Allen Funt
(1914 - 1999) - Creator and original host
of the landmark television series Candid
Camera.
On Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
Buffy, Willow, Xander, Giles, Anya, Tara, Dawn
and Spike wake up at the Magic Box without
their memories due to a Willow's spell that
has gone awfully wrong (Tabula Rasa);
confused, Anya says:
ANYA: I-I
don't see any booze. I don't feel any head
bumps. I don't see Allen Funt.
Since the
episode Life Serial, there was a
hidden camera at the Magic Box, mounted in one
of the skull's eyes on the shelf; the Scoobies
only found about it much later (Entropy).
Amulet
- Dead Lilah Morgan gives it to Angel, along
with a folder with some information about
Sunnydale, in exchange for a new life for his
son Connor, and medical and mystical care for
Cordelia.
In handing the
amulet (a Wolfram & Hart's property) to the
vampire, Lilah says that it "apparently it's
crucial for some kind of final battle". At
first, Angel wants to keep neither the file nor
the amulet, and says that "Buffy can handle
herself"; but after watching Connor in trouble,
he takes the amulet (Angel/Home),
goes to Sunnydale (End of Days)
and gives it to Buffy. He tells her that the
thing is very powerful and probably very
dangerous; it has a purifying/cleansing power,
and bestows strength when worn by someone
ensouled, but stronger than human a
Champion.
Buffy, being
about to fight her ultimate battle against the
First Evil and its army of Turok-Hans, gives the
amulet to her Chosen Champion, Spike. In the
middle of the battle, the amulet starts working,
and originating from Spike's body, powerful
beams of golden light destroy thousands of
Turok-Hans in seconds. It causes the collapse of
the Hellmouth, too, closing it forever.
Unfortunately, Spike is consumed by fire from
within, and burns to ashes, dying as a true hero
(Chosen).
Seventeen days
go by, and the amulet reappears in Los Angeles,
at Wolfram & Hart, inside an envelope
(without sender) sent to Angel and from it,
Spike is released (Angel/Conviction).After
some researching, Wesley concludes that Spike's
essence has been trapped in the amulet, and
nothing can destroy it except if the object is
taken to a consecrated place, like a church or a
cemetery (Angel/Just Rewards).
Arashmaha
- D'Hoffryn's dimension.
Beljoxa's Eye - An oracle-type
creature that exists in a dark dimension an
eternal vortex that only demons can open. The
Eye sees not the future, only the truths of the
now and before. It told Giles and Anya the
reason The First Evil was back: the opportunity
had presented itself because the mystical forces
surrounding the Chosen line had become
irrevocably altered, unstable and vulnerable. It
also said that The First did not cause the
disruption; the Slayer did. Anya concluded that
she, Willow, Xander and Tara bringing Buffy back
from the dead had caused it all.
*Source: Showtime
Buffalo Wings
- Spicy chicken wings, one of Spike's favorite
appetizers (the other being onion blossoms).
Buffybot
- A Buffy robot build for Spike by Warren (I
Was Made to Love You/Intervention).For
further details, see [Buffybot].
Bringers/Harbingers - Eyeless
high priests that used to serve the First Evil.
They could conjure spirit manifestations and set
them on people, influencing them, haunting them.
According one of Giles' books:
They are
the Harbingers of death. Nothing shall grow
above or below them. No seed shall flower,
neither in man nor...
In 2002/2003,
they sought and killed Slayers in Training
(SITs) all over the world; besides, they
kidnapped Spike from the Summer's house in order
to use his blood to open the Seal of Danzalthar,
following orders given by the First Evil (Never
Leave Me). Until the very end the
battle against the army of Turok-Hans in the
Hellmouth the Bringers served the First.
Car - The car Spike used to
drive was a 1958 Dodge Desoto FireFlite; with
it, he crashed the "Welcome to Sunnydale" sign
twice.
Chip - Behavior modification
circuitry on Spike's head, implanted by the
Initiative in 1999. It kept the vampire from
hurting humans. In 2003, it started giving Spike
painful headaches that would kill him
eventually; he and Buffy asked for help from
Riley Finn and the Initiative, and the chip,
according to Buffy's choice (it could have been
fixed), was removed (The Killer in Me).
