History Characters / BuffyTheVampireSlayerRecurringAndMinorCharacters

* AntiHero: [[GoodIsNotNice Type three]]. That's not even open to debate.

* TheCynic: She makes Faith look sunny and sweet.
* 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.

* KilledOffForReal: By the Master, leading to questions on a Wishverse!Kendra, or *shudder* Wishverse!Faith.

* NeckSnap: The Master does this to her.
* NietzscheWannabe: She's basically every thing Spike says of the death wish of Slayers, having given up on life to become an emotionless killing machine.
* NinetiesAntiHero: This is what Buffy might be like had Todd [=McFarlane=] or Creator/MarkMillar gotten their hands on her.
* RuggedScar: Used to show that she's much more gruff and combat-oriented than the main universe Buffy.

* AttentionDeficitOohShiny
* BodyDouble

* DeceptivelyHumanRobot: Though she still fooled the other Scoobies, to the real Buffy's annoyance.
* GenkiGirl
* HughMann

* KissMeIAmVirtual
* {{Malaproper}}

* NoSocialSkills

* PerpetualSmiler

* RobotGirl
* RobotMe

* RoboCam: Including a drop-down menu of 'adult' options.

* SpockSpeak

* TheyKilledKenny: Is horribly mangled in all her appearances.
* TooMuchInformation / SickAndWrong: The Scoobies reaction whenever the subject of Spuffybot comes up.

* NinetiesAntiHero: This is what Buffy might be like had ToddMcFarlane or Creator/MarkMillar gotten their hands on her.

* StarCrossedLovers: Averted; Wishverse!Buffy doesn't recognise Angel (saying crudely "Is this a 'get into my pants thing?'" when he starts talking about destiny), is fully prepared to leave him chained up when she discovers he's a vampire, and has absolutely no reaction when Angel dies [[TakingTheBullet saving her life]].

* CaptainObvious

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted, she sports a scar running across her lips, like [[{{Fray}} Melaka Fray]].

* ActionFashionista: Averted; Buffy wears combat boots and a more subdued outfit.

The other pages are:
[[index]]
* [[Characters/BuffyTheVampireSlayerRegulars Buffy the Vampire Slayer Regulars]]
* [[Characters/BuffyTheVampireSlayerAntagonists Buffy Antagonists]]
* Characters/AngelInvestigations
* Characters/AngelWolframAndHart
* Characters/AngelOtherEnemies
* [[Characters/BuffyTheVampireSlayerComic Dark Horse Comic Characters]]
[[/index]]


!Government and Law Enforcement



[[folder:Kate]]
!!Kate Lockley
->'''Played By:''' Elisabeth Röhm
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->''" Well, you see, the thing about "detectives" is, they have résumés. And business licenses. And last names."''

A member of the LAPD, Kate first encounters Angel when both are on the trail of a serial killer with Kate unaware that the killer is a demon. After this, she becomes Angel's friend on the force, though relations turn frosty when she finds out what he's fighting and exactly what he is. Leaves in the second season but returns and joins Angel Investigations in the comics.

* ActionGirl: She can go toe-to-toe with vampires.
* AgentScully: Before graduating to a full-fledged Mulder (this is lampshaded by her dull-witted partner).
-->"Scully's the skeptic. ''({{Beat}}.)'' ''Mulder's'' the one who wants to believe. Scully's the skeptic."
-->"...Scully's the chick, right?"
* BadassNormal
* CowboyCop: When she mistakenly believes that Angel is the SerialKiller she's looking for, she has absolutely zero qualms against searching the Angel Investigations offices without getting a warrant beforehand.
* EconomyCast: The show eventually got around this by turning Kate InspectorJavert. It's mentioned that she spends all hours of the night listening to the police scanner, which would explain why she's always first on the scene.
* FairCop
* FriendOnTheForce
* HappilyFailedSuicide: In the second-season episode "Reprise."
* InspectorJavert: Ends up this towards Angel to the extent that, after a BackFromTheDead Darla tells her that Angel was behind a string of murders, Kate unhesitatingly storms the Hyperion with a SWAT team to have him arrested. However, she is forced to accept the truth when Gunn points out that Angel, being a vampire, couldn't possibly have just stormed in and killed someone in their own home unless he was explicitly invited or the residents were ''already dead.''
* OccultDetective
* ParentalAbandonment
* PutOnABus: After Röhm left the show to join ''Series/LawAndOrder''.
** She quit fighting supernatural crime in the West Coast to fight normal crime in the East Coast.
** TheBusCameBack: In the comic, at least.
* ReassignedToAntarctica: Lampshaded by Kate after her superiors take exception to her growing interest in the macabre. She's later bounced off to the filing room, or something.
** TurnInYourBadge: ...With this as the ultimate result.
* SuperCop
* UndercoverCopReveal: In her first appearance ("Lonely Hearts").
* WeakButSkilled: She ''knows'' that she isn't strong enough to fight vampires head-on, so she uses pragmatic tactics to gain the upper hand.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Kate was originally supposed to be a [[DirtyHarriet deep undercover cop]] posing as a prostitute. [[BecomingThemask And a drug addict]]. Because why not? ExecutiveMeddling led to this grimdark script - the episode called "Corrupt" - being shelved and rewritten into the much LighterAndSofter "Lonely Hearts."
** Kate's bitterness at her father's death was to have led to her becoming Holtz's disciple. Once Röhm was unavailable, Kate's fate was changed; her backstory and thirst for vengeance was transplanted onto Justine.

!Supernatural Creatures



[[folder:Clem]]
!!Clement / Clem
->'''Played By:''' James C. Leary
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A friendly and mild-mannered demon who befriended the Scoobies in season 6. Eventually hightailed it out of Sunnydale as the showdown with The First drew closer.
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* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Completely Subverted. He's a deformed demon with bizarre skin and quite possibly the friendliest disposition in the series.
* BeleagueredAssistant: To Harmony.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: He was kind of a jerk in his first appearance. On the other hand, it could just be that kittens are his preferred meal.
* CombatTentacles
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: On ''Angel & Faith #6'' he actually beheads a bunch of vampires with his tentacled face
* DoggedNiceGuy: He's in love with Harmony.
* EmotionEater: His kind feed on emotions, specially embarrassment.
* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: Played for RuleOfFunny -- Clem is first seen gambling over kittens so he can eat them.
* NiceGuy: Easily one of the friendliest characters in the series.
* NightmareFace: He showed this to the potentials in "Potential".
* NonActionGuy
* RealMenWearPink
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: He leaves Sunnydale along with most of its population as the power of the The First grows.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Merl]]
!!Merl
->'''Played By:''' Matthew James
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->''Jesus, man! I mean, can't you, you know,'' knock?
->''You don't make [[OhCrap that funny expression]] when I knock. Or if you do,'' I ''don't see it.''
-> --Merl and Angel

An unlucky snitch who hangs around Lorne's bar, Caritas. Instead of giving Merl monetary payment, however, Angel frequently intimidates Merl into giving him the necessary information, similar to how Willy the Snitch was regularly beaten up by Buffy for information.
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* BloodyHilarious: Merl was eventually killed by members of Gunn's gang who had gone out of control and started killing demons indiscriminately. When Gunn asks where Merl's body is, Angel casually points at assorted splotches throughout the room.
* ButtMonkey: His entire role in the series, prior to his death, is to get brutalized by Angel for information.
* DudeWheresMyRespect
* KnowledgeBroker
* LovableTraitor: Angel's lack of respect towards Merl is somewhat justifiable given that in his first appearance, Merl tricked him into killing a pregnant woman's demon guardian so that she'd be vulnerable to bounty hunters.
* TheScapegoat
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere
* SoundOnlyDeath
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Gwen]]
!!Gwen Raiden
->'''Played By:''' Alexa Davalos
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->"[Realizing Angel has no reflection] ''OK. After I kick your ass, I'm gonna ask about that"''

Gwen was born with the ability to generate and control electricity, with the downside being that she can't turn it off, and thus can't make contact with another person. She uses her power to work as a thief for hire, and runs into the gang when hired to steal a mystical artifact. A thief by nature, she shows up when she needs help, but always leaves before things get too hairy.
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* BerserkButton: Being called a freak. "That's ''my'' word. And I get cranky when people like you use it."
* BlessedWithSuck
* ClassyCatBurglar
* CorporateSamurai
* FakeAmerican: Alexa Davalos is French.
* FemmeFatale
* HelloNurse: Definitely invoked during Gwen's [[SexyWalk entrance]].
** This behavior is, however, Freudian, given that her powers ensure that she is a virgin - as she admits in "Players".
* IJustWantToBeNormal
* MeaningfulName: Raiden is a Japanese god of thunder and lightning. Not a pseudonym, as her parents were addressed as "Mr. and Mrs. Raiden" in her BackStory. It's also a pun on "Gone Raiding."
* NatureAbhorsAVirgin: In her third appearance, Gunn realizes that, because of her powers, she's never had sex. After they steal LISA (an experimental biometric control system), he's kind enough to help her with this.
* PowerIncontinence
* ShockAndAwe
* SpyCatsuit
* StevenUlyssesPerhero
* {{Stripperiffic}}
* WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: Says "Hey, Denzel!" when she first meets Gunn. He's later her first sexual partner.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Nina]]
!!Nina Ash
->'''Played By:'''

A werewolf introduced in season 5. She becomes a love interest for Angel.
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* CannotSpitItOut: Angel, being ObliviousToLove, needs to be beaten about the head by multiple people before realizing Nina is interested in him.
* DrivenToSuicide: She's so depressed over having become a werewolf that she's fully prepared to let Jacob Crane and his clients [[EatenAlive eat her]] at a fancy dinner. After Angel saves her, she grows out of it.
* EveryoneLovesBlondes: Angel does but we knew this...
** SlashersPreferBlondes: Began as a victim of the week to a werewolf...
* NippleAndDimed: She was always nude after reverting.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: From other werewolves in the universe, even. This is largely to take advantage of improved special effects compared to Season 2 of Buffy.
[[/folder]]

!Other Characters


!Other Buffys

[[folder:Wishverse]]
!!Wishverse Buffy
->'''Played By:''' Creator/SarahMichelleGellar
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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]].
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* ActionFashionista: Averted; Buffy wears combat boots and a more subdued outfit.
* AntiHero: [[GoodIsNotNice Type three]]. That's not even open to debate.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted, she sports a scar running across her lips, like [[{{Fray}} Melaka Fray]].
* BraidsOfAction: Wears a single braided ponytail, as opposed to the normal Buffy's twin-braid style.
* BrokenPedestal: Built up to be the one to save the world. Not only is she personally not nice, she fails.
* UsefulNotes/{{Cleveland}}: Buffy fought there due to there also being a hellmouth. [[AcceptableTargets Given her attitude it hadn't changed much]].
* TheCynic: She makes Faith look sunny and sweet.
* DarkActionGirl: To the point where Faith is LighterAndSofter
* DarkerAndEdgier: One of if not the darkest heroes in the Buffyverse.
* DeathSeeker: Deprived of anything to fight for or live for, Wishverse!Buffy is just an emotionless killing machine waiting for the moment when it all ends. [[spoiler:This is more or less ''exactly'' what Spike said was normally the fatal-flaw of Slayers: the urge to find death after a lifetime of dealing it. It's main-universe-Buffy's friends that set her apart from virtually all other Slayers. This one doesn't live long enough to form such bonds.]]
-->'''Buffy:''' World is what it is. We fight, we die. Wishing doesn't change that.
* ExcessiveEvilEyeshadow: It brings out her DullEyesOfUnhappiness.
* {{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.
** Wishverse!Buffy is foreshadowing for Spike's BreakingSpeech in "Fool for Love", where he tells Buffy that without her connections to the world (family and friends) she'd be a DeathSeeker.
* GoodIsNotNice: Or even helpful, for that matter, instead expecting people to point her in the direction of what needs killing.
* IWorkAlone: Wishverse!Buffy isn't big on the teamwork.
* KilledOffForReal: By the Master, leading to questions on a Wishverse!Kendra, or *shudder* Wishverse!Faith.
* 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.
* NietzscheWannabe: She's basically every thing Spike says of the death wish of Slayers, having given up on life to become an emotionless killing machine.
* NinetiesAntiHero: This is what Buffy might be like had ToddMcFarlane or Creator/MarkMillar gotten their hands on her.
* RuggedScar: Used to show that she's much more gruff and combat-oriented than the main universe Buffy.
* StarCrossedLovers: Averted; Wishverse!Buffy doesn't recognise Angel (saying crudely "Is this a 'get into my pants thing?'" when he starts talking about destiny), is fully prepared to leave him chained up when she discovers he's a vampire, and has absolutely no reaction when Angel dies [[TakingTheBullet saving her life]].
* StopWorshippingMe: She ''does not'' take well with being worshiped as The Slayer.
* 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.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Buffybot]]
!!The Buffybot
->'''Played By:''' Creator/SarahMichelleGellar
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->'''Xander''': Hey, I know this. You're both Buffy.
->'''Buffy''': No, she's a robot. You couldn't tell me apart from a robot?
->'''Buffybot''': Oh, I don't think I'm a robot.
->'''Anya''': She's very well made.

