Allen
Funt (1914 - 1999) - Creator and original host of the landmark television
series Candid Camera. On Buffy, The Vampire Slayer: Buffy, Willow, Xander, Giles, Anya, Tara, Dawn and Spike wake up at the Magic Box without their memories due to a Willow's spell that has gone awfully wrong (Tabula Rasa - 6x08); confused, Anya says:
I-I don't see any booze.
I don't feel any head bumps. I don't see Allen Funt.
Since the episode Life Serial
,
there was a hidden camera at the Magic Box, mounted in one of the skull's
eyes on the shelf; the Scoobies only found about it much later (Entropy).
Amulet
- Dead Lilah Morgan gives it to Angel, aalong with a folder with some information about Sunnydale, in exchange for a new life for his son Connor, and medical
and mystical care for Cordelia.
In handing the amulet (a Wolfram
& Hart's property) to the vampire, Lilah says that it "apparently it's
crucial for some kind of final battle". At first, Angel wants to keep neither
the file nor the amulet, and says that "Buffy can handle herself"; but
after watching Connor in trouble, he takes the amulet (Angel/Home),
goes to Sunnydale (End of Days) and gives it to Buffy. He
tells her that the thing is very powerful and probably very dangerous;
it has a purifying/cleansing power, and bestows strength when worn by someone
ensouled, but stronger than human — a Champion.
Buffy, being about to fight her ultimate
battle against the First Evil and its army of Turok-Hans, gives the amulet
to her Chosen Champion, Spike. In the middle of the battle, the amulet
starts working, and originating from Spike's body, powerful beams of golden
light destroy thousands of Turok-Hans in seconds. It causes the collapse
of the Hellmouth, too, closing it forever. Unfortunately, Spike is consumed
by fire from within, and burns to ashes, dying as a true hero (Chosen).
Seventeen days go by, and the amulet
reappears in Los Angeles, at Wolfram & Hart, inside an envelope (without
sender) sent to Angel — and from it, Spike is released (Angel/Conviction).
After some researching, Wesley concludes that Spike's essence has been
trapped in the amulet, and nothing can destroy it — except if the object
is taken to a consecrated place, like a church or a cemetery (Angel/Just
Rewards).
Arashmaha
- D'Hoffryn's dimension.
Beljoxa's Eye
- An oracle-type creature that exists in a dark dimension — an eternal
vortex that only demons can open. The Eye sees not the future, only the
truths of the now and before. It told Giles and Anya the reason The First
Evil was back: the opportunity had presented itself because the mystical
forces surrounding the Chosen line had become irrevocably altered, unstable
and vulnerable. It also said that The First did not cause the disruption;
the Slayer did. Anya concluded that she, Willow, Xander and Tara bringing
Buffy back from the dead had caused it all.
*Source: Showtime
Buffalo
Wings - Spicy chicken wings, one of Spike's favorite appetizers (the
other being onion blossoms).
Buffybot
- A Buffy robot build for Spike by Warren (I Was Made to Love You/Intervention).
For further details, see [Buffybot].
Bringers/Harbingers
- Eyeless high priests that used to serve the First Evil. They could conjure
spirit manifestations and set them on people, influencing them, haunting
them. According one of Giles' books:
They are the Harbingers of death.
Nothing shall grow above or below them. No seed shall flower, neither in
man nor...
In 2002/2003, they sought and killed
Slayers in Training (SITs) all over the world; besides, they kidnapped
Spike from the Summer's house in order to use his blood to open the Seal
of Danzalthar, following orders given by the First Evil (Never Leave
Me). Until the very end — the battle against the army of Turok-Hans
in the Hellmouth — the Bringers served the First.
Car - The
car Spike used to drive was a 1958 Dodge Desoto FireFlite; with it, he
crashed the "Welcome to Sunnydale" sign twice.
Chip -
Behavior modification circuitry on Spike's head, implanted by the Initiative
in 1999. It kept the vampire from hurting humans. In 2003, it started giving
Spike painful headaches that would kill him eventually; he and Buffy asked
for help from Riley Finn and the Initiative, and the chip, according to
Buffy's choice (it could have been fixed), was removed (The Killer
in Me).
Coat -
The
leather duster that Spike took from the second Slayer he killed, in 1977
(Fool for Love), was the trade mark of the "evil vampire".
