History Characters / BuffyverseBuffyTheVampireSlayerVampires

** This is another instance of PlotArmor; Angel or Spike will sizzle for several seconds before catching fire, and even then there's still time to put themselves out. Vampire mooks on the other hand pretty much explode the minute sunlight touches them. Spike in season six takes this to ridiculous levels, as he can survive sunlight exposure that would incinerate any other vampire in seconds by draping a cloth over his shoulders, or one occasion just wearing a coat and hat.

** This is another instance of PlotArmor; Angel or Spike will sizzle for several seconds before catching fire, and even then there's still time to put themselves out. Vampire mooks on the other hand pretty much explode the minute sunlight touches them.

** In the comics, once vampires become public, starting with Harmony many of them turn to only feeding non-fatally from willing victims, but this isn't because they've made a true HeelFaceTurn so much as sheer [[PragmaticVillainy pragmatism]] - not killing people means people won't have a reason to kill ''them'', and there are obvious benefits to the fame that comes with the vampire craze. Some are still so committed to being creatures of evil that they continue killing and resent being turned into something harmless and commercial.

* ManOnFire: He's killed this way.

* TheNeedless: As they're undead, vampires don't actually need to breathe. Angel survived being sealed in a coffin and trapped at the bottom of the ocean for the three month TimeSkip between Seasons 3 and 4 as a result, and later was able to go to a [[DeathWorld demon dimension]] with an atmosphere toxic to humans to no ill effect.

* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: A vampire's strength varies depending on how much of a threat the plot needs them to be, ranging from being able to deform solid steel with their bare hands to being unable to budge wooden doors. Furthermore, they jump from being superhuman on a level no normal human could hope to match to being weak enough that {{Badass Normal}}s like Xander and Gunn can take them easily. However, it is also worth noting that as StrongerWithAge demonstrates, vampires get more powerful as they get older and, though it isn't strict canon, vampires tend to be stronger if their sire was powerful to begin with. Additionally, fledglings tend to be stupid, as well as relatively weak, making them easier to beat.

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* ChekhovsGunman: After appearing in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E4TheFreshman The Freshman]]", Tom reappears many episodes later to help Spike escape the Initiative and give a bit of exposition on them.

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* FatBitch: Zahlia is enormously fat and is also quite cruel and mocking.

* BackFromTheBrink: At the beginning of the book, all of his co-chancellors have died or disappeared, demons are becoming the dominant local power (and are turning the government against all of supernatural kind with their violent actions), and Ruthven is down to a dozen subordinates. At the end of the book, another founder of his group escapes from being imprisoned and the demons are defeated, letting Ruthven mend fences with the British government and regain his lost territory.

* LondonGangster: He is a proud denizen of London who is Spike's superior in fisticuffs.

[[folder:Billy Bob]]
!!Billy Bob
A leader among the vampires in Sunnydale during the events of the ambiguously canon novel ''Mortal Fear'', which is set in season 7.

* ShootTheMessenger: Angelus turns up to sire Theresa with the purpose of further taunting Buffy. After she rises, Vampire Theresa tells her that "Angel sends his love" before being staked.

A Sunnydale High student and later a vampire.

* RedShirt: Theresa exists mostly to be a victim of Angelus, get turned and have to be staked.

* ShootTheMessenger: Angelus turns up with the purpose of further taunting Buffy.

* {{Delinquent}}: A major one in life, having said to have attacked a teacher with pruning shears (and quite proud of it), blowing off the punishment to help with the Parent-Teacher Conference and hanging out with other bad company to boot. It's ultimately what ends up losing her her humanity when she fell for a "bad boy" like Spike.

* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: She quickly withdraws once she sees one of Spike's men getting staked. Ironically, this likely could stem from the fact that her devil-may-care attitude got her killed before by blindly following Spike when she first met him. She just came back as an undead, so she's not wasting her newfound semi-immortal (if cursed) existence fighting somebody she can't win against.

* HellBentForLeather: She stumbles drunkenly out of the Bronze, flanked by two guys. She asks if they were telling the truth about a Cadillac, and coos about how "leather seats" make her horny. Whatever, Music/JoanJett.

