History Characters / BuffyTheVampireSlayerWatchersAndSlayers

%%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
%%* JumpedAtTheCall

%%* SuperStrength

* TokenEvilTeammate: In Season 3, before she became a full-on villain.

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->''"I have no speech, no name. I live in the action of death. The blood cry, the penetrating wound. I am destruction, absolute, alone."''

* ActionGirl
* {{Badass}}
* BlessedWithSuck

* CursedWithAwesome
* CuteBruiser
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Merging with the shadowy demon that turns her into the Slayer borders on rape.
* DyingAlone
* HealingFactor

* MagicalGirlWarrior
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast

* SuperStrength

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: When in charge of Slayer bodyguards she was nice enough to offer Buffy a job, and was quite tolerant of her, given she screwed up royally in her training, was going to abandon working for her, and later punched her. [[spoiler: Later Faith screws up just as bad and tries to leave, instead she gives her a important assignment involving Riley going missing.]]

* {{Adorkable}}: It's FeliciaDay. How could she not be?

A trio of African shamans who created the first Slayer to combat the forces of evil and were the precursors to the Watchers Council. They only appear in one episode, season 7's ''Get It Done''.

[[folder:Merrick]]
!!Merrick Jamison-Smythe
->'''Played By:''' Creator/DonaldSutherland & Richard Riehle

A member of the Watchers Council and the first Watcher of the Slayer Buffy Summers. Merrick died in 1996 shortly after meeting Buffy when he committed suicide to protect her from the vampire Lothos.

%%* OmniscientMoralityLicense

%* FalseFriend: To the Scoobies, in particular Giles and Faith.

* ActionGirl

* {{Irony}}: In response to Buffy's insistence that she do things her own way rather than follow orders, Kendra cynically retorted, "No wonder you died." In the season 2 finale, her complete adherence to protocol and inability to ''not'' follow orders makes it all the easier for Drusilla to hypnotize and kill her.

-->''That's me favourite shirt! That's me only shirt!''

* NoSocialSkills

* SailorEarth

* SlashedThroat

* StuffedIntoTheFridge

* BeingEvilSucks: When she begged Angel to kill her, it was because of this.
** "Who Are You" focuses on Faith's realization of how far she's fallen from the Slayer ideal.

* BrokenBird: Lives with knowing she is borderline psychotic and has a hell of a lot to atone for.
** Even before the series started, she reveals some things about her past that weren't too pleasant.

--> '''Faith''' (While holding the Scythe) "It's old, strong and it feels like its mine. (Pauses) I guess that means it's yours."

* FreudianExcuse: Her desire to be the Mayor's surrogate daughter is unsurprising, given that he's the first parental figure she had that actually loved her. Aside from her first Watcher, who was brutally murdered in front of her.
** Even before she joined the Mayor she wasn't in the best of places mentally, having serious issues with men and authority figures.

* LeeroyJenkins
-->'''Buffy:''' "Stop, wait, think!"
-->'''Faith:''' "No, no, no."

* MentorOccupationalHazard: Faith cites this as a reason she doesn't like authority figures in general.
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: It can be argued this was Faith's reason for going rouge, as opposed to leaving town like she tried to do before the climatic showdown at the end of Consequences. Lying to someone and betraying their trust over and over while still having the gall to say 'we're your friends', like what the Scoobies do would make anyone angry.

* OlderAndWiser: Faith has come a long way from when she first appeared.

** After all, [[Series/BabylonFive Faith manages]].

* PutOnABus: Being rendered comatose, then going to jail.

* TheResenter: Buffy having everything Faith didn't while not even wanting to be the Slayer made Faith just a wee bit pissed.
* RivalTurnedEvil
* RogueAgent

* SheCleansUpNicely: Giles is clearly impressed when Faith shows off her look for going undercover at a formal party, a PimpedOutDress with AbsoluteCleavage.
** Before that was her dress she wore at the homecoming party at the Bronze, or the dress the Mayor got her.

* SixthRangerTraitor

* StreetSmart

* TortureTechnician: She was quite fond of torture - at one point, Angel complimented her on how well she knew how to do it. One wonders how a teenager knew so much about the "five basic torture groups".