Coat - The
leather duster that Spike took from the second
Slayer he killed, in 1977 (Fool for Love),
was the trade mark of the "evil vampire". He
left the coat behind, in Buffy's house, after
forcing himself on her in the bathroom (Seeing
Red); afterwards, he left
Sunnydale to seek out a soul. Without any
reasonable explanation, the duster appeared at
Sunnydale High; after listening Buffy tell him
that "he is holding back since he got his soul
back", and that what she wanted was "the
dangerous Spike", the vampire went to the
school basement, found the coat inside a box*
(Get it Done) and started
wearing it again. He didn't go evil, at all,
but the coat helped him to get back that old
bad-ass attitude from the old times.
Spike died wearing the duster (Chosen)
and reappeared (incorporeal) in Los
Angeles still wearing it (Angel/Conviction).
*Speculation
about how the duster could have ended up in
the school basement: when Buffy and Clem met
at the demon bar (Potential),
they greeted each other effusively, as they
were old, good friends; then, Clem said to
Buffy he watched a show on the History Channel
she would have loved. How could he know that?
So, it's possible that during the summer,
Buffy kept going to Spike's crypt to check if
the vampire was back in town and sometimes she
would stay there, watching TV with Clem. She
could have taken the duster to the crypt, and
later, Clem gave it to soulled Spike, who was
living in the school. Also, the demon should
have told Spike about what Willow had done to
Warren, because the vampire knew about the flaying (Same
Time, Same Place).
The original duster was destroyed in
a explosion in Rome, when Spike and Angel went
there looking for Buffy; however, Ilona Costa
Bianchi, CEO of [Wolfram & Hart], not
only gave him a new one, but also sent other
10 pieces to Los Angeles with a fine
assortment of shoes (Angel/The
Girl in Question).
Cordette
- Followers of Cordelia "Cordy" Chase, back in
high school. Harmony was a Cordette, before
beeing sired.
Demons - Walked on Earth before
humanity itself (because of them, the [Powers That Be] left our
world), until humans arrived and these demons
(called Old Ones) were banished. Only
the half, non-pure demons have stayed in our
world; they can be good (like Clem, Cordelia,
Lorne, Doyle) or evil.
This world
is older than any of you know. Contrary to
popular mythology, it did not begin as a
paradise. For untold eons demons walked the
Earth. They made it their home, their... their
Hell. But in time they lost their purchase on
this reality. The way was made for mortal
animals, for man. All that remains of the old
ones are vestiges, certain magics, certain
creatures... (Giles in The Harvest)
Dragon -
See [Angel Files]
Drawings -
See [Angel Files]
First Evil - The source of all
evil. It exists since before the universe was
born, and will exist long after there is nothing
else. It cannot be fought or killed, because it
is not a physical being, not corporeal. The
First can shape shift into dead people,
including vampires and those who died at least
once, like Buffy. According to itself, all
people have a small part of it in them. It
haunted Angel, shape shifting as Jenny Calendar
and other Angelus' victims, almost making him
kill Buffy and, later, kill himself (Amends).
In 2002/2003,
it reappeared with new ambitions, and taunted
Buffy, Spike, Willow, Dawn, Principal Robin
Wood, Faith and Andrew, shape shifting into The
Master, Mayor Wilkins, Adam, Spike, Buffy,
Drusilla, Cassie Newton, Eve, Nikki, Jonathan
and Warren. Buffy declared war against it (Bring
On The Night) and ultimately she and
Spike defeated its army of Turok-Hans, in a big
battle in the Hellmouth (Chosen);
if they had won, when they outnumbered the
humans on earth the scales would have tipped,
and the First Evil would have been made flesh.
You think
you can fight me? I'm not a demon, little
girl. I am something that you can't even
conceive. The First Evil. Beyond sin, beyond
death. I am the thing the darkness fears.
You'll never see me, but I am everywhere.
Every being, every thought, every drop of
hate.
A child
shall be born of man and goat and have two
heads, and The First shall speak only in
riddles...
Source: Amends
Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) -
English nurse, pioneer of nursing and a reformer
of hospital sanitation methods, she had a great
role during the Crimean War. Spike cited her in
Spiral, when Dawn draws Buffy's attention
to his wounded hands: Florence bloody
Nightingale to the rescue.
Game face
- The demon face of a vampire.
Godfrey
Cambridge (1933-1976) - Afro-American
actor. In one of his movies, [Watermelon Man],
Cambridge portrayed an extremely bigotted
white businessman who turns black
overnight.
On Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
Xander walks into the kitchen and catches
Buffy and Spike red-handed, the vampire's
hands on Buffy, who quickly shoves his hands
off her and drops the spatula she is holding
into the sink (Gone):
Good Godfrey Cambridge, Spike!
Still trying to mack on Buffy? Wake up
already. Never gonna happen! Only a complete
loser would ever hook up with you. Well,
unless she's a simpleton like Harmony, or a,
or a nut sack like Drusilla-
Gypsy Curse
- See [Angel Files]
Hearts -
In almost every Spuffy love scene (or even in
episodes with some Spuffiness) there is a
heart somewhere: on the back of an extra's
shirt at the end of Tabula Rasa; on
one of the rugs, at the beginning of Dead
Things; on a headstone, right before
the crypt's door scene in Dead Things; in
Spike's crypt, right after the couple made
love, in As You Were; on the
headstone Spike breaks, in Out of My Mind;
on a headstone when Spike is with the
Buffybot, in Intervention; on the
front of Andrew's shirt, in Smashed and
in Buffy's living room, in Older And Far
Away.
Hostile 17
- Identification for Spike, given by the
Initiative.
Initiative
- Government based organization whose main
goal was to fight vampires and other demons.
Its headquarters were located under the UC
Sunnydale. In 2000, the Initiative was closed
down and the government denies it ever
existed. It seems the organization was founded
around 1943, as someone said to Angel when he
was recruited to do a job during the war "I
represent a relatively new agency, Demon
Research Initiative" (Angel/Why We Fight).
The behavior modification circuitry
on Spike's head was implanted by the
Initiative (The Initiative); in
2003, when the chip started to fail (and would
have ended up killing Spike), Buffy and the
soulled vampire returned to its abandoned
headquarters to look for some drugs in order
to control Spike's headaches, but didn't find
anything there. However, as Buffy had already
tried to contact Riley Finn (her ex-boyfriend
and member of the organization), soldiers
appeared from nowhere and Spike had his chip
removed (The Killer in Me).
Josephus Du
Lac - Theologian and mathematician who
belonged to a religious sect that was
excommunicated by the Vatican at the end of
the 19th century. He authored a book that was
said to contain rituals and spells that reap
unspeakable evil; it was written in archaic
Latin so that nobody but the sect members
could understand it. Du Lac also invented the
"Du Lac Cross" in order to use it to
understand mystical texts and to decipher
hidden meanings. Before his death, he
destroyed every cross except one, which was
buried with him in Sunnydale. As there was a
ritual to restore a weak and sick vampire back
to full health described in the book, Spike
had it stolen from Sunnydale High's library as
well as the cross from Du Lac's tomb, in order
to perform the ritual to restore Drusilla's
health (What's My Line 1); she
had been severely injured by a mob in Prague.
Key - The key is very old and
it was created to open the gates that separate
dimensions. Where it came from, how it was
created, is the deepest of mysteries; all that
is certain is that its power is absolute.
It is not
directly described in any known literature, but
all research indicates a green energy matrix
vibrating at a dimensional frequency beyond
normal human perception. Only those outside
reality (second-sight people, mad people etc)
can see the Key's true nature. It is is also
susceptible to necromanced animal detection,
particularly those of canine or serpent
construct.
For centuries
it had no form at all, till the monks of the
Order of Dagon found it and, instead of
destroying it immediately, kept it for
centuries believing they could harness its
power for the forces of light. Then, the beast,
the hell god [Glory],found
them in 2001, and they had to hide the Key; they
gave it form, molded it flesh, made it human and
sent it to Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, as her
sister Dawn, for her to protect it.
Dawn was
created out of Buffy's blood and the monks built
memories that made the Slayer, her mother and
all her friends to believe that Dawn was always
with them, since the beginning.
Glory intended
to use the power of the Key to return home and
seize control of the hell she was banished from.
It needed to be channeled, poured into a
specific place at a specific time. The scrolls
that Spike and Xander found at [Doc's]
place read:
The blood
flows, the gates will open. The gates will
close when it flows no more.
Once the Key
was activated by bleeding Dawn it didn't
just open the gates to the beast's dimension, it
opened all the gates. The walls separating
realities crumbled, dimensions bled into each
other, order was overthrown and the universe
would have tumbled into chaos all dark forever
if Dawn didn't die. To save her little sister
and the world, Buffy sacrificed herself, and
jumped into the opened portal, which closed,
making things go back to normal.
