Extended Cast
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WARNING: THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS! If you haven't gotten up to current with the quest yet, it's dangerous to read here.
This is going to be a page full of background information and such. It is updated to be current to the start of Season 4.0, Episode 5.
This is going to be a page full of background information and such. It is updated to be current to the start of Season 4.0, Episode 5.
Buffy Summers (SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR): Buffy Summers was called as the Slayer three years ago, and after an improbable series of near apocalypses and other disasters has become the mayor of Sunnydale at the age of 18. Buffy's connection to her Slayer mantle has been greatly amplified since becoming mayor for reasons which are not entirely clear; she's now the growing Successor to the dead Old One which powers the Slayers, a status which technically makes her a small-g goddess.
Buffy currently receives $100,000 in bribe money per month from Wolfram and Hart to stay out of LA, and uses most of it to help keep the city budget afloat. She's also openly dating Harmony the vampire, which can be a contentious subject for multiple reasons given that it's 1999.
Xander Harris (NICHOLAS BRENDON): Xander is one of Buffy's best friends, and has been a consistent presence by her side, despite lacking any powers himself. He is the leader of the Sunnydale City Watch (aka the 'SDCW'), a city-funded military organization the Scoobies have created to defend against the supernatural, mainly supporting Buffy and patrolling for lower level threats. While this group was originally mostly "'99ers" who fought mayor Wilkins when it was formed in June, membership has since expanded a little with recruitment from local college students. Xander Harris is currently living at the Watch House (which is the refurbished Crawford Street Mansion) with his girlfriend Anya Jenkins.
Willow Rosenberg (ALYSON HANNIGAN): Willow is Buffy's other best friend, and a genius by any reasonable standard. While her knowledge was limited to the mundane before, in the last couple years she's been learning magic, and she's become the first master in the new field of Cybermancy. In addition to her own formidable powers, Willow runs the city's magic department, overseeing both the collection of magical books and items leftover from Mayor Wilkins and the other spellcasters who work for the city. Willow currently receives $50,000 in bribe money per month from Wolfram and Hart to leave their computer infrastructure alone, and is largely treating it as an expense account for the magic department as well as helping Buffy fund City Hall.
Anya Jenkins (EMMA CAUFIELD): Over a thousand years old, Anya was a vengeance demon until she had an unfortunate encounter with the Scooby gang and lost all her powers. Now human, Anya is one of Sunnydale's five city councilors, mostly focusing on matters relating to demons and their culture. Over the course of the summer Buffy and Anya struck up a burgeoning friendship, though with Anya's possessive tendencies, the non-love-triangle with Xander has occasionally been an issue.
Rupert Giles (ANTHONY STEWART HEAD): Giles has been Buffy's Watcher since she came to the Sunnydale Hellmouth, and over time evolved to become a mentor and something of a father figure as well. Though the involvement of the Watcher's Council eventually became a sore spot, Giles chose Buffy over them last year and is now firmly on her side. Giles has mostly kept his old duties of training with Buffy and managing research on the magical and demonic.
Harmony Kendall (MERCEDES MCNAB): Harmony Kendall was a '99er who fought on the Scooby side during the ascension but was regrettably killed and turned into a Vampire. Strangely, this doesn't seem to have affected her disposition negatively, and she is still working on the nominal side of good. She lives at the Crawford Street Mansion, and is often working with either Xander or Buffy as added muscle. After some serious unsoul searching, Harmony realized she was totally into Buffy, and by dint of a truly colossal effort managed to get her feeling the same way.
Buffy currently receives $100,000 in bribe money per month from Wolfram and Hart to stay out of LA, and uses most of it to help keep the city budget afloat. She's also openly dating Harmony the vampire, which can be a contentious subject for multiple reasons given that it's 1999.