* WhipItGood: "This one guy I ran with, he liked me to dress up like a schoolgirl, and take this friggen bullwhip, and I'd be like..."

%%* MsFanservice

-->"The Council fights evil. The Slayer is the instrument with which we fight. The Council remains. The Slayers... change. It's been that way from the beginning."

A senior Watcher and later one of the last Directors of the Watchers Council.

%%* ArmchairMilitary
* AwakeningTheSleepingGiant: Quentin rallies the Watchers Council to fight the First Evil, seconds before a bomb goes off and kills off the entire Watchers Council.
%%* GoodIsNotNice
%%* INeedAFreakingDrink
* {{Jerkass}}: Stoical, callous and so mired in tradition that he has no consideration for the feelings of others.

* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Pretty much the way he is to Buffy and Giles until season 7, where he was about to help them in the war against the First, before being killed. Prior to that, he was obstructive to the point of withholding vital information

-->''"Ladies and gentlemen, our fears have been confirmed. The First Evil has declared all-out war on this institution. Their first volleys proved most effective. I, for one, think it's time we struck back. (paces) Give me confirmations on all remaining operatives. Visuals and tacticals. Highest alert. Get them here as soon as possible. Begin preparations for mobilization. Once we're accounted for, I want to be ready to move. We'll be paying a visit to the Hellmouth. My friends, these are the times that define us. Proverbs 24:6. O, by wise council, you shall make your war."''
%%* VampireHunter
* WeHaveReserves: His view on Slayers.

%%* ConsummateLiar

%%* EvilMentor
%%* FalseFriend

%%* InsufferableGenius

[[folder:Lydia]]
!!Lydia
->'''Played By:''' Cynthia Lamontagne
[[/folder]]

* [[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]]

* [[HoYay LesYay]]: When fans pointed out the amount of unresolved sexual tension and obvious attraction between Faith and Buffy's interaction, Creator/JossWhedon insisted that it was utterly inadvertant. He later admitted that it was intentionally added once they discovered how much chemistry Creator/SarahMichelleGellar and Creator/ElizaDushku had with each other.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: One storyline idea was that Buffy would have found Faith had hanged herself, [[DrivenToSuicide unable to live with killing an innocent man]]. What the writers came up with instead was [[TheDragon much]] [[HeelFaceTurn more]] [[ReformedButRejected interesting]].

* ActionGirl
* {{Badass}}
** BadassLongcoat: Which Spike took.
** PregnantBadass: She continued Slaying even when she was pregnant.
* BlessedWithSuck
* TheChosenOne
* CursedWithAwesome
* MarriedToTheJob
* NeckSnap
* TheOtherDarrin: Switched from stuntwoman April Weeden-Washington to actress K.D. Aubert.
* SuperStrength
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kennedy]]
!!Kennedy
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[[caption-width-right:250:''"I've always sort of gotten my way. So you're going to make it through this no matter how dark it gets. Because now, you're my way."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Iyari Limon

Potential Slayer, self-professed brat from a rich family, and love interest for Willow in Season 7. Hated by much of the fandom. Also noteworthy as being part of the first lesbian sex scene on network television (with Willow). Willow breaks up with her at the end of Season 8, and in Season 9 Kennedy starts a company which employs Slayers as bodyguards.
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* DawsonCasting: Day was already 25 when she started playing Vi, one-and-a-half years older than Creator/ElizaDushku.

A student at Sunnydale High with Dawn, Amanda was discovered to be a potential Slayer and joined the growing army at Buffy's house. She was killed during the battle in the Hellmouth.

%%* ActionGirl
* AscendedExtra: First appeared as a girl getting advice from Buffy while she worked as a school counselor, but later revealed to be a potential Slayer.
%%* {{Badass}}

%%* DiesWideOpen

%%* JumpedAtTheCall
%%* NeckSnap
%%* SuperStrength

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Buffy has forced our kind to be the serfs of this world, when we should have been lording over the masses."'']]

