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!Principals

[[folder:Snyder]]
!!Principal R. Snyder
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[[caption-width-right:250:''"Kids...I don't like 'em."'']]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ArminShimerman

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

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

In direct contact with the Mayor of Sunnydale, Principal Snyder spent a good deal of his efforts covering up the otherworldly occurrences that took place in the school through contrived and flimsy explanations. Aside from that, Snyder was also keen on maintaining and improving the school's image without any real concern for the students that went there.
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* AdultsAreUseless: And in Snyder's case, they're actively opposing you.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Early in Season 3, his reasons for not letting Buffy back into Sunnydale High, even after she was found innocent of Kendra's death, are her poor grades, spotty attendance record, and, above all else, "tingling pleasure" that he didn't have to put up with her anymore.
* AssholeVictim: After three seasons of being a dick to Buffy and actively trying to have her expelled, not one crap was given, by the characters or the audience, when Snyder was eaten by the newly-Ascended Mayor Wilkins.
-->'''Xander:''' (to Snyder in a dream sequence) You know, I never got the chance to tell you how glad I was you were eaten by a snake.
* BaldOfEvil: To the point where he demonstrated deriving pleasure from Buffy in pain, something not even who he worked for would have much appreciated.
* BreakoutCharacter: When he was hired to play Snyder, Shimerman was told that each principal would get killed after a handful of episodes as a RunningGag. But it turned out that the creators liked Snyder enough to keep him through the remainder of the high school episodes.
* ChildHater: A strict disciplinarian with an avowed hatred for teenagers. He once compared them to locusts, and when questioned on why he chose to be a high school principal, he claimed he had to keep an eye on them as they were "a bunch of hormonal time bombs" that he aimed to guide, especially when it came to discipline, respect and punctuality - which were, essentially, what he viewed as important in life
* 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.
* DeadpanSnarker: His introduction has him snarking an IronicEcho at the Scoobies about the talent show, and he doesn't stop there. Armin Shimmerman is clearly having a blast.
* DeanBitterman: He hates Buffy so much that when he expels her at one point (because she was framed for murder -- he also lied to the cops about it); Giles has to brutalize him and intimidate him into taking her back because he was willing to refuse even orders from the Supreme Court. There is the implication that he isn't actually a teacher. And of course, he is somewhat redeemed by two things: first, the immortal line "Whoaa Summers! You drive like a SPAZZZZ", and telling the ScaledUp Mayor to get the hell off his campus.
* 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.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He seems genuinely freaked out when the Mayor turns and starts devouring students and parents, implying he had no idea what his eventual plan was, and tries, albeit to no avail, to stand up to him.
** While he forces Willow to act as his tutor which he knows will basically mean her doing all of his work, Snyder does make clear that he doesn't like Percy West whom he describes as "spoiled, lazy and selfish" to Percy's face.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: He's so venomous and cynical that the idea of a teacher who genuinely wants to help kids learn and grow is baffling to him:
-->'''Snyder:''' You really have faith in those kids, don't you?\\
'''Giles''': Yes, I do.\\
'''Snyder''': Weird.
* EvilGloating: He takes the time during the season 2 finale to rub Buffy's expulsion in her face, outright stating that the police are "[[PoliceAreUseless deeply stupid]]" and would never find out that Buffy didn't beat up her friends or kill Kendra. Contrary to his expectations, the cops ''do'' find out that Buffy was innocent during the TimeSkip between seasons 2 and 3.
* FictionIsntFair: He's rather over-the-top in his freely-expressed hatred of students and the degree to which he openly and publicly gloats at the prospect of having them expelled. Possibly justified in that the Mayor of Sunnydale is a century-old evil sorcerer actively plotting to transform himself into a giant snake-demon, and the entire town was founded in order to further his evil schemes, so one can only assume that the Sunnydale School Board isn't likely to be very receptive to parental complaints. This is at one point subverted. After Buffy was expelled and Snyder refused to let her back, Giles threatened to make a formal complaint. Snyder tells him to take it to the school board. Giles tells him he was thinking of the state supreme court. Snyder still refuses and only relents after Giles basically threatened to beat the crap out of him... which of course would get Giles fired in real life. Writer's convenience for the win!
* 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?
* HateSink: Even before the reveal that he's in leagues with the Mayor, Snyder is shown to be a cruel and sadistic man who takes pleasure in making Buffy's life miserable.
* HiddenDepths: "Band Candy" reveals that he was a fairly sweet-natured and likable teen. He also reveals that he enjoys practicing Taekwondo in his free time.
* InsaneTrollLogic: Uses plenty of this to pin trouble on Buffy. At one point, he's able to turn her stopping a gunman from shooting someone on the school premises into her deserving detention for causing trouble.
* JerkassToOne: While he's a SadistTeacher and ChildHater in general, Snyder focuses quite a bit of his venom on Buffy and the Scooby Gang. He's always fully prepared to believe the worst in Buffy, to the extent that he admits to getting "tingling pleasure" out of messing with her. It's to the extent that in the season 2 finale, when Buffy is believed to be a murder suspect, Snyder, despite full knowledge that she didn't kill anyone, ''lies to the police'' and says that Buffy is ''always'' behind any trouble.
* JudgeJuryAndExecutioner: He explicitly refers to himself as this.
* KickTheDog: He goes out of his way as much as he can to be horrible to Buffy, practically salivating with joy at the prospect of keeping her out of school.
* KilledMidSentence: Decides to try shouting at the newly ascended Mayor to be quiet. It goes about as well as you'd expect.
-->"You're on '''my''' campus buddy and when I say I want quiet I want-"
* LastNameBasis: We never find out his name though it starts with an "R".
* MeaningfulName: Snyder -- snide.
* MoleInCharge: He's working for the Mayor, acting as a banal antagonist to Buffy and the Scoobies. Snyder is fully aware of the Hellmouth, although he isn't clued into the Mayor's actual plans.
* TheNapoleon: He's about 5'2, much shorter even than most of the teenage characters, and is a petty, egotistical and all-around unpleasant little tyrant.
%%* NonGivingUpSchoolGuy
* PetTheDog: While he's an absolute dick to the Scooby Gang, he does have respect for Willow's academic achievements and treats her with a bit more respect (relatively speaking) than the rest of them.
* 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.
* 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. There's some implication he knew about the Slayer and the Scoobies too, which may explain why he was constantly picking on them.
* SmugSnake: He's a banal antagonist to the Scoobies, but he's far too pleased with himself. He takes deep satisfaction in victimising Buffy but he himself is just pawn of the Mayor.
* SwallowedWhole: By an ascended Mayor.
* TagalongKid: After regressing to his adolescent self. ("Band Candy")
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: After Flutie is killed, Snyder takes control and Sunnydale High becomes an even worse place to send your kids.
* 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 cool hair!
-->"Whoa, Summers, you drive like a spaz!"
%%* WaistcoatOfStyle
* WeirdnessCensor: Averted. He's fully aware of the Hellmouth and demonic activity and it's even implied that he's aware that Buffy is the Slayer. What he ''doesn't'' know is just what Mayor Wilkins is planning, only that his role as principal is to screw over Buffy in particular, a task he greatly relishes.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: The Mayor promises him a reward for his services. A few hours later, he eats him.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Flutie]]
!!Principal Robert Flutie
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"When I was your age we cared about the school's reputation and the football team's record, all that stuff! Of course, when I was your age I was surrounded by old guys telling me how much better things were when they were '''my''' age."'']]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/KenLerner

-->'''Buffy''': Mr. Flutie...
-->'''Mr. Flutie''': All the kids here are free to call me Bob.
-->'''Buffy''': Bob--
-->'''Mr. Flutie''': But they don't.

