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The following are minor recurring characters in the American Buffy the Vampire Slayer franchise.

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Parker Abrams is a student at UC Sunnydale who appears in the fourth season, played by Adam Kaufman. First appearing in the episode "Living Conditions", he meets Buffy and forms a seemingly intimate relationship with her. The pair sleep together in the next episode, "The Harsh Light of Day." However, while Buffy feels that the encounter represented an emotional bond, Parker considers it to be merely physical gratification, a moment of "healthy fun". Buffy expects Parker to contact her, which he never does. She eventually confronts him, but he is mostly cold and aloof, and Buffy soon realizes that the emotional intimacy she felt she had experienced with Parker was part of his calculated method to attract girls. In the episode "Beer Bad", Buffy's best friend Willow confronts Parker over what had happened. During that conversation, Parker attempts to seduce Willow, who initially plays along but soon reveals she has seen through him and verbally attacks him. Later in the same episode, Parker tries to apologize to Buffy after she saves his life in a fire. However, Buffy, who has been mystically reverted to a cavewoman, merely responds by knocking him unconscious. Parker's final onscreen appearance is in the episode "The Initiative", in which Buffy's college TA Riley punches him when he makes some rude comments about Buffy.

Amanda is a Potential Slayer who appears in the seventh season, played by Sarah Hagan. A Sunnydale High student and member of the swing choir, she first appears in the episode "Help" as part of the seemingly-random stream of students showing up at Buffy's guidance office. Amanda was sent to Buffy for beating up another student who was picking on her. In the later episode "Potential", it is revealed that Amanda is in fact a Potential Slayer, and she aptly slays a vampire threatening her and Dawn. Afterwards, Amanda moves into the Summers' residence, where she trains and becomes friends with her fellow Potentials. In the final episode of the show, "Chosen", Amanda is activated as a Slayer along with the other Potentials and battles against an army of Turok-Han vampires. She is last seen falling to the ground after being killed.

Ben is the alter-ego of Glory and appears in season five, played by Charlie Weber. Ben meets and befriends Buffy at the Sunnydale hospital during her mother's illness, and unsuccessfully attempts to date her. It is eventually revealed that Ben was created as a mortal prison for the hell goddess Glorificus. Glory learned to free herself from her prison for periods of time, and a spell prevents any human who sees or learns about the metamorphosis from remembering it. As Glory spends more time in control of their shared existence, Ben's life starts to fall apart; he is dismissed from his job at Sunnydale Hospital because Glory asserts her control for increasingly prolonged periods of time. He learns that Dawn Summers is the mystical Key for which Glory is searching, but attempts to hide that fact from her (although he does let slip to one of Glory's minions that the key is actually a person). At the end of season five, Ben tries to help Dawn flee from Glory, but in the end decides to assist Glory with the ritual to harness the Key's energy because Glory promises to make him immortal if he co-operates. After Glory is beaten, she reverts to Ben who is then smothered to death by Giles to make sure that Glory never returns to exact revenge on Buffy.

Larry Blaisdell is a student at Sunnydale High who appears in the second and third seasons, and is played by Larry Bagby III. He is initially portrayed as a stereotypical jock, first seen bullying Xander in the episode "Halloween". He is also rather lecherous, constantly lusting after and harassing girls, including Buffy and Willow. However, in "Phases", when Xander presses Larry to confess to a series of werewolf attacks, Larry misunderstands and infers that Xander, like himself, is a closeted homosexual. This misunderstanding is echoed in most subsequent conversations between them, and also leads to Larry's own coming out, and the revelation of his more caring and compassionate side. In the alternate universe of "The Wish", he is one of Rupert Giles's "white hats," along with Oz and a girl named Nancy. In the season three finale "Graduation Day, Part Two", he is seen taking the front line in the battle against the Mayor of Sunnydale, who has morphed into the gigantic demon Olvikan. He is last seen being thrown to the ground by a swipe of the Mayor's tail. His death is confirmed in the season six episode "Smashed", when Willow informs Amy Madison that Larry won't be taking her to the prom because he's gay, he's dead, and high school ended three years ago.

