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Snyder

Principal R. Snyder

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"Kids...I don't like 'em."

Portrayed By: Armin Shimerman

"A lot of educators tell students, "Think of your principal as your pal." I say, "Think of me as your judge, jury, and executioner.""

The conservative, paranoid, and authoritarian Principal of Sunnydale High from 1997 to 1999, following the death of Principal Robert Flutie.

In direct contact with the Mayor of Sunnydale, Principal Snyder spent a good deal of his efforts covering up the otherworldly occurrences that took place in the school through contrived and flimsy explanations. Aside from that, Snyder was also keen on maintaining and improving the school's image without any real concern for the students that went there.

Adults Are Useless: And in Snyder's case, they're actively opposing you.
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Early in Season 3, his reasons for not letting Buffy back into Sunnydale High, even after she was found innocent of Kendra's death, are her poor grades, spotty attendance record, and, above all else, "tingling pleasure" that he didn't have to put up with her anymore.
Asshole Victim: After three seasons of being a dick to Buffy and actively trying to have her expelled, not one crap was given, by the characters or the audience, when Snyder was eaten by the newly-Ascended Mayor Wilkins.
Xander: (to Snyder in a dream sequence) You know, I never got the chance to tell you how glad I was you were eaten by a snake.
Bald of Evil: To the point where he demonstrated deriving pleasure from Buffy in pain, something not even who he worked for would have much appreciated.
Breakout Character: When he was hired to play Snyder, Shimerman was told that each principal would get killed after a handful of episodes as a Running Gag. But it turned out that the creators liked Snyder enough to keep him through the remainder of the high school episodes.
Child Hater: A strict disciplinarian with an avowed hatred for teenagers. He once compared them to locusts, and when questioned on why he chose to be a high school principal, he claimed he had to keep an eye on them as they were "a bunch of hormonal time bombs" that he aimed to guide, especially when it came to discipline, respect and punctuality - which were, essentially, what he viewed as important in life
Day in the Limelight: "Band Candy" was the episode that feature him more than any other, albeit completely out of character. Makes one wonder what happened to him to have messed up him so much.
Deadpan Snarker: His introduction has him snarking an Ironic Echo at the Scoobies about the talent show, and he doesn't stop there. Armin Shimmerman is clearly having a blast.
Dean Bitterman: He hates Buffy so much that when he expels her at one point (because she was framed for murder — he also lied to the cops about it); Giles has to brutalize him and intimidate him into taking her back because he was willing to refuse even orders from the Supreme Court. There is the implication that he isn't actually a teacher. And of course, he is somewhat redeemed by two things: first, the immortal line "Whoaa Summers! You drive like a SPAZZZZ", and telling the Scaled Up Mayor to get the hell off his campus.
Death by Irony: In the episode where he first appears, he talks about how the previous principal got eaten. Guess what happens to him in the Season 3 finale.
Even Evil Has Standards: He seems genuinely freaked out when the Mayor turns and starts devouring students and parents, implying he had no idea what his eventual plan was, and tries, albeit to no avail, to stand up to him.
- While he forces Willow to act as his tutor which he knows will basically mean her doing all of his work, Snyder does make clear that he doesn't like Percy West whom he describes as "spoiled, lazy and selfish" to Percy's face.
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: He's so venomous and cynical that the idea of a teacher who genuinely wants to help kids learn and grow is baffling to him:
Snyder: You really have faith in those kids, don't you?
Giles: Yes, I do.
Snyder: Weird.
Evil Gloating: He takes the time during the season 2 finale to rub Buffy's expulsion in her face, outright stating that the police are "deeply stupid" and would never find out that Buffy didn't beat up her friends or kill Kendra. Contrary to his expectations, the cops do find out that Buffy was innocent during the Time Skip between seasons 2 and 3.
Fiction Isn't Fair: He's rather over-the-top in his freely-expressed hatred of students and the degree to which he openly and publicly gloats at the prospect of having them expelled. Possibly justified in that the Mayor of Sunnydale is a century-old evil sorcerer actively plotting to transform himself into a giant snake-demon, and the entire town was founded in order to further his evil schemes, so one can only assume that the Sunnydale School Board isn't likely to be very receptive to parental complaints. This is at one point subverted. After Buffy was expelled and Snyder refused to let her back, Giles threatened to make a formal complaint. Snyder tells him to take it to the school board. Giles tells him he was thinking of the state supreme court. Snyder still refuses and only relents after Giles basically threatened to beat the crap out of him... which of course would get Giles fired in real life. Writer's convenience for the win!
Freudian Excuse: It's hinted that he had Mommy Issues. Also, there's this:
Buffy: You never ever got a single date in high school, did you?
Snyder: Your point being?
Hate Sink: Even before the reveal that he's in leagues with the Mayor, Snyder is shown to be a cruel and sadistic man who takes pleasure in making Buffy's life miserable.
Hidden Depths: "Band Candy" reveals that he was a fairly sweet-natured and likable teen. He also reveals that he enjoys practicing Taekwondo in his free time.
Insane Troll Logic: Uses plenty of this to pin trouble on Buffy. At one point, he’s able to turn her stopping a gunman from shooting someone on the school premises into her deserving detention for causing trouble.
Jerkass to One: While he's a Sadist Teacher and Child Hater in general, Snyder focuses quite a bit of his venom on Buffy and the Scooby Gang. He's always fully prepared to believe the worst in Buffy, to the extent that he admits to getting "tingling pleasure" out of messing with her. It's to the extent that in the season 2 finale, when Buffy is believed to be a murder suspect, Snyder, despite full knowledge that she didn't kill anyone, lies to the police and says that Buffy is always behind any trouble.
Judge, Jury, and Executioner: He explicitly refers to himself as this.
Kick the Dog: He goes out of his way as much as he can to be horrible to Buffy, practically salivating with joy at the prospect of keeping her out of school.
Killed Mid-Sentence: Decides to try shouting at the newly ascended Mayor to be quiet. It goes about as well as you'd expect.
"You're on my campus buddy and when I say I want quiet I want-"
Last-Name Basis: We never find out his name though it starts with an "R".
Meaningful Name: Snyder — snide.
Mole in Charge: He's working for the Mayor, acting as a banal antagonist to Buffy and the Scoobies. Snyder is fully aware of the Hellmouth, although he isn't clued into the Mayor's actual plans.
The Napoleon: He's about 5'2, much shorter even than most of the teenage characters, and is a petty, egotistical and all-around unpleasant little tyrant.
Pet the Dog: While he's an absolute dick to the Scooby Gang, he does have respect for Willow's academic achievements and treats her with a bit more respect (relatively speaking) than the rest of them.
Sadist Teacher: He hated Buffy from the minute he saw her and constantly tried to get her expelled, succeeding at the end of season 2 when circumstantial evidence led the police to think Buffy had murdered Kendra and beaten up her friends. After she was cleared of all charges, Snyder still refused to let her back into Sunnydale High simply because he was glad that she was gone, but the school board, along with physical and professional threats from Giles, forced him to change his mind.
Secret-Keeper: He knew about the existence of the Hellmouth all along — and was even charged to keep it a secret from as many people as possible by the Mayor himself. There's some implication he knew about the Slayer and the Scoobies too, which may explain why he was constantly picking on them.
Smug Snake: He's a banal antagonist to the Scoobies, but he's far too pleased with himself. He takes deep satisfaction in victimising Buffy but he himself is just pawn of the Mayor.
Swallowed Whole: By an ascended Mayor.
Tagalong Kid: After regressing to his adolescent self. ("Band Candy")
Tyrant Takes the Helm: After Flutie is killed, Snyder takes control and Sunnydale High becomes an even worse place to send your kids.
Used to Be a Sweet Kid: When transformed back into a teenager ("Band Candy"), he was shown to be a relatively friendly dork and seemingly looked up to the Scoobies. He even liked Oz's cool hair!
"Whoa, Summers, you drive like a spaz!"
Weirdness Censor: Averted. He's fully aware of the Hellmouth and demonic activity and it's even implied that he's aware that Buffy is the Slayer. What he doesn't know is just what Mayor Wilkins is planning, only that his role as principal is to screw over Buffy in particular, a task he greatly relishes.
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: The Mayor promises him a reward for his services. A few hours later, he eats him.

Flutie

Principal Robert Flutie

"When I was your age we cared about the school's reputation and the football team's record, all that stuff! Of course, when I was your age I was surrounded by old guys telling me how much better things were when they were my age."

Portrayed By: Ken Lerner

Buffy: Mr. Flutie...

Mr. Flutie: All the kids here are free to call me Bob.

Buffy: Bob—

Mr. Flutie: But they don't.

The principal of Sunnydale High when Buffy Summers arrived in Sunnydale.

Cruel and Unusual Death: Literally eaten alive by some troublemakers. He's clearly terrified as the Pack surround, torment, and eventually pounce on him and tear him apart alive.
Devoured by the Horde: Flutie is killed and eaten by a group of students possessed by hyena spirits.
Mauve Shirt: This guy wasn't introduced in The Pack; he was in the first four episodes. Thus his death has more impact than previous ones.
Nice Guy: Well-meaning, but bumbling and largely incompetent.
Reasonable Authority Figure: He tries to come down on troublemakers and is willing to give Buffy the benefit of the doubt.
Shoo Out the Clowns: Flutie was the bumbling but well-meaning principal who offered some comedic moments in Buffy's mundane school life during the first six episodes. His brutal and grisly death is the first indication that the series is unafraid to kill off recurring characters and that nobody - even those most removed from and unaware of the supernatural - will be safe.