->"The Council fights evil. The Slayer is the instrument with which we fight. The Council remains. The Slayers... change. It's been that way from the beginning."

-->''" In case the curse does not succeed, this is my lucky stake. I have killed many vampires with it. I call it Mr. Pointy."''

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Thank God we're hot chicks with superpowers."'']]

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-->''"You talk about slaying like it's a job. It's not. It's who you are."''

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I've always sort of gotten my way. So you're going to make it through this no matter how dark it gets. Because now, you're my way."'']]

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->''"I could use a shot of that yak urine right about now."''

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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Seems scared of this, and thinks it is why Spike went after her first on a training exercise.

%%* {{Jerkass}}
* [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]]: Seemed to think she was the only one among everyone in Sunnydale.
* RefusalOfTheCall: But embraced it at the end.

%%* UngratefulBastard

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* ActionGirl

* BrutalHonesty

* DeadpanSnarker

* JerkAss
** HiddenHeartOfGold
* JumpedAtTheCall
* LipstickLesbian

* SuperStrength

* ActionGirl

* {{Badass}}
** BadassAdorable

* CuteBruiser

* [[INeedAFreakingDrink I Need A Freaking Shot of Yak Urine]]
* NaiveNewcomer

* SuperStrength

* ActionGirl
* {{Badass}}

* DeadpanSnarker
* IJustWantToBeNormal

* SuperStrength

* ActionGirl

* {{Badass}}

* DiesWideOpen

* JumpedAtTheCall
* NeckSnap
* SuperStrength

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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."''

%%* [[spoiler:BloodFromTheMouth]]

* ArmchairMilitary

* GoodIsNotNice
* INeedAFreakingDrink

* VampireHunter

* OmniscientMoralityLicense
* PowerTrio
* ScaryBlackMan

* ConsummateLiar
* EvilBrit
* EvilMentor
* FalseFriend

* InsufferableGenius

* ManipulativeBitch

* BadassGrandpa
* DarkIsNotEvil
* DeadpanSnarker
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:In the comic, he kills himself before Lothos can turn him and force him into giving out Buffy's location.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:In both versions.]]
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:In the movie, Lothos stabs him with his own stake Merrick.]]
* TheObiWan

[[/folder]]

*

* [[Characters/AngelWolframAndHart Los Angeles Residents]]

Jamaican Slayer activated upon Buffy's (temporary, clinical) death by drowning in Season One. Killed at the end of Season 2. Unlike Buffy, she was very traditional in her ways.

Leader of the Watchers Council. A traditionalist who doesn't like the way Giles and Buffy does things. First fired Giles for being too close to Buffy, and tried to replace him with Wesley for both Faith and Buffy. Then, two years later, made them go through a review in order to see if the Scooby Gang was worthy of their intel on Glory.[[spoiler: Two years after that, Quentin, and the rest of the Watchers Council, are killed by Caleb shortly before their rallying to war and fight the First.]]

* AwakeningTheSleepingGiant: Quentin rallies the Watchers Council to fight the First Evil, [[spoiler:seconds before a bomb goes off and kills off the entire Watchers Council.]]
* {{Jerkass}}
* LackOfEmpathy: He has little regard for the relationship between Buffy and Giles and regards their emotional attatchment as a distraction and weakness.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Pretty much the way he is to Buffy and Giles. [[spoiler:Until season 7, where he was about to help them in the war against the First, before being killed.]]
* SedgwickSpeech:

-> ''"We cannot give you knowledge. Only power."''

!!Merrick
->'''Played By:''' Creator/DonaldSutherland

Buffy's first watcher before Giles. He introduced her to the supernatural world around her before she moved to Sunnydale. Only appears in the movie, origin comic and flashbacks. In both contnuity's [[spoiler: he dies to protect Buffy from Count Lothos]]

* [[spoiler: DrivenToSuicide: In the comic, he kills himself before Lothos can turn him and force him into giving out Buffy's location.]]
* [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice: In both versions]]
* [[spoiler: ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: In the movie, Lothos stabs him with his own stake Merrick.]]

--->'''Faith-in-Buffy's-body: Because it's wrong.'''

