Acathla
- Demon that was able to swallow thhe world; it was killed by a virtuous
knight, who pierced the demon's heart before he could draw a breath to
perform the act. Then, Acathla turned into stone and was buried in a field
where, later, Sunnydale was built on. Many years later, its tomb ended
up being discovered and taken to a museum.
In 1998, it was stolen by Angelus
and Drusilla, who awoke the demon in order to destroy the world:
Angelus: Acathla... Mundatus sum...
pro te necavi. Sanguinem meum... pro te effundam... quo me dignum... esse
demonstrem. (Acathla... I am cleansed... here before you. My blood... flowing
before you... makes me worthy... as I demonstrate.)
Angelus' blood would open the door
to Hell and Acathla, opening its big mouth, would create a vortex. That
done, only Angelus' blood would close it.
When the world was about to be sucked,
Buffy managed to stop the process by piercing both Angelus (who had his
soul just restored by a ritual performed by Willow) and Acathla with another
sword blessed by the original knight, and Angel was sucked into hell, staying
there for 100 years.
Source: Becoming 1-2
Adam
-
Soldier assigned to work for Professor Maggie Walsh in the secret Initiative
headquarters who was severed injured hunting demons — he lost an arm, part
of his face, and much of his skin.
Afterwards, Maggie uses him to create
a perfect soldier, making him a mixture of man, demon, and machine. It
doesn't take much time for Adam to kill his creator and run away from the
Initiative compound, believing his destiny was to kill humans.
In order to defeat the Slayer, Adam
recruits a demon army. He also enlists Spike, promising to restore him
to what he once were, by taking the chip out of his head; the human-demon-machine
makes a speech that makes Spike cry:
Adam: You feel smothered. Trapped
like an animal. Pure in its ferocity, unable to actualize the urges within.
Clinging to one truth. Like a flame struggling to burn within an enclosed
glass. That a beast this powerful cannot be contained. Inevitably it will
break free and savage the land again. I will make you whole again. Make
you savage.
Spike: Wow. I mean, yeah. I get
why the demons all fall in line with you...
The vampire then turns the Scooby
Gang against each other (by playing on their fears) in order to leave Buffy
alone and helpless.
Adam returns to the Initiative headquarters
and, in a secret lab, brings back to life Professor Walsh, along with two
other Initiative members (Dr Angleman and Forrest
Gates) he had killed. His intention is attack the Initiative from
the inside, killing all the scientists and commandos; thus, he will have
plenty of body parts to create an army of soldiers like him.
Eventually, Buffy figures out Spike's
evil scheme and reunites the Scoobies; Giles finds a spell to destroy Adam's
power center, using the power of all the gang members combined, and Adam
is terminated. Poor Spike doesn't have the chip taken out of his head and
the Initiative is closed down.
Amy - In
1997, to relive her glory days as a popular cheerleader, witch Catherine
Madison switches bodies with her daughter Amy, who attends Sunnydale High
with the Scoobies. With their help, Amy manages to have her body back.
Afterward, the girl goes living with her father (The Witch).
Later, Amy (who is exploring her
mother's witch powers) helps Xander (who had been dumped by Cordelia) with
a love spell, but it goes horribly wrong, turning him into every woman's
desire — except Cordelia's (Bewitched, Bothered
and Bewildered).
In 1999, the demon Hansel & Gretel
arrives in Sunnydale and incites the grow ups to kill all the witches.
In order to escape, Amy turns herself into a rat and, when the peril is
gone, she can't manage to turn herself back into human form. Willow tries
to help, to no avail (Gingerbread).
Some time later, Willow "derats"
Amy (who is living in a cage as Willow's pet) for a split second, but doesn't
even notice it (Something Blue).
In 2002, Willow finally manages to
turn Amy a human being again and the ex-rat ends up being a bad company
for Willow; she introduces Will to the powerful warlock Rack, a black magick
"dealer" (Smashed).
Later, Amy appears in Buffy's house
and gives Willow a "birthday gift": a powerful charge of magick, which
ends up being very harmful to Willow. Eventually, she and Amy have a fight
over Amy's behavior and they stop seeing each other (DoubleMeat Palace).
