Spike (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

## Spike

### Friends / Allies

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

## Personal Information

### Occupation

Poet (formerly)
Mass Murderer (formerly)
Member of Whirlwind
Supernatural hunter
Member of Angel Investigations (formerly)
Member of the Scooby Gang
Champion (currently)

### Affiliations

The Whirlwind
Scooby Gang
Wolfram & Hart

### Powers/Abilities

* 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

### Likes

Writing poetry, listening to punk music, watching his favorite soap opera, *Passions*, fighting the good fight, Hunting, pillaging, maiming, and killing with his girlfriend Drusilla (formerly), Buffy Summers, abuse, blood

### Dislikes

Buffy dating other guys (sometimes), Angel (Formerly), Joyce Summers' death, losing or hurting Buffy, Dawn in peril

## Character Information

### Created By

Joss Whedon

**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*. 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)

## References

1. ↑ In *Buffy the Vampire Slayer*, he appears as the false main antagonist-turned-anti-hero of season two, a minor antagonist in season three, the secondary antagonist-turned-anti-hero of season 4, the tritagonist of seasons 5 and 6 and the deuteragonist of season 7