He left the coat behind, in Buffy's house, after forcing himself on her
in the bathroom (Seeing Red); afterwards, he left Sunnydale
to seek out a soul. Without any reasonable explanation, the duster appeared
at Sunnydale High; after listening Buffy tell him that "he is holding back
since he got his soul back", and that what she wanted was "the dangerous
Spike", the vampire went to the school basement, found the coat inside
a box* (Get it Done) and started wearing it again. He didn't
go evil, at all, but the coat helped him to get back that old bad-ass attitude
from the old times.
Spike died wearing the duster (Chosen) and reappeared (incorporeal) in Los Angeles still wearing it (Angel/Conviction).
*Speculation
about how the duster could have ended up in the school basement: when Buffy
and Clem met at the demon bar (Potential), they greeted each
other effusively, as they were old, good friends; then, Clem said to Buffy
he watched a show on the History Channel she would have loved. How could
he know that? So, it's possible that during the summer, Buffy kept going
to Spike's crypt to check if the vampire was back in town and sometimes
she would stay there, watching TV with Clem. She could have taken the duster
to the crypt, and later, Clem gave it to soulled Spike, who was living
in the school. Also, the demon should have told Spike about what Willow
had done to Warren, because the vampire knew about the flaying
(Same Time, Same Place).
The original
duster was destroyed in a explosion in Rome, when Spike and Angel went
there looking for Buffy; however, Ilona Costa Bianchi, CEO of [Wolfram
& Hart], not only gave him a new one, but also sent other 10 pieces
to Los Angeles — with a fine assortment of shoes (Angel/The
Girl in Question).
Cordette
- Followers of Cordelia "Cordy" Chase, back in high school. Harmony was a Cordette, before beeing
sired.
Demons
- Walked on Earth before humanity itself, until humans arrived and the
demons (the Old Ones) were banished. Only the half demons stayed in our world; these can
be good or evil.
This world is older than any of
you know. Contrary to popular mythology, it did not begin as a paradise.
For untold eons demons walked the Earth. They made it their home, their...
their Hell. But in time they lost their purchase on this reality. The way
was made for mortal animals, for man. All that remains of the old ones
are vestiges, certain magics, certain creatures... (Giles in The
Harvest)
Dragon
- See [Angel
Files]
Drawings - See [Angel
Files]
First Evil
-
The source of all evil. It exists since before the universe was born, and
will exist long after there is nothing else. It cannot be fought or killed,
because it is not a physical being, not corporeal. The First can shape
shift into dead people, including vampires and those who died at least
once, like Buffy. According to itself, all people have a small part of
it in them. It haunted Angel, shape shifting as Jenny Calendar and other
Angelus' victims, almost making him kill Buffy and, later, kill himself
(Amends).
In 2002/2003, it reappeared with
new ambitions, and taunted Buffy, Spike, Willow, Dawn, Principal Robin
Wood, Faith and Andrew, shape shifting into The Master, Mayor Wilkins,
Adam, Spike, Buffy, Drusilla, Cassie Newton, Eve, Nikki, Jonathan and Warren.
Buffy declared war against it (Bring On The Night) and ultimately
she and Spike defeated its army of Turok-Hans, in a big battle in the Hellmouth
(Chosen); if they had won, when they outnumbered the humans
on earth the scales would have tipped, and the First Evil would have been
made flesh.
You think you can fight me? I'm
not a demon, little girl. I am something that you can't even conceive.
The First Evil. Beyond sin, beyond death. I am the thing the darkness fears.
You'll never see me, but I am everywhere. Every being, every thought, every
drop of hate.
A child shall be born of man and
goat and have two heads, and The First shall speak only in riddles...
Source: Amends
Florence
Nightingale (1820-1910) -
English nurse, pioneer of nursing and a reformer of hospital sanitation
methods, she had a great role during the Crimean War. Spike cited her in
Spiral, when Dawn draws Buffy's attention to his wounded hands:
Florence bloody Nightingale to the rescue.
Game
face - The demon face of a vampire.
Godfrey
Cambridge (1933-1976) - Afro-American actor. In one of his movies,
[Watermelon
Man], Cambridge portrayed an extremely bigotted white businessman who
turns black overnight.