Wood

Principal Robin Wood

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"I knew I signed on for something, but, Buffy, I'm just a guy. Granted, a cool and sexy vampire-fighting guy, but still."

Portrayed By: D.B. Woodside & Damani Roberts

"I'm only saying that once you see true evil, it can have some serious afterburn, and then you can't unsee what you saw. Ever."

The principal of the rebuilt Sunnydale High School. He was a freelance vampire hunter, seeking revenge on the vampire that had killed his mother, the Slayer, Nikki Wood.

Badass Bookworm: He's an experience teacher and school principal who is also a skilled vampire hunter. He can grade your papers and kick your ass.
Badass in a Nice Suit: He wears some very nice suits and can kick serious ass when he has to.
Badass Normal: Despite having no extraordinary powers, Wood is a solid badass: he's well-trained, rarely shows fear and is capable of killing multiple vampires with relative ease. He doesn't match up to Buffy, but who does?
Bald of Authority: Both as a former principal and now that he's leading a Slayer squad in Cleveland, the location of a second Hellmouth.
Badass Teacher: A badass school principal and son of a Slayer. Even Buffy is amazed at how capable he is.
Beware the Nice Ones: Wood is one of the coolest and nicest guys you could meet, but there's a great deal of unresolved rage bubbling beneath the surface that is terrifying when released.
Best Served Cold: He's been planning his revenge since 1977.
Birds of a Feather: When he goes on a date with Buffy he reveals that he is the son of a former slayer. Later Faith would sleep with Wood.
The Bus Came Back: In Season 9. Buffy seeks out his advice after finding out she's pregnant.
Brooklyn Rage: He's originally from New York City.
Deadpan Snarker: He can match Buffy and Faith easily in this regard.
Disney Death: In the Series Finale, which he does on purpose to freak Faith out.
Good Counterpart: Could arguably be considered one to Daniel Holtz, one of the Big Bads of Angel season 3. Both lost their families to vampires (the vampires in question are Angel and Spike, respectively) and sought vengeance. Like Holtz, Wood found positively no solace in Spike's ensoulment or remorse and only cared about his revenge. However, Robin eventually managed to let go of his hate and become a trusted friend and ally to the Scooby Gang, whereas Holtz was single-mindedly consumed by his desire for vengeance to his last breath. As to how intentional this might be, check the last names: "holz" (without the "t", but close enough) means "wood" in German.
Has a Type: He definitely seems to have a thing for Slayers.
Heartbroken Badass: His mother's death spurred him on to become an intensely cool badass.
Hot Teacher: Buffy and Faith most certainly think so.
Last-Minute Hookup: With Faith. This is over by Season 8, though they remain friends and allies.
Last-Name Basis: Most of the Scoobies just call him "Wood."
Muggle Born of Mages: His mother was a Slayer. Although he has no powers himself, he's still a damn good fighter.
Nice Guy: Although far from a doormat, Wood is an all-round decent guy who treats others with compassion and consideration.
Put on a Bus: This happens in S8 in an identical way to how many Fanfics do it.
Reasonable Authority Figure: He is about as far removed from Principal Snyder as it is possible to get; understanding, in touch with the students, not remotely condescending and eager to see his students reach their full potential. And he can deal with the trouble-makers very effectively too.
Roaring Rampage of Revenge: In his twenties, he spent all his time trying to hunt down and kill Spike, until realizing that it was hopeless. While he continued killing vampires and demons, hoping he would eventually come across Spike, he did so in a less reckless manner.
Sharp-Dressed Man: While principal of Sunnydale High.
You Killed My Father: To Spike, who killed his mother Nikki.

Teachers

Gregory

Dr. Stephen Gregory

"I gather you had a few problems at your last school?"

Portrayed By: William Monaghan

"Don't be sorry. Be smart. And please don't listen to the Principal or anyone else's negative opinions about you. Let's make 'em eat that permanent record. What do you say?"

A Science teacher at Sunnydale High who taught the Scoobies Biology.

Cool Teacher: He doesn't condescend to Buffy while also making it clear that he thinks she has great untapped potential.
Nice Guy: Gregory was a Stern Teacher, but everyone liked him and Giles considered him a "civilized man" who had no enemies.
Off with His Head!: The She-Mantis eats his head.
Reasonable Authority Figure: He's one of the few teachers who sees great potential in Buffy and gives her firm encouragement.
Red Shirt: Gregory appeared very briefly earlier in Season 1, before being killed in "Teacher's Pet".
Stern Teacher: He doesn't suffer fools or accept excuses from his students, but he wants to see them succeed.

Marin

Coach Carl Marin

"They're gonna be the best. I don't accept anything less."

Portrayed By: Charles Cyphers

Appears In: "Go Fish"

"I'm just lookin' after my boys. They may be out of the game right now, but they're still a team. And a team's gotta eat."

A Sunnydale High P.E teacher and the Swim team Coach.

Asshole Victim: It's hard to say he didn't deserve his fate 100%.
A Father to His Men: What he pretends to be, saying he cares about his boys by feeding them after their transformation. If he gave a damn about them in the first place, he wouldn't have been exposing them to steroids.
Faux Affably Evil: Marin tries to act like a typical hardass but caring coach. He's actually deeply insane.
Hoist by His Own Petard: Buffy escapes the rape attempt and the monsters go for the coach instead.
"Wow...they really love their coach."
Just Desserts: He's eaten by his 'boys'.
Meaningful Name: Karl MARIN. (as in MARINe biologist)
Self-Disposing Villain: While trying to kill Buffy, he falls into the pit he's been keeping his fish monsters in.
Skewed Priorities: The Coach believes it's important to win...even if this means continually exposing teenagers to a steroid gas that transforms them into vicious, mindless beasts.
Buffy: Why?
Marin: What kind of question is that? For the win! To make my team the best they could be! Do you understand we have a shot at the state championship?
Buffy: Do you understand that I don't care? It's over! There's not gonna be any swim team.
Marin: Boy, when they were handing out school spirit, you didn't even stand in line, did you?
Buffy: No. I was in the line for shred of sanity.

Grace

Grace Newman

"I just want you to be able to have some kind of normal life. We can never have that - don't you see?"

Portrayed By: Meredith Salenger, David Boreanaz, Sarah Bibb, Miriam Flynn

Appears In: "I Only Have Eyes For You"

"I'm the one who should be sorry, James. You thought I stopped loving you. But I never did. I loved you with my last breath."

A Sunnydale High History teacher in 1955.

During her time at the school she began an affair with honor roll student James Stanley, but when she attempted to break it off to give him a chance at a normal relationship James lost his temper and shot her, subsequently taking his own life in grief.

Gender Bender: To put an end to James' haunting, she possesses a male, Angelus.
Mrs. Robinson: She embarks on a romance with her student, James.
Remonstrating with a Gun/Railing Kill: How she was killed.
Unequal Pairing: She's a teacher having an affair with an underage student.

Jenny

Jennifer "Jenny" Calendar AKA Janna of the Kalderash

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"You know, people are always sending stuff my way. They know the occult's my turf."

Portrayed By: Robia La Morte

"I know our ways are strange to you, but soon you will join us in the twentieth century, with three whole years to spare."

A Computing teacher at Sunnydale High. She was also an ally of the Scooby Gang and the love of Rupert Giles.

She hid from all of them that she was a member of Clan Kalderash sent to watch over Angel, and went by the name Jennifer Calendar.

Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Giles, at first.
"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: The entire Angelus arc of season 2 could have been avoided if her clan had told her and the Scoobies about the conditions of Angel's curse.
Finding Judas: She lied to them about Angel and the curse, but she didn't mean anything bad to happen.
Forgotten Fallen Friend: Played with. Her demise at Angel's hands is mentioned several times in Seasons 2 and 3, both in Giles' mourning of her and Xander insisting to Buffy that Angelus needs to die for it. After "Amends," when the First assumes Jenny's form, she's never explicitly mentioned again for the rest of the show.
Hidden Depths: She goes from a normal high-school computer teacher/"techno-pagan" to a Romani woman sent to watch over the vampire her people cursed with a soul.
Hippie Teacher: See Giles' Eye Take when he hears about Jenny's nude mud dance at Burning Man.
Hot Gypsy Woman: Though without the associated stereotypes.
- Though it is played with — she has the dark hair, the exotic sensuality (in contrast to Stuffy Brit Giles) and the magical background, and the hot temper in her arguments with Giles.
Hot Teacher: Giles is very attracted to her (and so is Xander a bit). Robia LaMorte is certainly easy on the eyes.
Hot Witch: Actually a techno-pagan, because her powers aren't strong enough to make her a fully-fledged witch.
Locked Out of the Loop: She was only told to keep Buffy and Angel apart; she wasn't informed that Angel's happiness with Buffy would be his Curse Escape Clause until after the damage was already done.
The Lost Lenore: To Giles after her death.
The Mole: Sent to Sunnydale to keep an eye on Angel.
Neck Snap: How Angelus kills her.
Opposites Attract: Her idea of dating spots with Giles are a football game and monster truck rally.
Romani: Real name Janna Kalderash.
Sacrificial Lion: Her death is meant to prove one thing to both the characters and the audience: no one is safe as of this episode, and Angel is not "just a little evil," he's not "grouchy," he's truly evil and Buffy has to do something about it.
Science Wizard: Jenny was a computer science teacher and a magic expert. She and Giles briefly clashed over merging technology with magic.

Other Faculty

Greenliegh

Nurse Ruth Greenliegh

"This has got to stop, Carl. Those poor children."