The principal of Sunnydale High when Buffy Summers arrived in Sunnydale.
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: ''Literally'' eaten alive by some troublemakers. He's clearly terrified as the Pack surround, torment, and eventually pounce on him and tear him apart alive.
* DevouredByTheHorde: Flutie is killed and eaten by a group of students possessed by hyena spirits.
* 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 and largely incompetent.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He tries to come down on troublemakers and is willing to give Buffy the benefit of the doubt.
* ShooOutTheClowns: Flutie was the bumbling but well-meaning principal who offered some comedic moments in Buffy's mundane school life during the first six episodes. His brutal and grisly death is the first indication that the series is unafraid to kill off recurring characters and that nobody - even those most removed from and unaware of the supernatural - will be safe.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Wood]]
!!Principal Robin Wood
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[[caption-width-right:250:''"I knew I signed on for something, but, Buffy, I'm just a guy. Granted, a cool and sexy vampire-fighting guy, but still."'']]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/DBWoodside & Creator/DamaniRoberts

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

The principal of the rebuilt Sunnydale High School. He was a freelance vampire hunter, seeking revenge on the vampire that had killed his mother, the Slayer, Nikki Wood.
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* BadassBookworm: He's an experience teacher and school principal who is also a skilled vampire hunter. He can grade your papers and kick your ass.
* BadassInANiceSuit: He wears some very nice suits and can kick serious ass when he has to.
* BadassNormal: Despite having no extraordinary powers, Wood is a solid badass: he's well-trained, rarely shows fear and is capable of killing multiple vampires with relative ease. He doesn't match up to Buffy, but who does?
* BaldOfAuthority: Both as a former principal and now that he's leading a Slayer squad in Cleveland, the location of a second Hellmouth.
* BadassTeacher: A badass school principal and son of a Slayer. Even Buffy is amazed at how capable he is.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Wood is one of the coolest and nicest guys you could meet, but there's a great deal of unresolved rage bubbling beneath the surface that is terrifying when released.
* BestServedCold: He's been planning his revenge since 1977.
* BirdsOfAFeather: When he goes on a date with Buffy he reveals that he is the son of a former slayer. Later Faith would sleep with [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Wood.]]
* TheBusCameBack: In Season 9. Buffy seeks out his advice after finding out she's pregnant.
* BrooklynRage: He's originally from New York City.
* DeadpanSnarker: He can match Buffy and Faith easily in this regard.
* DisneyDeath: In the SeriesFinale, which he does on purpose to freak Faith out.
* GoodCounterpart: 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]]. As to how intentional this might be, check the last names: "holz" (without the "t", but close enough) means "wood" in German.
* HasAType: He definitely seems to have a thing for Slayers.
* HeartbrokenBadass: His mother's death spurred him on to become an intensely cool badass.
* HotTeacher: Buffy and Faith most certainly think so.
* 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: Although far from a doormat, Wood is an all-round decent guy who treats others with compassion and consideration.
* PutOnABus: This happens in S8 in an identical way to how many Fanfics do it.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He is about as far removed from Principal Snyder as it is possible to get; understanding, in touch with the students, not remotely condescending and eager to see his students reach their full potential. And he can deal with the trouble-makers very effectively too.
* 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 eventually come across Spike, he did so in a less reckless manner.
* SharpDressedMan: While principal of Sunnydale High.
* YouKilledMyFather: To Spike, who killed his mother Nikki.
%%* VampireHunter
[[/folder]]

!Teachers

[[folder:Gregory]]
!!Dr. Stephen Gregory
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[[caption-width-right:275:''"I gather you had a few problems at your last school?"'']]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/WilliamMonaghan

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

A Science teacher at Sunnydale High who taught the Scoobies Biology.
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* CoolTeacher: He doesn't condescend to Buffy while also making it clear that he thinks she has great untapped potential.
* NiceGuy: Gregory was a SternTeacher, but everyone liked him and Giles considered him a "civilized man" who had no enemies.
* OffWithHisHead: The She-Mantis eats his head.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He's one of the few teachers who sees great potential in Buffy and gives her firm encouragement.
* RedShirt: Gregory appeared very briefly earlier in Season 1, before being killed in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E4TeachersPet Teacher's Pet]]".
* SternTeacher: He doesn't suffer fools or accept excuses from his students, but he wants to see them succeed.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Marin]]
!!Coach Carl Marin
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[[caption-width-right:280:''"They're gonna be the best. I don't accept anything less."'']]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/CharlesCyphers
->'''Appears In''': "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E20GoFish Go Fish]]"

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

A Sunnydale High P.E teacher and the Swim team Coach.
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* AssholeVictim: It's hard to say he didn't deserve his fate 100%.
* AFatherToHisMen: What he pretends to be, saying he cares about his boys by feeding them after their transformation. If he gave a damn about them in the first place, he wouldn't have been exposing them to steroids.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Marin tries to act like a typical hardass but caring coach. He's actually deeply insane.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Buffy escapes the rape attempt and the monsters go for the coach instead.
-->"Wow...they really love their coach."
%%* {{Jerkass}}
* JustDesserts: He's eaten by his 'boys'.
%%* KarmicRape
%%* LaserGuidedKarma
* MeaningfulName: Karl MARIN. (as in [=MARINe=] biologist)
* SelfDisposingVillain: While trying to kill Buffy, he falls into the pit he's been keeping his fish monsters in.
* SkewedPriorities: The Coach believes it's important to win...even if this means continually exposing teenagers to a steroid gas that transforms them into vicious, mindless beasts.
-->'''Buffy:''' Why?\\
'''Marin:''' What kind of question is that? For the win! To make my team the best they could be! Do you understand we have a shot at the state championship?\\
'''Buffy:''' Do you understand that I don't care? It's over! There's not gonna be any swim team.\\
'''Marin:''' Boy, when they were handing out school spirit, you didn't even stand in line, did you?\\
'''Buffy:''' No. I was in the line for shred of sanity.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Grace]]
!!Grace Newman
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[[caption-width-right:290:''"I just want you to be able to have some kind of normal life. We can never have that - don't you see?"'']]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MeredithSalenger, Creator/DavidBoreanaz, Creator/SarahBibb, Creator/MiriamFlynn
->'''Appears In''': "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E19IOnlyHaveEyesForYou I Only Have Eyes For You]]"

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

A Sunnydale High History teacher in 1955.

During her time at the school she began an affair with honor roll student James Stanley, but when she attempted to break it off to give him a chance at a normal relationship James lost his temper and shot her, subsequently taking his own life in grief.
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* GenderBender: To put an end to James' haunting, she possesses a male, Angelus.
* MirrorCharacter: Her relationship with James is parallel with that between Angel and Buffy, which is made blatant when she possesses Angelus and James possesses Buffy. Grace is a teacher having an affair with an underage student, while Angel is a centuries-old vampire who was tasked with protecting the underage Slayer Buffy. They both betrayed that responsibility for their own selfish needs until they [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy decided to finally be the responsible ones by breaking off with their younger lovers]]. James ended up accidentally killing Grace when he couldn't stand her rejection, leading him to commit suicide out of regret, while Buffy unwittingly turned Angel into Angelus by having sex with him, much to her remorse. Though he later regained his soul, he eventually came to accept he couldn't have a happy relationship with Buffy and left Sunnydale, and they even use the same lines they used when Grace and James possessed them.
* MrsRobinson: She embarks on a romance with her student, James.
* RemonstratingWithAGun[=/=]RailingKill: How she was killed.
* UnequalPairing: She's a teacher having an affair with an underage student.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jenny]]
!!Jennifer "Jenny" Calendar AKA Janna of the Kalderash
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[[caption-width-right:250:''"You know, people are always sending stuff my way. They know the occult's my turf."'']]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/RobiaLaMorte

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

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

She hid from all of them that she was a member of Clan Kalderash sent to watch over Angel, and went by the name Jennifer Calendar.
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* BelligerentSexualTension: With Giles, at first.
* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: The entire Angelus arc of season 2 could have been avoided if her clan had told her and the Scoobies about the conditions of Angel's curse.
* FindingJudas: She lied to them about Angel and the curse, but she didn't mean anything bad to happen.
* ForgottenFallenFriend: Played with. Her demise at Angel's hands is mentioned several times in Seasons 2 and 3, both in Giles' mourning of her and Xander insisting to Buffy that Angelus needs to die for it. After "Amends," when the First [[DeadPersonImpersonation assumes Jenny's form]], she's never explicitly mentioned again for the rest of the show.
* 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.
* HippieTeacher: See Giles' EyeTake when he hears about Jenny's nude mud dance at Burning Man.
* HotGypsyWoman: Though without the associated stereotypes.
** Though it is played with -- she has the dark hair, the exotic sensuality ([[UptightLovesWild in contrast to]] StuffyBrit Giles) and the magical background, and the [[BelligerentSexualTension hot temper in her arguments with Giles]].
* HotTeacher: Giles is very attracted to her (and so is Xander a bit). Robia [=LaMorte=] is certainly easy on the eyes.
* HotWitch: Actually a techno-pagan, because her powers aren't strong enough to make her a fully-fledged witch.
* 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: How Angelus kills her.
* OppositesAttract: Her idea of dating spots with Giles are a football game and monster truck rally.
%%* RedemptionEqualsDeath
* UsefulNotes/{{Romani}}: Real name Janna Kalderash.
* SacrificialLion: Her [[DeadSerious death]] is meant to prove one thing to both the characters and the audience: [[AnyoneCanDie no one is safe as of this episode]], and Angel is not "just a little evil," he's not "grouchy," he's truly evil and Buffy ''has'' to do something about it.
* ScienceWizard: Jenny was a computer science teacher and a magic expert. She and Giles briefly clashed over merging technology with magic.
[[/folder]]

!Other Faculty

[[folder:Greenliegh]]
!!Nurse Ruth Greenliegh
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[[caption-width-right:270:''"This has '''got''' to stop, Carl. Those poor children."'']]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ConchataFerrell
->'''Appears In''': "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E20GoFish Go Fish]]"

-->'''Coach Marin''': ''Take good care of my boy, Ruthie.''
-->'''Nurse Greenliegh''': ''I always do.''