On Buffy,
The Vampire Slayer: Xander walks into the kitchen and catches Buffy
and Spike red-handed, the vampire's hands on Buffy, who quickly shoves
his hands off her and drops the spatula she is holding into the sink (Gone):
Good
Godfrey Cambridge, Spike! Still trying to mack on Buffy? Wake up already.
Never gonna happen! Only a complete loser would ever hook up with you.
Well, unless she's a simpleton like Harmony, or a, or a nut sack like Drusilla-
Gypsy
Curse - See [Angel
Files]
Hearts
- In almost every Spuffy love scene (or even in episodes with some Spuffiness)
— there is a heart somewhere: on the back of an extra's shirt at the end
of Tabula Rasa; on one of the rugs, at the beginning of Dead
Things; on a headstone, right before the crypt's door scene in Dead
Things; in Spike's crypt, right after the couple made love, in As
You Were; on the headstone Spike breaks, in Out of My Mind; on
a headstone when Spike is with the Buffybot, in Intervention; on
the front of Andrew's shirt, in Smashed and in Buffy's living room,
in Older And Far Away.
Hostile
17 - Identification for Spike, given by the Initiative.
Initiative
- Government based organization whose main goal was to fight vampires and
other demons. Its headquarters were located under the UC Sunnydale. In
2000, the Initiative was closed down and the government denies it ever
existed. It seems the organization was founded around 1943, as someone
said to Angel when he was recruited to do a job during the war — "I represent
a relatively new agency, Demon Research Initiative" (Angel/Why We
Fight).
The behavior
modification circuitry on Spike's head was implanted by the Initiative
(The Initiative); in 2003, when the chip started to fail
(and would have ended up killing Spike), Buffy and the soulled vampire
returned to its abandoned headquarters to look for some drugs in order
to control Spike's headaches, but didn't find anything there. However,
as Buffy had already tried to contact Riley Finn (her ex-boyfriend and
member of the organization), soldiers appeared from nowhere and Spike had
his chip removed (The Killer in Me).
Josephus
Du Lac - Theologian and mathematician who belonged to a religious sect
that was excommunicated by the Vatican at the end of the 19th century.
He authored a book that was said to contain rituals and spells that reap
unspeakable evil; it was written in archaic Latin so that nobody but the
sect members could understand it. Du Lac also invented the "Du Lac Cross"
in order to use it to understand mystical texts and to decipher hidden
meanings. Before his death, he destroyed every cross except one, which
was buried with him — in Sunnydale. As there was a ritual to restore a
weak and sick vampire back to full health described in the book, Spike
had it stolen from Sunnydale High's library as well as the cross from Du
Lac's tomb, in order to perform the ritual to restore Drusilla's health
(What's My Line 1); she had been severely injured by a mob
in Prague.
Key - The
key is very old and it was created to open the gates that separate dimensions.
Where it came from, how it was created, is the deepest of mysteries; all
that is certain is that its power is absolute.
It is not directly described in any
known literature, but all research indicates a green energy matrix vibrating
at a dimensional frequency beyond normal human perception. Only those outside
reality (second-sight people, mad people etc) can see the Key's true nature.
It is is also susceptible to necromanced animal detection, particularly
those of canine or serpent construct.
For centuries it had no form at all,
till the monks of the Order of Dagon found it and, instead of destroying
it immediately, kept it — for centuries — believing they could harness
its power for the forces of light. Then, the beast, the hell god [Glory],
found them in 2001, and they had to hide the Key; they gave it form, molded
it flesh, made it human and sent it to Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, as her
sister Dawn, for her to protect it.
Dawn was created out of Buffy's blood
and the monks built memories that made the Slayer, her mother and all her
friends to believe that Dawn was always with them, since the beginning.
Glory intended to use the power of
the Key to return home and seize control of the hell she was banished from.
It needed to be channeled, poured into a specific place at a specific time.
The scrolls that Spike and Xander found at [Doc's]
place read:
The blood flows, the gates will
open. The gates will close when it flows no more.
Once the Key was activated — by bleeding
Dawn — it didn't just open the gates to the beast's dimension, it opened
all the gates. The walls separating realities crumbled, dimensions bled
into each other, order was overthrown and the universe would have tumbled
into chaos — all dark forever — if Dawn didn't die. To save her little
sister and the world, Buffy sacrificed herself, and jumped into the opened
portal, which closed, making things go back to normal.