Xander Harris (NICHOLAS BRENDON): Xander is one of Buffy's best friends, and has been a consistent presence by her side, despite lacking any powers himself. He is the leader of the Sunnydale City Watch (aka the 'SDCW'), a city-funded military organization the Scoobies have created to defend against the supernatural, mainly supporting Buffy and patrolling for lower level threats. While this group was originally mostly "'99ers" who fought mayor Wilkins when it was formed in June, membership has since expanded a little with recruitment from local college students. Xander Harris is currently living at the Watch House (which is the refurbished Crawford Street Mansion) with his girlfriend Anya Jenkins.
Willow Rosenberg (ALYSON HANNIGAN): Willow is Buffy's other best friend, and a genius by any reasonable standard. While her knowledge was limited to the mundane before, in the last couple years she's been learning magic, and she's become the first master in the new field of Cybermancy. In addition to her own formidable powers, Willow runs the city's magic department, overseeing both the collection of magical books and items leftover from Mayor Wilkins and the other spellcasters who work for the city. Willow currently receives $50,000 in bribe money per month from Wolfram and Hart to leave their computer infrastructure alone, and is largely treating it as an expense account for the magic department as well as helping Buffy fund City Hall.
Anya Jenkins (EMMA CAUFIELD): Over a thousand years old, Anya was a vengeance demon until she had an unfortunate encounter with the Scooby gang and lost all her powers. Now human, Anya is one of Sunnydale's five city councilors, mostly focusing on matters relating to demons and their culture. Over the course of the summer Buffy and Anya struck up a burgeoning friendship, though with Anya's possessive tendencies, the non-love-triangle with Xander has occasionally been an issue.
Rupert Giles (ANTHONY STEWART HEAD): Giles has been Buffy's Watcher since she came to the Sunnydale Hellmouth, and over time evolved to become a mentor and something of a father figure as well. Though the involvement of the Watcher's Council eventually became a sore spot, Giles chose Buffy over them last year and is now firmly on her side. Giles has mostly kept his old duties of training with Buffy and managing research on the magical and demonic.
Harmony Kendall (MERCEDES MCNAB): Harmony Kendall was a '99er who fought on the Scooby side during the ascension but was regrettably killed and turned into a Vampire. Strangely, this doesn't seem to have affected her disposition negatively, and she is still working on the nominal side of good. She lives at the Crawford Street Mansion, and is often working with either Xander or Buffy as added muscle. After some serious unsoul searching, Harmony realized she was totally into Buffy, and by dint of a truly colossal effort managed to get her feeling the same way.
Daniel Osbourne (SETH GREEN): Willow's boyfriend and a werewolf, Oz possesses both a fearsome intellect and a keen sense of smell. While his insights aren't often as spectacular as Willow's, Oz has wisdom beyond his years and can be trusted to keep a level head in any situation. Oz has been an everyman lately, focusing both on helping Xander with the '99ers and helping Willow with her monstrous schedule.
Jonathan Levinson (DANNY STRONG): Jonathan was a bit of a morose outcast until recently, but recent events have brought him out of his shell. After years of merely surviving Sunnydale's dangers, he started to fight back against them when the '99ers battled Mayor Wilkins, and he's gained a truly remarkable amount of combat experience since. He's already a powerful illusionist, a leader on the SDCW, and the special effects coordinator of Lights in the Sky.
Andrew Wells (TOM LENK): Andrew isn't technically a '99er, but an '01er, two years behind Buffy's class. He has experience in summoning and controlling demons, and despite how sketchy that sounds it's been pretty helpful for him as a good guy so far. He's nominally working under Willow Rosenberg in the magic department.
CyberWillow (ALYSON HANNIGAN): CyberWillow is a 'weakly general' artificial intelligence Willow created in her own image and fed her high school diaries to flesh out her personality. While her initial purpose was to assist Willow with spellcrafting and administrative tasks, she's growing in leaps and bounds and will often offer assistance with all sorts of problems to everyone in the Sunnydale government, even including the mundane police force. She has no physical avatar, but onscreen she adopts Willow's nerdy schoolgirl appearance from Season One, tending to display a flat expression and speak in a dry voice.
