Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Characters/Recurring And Minor Characters

Joyce Summers (Kristine Sutherland)
""You belong at-at a good old-fashioned college with keg parties and boys, not here with Hellmouths and vampires.""

Buffy and Dawn's divorced single mother, who runs an art gallery. She is originally ignorant about Buffy's activities as the Slayer but learns about them in Season 2. She still worries about her daughter and is reluctantly supportive of her work. She dies of an aneurysm in Season 5, an event which greatly affects all the Scoobies.

"Joyce: Have we met? Spike: Uh, you hit me with an axe one time. Remember, uh, "Get the hell away from my daughter"?"
 * Action Mom: Only in a few episodes, but when she's confronted or Buffy's in danger, she fights back.
 * All Girls Want Bad Boys: Teenage!Joyce in "Band Candy."
 * Be Careful What You Wish For: After Joyce's death, Dawn attempts to bring her back in an episode based on "The Monkey's Paw."
 * Did Mom Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?: Her and Spike on several occasions.

"Buffy: I think she's just so wigged at hitting on one of my friends that she's repressing. She's getting pretty good at that... I should probably start worrying..."
 * She also ran into Dracula at her art gallery
 * Dropped a Bridge on Her though it served to accentuate the Death Is Dramatic nature of the episode.
 * Former Teen Rebel
 * Good Parents
 * Meddling Parents: "Have you tried not being a vampire slayer?"
 * High School Sweethearts: Actually, college sweethearts. Joyce met Buffy's father at a school dance, while going stag.
 * It Runs in The Family: A gift for banter and sarcasm runs deep in Summers women.
 * Mama Bear: Attacks Spike with an axe when he threatens her daughter in Season 2's "School Hard."
 * Open-Minded Parent: Her attempts to tag along on Buffy's patrols. She brought snacks!
 * Parental Obliviousness: Early in the series, until the Season 2 finale.
 * Stepford Smiler: To an extent...


 * Talkative Loon: In "Listening to Fear".
 * Team Mom: Parental substitute for Xander and Willow to some degree.

Principal Robert Flutie (Ken Lerner)
"Buffy: Mr. Flutie... Mr. Flutie: All the kids here are free to call me Bob. Buffy: Bob-- Mr. Flutie: But they don't."

Principal of Sunnydale High in early Season 1.


 * Competence Zone
 * Cruel and Unusual Death: Literally eaten alive by some troublemakers.
 * Everything's Better with Bob
 * Granola Man
 * Killed Off for Real
 * Mauve Shirt
 * Nice Guy: Well-meaning, but bumbling.
 * Reasonable Authority Figure

Jenny Calendar (Robia LaMorte)
Computer science teacher at Sunnydale High, techno-pagan, and Giles' Love Interest in Season 2


 * Becoming the Mask
 * Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Giles, at first.
 * Finding Judas: She lied to them about Angel and the curse, but she didn't mean anything bad to happen.
 * Hidden Depths: She goes from a normal high-school teacher to a gypsy sent to watch over the vampire her tribe cursed with a soul. Hmm.
 * Hot Teacher
 * Hot Witch
 * The Mole: Sent to Sunnydale to keep an eye on Angel.
 * New Age Retro Hippie: See Giles' Eye Take when he hears about Jenny's nude mud dance at Burning Man.
 * Opposites Attract: Her idea of dating spots with Giles are a football game and monster truck rally.
 * Romani: Real name Janna Kalderash.
 * Sweater Girl
 * Opposites Attract: Her idea of dating spots with Giles are a football game and monster truck rally.
 * Romani: Real name Janna Kalderash.
 * Sweater Girl
 * Sweater Girl
 * Sweater Girl
 * Sweater Girl

Principal R. Snyder (Armin Shimerman)
""There are things I will not tolerate: students loitering on campus after school, horrible murders with hearts being removed. And also smoking.""

Principal of Sunnydale High after Principal Flutie. Really had it out for Buffy due to her record.

"Snyder: You really have faith in those kids, don't you? Giles: Yes, I do. Snyder: Weird."
 * Adults Are Useless
 * Asshole Victim
 * Bald of Evil
 * Child-Hater: Likens his students to locusts.
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Dean Bitterman
 * Death by Irony: In the episode where he first appears, he talks about how the previous principal got eaten.
 * Evil Cannot Comprehend Good:

"Buffy: You never ever got a single date in high school, did you? Snyder: Your point being?"
 * Fiction Isn't Fair
 * Freudian Excuse: A spin-off book reveals he had Mommy Issues. Also, theres' this:


 * Insane Troll Logic: Uses plenty of this to try and pin trouble on Buffy.
 * Jerkass
 * Last-Name Basis: We never find out his name though it starts with an "R".
 * Meaningful Name: Snyder—snide.
 * Mole in Charge
 * The Napoleon
 * Non-Giving-Up-School Guy
 * Sadist Teacher
 * Smug Snake
 * Tagalong Kid: After regressing to his adolescent self. ("Band Candy")
 * Tyrant Takes the Helm
 * Waistcoat of Style
 * You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: The mayor promises him a reward for his services. A few hours later, he eats him.
 * Then again, the Mayor probably would have been more considerate had Snyder not decided to give him crap about transforming on school grounds.

Kendra Young (Bianca Lawson)
Jamaican Slayer activated upon Buffy's (temporary, clinical) death by drowning in Season One. Unlike Buffy, she was very traditional in her ways.

"That's me favourite shirt! That's me only shirt!"
 * Action Girl
 * Cannot Talk to Women: The Gender Fliped version—she has trouble talking to men who aren't her Watcher or a vampire, presumably because she grew up being forbidden to do so.
 * Finger-Poke of Doom: Hypnotized and rendered helpless during her duel with Drusilla, who casually slits her throat with one fingernail.
 * I Call It Vera: She has a stake named "Mr. Pointy".
 * Limited Wardrobe: Lampshaded in her debut episode.


 * Mauve Shirt: Since she died in her third appearance.
 * No Last Name Given: Kendra specifically says she has no last name. An unproduced Watcher supplement would have revealed it to be "Young", though. Presumably she didn't know it because she was raised by her Watcher instead of her parents.
 * No Social Skills
 * Number One Dime: Her lucky stake, "Mr. Pointy". Though the stake itself is lost for good, Buffy borrows her nickname for it.
 * Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Supposedly the accent was a last-minute addition, and the dialect coach taught Lawson an accent from a very specific, obscure area of Jamaica. To both viewers and crew it just sounded like a lame Jamaican accent.
 * Overly Narrow Superlative
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: She seems to be blue to Buffy's red because she's a more classically trained by-the-book slayer yet her lack of experience and gung-ho attitude puts her on the red.
 * Ryu and Ken / Salt and Pepper: Buffy and herself.
 * Sailor Earth
 * Straw Vulcan: Buffy eventually taught Kendra that human emotion wasn’t necessarily a hindrance to being a Slayer.
 * Stuffed Into the Fridge
 * There Is Another
 * Weak-Willed: Effortlessly hypnotised by Drusilla while they were actually fighting; it's implied that her training and upbringing has left her with little ability to resist orders.
 * This or possibly ...
 * Welcome to the Caribbean, Mon
 * Why Are You Not My Son?: She and Giles hit it off straight away, much to Buffy’s annoyance.
 * The World's Expert on Getting Killed: It's specifically stated that Kendra's fighting technique is slightly superior to Buffy's due to the fact that training and studying demonology are literally all she's ever done since childhood. But as the above entry notes, while a Buffy vs Angelus or Buffy vs Spike fight is sure to be an epic brawl, Kendra vs. Drusilla was a disappointing defeat for good.

