle when he is knocked down almost instantly.
Wesley reappears in the first season (1999–2000) of spin-off show Angel, in the episode "Parting Gifts". Introduced as a self-proclaimed "rogue demon hunter", Wesley reveals that he was fired from the Watchers' Council for incompetence, but is soon accepted into supernatural detective agency Angel Investigations, working alongside Angel and Cordelia (effectively filling the gap left by the death of Doyle (Glenn Quinn)). When Faith is hired by evil law firm Wolfram & Hart to assassinate Angel, Wesley is kidnapped and tortured by his former charge, until Angel forces Faith to take responsibility for her actions. Although still bitter towards her and doubtful of her chances at redemption, Wesley proves his loyalty to Angel by betraying his former colleagues at the Watchers' Council to protect Faith. In the second season (2000–2001), Wesley embarks on a romantic relationship with a woman named Virginia Bryce after helping to prevent her father from sacrificing her to a demon. When Angel descends into darkness and fires the team, Wesley continues Angel Investigations with Cordelia and Charles Gunn (J. August Richards). Having overcome his cowardice of earlier episodes, he gets himself shot trying to protect Gunn and spends the next two episodes in a wheelchair; this injury also leads to the demise of his relationship with Virginia, who becomes disturbed by his dangerous lifestyle. When Angel returns to the fold, Wesley is appointed team leader, but feels inferior due to his father's berating and Angel's habit of taking charge. However, when put in charge of a rebellion in the demon dimension Pylea, Wesley proves to be an effective, albeit ruthless, leader.
In Angel's third season (2001–2002), Wesley's path becomes filled with tragedies and difficult choices. Just as he starts developing romantic feelings for his teammate Fred (Amy Acker), he finds himself mystically influenced to kill her after a demon influences him to become homicidally misogynistic. While studying the birth of Angel's infant son Connor, Wesley discovers a prophecy which claims that Angel will kill the baby. Intending to take him to safety, Wesley betrays his friends and kidnaps Connor, and delivers the baby to Angel's sworn enemy, Holtz, a decision which has disastrous consequences when he has his throat slit and the baby is kidnapped into a hell dimension by Angel's enemies. Angel then attempts to kill him while he is in recovery at the hospital. Alienated from Angel Investigations, a recovered Wesley forms his own team to fight evil, but maintains an interest in his former friends' affairs. He also begins a sexual relationship with Wolfram & Hart lawyer Lilah Morgan (Stephanie Romanov), who tries to convince him to join the firm. In the fourth season (2002–2003), Angel is rescued and revived by Wesley after being sunk to the bottom of the ocean by his now-adolescent son Connor (Vincent Kartheiser). Wesley eventually returns to the team full-time to help them battle the Beast, making difficult decisions such as seeking the aid of Angel's evil alter ego Angelus and breaking Faith out of prison. Having developed genuine feelings for Lilah, he mourns her when she is killed by Cordelia, now possessed by the entity known as Jasmine (Gina Torres). In the season finale, following the defeat of Jasmine, Wesley joins the rest of Angel Investigations in taking over Wolfram & Hart in the hopes that they can turn it into a power for good.
Season five (2003–2004) sees Wesley suffer yet more loss. In the episode "Lineage", Wesley's father makes his first appearance after being alluded to in earlier episodes. Roger Wyndam-Pryce (Roy Dotrice) is revealed to have sinister intentions when he tries to steal Angel's free will and threatens to murder Fred; Wesley responds by shooting him dead, only to discover he was not actually his father, but a cyborg copy. Despite the deception having been revealed, he is visibly shaken by his willingness to end his father's life to save another. After being in love with her for almost two seasons, Wesley finally gets together with Fred in the subsequent episode "Smile Time", only to watch her die in the next episode when she is taken over by the ancient demon Illyria.[5] He retaliates by killing Knox, the man responsible for raising Illyria, and stabbing Gunn after discovering he played an indirect role in Fred's death.[6] Descending into alcoholism, Wesley holds onto Illyria as the only thing he has left of Fred, helping her understand the human world she is unfamiliar with. He inadvertently restores his and his friends' memories of Connor when he smashes the Orlon Window, thinking that Angel had betrayed his trust. Wesley visibly feels guilty after remembering how he betrayed his friends by taking Connor from Angel and later apologizes to Gunn for stabbing him. Towards the end of the season, Angel proposes an attack against the Circle of the Black Thorn, a powerful group of demons under the employ of the Wolfram & Hart's Senior Partners. In the show's final episode, Wesley does battle with the warlock Cyvus Vail (Dennis Christopher) and is mortally wounded. He spends his dying moments with Illyria at his side, finally agreeing to let the demon take the form of Fred, thus allowing Wesley, in some way, to say goodbye to the woman he loved.[7]
Joss Whedon revealed in an interview that Wesley was originally intended to survive and appear in Angel' season six, but was inspired to kill Wesley off after being pitched the idea of his death scene by one of the script writers.[8] He was intended to have a love triangle between Fred and Illyria, who would've been split in two had the show not been cancelled.
Literature[edit]

 

 Wesley, as he appears in Angel: After the Fall.
Wesley appears in comic books and novels based on the Buffy and Angel television series. He appears in numerous Angel novels as a member of Angel Investigations, but has a more prominent role in some; in Stranger to the Sun he falls under a mystical slumber after receiving a mysterious package in the mail and becomes trapped in a nightmare, while Book of the Dead sees his love of reading get the better of him after being sucked into a book about the occult. The comic book "Wesley: Spotlight" focuses on Wesley's struggles to save the life of Fred's love interest and (unbeknownst to Wesley) future murderer, Knox. The Lost Slayer is a series of Buffy novels set in an alternate future where Wesley is Watcher to the current Slayer, Anna.
Angel: After the Fall (2007-2011), a canonical comic book continuation of the television series, reveals that Wesley was unable to move on after his death due to the standard perpetuity clause in his Wolfram & Hart contract. Now incorporeal, Wesley acts as the last remaining link to Senior Partners, who have sent Angel and all of Los Angeles to hell as punishment for their attack in season five.[2] Following the destruction of the Wolfram & Hart building at the hands of a now vampiric Gunn, Wesley's ghost fades away. He convinces the White Room to send him back to Hell, where his sudden appearance causes Illyria to change back and forth between Illyria and Fred's personae. When Angel is confronted by Gunn, now a deluded vampire who believes he is the champion of the Shanshu prophecy, Wesley delivers Angel a vision from the Senior Partners explaining that the prophecy has always concerned Angel. When Angel realizes that the Senior Partners need him alive for their plans, he devises a plan to get himself killed, thus forcing them to rewind time to the last moment before Los Angeles was sent to hell. However, this would not reverse Wesley's death. Wesley is resigned to his fate, believing that he has nothing more to live for now that Fred is gone, and walks away, but not before asking Spike to take care of Illyria. In the new timeline, Angel names a wing of the Los Angeles public library in memory of Wesley and Fred.[9]
Concept and creation[edit]



"Young, not bad looking, but a bit full of himself. Thinks he's Sean Connery when he's pretty much George Lazenby."
—The description of Wesley in the script for his first episode, "Bad Girls".[10]
Wesley was initially designed to be a foil for the character of Rupert Giles. Actor Alexis Denisof comments that Wesley and Giles come from very similar backgrounds, but have gone in different directions "with the tools that they had"; he was conceived as a "nemesis" for Giles and Buffy. Co-executive producer Doug Petrie, who wrote Wesley's first episode "Bad Girls", explains, "The way Faith is a reflection of Buffy, Wesley takes up a lot of the space that Giles traditionally occupies." He elaborates that, because Giles is usually the "stuffy guy from England who tells you to sit up straight and obey the rules", introducing Wesley, who embodies those traits "to the nth degree", allows Giles to become "subversive" and "cool". Writer Jane Espenson claims that the character was intended for viewers to have antipathy towards, since he was trying to undermine Giles.[1]

 

 Wesley, when the character was first introduced on Buffy.
Alexis Denisof, who had been living in England before coming to L.A., was unaware of Buffy the Vampire Slayer since it had not yet aired in Britain. When actor Tony Head found out that Mutant Enemy were looking for an actor to play Wesley, Head contacted Denisof, an old friend from England, to ask whether he would be interested in the role. Denisof claims that Wesley was originally supposed to "come in, irritate Giles and Buffy for a couple shows, and then be gloriously terminated". However, the writers became fond of the character's "curious humour" and found themselves unable to kill him off. Joss Whedon struggled to find a place for Wesley in the series where he wouldn't clash with Giles, and eventually approached Denisof with the offer of appearing in spin-off show Angel. For Wesley to work as a long-term character, Denisof claimed they had to re-shape the character to be more sympathetic.[11]
Characterization[edit]
Wesley matures significantly over the course of both Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel; in his early appearances he was largely cowardly and incompetent. Alexis Denisof claims that his initial goal in playing the character was to be as annoying as possible for the other characters. He explains, "I thought that an irritating version of Giles would be annoying for [Giles] and also for Buffy. Wesley's purpose was to come there and point the finger and get things shipshape. He's a by-the-book school teacher. Considering what kind of person it would be who would have dedicated his life to this peculiar task of being a Watcher, and what would be the unique characteristics of somebody who had made those decisions, and then was taken out of that environment and put into Sunnydale. To Wesley that was a completely new and bizarre place."[12] During this time, Denisof came up with a background story for Wesley regarding his father to explain "why he was so repressed." The writers used this story in the show, alluding to it in early Angel episodes such as "I've Got You Under My Skin", and "Belonging". While discussing Wesley's character development over the course of Angel, Denisof explains: "I decided that Wesley was internally confronting his father and that released him a little bit and made him less repressed."[13]
Wesley is introduced in Angel having been fired from the Watcher's Council. Denisof says the experience gave the character "a little shake". He elaborates, "When he arrived in Sunnydale, he was straight out of Watcher grad school; he lacked practical experience. He was living in the ideal of the perfect way to execute his duties. I think that losing his job and going out alone roughened him up a little, lopped off some of his sharper corners. It made him more approachable and more personable, less sure of himself all the time."[12] Coming into the show immediately following the death of Doyle, Wesley serves as a partial replacement for that character. Comparing the two characters, Denisof states, "Wesley is a clearer counterpart to Angel, whereas Doyle had more street smarts. Although [Doyle] was struggling with his demon nature, he had seen a lot more of the world in the same way Angel had."[12] Nonetheless Denisof believes that in this period, his character "was so anxious to be a tough rogue demon hunter but was clearly a kind of soft puppy dog."[14]
Denisof complimented the season three Angel episode "Billy", in which Wesley tries to murder Fred after becoming supernaturally misogynous, "because it was the first real dark change in Wesley to experiment with".[14] Discussing Wesley's betrayal of his friends to protect Angel's baby, Denisof explains, "It isn't that he's purely bad or purely good, we're discovering a deeper and more complicated area of the character where good and bad aren't as clear, where Wesley does something motivated, he thinks, for the good of all - i.e. saving Connor and relieving Angel of the responsibility of murdering his son - and in doing so creates the situation in which the baby could be kidnapped, Angel loses his son and Wesley has his throat slit for the trouble. So it's grey rather than black or white."[14] Science fiction magazine Starburst said that "somber, subdued, bearded Wesley is worlds away from the foolish, pompous Wesley". Denisof says of the period, "It was a great opportunity to explore some of the character's darker layers. You couldn't have predicted it when he arrived in Sunnydale. This was an important element to introduce and explore, to be consistent with the show and to continue the organic exploration of all the characters." Whilst the character spent less time with his old friends, Denisof was "more or less isolated from the [main cast], barring one or two scenes of mild confrontation when they would come to visit me and we'd chew each other out. There's definitely a cold war going on with Wesley versus the world."[15] Wesley's dark attitude is alleviated somewhat when the gang decide to take over Wolfram & Hart. The tension between Wesley and his co-workers did not go away because of the mind-wipe but because "we decided we were better off as a team than as separate entities. And we had to put our differences behind us and build our trust again as a group."[14] Discussing the way Wesley's English accent softens over the course of Angel, Denisof says, "[The modified accent] just sits on him better. As an actor, it just felt that organically the way he was changing, and it also seemed to be accurate when you consider the amount of time he's spent in L.A. that the accent could have softened. And since he isn't surrounded by upper-crust academics as he was as a young Watcher in the Academy in England, it's understandable that he is changing the way he speaks and changing his voice, his delivery, as a result of his environment."[16]
Denisof had earlier stated that he thought "it's better for the father [of Wesley] to be kept in the background and not become part of the story."[13] When Wesley's father finally did appear in Angel season five, he said:

