List of minor Buffy the Vampire Slayer characters

The following are minor fictional characters in the U.S. television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Individual characters

Humans

Amanda

Amanda (born in 1986) is the first potential Slayer to be named, though we do not know who she is at the time. She initially shows up in the seventh season episode "Help", part of the seemingly-random stream of students showing up in Buffy's guidance office. In a foreshadowing, she notes her Buffy-like tendency to stick up for herself using violence when explaining why she had been sent to Buffy in the first place, probably because she had beaten a student who taunted her.

Later, in "Potential", Willow learns of a potential Slayer who lives in Sunnydale and decides to cast a locator spell. While originally misinterpreting the spell to indicate that Dawn is the potential, it is later revealed the spell found Amanda. During the spell, Amanda was near Buffy's house trying to get advice for dealing with a vampire she had imprisoned in Sunnydale High. Dawn and Amanda rush back to the school, where the two are attacked by Harbingers and the vampire. Amanda dispatches the vampire when learning of her true destiny when the harbingers attack her.

In the same episode, she mentions her membership in the swing choir and her dislike of the marching band.

The only potential that has gone to Sunnydale High School, she finds it strange to meet Principal Wood outside of school; and presumably, later to fight alongside him in "Chosen". She appears to enjoy role-playing games as she plays in what appears to be a spoof of Dungeons & Dragons, along with Andrew, Giles and Xander. Along with all other potentials in the world, she becomes a fully-fledged Slayer due to Willow's spell that is purposely designed to power up the Potentials. Despite her new found powers, she dies during the final battle in the Hellmouth, slain by one of the more primitive vampires.

Amanda is the only potential to have been shown to be able to deal with vampires without any training and without any special powers. Her abilities indicate that potential Slayers are equipped, naturally, to be able to fight vampires better than the average person even before they are "called".

Amanda was played by Sarah Hagan and has appeared in 10 episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer:

• Season 7 - "Help", "Potential", "First Date", "Get It Done", "Storyteller", "Dirty Girls", "Empty Places", "Touched", "End of Days", "Chosen"

Anne Steele

See Anne Steele (Buffyverse)

Billy Fordham

Billy Fordham makes his only appearance in the episode "Lie to Me". "Ford" and Buffy were classmates in Los Angeles before Buffy moved to Sunnydale. He came to Sunnydale and enrolled in Sunnydale High School in an attempt to reunite with Buffy.

Later, his true motive for coming to Sunnydale is revealed. He wants to become a vampire, because he is dying from cancer, and he believes that it is better to live forever as a vampire rather than to die riddled with tumors. Ford is involved with a group of vampire-wannabes, and he plans to sacrifice both them and Buffy to the local vampires in exchange for being sired.

This causes an ethical dilemma for Buffy. She struggles with the idea of staking an old friend who wants to escape his unfortunate situation. Is it right to kill someone who is willing to sacrifice innocent people so that he can be free from cancer? To complicate matters, he will later need to subsist on human blood and he will lose his soul upon being sired by a vampire.

Buffy decides that Ford has no right to sacrifice others, and she rescues Ford's intended victims from Spike, Drusilla, and the other vampires who have come to kill the naive teens. Ford is locked inside the cult's hideout with the vampires, and asks to be sired because he did manage to bring Buffy to them. Returning later to the scene, Buffy buries Ford's lifeless body. As she and Giles keep a vigil at his grave, Ford rises, a vampire, and Buffy stakes him apparently without giving it a single thought. Afterward she asks Giles, "Does it get any easier?" He replies, "What do you want me to say?" Buffy answers, "Lie to me."

Ford was played by Jason Behr, who would later star in another teen-oriented fantasy series on The WB, Roswell, and who would appear again with Sarah Michelle Gellar in the American remake of The Grudge.

Caridad

Caridad: A potential Slayer to whom Xander is attracted; first seen in "Dirty Girls". She plays a small role in the final episodes of the seventh season, most notably in "Touched", where Caridad first aids Giles and Kennedy in luring out and capturing a Bringer, and then later when following Faith alongside numerous potentials to an underground arsenal of The First. She is then seen in the following episode "End Of Days", at first helping those wounded from the bomb blast escape the sewers and then later at the Summer's residence, helping heal the wounded and briefly quizzing Buffy on whether her return to the fold is permanent. She too survives the climatic Hellmouth battle according to the Buffy magazine.

