History Characters / BuffyTheVampireSlayerAntagonists

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* [[Characters/BuffyTheVampireSlayerRegulars Buffy the Vampire Slayer Regulars]]
* [[Characters/BuffyTheVampireSlayerRecurringAndMinorCharacters Recurring And Minor Characters]]
* Characters/BuffyTheVampireSlayerVampires
* Characters/AngelInvestigations
* Characters/AngelWolframAndHart
* Characters/AngelOtherEnemies
* [[Characters/BuffyTheVampireSlayerComic Dark Horse Comic Characters]]
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!Humans

[[folder:Ethan]]
!!Ethan Rayne
->'''Played By:''' Creator/RobinSachs
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An old friend of Giles', and a chaos-worshipping sorcerer.
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%%* AffablyEvil
* BigBadDuumvirate: With The First Evil in ''VideoGame/ChaosBleeds''; an odd example, as the Scoobies are technically working with him, as he chose them to be his competitors in a contest he challenged The First Evil to.
%%* TheBarnum
%%* DeadpanSnarker
%%* DirtyCoward
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:In Season 8.]]
%%* EvilBrit
* EvilCounterpart: To Giles.
* EvilGloating: Acknowledges that it's generally a bad idea, but he can't seem to help himself.
%%* EvilSorcerer
%%* ForgottenFriendNewFoe
%%* ForTheEvulz
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:He knew he was going to die when he helped Buffy.]]
* LaughablyEvil: When Ethan shows up, complete chaos ensues. Wacky, hilarious chaos. Even ''Spike'' can't help but be impressed by his antics.
%%* MyNaymeIs
%%* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast
%%* OrderVersusChaos
* PsychoForHire: In "Band Candy."
* PutOnABus: [[MundaneSolution Being arrested]].
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:His final act in life is helping Buffy.]]
%%* SquishyWizard
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Prof. Walsh]]
!!Professor Maggie Walsh
->'''Played By:''' Lindsay Crouse
->''Almost time to wake up, Adam. And take your first look at the world.''

Head of The Initiative and Buffy's psych professor.
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* DiscOneFinalBoss: Season 4.
* EvilMentor: To Riley.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Murdered by Adam, her favorite creation.
%%* JerkassTeacher
%%* MadScientist
* MotherlyScientist: Head scientist of the Initiative and creator of Adam.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Adam brought her back as little more than one, to help with his EvilPlan.
* ParentalSubstitute: Surrogate mother to Riley and Adam; the latter even refers to her as "mother."
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: She was intended to be the season's BigBad, but Lindsay Crouse had other commitments so Adam was hastily substituted.
* RedBaron: The Evil Bitch Monster of Death!
%%* SternTeacher
* YouGotSpunk: Her response to Buffy telling her off in "The Initiative" is "I like her."
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Forrest]]
!!Forrest Gates
->'''Played By:''' Leonard Roberts
->''We take care of our own.''

Riley's best friend and second-in-command in the Initiative, who gets very jealous of Buffy's influence. Killed and re-animated by Adam near the end of the season.
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* BackFromTheDead: Thanks to Adam.
* BaldOfEvil: After being transformed.
* BlackBestFriend: Riley's
%%* DeadpanSnarker
* DeathByLookingUp: He sees too late that Riley threw him a tank of flammable gas.
* DegradedBoss: His cyborg self is reduced to a type of {{mook}} in the game ''Chaos Bleeds''.
* TheDragon: To Adam in the Season 4 finale.
* EvilCounterpart: To Riley, remaining utterly loyal to the Initiative. This doesn't end well for him.
* EyeScream: Spike put out one of Forrest's eyes with a [[CigaretteBurns cigarette]].
* FaceHeelTurn: He was more KnightTemplar when he was still a "good guy."
* FantasticRacism: As he puts it:
-->'''Forrest''': I see a demon, it dies. End of story.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Literally.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: How he was killed by Adam.
%%* {{Jerkass}}
* KnightTemplar: With a bit of FantasticRacism thrown in.
%%* MixAndMatchMan
* PlayingWithSyringes: Adam turns him into a duplicate of himself.
%%* ReforgedIntoAMinion
* SuperSerum: Initially.
%%* SuperSoldier
* SuperStrength: Pre- and post-transformation.
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Graham.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Amy]]
!!Amy Madison
->'''Played By:''' Elizabeth Anne Allen

Fellow student at Sunnydale High, and a witch. Introduced in Season 1 when her mother [[FreakyFridayFlip switched bodies with her]] to relive her glory days as a cheerleader. Thanks to Buffy's help, the spell was reversed and her mother [[HoistByHisOwnPetard got a spell rebounded on her that trapped her in a cheerleading trophy]]. Amy continued her school life since then with occasional run-ins with the Scoobies. She turned herself into a rat in Season 3, and was turned back by Willow in Season 6. Notable for appearing in one episode per season of the first four seasons. Has an expanded role in the comics.
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* AndIMustScream: Being stuck as a rat for several years. Despite how much that sucked, she kept the cage.
* {{Animorphism}}: Can turn people into rats. Including herself, which probably isn't the best idea as it takes years before anyone turns her back. In Season 8, she has gotten a lot better at controlling her magic and can become a cat, as well as cast spells while in animal form.
* BigNo: [[spoiler:Combined with a rather twisted AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther, Amy lets out one of these when the Seed of Wonder is destroyed and she loses her powers, causing Warren to fall apart in front of her eyes, since he had only been held together by her magic.]]
%%* BlackMage
* CoDragons: To Twilight with Warren and The General in Season 8.
* [[spoiler:DePower]]: [[spoiler:With the destruction of the Seed of Wonder]].
* DrFeelgood: The root of Willow's 'relapse' into her magic habit.
* EvilCounterpart: Mainly to Willow, but also to Tara; Tara advised Willow to slow down on the magic while Amy encouraged her addiction.
%%* EvilFormerFriend
%%* [[EvilSorcerer Evil Sorceress]]
%%* FaceHeelTurn
* {{Flight}}: In Season 8.
* GrandTheftMe: Her introduction.
%%* HotWitch
* ImAHumanitarian: How she and Warren survived under the Sunnydale sinkhole.
* InTheBlood: Implied to be the source of her raw magical power.
%%* KarmaHoudini
* {{Magitek}}: Provided by the Twilight Group to try and give Amy an advantage against Willow.
%%* MommyIssues
* MyBelovedSmother: Has/had one.
* {{Necromancer}}: She creates an army of zombies to attack the Slayer Organization.
* NotSoDifferent: When a spell went off showing an individual's worst fears, hers was shown to be her mother.
%%* NotSoHarmlessVillain
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: During the [[spoiler:Battle in Sunnydale during the Twilight crisis, she and Warren escape Spike's airship and run away. She considers going back to help and see if they can fake a HeelFaceTurn, but Warren shoots down the idea since he knew Willow would never allow them to join]].
%%* {{Teleportation}}
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Rack]]
!!Rack
->'''Played By:''' Creator/JeffKober

An evil warlock from Sunnydale, one infamous for supplying a pure yet addictive kind of magic.
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:A scumbag through and through.
* DidntSeeThatComing: [[spoiler:He saw Willow coming, but he didn't see that she would drain him entirely of his magic.]]
%%* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything
* FantasticDrug: The type of magic he supplies.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Caleb]]
!!Caleb
->'''Played By:''' Creator/NathanFillion
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->''Back before I met you, there was this choir girl in Knoxville I used to give singing lessons to. She even screamed on-key.''

Former priest and physical vessel for The First Evil.
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* BadassPreacher: Of a ReligionOfEvil.
%%* CorruptHick
* CurbStompBattle: His first battle with the main cast.
* TheDragon: The First Evil's right hand man.
** DragonInChief: Far more threatening than his boss.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Buffy cut him in half. [[GroinAttack From the groin upwards]].
* FusionDance: Does one with The First.
* AGlassOfChianti: Heck, his evil lair ''is'' a wine cellar!
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Got bisected. Ouch.
* TheHeavy: The First is intangible, which means all the physical jobs belong to Caleb.
* HeManWomanHater: Is a raging misogynist who sees all women as corrupt whores, frequently voicing his hatred of and disgust for women. He considers Buffy and the other Slayers to be a blasphemy because they are girls with SuperStrength.
%%* HolierThanThou
* ImplacableMan: After [[PhysicalGod Glory]], he's the most physically powerful villain the gang faces.
%%* LargeHam
%%* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain
* PsychoSupporter: Of the First, whom he basically sees as God.
* SerialKiller: Pre-series.
* SexyPriest: In the opinion of some.
* ShoutOut: To Robert Mitchum in ''Film/TheNightOfTheHunter''.
* SinisterMinister: Of the "defrocked Catholic priest" variety.
[[/folder]]



[[folder:Voll]]
!!General Voll

The original leader of the U.S. military forces aligned with Twilight.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Dropped and never mentioned or seen. WordOfGod states that the writers forgot about him when replacing him with the second General.
* CoDragons: With Amy and Warren.
%%* FourStarBadass
* TheFundamentalist: Even more so than his successor.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Has the Twilight symbol carved all over his chest.
%%* KnightTemplar
%%* WellIntentionedExtremist
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Roden]]
!!Roden

A Irish warlock and a master of TheDarkArts who joined Twilight's cause in an attempt to survive the end of magic, recruiting Genevieve Savidge to kill all the other Slayers.
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* ArcVillain: For ''No Future For You''.
* {{Badass}}
** PopCulturedBadass: He references PinkFloyd's "Another Brick in the Wall Part 2", saying as wise man once said that you can't have any pudding if you don't have your meat.
%%* BlackEyesOfEvil
%%* BlackMagic
%%* LesCollaborateurs
%%* DishingOutDirt
* TheDragon: To Genevieve...
** DragonWithAnAgenda: ...except he really isn't loyal to her and is just using her to further his own goals.
* EvilCounterpart: To Giles.
%%* EvilGloating
* EvilMentor: To Genevieve.
* EvilRedhead: Has red hair.
%%* EvilSorcerer
%%* {{Flight}}
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Giles uses a spell from Roden's spell book to kill him.]]
* MadeOfIron: Survives getting stabbed in the back with a pair of garden scissors.
%%* NighInvulnerability
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Delivers one to Faith.
%%* SmugSnake
* StatingTheSimpleSolution: Begs Genevive to kill Faith, [[GenreSavvy believing she is a threat]], but she ignores him.
%%* TreacherousAdvisor
* [[spoiler:UnwittingPawn: In Twilight's real grand scheme.]]
* WeCanRuleTogether: [[spoiler:After Faith kills Genevieve, Roden tries to convince her to replace her in his plan to kill Buffy and survive the End of Magic]].
* [[spoiler:YourHeadASplode: Thanks to Giles.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The General]]
!!The General

The second leader of the US military forces working with Twilight against the Slayer Organization.
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* AntiVillain: In between Type III and Type IV.
%%* {{Badass}}
%%** FourStarBadass
* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:Via Simone]].
* CoDragons: To Twilight with Amy and Warren in Season 8.
* EnemyMine: Very reluctantly works with the Slayers to fight the invading demon armies.
* {{Irony}}: He ruined his career by going after and destroying the Slayer Organization, believing them to be a threat to world peace, [[spoiler:but was killed by Simone Doffler, a rogue Slayer that he didn't go after who really is a threat to the world]].
%%* KnightTemplar
%%* NoNameGiven
* PetTheDog: Allowing Dawn to get medical treatment during the [[spoiler:battle against the demons in the Sunnydale sinkhole]].
%%* {{Retirony}}
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: "The General. Name classified. Like others, works for Twilight. Also craves cheese."
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Thinks that the Slayer Organization really is a threat to world peace.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Genevieve]]
!!Lady Genevieve Savidge
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->''"Buffy has forced our kind to be the serfs of this world, when we should have been lording over the masses."''

A rich British Slayer and daughter of a powerful noble, she is recruited by Roden to kill Buffy and take over the Slayer Organization in order to impose their rule on the world. She is befriended by an [[TheMole undercover Faith]], who [[spoiler:foils her attempt to kill Buffy and is then accidentally killed by Faith as she attempts to redeem her]].
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%%* AristocratsAreEvil
%%* AnAxeToGrind
%%* {{Badass}}
* BadDreams: She is plagued by [[DreamingOfThingsToCome prophetic dreams]] and the memories of past Slayers and their deaths. One of the reasons she wants to kill Buffy is because Roden lied and told her the dreams would end when Buffy was dead.
* BareYourMidriff: Several of her outfits.
* BathtubBonding: With Faith.
%%* [[BewareTheSuperman Beware The Slayer]]
* BigBadWannabe: She is a strong Slayer who puts together a credible plan to kill Buffy, but she is easily bested in battle by Buffy and was an UnwittingPawn for Twilight in the first place.
%%* [[spoiler:BloodFromTheMouth]]
%%* BlueBlood
%%* DarkActionGirl
* DartboardOfHate: Has a picture of Buffy in a closet with several knives thrown into it.
* DrivenByEnvy: Genevieve can't believe Buffy, a colonial commoner, is the leader of the Slayers and wants to kill her to take over.
%%* EvilBrit
* FriendlessBackground: Due to being homeschooled.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: She thinks that Roden actually cares for her.
* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: Other Slayers, as training to kill Buffy.
* InSeriesNickname: "Gigi"
%%* MeaningfulName
%%* MsFanservice
%%* ParentalNeglect
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Does not consider anyone who is not nobility to be worth her time, and considers anyone from the "colonies" to be worth even less.
* PrepareToDie: Says this in a really fancy way to Buffy.
%%* TheResenter
%%* RoyalBrat
%%* SuperStrength
* UnwittingPawn: To both Twilight and Roden.
* VillainousBreakdown: Suffers one after discovering that [[TheMole "Hope"]] is not who she claimed to be and she fails to kill Buffy.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: What she thinks she is, planning to kill a "misguided" Buffy and install Slayers as leaders of a corrupt world.
[[/folder]]

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[[folder:Ampata]]
!!Ampata, ie, "Inca Mummy Girl"

A Season 2 villain. Her people sacrificed her to their heathen god but came back after one of Buffy's classmates broke the seal that kept her dead.

* AliensSpeakingEnglish: She learned the language after all the years that she was toured all over the country.
* AndIMustScream: She was imprisoned in her own corpse.
%%* AntiVillain
%%* TheChosenOne
* DeadPersonImpersonation: "Ampata" was the foreign exchange student that was supposed to stay with Buffy for two weeks.
* EvilCounterpart: To Buffy.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: To a terrifying extent.
%%* SealedEvilInACan
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Voll]]
!!General Voll

The original leader of the U.S. military forces aligned with Twilight.
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[[foldercontrol]]

!Big Bads

[[folder:Lothos]]

!!Lothos
->'''Played By:''' Creator/RutgerHauer

A vampire king in Los Angeles, and the first major villain Buffy faced. He is responsible for the death of Merrick, Buffy's first Watcher, and was killed during a school dance; this led to Buffy eventually moving to Sunnydale.

%%* AristocratsAreEvil
* {{Badass}}: When Merrick tries to stake him, [[spoiler:he turns the tables and impales Merrick with the same stake]]. This happens in the movie, which means it's non-canon for the series, but still respectable.
* BigBad: Of the movie and ''The Origin''.
* BlondGuysAreEvil: In the movie, he is played by Creator/RutgerHauer.
* CanonDiscontinuity: The movie's depiction.
* TheDreaded: Lothos is famous for killing many past Slayers. Consider that Spike was considered a Badass Nonhuman for killing two.
* EvilRedHead: Depectied as one in ''The Origin''.
* {{Expy}}: One for {{Dracula}} because of his pale skin, style of clothing, aristocratic background and vampirism.
* TheGhost: Series-wise, he and his minions are vaguely referenced in the first episode.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: In the movie only.
%%* WickedCultured
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Lothos to Amilyn, without a word. Lothos plays a violin, then gives Amilyn a very unsympathetic smile. Then Amilyn gets killed.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Master]]
!!TheMaster AKA Heinrich Joseph Nest
->'''Played By:''' Mark Metcalf
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[[caption-width-right:230: Oh, good. The feeble banter portion of the fight.]]
->''"Some claim that death is our art. I say to them--well, I don't say anything to them [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority because I killed them]]."''

An ancient vampire who spent most of Season 1 trapped in the Hellmouth. Got out at the end after temporarily killing Buffy, and was killed by Buffy shortly thereafter. The BigBad for Season 1.

* AgeWithoutYouth: He's so old that he's lost the ability to assume human form.
* BackFromTheDead: At least four times. In an early comic (he tries possessing Xander); in the XBox [[VideoGame/BuffyTheVampireSlayer game]] (he possesses Angel); in the book ''Portal Through Time'' (really briefly due to a minion monkeying around with time); and [[spoiler:the Season 8 comics (the Seed of Wonder brings him back so he can act as its protector)]].
* {{Badass}}: ''Killed'' [[TheHero Buffy]] twice, once in the Wishverse and once in reality. Not defeated, not forced into a HeroicSacrifice, but ''killed'' her flat out. Even after she returns, it takes a truly RasputinianDeath before he's done, and [[spoiler:he still returns in Season 8 after she kills him]], something that, to date, a PhysicalGod and an EldritchAbomination have been unable to do. Background info reveals he's killed a Slayer besides Buffy and forcibly sired another.
* BadBoss: See EyeScream. That was ''not'' an isolated incident.
* TheBadGuyWins: Right before the ResetButton is pushed, the version of him seen in "The Wish" [[NeckSnap manages to kill]] Wishverse!Buffy.
* BaldOfEvil: Has no hair.
* TheBeastMaster: He is the original boss of the Hellmouth demon.
* BigBad: Of Season 1.
* BigNo: Gets a beauty when Buffy stops him from escaping his prison--the first time.
* BloodBath: The pilot has him hanging out in a pool of blood while [[NonNudeBathing fully dressed]].
%%* CompellingVoice
* CurbStompBattle: It took him a few seconds to kill Wishverse!Buffy.
* DarkIsEvil: Wears a black leather bodysuit.
* DarkMessiah: In his followers' eyes. Not too far off, as him being successfully released from his prison would have had the effect of opening the Hellmouth, causing widespread catastrophe.
* DeaderThanDead: When he was staked, his bones were left behind. To make absolutely sure he's gone, Buffy smashes them to dust with a sledgehammer (but as the very first trope in this section shows, it didn't work). Counting ExpandedUniverse, he's had his soul destroyed twice.