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


 * Balance Between Good and Evil: What he seeks to maintain.
 * Cryptic Conversation: Pretty much all he ever says.
 * Nice Hat
 * Precognition: Although it is "all outta whack" after the destruction of the.
 * Wild Card
 * Wild Card

Faith Lehane (Eliza Dushku)
""You hurt me, I hurt you. I'm just a little more efficient."""

Slayer from Boston activated by Kendra's death at the hands of Drusilla in the penultimate episode of Season 2, and a Foil for Buffy in Season 3. Loved Slaying a little too much, and ended up playing The Dragon to the Mayor. Moved to Angel, ended up in jail, and came back redeemed for the final few episodes.

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

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"Giles: "Faith has many skills, but fortunately lying is not one of them." Fridge Logic sets in when he hires her to infiltrate a castle and assassinate a slayer."
 * Abusive Parents: "My dead mother hits harder than that!"
 * A Date with Rosie Palms: Like Buffy, Faith once alludes to masturbation. With a stake. Cree-pee...
 * Anti-Hero: Types I through to IV, when she's not a Villain Protagonist.
 * Anti-Hero Substitute: Faith is the one true Slayer, since she was called upon Kendra's death (who was in turn called when Buffy died.) She's a decidedly less moral, more antagonistic mold, at least initially.
 * The Archer: Season 3 only.
 * Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: After stealing Buffy's body she tries to get Riley to engage in creepy sex. Instead he's so gentle it freaks her out.
 * The Atoner
 * Attempted Rape: On Xander
 * Aunt Pennybags: At the end of Season 8,  Faith uses it to good effect, such as using it to buy the Arsenal football team beers when a Slayer picks a fight with them. Outside of that she also fulfills the trait of being fun to be around.
 * Axe Crazy
 * Badass
 * Bad Liar

"Buffy: Girl's not playing with a full deck, Giles. She has no deck. She has a 3."
 * Bastard Girlfriend: As part of her role reversal with Buffy, Faith loses interest in creepy kinky sex after spending a night with Riley, who is more of the vanilla missionary-style school.
 * Bathtub Bonding: With Genevieve Savidge in Season 8.
 * Being Evil Sucks: When she, it was because of this.
 * "Who Are You" focuses on Faith's realization of how far she's fallen from the Slayer ideal.
 * The Berserker: When we first meet her, the result of witnessing the gruesome death of her Watcher. She relapses back into it when she awakens from her coma.

""Ah. The school thing. I was kinda absent that decade.""
 * Berserk Button: Being told off for trying to do the right thing seems to be this. After she tries to kill Angel to stop who she thinks is Angelus it causes a deep rift from the gang. When told off for trying to rationalize killing the deputy mayor and get rid of the body she becomes psychotic and monsterous. In the comics when Buffy won't let her explain what she's doing Faith tries to drown her, before realizing what she's doing.
 * Beware the Superman: Believed she was better than other people because she's a Slayer.
 * Big Eater
 * Blood Knight: As the Mayor's pet.
 * Book Dumb: On having the phrase "Achilles' Heel" explained to her.

""You don't know how many men have said that to me." On being promised that she'd get off (the murder charges against her would be dropped). "Just like riding a biker." On getting back into slaying after her stint in prison."
 * Broken Bird
 * Capulet Counterpart: She joins the good guys again after Angel shows her The Power of Friendship.
 * Catch Phrase: "Five by five."
 * The Chosen One: She is the one, true, Slayer, with Buffy having died and being the direct replacement for Kendra.
 * Closet Geek: Believe it or not she is familiar with cosplay, references Star Wars and wears a Batman t shirt.
 * Cool Big Sis: To the potentials, and especially to Slayers during Angel & Faith.
 * Cold Sniper
 * Combat Pragmatist
 * Convenient Coma
 * Cultured Badass: Given some of her quotes she at least tries to be. Problem is she isn't as smart as she likes to think so Faith ends up mangling some lines or use them out of context.
 * Daddy's Little Villain: A surrogate daughter and enthusiastic Dragon for the Mayor.
 * Dark Action Girl
 * Dark Magical Girl
 * Deadpan Snarker: Faith likes this. Most of the time it's pretty adult.

"Cordelia: What the hell is it with you and Faith! As if I didn't see the way you looked at her. She cracked her whip, and you liked it. You were practically in her leather-clad lap!"
 * Originally Faith was to have hung herself after killing the deputy mayor. Instead she becomes a borderline Complete Monster.
 * Dominatrix: Doesn't mind playing sex games with boys "as long as they know who's on top."
 * Dominatrix: Doesn't mind playing sex games with boys "as long as they know who's on top."