Source: Checkpoint,
Blood Ties, Spiral,
The Gift
Obs.: Dawn,
the Key, believes that if she isn't evil, she
isn't good either. Glory thought it could be
either good or evil, depending on the point of
view.
Knights of Byzantium -
Countless generations of this ancient order
sacrificed their lives in search of the Key, to
destroy it before its wrath could be unleashed.
The Knights of Byzantium were recognizable by
the black tattoos imprinted on their foreheads:
Source: [Supporting Cast's
Tattoos]
Byzantium
- Greek colony founded in the 7th century;
former name of Constantinople.
Constantinople
- Capital of the Empire of Byzantium; former
name of Istanbul.
Istanbul
- Capital of Turkey.
Lethe's Bramble - Used by
Willow to cast on Buffy and Tara a spell that
would make them forget their problems; it went
awfully wrong, affecting all Scooby Gang as well
as Spike (Tabula Rasa). In Greek
Mythology, Lethe is one of the rivers of Hell;
those who drink from its water, forget the past.
Little Miss Muffet - During the
dream Buffy and Faith shared on GraduationDay 2, there is a dialogue that has
a reference to Little Miss Muffet, a
children's rhyme; Miss Muffet would be a
reference about Dawn, the sister Buffy would
have years ahead. On the episode Real
Me, the crazy man outside the Magic
Box yells at Dawn the following:
I know you. Curds and
whey. I know what you are. You don't
belong here.
Little miss
muffet
Sat on the
tuffet
Eating her curds
and whey,
along came
the spider
and sat down
beside her
and sacred
little miss muffet away
Magic Box -
The store (5124 Maple Court, downtown
Sunnydale) had a sinister past its previous
owners were both killed Mr. Bogarty, by
Harmony's gang (The Real Me) and
the woman who preceded him, by Spike (Lover's
Walk). Giles bought the Magic Box
after being dismissed from his duties as
Buffy's Watcher. To help him out, he hired
Anya; when he returned to England (after
Buffy's death), she took over the store. In
the back, there was a gymnasium in order for
Buffy to work out and in its basement there
was a passage to the Sunnydale sewers. The
Magic Box was destroyed when Buffy, Giles and
Anya had to fight Dark Willow in there (Two
to Go and Gone).
Miss Edith
- Vampire Drusilla, Spike's mate for more than
100 years, loves to collect dolls. Her
favorite, Miss Edith, appeared, for the first
time, in School Hard. In Lover's
Walk, Spike (after being dumped by
Dru) returns to Sunnydale and to the old
burned-out factory where he and Dru used to
live, and there he finds Drusilla's doll
collection that didn't survive the fire piled
on her dresser. He picks up one of them and,
as the doll reminds him his beloved Dru, he
ends up smashing it with a candlestick. In Crush,
a doll can be seen in the train car where
several passengers have just been killed by a
vampire which gives us the clue that the
killer is Dru.
Miss Kitty
Fantastico - Willow and Tara's cat. In New
Moon Rising Tara suggested to
Willow that they should get a cat and name it
"Trixie" or "Miss Kitty Fantastico"; Willow,
although being a "dog person", thought it was
a good idea. At the time, the two of them were
living at the US Sunnydale campus, and pets
weren't allowed in the dorms; so, Tara said
"it would be a sneaky cat." It seems that the
poor animal was wounded by a cross-bow left
around "all willy-nilly" by Dawn as we learn
on End of Days.
Mr. Gordo
- Buffy's little stuffed pig.
It made his debut in What's
My Line 1 Angel was in Buffy's
bedroom, looking around while he waited for
her to get home and he took her stuffed pig
from the shelf. Buffy arrived (through the
window) and asked if he was "Just dropping
by for some quality time with Mr. Gordo."
Angel didn't get it and Buffy explained that
Mr. Gordo was the stuffed pig.
Mister Pointy
- Kendra's "pet" stake; she gave it to Buffy,
for luck, when she was going to fight Angelus
(Becoming 1).
Montresor - Character from
Edgar Allan Poe's [The Cask of Amontillado].
Montresor is walled up by Fortunato and screams
"For the love of God, Montresor!" from behind
the wall. Spike says to Buffy: "Scream
'Montresor' all you like, Pet" (Selfless).
Orb of Thesulah - Spirit vault
for rituals of the undead it summons a
person's soul from the ether and store it until
it can be transferred. It was an important piece
in the ritual that cursed Angel with a soul,
used by the gypsies and Willow. Giles used it as
a paperweight.