* TheDreaded: In the Dreamverse, his escape from his can is one of Buffy's darkest nightmares and preventing his escape is Angel's top priority. The unspoken belief between them is that they won't be able to stop him if he gets out.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:He returns in Season 8, only to be nonchalantly re-killed roughly one issue after his reappearance when Twilight punches him through the head.]]
* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:They tease this in Season 8, but it never actually happens, unless you count him trying to sneak attack Twilight while he and Buffy are fighting.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He viewed his particular [[TheDragon high-ranking minions]], like Darla, Collin and Luke, as his "children" and nearly loses the will to carry out his plans after Darla is staked.
* EverybodyCallsHimBarkeep: His name is actually "Heinrich Nest," but nobody has called him that in centuries.
* EvilMakesYouMonstrous: "He has grown past the curse of human features."
* EvilMentor: To the Anointed One.
* EvilSorcerer: Though his magical abilities are more pronounced in supplementary material than the actual series.
* FacepalmOfDoom: [[spoiler:Essentially how he dies in Season 8]].
* FamousLastWords: "Where are your jibes now? Will you laugh when my hell is on Earth?"
--> '''Buffy:''' You're that amped about Hell? Go there.
%%* FangThpeak
%%* FauxAffablyEvil
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Choleric
* FightOffTheKryptonite: He keeps a cross in his lair to practice this. Despite physical burning and mental fear, he can stand close enough to grab it.
* HellBentForLeather: See LimitedWardrobe.
* IHaveManyNames: WordOfGod states that his real one is [[http://buffy.wikia.com/wiki/The_Master#Behind_the_Scenes Heinrich Joseph Nest]], though as noted in that link, ContinuityDrift may mean that's no longer true.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Courtesy of Buffy in the Season 1 finale.
* LargeHam: ''Still'' one of the most enjoyable villains because of his theatrics and monologues.
* LimitedWardrobe: It probably smells terrible.
%%* LooksLikeOrlok
* TheMaster: Duh.
%%* MonsterProgenitor
* MysteriousPast: The first BigBad, one of the oldest vampires in existence, and a guy who figures prominently in the past of several other characters, and yet we never learn that much about him.
* NoOntologicalInertia: His death causes the recently-released EldritchAbomination that dwells in the Hellmouth to retreat.
%%* ObviouslyEvil
%%* TheOlderImmortal
* RasputinianDeath: When compared to every other vampire death in the series.
%%* RedEyesTakeWarning
* SealedEvilInACan: He was trapped in the Hellmouth for centuries.
* SlouchOfVillainy: The Master on his black throne.
%%* SophisticatedAsHell
* StrippedToTheBone: Unlike the rest of him, his skeleton didn't turn to dust.
%%* StrongerWithAge
%%* VampireMonarch
* VillainousBreakdown: [[ForgottenFallenFriend Really briefly]], due to Darla's death.
%%* WickedCultured
* WolverineClaws: "[[EyeScream You have something in your eye]]."
* YouHaveFailedMe: Though he expects his minions to say "I Have Failed You." You'd think they'd eventually learn to stay out of his little energy bubble prison.

[[folder:Angelus]]
!!![[Characters/BuffyTheVampireSlayerRegulars See Buffy Regulars]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Mayor]]
!!Mayor Richard Wilkins III
->'''Played By:''' Harry Groener
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-->''"Now, Faith, I don't find that sort of thing amusing. I'm a family man. Now, let's kill your little friend!"''

The Mayor and founder of Sunnydale, Richard Wilkins is a sorcerer who planned to undergo Ascension, becoming a pure demon named Olvikan. The BigBad for Season 3.

* AffablyEvil: Best summarized by the scene in "Choices" when he gives Angel and Buffy honest and intelligent, if somewhat harsh, relationship advice and does so in a way that shows he really means it and would never want anyone to endure the same fate he did with his wife. At one point in Season 6, Xander laments that the Mayor isn't around anymore, because yeah, the man might have been an EvilSorcerer with dark ambitions to become a demon, but the city's zoning and permitting board was so much more efficient under the man's administration, and he made sure all the potholes got filled in a timely manner too. WordOfGod is that none of the affability is [[FauxAffablyEvil faked]]; he's honestly a NiceGuy who just ''happens'' to also be an evil monster who wants to rule the world.
** Groener ad-libbed a bit after a group of cub scouts leave the Mayor's office following a photo-op, saying how annoying they were. Joss jumped in and said, (paraphrased), "No, he genuinely likes the boy scouts and thinks involved, social kids like that are the future of the country!"
** In the Spanish dub, the mayor is unfailingly polite, using Usted/Ustedes (as opposed to the informal Tú/Vosotros) and their verb conjugations whenever he's speaking with someone he isn't personally close to (in other words, when he's talking to anyone other than Faith).
* BackFromTheDead: One comic story had him briefly return as a wayward spirit capable of DemonicPossession.
* {{Badass}}: Yes, really. While not what most people might traditionally think as {{Badass}}, this man was constantly three or four steps ahead of Buffy and the gang, and the only reason for his death was that Buffy smashed his BerserkButton.
** BadassInANiceSuit: Not the normal SharpDressedMan variation, but that suit of his gives a very classy aspect, perfectly fitting his AffablyEvil persona.
** BadassInCharge: He was the Mayor of Sunnydale.
* BenevolentBoss: He treats his subordinates (both human and vampire) in a friendly and patient way, and is really upset by his deputy's death.
** BadBoss: Implied to have shades of this, even to Faith.
--->'''Mayor''': [[YouHaveFailedMe If you fail again]], well, replacing Mr. Trick was hard enough.
* BerserkButton: Anything that might hurt Faith.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Does it even need to be said?
* BigBad: Of Season 3.
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: Is quite prone to this.
* [[CelibateHero Celibate Villain]]: Probably related to his MayflyDecemberRomance.
* CompleteImmortality: During the 100 days before the Ascension.
* CorruptPolitician: How corrupt? He [[DealWithTheDevil sold his soul]] and created a town for demons to feed so he could become an immortal [[EldritchAbomination Old One]]. How exactly does he keep getting elected, year after year? On the other hand, once you get over the demonic stuff, he is a fairly good mayor.
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Made himself invulnerable ''before'' enacting his EvilPlan.
* DeadManWriting: The Mayor's video for Faith.
* DealWithTheDevil: Several, one of which included selling his soul.
%%* DissonantSerenity
* TheDreaded: Perhaps not to the same extent as Angelus or The First, but it is worth noting that he was able to freak out both Mr. Trick and Deputy Mayor Alan Finch, and had control over his own personal army of vampires ''before'' he became invulnerable. Hell, he even freaked out the Scooby Gang [[spoiler:when he casually walked into the library]].
* EldritchAbomination: Planned to become one.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Faith and his late wife Edna May.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: "Gingerbread" has him genuinely horrified at the child murders, though it's also entirely possible he was just doing what the townspeople expected of him. The fact he looks worried when the dark forces of the town are brought up only muddles things further. The Mayor ''does'' love kids, so he probably doesn't like seeing them get killed if he's not the one eating them himself. He's also a big believer in keeping his word and doesn't like when he is made to look dishonest. In fact, the only time we see say or do anything that might be considered threatening to his henchmen is when Mr. Trick says he did him a favor by accidentally getting Lurconis, the demon the Mayor had pledged a sacrifice too, killed by the gang. He tells him that he should be very careful what favors he does for him in the future.
* EvilCounterpart: To Giles, due to his paternal relationship with Faith. He also likes his scotch.
%%* EvilRedhead
%%* EvilSorcerer
%%* EvilVirtues
* FamilyValuesVillain:
-->'''Faith''': Thanks, sugar daddy.
-->'''Wilkins''': Now, Faith, I don't find that sort of thing amusing. I'm a family man. Now, [[MoodDissonance let's kill your little friend]].
** He is ''[[FridgeBrilliance literally]]'' a "family man," as over the decades he's been himself, and his son, and his grandson...
* FeelNoPain: A showoff when it comes to his own invulnerability.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Melancholic
%%* GigglingVillain
* GoshDangItToHeck: He'll rip your heart out and force feed it to a baby, but he won't stand any naughty language. Heck, his FamousLastWords even portrayed this: "Well, gosh."
* HealingFactor: What his invulnerability manifests as.
* HostageForMacGuffin: He kidnaps Willow and forces the Scooby Gang to hand over the Box of Gavrok, an artifact he needed to complete his Ascension. Unlike most examples, he has no intention of going back on his word and lets Willow go with no strings attached.
* IGaveMyWord: He doesn't like others accusing him of dishonesty. See HostageForMacGuffin above.
* {{Immortality}}: His main power.
* JerkassHasAPoint: When he tells Angel how impractical his relationship with Buffy is and how it will only end badly, he's not only right but he's accepted in-universe as being correct.
* MayorPain: He provides the name for Type A.
* MoralityPet: Faith. Even when the deaths of close henchmen doesn't bother him too much, he is genuinely distraught about Faith.
* MyGrandsonMyself: He posed as his own son and grandson to hide his immortality.
* MysteriousEmployer: Towards the end of Season 2 and the beginning of Season 3, he's foreshadowed as an unseen but feared superior of Principal Snyder and Sunnydale's Chief of Police.
%%* NeatFreak
* OfficeGolf: Often plays it while discussing his plans with Finch.
* OhCrap: "Gingerbread." Blink and you'll miss Wilkins suddenly start looking rather uncomfortable when Joyce discusses the horrors that happen in Sunnydale. Also, his FamousLastWords are "Well, gosh."
* OneWingedAngel / ScaledUp: After his Ascension.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The only time we see him genuinely angry is after Buffy puts Faith in a coma. He personally attempts to smother an unconscious Buffy to death with his bare hands, and freaks out and calls her a "whore" in front of Angel. He quickly regains his usual demeanor after Angel [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom flings him across the room]].
* PapaWolf: Harming Faith will bring out the worst of him, as Buffy and Angel almost found out.
* ParentalSubstitute: To Faith.
%%* PermanentElectedOfficial
* PostMortemComeback: Dies in the third season. Sets up a contingency plan that allows Faith to pull a GrandTheftMe on Buffy in the fourth season.
* PrecisionFStrike: After Faith is hurt. Naturally made even more dramatic by his usual demeanor.
-->Misery loves company, young man, and I'm looking to share that with you and your ''whore''!
* Really700YearsOld: He's over a hundred years old, but hasn't aged a day since the 19th century.
* StepfordSmiler: Averted. He really is that optimistic and cheery.
%%* StraightEdgeEvil
* SweetTooth: Loves candy and Tollhouse cookies.
* TerrifiedOfGerms: Even after becoming ''invulnerable''.
* TotalitarianUtilitarian: Seems to be his reason for achieving Ascension--to bring order.
* TranquilFury: When he tries to smother Buffy at the hospital.
%%* {{Ubermensch}}
%%* UltimateAuthorityMayor
%%* UncannyFamilyResemblance
* VideoWills: Faith watches the tape in season 4.
* VillainsOutShopping: Many scenes have him playing miniature golf, discussing about his favorite comics or treating Faith like gold.
%%* VillainWithGoodPublicity
* VillainousBSOD / MadnessMantra: Suffers a brief one when [[spoiler:he finds Faith in a coma]].
-->''She's going to be all right. She'll be all right. She'll be all right.''
* WellIntentionedExtremist: He honestly thinks life under his rule post-Ascension is for the best for everyone.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: He seems pretty happy with his immortality but notes how horrible it was to see his wife age normally and grow to despise him for his eternal youth. He says that he doesn't want Angel and Buffy to go through the same thing that he did.
* WouldHurtAChild: Every thirty or so years, he feeds newborn babies to a sewer-dwelling demon named Lurconis.
* WroteTheBook: "There's more than one way to skin a cat. And I happen to know that's factually true!"

[[folder:Adam]]
!!Adam
->'''Played By:''' George Hertzberg

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->''"Don't tell me you've never heard of'' TheBeatles?"''
->''"I have. I like 'Helter Skelter.'"''
->''"[[SarcasmMode What a surprise]].''"
->-- Spike and Adam

Kinematically-redundant bio-mechanical demonoid. Inimical to all life, human and demon alike. The BigBad for Season 4.

%%* AdamAndOrEve
* AIIsACrapshoot:
--> '''Doctor:''' Adam, Maggie would want you to stand down.
--> '''Adam:''' Yes, but I seem to have a design flaw.
* AndShowItToYou: His death.
* AntiMagic / NoSell: He's immune to reality-altering magic, like the spell Jonathan cast in "Superstar."
* ArmCannon: Both a [[GatlingGood Gatling gun]] and rocket launcher.
* AttackItsWeakPoint: Rip out his battery, and he's a sack of meat.
* BackFromTheDead: As a non-physical entity in the comic storyline "[[http://buffycomics.hellmouthcentral.com/monsters/html/adam.html Note from the Underground]]."
* {{BFG}}: His right arm can turn into a Gatling gun and a bazooka.
* BigBad: Of Season 4.
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: His Polgara demon skewer, which doubles as his WeaponOfChoice in close combat.
* BlanketFort: "Restless":
--> '''Riley:''' We need to build a fort!
--> '''Human!Adam:''' I'll get the pillows!
* CatchPhrase: "Interesting..."
%%* CreepyMonotone
%%* {{Cyborg}}
* DarkMessiah: In a way, since he instilled loyalty and cooperation among demons and vampires. Some of his followers view him as this, with one even calling "the evil messiah guy."
* EnemyToAllLivingThings: Living, dead, undead.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: He seriously thinks that setting off one spat between Buffy and her friends will split them up for good, and that contributes to his death.
%%* EvilSoundsDeep
* FamousLastWords: "[[ThisCannotBe How can you...?!]]"
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Phlegmatic
* FrankensteinsMonster: Clearly inspired by it.
** NamesTheSame: The titular monster of Shelley's novel is named "Adam," too. His encounter with a child sadly goes similarly.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: The comic story "Haunted" reveals he was just a random, faceless Initiative grunt killed by the Mayor.
%%* GatlingGood
* GeniusBruiser: Smart enough to modify himself and create more like him; strong enough to tear off a vampire's head with his bare hands.
* GoneHorriblyRight: His creation turns out to be this. He later states that everything he did as part of the 314 Project was as Professor Walsh intended--except for the fact that she assumed that she'd still be alive to witness it and would be the one pulling the strings.
* ILoveNuclearPower: Has a Uranium-235 core.
* JackTheRipoff: Adam shares musical taste with Charles Manson. His ultimate goal is also similar: to provoke a racial war, leaving only himself standing among the ashes. Adam is also shown to be very charismatic among vampires and demons alike.
* TheJuggernaut: It's obvious that everything before the enjoining spell had no effect on him.
* LargeAndInCharge: George Hertzberg is ''huge'', even having a few inches on Marc Blucas.
* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: "I ''do'' appreciate violence."
* MixAndMatchMan
-->'''Spike''': So you help me and you get this chip out of my head?
-->'''Adam''': Scout's honor.
-->'''Spike''': You were a Boy Scout?
-->'''Adam''': Parts of me.
%%* MonsterModesty
* MysteriousPast: "Before Adam? Not a man among us can remember." One comic suggests that he was once a human member of the Initiative and Professor Walsh's favorite alongside Riley, and was used in the 314 Project after he was killed by a demon corpse [[DemonicPossession possessed]] by the spirit of Mayor Wilkins.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: A Frankenstein created from human and demon parts meshed together with cybernetics.
%%* ObviouslyEvil
* OhCrap: His reaction to the Enjoined Buffy.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: No one remembers his real name.
%%* OnlyOneName
* PerpetualMotionMonster: Thanks to his Uranium-235 core.
* PhlebotinumBattery: See above.
* PlayingWithSyringes: How he was created.
* PopCulturedBadass: A fan of TheBeatles, specifically "Helter Skelter." Then again, so was Charles Manson.
* PowerSource: The Uranium-235 core.
* PsychoPrototype: He was meant to be the first of many. Then he stabbed his creator.
%%* PsychoticSmirk
* RoboticPsychopath: Adam was built to be a weapon, and as such is incapable of caring about anyone.
* SelfMadeOrphan: Murders his creator, Maggie Walsh, within moments of coming on-line.
* ShoutOut: His name is one to ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'', where WordOfGod is that the creature's name is "Adam."
* SiblingsInCrime: Views Riley as his brother (since they were both Professor Walsh's "favorites") and wants to be this with him.
%%* SpikyHair
%%* SpockSpeak
* SoftSpokenSadist: Never ever loses his cool or [[FauxAffablyEvil faux affability]], yet he kills a child for the hell of it in his first few minutes.
* SuperPrototype: Compare his performance to Forrest's--though he purposely made Forrest "nearly as bad" as him.
* SuperSoldier: Meant to be the first in a new line of Initiative {{Super Soldier}}s, combining the advancement of technology, the intelligence and adaptability of humans, and the superior strength and emotional detachment of demons in one big badass package.
* TakeOverTheWorld: Plans to re-populate Earth with an army of beings like himself.
* TranquilFury: Even at his most heinous or angry, he remains cool, calm and collected.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: The very first thing he does upon activation is kill his creator.
* TwoFaced: Three, if you count that metal portion.
%%* UltimateLifeform
* WouldHurtAChild: Oh Adam, you get up to such shenanigans in your first few minutes of life.

[[folder:Glory]]
!!Glorificus AKA Glory
->'''Played By:''' Clare Kramer

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->''"You can't go around hitting people. What, were you born in a barn?"''

A hell-god trapped in the body of a human medical student in this dimension (shifted from her own appearance to his, seemingly at random). Living on a lower plane is making her mind deteriorate, and the only way she can maintain her semi-coherence is by [[AndIMustScream draining sanity straight from humans' brains]]. Plans to return to her own dimension by using the Key to break down the dimensional barriers; this will destroy the universe. The BigBad for Season 5.