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->''"You hurt me, I hurt you. I'm just a little more efficient."''

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->"''I've always sort of gotten my way. So you're going to make it through this no matter how dark it gets. Because now, you're my way.''"

[[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.

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

Anya's old boss, and the one responsible for recruiting and training new vengeance demons.

* 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.
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* 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.
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%%* 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.
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%%* {{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.
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* [[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.
** EqualOpportunityEvil: Despite this, his gang included what looked like a few completely normal humans.
* KilledMidSentence: [[spoiler:By Tara, with an axe! BewareTheNiceOnes indeed.]]
* NewEraSpeech: He gives one to his gang after they invade Sunnydale.
-->'''Razor:''' 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]]

[[foldercontrol]]

!Slayers

[[folder:Kendra]]
!!Kendra Young
->'''Played By:''' Bianca Lawson
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Jamaican Slayer activated upon Buffy's (temporary, clinical) death by drowning in Season One. Killed at the end of Season 2. Unlike Buffy, she was very traditional in her ways.
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* ActionGirl
* CannotTalkToWomen: The {{Gender Flip}}ped version -- she has trouble talking to men who aren't her Watcher or a vampire, presumably because she grew up being forbidden to do so. Her obvious attraction to Xander, and the fact that she literally cannot voice her interest in him, only makes her eventual fate that much more painful.
* FingerPokeOfDoom: Hypnotized and rendered helpless during her duel with Drusilla, who casually [[SlashedThroat slits her throat]] with one fingernail.
* ICallItVera: She has a stake named "Mr. Pointy".
* {{Irony}}: In response to Buffy's insistence that she do things her own way rather than follow orders, Kendra cynically retorted, "No wonder you died." In the season 2 finale, her complete adherence to protocol and inability to ''not'' follow orders makes it all the easier for Drusilla to hypnotize and kill her.
* LimitedWardrobe: Lampshaded in her debut episode.
-->''That's me favourite shirt! That's me only shirt!''
* MauveShirt: Since she died in her third appearance.
* NoLastNameGiven: Kendra specifically says she has no last name. An unproduced Watcher supplement would have revealed it to be "Young", though. Presumably she didn't know it because she was raised by her Watcher instead of her parents.
* NoSocialSkills
* NumberOneDime: Her lucky stake, "Mr. Pointy". Though the stake itself is lost for good, Buffy borrows her nickname for it.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Supposedly the accent was a last-minute addition, and the dialect coach taught Lawson an accent from a very specific, obscure area of Jamaica. To both viewers and crew it just sounded like a lame Jamaican accent.
* OverlyNarrowSuperlative
* RedOniBlueOni: She seems to be blue to Buffy's red because she's a more classically trained by-the-book slayer yet her lack of experience and gung-ho attitude puts her on the red.
* SailorEarth
* SaltAndPepper: Buffy and herself.
* SlashedThroat
* StrawVulcan: Buffy eventually taught Kendra that human emotion wasn’t necessarily a hindrance to being a Slayer.
* StuffedIntoTheFridge
* ThereIsAnother
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Buffy is the chosen vampire slayer who cares about boys, clothes, and cheerleading. When the other slayer Kendra shows up she is seen as the perfect slayer: solemn, respectful, and efficient.
* WeakWilled: Effortlessly hypnotised by Drusilla while they were actually fighting; it's implied that her training and upbringing has left her with little ability to resist orders.
* WelcomeToTheCaribbeanMon
* WhyAreYouNotMySon: She and Giles hit it off straight away, much to Buffy’s annoyance.
* TheWorldsExpertOnGettingKilled: It's specifically stated that Kendra's fighting technique is slightly superior to Buffy's due to the fact that training and studying demonology are literally all she's ever done since childhood. But as the above entry notes, while a Buffy vs Angelus or Buffy vs Spike fight is sure to be an epic brawl, Kendra vs. Drusilla was a disappointing defeat for good. Kendra goes down like a RedShirt.
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[[folder:Faith]]
!!Faith Lehane
->'''Played By:''' Creator/ElizaDushku
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->''"You hurt me, I hurt you. I'm just a little more efficient."''