The Buffybot is a character who appears in the fifth and sixth seasons. It is an identical robot replica of the real Buffy Summers, and as such, also played by Sarah Michelle Gellar. Though a perfect physical replica of Buffy, the Buffybot's mannerisms and speech patterns are usually stilted and imperfect by human standards; it also lacks understanding of nuance and tact, and can be disconcertingly blunt in conversation. The Buffybot first appears in the episode "Intervention", having been created by Warren Mears as a sex toy for the vampire Spike, who is obsessed with Buffy. Therefore, the Buffybot is initially programmed to be in love with Spike and do anything to please him. Buffy's friends mistake the robot for her, and Buffy later poses as the Buffybot to find out whether Spike betrayed her and Dawn to the hellgod Glory, presenting him with a kiss when she discovers the lengths he went to protect them. In the fifth season finale, "The Gift", Xander and Anya find the deactivated Buffybot in the basement of The Magic Box. The group decide to use it to make the first strike and distract Glory from the real Buffy. After a few minutes of battle, the Bot is decapitated by Glory and the real Buffy then reveals herself.

In the first two episodes of the sixth season, following Buffy's death, the Buffybot is used for patrolling to ensure the underworld does not discover the Slayer's death; if demons think Buffy is alive, they are less likely to strike, out of fear. Its impersonation also ensures that Dawn, lacking a legal guardian in Sunnydale with both Buffy and their mother dead, can stay in town with the Scooby Gang and allows the group to live and operate out of the Summers home. Unfortunately, one vampire discovers the secret when fighting with it and brings a demon biker gang to Sunnydale to tear the place apart. The demons destroy the Buffybot by tearing it limb from limb. Before "dying", the Buffybot reveals to Dawn that the real Buffy has returned. Buffybot has not since been repaired.

Caridad is a Potential Slayer who comes to Sunnydale in season seven, and is played by Dania Ramirez. First seen in the episode "Dirty Girls", she plays a small role in the final episodes of the seventh season. In "Touched", she aids Giles and Kennedy in luring out and capturing a Bringer, and then later follows Faith alongside numerous Potentials to an underground arsenal of the First. She is then seen in the following episode "End of Days", at first helping those wounded from the bomb blast escape the sewers and then later at the Summer's residence, helping heal the wounded and briefly quizzing Buffy on whether her return to the fold is permanent.

Chao-Ahn is a Potential Slayer who comes to Sunnydale in the seventh season, and is played by Kristy Wu. Speaking only Cantonese, she first appears in the episode "First Date". Most of her subtitled lines serve as comic relief along with the attempts of Giles to communicate with her using crudely drawn pictures. Chao-Ahn often mistakes Giles' attempts at communication as a threat to her personally. Chao-Ahn is mentioned in the non-canon novel Queen of the Slayers as having died in the battle against the Turok-Han in the season finale "Chosen". Her death is never confirmed onscreen.

Chloe is a Potential Slayer who comes to Sunnydale in season seven, and is played by Lalaine. Introduced in the episode "Showtime", Chloe seems reluctant to engage in her newfound responsibilities, and by her next and final appearance in "Get It Done", it is clear that Chloe is not cut out for life as a Slayer. The First manifests in her room and convinces her to hang herself. Buffy buries Chloe's body next to that of the recently deceased Annabelle. Chloe's suicide is a major catalyst in Buffy choosing to take drastic action, culminating in her meeting with the men who created the first Slayer. It is mentioned that Chloe loved Winnie-the-Pooh after the First assumed her form and said "T.T.F.N." "T.T.F.N.", or "Ta-Ta For Now", is what Tigger says when he makes an exit.