Willow meets Amy again in 2003, when
she looks for a [Wiccan]
group for help. Amy had joined said group pretending she was trying to
be good, but eventually [Kennedy] learns that Amy
herself is the cause of the big problem: Willow transformation into Warren,
after being kissed by Kennedy. Amy had cast a hex on Red that made her
subconscious pick the form of her punishment; Willow, besides feeling guilt
about having killed Warren, felt like she was killing Tara when she reciprocated
Kennedy's kiss (The Killer in Me).
Andrew
Wells - Tucker Well's brother (the guy who trained a pack of devil
dogs to kill anyone in formalwear, and released them at the Scoobies' Prom).
Andrew himself once trained flying demon monkeys to attack the school play
(Romeo and Juliet). Former member of the evil [Troika],
along with Jonathan and Warren, in 2002, he returned to Sunnydale from
Mexico with Jonathan, in order to look for the [Seal
of Danzalthar], located in the Sunnydale High's basement. Influenced
by the [First
Evil] (in Warren's form), Andrew ended up killing Jonathan, in order
to use his blood and open the Seal, which didn't work (Conversations
With Dead People). Later, he was captured by the Scoobies, after
meeting Willow at the butcher shop — where both of them had gone to buy
pig's blood (Willow, for Spike, and Andrew, following orders from the First).
Kept prisoner at Buffy's house, Andrew was bitten by a controlled-by-the-First
Spike when he was about to spill something about the Seal of Danzalthar
(Never Leave Me); later, he ended up taking the Scoobies
to the basement, where they buried the Seal again (Bring on the Night).
Andrew went on living at the Summers' house (as a "guesstage"), in his
path to redemption, annoying everybody to no end — he even produced a video
about the "Slayer of Vampyres", to Buffy's distress (Storyteller).
Eventually, he fought the final battle against the Turok-Hans along with
the Scoobies, when he was almost killed, if Anya hadn't intervened (Chosen).
After Sunnydale's destruction, Andrew
(who had moved to Europe along with the Scoobies) appeared in Los Angeles
with a bunch of new Slayers in order to take the crazy Slayer Dana with
them — according to orders given by Buffy, who didn't trust Angel anymore
because he had become the leader of an evil law firm. Andrew got very pleased
that Spike was alive (Angel/Damage).
Later, Angel and Spike met Andrew
in Rome, when the two soulled vampires were looking for Buffy, to "save"
her from the Immortal. Andrew was living at Buffy's apartment, after having
had a "cultural misunderstanding" that caused a fire at his place (The
Girl in Question).
Anne
- William's mother. An elderly lady whoo, in 1880, was bitten by his son,
because he wanted to give her health and eternal life. However, in doing
this, William/Spike set loose a demon who tore into him, and ended up dusted.
She used to sing to his son her favorite song, Early One Morning (Lies
My Parents Told Me); more than a century went by, and this very
song was used by the [First
Evil] as a [trigger]
to force Spike kill again (Sleeper).
Flutie (Bob)
-
Sunnydale High's Principal. After visiting the Zoo, Xander and several
other students enter the quarantined Hyena pen, become possessed with the
spirit of the animal and poor Principal Flutie ends up being eaten by them
— except Xander (The Pack).
Cecily
Addams/Underwood - The poet William the Bloody (Spike) met Cecily in
a party (London, 1880) and said he loved her; however, Cecily turned him
down and, by breaking William's heart, made him stagger down the street
in tears, ripping up his poems as he went, and bump into vampire Drusilla,
who sired him, changing William's life forever (Fool for Love).
Trivia: The
actress (Kali Rocha) who played Cecily Addams is the same who played Halfrek/Hallie
— and Hallie knew Spike, since she recognized him, calling him "William"
(Older and Far Away). Would Cecily and Halfrek be the same
person??? In the comic book [Old
Times], they are. Or, if you want to know what happened to a very
human Cecily after William is sired by Dru, read [These
Our Actors].