Slayer from Boston activated by Kendra's death at the hands of Drusilla in the penultimate episode of Season 2, and a {{Foil}} for Buffy in Season 3. Loved slaying a little too much, and ended up playing TheDragon to [[BigBad the Mayor]]. Moved to ''Series/{{Angel}}'', ended up in jail, and came back redeemed for the final few episodes.

After the battle in Sunnydale, Faith joined the others as part of the worldwide Slayer Organization, setting up shop in Cleveland, where she assisted a Slayer squad led by ex-boyfriend Robin Wood. This changed after assisting Giles with a mission against a rogue Slayer, and together they decided to find Slayers that were having difficulty with their new life and help them out.

In the aftermath of the destruction of the Seed of Wonder by Buffy and Giles' death at the hands of a brainwashed Angel, Faith remains the only person willing to associate with Angel, and is dedicated to helping him -- and herself -- find redemption.
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[[foldercontrol]]

!Slayers

[[folder:Kendra]]
!!Kendra Young
->'''Played By:''' Bianca Lawson
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Jamaican Slayer activated upon Buffy's (temporary, clinical) death by drowning in Season One. Killed at the end of Season 2. Unlike Buffy, she was very traditional in her ways.

* ActionGirl
* CannotTalkToWomen: The {{Gender Flip}}ped version -- she has trouble talking to men who aren't her Watcher or a vampire, presumably because she grew up being forbidden to do so. Her obvious attraction to Xander, and the fact that she literally cannot voice her interest in him, only makes her eventual fate that much more painful.
* FingerPokeOfDoom: Hypnotized and rendered helpless during her duel with Drusilla, who casually [[SlashedThroat slits her throat]] with one fingernail.
* ICallItVera: She has a stake named "Mr. Pointy".
* {{Irony}}: In response to Buffy's insistence that she do things her own way rather than follow orders, Kendra cynically retorted, "No wonder you died." In the season 2 finale, her complete adherence to protocol and inability to ''not'' follow orders makes it all the easier for Drusilla to hypnotize and kill her.
* LimitedWardrobe: Lampshaded in her debut episode.
-->''That's me favourite shirt! That's me only shirt!''
* MauveShirt: Since she died in her third appearance.
* NoLastNameGiven: Kendra specifically says she has no last name. An unproduced Watcher supplement would have revealed it to be "Young", though. Presumably she didn't know it because she was raised by her Watcher instead of her parents.
* NoSocialSkills
* NumberOneDime: Her lucky stake, "Mr. Pointy". Though the stake itself is lost for good, Buffy borrows her nickname for it.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Supposedly the accent was a last-minute addition, and the dialect coach taught Lawson an accent from a very specific, obscure area of Jamaica. To both viewers and crew it just sounded like a lame Jamaican accent.
* OverlyNarrowSuperlative
* RedOniBlueOni: She seems to be blue to Buffy's red because she's a more classically trained by-the-book slayer yet her lack of experience and gung-ho attitude puts her on the red.
* SailorEarth
* SaltAndPepper: Buffy and herself.
* SlashedThroat
* StrawVulcan: Buffy eventually taught Kendra that human emotion wasn’t necessarily a hindrance to being a Slayer.
* StuffedIntoTheFridge
* ThereIsAnother
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Buffy is the chosen vampire slayer who cares about boys, clothes, and cheerleading. When the other slayer Kendra shows up she is seen as the perfect slayer: solemn, respectful, and efficient.
* WeakWilled: Effortlessly hypnotised by Drusilla while they were actually fighting; it's implied that her training and upbringing has left her with little ability to resist orders.
* WelcomeToTheCaribbeanMon
* WhyAreYouNotMySon: She and Giles hit it off straight away, much to Buffy’s annoyance.
* TheWorldsExpertOnGettingKilled: It's specifically stated that Kendra's fighting technique is slightly superior to Buffy's due to the fact that training and studying demonology are literally all she's ever done since childhood. But as the above entry notes, while a Buffy vs Angelus or Buffy vs Spike fight is sure to be an epic brawl, Kendra vs. Drusilla was a disappointing defeat for good. Kendra goes down like a RedShirt.