Caridad is portrayed by Dania Ramirez and appears in:

Season 7 (2002–2003): "Dirty Girls", "Touched", "End Of Days".

Chao-Ahn

Chao-Ahn (born possibly in Hong Kong or Guangzhou, China, since she speaks only Cantonese) arrives in Sunnydale in the seventh season episode, "First Date", without speaking a word of English. Most of her subtitled lines serve as comic relief along with the attempts of Giles to communicate with her using crudely drawn pictures. Chao-Ahn mistakes, more than once, Giles' attempts at communication as a threat to her personally.

The BTVS Official Magazine confirms her survival.

Chao-Ahn is portrayed by Kristy Wu and appears in:

Season 7 (2002–2003): "First Date", "Get It Done", "Dirty Girls", "Empty Places", "Touched", "End Of Days", "Chosen".

Chloe

Chloe is a quiet, Midwest American girl who is one of the youngest potentials to seek protection from Buffy after the First Evil launches its campaign against the Slayer line. First introduced in "Showtime", Chloe seems reluctant to engage in her newfound responsibilities and by her next and final appearance in "Get It Done", it is clear Chloe is not cut out for life on the Hellmouth. After being pressured by a forceful Kennedy during a training regime, Chloe is an easy target for the First. The First manifests in her room and talks to her all night. Chloe is talked into hanging herself. Buffy, Kennedy and the others find her body and the First, masquerading as Chloe, shows up to taunt them. Buffy then buries Chloe's body next to that of the recently deceased Annabelle. Chloe's suicide is a major catalyst in Buffy choosing to take drastic action, culminating in her meeting with the men who created the first Slayer. It is mentioned that Chloe loved Winnie the Pooh after the First assumed her form and said T.T.F.N., Ta-Ta For Now (what Tigger says when he makes an exit).

Chloe is portrayed by Lalaine and appears in two episodes:

Season 7 (2002–2003): "Showtime", "Get It Done".

Deputy Mayor Allan Finch

Allan Finch was Deputy Mayor of Sunnydale, and thus assistant to the Big Bad of season three, Mayor Richard Wilkins. Worried and guilty about the Mayor's schemes, he attempted to warn Buffy but was accidentally killed by Faith in the episode "Bad Girls".

Finch was played by Jack Plotnick in four episodes.

Detective Stein

Detective Stein is a member of the Sunnydale police force. He is first seen in the episode Ted in which he is in charge of the investigation of the death of Ted Buchanan, who apparently died after Buffy kicked him down the stairs in her home. He next appears in the episode Becoming, Part Two investigating Kendra's death. His final appearance is in the season 3 episode Consequences in which he questions Buffy and Faith about the death of Deputy Mayor Allan Finch.

At no time does Stein give any indication that he is aware of any of the supernatural activity that is going on in Sunnydale.

Detective Stein is portrayed by James G. MacDonald.

Edna Fairweather

Edna Fairweather was the grandmother of Rupert Giles, the official Watcher of the Vampire Slayer Buffy Summers.

In the television series, Giles mentions that his father had been a Watcher, as was his mother before him. Neither character is ever seen, named, or expanded upon in the series proper.

However, the comic book miniseries Tales of the Vampires includes a story by Joss Whedon that introduces Edna as a child, about ten years old, undergoing training with the Watchers' Council. She demonstrates herself to be extremely insightful, eventually outwitting two old and powerful vampires that had managed to deceive Edna's own teachers.

Edna admits to being in love with "the baker's boy" (who remains unnamed), the slightly older son of the family that runs the local "Giles' Bakery." The revelation of the baker's boy's identity and, by extension, Edna's own, is the surprise conclusion of the story. Although it is never made explicit, the clear implication is that Edna some day marries the baker's boy, takes the "Giles" surname, and gives birth to the father of Rupert Giles. The story closes with her noting that one day she might be telling "our grandchildren" about her recent adventure.