The Sunnydale High nurse.
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Being eaten alive in gruesome fashion by the swim team.
%%* EatenAlive
* HeelRealization: Comes to see that the experiments she and Coach Marin are doing on the students are wrong after seeing the full effects of the mutations they are undergoing. Unfortunately, Marin remains unconvinced by her pleas.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: When she tells Coach Marin of her concerns, he gleefully pushes her into a pool with his boys. She's subsequently eaten.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Platt]]
!!Stephen Platt
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[[caption-width-right:270:''"Look, Buffy, any person -- grownup, shrink, pope -- any person who claims to be '''totally''' sane is either lying or not very bright. I mean, everyone has problems. Everybody has demons, right?"'']]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/PhilLewis
->'''Appears In''': "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E4BeautyAndTheBeasts}} Beauty and the Beasts]]"

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

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

!Students

[[folder:Larry]]
!!Larry Blaisdell
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"How do you think people are going to look at me once they find out I'm gay?"'']]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/LarryBagbyIII

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

A brawny and generally unpleasant Sunnydale High student involved in sports.
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* ArmoredClosetGay: Larry covers up his hidden homosexuality by being an overly macho bully who frequently leers at female students. He even sexually accosts Buffy during gym.
* TheBully: Perhaps not to the extent of some others as he's seen occasionally getting along with Oz and Xander prior to [[TookALevelInKindness taking a level in kindness]], but he doesn't hesitate to use his fists on weaker students.
* BuryYourGays: Poor Larry is killed by a transformed Mayor, who swipes him off his feet with his tail. When Larry lands, he breaks his neck.
* JerkJock: As part of his armored closet; he's a talented football player and a bully to go with it.
* LovableJock: After he comes out and his subsequent level in kindness, he becomes this.
* StraightGay: There's very little to indicate his sexuality except for his admission.
* TookALevelInBadass: He actually steps up when the time comes to do battle with the Mayor, and is a member of LaResistance in the Wishverse.
* TookALevelInKindness: After coming out and making peace with who he is, Larry becomes a much nicer, even sweet guy who is considerate of others.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Cassie]]
!!Cassandra "Cassie" Newton
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/7bc15f3683e1c164fb2b59109ffae598.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:250:''"Some things, I just know. I don't know how I do, I just do."'']]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/AzuraSkye

-->''"Next Friday, I'm gonna die."''

A Sunnydale High student with psychic abilities and a friend of Dawn Summers.
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* FaceDeathWithDignity: She makes it clear that she doesn't want to die, but has to accept it because YouCantFightFate.
* NiceGirl: Cassie is soft-spoken, insightful and very sweet.
* NotSoStoic: Cassie isn't quite stoic, but she's sweet and mild-mannered and isn't prone to excessive emotion. She does have one memorable outburst, however, that shows how much she's hurting.
-->''"You think I want this? You think I don't care? Believe me, I want to be here, do things. I want to graduate from high school, and I want to go to the stupid winter formal. I have this friend, and it would be fun to go with him. Just to dance and hear lame music to wear a silly dress and laugh and stuff. I'd like to go. There's a lot of stuff I'd like to do. I'd love to ice skate at Rockefeller Center. And I'd love to see my cousins grow up and see how they turn out 'cause they're really mean and I think they're gonna be fat. I'd love to backpack across the country or, I don't know, fall in love...but I won't. I just never will."''
* PropheciesAreAlwaysRight: She foretells her own death, and it happens.
* YourDaysAreNumbered: Cassie is doomed to die; she foresees it and knows she can't prevent it.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Joy]]
!!Joy
-> '''Played by''': Amanda Wilmhurst
The head cheerleader in the first two seasons, who is a year older than the Scooby Gang.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: She may seem stern but fair at times, but she can be very rude and unforgiving toward people trying out, and, in one episode, mocks Buffy as a loser who shouldn't waste cheerleaders' time when Buffy is trying to find Cordelia.
* CruelCheerleader: She is a cheerleading captain who is bereft of truly nice moments.
* DirtyCoward: She is quick to insult Buffy and Amy, but shrinks back in fear when threatened.
* PutOnABus: She graduates sometime after her second and final season one appearance and is succeeded by Cordelia as captain.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Gwen]]
!!Gwen Ditchik
-> '''Played by''': Kristen Winnicki
A GirlPosse member with minor roles in two season 2 episodes.
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* InSeriesNickname: According to the yearbook, some people call her "Guinevere", "Gee", or "Digger".
* InformedAttribute: Gwen is voted as the girl with the "Best Personality" in the ''[[AllThereInTheManual Sunnydale High Yearbook]]'', but in the show itself, she shows little independent personality besides striking up a conversation with a foreign exchange student.
* SatelliteCharacter: All of her scenes are in relation to Cordelia or Harmony.
* TookALevelInJerkass: In her first appearance, she seems nicer than Cordelia and flirts with a foreign exchange student Cordelia dismisses as a loser. In her second episode, she joins Harmony in mocking and snubbing Cordelia and Xander just for daring to cross clique lines in their dating life.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Aura]]
!!Aura
-> '''Played by''': Persia White
A friend of Cordelia.
----
* DroppedAfterThePilot: She is a GirlPosse member with a notable moment or two in the pilot but is never seen again afterward in the show, although she warrants the occasional mention or appearance in other media.
* GossipyHens: She is quick to talk about how Buffy got expelled from her last school.
* UndyingLoyalty: She is the only one of the minor Cordettes shown keeping in touch with Cordelia after high school, when she calls Angel Investigations in one episode of the spin-off. Cordelia is also deeply concerned for her when she falls victim to a sleeping spell in the SchrodingersCanon novel ''Afterimage''.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Amber]]
!!Amber Grove
--> '''Portrayed by:''' Jeanette Papineau (uncredited)
A girl who is badly injured by a magic spell during a cheerleading audition in the third episode.
----
* AcademicAthlete: She is a highly athletic cheerleader, and according to [[AllThereInTheManual the Sunnydale High Yearbook]], she is part of the Science Club.
* InSeriesNickname: According to the yearbook, some of her classmates call her "Flygirl" in reference to her cheerleading.
* InformedAttribute: In the ''[[AllThereInTheManual Sunnydale High Yearbook]]'', she is voted "Best Dressed" despite never being seen wearing anything but her cheerleading uniform during her brief screen time in the show.
* LegFocus: Xander is quite happy watching her do the splits and other leg stretches in preparation for the tryouts.
* PomPomGirl: She's a very athletic, well-choreographed and enthusiastic during her cheerleading tryout and supposedly hired a coach to help her get in shape.
* SacrificialLamb: A nonfatal example. Amber only shows up to get injured to demonstrate the threat posed by the latest MonsterOfTheWeek.
* TheVoiceless: Amber doesn't have a single line of dialogue.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lishanne]]
!!Lishanne Davis
-> '''Played by''': Nicole Prescott
An aspiring cheerleader and victim of the eponymous villain from "The Witch".
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* AcademicAthlete: She seems to like Dr. Gregory's biology class and the ''[[AllThereInTheManual Sunnydale High Yearbook]]'' says that in addition to cheerleading, she helps with the yearbook and is in the Science Club, with her being voted the female student who most embodies "Looks and Books".
* AttentionWhore: Her (possibly joking) yearbook quote is that everyone should get to be in the spotlight, but they should wait for her to get done with it, and one of her fondest yearbook memories is briefly being on [=MTV=].
* TheFriendsWhoNeverHang: The ''[[AllThereInTheManual Sunnydale High Yearbook]]'' says she goes on to become one of the Cordettes, but she is never seen with them in the show itself.
* InSeriesNickname: The yearbook reveals that she is sometimes called D-Lish-us or Lisha.
* LegFocus: It isn't in the show itself, but two separate boys in ''The Sunnydale High Yearbook'' are apparently referring to her when they say "D, nice legs" as one of their high school memories.
* TheQuietOne: She has several scenes but only two lines of audible dialogue in her one episode.
* WipeThatSmileOffYourFace: Her mouth is removed by magical means, leaving her frantic, although she later recovers.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Blayne]]
!!Blayne Moll
-> '''Played by:''' Price Jackson
A HormoneAddledTeenager who nearly ends up being eaten by a praying mantis-like creature in the fourth episode.
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* CasanovaWannabe: He flirts with or leers at every attractive woman in his vicinity and brags about having many lovers, but it turns out he's a virgin, to his great embarassment.
* DamnedByFaintPraise: In the yearbook, Michelle Blake calls him her "favorite mistake" and wishes him luck in the world while adding "you'll need it."
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: He is condescending toward Xander early on, but shows some concern for him when they are prisoners together, only to try and sacrifice Xander to delay being killed by the MonsterOfTheWeek. Later, he earnestly thanks the Scooby Gang for saving his life, but then threatens to have his dad sue them if they tell anyone that the monster went after him because he is a virgin.
* JerkJock: He is an arrogant and unfriendly football player.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Owen]]
!!Owen Thurman
-> '''Played by''': Christopher Weihl
A poetry-loving boy who Buffy has a crush on in an early episode.
----
* AmicableExes: Buffy reluctantly dumps him after one date to keep him from getting killed by vampires, but ''[[AllThereInTheManual The Sunnydale Yearbook]]'' indicates that he still regrets their breakup and misses her two years later but has no hard feelings toward her.
* BigManOnCampus: He is a handsome and polite poetry lover who the girls all love, and ''[[AllThereInTheManual The Sunnydale Yearbook]]'' says that he is also the class president, a member of the tennis team (not one of the sports most associated with the trope, but still a sport), and a skilled Drama Club actor.
* ChickMagnet: His handsome appearance and sensitive, intellectual nature make Buffy, Cordelia, and various other girls crush over him. In ''[[AllThereInTheManual The Sunnydale Yearbook]]'', he is voted the male embodiment of "Books and Looks".
* TheQuietOne: Willow says he barely talks to anyone (besides the main cast, eventually) and can privately brood over a book for forty straight minutes (she timed him).
* SawStarWarsTwentySevenTimes: He avidly reads and re-reads Creator/EmilyDickinson poems and carries around a book of her works at all times, with it ending up as his PocketProtector and SecurityBlanket. In the ''[[AllThereInTheManual Sunnydale High Yearbook]]'', he refers to her as "Emily D", and it's mentioned he wrote a well-received story for the literary magazine called "An Ode to Emily Dickinson."
* ThrillSeeker: Deconstructed. After being caught up in a dangerous adventure, he is excited by the combination of near-death and romance and wants to keep doing stuff like that. However, Buffy feels that he lacks the skills or sense of caution to keep surviving battles with the undead, causing her to reluctantly ShooTheDog and dump him with a ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies speech.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Pack]]
!!Kyle [=DuFours=], Tor Hauer, Heidi Barrie & Rhonda Kelley
[[quoteright:280:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/buffy_pack_bullies.png]]
[[caption-width-right:280:''"Y'know, I don't understand why you're sitting at our table."'']]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/EionBailey, Creator/BrianGross, Creator/JenniferSky & Creator/MichaelMcRaine
->'''Appear In''': "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E6ThePack The Pack]]"