[[folder:Faith]]
!!Faith Lehane
->'''Played By:''' Creator/ElizaDushku
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->''"You hurt me, I hurt you. I'm just a little more efficient."''

Slayer from Boston activated by Kendra's death at the hands of Drusilla in the penultimate episode of Season 2, and a {{Foil}} for Buffy in Season 3. Loved slaying a little too much, and ended up playing TheDragon to [[BigBad the Mayor]]. Moved to ''Series/{{Angel}}'', ended up in jail, and came back redeemed for the final few episodes.

After the battle in Sunnydale, Faith joined the others as part of the worldwide Slayer Organization, setting up shop in Cleveland, where she assisted a Slayer squad led by ex-boyfriend Robin Wood. This changed after assisting Giles with a mission against a rogue Slayer, and together they decided to find Slayers that were having difficulty with their new life and help them out.

In the aftermath of the destruction of the Seed of Wonder by Buffy and Giles' death at the hands of a brainwashed Angel, Faith remains the only person willing to associate with Angel, and is dedicated to helping him -- and herself -- find redemption.

!The Watcher's Council

[[folder:Travers]]
!!Quentin Travers
->'''Played By:''' Harris Yulin
->"The Council fights evil. The Slayer is the instrument with which we fight. The Council remains. The Slayers... change. It's been that way from the beginning."

Leader of the Watchers Council. A traditionalist who doesn't like the way Giles and Buffy does things. First fired Giles for being too close to Buffy, and tried to replace him with Wesley for both Faith and Buffy. Then, two years later, made them go through a review in order to see if the Scooby Gang was worthy of their intel on Glory.[[spoiler: Two years after that, Quentin, and the rest of the Watchers Council, are killed by Caleb shortly before their rallying to war and fight the First.]]

* AwakeningTheSleepingGiant: Quentin rallies the Watchers Council to fight the First Evil, [[spoiler:seconds before a bomb goes off and kills off the entire Watchers Council.]]
* {{Jerkass}}
* LackOfEmpathy: He has little regard for the relationship between Buffy and Giles and regards their emotional attatchment as a distraction and weakness.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Pretty much the way he is to Buffy and Giles. [[spoiler:Until season 7, where he was about to help them in the war against the First, before being killed.]]
* SedgwickSpeech:
* VampireHunter
* WeHaveReserves: His view on Slayers.

[[folder:The Shadow Men]]
!!The Shadow Men
->'''Played By:''' Geoffrey Kasule, Karara Muhoro, Daniel Wilson
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-> ''"We cannot give you knowledge. Only power."''

A trio of African shamans who created the first Slayer to combat the forces of evil and were the precursors to the Watchers Council. They only appear in one episode, season 7's ''Get It Done''.

* IntelligibleUnintelligible: When Buffy meets them, they only speak African (subtitled, of course), but Buffy is somehow able to understand them perfectly.
* NeglectfulPrecursors: Their descendants and apprentices would go on to form the [[ObstructiveBureaucrat Watchers Council]]. Good job on that one, guys.
* OmniscientMoralityLicense
* PowerTrio
* ScaryBlackMan
* SquishyWizard: It doesn't take much for Buffy to knock them on their keisters.

[[folder:Merrick]]
!!Merrick
->'''Played By:''' Creator/DonaldSutherland

Buffy's first watcher before Giles. He introduced her to the supernatural world around her before she moved to Sunnydale. Only appears in the movie, origin comic and flashbacks. In both contnuity's [[spoiler: he dies to protect Buffy from Count Lothos]]

* BadassGrandpa
* DarkIsNotEvil
* DeadpanSnarker
* [[spoiler: DrivenToSuicide: In the comic, he kills himself before Lothos can turn him and force him into giving out Buffy's location.]]
* [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice: In both versions]]
* [[spoiler: ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: In the movie, Lothos stabs him with his own stake Merrick.]]
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: In the movie he is reincarnated everytime he dies and has to live the same life and train a new Slayer. This is not the case in the show.