 * Double Standard Rape (Female on Male): Faith seems to think raping Xander is no big deal when he visits her to discuss the murder she committed. Angel...disagrees, and shows his views to Faith forcibly.
 * The Dragon: To the Mayor.
 * Ethical Slut: Before her Face Heel Turn she lists off a number of boyfriends, and prods Buffy about Angel and Xander. She didn't think it'd hurt Willow by sleeping with him. Then after her Heel Face Turn she describes another boyfriend she had to Spike, and sleeps with Wood.
 * Evil Counterpart
 * Face Heel Revolving Door
 * Foe Yay: With Buffy.
 * There's also a fair amount of Fawn Fan Fiction.
 * And in Season 8, there is a ton between her and evil Slayer Genevieve Savidge.
 * Freudian Excuse: Her desire to be the Mayor's surrogate daughter is unsurprising, given that he's the first parental figure she had that actually loved her. Well, aside from her first Watcher, who was brutally murdered in front of her.
 * Friends with Benefits: Her and Xander were not exactly friends, about as close as they got was him revealing that Angel was alive, and all for killing him. Nonetheless, in Xander's character episode he saves Faith from a group of vampires, then they do the deed, Faith later treating it as a casual fling. Then, when he tries to use their "connection" to talk to her about her accidental murder of the Deputy Mayor, this becomes a Moral Event Horizon crossing, as she refuses to listen, insists that guys only ever want one thing from her, pushes him onto the bed and starts forcing herself on him, and chokes him, before Angel knocks her out.
 * Gamer Chick: Well, the Mayor does give her a Playstation, and she treats it as just about the greatest thing ever.
 * Good Feels Good: When she switched bodies with Buffy, she was expected to do Buffy-like things since nobody knew she did it. This was what led to her Heel Face Turn.
 * Good Is Not Nice: Before her Face Heel Turn.
 * Good Is Not Soft: After Xander tells her that Angel is back, after he was last seen as a Complete Monster, Faith becomes fearful of who he might hurt and decides to go behind Buffy's back to kill him.
 * Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: Faith has taken to smoking after her Heel Face Turn. The comics suggest it's to steady her nerves, what with dealing with what she's done and fighting over a second Hellmouth. She goes through the better half of a pack because of her unease with assassinating a rogue Slayer.
 * He Who Fights Monsters: Slowly adopts more and more murderous tendencies, until finally she is indistinguishable from Angelus himself.
 * The Hedonist: Which doesn't go well for her.
 * Heel Realization: When she switched bodies with Buffy, she eventually figures out that she could have taken a run at Angel for Complete Monster, and would reappear on his show as one in the hope he would kill her. He sees right through this ploy and doesn't comply with it.
 * Another mild one crops up in the comics. Aside from the fact she is crazy enough to snap and try to kill Buffy despite her Heel Face Turn; due to a combination of liking the person she was going to kill, trying to protect her from Buffy and some belief that if she kills Buffy she'll be a hero; the realization she treats any an who is the least bit decent to her like dirt. While she was nice before her Face Heel Turn and after her Heel Face Turn after she realizes this she makes more of an effort to treat people as more than just getting what she wants.
 * Hello, Nurse!: Discussing sex role play with Spike Faith mentions this as a whack fantasy. Naturally it's revealed a certain crunchy granola girl' has such three way vampire fantasies.
 * Hot Amazon
 * I Just Want to Have Friends: Though she'd never admit it.
 * If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him: After her Faith Heel Turn Faith invokes this when Buffy attacks her.
 * Klingon Promotion: Elevates herself to Dragon after dusting Mr. Trick.
 * Jumped At the Call
 * Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: Accidently killing someone, or getting yelled at for her actions (such as when she tried to kill Angel or saves Buffy and an evil slayer) makes Faith completely snap. The second time especially.
 * The Ladette
 * Loves the Sound of Screaming
 * Meaningful Name: Faith as in her faith in people which she keeps losing.
 * Mentor: After the Twilight crisis, Faith begins mentoring a group of Slayers based in London.
 * Mentor Occupational Hazard: Faith cites this as a reason she doesn't like authority figures in general.
 * Muscles Are Meaningless: Slightly more physically imposing than Buffy, and her fighting style favors powerful strikes. She still shouldn't be able to hit like a truck without Slayer powers.
 * Nice Girl: Compare Faith after going to prison to Buffy to see how much she had improved.
 * Not Staying for Breakfast: How she treats her one night stands. Wood teases her about it motivating Faith to try and ravish him despite them trying to prepare for the final battle, before he convinces her to give him a chance to show that men can be more than a quick lay.
 * Older and Wiser: Faith had come a long way from when she first appeared.
 * Orphan's Ordeal
 * Pop-Cultured Badass: Faith has a habit of referencing classic literature, music, Star Wars of all things, and in one particularly frightening scene even Transformers.
 * Poor Communication Kills: Faith's induction into the Scoobies helped to temper her lawless approach to slaying (which Buffy initially didn't know about). However, Buffy lied to her about Angel's resurrection, which allowed Gwendolyn Post used to turn Faith against the gang.
 * Prophetic Name: You can take this from several view-points. For instance, her sponsorship by Angel, or (in the comic series) Faith's loyalty to same.
 * After all, Faith manages.
 * Psycho for Hire
 * Put on a Bus: Being rendered comatose, then going to jail.
 * The Quisling
 * Reformed but Rejected: For a good while in Season 7. About the only one to accept her is Willow, who just came off from a stint of evil-doing herself.
 * Reformed Criminal
 * The Resenter
 * Rival Turned Evil
 * Rogue Agent
 * Running Gag: Played for Drama. From her introduction Faith takes Buffy's friends, her meal and looks like she's trying to take her job. From there it gets worse: first she sleeps with Xander, before later trying to rape and kill him. She tries to take Angel from Buffy (which she ironically succeeds at), her life; in both senses of the word, her body, her current boyfriend, and then she seemingly sleeps with Spike, takes Buffy's leadership of the potentials, then Robin Wood who was Buffy's potential boyfriend, then Giles, then Angel, in short everything Buffy had Faith takes away from her. Tragically half of these are by accident. Buffy's friends like Faith, Angel rejects Buffy over the way she acts when he tries to help Faith, it would later be confirmed that Faith did not sleep with Spike, the potentials reject Buffy over the way she's acting, Buffy is outraged with Giles and Angel over what they've done and thus turn to Faith. Things like Buffy's food, or boyfriends, are a case when Faith does not think, or worse, when she does.
 * Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right: Outside of her selfish nature Faith is willing to Shoot the Dog and kill Angel in case he goes evil, cover up her accidental murder of a morally grey character, and allow herself to be killed to satisfy Buffy's thirst for vengeance and go against Angel trying to redeem her. Recently, she gets so upset with Angel tormenting himself that she tries to stab him in the back and turn him human so he can let go of the guilt he feels, only stopping because of the Body Horror her actions would cause.
 * Self-Harm: A bit of an atypical variant, as she's harming her body while her mind isn't actually occupying it. (As such, this could be argued not to be harming "herself" per se. That said, all of the self-loathing and rage of a self-harmer is present as she lays into her Buffy-occupied body.)
 * Sex Is Cool: Faith's raison d'etre. She needles Buffy about her love life and sets her sights on Xander. Possibly the most varied and numerous of sex lives, putting the moves on most if not all of Buffy's potential and actual love interests, including at least two vampires.
 * She Cleans Up Nicely: Giles is clearly impressed when Faith shows off her look for going undercover at a formal party, a Pimped-Out Dress with Absolute Cleavage.
 * Shipper on Deck: With Buffy and Xander and Angel, before her Face Heel Turn.
 * Sixth Ranger Traitor
 * Street Smart
 * Teenage Wasteland: A teenage girl who knows all about the Five Basic torture Groups. The Mayor must be so proud!
 * Tiger Versus Dragon: Buffy favors tight, quick moves, whereas Faith's moves are flashier and take more time to deploy, but impart more power.
 * Took a Level in Jerkass: During her Face Heel Turn, Up to Eleven.
 * Took a Level In Kindness: There's little resemblance from her psychotic earlier years and the way she becomes after her incarceration.
 * Torture Technician: She was quite fond of torture - at one point, Angel complimented her on how well she knew how to do it. One wonders how a teenager knew so much about the "five basic torture groups".
 * Vitriolic Best Buds: With Buffy in Season 3 until she breaks that friendship up badly. She and Buffy do become closer again at the ends of Season 7 and Season 8.
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist: Faith loads up on weapons after learning of a Back from the Dead, supposedly reformed from Complete Monster Angel being in possession of a magical glove, scared of who he might kill. When she finds Giles had been attacked she immediately thinks 'Angel' and defies everyone in a bid to kill him.
 * What Could Have Been: One storyline idea was that Buffy would have found Faith had hanged herself, unable to live with killing an innocent man. What the writers came up with instead was much more interesting.
 * Whip It Good: "This one guy I ran with, he liked me to dress up like a schoolgirl, and take this friggen bullwhip, and I'd be like..."
 * Yin-Yang Clash: Faith once theorized that this is why she and Buffy don't get along. After all, There Can Be Only One.