Portrayed By: Conchata Ferrell

Appears In: "Go Fish"

Coach Marin: Take good care of my boy, Ruthie.

Nurse Greenliegh: I always do.

The Sunnydale High nurse.

Cruel and Unusual Death: Being eaten alive in gruesome fashion by the swim team.
Heel Realization: Comes to see that the experiments she and Coach Marin are doing on the students are wrong after seeing the full effects of the mutations they are undergoing. Unfortunately, Marin remains unconvinced by her pleas.
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: When she tells Coach Marin of her concerns, he gleefully pushes her into a pool with his boys. She's subsequently eaten.

Platt

Stephen Platt

"Look, Buffy, any person — grownup, shrink, pope — any person who claims to be totally sane is either lying or not very bright. I mean, everyone has problems. Everybody has demons, right?"

Portrayed By: Phil Lewis

Appears In: "Beauty and the Beasts"

"We're not gonna be friends. You have friends already, I hope. Friends are a good thing. Mm-hm. They like you, agree with you, tell you what you wanna hear. That's not what you need right now. What you need is a trained, not... too crazy professional who will always give you his honest opinion."

The Sunnydale High guidance counselor.

All Therapists Are Muggles: Unlike other examples of this trope - Platt, despite not knowing the specifics of what happened to Buffy, is able to figure out the basics what happened to her, empathize with her pain and offer good advice. From Debbie's words, he was also able to figure out the basics of her and Pete.
The Confidant: Unwilling to share her secret re Angel with the Scoobies, Buffy goes to confide in Platt as he appears to be quirky enough to listen. Unfortunately Pete has got there first.
Reasonable Authority Figure: An adult who seems to genuinely try to engage with Buffy and get her to open up about what is dwelling on her (specifically about her relationship with Angel).
We Hardly Knew Ye: In just one scene, he seems to actually get through to Buffy and helps her come to an easier mental place after returning to Sunnydale, and Buffy comes away appreciative that there's someone willing to hear her out without harshly judging her. Unfortunately, he's almost immediately killed off by Pete Clarner afterward.

Students

Larry

Larry Blaisdell

"How do you think people are going to look at me once they find out I'm gay?"

Portrayed By: Larry Bagby III

"It's ironic. I mean, all those times I beat the crap out of you, it musta been because I recognized something in you that I didn't want to believe about myself."

A brawny and generally unpleasant Sunnydale High student involved in sports.

Armored Closet Gay: Larry covers up his hidden homosexuality by being an overly macho bully who frequently leers at female students. He even sexually accosts Buffy during gym.
The Bully: Perhaps not to the extent of some others as he's seen occasionally getting along with Oz and Xander prior to taking a level in kindness, but he doesn't hesitate to use his fists on weaker students.
Bury Your Gays: Poor Larry is killed by a transformed Mayor, who swipes him off his feet with his tail. When Larry lands, he breaks his neck.
Jerk Jock: As part of his armored closet; he's a talented football player and a bully to go with it.
Lovable Jock: After he comes out and his subsequent level in kindness, he becomes this.
Straight Gay: There's very little to indicate his sexuality except for his admission.
Took a Level in Badass: He actually steps up when the time comes to do battle with the Mayor, and is a member of La Résistance in the Wishverse.
Took a Level in Kindness: After coming out and making peace with who he is, Larry becomes a much nicer, even sweet guy who is considerate of others.

Cassie

Cassandra "Cassie" Newton

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"Some things, I just know. I don't know how I do, I just do."

Portrayed By: Azura Skye

"Next Friday, I'm gonna die."

A Sunnydale High student with psychic abilities and a friend of Dawn Summers.

Face Death with Dignity: She makes it clear that she doesn't want to die, but has to accept it because You Can't Fight Fate.
Nice Girl: Cassie is soft-spoken, insightful and very sweet.
Not So Stoic: Cassie isn't quite stoic, but she's sweet and mild-mannered and isn't prone to excessive emotion. She does have one memorable outburst, however, that shows how much she's hurting.
"You think I want this? You think I don't care? Believe me, I want to be here, do things. I want to graduate from high school, and I want to go to the stupid winter formal. I have this friend, and it would be fun to go with him. Just to dance and hear lame music to wear a silly dress and laugh and stuff. I'd like to go. There's a lot of stuff I'd like to do. I'd love to ice skate at Rockefeller Center. And I'd love to see my cousins grow up and see how they turn out 'cause they're really mean and I think they're gonna be fat. I'd love to backpack across the country or, I don't know, fall in love...but I won't. I just never will."
Prophecies Are Always Right: She foretells her own death, and it happens.
Your Days Are Numbered: Cassie is doomed to die; she foresees it and knows she can't prevent it.

Joy

Played by: Amanda Wilmhurst

The head cheerleader in the first two seasons, who is a year older than the Scooby Gang.

Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She may seem stern but fair at times, but she can be very rude and unforgiving toward people trying out, and, in one episode, mocks Buffy as a loser who shouldn't waste cheerleaders' time when Buffy is trying to find Cordelia.
Cruel Cheerleader: She is a cheerleading captain who is bereft of truly nice moments.
Dirty Coward: She is quick to insult Buffy and Amy, but shrinks back in fear when threatened.
Put on a Bus: She graduates sometime after her second and final season one appearance and is succeeded by Cordelia as captain.

Gwen

Gwen Ditchik

Played by: Kristen Winnicki

A Girl Posse member with minor roles in two season 2 episodes.

In-Series Nickname: According to the yearbook, some people call her "Guinevere", "Gee", or "Digger".
Informed Attribute: Gwen is voted as the girl with the “Best Personality” in the Sunnydale High Yearbook, but in the show itself, she shows little independent personality besides striking up a conversation with a foreign exchange student.
Satellite Character: All of her scenes are in relation to Cordelia or Harmony.
Took a Level in Jerkass: In her first appearance, she seems nicer than Cordelia and flirts with a foreign exchange student Cordelia dismisses as a loser. In her second episode, she joins Harmony in mocking and snubbing Cordelia and Xander just for daring to cross clique lines in their dating life.

Aura

Played by: Persia White

A friend of Cordelia.

Dropped After the Pilot: She is a Girl Posse member with a notable moment or two in the pilot but is never seen again afterward in the show, although she warrants the occasional mention or appearance in other media.
Gossipy Hens: She is quick to talk about how Buffy got expelled from her last school.
Undying Loyalty: She is the only one of the minor Cordettes shown keeping in touch with Cordelia after high school, when she calls Angel Investigations in one episode of the spin-off. Cordelia is also deeply concerned for her when she falls victim to a sleeping spell in the Schrödinger's Canon novel Afterimage.

Amber

Amber Grove

Portrayed by: Jeanette Papineau (uncredited)

A girl who is badly injured by a magic spell during a cheerleading audition in the third episode.

Academic Athlete: She is a highly athletic cheerleader, and according to the Sunnydale High Yearbook, she is part of the Science Club.
In-Series Nickname: According to the yearbook, some of her classmates call her "Flygirl" in reference to her cheerleading.
Informed Attribute: In the Sunnydale High Yearbook, she is voted “Best Dressed” despite never being seen wearing anything but her cheerleading uniform during her brief screen time in the show.
Leg Focus: Xander is quite happy watching her do the splits and other leg stretches in preparation for the tryouts.
Pom-Pom Girl: She's a very athletic, well-choreographed and enthusiastic during her cheerleading tryout and supposedly hired a coach to help her get in shape.
Sacrificial Lamb: A nonfatal example. Amber only shows up to get injured to demonstrate the threat posed by the latest Monster of the Week.
The Voiceless: Amber doesn't have a single line of dialogue.

Lishanne

Lishanne Davis

Played by: Nicole Prescott

An aspiring cheerleader and victim of the eponymous villain from "The Witch".

Academic Athlete: She seems to like Dr. Gregory's biology class and the Sunnydale High Yearbook says that in addition to cheerleading, she helps with the yearbook and is in the Science Club, with her being voted the female student who most embodies "Looks and Books".
Attention Whore: Her (possibly joking) yearbook quote is that everyone should get to be in the spotlight, but they should wait for her to get done with it, and one of her fondest yearbook memories is briefly being on MTV.
The Friends Who Never Hang: The Sunnydale High Yearbook says she goes on to become one of the Cordettes, but she is never seen with them in the show itself.
In-Series Nickname: The yearbook reveals that she is sometimes called D-Lish-us or Lisha.
Leg Focus: It isn't in the show itself, but two separate boys in The Sunnydale High Yearbook are apparently referring to her when they say "D, nice legs" as one of their high school memories.
The Quiet One: She has several scenes but only two lines of audible dialogue in her one episode.
Wipe That Smile Off Your Face: Her mouth is removed by magical means, leaving her frantic, although she later recovers.

Blayne

Blayne Moll

Played by: Price Jackson

A Hormone-Addled Teenager who nearly ends up being eaten by a praying mantis-like creature in the fourth episode.

Casanova Wannabe: He flirts with or leers at every attractive woman in his vicinity and brags about having many lovers, but it turns out he's a virgin, to his great embarassment.
Damned by Faint Praise: In the yearbook, Michelle Blake calls him her "favorite mistake" and wishes him luck in the world while adding "you'll need it."
Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: He is condescending toward Xander early on, but shows some concern for him when they are prisoners together, only to try and sacrifice Xander to delay being killed by the Monster of the Week. Later, he earnestly thanks the Scooby Gang for saving his life, but then threatens to have his dad sue them if they tell anyone that the monster went after him because he is a virgin.
Jerk Jock: He is an arrogant and unfriendly football player.