One of Edna's teachers observes that he "will be long gone from the Council by the time she's running it." This would seem to imply that Edna Fairweather (likely "Edna Giles" by this time) eventually became a leading member of the Council, perhaps even the Council head like the later Quentin Travers.

Hank Summers

Hank Summers was the father of Buffy Summers and Dawn Summers and the ex-husband of Joyce Summers. He appeared in only four episodes and was played by Dean Butler.

Despite constant assurances from both parents, Buffy always felt she was the reason for their divorce. At first, Hank nominally tried to maintain a relationship with Buffy. During her sophomore year (the first year after the divorce) he and Buffy made plans for a father/daughter weekend. Although Buffy had fears that he would not show, he picked her up and both were genuinely happy to see each other. Buffy further spent the entire summer between her sophomore and junior years of high school in Los Angeles with him.

For Buffy's 18th birthday, Hank had planned to take her to the ice show, but canceled at the last minute.

Buffy later visited him in Los Angeles during her freshman year of college (making a brief stop to see Angel.)

Hank's character was developed further (without benefit of an actor) into the archetype of an upper-class deadbeat dad. Despite relative wealth and prosperity, Hank could not be relied on to keep his promises nor would he play the role of the father. When Buffy last heard from Hank, he had moved to Spain with his secretary. She was unable to contact him when her mother died (season 5). Dawn indicates in "Bargaining" that she has spoken with her father at some point over the summer between seasons 5 and 6, but she and the others are hiding Buffy's death from him.

Hank's last appearance ("Normal Again," season 6) was in an alternate reality, out of continuity with the rest of the series.

Buffyverse appearances

In order of Buffyverse chronology. Canon appears in bold.

• The Weight of the World - Flashback to Dawn's birth.
• The Origin - brief glimpse with Joyce, going out together for dinner and telling Buffy not to touch the Jaguar.
• Becoming, Part One - Flashback to when Buffy is called as the Slayer, he is heard arguing with Joyce.
• Viva Las Buffy
• Slayer, Interrupted
• A Stake to the Heart
• Nightmares - Partly Living Nightmare, Part Real
• How I Survived My Summer Vacation
• When She Was Bad
• Power of Persuasion
• Normal Again - Buffy's hallucination or glimpse of reality.

Janice Penshaw

Janice Penshaw was a school friend of Dawn Summers, mentioned repeatedly but only shown on screen once, portrayed by Amber Tamblyn.

Janice's only appearance was in "All the Way", the Halloween episode of season 6. She and Dawn conspired to sneak out, each telling her family that she was going to the other's house. Instead, the two met up with some older boys and embarked on an evening of teenage mischief. The boys turned out to be vampires; they decided to turn Janice and Dawn into vampires, but were dusted by Giles and Dawn.

After this, Dawn and Janice were still allowed to socialize, but Janice was not seen on screen again.

Katrina Silber

Katrina Silber was a minor recurring character, appearing in one episode of season 5 and two episodes of season 6.

Katrina met Warren Mears at college, soon after he had finished building April, his robot sex machine. Warren was so enamored with Katrina that he abandoned the robot in favor of her. However, the robot tracked him down and nearly killed Katrina. Disgusted with Warren, Katrina broke up with him.

The next year Warren and his friends created a mind control device to turn any woman into a sex slave. Warren used the device on Katrina, but the effects were short lived. When she returned to normal, she was furious and threatened to report Warren's activities to the police. In the ensuing fight, Warren accidentally killed Katrina while trying to stop her from leaving. He later used magic in an attempt to frame Buffy for her death. The plan almost worked, but when Buffy heard Katrina's name she remembered the April incident and guessed that Warren was responsible.

Her last appearance was as a spirit, conjured by Willow to torment Warren after he killed another woman, Willow's girlfriend, Tara. Katrina's spirit was understandably angry with Warren and suggested that she should have killed him before he killed her.

Katrina is a very independent, intelligent, and self-sufficient woman. What makes her different from the other strong women in the Buffy Universe is that she does not have supernatural powers with which to enforce her strength, and meets her death in an act of domestic violence.

Lydia

See Lydia

Lothos

Lothos first appeared in the Buffy movie, where he was played by Rutger Hauer. Although this film is not considered canon in the Buffyverse, it was later adapted into a comic book entitled The Origin in which Lothos played a similar role. Lothos is a vampire, and the first major enemy of Buffy Summers.

