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No enemy has threatened Buffy's life more times than the conspiring Mayor of Sunnydale. He's a demon over a hundred years old who's been in Sunnydale since it was erected on the hellmouth. With his seat as the patriarch of the town, he turned it into a buffet for demons by giving the townspeople a false sense of security and covering up murders. Part of what allowed this demon to fool a town into electing him Mayor is the charm exposed through his deep rooted psychosis. While plotting to slaughter the inhabitants of Sunnydale, he actually comes off as a kindhearted individual, his desk never lacking a bowl of cookies or candy for visitors. He's neurotically obsessive-compulsive, insisting that his employees wash their hands constantly and keep their feet off the desk. Never one to do his own dirty work, the cunning Mayor employed Mr. Trick to actualize his ploys to assassinate Buffy. After Mr. Trick was slain, he convinced Faith to work at his side, promising her power when the world would finally become a playground for the undead. The demented Mayor got so attached to her that he became her surrogate father and she became his only weakness. Mayor Wilkins organized numerous assaults on Sunnydale, including the deployment of his vampires to steal babies for the feeding of the demon Lurconis. He also had Buffy arrested and charged with the murder of Kendra. However, all his devious acts have been part of his master plan to ascend into pure demonhood. First, Mayor Wilkins performed a ritual granting him invincibility, making his tissue regenerate almost immediately after any laceration. He then acquired the Books of Ascension which map out the final ritual for his ultimate departure from mortality. At the time, Anya was the only one to have witnessed an Ascension. She revealed that the demons Buffy had been fighting have all been tainted hybrids. An Ascension incarnates a pure demon capable of mass destruction. 800 years ago, Anya was present when a sorcerer in the Coscov Valleys achieved Ascension into the demon Loesh. It decimated an entire village in minutes and was only stopped by the fury of a volcano. Following the detailed steps proscribed in the Books of Ascension, Wilkins consumed the deadly footlong spiders teeming inside the Box of Gavroc. On Sunnydale High's graduation day, his Ascension was finally realized. Under eclipsed skies, he metamorphisized into an immense dragon-like demon, towering over the high school. After eating principal Snyder, it took a full-fledged battalion of students under the command of Xander to fight it with flame-throwers and medieval weaponry. He was finally destroyed by a fertilizer bomb that decimated the entire school. Mayor Wilkins' hottest verbage: "Ah, I love Family Circus. That PJ is becoming quite a handful." "There's one thing that can brighten your day, two words; miniature golf." "And boys . . . let's watch the swearing." "What's the fun of becoming an immortal demon if you're not regular." "There's nothing uncool about healthy teeth and bones." Episode: Graduation |
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