* ActionDressRip: In "Tough Love," revealing another dress beneath it.
%%* AllWomenLoveShoes
* AlphaBitch: She's basically an evil Cordelia.
* AndYourLittleDogToo: On one occasion, she explicitly threatens to kill Buffy's loved ones and friends and make Buffy watch, all while confronting Buffy herself in her ''own home.''
* AtLeastIAdmitIt: During a motive rant to Dawn:
-->'''Glory''': People. How do they function here like this in the world with all this bile running through them? Everyday, it's like whoo! You have no control. They're not even animals. There just these meat-baggy slaves to hormones and pheromones and their--their feelings. Hate 'em! I mean, really. Is this what the poets go on about? This? Call me crazy, but as hardcore drugs go, human emotion is just useless. People are puppets, everyone getting jerked around by what they're feelin'. Am I wrong? Really, I want to know. [...] So you're saying some people like this? Funny, 'cause I look around at this world you're so eager to a part of, and all I see are six billion lunatics looking for the fastest way out. Who's not crazy? Look around. Everyone's drinking, smoking, shooting up, shooting each other or just plain screwing their brains out 'cause they don't want 'em anymore. I'm crazy? Honey, I'm the original one-eyed chicklet in the kingdom of the blind. 'Cause at least I admit the world makes me nuts.
* AxCrazy: Juuuust a little bit.
* BadBoss: Seriously, name an episode with her in it that ''doesn't'' depict her physically abusing her minions or insulting them to their faces. Said minions show UndyingLoyalty regardless, even though they know full well that they'll die in the holocaust Glory will inflict on Earth.
* BecomingTheMask: Has taken on more and more human traits over the years, much to her annoyance.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: You honestly wouldn't consider her a threat, at least a major one, if you weren't aware of her strength or that she is a GodInHumanForm.
* BigBad: Of Season 5.
* BlondesAreEvil: Glory has blond hair and is VERY bad news.
* TheBrainlessBeauty: The ditziest BigBad ever. Not that it makes her any less terrifying or unstoppable. Actually lampshaded by Buffy after Glory decapitates the Buffybot and ''still'' assumes she was the real Buffy:
-->You're ''not'' the brightest God in the heavens, are you?
* BroughtDownToBadass: It's been stated that she was considerably weakened upon being banished to Earth and trapped in human form, and she's ''still'' capable of curb-stomping Buffy and the Scoobies any day of the week.
* BullyingADragon: When Willow attacks her in revenge for what she did to Tara, Glory not only shrugs it off for the most part, but even takes the time to ''taunt'' Willow over brain-sucking Tara, declaring that it was "something to treasure."
* CunningLinguist: Can speak any demon or human language.
* CurbStompBattle: The result of almost all attempts at fighting her.
* CurseCutShort:
-->(''after being teleported miles above the city by Willow'') Oh, sh--!
%%* DarkActionGirl
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Glory looks like she's having an orgasm whenever she brain-sucks someone.
* DumbMuscle: Constantly underestimates her opponents and acts without thinking. The only thing that makes her a threat is that she has a lot of muscle.
* EvilCounterpart: Like Dawn, Glory's an unimaginably powerful being stuck in a mortal body.
* EvilIsPetty: When she finds out that Buffy is the Slayer after their first fight, she is absolutely horrified and offended, describing such a face-off as "unbelievably common."
* FantasticRacism: She doesn't even ''try'' to hide her revulsion for humans and human things, or vampires for that matter.
%%* FauxAffablyEvil
* TheFashionista: Pays a lot of attention to her wardrobe, despite claiming she doesn't care about her looks.
* FoeRomanceSubtext: Glory has this with ''every'' enemy she has a face-to-face conversation with; male or female, living or undead.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Sanguine
* GodInHumanForm / SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan: A hell-god trapped in human form.
* HeelRealization: Near the end of her life, she starts feeling emotions. This counts as an IgnoredEpiphany, however.
* HeroKiller: Her actions indirectly lead to Buffy's death in the Season 5 finale.
* HotGod: Glory is god, and a gorgeous one at that.
%%* HumanoidAbomination
* {{Hypocrite}}: She constantly goes on about how much she hates being human and considers human things beneath her, and yet she adores silk and has quite the shoe collection.
%%* IHaveYouNowMyPretty
* IfIWantedYouDead: In "Checkpoint," she confronts Buffy in her own home to demand the Key. While she's going on, Buffy subtly takes a fireplace poker and prepares to attack Glory with it, but Glory takes it from her before she can even swing, telling her that if she was there to fight, Buffy would already be dead.
* ImmuneToBullets: Or crossbow bolts, in this case.
* [[ImplacableMan Implacable Goddess]]: She will stop at ''nothing'' to get the Key. In her very first appearance, she brings down an ''entire building'' on top of her while having a hissy fit, and even that doesn't slow her down for long.
%%* ItsAllAboutMe
* JekyllAndHyde: She plays Hyde to Ben's Jekyll.
* TheJuggernaut: Even more so than Adam. Being a PhysicalGod, Glory is pretty much unstoppable.
* LackOfEmpathy: She wants to go home, and doesn't care how many people she'll kill if that should happen. This does start to fade in the Season 5 finale, due to the personalities of Glory and Ben starting to [[BecomingTheMask merge and swap a little]].
* LadyInRed: As befits TheVamp. With a black nightie underneath (see ActionDressRip) it's RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Regular humans instantly forget that she and Ben have a shared existence, though over time the spell weakened, and even from the beginning, it didn't work on non-humans such as Spike.
* LightningBruiser: Buffy's first OhCrap moment is when Glory casually breaks her grip (despite Buffy having SuperStrength) and [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom punches her across the room]].
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: A RunningGag with the character. Every attempt by the Scoobies to punch her, shoot her with crossbows, or hit her over the head with crowbars results only in Glory griping over [[ItsAllAboutMe how rude they are]] or that they're [[NobodyTouchesTheHair messing up her hair]].
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Anyone who has met Clare Kramer can attest that she is about as far removed from Glory as it is possible to be.
* MindRape: She ''eats sanity''.
%%* MsFanservice
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: She is known as "The Beast" and "The Abomination."
* {{Narcissist}}: To an utterly ludicrous degree. She even forces her minions to constantly come up with new ways of praising her.
* NighInvulnerable: Only way to kill her is to kill Ben.
* OmnicidalManiac: Doesn't seem to care that the activation of the Key will irreversibly fuck up everything, possibly because she can survive (or ''thinks'' she can survive) the chaos that would descend upon all universes.
* {{Omniglot}}: Can speak any human or demon language. Her first scene has her casually switching from Czech to English in mid-sentence.
* OrcusOnHisThrone: Very powerful but very lazy as well. Her underlings have to remind her [[WhenThePlanetsAlign that she's running out of time to find the Key]], and on several occasions the Scoobies survive because Glory can't be bothered chasing them and leaves the task to underlings.
* OutsideContextVillain: When Buffy is told Glory isn't just some new and powerful demon, but a god, she just gives a quiet, "[[OhCrap Oh]]".
%%* PhysicalGod
* PsychopathicManchild: Of the cosmic variety.
* SatanicArchetype: Shares a lot in common with you-know-who--a [[FallenAngel fallen god]] exiled to Earth, [[ManOfWealthAndTaste lives in a lavishly decorated apartment]], [[WickedCultured wears expensive clothes]], [[ShapeShifting takes on the form of someone no one would suspect]] and [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast is called "The Beast"]] [[LightIsNotGood despite her followers describing her as a "shining light"]].
* SmugSnake: Not even a tenth as smart or diabolical as she thinks she is. If it weren't for her immense physical abilities and tendency to go off half-cocked, the gang probably could have outsmarted her without breaking a sweat.
%%* SuperLoser
* SuperSenses: Knows just what's happening behind her back, so you're wasting your time trying to sneak up on her or sneak away from her.
* SuperSpeed / FlashStep: In "Blood Ties" Dawn turns her head away from Glory, who's standing across the room, then jumps as Glory is suddenly in front of her.
%%* SuperStrength
* UnskilledButStrong: She's nowhere near as skilled as Buffy or Spike in a straight-up fight, but given her strength and NighInvulnerability, she doesn't really need to be... until the finale, when Buffy gets a hold of a weapon that can actually hurt her.
* VillainousBreakdown: As their final showdown takes place and Buffy gets the advantage, Glory loses it, stating that Buffy couldn't understand her pain and, near the end, actually starts crying and begging Buffy to stop and leave her alone. Given all of the pain and bullshit Glory has put her through over the past year, Buffy couldn't care less about Glory's speech and simply beats her to a pulp.
* VillainousBSOD: After realizing how human she's been becoming.
* VillainsOutShopping: Literally. The first time the Scoobies meet Glory, she's casually buying some items at the Magic Box. Since only Buffy (who wasn't there) knew what she looks like, they were completely oblivious that they had just met '''The Beast'''.

[[folder:The Trio]]
!!Warren Mears
->'''Played By:''' Adam Busch
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-->''"Let's see how popular you are without a face."''

A fellow student at Sunnydale High. Good with robots, but also a misogynist, murderer, attempted rapist and all-around bastard. Leader of the Trio, before he cut them loose and [[spoiler:killed Tara]]. Is subsequently flayed alive by Dark Willow. The BigBad for season 6 [[spoiler:until Dark Willow showed up]]. He [[BackFromTheDead got better]] in Season 8, where it is revealed Amy had kept him alive: but he is still skinless. The only human to truly get in Buffy's head at a level only previously achieved by Angelus.

* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler:Katrina, Tara.]] Not that he felt very bad about either one.
* AssholeVictim: Good God, did he have that coming.
* AttemptedRape: Katrina points this out after he mind-controls her into being his "girlfriend". [[MoralEventHorizon So Warren kills her to stop her leaving.]]
%%* AxCrazy
* BadBoss: As he gets darker, he dominates Andrew and Jonathan, reserves all of the gadgets and artifacts they steal and/or make for his use alone, and ultimately leaves them to take the fall.
%%* BasementDweller
* BigBad: For Season 6--[[spoiler:Dark Willow's more of a FinalBoss than a schemer]].
** [[BigBadDuumvirate Big Bad Triumvirate]]: Subverted. Theoretically, The Trio is a gathering of equals, but it's clear from early on that Warren is the nastiest of the three and the one who's really in control. After his NotSoHarmlessVillain moment below, he completely takes the center stage, with Jonathan and Andrew remaining unfortunate patsies and completely {{Harmless Villain}}s.
* BodyHorror: When he's brought back in Season 8, he's still without skin. [[spoiler:It goes FromBadToWorse when Buffy destroys the Seed of Wonder, wiping out magic and negating the spells holding Warren together, causing him to collapse into a pile of gore]].
* CardCarryingVillain: He constantly goes on about being a supervillain.
* ChekhovsGunman: Sort of. He only appeared in two episodes in late Season 5, which ''was'' supposed to be the last season. When the show was renewed on UPN, he was brought back as a major villain.
* TheChessmaster: Coldly manipulates Andrew and Jonathan for his own ends without batting an eye, is always several steps ahead of the Scoobies for a good long while and, save for Angelus, no other villain has screwed with Buffy on such a mental and emotional level. And he does it without sleeping with her.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Sold out his robot, his girlfriend and both his best friends.
* CoDragons: To Twilight with Amy and The General in Season 8.
* CutLexLuthorACheck: He's a brilliant technician, which is actually pretty tragic. He is a brilliant inventor who starts out as a kind of decent guy, and if he had moved on to be a productive member of society, he could have really improved the world. He creates a freeze ray, an invisibility gun and multiple robots that are capable of passing for human and possess superhuman levels of strength and endurance and can be programmed with memories and knowledge. If he wasn't so obsessed with power, he could have really helped society. Why he never thinks to sell his knowledge to the military and become obscenely wealthy (wealthy enough to get women) is not specified. Of course, it does fit his petty and immature character, and may have been a deliberate choice to emulate fictional villains.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: When he gains the Orbs of Nezzla'Khan in Season 6.
* EvilCounterpart: It has been suggested he's basically what Xander ''could have'' become, if things went differently. Creator/JaneEspenson pointed out than in his first appearance, his treatment of April deliberately echoes Buffy's treatment of Riley.
%%* EvilGenius
* EvilIsPetty: Practically his central characteristic. He wants to become a "supervillain" because he's a BasementDweller, who thinks that he doesn't have a girlfriend because women don't appreciate his genius. When he gains SuperStrength, one of the first things he does is beat up a jock who tormented him in high school and try to steal his girlfriend.
* EvilPlan: He goes through many elaborate plans, only for Buffy to foil every single one. After his final one is ruined, he jumps right to just gunning her down in her own backyard.
* FaceHeelTurn: In a way. In Season 5, he is clearly not malevolent in the least and tries to aid Buffy in stopping the rampage of his creation.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: He got ''flayed''. Worse when [[spoiler:he returns in the Season 8 comics as a body with no skin]].
%%* FauxAffablyEvil
* FlayingAlive: Dark Willow sews Warren's mouth shut as she tortures him, then when she gets bored, she flays him alive with a single gesture. The most infamous kill in the entire series, but also the most deserved; Warren REALLY had it coming.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** The depths of his misogyny were alluded to from his first appearance, where he specifically programmed April to feel pain whenever the two of them weren't together, and then ultimately proceeded to ditch her anyway.
** In the episode of his death, Rack tells him that Buffy is the last thing he needs to worry about (Willow being the first), Warren quips "Yeah, let's talk about my skin troubles!" And we all know how he what happens to him later...
* FromNobodyToNightmare: And does it all under his own power.
* GrandTheftMe: Nearly succeeded in [[spoiler:stealing Willow's body]].
* HeManWomanHater: Starts off as a harmless geek, but in Season 6, his anger over his inability to get a date, and subsequent poor luck when he does, leads to him descending into this.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: When Dark Willow catches up to him, she begins by torturing him with the very bullet he used to shoot Buffy.
* ImAHumanitarian: How he and Amy survived under the Sunnydale sinkhole.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Nobody else matters to Warren. Not Andrew, not Jonathan, not anybody.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Warren originally created a robot that would obey his every whim, but he eventually abandoned the android because he wanted a girlfriend that would be a partner in the relationship and he fell in love with a woman with her own ideas and personality. His creation of a SexBot and then abandoning it to "die" raises plenty of questions about his character, but he ultimately decides that he wants a woman that he can respect and interact with. In his later appearances in Season 6, he is a misogynistic bastard who tries to brainwash, and eventually kills, his ex-girlfriend because she would not submit to his desires.
* KilledMidSentence:
-->'''Warren:''' I know you're in pain, but--
-->'''Dark Willow:''' Bored now. ''(cue FlayingAlive)''
* LackOfEmpathy: Even before his MoralEventHorizon crossing, he's shown to be the one among the Trio most willing to take real risks and least willing to care about doing real harm to people. In "Flooded," he willingly gave the M'Fashnik demon they hired to rob a bank Buffy's address and let it go after her, and in "Gone," he was completely indifferent to the fact that Buffy was dissolving at a molecular level as a result of her exposure to their Invisibility Ray, even trying to speed up the process. In short, unlike Jonathan & Andrew, who thought it was all a game, Warren played to win, and wasn't afraid to cheat.
%%* LonersAreFreaks
%%* MadScientist
%%* ManipulativeBastard
* MundaneSolution: After numerous failed high-tech and/or magical schemes, he just got a gun, went to the Summers house and started firing.
* NotQuiteDead: In the comics. [[spoiler:To prevent FanonDisContinuity, please imagine it is BackFromTheDead.]]
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: The poster boy.
* OhCrap: His reaction when he discovers that Buffy survived the shooting.
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: His main area of expertise is technology and robotics, but he's got quite a few other fields down. He knows demonology and magic, and when he resurfaces in Season 8, displays enough knowledge about biology and brain surgery to lobotomize a restrained Willow.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The number of times Warren uses the word "bitch" would make a good drinking game.
* PsychopathicManchild: Buffy refers to him as such while giving out her TheReasonYouSuckSpeech in "Seeing Red":
-->'''Buffy:''' You're nothing but a sad little boy, Warren. But it's time you grow up and pay for what you've done.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Warren was only intended to be a lackey on par with Jonathan during Season 6, working under Tucker Wells (from the episode "The Prom"), who would have been the real villain of the season. It would have made sense as well, since Tucker's misdeed was far more malevolent than Jonathan's ("Superstar") or Warren's ("I was Made to Love You"). However, actor Brad Kane was unavailable to reprise the role, so Andrew Wells was created to be Tucker's brother as a substitute. Warren was likely promoted to main villain because he ended up being the most unpleasant of the three--Andrew was an amusing IneffectualSympatheticVillain, and Jonathan was generally well-liked by the audience for being the ButtMonkey.
%%* RobotMaster
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: During the [[spoiler:battle in Sunnydale during the Twilight crisis, he and Amy escape Spike's airship and run away]].
* SmugSnake: Brags to anyone who will listen when he thinks he has killed Buffy. The vampires around him are only too happy to wipe the smug grin off his face when they tell that not only will Buffy be alive and well very soon but he just killed one of her friends and pissed said friend's soulmate right the fuck off.
* SuperVillain: Wants to be one.
* [[SuperHeroPackingHeat Super Villain Packing Heat]]: After his final scheme collapses, he elects to just shoot Buffy.
* ToThePain: Willow describes in detail the damage a bullet will do as it works its way through Warren's body in slow-motion.
* UnknownRival: His need to be taken seriously as a SuperVillain gets him killed.
* VillainsWantMercy: During his death scene, Warren begins desperately trying to reason with Willow when it finally hits him that she really does intend to kill him. It doesn't work.
* VillainousBreakdown: When he realizes that Willow cannot be reasoned with.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: To the end, Buffy flat-out refuses to take human law into her own hands and just kill Warren, preferring to simply turn him over to the police. The other Scoobies, however, are so disgusted with him that they rally behind Willow en masse when she goes out to kill him.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Was on the receiving end of a ''lot'' of bullying growing up, mentioning how he used to cry himself to sleep.

!!Jonathan Levinson
->'''Played By:''' Danny Strong
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->"''We're, like, supervillains.''"

Originally a background classmate at Sunnydale High, Jonathan is given a breakout performance in "Earshot" in which Buffy talks him out of committing suicide. He later becomes adept at magic, especially ShapeShifting, and joins the humorously villainous Trio. [[spoiler:He dies in Season 7 when Andrew is tricked into sacrificing him to open the Seal of Danzalthar.]]

* AscendedExtra: To the point that The First thought him important enough to be included in its evil plan.
* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:Tries, but he never gets the chance.]] Before that, he was perfectly willing to go to jail and accept responsibility for his crimes, only running out of fear of Willow.
* ButtMonkey: Early on, he became the show's go-to victim for anything non-lethal. As bad as high school was for everyone else at Sunnydale, Jonathan just got screwed.
* ADayInTheLimelight: "Superstar"
* EvenEvilHasStandards: It would be a real stretch to call him "evil" (at his worst, he's simply a source of annoyance), but he is visibly shaken and horrified by Warren's cold-hearted nature and monstrous sadism.
* HeelFaceDoorSlam: Jonathan [[MinionWithAnFInEvil was never that bad to begin with]], [[MookFaceTurn and helps Buffy defeat Warren in their final confrontation]], but Willow's subsequent rampage still sends him fleeing to Mexico with Andrew. However, when he begins to get prophetic dreams related to the First, he returns to Sunnydale, determined to redeem himself by helping Buffy stop it, and he has finally let go of all the hatred and depression that sprang from being isolated and picked on in high school. Andrew points out that nobody in Sunnydale cares about Jonathan, nobody has missed him while he was gone or will welcome him back, but Jonathan says he does not care, [[WhatYouAreInTheDark that he wants to help them anyway, even if they never know about it or accept him]]. Then Andrew, at the goading of the First, [[spoiler:buries a ritual knife in his stomach]].
* HeelRealization: Begins when he realizes the exact nature of a [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil mind-controlled sex slave]].
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Wonders in Season 7 if the Scoobies will let him and Andrew hang out at their house.
%%* IJustWantToBeSpecial
%%* MauveShirt
* MartyStu: InUniverse in "Superstar," where Jonathan casts a [[RealityWarper reality-warping spell]] that makes him into a ridiculously multi-talented celebrity and hero. This episode even changes the TitleSequence, making it center on the newly Stu-ified Jonathan.
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Jonathan was never as evil as the other two of the Trio, he joined them because...well, because what nerd has not dreamed about becoming an EvilOverlord and being the arch-nemesis of the beautiful Slayer? He is constantly objecting to their more needlessly cruel ideas and distracts them when they begin to get sidetracked into random violence, and, since Buffy had helped him and saved his ass on more than one occasion, he is not particularly willing to kill or hurt her. When Katrina explains that brainwashing a person for sex is rape, [[HeelRealization he is visibly disturbed]], and when Andrew and Warren are happy that they have managed to get away with murder, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone he stares blankly forward and numbly mumbles agreement]]. At the end of their career, when he sees what power has revealed about Warren's true character, [[MookFaceTurn he actually turns on the Trio and tells Buffy how to defeat Warren]]. In Season 7, he makes a complete [[HeelFaceTurn turn]] and comes back to Sunnydale, having let go of the anger and depression that sprang from his youth, and hopes to redeem himself by helping Buffy stop the First, [[WhatYouAreInTheDark even if nobody cares about him or what he has become]]. Unfortunately, [[HeelFaceDoorSlam Andrew has a few things to say about that]].
* PromotedToOpeningTitles: As part of "Superstar," due to being a RealityWarper that episode.
%%* RedemptionEqualsDeath
* ShadowArchetype: What Xander might have become if he made a few wrong turns.
* SmokeOut: "Life Serial" and "Gone."
* SquishyWizard: Out the Trio, he is the most magically adept.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Him and Andrew.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: It does not matter that they tormented him in high school or that they have forgotten about him in the years since then, Jonathan is going to step up and be the hero for the town of Sunnydale because it is the right thing to do.
--> '''Jonathan:''' I'm serious, I really miss [high school]. Time goes by and everything drops away; all the cruelty, all the pain, all the humiliation, it all washes away. I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day, I miss the people who never knew I existed. I miss 'em all. I want to talk to them, y'know. I want to find out how they're doing, I want to know what's going on in their lives.\\
'''Andrew:''' You know what? They don't want to talk to you. All those people you just mentioned, not ''one'' of them is sitting around going "I wonder what Jonathan's up to right now?" Not ''one'' of them cares about ''you''.\\
'''Jonathan:''' Well, I still care about them. That's why I'm here.

!!Andrew Wells
->'''Played By:''' Tom Lenk
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-->''"I admit I went over to the Dark Side, but only to pick up a few things."''

Member of the Trio, and hopelessly nerdy. Skilled at summoning demons and making sci-fi references. Spends a few episodes in Season 7 as the Scoobies' prisoner before they start trusting him. Later becomes a Watcher in the Slayer Organization, running the Rome squad. After the destruction of the Seed of Wonder, he moves to San Francisco along with most of the other Scoobies.