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

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

[[folder:Lance]]
!!Lance Lincoln
-> '''Played by:''' Jeff Maynard
A nerdy student and victim of the Pack's bullying.
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* AlliterativeName: Both of his names begin with Ls.
* ButtMonkey: He spends most of his screentime being subjected to bullying, such as being threatened with being tossed into a hyena pen or being attacked by his own team in gym class.
* DeadpanSnarker: In ''The Xander Years: Volume 2'' (which contains a literary retelling of his sole appearance) Lance's inner monologue has a cynical GallowsHumor DeadpanSnarker tone to it as he reflects on his bad situation with bullies (such as thinking "Victim, thy name is Lance"), although he only thinks those quips and never says them out loud.
* HiddenDepths: ''[[AllThereInTheManual The Sunnydale High Yearbook]]'' reveals that he is an enthusiastic SchoolNewspaperNewshound and a ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes'' and ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' fan.
* SawStarWarsTwentySevenTimes: ''The Xander Years: Volume 2'' mentions that he was often bullied for constantly rewatching reruns of ''Series/LancelotLinkSecretChimp'' when he was younger due to sharing a first name with the protagonist and wanting to be a primatologist.
[[/folder]]


[[folder:Dave]]
!!David "Dave" Kirby
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/buffy_david_kirby.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:200:''"No. This isn't right. None of it is."'']]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ChadLindberg
->'''Apppears In''': "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E8IRobotYouJane I Robot, You Jane]]"

-->''"Yes... I will. I promise."''

A Sunnydale High student and one of the prized pupils of Jenny Calendar alongside Fritz Siegel and Willow Rosenberg.
----
* HeelFaceDoorSlam: Refuses to go along with Moloch's order to kill Buffy, as he can't justify murdering an innocent bystander (not even knowing that she's the Slayer). Moloch makes sure punish Dave before he can impede things any further.
* NeverSuicide: Moloch sends Dave's parents a fake suicide e-mail to deflect any suspicions after Fritz kills him.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Moloch has Fritz kill him because Dave refuses to kill Buffy.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Fritz]]
!!Fritz Siegel
[[quoteright:220:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/buffy_fritz_siegel.gif]]
[[caption-width-right:220:"I'm jacked in."]]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JamisonRyan
->'''Apppears In''': "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E8IRobotYouJane I Robot, You Jane]]"


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

A Sunnydale High student and one of the star pupils of Jenny Calendar, along Willow Rosenberg and David Kirby, although his enthusiasm for computers bordered on obsession.
----
* {{Jerkass}}: Fritz is more quick with a frown than a smile and sourly rants in front of the school librarian about how computers are making the written word obsolete.
* KubrickStare: He has this often because he's a nut and Moloch's brute.
* MadnessMantra: His loonyness can be seen by him repeating "I'm jacked in. I'm jacked in. I'm jacked in."
* NeckSnap: At Moloch's hands, or claws, or...hydraulics, whichever.
* SelfHarm: Fritz carves an "M" for Moloch into his arm out of devotion/obsession.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: In the ''[[AllThereInTheManual Sunnydale High Yearbook]]'', the yearbook staff seem unaware of his crimes, prominently displaying a quote he made about the yearbook club and calling his loss a huge blow to technological advancement.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Moloch kills him after he stops being relevant, just to experience what it's like to kill again.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Wendell]]
!!Wendell Sears
-> '''Played by''': Justin Urich
A brainy student and the first victim of the hauntings in "Nightmares".
----
* BoysLikeCreepyCritters: He loves spiders, uses InsistentTerminology when people call them insects, and once had a huge collection of them before his brother let them die while pet-sitting. He has nightmares about spiders attacking him for revenge but still loves them and feels their imagined anger to him is justified.
* ButtMonkey: His spiders all died before the show, he is haunted by a paranormal event, and a NoodleIncident in the yearbook mentions that he had a science project that somehow got set on fire once.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Laura]]
!!Laura Egler
-> '''Played by''': J. Robin Miller
A girl who is injured by a nightmare manifestation in the episode "Nightmares".
----
* TheFriendsWhoNeverHang: She never shares a scene with Willow or Amy even though ''[[AllThereInTheManual The Sunnydale Yearbook]]'' retroactively states that Laura is the president of both the post-season one Computer Club (working alongside Willow) and the Latin Club (where she learns magic chants with Amy, albeit not necessarily for genuine magical reasons).
* InSeriesNickname: The yearbook lists "Egghead" as one of her nicknames, although, depending on the context, it could be an AffectionateNickname, since her surname begins with "Eg", she is involved in intellectual clubs, and a boy who likes her calls her by that name.
* NiceGirl: She is polite to Giles and Buffy when they vist her in the hospital and question her about her attack, helpfully answering their questions without being suspicious or hostile about what they want.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Elliot and Lisa]]
!!Elliot Terhune and Lisa Campiti
-> '''Played by''': Chasen Hampton and Natasha Pearce
Two talent show contestants (a tuba player and juggler) who act as witnesses and minor suspects in the episode "Puppet Show"
----
* AcademicAthlete: The ''[[AllThereInTheManual Sunnydale High Yearbook]]'' reveals that Lisa learned French in school well enough to win a prize at an national linguistics competition and is a track star who believes that a fit body makes a fit mind. Lisa is also part of the Science Club.
* AffectionateNickname: The ''[[AllThereInTheManual Sunnydale High Yearbook]]'' reveals that Lisa is in a relationship with someone [[WesternAnimation/YogiBear who calls her Boo-Boo (or Lissaboo at times) and uses the pet nickname Yogi]].
* AmbiguouslyGay: In the ''[[AllThereInTheManual Sunnydale High Yearbook]]'', there is a note in the yearbook from someone called E.T. that seems to be a PublicSecretMessage to Larry about coming out of the closet, possibly meaning that Elliot is gay and in a relationship with Larry but hasn't told anyone else yet.
* HiddenDepths: The yearbook reveals Elliot runs track and cross country.
* InSeriesNickname: The yearbook says some people call Elliot "Ness".
* LongHairedPrettyBoy: Elliot is a handsome boy with shoulder length hair.
* NiceGirl: Lisa is sympathetic about a classmate's murder and willing to answer questions for the Scooby Gang. This is apparently amped up even more in her offscreen interactions with other people, as she is voted "Nicest" in the yearbook.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Marcie]]
!!Marcie Ross
[[quoteright:180:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ff25beaf8a50f2beff8074e6f75c0416.png]]
[[caption-width-right:180:''"Hey, moron! I'm invisible!"'']]
[[caption-width-right:180:[[labelnote:Click here]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/buffy_marcie_visible.png[[/labelnote]] to see her when she was visible.]]