Wesley Wyndam-Pryce
""I have, in fact, faced two vampires myself. Under controlled circumstances, of course.""

A replacement sent by the Watcher's Council following Giles' termination. Clean-cut, by the book, and not without an inflated sense of self, Wesley is immediately detested by both Buffy and Faith. Most of his decisions (though well-intentioned) fail spectacularly, such as his attempt to "rehabilitate" Faith when she goes rogue. Like Giles before him, the Council eventually tires of Wesley and lets him go. This prompts Wesley to migrate to L.A., eventually ending up as a series regular on Angel.


 * Better as Friends: He and Cordelia come to this conclusion after the Mother of All Awkward Kisses.
 * British Stuffiness
 * Captain Obvious
 * Ensign Newbie: Wesley's only encounters with vampires thus far have been under "controlled circumstaces"; basically, he's in over his head from the get-go.
 * Extroverted Nerd: His character sheet entry reads, "Thinks he's Sean Connery when he's pretty much George Lazenby."
 * Foil: To Giles. The curmudgeonly Watcher never forgot the grief he suffered under Wesley, as Andrew later reports in Season Five of Angel.
 * Geek Physiques
 * Miles Gloriosus: Famously gets conked out by a single punch during the Sunnydale High siege.
 * Obstructive Bureaucrat
 * Replacement Flat Character: To Giles, who groans that Wes has "the emotionally maturity of a blueberry scone."
 * Screams Like a Little Girl
 * Small Name, Big Ego
 * Too Clever by Half

Jonathan Levinson (Danny Strong)
""We're, like, supervillains.""

Originally a background classmate at Sunnydale High, he is given a breakout performance in "Earshot" in which Buffy talks him out of committing suicide. He later becomes adept at magic, especially Shapeshifting, and joins the humorously villainous Trio.

"Jonathan: "I'm serious, I really miss it [High School]. Time goes by and everything drops away; all the cruelty, all the pain, all the humiliation, it all washes away. I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day, I miss the people who never knew I existed. I miss 'em all. I want to talk to them, y'know. I want to find out how they're doing, I want to know what's going on in their lives." Andrew: "You know what? They don't want to talk to you. All those people you just mentioned, not one of them is sitting around going 'I wonder what Jonathan's up to right now?' Not one of them cares about you." Jonathan: "Well, I still care about them. That's why I'm here.""
 * Ascended Extra: To the point that The First thought him important enough to be included in its evil plan.
 * The Atoner: Before that, he was perfectly willing to go to jail and accept responsibility for his crimes, only running out of fear of Willow.
 * Butt Monkey
 * A Day in the Limelight: "Superstar".
 * Even Evil Has Standards: It would be a real stretch to call him Evil (At his worst, he's simply a source of annoyance) but he is visibly shaken and horrified by Warren's cold-hearted nature and monstrous sadism.
 * Deadly Change-of-Heart: Jonathan was never that bad to begin with, and helped Buffy defeat Warren in their last confrontation, but Willow's subsequent rampage still sent him fleeing to Mexico with Andrew. However, when he begins to get prophetic dreams related to the First he returns to Sunnydale, determined to redeem himself by helping Buffy stop it, and he has finally let go of all the hatred and depression that sprang from being isolated and picked on in High School. Andrew points out that nobody in Sunnydale cares about Jonathan, nobody has missed him while he was gone or will welcome him back, but Jonathan says he does not care, that he wants to help them anyway, even if they never know about it or accept him. Then Andrew, at the goading of the First, buries a ritual knife in his chest.
 * Heel Realization
 * I Just Want to Have Friends: Wondered in season 7 if the Scoobies will let him and Andrew hang out at their house.
 * I Just Want to Be Special
 * Mauve Shirt
 * Marty Stu: In-Universe in "Superstar," where Jonathan casts a reality-warping spell making him into a ridiculously multi-talented celebrity and hero. This episode even changes the Title Sequence, making it center on the newly Stu-ified Jonathan.
 * Minion with an F In Evil: Jonathan was never as evil as the other two of the Trio, he joined them because... well, because what nerd has not dreamed about becoming an Evil Overlord and being the arch-nemesis of the beautiful Slayer? He is constantly objecting to their more needlessly cruel ideas and distracts them when they begin to get sidetracked into random violence. When Katrina explains that brainwashing a person for sex is rape he is visibly disturbed, and when Andrew and Warren are happy that they have managed to get away with murder he stares blankly forward and numbly mumbles agreement. At the end of their career, when he sees what power has revealed about Warren Mears true character, he actually turns on the Trio and tells Buffy how to defeat Warren. In season seven he makes a complete turn and comes back to Sunnydale, having let go of the anger and depression that sprang from his youth, and hopes to redeem himself by helping Buffy stop the First, even if nobody cares about him or what he has become. Unfortunately, Andrew has a few things to say about that.
 * Redemption Equals Death
 * Shadow Archetype: What Xander might have become if he made a few wrong turns.
 * Smoke Out: "Life Serial" and "Gone."
 * Squishy Wizard: Out the Trio, he seemed the most magically adept.
 * Those Two Guys: Him and Andrew.
 * What You Are in the Dark: It does not matter that they tormented him in High School and it does not matter that they have forgotten about him in the years since then, Jonathan is going to step up and be the hero for the town of Sunnydale because it is the right thing to do.

Andrew Wells (Tom Lenk)
""I admit I went over to the Dark Side, but only to pick up a few things.""

Member of the Trio, and hopelessly nerdy. Skilled at summoning demons and making sci-fi references. Spent a few episodes in Season 7 as the Scoobies' prisoner before they started trusting him. Later became a Watcher in the Slayer Organization, running the Rome squad.

"Jonathan: All right, now you have to hold hands. Andrew: With each other? Warren: Well, you know what homophobia really means about you, don't you?"
 * 20% More Awesome: When he shows up on Angel, Andrew boasts that he's become "82% more manly" than the last time Spike saw him.
 * Adorkable
 * Altum Videtur: He displays a knowledge of Latin several times in the show and comics.
 * Ambiguously Gay: The actor who plays him is quite openly gay, and Joss Whedon decided to toy with the notion.
 * Lampshaded in "Life Serial".