Owen

Owen Thurman

Played by: Christopher Weihl

A poetry-loving boy who Buffy has a crush on in an early episode.

Amicable Exes: Buffy reluctantly dumps him after one date to keep him from getting killed by vampires, but The Sunnydale Yearbook indicates that he still regrets their breakup and misses her two years later but has no hard feelings toward her.
Big Man on Campus: He is a handsome and polite poetry lover who the girls all love, and The Sunnydale Yearbook says that he is also the class president, a member of the tennis team (not one of the sports most associated with the trope, but still a sport), and a skilled Drama Club actor.
Chick Magnet: His handsome appearance and sensitive, intellectual nature make Buffy, Cordelia, and various other girls crush over him. In The Sunnydale Yearbook, he is voted the male embodiment of "Books and Looks".
The Quiet One: Willow says he barely talks to anyone (besides the main cast, eventually) and can privately brood over a book for forty straight minutes (she timed him).
Saw "Star Wars" Twenty-Seven Times: He avidly reads and re-reads Emily Dickinson poems and carries around a book of her works at all times, with it ending up as his Pocket Protector and Security Blanket. In the Sunnydale High Yearbook, he refers to her as "Emily D", and it's mentioned he wrote a well-received story for the literary magazine called "An Ode to Emily Dickinson."
Thrill Seeker: Deconstructed. After being caught up in a dangerous adventure, he is excited by the combination of near-death and romance and wants to keep doing stuff like that. However, Buffy feels that he lacks the skills or sense of caution to keep surviving battles with the undead, causing her to reluctantly Shoo the Dog and dump him with a It's Not You, It's My Enemies speech.

The Pack

Kyle DuFours, Tor Hauer, Heidi Barrie & Rhonda Kelley

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"Y'know, I don't understand why you're sitting at our table."

Portrayed By: Eion Bailey, Brian Gross, Jennifer Sky & Michael Mc Raine

Appear In: "The Pack"

"Were you this popular at your old school? Before you got kicked out?"

A group of bullies, plus Xander Harris, who were unwittingly possessed by the spirits of a pack of hyenas.

Affectionate Nickname: The yearbook gives their nicknames as "Hi-Ho" and "Didi" (for Heidi), "24" (Kyle, reference to how "du" is similar to how two is pronounced in some languages and the rest of his surname is "fours"), "Ronnie" (Rhonda), and "Tor-nado and Toro" (for Tor). Kyle is also nicknamed Doofus, but that is more of an Embarrassing Nickname.
All There in the Manual: The Sunnydale High Yearbook reveals Heidi became a vegetarian after the possession ordeal.
Character Development: They are all delinquents during their one appearance in the show, but the Sunnydale High Yearbook mentions that Kyle (who is shopping a novel to New York publishers) and Heidi (who got a writing scholarship) go on to write for the school literary magazine during their senior year. Additionally, they both feel uncomfortable eating meat (Heidi even becomes a vegan) after their hyena transformation period. Rhonda and Heidi also joined the Spanish Club at one point and became interested in Mexican folk dancing, and Heidi joined the Drama Club.
Gang of Bullies: Even before being possessed, Kyle, Tor, Heidi and Rhonda are a group of jerks constantly bullying other students
I'm a Humanitarian: They eat Principal Flutie. They just...freakin' eat him.
Jerkass: Even before they get possessed by hyena spirits, they're a nasty group of malcontents.
Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: The Sunnydale High Yearbook reveals a lot of Hidden Depths and Character Development about them, but ultimately implies that, with the possible exception of Heidi (although she is still apparently friends with the other three), they still have at least some of the same bullying and troublemaking attitudes as before. Their classmates vote Kyle the boy "Most Likely to be Imprisoned", and Rhonda and Tor the winners of the "Teacher's Worst Nightmare" title.
The Quiet One: Heidi is more quiet than her friends, often preferring to stand in the background and chuckle at their bullying out-downs.
Teens Are Monsters: They're already mean before the transformation.
These Hands Have Killed:
- The Sunnydale High Yearbook implies that Heidi feels deep remorse for eating Principal Flutie and Herbert the pig during her were-hyena transformations. She has converted to veganism, and, while she says that she is happy overall, she told the yearbook staff there's a lot of things she'd like to forget about high school, and she acted in a Drama Club production where her "pain seem[ed] all too real" according to a review.
- Kyle's yearbook entry notes that he has a hard time looking at pork the same way as before and that he'd rather not know the complete details of what happened during his blackouts.
What Happened to the Mouse?: There's no word on what happened to them after they're de-hyena'd, and the fact that they have to deal with the memory of eating a living human being. Supplementary material reveals that all four of them survived (and stayed out of jail) to graduate and Heidi became a vegan.

Lance

Lance Lincoln

Played by: Jeff Maynard

A nerdy student and victim of the Pack's bullying.

Alliterative Name: Both of his names begin with Ls.
Butt-Monkey: He spends most of his screentime being subjected to bullying, such as being threatened with being tossed into a hyena pen or being attacked by his own team in gym class.
Deadpan Snarker: In The Xander Years: Volume 2 (which contains a literary retelling of his sole appearance) Lance's inner monologue has a cynical Gallows Humor Deadpan Snarker tone to it as he reflects on his bad situation with bullies (such as thinking "Victim, thy name is Lance"), although he only thinks those quips and never says them out loud.
Hidden Depths: The Sunnydale High Yearbook reveals that he is an enthusiastic School Newspaper Newshound and a Planet of the Apes and Superman fan.
Saw "Star Wars" Twenty-Seven Times: The Xander Years: Volume 2 mentions that he was often bullied for constantly rewatching reruns of Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp when he was younger due to sharing a first name with the protagonist and wanting to be a primatologist.

Dave

David "Dave" Kirby

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"No. This isn't right. None of it is."

Portrayed By: Chad Lindberg

Apppears In: "I Robot, You Jane"

"Yes... I will. I promise."

A Sunnydale High student and one of the prized pupils of Jenny Calendar alongside Fritz Siegel and Willow Rosenberg.

Heel–Face Door-Slam: Refuses to go along with Moloch's order to kill Buffy, as he can't justify murdering an innocent bystander (not even knowing that she's the Slayer). Moloch makes sure punish Dave before he can impede things any further.
Never Suicide: Moloch sends Dave's parents a fake suicide e-mail to deflect any suspicions after Fritz kills him.
You Have Failed Me: Moloch has Fritz kill him because Dave refuses to kill Buffy.

Fritz

Fritz Siegel

"I'm jacked in."

Portrayed By: Jamison Ryan

Apppears In: "I Robot, You Jane"

"The printed page is obsolete. Information isn't bound up anymore, it's an entity. The only reality is virtual. If you're not jacked in, you're not alive."

A Sunnydale High student and one of the star pupils of Jenny Calendar, along Willow Rosenberg and David Kirby, although his enthusiasm for computers bordered on obsession.

Jerkass: Fritz is more quick with a frown than a smile and sourly rants in front of the school librarian about how computers are making the written word obsolete.
Kubrick Stare: He has this often because he's a nut and Moloch's brute.
Madness Mantra: His loonyness can be seen by him repeating "I'm jacked in. I'm jacked in. I'm jacked in."
Neck Snap: At Moloch's hands, or claws, or...hydraulics, whichever.
Self-Harm: Fritz carves an "M" for Moloch into his arm out of devotion/obsession.
Villain with Good Publicity: In the Sunnydale High Yearbook, the yearbook staff seem unaware of his crimes, prominently displaying a quote he made about the yearbook club and calling his loss a huge blow to technological advancement.
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Moloch kills him after he stops being relevant, just to experience what it's like to kill again.

Wendell

Wendell Sears

Played by: Justin Urich

A brainy student and the first victim of the hauntings in "Nightmares".

Boys Like Creepy Critters: He loves spiders, uses Insistent Terminology when people call them insects, and once had a huge collection of them before his brother let them die while pet-sitting. He has nightmares about spiders attacking him for revenge but still loves them and feels their imagined anger to him is justified.
Butt-Monkey: His spiders all died before the show, he is haunted by a paranormal event, and a Noodle Incident in the yearbook mentions that he had a science project that somehow got set on fire once.

Laura

Laura Egler

Played by: J. Robin Miller

A girl who is injured by a nightmare manifestation in the episode "Nightmares".

The Friends Who Never Hang: She never shares a scene with Willow or Amy even though The Sunnydale Yearbook retroactively states that Laura is the president of both the post-season one Computer Club (working alongside Willow) and the Latin Club (where she learns magic chants with Amy, albeit not necessarily for genuine magical reasons).
In-Series Nickname: The yearbook lists "Egghead" as one of her nicknames, although, depending on the context, it could be an Affectionate Nickname, since her surname begins with "Eg", she is involved in intellectual clubs, and a boy who likes her calls her by that name.
Nice Girl: She is polite to Giles and Buffy when they vist her in the hospital and question her about her attack, helpfully answering their questions without being suspicious or hostile about what they want.