An android replica of Buffy constructed by Warren at the behest of Spike during Season 5. She was later used as a decoy during the battle with Glory and pretended to be Buffy in-universe between Season's 5 and 6
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* AnArmAndALeg: Razor and his gang chain her limbs to their motorcycles. The bikes take off, and the 'Bot is neatly quartered. Yuck.
* ActingForTwo: Naturally, being a robot double and all.
* AlmostDeadGuy: Survives long enough after being ripped apart to reveal to Dawn that the real Buffy is back.
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny
* BodyDouble
* BondOneLiner: Willow isn't quite able to program the Buffybot correctly in this area.
-->"That'll put marzipan on your pie plate, bingo!"
* BrutalHonesty: PlayedForLaughs in "Intervention", but the Buffybot's "Then why are you here?" (after the Slayer has been killed) forces Giles to realise he must move on from Buffy's death and return to England.
* CaptainObvious
* {{Catchphrase}}: According to Xander, she ''always'' says the pie line after slaying something.
* ChekhovsGunman: Appeared mirroring the real Buffy much more closely than her [[CloudCuckooLander last appearance]] to decoy and weaken [[PhysicalGod Glory]].
* CloudCuckooLander: Obsessed with Spike, chipper about slaying and much friendlier than the real Buffy, if socially awkward.
* DeceptivelyHumanRobot: Though she still fooled the other Scoobies, to the real Buffy's annoyance.
* GenkiGirl
* HughMann
* ItIsPronouncedTropay: Pronounces it "Guy-els".
* KissMeIAmVirtual
* {{Malaproper}}
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Before the demon bikers kill her, they knock her to the ground, and proceed to kick and stomp the shit out of her.
* NoSocialSkills
* [[OffWithHisHead Off With Her Head]]: How Glory deactivates her, until the Scoobies rebuild her.
* PaperThinDisguise: Buffy gets rather miffed that her friends thought the bot was really her going through grief. Also PlayedForLaughs at the beginning of Season 6 when it goes to Parent-Teacher Day and [[WeirdnessCensor no-one notices the difference]]. In a FridgeLogic moment the Buffybot is able to impersonate Buffy well enough to fool Glory, despite the fact that Willow was unable to get the same result after months of tweaking during the summer.
* PerpetualSmiler
* ReplacementGoldfish: In "Bargaining" we see Dawn [[IncestSubtext curling up in bed]] next to the recharging Buffybot, and Giles trying to instruct it in Eastern philosophy during a sparring session. Averted with Spike who can't even stand to look at Buffybot.
* RobotGirl
* RobotMe
* RoboticReveal:
--> '''Glory:''' "The Slayer's a robot? Did everybody else know the Slayer was a robot?"
--> '''Vampire:''' "You're... you're a machine!"
* RuleOfSymbolism: Buffy returns from the dead in time to see the sweet innocent Buffybot permanently destroyed when it's ripped apart by demons, showing Buffy's loss of innocence and the need to build herself anew.
* RoboCam: Including a drop-down menu of 'adult' options.
* SeeminglyProfoundFool: "School is where you learn." Preach it, sister.
** It helps that Warren uploaded her with banal observations about the Scoobies.
-->'''Buffybot''': [-ANYA-]. How is your money?\\
'''Anya:''' [delighted] [[{{Flanderization}} Fine, thank you!]]
* SexBot: Spike has her built to consumate his unrequited FoeYay for the Slayer. And yes, that does include sex.
-->''(Buffybot writhing on top of Spike, watched by a horrified Anya and Xander)'' "Oh Spike, you're the BigBad! You're the [[BiggusDickus Big]] [[DoubleEntendre Bad!]]"
* SpockSpeak
* StatOVision: The Buffybot sees like this with information about Buffy's friends displayed on screen when they're in its line of sight. Having been programmed by Warren to specifications given by Spike however, the information is extremely basic or displays a laughably 2D idea of the characters. For instance, Willow's screen reads: "Best Friend. Gay (1999-Present). Witch. Good with computers.". Also displayed on screen are the Buffybot's two primary objectives in life, "Locate Spike" and "Make Spike Happy". The latter has a drop-down menu of files with titles like "kissing" and "position-1" and so on.
* TheyKilledKenny: Is horribly mangled in all her appearances.
* TooMuchInformation / SickAndWrong: The Scoobies reaction whenever the subject of Spuffybot comes up.
-->'''Willow:''' ''(thinking she's talking to Buffy)'' So just this one time you just did something kinda crazy?
-->'''Buffybot:''' It wasn't one time. It was lots of times, and lots of different ways. I can make sketches!
-->'''Willow:''' No!
** And later...
-->'''Xander:''' Spike must have had her built so he could program her t-
-->'''Buffy:''' ''(horrified)'' Oh god.
-->'''Willow:''' Yikes. Imagine the things-
-->'''Buffy:''' No! No, no imagining. Any of you.
-->'''Xander:''' ''(raises his hand)'' Already got the visual.
* SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaids: Justified as Spike didn't just want the Buffybot to ''look'' like the Slayer, she had to have the [[SexIsViolence same strength and combat abilities]] [[CombatSadomasochist that turn Spike on.]]
* TakeThat: Spike has his dislike of his rival for Buffy's affections programmed into the bot.
-->'''Buffybot:''' Angel's lame. His [[SpikyHair hair goes straight up]], and he's bloody stupid!
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: It's not entirely clear ''how'' sentient she is, but the Scoobies seem a little unnervingly cavalier about how they treat her.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sam]]
!!Samantha Finn
->'''Played By:''' Ivana Milicevic

Government demon hunter and spy, married to Riley.

* ActionGirl

* DoggedNiceGuy
* GenderBlenderName
* HappilyMarried
* PregnantBadass: In the spin-off novel ''Seven Crows''.
* TookALevelInBadass: If the comics were a Buffy spin on ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'' Kennedy would be [[DrillSergeantNasty Price,]] Faith would be [[ViolentGlaswigian Soap]] and Sam would be [[FriendlySniper MacMillan.]] Outside of the one true Slayer perhaps the biggest BadAss in the story.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kate]]
!!Kate Lockley
->'''Played By:''' Elisabeth Röhm
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->''" Well, you see, the thing about "detectives" is, they have résumés. And business licenses. And last names."''

A member of the LAPD, Kate first encounters Angel when both are on the trail of a serial killer with Kate unaware that the killer is a demon. After this, she becomes Angel's friend on the force, though relations turn frosty when she finds out what he's fighting and exactly what he is. Leaves in the second season but returns and joins Angel Investigations in the comics.
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* ActionGirl: She can go toe-to-toe with vampires.
* AgentScully: Before graduating to a full-fledged Mulder (this is lampshaded by her dull-witted partner).
-->"Scully's the skeptic. ''({{Beat}}.)'' ''Mulder's'' the one who wants to believe. Scully's the skeptic."
-->"...Scully's the chick, right?"
* BadassNormal

[[folder:Whistler]]
!!Whistler
->'''Played By:''' Max Perlich

A balancing demon sent by the PowersThatBe. Whistler guides Angel into meeting Buffy, and also tries to assist her in stopping Angelus. Later reappeared during the Twilight crisis and its aftermath.

* BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil: What he seeks to maintain.
* [[spoiler: BiggerBad: He is behind the whole Twilight thing in season 8.]]
** [[spoiler: BigBad: Steps into this role for ''Angel & Faith''.]]
* [[spoiler: CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Seemed like a pretty harmless 'spiritual advisor' type, but come Season Nine and he's showing off sufficient power to leave Nash and Pearl quivering in fear and punching holes through Angel.]]
* CrypticConversation: Pretty much all he ever says.
* DeadpanSnarker: He's quite a sarcastic fellow.
* DontMakeMeDestroyYou: When Angel makes it clear that he will not support Whistler's methods, Whistler loses his temper, [[TorsoWithAView puts his fist through Angel's gut]], and comes dangerously close to staking him before managing to stop himself, remarking that even after everything that's happened, Angel is still his "favorite kid" and he doesn't want to kill him. However, he nonetheless departs while warning Angel to stay out of his way or he would be forced to.
* [[spoiler:FaceHeelTurn]]
* IveComeTooFar: [[spoiler: After releasing a magic plague over London, causing people to painfully mutate into monsters, Angel forces him to look at what he's done to innocents in an attempt to get through to him. While he is briefly swayed and appears unsure, Whistler brushes it off, telling Angel that no matter what, he's come too far in his plans to stop now.]]
* [[spoiler: OneWingedAngel: He can take after his demonic parent too, if he feels like it...]]
* NiceHat
* NonhumanHumanoidHybrid: He is the product of an InterspeciesRomance between a pure-blood demon and an agent of ThePowersThatBe (basically an angel, although [[OurAngelsAreDifferent not depicted with wings]]). The Powers and the demons banded together to kill his parents for their transgression, but the Powers spared Whistler to serve as an agent of balance.
* {{Precognition}}: Although it is "all outta whack" after the destruction of the [[spoiler:Seed of Wonder]].
* [[spoiler: RedemptionEqualsDeath]]
* SanitySlippage: Angel [[BrutalHonesty bluntly]] tells him that he believes that being separated from TheMultiverse and the Powers since the Seed was destroyed have made him crazy. And he may have a point.
* [[spoiler:TookALevelInJerkass: In Season Nine.]]
* [[spoiler: WellIntentionedExtremist: His plan to restore magic, as well as the Twilight arc, would have and will kill billions, but he legitimately believes it's the only way to save the rest of the world.]]
* WildCard
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Clem]]
!!Clement / Clem
->'''Played By:''' James C. Leary
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A friendly and mild-mannered demon who befriended the Scoobies in season 6. Eventually hightailed it out of Sunnydale as the showdown with The First drew closer.
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[[foldercontrol]]