Source: Checkpoint,
Blood
Ties,
Spiral, The Gift
Obs.: Dawn, the Key, believes that
if she isn't evil, she isn't good either. Glory thought it could be either
good or evil, depending on the point of view.
Knights
of Byzantium - Countless generations of this ancient order sacrificed
their lives in search of the Key, to destroy it before its wrath could
be unleashed. The Knights of Byzantium were recognizable by the black tattoos
imprinted on their foreheads:
Source: [Supporting
Cast's Tattoos]
Byzantium - Greek colony founded
in the 7th century; former name of Constantinople.
Constantinople - Capital of
the Empire of Byzantium; former name of Istanbul.
Istanbul - Capital of Turkey.
Lethe's Bramble
- Used by Willow to cast on Buffy and Tara a spell that would make them
forget their problems; it went awfully wrong, affecting all Scooby Gang
as well as Spike (Tabula Rasa). In Greek Mythology, Lethe
is one of the rivers of Hell; those who drink from its water, forget the
past.
Little Miss
Muffet - During the
dream Buffy and Faith shared on Graduation
Day 2, there is a dialogue that has
a reference to Little Miss Muffet, a children's rhyme; Miss Muffet
would be a reference about Dawn, the sister Buffy would have years ahead.
On the episode Real Me, the crazy man outside the
Magic Box yells at Dawn the following:
I
know you.
Curds and whey. I know what you are. You don't belong
here.
Little miss muffet
Sat on the tuffet
Eating her curds and whey,
along came the spider
and sat down beside her
and sacred little miss muffet
away
Magic Box - The store (located at 5124 Maple Court in downtown Sunnydale) had a sinister
past — at least two owners were killed: Mr. Bogarty, by Harmony's
gang (The Real Me) and the woman who preceded him, by Spike
(Lover's Walk). Giles bought the Magic Box after being dismissed
from his duties as Buffy's Watcher. To help him out, he hired Anya; when
he returned to England (after Buffy's death), she took over the store.
In the back, there was a gymnasium in order for Buffy to work out and in
its basement there was a passage to the Sunnydale sewers. The Magic Box
was destroyed when Buffy, Giles and Anya had to fight Dark Willow in there
(Two to Go and Gone).
Miss
Edith - Vampire Drusilla, Spike's mate for more than 100 years, loves
to collect dolls. Her favorite, Miss Edith, appeared, for the first time,
in School Hard. In Lover's Walk, Spike (after
being dumped by Dru) returns to Sunnydale and to the old burned-out factory
where he and Dru used to live, and there he finds Drusilla's doll collection
that didn't survive the fire piled on her dresser. He picks up one of them
and, as the doll reminds him his beloved Dru, he ends up smashing it with
a candlestick. In Crush, a doll can be seen in the train
car where several passengers have just been killed by a vampire — which
gives us the clue that the killer is Dru.
Miss
Kitty Fantastico - Willow and Tara's cat. In New Moon Rising
Tara suggested to Willow that they should get a cat and name it "Trixie"
or "Miss Kitty Fantastico"; Willow, although being a "dog person", thought
it was a good idea. At the time, the two of them were living at the US
Sunnydale campus, and pets weren't allowed in the dorms; so, Tara said
"it would be a sneaky cat." It seems that the poor animal was wounded by
a cross-bow left around "all willy-nilly" by Dawn — as we learn on End
of Days.
Mr.
Gordo - Buffy's little stuffed pig.
It made his
debut in What's My Line 1 — Angel was in Buffy's bedroom,
looking around while he waited for her to get home and he took her stuffed
pig from the shelf. Buffy arrived (through the window) and asked if he
was "Just dropping by for some quality time with Mr. Gordo." Angel
didn't get it and Buffy explained that Mr. Gordo was the stuffed pig.
Mister
Pointy - Kendra's "pet" stake; she gave it to Buffy, for luck, when
she was going to fight Angelus (Becoming 1).
Montresor
- Character from Edgar Allan Poe's [The
Cask of Amontillado]. Montresor is walled up by Fortunato and screams
"For the love of God, Montresor!" from behind the wall. Spike says to Buffy:
"Scream 'Montresor' all you like, Pet" (Selfless).