Elliot and Lisa

Elliot Terhune and Lisa Campiti

Played by: Chasen Hampton and Natasha Pearce

Two talent show contestants (a tuba player and juggler) who act as witnesses and minor suspects in the episode "Puppet Show"

Academic Athlete: The Sunnydale High Yearbook reveals that Lisa learned French in school well enough to win a prize at an national linguistics competition and is a track star who believes that a fit body makes a fit mind. Lisa is also part of the Science Club.
Affectionate Nickname: The Sunnydale High Yearbook reveals that Lisa is in a relationship with someone who calls her Boo-Boo (or Lissaboo at times) and uses the pet nickname Yogi.
Ambiguously Gay: In the Sunnydale High Yearbook, there is a note in the yearbook from someone called E.T. that seems to be a Public Secret Message to Larry about coming out of the closet, possibly meaning that Elliot is gay and in a relationship with Larry but hasn't told anyone else yet.
Hidden Depths: The yearbook reveals Elliot runs track and cross country.
In-Series Nickname: The yearbook says some people call Elliot "Ness".
Long-Haired Pretty Boy: Elliot is a handsome boy with shoulder length hair.
Nice Girl: Lisa is sympathetic about a classmate's murder and willing to answer questions for the Scooby Gang. This is apparently amped up even more in her offscreen interactions with other people, as she is voted "Nicest" in the yearbook.

Marcie

Marcie Ross

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"Hey, moron! I'm invisible!"

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Portrayed By: Clea Duvall

Appears In: "Out of Mind, Out of Sight"

'"I won 'cause you didn't see me coming. Cordelia, you don't remember me. I remember you, all your idiot slut friends, hate them. They take your life and they suck it out of you! But then they didn't see me coming. They gotta learn. They gotta learn."

A Sunnydale High student who became invisible.

Air-Vent Passageway: She lives above the school's music room in a space accessible only by climbing up through the drop ceiling.
All of the Other Reindeer: Poor Marcie was shunned so much she turned invisible.
Batter Up!: Her first victim is beaten with a baseball bat.
Blessed with Suck: The Scoobies- particularly Giles and Xander, albeit for different reasons- initially regarded invisibility as fascinating and cool, until they establish that Marcie didn't choose her current state and can't even turn back.
Freudian Excuse: The reason for her actions and brutality is because literally everyone ignored her to the extend that the Hellmouth turned her invisible. Buffy is initially sympathetic, but upon seeing how crazy Marcie is and how far she's willing to go to get back at those who snubbed her, she drops it.
Buffy: Y'know, I really felt sorry for you. You've suffered. But there's one thing I really didn't factor into all this. You're a thundering loony!
Fully-Embraced Fiend: Marcie not only doesn't freak out at being turned invisible, she loves being able to use her powers to get back at the people she hates. Nor does she mind being basically abducted by two FBI agents to be trained as an invisible assassin. If anything, she likes the idea of becoming a trained killer.
Go Mad from the Isolation: Now here's an interesting example. She was so ignored by her peers that, with some Hellmouth magic, she eventually became literally invisible to them - and it took the Scoobies to even notice she was gone. Being alone in her invisible world only made Marcie that much more unhinged, as Cordelia finds out the hard way.
Insane Equals Violent: Marcie is crazy and is all about using violence to achieve her batshit insane ends.
Invisibility: Her entire schtick. She was such a wallflower, that the Hellmouth turned her gradually invisible.
Invisible Jerkass: Upon becoming invisible, she becomes a violent psychopath who takes violent revenge against everyone who scorned and ignored her.
Jumped at the Call: A rather twisted villainous example. Marcie has no problem at all with the FBI basically abducting her and forcing her to become a trained assassin. She not only accepts being trained as an assassin, she actively embraces it.
Karma Houdini: After having brutally beaten a guy with a bat, asphixiated a teacher, tried to disfigure Cordelia and tried to stab Buffy, she gets rewarded with a training in assassination and infiltration.
Loners Are Freaks: She magically turned invisible from social ostracization and set out to take violent revenge on everyone she deemed responsible.
Monochrome Past: Her flashbacks of her non-interactions with Sunnydale students.
Professional Killer: After being apprehended, she's recruited to be an assassin for the Government.
Sanity Slippage: After disappearing, her sanity disappeared too and she became viciously psychotic.
To the Pain: When she has Cordelia and Buffy tied up, she waxes about how she's going to slice up Cordy's pretty face.
"You should be grateful. People who pass you will remember you for the rest of their lives. Children will dream about you. And all your friends who come to the coronation tonight will take the sight of the May Queen to their graves."
What Happened to the Mouse?: Her training to become an assassin is set up like a Sequel Hook, yet she's never seen or heard from again.
Your Mind Makes It Real: Marcie became invisible because she was so unnoticeable, she was perceived as such by everyone around her.

Mitch

Mitch Fargo

Portrayed By: Ryan Janes Bittle

A boy who dates Cordelia during Marcie Ross’s rampage.

Informed Attribute: He is voted as the Best Dressed boy in the yearbook, but displays little fashion sense during his screen-time.
Jerkass: While very little is known about his personality, his asking Cordelia at the end of the episode if she's really hanging out with "those losers" (i.e. the Scoobies) establishes him as this.
Walking Shirtless Scene: He is attacked and beaten up while changing in a locker room, without his shirt on.

Kevin

Kevin Benedict

"I'll get everything tonight after practice. The guys'll help me."

Portrayed By: Scott Gurney

Appears In: "Prophecy Girl"

Cordelia: You're so sweet! Why're you so sweet?

Kevin: I dunno! 'Cause I'm usually mean as a snake!

A Sunnydale High student. Cordelia Chase dated Kevin, but unlike many of her other relationships, Cordelia and Kevin seemed to genuinely care for each other.

Forgotten Fallen Friend: Despite Cordelia seemingly caring about him, she never mentions him after his death.
Nice Guy: Appeared to have a genuinely kind relationship with Cordelia.
Peek-a-Boo Corpse: Cordelia opens the door to the A/V room only to have his corpse fall out.
Red Shirt: He exists largely to die, and has little in the way of character. Cordelia seemed to care rather deeply for him, though.
Say My Name: Cordelia shouts his name in shock and sadness when she finds his dead body.

Chris

Chris Epps

Portrayed By: Angelo Spirizzi

One of the smartest kids at the school, who has a Dark Secret; namely that he's resurrected his dead brother.

Always Someone Better: Chris always beats Willow in science fairs and they good-naturedly joke about it, although Willow would like to win.
Big Brother Worship: He deeply looked up to Darryl.
My God, What Have I Done?: He's deeply disturbed by his actions in the end and wishes he'd let Daryl stay dead.
In-Series Nickname: The yearbook says some people call him "Crisco".
Now, Let Me Carry You: Daryl always protected Chris from bullies, so Chris desperately used science to resurrect Daryl after his death and is trying to help, comfort and shelter his brother.
Teen Genius: He's just as smart as Willow, if not smarter, and resurrected his brother within days of the accident that killed him.

Eric

Eric Gittelson

Portrayed By: Michael Bacall

Chris's creepy lab partner and fellow Mad Scientist.

Ax-Crazy: He seems happy at the idea of killing someone to make Daryl an undead bride and tries to go through with it even after Chris backs out.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Eric is eager to kill for a Mad Scientist experiment, but according to The Sunnydale Yearbook, he has a close relationship with his grandmother, who pays for a comment in the yearbook talking about how happy she is that he's building a new life for himself after his time in juvie.
In-Series Nickname: The yearbook says some people call him "Skittle".
Karma Houdini: He tried to murder Cordelia and despite a juvie hall sentence got out in time to graduate.
Not Good with Rejection: According to The Cordelia Collection (which is a novelization of "Some Assembly Required" and two other Cordelia-centric episodes), his eagerness to kill Cordelia is less to help the Epps brothers and more to get revenge on the popular girls for never going out with him.
Secret-Keeper: About Daryl's resurrection.

Ben

Benjamin "Ben" Straley

Portrayed by: Ryan Taszreak

A boy who asks Buffy out in "I Only Have Eyes For You".

Informed Ability: The Sunnydale Yearbook says he is part of the swim team, but he isn't seen on the team in "Go Fish" even though that takes place just one episode after his sole appearance. However, he may not have joined the team until after that episode.
Hopeless Suitor: He is a handsome and popular boy who asks Buffy out, but has the misfortune to do so in the aftermath of Angel becoming Angelus, when she is sour on romance and turns him down flat.
One-Steve Limit: He has the same first and last names as a member of the demon family from "Bachelor Party".

Debbie

Debbie Foley

"He does love me. He does love me."

Portrayed By: Danielle Weeks

Appears In: "Beauty and Beasts"

"It... it's not his fault. I mean, he's not himself when he gets like this."

A Sunnydale High student and girlfriend of Pete Clarner.

Broken Bird: Debbie has been broken down completely by Pete's violent abuse of her. He controls every aspect of her life, resulting in Sanity Slippage.
Domestic Abuse: She's a victim of Pete's violent temper.
Madness Mantra: After Buffy's interrogation she just starts muttering, "He does love me".
Sanity Slippage: Pete's abuse of her has horribly damaged her, to the point where Buffy's interrogation of Debbie results in her sitting with her head bowed muttering a Madness Mantra to herself.
Ungrateful Bastard: She knocks aside the tranquilizer rifle as Buffy is about to shoot Pete, who just blames her for bringing the Scoobies down on him.
Your Makeup Is Running: After Pete hits her, she smears her makeup crying. Though the massive shiner draws attention from it.

Holly and Michelle

Holly Charleston and Michelle Blake

Portrayed By: Unknown actress and Tori McPetrie

Two Homecoming Queen candidates who compete with Buffy and Cordelia.