!Slayers

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

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

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

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

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

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

* AbusiveParents: "[[MyGrandmaCanDoBetterThanYou My dead mother hits harder than that!]]"
* ADateWithRosiePalms: Like Buffy, Faith once alludes to masturbation. With a '''stake'''. ''Cree-pee''...
* AntiHero: Types I through to IV, when she's not psychotic.
* AntiHeroSubstitute: Faith is the one true Slayer, since she was called upon Kendra's death (who was in turn called when Buffy died.) She's a decidedly less moral, more antagonistic mold -- at least initially.
* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: After stealing Buffy's body she tries to get Riley to engage in creepy sex. Instead [[GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex he's so gentle]] it freaks her out.
* AscendedExtra: Originally started out with a planed minor role in the series, similar to Kendra's, both the audiences and Joss Whedon became fans of Eliza and her character and she became a much more important to the story.
* TheAtoner: Not only could she have taken a run at Angelus in the monster stakes, Faith is the biggest example of this trope this side of Angelus, to the point she JumpedAtTheCall to find Riley so she can make up for hurting him.
* AttemptedRape: On Xander
* [[UnclePennybags Aunt Pennybags]]: At the end of Season 8, 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 [[CoolAunt being fun to be around]].
* AxeCrazy: This is very much a condition she has even as a good guy. She is able to mostly keep it in check, but she is tempted to kill Angel in a hell dimension (so he would no longer place her and others in danger) and working as TheMole she loses it and tries to kill Buffy.
* {{Badass}}: Let's see, her feats include killing Kakistos, going toe to toe against Buffy, defeating Angel, lives after being stabbed and jumping from a building, effortlessly wards off an assassin Buffy had trouble with; then escaping prison and uses her body to cushion Wesley's body from a multi story fall, survives against The Beast, fights Angelus to a standstill longer than Buffy ever could while higher than a kite, and uses the scythe to decimate Turok Han. ''There's'' a woman to take home to papa.
* BadLiar: Giles once said of her, "Faith has many skills, but fortunately lying is not one of them." FridgeLogic sets in when he hires her to infiltrate a castle and assassinate a slayer.
* BatmanGambit: Her trying to get Angel to kill her. She tries to kill Angel, breaks into Cordelia's and assaults her, kidnap's and tortures Wesley all in an attempt to force a showdown with Angel.
* BathtubBonding: With Genevieve Savidge in Season 8.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Usually played straight, and easily explained by the enhanced resilience enjoyed by all Slayers. Even after extended battles with Buffy, who hit harder than most vampires, Faith always looked fine, without even a smudge on her makeup. Averted occasionally, as a result of a particularly significant battle, such as the rooftop duel with Buffy (Though the only real damage to her face came as a result of a long fall onto a moving truck, ''not'' from Buffy's fists).
** While attempting to defeat The Beast in Los Angeles, Faith suffers a horrific beatdown, and is so bloody and battered afterwards that she can barely walk. Her reactions afterwards show that her confidence is just as damaged as her body.
** Her and Buffy were shown to have bruises lining their faces after their first fight with each other.
* BeingEvilSucks: When she begged Angel to kill her, it was because of this.
** "Who Are You" focuses on Faith's realization of how far she's fallen from the Slayer ideal.
* TheBerserker: When we first meet her, the result of witnessing the gruesome death of her Watcher. She relapses back into it when she awakens from her coma.
-->'''Buffy:''' Girl's not playing with a full deck, Giles. She has no deck. She has a 3.
** BerserkButton: Being told off for trying to do the right thing seems to be this. After she tries to kill Angel to stop who she thinks is Angelus it causes a deep rift from the gang (although them keeping it from her and giving her the "need to know basis" treatment was even worse). When told off for trying to rationalize killing the deputy mayor and getting rid of the body she gradually becomes more and more of a loose cannon, especially since they completely ingnore Buffy's role in his death. In the comics when Buffy won't let her explain what she's doing Faith tries to drown her in a fit of rage, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone before realizing what she's doing.]]
** BerserkerTears: Briefly does this before collapsing in grief when she tried to get Angel to kill her.
* BewareTheSuperman: Believed she was better than other people because she's a Slayer. Giles sums it up best:
-->'''Giles''': We have a rogue Slayer on our hands. I can't think of anything more dangerous.
* BigEater: Being superpowered [[VampireHunter vampire hunters]] Slayers tend to eat a lot. Faith showed this quality more, but it's likely due to living in PerpetualPoverty and eating up when she can.
* BloodKnight: As the Mayor's pet.
* BookDumb: On having the phrase "AchillesHeel" explained to her.
--> "Ah. The school thing. I was kinda absent that decade."
* BrokenBird: Lives with knowing she is borderline psychotic and has a hell of a lot to atone for.
** Even before the series started, she reveals some things about her past that weren't too pleasant.
* CatchPhrase: "Five by five."
* TheChosenOne: She is the One True Slayer, with Buffy having died and being the direct replacement for Kendra. JossWhedon has implied that, after Willow's spell activated all the Potentials alive at the time of the casting, no new Slayer will be Chosen until and unless Faith dies.
* ClosetGeek: Believe it or not she is familiar with cosplay, reads comic books, references Franchise/StarWars quite a bit, Creator/DrSeuss, {{Transformers}}, Mayor Wilkens buys her off with a PlayStation and she wears a Franchise/{{Batman}} t-shirt, so she definitely has geekish tendencies.
* CoolBigSis: To the Potentials, and especially to Slayers during ''Angel & Faith''.
** [[CoolUncle Cool Aunt]]: Becomes one to Giles when he's resurrected as a twelve year old...she's bemused by his childish behavior and helps him cope with what happened to him and everything he's lost.
* ColdSniper[=/=]FriendlySniper: Her heel/face turns respectively.
* CombatPragmatist
* ConvenientComa: Was in one for eight months after Buffy tried her level best to kill her. [[BadAss This didn't stop her.]]
* CulturedBadass: Given some of her quotes she at least tries to be. She ends up mangling some lines or uses them out of context.
* CuteAndPsycho: Hoo boy, she's as crazy as she is sexy, and she's portrayed as perhaps the most sexed up character in the series.
* DaddysLittleVillain: A surrogate daughter and enthusiastic [[TheDragon Dragon]] for the Mayor.
* DarkActionGirl: After her FaceHeelTurn she becomes a rather cold blooded murderer.
* DarkMagicalGirl: She's a loner foil for the friendly and perky Buffy. She looks up to an arc villain as a father-figure. She's redeemed from evil with ThePowerOfFriendship. She even managed to be close friends with Buffy for a short while.
* DeadpanSnarker: Faith likes this. Most of the time it's pretty adult.
-->"You don't know how many men have said that to me." On being promised that she'd get off (the murder charges against her would be dropped).
-->"Just like riding a biker." On getting back into slaying after her stint in prison.
* DeathSeeker: First, she is clearly unafraid of the possibility of Buffy killing her at the end of Season 3. Dying isn't her exact 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 BeingEvilSucks, she goes to LA in hopes of getting Angel to kill her.
** She even shows signs of this while a good guy: she was perfectly willing to go into a 1 on 8 situation without Buffy, and her fight with Angelus was borderline suicidal.
* {{Dominatrix}}: Doesn't mind playing sex games with boys "as long as they know who's on top."
-->'''Cordelia:''' (to Connor) What the hell is it with you and Faith! As if I didn't see the way you looked at her. She cracked her whip, and you liked it. You were practically in her [[HellBentForLeather leather-clad lap!]]
* TheDragon: To the Mayor.
* DudeWheresMyRespect?: Seems to be a major factor in her decision to turn evil. Despite being a Slayer just like Buffy, Faith often felt like she was the backup, being left out of the loop and treated like she didn't matter as much as the other slayer, whether the Scoobies intended it that way or not. This, coupled with her low self-esteem and the fact she was blamed for a lot of mistakes (which in retrospect were just as much Buffy's mistakes) caused her to snap and join the Mayor's side. In contrast the Mayor treated her with respect, gave her a nice apartment and shiny new toys, and often praised her abilities as better than Buffy.
--> '''Faith''' (While holding the Scythe) "It's old, strong and it feels like its mine. (Pauses) I guess that means it's yours."
* DynamicCharacter: From edgy AntiHero to psychotic to stubborn ReformedButRejected and back again. Come season nine she is considered by some InUniverse as more of TheHero than Buffy.
* EvilCounterpart: Whereas Kendra was the polar opposite of Buffy in nearly every way, Faith was meant to represent Buffy's "road not taken", a living embodiment of what Buffy might have been had her life's circumstances been different.
* FaceHeelRevolvingDoor: Even as a good guy she easily gives into her impulses and quite knowingly knows she's not all there, resulting in conflict with good guys and bad guys alike.
* FormerTeenRebel: When first introduced she was a ReallyGetsAround BloodKnight who didn't mind if she had to ShootTheDog because Buffy wouldn't, such as whether or not Angel was good. After her FaceHeelTurn she became a psychopath who killed and did wrong ForTheEvulz, and actually tried to be this to attempt [[SuicideByCop suicide by vampire.]] After breaking out of prison she has become one of the nicest people in both series, a SergeantRock to younger Slayers, and has only seemingly grown out of her bad habits.
* FreudianExcuse: Her desire to be the Mayor's surrogate daughter is unsurprising, given that he's the first parental figure she had that actually loved her. Aside from her first Watcher, who was brutally murdered in front of her.
** Even before she joined the Mayor she wasn't in the best of places mentally, having serious issues with men and authority figures.
* FriendsWithBenefits: She 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 character episode 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.
* GamerChick: The Mayor gives her a Playstation, and she treats it as just about the greatest thing ever.
* GoodFeelsGood: When she switched bodies with Buffy, she was expected to do Buffy-like things since nobody knew she did it. This was what led to her HeelFaceTurn.
* GoodIsNotNice: Before her FaceHeelTurn.
-->"I'm gonna find these Enders. I'm gonna ''kill 'em.'' I'm gonna get this MacGuffin and use it to save Angel and Giles. Anyone who wants to help, speak up. Anyone who doesn't, '''''screw you!"''''' Spike's cowed and falls into line.
* GoodIsNotSoft: After Xander tells her that Angel is back, after he was last seen as a monster, Faith becomes fearful of who he might hurt and decides to go behind Buffy's back to kill him. In season nine after slicing off the arm of a gun toting gangster, then burning drug dealers alive brings up the proper arrangements for their bereaved families.
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Faith has taken to smoking after her HeelFaceTurn. The comics suggest it's to steady her nerves, what with dealing with what she's done and fighting over a second Hellmouth. She goes through the better half of a pack because of her unease with assassinating a rogue Slayer.
** She smoked in the later seasons on the television show too, though it was shown rarely. One assumes she didn't do so during Season Three because the censors dislike having 'good' characters smoke. After her FaceHeelTurn, it would have been the Mayor preventing her, since he wouldn't want DaddysLittleVillain engaging in such a nasty habit.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Slowly adopts more and more violent tendencies, until finally she is indistinguishable from Angelus himself.
* TheHedonist: Which doesn't go well for her.
* HeelRealization: When she switched bodies with Buffy, she eventually figures out that she could have taken a run at Series/{{Angel}} for evil, and would reappear on his show as one in the hope he would kill her. He sees right through this ploy and doesn't comply with it.
** Another mild one crops up in the comics. Aside from the fact she is crazy enough to snap and try to kill Buffy despite her HeelFaceTurn; due to a combination of liking the person she was going to kill, trying to protect her from Buffy and some belief that if she kills Buffy she'll be a hero; she realizes she treats those who are decent to her like dirt. She makes more of an effort to treat people as people, rather than as a means to an end.
* HelloNurse: Discussing sex role play with Spike Faith mentions this as a whack fantasy. Naturally it's revealed a certain ''[[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer crunchy granola girl]]''' has such three way vampire fantasies.
* HighHeelFaceTurn: She joins the good guys again after Angel shows her ThePowerOfFriendship.
* [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Hoist By Her Own Petard]]: Buffy puts Faith in a coma by stabbing her in the gut with her own knife.
* [[HoYay LesYay]]: When fans pointed out the amount of unresolved sexual tension and obvious attraction between Faith and Buffy's interaction, Creator/JossWhedon insisted that it was utterly inadvertant. He later admitted that it was intentionally added once they discovered how much chemistry Creator/SarahMichelleGellar and Creator/ElizaDushku had with each other.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Though she'd never admit it.
* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: After her FaceHeelTurn Faith invokes this when Buffy attacks her.
* InTheBlood: In ''Angel & Faith'', Faith's own father tells her that, no matter how much she tries to change or how much she tries to be one of the good guys, she will ''always'' be in trouble simply because she is a Lehane, which drives Faith into a brief HeroicBSOD.
* KlingonPromotion: Elevates herself to TheDragon after dusting Mr. Trick.
* JumpedAtTheCall: Perhaps the major difference between her and Buffy (at least initially) is that while Buffy always resented being the Slayer Faith loved the new found responsibility and power that came from being a ChosenOne. [[FridgeBrilliance Prehaps because it was the first time her life had any meaning to it and she could make something of herself?]]
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Accidentally killing someone, or getting yelled at for her actions (such as when she tried to kill Angel or saved Buffy and an evil slayer) makes Faith completely snap. The second time especially.
* TheLadette: Smokes, drinks, and screws around to the point Spike is a popular pairing with her.
* LeeroyJenkins
-->'''Buffy:''' "Stop, wait, think!"
-->'''Faith:''' "No, no, no."
* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: Buffy and Faith are Vampire Slayers, the Chosen Two. Bad girl Faith says that killing vampires always makes her hungry and horny contrasted with Buffy who sometimes craves a nonfat yogurt afterwards and cares about always doing the right thing.
* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: Demonstrated with her torture of Buffy and Wesley.
* MeaningfulName: Faith as in her faith in people which she keeps losing.
* {{Mentor}}: After the Twilight crisis, Faith begins mentoring a group of Slayers based in London.
* MentorOccupationalHazard: Faith cites this as a reason she doesn't like authority figures in general.
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: It can be argued this was Faith's reason for going rouge, as opposed to leaving town like she tried to do before the climatic showdown at the end of Consequences. Lying to someone and betraying their trust over and over while still having the gall to say 'we're your friends', like what the Scoobies do would make anyone angry.
* MoralityChain: Serves as one for Angel during the ''Angel & Faith'' comics, which is exactly what Angel wants: a friend he trusts to make sure he doesn't {{Jump Off The Slippery Slope|ing}} again like he did as Twilight.
* MusclesAreMeaningless: Slightly more physically imposing than Buffy, and her fighting style favors powerful strikes. She still shouldn't be able to hit like a truck without Slayer powers.
* NinetiesAntiHero: From the get-go she's much more violent than any of the heroes, enjoys fighting, drinking, and promiscuous sex. She's also street smart and snarky even by the standards of this snow.
* NotSoDifferent: Claims this is the case between her and Buffy, who tries to deny it every time. Unfortunately for Buffy, Faith is right.
* NotStayingForBreakfast: How she treats her one night stands. Wood teases her about it motivating Faith to try and ravish him despite them trying to prepare for the final battle, before he convinces her to give him a chance to show that men can be more than a quick lay.
* OlderAndWiser: Faith has come a long way from when she first appeared.
* OrphansOrdeal: Has a terrible home life while with the good guys. It says a lot about the Mayor that the first thing he did for her was get her into a place that wasn't a dive motel.
* PlayAlongPrisoner: During her stint in prison. Her escape in ''Buffy'' season 7/''Angel'' season 4 proves she could have easily escaped whenever she wanted.
* PopCulturedBadass: Faith has a habit of referencing classic literature, music, Franchise/StarWars of all things, and in one particularly frightening scene even {{Transformers}}.
* PoorCommunicationKills: The Scooby's lying to Faith about Angel being back is her StartOfDarkness.
* PropheticName: You can take this from several view-points. For instance, her sponsorship by Angel, or (in the comic series) Faith's loyalty to same.
** After all, [[Series/BabylonFive Faith manages]].
* PsychoForHire: She enjoys beating up the bad guys a little too much from the beginning.
* PutOnABus: Being rendered comatose, then going to jail.
* TheQuisling: Before going evil became common knowledge.
* ReallyGetsAround: Before her FaceHeelTurn she lists off a number of boyfriends, and prods Buffy about Angel and Xander. Then after her HeelFaceTurn she describes another boyfriend she had to Spike, and sleeps with Wood.
* ReformedButRejected: For a good while in Season 7. About the only one to accept her is Willow, [[NotSoDifferent who just came off from a stint of evil-doing herself]].
* ReformedCriminal: Most of her sins were buried, with her only real crime she was paying for was the murder of a volcanologist. Turns out she strives to atone for this even today, as well as everything else she's done, by trying to help others.
* TheResenter: Buffy having everything Faith didn't while not even wanting to be the Slayer made Faith just a wee bit pissed.
* RivalTurnedEvil
* RogueAgent
* RunningGag: PlayedForDrama. From her introduction Faith takes Buffy's friends, her meal and looks like she's trying to take her job. From there it gets worse: first she sleeps with Xander, before later trying to kill him. She tries to take Angel from Buffy (which she ironically succeeds at), [[CaptainObvious her life;]] in both senses of the word, her body, her current boyfriend, and then she seemingly sleeps with Spike, takes Buffy's leadership of the potentials, then Robin Wood who was Buffy's potential boyfriend, then Giles, then Angel, in short everything Buffy had Faith takes away from her. Tragically half of these are by accident. Buffy's friends like Faith, Angel rejects Buffy over the way she acts when he tries to help Faith, it would later be confirmed that Faith did not sleep with Spike, the potentials reject Buffy over the way she's acting, Buffy is outraged with Giles and Angel over what they've done and thus turn to Faith. Things like Buffy's food, or boyfriends, are a case when Faith does not think, [[JerkAss or]] worse, [[FaceHeelTurn when]] she [[PsychoForHire does.]]
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Outside of her selfish nature Faith is willing to ShootTheDog and kill Angel in case he goes evil, cover up her AccidentalMurder of a morally grey character, and allow herself to be killed to satisfy Buffy's thirst for vengeance and go against Angel trying to redeem her. Recently, she gets so upset with Angel tormenting himself that she tries to stab him in the back and turn him human so he can let go of the guilt he feels, only stopping because of the BodyHorror her actions would cause.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Her tossing a handgun to Angel to give him in her words, "one free shot." It was to see if he would try and kill her. When he doesn't (he tried to shoot her in the leg instead), she tries to force him to. See BatmanGambit.
* SelfHarm: A bit of an atypical variant, as she's harming her body while her mind isn't actually occupying it. (As such, this could be argued not to be harming "herself" per se. That said, all of the self-loathing and rage of a self-harmer is present as she lays into her Buffy-occupied body.)
* SexIsCool: Faith's raison d'etre. She needles Buffy about her love life and sets her sights on Xander. Possibly the most varied and numerous of sex lives, putting the moves on most if not all of Buffy's potential and actual love interests, including at least two vampires.
* SheCleansUpNicely: Giles is clearly impressed when Faith shows off her look for going undercover at a formal party, a PimpedOutDress with AbsoluteCleavage.
** Before that was her dress she wore at the homecoming party at the Bronze, or the dress the Mayor got her.
* ShipperOnDeck: With Buffy and Xander and Angel, before her FaceHeelTurn.
* SixthRangerTraitor
* StartOfDarkness: When the Scooby gang decided to intervene with Buffy after learning Angel was back, they conspicuously left Faith out. For a girl who already had serious trust issues, this was a real low blow to her, and was a big reason why she was so hesitant to talk to anybody after she staked the deputy mayor.
* StreetSmart
* SuicideByCop: Tried to get Angel to kill her by turning up her more psychotic behavior.
* TeenageWasteland: A teenage girl who knows all about the Five Basic torture Groups. The Mayor must be so proud!
* TheHero: In an official capacity she is the Slayer, despite Buffy being BackFromTheDead. In universe and out she is treated as one of the nicer characters at the end, when Buffy TookALevelInJerkass. And in the comics she is not only a NiceGirl, but Angel specifically wanted her to keep him on a muzzle lest he go off the rails, and she leads a squad of Slayers in London. And she's treated as TheHero over Buffy even before she saves the world.
* TheLeader: When Buffy forces the Slayer army to kick her out Faith is seen as more reasonable and takes up the leadership role, only to relinquish it when a mission ends in disaster. When Spike enters the fray and the two two hundred year old vampires are acting about five she has to step in, much to Angel's embarrassment.
* TookALevelInJerkass: During her FaceHeelTurn, UpToEleven.
* TookALevelInKindness: There's little resemblance from her psychotic earlier years and the way she becomes after her incarceration.
* TortureTechnician: She was quite fond of torture - at one point, Angel complimented her on how well she knew how to do it. One wonders how a teenager knew so much about the "five basic torture groups".
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Buffy in Season 3 until [[FaceHeelTurn she breaks that friendship up badly.]] She and Buffy do become closer again at the ends of Season 7 and Season 8.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Faith loads up on weapons after learning of a BackFromTheDead, supposedly reformed Angel being in possession of a magical glove, scared of who he might kill. When she finds Giles had been attacked she immediately thinks 'Angel' and defies everyone in a bid to kill him. Then there was the time she and Angel discovered demon blood that could heal and even turn vampires back into humans. Because of how obsessed he was with making amends Faith intended to force it into him, and was just about to do so when she learned it would have done a lot more harm.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: One storyline idea was that Buffy would have found Faith had hanged herself, [[DrivenToSuicide unable to live with killing an innocent man]]. What the writers came up with instead was [[TheDragon much]] [[HeelFaceTurn more]] [[ReformedButRejected interesting]].
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: In Who Are You?, Faith spends much of the episode in Buffy's body living it up, and messing with Buffy's life. She also finds several unexpected sources of goodness thrown her way, such as a loving parent who isn't a wannabe demon, a loving boyfriend, genuine gratitude, and actual friendship. She is all set to leave Sunnydale in Buffy's body, having gotten her revenge as well as a get out of jail free card. Then she sees a report on a TV while at a bus depot of a hostage situation in a church, and drops everything to save those people.
--->'''Faith-in-Buffy's-body: Because it's wrong.'''
* WhipItGood: "This one guy I ran with, he liked me to dress up like a schoolgirl, and take this friggen bullwhip, and I'd be like..."
* WrittenInAbsence: Before Faith turned evil, the writers had to come up with reasons why she wasn't around to help Buffy in episodes like "Helpless" or "Lovers Walk" -- it was usually put down to her self-isolation and wayward nature.
* YinYangClash: Faith once theorized that this is why she and Buffy don't get along. After all, ThereCanBeOnlyOne.

[[folder:Sineya]]
!!Sineya, The First Slayer
->'''Played By:''' 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.

* ActionGirl
* {{Badass}}
* BlessedWithSuck
* TheChosenOne: The First of the Ones.
* CursedWithAwesome
* CuteBruiser
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Merging with the shadowy demon that turns her into the Slayer borders on rape.
* DyingAlone
* HealingFactor
* InTheEndYouAreOnYourOwn: A firm believer in this, to the point where, in season 4 when Buffy does a FusionDance with the Scoobies to beat Adam, she's so offended that she returns from the afterlife to try and kill them all.
* MagicalGirlWarrior
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast
* PintsizedPowerhouse: She's at most, about the same size as Buffy, maybe even smaller, but she's stronger than Buffy.
* SuperStrength
* TookALevelInKindness: When Buffy uses a ritual with the help of her friends to invoke the full power of the Slayer bloodline...well, she didn't take it very well. Cue one defeat at Buffy's hands, and it looks like the original Slayer changed her tune about ThePowerOfFriendship. Half a season later, she tells Buffy that her self sacrifice out of love for her sister will save the world. In the comics, we see that activating every potential Slayer and turning them from a lone warrior into a sisterhood was met with zero consequences. She even allows a boy with absolutely no connection to the slayers into their collective memory.

[[folder:Nikki]]
!!Nikki Wood
->'''Played By:''' April Weeden-Washington & K.D. Aubert

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

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

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

Potential Slayer, self-professed brat from a rich family, and love interest for Willow in Season 7. Hated by much of the fandom. Also noteworthy as being part of the first lesbian sex scene on network television (with Willow). Willow breaks up with her at the end of Season 8, and in Season 9 Kennedy starts a company which employs Slayers as bodyguards.