"I had mixed feelings [at first]. It was a lot of pressure to have to define something that had been speculated about for many years. I was worried that by making it specific, it would lose its power, both in the mind of the character and in the minds of the audience. All my concerns disappeared as soon as I read it. There are responses to powerful figures in your life, like your parents, that you can't necessarily control. Wesley's a very controlled person on the exterior and presents a very collected persona to the people around him, being with his father he would no longer be able to control his responses. That's one of the things I wanted to explore with this, the subtle ways in which you respond to the conditioning of your parents. Wesley has difficulty around his father on a physical level, on an emotional scale, and on an intellectual scale. He is extremely intimidated by his father, and at the same time, still seeking the approval that we all essentially want from our parents when we're children. The shooting [of the cyborg Wesley believed to be his father] was an exhilarating moment in which there was the most dangerous person in his life on every level, and there is a woman he is obsessed with. And to have the woman jeopardized by something as dangerous as his father - I played that moment as a moment of pure instinct. Wesley is centered in his intellect and is more uncertain in his emotional life, but in that moment, he becomes pure instinct because he has to choose between the woman he loves and his father."[17]
Wesley undergoes yet another drastic personality change in Angel's fifth season following the death of his love, Fred. Denisof believes that the loss of Fred caused Wesley to become understandably "unbalanced". "By the time we get to the last few episodes, he's got a handle on the grief and is functioning in a more level-headed way," says Denisof. "But underlying it is a huge hole in his heart and it makes it possible for the decision that they make in the final episode. For him emotionally, the stage is set for a life or death battle, possibly for the last time, because at this point, there's nothing more for him to lose."[17] Denisof talked with Whedon about what storylines would have been in place had the television series received another season; Wesley would not have died, and he and Illyria would have featured in an arc in which the transformation of Illyria to Fred would have been extended over many episodes and taken to a "much deeper, darker place" than it briefly was in the late fifth season episode, "The Girl in Question". Denisof continues, "They would have progressed the relationship between Wesley and Illyria in such a way it would conflict with his own feelings for Fred, in a much more profound way. And then we would have gone into the switching of Fred and Illyria and having these two people that he was having these strong feelings about. That was going to be a fairly long journey in the following season, all of which got abbreviated tremendously when [the WB] decided to cancel the show." The cancellation of the show was the inspiration for Wesley's death; Whedon gave Denisof the option of keeping the character alive, but Denisof believed killing the character was right for the story, "It was very upsetting to read. It's too good a story because it hurts."[18]
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b Alexis Denisof, Doug Petrie, Jane Espenson (2001). "Season 3 Overview" (Buffy the Vampire Slayer The Complete Third Season DVD Special Features) (DVD (Region 2)). United States: 20th Century Fox.
2.^ Jump up to: a b Brian Lynch (w), Franco Urru (p), Ilaria Traversi (i). Angel: After the Fall 1 (November, 2007), IDW Publishing
3.Jump up ^ Joss Whedon, Douglas Petrie, Michael Lange (1999-02-09). "Bad Girls". Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Season 3. Episode 14. WB.
4.Jump up ^ Joss Whedon, Marti Noxon, Michael Gershman (1999-02-16). "Consequences". Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Season 3. Episode 15. WB.
5.Jump up ^ Joss Whedon (2004-02-25). "A Hole in the World". Angel. Season 5. Episode 15. WB.
6.Jump up ^ Joss Whedon, Steven S. DeKnight (2004-02-03). "Shells". Angel. Season 5. Episode 16. WB.
7.Jump up ^ Joss Whedon, Jeffrey Bell (2004-05-19). "Not Fade Away". Angel. Season 5. Episode 22. WB.
8.Jump up ^ Joss Whedon | TV | Interview | The A.V. Club
9.Jump up ^ Brian Lynch (w), Franco Urru (p). Angel: After the Fall 17 (February 11, 2009), IDW Publishing
10.Jump up ^ Holder, Nancy; Jeff Mariotte and Maryelizabeth Hart (2000). Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide Volume 2. New York: Pocket Books. p. 102. ISBN 0-671-04260-2.
11.Jump up ^ Holder, Nancy; Jeff Mariotte and Maryelizabeth Hart (2000). Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide Volume 2. New York: Pocket Books. pp. 293–284. ISBN 0-671-04260-2.
12.^ Jump up to: a b c Springer, Matt (May–June 2001). "Vogue Demon Hunter". Buffy the Vampire Slayer Magazine (21): 10–12.
13.^ Jump up to: a b Curtis, Darryl (October 2003). "Wyndam of Change". Angel Magazine (2): 12–13.
14.^ Jump up to: a b c d Bernstein, Abbie (Winter 2002–2003). "The Pryce is Right". Buffy the Vampire Slayer Magazine (2002 Yearbook): 65–67.
15.Jump up ^ Starburst #43
16.Jump up ^ Bernstein, Abbie (May 2003). "Pryce Challenge". Buffy the Vampire Slayer Magazine (46): 16.
17.^ Jump up to: a b Bernstein, Abbie (August 2004). "Parting Gifts". Angel magazine (13): 12–16.
18.Jump up ^ Dilullo, Tara (May 2005). "Pryce Check". Angel magazine (22): 18.
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Caleb
Buffy the Vampire Slayer character
 
First appearance
"Dirty Girls"
Created by
Joss Whedon, Drew Goddard
Portrayed by
Nathan Fillion
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The First Evil
Notable powers
Superhuman strength, stamina, and durability superior to that of vampires and vampire Slayers.
Caleb is a fictional character played by Nathan Fillion in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer created by Joss Whedon. The character is a sadistic sociopath with a pathological hatred of women.
According to Whedon, the character was introduced because the mutable, non-corporeal nature of the First Evil "meant that we didn't really have anything to push against. We needed... a sidekick. Somebody physical that we can see from episode to episode."[1] Whedon describes him as "the creepiest priest", adding, "he is the most bald-faced misogynist we've had since, well, since last year, with Warren."[2]


Contents  [hide]
1 Character Biography
2 Powers and abilities
3 Beliefs
4 Writing and acting
5 Appearances
6 See also
7 References

Character Biography[edit]
Prior to becoming the right-hand man of the First Evil, Caleb was a defrocked priest and serial killer responsible for the deaths of at least two girls, whom he lured with his stirring sermons and masculine charm.
Despite not appearing until the last five episodes of the series, the character is revealed to be one of the prime movers for the events of the seventh season. In an effort to eliminate all threats to the First Evil's resurgence, he directs hordes of Bringers to systematically kill Potential Slayers around the world. He also orders the bombing of the Watchers' Council Headquarters in London, causing the deaths of Quentin Travers and all Watchers and Council Operatives present, and arranged for a fellow prisoner to attack Faith in a Los Angeles prison.
In the episode "Dirty Girls", the character murders two potential Slayers (One being Molly; one of the first potentials to appear in the series) and effortlessly defeats Buffy, Faith, and Spike. Before the Scooby Gang retreats, he also violently blinds Xander in one eye by forcing his thumb into his left eye socket.
The character dies in the last two episodes of the series. In "End of Days" and "Chosen", Buffy, with the assistance of the newly arrived Angel, kills Caleb in a final confrontation. With Angel watching, Buffy pierces Caleb's abdomen with the Scythe, apparently killing him. Much to their shock, Caleb is revived with another power transfusion from the First Evil and immediately knocks Angel unconscious with a devastating blow. Buffy and Caleb resume their fight. However, Caleb's injuries weaken him. In the end, Buffy cuts Caleb in half vertically, finally killing him.
Powers and abilities[edit]
The character Caleb provided a villain with a physical threat (in contrast to the non-corporeal First Evil), and a recognizable counterweight, to Buffy and her allies.
The character's body serves as a vessel for the superhuman power of the noncorporeal First Evil. The First Evil makes him the commander of its campaign of carnage and mayhem. Caleb likes to reenact his killings by asking the First to take on the form of the girls he killed, so he may "kill them again." With the exception of Glory, Caleb's strength and qualities of villainy dwarfs Buffy's previous adversaries. When channeling the power of the First Evil, he possesses immense physical strength and durability, greatly exceeding that of most vampires, demons, and Slayers. He effortlessly defeats the combined might of Buffy, Faith, and Spike in their first encounter. In order to maintain this power, Caleb must merge with the First to recharge after extended periods. Power transfusions from the First also allow Caleb the ability to return from death, as long as his body is still intact.
Beliefs[edit]
The character periodically delivers quasi-biblical quotes, even frequently making allusions to his belief that the First Evil is actually God, or even superior to God. When the First, in the guise of Buffy, asks him if he thinks it is God, Caleb replies he believes the First is beyond such definition. He states plainly in his debut episode, "I don't truck with Satan, that was just me havin' fun. Satan is a little man." Caleb also comments further on his admiration of the First, when it (under the guise of Buffy) vocalizes its envy of humans' ability to feel lust and engage in primal sexual acts, while several members of the Scooby Gang engage in such activity elsewhere. He dismisses them all as "sinners," commenting enthusiastically the First is miles beyond that, for it is "sin" itself. The character quotes the Old Testament more often than the New Testament. For example, the character's mysoginistic views are expressed through the story of Adam, Eve, and the forbidden fruit. When asked about the character's religious connections, Whedon said, "I'm not coming down against priests. This guy clearly is not one."[2]
Writing and acting[edit]
Caleb was referred to by Buffy writers as "The Second," a reference to his boss' nickname, "The First." [3]
Appearances[edit]
Caleb appears in:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Caleb appeared as a guest in 5 episodes:
Season 7 – "Dirty Girls"; "Empty Places"; "Touched"; "End of Days"; "Chosen"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight
Caleb appeared in a dream in the e-comic "Always Darkest".
See also[edit]
List of Buffyverse villains and supernatural beings
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ P, Ken (June 23, 2003), An Interview with Joss Whedon, retrieved 07//18/2007
2.^ Jump up to: a b Miller, Laura (May 20, 2003), The man behind the Slayer, retrieved 07//17/2007
3.Jump up ^ Espenson, Jane (November 16, 2004), "Season 7 Overview - 'Buffy: Full Circle'" featurette


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Warren Mears
Buffy the Vampire Slayer character

Adam Busch as Warren Mears
 
First appearance
"I Was Made to Love You"
Created by
Joss Whedon, Jane Espenson
Portrayed by
Adam Busch
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Trio, Amy Madison
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Technology expert
Notable powers
A genius-level intellect, especially in the fields of technology and robotics
Warren Mears is a fictional character that is portrayed by Adam Busch in the American television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The character also appears in canonical comic book series continuation of that series. He is the main antagonist in season six, until Willow turns to her dark side.


