Buffy doesn’t slay vamps alone. She has a whole Scooby Gang,, plus assorted teachers, allies, friends, frenemies, family members and boyfriends to help her out. Can you identify each "Buffy" character based on a short description?
A depraved and brutal vampire famous for his acts of cruelty, he later gains a soul and feels remorse for all he has done. His relationship with Buffy Summers is complicated by the curse that gave him his soul.
Spike
Angel
Riley
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Angel was so popular he eventually had his own spinoff TV series.
An amoral wizard who knew Giles back when they were both rebellious punks using magic to stir up trouble, he becomes a potent and recurring enemy to Buffy and friends because he's willing to sell his dark magic abilities to anyone who's willing to pay, including demons.
Draven Greymoore
Ethan Rayne
Lothos
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Ethan Rayne: suave, sophisticated, arrogant, total jerk.
Seemingly a student at University of California, Sunnydale, he's really an operative for a secret government group called the Initiative. He gets in a relationship with Buffy, but the Initiative's goals often conflict with hers, complicating things.
William Pratt
Spike
Riley Finn
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Riley and Buffy's relationship is probably doomed to failure from the start.
Originally a popular Sunnydale High student who uses her popularity to harass Buffy, she eventually becomes a member of the Scooby Gang, even having a relationship with Xander despite its effect on her status.
Anya Jenkins
Harmony Kendall
Cordelia Chase
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Cordelia becomes an integral member of Buffy's inner circle before moving to Los Angeles.
Emotionally unstable, she revels in her powers as a Slayer but doesn’t always use them for good. Buffy puts her in a coma at one point, and she spends some time in prison.
Faith Lehane
Kendra Young
Dawn Summers
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Faith is the "bad girl" who becomes a Slayer and continues to struggle with mental health issues.
She's Buffy's little sister who doesn’t actually exist. Until she does.
Dawn Summers
April Summers
Rose Summers
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The whole "little sister we never heard about before, but everyone acts like she's always been there" thing is one of the weirdest events in the Buffyverse, and that's saying a lot.
He's a grinning, glad-handing politician who abhors foul language. He's also a wizard who's a few hundred years old and wants to become immortal at any cost.
R. Snyder
Richard Wilkins III
Andrew Wells
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Mayor Wilkins' attempt to transform into a demon leads to an epic battle at a graduation ceremony.
A harsh psychology professor at University of California, Sunnydale, she also leads the Initiative, a government organization that mercilessly hunts vampires and demons.
Rebecca Hightower
Maggie Walsh
Lillian Bosch
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Maggie Walsh is not well-liked, either as a professor or within the Initiative.
One of the popular "mean girls" at Sunnydale High, her transformation into a vampire didn’t make her any less vapid or shallow, only more evil (probably).
Formerly a popular cheerleader, her life becomes complicated when she's chosen as the Slayer. She burns down her high school gym battling a vampire and later has a complicated romantic relationship with another vampire.
Willow Rosenberg
Faith Lehane
Buffy Summers
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Buffy is the title character of the whole series, so hopefully you didn’t miss this one.
An average guy who struggles to sustain successful relationships mainly due to his own feelings of inadequacy as a nonmagic human along Slayers, demons, witches and Watchers, he nevertheless is a core member of the Scooby Gang.
Bill Staley
Oz
Alexander Harris
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You probably know him as Xander, but his full name is Alexander Harris.
First a trouble-making teen summoning flying monkeys, then a member of the villainous Trio, later part of the Scooby Gang and ultimately a Watcher helping train Slayers, this wizard is much more well-known than his older brother.
Van Doyle
Andrew Wells
Gareth George
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Andrew Wells undergoes a significant change from villain to hero, vastly overshadowing his brother, Tucker.
Initially very shy, she meets Willow at UC Sunnydale, and together they explore witchcraft and their growing romantic feelings for each other. Her death leads to the emergence of Dark Willow.
Tara Maclay
Faith Lehane
Sarah Bond
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Tara is a powerful and experienced witch even before she meets Willow.
This terrifying vampire was originally a terrible poet named William Pratt. He gradually develops a moral center and assists Buffy, falling in love with her.
Wolfram
Angelus
Spike
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Spike's bleached-blond hair and dry, sardonic humor are his trademarks.
A Sunnydale High student, he becomes a magic-using villain who mind-wipes his own girlfriend into being a sex slave and shoots Tara through the heart while trying to shoot Buffy.
Balthazar Slane
Warren Mears
Greg Toole
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Warren Mears' banality makes him one of Buffy's most infuriating enemies.
Initially a Sunnydale High student who is constantly the victim of various supernatural problems (an Incan mummy, a demonic Bezoar, the swim team, etc.) before joining the villainous Trio, he is ultimately sacrificed on the Seal of Danzalthar by his Trio comrades.
Mark Hanes
Jonathan Levinson
Andrew Wood
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Jonathan makes peace with his troubled high school years before he dies.
The principal at Sunnydale High after the prior principal was killed, he is the son of a Slayer, was raised by a Watcher and is trained to hunt vampires.
Lucas Van Helsing
Eldon Blade
Robin Wood
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Robin Wood knows about the Hellmouth when he becomes principal.
She becomes Xander's love interest, even getting engaged at one point, but her true identity as a vengeance demon makes long-term happiness difficult for them to achieve together.
Willow Rosenberg
Anya Jenkins
Jessa Frost
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Anya and Xander are quite the star-crossed lovers.
It can’t be easy being the principal of a high school on a Hellmouth, with a Slayer causing so much trouble even though he got her expelled. He ended up being eaten by a demon snake anyway.
Principal Carlyle
Principal Snyder
Principal Iovine
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Principal Snyder blamed Buffy for a lot of the trouble at the school.