A powerful vampire of unknown age, Lothos killed several Slayers during the Dark Ages. He and his empire eventually come to Los Angeles, where he is responsible for the death of Buffy Summers' first Watcher, Merrick. Upon discovering the Slayer's identity, Lothos and his minions attack her high school dance. Despite her relatively little experience, Buffy manages to defeat Lothos by creating a makeshift blowtorch using a crucifix and a can of hairspray.

Merrick

Merrick was portrayed canonically by Richard Riehle in the TV series, and non-canonically by Donald Sutherland in the film.

Merrick was a member of the Watchers' Council, and the one who informed Buffy Summers that she was The Chosen One. He became her first Watcher, as Buffy had not been identified as a Potential Slayer.

Merrick's attitude toward his charge was sarcastic, tough, and stern, but he was truly concerned for her safety, as he had already trained two Slayers in the past, only to lose them to Lothos, a powerful vampire. Fearing that Lothos would turn him to get to the new Slayer, Merrick chose to commit suicide instead. Despite the short time under his training, Buffy managed to slay Lothos and his minions.

Canonical issues

Main article: Buffyverse canon

• The film is not considered Buffyverse canon built by the later television series. The film stands by itself as largely separate.
• Buffy comics are not usually considered by fans as canon, although they do all require an approval from Joss Whedon and/or his office. However Christopher Golden used Joss Whedon's original script for the Buffy movie, and tied this limited series, The Origin, closely to continuity established by the television show. For example, the burning down of the gym takes place which is mentioned several times on the show. For this reason, some fans argue this comic deserves a place in canon. Merrick appeared in the comic looking like he had in the flashback seen in the episode "Becoming, Part One".
• Whedon stated about the comic, "The origin comic, though I have issues with it, CAN pretty much be accepted as canonical. They did a cool job of combining the movie script (the SCRIPT) with the series, that was nice, and using the series Merrick [. . .]." [1]
• Also, in the film, Merrick's original nationality was British, but in the series, was changed to American.

Marcie Ross

Marcie Ross (Clea DuVall) appeared in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, season one, episode 11, "Out of Mind, Out of Sight". The mystical influences of the Hellmouth and being constantly overlooked and ignored in school has caused Marcie literally to turn invisible. Carrying a grudge against Cordelia Chase, she spends the episode preparing for revenge. Buffy, however, knocks her out before she can carry out her plans. The FBI takes custody of Marcie and the last we see of her is in a school for other invisible students.

Molly

Molly is one of the first three potentials to arrive in Sunnydale. Although the veracity of her accent is questionable, its mockney tones suggest a lower-class suburb of London. She is later murdered by Caleb in the episode "Dirty Girls". The stage directions in the script for "Bring on the Night" describe her as:

MOLLY, 14 or 15, is a Brit of East Indian heritage. She's cute, pudgy. Her style is very "Ghost World." Pigtails and a miniskirt, ripped stockings, a lunch box for a purse.

Molly kills the vampire the Slayers in training are locked in with by Buffy and Spike in the episode "Potential".

Molly is portrayed by Clara Bryant and appears in:

Season 7 (2002–2003): "Bring On The Night", "Showtime", "Potential", "Get It Done", "Storyteller", "Lies My Parents Told Me", "Dirty Girls".

Nikki Wood

Nikki Wood is a Slayer who was active in New York City in the 1970s. Her first appearance was in the season five episode "Fool for Love", where she was played by April Weeden-Washington. In that episode, Spike tells Buffy the story of how he killed Nikki, with flashbacks revealing that he snapped her neck following a battle on a subway train in 1977. Nikki reappears, portrayed by K.D. Aubert, in the season seven episode "First Date", in which it is revealed that she had a son called Robin, now an ally of Buffy Summers. The First Evil presents itself to Robin in the form of his mother, and informs him that Spike was the one responsible for killing Nikki. Nikki features in flashbacks in the episode "Lies My Parents Told Me", in which Robin tries and fails to take revenge on Spike.