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1 Appearances 1.1 Television
1.2 Literature
2 Powers and abilities
3 Characterization
4 Romantic interests
5 Appearances 5.1 Canonical appearances
6 See also
7 References

Appearances[edit]
Television[edit]
Warren's first appearance is in the Season Five episode "I Was Made to Love You" (2001) when a sex robot he built, April (Shonda Farr) goes on the loose in Sunnydale. After Warren falls for a real girl (in Dutton), Katrina Silber (Amelinda Embry), he leaves April to run out of batteries and die. That episode's exposition establishes that Warren briefly attended Sunnydale High with the show's main character before transferring. April attacks Slayer Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar) out of jealousy for Warren, but dies shortly thereafter. At the end of the episode, the vampire Spike commissions Warren to build him a Buffy robot; Warren delivers it to him in "Intervention".
In Season Six, Warren is re-introduced in "Flooded" (2001), having become leader of "the Trio," a gang of self-styled genius supervillains who attended Sunnydale High. Along with sorcerer Jonathan (Danny Strong) and demon-summoner Andrew (Tom Lenk), he plans to eliminate Buffy. They are a nuisance to Buffy; they plague her with a time loop in "Life Serial" and freeze rays in "Smashed", and turn Buffy invisible in "Gone". Warren tries to use technology in "Dead Things" to force Katrina to sleep with him against her will; when she snaps out of the trance, she accuses him of rape and threatens to go the police. Panicked, he kills her and tries to make Buffy believe she committed the crime. In "Normal Again", they make Buffy believe her whole life is a mental patient's delusion. In "Seeing Red", Warren tries to acquire mystical orbs to give him superhuman strength to rival Buffy; when she foils him yet again, he shows up at her house with a gun and shoots her, with a stray bullet accidentally killing Tara (Amber Benson). In "Villains", Buffy recovers due to the magical abilities of Tara's girlfriend, Willow (Alyson Hannigan), who then seeks revenge on Warren. When Willow attacks and defeats him with black magic, he begs for his life. After realizing that Tara wasn't his first victim, confirmed by an apparition of Katrina, Willow flays him alive.
Warren reappears in the Season Seven première episode, "Lessons" (2002) as an apparition of the First Evil (a primordial evil entity), taunting Spike. The First assumes this form again in "Never Leave Me" and "Conversations with Dead People" as a means of manipulating Andrew. In the episode "The Killer in Me", a repentant and good-once-more Willow begins to take on Warren's appearance and personality after kissing Kennedy (Iyari Limon). She later discovers that it is the result of a curse from her former friend Amy (Elizabeth Anne Allen), who tells Willow that her own subconscious chose the punishment; kissing Kennedy triggered the transformation because of Tara's memory, and moving on from her grief helps her revert to normal. Warren appears one last time in "Storyteller", in which Andrew re-imagines the circumstances of his friendship with Warren in the course of his storytelling.
Literature[edit]
Warren appears in the canonical comic book continuation of Buffy, as a surprise reveal in the final panel of an issue of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight. In "The Long Way Home, Part Three" (2007), Warren is revealed to be the "boyfriend" that Amy had been living with beneath the Hellmouth following the collapse of Sunnydale in the television series finale. In Part Four of "The Long Way Home", he reveals the means of his survival. Amy saved Warren's life and suspended his life with her magical powers. In penciller Georges Jeanty's interior artwork, Warren is depicted as skinless, as in his last on-screen moments in "Villains". Warren bears a considerable grudge against both Willow and Buffy. Though he lobotomizes a captive Willow, she is rescued by Buffy and Japanese Slayer Satsu on a rescue mission; Warren escapes by teleporting away with Amy. With regards to the continuity issue of the First Evil impersonating dead people, and Warren being "saved" by Amy, Whedon clarified in the Letters column of a later issue by stating that Warren had been legally dead for "like a second".[1] In "Time of Your Life, Part One" (2008), serving under series' villain Twilight, Amy and Warren attack Buffy's Scottish citadel with a missile and spectral warriors, killing seven Slayers. In the "Retreat" (2009) story arc, Warren and Amy assist Twilight in tracking Buffy and Willow's movements through their use of magic, forcing the group into hiding in Tibet, where they learn to suppress their abilities, leading to an all-out brawl between Twilight's military forces and Buffy's depowered Slayers. Later, in "Twilight" (2010), Warren discovers he has been working for Angel, Buffy's ex-boyfriend, and Twilight's true identity. When extra-dimensional demons start pouring in, Warren and Andrew (now Buffy's trusted associate) squabble over who gets ownership of a geeky composite superhero defensive armor (working replicas of Iron Man's glove, the Punisher's vest, Batman's utility belt, Captain America's shield, a Star Trek tricorder and a Star Wars X-wing helmet). After Andrew takes a severe injury, Warren is left to protect him (and shows genuine concern for Andrew) using the Iron Man repulsors. Later, once Spike arrives, he and Amy are taken as prisoners aboard Spike's ship; they escape, however, when the ship arrives in Sunnydale. In the final arc, in "Last Gleaming, Part IV", Buffy destroys the Seed of Wonder and thereby dispels all magic from the universe. Warren is with Amy at a cafe away from the fray in Sunnydale when the spell that replicates his skin ends. He turns to a pile of blood and bones before Amy's eyes.
Powers and abilities[edit]
Although Warren displays no independent supernatural powers, he does possess a genius-level intellect, especially in the fields of technology and robotics. He is capable of building highly advanced robots which look like and can pass for ordinary humans, though their mannerisms and speech patterns are imperfect by human standards. The Buffybot he built successfully masqueraded as Buffy Summers for several weeks while the real Slayer was dead, in addition to fooling Buffy's friends and family into believing that it was the real deal, and a robotic duplicate of himself easily fooled Willow, even with her mystical tracking abilities. Some of his other creations include a freeze ray, a small microchip capable of slowing and speeding up time, and at least two jet packs (cf. "Seeing Red"). Other items which were fused with magic and technology, included an invisibility ray with a magic diamond (cf. "Gone"); and a cerebral dampener, which strips the will of any female within its range, rendering her a slave; In Season Eight, he also displays enough knowledge of biology to perform a lobotomy (cf. "The Long Way Home, Part Four").
In Season Six's "Seeing Red", Warren gains the power of the Orbs of Nezzla'khan, two orbs which grant him superhuman strength and invulnerability, respectively. In this state, he is more than a physical match for Buffy and overpowers her, until Jonathan reveals the source of his power to her. During this time Warren doesn't display any particular affinity for martial arts as Buffy does, instead relying on brute power.
Characterization[edit]
Actor Adam Busch claims that he doesn't see Warren as simply a villain or purely evil person. He explains that the character has various flaws and positives, and is always given the chance to redeem himself. "He's always given that moment where he can do the right thing that he never ever does," says Busch. "Because he is flawed and he does have a lot of issues and an inability to communicate or talk to anyone or really explain what it is that he wants." Writer Jane Espenson draws comparisons between the characters of Buffy and Warren, claiming, "When Buffy's talking with Warren about his break-up with April, she's actually identifying with him, because she did a lot of the same stuff with Riley that he did with April." Warren has, on multiple occasions displayed misogynistic tendencies seen clearest in 'Seeing Red' and other episodes[2]
Romantic interests[edit]
April: Lonely, Warren built the robot April to be the perfect girlfriend, but eventually grows bored of her, abandoning her rather than dumping her face-to-face. Despite her pleasant and cheerfully optimistic nature, April is dangerously loyal to Warren and physically attacks anybody who came between them, including Spike, Buffy, and Katrina. April is designed with the ability to growl and included several fetish programs (as seen in her POV), along with other details, such as an inability to cry.
Katrina Silber: Has at least one sibling mentioned in "I Was Made to Love You", a sister. Warren is found to be in a relationship with Katrina in the Season Five episode "I Was Made to Love You". Although seemingly happy at first, Katrina grows more and more suspicious of her boyfriend throughout the episode, only to discover his robot-girlfriend, April. This discovery repulses her, resulting in their immediate break-up. In "Dead Things" Warren tries to have sex with her while she is under the influence of a mind-control spell. When Katrina fights back Warren smashes her head in with a glass bottle.
Amy Madison: In the Season Eight comics, Warren reveals that he had been with Amy since she saved his life offscreen in the Season Six episode, "Villains". Amy refers to him as her boyfriend on several occasions and addresses him as "sweetie".
Appearances[edit]
Canonical appearances[edit]
Warren has made 28 canonical Buffyverse appearances.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Warren appeared as a guest star in 16 episodes:Season 5 (2000, 2001) - "I Was Made to Love You" (First Appearance); "Intervention"
Season 6 (2001, 2002) - "Flooded"; "Life Serial"; "Smashed"; "Gone"; "Dead Things"; "Normal Again"; "Entropy"; "Seeing Red"; "Villains" (Killed);
Season 7 (2002, 2003) - "Lessons" (as a manifestation of The First Evil); "Conversations with Dead People" (as a manifestation of The First Evil); "Never Leave Me (as a manifestation of The First Evil)"; "The Killer in Me" (a spell cast by Amy turning Willow into Warren); "Storyteller" (Only in Andrew's fantasy);
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season EightWarren has appeared in 11 issues so far, plus one canonical webcomic appearance:"The Long Way Home parts 3 & 4"
"Time of Your Life, Part 1 & 4"
"Retreat, Parts 1, 2 & 5"
"Twilight, Parts 1-4"
"Always Darkest" webcomic[3]
See also[edit]
List of Buffyverse villains and supernatural beings
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Brian K. Vaughan (w), Georges Jeanty (p), Andy Owen (i). "No Future For You" Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight 6 (September, 2007), Dark Horse Comics
2.Jump up ^ Jane Espenson, Adam Busch (2002). "The Story of Season Five" (Buffy the Vampire Slayer The Complete Fifth Season DVD Special Features) (DVD (Region 2)). United States: 20th Century Fox.
3.Jump up ^ Always Darkest, MySpace Dark Horse Presents, Issue #24


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Maggie Walsh
Buffy the Vampire Slayer character
First appearance
"The Freshman"
Last appearance
"Primeval"
Created by
Joss Whedon
Portrayed by
Lindsay Crouse
Information

Affiliation
The Initiative, 314 Project
Notable powers
Knowledge of psychology, behavior modification, anatomy, biology, and cybernetics
Professor Maggie Walsh is a fictional character in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The character is portrayed by Lindsay Crouse.


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1 History
2 Writing and acting
3 Notes and references
4 See also

History[edit]
Professor Maggie Walsh is introduced in Season Four, as Buffy's Psychology professor at the University of California, Sunnydale, but is later revealed as the leader of the government-controlled Initiative, a military project intent on capturing, studying, and modifying the behavior of various demons. Unknown to many in the Initiative, Walsh is also involved in Project 314, a secret program within the Initiative that is creating a hybrid demon-humanoid-mechanoid (demonoid) known as Adam. Various creatures captured by the Initiative were dissected to provide the parts for Adam.
Maggie maintains a close relationship with Riley, who is her favorite soldier; she appears to think of him as a son. After Riley learns that Buffy is the Slayer, they inform Walsh of her role. Walsh initially thinks that Buffy can be a useful ally to the Initiative, but soon takes a dislike to her unpredictability and unwelcome curiosity, especially with regards to the "314 Project". Cameras installed in Riley's room allow her to spy on Buffy and Riley while they have sex, and later to hear Buffy ask Riley about the 314 Project. Perceiving that Buffy poses a risk to the project, Walsh tries to kill Buffy by sending her on a mission on which she is ambushed by two demons released from the Initiative's holding cells. Buffy defeats the demons and appears on the monitors after Walsh has prematurely announced Buffy's death to Riley, who walks out. Walsh retreats to the labs of Project 314, where she plots how to use Adam to defeat Buffy. However, Adam awakens and impales Walsh, killing her, and escapes from the Initiative.
Walsh appears in the penultimate episode of Season Four, "Primeval," as a zombie, working under Adam along with others Adam has killed. Attempting to finish off Project 314, begun by Walsh, Adam has his workers manufacturing more creatures like himself; part demon, human, and machine combined. Adam activates the chip Walsh had inserted into Riley's heart, making him biddable to Adam's command. Zombie Walsh attacks Buffy when she comes to Riley's rescue, but Buffy knocks her down and defeats her, and with some help from the Scooby-Gang of Willow, Xander, and Giles, she defeats Adam as well. The Initiative project is shut down permanently.
Writing and acting[edit]
Crouse viewed her character "no nonsense, and she seems to be a real teacher. She's like a President. She really would like to fashion the world in her image. She's not a mean person, she's just a straight-out scientist." [1]
In a gender studies text, Jowett includes a section on the character, and argues the character is "masculinized by her roles as professor, scientist and leader"[2]
Crouse has explained how her character was initially explained to her, "Joss tried to explain to me who this character was. He said that she was a scientist, and that she was going to be doing research and eventually, she might hatch an evil plot, but her front was being a psychology teacher."[3]
Crouse gave some insight into her view on her character, "She's such an extremist. She has a vision of what she wants to do. She feels like she's testing the boundaries of something, and any human being always feels important no matter who they are. I'm sure she admires Dr. Frankenstein - or Einstein. She's probably a mix of those two. I like her caustic nature, because she's not a mean person. I have always imagined that Maggie treats people like grown-ups. That she doesn't want to live in a world of babies. She doesn't have the time for it. The Initiative is her baby."[4]
Crouse outlined her view of Maggie's relationships with Riley and Buffy, "Her teaching assistant Riley is really the child she never had, and there's probably confusion there that he's a potential something for her that's slightly out of her reach, but she's willing to prevent anyone else from being interested in him. I think she feels she's in direct competition with Buffy. The most complicated situation for her is having Riley fall in love with Buffy. Finding out that Buffy is the Slayer is a kind of a gas, and it's nervous-making and exciting to have good people on her team; she's like a president - she wants a great cabinet underneath her. I think she'd like to fashion the world in her image, but Buffy puts a wrench in the works".[5]
Buffy writer, David Fury, said in an interview that "I don't think Joss had envisioned Maggie Walsh as being entirely villainous. As opposed to just sort of misguided" [6]
Notes and references[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Holder, Mariotte, Hart, The Watcher's Guide Vol. II (2000), p289-293
2.Jump up ^ Jowett, Lorna, Sex and the Slayer (2005), p175-176
3.Jump up ^ Stokes, Mike, "The Last Act", from Buffy the Vampire Slayer magazine #18 (UK, March 2001), page 20.
4.Jump up ^ Stokes, Mike, "The Last Act", from Buffy the Vampire Slayer magazine #18 (UK, March 2001), page 22.
5.Jump up ^ Stokes, Mike, "The Last Act", from Buffy the Vampire Slayer magazine #18 (UK, March 2001), page 23.
6.Jump up ^ Holder, Mariotte, Hart, The Watcher's Guide Vol. II (2000), p289-293
See also[edit]
List of Buffyverse villains and supernatural beings