Clem (full name Clement) is a benevolent demon who appears in the sixth and seven seasons, played by James Charles Leary. Clem has large, floppy ears, loose skin, and a friendly disposition, despite being a demon who eats kittens. His caucasian coloration allows him to occasionally pass as a human with a "skin condition." He is introduced in the episode "Life Serial", as a player in game of poker where live kittens are the stakes and in which he's seen cheating by hiding cards in his forearms' skin folds. He reappears in the episodes "Older and Far Away", in which Spike invites him to Buffy's birthday party, and "Hell's Bells", in which he attends the wedding of Xander and Anya. Later in the season, he befriends Dawn while looking after her in Spike's absence. Next season, Clem meets Buffy in a demon bar and they greet one another very affectionately. In the episode "Empty Places", Clem joins the rest of the Sunnydale population in fleeing the town as the apocalypse nears. Clem has the ability to project presumably grotesque snake-like appendages; he did this trick for the Potential Slayers in the episode "Potential," but it was shown onscreen only from the back of his head.

Miss Kitty Fantastico is the pet kitten of Tara and Willow. She is a black/grey kitten with white rear feet, a white stripe from her chin to chest, and a small spot of white fur around her nose. Introduced at the end of season four, Miss Kitty only appears in three episodes, "The Yoko Factor", "Restless" and "Family", although Willow and Tara discuss getting a cat in "New Moon Rising". After season five, Miss Kitty Fantastico simply disappears from the show, and for a long time this is never explained. The cat is finally mentioned again in the penultimate episode of season seven, "End of Days", when Dawn claims, "I don't leave crossbows around all willy-nilly. Not since that time with Miss Kitty Fantastico."

Allan Finch was the Deputy Mayor of Sunnydale in season three, and was played by Jack Plotnick. He is assistant to the villainous Mayor Richard Wilkins, and behaves nervously around his demonic boss. In the episode "Bad Girls", Allan admits that he likes reading the comic strip Cathy. He is later killed by Faith, who mistakes him for a vampire. Although Faith tries to dismiss the accident because Allan was involved in criminal activities, Buffy points out that he may have been coming to warn them about the Mayor's plan. Allan's death sparks a police investigation and causes Faith to betray Buffy and the Scooby Gang.

The First Slayer was the first in the line of Slayers, played by Sharon Ferguson. She first appears in the season four finale "Restless", where she kills Willow, Xander, and Giles in their respective dreams before attempting to kill Buffy in the same fashion after she refuses to leave her friends for dead. The First Slayer ultimately fails when Buffy manages to wake up from her sleep, thus pulling herself and her friends out of the First Slayer's nightmare. Giles reveals that the First Slayer never had a Watcher, and attributes her appearance to the enjoining spell they cast with Buffy in "Primeval", claiming that invoking the essence of the Slayer's power was an affront to the source of that power. The spirit of the First Slayer appears again the next season, when Buffy goes on a vision quest to learn more about her power in "Intervention". The First Slayer tells her that death is her gift, a message Buffy is reluctant to believe, but one which ultimately prove when she sacrifices herself in the season finale "The Gift". In the season seven episode "Get It Done", the origin of the First Slayer is explained. Three elders from local villages got together and thought of a plan to rid their village of vampires. She was created by a group of shamans thousands of years ago. They took a girl away and chained her to the ground, so she couldn't escape. Then, they mystically implanted her with the essence of a demon. It is suggested that this demonic energy originates from the same source that gives power to the vampires. She had incredible strength, stamina and a predatorial instinct, but she also lost her humanity.

The First Slayer appears in the graphic novel, Tales of the Slayers, in which she is asked to leave a village she defended from a vampire. The villagers feared her even more than other demons. She also cameos in the comic mini-series Fray #3, when a Slayer in the future is told the origins of her power, and in the Buffy Season Eight storyline "The Long Way Home" as an image of Buffy's dreamscape. In the novel Queen of the Slayers, the First Slayer is referred to as Senaya.

Robert "Bob" Flutie is the principal of Sunnydale High School in the first half of the first season and played by Ken Lerner. Introduced in the series opener "Welcome to the Hellmouth", Principal Flutie is eaten alive by possessed students in the later episode "The Pack". Probably unlike his successor Principal Snyder, Flutie is dedicated to helping students and is concerned with their self-esteem and socialization. Snyder later quips, "It's that kind of woolly-headed liberal thinking that leads to being eaten." Ironically, Snyder suffers a similar fate two years later. Flutie is mentioned again in the season seven episode "Beneath You"; when Principal Wood jokes about the students eating the staff alive, Buffy asks "You heard about Principal Flutie, right?"