Alliterative Family: The best wishes for the graduates section of the yearbook reveals that she has a relative (likely her mother) who also has a name beginning with M: Mary-Jane.
Asian and Nerdy: Holly is Asian, socially introverted, a straight-A student, on the debate team, and Ivy-league bound (according to the yearbook). She also spends most of her time studying. That being said, she's also fairly dolled up and is good at sports.
Class Princess: Holly and Michelle, are Bit Characters, but seem to qualify. Michelle is a cheerleader and yearbook editor, while Holly is on the drill team and and debate team, and both seem friendly and well-liked
Dark Horse Victory: Buffy and Cordelia dismiss Holly and Michelle as major Homecoming Queen contenders, and the two have perhaps a minute of combined screen time in their episode. However, when two girls tie for the Homecoming Queen Crown, they're Holly and Michelle, and not Buffy and Cordelia.
Dumb Blonde: Downplayed with the blonde Michelle, who "never studies" but is also the yearbook editor.
Feminine Women Can Cook:
- Michelle is both a "popular cheerleader" and a "good cook."
- Holly hands out cookies for her campaign, although it's unclear whether she baked them herself.
Affectionate Nickname: According to the yearbook, Holly is sometimes called "Charlie" or "Hollywood" and many kids refer to Michelle as "Misha" or "Chelle".
Heterosexual Life-Partners: Not in the show itself, but the yearbook shows that they get involved in lots of the same student organizations after becoming joint Homecoming Queens, and they refer to each other as "HQ Sister" and say they will miss each other during their yearbook memories blurbs.
Informed Flaw: The Big Board Buffy made calls Holly an introvert, but also says that she is on the debate squad and drill team, both of which require self-confidence, working as a team, and being in the spotlight (as does campaigning for Himecoming Queen in the first place). Furthermore, she seems outgoing during her campaign for Homecoming Queen and her classmates vote her as "Biggest Flirt" in the Sunnydale High Yearbook. This may be justified by how the board also notes she is a New Transfer Student around the time of the Homecoming Dance, so she could still be shyer than normal around people she is just getting to know.
Making Love in All the Wrong Places: Implied with Michelle in The Yearbook, where one of her memories is "broom closets have more room than I thought."
Nice Girl: Buffy and Cordelia refer to both Holly and Michelle as being nice and friendly. They're also happy and appreciative after they both get elected Homecoming Queen.
Perpetual Smiler: Michelle is always smiling during her brief screen-time, and while she is trying to win votes and excited at being Homecoming Queen respectively in those scenes, she is also voted as being the girl with the “Best Smile” in the Sunnydale High Yearbook.
Single Girl Seeks Most Popular Guy: Michelle is apparently attracted to popular football players.
Cordelia: Michelle Blake: open to all mankind, especially those with a letterman's jacket and a car.
Spear Carrier: Most of the information about them comes from The Big Board Buffy uses for her Homecoming Queen campaign. The two girls themselves only appear briefly and only speak at the very end of the episode.
True Blue Femininity: Michelle seems fairly nice and more relaxed than her opponents while campaigning for Homecoming Queen (although she's only seen campaigning for a few seconds) and wears blue in both of her scenes and the picture on her campaign flyers.

Bobby and Mashad

Robert "Bobby" Stepanopolous and Mashad Bolling

Played by: Uncredited extra

Two students Cordelia briefly flirts with in "Homecoming" who have more revealed about them in the Sunnydale High Yearbook.

Casanova Wannabe: While they do attract some girls, in the Yearbook, Mashad expresses a belief that his classmates Harmony and Lishanne are attracted to him, even though Lishanne has never said this despite having years of opportunities to and Harmony apparently finds him annoying because he pulls her hair.
Dumb Jock: In the yearbook, Mashad (a wrestler and soccer player) mentions his nickname is "potato head", mentions both of Harmony's nicknames while talking about people present at an incident in his past, references a Noodle Incident where he lost track of a soccer ball during a game, and ends his yearbook entry by vainly requesting to start his list of memories over. That being said, he is on the yearbook staff.
Graceful Loser: Mashad provides a partially pragmatic example. His yearbook quote says "It isn't about winning or losing, it's about looking good winning OR losing."
Heavy Sleeper: One of Mashad's yearbook memories is trying to sleep until dinner.
Panty Thief: Both list a "panty raid" as one of their yearbook memories.
The Prankster: One of Bobby's yearbook memories references blowing up something to disrupt a chess team meeting.
Those Two Guys: They appear together in the show and the yearbook suggests they are Heterosexual Life-Partners who get into a lot of mischief together and are known as Butch and Sundance, with Bobby embracing the nicknames while Mashad hates them.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Their sole scene in the show itself is when they cause Cordelia to be Distracted by the Sexy and forgot to tell Buffy about yearbook photos, causing Buffy to miss her photo and campaign for Homecoming Queen to spite Cordelia, leading to a fair amount of conflict in both their normal and Scooby Gang lives.
The Voiceless: Neither gets any dialogue in their one episode of the show.

John Lee

John Lee Walker

Played by: Nathan Anderson

A football player who Cordelia tries to flirt with to make Xander jealous.

Academic Athlete: The yearbook says that he is in the Computer Club as well as being a football player and wrestler.
Alternate Self: An alternate version of him from the Wishverse appears and is far nicer and more bashful than the original timeline version of him.
Jerk Jock: He tells Cordelia that he'd be fine being intimate with her in private but would never want to be publicly seen with anyone who'd go out with Xander.
Take This Job and Shove It: A sports team variant. In the yearbook, he tells his coach "I quit baby, I'm going to Hollywood."

Michael

Michael Czajak

"My dad. His friends. They're taking people out of their homes. They're talking about a trial down at City Hall. They got Amy."

Portrayed By: Blake Soper

Appears In: "Gingerbread"

Cordelia: Michael is whatever the boy of "witch" is, plus being the poster child for yuck.

A Sunnydale High student and a warlock.

Academic Athlete: Michael is a studious magic studier, but the Sunnydale High Yearbook mentions that he's also a tennis player and member of the Dance Club.
Action Survivor: Managed to escape an attack led by his father and his friends and reached the Scooby Gang to warn them that Willow and Amy were in danger. We don't get to see his escape, but the fact that he's bloody and with a limp suggests it could not have been easy.
Ambiguously Gay: Albeit only due to the "witchcraft = homosexuality" metaphor present in the series.
Chick Magnet: While it is unclear if he returns their attention, the Sunnydale High Yearbook indicates that many girls (although not all of them, given Cordelia's coments about him) find him attractive and he is voted as having the "Best Eyes" out of the boys in his class.
Does This Remind You of Anything?: Going along with the Ambiguously Gay trope, the bullying of Michael by Roy and his cronies can be read as coding for homophobic targeting.
Roy: Everyone knows he's into that voodoo witchcraft. I heard about those kids. People like him...gotta learn a lesson.
Goth: Michael wears dark clothing and makeup, which makes him look a bit like Robert Smith.
In-Series Nickname: According to the yearbook, Michael is sometimes called "Emcee" or "Warlock".
Love Makes You Dumb: In the novel Prime Evil, Michael lets himself get made an Unwitting Pawn of a sinister coven leader because he is desperate for new magic to turn Amy back to normal after her unwilling transformation into a rat (with Willow repeatedly implying that this is because Michael and Amy were a couple, although whether that is true in the show itself is Schrödinger's Canon).
Secret-Keeper: The personal messages section of the yearbook implies that Amy confided in him about her body swapping experience even before Buffy found out about it and/or that he knows about her transformation into a rat, as she thanks Michael for being there for her "when I just wasn't 'myself'".
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: In the Schrödinger's Canon novel Bad Bargain, Michael and his mother unwittingly cause the main conflict of the book. Mrs. Czajak thoughtlessly donates a medallion she finds to the school rummage sale without asking Michael, who uses it for protection against the demons that plague Sunnydale. Desperate fo retrieve his medallion, Michael casts a summoning spell in the school basement, not realizing he is standing near the Hellmouth portal, which weakens whenever magic is cast nearby. This causes everyone in the school to be infected by demonic diseases, and eight people die.

Roy

Roy Dukeshire

Played by: Grant Garrison

A student gripped by anti-magic hysteria in "Gingerbread".

Go-Karting with Bowser: He bullies Michael, but according to the Sunnydale High Yearbook, they are fellow Science Club members.
In-Series Nickname: “Dukes”, according to the yearbook.
Paper Tiger: He is fine with threatening Amy and Michael but slinks away when the famously tough Buffy sticks up for them.

Guy

Guy Matthews

Portrayed by: Nick Cornish

A jock who acts as Cordelia's rebound guy after her breakup with Xander.

Not Good with Rejection: He spends his one scene furious about how Cordelia stood him up for a date that he made in front of his friends and isn't interested in a long-term relationship, shoving her against a tree and pushing Buffy down when she intervenes.
Repeated for Emphasis: In Sunnydale Yearbook, he says wrestling three times when listing the sports and clubs he's involved with.

Lysette

Lysette Torchio

Played by: Whitney Dylan

A girl who briefly dates Xander in the episode "The Zeppo".