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Werewolf

Kind
Demonic/Humanoid
First appearance
"Phases"
Creator
Joss Whedon
In the Buffyverse, created by Joss Whedon, werewolves are similar to the werewolves of folklore, but rather than being only brutish monsters, they appear as characters who suffer from lycanthropy, and whose animal side either complements or clashes with their human side.


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2 Werewolf Characters 2.1 Oz
2.2 Veruca
2.3 Nina Ash
3 View of werewolves
4 Notes

Characteristics[edit]
Werewolves in the Buffyverse are usually afflicted with lycanthropy through a bite.
Werewolves turn into wolf form at sunset on the three nights when the moon is nearest full (called "wolf nights" by Willow and Oz), and revert to human form at dawn. In wolf form, they are immensely strong and hungry for human flesh, but tend to fall asleep before dawn, and often do not recall the events of the previous night when they wake (always naked, as their clothes do not survive the transformation). They show some animal characteristics at all times, such as a keen sense of smell and an ability to sense other werewolves. Sometimes their wolf appearance resembles their human appearance (e.g. Veruca is blonde both as a human and as a wolf), and male werewolves may have animal-like qualities to their human appearance, such as excess body hair.
Werewolves may be killed by silver bullets or silver weapons, as well as mauling by other werewolves. If killed in wolf form, most werewolves remain in wolf form; in "Wild At Heart", Veruca remains in wolf form after Oz kills her, and in "Phases", Gib Cain states that he skins dead werewolves for their pelts, pointing out that "it's a little hard to skin 'em when they're alive." However, Wesley explains in "Unleashed" that Nina (in wolf form) must be alive in order for the patrons of Crane's banquet to enjoy her as werewolf meat, implying that, dead, she would be a normal human corpse and of no interest to the gourmets. This is apparently a unique trait of Nina's particular werewolf breed; Nina's attacker in that episode reverted to human form as soon as Angel killed him.
The physical appearance of werewolves is retconned in between "Phases" and "Beauty and the Beasts"; originally, Oz's wolf form was more humanoid, able to walk on two legs with a wolf-like snout, but it was changed to a quadrupedal look with a more humanoid face; the former of these looks is possibly the inspiration for the Lycanthropus Exterus introduced in Angel season five.
Werewolf Characters[edit]
Oz[edit]
The first werewolf seen in the series is Oz, although he doesn't realize he is one until he wakes naked in a forest ("Phases"). He says earlier in that episode that his young cousin bit him on the finger, and later calls his aunt to ask, "Is Jordy a werewolf? Uh-huh. And how long has that been going on? Uh-huh." To prevent himself from harming others, he takes to locking himself in a cage on the nights he'll turn. In season 4, however, he feels an undeniable attraction to Veruca, the female lead singer of a local band, and realizes why when he wakes up next to her after a wolf night on which he escaped his cage—he connect the dots and realizes she is a werewolf too, and she is happy to tell him they had given in to their animalistic desires for each other ("Wild at Heart"). Oz is powerless to resist his lust for Veruca, and after having sex with her in wolf form, he realizes that he is still harmful to others—namely his girlfriend Willow—and unable to defeat the wolf in him. This was despite the fact that when Veruca had pursued Willow, Oz interestingly seemed to retain some human memories and slaughters Veruca, suggesting he was able to prioritize his kills based on his human knowledge about Veruca (see below) and his affection for Willow. Still, he leaves Sunnydale for a few months, returning after having learned meditative techniques in Tibet that have allowed him to prevent changing ("New Moon Rising"). However, emotional stress, particularly over Willow and his jealousy over her new love interest Tara triggers the changes even during the day, and Oz realizes he has not defeated his lycanthropy as much as he thought he did, and departs again. He returns to Tibet to continue the Buddhist practices to hold back the wolf, but comes to the conclusion nothing works anymore. He is tempted to give in to his wolf side, but eventually doesn't, when fellow werewolf—and future mother of his child—Bayarmaa tells him of the original Tibetan religion Bon. The two build upon the religion and make their own traditions, seeing the spiritual life in ordinary things, quietly aware they are part of it all. They eventually learn that the secret is not to bottle up the wolf, but to let the energy of the wolf pass through them without taking them and into the world around them, letting "the wolf be pulled into the earth." ("Retreat, part II")
Veruca[edit]
Veruca is the lead singer of a Sunnydale band called Shy, and meets Oz through his band, Dingoes Ate My Baby. After confirming that they are both werewolves, Veruca is dumbfounded to learn that Oz cages himself, and suggests that werewolves should feel free to express their animal side, as they are above regular humans ("Wild at Heart"). Unlike Oz, she has no qualms about killing humans and views any human deaths she might cause as a wolf as mere ramifications of freedom and right to kill. Oz insists that she stay with him in his cage, saying, "I can't let you hurt anyone," and she complies, knowing she can still enjoy her animalistic expression by having sex with him. Later Veruca pursued Willow and tried to kill her only to be just in time stopped by Oz. The fight of the two werewolves only end when Oz eventually rips Veruca's throat out.
Nina Ash[edit]
Nina Ash is an art student living in L.A. who was attacked by a werewolf while jogging one night ("Unleashed"). Angel is nearby and hears her screams, but by the time he arrives on the scene and kills the werewolf with a silver pen, Nina had already escaped and Angel, smelling her blood, realizes she was bitten. Using the resources of Wolfram and Hart, Angel tracks her down and cages her to prevent her from harming herself or others. The team learns from the cryptozoologist who examines the werewolf's corpse that the particular species is unusual in that it is bipedal. Nina is dismayed to learn that she's a "monster," and reluctantly agrees to let Angel hold her in a cage at Wolfram & Hart so that they can continue to help her. Unfortunately, Nina is captured and taken to a banquet for patrons who enjoy the flesh of demons and other unusual creatures, and who intend to devour her. After being rescued by Angel and the rest of Angel Investigations, she begins to recognize that she is more than the monster, and later has a brief but healthy relationship with Angel.
View of werewolves[edit]
The way people see werewolves in the Buffyverse varies:
Gib Cain hunts and kills werewolves for their teeth and pelts, and the gourmet club members are willing to pay handsomely to eat werewolf flesh, both indifferent to the fate of the human aspect. Cain notes that werewolf pelts fetch a high price in Sri Lanka, while Crane mentions dining on werewolf flesh in Seville, Spain, demonstrating this attitude can be found in many nations.
The Scoobies and Angel's crew do not hold werewolves responsible for their actions in bestial form, provided that (like Oz and Nina) they make reasonable efforts to restrain themselves during the full moon.
Werewolves such as Veruca believe the wolf to be their true self, and relish their condition, even if it means killing someone.
McManus, Nina's attacker in "Unleashed", originally attempted to live in permanent solitude, but eventually went back to populated areas. Unlike Oz and Nina, he did not have the support to hold on to his humanity.
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The First Evil
Buffy the Vampire Slayer character
First appearance
"Amends"
Created by
Joss Whedon
Portrayed by
Robia LaMorte
 Cornelia Hayes O'Herlihy
Edward Edwards
 Shane Barach
Adam Busch
Clare Kramer
George Hertzberg
Harry Groener
Juliet Landau
Mark Metcalf
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Azura Skye
Kristine Sutherland
James Marsters
Danny Strong
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K.D. Aubert
Lalaine
Carrie Southworth
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Notable powers
Assumes form of anyone that has died.
The First Evil (also called The First) is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon for the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The First Evil first appeared in the third season episode "Amends", and became the main antagonist of the 7th and final season.
A being manifested from all evil in existence, the First is an incorporeal entity that can assume the form of any person who has died, including vampires and dead persons who have been resurrected. Because of this it appears in various forms over the course of the series depending on who it is appearing to as a method of manipulation. For this reason, the First usually appears as Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar) to the Slayer and her allies, but it also assumes the forms of Warren Mears, Spike, Drusilla and Jonathan Levinson on multiple occasions, among a variety of other forms taken less frequently.
Its only real weakness is that it is non-corporeal, and can therefore not do real physical damage. It is, however, expert at psychological manipulation, and can act through its servants, such as the Bringers, Turok-Han, Caleb or whatever person it can manage to trick.