* ActionGirl
* {{Badass}}: Even before she became a Slayer.
* BrutalHonesty
* ClingyJealousGirl: Mild case: one of the first things she says to Buffy after seeing her after hearing about her "experiment" with Satsu is to stay away from Willow.
* DeadpanSnarker
* DeathIsCheap: Died for a month before being brought back by Willow, pre-Season 8.
* DrillSergeantNasty: Buffy may be bad at leading, but at least she doesn't have blood on her hands. Kennedy thought it'd be cool to refer to the other potential Slayers as ''maggots''.
* GoodCounterpart: To Simone in season nine. One of the reasons why Simone has an ax to grind is over Buffy keeping them defenseless. Rather than killing her and turning Slayers into vampires, Kennedy loads them up with guns and gives them real world training to defend themselves and others.
* JerkAss
** HiddenHeartOfGold
* JumpedAtTheCall
* LipstickLesbian
* NoodleIncident: The above mentioned death.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: When in charge of Slayer bodyguards she was nice enough to offer Buffy a job, and was quite tolerant of her, given she screwed up royally in her training, was going to abandon working for her, and later punched her. [[spoiler: Later Faith screws up just as bad and tries to leave, instead she gives her a important assignment involving Riley going missing.]]
* RoyalBrat: Lampshaded by Kennedy herself, as she comes from a rich family with multiple mansions. Wait, is she one of ''those'' Kennedys?
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Ignores the idea of not being allowed to engage in corporate warfare to take down a company ran by Wolfram & Hart.
* SuperStrength
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Inverted. She's pretty much Tara's opposite, which did her popularity no favors at all.
* {{Tykebomb}}: Knew how to use a crossbow since she was eight years old.

[[folder:Vi]]
!!Vi / Violet
->'''Played By:''' Creator/FeliciaDay
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->''"I could use a shot of that yak urine right about now."''

One of the potential Slayers who arrived in Sunnydale, Violet survived the final battle there and became a leading member in the Slayer organization, heading up the New York base.

* ActionGirl
* {{Adorkable}}: It's FeliciaDay. How could she not be?
* {{Badass}}
** BadassAdorable
* BadBadActing: Her Slayer recruitment commercial in Season 8, where she plays a typical suburban housewife-type who tells her husband (played by Andrew) about her sudden super strength and mystical Slayer dreams.
* CaptainObvious: Upon arriving at a demon bar: "They're demons! It's a demon bar! It's like a gay bar, only with demons."
* CuteBruiser
* DawsonCasting: Day was already 25 when she started playing Vi, one-and-a-half years older than Creator/ElizaDushku.
* [[INeedAFreakingDrink I Need A Freaking Shot of Yak Urine]]
* NaiveNewcomer
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Vi, in the TV series. In the comics they made her full name Violet and had her go by that, because comics are written in all caps and they didn't want readers thinking her name was "6".
* ShrinkingViolet: Stops being one after becoming a Slayer.
* SuperStrength

[[folder:Rona]]
!!Rona
->'''Played By:''' Indigo
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Another of the potential Slayers who joined the growing army in Sunnydale, Rona was a reluctant Slayer, but became a squad leader in Chicago. She was more frustrated and resistant to the whole slayer-thing than many of the others.

* ActionGirl
* {{Badass}}
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Seems scared of this, and thinks it is why Spike went after her first on a training exercise.
* DeadpanSnarker
* IJustWantToBeNormal
* [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]]: Seemed to think she was the only one among everyone in Sunnydale.
* RefusalOfTheCall: But embraced it at the end.
* SuperStrength

[[folder:Amanda]]
!!Amanda
->'''Played By:''' Sarah Hagan

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

* ActionGirl
* AscendedExtra: First appeared as a girl getting advice from Buffy while she worked as a school counselor, but later revealed to be a potential Slayer.
* {{Badass}}
* BullyHunter: Oh yeah. She thought a boy liked her because he picked on her, [[BelligerentSexualTension so she ambushed him in the parking lot and attacked him to show that she liked him back]].
* DiesWideOpen
* DisproportionateRetribution: She suggested letting a vampire attack the marching band because they picked on the swing choir (of which she was a member).
* JumpedAtTheCall
* NeckSnap
* SuperStrength

!The Watcher's Council

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

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

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

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

A trio of African shamans who created the first Slayer to combat the forces of evil and were the precursors to the Watchers Council. They only appear in one episode, season 7's ''Get It Done''.
----
* IntelligibleUnintelligible: When Buffy meets them, they only speak African (subtitled, of course), but Buffy is somehow able to understand them perfectly.
* NeglectfulPrecursors: Their descendants and apprentices would go on to form the [[ObstructiveBureaucrat Watchers Council]]. Good job on that one, guys.
* OmniscientMoralityLicense
* PowerTrio
* ScaryBlackMan
* SquishyWizard: It doesn't take much for Buffy to knock them on their keisters.
[[/folder]]

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

Buffy's first watcher before Giles. He introduced her to the supernatural world around her before she moved to Sunnydale. Only appears in the movie, origin comic and flashbacks. In both contnuity's [[spoiler: he dies to protect Buffy from Count Lothos]]
----
* BadassGrandpa
* DarkIsNotEvil
* DeadpanSnarker
* [[spoiler: DrivenToSuicide: In the comic, he kills himself before Lothos can turn him and force him into giving out Buffy's location.]]
* [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice: In both versions]]
* [[spoiler: ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: In the movie, Lothos stabs him with his own stake Merrick.]]
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: In the movie he is reincarnated everytime he dies and has to live the same life and train a new Slayer. This is not the case in the show.
[[/folder]]

!Government and Law Enforcement

[[folder:Sam]]
!!Samantha Finn
->'''Played By:''' Ivana Milicevic

Government demon hunter and spy, married to Riley.
----
* ActionGirl
* BadassNormal
* DoggedNiceGuy
* GenderBlenderName
* HappilyMarried
* PregnantBadass: In the spin-off novel ''Seven Crows''.
* TookALevelInBadass: If the comics were a Buffy spin on ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'' Kennedy would be [[DrillSergeantNasty Price,]] Faith would be [[ViolentGlaswigian Soap]] and Sam would be [[FriendlySniper MacMillan.]] Outside of the one true Slayer perhaps the biggest BadAss in the story.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kate]]
!!Kate Lockley
->'''Played By:''' Elisabeth Röhm
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->''" Well, you see, the thing about "detectives" is, they have résumés. And business licenses. And last names."''

A member of the LAPD, Kate first encounters Angel when both are on the trail of a serial killer with Kate unaware that the killer is a demon. After this, she becomes Angel's friend on the force, though relations turn frosty when she finds out what he's fighting and exactly what he is. Leaves in the second season but returns and joins Angel Investigations in the comics.
----
* ActionGirl: She can go toe-to-toe with vampires.
* AgentScully: Before graduating to a full-fledged Mulder (this is lampshaded by her dull-witted partner).
-->"Scully's the skeptic. ''({{Beat}}.)'' ''Mulder's'' the one who wants to believe. Scully's the skeptic."
-->"...Scully's the chick, right?"
* BadassNormal
* CowboyCop: When she mistakenly believes that Angel is the SerialKiller she's looking for, she has absolutely zero qualms against searching the Angel Investigations offices without getting a warrant beforehand.
* EconomyCast: The show eventually got around this by turning Kate InspectorJavert. It's mentioned that she spends all hours of the night listening to the police scanner, which would explain why she's always first on the scene.
* FairCop
* FriendOnTheForce
* HappilyFailedSuicide: In the second-season episode "Reprise."
* InspectorJavert: Ends up this towards Angel to the extent that, after a BackFromTheDead Darla tells her that Angel was behind a string of murders, Kate unhesitatingly storms the Hyperion with a SWAT team to have him arrested. However, she is forced to accept the truth when Gunn points out that Angel, being a vampire, couldn't possibly have just stormed in and killed someone in their own home unless he was explicitly invited or the residents were ''already dead.''
* OccultDetective
* ParentalAbandonment
* PutOnABus: After Röhm left the show to join ''Series/LawAndOrder''.
** She quit fighting supernatural crime in the West Coast to fight normal crime in the East Coast.
** TheBusCameBack: In the comic, at least.
* ReassignedToAntarctica: Lampshaded by Kate after her superiors take exception to her growing interest in the macabre. She's later bounced off to the filing room, or something.
** TurnInYourBadge: ...With this as the ultimate result.
* SuperCop
* UndercoverCopReveal: In her first appearance ("Lonely Hearts").
* WeakButSkilled: She ''knows'' that she isn't strong enough to fight vampires head-on, so she uses pragmatic tactics to gain the upper hand.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Kate was originally supposed to be a [[DirtyHarriet deep undercover cop]] posing as a prostitute. [[BecomingThemask And a drug addict]]. Because why not? ExecutiveMeddling led to this grimdark script - the episode called "Corrupt" - being shelved and rewritten into the much LighterAndSofter "Lonely Hearts."
** Kate's bitterness at her father's death was to have led to her becoming Holtz's disciple. Once Röhm was unavailable, Kate's fate was changed; her backstory and thirst for vengeance was transplanted onto Justine.
[[/folder]]

!Supernatural Creatures

[[folder:Whistler]]
!!Whistler
->'''Played By:''' Max Perlich

A balancing demon sent by the PowersThatBe. Whistler guides Angel into meeting Buffy, and also tries to assist her in stopping Angelus. Later reappeared during the Twilight crisis and its aftermath.
----
* BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil: What he seeks to maintain.
* [[spoiler: BiggerBad: He is behind the whole Twilight thing in season 8.]]
** [[spoiler: BigBad: Steps into this role for ''Angel & Faith''.]]
* [[spoiler: CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Seemed like a pretty harmless 'spiritual advisor' type, but come Season Nine and he's showing off sufficient power to leave Nash and Pearl quivering in fear and punching holes through Angel.]]
* CrypticConversation: Pretty much all he ever says.
* DeadpanSnarker: He's quite a sarcastic fellow.
* DontMakeMeDestroyYou: When Angel makes it clear that he will not support Whistler's methods, Whistler loses his temper, [[TorsoWithAView puts his fist through Angel's gut]], and comes dangerously close to staking him before managing to stop himself, remarking that even after everything that's happened, Angel is still his "favorite kid" and he doesn't want to kill him. However, he nonetheless departs while warning Angel to stay out of his way or he would be forced to.
* [[spoiler:FaceHeelTurn]]
* IveComeTooFar: [[spoiler: After releasing a magic plague over London, causing people to painfully mutate into monsters, Angel forces him to look at what he's done to innocents in an attempt to get through to him. While he is briefly swayed and appears unsure, Whistler brushes it off, telling Angel that no matter what, he's come too far in his plans to stop now.]]
* [[spoiler: OneWingedAngel: He can take after his demonic parent too, if he feels like it...]]
* NiceHat
* NonhumanHumanoidHybrid: He is the product of an InterspeciesRomance between a pure-blood demon and an agent of ThePowersThatBe (basically an angel, although [[OurAngelsAreDifferent not depicted with wings]]). The Powers and the demons banded together to kill his parents for their transgression, but the Powers spared Whistler to serve as an agent of balance.
* {{Precognition}}: Although it is "all outta whack" after the destruction of the [[spoiler:Seed of Wonder]].
* [[spoiler: RedemptionEqualsDeath]]
* SanitySlippage: Angel [[BrutalHonesty bluntly]] tells him that he believes that being separated from TheMultiverse and the Powers since the Seed was destroyed have made him crazy. And he may have a point.
* [[spoiler:TookALevelInJerkass: In Season Nine.]]
* [[spoiler: WellIntentionedExtremist: His plan to restore magic, as well as the Twilight arc, would have and will kill billions, but he legitimately believes it's the only way to save the rest of the world.]]
* WildCard
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Clem]]
!!Clement / Clem
->'''Played By:''' James C. Leary
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A friendly and mild-mannered demon who befriended the Scoobies in season 6. Eventually hightailed it out of Sunnydale as the showdown with The First drew closer.
----
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Completely Subverted. He's a deformed demon with bizarre skin and quite possibly the friendliest disposition in the series.
* BeleagueredAssistant: To Harmony.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: He was kind of a jerk in his first appearance. On the other hand, it could just be that kittens are his preferred meal.
* CombatTentacles
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: On ''Angel & Faith #6'' he actually beheads a bunch of vampires with his tentacled face
* DoggedNiceGuy: He's in love with Harmony.
* EmotionEater: His kind feed on emotions, specially embarrassment.
* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: Played for RuleOfFunny -- Clem is first seen gambling over kittens so he can eat them.
* NiceGuy: Easily one of the friendliest characters in the series.
* NightmareFace: He showed this to the potentials in "Potential".
* NonActionGuy
* RealMenWearPink
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: He leaves Sunnydale along with most of its population as the power of the The First grows.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Merl]]
!!Merl
->'''Played By:''' Matthew James
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->''Jesus, man! I mean, can't you, you know,'' knock?
->''You don't make [[OhCrap that funny expression]] when I knock. Or if you do,'' I ''don't see it.''
-> --Merl and Angel

An unlucky snitch who hangs around Lorne's bar, Caritas. Instead of giving Merl monetary payment, however, Angel frequently intimidates Merl into giving him the necessary information, similar to how Willy the Snitch was regularly beaten up by Buffy for information.
----

* BloodyHilarious: Merl was eventually killed by members of Gunn's gang who had gone out of control and started killing demons indiscriminately. When Gunn asks where Merl's body is, Angel casually points at assorted splotches throughout the room.
* ButtMonkey: His entire role in the series, prior to his death, is to get brutalized by Angel for information.
* DudeWheresMyRespect
* KnowledgeBroker
* LovableTraitor: Angel's lack of respect towards Merl is somewhat justifiable given that in his first appearance, Merl tricked him into killing a pregnant woman's demon guardian so that she'd be vulnerable to bounty hunters.
* TheScapegoat
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere
* SoundOnlyDeath
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Gwen]]
!!Gwen Raiden
->'''Played By:''' Alexa Davalos
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->"[Realizing Angel has no reflection] ''OK. After I kick your ass, I'm gonna ask about that"''

Gwen was born with the ability to generate and control electricity, with the downside being that she can't turn it off, and thus can't make contact with another person. She uses her power to work as a thief for hire, and runs into the gang when hired to steal a mystical artifact. A thief by nature, she shows up when she needs help, but always leaves before things get too hairy.
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* BerserkButton: Being called a freak. "That's ''my'' word. And I get cranky when people like you use it."
* BlessedWithSuck
* ClassyCatBurglar
* CorporateSamurai
* FakeAmerican: Alexa Davalos is French.
* FemmeFatale
* HelloNurse: Definitely invoked during Gwen's [[SexyWalk entrance]].
** This behavior is, however, Freudian, given that her powers ensure that she is a virgin - as she admits in "Players".
* IJustWantToBeNormal
* MeaningfulName: Raiden is a Japanese god of thunder and lightning. Not a pseudonym, as her parents were addressed as "Mr. and Mrs. Raiden" in her BackStory. It's also a pun on "Gone Raiding."
* NatureAbhorsAVirgin: In her third appearance, Gunn realizes that, because of her powers, she's never had sex. After they steal LISA (an experimental biometric control system), he's kind enough to help her with this.
* PowerIncontinence
* ShockAndAwe
* SpyCatsuit
* StevenUlyssesPerhero
* {{Stripperiffic}}
* WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: Says "Hey, Denzel!" when she first meets Gunn. He's later her first sexual partner.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Nina]]
!!Nina Ash
->'''Played By:'''

A werewolf introduced in season 5. She becomes a love interest for Angel.
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* CannotSpitItOut: Angel, being ObliviousToLove, needs to be beaten about the head by multiple people before realizing Nina is interested in him.
* DrivenToSuicide: She's so depressed over having become a werewolf that she's fully prepared to let Jacob Crane and his clients [[EatenAlive eat her]] at a fancy dinner. After Angel saves her, she grows out of it.
* EveryoneLovesBlondes: Angel does but we knew this...
** SlashersPreferBlondes: Began as a victim of the week to a werewolf...
* NippleAndDimed: She was always nude after reverting.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: From other werewolves in the universe, even. This is largely to take advantage of improved special effects compared to Season 2 of Buffy.
[[/folder]]