Order of Aurelius - Founded and
commanded by [The
Master], its members were sired very
carefully, meant to form a vampire elite. Darla,
Angel, Drusilla and Spike, and all those sired
by them, are/were Aurelians.
Order of Dagon - Founded by
Tarnis, among others, in the 12th century. Its
sole purpose appears to have been protectors of
the Key.
Order of Taraka - Society of
deadly assassins bounty hunters dating back
to King Solomon. They have no earthly desires,
but to collect their bounty. They don't stop
until the job is done. Some are human, some are
not; they can be recognized by a ring they use.
Spike summoned three of them to get rid of
Buffy, who was keeping him from complete
Drusilla's cure (What's My Line 1).
Paintings - There were some
mysterious paintings on the wall of the African
cave where Spike fought for his soul (Villains),
that seemed to show Tara's death and Willow's
vengeance against Warren. The mystery was solved
when Willow summoned D'Hoffryn, and the demon
told her that "the flaying of Warren Mears was
truly inspired, water cooler vengeance, and
Lloyd has a sketch of it on his wall" (Selfless).
Fans noticed that and published on the Internet
the following photo comparison:
Osνris
Tara
Warren
Willow
e Warren
Pergamum
Codex - Contained the most
complete prophecies about the Slayer's role in
the end years. Giles believed that the book
had been lost in the 15th century; however,
Angel knew it was just "misplaced" and handed
it to Giles (Invisible Girl). In
the Codex was written that Buffy would die at
the hands of the Master and the prophecy was
fulfilled (Prophecy Girl).
Prophecies -
See [Angel Files]
Proserpexa
- Powerful she-demon whose satanic temple was
located on Kingman's Bluff. Her followers
intended to use her effigy to destroy the
world, but they all died when the temple got
swallowed up in the earthquake of 1932. In
2002, Willow tried to destroy the world by
bringing the temple out of the ground; she
would drain the planet's life force, funneling
its energy through Proserpexa's effigy in
order to burn the Earth to a cinder, but
Xander managed to stop her by giving the
infamous "yellow crayon" speech (Grave).
Queller -
Sort of a scavenger demon that can be summoned
to kill the mad. Primitive people used to
believe that the moon was a cause of insanity;
sometimes they would pray to the moon to send
a special meteor (with the demon inside) to
fix the problem the moon had caused these
meteors were expected to quell the madmen. One
of them was summoned by Ben in 2000, in order
to kill all the people who went crazy after
been attacked by [Glory]
(Listening to Fear).
Rings
Claddagh
- An Irish symbol of Love, Friendship and
Loyalty, it depicts two hands (Friendship)
clutching a heart (Love), complete with a
crown (Loyalty).
The story of the ring began over 300
years ago in the village of Claddagh, in
Ireland. Legend tells that Richard Joyce was
captured by pirates and worked as a slave in
the property of a rich Turkish goldsmith.
Joyce ended up becoming a master craftsman
himself and, after being released from
slavery, returned to Galway and created the
ring.
The Claddagh Ring worn on the right
hand, with the heart facing outwards, means
that one's heart has not yet been won; worn on
the right hand, with the heart facing inwards,
shows one have friendship and love under
consideration; worn on the left hand, with the
heart turned inwards, tells that one has
already found love.
Angel gave Buffy a Claddagh, right
before he had his moment of true happiness
which made him lose his soul (Surprise):
Angel: I have something for you.
For your birthday. I... I was
gonna give it to you earlier,
but...
Buffy: It's beautiful.
Angel: My people before I
was changed they exchanged this as a
sign of devotion. It's a Claddagh
Ring. The hands represent friendship,
the crown represents loyalty...
and the heart... Well, you know...
Wear
it with the heart pointing towards
you. It means you belong to somebody.
Some time after having sent
Angel/Angelus to hell (Becoming 2),
Buffy visits the mansion he used to live, lays
down her Claddagh on the floor, and leaves; a
portal opens and Angel is back to our reality,
naked and scared, after suffering 100 years in
hell (Faith, Hope & Trick).
The ring used on the show was
sold by Fox at the online auction [eBay]
in June 2003, for $15,000.00.
