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Rewrite of List of Buffy the Vampire Slayer characters that will be based on the layout of Characters of Smallville.

Main characters

Buffy Summers

Buffy Summers is played by Sarah Michelle Gellar and is a main character for all seven seasons. She is the only character to have previously appeared in the 1992 Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie, played by Kristy Swanson. Buffy is "the Slayer", the latest in a long line of superpowered females chosen by fate to battle evil forces. The series depicts her struggles to balance her heroic destiny with leading a normal everyday life. Over the course of the series, Buffy engages in romantic relationships with two vampires: first with Angel, and later with Spike.

Xander Harris

Xander Harris is played by Nicholas Brendon, and is a main character for all seven seasons. A student at Sunnydale High, he is Buffy's best male friend. In the early seasons, Xander is also in love with Buffy, but these feelings are not reciprocated. The character is described as "an outsider looking in", and was based on his creator, Joss Whedon. Xander is notable for being the only member of the "Scooby Gang" who develops no superpowers or connection to the supernatural whatsoever. After high school, he worries that his friends are moving on without him, but his relationship with Anya helps him to grow up. (SEE BITE ME! FOR SOURCE)

Willow Rosenberg

Willow Rosenberg is played by Alyson Hannigan, and is a main character of all seven seasons. A student at Sunnydale High, she is Buffy's female best friend. In early seasons, Willow's crush on best friend Xander goes unrequited due to his infatuation with Buffy. Later however, Willow finds love with musician Oz, and following him Tara, through whom Willow discovers she is a lesbian, and Kennedy. Willow is initially useful to Buffy because of her intelligence, and in earlier seasons she extensively lends her computer-based skills for research and computer hacking. As the series progresses, so does Willow's interest in magic, taking her from an amateur spellcaster to a powerful witch and the most powerful character on the show by its conclusion.

Rupert Giles

Rupert Giles is played by Anthony Stewart Head, and is a main character for the first four seasons and a recurring character in the final three. Giles is both Buffy's official Watcher and the librarian at Sunnydale High, who co-ordinates Buffy's activities and trains her. He is formally relieved of his duties sometime in the third season by the Watcher's Council who feels his fatherly love for Buffy interferes with his duties. He continues to guide and watch over her unofficially, but struggles with feelings both that Buffy has outgrown him and that he is holding back her development. In Giles' backstory, he was once a rebellious tearaway dabbling in black magics with friend Ethan Rayne, but is snapped back on the right path after causing the death of a friend. In the present, Giles retains some proficiency with magic and is capable of ruthlessness.

Cordelia Chase

Cordelia Chase is played by Charisma Carpenter, and is a main character from seasons one to three. She is a "brutally honest"[1] cheerleader at Sunnydale High who gradually befriends the Scooby Gang, and in season two, begins a romantic relationship with Xander which causes her to become ostracised from her popular peers. Charisma Carpenter claims that Cordelia's role in the series is to "provide conflict", but that her relationship with Xander prevented her from being "one-dimensional".^[1] As her character became less antagonistic in nature, Carpenter was challenged with making her likable while trying "not to lose her edge, her honesty".^[2] After three seasons on Buffy, Carpenter continued playing Cordelia for four seasons in spin-off series Angel.

Angel

Oz

Spike

Riley Finn

Anya Jenkins

Dawn Summers

Tara Maclay

Recurring characters

Joyce Summers

The Master

Harmony Kendall

Amy Madison

Principal Snyder

Jenny Calendar

Drusilla

Jonathan Levinson

Ethan Rayne

Faith

Faith is played by Eliza Dushku, and is a recurring character in seasons three, four, and seven. Created as a foil to Buffy, Faith is a Slayer who makes the wrong choices in life. There is only supposed to be one Slayer, but Faith was called after Kendra's death, who in turn was called when Buffy technically died and had to be resuscitated. Initially an ally to Buffy and the Scooby Gang, Faith slips into a villainous role after she accidentally kills a human being in battle. She starts working with the Mayor in his mission to become pure-blood demon, and comes to view him as a father figure. Faith also makes appearances in spin-off series Angel, in which the character of Angel helps her down a redemptive path. She returns in Buffy season seven with a new attitude, helping the characters in the battle against the First. Faith was written as a "tragic" character, and Eliza Dushku describes her as the "working class" Slayer.

The Mayor

The First Evil

Wesley Wyndam-Pryce

Adam

Glory

Warren Mears

Andrew Wells

Andrew Wells (Tom Lenk) is introduced in the season six episode "Flooded" as a member of the supervillain team the Trio. Whereas his teammates Jonathan and Warren were already established characters, Andrew is known only as the younger brother of Tucker, a one episode antagonist in season three's "The Prom". Andrew's role in the Trio relies on his ability to summon demons, a talent learned from his older brother. In the season six finale, Andrew flees to Mexico with Jonathan to escape Willow's murderous rampage. He returns in the season seven episode "Conversations with Dead People", which sees him manipulated by the First Evil into killing Jonathan. Captured by Buffy and her friends, he spends the rest of the season trying to redeem himself by aiding in the battle against the First.