!Other Characters


!Other Buffys

[[folder:Wishverse]]
!!Wishverse Buffy
->'''Played By:''' Creator/SarahMichelleGellar
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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]].
----
* ActionFashionista: Averted; Buffy wears combat boots and a more subdued outfit.
* AntiHero: [[GoodIsNotNice Type three]]. That's not even open to debate.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted, she sports a scar running across her lips, like [[{{Fray}} Melaka Fray]].
* BraidsOfAction: Wears a single braided ponytail, as opposed to the normal Buffy's twin-braid style.
* BrokenPedestal: Built up to be the one to save the world. Not only is she personally not nice, she fails.
* UsefulNotes/{{Cleveland}}: Buffy fought there due to there also being a hellmouth. [[AcceptableTargets Given her attitude it hadn't changed much]].
* TheCynic: She makes Faith look sunny and sweet.
* DarkActionGirl: To the point where Faith is LighterAndSofter
* DarkerAndEdgier: One of if not the darkest heroes in the Buffyverse.
* DeathSeeker: Deprived of anything to fight for or live for, Wishverse!Buffy is just an emotionless killing machine waiting for the moment when it all ends. [[spoiler:This is more or less ''exactly'' what Spike said was normally the fatal-flaw of Slayers: the urge to find death after a lifetime of dealing it. It's main-universe-Buffy's friends that set her apart from virtually all other Slayers. This one doesn't live long enough to form such bonds.]]
-->'''Buffy:''' World is what it is. We fight, we die. Wishing doesn't change that.
* ExcessiveEvilEyeshadow: It brings out her DullEyesOfUnhappiness.
* {{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.
** Wishverse!Buffy is foreshadowing for Spike's BreakingSpeech in "Fool for Love", where he tells Buffy that without her connections to the world (family and friends) she'd be a DeathSeeker.
* GoodIsNotNice: Or even helpful, for that matter, instead expecting people to point her in the direction of what needs killing.
* IWorkAlone: Wishverse!Buffy isn't big on the teamwork.
* KilledOffForReal: By the Master, leading to questions on a Wishverse!Kendra, or *shudder* Wishverse!Faith.
* 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.
* NietzscheWannabe: She's basically every thing Spike says of the death wish of Slayers, having given up on life to become an emotionless killing machine.
* NinetiesAntiHero: This is what Buffy might be like had ToddMcFarlane or Creator/MarkMillar gotten their hands on her.
* RuggedScar: Used to show that she's much more gruff and combat-oriented than the main universe Buffy.
* StarCrossedLovers: Averted; Wishverse!Buffy doesn't recognise Angel (saying crudely "Is this a 'get into my pants thing?'" when he starts talking about destiny), is fully prepared to leave him chained up when she discovers he's a vampire, and has absolutely no reaction when Angel dies [[TakingTheBullet saving her life]].
* StopWorshippingMe: She ''does not'' take well with being worshiped as The Slayer.
* 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.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Buffybot]]
!!The Buffybot
->'''Played By:''' Creator/SarahMichelleGellar
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->'''Xander''': Hey, I know this. You're both Buffy.
->'''Buffy''': No, she's a robot. You couldn't tell me apart from a robot?
->'''Buffybot''': Oh, I don't think I'm a robot.
->'''Anya''': She's very well made.

An android replica of Buffy constructed by Warren at the behest of Spike during Season 5. She was later used as a decoy during the battle with Glory and pretended to be Buffy in-universe between Season's 5 and 6
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* AnArmAndALeg: Razor and his gang chain her limbs to their motorcycles. The bikes take off, and the 'Bot is neatly quartered. Yuck.
* ActingForTwo: Naturally, being a robot double and all.
* AlmostDeadGuy: Survives long enough after being ripped apart to reveal to Dawn that the real Buffy is back.
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny
* BodyDouble
* BondOneLiner: Willow isn't quite able to program the Buffybot correctly in this area.
-->"That'll put marzipan on your pie plate, bingo!"
* BrutalHonesty: PlayedForLaughs in "Intervention", but the Buffybot's "Then why are you here?" (after the Slayer has been killed) forces Giles to realise he must move on from Buffy's death and return to England.
* CaptainObvious
* {{Catchphrase}}: According to Xander, she ''always'' says the pie line after slaying something.
* ChekhovsGunman: Appeared mirroring the real Buffy much more closely than her [[CloudCuckooLander last appearance]] to decoy and weaken [[PhysicalGod Glory]].
* CloudCuckooLander: Obsessed with Spike, chipper about slaying and much friendlier than the real Buffy, if socially awkward.
* DeceptivelyHumanRobot: Though she still fooled the other Scoobies, to the real Buffy's annoyance.
* GenkiGirl
* HughMann
* ItIsPronouncedTropay: Pronounces it "Guy-els".
* KissMeIAmVirtual
* {{Malaproper}}
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Before the demon bikers kill her, they knock her to the ground, and proceed to kick and stomp the shit out of her.
* NoSocialSkills
* [[OffWithHisHead Off With Her Head]]: How Glory deactivates her, until the Scoobies rebuild her.
* PaperThinDisguise: Buffy gets rather miffed that her friends thought the bot was really her going through grief. Also PlayedForLaughs at the beginning of Season 6 when it goes to Parent-Teacher Day and [[WeirdnessCensor no-one notices the difference]]. In a FridgeLogic moment the Buffybot is able to impersonate Buffy well enough to fool Glory, despite the fact that Willow was unable to get the same result after months of tweaking during the summer.
* PerpetualSmiler
* ReplacementGoldfish: In "Bargaining" we see Dawn [[IncestSubtext curling up in bed]] next to the recharging Buffybot, and Giles trying to instruct it in Eastern philosophy during a sparring session. Averted with Spike who can't even stand to look at Buffybot.
* RobotGirl
* RobotMe
* RoboticReveal:
--> '''Glory:''' "The Slayer's a robot? Did everybody else know the Slayer was a robot?"
--> '''Vampire:''' "You're... you're a machine!"
* RuleOfSymbolism: Buffy returns from the dead in time to see the sweet innocent Buffybot permanently destroyed when it's ripped apart by demons, showing Buffy's loss of innocence and the need to build herself anew.
* RoboCam: Including a drop-down menu of 'adult' options.
* SeeminglyProfoundFool: "School is where you learn." Preach it, sister.
** It helps that Warren uploaded her with banal observations about the Scoobies.
-->'''Buffybot''': [-ANYA-]. How is your money?\\
'''Anya:''' [delighted] [[{{Flanderization}} Fine, thank you!]]
* SexBot: Spike has her built to consumate his unrequited FoeYay for the Slayer. And yes, that does include sex.
-->''(Buffybot writhing on top of Spike, watched by a horrified Anya and Xander)'' "Oh Spike, you're the BigBad! You're the [[BiggusDickus Big]] [[DoubleEntendre Bad!]]"
* SpockSpeak
* StatOVision: The Buffybot sees like this with information about Buffy's friends displayed on screen when they're in its line of sight. Having been programmed by Warren to specifications given by Spike however, the information is extremely basic or displays a laughably 2D idea of the characters. For instance, Willow's screen reads: "Best Friend. Gay (1999-Present). Witch. Good with computers.". Also displayed on screen are the Buffybot's two primary objectives in life, "Locate Spike" and "Make Spike Happy". The latter has a drop-down menu of files with titles like "kissing" and "position-1" and so on.
* TheyKilledKenny: Is horribly mangled in all her appearances.
* TooMuchInformation / SickAndWrong: The Scoobies reaction whenever the subject of Spuffybot comes up.
-->'''Willow:''' ''(thinking she's talking to Buffy)'' So just this one time you just did something kinda crazy?
-->'''Buffybot:''' It wasn't one time. It was lots of times, and lots of different ways. I can make sketches!
-->'''Willow:''' No!
** And later...
-->'''Xander:''' Spike must have had her built so he could program her t-
-->'''Buffy:''' ''(horrified)'' Oh god.
-->'''Willow:''' Yikes. Imagine the things-
-->'''Buffy:''' No! No, no imagining. Any of you.
-->'''Xander:''' ''(raises his hand)'' Already got the visual.
* SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaids: Justified as Spike didn't just want the Buffybot to ''look'' like the Slayer, she had to have the [[SexIsViolence same strength and combat abilities]] [[CombatSadomasochist that turn Spike on.]]
* TakeThat: Spike has his dislike of his rival for Buffy's affections programmed into the bot.
-->'''Buffybot:''' Angel's lame. His [[SpikyHair hair goes straight up]], and he's bloody stupid!
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: It's not entirely clear ''how'' sentient she is, but the Scoobies seem a little unnervingly cavalier about how they treat her.
[[/folder]]

!Sunnydale High

[[folder:Flutie]]
!!Principal Robert Flutie
->'''Played 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.

Principal of Sunnydale High in early Season 1.

* CharacterDeath
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: ''Literally'' eaten alive by some troublemakers.
* [[GranolaGirl Granola Man]]
* MauveShirt: This guy wasn't introduced in The Pack; he was in the first four episodes. Thus his death has more impact than previous ones.
* NiceGuy: Well-meaning, but bumbling.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He comes down on troublemakers and is willing to give Buffy the benefit of the doubt.

[[folder:Snyder]]
!!Principal R. Snyder
->'''Played By:''' Armin Shimerman
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->''"There are things I will not tolerate: students loitering on campus after school, horrible murders with hearts being removed. And [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking also smoking.]]"''

Principal of Sunnydale High after Principal Flutie was eaten by possessed students. He ''really'' had it in for Buffy due to her delinquent record and because he was a stooge for the BigBad of Season 3. Got eaten by the Mayor (in snake-demon form) in the Season 3 finale.

* AdultsAreUseless
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Early in season 3, his reasons for not letting Buffy back into Sunnydale High are her poor grades, spotty attendance record, and, above all else, "tingling pleasure" that he didn't have to put up with her anymore.
* AssholeVictim
* BaldOfEvil
* ChildHater: Likens his students to locusts.
* DayInTheLimelight: ''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.

* DeanBitterman
* DeathByIrony: 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.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood:
-->'''Snyder:''' You really have faith in those kids, don't you?\\
'''Giles''': Yes, I do.\\
'''Snyder''': Weird.
* FictionIsntFair
* FreudianExcuse: It's hinted that he had MommyIssues. Also, there's this:
-->'''Buffy:''' You never ''ever'' got a [[YouNeedToGetLaid single date in high school]], did you?
-->'''Snyder:''' Your point being?
* InsaneTrollLogic: Uses plenty of this to pin trouble on Buffy.
* {{Jerkass}}: When the series was running it was not outside the realm of possibility that Vegas took bets on whether Angelus sought him out on guidance on how to hurt Buffy, and that was before it was shown that he almost gets a sexual kick out of it.
* LastNameBasis: We never find out his name though it starts with an "R".
* MeaningfulName: Snyder -- snide.
* MoleInCharge
* TheNapoleon
* NonGivingUpSchoolGuy
* SadistTeacher: 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.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: 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 CoolHair!
* SecretKeeper: 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. That said, he was completely oblivious to Buffy's identity or the Scooby Gang.
* SmugSnake
* TagalongKid: After regressing to his adolescent self. ("Band Candy")
* TyrantTakesTheHelm
* WaistcoatOfStyle
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: The Mayor promises him a reward for his services. A few hours later, he eats him.

[[folder:Jenny]]
!!Jenny Calendar
->'''Played By:''' Robia [=LaMorte=]
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Computer science teacher at Sunnydale High, techno-pagan, and Giles' LoveInterest in Seasons 1 & 2 until she was killed by Angelus. She's also a member of the Romani tribe that cursed Angel, and was sent to keep an eye on him in Sunnydale.

* BelligerentSexualTension: With Giles, at first.
* FindingJudas: She lied to them about Angel and the curse, but she didn't mean anything bad to happen.
* HiddenDepths: 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.
* HotGypsyWoman: Though without the associated stereotypes.
* HotTeacher
* HotWitch: Actually a techno-pagan, because her powers aren't strong enough to make her a fully-fledged witch.
* KilledOffForReal
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: She was ''only'' told to keep Buffy and Angel apart; she wasn't informed that Angel's happiness with Buffy would be his CurseEscapeClause until after the damage was already done.
* TheLostLenore: To Giles after her death.
* TheMole: Sent to Sunnydale to keep an eye on Angel.
* NeckSnap
* NewAgeRetroHippie: See Giles' EyeTake when he hears about Jenny's nude mud dance at Burning Man.
* OppositesAttract: Her idea of dating spots with Giles are a football game and monster truck rally.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath
* UsefulNotes/{{Romani}}: Real name Janna Kalderash.
* SacrificialLion
* StuffedIntoTheFridge
* SweaterGirl

[[folder:Wood]]
!!Robin Wood
->'''Played By:''' DB Woodside
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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."''

The principal of the renovated Sunnydale High in Season 7. Turns out to be the son of Nikki Wood, a Slayer that Spike killed in the 1970s. He tries to seek vengeance for his mother's murder, but fails. After the defeat of The First, Robin led a Slayer squad in Cleveland, Ohio.

* {{Badass}}
** BadassBookworm
** BadassInANiceSuit
** BadassNormal
** BadassTeacher
** HeartbrokenBadass
* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: When leading a Slayer squad in Cleveland.
* BaldOfAwesome
* BestServedCold
* BirdsOfAFeather[=/=]OppositesAttract: When he goes on a date with Buffy he reveals that he is the son of a former slayer. Later [[AnythingThatMoves Faith]] would sleep with [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Wood.]]
* BrooklynRage: He's originally from New York City.
* TheDanza: Robin Wood is played by DB Woodside.
* DeadpanSnarker
* DisneyDeath: In the SeriesFinale.
* {{Foil}}: Could arguably be considered one to Daniel Holtz, one of the {{Big Bad}}s of ''Series/{{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 [[RevengeBeforeReason single-mindedly consumed by his desire for vengeance to his last breath]].
* HeyItsThatGuy: Sunnydale High's principle would later become [[Series/TwentyFour the President.]]
* HotTeacher
* LastMinuteHookup: With Faith. This is over by Season 8, though they remain friends and allies.
* LastNameBasis: Most of the Scoobies just call him "Wood."
* MuggleBornOfMages: His mother was a Slayer. Although he has no powers himself, [[BadassNormal he's still a damn good fighter.]]
* NiceGuy
* PutOnABus: This happens in S8 in an identical way to how many Fanfics do it.
** TheBusCameBack: In Season 9. Buffy seeks out his advice after finding out she's pregnant.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He is about as far removed from Principal Snyder as it is possible to get.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: 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 eventully come across Spike, he did so in a less reckless manner.
* SharpDressedMan
* [[YouKilledMyFather You Killed My Mother]]
* VampireHunter

!The Watcher's Council

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

!Government and Law Enforcement

[[folder:Sam]]
!!Samantha Finn
->'''Played By:''' Ivana Milicevic

Government demon hunter and spy, married to Riley.

* ActionGirl
* BadassNormal
* DoggedNiceGuy
* GenderBlenderName
* HappilyMarried
* PregnantBadass: In the spin-off novel ''Seven Crows''.
* TookALevelInBadass: If the comics were a Buffy spin on ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'' Kennedy would be [[DrillSergeantNasty Price,]] Faith would be [[ViolentGlaswigian Soap]] and Sam would be [[FriendlySniper MacMillan.]] Outside of the one true Slayer perhaps the biggest BadAss in the story.

[[folder:Kate]]
!!Kate Lockley
->'''Played By:''' Elisabeth Röhm
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->''" Well, you see, the thing about "detectives" is, they have résumés. And business licenses. And last names."''