Gem of Amara - The
vampire equivalent of the Holy Grail; it made
them truly immortals, immune to the sun light
and wooden stakes. According to Giles,
questing vampires combed the earth, but as no
one ever found anything, it was concluded that
it never existed. However, in 1999, Spike and
Harmony appeared in Sunnydale looking for it.
Giles researched and found a text that read
the gem was "residing in the valley of the
sun", meaning Sunnydale. Spike found it in a
sealed underground crypt, but eventually lost
it to Buffy. Oz took the Gem to Angel, in Los
Angeles, and Spike went after it. He hired a
vampire, Marcus, to torture Angel, and he
ended up stealing the Gem from Spike. Angel
fought Marcus, took the Gem and destroyed it,
to avoid its use by evil things.
Scooby Gang -
Buffy, Xander e Willow are the core Scoobies,
a reference to the cartoon [Scooby Doo], where
the evil plans are always stopped by the
coward dog and his gang. The episode which
introduces the Scooby Gang reference is What's
My Line 1:
Xander: C'mon, Cordelia. You
wanna be a member of the Scooby Gang you
gotta be willing to be inconvenienced every
now and then.
Seal of
Danzalthar - Seal that was located in the
basement of the then brand-new Sunnydale High
School (rebuild in 2002), right on top of the
Hellmouth.
The Seal is
found by Andrew and Jonathan (remainings of the
Troika). Haunted by The First Evil (shape
shifted into Warren), Andrew killed Jonathan in
an attempt to open it and release something very
bad. However, the sacrifice of Jonathan is
useless there isn't enough blood (Conversations
With Dead People), and the First
ends up using Spike to open the Seal and set
free a Turok-Han, the "real vampire" (Never
Leave Me). Later, the Scoobies bury
the Seal again (Bring On The Night),
which doesn't prevent the thing from starting
emanating an evil influence over the school;
Buffy has to return to the basement, this time
taking Andrew with her. There is chaos
everywhere, the students are all crazy; Buffy
scares the hell out of Andrew, making him cry
over the Seal; his tears stop the influence and
the chaos (Showtime).However, the
Seal isn't let alone for much time a female
demon uses Xander's blood to open it again, in
order to get her very own Turok-Han.
Fortunately, Buffy and Spike manages to stop her
in time, and save Xander's life (First
Date). Eventually, Buffy, Faith and
the SITs open the Seal and enter the Hellmouth
to fight an army of Turok-Hans, assembled by the
First Evil, and the thing is definitely closed
by Spike, who sacrifices his life in the process
(Chosen).
Shadow Men - See [Slayers]
Shanshu -
See [Angel Files]
SIT - It
stands for Slayer in Training. For further
information, see [Slayers].
Slayer -
See [Slayers]
Slayerette
- Followers of Buffy, her gang Willow,
Xander, Cordelia, Dawn etc.
Slayerfest -
Scheme set by Mr.Trick in order to capture and
kill the two Slayers Buffy and Faith for
his boss, Mayor Richard Wilkins III.
Sleeper
Agents - People who are brainwashed and
conditioned with a specific trigger
a song, a phone call, a kiss that makes them
drastically change behavior at a moment's
notice, in order for them to accomplish some
specific task, like kill someone.
Spike was brainwashed by the First
Evil, who wanted the vampire to kill and sire
people. The First used the English old folk
song [EarlyOne
Morning] as a trigger, which
Spike's mum used to sing to him before he was
turned into a vampire. Spike was de-triggered
just when he faced part of his past the day
he killed and sired his mum out of love for
her and figured out that he was very much
loved by his mother, differently from what he
had believed for many years (Lies My
Parents Told Me).
Spuffy -
Spike + Buffy. In details [here].
St. Vigeous
- Centuries ago, led a crusade of vampires
through Edessa (Mesopotamia) and Harran
(Turkey), which didn't leave much behind. In
the night of St. Vigeous (October 4,
presumably), the vampires' power is at its
peak for three nights, the unholy ones
scourge themselves into a fury, culminating in
a savage attack. Spike tried to kill Buffy in
this night, but failed, because he couldn't
wait the right time.
Source: School Hard
Sunnydale
- Fictitious town in California, Buffy the
Vampire Slayer's scenario, and where
the Hellmouth was located. The city
harbored an exaggerated number of churches and
cemeteries; it was destroyed in 2003, as a
result of the final big battle against the
Turok-Hans in the Hellmouth (Chosen).