* TwentyPercentMoreAwesome: When he shows up on ''Series/{{Angel}}'', Andrew boasts that he's become "82 percent more manly" than the last time Spike saw him.
* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: He has a pretty unique way of pronouncing "Vampire" and certain other words.
%%* {{Adorkable}}
* AltumVidetur: He displays a knowledge of Latin several times in the show and comics.
* AmbiguouslyGay: The actor who plays him is quite openly gay, and Creator/JossWhedon decided to toy with the notion. Lampshaded in "Life Serial."
-->'''Jonathan''': All right, now you have to hold hands.
-->'''Andrew''': With each other?
-->'''Warren''': Well, you know what homophobia ''really'' means about you, don't you?
** Taken UpToEleven in his ''Angel'' appearance (where he was flanked by two MsFanservice examples), and then again in the comics, which had him as unimpressed with [[GirlOnGirlIsHot walking in on two girls making out]] and implying that his ''Angel'' cameo was a feint.
%%* TheAtoner
* {{Badass}}: By the end of Season 8, Andrew has earned this title.
%%* ButtMonkey
%%* CameraFiend
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: To an extent.
%%* DelusionsOfEloquence
* FakeGuestStar: In Season 7.
* GenreSavvy
** Also GenreBlind: He's surprised at Warren betraying him, despite Warren's ChronicBackstabbingDisorder leading him to betray a girlfriend and Jonathan.
%%* HeelFaceTurn
* HeelRealization: Provokes an in-story TearJerker moment from him when he finally allows himself to realize just how cruel his betrayal of Jonathan was.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: The First makes him something of a priority that needs a quick killing.
* IgnoredEnamoredUnderling: To Warren.
* ItsAllMyFault: Takes the fact that Simone turned evil while he was her Watcher very hard, and is determined to find and stop her.
%%* IRejectYourReality
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Very heavily implied that he had a crush on Warren. Practically stated.
%%* KarmaHoudini
* MadScientist: Even with the Slayer army, he never stops experimenting with demon summoning and DNA, even breeding a dangerous demon back into existence.
* [[{{Mentors}} Mentor]]: To the Slayer squad in Rome.
* MustMakeAmends: What he spends most of Season 7 trying to do.
* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: Buffy, at one point, says, "My friends... My family... Andrew..."
* NoodleIncident: Summoning flying monkeys to ruin a production of ''RomeoAndJuliet''.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: [[spoiler:Killing Jonathan]].
* {{Omniglot}}: Good at speaking demon languages as well as summoning them.
* RememberTheNewGuy: Averted. He constantly has to remind others of his OffscreenMomentOfAwesome, which nobody remembers on their own.
* ReplacementFlatCharacter: To the Xander Harris of old.
* RunningGag: "Who?" "Tucker's brother."
* TheStoryteller: At several points in Seasons 7 and 8.
%%* SummonMagic
* SycophanticServant: To Warren.
* TookALevelInBadAss: During the final battle of Season 8 [[spoiler:in the hole in the ground formerly known as Sunnydale]], Andrew is seen killing several demons. He takes another level when he [[spoiler:drugs Buffy and puts her mind into a Buffybot he built so she can be protected]]. Naturally, Buffy and Spike [[WhatTheHellHero give him hell for it]].
* UnreliableNarrator: "Storyteller"
* WhatTheHellHero: In Season 9, Buffy and Spike give him complete and total hell after he [[spoiler:swaps Buffy's mind into a robot after roofieing her at a party, in order to protect her from an unknown BigBad that is after her. Without telling anyone else what he did. This leads to Buffy thinking she is pregnant due to limitations of the robot body, but discovers that she is a robot when her arm gets chopped off]]. Spike even threatens to kill Andrew if he doesn't fix the situation.
* YouLookFamiliar: Tom Lenk appeared in "Real Me" as Cyrus, one of Harmony's minions. She had trouble remembering his name, too.

[[folder:The First Evil]]
!!The First Evil
->'''Played By:''' Robia LaMorte, Cornelia Hayes O'Herlihy, Edward Edwards, Shane Barach, Adam Busch, Clare Kramer, George Hertzberg, Harry Groener, Juliet Landau, Mark Metcalf, Creator/SarahMichelleGellar, Azura Skye, Kristine Sutherland, Creator/JamesMarsters, Danny Strong, Amanda Fuller, K.D. Aubert, Lalaine, Carrie Southworth, Creator/NathanFillion

-->''"[[IronicEcho Into every generation, a Slayer is born. One girl in all the world. She alone will have the strength and skill to]]-- There's that word again! What you are, how you'll die: ''Alone''."''

The source of all evil. Can take the appearance of anyone who has died, including Buffy and any vampire. Incorporeal, relying on manipulation to achieve its ends. The BigBad for Season 7.

* ArcWords: "From beneath you, it devours."
%%* AsLongAsThereIsEvil
* AssimilationPlot: One of the goals of the First is to be capable of possessing mankind en masse.
* BadassBoast: Buffy is not impressed.
-->'''The First''': I'm not a demon, little girl. I am something you cannot 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.
-->'''Buffy''': [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu All right, I get it. You're evil. Do we have to chat about it all day?]]
* BigBad: Of Season 7. Worth noting that the First Evil can be described as ''[[SpellMyNameWithAThe The]]'' BigBad.
** BiggerBad
* BreakingSpeech: The other part of The First Evil's ''modus operandi''--to torment his victims until they [[BrainwashedAndCrazy do its bidding]], [[DrivenToMadness go mad]] or [[DrivenToSuicide kill themselves]]. This bites it in the ass when it accidentally gives Buffy the idea to bestow the Slayer power to the Potentials.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome / PutOnABus: It wasn't destroyed or trapped or anything like that, and is presumably still around, doing...whatever it does when it's not tormenting the good guys. Justified as it only had a very small window of becoming corporeal due to Buffy's resurrection and other events. It's alive but not as much of a (direct) threat.
* ContinuityCavalcade: A living one, as it assumes the form of each of the show's previous Big Bads.
%%* DeadpanSnarker
%%* DeadPersonImpersonation
* DoubleVision: The First's favorite form towards the end is Buffy, resulting in multiple scenes where Creator/SarahMichelleGellar is doing just this. It also appeared a lot as Spike. [[spoiler:Never did it as Giles, though.]]
%%* DreamWeaver
* EarlyBirdCameo: Sorta. ''Chaos Bleeds'' takes place after "Amends," but before Season 7.
* EldritchAbomination: It has no form because it is a concept--evil. It takes the forms of others because YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm.
%%* EnemyToAllLivingThings
* EvilTastesGood: "Choose a side. Our side. You know it's delicious." But, according to Willow, it's "kinda chalky."
* FauxAffablyEvil: Depending on who it happens to be at any given time.
* FinalBossPreview: The First seems like another MonsterOfTheWeek when it first appears in the third season, then shows up again in the seventh as the show's final BigBad.
* [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith A Form You Are Really, Really Not Comfortable With]]: Part of the First Evil's ''modus operandi''--appear as a deceased loved one that only you can see, especially one that you are deeply and painfully in mourning of, and then MindScrew you with {{Breaking Speech}}es until it has tormented you until you either [[BrainwashedAndCrazy do its bidding]], [[DrivenToMadness go mad]] or [[DrivenToSuicide kill yourself]].
* FusionDance: Does one with Caleb.
%%* {{Gaslighting}}
%%* GenericDoomsdayVillain
%%* GodOfEvil
* IntangibleMan: Eventually lets slip that its real motivation is to assemble a flesh-and-blood body of its own.
* {{Irony}}: The First Evil is the last BigBad of the (television) series.
%%* LargeHam
%%* MadeOfEvil
%%* ManipulativeBastard
* MindRape: It does this a lot, what with being incorporeal.
* {{Narcissist}}: "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--" Doesn't look like modesty is this thing's strength.
* NonActionBigBad: With being incorporeal and all, it must resort to [[TheDragon Caleb]] and its EliteMooks, the Harbingers, to get much of anything done.
* OhCrap: [[spoiler:When Buffy, who it was just taunting, gets up from a supposedly mortal wound during the FinalBattle.]]
* OrcusOnHisThrone: For most of the season, it doesn't do much.
* PerceptionFilter: It can pick and choose who sees and hears it.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Possessed by its briefly-seen true form.
%%* ShapeshifterGuiltTrip
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: '''The''' First Evil.
* TheTeam: Assembles one (consisting of characters from its Wishverse-inspired "pet" universe) in the game ''Chaos Bleeds''. Members include Adam, Kakistos, Ripper (Evil Giles), Anyanka and Vampire Tara.
%%* TheTropeWithoutATitle
%%* UltimateEvil
%%* VaguenessIsComing
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: In an interesting twist on this trope, The First implies that it doesn't merely make itself look like the person it impersonates, it actually ''becomes'' them, at least partially. (When it appears to Faith as Mayor Wilkins, it says something to the effect of "I am The First Evil, but I am also the man himself.")
%%* WeAreEverywhere
* WeCanRuleTogether: Tries this on Andrew and Spike.

[[folder:Twilight]]
!!Twilight

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->''"Look around you. The Queen is dead. Long live me."''

A mysterious masked villain who leads an alliance of Buffy's old enemies and the US military against the new army of Slayers that Buffy created at the end of Season 7. He has SuperStrength and {{Flight}}, and can be summoned by anyone who is marked with his symbol. Turns out he's actually [[spoiler:Angel, who took the Twilight identity to take command of those who would target the Slayers and manipulate them into keeping the body count as low as possible]].

However, Twilight also turned out to be the name of a sentient dimension that [[spoiler:manipulated Angel into giving birth to itself with the help of Buffy, and attempts to steal the Seed of Wonder from underneath Sunnydale, which would end the Earth dimension and make Twilight the most powerful dimension]].

!!!Tropes that apply to the person Twilight (a.k.a. [[spoiler:Angel]])
%%* BadassLongcoat
%%* BadBoss
%%* BatmanGambit
%%* [[spoiler:BrainwashedAndCrazy]]
%%* TheChessmaster
%%* DeadpanSnarker
* DramaticUnmask: His neck was just itchy.
* GodGuise: How he tricks some of his followers into fighting for him.
%%* HiddenVillain
* {{Hypocrite}}: He is trying to bring about the end of magic, but employs several witches, wizards and demons alongside the military to do so. This is [[LampshadeHanging pointed out]] by one of the soldiers under his command. [[spoiler:There is a reason for this. Angel is bringing all of the Slayer Organization's enemies together to slow them down and take them out]].
%%* [[spoiler:LivingBodysuit]]
%%* [[spoiler:TheMole]]
%%* MysteriousWatcher
* NecessarilyEvil: [[spoiler:Everything he does is to distract and hold back all the forces planning to attack the Slayer Organization]].

* ReligionOfEvil: Some of his followers worship him as a god.
* SurroundedByIdiots: His CoDragons include Warren and Amy, and while they are not idiots, their bickering causes him a lot of headaches and trouble, and makes him {{Facepalm}} a few times.
%%* [[spoiler:UnwittingPawn]]
%%* VillainWithGoodPublicity
%%* VisionaryVillain
* WeHaveReserves: When the three wrathful goddesses are unleashed by the Slayer army against Twilight's soldiers, the general immediately wants to retreat. Twilight tells him no, since he wants to see what the goddesses will do to the soldiers.

!!!Tropes that apply to the sentient dimension Twilight
%%* AnotherDimension
%%* AntagonisticOffspring
* ArcWords: [[spoiler:First appears in winged lion form in Buffy's nightmares, saying]] "The Queen is Dead, Long Live the Queen." It first seems to mean Genevieve Savidge's attempt to replace Buffy as lead Slayer, but is actually referring to [[spoiler:Twilight replacing the current universe]].
* BigBad: Of Season 8.
%%* CelestialBody
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:Does this to Angel.]]
%%* DimensionLord
%%* EldritchAbomination
%%* EldritchLocation
%%* FlamingHair
* GeniusLoci: A sentient dimension.
* LukeYouAreMyFather: [[spoiler:To Buffy and Angel.]]
* MakeWayForTheNewVillains: [[spoiler:Killed the Master and Ethan Rayne by proxy.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler:It manipulates its own birth]].
* MixAndMatchCritters: [[spoiler:Its form in our dimension is a winged lion. The design team refers to this as a "gryphon," although that's not quite accurate, as a gryphon has an eagle's head]].
%%* OmnicidalManiac
* ParentalAbandonment: [[spoiler:Twilight is a bit upset by the fact that Angel and Buffy abandoned it to return to their own dimension]].
%%* PlayingBothSides
* UltimateLifeForm: Considers itself this.

[[folder:Simone]]
!!Simone Doffler
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->''"Come back?! Haven't you heard? We're the bad guys now. People think vamps are cool and Slayers are the threat. Difference between you and me? I am a threat."''

A rogue Slayer who broke off from Buffy's organization and started her own, believing that Slayers are better than other humans and that they should rule over them, no matter the cost. She also really likes guns. Simone wages a campaign against Buffy in San Francisco, blaming her for the hundreds of Slayers killed during the Twilight crisis and for not attempting to secure domination over humans--before teaming up with Severin.

!!Tropes that apply to Simone Doffler

* AxCrazy: Partially because she is psychotically obsessed with killing Buffy. Remember when Faith was like that? Simone's ''worse''.
* {{Badass}}: She can go toe-to-toe with Buffy, quick to use guns when she won't, and manipulative enough to [[spoiler:make Xander betray Buffy to try and save Dawn]].
* [[BewareTheSuperman Beware The Slayer]]: Or rather, ''Vampire'' Slayer, as in Slaypire, her goal was to turn Slayers into vampires.
* BigBadDuumvirate: With Severin in Season 9.
* BloodKnight: When she didn't like the stance against guns, she starts by going rogue, arming up and developing an obsession with killing Buffy, and she gets worse from there.
* BodyHorror: Once Simone [[spoiler: is sired by Maloker (the progenitor vampire/Old One), her face becomes permanently locked in Vamp Mode. And unlike other vampires (whose game faces range from feline-esque to reptilian), she becomes emaciated and pale, with a face like a skeletal vampire bat.]]
* TheChessmaster: Has shades of this in Season 9, as she acts against Buffy through [[UnwittingPawn Unwitting Pawns]] she manages to twist around.
%%* CoolShades
* CurbStompBattle: After becoming a Slaypire, she pounds Buffy in a straight-up fight.
%%* DangerousDeserter
%%* DelinquentHair
* DisproportionateRetribution: Wants to torture and kill Andrew just because he annoyed her when he was her Watcher.
%%* FaceHeelTurn
* ForTheEvulz: After Slayers are outed and vilified by Harmony, Simone thrives on the fear and hate she gets from ordinary humans, and proceeds to commit crimes and acts of terrorism that only further cement Buffy and her crew's [[HeroWithBadPublicity bad image]].
* {{Homage}}: Visually strongly based on ComicBook/TankGirl. This may be a conscious in-canon fashion influence on her part.
* {{Hypocrite}}: She blames Buffy for all the Slayers killed during the Twilight crisis, but [[spoiler:is feeding her own loyal Slayers to Zompires, trying to find a way for them to be turned but still have their mind so '''she''' can become one and kill Buffy]].
* KickTheDog: Beats up an old woman who had given her food and shelter when she protested Simone and her gang taking over her hometown.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:Her killing of the General. Kinda hard to feel sympathetic for a guy who just spent the series trying to wipe out the Slayer army]].
* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal: After she becomes a Slaypire, Buffy graphically stakes her with the Scythe. She will not be missed.]]
%%* TheLadette
* LooksLikeOrlok: Once [[spoiler: Maloker sires her, she looks just like a female Count Orlok (with an even scarier NightmareFace, if that's possible).]]
* [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bitch]]: She is first seen in Season 9 driving a van loaded with guns, before the focus shifts to a former VampireVannabe who had been killing vamps then sets his sights on Buffy because of her NiceJobBreakingItHero actions. To cut a very long story short: the police shoot him, he turns out to have survived in the hospital where we discover Simone had sent him. She manipulates the AI personality Andrew placed into [[spoiler:the real Buffy's body into fighting the real Buffy, who was in a robot body]], and she manipulates Xander into helping her to save Dawn's life.
* MoreDakka: She constantly wants bigger and better weapons.
* NightmareFace: Her game face [[spoiler: once she's turned. Her eyes are sunken and red, and it gives the impression of a starving vampire bat.]]
* OhCrap: When Buffy shoots the lock on the Ragna Demon's cage, and locks her and her gang in a room with it.
%%* TheQuincyPunk
* ReassignmentBackfire: Rona thought transferring Simone from Chicago to Rome would soften her up. Instead, Andrew annoyed her so much she went rogue.
%%* TheSocialDarwinist
%%* SuperStrength
* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: A villain-on-villain example, when she [[spoiler:kills The General]].
* TakeOverTheWorld: Her stated goal to Buffy. Started by taking over an island near Italy and kicking everyone off of it, beating up an old woman who had given her food and shelter while doing so.
%%* TriggerHappy
* [[spoiler:VampireVannabe: A big part of her plan is to become a vampire with Slayer powers to kill Buffy.]]
* VillainHasAPoint: The Scoobies really have no actual response as to why Slayers shouldn't use guns. Part of her plot was to restore the Seed of Wonder. She kinda succeeds, accomplishing what Willow set out to do. [[spoiler:And saving Dawn in the process]].
%%* [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair You Gotta Have Pink Hair]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Severin/The Siphon]]
A mysterious young man and vampire hunter, Severin is a figure in prophecy known as the Siphon. As a result, he wields the power to drain the mystical energy and powers of any supernatural being he touches, either [[BroughtDownToNormal bringing them down to normal]] or killing them outright.

%%* BattleAura
* ChekhovsGunman: He is seen in one panel in the last issue of Season 8.
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Based on Creator/JamesMcAvoy, specifically from ''Film/XMenFirstClass''.
%%* CoolShades
* TheDragon: To Simone.
* TheDreaded: Is the prophecied Siphon, whose coming had long been feared among the magical community.
* EnergyAbsorption / MagicEater: He can drain the mystical energy from anything supernatural he touches, and gets stronger every time he does.
* EvilAllAlong: Granted, he only appears to be good for an issue and a half before TheReveal.
%%* HealingFactor
* [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice]]: [[spoiler:In the final issues of Season 9, he sacrifices himself to help create a new Seed of Wonder and restore magic to Earth.]]
%%* ManOfWealthAndTaste
* PowerCopying: [[spoiler:Gains Illyria's power over time and space.]]
%%* SlasherSmile
* SlidingScaleOfAntiVillains: Severin is a Type II. He wants to take Buffy's power, blaming her for newly-turned vampires becoming zompires (specifically his girlfriend) after the Seed of Wonder was broken.
%%* TragicVillain
%%* VampireVannabe
* WellIntentionedExtremist: He plans to use the TimeTravel powers he [[MegaManning Mega-Manned]] from Illyria to go back in time and stop the Twilight crisis from ever happening, thus stopping the rise of zompires and the end of magic. The problem is, doing so would cause an instability in space-time that would rip reality itself apart.

!Humans

[[folder:Ethan]]
!!Ethan Rayne
->'''Played By:''' Creator/RobinSachs
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/EthanRayne_1888.png]]

An old friend of Giles', and a chaos-worshipping sorcerer.
----
%%* AffablyEvil
* BigBadDuumvirate: With The First Evil in ''VideoGame/ChaosBleeds''; an odd example, as the Scoobies are technically working with him, as he chose them to be his competitors in a contest he challenged The First Evil to.
%%* TheBarnum
%%* DeadpanSnarker
%%* DirtyCoward
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:In Season 8.]]