 * In season 9 he sings Lady Gaga songs. Though so does Cartman. Make of that what you will.
 * The Atoner
 * Badass: By the end of Season 8, Andrew has earned this title.
 * Bad Bad Acting: His Slayer recruitment commercial in Season 8.
 * Butt Monkey
 * Camera Fiend
 * Cloudcuckoolander: To an extent.
 * Delusions of Eloquence
 * Fake Guest Star: In Season 7.
 * Genre Savvy
 * Heel Face Turn
 * It's All My Fault: Takes the fact that Simone turned evil while he was her Watcher very hard, and is determined to find and stop her.
 * I Reject Your Reality
 * Love Makes You Evil: Very heavily implied that he had a crush on Warren. Practically stated.
 * Karma Houdini
 * Mad Scientist: Even with the Slayer army, he never stops experimenting with demon summoning and DNA, even breeding a dangerous demon back into existance.
 * Mentor: To the Slayer squad in Rome.
 * Must Make Amends: What he spends most of Season 7 trying to do.
 * My Friends and Zoidberg: Buffy, at one point, says, "My friends... My family... Andrew..."
 * Noodle Incident: Summoning flying monkeys to ruin a production of Romeo and Juliet.
 * Not-So-Harmless Villain:.
 * Omniglot: Good at speaking demon languages as well as summoning them.
 * The Renfield: To Warren.
 * Replacement Flat Character: To the Xander Harris of old.
 * Running Gag: "Who?" "Tucker's brother."
 * The Storyteller: At several points in Season 7 & 8.
 * Summon Magic
 * Took a Level in Badass: During the final battle of S8, Andrew is seen killing several demons.
 * He took another level when he drugs Buffy and puts her mind into a Buffybot he built so she can be protected from (Simone? The real Big Bad?) Naturally Buffy and Spike give him hell for it.
 * Unreliable Narrator: "Storyteller"
 * What the Hell, Hero?: In Season 9, Buffy and Spike give him complete and total hell after he . Spike even threatens to kill Andrew if he doesn't fix the situation.
 * You Look Familiar: Tom Lenk appeared in "Real Me" as Cyrus, one of Harmony's minions. She had trouble remembering his name too.

Robin Wood (DB Woodside)
""I knew I signed on for something, but, Buffy, I'm just a guy. Granted, a cool and sexy vampire-fighting guy, but still.""

The principal of the renovated Sunnydale High in Season 7. Turns out to be. After the defeat of The First, Robin led a Slayer squad in Cleveland, Ohio.


 * Badass
 * Badass Bookworm
 * Badass in a Nice Suit
 * Badass Normal
 * Heartbroken Badass
 * Badass Teacher
 * Bald Black Leader Guy: When leading a Slayer squad in Cleveland.
 * Bald of Awesome
 * Best Served Cold
 * Birds of a Feather\Opposites Attract: When he goes on a date with Buffy he reveals that he is the son of a former slayer. Later Faith would sleep with Wood.
 * The Danza: Robin Wood is played by DB Woodside.
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Disney Death: In the Series Finale.
 * Hey, It's That Guy!: Sunnydale High's principle would later become the President.
 * Hot Teacher
 * Last-Minute Hookup: With Faith.
 * Which is over by Season 8.
 * Nice Guy
 * Put on a Bus: This happens in S8 in an identical way to how many Fanfics do it.
 * The Bus Came Back: In Season 9. Buffy seeks out his advice after finding out
 * Reasonable Authority Figure: He is about as far removed from Snyder as it is possible to get.
 * Roaring Rampage of Revenge: In his twenties, he spent all his time trying to hunt down and kill, until realizing that it was hopeless. He continued killing vampires and demons, hoping he would eventully come across.
 * Sharp-Dressed Man
 * Vampire Hunter
 * Vampire Hunter

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

Leader of the Watchers Council. A traditionalist who doesn't like the way Giles and Buffy does things. First fired Giles for being too close to Buffy, and tried to replace him with Wesley for both Faith and Buffy. Then, two years later, made them go through a review in order to see if the Scooby Gang was worthy of their intel on Glory.


 * Awakening the Sleeping Giant: Quentin Travers rallies the Watchers Council to fight;
 * Obstructive Bureaucrat: Pretty much the way he is to Buffy and Giles.
 * Vampire Hunter
 * We Have Reserves: His view on Slayers

Kennedy (Iyari Limon)
""I've always sort of gotten my way. So you're going to make it through this no matter how dark it gets. Because now, you're my way.""

Potential Slayer, self-professed brat from a rich family, and love interest for Willow in Season 7. Hated by much of the fandom. Also noteworthy as being part of the first lesbian sex scene on network television (with Willow).


 * Action Girl
 * The Archer
 * Badass: Even before she became a Slayer.
 * Brutal Honesty
 * Clingy Jealous Girl: Mild case: one of the first things she says to Buffy after seeing her after hearing about her "experiment" with Satsu is to stay away from Willow.
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Death Is Cheap: Died for a month before being brought back by Willow, pre-Season 8.
 * Drill Sergeant Nasty: Buffy may be bad at leading, but at least she doesn't have blood on her hands. Kennedy thought it'd be cool to refer to the other potential Slayers as maggots. Yeah...it was so cool Chole killed herself.
 * To be fair, Chole was cornered by the First soon afterwords. It wasn't Kennedy's fault (at least, not directly) and her face after they find the body just screams My God, What Have I Done?.
 * Hot Chick with a Sword: On several occasions.
 * Jerkass
 * Hidden Heart of Gold
 * Jumped At the Call
 * Noodle Incident: The above mentioned death.
 * Royal Brat: Lampshaded by Kennedy herself, as she comes from a rich family with multiple mansions. Wait, is she one of those Kennedys?
 * Shallow Love Interest: For the love of god, the girl doesn't even have a last name.
 * Super Strength
 * Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Inverted. She's pretty much Tara's opposite, which did her popularity no favors at all.
 * Tyke Bomb: Knew how to use a crossbow since she was eight years old.

Vi / Violet (Felicia Day)
""I could use a shot of that yak urine right about now.""

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


 * Action Girl
 * Adorkable: It's Felicia Day. How could she not be?
 * Badass
 * Badass Adorable
 * Bad Bad Acting: Her Slayer recruitment commercial in Season 8, where she plays a typical suburban housewife-type who tells her husband (played by Andrew) about her sudden super strength and mystical Slayer dreams.
 * Captain Obvious: Upon arriving at a demon bar: "They're demons! It's a demon bar! It's like a gay bar, only with demons."
 * Cute Bruiser
 * Dawson Casting: Day was already 25 when she started playing Vi, one-and-a-half years older than Eliza Dushku.
 * I Need A Freaking Shot of Yak Urine
 * Naive Newcomer
 * Only Known by Their Nickname: Vi, in the TV series. In the comics they made her full name Violet and had her go by that, because comics are written in all caps and they didn't want readers thinking her name was "6".
 * Shrinking Violet: Stops being one after becoming a Slayer.
 * Super Strength

Rona (Indigo)


Another of the potential Slayers who joined the growing army in Sunnydale, Rona was a reluctant Slayer, but became a squad leader in Chicago. She was more frustrated and resistant to the whole slayer-thing than many of the others.