A member of the LAPD, Kate first encounters Angel when both are on the trail of a serial killer with Kate unaware that the killer is a demon. After this, she becomes Angel's friend on the force, though relations turn frosty when she finds out what he's fighting and exactly what he is. Leaves in the second season but returns and joins Angel Investigations in the comics.

* ActionGirl: She can go toe-to-toe with vampires.
* AgentScully: Before graduating to a full-fledged Mulder (this is lampshaded by her dull-witted partner).
-->"Scully's the skeptic. ''({{Beat}}.)'' ''Mulder's'' the one who wants to believe. Scully's the skeptic."
-->"...Scully's the chick, right?"
* BadassNormal
* CowboyCop: When she mistakenly believes that Angel is the SerialKiller she's looking for, she has absolutely zero qualms against searching the Angel Investigations offices without getting a warrant beforehand.
* EconomyCast: The show eventually got around this by turning Kate InspectorJavert. It's mentioned that she spends all hours of the night listening to the police scanner, which would explain why she's always first on the scene.
* FairCop
* FriendOnTheForce
* HappilyFailedSuicide: In the second-season episode "Reprise."
* InspectorJavert: Ends up this towards Angel to the extent that, after a BackFromTheDead Darla tells her that Angel was behind a string of murders, Kate unhesitatingly storms the Hyperion with a SWAT team to have him arrested. However, she is forced to accept the truth when Gunn points out that Angel, being a vampire, couldn't possibly have just stormed in and killed someone in their own home unless he was explicitly invited or the residents were ''already dead.''
* OccultDetective
* ParentalAbandonment
* PutOnABus: After Röhm left the show to join ''Series/LawAndOrder''.
** She quit fighting supernatural crime in the West Coast to fight normal crime in the East Coast.
** TheBusCameBack: In the comic, at least.
* ReassignedToAntarctica: Lampshaded by Kate after her superiors take exception to her growing interest in the macabre. She's later bounced off to the filing room, or something.
** TurnInYourBadge: ...With this as the ultimate result.
* SuperCop
* UndercoverCopReveal: In her first appearance ("Lonely Hearts").
* WeakButSkilled: She ''knows'' that she isn't strong enough to fight vampires head-on, so she uses pragmatic tactics to gain the upper hand.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Kate was originally supposed to be a [[DirtyHarriet deep undercover cop]] posing as a prostitute. [[BecomingThemask And a drug addict]]. Because why not? ExecutiveMeddling led to this grimdark script - the episode called "Corrupt" - being shelved and rewritten into the much LighterAndSofter "Lonely Hearts."
** Kate's bitterness at her father's death was to have led to her becoming Holtz's disciple. Once Röhm was unavailable, Kate's fate was changed; her backstory and thirst for vengeance was transplanted onto Justine.

!Supernatural Creatures

[[folder:Whistler]]
!!Whistler
->'''Played By:''' Max Perlich

A balancing demon sent by the PowersThatBe. Whistler guides Angel into meeting Buffy, and also tries to assist her in stopping Angelus. Later reappeared during the Twilight crisis and its aftermath.

* BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil: What he seeks to maintain.
* [[spoiler: BiggerBad: He is behind the whole Twilight thing in season 8.]]
** [[spoiler: BigBad: Steps into this role for ''Angel & Faith''.]]
* [[spoiler: CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Seemed like a pretty harmless 'spiritual advisor' type, but come Season Nine and he's showing off sufficient power to leave Nash and Pearl quivering in fear and punching holes through Angel.]]
* CrypticConversation: Pretty much all he ever says.
* DeadpanSnarker: He's quite a sarcastic fellow.
* DontMakeMeDestroyYou: When Angel makes it clear that he will not support Whistler's methods, Whistler loses his temper, [[TorsoWithAView puts his fist through Angel's gut]], and comes dangerously close to staking him before managing to stop himself, remarking that even after everything that's happened, Angel is still his "favorite kid" and he doesn't want to kill him. However, he nonetheless departs while warning Angel to stay out of his way or he would be forced to.
* [[spoiler:FaceHeelTurn]]
* IveComeTooFar: [[spoiler: After releasing a magic plague over London, causing people to painfully mutate into monsters, Angel forces him to look at what he's done to innocents in an attempt to get through to him. While he is briefly swayed and appears unsure, Whistler brushes it off, telling Angel that no matter what, he's come too far in his plans to stop now.]]
* [[spoiler: OneWingedAngel: He can take after his demonic parent too, if he feels like it...]]
* NiceHat
* NonhumanHumanoidHybrid: He is the product of an InterspeciesRomance between a pure-blood demon and an agent of ThePowersThatBe (basically an angel, although [[OurAngelsAreDifferent not depicted with wings]]). The Powers and the demons banded together to kill his parents for their transgression, but the Powers spared Whistler to serve as an agent of balance.
* {{Precognition}}: Although it is "all outta whack" after the destruction of the [[spoiler:Seed of Wonder]].
* [[spoiler: RedemptionEqualsDeath]]
* SanitySlippage: Angel [[BrutalHonesty bluntly]] tells him that he believes that being separated from TheMultiverse and the Powers since the Seed was destroyed have made him crazy. And he may have a point.
* [[spoiler:TookALevelInJerkass: In Season Nine.]]
* [[spoiler: WellIntentionedExtremist: His plan to restore magic, as well as the Twilight arc, would have and will kill billions, but he legitimately believes it's the only way to save the rest of the world.]]
* WildCard

[[folder:Clem]]
!!Clement / Clem
->'''Played By:''' James C. Leary
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A friendly and mild-mannered demon who befriended the Scoobies in season 6. Eventually hightailed it out of Sunnydale as the showdown with The First drew closer.

* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Completely Subverted. He's a deformed demon with bizarre skin and quite possibly the friendliest disposition in the series.
* BeleagueredAssistant: To Harmony.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: He was kind of a jerk in his first appearance. On the other hand, it could just be that kittens are his preferred meal.
* CombatTentacles
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: On ''Angel & Faith #6'' he actually beheads a bunch of vampires with his tentacled face
* DoggedNiceGuy: He's in love with Harmony.
* EmotionEater: His kind feed on emotions, specially embarrassment.
* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: Played for RuleOfFunny -- Clem is first seen gambling over kittens so he can eat them.
* NiceGuy: Easily one of the friendliest characters in the series.
* NightmareFace: He showed this to the potentials in "Potential".
* NonActionGuy
* RealMenWearPink
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: He leaves Sunnydale along with most of its population as the power of the The First grows.

[[folder:Merl]]
!!Merl
->'''Played By:''' Matthew James
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->''Jesus, man! I mean, can't you, you know,'' knock?
->''You don't make [[OhCrap that funny expression]] when I knock. Or if you do,'' I ''don't see it.''
-> --Merl and Angel

An unlucky snitch who hangs around Lorne's bar, Caritas. Instead of giving Merl monetary payment, however, Angel frequently intimidates Merl into giving him the necessary information, similar to how Willy the Snitch was regularly beaten up by Buffy for information.
----

* BloodyHilarious: Merl was eventually killed by members of Gunn's gang who had gone out of control and started killing demons indiscriminately. When Gunn asks where Merl's body is, Angel casually points at assorted splotches throughout the room.
* ButtMonkey: His entire role in the series, prior to his death, is to get brutalized by Angel for information.
* DudeWheresMyRespect
* KnowledgeBroker
* LovableTraitor: Angel's lack of respect towards Merl is somewhat justifiable given that in his first appearance, Merl tricked him into killing a pregnant woman's demon guardian so that she'd be vulnerable to bounty hunters.
* TheScapegoat
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere
* SoundOnlyDeath
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Gwen]]
!!Gwen Raiden
->'''Played By:''' Alexa Davalos
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->"[Realizing Angel has no reflection] ''OK. After I kick your ass, I'm gonna ask about that"''

Gwen was born with the ability to generate and control electricity, with the downside being that she can't turn it off, and thus can't make contact with another person. She uses her power to work as a thief for hire, and runs into the gang when hired to steal a mystical artifact. A thief by nature, she shows up when she needs help, but always leaves before things get too hairy.
----
* BerserkButton: Being called a freak. "That's ''my'' word. And I get cranky when people like you use it."
* BlessedWithSuck
* ClassyCatBurglar
* CorporateSamurai
* FakeAmerican: Alexa Davalos is French.
* FemmeFatale
* HelloNurse: Definitely invoked during Gwen's [[SexyWalk entrance]].
** This behavior is, however, Freudian, given that her powers ensure that she is a virgin - as she admits in "Players".
* IJustWantToBeNormal
* MeaningfulName: Raiden is a Japanese god of thunder and lightning. Not a pseudonym, as her parents were addressed as "Mr. and Mrs. Raiden" in her BackStory. It's also a pun on "Gone Raiding."
* NatureAbhorsAVirgin: In her third appearance, Gunn realizes that, because of her powers, she's never had sex. After they steal LISA (an experimental biometric control system), he's kind enough to help her with this.
* PowerIncontinence
* ShockAndAwe
* SpyCatsuit
* StevenUlyssesPerhero
* {{Stripperiffic}}
* WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: Says "Hey, Denzel!" when she first meets Gunn. He's later her first sexual partner.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Nina]]
!!Nina Ash
->'''Played By:'''

A werewolf introduced in season 5. She becomes a love interest for Angel.
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* CannotSpitItOut: Angel, being ObliviousToLove, needs to be beaten about the head by multiple people before realizing Nina is interested in him.
* DrivenToSuicide: She's so depressed over having become a werewolf that she's fully prepared to let Jacob Crane and his clients [[EatenAlive eat her]] at a fancy dinner. After Angel saves her, she grows out of it.
* EveryoneLovesBlondes: Angel does but we knew this...
** SlashersPreferBlondes: Began as a victim of the week to a werewolf...
* NippleAndDimed: She was always nude after reverting.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: From other werewolves in the universe, even. This is largely to take advantage of improved special effects compared to Season 2 of Buffy.
[[/folder]]

!Other Characters

[[folder:Joyce]]
!!Joyce Summers
->'''Played By:''' Kristine Sutherland
->"''You belong at-at a good old-fashioned college with keg parties and boys, not here with Hellmouths and vampires.''"

Buffy and Dawn's divorced single mother, who runs an art gallery. She is originally ignorant about Buffy's activities as the Slayer but learns about them in Season 2. She still worries about her daughter and is reluctantly supportive of her work. She dies of an aneurysm in Season 5, an event which greatly affects all the Scoobies.
----
* ActionMom: Only in a few episodes, but when she's confronted or Buffy's in danger, she fights back.
* AdultsAreUseless: Played relatively straight in the first season, then played with throughout - Joyce does as much as she can for Buffy, but at points it's just not realistic to help out a super-powered daughter.
* AllForNothing: In season 5, she gets surgery to remove a brain tumor that had been plaguing her... only to unexpectedly die from a brain aneurysm a handful of episodes later.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Teenage!Joyce in "Band Candy."
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: After Joyce's death, Dawn attempts to bring her back in an episode based on "The Monkey's Paw."
* [[DroppedABridgeOnHim Dropped a Bridge on Her]]: though it served to accentuate the DeathIsDramatic nature of the episode.
* FormerTeenRebel
* GoodParents
** MeddlingParents: "Have you tried ''not'' being a vampire slayer?"
* GutPunch: Her death in series 5 is listed as an example on this trope's main page and marked a shift towards a darker tone for the series in general.
* HighSchoolSweethearts: Actually, college sweethearts. Joyce met Buffy's father at a school dance, while going stag.
* ItRunsInTheFamily: A gift for banter and sarcasm runs deep in Summers women.
* MamaBear: Attacks Spike with an axe when he threatens her daughter in Season 2's "School Hard."
* MyBelovedSmother: According to Buffy.
* NeverMyFault: In "Dead Man's Party," she all but openly dismisses the fact that her ultimatum to Buffy in the second season finale was instrumental in Buffy's decision to run away. However, unlike most other examples, she admits that she reacted badly, but still states that it didn't give Buffy the excuse to run.
* OddFriendship: With Spike. No one really gets it, but the two definitely enjoy each others company.
* OpenMindedParent: Her attempts to tag along on Buffy's patrols. She brought snacks!
* ParentalObliviousness: Early in the series, until the Season 2 finale.
* StepfordSmiler: To an extent...
-->'''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...
* TalkativeLoon: In "Listening to Fear".
* TeamMom: Parental substitute for Xander and Willow to some degree.
* VillainOverForDinner: Her and Spike on several occasions.
-->'''Joyce''': Have we met?
-->'''Spike''': Uh, you hit me with an axe one time. Remember, uh, "Get the hell away from my daughter"?
** Then we have the famous scene where Spike [[CrowningMomentOfFunny spills his guts out over his breakup with Dru]]. Over hot cocoa.
** She also ran into Dracula at her art gallery.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Hank]]
!!Hank Summers
->'''Played By:''' 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 not getting back in touch until months after Joyce's death.
----
* AmicableExes: We're never given an opportunity to see him and Joyce as anything but this. The only fight that we see between the two is during a flashback from when they were still married, and the two are extremely cordial in Hank's few appearances in the show. And while Season 3 begins the trend of underlining some of Hank's less than virtuous features, Joyce still speaks fondly of him as late as Season 4's "Fear Itself", even reassuring Buffy that her father loved her very much. It's only really after Joyce's death that his status as a deadbeat is fully implemented.
* 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.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Became the person in Buffy's nightmare in "Nightmares".
* 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.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Anne]]
!!Anne Steele
->'''Played By:''' Julia Lee
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->''"You're not afraid of me."''
->''"Well, I've seen worse things since. I've seen a fourteen-year-old girl sitting in her own blood after a rough trick and dozens of people just walking right by, so no, vampires, demons, even lawyers pretty much don't impress me."''
-->'''Angel''' and '''Anne'''

Ex-vampire groupie whose romanticism came to an abrupt end during a run-in with Spike & Drusilla. After migrating to L.A., she adopted the name "Anne" -- in honor of her two-time rescuer, Buffy Anne Summers -- and opened a teen shelter, which is how she came into acquaintance with Gunn and his boys. Herself a teenage runaway, Anne is passionately (some might say stupidly) idealistic in her job. She represents an 'on the street' parallel to Angel's mission.
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* AscendedExtra
* BackForTheFinale
* CharacterizationMarchesOn
* ConditionedToAcceptHorror
* DamselInDistress: Twice over on ''Buffy''. She's a good deal tougher on ''Angel''.
* DumbBlonde: Not the sharpest knife in the drawer in her early years.
* TheDeterminator
* EmbarrassingNickname: After discovering that "Chantarelle" is a type of fungus.
* HaveWeMet: [[DefiedTrope Defied]] In "Blood Money", neither Angel nor Anne recognize one another, despite having met briefly three years earlier. For Angel, who spent centuries in a Hell dimension inbetween, it's been even longer than that. Writer Mere Smith explains: "Joss was like, 'Do ''you'' remember everybody you met three years ago, and shared three sentences with?' And I was like, 'Oh, fine, use logic.'"
* IHaveManyNames: As a teen, she became attached to a cult led by a "loser preacher" who dubbed her "Sister Sunshine". Afterward, she reinvented herself as "Chantarelle" and became a regular at the Sunset Club. Next, she drifted to Los Angeles and took on the name "Lily Houston". It was during this time that she ran into Buffy, who was herself a runaway and going by an alias: "Anne." Buffy's heroism so inspired her that she decided to adopt Buffy's middle name as her own.
** The shooting script for "Lie to Me" gives her birthname as Joan Appleby, but this didn't make it into the cut. Ironically, not only did Anne take her name from Buffy, but Buffy briefly and unwittingly [[BrickJoke takes her name from Anne]] after becoming amnesic ("Tabula Rasa").
-->'''Buffy:''' I like it. I feel like a "Joan."
* LittleHeroBigWar
* NaiveEverygirl
* OfCorsetsSexy: As "Chanterelle."
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: We've never found out her actual name.
* PerkyGoth: Used to be a regular at The Sunset Club, a gothic night club for vampire poseurs and wannabes. However, most members had never actually seen a real vampire, and thus they naively believed them to be [[NotEvilJustMisunderstood gentle, misunderstood beings]], referring to them as the "Lonely Ones."
* TheRunaway
* ShoutOut: When Angel examines her driver's license, Anne's address is listed as "Willoughby Ave." Anne Steele and John Willoughby are characters in ''Literature/SenseAndSensibility''.
* WideEyedIdealist
[[/folder]]