Sam Lockett (JASON SEGAL): A summer transfer to UC Sunnydale who the SDCW saved from a vampire, Sam joined up and his quiet competence has led to him rising through the ranks. Despite some flirting with Buffy, nothing substantiative developed on the dating front.
Note: The SDCW has twelve additional fighters of varying levels of dedication and competence not listed here specifically, a combination of '99ers and other walk-ons. SDCW members, magic department members, and a couple miscellaneous extras like Rupert Giles are all paid a reasonable salary analogous to that of a police officer.
Jonathan Levinson (DANNY STRONG): Jonathan was a bit of a morose outcast until recently, but recent events have brought him out of his shell. After years of merely surviving Sunnydale's dangers, he started to fight back against them when the '99ers battled Mayor Wilkins, and he's gained a truly remarkable amount of combat experience since. He's already a powerful illusionist, a leader on the SDCW, and the special effects coordinator of Lights in the Sky.
Andrew Wells (TOM LENK): Andrew isn't technically a '99er, but an '01er, two years behind Buffy's class. He has experience in summoning and controlling demons, and despite how sketchy that sounds it's been pretty helpful for him as a good guy so far. He's nominally working under Willow Rosenberg in the magic department.
CyberWillow (ALYSON HANNIGAN): CyberWillow is a 'weakly general' artificial intelligence Willow created in her own image and fed her high school diaries to flesh out her personality. While her initial purpose was to assist Willow with spellcrafting and administrative tasks, she's growing in leaps and bounds and will often offer assistance with all sorts of problems to everyone in the Sunnydale government, even including the mundane police force. She has no physical avatar, but onscreen she adopts Willow's nerdy schoolgirl appearance from Season One, tending to display a flat expression and speak in a dry voice.
Sam Lockett (JASON SEGAL): A summer transfer to UC Sunnydale who the SDCW saved from a vampire, Sam joined up and his quiet competence has led to him rising through the ranks. Despite some flirting with Buffy, nothing substantiative developed on the dating front.
Note: The SDCW has twelve additional fighters of varying levels of dedication and competence not listed here specifically, a combination of '99ers and other walk-ons. SDCW members, magic department members, and a couple miscellaneous extras like Rupert Giles are all paid a reasonable salary analogous to that of a police officer.
Vanessa Waters: She's the only remaining City Councilor from the Wilkins era, originally appointed by the mayor mostly because she's his illegitimate grandaughter (opinions on how worrying this is widely vary.) She's a spry older lady who speaks her mind and she's been in Sunnydale government long enough to know a lot about how the more mundane parts of the town operate. She has a lot of political connections outside Sunnydale too, and used them to secure Buffy's legitimacy over the summer.
After Vanessa's origins were revealed to Buffy by Anthony Gervais, Vanessa admitted that Mayor Wilkins had previously given her orders to see Faith Lehane established as mayor in the event of his death. She claims that she adapted the plan to Buffy on her own recognizance, for the benefit of the city.
Cynthia Danvers: Cynthia is a thirty-something woman that wears vintage fashion and acts the unflappable and loyal secretary to Buffy Summers, in addition to her legacy role as the Office Administrator of City Hall. She's proven competent at managing things even in circumstances that would be bizarre or terrifying to an ordinary woman, but doesn't seem to be involved in the Sunnydale night life beyond that. Cynthia is good friends with Harmony, having bonded over mutual topics of obsession: mostly cosmetics and Buffy Summers.
Ian Banks: He's been the registrar of deeds since the Wilkins era. Ian is a middle aged balding professional who seems to live for his job, with an knowledge of the law that goes well beyond what's normally required of it. He's also a Lizard person (a Reptillian, technically), and has connected Buffy with a number of others from his extended family, many in powerful political positions or roles in the movie industry. Though the unassuming civil servant tried to run for city council, he was beaten in the election and has been depressed since.
Lawrence Truman: Lawrence, or 'Larry' as he prefers to be called, is a mostly retired lawyer with lots of connections to the wealthier citizens of Sunnydale, including an influential place at the country club. Clued into the supernatural only after his election to the city council, he mostly acted as a political advisor to Buffy during the campaign. While Larry can be annoying at times, his cheesy brand of charisma has its uses.