* EvilCounterpart: To Giles.
* EvilGloating: Acknowledges that it's generally a bad idea, but he can't seem to help himself.
%%* EvilSorcerer
%%* ForgottenFriendNewFoe
%%* ForTheEvulz
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:He knew he was going to die when he helped Buffy.]]
* LaughablyEvil: When Ethan shows up, complete chaos ensues. Wacky, hilarious chaos. Even ''Spike'' can't help but be impressed by his antics.
%%* MyNaymeIs
%%* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast
%%* OrderVersusChaos
* PsychoForHire: In "Band Candy."
* PutOnABus: [[MundaneSolution Being arrested]].
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:His final act in life is helping Buffy.]]
%%* SquishyWizard

[[folder:Prof. Walsh]]
!!Professor Maggie Walsh
->'''Played By:''' Lindsay Crouse
->''Almost time to wake up, Adam. And take your first look at the world.''

Head of The Initiative and Buffy's psych professor.
----
* DiscOneFinalBoss: Season 4.
* EvilMentor: To Riley.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Murdered by Adam, her favorite creation.
%%* JerkassTeacher
%%* MadScientist
* MotherlyScientist: Head scientist of the Initiative and creator of Adam.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Adam brought her back as little more than one, to help with his EvilPlan.
* ParentalSubstitute: Surrogate mother to Riley and Adam; the latter even refers to her as "mother."
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: She was intended to be the season's BigBad, but Lindsay Crouse had other commitments so Adam was hastily substituted.
* RedBaron: The Evil Bitch Monster of Death!
%%* SternTeacher
* YouGotSpunk: Her response to Buffy telling her off in "The Initiative" is "I like her."
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Forrest]]
!!Forrest Gates
->'''Played By:''' Leonard Roberts
->''We take care of our own.''

Riley's best friend and second-in-command in the Initiative, who gets very jealous of Buffy's influence. Killed and re-animated by Adam near the end of the season.
----
* BackFromTheDead: Thanks to Adam.
* BaldOfEvil: After being transformed.
* BlackBestFriend: Riley's
%%* DeadpanSnarker
* DeathByLookingUp: He sees too late that Riley threw him a tank of flammable gas.
* DegradedBoss: His cyborg self is reduced to a type of {{mook}} in the game ''Chaos Bleeds''.
* TheDragon: To Adam in the Season 4 finale.
* EvilCounterpart: To Riley, remaining utterly loyal to the Initiative. This doesn't end well for him.
* EyeScream: Spike put out one of Forrest's eyes with a [[CigaretteBurns cigarette]].
* FaceHeelTurn: He was more KnightTemplar when he was still a "good guy."
* FantasticRacism: As he puts it:
-->'''Forrest''': I see a demon, it dies. End of story.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Literally.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: How he was killed by Adam.
%%* {{Jerkass}}
* KnightTemplar: With a bit of FantasticRacism thrown in.
%%* MixAndMatchMan
* PlayingWithSyringes: Adam turns him into a duplicate of himself.
%%* ReforgedIntoAMinion
* SuperSerum: Initially.
%%* SuperSoldier
* SuperStrength: Pre- and post-transformation.
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Graham.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Amy]]
!!Amy Madison
->'''Played By:''' Elizabeth Anne Allen

Fellow student at Sunnydale High, and a witch. Introduced in Season 1 when her mother [[FreakyFridayFlip switched bodies with her]] to relive her glory days as a cheerleader. Thanks to Buffy's help, the spell was reversed and her mother [[HoistByHisOwnPetard got a spell rebounded on her that trapped her in a cheerleading trophy]]. Amy continued her school life since then with occasional run-ins with the Scoobies. She turned herself into a rat in Season 3, and was turned back by Willow in Season 6. Notable for appearing in one episode per season of the first four seasons. Has an expanded role in the comics.
----
* AndIMustScream: Being stuck as a rat for several years. Despite how much that sucked, she kept the cage.
* {{Animorphism}}: Can turn people into rats. Including herself, which probably isn't the best idea as it takes years before anyone turns her back. In Season 8, she has gotten a lot better at controlling her magic and can become a cat, as well as cast spells while in animal form.
* BigNo: [[spoiler:Combined with a rather twisted AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther, Amy lets out one of these when the Seed of Wonder is destroyed and she loses her powers, causing Warren to fall apart in front of her eyes, since he had only been held together by her magic.]]
%%* BlackMage
* CoDragons: To Twilight with Warren and The General in Season 8.
* [[spoiler:DePower]]: [[spoiler:With the destruction of the Seed of Wonder]].
* DrFeelgood: The root of Willow's 'relapse' into her magic habit.
* EvilCounterpart: Mainly to Willow, but also to Tara; Tara advised Willow to slow down on the magic while Amy encouraged her addiction.
%%* EvilFormerFriend
%%* [[EvilSorcerer Evil Sorceress]]
%%* FaceHeelTurn
* {{Flight}}: In Season 8.
* GrandTheftMe: Her introduction.
%%* HotWitch
* ImAHumanitarian: How she and Warren survived under the Sunnydale sinkhole.
* InTheBlood: Implied to be the source of her raw magical power.
%%* KarmaHoudini
* {{Magitek}}: Provided by the Twilight Group to try and give Amy an advantage against Willow.
%%* MommyIssues
* MyBelovedSmother: Has/had one.
* {{Necromancer}}: She creates an army of zombies to attack the Slayer Organization.
* NotSoDifferent: When a spell went off showing an individual's worst fears, hers was shown to be her mother.
%%* NotSoHarmlessVillain
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: During the [[spoiler:Battle in Sunnydale during the Twilight crisis, she and Warren escape Spike's airship and run away. She considers going back to help and see if they can fake a HeelFaceTurn, but Warren shoots down the idea since he knew Willow would never allow them to join]].
%%* {{Teleportation}}
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Rack]]
!!Rack
->'''Played By:''' Creator/JeffKober

An evil warlock from Sunnydale, one infamous for supplying a pure yet addictive kind of magic.
----
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:A scumbag through and through.
* DidntSeeThatComing: [[spoiler:He saw Willow coming, but he didn't see that she would drain him entirely of his magic.]]
%%* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything
* FantasticDrug: The type of magic he supplies.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Caleb]]
!!Caleb
->'''Played By:''' Creator/NathanFillion
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->''Back before I met you, there was this choir girl in Knoxville I used to give singing lessons to. She even screamed on-key.''

Former priest and physical vessel for The First Evil.
----
* BadassPreacher: Of a ReligionOfEvil.
%%* CorruptHick
* CurbStompBattle: His first battle with the main cast.
* TheDragon: The First Evil's right hand man.
** DragonInChief: Far more threatening than his boss.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Buffy cut him in half. [[GroinAttack From the groin upwards]].
* FusionDance: Does one with The First.
* AGlassOfChianti: Heck, his evil lair ''is'' a wine cellar!
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Got bisected. Ouch.
* TheHeavy: The First is intangible, which means all the physical jobs belong to Caleb.
* HeManWomanHater: Is a raging misogynist who sees all women as corrupt whores, frequently voicing his hatred of and disgust for women. He considers Buffy and the other Slayers to be a blasphemy because they are girls with SuperStrength.
%%* HolierThanThou
* ImplacableMan: After [[PhysicalGod Glory]], he's the most physically powerful villain the gang faces.
%%* LargeHam
%%* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain
* PsychoSupporter: Of the First, whom he basically sees as God.
* SerialKiller: Pre-series.
* SexyPriest: In the opinion of some.
* ShoutOut: To Robert Mitchum in ''Film/TheNightOfTheHunter''.
* SinisterMinister: Of the "defrocked Catholic priest" variety.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ampata]]
!!Ampata, ie, "Inca Mummy Girl"

A Season 2 villain. Her people sacrificed her to their heathen god but came back after one of Buffy's classmates broke the seal that kept her dead.
----
* AliensSpeakingEnglish: She learned the language after all the years that she was toured all over the country.
* AndIMustScream: She was imprisoned in her own corpse.
%%* AntiVillain
%%* TheChosenOne
* DeadPersonImpersonation: "Ampata" was the foreign exchange student that was supposed to stay with Buffy for two weeks.
* EvilCounterpart: To Buffy.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: To a terrifying extent.
%%* SealedEvilInACan
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Voll]]
!!General Voll

The original leader of the U.S. military forces aligned with Twilight.
----
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Dropped and never mentioned or seen. WordOfGod states that the writers forgot about him when replacing him with the second General.
* CoDragons: With Amy and Warren.
%%* FourStarBadass
* TheFundamentalist: Even more so than his successor.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Has the Twilight symbol carved all over his chest.
%%* KnightTemplar
%%* WellIntentionedExtremist
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Roden]]
!!Roden

A Irish warlock and a master of TheDarkArts who joined Twilight's cause in an attempt to survive the end of magic, recruiting Genevieve Savidge to kill all the other Slayers.
----
* ArcVillain: For ''No Future For You''.
* {{Badass}}
** PopCulturedBadass: He references PinkFloyd's "Another Brick in the Wall Part 2", saying as wise man once said that you can't have any pudding if you don't have your meat.
%%* BlackEyesOfEvil
%%* BlackMagic
%%* LesCollaborateurs
%%* DishingOutDirt
* TheDragon: To Genevieve...
** DragonWithAnAgenda: ...except he really isn't loyal to her and is just using her to further his own goals.
* EvilCounterpart: To Giles.
%%* EvilGloating
* EvilMentor: To Genevieve.
* EvilRedhead: Has red hair.
%%* EvilSorcerer
%%* {{Flight}}
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Giles uses a spell from Roden's spell book to kill him.]]
* MadeOfIron: Survives getting stabbed in the back with a pair of garden scissors.
%%* NighInvulnerability
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Delivers one to Faith.
%%* SmugSnake
* StatingTheSimpleSolution: Begs Genevive to kill Faith, [[GenreSavvy believing she is a threat]], but she ignores him.
%%* TreacherousAdvisor
* [[spoiler:UnwittingPawn: In Twilight's real grand scheme.]]
* WeCanRuleTogether: [[spoiler:After Faith kills Genevieve, Roden tries to convince her to replace her in his plan to kill Buffy and survive the End of Magic]].
* [[spoiler:YourHeadASplode: Thanks to Giles.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The General]]
!!The General

The second leader of the US military forces working with Twilight against the Slayer Organization.
----
* AntiVillain: In between Type III and Type IV.
%%* {{Badass}}
%%** FourStarBadass
* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:Via Simone]].
* CoDragons: To Twilight with Amy and Warren in Season 8.
* EnemyMine: Very reluctantly works with the Slayers to fight the invading demon armies.
* {{Irony}}: He ruined his career by going after and destroying the Slayer Organization, believing them to be a threat to world peace, [[spoiler:but was killed by Simone Doffler, a rogue Slayer that he didn't go after who really is a threat to the world]].
%%* KnightTemplar
%%* NoNameGiven
* PetTheDog: Allowing Dawn to get medical treatment during the [[spoiler:battle against the demons in the Sunnydale sinkhole]].
%%* {{Retirony}}
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: "The General. Name classified. Like others, works for Twilight. Also craves cheese."
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Thinks that the Slayer Organization really is a threat to world peace.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Genevieve]]
!!Lady Genevieve Savidge
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->''"Buffy has forced our kind to be the serfs of this world, when we should have been lording over the masses."''

A rich British Slayer and daughter of a powerful noble, she is recruited by Roden to kill Buffy and take over the Slayer Organization in order to impose their rule on the world. She is befriended by an [[TheMole undercover Faith]], who [[spoiler:foils her attempt to kill Buffy and is then accidentally killed by Faith as she attempts to redeem her]].
----
%%* AristocratsAreEvil
%%* AnAxeToGrind
%%* {{Badass}}
* BadDreams: She is plagued by [[DreamingOfThingsToCome prophetic dreams]] and the memories of past Slayers and their deaths. One of the reasons she wants to kill Buffy is because Roden lied and told her the dreams would end when Buffy was dead.
* BareYourMidriff: Several of her outfits.
* BathtubBonding: With Faith.
%%* [[BewareTheSuperman Beware The Slayer]]
* BigBadWannabe: She is a strong Slayer who puts together a credible plan to kill Buffy, but she is easily bested in battle by Buffy and was an UnwittingPawn for Twilight in the first place.
%%* [[spoiler:BloodFromTheMouth]]
%%* BlueBlood
%%* DarkActionGirl
* DartboardOfHate: Has a picture of Buffy in a closet with several knives thrown into it.
* DrivenByEnvy: Genevieve can't believe Buffy, a colonial commoner, is the leader of the Slayers and wants to kill her to take over.
%%* EvilBrit
* FriendlessBackground: Due to being homeschooled.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: She thinks that Roden actually cares for her.
* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: Other Slayers, as training to kill Buffy.
* InSeriesNickname: "Gigi"
%%* MeaningfulName
%%* MsFanservice
%%* ParentalNeglect
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Does not consider anyone who is not nobility to be worth her time, and considers anyone from the "colonies" to be worth even less.
* PrepareToDie: Says this in a really fancy way to Buffy.
%%* TheResenter
%%* RoyalBrat
%%* SuperStrength
* UnwittingPawn: To both Twilight and Roden.
* VillainousBreakdown: Suffers one after discovering that [[TheMole "Hope"]] is not who she claimed to be and she fails to kill Buffy.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: What she thinks she is, planning to kill a "misguided" Buffy and install Slayers as leaders of a corrupt world.
[[/folder]]

!Vampires

[[folder:Amilyn]]
!!Amilyn
->'''Played By:''' Creator/PaulReubens

-->''"You ripped my jacket... Kill him a lot."''

One of Lothos's minions. Since he appears in the movie and origin comic, he isn't the most famous vampire in the bunch.

* AlmostDeadGuy: Amilyn [[LargeHam campily milks his death scene]] for almost a minute. He's still going during the credits.
* AnArmAndALeg: Pike takes one of his arms.
* CastingGag: Reubens had just had a very public scandal when he was cast, and his mugshot was infamously miles away from his previous, clean-cut image. Amilyn's appearance is almost identical to the mugshot.
* DeathIsDramatic: Mocked thoroughly.
* TheDragon: To Lothos.
* DisproportionateRetribution: He tries to kill Oliver Pike for ruining his jacket. (Of course, Amilyn has also lost his arm, but he doesn't seem to care about that.)
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Arguably the most popular character of the film, due again to his death scene.
* HandicappedBadass: He continues serving Lothos despite the loss of his arm.
* NotQuiteDead: PlayedForLaughs in TheStinger of the movie; he's still lying down dying.
* SkewedPriorities: Pike cuts off his arm, and his main concern is his ruined jacket.

[[folder:Darla]]
!!Darla
->'''Played By:''' Creator/JulieBenz

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-->''"So many body parts, so few bullets. Let's begin with the kneecaps. No fun dancing without them."''

The vampire who sired Angel. Was killed by him in ''Buffy'' Season 1 before re-appearing on ''Series/{{Angel}}''.

%%* AscendedExtra
* TheBaroness: Sexpot version.
* BiTheWay: With Drusilla and the Immortal.
* BlondesAreEvil: Darla is both blonde and a villainess.
* CatholicSchoolgirlsRule: Her gimmick in 1997.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In very early episodes, Darla came across as a bit of a loser; whiny, cowardly, not particularly smart or capable, and seemingly not even all that important in the Master's hierarchy (Luke, for one, clearly outranked her). It was only in the sixth episode ("Angel") that she became more like the figure we know.
* CombatPragmatist: At one point she went out expecting to fight the Slayer. She ''pulled two guns on her''.
* CoyGirlishFlirtPose: Good for hiding GunsAkimbo behind your back.
* DaddysLittleVillain: If you remember that The Master is her sire.
%%* DarkActionGirl
* DecoyDamsel: In the [[EstablishingSeriesMoment very first scene]] of the show.
* TheDragon: The Master's.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Averted. Her voice is noticeably higher and softer than the other characters, even the female ones.
%%* FemmeFatale
* FluffyTheTerrible: ''Darla'' is such an sweet-sounding name.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Melancholic (in Angelus' old vampire gang).
* GunsAkimbo: In her final appearance.
* HighClassCallGirl: Implied to have been one when alive.
* HolyBurnsEvil: When Willow tosses some holy water into her face.
* MarshmallowHell: Put Liam/Angel in it when she sired him.
* NewOldFlame: To Angel.
%%* PsychoticSmirk
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: She stakes herself in order to allow Connor, the "only good thing" she and Angel ever did together, to be born.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Seemingly the Master's only female minion, or at least the only non-background one.
* TooKinkyToTorture: In episode 7:
-->You're (Angel) angry, that's good. You're hurting me; that's good, too.
%%* TheVamp

[[folder:Harmony]]
!!Harmony Kendall
->'''Played By:''' Mercedes [=McNab=]

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-->''"Harmony, when you tried to be head cheerleader, you were bad. When you tried to chair the Homecoming Committee, you were ''really'' bad. But when you try to be bad...you suck."''
-->--Buffy

A member of Cordelia's high-school posse, Harmony is turned into a vampire after graduation. Upon moving to LA, she seeks out Cordelia once more, but her vampire instincts means it's not long before she tries to kill Cordelia and the rest of the Angel Investigations crew. At some point after this, she gets a job at Wolfram & Hart, and when Angel takes over the firm, she's picked as his secretary. She's still evil, but thankfully, she's very bad at it.

