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* GutturalGrowler: Due to being played by the raspy-voiced Nick Chinlund.

* AdaptationDyeJob: In the movie, Kimberly is brown-haired, Nicki is dark-haired, and Jennifer is a strawberry blonde. In the comic, DependingOnTheArtist, Kimberly is either a blonde or a redhead, and Jennifer is either a brunette or a has dark red hair. In their TV cameo, two of the trio are blonde, and the only one with dialogue (who acts more like Jennifer than either of the other two) has brown hair.

* AdaptationDyeJob: In the movie, Kimberly is brown-haired, Nicki is dark-haired, and Jennifer is blonde. In the comic, DependingOnTheArtist, Kimberly is either a blonde or a redhead, and Jennifer is either a brunette or a redhead.

* DirtyCoward: Kimberly never lifts a finger to help anyone in the final battle, most of which she spends screaming and/or openly hoping that the vampires will attack people besides her. This even continues well after all the vampires are dead.
* FairWeatherFriend: They ditch Buffy (albeit with some possible regret in Jennifer Nicki's cases) as she begins to get sucked into the Slayer life, with Jennifer even quickly taking her boyfriend.

* AdaptationDyeJob: In the movie, Kimberly is brown-haired and Jennifer is blonde. In the comic, DependingOnTheArtist, Kimberly is either a blonde or a redhead, and Jennifer is either a brunette or a redhead.

* RichBitch: All three seem to be as affluent as they are shallow, particularly Kimberly, who tells Buffy to stop acting like "The thing from another tax bracket."

!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/MichelleAbrams, Creator/HilarySwank and Creator/ParisVaughan

Classmates and friends of Buffy before she was a slayer, who appear in the movie, and a prequel comic based on the movie.

* DemotedToExtra: Nicki is absent from the GirlPosse in the comic adaptation, but an unnamed girl gets some of the role and dialogue that she had during the final battle in the original screenplay and novelization (albeit not in the final film) while also having a RaceLift and being less of a BadassAdorable.

* FlowersOfFemininity: Nicki and Kimberly are both GirlPosse members who wear a lot of clothing with floral patterns in the fabric, with Nicki also having a flower brooch and a sunflower hat and some of Kimberly’s earrings being shaped after flowers.

* AdaptationDyeJob: In the movie, Kimberly is brown-haired and Jennifer is blonde. In the comic, DependingOnTheArtist, Kimberly is either a blonde or a redhead, and Jennifer is either a brunette or a redhead

* TokenBlackFriend: Nicki is the only prominent black character in the movie and isn't portrayed as negatively as Jennifer and Kimberly.

* FairWeatherFriend: They ditch Buffy (albeit with some possible regret in Nicki's case) as she begins to get sucked into the Slayer life, with Jennifer even quickly taking her boyfriend.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Jennifer is quieter than her friends and can seem marginally less shallow and entitled than them, but she is the one to immediately take Buffy’s boyfriend after her fall from grace (although to be fair, some PoorCommunicationKills dialogue did make her think Buffy was cheating on him).

* GirlPosse: They are popular, shopping-obsessed cheerleaders who hung out Buffy, before she knew she was a Slayer.

* BetaBitch: Jennifer, who is nastier about being popular than Buffy and tries to take both leadership of the group and her boyfriend.
* CompositeCharacter: Nicki does not appear in the canon comic reboot of the movie, but Jennifer and Kimberly both adapt aspects of her character.
** Jennifer has darker skin and hair and a shorter hairstyle than in the movie, making her physically resemble Nicki.
** Kimberly is a useless DirtyCoward against the vampire {{Prom Wrecker}}s in the movie while Nicole makes a brief effort to fight them. In the comic, Kimberly is mostly scared during the fight but does fight back in a brief ChairmanOfTheBrawl moment.

->'''Played By:''' Creator/LindsayCrouse

-->''"I'm Professor Walsh. Those of you who fall into my good graces will come to know me as Maggie. Those of you who don't will come to know me by the nickname my T.A.s use and think I don't know about: the Evil Bitch-Monster of Death."''

->'''Played By:''' Creator/LeonardRoberts

-->''"This is the burden we bear, brother. We have a gig that would inevitably cause any girl living to think we are cool upon cool. Yet, we must Clark Kent our way through the dating scene, never to use our unfair advantage. Thank God we're pretty."''

->'''Played By:''' Creator/BaileyChase

A friend of Riley Finn and member of the Initiative. He is played by Bailey Chase. Like his teammates Riley and Forrest, Graham leads a double life, balancing his military service with his cover as a student at UC Sunnydale. Whereas Forrest is a rather brash person, Graham is more calm and collected.

->'''Played By:''' Creator/ConorOFarrell

->'''Played By:''' Creator/JackStehlin

->'''Played By:''' Creator/WadeWilliams

-->''"Dissension in the ranks. Seldom a harbinger of glad tidings."''