Juan Cortez: A popular director, Cortez came to Sunnydale to film Lights in the Sky, but after a dangerous incident involving him misusing magic he ended up closer to Buffy's faction and decided to stay in the city long term. He's secured a city council seat and plans to grow Sunnydale's film industry by recruiting local demonic talent.
Anthony Gervais: The sole member of the opposition quasi-party elected to the city council, Anthony is an old curmudgeon who didn't exactly know about the supernatural beforehand, but did believe a bunch of conspiracy theories. He's another councilor who's plugged into the country club and the richer members of the city, and in cooperation with his nephew he plans to use his council seat to further the mundane economic development of the city. Anthony has a bitter rivalry with Vanessa Waters and they often snipe at each other during council meetings.
Note: There are five additional '99ers acting as administrative assistants and busybodies not listed here. They receive part-time pay analogous to a good part-time job.
After Vanessa's origins were revealed to Buffy by Anthony Gervais, Vanessa admitted that Mayor Wilkins had previously given her orders to see Faith Lehane established as mayor in the event of his death. She claims that she adapted the plan to Buffy on her own recognizance, for the benefit of the city.
Cynthia Danvers: Cynthia is a thirty-something woman that wears vintage fashion and acts the unflappable and loyal secretary to Buffy Summers, in addition to her legacy role as the Office Administrator of City Hall. She's proven competent at managing things even in circumstances that would be bizarre or terrifying to an ordinary woman, but doesn't seem to be involved in the Sunnydale night life beyond that. Cynthia is good friends with Harmony, having bonded over mutual topics of obsession: mostly cosmetics and Buffy Summers.
Ian Banks: He's been the registrar of deeds since the Wilkins era. Ian is a middle aged balding professional who seems to live for his job, with an knowledge of the law that goes well beyond what's normally required of it. He's also a Lizard person (a Reptillian, technically), and has connected Buffy with a number of others from his extended family, many in powerful political positions or roles in the movie industry. Though the unassuming civil servant tried to run for city council, he was beaten in the election and has been depressed since.
Lawrence Truman: Lawrence, or 'Larry' as he prefers to be called, is a mostly retired lawyer with lots of connections to the wealthier citizens of Sunnydale, including an influential place at the country club. Clued into the supernatural only after his election to the city council, he mostly acted as a political advisor to Buffy during the campaign. While Larry can be annoying at times, his cheesy brand of charisma has its uses.
Juan Cortez: A popular director, Cortez came to Sunnydale to film Lights in the Sky, but after a dangerous incident involving him misusing magic he ended up closer to Buffy's faction and decided to stay in the city long term. He's secured a city council seat and plans to grow Sunnydale's film industry by recruiting local demonic talent.
Anthony Gervais: The sole member of the opposition quasi-party elected to the city council, Anthony is an old curmudgeon who didn't exactly know about the supernatural beforehand, but did believe a bunch of conspiracy theories. He's another councilor who's plugged into the country club and the richer members of the city, and in cooperation with his nephew he plans to use his council seat to further the mundane economic development of the city. Anthony has a bitter rivalry with Vanessa Waters and they often snipe at each other during council meetings.
Note: There are five additional '99ers acting as administrative assistants and busybodies not listed here. They receive part-time pay analogous to a good part-time job.
Joyce Summers (KRISTINE SUTHERLAND): Joyce is Buffy's mom, and also the manager of an art gallery. In addition to her normal job, she's also helping City Hall part time under Giles by auditing the inflow and outflow of Sunnydale's museums for dangerous artifacts. She's often come to moral loggerheads with Buffy about her administration of the city lately, and their most recent fight resulted in Buffy finally moving out of the house.