Orb of
Thesulah - Spirit vault for rituals of the undead — it summons a person's
soul from the ether and store it until it can be transferred. It was an
important piece in the ritual that cursed Angel with a soul, used by the
gypsies and Willow. Giles used it as a paperweight.
Order of
Aurelius - Founded and commanded by [The
Master], its members were sired very carefully, meant to form a vampire
elite. Darla, Angel, Drusilla and Spike, and all those sired by them, are/were
Aurelians.
Order of Dagon
- Founded by Tarnis, among others, in the 12th century. Its sole purpose
appears to have been protectors of the Key.
Order of
Taraka - Society of deadly assassins — bounty hunters — dating back
to King Solomon. They have no earthly desires, but to collect their bounty; they don't stop until the job is done. Some are human,
some are not; they can be recognized by a ring they use. Spike summoned three of them to get rid of Buffy, who was keeping him from complete Drusilla's
cure (What's My Line 1).
Paintings
- There were some mysterious paintings on the wall of the African cave where Spike fought for
his soul (Villains), that seemed to show Tara's death and
Willow's vengeance against Warren. The mystery was solved when Willow summoned
D'Hoffryn, and the demon told her that "the flaying of Warren Mears was
truly inspired, water cooler vengeance, and Lloyd has a sketch of it on
his wall" (Selfless).
Osiris
Tara
Warren
Willow and Warren
Pergamum
Codex - Contained the most complete prophecies about the Slayer's
role in the end years. Giles believed that the book had been lost in the
15th century; however, Angel knew it was just "misplaced" and handed it
to Giles (Invisible Girl). In the Codex was written that
Buffy would die at the hands of the Master - and the prophecy was fulfilled
(Prophecy Girl).
Prophecies
- See [Angel
Files]
Proserpexa
- Powerful she-demon whose satanic temple was located on Kingman's Bluff.
Her followers intended to use her effigy to destroy the world, but they
all died when the temple got swallowed up in the earthquake of 1932. In
2002, Willow tried to destroy the world by bringing the temple out of the
ground; she would drain the planet's life force, funneling its energy through
Proserpexa's effigy in order to burn the Earth to a cinder, but Xander
managed to stop her by giving the infamous "yellow crayon" speech (Grave).
Queller
- Sort of a scavenger demon that can be summoned to kill the mad. Primitive
people used to believe that the moon was a cause of insanity; sometimes
they would pray to the moon to send a special meteor (with the demon inside)
to fix the problem the moon had caused — these meteors were expected to
quell the madmen. One of them was summoned by Ben in 2000, in order to
kill all the people who went crazy after been attacked by [Glory]
(Listening to Fear).
Rings
Claddagh
- An Irish symbol of Love, Friendship and Loyalty, it depicts two hands
(Friendship) clutching a heart (Love), complete with a crown (Loyalty).
The story of
the ring began over 300 years ago in the village of Claddagh, in Ireland.
Legend tells that Richard Joyce was captured by pirates and worked as a
slave in the property of a rich Turkish goldsmith. Joyce ended up becoming
a master craftsman himself and, after being released from slavery, returned
to Galway and created the ring.
The Claddagh
Ring worn on the right hand, with the heart facing outwards, means that
one's heart has not yet been won; worn on the right hand, with the heart
facing inwards, shows one have friendship and love under consideration;
worn on the left hand, with the heart turned inwards, tells that one has
already found love.
Angel gave
Buffy a Claddagh, right before he had his moment of true happiness — which
made him lose his soul (Surprise):
Angel: I
have something for you. For your birthday. I... I was gonna give
it to you earlier, but...
Buffy: It's beautiful.
Angel: My people — before I was changed — they exchanged this as a sign of
devotion. It's a Claddagh Ring. The hands represent friendship, the crown
represents loyalty... and the heart... Well, you know... Wear it with
the heart pointing towards you. It means you belong to somebody.
Some time after
having sent Angel/Angelus to hell (Becoming 2), Buffy visits
the mansion he used to live, lies down her Claddagh on the floor and leaves;
from the ring, a portal opens and Angel is back to our reality, after suffering 100 years
in hell. The ring used on the show was sold by Fox on [eBay] for $ 15.000,00, in June 2003.
