History Characters / BuffyTheVampireSlayerBigBads

%%* SophisticatedAsHell

* VillainousBreakdown: [[ForgottenFallenFriend Really briefly]], due to Darla's death.

* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: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)]].

* BadassGrandpa: He's the oldest vampire seen in the show, and one of the most dangerous.

%%* CompellingVoice
* CurbStompBattle: It took him a few seconds to kill Wishverse!Buffy.

* EvilMakesYouMonstrous: "He has grown past the curse of human features."

%%* FangThpeak

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Courtesy of Buffy in the Season 1 finale.]]

* 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.

%%* TheOlderImmortal
* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler:When compared to every other vampire death in the series.]]

%%* WickedCultured

* 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.

!!TheMaster AKA Heinrich Joseph Nest

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.

* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: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}}: He ''killed'' [[TheHero Buffy]] twice, once in the Wishverse and once in reality. Not defeated, not forced into a HeroicSacrifice, but ''killed'' her flat out. [[spoiler:Even after she returns, it takes a truly RasputinianDeath before he's done.]] Background info reveals he's killed a Slayer besides Buffy and forcibly sired another.

* BaldOfEvil: Has no hair.

* BloodBath: The pilot has him hanging out in a pool of blood while [[NonNudeBathing fully dressed]].

* DeaderThanDead: [[spoiler: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.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: He has quite a dry sense of humor

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: The Master 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 [[spoiler:Darla is staked.]]

* NoOntologicalInertia: [[spoiler:His death causes the recently-released EldritchAbomination that dwells in the Hellmouth to retreat.]]

* StrippedToTheBone: [[spoiler:Unlike the rest of him, his skeleton didn't turn to dust.]]
%%* StrongerWithAge
%%* VampireMonarch

->'''Played By:''' Adam Busch

->'''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

->'''Played By:''' Clare Kramer

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* AIIsACrapshoot: Buffy notes that "the part where he's pure evil and kills randomly was an oversight".

* BigBad: Of Season 4.

* BlanketFort: "Restless":

* EnemyToAllLivingThings: Living, dead, undead.

* EvilSoundsDeep: Speaks in a prominent baritone.

%%* MonsterModesty

* NamesTheSame: The titular monster of Shelley's novel is named "Adam," too. His encounter with a child sadly goes similarly.

%%* SuperLoser

-->''"I'll kill your mom, I'll kill your friends and I'll make you watch when I do. Just give me the Key. You either have it or you know where to find it. Obviously, this is a one-time-only deal. Next time we meet, something you love dies bloody. You know you can't take me. You know you can't stop me."##

* PsychopathicManchild: Of the cosmic variety.

* 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.

* [[Characters/BuffyTheVampireSlayerScoobyGang The Scooby Gang]][[note]]Buffy Summers, Willow Rosenberg, Xander Harris, Rupert Giles, Angel, Cordelia Chase, Anya Jenkins, Daniel "Oz" Osbourne, Spike, Riley Finn, Dawn Summers, Tara Maclay[[/note]]

* [[Characters/AngelWolframAndHart Los Angeles Residents]]

* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Phlegmatic

** NamesTheSame: The titular monster of Shelley's novel is named "Adam," too. His encounter with a child sadly goes similarly.

* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: A Frankenstein created from human and demon parts meshed together with cybernetics.

%%* OnlyOneName

%%* PsychoticSmirk

%%* SpikyHair
%%* SpockSpeak

%%* UltimateLifeform

%%* HumanoidAbomination

[[folder:Warren/The Trio]]

%%* BasementDweller

* KilledMidSentence:

%%* MadScientist

->'''Played By:''' Creator/JulieBenz, 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

* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal: After she becomes a Slaypire, Buffy graphically stakes her with the Scythe. She will not be missed.]]

* [[spoiler:VampireVannabe: A big part of her plan is to become a vampire with Slayer powers to kill Buffy.]]

[[folder: Severin/The Siphon]]

* [[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.]]

* BadBoss: See EyeScream. That was ''not'' an isolated incident.

%%* DeadpanSnarker

%%* FauxAffablyEvil

!!![[Characters/BuffyTheVampireSlayerRegulars See Buffy Regulars]]

%%* VillainWithGoodPublicity

%%* EvilSoundsDeep

%%* ObviouslyEvil

* WouldHurtAChild: Oh Adam, you get up to such shenanigans in your first few minutes of life.