Nikki appears in the story "Nikki Goes Down!" of the comic book miniseries Tales of the Slayers. In it, her boyfriend Li, a member of the NYPD, is killed during a battle with an oversized bat. She also appears in the prose short story "It's All About the Mission" of the novel Tales of the Slayer Vol. IV, in which her Watcher Bernard Crowley tries to avoid the Cruciamentum (a dangerous Watchers' Council tradition in which a Slayer is stripped of her powers and tested) due to Nikki's pregnancy with Robin. Nikki features most heavily in her own novel Blackout, which tells the story leading up to her death as she battles Spike. The novel also reveals how she was called, and that she had rivalries with vampires Darla and Dracula. Nikki makes small cameos in the novel Queen of the Slayers, and the comics "Auld Lang Syne" and "The Chain".

Olivia

Olivia was an English woman of African descent, and an old friend of Rupert Giles. Olivia and Giles had a short-lived romantic relationship in season four. Anya once asked Giles whether Olivia was an "orgasm friend." Although she still lived in England, Olivia visited Giles on two occasions. She was first introduced in "The Freshman" and was in Sunnydale during the events of "Hush". In "Hush", she showed at least a small amount of artistic talent, drawing an accurate portrait of a Gentleman. At the end of "Hush", Olivia revealed she was not comfortable with Giles' role in battling the forces of evil. She appeared pregnant and pushing an empty baby stroller in Giles's dream sequence during "Restless" but was otherwise not seen again on the show.

Olivia was played by Phina Oruche. All three episodes in which she appeared were written and directed by creator Joss Whedon.

Oliver Pike

Oliver Pike first appeared in the 1992 movie Buffy the Vampire Slayer, where he was played by Luke Perry. Although that film is not in continuity with the television series, the story was later adapted into a canon comic book entitled The Origin, in which Pike played a similar role.

A mutual loathing forms between Hemery High School students Pike and Buffy Summers. However, as seen in both the film and Origin, Pike helps Buffy take out Lothos's vampires after her Watcher, Merrick, is killed while attempting to slay the vampire king. Although Pike becomes attracted to Buffy, no serious relationship has time to form.

After Buffy is expelled from Hemery, she and Pike patrol the streets for vampires at night. In Viva Las Buffy, the two visit Las Vegas in an attempt to remove a vampire nest. Pike leaves Buffy, believing that the Slayer cannot afford friends or loved ones. Buffy returns to L.A., continuing her slayer duties.

He briefly appears in Sunnydale in Sins of the Father.

Around 2002 he shows up again in Note from the Underground to help Buffy defeat a fascist demon group, the Scourge.

Canonical Issues

Main article: Buffyverse canon

• The film is not considered Buffyverse canon built by the later television series. The film stands by itself as largely separate.
• Buffy comics such as Viva Las Buffy and Note from the Underground, as well as novels such as Sins of the Father, are not usually considered by fans as canon. However, they all require an approval from Joss Whedon and/or his office.
• Some fans argue that The Origin comic deserves a place in canon. Christopher Golden did use Joss Whedon's original script for the Buffy movie, and tied this comic series closely to continuity established by the television show. For example, the burning down of the gym takes place which is mentioned several times on the show. Furthermore, Joss Whedon has stated, "The origin comic, though I have issues with it, CAN pretty much be accepted as canonical. They did a cool job of combining the movie script (the SCRIPT) with the series, that was nice, and using the series Merrick [. . .]." [2]

Parker Abrams

Parker Abrams appeared in several episodes of the fourth season, portrayed by Adam Kaufman.

Buffy meets Parker soon after her studies begin at UC Sunnydale. He initially gives her the impression of a suave and sensitive young man, with courteous manners and good looks. Eventually, Buffy grows attracted to the emotionally direct Parker and the two form a seemingly intimate relationship after Parker makes several confessions on his life to her. He and Buffy eventually sleep together. While Buffy feels that that encounter represented an emotional bond, Parker just considers it to be physical gratification, a moment of "healthy fun". Buffy expects Parker to contact her, which he never does. She eventually confronts him, but he is mostly cold and aloof, and Buffy soon realizes that the emotional intimacy she felt she had experienced with Parker was part of his calculated method to attract girls. Upon seeing him repeat the conversation he had with her to various other girls, Buffy is left heartbroken, and her best friend Willow confronts Parker over what had happened. During that conversation, Parker attempts to seduce Willow, who initially plays along as a joke but soon reveals she has seen through him and verbally attacks him. Later in the season, Buffy's new love interest Riley punches Parker after he makes some rude comments about her, an event which leads him to acknowledge his growing attraction to Buffy. Parker is seen only a few more times, most notably when Buffy, having assumed a cavewoman's persona as a result of imbibing enchanted beer, rescues him from a fiery death -- and then knocks him unconscious when he tries to apologize for his earlier behavior.