Gem
of Amara - The vampire equivalent of the Holy Grail; it made them
truly immortals, immune to the sun light and wooden stakes. According to
Giles, questing vampires combed the earth, but as no one ever found anything,
it was concluded that it never existed. However, in 1999, Spike and Harmony
appeared in Sunnydale looking for it. Giles researched and found a text
that read the gem was "residing in the valley of the sun", meaning Sunnydale.
Spike found it in a sealed underground crypt, but eventually lost it to
Buffy. Oz took the Gem to Angel, in Los Angeles, and Spike went after it.
He hired a vampire, Marcus, to torture Angel, and he ended up stealing
the Gem from Spike. Angel fought Marcus, took the Gem and destroyed it,
to avoid its use by evil things.
Scooby
Gang - Buffy, Xander e Willow are the core Scoobies, a reference
to the cartoon [Scooby
Doo], where the evil plans are always stopped by the coward dog
and his gang. The episode which introduces the Scooby Gang reference is
What's
My Line 1:
Xander:
C'mon, Cordelia. You wanna be a member of the Scooby Gang you gotta be
willing to be inconvenienced every now and then.
Seal
of Danzalthar - Seal that was located in the basement of the then brand-new
Sunnydale High School (rebuild in 2002), right on top of the Hellmouth.
The Seal is found by Andrew and Jonathan
(remainings of the Troika). Haunted by The First Evil (shape shifted into
Warren), Andrew killed Jonathan in an attempt to open it and release something
very bad. However, the sacrifice of Jonathan is useless — there isn't enough
blood (Conversations With Dead People), and the First ends
up using Spike to open the Seal and set free a Turok-Han, the "real vampire"
(Never Leave Me). Later, the Scoobies bury the Seal again
(Bring On The Night), which doesn't prevent the thing from
starting emanating an evil influence over the school; Buffy has to return
to the basement, this time taking Andrew with her. There is chaos everywhere,
the students are all crazy; Buffy scares the hell out of Andrew, making
him cry over the Seal; his tears stop the influence and the chaos (Showtime).
However, the Seal isn't let alone for much time — a female demon uses Xander's
blood to open it again, in order to get her very own Turok-Han. Fortunately,
Buffy and Spike manages to stop her in time, and save Xander's life (First
Date). Eventually, Buffy, Faith and the SITs open the Seal and
enter the Hellmouth to fight an army of Turok-Hans, assembled by the First
Evil, and the thing is definitely closed by Spike, who sacrifices his life
in the process (Chosen).
Shadow Men
- See [Slayers]
Shanshu
-
See [Angel
Files]
SIT
- It stands for Slayer in Training. For further information, see [Slayers].
Slayer
- See [Slayers]
Slayerette - Followers of Buffy, her gang — Willow, Xander, Cordelia, Dawn etc.
Slayerfest
-
Scheme set by Mr.Trick in order to capture and kill the two Slayers — Buffy
and Faith — for his boss, Mayor Richard Willkins III.
Sleeper
Agents - People who are brainwashed and conditioned with a specific
trigger
— a song, a phone call, a kiss — that makes them drastically change behavior
at a moment's notice, in order for them to accomplish some specific task,
like kill someone.
Spike was brainwashed
by the First Evil, who wanted the vampire to kill and sire people. The
First used the English old folk song [Early
One Morning] as a trigger, which Spike's mum used to sing to him
before he was turned into a vampire. Spike was de-triggered just when he
faced part of his past — the day he killed and sired his mum out of love
for her — and figured out that he was very much loved by his mother, differently
from what he had believed for many years (Lies My Parents Told Me).
Spuffy
- Spike + Buffy. In details [here].
St.
Vigeous - Centuries ago, led a crusade of vampires through Edessa (Mesopotamia)
and Harran (Turkey), which didn't leave much behind. In the night of St.
Vigeous (October 4, presumably), the vampires' power is at its peak — for
three nights, the unholy ones scourge themselves into a fury, culminating
in a savage attack. Spike tried to kill Buffy in this night, but failed,
because he couldn't wait the right time.
Source: School
Hard
Sunnydale
- Fictitious town in California, Bufffy, The Vampire Slayer's scenario,
and where the Hellmouth was located. The city harbored an exaggerated
number of churches and cemeteries. It was destroyed under the collapse of the Hellmouth, after the big battle against the Turok-Hans — soulled Spike and his amulet did it.