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Ended up falling for Spike not long after meeting him. Unfortunately for her, he was just luring her so he could feed Drusilla.

* AffablyEvil: He actually seems fairly genuine about liking Dawn. He can't help being a vampire and thus naturally disposed toward evil.

* PlotIrrelevantVillain: They just randomly showed up, attracted by the Hellmouth, to Sunnydale to cause some trouble despite not being the main threat in "Bag Eggs." In the end, Lyle even has to fight briefly alongside Buffy to survive the day.

Lyle's newlywed wife in his second appearance.

* GirlyBruiser: Candy is a decently tough vampire who nearly defeats Buffy in a fight and wears a pink feather boa and purple clothes.

* SurroundedByIdiots: She gets annoyed at times because her minions are a bit immature and dimwitted.

** As they have no human souls, vampires are evil and treacherous by nature. In theory, at least - the example of Spike, for instance, throws some doubt on that. While no saint, he seemed to be relatively benevolent by vampire standards until the unfortunate incident with his mother, and Angelus becoming his SenseiForScoundrels. His behavior also improved (slowly) while chipped, to the point that he sought out a way to get his soul back. Granted, it's made fairly clear that even he ''needed'' the soul to fully beat his evil nature.

* TheSociopath: As a whole, vampires are this due to their [[TheSoulless lack of a soul]]. They have a complete LackOfEmpathy, are AlwaysChaoticEvil, and are specifically described as lacking a conscience and being incapable of remorse. Even for those vampires who are capable of love, it has a twisted, selfish or obsessive bent.

* TheSociopath: As a whole, vampires are this due to their [[TheSoulless lack of a soul]]. They have a complete LackOfEmpathy, are AlwaysChaoticEvil, and are specifically described as lacking a conscience and being incapable of remorse.

* MoreThanMindControl: Upon being turned, a vampire's personality often draws upon their former self's darker impulses and things they wouldn't normally say or do but might think about. When confronted over being Spike's SenseiForScoundrels in "Destiny," Angel retorts he didn't make Spike a monster; he just opened the door and let the "real him" out. Also, upon being sired, Spike's mother's taunts about his [[MommasBoy attachment to her]] were in fact something she feared as a human, but wasn't cruel enough to actually say to him before.

* MoreThanMindControl: Upon being turned, a vampire's personality often draws upon their former self's darker impulses and things they wouldn't normally say or do. When confronted over being Spike's SenseiForScoundrels in "Destiny," Angel retorts he didn't make Spike a monster; he just opened the door and let the "real him" out. Also, upon being sired, Spike's mother's taunts about his [[MommasBoy attachment to her]] were in fact something she feared as a human, but wasn't cruel enough to actually say to him before.

[[folder:Naomi]]
!!Naomi
A rival of Cordelia's and secondary antagonist in the book ''Return to Chaos''. She is a vampire who has been tutored in mind-control.

* NeverMyFault: She is TheResenter toward Cordelia, but Cordelia claims that Naomi just always gave up when things got hard rather than persevering until the end, and that it's her own fault that she was AlwaysSecondBest.
* RememberTheNewGuy: She is supposed to be a longtime rival Cordelia, as well as one of her fellow cheerleaders, but is never seen or mentioned in the original series.
* TheResenter: She is mad that Cordelia beat her at becoming head cheerleader, being the school's main AlphaBitch, and dating a quarterback. She feels that a suitable revenge is [[ToThePain to use mind-control powers to make Cordelia lure everyone she cares about to their deaths, one by one, with brief moments of clarity where Cordelia knows exactly what is going on, before Naomi kills her once there's no one left whose deaths will hurt Cordelia]].
* TooDumbToLive: She gets killed after Cordelia goads her into stopping a fight to show off a cheerleading move (which also leaves her exposed to archers) by claiming that Naomi could never do it right.

[[folder:Gloria]]
!!Gloria
An insecure Sunnydale outcast who becomes one of Naomi's minions in ''Return to Chaos''.

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* BadassBaritone: Due to being played by Creator/BrianThompson.

* YouGotSpunk: Lyle has this opinion of Buffy.
-->''"Well, you're a rough one, ain't cha! I like that!"''