The Friends Who Never Hang: Xander is the only main character she interacts with in her sole appearance, but a throwaway line from another episode and the Sunnydale High Yearbook mention that she is one of the Cordettes and a friend of Cordelia and Harmony.
Give Geeks a Chance: Subverted. She is a popular blonde girl who goes on a date with Xander, but solely because she is fascinated by his car, and she mostly ignores Xander himself.
Hidden Depths: The Sunnydale High Yearbook reveals that she is a cheerleader, Dance Club member, and field hockey player (none of which is shown in the series), and is proficent enough that she got voted "Most Athletic" in the yearbook.
In-Series Nickname:According to the yearbook, some people call her "Torch" or "Lissa".
Plastic Bitch: She's fairly self-centered, and Cordelia says she got a nose job and asked to have it resemble the nose of Gwyneth Paltrow.
Proud Beauty: One of her favorite yearbook memories is about how good she looks in a swimsuit.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When she's brought to the graveyard to witness a zombie resurrection, she goes from bored and skeptical to screaming and running away as soon as she realizes the ritual is real.
Wrench Wench: She has an encyclopedic knowledge of cars. She's never actually seen working on cars (just admiring them), but the amount of things she knows a lot about makes, models, and engines suggest she has hands-on experience.

Doug

Doug Jeffries

Portrayed By: Unknown actor

An athlete Xander tries to impress in "The Zeppo".

Hidden Depths: According to the Sunnydale High Yearbook, he is shy around girls and plays chess.
Pet the Dog: He lets Xander join in tossing a football around for fun, albeit half heartedly, despite clearly not being friends with him.
Those Two Guys: The yearbook implies he and a student named Jason Kent (who isn't seen in the show, unless he is the kid Doug tosses his football to) are close friends who like passing comment on events, as, in the "memories" sections of their yearbook pages, they use the same words while recalling a shared Leg Focus memory and recall chess moves that they seemingly used against each other.
The Voiceless: He has pronounced facial expressions but no dialogue.

Freddy

Frederick "Freddy" Iverson

"Murder? What murder? You're not here about the review?"

Portrayed By: Keram Malicki-Sánchez

Appears In: "Earshot"

Buffy: Willow, who's that guy?

Willow: That's Freddy Iverson. He writes those editorials for the school paper. He's sardonic.

A Sunnydale High student and editor of the school newspaper.

Caustic Critic: Appears to have this reputation with the Sunnydale student body, as he tends to have a negative response to almost everything he writes about. He even thinks up an insult about over-eager students in the classroom and then makes sure to congratulate himself with a plan to remember the put-down for later. Subverted with his scathing review of Dingoes Ate My Baby, which Oz says is a fair assessment.
Room Full of Crazy: His office is filled with his grim editorials.
Red Herring: He runs and hides when Oz comes over to interview him about whether or not he's the person set on harming the other Sunnydale students. Turns out he was just worried that Oz was going to pay him back for writing a negative review about his band.
School Newspaper News Hound: Willow mentions how depressing the school paper has become since Freddy took over. Oz says that he doesn't notice, as he always skips right ahead to the obits.
Weirdness Censor: The Sunnydale Yearbook heavily implies that Freddy buys all of Snyder's lies about the weird goings-on at Sunnydale, and he even includes an editorial in the yearbook praising Snyder for giving him the mundane "true" stories behind strange events and putting the otherwordly rumors to rest.

Hogan

Hogan Martin

Played by: Justin Doran

A star basketball player and friend of Percy’s.

Be Careful What You Wish For: In the Schrödinger's Canon novel The Deathless, he and Percy joke about how little Hogan likes his Chevy and how he will be glad to see the back of it one day and get a different car. After the Chevy disappears due to the Villain of the Week, Hogan is terrified about how his dad (who just finished making the payments) will react.
Competition Freak: His yearbook quote is "Winning isn't everything ... okay, so I'm lying."
In-Series Nickname: The yearbook says some people call him "Hoagie".
Lovable Jock: He is a good-natured star basketball player who is polite to Xander and Willow when Xander is shocked that Hogan even knows his name.
Shell-Shocked Veteran: According to the interquel comic The Haunted, he has difficulty living a normal life and feeling safe in the months after the graduation ceremony battle.

Nancy

Nancy Doyle

Played by: Lauren Roman

A girl who is in Buffy's literature class and becomes jealous of her in the episode "Earshot''.

Academic Alpha Bitch: She knows all of the answers to Shakespeare questions and is mad at how Buffy keeps answering them before her (due to temporarily having the power to read Nancy's mind).
Academic Athlete: Possibly. She is a well-read girl, and after watching Buffy doing some tricky Roofhopping, her only reaction is to say "I could have done that". However, it's unclear if this is true or is mere wishful thinking.
One-Steve Limit: She has the same surname as another season 3 character, a member of La Résistance who appears in the Bad Future episode. However, they have different performers, and there is no suggestion that they are the same character.

Tucker

Tucker Wells

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"Gotta have a redundancy system. Any incompetent knows that."

Portrayed By: Brad Kane

Appears In: "The Prom"

"My three fiercest babies are on their way to the dance right now. You think formal-wear makes them crazy? Wait 'til they see the mirror ball."

A Sunnydale High student and the older brother of Andrew Wells.

Disproportionate Retribution: Buffy asks him what kind of sicko would want to ruin the happiest night of a senior's life. Tucker glowers and says he has his reasons. Cue a Flashback Cut of Tucker asking a girl to the prom, and her flatly saying, "No."
Foreshadowing: His very existence is one. His brother Andrew will go on to become a pretty major character.
Improvised Weapon: When confronted, he tries to break a vase over Buffy's head, but she deftly ignores his attack. Undaunted, he then grabs a screwdriver and holds it in front of him like a switchblade. Buffy easily disarms him, then uses the extension cord from the shattered lamp to tie his hands. Later, Buffy snatches a red curtain from outside the gym and tackles one of the hellhounds, immobilizing it for a minute.
In with the In Crowd In the Alternate Universe novel Big Bad, where monsters openly rule Sunnydale (now renamed Demondale), Tucker has become a vampire. He wears a The Lost Boys inspired wardrobe, calls himself Rowan the Merciless, condescending calls all humans "blood bags," has made no attempt to contact his human brother in over a year, and is embarrassed when Jonathan tries to greet him by his old name.
Loners Are Freaks: Tucker is accurately described as a maladjust.
No-Sell: He smashes a vase over Buffy's head. For a girl who has to bench 400 pounds so she can fight vampires and demons a dinky little thing like that works as well as you might think.
You Are Too Late: Buffy closes in on him, restraining him against a wall while belittling his evil plan. "Lucky for me you're an incompetent maladjust." She prepares to lock him in the other room, but upon opening the door, she sees three empty cages with TV screens in front of them. Tucker grins evilly. Uh oh.
Tucker: Gotta have a redundancy system. Any "incompetent" knows that.

Jack

John "Jack" Mayhew

Portrayed by: Damien Eckhardt

The student who is voted Class Clown over Xander in "The Prom".

Class Clown: His classmates bestow this title on him and he wears a balloon hat and polka dot vest to prom. In the Sunnydale Yearbook, he quotes the Seinfeld line "Not that there's anything wrong with that" while commenting on Larry coming out of the closet and observing that Larry doesn't fit the typical gay cliches of the time.
In-Series Nickname: "Jack", "Animal", and "Chewbacca" are all nicknames of his, according to the yearbook.

Lisa

'Played By: Ra'ven Larrymore Kelly

One of Dawn's classmates.

Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: She's never seen after The Body.
The Confidant: Acts as Dawn's sounding board and tries to talk her through what happened to Joyce.

Janice

Janice Penshaw

Played By: Amber Tamblyn

Another friend of Dawn, who has some run-ins with vampires with her on Halloween.

Bratty Teenage Daughter: While nice enough around Dawn, she lies to get out after curfew and calls her mother "the mominator".
The Ghost: While she does have one appearance, for the most part she's just mentioned.
Smarter Than They Look: Janice has trepidations about breaking the pumpkin of a sinister old man, not to mention following him inside when they get caught.
Valley Girl: Her speech slips into this at times.

Kit and Carlos

Kit Holborn and Carlos Trejo

Portrayed By: Alexandra Breckenridge and David Zepada

Classmates of Dawn at the start of season 7.

Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: While it was implied they might have a bigger role in the season with Dawn, both disappear after the premire, aside from a brief phone call between Kit and Dawn.
Delinquent: Carlos smokes and both have thick disciplinary records.
Sunnydale Syndrome: Kit is in denial upon seeing a zombie.

R.J.

R.J. Brooks

" It's not like I meant to hurt anyone."

Portrayed By: Thad Luckenbill

Appears In: "Him"

"I just — get along really well with girls."

A Sunnydale High student and the younger brother of Lance Brooks.

Big Brother Bully: His brother, Lance, has shades of this. He's certainly not a pleasant individual and didn't approve of his brother having geeky interests when he was younger.
Lance: I gotta tell ya, there was a time I was worried about R.J. He was into comic books, Model U.N., geek stuff. No offense, Harris. One time, I found all this poetry under his bed. Turns out, he wrote it."''
Brainless Beauty: R.J. doesn't have much going on upstairs.
Hidden Depths: When he was younger, he was more like Xander and actually wrote poetry. Probably not good poetry, but still.
Hot for Teacher: It doesn't bother him at all that Buffy is "like a teacher". In fact, he seems pretty into it.
Love at First Sight: Due to the magical jacket's influence, everyone falls in love instantly.
Sexy Man, Instant Harem: The magical jacket he wears causes women to fall hard for him. While wearing it, he captures the attention of Dawn, Buffy, Anya and Willow.
Slow Motion: How women see him when he puts on the jacket.