* AxCrazy: Juuuust a little bit.

%%* PhysicalGod

* 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.

* ArchEnemy: To Willow. Funnily, he didn't start off as this: he was pretty adamant about being Buffy's archnemesis, since of course she's the big hero. He incurred Willow's wrath entirely by accident, but from there on they're vicious enemies particularly in Season 8.
* AssholeVictim: Willow skins him alive. Horrifying? Yes. Deserved? Good God, did he have that coming.

* AxCrazy: Warren held it together pretty well initially, but as he gains more confidence and descends deeper into evil, he starts to relish violence and death. The guy who built a fully-functioning freeze way ends up shooting at Buffy in her back garden out of pure humiliation.

%%* FauxAffablyEvil

* {{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. He even programmed her not to cry, because 'crying is blackmail'. 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...

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The number of times Warren uses the word "bitch" would make a good drinking game. From his first appearance, he shows very little regard for women, not seeing them as human beings.

* 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 the Mayor, it says, "You see I am part of the First, as you kids call it, but I'm also me, Richard Wilkins III, late mayor and founder of Sunnydale".

%%* TheSocialDarwinist

* 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.

%%* DissonantSerenity

%%* EvilRedhead
%%* EvilSorcerer
%%* EvilVirtues

%%* GigglingVillain

%%* PermanentElectedOfficial

* StepfordSmiler: Averted. He really is that optimistic and cheery.

* VideoWills: Faith watches the tape in season 4.

* VillainousBSOD / MadnessMantra: Suffers a brief one when he finds Faith in a coma.
-->''She's going to be all right. She'll be all right. She'll be all right.''

* FromNobodyToNightmare: And does it all under his own power.

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Was on the receiving end of a ''lot'' of bullying growing up, mentioning how he used to cry himself to sleep.

* NotSoHarmlessVillain: The poster boy.

->'''Played By:''' Creator/JulieBenz, 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''."''

* 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]]. [[spoiler:This bites it in the ass when it accidentally gives Buffy the idea to bestow the Slayer power to the Potentials.]]
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome / PutOnABus: [[spoiler: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.]]

* 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.]]

* OhCrap: [[spoiler:When Buffy, who it was just taunting, gets up from a supposedly mortal wound during the FinalBattle.]]

* 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.")

* WeCanRuleTogether: Tries this on Andrew and Spike.

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Let's see how popular you are without a face."'']]

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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]])

%%* [[spoiler:LivingBodysuit]]
%%* [[spoiler:TheMole]]

%%* [[spoiler:UnwittingPawn]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"We can be the agents of change and fear we were meant to be. It's who we are."'']]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Oh, good. The feeble banter portion of the fight."'']]

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* 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).

** 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.

** BadBoss: Implied to have shades of this, even to Faith.
--->'''Mayor''': [[YouHaveFailedMe If you fail again]], well, replacing Mr. Trick was hard enough.

* 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.

%%* NeatFreak

%%* StraightEdgeEvil

* VillainousBSOD / MadnessMantra: Suffers a brief one when [[spoiler:he finds Faith in a coma]].

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"No one - no human, no demon has ever been as awake and alive as I am. You are all just shadows."'']]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Did anybody order an apocalypse?"'']]

[[folder:The Trio]]

!!Jonathan Levinson
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I don't deserve this. I wasn't even that evil."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Danny Strong

-->''"I really miss it. 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 wanna talk to them, you know? I wanna find out how they're doing. I-I wanna know what's going on in their lives."''

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
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I admit I went over to the Dark Side, but only to pick up a few things."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Tom Lenk

-->''"Join me on a new voyage of the mind. A little tale I like to call: Buffy, Slayer of the Vampyrs."'

