History Characters / BuffyTheVampireSlayerRecurringAndMinorCharacters

* DiesWideShut

* [[spoiler: DeathSeeker: First, she is clearly unafraid of the possibility of Buffy killing her at the end of Season 3. Dying isn't her plan then, but she'd still welcome it as a victory because it would corrupt Buffy like she herself was corrupted. Secondly comes the literal example, where after spending time in Buffy's body and learning that being evil sucks, she goes to LA in hopes of getting Angel to kill her.]]

* [[spoiler: DeathSeeker]]

* NiceGuy: Compare Faith after going to prison to Buffy to see how much she had improved.

* FoeYay / LesYay: With Buffy.

* FriendsWithBenefits: Her and Xander were not exactly friends, about as close as they got was him revealing that Angel was alive, and all for killing him. Nonetheless, in Xander's CharacterEpisode he saves Faith from a group of vampires, then they do the deed, Faith later treating it as a casual fling. Then, when he tries to use their "connection" to talk to her about her accidental murder of the Deputy Mayor, this becomes a MoralEventHorizon crossing, as she refuses to listen, insists that guys only ever want one thing from her, pushes him onto the bed and starts forcing herself on him, and chokes him, before Angel knocks her out.

* TheHedonist
* HeelRealization: When she switched bodies with Buffy, she eventually figures out that she could have taken a run at Series/{{Angel}} for CompleteMonster, and would reappear on his show as one in the hope he would kill her.

* MoralEventHorizon: In universe Buffy thinks she's crossed it even more than [[CompleteMonster Angelus]]. There's [[AttemptedRape several]] [[TheDragon possible]] [[GrandTheftMe reasons]] for this.

* OlderAndWiser: Faith had come a long way from when she first appeared, or even from season eight.

* ReformedButRejected

* [[UnclePennybags Aunt Pennybags]]: At the end of season eight, [[spoiler: Giles dies and it turns out he left Faith with his belongings, rather than Buffy.]] Faith uses it to good effect, such as using it to buy the Arsenal football team beers when a Slayer picks a fight with them. Outside of that she also fulfills the trait of being fun to be around.

* ((Jerkass))

* FreudianExcuse: A spin-off book reveals he had MommyIssues.

* JerkAss

* CloserToEarth: She is a lot more level headed than Nadira, and works to keep her in check.

* [[DroppedABridgeOnHim Dropped a Bridge on Her]] though it served to accentuate the DeathIsDramatic nature of the episode

-->'''Buffy:''' I think she's just so wigged at [[LovePotion hitting on one of my friends]] that she's repressing. She's getting pretty good at that. ...I should probably start worrying...

* PoorCommunicationKills: Faith's induction into the Scoobies helped to temper her lawless approach to slaying (which Buffy initially didn't know about). However, Buffy lied to her about Angel's resurrection, which allowed Gwendolyn Post used to turn Faith against the gang.

* YouLookFamiliar: Tom Lenk appeared in "Real Me" as Cyrus, one of Harmony's minions. She had trouble remembering his name too.

* GreeneyedRedhead

* TheChosenOne: She is the one, true, Slayer, with Buffy having died and being the direct replacement for Kendra.

!!Samantha Finn (Ivana Milicevic)

Government demon hunter and spy, married to Riley.
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* BadassNormal
* GoodLookingPrivates
* HappilyMarried
* SpyCouple: With Riley

!! The Shadow Men (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. They only appear in one episode, season 7's ''Get It Done''.

* NeglectfulPrecursors: Their descendants and apprentices would go on to form the [[ObstructiveBureaucrat Watchers Council]]. Good job on that one, guys.
* OmniscientMoralityLicense
* PowerTrio
* SquishyWizard: It doesn't take much for Buffy to knock them on their keisters.

!!The First Slayer (Sharon Ferguson)

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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."''

Sineya, the First of the Ones, the Primitive. The first girl to ever become a Vampire Slayer, she had the "honor" forced upon her by the Shadow Men. She was an outcast from her village, who feared her even more than the demons she fought.

!!Nikki Wood (April Weeden-Washington/K.D. Aubert)

A Slayer in the 1970's, and the mother of Robin Wood. Appears several times in flashbacks, [[spoiler:where Spike kills her]], and as a disguise of The First.

!! Hank Summers (Dean Butler)

Buffy and Dawn's father (though he may never have actually met the latter outside of their fake memories); divorced Joyce some time pre-series, and was infrequently in and out of his family's life after that before apparently running off to Spain with [[TheMistress his secretary]] and explicitly not even bothering to get in touch after Joyce's death.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Outside of Buffy's bad dream turned reality in "Nightmares", he seemed like a decent enough guy before turning into a zero responsibility zone offscreen. Granted, his actual screentime ''was'' minimal.
* DisappearedDad: The start of a trend in the series.
* TheGhost: After Season Two, the exceptions being "The Weight of the World" (in a flashback) and "Normal Again" (in the CuckooNest).
* {{Jerkass}}
* SexySecretary: Apparently ran off with one.
* VisitByDivorcedDad: "Nightmares".
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse
* YourCheatingHeart: Implied.

!!Wishverse Buffy

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->"The universe is what it is. We fight. We die."

When Cordelia wishes that Buffy never came to Sunnydale Anya creates an alternate world where she instead operates over the second-rate hellmouth in Cleveland. Buffy eventually makes her way to Sunnydale, after Giles tries contacting her, where we quickly see that she's...[[DarkerAndEdgier changed]].