Clem
- A friend of Spike's, he is introducedd in Life Serial,
when Spike takes a tipsy Buffy to a seedy bar in order to show her "his
world". There, they head for the back room, where they meet Spike's demons
friends: one with many eyes, one with scaly skin (who has X-ray vision),
one with a green face and horns, and one with very loose skin and big ears
— that's Clem. They are playing poker and, instead of money, they play
for kittens. Both Spike and Clem cheat — but just Clem is caught with an
ace of spades stuck in the folds of his skin. Later, Clem goes along with
Spike to Buffy's house, where she is throwing a party for her 21st birthday
(Older and Far Away). Also, Clem attends Xander and Anya's
wedding (Hell's Bells). Later, Clem tells a desperate Spike
(who had just forced himself on Buffy) about his cousin and a kooky shaman
who resurrected him, which makes the vampire head to Africa in order to
fight for his soul (Seeing Red). The following year, Buffy
and Spike take the Potential Slayers — Kennedy, Rona, Vi and Molly — to
a demon bar, where they meet Clem. Spike has no interaction with him, at
all; on the other hand, Buffy and Clem greet each other like old friends.
Buffy asks Clem to scare the girls a little, and the friendly demon changes
his face into a scarier one in front of them, who scream in terror (Potential).
Some months later, Clem is seen getting the hell out of Sunnydale in a
shinny red car — like all Sunnydale citizens, he feels the evil is coming.
Buffy finds him caught in a traffic jam, and they have a small talk, he
telling her she will manage to stop the end of the world (Empty Places).
Collin,
The Anointed One - A small boy vampire. He and his family were attacked
by vampires, after a bus crash, but only him was sired. Master's warrior,
he wanted to take his place after he was killed by Buffy, but ended up
killed by Spike, who put the boy in a cage and exposed him to sunlight.
Spike called him "the the annoying one" and Drusilla felt he was a very
powerful vampire.
Darla
- See [Angel
Characters]
D'Hoffryn
-
Powerful demon who resides in Arashmaha. He was the boss, among other thousands
of girls, of former Vengeance Demon Anyanka and deceased Vengeance Demon
Halfrek. He can turn humans into demons, as he did with Anya (twice) and
almost with Willow, who was offered the "job", but turned it down. When
Anyanka caused the death of 12 young men (by grating a vengeance wish)
and afterwards wanted to reverse the spell, D'Hoffryn said to her it was
possible, but it would take "the life and soul of a vengeance demon." Anyanka,
thinking she would be the one to die, accepted the bargain, and D'Hoffryn
ended up killing Anyanka's best friend, Hallie. Afterwards, Anya became
human again and, although he had said he wouldn't do it, D'Hoffryn sent
demons to kill her twice.
Dracula
- Dracula appeared once in Sunnydale, llooking for the Slayer and managed
to put her and Xander in his thrall; he bit Buffy and made Xander his loyal
servant. The thrall was broken after Buffy drank Dracula's blood — at his
request — and dispatched the Count from Sunnydale. Spike claimed that he
and Dracula were rivals, before the Count's fame; according to Spike, Dracula
owned him 11 pounds (Buffy vs Dracula). Spike also complained
that Dracula liked to show off and ended up revealing many of the vampire
secret's — like the lack of reflection, making vampires easier to be recognized
and killed.
Faith
Lehane*
- Slayer, American from Boston, Massachusetts, called after
Kendra died. Faith is the Slayer whose death would call the next Chosen
One. She was a trouble-maker and caused Buffy and the Scoobies many problems
— poisoned Angel, switched bodies with Buffy, killed Sunnydale's Deputy
Mayor, Allan Finch. Afterwards, she went to Los Angeles and was hired by
[Wolfram
& Hart] to kill Angel (Angel/Five by Five). However,
Angel convinced her that what she had been doing was wrong and Faith turned
herself in. She was in a California state prison in Stockton, doing a 25-to-life
sentence for murder two, when a woman, hired by the [Harbingers],
tried to kill her. She escaped when Wesley looked for her asking for help
— to catch Angelus. Afterwards, she went to Sunnydale with Willow, to help
Buffy in the fight against the First Evil. Faith got to know Robin Wood,
and they ended up having sex. After the battle in the Hellmouth, it seemed
that she and the Principal were very fond of each other.