!Other Buffys

[[folder:Wishverse]]
!!Wishverse Buffy
->'''Played By:''' Creator/SarahMichelleGellar
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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]].
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* ActionFashionista: Averted; Buffy wears combat boots and a more subdued outfit.
* AntiHero: [[GoodIsNotNice Type three]]. That's not even open to debate.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted, she sports a scar running across her lips, like [[{{Fray}} Melaka Fray]].
* BraidsOfAction: Wears a single braided ponytail, as opposed to the normal Buffy's twin-braid style.
* BrokenPedestal: Built up to be the one to save the world. Not only is she personally not nice, she fails.
* UsefulNotes/{{Cleveland}}: Buffy fought there due to there also being a hellmouth. [[AcceptableTargets Given her attitude it hadn't changed much]].
* TheCynic: She makes Faith look sunny and sweet.
* DarkActionGirl: To the point where Faith is LighterAndSofter
* DarkerAndEdgier: One of if not the darkest heroes in the Buffyverse.
* DeathSeeker: Deprived of anything to fight for or live for, Wishverse!Buffy is just an emotionless killing machine waiting for the moment when it all ends. [[spoiler:This is more or less ''exactly'' what Spike said was normally the fatal-flaw of Slayers: the urge to find death after a lifetime of dealing it. It's main-universe-Buffy's friends that set her apart from virtually all other Slayers. This one doesn't live long enough to form such bonds.]]
-->'''Buffy:''' World is what it is. We fight, we die. Wishing doesn't change that.
* ExcessiveEvilEyeshadow: It brings out her DullEyesOfUnhappiness.
* {{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.
** Wishverse!Buffy is foreshadowing for Spike's BreakingSpeech in "Fool for Love", where he tells Buffy that without her connections to the world (family and friends) she'd be a DeathSeeker.
* GoodIsNotNice: Or even helpful, for that matter, instead expecting people to point her in the direction of what needs killing.
* IWorkAlone: Wishverse!Buffy isn't big on the teamwork.
* KilledOffForReal: By the Master, leading to questions on a Wishverse!Kendra, or *shudder* Wishverse!Faith.
* 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.
* NietzscheWannabe: She's basically every thing Spike says of the death wish of Slayers, having given up on life to become an emotionless killing machine.
* NinetiesAntiHero: This is what Buffy might be like had ToddMcFarlane or Creator/MarkMillar gotten their hands on her.
* RuggedScar: Used to show that she's much more gruff and combat-oriented than the main universe Buffy.
* StarCrossedLovers: Averted; Wishverse!Buffy doesn't recognise Angel (saying crudely "Is this a 'get into my pants thing?'" when he starts talking about destiny), is fully prepared to leave him chained up when she discovers he's a vampire, and has absolutely no reaction when Angel dies [[TakingTheBullet saving her life]].
* StopWorshippingMe: She ''does not'' take well with being worshiped as The Slayer.
* 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.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Buffybot]]
!!The Buffybot
->'''Played By:''' Creator/SarahMichelleGellar
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->'''Xander''': Hey, I know this. You're both Buffy.
->'''Buffy''': No, she's a robot. You couldn't tell me apart from a robot?
->'''Buffybot''': Oh, I don't think I'm a robot.
->'''Anya''': She's very well made.

An android replica of Buffy constructed by Warren at the behest of Spike during Season 5. She was later used as a decoy during the battle with Glory and pretended to be Buffy in-universe between Season's 5 and 6
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* AnArmAndALeg: Razor and his gang chain her limbs to their motorcycles. The bikes take off, and the 'Bot is neatly quartered. Yuck.
* ActingForTwo: Naturally, being a robot double and all.
* AlmostDeadGuy: Survives long enough after being ripped apart to reveal to Dawn that the real Buffy is back.
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny
* BodyDouble
* BondOneLiner: Willow isn't quite able to program the Buffybot correctly in this area.
-->"That'll put marzipan on your pie plate, bingo!"
* BrutalHonesty: PlayedForLaughs in "Intervention", but the Buffybot's "Then why are you here?" (after the Slayer has been killed) forces Giles to realise he must move on from Buffy's death and return to England.
* CaptainObvious
* {{Catchphrase}}: According to Xander, she ''always'' says the pie line after slaying something.
* ChekhovsGunman: Appeared mirroring the real Buffy much more closely than her [[CloudCuckooLander last appearance]] to decoy and weaken [[PhysicalGod Glory]].
* CloudCuckooLander: Obsessed with Spike, chipper about slaying and much friendlier than the real Buffy, if socially awkward.
* DeceptivelyHumanRobot: Though she still fooled the other Scoobies, to the real Buffy's annoyance.
* GenkiGirl
* HughMann
* ItIsPronouncedTropay: Pronounces it "Guy-els".
* KissMeIAmVirtual
* {{Malaproper}}
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Before the demon bikers kill her, they knock her to the ground, and proceed to kick and stomp the shit out of her.
* NoSocialSkills
* [[OffWithHisHead Off With Her Head]]: How Glory deactivates her, until the Scoobies rebuild her.
* PaperThinDisguise: Buffy gets rather miffed that her friends thought the bot was really her going through grief. Also PlayedForLaughs at the beginning of Season 6 when it goes to Parent-Teacher Day and [[WeirdnessCensor no-one notices the difference]]. In a FridgeLogic moment the Buffybot is able to impersonate Buffy well enough to fool Glory, despite the fact that Willow was unable to get the same result after months of tweaking during the summer.
* PerpetualSmiler
* ReplacementGoldfish: In "Bargaining" we see Dawn [[IncestSubtext curling up in bed]] next to the recharging Buffybot, and Giles trying to instruct it in Eastern philosophy during a sparring session. Averted with Spike who can't even stand to look at Buffybot.
* RobotGirl
* RobotMe
* RoboticReveal:
--> '''Glory:''' "The Slayer's a robot? Did everybody else know the Slayer was a robot?"
--> '''Vampire:''' "You're... you're a machine!"
* RuleOfSymbolism: Buffy returns from the dead in time to see the sweet innocent Buffybot permanently destroyed when it's ripped apart by demons, showing Buffy's loss of innocence and the need to build herself anew.
* RoboCam: Including a drop-down menu of 'adult' options.
* SeeminglyProfoundFool: "School is where you learn." Preach it, sister.
** It helps that Warren uploaded her with banal observations about the Scoobies.
-->'''Buffybot''': [-ANYA-]. How is your money?\\
'''Anya:''' [delighted] [[{{Flanderization}} Fine, thank you!]]
* SexBot: Spike has her built to consumate his unrequited FoeYay for the Slayer. And yes, that does include sex.
-->''(Buffybot writhing on top of Spike, watched by a horrified Anya and Xander)'' "Oh Spike, you're the BigBad! You're the [[BiggusDickus Big]] [[DoubleEntendre Bad!]]"
* SpockSpeak
* StatOVision: The Buffybot sees like this with information about Buffy's friends displayed on screen when they're in its line of sight. Having been programmed by Warren to specifications given by Spike however, the information is extremely basic or displays a laughably 2D idea of the characters. For instance, Willow's screen reads: "Best Friend. Gay (1999-Present). Witch. Good with computers.". Also displayed on screen are the Buffybot's two primary objectives in life, "Locate Spike" and "Make Spike Happy". The latter has a drop-down menu of files with titles like "kissing" and "position-1" and so on.
* TheyKilledKenny: Is horribly mangled in all her appearances.
* TooMuchInformation / SickAndWrong: The Scoobies reaction whenever the subject of Spuffybot comes up.
-->'''Willow:''' ''(thinking she's talking to Buffy)'' So just this one time you just did something kinda crazy?
-->'''Buffybot:''' It wasn't one time. It was lots of times, and lots of different ways. I can make sketches!
-->'''Willow:''' No!
** And later...
-->'''Xander:''' Spike must have had her built so he could program her t-
-->'''Buffy:''' ''(horrified)'' Oh god.
-->'''Willow:''' Yikes. Imagine the things-
-->'''Buffy:''' No! No, no imagining. Any of you.
-->'''Xander:''' ''(raises his hand)'' Already got the visual.
* SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaids: Justified as Spike didn't just want the Buffybot to ''look'' like the Slayer, she had to have the [[SexIsViolence same strength and combat abilities]] [[CombatSadomasochist that turn Spike on.]]
* TakeThat: Spike has his dislike of his rival for Buffy's affections programmed into the bot.
-->'''Buffybot:''' Angel's lame. His [[SpikyHair hair goes straight up]], and he's bloody stupid!
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: It's not entirely clear ''how'' sentient she is, but the Scoobies seem a little unnervingly cavalier about how they treat her.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: The Watchers Council]]


!!Quentin Travers (Harris Yulin)

* AwakeningTheSleepingGiant: Quentin rallies the Watchers Council to fight the First Evil, [[spoiler: seconds before a bomb goes off and kills off the entire Watchers Council.]]

!! The Shadow Men (Geoffrey Kasule, Karara Muhoro, Daniel Wilson)

[[folder: Government and Law Enforcement]]
!!Samantha Finn (Ivana Milicevic)

!!Kate Lockley (Elisabeth Röhm)

[[folder: Supernatural Creatures]]

!!Clement / Clem (James C. Leary)

!!Merl (Matthew James)

!!Gwen Raiden (Alexa Davalos)

[[folder: Other Characters]]
!!Joyce Summers (Kristine Sutherland)

!!Hank Summers (Dean Butler)

!!Anne Steele (Julia Lee)

[[folder: Other Buffys]]

!!The Buffybot (Creator/SarahMichelleGellar)

[[folder: Slayers]]
!!Kendra Young (Bianca Lawson)

!!Faith Lehane (Creator/ElizaDushku)

!!Sineya, The First Slayer (Sharon Ferguson)

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

!!Kennedy (Iyari Limon)

!!Vi / Violet (FeliciaDay)

!!Rona (Indigo)

!!Amanda (Sarah Hagan)

[[folder:Sunnydale High Faculty]]
!!Principal Robert Flutie (Ken Lerner)

!!Principal R. Snyder (Armin Shimerman)

!!Jenny Calendar (Robia [=LaMorte=])

!!Robin Wood (DB Woodside)

!!Wesley Wyndam-Pryce (Alexis Denisof)
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->''"Sorry. I think my sense of humor is trapped in a jar somewhere."''

A replacement sent by the Watcher's Council following Giles' termination. Clean-cut, by the book, and not without an inflated sense of self, Wesley is immediately detested by both Buffy and Faith. Most of his decisions (though well-intentioned) fail spectacularly, such as his attempt to "rehabilitate" Faith when she goes rogue. Like Giles before him, the Council eventually tires of Wesley and lets him go. At a loose end, he became a "rogue demon hunter" himself, his travels eventually leading him to LA, where he joined Angel Investigations. As a former Watcher, Wesley is the resident demon expert. As the series progresses, he slowly becomes more assertive, confident - and dangerously smart.