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1.2 Powers and abilities
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Biography[edit]
Character history[edit]
The First Evil claims to be the source and embodiment of all that is evil. For technical purposes, the First Evil is neither male, female, demon, nor god; it is a "power". The First is older than demons, even the Old Ones, who themselves existed long before the first humans; it is older than the written word, the Big Bang and transcends all realities and dimensions; it is older than any other evil being and may even be the very first entity ever to have existed. It is said that the First lurked in the darkness long before the universe was even created and shall remain long after the universe ends. Few have heard of it and even fewer believe in its existence.
The entity cannot affect the world on a physical level. Its power lies in its ability to deceive, torment and manipulate others. It can take the form of anyone who has died, (or as an enormous, phantasmic demon with large horns and long, talon-shaped fingers), and it can choose to be seen and heard by just one person or by multiple people. The First has a deep understanding of human nature and it uses this knowledge to drive others to madness, murder and/or suicide.
The First makes its initial appearance in the series as a "monster of the week" that Angel must face in the episode "Amends". It tries to drive the vampire to kill Buffy by reminding him of his "true" nature (Angelus) and it sets about accomplishing this by appearing to him as some of his victims: Daniel, Margaret, Travis and Jenny Calendar. It tells Angel that it is responsible for his return from Hell, a claim which is ambiguous because of its deceptive nature and of The Powers That Be is likely the true culprit. The First suggests that Angel can end his sufferings by turning evil again, but the benevolent vampire chooses to kill himself using the sunrise instead out of fear of his evil alter-ego. Even though Angel's death is not a part of the ideal plan (killing Buffy), the First does not mind because a powerful blow to the forces of Good would still be dealt (an elimination of a champion for The Powers That Be and the Shanshu Prophecy candidate). Despite Buffy initially unable of saving Angel's life, The Powers That Be ultimately intervened thus resulting The First's defeat.
Buffy's death(s) at the end of season 1 and/or the end of season 5 and subsequent resurrections caused an irregularity, or glitch, in the Slayer line that the First realizes and uses to eliminate the Slayer line forever. The First planned to use this glitch and kill the two Slayers (Buffy and Faith) and all the Potential Slayers thus tipping the balance of good and evil completely off tilt. All of this is part of the First's master plan to become all powerful and enter into the hearts, minds and souls of every single man, woman and child on Earth.
First, the First orders its second-in-command, the defrocked priest Caleb to send the Bringers after potential Slayers and destroy the Watcher's Council. The First then went to Sunnydale to attempt to open the Hellmouth, manipulating Andrew to kill Jonathan to do so. However, as Jonathan was anemic, this only resulted in negative energy flowing out.
The First revealed itself after ordering the Bringers to capture Spike, who it had spent months psychologically tormenting. Bleeding Spike, it was able to open the Hellmouth and release a Turok-Han, an ancient primeval uber-vampire, which it sent after Buffy and company.
After Buffy managed to kill the uber-vampire, the First lays low for a few weeks, then returns to psychologically torment the Potential Slayers. It also summons its second in command, Caleb to Sunnydale and begins the search for the Slayer's Scythe, which Buffy eventually takes. The First was defeated as Buffy, Faith, Spike and the Potential Slayers made a final assault against The First's Army of Turok-Han inside the Hellmouth.
The First appears in the video game Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds as the main antagonist, having helped Ethan Rayne escape from his imprisonment at the hands of the Initiative, and also participating in a battle between the two (or rather, each of their five champions). Buffy, Willow, Xander, Faith, Spike, and Ethan are all transported to the First's dimension (which appears as a version of Sunnydale similar to "Wishverse" created by Anya) against their will.
Powers and abilities[edit]
Neither male or female, living or dead, the First is pure power. It is the darkness inside the hearts and souls of all living creatures. The fact that the First has no physical body makes it impossible, or at least extremely difficult to kill. Yet, because of this, the First cannot truly interact with the physical world. However, certain people are able to interact and even become one with the First, such as Caleb.
The First appears in the physical world as dead people. This included people who have died, vampires and even dead people who have been resurrected. This allows the First to manipulate people (such as appearing as Warren to get Andrew to kill Jonathan), or engage in psychological warfare such as torturing Spike or appearing as dead Potentials to attack the others. The First seems also to know mannerisms, information and details of the life of whoever it is appearing as. This is best shown in "Conversations with Dead People" as the First appears to Dawn as her mother Joyce, appears to Andrew as Warren and appears to Willow as Cassie Newton, in an attempt to manipulate them all into serving its purpose.
As essentially the source of all evil, the First has knowledge of every monster and dark ritual in existence. This was exemplified by the runes the Bringers carved into Spike's chest to summon the Turok-Han.
As the First is said to be eternal, existing before time and believed to be the only thing remaining after the end of time, it is infinitely patient. A defeat it suffers is nothing more than a minor setback.
Appearances[edit]
The First Evil has appeared in 16 canonical Buffyverse episodes:
Buffy the Vampire SlayerSeason 3 (1998) "Amends" (as Daniel, Margaret, Jenny Calendar, and Travis–name revealed in the shooting scripts).
Season 7 (2002–2003) "Lessons" (as Warren Mears, Glory, Adam, The Mayor, Drusilla, The Master, and Buffy Summers)
"Selfless" (as Buffy Summers)
"Conversations with Dead People" (as Warren Mears, Cassie Newton, and Joyce Summers)
"Sleeper" (as Buffy Summers and Spike)
"Never Leave Me" (as Buffy Summers, Spike, Warren Mears, and Jonathan Levinson)
"Bring on the Night" (as Spike and Drusilla)
"Showtime" (as Buffy Summers and Eve)
"First Date" (as Jonathan Levinson and Nikki Wood)
"Get It Done" (as Chloe)
"Storyteller" (as Warren Mears)
"Dirty Girls" (as Buffy Summers and Betty)
"Empty Places" (as Buffy Summers)
"Touched" (as Richard Wilkins and Buffy Summers)
"End of Days" (as Buffy Summers)
"Chosen" (as Buffy Summers and Caleb).

Further reading[edit]
Gallagher, Diana G. Prime Evil. Simon and Schuster, 2001. p. 60. ISBN 0-7434-3154-5
Holder, Nancy. CHOSEN. Simon Spotlight Entertainment, June 2003. ISBN 0-7434-8792-3
Jowett, Lorna. Sex and the Slayer: A Gender Studies Primer for the Buffy Fan. Wesleyan University Press, 2005. p. 116. ISBN 0-8195-6758-2
Kaveney, Roz. Reading the Vampire Slayer: The Complete, Unofficial Guide to Buffy And Angel. Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2004. pp. 49–51. ISBN 1-86064-984-X
South, James B. Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy: fear and trembling in Sunnydale. Open Court Publishing, 2003. p. 213. ISBN 0-8126-9531-3
Tracy, Kathleen. The Girl's Got Bite: The Original Unauthorized Guide to Buffy's World. St. Martin's Press, 2003. p. 342. ISBN 0-312-31258-X
Wilcox, Rhonda V. Why Buffy Matters: The Art of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I.B. Tauris, 2005. pp. 32, 48, 51, 61, 77, 89, 91, 100, 105-106. ISBN 1-84511-029-3
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Faith Lehane
Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel character

Eliza Dushku as Faith
 
First appearance
"Faith, Hope & Trick" (Buffy, 1998)
Created by
Joss Whedon, David Greenwalt
Portrayed by
Eliza Dushku
Information

Affiliation
Watchers' Council
Scooby Gang
Mayor Wilkins
Wolfram & Hart
Classification
Slayer
Notable powers
Supernatural strength, speed, stamina, agility, and reflexes
Rapid healing
Prophetic dreams
Faith is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon for the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Played by actress Eliza Dushku, Faith was introduced in the third season of Buffy and was a focus of that season's overarching plot. She returned for shorter story arcs on Buffy and its spin-off, Angel. The character's story is continued in the comic book series Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, and she also appears in apocryphal material such as other comic books and novels. Faith was set to receive her own spin-off television series after the final season of Buffy, but Eliza Dushku declined the offer, and the series was never made. The character later co-stars in the 25-issue comic book Angel & Faith beginning in August 2011 under the banner of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Nine, the story taking place mostly in London and the surrounding area.[1] Seven years after the character's creation, Whedon granted her the surname Lehane for a role-playing game and subsequent material. The last issue of Season Eight was the first source officially confirmed to be canon that referred to Faith by her full name.
Faith is a Slayer: a girl endowed with supernatural abilities and destined to battle evil creatures such as vampires and demons. Created as a foil to the protagonist, Buffy Summers, she is a Slayer who comes from a damaged background and often makes the wrong decision. Initially an ally to the main characters, events take a toll on Faith's sanity and she slips into a villainous role. Later storylines show her feeling remorse for her past crimes, and with the benevolent vampire Angel's help she eventually rejoins the side of good in the hopes of achieving redemption.


Contents  [hide]
1 Appearances 1.1 Television
1.2 Literature
2 Concept and creation
3 Characterization
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

Appearances[edit]
Television[edit]
In Buffy the Vampire Slayer season three, Faith arrives in Sunnydale,[2] having been activated as the Slayer by the death of Kendra (Bianca Lawson) in the episode "Becoming, Part One" (who was activated by Buffy's temporary death in the first season).[3] Coming from a traumatic and abusive background, Faith tries to fit in with Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and her friends, but becomes increasingly isolated and bitter as the season progresses.[4] A major turning point for the character occurs in the mid-season episode "Bad Girls"; while trying to show Buffy the fun side of slaying, Faith accidentally kills Deputy Mayor Allan Finch (Jack Plotnick), a human being whom she mistakes for a vampire.[5] Feeling more alienated than ever, she betrays the Scooby Gang and allies herself with the villainous Mayor of Sunnydale (Harry Groener),[6] eventually forming a sincere father-daughter relationship with him. After Faith tries to murder Buffy's vampire lover Angel (David Boreanaz) under the Mayor's orders, the two Slayers finally battle it out in the season finale, a confrontation which leaves Faith alive but comatose.[7]
Faith returns to Buffy for two episodes in the fourth season. Waking up from her coma, she seeks revenge on Buffy by switching their bodies using a mystical device called the Draconian Katra left to her by the now-deceased Mayor.[8] As Buffy is taken into custody by the Watchers' Council for crimes she did not commit, Faith discovers for the first time what it is like to be surrounded by loving friends and family, and Buffy starts to understand Faith despite being upset with her predicament. After feeling obligated to rescue a church full of people from vampires, Faith battles Buffy once again, expressing extreme self-hatred before being returned to her own body.[9] The storyline is continued in the first season of spin-off series Angel, as Faith escapes to Los Angeles and is hired by Wolfram & Hart to assassinate Angel.[10] Instead, she plots an intricate plan to have Angel kill her, but Angel convinces her to face the consequences of her actions, and helps her on the path to redemption. Faith hands herself over to the police and she is sentenced to a women's prison, where Angel later visits her.[11]
In Angel season four, Angel is reverted to the evil Angelus after having his soul removed.[12] Faith is approached by her former Watcher, Wesley Wyndam-Pryce (Alexis Denisof), who informs her of Angelus's presence, sparking her to break out of prison and help them.[13] Wanting to help Angel the way he helped her, Faith injects herself with a mystical drug and feeds herself to Angelus in order to incapacitate him.[14] She nearly dies from the drug, but during a psychic mind walk, Angel persuades her subconscious not to give up and that life is worth living.[15]

 