Billy "Ford" Fordham is an old friend and classmate of Buffy's from Hemery High in Los Angeles, and is played by Jason Behr. His only appearance is in the season two episode "Lie to Me", in which he comes to Sunnydale and reunites with Buffy. However, his true motive for coming to Sunnydale is to become a vampire, because he is dying from a brain tumor, and he believes that it is better to live forever as a vampire. Ford is involved with a cult of vampire-wannabes, and he plans to sacrifice both them and Buffy to the local vampires in exchange for being sired. This causes an ethical dilemma for Buffy, who struggles with the idea of staking an old friend who wants to escape his unfortunate situation. She decides that Ford has no right to sacrifice others, and rescues his intended victims from Spike and his minions. Ford, however, is killed and sired, and Buffy is forced to stake him at the end of the episode.

Forrest Gates is a friend of Riley Finn and member of the Initiative who appears in season four, played by Leonard Roberts. Like his teammates Riley and Graham, Forrest is forced to lead a double life and balance his military service with his cover of UC Sunnydale student. Initially, he likes Buffy and encourages Riley to pursue a relationship with her. As events proceed and Buffy becomes an enemy of the Initiative, Forrest begins to vocally disapprove of Buffy, and Riley's relationship with her. Forrest is killed by Adam, but is then artificially reanimated with body parts from various demons and technological components. This "new" Forrest tries to assist Adam in defeating Buffy, and assaults her when she and her friends attack the Initiative complex. He is instead forced to face his old friend Riley in combat, and is killed by him.

Scott Hope is a student at Sunnydale High who appears in season three, and is played by Fab Filippo. He is introduced in the episode "Faith, Hope & Trick". Buffy acknowledges Scott as a potential love interest, but is still grieving over the death of Angel in the previous season. She finally gives in after numerous advances by Scott, and they date for a short time. However, Scott breaks up with Buffy shortly before Homecoming because he is tired of her constant distraction. Scott is mentioned again in the season seven episode "Conversations with Dead People", in which Buffy learns that he spread a rumour back in high school that she was a lesbian, and has ironically come out as gay himself in college.

Lydia is a Watcher who appeared in seasons five and seven, and is played by Cynthia Lamontagne. In the episode "Checkpoint", she travels to Sunnydale with Quentin Travers to test Buffy's abilities as the Slayer. As the Watchers' Council interviews Buffy's friends, Lydia nervously questions Spike, and blushingly admits that she wrote her thesis on him. Lydia reappears in the episode "Never Leave Me", in which she is killed in the explosion which destroys the Watchers' Council.

Devon MacLeish is a student at Sunnydale High, lead singer of the band Dingoes Ate My Baby, and a friend of Oz. He appears in the second, third, and fourth seasons, and is played by Jason Hall. Despite appearing in several episodes, he never features very prominently. His lines are generally comic relief as he plays comedian to Oz's straight-man on subjects such as girls and bands who can play more than three chords. Devon has also dated cheerleaders Cordelia Chase and Harmony Kendall, albeit briefly. After Oz's departure in the fourth season, Devon, along with the rest of the Dingoes, are not seen again.

Merrick is Buffy's original Watcher who appears in the Buffy movie, played by Donald Sutherland. He arrives in Los Angeles to inform Buffy of her destiny, and train her in using her Slayer abilities. He is initially tough and stern with his charge, but eventually comes to respect her methods. In the film, Merrick is murdered by the vampire Lothos, and dies telling Buffy to do things her own way rather than live by others' rules. Although the film and the television series do not take place in the same fictional universe, Merrick does appear briefly in a flashback to Buffy's calling in the season two finale "Becoming, Part Two", and is played by Richard Riehle. Merrick also appears in the Dark Horse Comics limited series The Origin, an adaptation of the original movie. In this version of the story, Merrick (based on Riehle as opposed to Sutherland) is not killed directly by Lothos, but instead shoots himself rather than be turned into a vampire and risk harming his Slayer. Joss Whedon has confirmed the canonicity of The Origin with the television series, stating "The origin comic, though I have issues with it, CAN pretty much be accepted as canonical. They did a cool job of combining the movie script (the SCRIPT) with the series, that was nice, and using the series' Merrick and not a certain OTHER thespian who shall remain hated."^[1]