Sunnydale
High - School Buffy, Willow, Xander, Cordelia, Harmony, Amy, Scott
Hope, Jonathan, Andrew and his brother Tucker attended. Two of its principals
had a tragic destiny — Flutie was eaten by hyena-possessed students, and
Snyder was eaten by snake-Mayor Wilkins.
Giles used
to be the librarian of the school, and his girlfriend, Miss Jenny Calendar,
was a teacher there. Under the library was located the Hellmouth. The school
was destroyed in 1999 (Graduation Day 2), after the big battle
against the Mayor. In 2002, Sunnydale High was re-open, and Dawn started
attending there. The Hellmouth then was located under Principal Wood's
office. The new Sunnydale High didn't have a long life — it was destroyed
months after its reopening, along with all the city of Sunnydale (Chosen).
Scythe
- A powerful weapon forged in secrecy by women — the Guardians —
to kill the last pure demon that walked upon the
earth. It was kept hidden from the Shadow Men, who later became the Watchers,
who watched the Slayers. The Guardians watched the Watchers, and wanted
to help and protected the Slayers. These women put the Scythe in a rock,
for when the time came and it was needed again, the Slayer would find and
use it wisely. Buffy pulled it out of the rock in a vineyard in Sunnydale,
in 2003, after Spike had found out an inscription carved in stone, in a
secret room in an abandoned mission in Gilroy (the Scoobies had done a
research and found out about the place). It read "It is not for thee. It
is for her alone to wield." With this weapon in her hands, Buffy managed
to kill Caleb — who had merged with the First Evil and was very powerful.
Later, Willow, using the power of the Scythe, performed a spell that turned
all Slayers in Training into Slayers.
The Scythe
featured on the show is the same seen on the comic book [Fray]
by Joss Whedon, about the Slayer from the future Melaka Fray; [see
pic].
Teddy
Bear
- Buffy's stuffed animal. Sold by Fox in the online auction eBay for more than $1,700.00, after the series ending (May 2003).
The
Bronze - The club where the young people of Sunnydale used to hang
out to dance, play pool and drink. The house offered [Buffalo
Wings] and a "onion thing in the shape of a flower" that Spike
loved. Frequently, bands performed there.
The Bronze
was destroyed for the first time (Triangle) by the troll
Olaf — accidentally released from a crystal by Willow — and to pay the
redecoration, they jacked up the bar price and remodeled the flowering
onion off the menu, to Spike's disgust (Crush).
The place met
its ending with Sunnydale's destruction (Chosen).
It was at the
Bronze that Spike saw Buffy for the first time (School Hard),
told her how he managed to kill two Slayers (Fool For Love),
and the second kiss between the two happened (Tabula Rasa).
The
Hunchback of Notre Dame - Willow, Tara and Buffy have to do a paper
on The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Crush); Willow
and Tara talk about Quasimodo (Spike) and Esmeralda (Buffy):
WILLOW: I
just don't see why he couldn't end up with Esmeralda. They could have the
wedding right there. Beneath the very bell-tower where he labored thanklessly
for all those years.
TARA: No,
see, it can't, it can't end like that, 'cause all of Quasimodo's actions
were selfishly motivated. He had no moral compass, no understanding of
right. Everything he did, he did out of love for a woman who would never
be able to love him back. Also, you can tell it's not gonna have a happy
ending when the main guy's all bumpy.
Those
Onion Blossom Things - One of Spike's favorite appetizers (the other
being Buffalo Wings) — he talked about it to Xander and the troll Olaf
(Triangle), and to Buffy (Crush). The vampire
even shared with Andrew the secret about making a good "onion thing in
the shape of a flower" (Empty Places):
See, the
genius of it is you soak it in ice water for an hour so it holds its shape.
Then you deep-fry it, root side up, for about 5 minutes.
[recipe]
Tiberius
Manifesto - One of the books with prophecies about Slayers. It
is lost.
To sire - To turn someone into a vampire. The noun "sire" means the one
who makes a vampire — Angelus is Drusilla's sire, Drusilla is Spike's sire.
Trio
- Also known as Troika — Warren Mears, Andrew Wells and Jonathan
Levinson, the nerd-villains who like James Bond and Star Wars and wanted
to take over Sunnydale. They attended the same school as the Scoobies —
the Sunnydale High School. They placed several cameras to spy the
Scoobies (Life Serial): in front Buffy's house, at the Magic
Box (inside a skull on a shelf), outside the Bronze, in Xander's place
and at the University that Willow and Tara attended. Those cameras were
found by the Scoobies in Entropy.