%%* {{Adorkable}}
%%* AffablyEvil
* AllGirlsLikePonies: As a vampire, her passion for unicorn figurines has not diminished.
* AlphaBitch: Attempted to takeover Cordelia's position as this. It didn't really work out.
* AscendedExtra: Harmony was never popular enough in either series to be an EnsembleDarkhorse, but she was eventually promoted to title credits in the fifth season. Mercedes [=McNab=] as Harmony had the longest run of any actor in the ''Buffy''/''Angel'' series, having appeared in both the original, unaired pilot episode for ''[[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]]'' (which didn't include Angel), and the final ''Angel'' episode.
* BlondesAreEvil: Harmony is a blonde villainess.
* BrainlessBeauty: Harmony's pretty but ''painfully'' airheaded.
* BullyingADragon: Joined Cordelia in picking on and insulting Buffy despite both girls knowing that she burned her last high school's gym down.
* ButtMonkey: She just can't do anything right.
* CelebCrush: "No threesomes! Unless it's [[AThreesomeIsHot boy, boy, girl]]. Or Creator/CharlizeTheron."
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: She's pretty terrible at it, though, and most everyone sees it coming. Angel lampshades it in the final episode.
* ContractualGenreBlindness: In "Real Me," when Harmony and her minions kidnap Dawn as bait to lure Buffy into a trap, she repeated insists that they simply leave Dawn be until Buffy showed up. Eventually, her own minions turn on her and decide to simply eat Dawn and kill Harmony, but Buffy shows up at that moment, and mass vampire death ensues.
* ADayInTheLimelight: "Harm's Way"
* DumbBlonde
-->'''Spike''': Keep it simple, Harm. It suits you.
* EvilCounterpart: To Cordelia.
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: "I ''am'' a villain, Spike." (''starts to cough uncontrollably'')
* HarmlessVillain: She is much too brainless to present a threat.
** NotSoHarmlessVillain: During Season 8 where she exposes vampires to the world, becomes an instant celebrity, manages to convince the general populace that Slayers are Neo-Nazis to her kind and ''kills'' a Slayer on live TV. All this from the same supposedly brainless vampire that both Buffy and Angel refused to kill multiple times.
* HeelFaceDoorSlam: She seemed to have gotten nicer during the days leading up to high school graduation. Then, she got turned into a vamp.
** Seemed to be getting better in LA, particularly after getting hired on to Wolfram & Hart and Spike returned. Then, she betrayed Angel. Also the above NotSoHarmlessVillain moment.
* HeelFaceMole: She joins, betrays and rejoins Angel's team, against his strong oppositions. And then she betrays him again. All those resisted urges to stake her, to no good end!
-->'''Gunn:''' (''irritated'') Don't we kill 'em anymore?
** IFightForTheStrongestSide: Inverted more than once. Harmony is in Angel's employ for less than a day before defecting to a vampire cult that she was ''supposed'' to be investigating. Three years later, she's back working for Angel again--but only after he's become Wolfram & Hart's CEO. [[spoiler:Harmony betrays Angel]] at the earliest opportunity (again) by bedding [[spoiler:Hamilton]], who is incidentally higher on the totem pole than Angel is.
* HollywoodToneDeaf: Murdering "[[BarbraStreisand The Way We Were]]" onstage at Cartas.
* IgnoredEpiphany: Fondly remembers high school, and desperately wishes to be accepted by friends that way again. Unfortunately, Harmony self-sabotages every friendship she has due to being StupidEvil.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: She really does try her best to be Spike's perfect girlfriend or Angel's efficient secretary, but neither appreciate her efforts.
* KarmaHoudini: Especially in Season 8. She outs the existence of vampires, becoming a worldwide celebrity and making vampires seem like good guys while the Slayer Organization was made out to be a Nazi-like group attempting to destroy the misunderstood demonkind. But because of Harmony's status, Buffy orders her army not to try and kill her, out of fear of making her a martyr, which essentially gives her a free pass to do whatever she wants.
%%* LovableTraitor
* LowerDeckEpisode: "Harm's Way"
* MandatoryLine: Usually by highlighting her total stupidity.
* MeaningfulName: Subverted the second she starts singing; Lorne actually takes to calling her "my little cacophony" for a while, considering it more appropriate. Though Wesley does note her nickname "Harm" to be pretty fitting.
* MistakenForGay: She was actually trying to explain that she had become a vampire. Cordelia got confused.
* NotHelpingYourCase: Harmony fails a blood screening in "Harm's Way" and dumps half the company in a maintenance closet as she tries to clear her name.
%%* PerkyFemaleMinion
%%* PinkMeansFeminine
* PromotionToOpeningTitles: Though she rarely ventured outside of {{Garfunkel}} territory. This was indeed intentional, as well as lampshaded.
* PunnyName: '''Harm'''ony. Wesley [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it when [[BerserkButton she uses a page ripped out of one of his antique books to wrap up her bubble gum]].
* ReplacementFlatCharacter: WordOfGod states that Harmony is intended as "Cordelia ''without'' the life lessons."
* SexySecretary: In Season 5.
* ShakingTheRump: We get a [[MaleGaze good look]] in the ''Series/{{Angel}}'' episode "Harm's Way". Lampshaded when she breaks up with Spike in BTVS "Crush" -- she decides to back away so he won't get anything pleasant from the experience.
* StaircaseTumble: How Marcie tried to kill her in "Out of Mind, Out of Sight."
* StupidEvil: Tries to convince people she's not evil, even as she's betraying them to their faces.
* SuperLoser: Super-powered vampire whose skull probably contains nothing but dust bunnies.
* TookALevelInBadass: In "Harm's Way," in which she stops a war between two demon races and finds and stakes the vampire who set her up for murder.
* UnholyMatrimony: With [[spoiler:Hamilton]].
* UnknownRival: Started thinking she was this in Season 5.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: She killed a Slayer live on television, and ''still'' got to go on Anderson Cooper and Larry King to talk about how evil Slayers were.
* WomanScorned: In "Pangs" (scares Spike off with a stake) and "Crush" (actually tries to kill him).
* YouGetMeCoffee: Or in this case, blood served in a mug which says "#1 Boss."
-->The secret ingredient is otter!

[[folder:Drusilla]]
!!Drusilla Keeble
->'''Played By:''' Creator/JulietLandau

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->''"We're going to destroy the world. Want to come?"''

A creepy cockney vampire who sired Spike in 1880. Formerly a chaste Catholic girl, cursed with "the sight"--visions of the future. Spotted by Angelus during his heyday, he took a liking to her and set about tormenting her and killing her entire family. Then, on the day she was to become a nun, he slaughtered the convent and turned her into a vampire. Certifiably insane, Drusilla has an almost child-like demeanor, hiding how extremely dangerous she is.

* {{Adorkable}}: When happy or excited, which usually occurs when committing murder or torture.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Quickly drops Spike for Angelus. [[FridgeBrilliance Drusilla is often compared to a sexual abuse victim]], drawn to her powerful abusive 'father' over her caring boyfriend who was (at the time) too weak to protect her.
* AxCrazy: Drusilla is only turned after she finally loses her mind to Angelus' torments, when she is almost incoherent and can barely make sense of what was going on in front of her. Giving her fangs, claws, and the drive to torture, eat, and kill people only made the situation worse for everyone. The years do not appear to have improved her mental health ''or'' diminished her impulse to destroy. At all.
* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: And also very, ''very'' unhinged.
* BigBadDuumvirate: With Spike, then Angelus, and then Darla.
* BiTheWay [=/=] DepravedBisexual: Is ''very'' strongly implied to have had a lesbian relationship with Darla. Also shows some FoeYay towards both Kendra (the final dance between them was described "almost sexualized" and "a G-rated lesbian interlude") and Lilah Morgan.
* BlessedWithSuck: Precognition sounds pretty cool, except it was what convinced Angelus that he wanted to torture and [[BrokenBird break her]]. It also results in stomach pains, fainting and knowing unpleasant things about the future that she can't change. It was actually a vision that Spike would fall in love with a Slayer which led her to become disenchanted with and leave him.
* BreakTheCutie: Angelus, the master of psychological and physical torture, proudly calls Drusilla his "finest work," which would make her this trope taken UpToEleven.
* BoredWithInsanity: She's briefly cured of her lunacy in two separate occasions and even tries to do some good for people during the latter incident. However, due to StatusQuoIsGod, it doesn't last.
* ChronicPetKiller: Frequently ends up fawning over dead pets in cages. As Drusilla doesn't need to eat, she has trouble wrapping her mind around the concept of pet food.
-->'''Spike''': The bird's dead, Dru. You left it in a cage, and you didn't feed it, and now it's all dead, just like the other ones.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: That's putting it very lightly.
** Also subverted. She's incredibly dangerous, but at least some of her persona is ObfuscatingInsanity.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Is both on the giving and the receiving end of this.
* CompellingVoice: She hypnotizes Kendra to render the Slayer helpless against her, by saying, "Look at me, dearie. Be in my eyes. Be in me." She follows this up by slitting Kendra's throat with her fingernails.
* CreateYourOwnVillain: Angel visited upon her every mental torment he could devise, ending up with...well, a pretty deranged supervillainess, all told.
* CreepyDoll: Has a plethora of these. Her favorite doll is called Miss Edith. ("Miss Edith speaks out of turn. She's a bad example, and will have no cakes today.")
* [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass Crouching Lunatic, Hidden Badass]]: She's usually very flighty and doesn't seem overly competent...but when she does something evil, she goes all out.
* CustomUniform: Dru's (rarely seen) game face is more snake-like than other vampires in the Buffyverse.
* CuteAndPsycho: And ''how''.
* DaddysGirl: Adores her sire Angelus, yet paradoxically blames all the bad things he did to her on the "Angel-beast."
* DaddysLittleVillain: Almost as evil as her beloved "Daddy." The two seem to have a lot in common, killing and making plans together, and in "Crush," Dru even shows Angelus' affinity for torture, while Spike prefers quick kills. Angelus even tells her "no one knows me like you do." Her betrayal of Spike for Angelus the moment he returns probably seals the deal. Of course, Dru and Angelus have been sleeping together since before Spike was born, but that's how vampire families seem to work.
* DarkChick: She certainly stands out amidst the rest of The Whirlwind; the whole gang has a real taste for murder and torture, but Drusilla's [[PsychopathicWomanchild child-like]] [[TheOphelia behavior]], [[AxCrazy complete raving insanity]], and [[MadOracle psychic powers]] make her unique compared to her "family."
%%* DarkIsEvil
* DarkMistress: Spike's "kitten."
* DependingOnTheWriter: There are several episodes which imply she isn't quite as insane as she's perceived, that at least some of her craziness is faked, and that she's actually much more lucid and cunning (in her own way intelligent) than she may appear. Most simply portray her as a unintelligible loon who can't see what's in front of her. It also varies whether she genuinely loves and cares about Spike, or if she simply sees him as a favored toy to manipulate and use. While the second half of Season 2, "Lie to Me" and "Lover's Walk" seem to support the latter theory, other episodes like "Crush," "School Hard," "Fool For Love" and [[ExpandedUniverse pretty much all the comics]] write Drusilla as a heartbroken ex-lover who really does love Spike, albeit in her own, strange way.
* {{Dominatrix}}: DependingOnTheWriter, Drusilla can either be this or a submissive. On one hand, we see her begging Angel to spank her, sulking when Angelus and Darla "won't even hurt me just a little bit," and Spike seems to be under the impression that torturing her will make her fancy him again. On the other hand, she takes great glee in tying up and hurting Angel, seems to want to "punish" Spike in "Crush," and appears to take (sensual) satisfaction in torturing him in Season 7. Granted, the last was the First simply imitating Drusilla, but it is meant to have the key characteristics of the person it is imitating.
* DrivenToMadness: By Angelus.
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Chalky-skinned, dark-haired Drusilla is a triple-check, fitting each of the three groups most associated with this trope: villains, vampires, and {{Goth}}s. ([[Film/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz Oh my!]])
* EternalLove: With Spike. Or at least 120 years worth before it all falls apart.
* FateWorseThanDeath: The only reason Angelus didn't kill her after driving her insane was because "death would be mercy." He turned her into an insane vampire instead so that she would be suffer mindlessly forever and he could enjoy the show.
* FemmeFatalons: Kills Kendra with them.
** "I didn't like that bartender. His [[EyeScream eyeballs got stuck to my fingers]]." ''[[[FingerLickinEvil licks fingers]]]''
* FortuneTeller: Shows a talent for reading Tarot in one episode.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Phlegmatic (in Angelus' old vampire gang).
%%* TheHyena
* IllGirl: When she first appears, though she gets better.
* IronicEcho: Repeats Spike's "I'll see that you get strong again" line when she gets her strength back, and effortlessly carries him to safety.
* IronicNurseryTune: Her theme music.
* MadOracle: Like [[Series/{{Firefly}} another Joss girl]], Drusilla foresees the future but rarely explains it well enough for her visions to be of any use. Sometimes Drusilla herself doesn't even grasp what she is seeing because she is so screwed-up. In the ''Angel'' episode "Redefinition," she has a vision of Angel setting her and Darla on fire, but only takes in only how pretty the fire is. When it actually happens, she's a lot less happy about it.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Villainous example.
* MindRape: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Angelus, who wanted to drive her insane by putting her through every torture he could devise. [[TheOphelia He succeeded]].
* NoOneCouldHaveSurvivedThat: Supposedly killed by an angry mob in Prague. Buffy notes they don't make angry mobs like they used to.
* NonActionGuy: She rarely fights, preferring to use her powers of hypnosis and her tactical planning. Not that that makes her any less terrifying.
%%* TheOphelia
* PsychopathicManchild: She loves flowers and puppies, and squeals with childish delight at seeing people killed in horrible ways.
* SoapOperaDisease: In the comics, it was retroactively explained that Drusilla was tortured by an "Inquisitor" while in Prague, including the use of a magic torture chair, leaving her in a frail condition. Spike initially hopes the Hellmouth will restore her, but later learns that the blood of her sire (Angel) can cure her affliction.
%%* SpiderSense
%%* TalkativeLoon
* TooKinkyToTorture: Implied by Spike's declared intention to "tie her up and torture her until she likes me again!" Well, okay.
* TheUnfought: Unless you count her really brief skirmish with Kendra.
* TraumaCongaLine: Though a lot of it takes place off-screen/before the show takes place.
* UnholyMatrimony: With Spike.
* VocalDissonance: She dresses like a {{Goth}} singer, acts like a SerialKiller, and talks with an extremely soft voice.
%%* TheVamp
* WaifProphet: In her debut, she had been severely damaged by a mob attack that left her physically weak. She regained her strength part-way through the second season and remained somewhat prophetic, but was still completely crazy.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: During her brief bout of sanity circa Season 9, she uses a demon to remove mental trauma from anyone who asks; the downside is that they go insane as a result.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the TV show. Finally appears in the ''Angel and Faith'' comics.
* WomanInWhite: Her adornments while still bedridden.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: In Season 2, Angelus attempts to plunge the world into a hell dimension by unleashing Acathla. Unlike Spike, Drusilla has zero reservations about this plan; in fact, she's tickled pink by it. Having gone AxCrazy because of Angelus' sadistic mind games might have had a hand in that.
* WouldHurtAChild: "What will your mummy sing when they find your body?"
* YankTheDogsChain:
** Siring Darla in ''Series/{{Angel}}'' made her ecstatic as she believed that she wouldn't have to be lonely anymore. She enjoys the company of Darla for about three episodes before Angel sets them both on fire and Darla decides she wants nothing to do with her anymore.
** In "Crush," she appears to win back Spike's affections...until it turns out to be a ruse and she finds herself tasered, tied up and offered as a sacrifice to prove his love to Buffy.
** In the comics. Congratulations on restoring your sanity, Drusilla. Wouldn't it be a shame if Angel came and took it away from you again?
* YourCheatingHeart: Cheats on Spike five times all in all, once with a chaos demon, another time with a fungus demon, once [[BiTheWay with Darla]] and the Immortal, and twice with Angelus.

[[folder:The Anointed One]]
!!Collin, The Anointed One
->'''Played By:''' Andrew J. Ferchland

A child turned into a vampire in Season 1. Originally planned as the BigBad for Season 2, but the actor's growth made it implausible for him to be ageless, and was killed off by Spike. AndThereWasMuchRejoicing.

* AntiClimax: Lots of build-up over the enigmatic Anointed One, his mysterious powers and his role in Buffy's battle with the Master. In the end, it basically boiled down to Collin escorting her to him. He's killed shortly afterward.
%%* BastardUnderstudy
%%* BigBadWannabe
* BigNo: Last words.
%%* AChildShallLeadThem
%%* CreepyChild
* DiscOneFinalBoss: In Season 2.
* DragonAscendant: Until [[TheStarscream Spike]] kills him, of course.
* EmbarrassingNickname: "The Annoying One," courtesy of Spike.
%%* EnfanteTerrible
* GameFace: One of the few recurring vampires to never show his, leaving it ambiguous as to whether or not it would've been NightmareRetardant or just silly.
* InformedAbility: Apparently possesses immense power, which we never really see demonstrated.
* [[KillItWithFire Kill It With Sunlight]]: How Spike disposes of him.
%%* MeetTheNewBoss
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast / TheAdjectiveOne: The '''Anointed''' One.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: He was originally meant to be Season 2's BigBad, but Creator/JossWhedon had him killed off early in the season because his actor had gone through a growth spurt and was no longer believable as a perpetual child.
* TheRemnant: What's left of the Order of Aurelius. Spike dissolved the ancient order when he took over.
* ScreamDiscretionShot: His death.
%%* UndeadChild
%%* TheUnfought
%%* VoiceOfTheLegion
* YouHaveFailedMe: Attempted on Spike. Things go poorly.

[[folder:Mr. Trick]]
!!Mr. Trick
->'''Played By:''' K. Todd Freeman

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->"''Sunnydale. Town's got quaint, and the people! He called me "sir", don't you just miss that? I mean, admittedly, it's not a haven for the brothers. You know, strictly the Caucasian persuasion here in the 'Dale. But you know, you just gotta stand up and salute that death rate. I ran a statistical analysis and, hello darkness! Makes D.C. look like [[TheAndyGriffithShow Mayberry]].''"

Tech-savvy vampire from early Season 3. Aided the Mayor before being killed and replaced by Faith.

%%* AffablyEvil
%%* AwesomeMcCoolName
%%* BadassInANiceSuit
* DiscOneFinalBoss: In Season 3.
* TheDragon: Trick goes solo for a while until the Mayor recruits him.
* EvilerThanThou: Comes to regard Kakistos as an old-fashioned fool, abandoning him to be killed by Faith and Buffy ("These vengeance crusades are out of style, it's the modern vampire who sees the big picture.")
* FamousLastWords: "Oh, this is no good. This is no good at all..."
* FanBoy: Of ComicStrip/{{Marmaduke}}. "Nobody can tell Marmaduke what to do. That's my kinda dog."
%%* GenreSavvy
%%* JiveTurkey
%%* TheManBehindTheMan
%%* PopCulturedBadass
* TheStarscream: To Kakistos.
%%* TwoferTokenMinority
%%* VillainExitStageLeft

[[folder:Luke]]
!!Luke
->'''Played By:''' Brian Thompson]]

[[folder:The Gorch Brothers]]
!!Lyle & Tector Gorch
->'''Played By:''' Jeremy Ratchford &

[[folder:Dalton]]
!!Dalton
->'''Played By:''' Eric Saiet

A scholarly, bespectacled vampire. Spike and Drusilla commandeer Dalton's relative expertise to research a mystical cure for Dru.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Vampire Willow]]
!!Vampire Willow
->'''Played By:''' Alyson Hannigan

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->''"If you're good boys and girls, we'll make you young and strong forever. And if not..." ''(kills a girl)'' "Questions? Comments?"''

Willow's doppelgänger from an alternate universe in which Buffy never moved to Sunnydale. With no one around to prevent the Master's return, the town was taken over by vampires, with Willow and Xander serving proudly as the Master's top lieutenants. Vampire Willow is staked by Oz, who shoves her into a broken wooden board. She is momentarily saved from death by a botched magic spell (courtesy of her non-vampire counterpart) which deposits her in the 'real' world. Disappointed by the mundane Sunnydale, Vampire Willow decides to recreate her own world by taking over the town.

%%* TheBaroness
* BastardGirlfriend: "That's right, puppy, Willow's going to make you bark..."
* {{Catchphrase}}: "Bored now."
* CoDragons: She and Vampire Xander appeared to be this to their version of the Master, replacing the conspicuously absent Darla and Luke.
* CurseCutShort: [[FamousLastWords "Oh, fu--"]]
%%* DeadAlternateCounterpart
%%* DepravedBisexual
* {{Dominatrix}}: "It was you. Except for the part about being a dominatrix." Thanks Buffy.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Vampire Xander. When she runs into the real deal and mistakes him for her world's version, she hugs him and jubilantly exclaims, "Xander! You're alive!"
%%* EvilRedhead
%%* EvilTwin
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Of Willow's future sexual preferences. Also of the dark side of Willow that comes out fully at the end of Season 6.
%%* HellBentForLeather
%%* IHaveYouNowMyPretty
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Twice.
%%* LesbianVampire
%%* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming
* MirrorMatch: Inevitably.
* MonsterOfTheWeek: Two weeks.
%%* MsFanservice
* OfCorsetsSexy: I guess vampires don't have to breathe.
* PrinceAndPauper: As part of a plan to masquerade as her twin, Willow is obliged to swap her fuzzy sweater for leather bondage attire.
-->'''Willow:''' I guess vampires really ''don't'' have to breathe." [glances down] "Gosh, look at those."
* ScrewYourself: Does some LecherousLicking of Willow, which the latter finds SickAndWrong. "Does this mean we'd have to...snuggle?"
%%* TortureTechnician
* UnholyMatrimony: With Vampire Xander.