The character is not portrayed as a villain in the series' narrative, but rather as an unfortunate rebound relationship for Buffy, who is starting her new life as a college student and is also trying to get over her separation from Angel.

Principal Flutie

Robert ("Bob") Flutie was the Principal of Sunnydale High School. He was played by Ken Lerner.

Introduced in the series opener "Welcome to the Hellmouth", Principal Flutie was eaten alive by possessed students in episode six ("The Pack").

Unlike his successor Principal Snyder, Flutie was dedicated to helping students. He is a parody of the educator who seeks to "understand his students better" and who believes in student-centered education, concern himself with students' self-esteem and socialization. Snyder later quips, "It's that kind of wooly-headed liberal thinking that leads to being eaten." Ironically, Snyder suffers a similar fate two years later.

Rona

Rona arrives in Sunnydale in the seventh season episode, "Showtime". Rona didn't know she was a potential Slayer, until the Bringers attacked her. A somewhat argumentative African-American girl from an underprivileged background, Rona eventually accepts her destiny and she survives the climactic Hellmouth battle despite being badly injured several times.

Rona is one of three Slayers to use the Scythe in the final battle. Faith (having been passed the Scythe from Buffy) later throws it to Rona as she is overpowered by vampires. Rona uses it until she passes it back to Buffy after she regains her energy. Kennedy also carried the Scythe previous to her, but never used it.

She is confirmed to be in Issue #5 of Season 8, to be released in August 2007.

The script for "Showtime" describes her:

TILT UP on the sandaled feet and slim legs belonging to— RONA, 16, black, ratty blue jeans and denim jacket, a knapsack slung over her shoulder.

Rona is portrayed by Indigo and appears in:

Season 7 (2002–2003): "Showtime", "Potential", "Get It Done", "Storyteller", "Lies My Parents Told Me", "Dirty Girls", "Empty Places", "Chosen".

Tucker Wells

Tucker Wells (played by Brad Kane aka Caleb Kane) summons demonic dogs to attack the Prom in the season three episode "The Prom"). He is best known as the brother of Andrew Wells. As Andrew's identity is constantly forgotten, Tucker serves as a handy point of reference. Although Tucker only appears in one episode of the show, Brad Kane actually returned to the show in the fourth season episode "Superstar" as the singing voice for Jonathan Levinson.

Vi

Vi (born possibly in Texas) arrived in Sunnydale in the seventh season episode, "Showtime". A timid redhead, Vi's penchant for bizarre hats is reminiscent of Willow in the third season. She initially seems unfit for her calling. However, she proves to be an extremely courageous fighter during several battles, especially in the final battle within the Hellmouth. She survives it and, though having been wounded herself, helps treat other wounded fellows (notably Rona and Robin Wood) in the aftermath. Vi was trained by her Watcher, who once showed her a blurry photograph of a vampire. She is confirmed to be in Issue #5 of Season 8, to be released in August 2007.

Vi is portrayed by Felicia Day and appears in:

Season 7 (2002–2003): "Showtime", "Potential", "Get It Done", "Dirty Girls", "Empty Places", "Touched", "End Of Days", "Chosen".

Willy the Snitch

Template:Infobox Buffyverse Character Willy the Snitch owned a bar frequented by demons, and was privy to their gossip. The bar was named "The Alibi Room" in the script for season two's "What's My Line, Part One", but in season four's "Goodbye Iowa" Willy announced he has changed the name to "Willy's Place" in an attempt to bring in a better clientele.