*On the show, Faith didn't have a
surname. Series creator Joss Whedon gave her one in 2005, for a game.
Glory
- Hellgod from a demon dimension of unsspeakable torment. She ruled with
two other hellgods. Along with the beast they were a triumvirate of suffering
and despair, ruling with equal vengeance. But the beast's power grew beyond
even what they could conceive, as did her lust for pain and misery. They
looked upon her, what she had become and trembled. They feared she would
attempt to seize their dimension for herself, and decided to strike first.
A great battle erupted and in the end, they stood victorious over the beast.
She was cast out, banished to this lower plane of existence, forced to
live and eventually die trapped within the body of a mortal, a newborn
male (Ben), created as her prison.
She couldn't
be destroyed because the identity of the human vessel hadn't been discovered.
However, as her power was too great to be completely contained, after about
25 years, in 2001, she found a way to escape her mortal prison for brief
periods, before her energies are exhausted and she was forced back into
her living cell of meat and bone. And she went after the [Key],
which would take her home again.
As the Key
had been made human and sent to the Slayer as her sister — Dawn — Glory
had to fight Buffy and the Scoobies; in the end, she was defeated. Ben
was killed by Giles, to prevent Glory's return.
Source: episode
Spiral
Halfrek/Hallie
- She, as well as Anyanka, was a [Vengeance
Demon] — although she considered herself more well-rounded then her
friend, preferring to be called Justice Demon; according to Anya, this
was because Hallie had "daddy issues". She and Anyanka had a disagreement
during the Crimea War (1854-1855 - Ukraine) and had been together in St.
Petersburg, Russia, in 1905. Hallie was killed by her boss D'Hoffryn, when
Anyanka asked him to undo a vengeance wish she had granted and that had
caused the death of a dozen young men — the wish was undone, but it took
"the life and the soul of a vengeance demon", that is, the life of Hallie
(Selfless).
Hank
Summers - Buffy's absent father. Got divorced from Joyce before she
and Buffy moved to Sunnydale. He didn't appear in Sunnydale neither when
Joyce died (The Body) nor when Buffy died (The Gift).
The last thing Buffy heard from him, he was living in Spain with his secretary
(Forever).
Harmony
Kendall - See [Angel
Characters]
Jeffrey
- Buffy's boyfriend in Los Angeles, in the movie Buffy, The Vampire
Slayer.
Jesse
- Xander's friend, killed and sired by Darla (The Harvest).
Xander accidentally staked him.
Jonathan
Levinson - Attended Sunnydale High with Buffy, Willow, Xander and Cordelia.
Once, he tried to kill himself, because he felt that nobody cared about
him; it was Buffy who stopped him (Earshot). Later, Jonathan
cast a glamour spell on Sunnydale, making everybody love and worship him,
including the Scooby Gang. After realizing that it was a little weird to
seek Jonathan's help (and wisdom), Buffy broke the spell and everything
returned to normal — to Jonathan's distress (Superstar).
He ended up joining Warren and Andrew,
and the three of them decided to take Sunnydale; the [Troika]
was born. Things went very badly; Willow killed Warren, and Jonathan, along
with Andrew, fled to Mexico.
Jonathan was killed by Andrew in
2002 — the two of them had returned to Sunnydale in order to look for the
[Seal
of Danzalthar]. Jonathan wanted to redeem himself, telling the Scoobies
about the Seal, but unfortunately, he didn't have time (Conversations
With Dead People). His body was buried by Robin Wood somewhere
in the woods, after the Principal had found it in the school's basement
(Never Leave Me).
Joyce Summers
- Buffy's beloved mother, died from a bbbrain tumor in 2001 (The Body).
She worked at an art gallery. Joyce didn't know that Buffy was a Slayer,
until the day she saw her daughter kill a vampire. Strangely enough, she
got very well with Spike, and vice versa, even when he hadn't been chipped
yet.
Judge
- A demon brought forth to rid the Eartth of the plague of humanity,
to separate the righteous from the wicked, and to burn the righteous down.