->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/CleaDuvall
->'''Appears In''': "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E11OutOfMindOutOfSight Out of Mind, Out of Sight]]"

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

A Sunnydale High student who became invisible.
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* AirVentPassageway: She lives above the school's music room in a space accessible only by climbing up through the drop ceiling.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Poor Marcie was shunned so much she turned invisible.
* BatterUp: Her first victim is beaten with a baseball bat.
* BlessedWithSuck: The Scoobies- particularly Giles and Xander, albeit for different reasons- initially regarded invisibility as fascinating and cool, until they establish that Marcie didn't choose her current state and can't even turn back.
* FreudianExcuse: The reason for her actions and brutality is because literally ''everyone'' ignored her to the extend that the Hellmouth turned her invisible. Buffy is initially [[SympathyForTheDevil sympathetic]], but upon seeing how crazy Marcie is and how far she's willing to go to get back at those who snubbed her, she drops it.
-->'''Buffy''': Y'know, I really felt sorry for you. You've suffered. But there's one thing I really didn't factor into all this. [[YoureInsane You're a thundering loony!]]
* FullyEmbracedFiend: Marcie not only doesn't freak out at being turned invisible, she loves being able to use her powers to get back at the people she hates. Nor does she mind being basically abducted by two FBI agents to be trained as an invisible assassin. If anything, she ''likes'' the idea of becoming a trained killer.
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: Now ''here's'' an interesting example. She was so ignored by her peers that, with some Hellmouth magic, she eventually became literally invisible to them - and it took the Scoobies to even notice she was gone. Being alone in her invisible world only made Marcie that much more unhinged, as Cordelia finds out the hard way.
* InsaneEqualsViolent: Marcie is crazy and is all about using violence to achieve her batshit insane ends.
* {{Invisibility}}: Her entire schtick. She was such a wallflower, that the Hellmouth turned her gradually invisible.
* InvisibleJerkass: Upon becoming invisible, she becomes a violent psychopath who takes violent revenge against everyone who scorned and ignored her.
* JumpedAtTheCall: A rather twisted villainous example. Marcie has no problem at all with the FBI basically abducting her and forcing her to become a trained assassin. She not only accepts being trained as an assassin, she actively embraces it.
* KarmaHoudini: After having brutally beaten a guy with a bat, asphixiated a teacher, tried to disfigure Cordelia and tried to stab Buffy, she gets rewarded with a training in assassination and infiltration.
%%* LaughingMad
* LonersAreFreaks: She magically turned invisible from social ostracization and set out to take violent revenge on everyone she deemed responsible.
* MonochromePast: Her flashbacks of her non-interactions with Sunnydale students.
* ProfessionalKiller: After being apprehended, she's recruited to be an assassin for the Government.
* SanitySlippage: After disappearing, her sanity disappeared too and she became viciously psychotic.
* ToThePain: When she has Cordelia and Buffy tied up, she waxes about how she's going to slice up Cordy's pretty face.
-->''"You should be grateful. People who pass you will remember you for the rest of their lives. Children will dream about you. And all your friends who come to the coronation tonight will take the sight of the May Queen to their graves."''
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Her training to become an assassin is set up like a SequelHook, yet she's never seen or heard from again.
* YourMindMakesItReal: Marcie became invisible because she was so unnoticeable, she was perceived as such by everyone around her.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mitch]]
!!Mitch Fargo
-> '''Portrayed By:''' Ryan Janes Bittle
A boy who dates Cordelia during Marcie Ross's rampage.
----
* InformedAttribute: He is voted as the Best Dressed boy in the yearbook, but displays little fashion sense during his screen-time.
* {{Jerkass}}: While very little is known about his personality, his asking Cordelia at the end of the episode if she's really hanging out with "those losers" (i.e. the Scoobies) establishes him as this.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: He is attacked and beaten up while changing in a locker room, without his shirt on.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kevin]]
!!Kevin Benedict
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/buffy_kevin_benedict.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:250:''"I'll get everything tonight after practice. The guys'll help me."'']]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ScottGurney
->'''Appears In''': "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E12ProphecyGirl Prophecy Girl]]"

-->'''Cordelia:''' ''You're so sweet! Why're you so sweet?''
-->'''Kevin:''' ''I dunno! 'Cause I'm usually mean as a snake!''

A Sunnydale High student. Cordelia Chase dated Kevin, but unlike many of her other relationships, Cordelia and Kevin seemed to genuinely care for each other.
----
* ForgottenFallenFriend: Despite Cordelia seemingly caring about him, she never mentions him after his death.
* NiceGuy: Appeared to have a genuinely kind relationship with Cordelia.
* PeekABooCorpse: Cordelia opens the door to the A/V room only to have his corpse fall out.
* RedShirt: He exists largely to die, and has little in the way of character. Cordelia seemed to care rather deeply for him, though.
* SayMyName: Cordelia shouts his name in shock and sadness when she finds his dead body.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Chris]]
!!Chris Epps
-> '''Portrayed By:''' Angelo Spirizzi
One of the smartest kids at the school, who has a DarkSecret; namely that he's resurrected his dead brother.
----
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Chris always beats Willow in science fairs and they good-naturedly joke about it, although Willow would like to win.
* BigBrotherWorship: He deeply looked up to Darryl.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: He's deeply disturbed by his actions in the end and wishes he'd let Daryl stay dead.
* InSeriesNickname: The yearbook says some people call him "Crisco".
* NowLetMeCarryYou: Daryl always protected Chris from bullies, so Chris desperately used science to resurrect Daryl after his death and is trying to help, comfort and shelter his brother.
* TeenGenius: He's just as smart as Willow, if not smarter, and resurrected his brother within days of the accident that killed him.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Eric]]
!!Eric Gittelson
-> '''Portrayed By:''' Michael Bacall
Chris's creepy lab partner and fellow MadScientist.
----
* AxCrazy: He seems happy at the idea of killing someone to make Daryl an undead bride and tries to go through with it even after Chris backs out.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Eric is eager to kill for a MadScientist experiment, but according to ''[[AllThereInTheManual The Sunnydale Yearbook]]'', he has a close relationship with his grandmother, who pays for a comment in the yearbook talking about how happy she is that he's building a new life for himself after his time in juvie.
* InSeriesNickname: The yearbook says some people call him "Skittle".
* KarmaHoudini: He tried to murder Cordelia and despite a juvie hall sentence got out in time to graduate.
* NotGoodWithRejection: According to ''The Cordelia Collection'' (which is a {{novelization}} of "Some Assembly Required" and two other Cordelia-centric episodes), his eagerness to kill Cordelia is less to help the Epps brothers and more to get revenge on the popular girls for never going out with him.
* SecretKeeper: About Daryl's resurrection.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ben]]
!!Benjamin "Ben" Straley
-> '''Portrayed by''': Ryan Taszreak
A boy who asks Buffy out in "I Only Have Eyes For You".
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* InformedAbility: The ''[[AllThereInTheManual Sunnydale Yearbook]]'' says he is part of the swim team, but he isn't seen on the team in "Go Fish" even though that takes place just one episode after his sole appearance. However, he may not have joined the team until after that episode.
* HopelessSuitor: He is a handsome and popular boy who asks Buffy out, but has the misfortune to do so in the aftermath of Angel becoming Angelus, when she is sour on romance and turns him down flat.
* OneSteveLimit: He has the same first and last names as a member of the demon family from "[[Recap/AngelS01E07BachelorParty Bachelor Party]]".
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Debbie]]
!!Debbie Foley
[[quoteright:280:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/buffy_debbie_foley.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:280:''"He does love me. He does love me."'']]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/DanielleWeeks
->'''Appears In''': "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E4BeautyAndBeasts Beauty and Beasts]]"

