Spike (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

## Media

Angel

### Friends

Faith Lehane, Buffy Summers, Clement, Dawn Summers, Willow Rosenberg, Clement, Winifred Burkle, Illyria, Beck, Robert Dowling, Joyce Summers (motherly figure), Angel (sometimes), Drusilla (formerly), Xander Harris (sometimes), Anya

### Enemies

Angel (sometimes; arch-rival), Robin Wood, Xander Harris (sometimes), Rupert Giles (formerly), Riley Finn (love rival), Dracula

### Affiliations

The Whirlwind
Scooby Gang
Wolfram & Hart

### Powers

* Superhuman Resilience
* Superhuman Senses
* Regenerative Abilities
* Biological Immortality
* Ensoulment

High Intelligence* Tactical Analysis
* Strategic Planning
* Criminal Intuition
* Multilingualism
* Technical Knowledge
* Psychological Warfare

Experienced Combatant* Body Reading
* Superior Athleticism
* Master Martial Artist
* Expert Marksman
* Master Swordsman
* Master Knife-Fighter

“*You listen to me. I've been alive a bit longer than you, and dead a lot longer than that. I've seen things you couldn't imagine, and done things I'd prefer you didn't. I don't exactly have a reputation for being a thinker. I follow my blood, which doesn't exactly rush in the direction of my brain. So I make a lot of mistakes. A lot of wrong bloody calls. A hundred plus years, and there's only one thing I've ever been sure of. You... Hey, look at me. I'm not asking you for anything. When I say I love you, it's not because I want you, or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you... and I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You are a hell of a woman. You're the one, Buffy..*”
―Spike to Buffy Summers, "Touched."

**Spike** (born **William Pratt**) is the tritagonist of the Buffyverse, appearing as the tritagonist turned deuteragonist of *Buffy the Vampire Slayer* and the deuteragonist of the fifth season in the spin-off *Angel*.

## Canon

Initially introduced as a villain intent on killing Buffy Summers, he eventually becomes one of her allies and second love interest. He is "love's bitch", to the sarcastic comic relief, to Buffy's romantic interest. Their relationship that grows from miserable lust/mutually abusive to a genuine love. He eventually became a self-sacrificing hero, dying as a Champion at the Hellmouth. However, he is resurrected in the fifth season of *Angel*.

In the expanded universe, Spike is reunited with Buffy and continues helping her fight the good fight vs. the forces of evil.

He is portrayed by James Marsden, who also portrays Victor Stein in Marvel's The *Runaways* and Brainiac in *Smallville*.

## Powers and Abilities

### Weaknesses

* He cannot go into a house without being invited
* Spike has the basics of Vampire weaknesses including
	+ A stake to the heart
	+ Holy water
	+ The cross.
	+ He can also burn from direct sunlight

## Notes and trivia

* Unlike Angel, Spike never really repented for his misdeeds and did not turn good of his own volition - though in time, Spike would come to be a more heroic individual. Though he regained his soul, Spike loved Buffy even without it. Even after they broke up, Spike and Buffy actually maintained a friendship after their relationship ended in between *Season 11* and *Season 12*, with possibility at having a serious one someday into the future.

## Appearances

### Television

* *Buffy the Vampire Slayer* (1997-2003, 96 episodes)
* *Angel* (1999-2000, 2003-2004, 24 episodes)

### Comics

* *Buffy the Vampire Slayer Classic* (1999-2002, 29 appearances)
* *Tales* (2003, 1 appearance)
* *Angel* (2005-2011, 36 appearances)
* *The Ultimate Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Gift* (2005, 1 appearance)
* *Spike* (2006-2014, 58 appearances)
* *Buffy the Vampire Slayer* (2007, 2009-2018, 72 appearances)
* *Angel* (2007-2009, 2012-2014, 27 appearances)

### Novels

* *Buffy the Vampire Slayer* (1998-2008, 27 novels)

### Video games

* *Buffy the Vampire Slayer* (2000)
* *Buffy the Vampire Slayer* (2002)
* *Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds* (2003)
* *Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Sacrifice* (2009)