Graham Miller is a friend of Riley Finn and member of the Initiative who appears in seasons four and five. He is played by Bailey Chase. Like his teammates Riley and Forrest, Graham is forced to lead a double life and balance his military service with his cover of UC Sunnydale student. Whereas Forrest is a rather brash person, Graham is more calm and collected. Graham survives the final battle in the Initiative complex and later testifies on Riley's behalf during the inquiry. In the fifth season, Graham helps Riley to get medical attention to correct the procedures that the Initiative conducted on him. Graham later asks Major Ellis to pursue Riley to leave Sunnydale and rejoin the army, as part of a new squad of demon-hunters, alongside himself and others.

Molly is a Potential Slayer who comes to Sunnydale in the seventh season, and is played by Clara Bryant. She is introduced in "Bring on the Night" along with fellow Potentials Kennedy and Annabelle. Molly speaks with a cockney accent and confuses the other characters by using British slang such as "peckish". When the Potentials are locked in a crypt with a vampire as part of a training routine in the episode "Potential", Molly is the one who manages to slay the demon. In the episode "Dirty Girls", Molly is one of the casualties in the battle at the vineyard when she is stabbed to death by Caleb.

Cassie Newton is a Sunnydale High student who appears in the seventh season, and is played by Azura Skye. Cassie first appears in the episode "Help" as a young girl who comes to Buffy's guidance office and tells her that she (Cassie) will die on the next Friday. Buffy manages to save her from a group of boys who try to kill her in order to raise a demon. However, immediately afterwards, Cassie dies of a heart attack caused by a family condition, fulfilling her own prophecy. She does, however, leave several prophecies relating to the Buffy final episode; telling Spike "She'll tell you" and implying to Buffy who would win the final battle with the First. Cassie's spirit apparently appears to Willow in "Conversations with Dead People" and tells her that she has a message from Tara; that she must commit suicide to avoid killing all her friends. When Willow realizes that this "girl" is not who she says she is, "Cassie" reveals herself to be the First Evil and tells Willow that "she" is going for a big finish, before disappearing.

Olivia is an old friend and romantic interest of Giles who appears in the fourth season, and is played by Phina Oruche. Although she lives in England, Olivia visits Giles on two occasions. She is first introduced in "The Freshman" and is in Sunnydale during the events of "Hush". In "Hush", she showed at least a small amount of artistic talent, drawing an accurate portrait of a Gentleman. At the end of "Hush", Olivia revealed she was not comfortable with Giles' role in battling the forces of evil. She appeared pregnant and pushing an empty baby stroller in Giles's dream sequence during "Restless" but was otherwise not seen again on the show.

Pike is a friend and love interest of Buffy who appears in the Buffy movie, and is played by Luke Perry. A hard-drinking and poverty-stricken slacker, he initially resents Buffy and her valley girl friends for their snobbery. However, when Pike's friend Benny is turned into a vampire by a minion of Lothos, Pike and Buffy find themselves teaming up to take Lothos down, and an attraction forms between them. Although the Buffy movie is not canon and Pike is never seen or mentioned in the television series, he does make a number of appearances in the Dark Horse comic book series. These include The Origin limited series, in which he plays a similar role as he did in the film. He also appears in the story Note from the Underground, in which he arrives in Sunnydale between seasons six and seven to help Buffy defeat fascist demon group, the Scourge. Pike's relationship with Buffy is explored further in Scott Lobdell and Fabian Nicieza's Year One-style run, which bridges the gap between the The Origin and the television series. He and Buffy travel to Las Vegas, where Pike eventually realises that their relationship endangers both of their lives, and breaks up with her. Pike's other literary appearances include the novel Sins of the Father; set during the third season of the show, it involves Pike being chased to Sunnydale by a rock demon known as Grayhewn.