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

A Sunnydale High student and girlfriend of Pete Clarner.
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* BrokenBird: Debbie has been broken down completely by Pete's violent abuse of her. He controls every aspect of her life, resulting in SanitySlippage.
* DomesticAbuse: She's a victim of Pete's violent temper.
* MadnessMantra: After Buffy's interrogation she just starts muttering, "He does love me".
* SanitySlippage: Pete's abuse of her has horribly damaged her, to the point where Buffy's interrogation of Debbie results in her sitting with her head bowed muttering a MadnessMantra to herself.
* UngratefulBastard: She knocks aside the tranquilizer rifle as Buffy is about to shoot Pete, who just blames her for bringing the Scoobies down on him.
* YourMakeupIsRunning: After Pete hits her, she smears her makeup crying. Though the massive shiner draws attention from it.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Holly and Michelle]]
!!Holly Charleston and Michelle Blake
-> '''Portrayed By:''' Unknown actress and Tori [=McPetrie=]
Two Homecoming Queen candidates who compete with Buffy and Cordelia.
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* AlliterativeFamily: The best wishes for the graduates section of the yearbook reveals that she has a relative (likely her mother) who also has a name beginning with M: Mary-Jane.
* AsianAndNerdy: Holly is Asian, socially introverted, a straight-A student, on the debate team, and Ivy-league bound (according to the yearbook). She also spends most of her time studying. That being said, she's also fairly dolled up and [[AcademicAthlete is good at sports.]]
* ClassPrincess: Holly and Michelle, are {{Bit Character}}s, but seem to qualify. Michelle is a cheerleader and yearbook editor, while Holly is on the drill team and and debate team, and both seem friendly and well-liked
* DarkHorseVictory: Buffy and Cordelia dismiss Holly and Michelle as major Homecoming Queen contenders, and the two have perhaps a minute of combined screen time in their episode. However, when two girls tie for the Homecoming Queen Crown, they're Holly and Michelle, and not Buffy and Cordelia.
* DumbBlonde: Downplayed with the blonde Michelle, who "never studies" but is also the yearbook editor.
* FeminineWomenCanCook:
** Michelle is both a "[[PomPomGirl popular cheerleader]]" and a "good cook."
** Holly hands out cookies for her campaign, although it's unclear whether she baked them herself.
* AffectionateNickname: According to the yearbook, Holly is sometimes called "Charlie" or "Hollywood" and many kids refer to Michelle as "Misha" or "Chelle".
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Not in the show itself, but the yearbook shows that they get involved in lots of the same student organizations after becoming joint Homecoming Queens, and they refer to each other as "[=HQ=] Sister" and say they will miss each other during their yearbook memories blurbs.
* InformedFlaw: TheBigBoard Buffy made calls Holly an introvert, but also says that she is on the debate squad and drill team, both of which require self-confidence, working as a team, and being in the spotlight (as does campaigning for Himecoming Queen in the first place). Furthermore, she seems outgoing during her campaign for Homecoming Queen and her classmates vote her as "Biggest Flirt" in the ''[[AllThereInTheManual Sunnydale High Yearbook]]''. This may be justified by how the board also notes she is a NewTransferStudent around the time of the Homecoming Dance, so she could still be shyer than normal around people she is just getting to know.
* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Implied with Michelle in The Yearbook, where one of her memories is "broom closets have more room than I thought."
* NiceGirl: Buffy and Cordelia refer to both Holly and Michelle as being nice and friendly. They're also happy and appreciative after they both get elected Homecoming Queen.
* PerpetualSmiler: Michelle is always smiling during her brief screen-time, and while she is trying to win votes and excited at being Homecoming Queen respectively in those scenes, she is also voted as being the girl with the "Best Smile" in the ''[[AllThereInTheManual Sunnydale High Yearbook]]''.
* SingleGirlSeeksMostPopularGuy: Michelle is apparently attracted to popular football players.
--> '''Cordelia:''' Michelle Blake: open to all mankind, especially those with a letterman's jacket and a car.
* SpearCarrier: Most of the information about them comes from TheBigBoard Buffy uses for her Homecoming Queen campaign. The two girls themselves only appear briefly and only speak at the very end of the episode.
* TrueBlueFemininity: Michelle seems fairly nice and more relaxed than her opponents while campaigning for Homecoming Queen (although she's only seen campaigning for a few seconds) and wears blue in both of her scenes and the picture on her campaign flyers.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Bobby and Mashad]]
!!Robert "Bobby" Stepanopolous and Mashad Bolling
-> '''Played by''': Uncredited extra
Two students Cordelia briefly flirts with in "Homecoming" who have more revealed about them in the ''Sunnydale High Yearbook.''
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* CasanovaWannabe: While they do attract some girls, in the Yearbook, Mashad expresses a belief that his classmates Harmony and Lishanne are attracted to him, even though Lishanne has never said this despite having years of opportunities to and Harmony apparently finds him annoying because he pulls her hair.
* DumbJock: In the yearbook, Mashad (a wrestler and soccer player) mentions his nickname is "potato head", mentions both of Harmony's nicknames while talking about people present at an incident in his past, references a NoodleIncident where he lost track of a soccer ball during a game, and ends his yearbook entry by vainly requesting to start his list of memories over. That being said, [[HiddenDepths he is on the yearbook staff.]]
* GracefulLoser: Mashad provides a partially pragmatic example. His yearbook quote says "It isn't about winning or losing, it's about looking good winning [=OR=] losing."
* HeavySleeper: One of Mashad's yearbook memories is trying to sleep until dinner.
* PantyThief: Both list a "panty raid" as one of their yearbook memories.
* ThePrankster: One of Bobby's yearbook memories references blowing up something to disrupt a chess team meeting.
* ThoseTwoGuys: They appear together in the show and the yearbook suggests they are HeterosexualLifePartners who get into a lot of mischief together and are known as [[Film/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid Butch and Sundance]], with Bobby embracing the nicknames while Mashad hates them.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Their sole scene in the show itself is when they cause Cordelia to be DistractedByTheSexy and forgot to tell Buffy about yearbook photos, causing Buffy to miss her photo and campaign for Homecoming Queen to spite Cordelia, leading to a fair amount of conflict in both their normal and Scooby Gang lives.
* TheVoiceless: Neither gets any dialogue in their one episode of the show.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:John Lee]]
!!John Lee Walker
-> '''Played by''': Nathan Anderson
A football player who Cordelia tries to flirt with to make Xander jealous.
----
* AcademicAthlete: The yearbook says that he is in the Computer Club as well as being a football player and wrestler.
* AlternateSelf: An alternate version of him from the Wishverse appears and is far nicer and more bashful than the original timeline version of him.
* JerkJock: He tells Cordelia that he'd be fine being intimate with her in private but would never want to be publicly seen with anyone who'd go out with Xander.
* TakeThisJobAndShoveIt: A sports team variant. In the yearbook, he tells his coach "I quit baby, I'm going to Hollywood."
[[/folder]]


[[folder:Michael]]
!!Michael Czajak
[[quoteright:270:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/buffy_michael_czajak.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:270:''"My dad. His friends. They're taking people out of their homes. They're talking about a trial down at City Hall. They got Amy."'']]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/BlakeSoper
->'''Appears In''': "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E11Gingerbread Gingerbread]]"

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

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

[[folder:Roy]]
!!Roy Dukeshire
-> '''Played by''': Grant Garrison
A student gripped by anti-magic hysteria in "Gingerbread".
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* GoKartingWithBowser: He bullies Michael, but according to the ''[[AllThereInTheManual Sunnydale High Yearbook]]'', they are fellow Science Club members.
* InSeriesNickname: "Dukes", according to the yearbook.
* PaperTiger: He is fine with threatening Amy and Michael but slinks away when the famously tough Buffy sticks up for them.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Guy]]
!!Guy Matthews
-> '''Portrayed by''': Nick Cornish
A jock who acts as Cordelia's rebound guy after her breakup with Xander.
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* NotGoodWithRejection: He spends his one scene furious about how Cordelia stood him up for a date that he made in front of his friends and isn't interested in a long-term relationship, shoving her against a tree and pushing Buffy down when she intervenes.
* RepeatedForEmphasis: In ''[[AllThereInTheManual Sunnydale Yearbook]]'', he says wrestling three times when listing the sports and clubs he's involved with.
[[/folder]]


[[folder:Lysette]]
!!Lysette Torchio
-> '''Played by''': Whitney Dylan
A girl who briefly dates Xander in the episode "The Zeppo".
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* TheFriendsWhoNeverHang: Xander is the only main character she interacts with in her sole appearance, but a throwaway line from another episode and ''[[AllThereInTheManual the Sunnydale High Yearbook]]'' mention that she is one of the Cordettes and a friend of Cordelia and Harmony.
* GiveGeeksAChance: Subverted. She is a popular blonde girl who goes on a date with Xander, but solely because she is fascinated by his car, and she mostly ignores Xander himself.
* HiddenDepths: ''[[AllThereInTheManual The Sunnydale High Yearbook]]'' reveals that she is a cheerleader, Dance Club member, and field hockey player (none of which is shown in the series), and is proficent enough that she got voted "Most Athletic" in the yearbook.
* InSeriesNickname:According to the yearbook, some people call her "Torch" or "Lissa".
* PlasticBitch: She's fairly self-centered, and Cordelia says she got a nose job and asked to have it resemble the nose of Creator/GwynethPaltrow.
* ProudBeauty: One of her favorite yearbook memories is about how good she looks in a swimsuit.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When she's brought to the graveyard to witness a zombie resurrection, she goes from bored and skeptical to screaming and running away as soon as she realizes the ritual is real.
* WrenchWench: She has an encyclopedic knowledge of cars. She's never actually seen working on cars (just admiring them), but the amount of things she knows a lot about makes, models, and engines suggest she has hands-on experience.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Doug]]
!!Doug Jeffries
-> '''Portrayed By:''' Unknown actor
An athlete Xander tries to impress in "The Zeppo".
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* HiddenDepths: According to the ''[[AllThereInTheManual Sunnydale High Yearbook]]'', he is shy around girls and plays chess.
* PetTheDog: He lets Xander join in tossing a football around for fun, albeit half heartedly, despite clearly not being friends with him.
* ThoseTwoGuys: The yearbook implies he and a student named Jason Kent (who isn't seen in the show, unless he is the kid Doug tosses his football to) are close friends who like passing comment on events, as, in the "memories" sections of their yearbook pages, they use the same words while recalling a shared LegFocus memory and recall chess moves that they seemingly used against each other.
* TheVoiceless: He has pronounced facial expressions but no dialogue.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Freddy]]
!!Frederick "Freddy" Iverson
[[quoteright:275:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/buffy_freddy_iverson.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:275:''"Murder? What murder? You're not here about the review?"'']]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Keram Malicki-Sánchez
->'''Appears In''': "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E18Earshot Earshot]]"

-->'''Buffy:''' ''Willow, who's that guy?''
-->'''Willow:''' ''That's Freddy Iverson. He writes those editorials for the school paper. He's sardonic.''