 The character of Faith is expanded upon in media outside of the television series, such as the Buffy Season Eight comic book.
Afterwards, a recovered Faith travels back to Sunnydale, where she plays a significant role in the battle against the First Evil in the final season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In these episodes, she reconciles with Buffy,[16] although their relationship is tested when the Potential Slayers appoint Faith as their leader over Buffy.[17] This decision later proves disastrous when Faith's plan leads them into a trap, leaving several girls dead. She and the survivors are saved by Buffy, and the two finally make peace with one another.[18][19] After a one-night-stand together,[18] Faith begins a romantic relationship with school principal Robin Wood (D.B. Woodside) when they both survive the battle in the series finale.[20] Faith was set to receive her own spin-off following the end of Buffy, which, according to Tim Minear, would have featured Faith "probably on a motorcycle, crossing the Earth, trying to find her place in the world." However, Eliza Dushku chose to take other offers for her post-Buffy career.[21][22][23]
Literature[edit]
Faith makes appearances in various Buffy and Angel comic books and novels. In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer comic book story "Haunted", an imprisoned Faith reveals to Angel her memories of being in a coma between Buffy seasons three and four; she shared a psychic link with the Mayor's spirit and could see him attacking people through his eyes.[24] "Note from the Underground" sees Faith being temporarily released from jail into Angel's custody, in order to help Buffy defeat the demonic fascists, the Scourge.[25] Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Faith Trials, Vol. 1 is a novelization of Buffy season three episodes which center around Faith, including "Faith, Hope & Trick", "Bad Girls", and "Consequences". These episodes focus specifically on Faith's arrival in Sunnydale, and her subsequent turn to the dark side following the death of the Deputy Mayor.[26] Faith appeared prominently in her own 2006 novel Go Ask Malice: A Slayer's Diary by Robert Joseph Levy, which elaborates on Faith's back-story in South Boston and how she came to be the Slayer. Written in diary format, it fleshes out many areas of Faith's past which were only alluded to in the show, such as her alcoholic mother's abuse, her previous relationships, and her first Watcher's gruesome death at the hands of the vampire Kakistos.[27] Author Robert Joseph Levy describes writing the book, "I wanted to explore the choices she made and the choices that were taken away from her, and how they affected her mental state and her development from Potential to Chosen before she arrived."[28] Expanded Universe material such as this is not usually considered canonical unless otherwise stated.[29][30]
Faith is featured in the ongoing comic book, Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight (2007–11), which serves as a canonical continuation of the television series. In the storyline "No Future For You", Faith goes undercover on a mission from Giles to assassinate rogue Slayer Genevieve "Gigi" Savidge,[31] who plans to usurp Buffy's position as leader to the Slayers.[32] Instead, Faith forms an unexpected connection with Gigi and finds herself torn between her new friend and her old enemy.[33] When Gigi discovers her true identity, Faith unintentionally kills her in battle, and the arc ends with Faith finding a new purpose alongside Giles, helping slayers so they won't go down the path she and Gigi did.[34] Faith and Giles later reappear over a year later in "Safe", which recounts one of their missions in Germany.[35] Faith reconvenes with Buffy to face the threats of the villain Twilight in "Retreat",[36] and is captured alongside Giles and Andrew by Twilight.[37] As such, she is witness to the reveal that Twilight is in fact Angel in "Twilight, Part II".[38] In the final story arc, "Last Gleaming", Faith battles in the ruins of Sunnydale alongside other Scooby Gang members and Slayers. Underground however, Angel—possessed by the Twilight entity—snaps Giles' neck in order to prevent the destruction of its power source; a grief-stricken Buffy destroys it however, Angel is freed from Twilight's possession, and magic is mostly cut off from the universe.[39] In the final issue, set some time later, per Giles' will, all of his worldly assets, save a book, have been left to Faith. In Faith's care is a distraught Angel, whom she intends to rehabilitate.[40]
Following Season Eight, Faith received her own title in Angel & Faith (2011–2013), a companion series to Season Nine. The story depicts Angel and Faith, as residents in Giles' London home, attending to his unfinished business and fighting the forces of evil in London. Faith takes on the role of mentor to a group of Slayers, but is resented by their leader Nadira for her alliance with Angel, who blames Angel for the many deaths he brought about as Twilight, alongside his partners, the merciless half-demons Pearl and Nash. Though Faith initially feels betrayed when she uncovers Angel is in fact working on an ambitious scheme to resurrect Giles, she decides to accompany him on his mission because of how much Giles meant to her. Over many months, they travel the world in search of fragments of Giles' soul, magical artifacts which can restore his body to full health, and later the body itself when they discover it has been stolen. They are joined in their mission by Giles' magically youthful great-aunts, and his friend and fellow Watcher Alasdair Coames—all of whom are depowered magic users. Their mission is problematized by Angel's former ally, Whistler, and by Pearl and Nash, who wish to unleash a gruesome magical plague on the world as a means to restore magic. Faith is overjoyed when they succeed in resurrecting Giles, albeit as a young teenager, but their reunion is short-lived because of the threat posed by Whistler's plan. During a protracted battle, Faith and Nadira find some retribution when they manage to kill Nash, who personally murdered Nadira's old Slayer squad. Together, the group averts Whistler's plan, although it is enacted on a small scale on a part of London. Faith is heartened to discover that Nadira survived the battle despite incurring severe burns. The group finally debrief, and Faith tells Angel she has decided to return to the States to work with Kennedy's Slayer private security firm (seen in Season Nine). She realizes that though she owes a lot to Angel, the cost of working at his side has been too high, and that she needs a change; they part on friendly terms. Though for the first time Faith feels as if she has a group of people who care about her, she is hurt when Giles coldly tells her his first priority now that he is back is to be with Buffy. Faith puts on a brave face, and abruptly makes an exit.
Concept and creation[edit]



"I I know Faith's not going to be on the cover of Sanity Fair, but... she had it rough. Different circumstances, that could be me."
—Buffy empathizes with Faith in "Doppelgangland", echoing the intended parallels between the two Slayers.
The initial concept for Faith's character was "the road not taken", a Slayer who makes the wrong choices in life.[41] She is intended to be a reflection of Buffy, and what Buffy could have become were it not for her support system of friends and family.[41] The question the writers wanted to answer was, despite being made from the same "raw materials," how would upbringing and environment affect the type of people they would become later in life?[41] Joss Whedon describes her as everything Buffy would never let herself become; although Buffy is tempted by Faith's approach to slaying, she ultimately decides not to make the same choices herself.[41] Some fans argued that the show developed a lesbian subtext between Faith and Buffy; Jane Espenson states that Whedon says he didn't intend this, but admitted it was there after he had it pointed out to him, jokingly attributing this to his subconscious.[42]
With Faith, the writers explored the nature of power, and the boundaries and consequences of its use. They wanted to address the issue that, whether the creatures a Slayer kills are good or evil, she is still a professional killer.[41] Co-executive producer Doug Petrie, and writer of Faith-centric episodes such as "Revelations" and "Bad Girls", says one of the things he loves about the character is that Faith is not wrong in describing herself and Buffy as killers. He goes on to discuss a Slayer's rights and responsibilities, and how Faith believes her contributions to society relieve her of any legal or moral responsibilities, a view which Buffy does not share.[41] When writing Faith, Petrie looked to Frank Miller's violent Marvel Comics character Elektra Natchios for inspiration, claiming, "In a different, teen, punkier context, Faith is so much like Elektra."[43]
Known only as "Faith" during the television series; she was not given a surname until 2005, seven years after her first appearance. Joss Whedon was approached by Eden Studios to create surnames for Faith and Kendra to use in a Buffy the Vampire Slayer role-playing game, and chose "Lehane" for Faith, because he wanted something "southie".[44]
Characterization[edit]
Actress Eliza Dushku describes Faith as the "working class" Slayer, a reason she feels so many people identify with her.[41] She was written as a sympathetic character; with Doug Petrie claiming "I connected with Faith early on. I love that character. She's totally tragic." According to Petrie, "The whole key to Faith is that she's in pain. If you took that away, she would be a monster. But she's so lonely and so desperate, and all of her toughness comes out of trying to cover that. That's what real monsters are made of. No one thinks they're really a monster."[45] Petrie claims Faith's main motivation is to find a family and friends; she sees treacherous Watcher Gwendolyn Post as the mother she never had, the Scooby Gang as the friends she never had, and the Mayor as the father she never had. "So she's always looking for a family and always coming up short and making these horrible choices, and it drove her insane" says Petrie. "Plus I think she was missing a couple of screws to begin with. 'If you don't love me, you will fear me,' is kind of her m.o. She's not a stable girl, but a fun one."[45] Petrie describes the character's name as "wildly ironic", due to her cynical nature. According to Petrie, "She's the most faithless character we've got. She doesn't trust herself or anyone around her. We try to do that a lot with our monsters. It's much more fun if you look at it from their point of view."[45]
Writer Jane Espenson believes one of the reasons why Faith elicits sympathy from the audience is the touching father/daughter relationship between her and the Mayor, comparing their affection for one another to that between vampires Spike and Drusilla in the earlier season. The writers wanted to make both Faith and the Mayor as human as possible by showing they need connection and love as much as the heroic characters. Eliza Dushku claims Faith's bond with the Mayor stems from his being one of the few people in her life who does not put her down, which is something she has battled with her whole life; Dushku goes on to say Faith's misplaced trust in the Mayor "leads her into being more crazy".[41]
In the Angel season one episode "Sanctuary", Faith forms a bond with the vampire-with-a-soul Angel; executive producer David Greenwalt explains Angel can help her because he alone is able to understand the suffering she has been through and how to help her atone for her sins.[46] Faith is then able to return the favor in Angel's fourth season, when she is the only one determined to defeat Angel's soulless alter ego Angelus without killing him in the process. Actor David Boreanaz explains, "I think having a character like Faith come back at a pivotal point when she finds out Angelus is loose is really, for her character, a way of saying: 'I'm paying you back, Angel, for saving me, therefore, I'm gonna save you.'" The writers believed it would be an interesting dynamic to have former "bad girl" Faith play a heroic role against the show's now villainous protagonist, Angel.[47]



"Much as I love Buffy, I'm way happier writing flawed, damaged people who don't always make the right decisions. Faith is such a complex, beautiful character."
—Brian K. Vaughan explains what attracted him to the character.[48]
Faith was brought back for the final season of Buffy, because, according to David Solomon, "she had been such a crucial character at a very specific junction in the series that there would be no way to tie it up without her." However, in season seven the dynamic between the two Slayers has changed. As Rebecca Rand Kirshner explains, "[Faith] is no longer such a complete opposite of Buffy. And there's sort of a subtler and more complicated dynamic between them". As Buffy struggles with her unwanted position of mentor to the Potential Slayers, the writers used Faith to create an outside conflict about Buffy's leadership abilities. Although Faith is questioning Buffy and her choices she is making, she is no longer an enemy to her either. In the episode "Empty Places", the Potentials lose trust in Buffy and appoint Faith as their leader instead, a decision that literally blows up in their faces. As Drew Goddard explains, "Faith is like the cool aunt that everyone loves, because the cool aunt doesn't have the responsibility of raising the children. She just gets to show up and have fun. The problem is, Faith is not ready to lead. She's damaged in her own way. She's just beginning to pull herself together. As much as she wants to be Buffy, she has to learn how to become Faith."[49]
When writing Go Ask Malice, author Robert Joseph Levy encountered a number of issues to negotiate in writing a back-story for Faith. One of these was retaining the mystery of the character; Levy explains many aspects of Faith's background, such as her delinquency and promiscuity, are supposed to be assumed by the viewers of the show, and he didn't want to spell everything out by writing a "case study" of her. In order to do something non-traditional, Levy chose to tell the story in a diary format, watching many episodes of the television series to get a hold on the natural cadence of her voice. He reveals he looked to Faith herself in order to overcome his fear of writing such a popular character, "She's not hesitant and in a lot of ways, I took a lot of inspiration from the character itself in terms of creative process — to really go for it and be strong in my choices".[28]
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41.^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h Joss Whedon, Jane Espenson, Marti Noxon, Eliza Dushku (2001). "Season 3 Overview" (Buffy the Vampire Slayer The Complete Third Season DVD Special Features) (DVD (Region 2)). United States: 20th Century Fox.
42.Jump up ^ Jensen, Michael (March 19, 2009). "Live Chat with Jane Espenson". AfterElton.com. Retrieved August 15, 2009.
43.Jump up ^ Golden, Christopher; Stephen R. Bissette and Thomas E. Sniegoski (2000). Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Monster Book. New York: Pocket Books. pp. VI. ISBN 978-0-671-04259-2.
44.Jump up ^ Joss Whedon announced in January 2005 that Faith's surname was "Lehane," and this would be used in all future products, starting with Eden Studios' Buffy the Vampire Slayer role-playing game . The name appears in Eden's books and is considered to be canonical. Whedon explained at the time: There was this role playing game or something. They said she hadda have a last name for her so I chose Lehane 'cause I wanted something Southie, just as you thought. — Joss Whedon at whedonesque.com
45.^ Jump up to: a b c Golden, Christopher; Stephen R. Bissette and Thomas E. Sniegoski (2000). Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Monster Book. New York: Pocket Books. pp. 368–369. ISBN 978-0-671-04259-2.
46.Jump up ^ David Greenwalt (2001). "Featurette: Season 1" (Angel The Complete First Season DVD Special Features) (DVD (Region 2)). United States: 20th Century Fox.
47.Jump up ^ David Boreanaz, David Fury (2004). "Prophecies: Season 4 Overview" (Angel The Complete Fourth Season DVD Special Features) (DVD (Region 2)). United States: 20th Century Fox.
48.Jump up ^ Matt Brady (August 23, 2007). "TALKING FAITH & BUFFY WITH BRIAN K VAUGHAN". Newsarama. Retrieved November 27, 2007.
49.Jump up ^ Joss Whedon, Drew Goddard, David Solomon, Rebecca Rand Kirshner (2004). "Season 7 Overview – Buffy: Full Circle" (Buffy the Vampire Slayer The Complete Seventh Season DVD Special Features) (DVD (Region 2)). United States: 20th Century Fox.
External links[edit]
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List of Buffyverse villains and supernatural beings
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The following is a list of demons, vampires, human monsters, walking dead, ghosts, beasts and any kind of evil being or supernatural creature seen in the Buffyverse(created by Joss Whedon).