 * Action Girl
 * Badass
 * Black Dude Dies First: Seems scared of this, and thinks it is why Spike went after her first on a training exercise.
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * I Just Want to Be Normal
 * Only Sane Woman: Seemed to think she was the only one among everyone in Sunnydale.
 * Refusal of the Call: But embraced it at the end.
 * Super Strength

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


 * Action Girl
 * Ascended Extra: First appeared as a girl getting advice from Buffy while she worked as a school counselor, but later revealed to be a potential Slayer.
 * Badass
 * Beware the Nice Ones: Oh yeah. She thought a boy liked her because he picked on her, so she ambushed him in the parking lot and attacked him to show that she liked him back.
 * Dies Wide Open
 * Disproportionate Retribution: She suggested letting a vampire attack the marching band because they picked on the swing choir (of which she was a member).
 * Jumped At the Call
 * Neck Snap
 * Super Strength

The Buffybot (Sarah Michelle Gellar)
"Xander: Hey, I know this. You're both Buffy. Buffy: No, she's a robot. You couldn't tell me apart from a robot? Buffybot: Oh, I don't think I'm a robot. Anya: She's very well made."

An android replica of Buffy constructed by Warren at the behest of Spike during Season 5. She was later used as a decoy during the battle with Glory and pretended to be Buffy in-universe between Season's 5 and 6

""That'll put marzipan on your pie plate, bingo!""
 * An Arm and a Leg: Razor and his gang chain her limbs to their motorcycles. The bikes take off, and the 'Bot is neatly quartered. Yuck.
 * Acting for Two: Naturally, being a robot double and all.
 * Almost-Dead Guy: Survives long enough after being ripped apart to reveal to Dawn that the real Buffy is back.
 * Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny
 * Body Double
 * Bond One-Liner: Willow isn't quite able to program the Buffybot correctly in this area.

"Glory: "The Slayer's a robot? Did everybody else know the Slayer was a robot?" Vampire: "You're... you're a machine!""
 * Brutal Honesty: Played for Laughs in "Intervention", but the Buffybot's "Then why are you here?" (after the Slayer has been killed) forces Giles to realise he must move on from Buffy's death and return to England.
 * Captain Obvious
 * Catch Phrase: According to Xander, she always says the pie line after slaying something.
 * Chekhov's Gunman: Appeared mirroring the real Buffy much more closely than her last appearance to decoy and weaken Glory.
 * Cloudcuckoolander: Obsessed with Spike, chipper about slaying and much friendlier than the real Buffy, if socially awkward.
 * Deceptively Human Robot: Though she still fooled the other Scoobies, to the real Buffy's annoyance.
 * Genki Girl
 * Hugh Mann
 * It Is Pronounced "Tro-PAY": Pronounces it "Guy-els".
 * Kiss Me I Am Virtual
 * Malaproper
 * No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Before the demon bikers kill her, they knock her to the ground, and proceed to kick and stomp the shit out of her.
 * No Social Skills
 * Off With Her Head: How Glory deactivates her, until the Scoobies rebuild her.
 * Paper-Thin Disguise: Buffy gets rather miffed that her friends thought the bot was really her going through grief. Also Played for Laughs at the beginning of Season 6 when it goes to Parent-Teacher Day and no-one notices the difference. In a Fridge Logic moment the Buffybot is able to impersonate Buffy well enough to fool Glory, despite the fact that Willow was unable to get the same result after months of tweaking during the summer.
 * Perpetual Smiler
 * Replacement Goldfish: In "Bargaining" we see Dawn curling up in bed next to the recharging Buffybot, and Giles trying to instruct it in Eastern philosophy during a sparring session. Averted with Spike who can't even stand to look at Buffybot.
 * Robot Girl
 * Robot Me
 * Robotic Reveal:

"Buffybot: ANYA . How is your money? Anya: [delighted] Fine, thank you!"
 * Rule of Symbolism: Buffy returns in time to see the sweet innocent Buffybot permanently destroyed when it's ripped apart by demons, showing Buffy's loss of innocence and the need to build herself anew.
 * Robo Cam: Including a drop-down menu of 'adult' options.
 * Seemingly-Profound Fool: "School is where you learn." Preach it, sister.
 * It helps that Warren uploaded her with banal observations about the Scoobies.

"(Buffybot writhing on top of Spike, watched by a horrified Anya and Xander) "Oh Spike, you're the Big Bad! You're the Big Bad!""
 * Sex Bot: Spike has her built to consumate his unrequited Foe Yay for the Slayer. And yes, that does include sex.

"Willow: (thinking she's talking to Buffy) So just this one time you just did something kinda crazy? Buffybot: It wasn't one time. It was lots of times, and lots of different ways. I can make sketches! Willow: No!"
 * Spock Speak
 * They Killed Kenny: Is horribly mangled in all her appearances.
 * Too Much Information: The Scoobies reaction whenever the subject of Spuffybot comes up.

"Xander: Spike must have had her built so he could program her t- Buffy: (horrified) Oh god. Willow: Yikes. Imagine the things- Buffy: No! No, no imagining. Any of you. Xander: (raises his hand) Already got the visual."
 * And later...

"Buffybot: Angel's lame. His hair goes straight up, and he's bloody stupid!"
 * Super-Powered Robot Meter Maids: Justified as Spike didn't just want the Buffybot to look like the Slayer, she had to have the same strength and combat abilities that turn Spike on.
 * Take That: Spike has his dislike of his rival for Buffy's affections programmed into the bot.


 * What Measure Is a Non-Human?: It's not entirely clear how sentient she is, but the Scoobies seem a little unnervingly cavalier about how they treat her.

Clement (Clem)


A demon who Buffy befriended in season 6. Eventually hightailed it out of Sunnydale as the showdown with The First drew closer.


 * Beauty Equals Goodness: Completely Subverted. He's a deformed demon with bizarre skin and quite possibly the friendliest disposition in the series.
 * Beleaguered Assistant: To Harmony.
 * Characterization Marches On: He was kind of a jerk in his first appearance. On the other hand, it could just be that kittens are his preferred meal.
 * Combat Tentacles
 * Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: On Angel & Faith #6 he actually beheads a bunch of vampires with his tentacled face
 * Dogged Nice Guy: He's in love with Harmony.
 * Emotion Eater: His kind feed on emotions, specially embarrassment.
 * If You're So Evil Eat This Kitten: Played for Rule of Funny—Clem is first seen gambling over kittens so he can eat them.
 * Nice Guy: Easily one of the friendliest characters in the series.
 * Nightmare Face: He showed this to the potentials in "Potential".
 * Non-Action Guy
 * Real Men Wear Pink

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


 * Characterization Marches On: Outside of Buffy's bad dream turned reality in "Nightmares", he seemed like a decent enough guy before turning into a zero responsibility zone offscreen. Granted, his actual screentime was minimal.
 * Disappeared Dad: The start of a trend in the series.
 * Foreshadowing: Became the person in Buffy's nightmare in "Nightmares".
 * The Ghost: After Season Two, the exceptions being "The Weight of the World" (in a flashback) and "Normal Again" (in the Cuckoo Nest).
 * Jerkass
 * Sexy Secretary: Apparently ran off with one.
 * Visit by Divorced Dad: "Nightmares".
 * What Happened to the Mouse?
 * Your Cheating Heart: Implied.