[[folder:Kakistos]]
!!Kakistos
->'''Played By:''' Jeremy Roberts

* BeardOfEvil: His goatee.
* TheBrute: He comes more from the "Hulk Smash" school of approach.
* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: "I'm going to rip her spine from her body, and I'm going to eat her heart, and suck the marrow from her bones."
* TheDreaded: Faith is nine kinds of panicked when she sees Kakistos again, with Buffy even mentioning in ''VideoGame/ChaosBleeds'' that he was the one thing Faith was ever truly terrified of. Furthermore, his reputation is such that Giles immediately recognizes his name when Buffy, being Buffy, misidentifies him as "Kissing Toast."
* EvilMakesYouMonstrous: Like the Master before him, he has grown past the curse of human features. Unlike the Master, he has cloven hooves in place of hands and feet.
* EyeScream: Faith blinded him in the right eye.
* FamousLastWords: "Looks like you need a bigger stake, Slayer!"
* FateWorseThanDeath: One mention of Faith's Watcher stops her in her tracks. Buffy asks if Kakistos killed her. Faith just stares and says, "They don't have a word for what he did to her." According to the novel ''Go Ask Malice'', he literally [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe ripped Faith's Watcher in half]] while [[ForcedToWatch making her watch]].
* GoodScarsEvilScars: In return for killing her Watcher, Faith left Kakistos something to remember her by.
* HopelessWithTech: He preferred lighting his lairs with candles rather than electric lights, and had little interest in modern comforts that would easily enable him to establish a power base. This is the main reason Mr. Trick pulled a ScrewThisImOuttaHere when Buffy and Faith attacked.
%%* LargeAndInCharge
%%* MonsterOfTheWeek
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: According to Giles, Kakistos translates to "Worst of the Worst."
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Kakistos gets his hands on Faith, but instead of killing her, he just starts pummeling her.
%%* TheOlderImmortal
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: He chases Faith all the way to Sunnydale with the intent to kill her out of revenge for [[EyeScream his eye]].
* SinisterSilhouettes: Kakistos in his limousine.
* StrongerWithAge: Kakistos is so old that the normal way to dispatch a vampire, a wooden stake to the heart, won't cut it with him. Faith actually has to impale him with a two-by-four to finish him off.
* UsefulNotes/WorldWarI: According to the ''Angel'' comic ''Blood and Trenches'', both Angel and Kakistos were involved in World War I, with Kakistos siding with Kaiser Wilhelm II and Angel forming an EnemyMine with Geoffrey Wyndam-Pryce, a Watcher in the British Army, to take him down.

[[folder:Vampire Xander]]
!!Vampire Xander
->'''Played By:''' Nicholas Brendon

->''"Someone has to talk to her people. That name is striking fear in nobody's hearts."''

Xander's doppelgänger from an alternate universe in which Buffy never moved to Sunnydale. With no one around to prevent the Master's return, the town was taken over by vampires, with Xander and Willow serving proudly as the Master's top lieutenants. Vampire Xander is killed by Wishverse Buffy.

* CoDragons: Along with Willow.
%%* DeadAlternateCounterpart
%%* EvilTwin
* FauxAffablyEvil: It seems that even becoming a soulless monster will not deter Xander from being one of the biggest examples of DeadpanSnarker ever.
%%* HellBentForLeather
* HeroKiller: Kills Wishverse Angel.
* NightmareFetishist: Happily watches Wishverse Willow torture Wishverse Angel with a fond look on his face.
* UnholyMatrimony: With Vampire Willow.

[[folder:Kralik]]
!!Zachary Kralik
->'''Played By:''' Creator/JeffKober

->''"I have a problem with mothers. I'm aware of that."''

Zachary Kralik was a serial killer who had been turned into a vampire.
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* AbusiveParents: His mother was no picnic, if even half of what he says is true.
* AxCrazy: Kralik was dangerously insane even before he was turned into an immortal killing machine that feeds on blood. His status as a vampire clearly hasn't improved his impulses or his sadism.
* CombatSadomasochist: When Buffy burns him with a cross, he just takes pleasure from it.
* KnightOfCerebus: By the point Kralik turns up, Buffy has been dispatching vampires with minimal effort and they no longer seem that frightning. Kralik helps makes a darkly-plotted episode even darker with his gruesome backstory, clear sadism and the fact that he's basically terrifying.
* LargeHam: Jeff Kober is greatly enjoying himself.
* LittleDeadRidingHood: He attacks Buffy as she's walking home in a red coat. Kralik, being Kralik, finds it amusing.
-->''"Why did you come to the dark of the woods? (opens Buffy's bag of weapons) To bring all these sweets to grandmother's house?"''
* MommyIssues: Due to his abusive mother, Kralik has a hang-up with motherhood in general. He's aware of it, however.
* PlayingPossum: How he captures Joyce.
* SerialKiller: He was responsible for the deaths of a dozen young women before he was made into a vampire.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Dracula]]
!!Dracula
[[quoteright:250:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dracula_martin_1690.jpg]]
->''"I am Dracula. Could I be any less?"''

{{Dracula}}. Does more need to be said?

Actually, for this version, it does. He is evil (kind of), politically incorrect and extremely powerful, having far more powers than a normal vampire. He is also best friends with Xander, and was taught how to ride a motorbike by him. Nobody really understands this relationship, and most are really confused by it. He's also not exactly well-liked among his own kind as it was him who gave Bram Stoker the inspiration for the book bearing his name, which first put vampires in the public eye (even though still fictional). As Spike puts it, they consider him a "sell out".
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* AffablyEvil: To Xander, at least.
* {{Animorphism}}: Can turn into a panther, wolf, bat, and swarm of bees.
* {{Badass}}: What did you expect, it's Dracula.
** BadassGrandpa: Part of his speech to Toru when the other vampires mock him by calling him "Old Man" is basically bitch-slapping him and stating that Europe ran red with the blood of his enemies ''long'' before he became a vampire, so, really, it's the "Old Man" that he should be afraid of.
* BerserkButton: Don't steal from him. Seriously. ''Don't''.
* CoolSword: In season 8 he wields a double-bladed sword that is linked with a demonic spirit.
* DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu: Xander's entire relationship with Dracula could be summed up as this. Dracula just really enjoys Xander's company and goes through the effort of putting him under his thrall just so he sticks around and he has someone to talk to.
* DualAgeModes: Subverted. It seems he is able to take on the form of both a young and old man, but it turns out in reality he is always in his old form. He just uses his hypnotic abilities to make everyone see him as his younger self.
* EnemyMine: "I loathe Buffy Summers, her whole army makes me want to retch, and I'd just as soon see them wiped off the map once and for all. However, nobody steals from Dracula."
* GameFace: He is the rare exception in that he doesn't have one; his eyes can go yellow/gold but he never goes full bumpy vamp-face. He does always have fangs, however.
* LieToTheBeholder: He uses his hypnotic abilities to make people see him as his younger self, rather than his true form, which is that of a very old man.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste: Wears elaborate costumes that include top hats, rings, canes and ankle-length capes.
* OccultBlueEyes: Those "dark, penetrating eyes" of his are a deep shade of blue.
* OddFriendship: With Xander.
* PetTheDog: He has genuine fondness for Xander and considers him to be one of his dearest friends, to the point that he is enraged on Xander's behalf after [[spoiler:Renee's death]] and tears vampire chumps to pieces like wet paper.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He is portrayed as simply politically incorrect, without malice behind it, his attitudes being mainly a result of extraordinary age.
* RetiredMonster: During what Buffy calls his mid-life crisis he drinks himself into a stupor, stumbles around in a vomit-drenched bathrobe, and can't even be bothered to kill anyone to feed on anymore. He snaps out of it, though.
* ResurrectiveImmortality: One of the things that make Dracula especially dangerous is the fact that even ''after'' getting dusted (regardless of which method), he can simply reform from the dust practically on the spot. Moreover, ''if'' he doesn't reform, he can still manipulate the dust into a mist and move that way. Simply put, he's the "most immortal" vampire in Buffyverse--well, ''second'' most if you count those wearing the Gem of Amara.
* RunningGag: The eleven pounds he owes Spike.
* SuperSmoke: One of his powers is the ability to turn into mist, which Buffy decides is cheating when she tries to attack him.
* ThisIsNotMyLifeToTake: Dracula cripples Toru, the leader of the vampire army who screams at Dracula to let him die with honor. Dracula tells the crippled vampire that he knows nothing of honor, and that he is not Dracula's to kill... after which he hands his sword to [[spoiler:Xander, whose girlfriend, Renee, the vampire leader had murdered]]. [[spoiler:Xander delivers the coup de grâce]].
* VampiresAreSexGods: According to Andrew, one of Dracula's abilities, next to hypnosis and shapeshifting, is "romantic undertones". There are a lot of comments on his good looks (especially his penetrating eyes), with even Willow, a lesbian, commenting on his sexiness.
* VillainousWidowsPeak: It's not particularly pointy or pronounced but it's there.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Can turn into a wolf, bat, panther, mist and swarm of bees at will which he uses to attack people, spy on them, dodge their attacks, or just impress them.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Toru]]
!!Toru

The leader of a large vampire gang based out of Tokyo, Toru tricks Dracula into giving his powers to Toru and all his men, steals the Scythe from Buffy's fortress, and plans to use it to {{depower}} all of the Slayers in the world. In the process, he [[spoiler:kills Renee, Xander's LoveInterest. He is defeated by Dracula, who lets Xander kill him in revenge]].
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* {{Animorphism}}: Like Dracula whose powers he stole, he can turn into a wolf, bat, panther and swarm of bees.
* ArcVillain: For "Wolves at the Gate."
%%* {{Badass}}
%%* BadassInANiceSuit
%%* TheChessmaster
* EvilGenius: Builds a device capable of projecting a hologram, a giant Mecha-Dawn, and a device capable of casting a spell worldwide to {{Depower}} the Slayers.
%%* EvilGloating
* GetItOverWith: [[spoiler:Begs Dracula to kill him honorably after cutting off his arms and a leg, but Dracula waits for Xander to arrive and allow him to do it]].
* KickTheDog: His [[DePower De-Powering]] and murder of a Slayer, and what he did with her body afterwards.
* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:How Xander kills him]].
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Tries to give one to {{Dracula}}, of all people. Backfires horribly.
%%* SmugSnake
%%* SuperSmoke
* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler:Surprises the gang by appearing out of nowhere and putting the pointy end of the Scythe through Renee's chest, killing her]].
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Stolen from Dracula, along with several other abilities.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Raidon]]
!!Raidon

Toru's right-hand man, he is killed by Satsu right before he can bite Buffy.
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%%* {{Animorphism}}
* {{Badass}}: Takes out two Slayers even without the powers stolen from Dracula.
%%* BadassInANiceSuit
%%* TheBrute
%%* DeadpanSnarker
%%* TheDragon
* PreMortemOneLiner: Gives one to Buffy, but [[spoiler:Satsu gives him one right back when she saves Buffy]].
%%* SuperSmoke
%%* VoluntaryShapeshifting
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kumiko]]
!!Kumiko Ishihara

A Japanese vampire witch and follower of Toru, Kumiko was trained by the same demon guide as Willow.
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%%* AxCrazy
* {{Badass}}: [[spoiler:Almost kills Willow, who is only saved by the timely intervention of Buffy]].
%%* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}
%%* DarkActionGirl
* DealWithTheDevil: She gained much of her power from Aluwyn.
%%* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette
* EvilCounterpart: To Willow.
%%* [[EvilSorcerer Evil Sorceress]]
%%* {{Flight}}
%%* HotWitch
%%* SuperSmoke
%%* VoluntaryShapeshifting
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Unless it's an art error, Buffy stabbed her with a knife, not a stake, which would not kill a vampire. Nonetheless, this is the last we see of Kumiko.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Holden]]
!!Holden Webster
->'''Played By:''' Jonathan M. Woodward

%%* AffablyEvil
[[/folder]]

!Demons & Monsters

[[folder:Halfrek]]
!!Halfrek/Cecily
->'''Played By:''' Kali Rocha

Anya's friend and fellow vengeance demon. Her specialty is answering wishes from children to punish bad parents and parental figures--which is bad when Dawn's issues reach boiling point.
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* AffablyEvil: Acts quite sweet, calls Willow "lemon drop," etc. Genuinely friendly to Anya, and is in fact her only real friend in demon-dom.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Related to the above, being a seemingly sweet-natured guidance counselor who is really a vengeance demon. Also, her insinuations against Xander to Anya.
* DaddyIssues: According to Anya.
* EvilCounterpart: Has no empathy for her victims. She is essentially Anya before becoming human.
* FailedAttemptAtDrama: In "Older And Far Away," she tries to teleport away dramatically (twice) but her own spell keeps her in the house.
* FamousLastWords: "Anya...?"
* FriendlyRival: To Anya.
%%* GameFace
* PetTheDog: She seemed to genuinely care about Dawn's problems and thought she was doing the right thing.
%%* PoisonousFriend
* RedOniBlueOni: Halfrek is more easygoing and worldly compared to the workaholic and awkward Anya.
* RichBitch: As Cecily.
%%* TechnicolorDeath
%%* VillainTeleportation
* YouLookFamiliar: Kali Rocha played Cecily, the woman who spurned Spike when he was William the human poet. The inspiration for the famous "My heart expands, 'tis grown a bulge in it, inspired by your beauty, effulgent." Halfrek and Spike recognize each other, then embarrassedly deny knowing each other. WordOfGod confirms that Halfrek = Cecily. Although, when speaking to Anya, Halfrek mentioned "...that thing during the Crimean War. We laugh about it now." The Crimean War happened before Spike was turned, so either Cecily was already a vengeance demon in disguise or there's TimeTravel involved.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:D'Hoffryn]]
!!D'Hoffryn
->'''Played By:''' Andy Umberger

Anya's old boss, and the one responsible for recruiting and training new vengeance demons.
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* AffablyEvil: Often comes across as a loving, yet stern father.
-->'''D'Hoffryn''' [[WhoDares Behold, D'Hoffryn. Lord of Arashmahar. He that turns the air to blood and rains—]] (turns to Willow, speaking normally) [[MoodWhiplash Miss Rosenberg. How lovely to see you again. Have you done something with your hair?]]
** FauxAffablyEvil: It takes him a long time to drop the mask. But when he does? Ooph.
%%* BeardOfEvil
%%* BlackEyesOfEvil
%%* EvilMentor
%%* HornedHumanoid
* IWillPunishYourFriendForYourFailure: In "Selfless," Anya wants to undo a wish she granted that resulted in the deaths of a whole frat house. D'Hoffryn tells her the price is the life and soul of a vengeance demon, and she accepts, thinking he'll kill her. He instead kills Halfrek. "Never go for the kill when you can go for the pain."
%%* KarmaHoudini
* MyCard: The talisman he gave Willow in "Something Blue."
-->If you change your mind, give us a chant.
%%* ThePatriarch
* PlayingWithFire: Poor Halfrek.
* PropRecycling: D'Hoffryn was originally dubbed "Mr. Hodgepodge" by the makeup artists because they used pieces from The Judge, a demon of Jhe, and the Rage Monster (Pete) to make him.
* SophisticatedAsHell: Alternated between eloquent and crass English, even in ancient times.
%%* VillainTeleportation
* WeHaveReserves: "I have plenty of other girls."
* WhiteVoidRoom: His place of business is a featureless black void.
* YouLookFamiliar: Andy Umberger is one of only five actors to appear in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', ''Series/AngelTheSeries'' and ''Series/{{Firefly}}''.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Doc]]
!!Doc
->'''Played By:''' Joel Grey

An eccentric old man who is actually a reptilian demon with vast knowledge of the dark arts.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Veruca]]
!!Veruca
->'''Played By:''' Paige Moss

A werewolf singer with an interest in Oz.
----
* AlwaysVSexy: What's not very sexy is that a verruca is a foot wart.
* ChekhovsGunman: Had bit parts in "Living Condition" and "Beer Bad" before making a full appearance.
* EvilCounterpart: To Oz.
* MonsterOfTheWeek: Joss Whedon's original plan was for the Willow/Oz/Veruca triangle to span most of season 4 but she ended up the villain of only one episode. Nevertheless, her actions significantly alter the course of other characters' storylines.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: Tries to kill Willow so she can have Oz to herself and make him embrace being a werewolf.
* TheVamp: She uses her womanly wiles to seduce Oz away from Willow and to try to convince him to come around to her way of thinking. Her attractiveness--or rather, Oz's werewolf attraction to her--is her main weapon to achieve her goals.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Judge]]
!!The Judge
->'''Played By:''' Brian Thompson

An ancient and legendary blue-skinned demon from the Middle Ages.
----
%%* PersonOfMassDestruction
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kathy]]
!!Kathy Newman
->'''Played By:''' Dagney Kerr

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.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Olaf]]
!!Olaf
->'''Played By:''' Abraham Benrubi

A troll who was once human, a tenth-century Viking who apparently often hunted trolls and was 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 hammer-wielding troll.
----
%%* {{Badass}}
%%* DropTheHammer
%%* LargeHam
%%* YourCheatingHeart
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Razor]]
!!Razor
->'''Played By:''' Franc Ross

The leader of the Hellions demon biker gang that briefly took over Sunnydale when they discovered that the Slayer was dead.
----
* [[AllBikersAreHellsAngels All Bikers Are Hellsmouth Demons]]: Razor and his gang are clearly modelled after Hell's Angels.
* BadassBiker: The guy rips off a vampire's head and crushes it into dust with zero effort.
* FantasticRacism: Demons typically don't get along swimmingly with vampires either, but Razor takes it to a new level when an annoying vampire tries to join his gang by ripping his head off mid-sentence with a snappy one-liner.
* KilledMidSentence: [[spoiler:By Tara, with an axe! BewareTheNiceOnes indeed.]]
* NewEraSpeech: He gives one to his gang after they invade Sunnydale.
-->"This here is a momentous occasion, the beginning of a new era. Now, no question, the open backroads and highways have been good to us. But we've got ourselves a juicy little burg here, just ripe for the picking. And I ain't in no hurry to leave it, you? (demons all yell "NO!") So I figure, what better way to kick off our ... semi-settling-down, than with a little christening? A symbolic act commemorating the new order around here ... and ridding ourselves of any not-so-pleasant reminders of the old."
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Razor threatens the Scooby girls with rape.
* WolverineClaws: He appears to have placed metallic extensions on his regular claws.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ms. French]]
!!Ms. Natalie French
->'''Played By:''' Musetta Vander

* HotForTeacher: Every boy at the school is enchanted with her.
%%* ImAHumanitarian
* LittleBlackDress: She wears a very cleavagey one when seducing Xander.
* MonsterOfTheWeek: For the episode 'Teacher's Pet'. She's referenced from time to time later in the series.
%%* MrsRobinson
* SexyWalk: As seen in her slow-motion entrance.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sweet]]
!!Sweet
->'''Played By:''' Hinton Battle

%%* AffablyEvil
%%* GracefulLoser
* KillItWithFire: His whole singing and dancing routine results in some people combusting.
* LargeHam: He's an all-singing all-dancing demon!
* VillainExitStageLeft: [[spoiler:In typical Sweet hammy mode, he bids the Scoobies farewell and that he'll see them all 'in hell' before stylishly teleporting away.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Teeth]]
!!Teeth
->'''Played By:'''

* EvilIsHammy: Aside from the endless VisualPun, Teeth is also quite a ham, acting like a 50s Chicago gangster.
* LaughablyEvil: Sure, he's an evil loan shark, but he's entertaining, funny and very memorable.
* LoanShark: Due to his entire character being a VisualPun.
* VisualPun: He's a shark demon...and a loan shark. Get it?
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lissa]]
!!Lissa
->'''Played By:''' Ashanti
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ken]]
!!Ken
->'''Played By:''' Carlos Jacott

%%* BadHabits
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Ken appears to be a bumbling, sweet fellow trying to help out young people. He's actually a 'recruiter' for a demonic workhouse.
%%* BreakingSpeech
* FauxAffablyEvil: Once he drops his cover, he shows just how sadistic and cruel he really is.
%%* ShutUpHannibal
* VillainousBreakdown: When Buffy incites rebellion, Ken gets very unhinged very quickly.
* YearInsideHourOutside: The nature of his demon workhouse.
* YouGotGuts: What he thinks of Buffy.
-->''"You've got guts. I'd like to slice you open and play with them."''
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Eyghon]]
!!Eyghon the Sleepwalker
->'''Played By:''' Robia LaMorte, Stuart McLean & Wendy Way

A ancient demon who was worshipped by Giles and Ethan Rayne during their youth alongside several other magic users. He attempted to claim their souls in Sunnydale, but was defeated by Angel. He survived and bid his time building an undead army in London [[spoiler:which he added the bodies of Giles and Ethan to]].
----
* DemonicPossession: He can inhabit any unconscious or dead body in his vicinity.
%%* EldritchAbomination
* MarkOfTheBeast / EmbarrassingTattoo: The Mark of Eyghon.
* MonsterOfTheWeek: Although he becomes much more important in ''Angel & Faith''.
%%* VoiceOfTheLegion
* YourSoulIsMine: His followers' souls go to him after they die. [[spoiler:This is why Angel is convinced he can revive Giles, since his soul is tied to Eyghon, who is on Earth.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sephrilian]]
!!Sephrilian
[[quoteright:200:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sephrilian_8349.png]]
->''"All my faces are there to see. But you humans...you have too many. I would be rid of your kind. I welcome this war. I know all you weaknesses. And soon all my brethren will as well."''