Contents [hide]
1Demons, Half-Demons and Old Ones
2Vampires
3Wizards, Witches, Sorcerers and Other Magic Users
4Enhanced humans
5Dangerous Mortals
6Undead
7Ghosts and spirits
8Animalistic beings
9Deities and higher beings
10Magical creations
11Monsters
12Robots
13Immortals and Non-Humans
14Good Supernatural Beings

Demons, Half-Demons and Old Ones[edit]
See also: Demon (Buffyverse)
Acathla ("Becoming, Part Two")
Ano-Movic Demons: The Straleys ("Bachelor Party")
Anyanka
Arney ("Offspring", "Lullaby")
Artode ("Life of the Party")
Assassin demon ("Sanctuary")
Avilas ("Help")
Baker ("The Ring")
Balthazar ("Bad Girls")
Barney the Empath Demon ("Parting Gifts")
The Beast
Billy Blim ("That Vision Thing", "Billy")
Bohg'Dar Demon ("Salvage")
Boone ("Blood Money")
Boretz Demon ("Power Play")
Brachen Demons ("Hero)
Bringers
Bro'os ("Teeth") the Loan-Shark demon ("Tabula Rasa")
Brotherhood of Seven: Marc ("The Puppet Show")
Cantonese Fook-Beast ("That Vision Thing")
Carlos ("Underneath")
Carnyss Demon ("Judgment")
Chaos Demon ("Fool for Love")
Champion Knight ("Judgment")
Clem
Codger Demon ("Hearthrob")
Connor
Cordelia Chase (Never used powers for evil)
Coventant of Trombli: Silas, Barshon
Cyvus Vail
Deevak ("First Impressions")
Der Kindestod ("Killed by Death")
Devlin ("Life of the Party")
D'Hoffryn
D'Hoffryn's acolytes in Arashmahaar ("Something Blue")
D'Korr (D'Hoffryn's second demon hitman) ("Get It Done")
Doc
Doyle
Drokken Beast ("Belonging")
Drug Lord Demon ("The Prodigal")
Durslar Beast ("Fredless")
Durthok the Child-Eater ("Judgment")
Eater Demon ("Slouching Toward Bethlehem")
Eli ("Harm's Way")
Eyghon the Sleepwalker ("The Dark Age")
Ethros Demon ("I've Got You Under My Skin")
Fell Brethren
Flanjoid Demon ("To Shanshu in L.A.")
Fungus Demon ("The Harsh Light of Day")
Dr. Fetvanovich ("Quickening")
Francis ("Release")
Frocter Demon ("Release")
Sid & Monica Frzylcka ("Double or Nothing")
Fyarl Demon ("A New Man")
Gachnar ("Fear, Itself")
Garwak Demon ("Provider")
Gathwok Demons: Vakma, Trensiduf ("Over the Rainbow")
Gavrok Spiders ("Choices")
The Gentlemen and their Silent Footmen ("Hush")
Ghora Demon ("Forever")
Glarghk Guhl Kashma'nik Demon ("Normal Again")
Glory's Minions: Jinx, Dreg, Murk, Slook, Gronx and the High Priest Minion
Glurgg ("Apocalypse, Nowish")
Gnarl ("Same Time, Same Place")
Goran Demons ("The Girl in Question")
Granok Demons ("Forgiving")
Grappler Demons ("Quickening")
Grimslaw Demon ("Selfless")
The Groosalugg
Grox'lar Beast ("Just Rewards")
Hainsley Demon ("Just Rewards")
Haklar Demon ("Belonging")
Halfrek
Hans and Gretta Straus ("Gingerbread")
Haxil Beast ("Expecting")
Senator Helen Brucker
Hellhound("The Prom")
The Hellions: Razor, Mag, Klyed ("Bargaining, Part One& Two")
Hellmouth Spawn ("Prophecy Girl", "The Zeppo")
Hindu Kush ("Judgment")
Howler Demons ("The Ring")
Intestine demon ("Lonely Hearts")
Illyria
Izzerial the Devil
Jenoff the Soul-Sucker ("Double or Nothing")
Jenoff's Repo-Man ("Double or Nothing")
Princess Jheira and the Oden-Tal females ("She")
The Judge
Kailiff demon/Griff ("Rm w/a Vu")
Kamal the Prio-Motu Demon ("Judgment")
Karathmamanyugh Demon ("Spin the Bottle")
Kathy Newman/Mok'tagar demon ("Living Conditions")
Ken and the demon enslavers ("Anne")
Kek Demon ("I've Got You Under My Skin")
Kith'Harn Demons ("Origin")
Kleynach Demon ("Reprise")
Kovitch Demon ("She")
Kulak of the Miquot Clan ("Homecoming")
Kungai Demon ("Parting Gifts")
Kurskov's minions ("Waiting in the Wings")
Lachnie Hag ("Benediction")
Lagos ("Revelations")
Lasovic ("The Ring")
Lei-Ach Demons ("Family")
Lilliad Demons ("Dad")
Lissa ("First Date")
Liz ("Judgment")
Lister Demons ("Hero")
Lohesh (mentioned in "Graduation Day, Part One")
Lorne's Id Monster ("Life of the Party")
Lubber Demons ("Happy Anniversary")
Lurconis ("Band Candy")
Lurite Demon ("Hearthrob")
Machida ("Reptile Boy")
Madam Dorian and her Girls (Lina) ("War Zone")
Mandraz ("Wrecked")
M'Fashnik Demon ("Flooded")
Mayor Wilkinsaka Olvikan
Mellish ("The Ring")
Merl
M. James Menlo ("The Shroud of Rahmon")
Mofo Demon (Lenny Edward's demon muscle) ("War Zone")
Mohra Demon ("I Will Remember You")
Moloch the Corruptor("I, Robot... You, Jane")
Mordar the Bentback ("Judgment")
Mucus Demon ("Double or Nothing")
Multi-headed demon ("Supersymmetry")
Mutite Demon ("Hearthrob")
Nahdrah Demons ("Provider")
Nezzla Demons ("Judgment")
Norman Pfister ("What's My Line, Part One"/"Part Two")
Nurbatch Demon ("That Old Gang of Mine")
Octarus (""What's My Line, Part Two)
Olvikan ("Graduation Day, Part Two")
Ovu Mobani ("Dead Man's Party")
Piasca demon ("Lonely Hearts")
Pockla Demon ("Dead End")
Polgara Demons ("The I in Team")
Prechian Demon ("The Thin Dead Line")
Preggothian Demon ("Blind Date")
Pyleans: Lorne, Constable Narwek, Landok, Numfar, Blix, Lorne's Mother (Deathwok clan), Pylean Royal Guard: The Captain of the Guard
Queller Demon ("Listening to Fear")
Quor-Toth Demon ("The Price")
Rahmon ("The Shroud of Rahmon")
Reptilian Demon ("Parting Gifts")
Rodentius Demon ("Fredless")
Rwasundi Demons ("Dead Things")
Sahjhan
Sahrvin Demons
Sathari ("Power Play")
Archduke Sebassis
Sebassis' Slave/Pee-Pee Demon
Senih'D Demon ("Couplet")
The Scourge: Trask, Tiernan ("Hero")
The Senior Partnersof Wolfram & Hart
Serparvo Demon ("Something Blue")
Shorshack Demon ("I've Got You Under My Skin")
Sloth Demon ("Judgment")
Sorialus the Ravager ("Waiting in the Wings")
Shur-Hod Demons ("Heartthrob")
Sisterhood of Jhe ("The Zeppo")
Skench Demon ("Double or Nothing")
Skilosh Demons ("Epiphany")
Skip
Skyler ("Enemies")
Slime Demon ("The Wish" & "To Shanshu in L.A.")
Dr. Gregson the Slod Demon ("Heartthrob")
Sluggoth Demon ("Beneath You")
Smile Time Puppet-Demons: Polo, Ratio Hornblower, Grrl, Rufus ("Smile Time")
Soul-Eater ("Calvary")
Stewart Burns ("Hell's Bells")
Strom Demon ("Release")
Suvolte Demon ("As You Were")
Sweet ("Once More, With Feeling")
Sweet's Lackeys ("Once More, With Feeling")
Tarval Demon ("Expecting")
Talamour/Burrower ("Lonely Hearts")
Taparrich and the Mok'tagar demons ("Living Conditions")
Tezcatcatl ("The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco")
The Thaumogenic Demon ("After Life")
The Beast of Amalfie("To Shanshu in L.A.") and ("Birthday")
Thesulac Demon ("Are You Now or Have You Ever Been")
Thraxis ("Life of the Party")
Tien Shenin ("Judgment")
Tom Cribb ("The Ring")
Tor ("The Trial")
Torto Demon ("Happy Anniversary")
Torg ("Showtime")
Toth ("The Replacement")
Tough Guy Demon ("That Old Gang of Mine")
Tree Demon ("Couplet")
Turfog the Thrall Demon ("Dear Boy")
Vahrall Demons ("Doomed")
Vajnu Demon ("The Shroud of Rahmon")
Val Trepkos ("The Ring")
Vampire Detector Demons ("Blind Date")
Vartite Monster ("Judgment")
Vigaries ("She")
Vinji Demons ("Harm's Way")
Vocah, Warrior of the Underworld, Bringer of Calamity ("To Shanshu in L.A.")
Voynok Demon ("Supersymmetry")
Vyasa ("The Shroud of Rahmon")
Wan-Shang Dhole ("That Vision Thing")
Wainakay Demon ("Happy Anniversary")
Wolfram & Hart Failsafe Technician Demon ("You're Welcome")
Wolfram & Hart Torturer Demon ("Underneath")
Wraithers ("Loyalty")
Whistler
Yeska the Davric Demon ("Guise Will Be Guise")
The Zealots of the Devourer: The High Priest Zealot, the Keeper of the Name ("Sacrifice", "Peace Out")
Vampires[edit]
See also: Vampire (Buffyverse)
Absalom("When She Was Bad")
Alonna Gunn
Alphonse ("Doppelgangland")
Andrew Borba ("Never Kill a Boy on the First Date")
Andrew Hoelich ("Anne")
Angel/Angelus
Anne ("Lies My Parents Told Me") - Spike's mother
Aurelius (Vampire prophet who prophesied the coming of the Anointed One)
Big Ugly
Billy Fordham ("Lie to Me")
Blair ("Helpless")
Boone ("Who Are You")
Charlotte ("Sleeper")
Charles Gunn("After the Fall")
Collin, the Anointed One
Dalton
Darla
Doug Sanders
Dracula("Buffy vs. Dracula")
Drusilla
El Eliminati ("Bad Girls")
Elisabeth
The Gorch family: Lyle, Tector, and Candy ("Bad Eggs", "Homecoming")
James
Jamie ("Pangs")
Jay-Don ("The Shroud of Rahmon")
Jeff & Mutt ("Crush")
Jesse McNally
Julia ("Lie to Me")
Harmony Kendall
Holden Webster ("Conversations with Dead People")
Kakistos("Faith, Hope & Trick")
Stephen Korshak ("Some Assembly Required")
Lean Boy
Lenny ("Lovers Walk")
Luke
Marcus ("In the Dark")
The Master
Nightmare Buffy ("Nightmares (Buffy episode)")
Nostroyev ("Why We Fight")
Prince of Lies ("Why We Fight")
Rebel Vampire Posse: Carl, Justin, Zack, Glenn, Christy, Marla and other vamps. ("All the Way")
Richard ("Lies My Parents Told Me")
Russel Winters ("City of")
Mr. Sanderson ("Gingerbread")
Sandy ("Doppelgangland", "Family", "Shadow")
Sam Lawson ("Why We Fight")
Sarah Holtz
Spike
Sundayand her gang: Dav, Rookie, Tom, Jerry and Eddie ("The Freshman")
Thomas ("Welcome to the Hellmouth")
The Prince Of Lies ("Why We Fight")
The Three ("Angel")
The Three Sisters ("Buffy vs. Dracula")
Tom ("The Harsh Light Of Day")
Mr. Trick
Turok-Han vampires
Ul'thar Vampires
Whip and the Hooker Vamps ("Into the Woods")
Wishverse Willow("The Wish", "Doppelgangland")
Wishverse Xander("The Wish")