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

[[folder:Hogan]]
!!Hogan Martin
-> '''Played by''': Justin Doran
A star basketball player and friend of Percy's.
----
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: In the SchrodingersCanon novel ''The Deathless'', he and Percy joke about how little Hogan likes his Chevy and how he will be glad to see the back of it one day and get a different car. After the Chevy disappears due to the VillainOfTheWeek, Hogan is terrified about how his dad (who just finished making the payments) will react.
* CompetitionFreak: His yearbook quote is "Winning isn't everything ... okay, so I'm lying."
* InSeriesNickname: The yearbook says some people call him "Hoagie".
* LovableJock: He is a good-natured star basketball player who is polite to Xander and Willow when Xander is shocked that Hogan even knows his name.
* ShellShockedVeteran: According to the interquel comic ''The Haunted'', he has difficulty living a normal life and feeling safe in the months after the graduation ceremony battle.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Nancy]]
!!Nancy Doyle
-> '''Played by''': Lauren Roman
A girl who is in Buffy's literature class and becomes jealous of her in the episode "Earshot''.
----
* AcademicAlphaBitch: She knows all of the answers to Shakespeare questions and is mad at how Buffy keeps answering them before her (due to temporarily having the power to read Nancy's mind).
* AcademicAthlete: Possibly. She is a well-read girl, and after watching Buffy doing some tricky {{Roofhopping}}, her only reaction is to say "I could have done that". However, it's unclear if this is true or is mere wishful thinking.
* OneSteveLimit: She has the same surname as another season 3 character, a member of LaResistance who appears in the BadFuture episode. However, they have different performers, and there is no suggestion that they are the same character.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tucker]]
!!Tucker Wells
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/d13826bdebcbeeee024e0d5718575ff4.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:250:''"Gotta have a redundancy system. Any incompetent knows that."'']]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Brad Kane
->'''Appears In''': "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E20TheProm The Prom]]"

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

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

[[folder:Jack]]
!!John "Jack" Mayhew
-> '''Portrayed by''': Damien Eckhardt
The student who is voted ClassClown over Xander in "The Prom".
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* ClassClown: His classmates bestow this title on him and he wears a balloon hat and polka dot vest to prom. In the ''[[AllThereInTheManual Sunnydale Yearbook]]'', he quotes the ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' line "Not that there's anything wrong with that" while commenting on Larry coming out of the closet and observing that Larry doesn't fit [[CampGay the typical gay cliches of the time]].
* InSeriesNickname: "Jack", "Animal", and "Chewbacca" are all nicknames of his, according to the yearbook.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lisa]]
!!Lisa
-> '''Played By:'' Ra'ven Larrymore Kelly
One of Dawn's classmates.
----
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: She's never seen after ''The Body''.
* TheConfidant: Acts as Dawn's sounding board and tries to talk her through what happened to Joyce.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Janice]]
!!Janice Penshaw
-> '''Played By:''' Creator/AmberTamblyn
Another friend of Dawn, who has some run-ins with vampires with her on Halloween.
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* BrattyTeenageDaughter: While nice enough around Dawn, she lies to get out after curfew and calls her mother "the mominator".
* TheGhost: While she does have one appearance, for the most part she's just mentioned.
* SmarterThanTheyLook: Janice has trepidations about breaking the pumpkin of a sinister old man, not to mention following him inside when they get caught.
* ValleyGirl: Her speech slips into this at times.
[[/folder]]


[[folder:Kit and Carlos]]
!!Kit Holborn and Carlos Trejo
-> '''Portrayed By:''' Creator/AlexandraBreckenridge and David Zepada
Classmates of Dawn at the start of season 7.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: While it was implied they might have a bigger role in the season with Dawn, both disappear after the premire, aside from a brief phone call between Kit and Dawn.
* {{Delinquent}}: Carlos smokes and both have thick disciplinary records.
* SunnydaleSyndrome: Kit is in denial upon seeing a zombie.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:R.J.]]
!!R.J. Brooks
[[quoteright:280:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/buffy_rj_brooks.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:280:''" It's not like I meant to hurt anyone."'']]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Thad Luckenbill
->'''Appears In''': "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E6Him}} Him]]"

-->''"I just -- get along really well with girls."''

A Sunnydale High student and the younger brother of Lance Brooks.
----
* BigBrotherBully: His brother, Lance, has shades of this. He's certainly not a pleasant individual and didn't approve of his brother having geeky interests when he was younger.
-->'''Lance:''' I gotta tell ya, there was a time I was worried about R.J. He was into comic books, Model U.N., geek stuff. No offense, Harris. One time, I found all this poetry under his bed. Turns out, he wrote it."''
* BrainlessBeauty: R.J. doesn't have much going on upstairs.
* HiddenDepths: When he was younger, he was more like Xander and actually wrote poetry. Probably not good poetry, but still.
* HotForTeacher: It doesn't bother him at all that Buffy is "like a teacher". In fact, he seems pretty into it.
* LoveAtFirstSight: Due to the magical jacket's influence, everyone falls in love instantly.
* SexyManInstantHarem: The magical jacket he wears causes women to fall hard for him. While wearing it, he captures the attention of Dawn, Buffy, Anya and Willow.
* SlowMotion: How women see him when he puts on the jacket.
[[/folder]]




!!Novel Exclusive Students

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

[[folder:Suz]]
!!Suz Tompkins
Heidi Lindstrom's best friend and the leader of their group, who seeks Buffy's help.
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* {{Delinquent}}: She is a pierced, leather-wearing troublemaker, although her reputation is worse than her actions.
* HellBentForLeather: Buffy describes her as "dressed to intimidate" and wearing enough leather to outrage any [=PETA=] member. She has a delinquent reputation, goes along to spy on the adventure to avenge her friends, and ultimately stakes the BigBad of the book.
* YouHaveToBelieveMe: She is distraught, desperate, and not expecting to be believed when she appeals to Buffy to help her find out who is targetting her friends, although Buffy does believe her.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Hahn Twins]]
!! David and Stephanie Hahn
A pair of geeky outcasts caught up in the events of ''Carnival of Souls''.
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* PintSizedPowerhouse: Implied. Despite their small, thin statures, they knock over a chain link fence that they slam into while running away from vampires.
* PursuedProtagonist: Early in the first chapter after the prologue, Buffy (who is on patrol) sees them running through a cemetery, being chased by vampires. They alternate between showing some strategy and behaving in a panicked fashion, but Buffy does kill their pursuers, only for the three teenagers to blunder into a sinister carnival whose proprietor covertly curses the twins as part of a soul-stealing gambit that they barely survive.
* SheCleansUpNicely: Played with. Buffy comments on their poor grooming and clothing choice in their first scene, but they look more ridiculous than truly appealing when they do clean up and wear clothes designed for sex appeal.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Invoked. Being cursed with vanity makes David temporarily act like a CasanovaWannabe and Stephanie act someone who can challenge Cordelia for the position of queen bee, to the bewilderment of everyone around them.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Carl]]
!!Carl Palmer
A student and part-time librarian in ''Carnival of Souls''.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: He spends all of his scenes before he is brainwashed by the carnival distributing missing person flyers for his sister (who, unknown to him, was turned into a vampire and later staked).
* DisappearedDad: His father left the family to move to Texas.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: He is brainwashed into robbing and killing his mother and has enough memories of this that even after being freed, he is last mentioned as being resistant to Giles' efforts to exonerate him.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Amanda]]
!!Amanda Singer
A GirlPosse crony of Cordelia who only appears in the novel ''Return to Chaos''.
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* GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: She is a gossipy fashionista who Cordelia calls the "least sinister" person she knows, but she also plays lacrosse.
* LovableAlphaBitch: She is a snobby GirlPosse member who freely admits to not understanding the Scooby Gang (save Cordelia), but she makes an effort to be civil around them for Cordelia's sake and introduces some visiting relatives (secret monster hunters) whom she doesn't get along with to Buffy and her friends due to correctly guessing they will get along.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Dallas]]
!!Dallas Mayhew
A football player who has the misfortune of becoming a SacrificialLamb in ''The Gatekeeper: Ghost Roads''.
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* JerkJock: He is a football player who is an underage drinker who abandons his friend during a monster attack and doesn't fully appreciate a lot of the sacrifices that his parents (a mother with [=MS=] and a father working multiple jobs) make for him and his brother. However, he is capable of recognizing, regretting, and apologizing for his worst behavior.
* SmallTownBoredom: He has yet to witness a supernatural occurrence before being attacked by the Flying Dutchman and considers Sunnydale a boring town where nothing happens and he has no reason to stay in any longer than necessary.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: He is dead within four pages of being introduced.
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[[folder:Allison]]
!!Allison Gianakous
A Greek-American student and long-suffering daughter and waitress of a bumbling restauranteur. She has a notable role in the novel ''Power of Persuasion''.
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* BeautifulAllAlong: Allison doesn't consider herself pretty, and her classmates share that opinion, but under the influence of the book's villains, she slowly gets more fashionable and ultimately wins a beauty contest.
* ButtMonkey: Her dad lets her brother do whatever he wants, but won't let her go out on her own and makes her spend her free time helping him with his restaurant even though it is (initially) a pipe dream.
* FamilyThemeNaming: She and her brother Alexander both have "Al" names.
* HeightAngst: She is awkward about how gangly she is until it inspires her to try out for the basketball team.
* SupremeChef: Her previously undiscovered cooking skills win her the talent portion of a beauty contest and help her father's restaurant turn around.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Her half-serious prayer to the Greek gods to help her improve her life summons some sinsiter deities to Sunnydale.
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[[folder:Shugra's Coven]]
!!Kari Stark, Rebecca Sullivan, Alicia Kim, Winston Haversham, Lindsey Wayne, Janice [=MacDonald=], Joanna Emidy, Craig Robert, Greta Conor, and one unnamed student