Sunnydale
High - School Buffy, Willow, Xander,
Cordelia, Harmony, Amy, Scott Hope, Jonathan,
Andrew and his brother Tucker attended. Two of
its principals had a tragic destiny Flutie
was eaten by hyena-possessed students, and
Snyder was eaten by snake-Mayor Wilkins.
Giles used to be the librarian of
the school, and his girlfriend, Miss Jenny
Calendar, was a teacher there. Under the
library was located the Hellmouth. The school
was destroyed in 1999 (Graduation Day 2),
after the big battle against the Mayor. In
2002, Sunnydale High was re-open, and Dawn
started attending there. The Hellmouth then
was located under Principal Wood's office. The
new Sunnydale High didn't have a long life
it was destroyed months after its reopening,
along with all the city of Sunnydale (Chosen).
Scythe -
A powerful weapon forged in secrecy by women
the Guardians to kill the last pure
demon that walked upon the earth. It was kept
hidden from the Shadow Men, who later became
the Watchers, who watched the Slayers. The
Guardians watched the Watchers, and wanted to
help and protected the Slayers. These women
put the Scythe in a rock, for when the time
came and it was needed again, the Slayer would
find and use it wisely. Buffy pulled it out of
the rock in a vineyard in Sunnydale, in 2003,
after Spike had found out an inscription
carved in stone, in a secret room in an
abandoned mission in Gilroy (the Scoobies had
done a research and found out about the
place). It read "It is not for thee. It is for
her alone to wield." With this weapon in her
hands, Buffy managed to kill Caleb who had
merged with the First Evil and was very
powerful. Later, Willow, using the power of
the Scythe, performed a spell that turned all
Slayers in Training into Slayers.
The Scythe featured on the show is
the same seen on the comic book [Fray] by Joss
Whedon, about the Slayer from the future
Melaka Fray.
Teddy Bear
- Buffy's stuffed animal. It was sold by Fox
at the online auction eBay, after the series
ending, for more than $1,700.00.
The Bronze
- The club where the young people of Sunnydale
used to hang out to dance, play pool and
drink. The house offered [Buffalo Wings] and
a "onion thing in the shape of a flower" that
Spike loved. Frequently, bands performed
there.
The Bronze was destroyed for the
first time (Triangle) by the
troll Olaf accidentally released from a
crystal by Willow and to pay the
redecoration, they jacked up the bar price and
remodeled the flowering onion off the menu, to
Spike's disgust (Crush).
The place met its ending with
Sunnydale's destruction (Chosen).
It was at the Bronze that Spike saw
Buffy for the first time (School Hard),
told her how he managed to kill two Slayers (Fool
For Love), and the second kiss
between the two happened (Tabula Rasa).
The
Hunchback of Notre Dame - Willow,
Tara and Buffy have to do a paper on The
Hunchback of Notre Dame (Crush
- 5x14); Willow and Tara talk about Quasimodo
(Spike) and Esmeralda (Buffy):
WILLOW: I just don't see why he
couldn't end up with Esmeralda. They could
have the wedding right there. Beneath the
very bell-tower where he labored thanklessly
for all those years.
TARA: No, see, it can't, it
can't end like that, 'cause all of
Quasimodo's actions were selfishly
motivated. He had no moral compass, no
understanding of right. Everything he did,
he did out of love for a woman who would
never be able to love him back. Also, you
can tell it's not gonna have a happy ending
when the main guy's all bumpy.
Those Onion Blossom Things -
One of Spike's favorite [appetizers]
(the other being Buffalo wings) he talked
about it to Xander and the troll Olaf (Triangle),
and to Buffy (Crush). The
vampire even shared with Andrew the secret
about making a good "onion thing in the shape
of a flower" (Empty Places):
See, the genius of it is you soak
it in ice water for an hour so it holds its
shape. Then you deep-fry it, root side up,
for about 5 minutes.
Tiberius
Manifesto - One of the books with
prophecies about Slayers. It is lost.
To sire -
To turn someone into a vampire. The noun
"sire" means the one who makes a vampire
Angelus is Drusilla's sire, Drusilla is
Spike's sire.
Trio - Also
known as Troika Warren Mears, Andrew
Wells and Jonathan Levinson, the nerd-villains
who like James Bond and Star Wars and wanted to
take over Sunnydale. They attended the same
school as the Scoobies the Sunnydale
High School. They placed several cameras
to spy the Scoobies (Life Serial):
in front Buffy's house, at the Magic Box (inside
a skull on a shelf), outside the Bronze, in
Xander's place and at the University that Willow
and Tara attended. Those cameras were found by
the Scoobies in Entropy.