* AbusiveParents: His father used to lock him in the cellar and generally belittled his son in every single way one can imagine.
* TheAlcoholic
* AnArmAndALeg: His counterpart in the Skipverse is missing an arm, likely from the same demon who appeared in "Parting Gifts" (but without Angel to help him in this timeline). His fencing skills [[WithMyHandsTied are still formidable]], though.
-->"Ah, [[EveryScarHasAStory Kungai demon]]. Couple of years ago."
* BadassBiker: Subverted in his first episode. Those leather pants really chafe his...[[LastSecondWordSwap legs.]]
** BadassBookworm
** BadassNormal: He's possibly the most badass human on the series. One feels he could take on Angel with little problem if he were so inclined.
** HandicappedBadass: A zombified cop's bullet lands Wesley in a wheelchair for a while, but you don't need legs to load a shotgun! Then there's his Skipverse counterpart, who's a good fighter and formidable fencer with only one arm.
** HeartbrokenBadass: There's no doubt about this one.
** TookALevelInBadass: In ''[[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]]'', he was a bumbling, stuffy guy who never disobeyed the rules. In his first episode of ''Series/{{Angel}}'', he wore a leather jacket and called himself a "Rogue Demon Hunter." Of course, he was still bumbling and didn't really become {{Badass}} until [[spoiler:after his throat was cut]] -- which also explains why [[BeardOfSorrow he stopped shaving]].
* BetterAsFriends: He and Cordelia come to this conclusion after the Mother of All Awkward Kisses.
* BrainsAndBondage: Eek.
-->'''Angel:''' Who do we know that has handcuffs?\\
'''Wes:''' Well, I -- ! ...[-[[LastSecondWordSwap wouldn't know]]-].
* BritishStuffiness
* CaptainObvious
* ChekhovsSkill: Specifically, darts.
* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: After his actions result in baby Connor getting trapped in Quor'toth during ''Angel'' season 3. After the damage is done, Fred flat-out tells him that if he had actually ''talked'' to the others about it, let alone never trusted Holtz, it never would have happened.
* CruelToBeKind: Wesley can be surprisingly ruthless, willingly sacrificing his allies or sending men to their deaths as part of a grand design. In his own words:
-->"You try not to get anybody killed, you wind up getting ''everybody'' killed."
* CunningLinguist: With mixed results. ''You'' try arguing prophecy [[ItMakesSenseInContext with a giant hamburger]].
* DatingCatwoman: Lilah Morgan, [[spoiler:whom he later beheaded]]. Ah, love.
* DeadpanSnarker: Very Britishly so.
-->'''Client:''' ''(upon learning she's not alone in having superpowers, turns to Cordelia)'' So what's wrong with ''you''?\\
'''Wesley:''' Where to begin?
* DeathSeeker: Whenever he's morally conflicted, Wesley is uncomfortably reckless with his own life.
* DiedInYourArmsTonight[=/=]DiesWideOpen: In the final raid on the Senior Partners, Wesley is assigned to take out Vail, the sorceror. Vail [[spoiler:runs him through with a knife]], and Illyria is left to tearfully [[spoiler:cradle his body]].
* DoggedNiceGuy: As creepily as the show can manage. When he's not being turned into a misogynist rage monster and attacking Fred, he's casually dropping death threats to Gunn, his romantic rival.
* DrowningMySorrows: Develops an obsessive need for the juice to counter the melancholy of [[spoiler:Fred's]] death. He is seldom entirely sober, as Spike sniffed out.
** Maybe not drowning, but he certainly takes his sorrows for a swim after his split from AI.
* DynamicCharacter: We see glimpses of his dark side in Pylea (Season 2) and in an alternate universe where the team soldiers on without Cordelia (Season 3). His near-death experience changes him for the worse.
* EmbarrassingNickname: He was "[[AccidentalInnuendo Head Boy]]" at Academy.
** Wesley seems [[InvertedTrope blissfully unaware]] of the connotations - which is understandable, as Head Boy (and Head Girl) is an extremely normal title in British schools.
* EmergencyImpersonation: In the episode "Guise Will Be Guise", where he is forced to impersonate Angel. Right down to quaffing a glass of blood.
* EnsignNewbie: Wesley's only encounters with vampires thus far have been under "controlled circumstaces"; basically, he's in over his head from the get-go.
* EurekaMoment: Lampshaded by Angel.
-->'''Lorne:''' You mean he ''actually says'' "Eureka"?
* ExaltedTorturer: He's awfully handy with a knife. Or scalpel. Or arrowhead.
-->"I avoided the major organs. He'll probably live."
* ExtravertedNerd: His character sheet entry reads, "Thinks he's SeanConnery when he's pretty much [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg George Lazenby]]."
* {{Foil}}: To Giles. The curmudgeonly Watcher never forgot the grief he suffered under Wesley, as Andrew later reports in Season Five of ''Angel''.
* FanservicePack
* FatalFlaw: Mistrust of others, and compulsively hoarding every secret to himself.
* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:His ghost is still stuck working for the Senior Partners in Hell]].
* FireForgedFriends[=/=]SaltAndPepper: With Gunn in ''Angel'' Season Two.
* GeekPhysiques
* GeniusBruiser
* TheGlassesGottaGo
* GoodIsDumb: The least trustworthy member on Angel's team is also the smartest. What are the odds?
** Played with. For one thing he's only the smartest if you don't count Fred, for another the reason he's untrustworthy is because he follows his own moral compass even when it conflicts with his loyalty to the team. In some ways he's actually the most moral and selfless of anyone on the team including Angel.
* GoodIsNotSoft: Demonstrated this more and more as time went on, but there are hints as early as his appearances in ''[[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]]''.
* TheGunslinger: Type C: [[GunFu The Woo]]. Wes is generally the guy with guns, though Gunn and Fred occasionally use them. The [[GunsAkimbo showy]] [[LeapAndFire moves]] are strictly his department, however.
** Lampshaded in "Lineage". We cut from slo-mo Wesley firing two pistols in mid-air to Fred, in real time, sighing, "[[SarcasmMode Yes, thank you, Wesley, I'd love a gun.]]"
* GutturalGrowler: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in the aftermath of his throat-slitting. He adopts a sotto voice for the remainder of the show, and the scar remains visible for a long time.
* HazyFeelTurn: Stealing Angel's [[spoiler:baby]], then going solo for a while.[[note]]Also, being an accessory to murder and keeping Justine chained in his closet.[[/note]]
* ImpossiblyCoolWeapon: Collapsible wrist-mounted swords.
* InsistentTerminology: In his first Angel appearance, wants to make sure everyone knows that he's a ''rogue'' demon hunter.
-->'''Cordelia:''' What's a rogue demon?
* IntelligenceEqualsIsolation: It eventually came back to bite him in Season Three.
* JacobMarleyApparel: In the comic, he is permanently-bound to one of his old ''Buffy''-era suits. Wesley surmises the Senior Partners are just finding new ways to torment him some more, since the suit and glasses are a reminder of his past self that he left behind.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Becomes fond of these after his CharacterDevelopment sets in.
* JadedWashout: In slow-motion. Wesley is basically the same guy from before the Watcher's Council fired him. On the other hand, he's not eager to rejoin those officious windbags, even when bribed. Over the course of years, he grows so detached from his old values that the demolition of the Council building doesn't even upset him.
* KlingonPromotion: Became Illyria's de facto consort after shooting the first one.
* TheKlutz: In his early post-Buffy appearances. For the love of god, don't let him near an ax.
* TheLancer: When Fred is playing the SmartGuy role.
* LikeBrotherAndSister: With Cordelia.
* MilesGloriosus: Famously gets conked out [[TapOnTheHead by a single punch]] during the Sunnydale High siege.
* MoralityChain: Resigns himself to helping Illyria be a good citizen, despite being a pretty lousy role model himself.
* MrExposition: He's an ex-Watcher, seems to come with the territory.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Two big examples:
** When Faith begins to go rogue in ''Buffy'' season 3, Wesley, after finding out by eavesdropping on Buffy and Giles, calls in a special ops team and arrests her, unfortunately ruining Angel's plan to reach her just as he was beginning to get through to her and kicking off a series of events which leads to Faith becoming [[CorruptPolitician Mayor Wilkins]]' [[TheDragon second-in-command]]. Buffy and the Scoobies already disliked him before, and he only further cements their hatred of him with this screw-up.
** Then, in ''Angel'' season 3, he's fooled by a fake prophecy that claims that Angel will murder his own son, and makes a deal with Angel's enemy Holtz to take him to safety, only for Holtz's second-in-command Justine to [[SlashedThroat slit his throat]] and steal the baby herself, resulting in a sequence of events that led to Connor being trapped in the hell dimension Quor'toth, where he undergoes TrainingFromHell and emerges as an AxCrazy AntagonisticOffspring. Fake prophecy or not, Angel was [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge understandably anything but pleased with Wesley]].
** Angelus summed it up best:
-->'''Angelus:''' Good old Wes. Always count on him to tackle a bad situation and make it worse.
* NothingUpMySleeve: Again -- '''[[BladeBelowTheShoulder Collapsible wrist-mounted swords]]'''.
** He's even got room for a {{grappling hook|pistol}} under there.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Brought back in ''After the Fall'' by the Senior Partners. This is doubly ironic, as Wesley is bound to a [[spoiler:"standard perpetuity clause" in his contract, the same as Holland Manners and Lilah]]. Furthermore, he now serves as liaison to the Senior Partners, taking over from Hamilton (whom Angel killed in the series finale).
* PermaStubble: After he TookALevelInBadass.
-->'''Willow:''' Oh, and it's [[LampshadeHanging the Marlboro man]].
* PragmaticHero: "You try not to get anybody killed, you wind up getting ''everybody'' killed."
* ProperlyParanoid: Wesley is never entirely at ease with a vampire boss, and is always preparing countermeasures against Angel's heel turn. His background as a former Watcher ensures this kind of thinking.
* RealityEnsues: Before he was assigned to be Buffy and Faith's Watcher, his only encounters with vampires were brief and, in his own words, "under controlled circumstances," arrogantly declaring himself to be capable in the field. Needless to say, when he gets in a ''real'' fight later on, he turns out to be completely useless and Giles has to save his ass.
* RefusedByTheCall: Wesley's fatal flaw has always been that he considers himself The Hero of the piece. From as early as [=B3=] to as late as [=A4=], Wes has trouble conceiving the basic notion that the story does not revolve around ''him''. He takes it upon himself to make hard choices, and do make what he thinks are the right plays regardless of what others tell him, because at a fundamental level, he's certain that that burden of responsibility for saving the world and protecting everyone falls on his shoulders moreso than anyone else's. Basically every mistake he made through his entire character history has been rooted in this one flaw, from abducting Faith to stealing Angel's son.
* ReplacementFlatCharacter: To Giles, who groans that Wes has "the emotional maturity of a blueberry scone."
* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: Buffy even lampshades it:
-->'''Buffy''': If we need someone to scream like a woman, we'll give you a call.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Wesley and Spike seemed to be shaping into this by the time the show was canceled.
* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: His trusty Mossberg 12-gauge. Manages to land only one hit with it, alas.
* ShippingTorpedo: Due to his own feelings for Fred, isn't particularly fond of her relationship with Gunn, and even less so of her semi-flirtation with Knox. [[spoiler: He gets the girl in the end, though.]]
* TheSmartGuy
* SpotOfTea: "You know, there's something about brewed tea you simply cannot replicate with a bag."
* StalkerWithACrush: Fred.
* StalkingIsLove: [[spoiler:Fred goes for him in the end.]]
* SugarAndIcePersonality: He is this in ''spades'' after the events of season 3.
* TogetherInDeath: In her final scene with Wesley, Illyira allows one selfless gesture by taking Fred's shape, then consoling Wesley that they will be together [[spoiler:in the afterlife]].
** Subverted ([[DeusAngstMachina of course]]) in ''After the Fall'', wherein Wesley is stuck [[spoiler:working for the Senior Partners in Hell for all eternity]].
* TooCleverByHalf
* TVGenius
* TurnCoat
* TheUnfettered: Wesley does what is right. It doesn't matter if he has to betray his friends, torture witnesses, sacrifice his chances with the woman he loves, [[spoiler: shoot his father dead in cold blood]], [[spoiler: resurrect his friend's evil alter ego]] or [[spoiler: risk his life and sacrifice his chance at a career to protect a woman who was sadistically torturing him hours before]]. If Wesley thinks he knows what is needed for the greater good, there is no emotional attachment he won't sacrifice, no anguish he won't suffer, no underhanded method he will not use to achieve it.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Back in ''Buffy'', he overheard that Faith accidentally killed someone. The rest of the team is already on-board with helping her deal with her issues and giving her the support and acceptance she needs in order to not fall to TheDarkSide. Wesley's response, on the other hand, is to call in some goons and try to ship her to England to be locked away forever. By the end of the episode, she doesn't trust any of them, resents all of them (because she thinks they aren't trustworthy), and has taken a job as the BigBad's [[TheDragon number two]].
* WeakButSkilled
* WeUsedToBeFriends
-->'''Wesley''': I have no idea where Angel is, Lilah, or what happened to him. And I really couldn't care.
-->'''Lilah''': Wow. That was cold. I think we're finally making progress. Come on. Doesn't it bother you just a little bit? The not knowing?
-->'''Wesley''': That part of my life is dead. Doesn't concern me now.
** Subverted: [[spoiler:He was looking for Angel the whole time.]]
** Double Subverted: [[spoiler:After he finds him, he still stays the hell away.]]
* WelcomeBackTraitor
* WellDoneSonGuy: When he becomes the leader of Angel Investigations during ''Angel'' season 2, he calls his father up in the hopes on getting his approval... only to discover that dear ol' Dad is more concerned with when, what, and how he'll screw up next.
* TheWorldsExpertOnGettingKilled
* ZenSurvivor: His new, grizzled look is a perfect fit for Los Angeles under permanent midnight. He gets even more philosophical when he's deep into the whiskey.

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

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

* ColdSniper[=/=]FriendlySniper: Her heel\face turns respectfully.

* NinetiesAntiHero: This is what Buffy might be like had ToddMcFarlane or MarkMillar gotten their hands on her.

!!Faith Lehane (ElizaDushku)

* DawsonCasting: Day was already 25 when she started playing Vi, one-and-a-half years older than ElizaDushku.

* TookALevelInKindness: When Buffy uses a ritual with there help of her friends to invoke the full power of the Slayer bloodline...well, she didn't take it very well. Cue one defeat at Buffy's hands, and it looks like the original Slayer changed her tune about ThePowerOfFriendship. Half a season later, she tells Buffy that her self sacrifice out of love for her sister will save the world. In the comics, we see that activating every potential Slayer and turning them from a lone warrior into a sisterhood was met with zero consequences. She even allows a boy with absolutely no connection to the slayers into their collective memory.

* BullyHunter: Oh yeah. She thought a boy liked her because he picked on her, so she ambushed him in the parking lot and attacked him to show that she liked him back.

* :OurGhostsAreDifferent: Brought back in ''After the Fall'' by the Senior Partners. This is doubly ironic, as Wesley is bound to a [[spoiler:"standard perpetuity clause" in his contract, the same as Holland Manners and Lilah]]. Furthermore, he now serves as liaison to the Senior Partners, taking over from Hamilton (whom Angel killed in the series finale).

* PragmaticHero: "You try not to get anybody killed, you wind up getting''everybody'' killed."

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Back in ''Buffy'', he overheard that Faith accidentally killed someone. The rest of the team is already on-board with helping her deal with her issues and giving her the support and acceptance she needs in order to not fall to TheDarkSide. Wesley's response, on the other hand, is to call in some goons and try to ship her to England to be locked away forever. By the end of the episode, she doesn't trust any of them, resents all of them (because she thinks they want her to just be like Buffy), and has taken a job as the BigBad's [[TheDragon number two]].

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

Before that was her dress she wore at the homecoming party at the Bronze, or the dress the Mayor got her.

* OrphansOrdeal:

* 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.

* ReformedCriminal: Most of her sins were buried, with her only real crime she's paying for the murder of a volcanologist. Turns out she strives to atone for this even today, as well as everything else she's done, by trying to help others.
* TheResenter

* RunningGag: PlayedForDrama. From her introduction Faith takes Buffy's friends, her meal and looks like she's trying to take her job. From there it gets worse: first she sleeps with Xander, before later trying to rape and kill him. She tries to take Angel from Buffy (which she ironically succeeds at), [[CaptainObvious her life;]] in both senses of the word, her body, her current boyfriend, and then she seemingly sleeps with Spike, takes Buffy's leadership of the potentials, then Robin Wood who was Buffy's potential boyfriend, then Giles, then Angel, in short everything Buffy had Faith takes away from her. Tragically half of these are by accident. Buffy's friends like Faith, Angel rejects Buffy over the way she acts when he tries to help Faith, it would later be confirmed that Faith did not sleep with Spike, the potentials reject Buffy over the way she's acting, Buffy is outraged with Giles and Angel over what they've done and thus turn to Faith. Things like Buffy's food, or boyfriends, are a case when Faith does not think, [[JerkAss or]] worse, [[FaceHeelTurn when]] she [[PsychoForHire does.]]

* ShoutOut: Her finally revealed surname of Lehane is probably a Shout Out to crime novelist DennisLehane.

* BastardGirlfriend: As part of her role reversal with Buffy, Faith loses interest in creepy kinky sex after spending a night with Riley, who is more of the vanilla missionary-style school.

** BerserkButton: Being told off for trying to do the right thing seems to be this. After she tries to kill Angel to stop who she thinks is Angelus it causes a deep rift from the gang. When told off for trying to rationalize killing the deputy mayor and getting rid of the body she becomes psychotic and monstrous. In the comics when Buffy won't let her explain what she's doing Faith tries to drown her in a fit of rage, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone before realizing what she's doing.]]

* DarkActionGirl: After her FaceHeelTurn she becomes a murderer, rapist and takes delight in hurting whoever she can.
* DarkMagicalGirl: She's a loner foil for the friendly and perky Buffy. She looks up to an arc villain as a father-figure. She's redeemed from evil with ThePowerOfFriendship. The only point she ''doesn't'' hit is that she never developed the [[HeterosexualLifepartners extremely close relationship]] that magical girls and dark magical girls usually have.

** Originally Faith was to have hung herself after killing the deputy mayor.

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Faith seems to think raping Xander is no big deal when he visits her to discuss the murder she committed. Angel...[[BigDamnHeroes disagrees]], and shows his views to Faith [[BatterUp forcibly]].

* FormerTeenRebel: When first introduced she was a ReallyGetsAround BloodKnight who didn't mind if she had to ShootTheDog because Buffy wouldn't, such as whether or not Angel was good. After her FaceHeelTurn she became a male raping psychopath who killed and did wrong ForTheEvulz, and actually tried to be this to attempt [[SuicideByCop suicide by vampire.]] After breaking out of prison she has become one of the nicest people in both series, a SergeantRock to younger Slayers, and had not only seemingly grown out of her bad habits such as drinking she keeps others from doing so.

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Slowly adopts more and more murderous tendencies, until finally she is indistinguishable from Angelus himself.

** Another mild one crops up in the comics. Aside from the fact she is crazy enough to snap and try to kill Buffy despite her HeelFaceTurn; due to a combination of liking the person she was going to kill, trying to protect her from Buffy and some belief that if she kills Buffy she'll be a hero; the realization she treats anyone who is the least bit decent to her like dirt. While she was nice before her FaceHeelTurn and after her HeelFaceTurn after she realizes this she makes more of an effort to treat people as more than just getting what she wants.

Computer science teacher at Sunnydale High, techno-pagan, and Giles' LoveInterest in Seasons 1 & 2 until she was killed by Angelus. She's also a member of the gypsy tribe that cursed Angel, and was sent to keep an eye on him in Sunnydale.

* HiddenDepths: She goes from a normal high-school computer teacher/"techno-pagan" to a gypsy sent to watch over the vampire her tribe cursed with a soul.