Appearing I the novel ''Prime Evil'', they are a group of Sunnydale students who (along with established canon characters Anya and Michael Czajak) are enticed into joining a magickal coven by a BitchInSheepsClothing new teacher in the novel ''Prime Evil'' who falsely promises to give them the ability to achieve their hearts' desires while taking control of their bodies.
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* BrainlessBeauty: Joanna is a "gorgeous cheerleader who had never achieved a grade above a C in anything except Phys. Ed." However, she is aware of her low intelligence, and part of her reason for joining the coven is that she wants to use magic to make herself smarter (the other reason is that she wants to work out and maintain her figure without ever getting sore muscles).
* EvilBrit: Evil may be a strong word, but ForeignExchangeStudent Winston Haversham is one of the only unmoved members of the group while watching Shugra injure the heroes.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Kari and Rebecca have been best friends since fourth grade, and Rebecca cries when Kari seemingly ends their friendship, with Kari (who did so under Shugra's orders) later admitting that she felt bad ditching Rebecca and is delighted at getting the chance to welcome her into the coven, after which they are constantly seen together.
* NoodleIncident: Janice, the last member of the group to join, wants to become part of the coven because she thinks it will provide the means to get revenge against Harmony Kendall over a past grievance, but the specifics are never given.
* ParentsInDistress: Alicia Kim's motivation to join the coven is to use magic to cure her father's cancer.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: They are a mixture of geeks, punks, popular kids, and ordinary students who are drawn together by either the promise of gaining wishes, a desire to buck authority, or just a desire for acceptance and popularity that the other members can offer.
* SpearCarrier: Emmanuel, Greta, Craig, and the unnamed student are all only mentioned a handful of times. They fill the necessary spots for the coven to have thirteen members but have no dialogue and little personality.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: They eventually flee as the final battle progresses.
* UnwittingPawn: None of them understand that they are being groomed as slaves for Shugra or that by giving her the power of a full coven near the Hellmouth, they could destroy the world. In fairness, they lose a lot of control over their thoughts and actions due to the magical initiation brands Shugra gives them.
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[[folder:Lesley]]
!!Lesley Anton
A student who appears in ''The Deathless'', being affected by the villain's plot along with various main and recurring characters.
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* AmbiguouslyGay: She mentions moving into an apartment for college with "two girlfriends", but she could just mean female friends.
* BitCharacter: She only has two short scenes to provide a CanonForeigner perspective to a couple of montages of odd events, has few lines, and never interacts with any of the regular characters.
* DoesNotLikeSpam: Her mother makes her have Cheerios with one percent milk for breakfast every morning and she compares the meal to cardboard and rancid rainwater.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: She is eager to move away from Sunnydale once she finishes high school. Being caught up in a strange supernatural occurrence which makes her lose a day causes her to consider skipping graduation and leaving town right away.
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[[folder:Jia Li]]
!!Jia Li Rong
A Chinese-American immigrant and friend of Willow in the novel ''Revenant''.
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* MiddleChildSyndrome: She seems to be overlooked by her parents and has a troubled older brother and three younger siblings she often babysits.
* OddFriendship: She has no belief in magic or the supernatural but is close friends with Willow, who, unknownst to her, is a witch.
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[[folder:Sam]]
!!Sam Devol
A football player who appears in the novel ''Heat''.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He is an entitled and cowardly athlete, but he is appalled by how his coach is tricking people into kidnapping and murdering innocents.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After realizing that he's been tricked into joining a {{Cult}} which follows a policy of ResignationsNotAccepted, Sam spends most of his (usually brief) scenes in the second half of the book trying to flee Sunnydale.
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[[folder:Roxanne]]
!!Roxanne Ruani
A troubled classmate of Dawn's and would-be HumanSacrifice in ''Heat''.
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* ActionSurvivor: After being kidnapped and held prisoner along with dozens of other people, she tries to organize an escape attempt offscreen, survives a cave in, and then helps Robin and the other survivors try to dig their way out.
* AlliterativeName: Both of her names begin with Rs.
* PassingNotesInClass: She and Dawn pass a notebook back and forth while writing inappropriate comments and doodling during a sex ed class.
* ReformedCriminal: Despite still being in high school, she used to be an alcoholic and thief and is on probation for an unspecified crime. However, she is currently in a 12-step program and sticks to the program when her boyfriend tries to get her to rob a liquor store with him.
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* MirrorCharacter: Her relationship with James is parallel with that between Angel and Buffy, which is made blatant when she possesses Angelus and James possesses Buffy. Grace is a teacher having an affair with an underage student, while Angel is a centuries-old vampire who was tasked with protecting the underage Slayer Buffy. They both betrayed that responsibility for their own selfish needs until they [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy decided to finally be the responsible ones by breaking off their younger lovers]]. James ended up accidentally killing Grace when he couldn't stand her rejection, while Buffy unwittingly turned Angel into Angelus by having sex with him.

Like Grace, he betrayed that responsibility for his own selfish needs. Grace eventually decided to dump James [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy for his sake]],


* MrsRobinson: She embarks on a romance with her student, James.

** The ''[[AllThereInTheManual Sunnydale High Yearbook]]'' implies that Heidi feels deep remorse for eating Principal Flutie and Herbert the pig during her were-hyena transformations. She has converted to veganism, she told the yearbook staff there's a lot of things she'd like to forget about high school, and she acted in a Drama Club production where her "pain seem[ed] all too real" according to a review.

* SecretKeeper: The personal messages section of the yearbook implies that Amy confided in him about her body swapping experience even before Buffy found out about it, as she thanks Michael for being there for her "when I just wasn't 'myself'".

* InformedFlaw: TheBigBoard Buffy made calls Holly an introvert, but also says that she is on the debate squad and drill team, both of which require self-confidence, working as a team, and being in the spotlight (as does campaigning for Himecoming Queen in the first place). Furthermore, she seems outgoing during her campaign for Homecoming Queen and her classmates vote her as "Biggest Flirt" in the ''[[AllThereInTheManual Sunnydale High Yearbook]]''.

* InformedFlaw: TheBigBoard Buffy made calls Holly an introvert, but also says that she is on the debate squad and drill team, both of which require self-confidence, working as a team, and being in the spotlight. Furthermore, she seems outgoing during her campaign for Homecoming Queen and her classmates vote her as “Biggest Flirt” in the ''[[AllThereInTheManual Sunnydale High Yearbook]]''.

* BaldOfAuthority: Both as a former principal and now that he's leading a Slayer squad in Cleveland, the location of a second Hellmouth
* BadassNormal: Despite not inhering any of his mother's slayer abilities, he was trained to have exceptional strength, reflexes and endurance. He would rarely get overpowered by vampires, despite their superhuman strength.