Wishverse Buffy


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

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

""Is this a 'get in my pants' thing?""
 * Anti-Hero: Type three. That's not even open to debate.
 * Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Averted, she sports a scar above her upper lip.
 * Broken Pedestal: Built up to be the one to save the world. Not only is she personally not nice, she fails.
 * Cleveland Rocks: Buffy fought there due to there also being a hellmouth. Given her attitude it hadn't changed much.
 * The Cynic
 * Dark Action Girl: To the point where Faith is Lighter and Softer
 * Darker and Edgier: One of if not the darkest heroes in the Buffyverse.
 * Foreshadowing: Before the Wishverse, Buffy and Willow discuss how in different circumstances she might have become Faith. Turns out without her friends, she's even worse.
 * Good Is Not Nice: Or even helpful, for that matter, instead expecting people to point her in the direction of what needs killing.
 * Killed Off for Real
 * The Messiah: How people think of her. The attention greatly bothers her.


 * Murder Is the Best Solution: Rather than try and help Giles find a way to reverse the wish her idea is to just stake Anyanka.
 * Neck Snap: The Master does this to her.
 * Nineties Anti-Hero: This is what Buffy might be like had Grant Morrison gotten his hands on her.
 * Took a Level in Jerkass: Her basic attitude is to kill anything bad, kill anyone in her way and disregard everyone else.
 * What Could Have Been: Initially Buffy was going to be decked out in more military style clothing, with a larger cross. The writers must have thought it would look silly so they went with a grittier, harder version of Buffy's normal dress sense.

The First Slayer (Sharon Ferguson)
""I have no speech, no name. I live in the action of death. The blood cry, the penetrating wound. I am destruction, absolute, alone.""

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


 * Action Girl: Or Dark Action Girl, from the Scoobies point of view.
 * Badass
 * Blessed with Suck: Much like Buffy, she didn't want the role she was given, and had a harder time dealing with it.
 * Body Paint: Wears facial warpaint.
 * The Chosen One: The First of the Ones
 * Cursed with Awesome
 * Cute Bruiser
 * Does This Remind You of Anything?: Merging with the shadowy demon that turns her into the Slayer borders on rape.
 * Dying Alone
 * Healing Factor
 * Hero Antagonist: Initially presented as such.
 * In the End You Are on Your Own: A firm believer in this, to the point where, in season 4 when Buffy does a Fusion Dance with the Scoobies to beat Adam, she's so offended that she returns from the afterlife to try and kill them all.
 * Magical Girl Warrior
 * Names to Run Away From Really Fast
 * Pint-Sized Powerhouse: She's at most, about the same size as Buffy, maybe even smaller, but she's stronger than Buffy.
 * Super Strength
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist: Her views on the Slayer working with a team are like Kendra's (as in, she doesn't approve), but she is willing to murder Buffy's friends to get her point across.

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

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

"Giles: [to himself] You really meet the most appalling people...""
 * Non Sequitur Scene:
 * Dodgy Toupee: "I wear the cheese. It does not wear me."
 * Dual-Wielding: In this final appearance, the Cheese Man is holding two slices of cheese.
 * Faux Symbolism: Word of Joss says that the Cheese Man, who appears in all four dreams, has no deeper meaning and his only purpose is to be random. Yet coincidentally, earlier in the season (The Initiative, 4x07) Willow helps Riley start a conversation with Buffy by telling him that she likes cheese.
 * One reviewer writes that the Cheese Man represents "the concretization of the slayer puns and the good times Buffy has with her friends."
 * Four Eyes, Zero Soul
 * Makes Just as Much Sense in Context
 * Messenger of Doom: In Xander's dream. Even cheese can't protect him now. Poor bastard.
 * Mundane Object Amazement
 * No Name Given
 * One Episode Wonder
 * The Power of Cheese: Weak people wear kevlar. Real men wear cheese.
 * Rule of Funny
 * Take That: The Cheese Man's appearance in a dungeon ("I wear the cheese") is a reference to Leonardo DiCaprio's character in The Man in the Iron Mask, who says, "I wear the mask. It does not wear me". Joss saw the film in a theater and found the line sublimely ridiculous.
 * Trademark Favorite Food: Three guesses as to which.
 * Waistcoat of Style: Surprisingly, he and Giles don't really get on.


 * What Happened to the Mouse?

Nikki Wood (April Weeden-Washington/K.D. Aubert)
A Slayer in the 1970's, and the mother of Robin Wood. Appears several times in flashbacks,, and as a disguise of The First.


 * Action Girl
 * Badass
 * Badass Longcoat: Which Spike took.
 * Pregnant Badass: She continued Slaying even when she was pregnant.
 * Blessed with Suck
 * The Chosen One
 * Cursed with Awesome
 * Hot Mom
 * Married to the Job
 * Neck Snap
 * The Other Darrin: Switched from stuntwoman April Weeden-Washington to actress K.D. Aubert.
 * Super Strength

Samantha Finn (Ivana Milicevic)
Government demon hunter and spy, married to Riley.


 * Action Girl
 * Badass Normal
 * Dogged Nice Guy
 * Gender Blender Name
 * Good-Looking Privates
 * Happily Married
 * Pregnant Badass: In the spin-off novel Seven Crows.
 * Spy Couple: With Riley.

The Shadow Men (Geoffrey Kasule, Karara Muhoro, Daniel Wilson)
""We cannot give you knowledge. Only power.""

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


 * Neglectful Precursors: Their descendants and apprentices would go on to form the Watchers Council. Good job on that one, guys.
 * Omniscient Morality License
 * Scary Black Man
 * Squishy Wizard: It doesn't take much for Buffy to knock them on their keisters.

Satsu
A Japanese Slayer activated by Willow's spell, Satsu joined the Slayer organization and quickly became one of Buffy's best and most relible fighters. Satsu then fell in love with her, and they slept together twice before Satsu took over the Toyko base of operations after Buffy told her that while what they had done was nice, it wouldn't go any further.


 * Action Girl
 * A Day in the Limelight: "Swell"
 * Asskicking Equals Authority: Promoted to head of the Tokyo squad because of how great a fighter and leader she is.
 * Badass
 * Badass Adorable
 * Blond Brunette Redhead: Rowena, her, and Leah.
 * Can't Believe I Said That: While fighting the Japanese Vampire army, The Dragon Raidon is about to kill Buffy and drink from her, saying that he bets she tastes sweet. Satsu stakes him from behind, saying he has no idea, and then remarks she can't believe she said that out loud.
 * *snicker*
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Demonic Possession: When a vampy cat crawls down her throat and takes control of her body. Kennedy is kind enough to kick her in the gut, and cause her to vomit it up. Satsu then gives the cute little evil thing a good swording.
 * Did Not Get the Girl
 * Hot Chick with a Sword
 * Incompatible Orientation: With Buffy.
 * It's Not You, It's My Enemies: One of the reasons Buffy gives Satsu for why they cannot be together.
 * Kick the Dog: After her kiss wakes Buffy from a true love spell, she opens a dialogue about how being a Slayer in general; and being in love with her especially, is dangerous. By kicking Satsu into a building.
 * The Lancer: Buffy often puts her in command when she isn't around, and takes her with her on important missions.
 * Lipstick Lesbian
 * Love Hurts
 * Meaningful Name: When written a certain way in Japanese, her name means "slay" or "kill".
 * Noodle Incident: She somehow wound up stealing a Korean submarine from a group of vampires.
 * Oh Crap: When she jumps to catch the scythe, succeeds, and then realizes she is about to fall down to the street from the top of a Tokyo skyscraper. Fortunately, Buffy and Willow are there to help.
 * Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Briefly, after seeing ..
 * Super Strength
 * Tears of Joy: When she was activated as a Slayer.
 * True Love's Kiss: Used to wake Buffy after she was put in a mystical coma.
 * Weapon of Choice: A katana.