Turok-Han
aka Ubervamp aka Ubie - The Neanderthal equivalent of a vampire.
They are a primordial, ferociously powerful killing machine, as single-minded
as animals, and are "the vampires that vampires fear."* They are an ancient
and entirely different race and were believed to be a myth — until one
of them appeared in Sunnydale, released by the First Evil and its Harbingers,
who used Spike's blood to open the Seal of Danzalthar (Never Leave
Me). The monster was killed — beheaded — by Buffy (Showtime).
To get a brand-new Turok-Han, what one have to do is split some
blood (any blood) over the Seal — like a female demon did with demon-magnet
Xander (First Date). In the very end, Buffy and allies fought
an army of thousands of Turok-Hans (assembled by the First Evil), in the
Hellmouth; they were destroyed by the amulet worn by Spike (Chosen).
*Source: Giles in Bring On
The Night
Urn
of Osiris - Important item to be used on the spell performed by Willow
to bring Buffy back from the dead. Anya found the last known urn of Osiris
on the Internet, at the online auction [eBay].
She bought it from a desert gnome in Cairo. Along with the urn, Anya got
a limited edition of a Backstreet Boys lunch box for a "friend" — that
is, Xander... The urn of Osiris broke in the middle of the spell, because
of the chaos caused by the arriving of the demons Hellions.
Vampires
-
In the beginning, demons ruled our world. They were expelled and
The books tell the last demon
to leave this reality fed off a human, mixed their blood. He was a human
form possessed, infected by the demon's soul. He bit another, and another,
and so they walk the Earth, feeding... Killing some, mixing their blood
with others to make more of their kind. Waiting for the animals to die
out, and the old ones to return.
Source: Giles in The Harvest
Vengeance
Demons - Female demons who grant scorned women
vengeance wishes — meaning death, suffering, pain to those men who had
the nerve wronging their girlfriends, wives or lovers. The Vengeance Demons'
power source is harnessed in a special pendant which allows them to grant
the scorned women the vengeance wishes as well as gives immortality. Their
boss is the powerful [D'Hoffryn];
[Anya]
used to be a VD.
Watcher
- Every Slayer as well as Slayer in Training (SIT) had a Watcher, who was
responsible for her training. Buffy's first, was [Merrick];
following him, [Rupert
Giles]. For some time, when Giles was fired by the Watcher's Council
(because he helped Buffy in a test when he wasn't supposed to), [Wesley
Wyndham-Price] took the charge over.
The Watcher's
Council was a century-old organization, but little was known about it;
the only piece of information given was that the Shadow Men (the ones who
created the First Slayer) became the Watchers. Its headquarters were located
in London, England; the building was blown up by [Caleb]
— following orders from the [First
Evil] — in 2002. Also, all the Watchers around the world were killed.
After the final battle against the First Evil's army (the Turok-Hans),
in the Hellmouth, Giles went to Europe to look for new-born Slayers, and
the Watchers organization began to be reconstructed; [Andrew]
started to be trained to be a Watcher.
Wicca
- One of many earth-based religion, sometimes called "The Craft". Traditional
Wicca was founded by Gerald Gardner, a British civil servant, who wrote
a series of books on the religion in the 1940's. It contains references
to Celtic deities, symbols, seasonal days of celebration etc. Added to
this were components of ceremonial magic and practices of the Masonic Order.
There are initiation
rituals where a person becomes a Wiccan. Some are self-initiation rituals,
where a person declares themselves to be a Wiccan. There are other initiation
rituals performed in a Wiccan group, often called a Coven.
Wiccan rituals
take many forms, but they all generally include: the casting of a circle
(consecration of a sacred space), the invocation of a deity/deities, the
body of the ritual (which may involve magick), spell casting, a community
meal, dance, readings, singing etc. and, afterwards, the closing or banishing
of the circle (restoration of the space to ordinary usage).
Source: [FAQs
about Wicca]
Yellow
Crayon - First day of kindergarten Willow cried because she broke a
yellow crayon, and were too afraid to tell anyone. Xander used this tale
to reach sweet Willow when Dark Willow was about to destroy the world in
2002 (Grave).