His touch could literally burn the humanity out of any being — just a true
creature of evil could survive the process. An army was sent against him
and they failed. Eventually, they were able to dismember him and the pieces
were scattered, buried in every corner of the Earth. In 1998, Drusilla
reassembled the pieces and brought back the Judge. Oddly enough, when he
saw her and Spike, he said they stank of humanity, that they shared affection
and jealousy; however, when the Judge touched Angelus, he didn't burst
on flames. The Judge was defeated by Buffy, who blew him up at the mall.
Kakistos
- Powerful vampire who killed Faith's Watcher. He was so old he had paws
instead of hands and feet. Kakistos was killed by Faith (Faith,
Hope & Trick).
Kendra
- Slayer from Jamaica, called after Buffy died for the first time (1997
— Prophecy Girl), in the hands
of the Master. Killed by vampire Drusilla in 1998 (Becoming
1). She was taken from her family
by the Watcher's Council when she was a child and trained to be a Slayer
— she had no friends, never had a boyfriend. Her Watcher was Sam Zabuto.
Lydia
- English [Watcher]
who wrote her thesis on Spike. She seemed very glad about meeting her object
of study when she dropped by Sunnydale with a bunch of Watchers who had
gone there to put Buffy through a test; and Spike was very flattered to
have been a subject of a thesis (Checkpoint). She was inside
the Watcher's Council Headquarters' building (in London) that Caleb, following
the First Evil's orders, blew it up (Never Leave Me).
Merrick
Jamison-Smythe - First Buffy's Watcher, killed by vampire Lothos (Buffy,
The Vampire Slayer, the movie).
Mr.
Trick - Vampire who worked for Mayor Richard Wilkins III. He was killed
by Faith.
Nikki
Wood - Slayer killed by Spike in New York, in 1977 (Fool for
Love), from whom he took the leather coat. Principal Robin Wood's
mother. The "emergency kit" Buffy used to learn about the Slayer's origin
(Get it Done) was hers; it was supposed to pass from Slayer
to Slayer, but after her death, Wood kept it with him, until 2003. Wood
told Spike Nikki was his mother and tried to revenge her death by killing
the vampire, but failed (Lies My Parents Told Me).
Oliver Pike
- Buffy's boyfriend in Los Angeles, in the movie Buffy, The Vampire
Slayer, played by Luke Perry.
Parker
Abrams - Student at Sunnydale UC, who tricked Buffy into sleep with
him, telling her the sad story about the recently death of his father and
how he needed to be consoled; and then, next morning, he dumped her. Buffy
got very hurt, she who had just had a terrible experience with Angel/Angelus.
Rack
- Powerful warlock, dark magic "dealer"" in Sunnydale. Amy introduced Willow
to him and Red started abusing magic since then. Rack ended up being killed
by her, after she dropped by his place in order to recharge herself with
dark magic and be able to continue pursuing vengeance against the nerds
Jonathan and Andrew.
Richard
-
Xander and Anya invited the young Richard to Buffy's birthday party (Older
and Far Away), making Spike (who was having a secret affair with
Buffy at the time) very jealous. Anyway, Buffy didn't show any interest
in him, at all. Poor Richard got very confused with all strange things
that he witnessed at the Summer's house that night — the demon Clem, the
fact that they couldn't leave the house for some unknown reason, the magic
potion Tara was fixing in the kitchen... And worse of all, he ended up
wounded by the demon that was released by Tara's magic.
Robin
M. Wood - Sunnydale High's Principal, after the reconstruction of the
school (2002); he hires Buffy as a Counselor for the students as soon as
they meet — he knows she is the Slayer, but doesn't tell Buffy anything
(Lessons). Wood is a vegetarian and grew up in Beverly Hills.
His mother was the Slayer Nikki, killed by Spike in 1977, in New York (Fool
For Love), when Robin was 4 years old. Afterwards, he was raised
by his mum's [Watcher],
Bernard Crowley. To revenge his mother's death, Wood tries to kill Spike
(with a little help from Giles) — but fails and is bitten by the vampire.
Spike can kill him (no more chip pain to stop him), but spares his life
because he had killed Wood's mother; Buffy tells the Principal that if
he tries to kill Spike again, she will allow the vampire to kill him (Lies
My Parents Told Me). When Slayer Faith arrives in Sunnydale, Wood
becomes interested in her — and they end up having sex in Buffy's bed (Touched).