* AntiHero: [[GoodIsNotNice Type three]]. That's not even open to debate.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted, she sports a scar above her upper lip.
* BrokenPedestal: Built up to be the one to save the world. Not only is she personally not nice, she fails.
* ClevelandRocks: Buffy fought there due to there also being a hellmouth. [[AcceptableTargets Given her attitude it hadn't changed much]].
* TheCynic
* DarkActionGirl: To the point where Faith is LighterAndSofter
* DarkerAndEdgier: One of if not the darkest heroes in the Buffyverse.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Before the Wishverse, Buffy and Willow discuss how in different circumstances she might have become [[DarkActionGirl Faith]]. Turns out without her friends, she's even worse.
* GoodIsNotNice: Or even helpful, for that matter, instead expecting people to point her in the direction of what needs killing.
* KilledOffForReal
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Rather than try and help Giles find a way to reverse the wish her idea is to just stake Anyanka.
* NeckSnap: The Master does this to her.
* NinetiesAntiHero: This is what Buffy might be like had GrantMorrison gotten his hands on her.
* TheMessiah: How people think of her. The attention greatly bothers her.
-->"Is this a 'get in my pants' thing?"
* TookALevelInJerkass: Her basic attitude is to kill anything bad, kill anyone in her way and disregard everyone else.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Initially Buffy was going to be decked out in more military style clothing, with a larger cross. The writers must have thought it would look silly so they went with a grittier, harder version of Buffy's normal dress sense.

!!Cheese Man (David Wells)
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->''"I've made a little space for the cheese slices."''

A bald gentleman who places great importance on cheese. Each of the Scoobies dream about him during their shared nightmare in "Restless." Even the First Slayer is no match for him. The Cheese Man is alone in the cosmos, straddling the line between good and evil. With great cheese comes great responsibility.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment:[[invoked]]
* DodgyToupee: "I wear the cheese. It does not wear me."
* DualWielding: In this final appearance, the Cheese Man is holding ''two'' slices of cheese.
* FauxSymbolism: Word of Joss says that the Cheese Man, who appears in all four dreams, has no deeper meaning and his only purpose is to be random. Yet coincidentally, earlier in the season (The Initiative, 4x07) Willow helps Riley start a conversation with Buffy by telling him that she likes cheese.
** [[http://www3.sympatico.ca/jenoff/btvs422.htm#btvs422a One reviewer]] writes that the Cheese Man represents "the concretization of the slayer puns and the good times Buffy has with her friends."
* FourEyesZeroSoul
* MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext
* MessengerOfDoom: In Xander's dream. Even cheese can't protect him now. Poor bastard.
* MundaneObjectAmazement
* NoNameGiven
* [[OneSceneWonder One Episode Wonder]]
* ThePowerOfCheese: Weak people wear kevlar. Real men wear cheese.
* RuleOfFunny
* TakeThat: The Cheese Man's appearance in a dungeon ("I wear the cheese") is a reference to LeonardoDicaprio's character in ''TheManInTheIronMask,'' who says, "I wear the mask. It does not wear ''me''". Joss saw the film in a theater and found the line sublimely ridiculous.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Three guesses as to which.
* WaistcoatOfStyle: Surprisingly, he and Giles don't really get on.
-->'''Giles:''' [to himself] You really meet the most appalling people..."
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse

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[[folder: Comic-specific Good Characters]]

!!Satsu

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A Japanese Slayer activated by Willow's spell, Satsu joined the Slayer organization and quickly became one of Buffy's best and most relible fighters. Satsu then fell in love with her, and they slept together twice before Satsu took over the Toyko base of operations after Buffy told her that while what they had done was nice, it wouldn't go any further.
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* AbusivelySexyWoman: Who wouldn't want to be tortured by ElizaDushku?
** [[RapeAsDrama Ah...]] [[DeathBySex hmmm]].

* IJustWantToHaveFriends: though she'd never admit it.

* TakeThat: The Cheese Man's line, "I wear the cheese," is a reference to Leonardo Dicaprio in ''TheManInTheIronMask'' ("I wear the mask. It does not wear ''me''.") Joss saw the film in a theater and found the line sublimely ridiculous.

A bald gentleman who places great importance on cheese. Each of the Scoobies dream about him during their shared nightmare in "Restless." Even the First Slayer is no match for him. The Cheese Man is alone in the cosmos, straddling the line between good and evil and lending aid to neither side.

* {{Badass}}: A powerful British archmage who apparently fought in a magical war and was awesome enough in it to impress Angel...

A older archmage who is highly knowledgable about both magic and hundreds of different demons. Angel and Faith turn to him for information on their current cases in London.

* {{Badass}}: A powerful British archmage who apparantly fought in a magical war...

* {{Depowered}}: By the destruction of the Seed of Wonder.

!!Robert Dowling

A young detective on the San Francisco Police force who is partners with Detective Cheung. Dowling and Cheung's cases led them to investigate Buffy.

* BadassNormal
* BigDamnHeroes: Saves Buffy and Spike from Severin by shooting him.
* InspectorJavert
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He advocates giving Buffy a chance to help them and believing her while Cheung shoots down the idea.

!!Cheung

A detective on the San Francisco Police force who is partnered with the younger Detective Dowling. Their investigations into mysterious bodies led them to Buffy.