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.
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* 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.
-->'''Buffy:''' When your blood pours out, it might save the world. What do you think about that? Does it buy it all back? Are you redeemed?
-->'''Andrew:''' No!
-->'''Buffy:''' Why not?
-->'''Andrew:''' Because I killed him! Because I listened to Warren, and I pretended I thought it was him, but I knew I knew it wasn't. [[spoiler:And I killed Jonathan]]. And now you're gonna kill me. And I'm scared, and I'm going to die. And this this is what Jonathan felt.
* 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: Andrew has an unfortunate tendency to distort his own past
* LoveMakesYouEvil: It's all but outright stated that he was in love with Warren.
* 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:Andrew is mostly harmless, but he shows a giddy excitement when the Trio kill Katrina and seemingly get away with it, and he later kills Jonathan after being pressured into it by the First Evil.]]
* {{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: He has some magical ability, but not much.
* SycophanticServant: To Warren, who he seemed to be in love with.
* TookALevelInBadAss: [[spoiler:During the final battle of Season 8 in the hole in the ground formerly known as Sunnydale, Andrew is seen killing several demons. He takes another level when he 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", which involves his tendency to change the narrative of events to make himself appear more guiltless or cooler in general.
* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler:In Season 9, Buffy and Spike give him complete and total hell after he 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.
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[[folder:The First Evil]]
!!The First Evil
->'''Played By:''' Creator/JulieBenz, 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''."''

A unique entity that predated man and demon, apparently the personification of the concept of evil itself, manifested from all evil in existence. The First was an incorporeal presence that could assume the form of any person who had died, including vampires and persons who had been resurrected. Because of this it appeared in various forms depending who it sought to manipulate. Its true appearance, or the one it used to portray its true appearance, was seemingly in the form of a large robed bestial demon.
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** [[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]].

* 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.

%%* EvilGenius

* 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]].

* {{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...

* GrandTheftMe: Nearly succeeded in [[spoiler:stealing Willow's body]].

%%* ManipulativeBastard

* NotQuiteDead: In the comics. [[spoiler:To prevent FanonDisContinuity, please imagine it is BackFromTheDead.]]
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: The poster boy.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The number of times Warren uses the word "bitch" would make a good drinking game.

%%* 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.

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

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

* AIIsACrapshoot:
--> '''Doctor:''' Adam, Maggie would want you to stand down.

* AndShowItToYou: His death.

%%* CreepyMonotone
%%* {{Cyborg}}

%%* GatlingGood

* MixAndMatchMan

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.

%%* AllWomenLoveShoes

* 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.

* BlondesAreEvil: Glory has blond hair and is VERY bad news.

-->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.

* CunningLinguist: Can speak any demon or human language.

%%* FauxAffablyEvil

%%* IHaveYouNowMyPretty

%%* ItsAllAboutMe

%%* MsFanservice

%%* SuperStrength

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.

%%* AxCrazy

* BigBad: For Season 6--[[spoiler:Dark Willow's more of a FinalBoss than a schemer]].

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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."''

!!Tropes that apply to Simone Doffler

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Does it even need to be said?

* 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.

* [[Characters/AngelLosAngelesResidents Los Angeles Residents]]

* [[Characters/AngelWolframAndHart Los Angeles Residents]]

%%* IRejectYourReality
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Very heavily implied that he had a crush on Warren. Practically stated.
%%* KarmaHoudini

* NotSoHarmlessVillain: [[spoiler:Killing Jonathan]].

%%* 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.

->'''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

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.

%%* GodOfEvil

%%* AsLongAsThereIsEvil

** 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.

%%* DeadpanSnarker
%%* DeadPersonImpersonation

%%* DreamWeaver

%%* EnemyToAllLivingThings

* FusionDance: Does one with Caleb.
%%* {{Gaslighting}}
%%* GenericDoomsdayVillain

%%* LargeHam
%%* MadeOfEvil
%%* ManipulativeBastard

%%* ShapeshifterGuiltTrip

%%* TheTropeWithoutATitle
%%* UltimateEvil
%%* VaguenessIsComing

%%* WeAreEverywhere

* 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.

* TheBeastMaster: He is the original boss of the Hellmouth demon.

* 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.

* 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.

* FamousLastWords: "Where are your jibes now? Will you laugh when my hell is on Earth?"

* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Choleric

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Courtesy of Buffy in the Season 1 finale.

* NoOntologicalInertia: His death causes the recently-released EldritchAbomination that dwells in the Hellmouth to retreat.

* RasputinianDeath: When compared to every other vampire death in the series.

* SealedEvilInACan: He was trapped in the Hellmouth for centuries.

* StrippedToTheBone: Unlike the rest of him, his skeleton didn't turn to dust.

[[/folder]]

!Big Bads

[[caption-width-right:350''"Oh, good. The feeble banter portion of the fight."'']]

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->"''We're, like, supervillains.''"

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-->''"I admit I went over to the Dark Side, but only to pick up a few things."''

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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]]."''

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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

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

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-->''"Let's see how popular you are without a face."''