After the big battle in the Hellmouth, it seemed they would get together
(Chosen).
Sam
-
Went to Central America with the Peace Corps. One night, her entire infirmary
got slaughtered by some unknown beings. Afterwards, she quit the Corps
and joined Riley Finn's squad. They met each other, got along well and
got married. The wedding itself was held in a military chopper — commandeered
from a local guerilla squad — just before a hairy night drop into hostile
territory. Sam and Riley appeared in Sunnydale in 2002; they were after
a Suvolt demon (As You Were).
Sandy
- Girl sired by Vamp-Willow at the Bronze (The Wish). She
hit on Riley in a bar, but he rebuffed her, knowing she was a vampire (Family).
Later, however, he looked for the vamp-whore and allowed to be bitten,
staking her afterwards (Shadow).
Scott
Hope - Sunnydale High's student; for a while, he dated Buffy, who had
just sent Angel to a hell dimension to prevent the world to be destroyed
(season 3). In 2003, the vampire Holden Webster told the Slayer that Scott
had said she (and every girl he broke up with) was gay — until the previous
year, when he finally came out of the closet himself (Conversations
With Dead People). Trivia: the actor who played "Scott Hope", Fab
Filippo, plays "Ethan Gold" on the gay show Queer as Folk.
Snyder
- Sunnydale High's Principal who replacced Marcus Flutie. He was eaten by
Mayor Wilkins (when he was in his giant snake form).
Veruca
- Werewolf, singer of the band Shy. She and Oz were physically attracted
to each other and when they both became wolves, they couldn't prevent their
animal instincts, and mated. Later, Veruca ended up killed by Oz, when
both were in their wolf form. She, differently from Oz, believed that her
animal part should be free, and not locked in a cage during the fool moon.
Warren
Mears - Built the BuffyBot (Intervention), and a girlfriend
robot named April (I Was Made To Love You). He also checked
Spike's chip (Smashed).
He was the leader of the [Troika]
and, among other evil things, he killed his former (real) girlfriend Katrina
Silvers — trying later to make Buffy believe she was responsible for her
death (Dead Things) — and killed Tara, when his goal was
shoot Buffy (Seeing Red). Willow, desperate by her girlfriend's
death, became Dark Willow, sought revenge and killed Warren by flaying
him alive (Villains).
Whistler
- Immortal demon sent down to even the score between Good and Evil, Angel's
mentor. He showed Angel the path of redemption. Angel had been living like
a bum for ninety years, when Whistle met him in Manhattan, in 1996. The
vampire was tired, filthy and unkempt, feeding off rats, with
An unforgettable
smell. This is the stench of death you're giving off here. And the look
says, uh... Crazy Homeless Guy. It's not good.
Whistler said
to Angel he could become an even more useless rodent than he already was,
or he could become someone to be counted. Then, he introduced Angel to
the Slayer, Buffy Summers, in order for him to start helping her.
Source: Becoming
1
William
- Young English poet who preferred placing his energies into creating
"things of beauty" and was infatuated with beautiful Cecily Addams in 1880's
London; he defined himself as being "a good man."
Known as
William
The Bloody, because of his bloody awful poetry, one day William had the
nerve to reveal his love to Cecily, when the two of them were attending
a party, and was humiliated by her, who said he was beneath her, making
him feel miserable. It was in this state of mind that he ran into evil,
mad vampire Drusilla, who sired him and made him her lover (Fool
for Love).
William, who
had a loving relationship with his mother Anne, came for her and, out of
love, sired her, in order for them to live together forever. However, things
went horribly wrong, since Anne, without the soul, became an evil creature
who tore into him, saying very nasty things. A desperate William staked
her eventually (Lies My Parents Told Me).
Later, William
takes the nick "Spike" because of his liking for torturing his victims
with railroad spikes — maybe because a guest at the party said that he
rather have a railroad spike through his head than listen to William's
poetry.
My heart
expands
'tis grown
a bulge in it
inspired
by your beauty, effulgent.