Willy was a double-crossing human being, who basically followed instructions or requests if money was provided. He sometimes assisted Buffy and other times betrayed her. He was often accused of "playing both sides against the middle." Characters, both good and bad, tended to beat up Willy for information; this was somewhat of a running gag. In the season three episode "Enemies", Xander bragged about beating information out of Willy "personally", but then admitted that he just bribed Willy for $28.

Willy the Snitch was played by Saverio Guerra.

Other types of characters

Absalom

Absalom was a vampire, member of the Order of Aurelius.

During season 1, Absalom had been doing The Master's bidding elsewhere and was thus not present for the destruction of the Master. Upon returning to Sunnydale, Absalom then became mouthpiece and guardian to the Anointed One, leader of what was left of the Order of Aurelius. He tried to resurrect the Master with the Anointed One's help, but failed. He died when Buffy set him on fire by shoving a flaming torch into his face.

Anne

Anne, portrayed by Caroline Lagerfelt, is the mother of William, later known as Spike. She is turned into a vampire by her devoted son, to save her from an illness (possibly consumption), only to be staked by him when the extent of her newly malicious nature becomes evident. She appears only in the episode "Lies My Parents Told Me".

In Peter David's non-canonical comic Spike: Old Times, the family is given the surname "Pratt".

Anointed One

See Anointed One

Balthazar

Balthazar is a heavily overweight demon played by Christian Clemenson. He appears in the episode "Bad Girls" looking for his amulet which will make him very powerful. His minions are a group of vampires called "El Eliminati".

Buffybot

See Buffybot

In "I Was Made To Love You", Spike placed an order for Warren to make the Buffybot. In "Intervention" she was ready to face the world but at the end of the episodes her wires were fried. The Buffybot returned in "The Gift" until her head was knocked off by Glory. But again the Buffybot returned in "Bargaining Part 1" and "Bargaining Part 2" until the demon bikers ripped her to pieces.

Cheese Man

The Cheese Man is an oracular figure appearing in the dreams of Xander, Willow, Giles and Buffy in the final episode of season four, "Restless", and very briefly in the nightmare of Andrew and Jonathan in the season seven episode "Storyteller". He talks about, displays, shakes and even wears slices of American cheese, saying at one point, "I wear the cheese; it does not wear me." The Cheese Man was played by David Wells.

Clem

See Clem

Dalton

See Dalton

Jesse McNally

See Jesse McNally

Jinx

See Jinx

The Judge

See Judge

Kakistos

See Kakistos

Kathy Newman

Kathy Newman (played by Dagney Kerr) appears in the first two episodes of season four. She is Buffy's first roommate in the dormitory at UC Sunnydale. She is portrayed as an overly-eager and annoyingly cheery teenage girl, who wanted "a stable non-smoker" for a roommate.

Kathy and Buffy soon begin to have serious disagreements. Kathy plays Cher's "Believe" on repeat loop, obsessively labels all her property including the eggs in the fridge, and is more of a neat freak than Buffy can handle. Buffy begins to act uncharacteristically hostile towards Kathy, and at first her friends believe it is simply due to Buffy's upbringing as an only child. Later it is revealed that Kathy is in fact a demon who had fled her own dimension to go to college. Her clan was about to locate her, so she performed a series of spells to mask her presence from them – spells that temporarily removed Buffy's soul. In the end, Giles reverses the spell and Kathy is transported back to her demon dimension. Willow, who has gone through her own roommate problems, moves in with Buffy afterwards.

(Note: Buffy remains an only child during this mini-arc as the arrival of Dawn, which will change characters' memories, will not happen until Season Five.)

Luke

Luke is a vampire. He meets Buffy Summers in "Welcome to the Hellmouth" (the first Buffy episode), and she kills him in "The Harvest" (the conclusion of the two-part pilot episode). He is never seen out of "vamp face".

When we meet The Master, he is trapped in the Hellmouth under Sunnydale. He has a once-in-a-century opportunity to escape in a ritual called The Harvest, which calls for him to use the strongest of his brood (Luke) as his "Vessel." The only way to prevent The Master's escape is for Buffy to kill the Vessel.

