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Villains

  • The Master (Mark Metcalf): The Master is one of the oldest living vampires, and the first big bad that Buffy faces in Sunnydale. The Master was trapped in a church which collapsed in an earthquake and he became trapped in the Hellmouth when he tried to open it. Prophecy foretells that he will kill Buffy; he bites her and she drowns, but is revived by Xander. She kills him, and he turns to dust, leaving only his bones. When she is faced with the threat of his resurrection, Buffy later smashes them with a sledgehammer. The Master appears again in the season 3 episode “The Wish”, which is set in an alternative reality where Buffy never came to Sunnydale.
  • Drusilla (Juliet Landau): Drusilla is a beautiful young seer who was driven insane by Angelus, her sire and later her lover. Her insanity continued after she became a vampire, and she wreaked havoc on Europe and Asia for years. After a debilitating beating from an angry mob in Prague, Drusilla is healed in a ritual that nearly sacrifices Angel; when he reverts to Angelus, she embraces his plot to destroy the world. Drusilla is the long-time paramour and sire of Spike, although she becomes disillusioned with him after their year in Sunnydale (Season 2). She has clairvoyance and hypnotic powers in addition to her vampire abilities. She frequently speaks in riddles (relating what the pixies in her head tell her) and watches the stars through the ceiling. She is still at large.
  • Angelus (David Boreanaz): Angelus is possibly the most infamously cruel vampire in history. He is the soul-less alter ego of Angel, Buffy’s friend and lover. After years of terrorizing Europe and Asia, he is cursed by Roma Gypsies. They restore his soul, but the curse ensures that the threat of Angelus remains; a moment of perfect happiness costs Angel his soul, and Angelus re-emerges to terrorize Sunnydale (season 2). Angelus kills Jenny Calendar, terrorizes the Scooby Gang, and plots with Drusilla to destroy the world by opening a mystical vortex. Buffy and Spike ally against Angelus while Willow works to re-ensoul him with a translation of the original gypsy curse. Angelus opens the vortex before Angel’s soul is restored, and Buffy is forced to drive a sword through his chest, sending him to a hell dimension before he can even remember Angelus’ siege against Sunnydale. Angelus continues to be a periodic threat to Angel’s new allies in L.A. in the spinoff Angel.
  • Mayor Richard Wilkins III (Harry Groener): The affable yet sinister Mayor Wilkins originally founded the city of Sunnydale on the Hellmouth as a haven for demons to feed. He sold his soul in the 19th century so that he could eventually ascend to pure demon form. Buffy and the Scoobies face the threat of his impending Ascension in Season 3.
  • Professor Maggie Walsh (Lindsay Crouse): Walsh is Buffy’s psychology professor and the leader of The Initiative. She deceives Riley and tries to kill Buffy when Buffy asks too many questions about her secret project. She is stabbed and killed by her own creation, Adam, and her body is later re-animated.
  • Adam (George Hertzberg): Adam is a part-cyborg, part-demon, part-human creation of The Initiative (under Maggie Walsh). He has no conscience, and he is violently curious in how things work. He is nearly unstoppable, and he tries to unite demon races against humans.
  • Glory (Clare Kramer): Glory, also known as “the great and wonderful Glorificus”, is an evil hellgod who has been exiled from her dimension by other hellgods. She is forced to occupy the body of a human named Ben, which reduces her powers. She regularly becomes disoriented and unstable and must drain the minds of humans in order to maintain her cognitive processes, leaving her human victims insane. She seeks the Key to return to her home dimension, not caring that her actions threaten to destroy the fabric of reality separating all dimensions.
  • Warren Mears (Adam Busch): The leader of “the Trio”, the main villains in the 6th season. He first appears to be a fairly normal nerd, but becomes a violent, power-driven timebomb who tries to gain respect by instilling fear in others. He commits evil deeds such as killing his girlfriend Katrina after his unsuccessful rape attempt. He also shoots Buffy and kills Tara in Buffy’s own backyard. Warren is skinned alive and killed by dark Willow (”Villains”). He later appears in Season 8 to take on the role of the big bad in the first arc trying to seek revenge on Buffy and Willow
  • Caleb (Nathan Fillion): An arrogant, misogynistic preacher who served as a vessel and evil-doer for The First Evil. He is emasculated and sliced in two by Buffy in the series’ finale “Chosen”.

[edit] Allies

Buffy’s mother is an anchor of normality in the Scoobies’ lives, even after she learns of Buffy’s role in the supernatural world (”Becoming, Part Two“). In “Lovers Walk“, she lends a sympathetic ear to Spike’s heartbreak, a gesture that he will never forget. In season 5, she dies of an aneurysm after a tumor is removed from her brain (”The Body“). In the first episode of season 4, “The Freshman“, Buffy jokes “Can’t wait till mom gets the bill for these books, I hope it’s a funny aneurysm.” The character of Joyce reappears in later seasons, without the character truly returning from the dead (although a resurrection was initially attempted by Dawn, with the assistance of Spike).

  • Jenny Calendar (Robia La Morte) (seasons 1-2, appears one episode season 3): High school computer teacher, and member of the gypsy tribe who placed the curse on Angel. She becomes the love interest of Giles. She is killed by Angelus in “Passion” as she plans to return Angel’s soul. She returns in season 3 but this is the first evil appearing in her form
  • Wesley Wyndam-Pryce (Alexis Denisof) (season 3): A second Watcher originally sent to replace Giles.
  • Kennedy (Iyari Limon) (season 7): A potential Slayer who fights alongside Buffy in the final season. She also becomes Willow’s love interest.
  • Principal Robin Wood (D.B. Woodside) (season 7): The son of a past Slayer (killed by Spike), who becomes a Buffy ally in the final season. He becomes the love interest of Faith.
  • Faith Lehane (Eliza Dushku) (seasons 3,4 and 7)

Faith, a Slayer, is called when Kendra is killed by the vampire Drusilla. When she arrives in Sunnydale, she fights alongside Buffy and the Scooby Gang. After accidentally committing murder, she indulges her violent tendencies and joins forces with the Mayor. Buffy stabs Faith, who falls into a coma; eight months later she wakes up and swaps bodies with Buffy. After being defeated, she flees to Los Angeles and accepts a contract to kill Angel. Angel is able to rehabilitate her, and she confesses to her crimes and goes to prison. Three years later, she breaks out to capture Angelus when Wesley Wyndam-Pryce informs her that he has been released. After Angel is re-ensouled, Faith reluctantly returns to Sunnydale to stand with Buffy against the First Evil. She temporarily leads both the Scoobies and the Potentials when the general faith in Buffy dissolves. Throughout the series, Faith displays a much darker, dangerously fun-seeking approach to both slaying and murder; she is the dark side of a Slayer’s personality.