A draconic-looking Old One, Sephrilian is one of the Demon elite who walk the line between the human reality and the others. He is approached by Buffy and Willow, who seek information on Twilight. Has four un-moving faces: happy, sad, angry and fearful.
----
* BiggerOnTheInside: Its realm is inside a small one story house, which contains an endless staircase and Sephrilian himself.
%%* [[spoiler:DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu]]
%%* DimensionLord
* EldritchAbomination: He's an Old One.
%%* EvilGloating
* GoodWingsEvilWings: Sephrilian has devil wings.
%%* KeeperOfForbiddenKnowledge
%%* ManipulativeBastard
%%* TheOmnipotent
%%* PocketDimension
%%* RealityWarper
%%* SupernaturalElite
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Monroe]]
!!Monroe

A werewolf and former student of Oz and Bayarmaa who learned to control his transformation, but strayed off the path. Now heads a group of werewolves that share his way of thinking: the wolf is the best part of them, they should revel in it, and anyone thinking differently is to be eliminated.
----
* DisproportionateRetribution: He and his group slaughter an entire monastery worth of Buddhist monks because he disagrees with Oz and Bayarmaa's view on werewolves.
%%* EnemyMine
%%* EvilBrit
%%* FaceHeelTurn
%%* FullyEmbracedFiend
%%* LastNameBasis
%%* NakedOnArrival
* UnexplainedRecovery: He appears to have died after [[spoiler:Bayarmaa rips his throat out]], until he reappears two issues later. The editor even admitted they "went overboard with the blood." In the trade paperback, some dialogue is changed to make up for it, though it still doesn't explain exactly ''how'' he got better.
%%* VoluntaryShapeshifting
%%* WolfMan
* WouldHurtAChild: He and his group have no qualms attacking Bayarmaa even though she is carrying an infant.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Swell]]
!!The Swell

A group of demons that all resemble vampire cat dolls. The can possess people by crawling down their throats, and can join together to create a giant Vampy Cat.
----
* BadBoss: They kill all of their human and demon minions.
* TheCameo: One makes a small appearance in a ''ComicBook/HackSlash'' story written by Season 8 writer and editor Scott Allie.
%%* CatsAreMean
%%* CreepyDoll
%%* DemonicPossession
%%* HeManWomanHater
%%* OrificeInvasion
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Highly misogynistic, what with [[ActionGirl Slayers]] being their main enemies.
%%* RedEyesTakeWarning
* TheWormThatWalks: Their combined form.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Pearl & Nash]]
!!Pearl and Nash

Half-demon/half-human twins raised by their human mother to usher in the next stage of human evolution. They work for Twilight to achieve this goal, [[spoiler:until it is revealed that Angel is Twilight and is tricking them]]. After that, they want revenge.
----
%%* AxCrazy
%%* BadassInANiceSuit
* BloodSplatteredWarrior: In their first appearance. And not their own blood.
%%* BrotherSisterTeam
* CoDragons: To [[spoiler:Whistler]].
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Nash is partially based on Creator/DavidBowie, specifically his Thin White Duke persona, while Pearl is partially based on Karen O of the Music/YeahYeahYeahs and LadyGaga. Faith and Nadira both actually refer to Nash as "Bowie" in one of the last issues of Season 9.
* CuteMonsterGirl: Pearl
%%* EmotionEater
* EnergyWeapon: Both can summon two green energy swords.
%%* EyeBeams
%%* {{Flight}}
%%* GlowingEyesOfDoom
%%* HalfHumanHybrid
%%* HalfIdenticalTwins
%%* HumanMomNonhumanDad
%%* IcyBlueEyes
%%* PointyEars
%%* PowerGlows
* SicklyGreenGlow: Their powers.
* [[UnwittingPawn UnwittingPawns]]: Of Twilight. And they were none too happy when they found out.
%%* VillainousCheekbones
* WaistcoatOfStyle: Nash. And Pearl too, in later appearances.
[[/folder]]

!Humans

[[folder:Ethan]]
!!Ethan Rayne
->'''Played By:''' Creator/RobinSachs
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/EthanRayne_1888.png]]

An old friend of Giles', and a chaos-worshipping sorcerer.
----
%%* AffablyEvil
* BigBadDuumvirate: With The First Evil in ''VideoGame/ChaosBleeds''; an odd example, as the Scoobies are technically working with him, as he chose them to be his competitors in a contest he challenged The First Evil to.
%%* TheBarnum
%%* DeadpanSnarker
%%* DirtyCoward
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:In Season 8.]]
%%* EvilBrit
* EvilCounterpart: To Giles.
* EvilGloating: Acknowledges that it's generally a bad idea, but he can't seem to help himself.
%%* EvilSorcerer
%%* ForgottenFriendNewFoe
%%* ForTheEvulz
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:He knew he was going to die when he helped Buffy.]]
* LaughablyEvil: When Ethan shows up, complete chaos ensues. Wacky, hilarious chaos. Even ''Spike'' can't help but be impressed by his antics.
%%* MyNaymeIs
%%* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast
%%* OrderVersusChaos
* PsychoForHire: In "Band Candy."
* PutOnABus: [[MundaneSolution Being arrested]].
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:His final act in life is helping Buffy.]]
%%* SquishyWizard
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Prof. Walsh]]
!!Professor Maggie Walsh
->'''Played By:''' Lindsay Crouse
->''Almost time to wake up, Adam. And take your first look at the world.''

Head of The Initiative and Buffy's psych professor.
----
* DiscOneFinalBoss: Season 4.
* EvilMentor: To Riley.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Murdered by Adam, her favorite creation.
%%* JerkassTeacher
%%* MadScientist
* MotherlyScientist: Head scientist of the Initiative and creator of Adam.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Adam brought her back as little more than one, to help with his EvilPlan.
* ParentalSubstitute: Surrogate mother to Riley and Adam; the latter even refers to her as "mother."
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: She was intended to be the season's BigBad, but Lindsay Crouse had other commitments so Adam was hastily substituted.
* RedBaron: The Evil Bitch Monster of Death!
%%* SternTeacher
* YouGotSpunk: Her response to Buffy telling her off in "The Initiative" is "I like her."
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Forrest]]
!!Forrest Gates
->'''Played By:''' Leonard Roberts
->''We take care of our own.''

Riley's best friend and second-in-command in the Initiative, who gets very jealous of Buffy's influence. Killed and re-animated by Adam near the end of the season.
----
* BackFromTheDead: Thanks to Adam.
* BaldOfEvil: After being transformed.
* BlackBestFriend: Riley's
%%* DeadpanSnarker
* DeathByLookingUp: He sees too late that Riley threw him a tank of flammable gas.
* DegradedBoss: His cyborg self is reduced to a type of {{mook}} in the game ''Chaos Bleeds''.
* TheDragon: To Adam in the Season 4 finale.
* EvilCounterpart: To Riley, remaining utterly loyal to the Initiative. This doesn't end well for him.
* EyeScream: Spike put out one of Forrest's eyes with a [[CigaretteBurns cigarette]].
* FaceHeelTurn: He was more KnightTemplar when he was still a "good guy."
* FantasticRacism: As he puts it:
-->'''Forrest''': I see a demon, it dies. End of story.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Literally.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: How he was killed by Adam.
%%* {{Jerkass}}
* KnightTemplar: With a bit of FantasticRacism thrown in.
%%* MixAndMatchMan
* PlayingWithSyringes: Adam turns him into a duplicate of himself.
%%* ReforgedIntoAMinion
* SuperSerum: Initially.
%%* SuperSoldier
* SuperStrength: Pre- and post-transformation.
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Graham.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Amy]]
!!Amy Madison
->'''Played By:''' Elizabeth Anne Allen

Fellow student at Sunnydale High, and a witch. Introduced in Season 1 when her mother [[FreakyFridayFlip switched bodies with her]] to relive her glory days as a cheerleader. Thanks to Buffy's help, the spell was reversed and her mother [[HoistByHisOwnPetard got a spell rebounded on her that trapped her in a cheerleading trophy]]. Amy continued her school life since then with occasional run-ins with the Scoobies. She turned herself into a rat in Season 3, and was turned back by Willow in Season 6. Notable for appearing in one episode per season of the first four seasons. Has an expanded role in the comics.
----
* AndIMustScream: Being stuck as a rat for several years. Despite how much that sucked, she kept the cage.
* {{Animorphism}}: Can turn people into rats. Including herself, which probably isn't the best idea as it takes years before anyone turns her back. In Season 8, she has gotten a lot better at controlling her magic and can become a cat, as well as cast spells while in animal form.
* BigNo: [[spoiler:Combined with a rather twisted AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther, Amy lets out one of these when the Seed of Wonder is destroyed and she loses her powers, causing Warren to fall apart in front of her eyes, since he had only been held together by her magic.]]
%%* BlackMage
* CoDragons: To Twilight with Warren and The General in Season 8.
* [[spoiler:DePower]]: [[spoiler:With the destruction of the Seed of Wonder]].
* DrFeelgood: The root of Willow's 'relapse' into her magic habit.
* EvilCounterpart: Mainly to Willow, but also to Tara; Tara advised Willow to slow down on the magic while Amy encouraged her addiction.
%%* EvilFormerFriend
%%* [[EvilSorcerer Evil Sorceress]]
%%* FaceHeelTurn
* {{Flight}}: In Season 8.
* GrandTheftMe: Her introduction.
%%* HotWitch
* ImAHumanitarian: How she and Warren survived under the Sunnydale sinkhole.
* InTheBlood: Implied to be the source of her raw magical power.
%%* KarmaHoudini
* {{Magitek}}: Provided by the Twilight Group to try and give Amy an advantage against Willow.
%%* MommyIssues
* MyBelovedSmother: Has/had one.
* {{Necromancer}}: She creates an army of zombies to attack the Slayer Organization.
* NotSoDifferent: When a spell went off showing an individual's worst fears, hers was shown to be her mother.
%%* NotSoHarmlessVillain
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: During the [[spoiler:Battle in Sunnydale during the Twilight crisis, she and Warren escape Spike's airship and run away. She considers going back to help and see if they can fake a HeelFaceTurn, but Warren shoots down the idea since he knew Willow would never allow them to join]].
%%* {{Teleportation}}
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Rack]]
!!Rack
->'''Played By:''' Creator/JeffKober

An evil warlock from Sunnydale, one infamous for supplying a pure yet addictive kind of magic.
----
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:A scumbag through and through.
* DidntSeeThatComing: [[spoiler:He saw Willow coming, but he didn't see that she would drain him entirely of his magic.]]
%%* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything
* FantasticDrug: The type of magic he supplies.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Caleb]]
!!Caleb
->'''Played By:''' Creator/NathanFillion
[[quoteright:250:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/caleb_fillion_4020.jpg]]
->''Back before I met you, there was this choir girl in Knoxville I used to give singing lessons to. She even screamed on-key.''

Former priest and physical vessel for The First Evil.
----
* BadassPreacher: Of a ReligionOfEvil.
%%* CorruptHick
* CurbStompBattle: His first battle with the main cast.
* TheDragon: The First Evil's right hand man.
** DragonInChief: Far more threatening than his boss.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Buffy cut him in half. [[GroinAttack From the groin upwards]].
* FusionDance: Does one with The First.
* AGlassOfChianti: Heck, his evil lair ''is'' a wine cellar!
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Got bisected. Ouch.
* TheHeavy: The First is intangible, which means all the physical jobs belong to Caleb.
* HeManWomanHater: Is a raging misogynist who sees all women as corrupt whores, frequently voicing his hatred of and disgust for women. He considers Buffy and the other Slayers to be a blasphemy because they are girls with SuperStrength.
%%* HolierThanThou
* ImplacableMan: After [[PhysicalGod Glory]], he's the most physically powerful villain the gang faces.
%%* LargeHam
%%* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain
* PsychoSupporter: Of the First, whom he basically sees as God.
* SerialKiller: Pre-series.
* SexyPriest: In the opinion of some.
* ShoutOut: To Robert Mitchum in ''Film/TheNightOfTheHunter''.
* SinisterMinister: Of the "defrocked Catholic priest" variety.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ampata]]
!!Ampata, ie, "Inca Mummy Girl"

A Season 2 villain. Her people sacrificed her to their heathen god but came back after one of Buffy's classmates broke the seal that kept her dead.
----
* AliensSpeakingEnglish: She learned the language after all the years that she was toured all over the country.
* AndIMustScream: She was imprisoned in her own corpse.
%%* AntiVillain
%%* TheChosenOne
* DeadPersonImpersonation: "Ampata" was the foreign exchange student that was supposed to stay with Buffy for two weeks.
* EvilCounterpart: To Buffy.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: To a terrifying extent.
%%* SealedEvilInACan
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Voll]]
!!General Voll

The original leader of the U.S. military forces aligned with Twilight.
----
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Dropped and never mentioned or seen. WordOfGod states that the writers forgot about him when replacing him with the second General.
* CoDragons: With Amy and Warren.
%%* FourStarBadass
* TheFundamentalist: Even more so than his successor.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Has the Twilight symbol carved all over his chest.
%%* KnightTemplar
%%* WellIntentionedExtremist
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Roden]]
!!Roden

A Irish warlock and a master of TheDarkArts who joined Twilight's cause in an attempt to survive the end of magic, recruiting Genevieve Savidge to kill all the other Slayers.
----
* ArcVillain: For ''No Future For You''.
* {{Badass}}
** PopCulturedBadass: He references PinkFloyd's "Another Brick in the Wall Part 2", saying as wise man once said that you can't have any pudding if you don't have your meat.
%%* BlackEyesOfEvil
%%* BlackMagic
%%* LesCollaborateurs
%%* DishingOutDirt
* TheDragon: To Genevieve...
** DragonWithAnAgenda: ...except he really isn't loyal to her and is just using her to further his own goals.
* EvilCounterpart: To Giles.
%%* EvilGloating
* EvilMentor: To Genevieve.
* EvilRedhead: Has red hair.
%%* EvilSorcerer
%%* {{Flight}}
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Giles uses a spell from Roden's spell book to kill him.]]
* MadeOfIron: Survives getting stabbed in the back with a pair of garden scissors.
%%* NighInvulnerability
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Delivers one to Faith.
%%* SmugSnake
* StatingTheSimpleSolution: Begs Genevive to kill Faith, [[GenreSavvy believing she is a threat]], but she ignores him.
%%* TreacherousAdvisor
* [[spoiler:UnwittingPawn: In Twilight's real grand scheme.]]
* WeCanRuleTogether: [[spoiler:After Faith kills Genevieve, Roden tries to convince her to replace her in his plan to kill Buffy and survive the End of Magic]].
* [[spoiler:YourHeadASplode: Thanks to Giles.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The General]]
!!The General

The second leader of the US military forces working with Twilight against the Slayer Organization.
----
* AntiVillain: In between Type III and Type IV.
%%* {{Badass}}
%%** FourStarBadass
* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:Via Simone]].
* CoDragons: To Twilight with Amy and Warren in Season 8.
* EnemyMine: Very reluctantly works with the Slayers to fight the invading demon armies.
* {{Irony}}: He ruined his career by going after and destroying the Slayer Organization, believing them to be a threat to world peace, [[spoiler:but was killed by Simone Doffler, a rogue Slayer that he didn't go after who really is a threat to the world]].
%%* KnightTemplar
%%* NoNameGiven
* PetTheDog: Allowing Dawn to get medical treatment during the [[spoiler:battle against the demons in the Sunnydale sinkhole]].
%%* {{Retirony}}
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: "The General. Name classified. Like others, works for Twilight. Also craves cheese."
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Thinks that the Slayer Organization really is a threat to world peace.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Genevieve]]
!!Lady Genevieve Savidge
[[quoteright:250:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/genevievesavidge_4570.JPG]]
->''"Buffy has forced our kind to be the serfs of this world, when we should have been lording over the masses."''

A rich British Slayer and daughter of a powerful noble, she is recruited by Roden to kill Buffy and take over the Slayer Organization in order to impose their rule on the world. She is befriended by an [[TheMole undercover Faith]], who [[spoiler:foils her attempt to kill Buffy and is then accidentally killed by Faith as she attempts to redeem her]].
----
%%* AristocratsAreEvil
%%* AnAxeToGrind
%%* {{Badass}}
* BadDreams: She is plagued by [[DreamingOfThingsToCome prophetic dreams]] and the memories of past Slayers and their deaths. One of the reasons she wants to kill Buffy is because Roden lied and told her the dreams would end when Buffy was dead.
* BareYourMidriff: Several of her outfits.
* BathtubBonding: With Faith.
%%* [[BewareTheSuperman Beware The Slayer]]
* BigBadWannabe: She is a strong Slayer who puts together a credible plan to kill Buffy, but she is easily bested in battle by Buffy and was an UnwittingPawn for Twilight in the first place.
%%* [[spoiler:BloodFromTheMouth]]
%%* BlueBlood
%%* DarkActionGirl
* DartboardOfHate: Has a picture of Buffy in a closet with several knives thrown into it.
* DrivenByEnvy: Genevieve can't believe Buffy, a colonial commoner, is the leader of the Slayers and wants to kill her to take over.
%%* EvilBrit
* FriendlessBackground: Due to being homeschooled.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: She thinks that Roden actually cares for her.
* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: Other Slayers, as training to kill Buffy.
* InSeriesNickname: "Gigi"
%%* MeaningfulName
%%* MsFanservice
%%* ParentalNeglect
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Does not consider anyone who is not nobility to be worth her time, and considers anyone from the "colonies" to be worth even less.
* PrepareToDie: Says this in a really fancy way to Buffy.
%%* TheResenter
%%* RoyalBrat
%%* SuperStrength
* UnwittingPawn: To both Twilight and Roden.
* VillainousBreakdown: Suffers one after discovering that [[TheMole "Hope"]] is not who she claimed to be and she fails to kill Buffy.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: What she thinks she is, planning to kill a "misguided" Buffy and install Slayers as leaders of a corrupt world.
[[/folder]]