Roden is a character introduced in the comic book continuation, Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight. He first appears in "No Future For You" and is created by Brian K. Vaughan with supervision from series creator Joss Whedon. He is the "tutor" of Lady Genevieve Savidge, a renegade Slayer. He is tutoring and coercing Savidge into killing other Slayers to further his unknown ends. He is an Irishman and commands magical abilities as well as loyal golem servants. In Part 4 of "No Future For You", he tries to lure Faith to his side, once she kills Gigi. She doesn't accept and continues fighting, stealing his "twilight book". Once Giles arrives he takes the book, and puts one of its containment spells inside Roden, expanding it and causing Roden's head to explode.

Rona is a Potential Slayer who comes to Sunnydale in the seventh season, and is played by Indigo. Arriving in the episode "Showtime", Rona didn't know she was a Potential until the Bringers attacked her. A somewhat argumentative African-American girl, Rona eventually accepts her destiny and she survives the climactic Hellmouth battle despite being badly injured several times. She appears in the comic "The Chain", as the person who decides which Slayer will act as a decoy for Buffy Summers

Xin Rong (known in the television series only as Chinese Slayer) is a Slayer who was active in China during 1890s and the 1900s, and is played by Ming Lui. In the season two episode "School Hard", Spike brags about killing a Slayer during the Boxer Rebellion. The Slayer's first and only appearance in the television series is in the season five episode "Fool for Love", in which her battle with Spike in 1900 is shown in flashback. The Slayer scars Spike's left eyebrow with her sword, and comes close to staking him, but an explosion outside rocks the temple in which they are fighting, and she loses control of the situation. Before Spike drains her of her blood, she says "Please tell my mother that I am sorry," to which Spike replies, "Sorry love, I don't speak Chinese."

The Chinese Slayer appears in the Spike & Dru comic book storyline All's Fair, which gives her name as Xin Rong. In this comic, Xin's family attempt revenge by sending her brothers after Spike. They track Spike and his partner Drusilla down in Prague. In Chicago, Illinois, 1933, the avengers of Xin Rong finally catch up with Spike and Dru. They beat and torture Drusilla so badly that she does not recover for ten years. The two vampires retaliate with the help of a chaos demon and the Rong family line ends there. In the Angel comic "Auld Lang Syne", the Slayer appears as a hallucination created by a demon called Lilitu to torment Spike. The Slayer's battle with Spike is recounted in the novel Spark and Burn, in which she is referred to as China Doll. According to the novel Blackout, the Chinese Slayer rescued a Buddhist monk from a dragon, for which he rewarded her with an enchanted sword. The enchantment of the sword explains why Spike's scar remains over a hundred years later, despite vampires' healing abilities.

Katrina Silber is the sometimes-girlfriend of Warren Mears who appears in the fifth and sixth seasons, and is played by Amelinda Embry. She is introduced the episode "I Was Made to Love You", in which she is horrified to discover that Warren had previously built a robotic version of what he considered to be the perfect girlfriend, called April. When the jealous April tries to kill her, Katrina is disgusted and breaks up with Warren. She reappears in the next season when Warren turns her into his sex slave using a mind control device. However, the effects are short-lived and when Katrina returns to normal she accuses Warren of rape and threatens to report his activities to the police. In the ensuing fight, Warren accidentally kills her while trying to stop her from leaving. He later uses magic in an attempt to frame Buffy for Katrina's death. The plan almost works, but when Buffy hears Katrina's name she remembers the events of "I was Made to Love You" and guesses that Warren is responsible. Katrina's last appearance is as a spirit, conjured by Willow to torment Warren after he kills Willow's girlfriend Tara. Katrina's spirit is understandably angry with Warren and suggests that she should have killed him before he killed her.

Sid the Dummy is a demon hunter, imprisoned in the body of a ventriloquist's dummy, who appears in the season one episode "The Puppet Show". When a girl, Emily, is found dead with her heart removed, Buffy suspects that the culprit may be Sid, the seemingly alive ventriloquist dummy of one of the performers participating in the upcoming talent show. Buffy confronts Sid, who explains his past to the Scooby Gang; he was once a human demon hunter cursed into the body of a ventriloquist dummy by a group of demons, the Brotherhood of Seven. Having tracked the final member of the Brotherhood, who was responsible for the murder of Emily, Sid stabs the heart of the demon and kills it. Freed from his curse, Sid dies.