At the end of "Welcome to the Hellmouth", Luke flings Buffy into a stone coffin and it looks like he's going to kill her. At the beginning of "The Harvest", she escapes. When Buffy and Luke meet again for a fight to the finish at The Bronze, she defeats him using subterfuge: she tricks him into thinking it is daytime and breaks a window. While he is distracted, she stakes him.

"The sleeper will awaken. And the world will bleed." - Luke

Luke is a powerful member of the Order of Aurelius, and is the right-hand vamp of The Master. The last time (before Buffy) that someone fought Luke and lived was in 1843 in Madrid; she caught Luke sleeping.

Murk

Murk was a minor recurring character during season 5. He was a demon and worshipped Glory, whom he served as a minion.

Murk was portrayed by Todd Duffey.

Olaf

Olaf was once human, the lover or husband of Aud; he cheated on her with a "load-bearing" bar matron, and Aud punished him by transforming him into a gigantic troll. The panache of this spell brought Aud to the attention of the demon D'Hoffryn, who recruited her as a vengeance demon, renaming her Anyanka.

Olaf is introduced as a troll in "Triangle" (season 5), and appears in human form in a flashback in "Selfless" (season 7).

Olaf's hammer was used by Buffy herself during her battle against Glory in "The Gift".

Olaf was played by Abraham Benrubi.

Rack

See Rack

Sandy

Sandy first appeared as a human in the season three episode "Doppelgängland" where she was bitten by the vampire version of Willow. This, or an incident shortly following, turned her into a vampire and she returned as such in the season five episode "Family" in which she flirts with Riley in a bar. She later appears to go on a date of sorts with Riley (in the episode "Shadow"), but Riley stakes and kills her.

Sandy was played by Megan Gray.

Sid the Dummy

See Sid the Dummy

Sweet

Template:Infobox Buffyverse Character Sweet is the name of the Demon in the musical episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Once More, With Feeling". He is portrayed by Hinton Battle.

Sweet is a smooth-talking demon with an ironic sense of humour (sarcastically telling the Scoobies at the end of the episode that "they beat the bad guy", when, in fact, he leaves of his own volition, and only after the others have aired out their inner demons) and a lazy eye. He has hypnotic and/or magical powers which enable him to control others; as he demonstrates by making Dawn and others sing and dance (and as he makes them dance he flexes his fingers, like a puppeteer pulling the strings of a marionette). He is boastful by nature, and is only too happy to drop famous historical names such as Nero (claiming he bought him "his very first fiddle"). He has a talent for dancing and singing. Even though his pride is only too apparent throughout the episode, he is reluctant to tell Buffy his name (instead saying, "I've got a hundred").

When he is summoned via an incantation he is freed, and when Dawn puts on his amber pendant, he uses his three ventriloquist's dummy-like henchmen to kidnap her and take her to The Bronze. It is there he reveals that he is to blame for the singing, dancing and spontaneous combustion of so many of Sunnydale's citizens; and because he believes she summoned him, he will take her down to the underworld to be his queen. He tells one of his underlings to tell Buffy that Dawn is here (once Dawn lets slip that her sister is the Slayer), to lure her into a trap. However, his trap to kill the severely depressed Buffy is foiled when Spike rescues her, and it is revealed that Dawn merely stole the pendant from the shop and it was actually Xander who freed the demon. Sweet is less thrilled at the thought of having Xander as his queen, so he decides to "waive that clause just this once". He then smugly tells the Scoobies that he has caused them to reveal all of their innermost secrets, worries and hostilities. He then vanishes, leaving the devastated Scoobies to sing one last song: the aptly-named "Where Do We Go From Here?"

He's one of very few Buffyverse villains to escape, and likely the only one to actually "win" against the Scoobies.

The demon's name never appears in the episode, but is given as "Sweet" in the credits, the shooting script and the liner notes of the Once More, With Feeling soundtrack CD.

Veruca

See Veruca

Whistler

See Whistler

Groups of characters

Vampire Slayers

See Buffyverse Slayer timeline

Sunnydale High School students

See Sunnydale High School students

• Devon MacLeish
• Fritz
• Owen Thurman
• Percy West
• Pete Clarner
• Scott Hope

Initiative members

See Initiative members

• Forrest Gates
• Graham Miller

See also

• List of Buffy the Vampire Slayer characters