->'''Played By:''' Creator/JustinGorence

->'''Played By:''' Creator/KarimPrince

-->'''Played By:''' Creator/LukePerry

->'''Played By:''' Creator/NathanFillion

-->''"You girls are just burning with righteousness, aren't you? Problem is, you think they're blazing like suns, when really you're matchsticks in the face of the darkness."''

->'''Played By:''' Creator/RobinSachs

->'''Played By:''' Creator/DeanButler

->'''Played By:''' Creator/VincentSchiavelli

->'''Played By:''' Creator/NickChinlund

->'''Played By:''' Creator/TomWyner

->'''Played By:''' Creator/JackConley

->'''Played By:''' Creator/IvanaMilicevic

!! Jennifer, Kimberly and Nicki
-> '''Played By:''' Creator/MichelleAbrams, Creator/HilarySwank and Creator/ParisVaughan

!! Garry Murray
-> '''Played By:''' Creator/StephenRoot

->'''Played By:''' Creator/DavidWells

* PoorCommunicationKills: He never bothered to inform Jenny that a single moment of perfect happiness would break the curse and revert Angel into the evil Angelus. Fitting the trope name, not sharing this does end up killing several people, one of whom is Enyos himself.

* FairWeatherFriend: They ditch Buffy as she begins to get sucked into the Slayer life, with Jennifer even quickly taking her boyfriend.

[[folder:Jennifer, Kimberly and Nicki]]

* CompositeCharacter: Nicole does not appear in the canon comic reboot of the movie, but Jennifer and Kimberly both adapt aspects of her character.
** Jennifer has darker skin and hair and a shorter hairstyle than in the movie, making her physically resemble Nicole.

* FairWeatherFriend: They ditch Buffy (albeit with some implied regret in Nicki's case) as she begins to get sucked into the Slayer life, with Jennifer even quickly taking her boyfriend.

* ImplacableMan: After [[PhysicalGod Glory]], he's the most physically powerful villain the gang faces.

'''Buffy''': ''[indicates Caleb's severed halves]'' [[BondOneLiner He had to]] [[IncrediblyLamePun split]].

* ItsAllAboutMe: Despite the fact that Buffy clearly showed her skills and experience at hunting demons, Walsh tried to have Buffy killed just because she recognised that Buffy wouldn't do things her way.

[[folder: Jennifer, Kimberly and Nicki]]

[[folder: Gary Murray]]

[[folder: The Cheese Man]]

* OedipusComplex: Inverted. Part of what spurs her to try and kill Buffy is watching in jealousy as the two have sex.

[[folder:The Regnier Family]]
!!Richard, Giuliana, Henri, Antoinette, Jean-Marc, Kathleen, and Jacques Regnier

A family of magicians spanning four generations, with enormous powers and long lifespans. They are in charge of maintaining the Gatehouse, a dimensional barrier that either keeps the worst monsters out there from assessing Earth or acts as a prison for those that make it across. The family plays a major role in ''The Gatekeeper'' trilogy, which is set during season 2. Only Jean-Marc and Jacques are alive during the main story, but the others appear as ghosts or in flashbacks, and the family is mentioned in other tie-in novels.

[[folder:Roland]]
!!Roland
The son of the Erl King, the leader of the Wild Hunt, a group of (mostly elven) hunters from another dimension. The hunters ride through wherever they want, killing regular game animals and vampires, while also causing a lot of death and grief among human communities due to their BlueAndOrangeMorality and the side effects of their powers. Roland runs away from the Wild Hunt but is captrued by dark warlocks, prompting a feud between the two factions that kicks off the novel ''Child of the Hunt.''

* ArtificialHuman: He was born out of a pile of dirt through the combined magic of his father and a Slayer sacrificing her soul to become a ghost after death.
* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: His father is an EgomaniacHunter who hates weakness, while Roland just wants to be left in peace, even if it means being constantly mistreated by the only people willing to cross the Wild Hunt.
* LivingMacGuffin: He can enhance the magic of people around him, causing him to be sought after by multiple characters in ''Child of the Hunt''.
* RedeemingReplacement: After his father dies and he becomes king of the Wild Hunt, he promises to try and change their behavior and prevent their more destructive actions "a little at a time." However, he also tells Buffy that the magical nature of the Wild Hunt can't be completely changed and no matter what he wants, runaways and homeless people will still be drawn to join the Hunt whether they truly want to or not.
* RecurringCharacter: He appears in two Nancy Holder novels, being a major character in ''Child of the Hunt'' and making a cameo appearances in ''Out of the Madhouse''.
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[[folder:Justine]]
!!Justine Camille
A sinister artist who visits Sunnydale in the novel ''Doomsday Deck'' as part of an agenda to help a GodOfEvil return from the underworld.
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!!Richard, Giuliana, Henri, Antoinette, Jean-Marc, Kathleen, and Jacques Regneir