Sid returns as a playable character in the video game Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds. In it, an alternate Sid from another dimension aids Buffy in her quest to defeat the First Evil by helping her break into the Sunnydale Hospital to find the eyeballs of the dead Cassandra Rayne. Sid remains behind with Ethan Rayne in the hospital while the Scoobies locate the other body parts of Cassandra, but he battles some demons and his final fate is unknown after Buffy ventures into the First's lair.

Detective Stein is a member of the Sunnydale police force, and is played by James G. MacDonald. He is first seen in the episode "Ted", in which he is in charge of the investigation of the death of Ted Buchanan, who apparently died after Buffy kicked him down the stairs in her home. He next appears in the episode "Becoming, Part Two" investigating Kendra's death. His final appearance is in the season three episode "Consequences" in which he questions Buffy and Faith about the death of Deputy Mayor Allan Finch.

Hank Summers is the father of Buffy and Dawn and the ex-husband of Joyce Summers. He is played by Dean Butler. He first appears in the episode "Nightmares", in which Buffy worries that he will not show up for their father/daughter weekend. In the season two opener "When She Was Bad", Hank admits to Joyce that Buffy was distant with him during their summer together. In season three, Hank is supposed to take Buffy to an ice show for her eighteenth birthday, but cancels at the last minute. In later seasons, Hank's character is developed further offscreen into the archetype of an upper-class deadbeat dad. Despite relative wealth and prosperity, Hank can not be relied on to keep his promises nor will he play the role of the father. When Buffy last heard from Hank, he had moved to Spain with his secretary, but she is unable to contact him when her mother dies in season five. Dawn indicates in "Bargaining" that she has spoken with her father at some point over the summer between seasons five and six, but she and the others are hiding Buffy's death from him. Hank's final onscreen appearance is in the episode "Normal Again", set in an alternate reality where the events of the show are simply Buffy hallucinating. Hank appears in the comic book stories Viva Las Buffy, Slayer, Interrupted and A Stake to the Heart, which flesh events prior to the show, including Joyce and Hank's divorce and the effect it has on Buffy and Dawn. Hank also makes appearances in the novels Power of Persuasion and How I Spent My Summer Vacation.

Quentin Travers is a member of the Watchers' Council who appears in the third, fifth, and sixth seasons, and is played by Harris Yulin. In his first appearance, "Helpless", he insists that Buffy undergo a ruthless rite of passage on her eighteenth birthday known as the Cruciamentum. The test involves a depowered Buffy being forced to fight a vampire using cunning alone. Giles' reluctance to comply with the test leads to Quentin firing him as Buffy's official Watcher. In season five, Quentin returns to Sunnydale with a cadre of Watchers and offers Buffy information on her new nemesis Glory if she completes another set of rigorous trials. After an encounter with the The Knights of Byzantium Buffy realizes that she is the one with the power, not the Watchers Council. Buffy gives Quentin an ultimatum; that they will work for her and that Giles will be reinstated at full salary (retroactively from the moment he was fired) and that they will stay out of her way. Quentin acquiesces to her demands. He reappears briefly in season seven, being caught in the explosion at the Watchers Council. Travers' family is featured in the tie-in novel Pretty Maids All in a Row; Harold Travers, John Travers (Harold's son) and Arianna de la Croix (a Potential Slayer turned Watcher who falls in love with John).

Vi is a Potential Slayer who arrives in Sunnydale in the seventh season, and is played by Felicia Day. Vi was trained by her Watcher prior to her arrival in Sunnydale, but her experience with the supernatural amounts to seeing a blurry photograph of a vampire. Introduced in the episode, "Showtime", the timid Vi initially seems unfit for her calling. However, she proves to be a courageous fighter during several battles, including the final battle in the Hellmouth. She survives it and, though having been wounded herself, helps treat other wounded such as Rona and Robin Wood in the aftermath. She appears in the comic story "The Chain", starring alongside Andrew Wells in a television commercial informing recently activated Slayers about the Watchers' Council.