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Heidi

Heidi Lindstrom

A Sunnydale High punk girl and target of the villains in Here Be Monsters

Boots of Toughness: Her wardrobe includes boots that are good for "stepping on anyone who got her in her way", but are less than ideal for running.
Defiant to the End: Double subverted. When she's cornered by vampire pursuers, she is prepared to punch them and curse them, but ends up terrified and saying "please don't kill me." However, after being dragged back to their lair and experiencing more of their sadism, she harshly insults their family portraits even while knowing it will get her killed right away.
Delinquent Hair: She is a delinquent with hair that sticks straight up.
Freudian Excuse: She isn't a villain but is a sour Delinquent, something which traces back to how her mother has spent Heidi's whole life expecting her to act like a perfect loving TV sitcom daughter without giving her much love in return. She only pays attention to Heidi's flaws and has been calling her a poor excuse for a daughter since Heidi was in early elementary school.
Hell-Bent for Leather: She is a tough, provocative punk girl who wears a leather bomber jacket with silver-studded shoulder pads.
One-Steve Limit: She shares her given name with a member of The Pack from the eponymous episode.
Pursued Protagonist: Here Be Monsters begins with her running from vampires until she is too exhausted to run any further. They tell her that she lasted ten blocks more than they'd expected her to and then drag her home for their mother to taunt and kill.

Suz

Suz Tompkins

Heidi Lindstrom's best friend and the leader of their group, who seeks Buffy's help.

Delinquent: She is a pierced, leather-wearing troublemaker, although her reputation is worse than her actions.
Hell-Bent for Leather: Buffy describes her as "dressed to intimidate" and wearing enough leather to outrage any PETA member. She has a delinquent reputation, goes along to spy on the adventure to avenge her friends, and ultimately stakes the Big Bad of the book.
You Have to Believe Me!: She is distraught, desperate, and not expecting to be believed when she appeals to Buffy to help her find out who is targetting her friends, although Buffy does believe her.

The Hahn Twins

David and Stephanie Hahn

A pair of geeky outcasts caught up in the events of Carnival of Souls.

Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Implied. Despite their small, thin statures, they knock over a chain link fence that they slam into while running away from vampires.
Pursued Protagonist: Early in the first chapter after the prologue, Buffy (who is on patrol) sees them running through a cemetery, being chased by vampires. They alternate between showing some strategy and behaving in a panicked fashion, but Buffy does kill their pursuers, only for the three teenagers to blunder into a sinister carnival whose proprietor covertly curses the twins as part of a soul-stealing gambit that they barely survive.
She Cleans Up Nicely: Played with. Buffy comments on their poor grooming and clothing choice in their first scene, but they look more ridiculous than truly appealing when they do clean up and wear clothes designed for sex appeal.
Small Name, Big Ego: Invoked. Being cursed with vanity makes David temporarily act like a Casanova Wannabe and Stephanie act someone who can challenge Cordelia for the position of queen bee, to the bewilderment of everyone around them.

Carl

Carl Palmer

A student and part-time librarian in Carnival of Souls.

Big Brother Instinct: He spends all of his scenes before he is brainwashed by the carnival distributing missing person flyers for his sister (who, unknown to him, was turned into a vampire and later staked).
Disappeared Dad: His father left the family to move to Texas.
My God, What Have I Done?: He is brainwashed into robbing and killing his mother and has enough memories of this that even after being freed, he is last mentioned as being resistant to Giles’ efforts to exonerate him.

Amanda

Amanda Singer

A Girl Posse crony of Cordelia who only appears in the novel Return to Chaos.

Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: She is a gossipy fashionista who Cordelia calls the "least sinister" person she knows, but she also plays lacrosse.
Lovable Alpha Bitch: She is a snobby Girl Posse member who freely admits to not understanding the Scooby Gang (save Cordelia), but she makes an effort to be civil around them for Cordelia's sake and introduces some visiting relatives (secret monster hunters) whom she doesn't get along with to Buffy and her friends due to correctly guessing they will get along.

Dallas

Dallas Mayhew

A football player who has the misfortune of becoming a Sacrificial Lamb in The Gatekeeper: Ghost Roads.

Jerk Jock: He is a football player who is an underage drinker who abandons his friend during a monster attack and doesn't fully appreciate a lot of the sacrifices that his parents (a mother with MS and a father working multiple jobs) make for him and his brother. However, he is capable of recognizing, regretting, and apologizing for his worst behavior.
Small Town Boredom: He has yet to witness a supernatural occurrence before being attacked by the Flying Dutchman and considers Sunnydale a boring town where nothing happens and he has no reason to stay in any longer than necessary.
We Hardly Knew Ye: He is dead within four pages of being introduced.

Allison

Allison Gianakous

A Greek-American student and long-suffering daughter and waitress of a bumbling restauranteur. She has a notable role in the novel Power of Persuasion.

Beautiful All Along: Allison doesn't consider herself pretty, and her classmates share that opinion, but under the influence of the book's villains, she slowly gets more fashionable and ultimately wins a beauty contest.
Butt-Monkey: Her dad lets her brother do whatever he wants, but won't let her go out on her own and makes her spend her free time helping him with his restaurant even though it is (initially) a pipe dream.
Family Theme Naming: She and her brother Alexander both have "Al" names.
Height Angst: She is awkward about how gangly she is until it inspires her to try out for the basketball team.
Supreme Chef: Her previously undiscovered cooking skills win her the talent portion of a beauty contest and help her father's restaurant turn around.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Her half-serious prayer to the Greek gods to help her improve her life summons some sinsiter deities to Sunnydale.

Shugra's Coven

Kari Stark, Rebecca Sullivan, Alicia Kim, Winston Haversham, Lindsey Wayne, Janice MacDonald, Joanna Emidy, Craig Robert, Greta Conor, and one unnamed student

Appearing I the novel Prime Evil, they are a group of Sunnydale students who (along with established canon characters Anya and Michael Czajak) are enticed into joining a magickal coven by a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing new teacher in the novel Prime Evil who falsely promises to give them the ability to achieve their hearts' desires while taking control of their bodies.

Brainless Beauty: Joanna is a "gorgeous cheerleader who had never achieved a grade above a C in anything except Phys. Ed." However, she is aware of her low intelligence, and part of her reason for joining the coven is that she wants to use magic to make herself smarter (the other reason is that she wants to work out and maintain her figure without ever getting sore muscles).
Evil Brit: Evil may be a strong word, but Foreign Exchange Student Winston Haversham is one of the only unmoved members of the group while watching Shugra injure the heroes.
Heterosexual Life-Partners: Kari and Rebecca have been best friends since fourth grade, and Rebecca cries when Kari seemingly ends their friendship, with Kari (who did so under Shugra's orders) later admitting that she felt bad ditching Rebecca and is delighted at getting the chance to welcome her into the coven, after which they are constantly seen together.
Noodle Incident: Janice, the last member of the group to join, wants to become part of the coven because she thinks it will provide the means to get revenge against Harmony Kendall over a past grievance, but the specifics are never given.
Parents in Distress: Alicia Kim's motivation to join the coven is to use magic to cure her father's cancer.
Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: They are a mixture of geeks, punks, popular kids, and ordinary students who are drawn together by either the promise of gaining wishes, a desire to buck authority, or just a desire for acceptance and popularity that the other members can offer.
Spear Carrier: Emmanuel, Greta, Craig, and the unnamed student are all only mentioned a handful of times. They fill the necessary spots for the coven to have thirteen members but have no dialogue and little personality.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: They eventually flee as the final battle progresses.
Unwitting Pawn: None of them understand that they are being groomed as slaves for Shugra or that by giving her the power of a full coven near the Hellmouth, they could destroy the world. In fairness, they lose a lot of control over their thoughts and actions due to the magical initiation brands Shugra gives them.

Lesley

Lesley Anton

A student who appears in The Deathless, being affected by the villain's plot along with various main and recurring characters.

Ambiguously Gay: She mentions moving into an apartment for college with "two girlfriends", but she could just mean female friends.
Bit Character: She only has two short scenes to provide a Canon Foreigner perspective to a couple of montages of odd events, has few lines, and never interacts with any of the regular characters.
Does Not Like Spam: Her mother makes her have Cheerios with one percent milk for breakfast every morning and she compares the meal to cardboard and rancid rainwater.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: She is eager to move away from Sunnydale once she finishes high school. Being caught up in a strange supernatural occurrence which makes her lose a day causes her to consider skipping graduation and leaving town right away.

Jia Li

Jia Li Rong

A Chinese-American immigrant and friend of Willow in the novel Revenant.

Middle Child Syndrome: She seems to be overlooked by her parents and has a troubled older brother and three younger siblings she often babysits.
Odd Friendship: She has no belief in magic or the supernatural but is close friends with Willow, who, unknownst to her, is a witch.

Sam

Sam Devol

A football player who appears in the novel Heat.

Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He is an entitled and cowardly athlete, but he is appalled by how his coach is tricking people into kidnapping and murdering innocents.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After realizing that he's been tricked into joining a Cult which follows a policy of Resignations Not Accepted, Sam spends most of his (usually brief) scenes in the second half of the book trying to flee Sunnydale.

Roxanne

Roxanne Ruani

A troubled classmate of Dawn's and would-be Human Sacrifice in Heat.

Action Survivor: After being kidnapped and held prisoner along with dozens of other people, she tries to organize an escape attempt offscreen, survives a cave in, and then helps Robin and the other survivors try to dig their way out.
Alliterative Name: Both of her names begin with Rs.
Passing Notes in Class: She and Dawn pass a notebook back and forth while writing inappropriate comments and doodling during a sex ed class.
Reformed Criminal: Despite still being in high school, she used to be an alcoholic and thief and is on probation for an unspecified crime. However, she is currently in a 12-step program and sticks to the program when her boyfriend tries to get her to rob a liquor store with him.

Characters / Buffyverse: Sunnydale High

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