Zachary Kralik ("Helpless")
Wizards, Witches, Sorcerers and Other Magic Users[edit]
See also: Witch (Buffyverse)
Madam Anita ("Couplet")
Captain Atkinson ("The Thin Dead Line")
Magnus Bryce ("Guise Will Be Guise")
Helen Bointon ("Happy Anniversary")
Jenny Calendar
Cordelia Chase(through the former power Jasmine; notably in "Orpheus" and "Inside Out".)
Command Centralwitches ("The Long Way Home" onwards)
Michael Czajak ("Gingerbread")
The Order of Dagon ("No Place Like Home")
The Devonshire Coven (mentioned in "Grave" and "Lessons")
Rupert Giles
Magnus Hainsley ("Just Rewards")
Clan Kalderash: Enyos Kalderash, Magda Kalderash (The Elder Woman)
Kumiko ("Wolves at the Gate, Parts 1-4")
Count Kurskov ("Waiting in the Wings")
Paul Lanier ("Guise Will Be Guise")
Jonathan Levinson
Allen Lloyd ("Sense & Sensitivity")
Mistress Meerna ("A New World")
Tara Maclay
Catherine Madison ("Witch")
Amy Madison("Witch")
Gwendolyn Post ("Revelations")
Rack("Wrecked", "Seeing Red", "Two to Go")
Roden ("No Future For You, Parts 1-4")
Ethan Rayne
Marcus Roscoe ("Carpe Noctem")
Willow Rosenberg
Professor Oliver Seidel ("Supersymmetry")
The Shadow-Men ("Get It Done")
Spanky ("Conviction")
Svear Priestesses ("Soulless")
Thelonious ("I, Robot... You, Jane")
Vaughne and the UC Sunnydale Wiccan Group ("The Killer in Me")
Andrew Wells
Wo-Pang of the Kung Sun Dai ("Awakening")
Wesley Wyndam-Pryce
Lucien Drake ("Soul Purpose")
Enhanced humans[edit]
Brain Man ("That Vision Thing")
Vanessa Brewer ("Blind Date")
Caleb
Bethany Chaulk ("Untouched")
Command Centralpsychics and seers ("The Long Way Home" onwards)
Connor
The Holy Triumvirate (The Three Blind Seer Children) ("Blind Date")
Mayor Richard Wilkins III
Ronald Meltzer ("I Fall to Pieces")
Cassie Newton("Help")
Gwen Raiden
Marcie Ross and other Invisible Students ("Out of Mind, Out of Sight")
Slayers
Wolfram & Hart's Psychics ("Blind Date", "Quickening", "Hellbound")
Wolfram & Hart's Telekinetic Ninja Assassin ("Quickening")
Dangerous Mortals[edit]
Hunt Acrey ("Redefinition")
Richard Anderson ("Reptile Boy")
Ryan Anderson ("I've Got You Under My Skin")
Dr. Francis Angleman
Benny, Mr. Bryce's bodyguard ("Guise Will Be Guise")
Ilona Costa Bianchi ("The Girl in Question")
The Biker Gang ("Dad")
Billy's Kiddy League Coach ("Nightmares")
Congressman Nathan Blim ("Billy")
Brittany ("Harm's Way")
Gib Cain ("Phases")
Charlotte ("Harm's Way")
Mr. Chaulk ("Untouched")
Wilson Christopher and the Haxil's Cult Guys ("Expecting")
Jacob Crane ("Unleashed")
Cyril, W&H's mailboy ("Quickening")
Danny ("Harm's Way")
Debbie ("Salvage")
Lee DeMarco ("The House Always Wins")
Dick the Pimp ("Five by Five")
Lenny Edwards ("War Zone")
Elliot ("Ground State)
Emil the Arms Dealer ("Lineage")
Eric ("Some Assembly Required")
Bret Folger ("Five by Five")
Billy Fordham ("Lie to Me")
Frawley ("Homecoming")
Corbin Fries ("Conviction")
Jack the Barkeeper ("Beer Bad")
Jackson the Drug Dealer ("The Thin Dead Line")
Frederick & Hans Gruenstalher and the Old Man ("Homecoming")
Gunn's ex-crew: Rondell, Gio ("That Old Gang of Mine")
Hank ("Parting Gifts")
Fritz Heinrich (SS Officer) ("Why We Fight")
Henry, Deevak's human henchman ("First Impressions")
Captain Daniel Holtz
Holtz's Angel-Hunters: Justine Cooper, Aubrey Jenkins
Desmond Keel ("Conviction")
Knights of Byzantium: General Gregor, Orlando, Dante ("Checkpoint", "Blood Ties", "Spiral")
Knox
Irv Kraigle ("Dead End")
The Lunch Lady ("Earshot")
Rebecca Lowell ("Eternity")
Mac ("Parting Gifts")
Lindsey MacDonald
The Maclay Family: Mr. Maclay, Donny and Beth ("Family")
MacNamara Brothers: Darin and Jack ("The Ring")
Coach Carl Marin ("Go Fish")
Colonel McNamara
Warren Mears
Lee Mercer
Dr. Michaels of Fairfield Clinic ("Dead End")
Lilah Morgan
Takeshi Morimoto ("Players")
Bob Munroe, Sunnydale Chief of Police
Linwood Murrow
Novac ("Just Rewards")
Gavin Park
Patrice of the Order of Teraka ("What's My Line, Part Two")
Preston ("Home)
Ramone, Lanier's mole in Caritas ("Guise Will Be Guise")
Nathan Reed ("Dead End")
Monsigneur Rivali & the Inquisitore ("Offspring")
Dr. Evan Royce ("Unleashed")
Ruddy ("Harm's Way")
Sam the Parole Officer ("Dead End")
Lacey Shepherd ("Home")
Fritz Siegel("I, Robot... You, Jane")
Oliver Simon ("Eternity")
Rutherford Sirk ("Home")
Dr. Sparrow
Spencer, DeMarco's Head of Security ("The House Always Wins")
Sunnydale cops ("Empty Places")
Lenny the Stalker ("In the Dark")
The Faux T'ish Magev ("Guise Will Be Guise")
The Trio- Warren Mears, technology expert; Andrew Wells, summoner of demons; and Jonathan Levinson, caster of spells.
Tyke the Drug Dealer ("A New World")
Professor Maggie Walsh
Tom Warner ("Reptile Boy")
Tucker Wells("The Prom")
Peter Wilder and the Avilas Cult ("Help")
Wolfram & Hart Security Guards: Howard ("Blind Date"), Phillip ("Blind Date"), Allan ("Dead End"), Dwight ("Blood Money")
Wolfram & Hart Special Ops Team: Commander Burke ("Quickening"), Agent Hauser ("Conviction"), Carlo ("Slouching Toward Bethlehem")
Cordelia Chase(though she was technically part demon)
Undead[edit]
Adam
Francis Angleman ("Primeval")
Brian ("Provider")
Daryl Epps ("Some Assembly Required")
Forrest Gates("Primeval")
The faux Ampata Gutierrez ("Inca Mummy Girl")
Josh ("Fear, Itself")
Holland Manners
Lilah Morgan
Jack O'Toole and his gang: Bob, Dickie and Parker ("The Zeppo")
Ovu Mobani Zombies ("Dead Man's Party")
Prof. Maggie Walsh("Primeval")
Wolfram & Hart Zombies ("Habeas Corpses")
Wolfram & Hart Failsafe Zombie Guards ("You're Welcome")
23rd Precinct Zombie Cops ("The Thin Dead Line")
Ghosts and spirits[edit]
The First Slayer
Hus and the Chumash Warrior Spirits ("Pangs")
Lowell House Poltergeist ("Where the Wild Things Are")
Grace Newman ("I Only Have Eyes for You")
Matthias Pavayne, the Reaper ("Hell Bound")
Pavayne's hell-sent Wolfram & Hart deceased employee apparitions ("Hell Bound")
Dennis Pearson("Rm w/a Vu")
Maude Pearson ("Rm w/a Vu")
The Puma Guide ("Intervention")
Spirit Guides ("The Zeppo")
James Stanley ("I Only Have Eyes for You")
Tammy ("Birthday")
Talisman Spectres ("Lessons")
The Valet ("The Trial")
Wesley Wyndam-Pryce("After the Fall")
Wraith ("Spin the Bottle")
Animalistic beings[edit]
See also: Werewolf (Buffyverse)
Nina Ash
Peter Clarner ("Beauty and the Beasts")
Kyle DuFours, Rhonda Kelley, Tor Hauer, Heidi Barrie ("The Pack")
Xander Harris("The Pack")
MacManus ("Unleashed")
The Neander-Guys: Colm, Kip, Hunt & Roy ("Beer Bad")
Buffy Summers(Beer Bad)
Oz
Veruca
The Zookeeper ("The Pack")
Deities and higher beings[edit]
Beljoxa's Eye ("Showtime")
The Conduit to the Powers That Be ("Birthday")
Cordelia Chase(temporarily a higher power)
Dinza, Dark Demi-Goddess of the Lost ("Ground State")
First Evil
Glorificus, a.k.a. Glory
Hecate("Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered")
Jasmine
The Loa Alegba ("Loyalty")
Mesekthet's replacement (the White Room's Panther) ("Home", "Hell Bound", "A Hole in the World")
Osiris("Bargaining, Part One)
The Powers That Be
The Ra-Tet: Mesektet, Manjet, Ashet, Semkhet and Ma'at ("Long Day's Journey")
Magical creations[edit]
Glory's Spawn of Sobek ("Shadow")
Jonathan's Augmentation Monster ("Superstar")
The Killer Clown ("Nightmares")
Olaf the Troll("Triangle")
The Ugly Man ("Nightmares")
Willow's Dirt Golems ("Grave")
The Thaumogenesis Demon ("After Life")
Roden's golems ("No Future for You")
Dawn Summers
Monsters[edit]
The Bezoar ("Bad Eggs")
The 'Failsafe' ("You're Welcome")
Natalie French/the She-Mantis ("Teacher's Pet")
The Lamprey Monster ("Doublemeat Palace")
Quor-Toth Sluks ("The Price")
Selminth Parasite ("Soul Purpose")
Sunnydale High Swim Team ("Go Fish")
Bug monsters ("Fredless")
Tentacle monster ("Sense & Sensitivity")
Robots[edit]
Moloch ("I, Robot... You, Jane")
April ("I Was Made to Love You")
Ted Buchanon ("Ted")
Buffybot("Intervention", "The Gift", "Bargaining, Part One", "Bargaining, Part Two")
Cyborg Cell ("Lineage")
Gwen, Wolfram & Hart's Files and Records ("Dad")
Warrenbot ("Villains")
Mecha Dawn ("Wolves at the Gate")
Immortals and Non-Humans[edit]
Drogyn the Battlebrand
Eve, Child of the Senior Partners
The Guardian ("End of Days")
Marcus Hamilton, Child of the Senior Partners
The Immortal ("The Girl in Question")
The Oracles ("I Will Remember You")
The Shrouded Shaman ("Enemies")
Transuding Furies ("That Old Gang of Mine", "Offspring")
The Tribunal ("Judgment")
Wolfram & Hart's Prison Wardens: Zach, Trish, Ice-cream man, Mailman ("Underneath")
Good Supernatural Beings[edit]
Angel
Buffy Summers
Clem
Charles Gunn("After the Fall")
Chinese herbalist demons ("That Vision Thing")
Connor
Cordelia Chase
Dennis Pearson("Rm w/a Vu")
Allen Francis Doyle
Drogyn the Battlebrand
Faith
Gwen Raiden
Illyria(debatable, as she technically doesn't care about either good or evil, instead believing herself to be above everything)
Kwaini Demon ("The Prodigal")
Lorne
Nina Ash
Oz
The Powers That Be
Sid the Dummy
Slayers
Spike
Yarbnie demon ("That Old Gang of Mine")
Dawn Summers


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