Renee
Another new slayer activated by Willow's spell, she and Xander devloped a mutual attraction to each other. They were going to begin dating, but.


 * Action Girl
 * Badass: She stood up to freaking Dracula like she was going to slay him.
 * The Bait: Served as it willingly to lure a vampire into a trap.
 * Black and Nerdy: Learns about comics in order to better relate to Xander.
 * Catholic School Girls Rule: While posing as bait.
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Deliberately Distressed Damsel: Does this to a Tokyo vampire to capture him.
 * Mission Control: She often served at this post at Slayer HQ.
 * My Greatest Failure: Views hers as not noticing a horde of zombies approching the Slayer castle while on watch, which led to several Slayers being killed.
 * Super Strength
 * Mission Control: She often served at this post at Slayer HQ.
 * My Greatest Failure: Views hers as not noticing a horde of zombies approching the Slayer castle while on watch, which led to several Slayers being killed.
 * Super Strength
 * Super Strength

Leah


A Scottish Slayer in Buffy's Slayer squad, often seen hanging out with Rowena.


 * Action Girl
 * Badass
 * Brave Scot
 * Blond Brunette Redhead: Rowena, Satsu and her.
 * Braids of Action
 * Funetik Aksent
 * Green Eyed Red Head
 * Rapunzel Hair
 * Recurring Extra
 * Redheaded Hero
 * Super Strength
 * Those Two Girls: With Rowena.

Rowena
""Wiccans to ta rear! Slayers... fuck 'em up.""

A German Slayer in Buffy's squad, often seen hanging out with Leah.


 * Action Girl
 * Badass
 * Big Damn Heroes: Shows up with her squad to save Xander, Dawn and their demon allies from a reptile demon ghost army.
 * Blond Brunette Redhead: Her, Satsu and Leah.
 * Funetik Aksent
 * Heroic BSOD: Nearly suffers one after the missile attack on the castle, but Xander pulls her back from it.
 * The Lancer: Whenever Satsu isn't availible, Buffy puts Rowena in charge.
 * Nice Hat: Rowena is never, ever seen without a blue or red baseball cap on backwards.
 * Oh Crap:.
 * Recurring Extra
 * Super Strength
 * Those Two Girls: With Leah.

Bayarmaa
Oz's wife and a fellow werewolf, they met when he went to Tibet to learn how to control his transformations, and they had a child together. She helped teach the Slayer army to channel their magic into the earth to hide from Twilight.


 * Action Mom
 * Badass
 * Berserk Button: Do not try to to harm Oz.
 * Beware the Nice Ones
 * Comic Book Fantasy Casting: She was drawn to resemble actress Dichen Lachman, who played a character in Joss Whedon's Dollhouse.
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Happily Married
 * Hot Mom
 * Meaningful Name: Her name means "joyful mother" in Mongolian and Tibetan.
 * Technical Pacifist
 * Wolf Woman

Aluwyn/Saga Vasuki
A mysterious demon who guides Willow during her continued magical training.


 * Ambiguously Evil: While she is never seen doing anything evil, Aluywn did train crazy vampire witch Kumiko in addition to Willow.
 * Dark Is Not Evil: Maybe.
 * Hot as Hell
 * Ms. Fanservice
 * Self-Proclaimed Liar
 * Snakes Are Sexy: Willow and Buffy think so.
 * Snake People
 * Trickster Mentor

Nadira
A British Slayer who joins a group of other Slayers being mentored by Faith in London. She lost her entire squad during the Twilight crisis, and will stop at nothing to find and kill those responsible.


 * Action Girl
 * Ax Crazy: Due to her Berserker tendencies. She's put several normal humans in the hospital.
 * Badass
 * The Berserker: She charges around during battle with no plan, and when she goes too long without a fight, she will seek one out, even if it with humans. She realizes it’s a problem, and wonders what is wrong with her. It gets bad enough that she starts attacking her own allies when they attempt to stop her from beating up humans.
 * Bob Haircut
 * British Accents
 * Gotta Kill Them All: Her goal is to hunt down and kill Pearl, Nash, and for their part in killing her squad.
 * Hair-Trigger Temper: It is very easy to set her off.
 * Leeroy Jenkins
 * Mood Swinger
 * Sole Survivor: Her squad was wiped out by two of Twilight's minions.
 * Survivor Guilt
 * Super Strength

Daphne
Another British Slayer being mentored by Faith, she is more easygoing than Nadira.


 * Action Girl
 * Badass
 * British Accents
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Super Strength

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


 * The Archmage: Formerly.
 * Badass Bookworm: A powerful British archmage who apparently fought in a magical war and was awesome enough in it to impress Angel...
 * Retired Badass: ...who now simply collects strange and nearly extinct magical creatures in order to protect them.
 * Big Fancy House
 * British Accents
 * Cool Old Guy
 * Collector of the Strange: Since the End of Magic, Alasdair has been collecting endangered species of magical creatures in order to keep them safe, including several pixies whom he refers to as his friends, and what appears to be a small dragon.
 * De-Power: Due to the destruction of the Seed of Wonder.
 * Magic Librarian
 * Quintessential British Gentleman
 * The Smart Guy
 * Specs of Awesome

Robert Dowling
A young detective on the San Francisco Police force who is partners with Detective Cheung. Dowling and Cheung's cases led them to investigate Buffy. Currently, Dowling is learning about vampire-fighting from Spike so that he can handle the city's zompire problem.


 * Badass Normal
 * Big Damn Heroes: Saves Buffy and Spike from Severin by shooting him.
 * Fair Cop
 * Reasonable Authority Figure: He advocates giving Buffy a chance to help them and believing her while Cheung shoots down the idea.

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


 * Fair Cop
 * Inspector Javert
 * Jerkass
 * Jerkass

Eldre Koh
A ancient demon who was imprisoned in a mystical prison by evil forces. After the Seed of Wonder was destroyed, he was released and began searching for Buffy to thank her for freeing him and fight alongside her.


 * Dark Is Not Evil
 * Red Eyes, Take Warning: But he isn't evil.
 * Pointy Ears
 * Proud Warrior Race Guy
 * Sealed Good in a Can
 * You No Take Candle