When Anya dies in the battle, Andrew comforts Xander by lying to him that she died saving his life. Joss Whedon says of this scene, "The thing that [Andrew] is sort of reviled for, making up stories, becomes the thing that he helps Xander with. Becomes the thing that he actually is good at, giving her the epic death she didn't actually get to have."^{[citation needed]}

Despite commenting upon the ambiguity of Andrew's sexual orientation, gay men's website AfterElton.com awarded Andrew the status as the tenth best gay or bisexual character in modern science fiction.^[3] Joss Whedon has stated "Andrew's sexuality is always on the cusp of self-awareness because Andrew is stunted emotionally and because it's hilarious". He claims the scene in "The Girl in Question", where Andrew leaves for the opera with two women, was a mistake, and that he was supposed to have left with a group of both men and women.^[4]

Robin Wood

Kennedy

Other characters

Cecily

See Halfrek

Cecily, played by Kali Rocha is the object of Spike's affections in his mortal days as William, who spurns his desires. Later episodes in which Kali Rocha plays the vengeance demon Halfrek would imply that Cecily had only been an alias of the demon Halfrek.

Halfrek

Halfrek, played by Kali Rocha, is a long-time associate and sometime friend of Anya, who knew her from her days as a vengeance demon. The two had worked together in the past, notably during the Russian Revolution. However, Halfrek's raison d'etre differed from Anya's. Whereas Anya was an avenger of scorned women, Halfrek's "thing" (as Anya put it) is to perform vengeance for children who have been wronged by their parents or guardians. Anya attributes this to "daddy issues". Even after Anya ceases to be a vengeance demon, she continues her friendship with Halfrek. Like Anyanka used the name Anya when masquerading as human, Halfrek's mortal persona goes by the name Hallie.

In her second appearance in season 6, Halfrek poses as a guidance counselor and coaxes Dawn into making a wish. Feeling that no one wants to spend time with her, Dawn wishes that people would never leave; Halfrek therefore casts a spell that prevents anyone from leaving the Summers residence. The crisis ends when Halfrek herself is caught in the spell and has to break it. Halfrek also appears as a bridesmaid at the failed wedding of Anya and Xander. Early in season 7, Halfrek attempts to coax Anya back into vengeance, but Anya has spent too long as a mortal; while she was initially successful in her return to demonhood, she subsequently regrets the deaths she has caused. Anya thus asks D'Hoffryn (the head of the Vengeance Demons) to restore the lives of a group of men slaughtered as a result of one of her wishes; D'Hoffryn agrees, but destroys, or appears to destroy, Halfrek's body and soul before Anya's eyes in order to accomplish what she has requested.

In the season 6 episode "Older and Far Away", Halfrek recognizes Spike and calls him by his human name, William. Spike also recognizes Halfrek, but when asked to explain this they both sheepishly deny being acquainted. This strongly implies that Halfrek had previously been Cecily, an alias used by Halfrek, who was present at least three decades earlier at the Crimean War in 1853. Joss Whedon and Kali Rocha have both made statements that Halfrek and Cecily were indeed the same entity. ^{[citation needed]} This idea has been expanded upon in expanded universe material; Halfrek later appeared in the non-canonical comic Spike: Old Times by Peter David, which established that she was "on a job" at the time that William fell for Cecily. The night William became a vampire, she caused the deaths of the rude party-goers who had laughed at William's poetry.

Kakistos

Kendra

References

^ "The Thrill of the Chase". Buffy the Vampire Slayer Magazine incorporating Angel Magazine (92): 83. Feb–March 2007. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
^ Golden, Christopher (1998). Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide Vol. 1. New York: Pocket Books. pp. 203–206. ISBN 0671024337. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |year= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
^ "Ten Best Gay and Bisexual Science Fiction Characters". AfterElton.com. 2008-01-20. Retrieved 2008-01-21.
^ Whedonesque : Comments on 15286 : Ten Best Gay and Bisexual Science Fiction Characters

External links

[ThrilloftheChase-1] "The Thrill of the Chase". Buffy the Vampire Slayer Magazine incorporating Angel Magazine (92): 83. Feb–March 2007. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

[WG1-2] Golden, Christopher (1998). Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide Vol. 1. New York: Pocket Books. pp. 203–206. ISBN 0671024337. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |year= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: year (link)

[3] "Ten Best Gay and Bisexual Science Fiction Characters". AfterElton.com. 2008-01-20. Retrieved 2008-01-21.

[4] Whedonesque : Comments on 15286 : Ten Best Gay and Bisexual Science Fiction Characters

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