* GateGuardian: The Regneirs are required to be Gatekeepers (although it turns out that in an emergency, non-family members can temporarily take the job) and each family member spends centuries fighting off ghostly and demonic invaders from other dimensions to protect Darth from destruction and evil. This includes Hell itself, and demons are hopeful that erasing the Gatekeeper line will let them conquer Earth and make all of its people damned slaves of Hell. Naturally, the Scooby Gang sets out to stop the worst demon's servants and help the Regniers, although Jean-Marc Regnier gets quite a lot done on his own throughout the books.

[[folder:Rosanna]]
!!Rosanna Jergens
A field leader for The Order of Sages, which appears in the novel ''The Wisdom of War''. Her group performs similar work to the Watchers' Council but seeks to establish peaceful understandings with supernatural races and avoid fighting them.

* CowboyCop: Rosanna is willing to bend the rules of the Order of Sages to use force against demons when it is absolutely necessary to do so in order to save human lives, although Buffy and her friends don't witness this.
* IdenticalStranger: Giles thinks she strongly resembles Jenny Calender.
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: She may not like all of her bosses' orders but follows them due to feeling it is part of a greater plan that will take generations to fulfill.
* NiceToTheWaiter: She generously tips a waiter who is flustered after witnessing a fight between the Order and a demon.
* StrawCivilian: Subverted. Buffy and Giles feel that her insistence on avoiding conflict allows genuinely dangerous and genocidal monsters to gain frightening advantages. However, she does have several StrawmanHasAPoint moments about specific races being benevolent and the Council being disproportionately brutal toward those species and is secretly more gung-ho than her superiors.

[[folder:The Renegade Champions]]
!!Malik, Tai, Simone, and Bors
Former champions of the Powers That Be who appear in the post-season 7 novel ''Dark Congress''. They seek to disrupt a peace conference between supernatural creatures that could redefine human-monster relationships.

* BigotryException: They loathe non-humans on principle but show respect and mercy toward Oz, a werewolf, because he fights alongside Buffy, who they view as a peer and potential ally.
* BurnTheWitch: Bors gleefully traps a witch inside her house and burns it down as his EstablishingCharacterMoment.
* DanceBattler: Simone moves like a ballerina while beating up main characters.
* DefiantToTheEnd: Malik and Bors spend some of their last moments glaring at a powerful god who is about to kill them for murdering his lover.
* DepravedDwarf: Bors is four feet tall and is the most sadistic of the group when it comes to killing non-humans.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: They are proud practitioners of VanHelsingHateCrimes, but there is a bond between them that leaves Malik horrified and remorseful when the others are injured.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** Tai is bigoted against werewolves and remorselessly kills any he takes prisoner throughout the month. However, he only kills them after watching them transform to avoid any chance of killing a human by mistake.
** During his EstablishingCharacterMoment, the fanatical Malik is outraged by how one of his targets murdered a child.
* HeadTurningBeauty: Simone is proud about how people keep glancing up to admire her beauty without any supernatural enchantments like the Succubi she hunts.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Malik and Simone both look young, but the Powers That Be have slowed down their aging. Malik claims to be eight hundred years old and Simone looks like a "crone" after being made to age normally.
* RogueAgent: They refuse to show any restraint against non-malicious or potentially repentant demons and feel that letting any survive is dangerous to humanity. The Powers That Be have revoked their status as champions and are trying to find them to take back their immortality and invulnerability.
* TongueTrauma: Tai is missing his tongue after a childhood incident, although he recalls that [[ElectiveMute he never spoke even when he had a tongue.]]
* VanHelsingHateCrimes: They believe that any peaceful co-existence between humans and any kind of supernatural creature is impossible and kill non-humans at every opportunity. Some of their targets are {{Asshole Victim}}s, but others are sympathetic figures. Malik does briefly wonder if his actions are DirtyBusiness in his first scene but decides that [[IDidWhatIHadToDo he did what he had to do]].

[[folder:Justine]]
!!Justine Camille
A sinister artist who visits Sunnydale in the novel ''Doomsday Deck'' as part of an agenda to help a GodOfEvil return from the underworld.