Turok-Han aka
Ubervamp aka Ubie - The Neanderthal
equivalent of a vampire. They are a primordial,
ferociously powerful killing machine, as
single-minded as animals, and are "the vampires
that vampires fear."* They are an ancient and
entirely different race and were believed to be
a myth until one of them appeared in
Sunnydale, released by the First Evil and its
Harbingers, who used Spike's blood to open the
Seal of Danzalthar (Never Leave Me).
The monster was killed beheaded by Buffy (Showtime).
To get a brand-new Turok-Han, what one
have to do is split some blood (any blood) over
the Seal like a female demon did with
demon-magnet Xander (First Date).
In the very end, Buffy and allies fought an army
of thousands of Turok-Hans (assembled by the
First Evil), in the Hellmouth; they were
destroyed by the amulet worn by Spike (Chosen).
*Source: Giles
in Bring On The Night
Urnof
Osiris - Important item to be used on the
spell performed by Willow to bring Buffy back
from the dead. Anya found the last known urn of
Osiris on the Internet, at the online auction [eBay].She
bought it from a desert gnome in Cairo. Along
with the urn, Anya got a limited edition of a
Backstreet Boys lunch box for a "friend" that
is, Xander... The urn of Osiris broke in the
middle of the spell, because of the chaos caused
by the arriving of the demons Hellions.
Vampires - In the beginning,
demons ruled our world. They were expelled and
The books
tell the last demon to leave this reality fed
off a human, mixed their blood. He was a human
form possessed, infected by the demon's soul.
He bit another, and another, and so they walk
the Earth, feeding... Killing some, mixing
their blood with others to make more of their
kind. Waiting for the animals to die out, and
the old ones to return.
Source: Giles
in The Harvest
Vengeance Demons - Female
demons who grant scorned
women vengeance wishes meaning death,
suffering, pain to those men who had the nerve
wronging their girlfriends, wives or lovers.
The Vengeance Demons' power source is
harnessed in a special pendant which allows
them to grant the scorned women the vengeance
wishes as well as gives immortality. Their
boss is the powerful [D'Hoffryn];
[Anya]
used to be a VD.
Watcher -
Every Slayer as well as Slayer in Training
(SIT) had a Watcher, who was responsible for
her training. Buffy's first, was [Merrick];following
him, [Rupert
Giles]. For some time, when Giles was
fired by the Watcher's Council (because he
helped Buffy in a test when he wasn't supposed
to), [Wesley Wyndham-Price]
took the charge over.
The Watcher's Council was a
century-old organization, but little was known
about it; the only piece of information given
was that the Shadow Men (the ones who created
the First Slayer) became the Watchers. Its
headquarters were located in London, England;
the building was blown up by [Caleb]
following orders from the [First
Evil] in 2002. Also, all the Watchers
around the world were killed. After the final
battle against the First Evil's army (the
Turok-Hans), in the Hellmouth, Giles went to
Europe to look for new-born Slayers, and the
Watchers organization began to be
reconstructed; [Andrew]
started to be trained to be a Watcher.
Wicca -
One of many earth-based religion, sometimes
called "The Craft". Traditional Wicca was
founded by Gerald Gardner, a British civil
servant, who wrote a series of books on the
religion in the 1940's. It contains references
to Celtic deities, symbols, seasonal days of
celebration etc. Added to this were components
of ceremonial magic and practices of the
Masonic Order.
There are initiation rituals where a
person becomes a Wiccan. Some are
self-initiation rituals, where a person
declares themselves to be a Wiccan. There are
other initiation rituals performed in a Wiccan
group, often called a Coven.
Wiccan rituals take many forms, but
they all generally include: the casting of a
circle (consecration of a sacred space), the
invocation of a deity/deities, the body of the
ritual (which may involve magick), spell
casting, a community meal, dance, readings,
singing etc. and, afterwards, the closing or
banishing of the circle (restoration of the
space to ordinary usage).
Source: [FAQs about Wicca]
Yellow Crayon
- First day of kindergarten Willow cried
because she broke a yellow crayon, and were
too afraid to tell anyone. Xander used this
tale to reach sweet Willow when Dark Willow
was about to destroy the world in 2002 (Grave).