General Voll is the general of an American army. He only appears in "The Long Way Home" story arc of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, the television series' official continuation. Voll investigates the ruins of Sunnydale before later soliciting Warren Mears, and Amy Madison to kill Buffy Summers. After capturing Willow Rosenberg and confronting Buffy in the ensuing melee, he mentions that he is part of the group called "Twilight", which views Slayers as a threat to humanity.

Percy West is a student at Sunnydale High who appears in the third and fourth seasons, and is played by Ethan Erickson. Percy is a basketball player and jock, and when his low grades nearly make him ineligible to play, Principal Snyder insists that Willow "tutor" him, but in Percy's mind, this means that Willow is going to do his work for him. After a run-in with Willow's doppelgänger, a vampire from an alternate reality, Percy decides to take Willow's tutoring more seriously, writing up essays on both President Roosevelts when he only needs to write about one. Later in the season, he helps to organize the students into a fighting force on graduation day. In season four, it is revealed that Percy got into USC on a football scholarship, but dates a girl at UC Sunnydale. Willow meets him at a party and is hurt when she overhears Percy calling her a nerd to his jealous girlfriend. This is his last appearance in the show.

Whistler (an alias; his real name can supposedly be pronounced only by dolphins) is a demon who appears in the second season, and is played by Max Perlich. He first appears in a flashback in the episode "Becoming, Part One" in which he approaches a dirty and destitute Angel on the streets of New York City. He describes his duty as maintaining the balance between good and evil, and claims that Angel is destined to be a force of good. He then takes Angel across the country to Los Angeles where he shows the vampire the young Slayer Buffy Summers as she is called to her destiny. Seeing her allows Angel to decide to turn his life around, and to help Buffy in her duty as the Slayer. Whistler does not interfere again until he learns that Angel, now without a soul, plans to awaken the demon Acathla. He confronts Buffy and tells her that Angel was never supposed to lose his soul. In fact, it had been his destiny to stop Acathla, not bring him forth. He informs Buffy that she will have to kill Angel to stop Acathla if he is awakened.

Willy the Snitch is bar owner and informant who appears in the second and third seasons, and is played by Saverio Guerra. Willy is a double-crossing human being, who basically follows instructions or requests if money is provided. He sometimes assists Buffy and other times betrays her. Characters, both good and bad, often beat up Willy for information. In the season three episode "Enemies", Xander brags about beating information out of Willy "personally", but then admits that he just bribed Willy for $28.

Nikki Wood is a Slayer who was active in New York City in the 1970s. Her first appearance is in the season five episode "Fool for Love", in which she is played by April Weeden-Washington. In that episode, Spike tells Buffy the story of how he killed Nikki, with flashbacks revealing that he snapped her neck following a battle on a subway train in 1977. Nikki reappears, portrayed by K.D. Aubert, in the season seven episode "First Date", in which it is revealed that she had a son called Robin, now an ally of Buffy Summers. The First Evil presents itself to Robin in the form of his mother, and informs him that Spike was the one responsible for killing Nikki. Nikki features in flashbacks in the episode "Lies My Parents Told Me", in which Robin tries and fails to take revenge on Spike.

Nikki appears in the story "Nikki Goes Down!" of the comic book miniseries Tales of the Slayers. In it, her boyfriend Li, a member of the NYPD, is killed during a battle with an oversized bat. She also appears in the prose short story "It's All About the Mission" of the novel Tales of the Slayer Vol. IV, in which her Watcher Bernard Crowley tries to avoid the Cruciamentum (a dangerous Watchers' Council tradition in which a Slayer is stripped of her powers and tested) due to Nikki's pregnancy with Robin. Nikki features most heavily in her own novel Blackout, which tells the story leading up to her death as she battles Spike. The novel also reveals how she was called, and that she had rivalries with vampires Darla and Dracula. Nikki makes small cameos in the novel Queen of the Slayers, and the comics "Auld Lang Syne" and "The Chain".

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