* AllForNothing: She commits murders and performs dangerous magic on behalf of Kali for the sake of her art career, but as Buffy puts it, "Everything you could have been is gone. Kali owns you. She never intended to keep her part of the bargain."
* ComicallySmallDemand: She is willing to help Kali take over the universe (with Kali secretly planning to just destroy everything) and risk her soul in exchange for the power to make an art gallery give her a one-woman show.
* DraggedOffToHell: [[spoiler:The climax ends with her being dragged through the Hellmouth while struggling desperately after an evil goddess who she'd bound herself to is vanquished]].
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: She has malignant intentions and supernatural powers, and her dark hair and pale skin nearly get her mistaken for a vampire a few times.
* IgnoredEpiphany: When Kali makes Justine her champion, it destroys her "flimsy blockade of self-denial" and makes her see her true self and realize that she refused to work for her own success rather than rely on Kali and is "seeking vengeance on the innocent for her own shortcomings." This revelation horrifies her, but when Kali gives her a JoinOrDie ultimatum, Justine decides to choose survival and quickly justifies that to herself.
* StarvingArtist: She is a passionate painter who has to do generic seaside paintings that she doesn't like to pay bills while people scoff at the pictures of fantasy scenes she puts her heart into. This makes her deeply bitter.
* TarotTroubles: She has a deck of tarot cards that can make very accurate revelations about people's pasts. Touching that deck also lets her exert magical control over the people who attend her readings, slowly killing them and making them sacrifices for the eponymous doomsday deck of tarot cards that can resurrect the Hindu goddess Kali.

[[folder:The Druid Brothers]]
!!Ian, Tom, and Dave
Three monster-hunting Druid brothers who become tenuous allies of the Scooby Gang in the book ''Return to Chaos''.

* DarkIsNotEvil: They wear dark shirts and jeans, but are noble monster hunters.
* GuyOfTheWeek: Ian is a single installment love interest to Buffy. They share a single kiss before the brothers leave town.
* {{Nephewism}}: Their uncle is their guardian after the death of their father.
* SiblingTeam: They are brothers often go into battle against evil forces together.

[[folder:Bulat]]
!!Bulat the Brave
An immortal Russian folk hero who appears in the novel ''The Deathless'' as a mysterious potential ally.

* BloodKnight: He enjoys fighting, especially since his immortality lets him recover from wounds.
* FallenHero: Bulat once fought to rescue a kidnapped maiden and vanquish the evil and immortal sorcerer Koschei. However, [[spoiler:his WhoWantsToLiveForever feelings cause him to eventually try to resurrect Koschei to transfer his own unwanted immortality back to the villain he took it from, even though Koschei will endanger the world and the resurrection ceremony will require a mass sacrifice. He is still a NobleDemon, though, being unhappy about what he is doing and working to incapacitate Buffy and her friends rather than kill them.]]
* FireForgedFriends: Defied. After saving Buffy and Faith from some vampires, he expects to become close and immediate allies with them but is rather perturbed that they don't trust him right away. [[spoiler:They are right not to.]]
* IOweYouMyLife: After Prince Ivan saved Bulat from being executed over an unpaid debt by paying it himself, Bulat became a trusted champion and friend of Ivan for the rest of the prince's life.
* MrFanservice: Buffy admires Bulat’s muscles, teeth, and skin throughout their first meeting.
* UnreliableExpositor: Bulat tells a story about himself and several other characters in the book that is perfectly true as far as it goes, but ends before covering several incidents that would have cast him in a different light.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Watching the love of his life grow old and wrinkled before dying has soured Bulat on living forever, and seeing the society and landscape of his beloved feudal Russia transform over time also makes him feel empty and purposeless. He becomes a DeathSeeker who tries several methods of suicide and enlists in many armies that will face heavy combat, but none of it kills him. [[spoiler:His misery over being immortal increases once all of his body except his head is destroyed, [[AndIMustScream and the new caretaker of his head intends to keep him prisoner, unable to move, for a long time, if not forever, even though she has the ability to kill him.]] Buffy tries to save him from this fate, but fails.]]
--> '''Bulat''': It comes of living forever when everyone around you dies. You either become vain or go mad. Or both.

[[folder:Shing]]
!!Shing
A mysterious Chinese swordswoman who comes to Sunnydale to fight the BigBad of the novel ''Revenant'' and develops sparks with Xander after saving his life.

* ActionGirl: She has formidable fighting skills that rival Buffy's and kills many demons.
* ButNowIMustGo: At the end of the book, she has to leave Xander [[spoiler:due to being a centuries-old spirit who isn't actually alive]].
* DefrostingTheIceQueen: She stays focused on her mission and admits she hasn't laughed in ''years''. However, being around Xander softens her.
* StatuesqueStunner: Xander describes her as being almost six feet fall, with a curvy figure and loose clothing.
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* RecurringCharacter: He appears in two Nancy Holder novels, being a major character in ''Child of the Hunt'' and making a cameo appearance in ''Out of the Madhouse''.

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* UnreliableExpositor: Bulat tells a story about himself and several other characters in the book that is perfectly true as far as it goes, but ends before several incidents that would have cast him in a different light.

* YouGotSpunk: Her response to Buffy telling her off in "The Initiative" is "I like her."