Warren Mears (ADAM BUSCH): After making a sizable chunk of seed money selling new patents to faraway corporations, Warren Mears has set up shop in the old CRD building and wants to build a robotics business. Only a few years older than the '99ers, he knows all about the nature of Sunnydale and proved quite competent when the Little Men had to be cleared out of the building. Buffy had a date-like encounter with Warren over the summer, but it failed to blossom into a relationship.
Matthew Waters (JAMES ARNESS): Vanessa's nephew and the new Chief of Police in Sunnydale, Matt was recruited away from a job as a detective in San Francisco to reform the corrupt and ineffective police department. He's recently been liaising with Xander and the SDCW to get the police to a basic level of competence regarding supernatural threats, but still seeks to mostly deal with more mundane issues. Matt has about twenty police working under him, an assortment of plainclothes detectives and uniformed officers.
Carl Gervais: Anthony's nephew Carl is a real estate developer in his 30s with a Harvard degree. After being propped up by Wolfram and Hart, Carl ran against Buffy in the special election for Mayor in the summer of '99. Even though the race got pretty dirty, Buffy was gracious in victory, mostly because Carl didn't know anything about the supernatural or about Wolfram and Hart's darker aspects while he was running. Right now he's hoping to make some money both for himself and the city with a big construction project.
Willy the Snitch (SAVERIO GUERRA): After a dicey history with Buffy, in recent times he and the slayer have formed a sort of friendship, or at least a reasonable business relationship. Willy runs a relatively peaceful demon bar, 'Willy's Place', on the bad side of town and routinely provides Buffy with information about the bad elements in the city.
Gwen (RAINY JO STOUT): A down-and-out vampire prostitute, Gwen was a nobody until Buffy discovered the Sunnydale suck house and decided that Gwen was the most trustworthy of the lot. Gwen is now responsible for the safe and clean running of the institution and both a lackey and informant for Buffy. The suck-house currently employs four other hopefully tame vampires, in addition to Gwen.
Warren Mears (ADAM BUSCH): After making a sizable chunk of seed money selling new patents to faraway corporations, Warren Mears has set up shop in the old CRD building and wants to build a robotics business. Only a few years older than the '99ers, he knows all about the nature of Sunnydale and proved quite competent when the Little Men had to be cleared out of the building. Buffy had a date-like encounter with Warren over the summer, but it failed to blossom into a relationship.
Matthew Waters (JAMES ARNESS): Vanessa's nephew and the new Chief of Police in Sunnydale, Matt was recruited away from a job as a detective in San Francisco to reform the corrupt and ineffective police department. He's recently been liaising with Xander and the SDCW to get the police to a basic level of competence regarding supernatural threats, but still seeks to mostly deal with more mundane issues. Matt has about twenty police working under him, an assortment of plainclothes detectives and uniformed officers.
Carl Gervais: Anthony's nephew Carl is a real estate developer in his 30s with a Harvard degree. After being propped up by Wolfram and Hart, Carl ran against Buffy in the special election for Mayor in the summer of '99. Even though the race got pretty dirty, Buffy was gracious in victory, mostly because Carl didn't know anything about the supernatural or about Wolfram and Hart's darker aspects while he was running. Right now he's hoping to make some money both for himself and the city with a big construction project.
Willy the Snitch (SAVERIO GUERRA): After a dicey history with Buffy, in recent times he and the slayer have formed a sort of friendship, or at least a reasonable business relationship. Willy runs a relatively peaceful demon bar, 'Willy's Place', on the bad side of town and routinely provides Buffy with information about the bad elements in the city.
Gwen (RAINY JO STOUT): A down-and-out vampire prostitute, Gwen was a nobody until Buffy discovered the Sunnydale suck house and decided that Gwen was the most trustworthy of the lot. Gwen is now responsible for the safe and clean running of the institution and both a lackey and informant for Buffy. The suck-house currently employs four other hopefully tame vampires, in addition to Gwen.
Mayor Wilkins (?) (HARRY GROENER): An immortal sorcerer who ruled Sunnydale for a hundred years by pretending to be an entire family line, he was killed by Buffy for becoming the incarnation of an Old One and attempting to devour the entire graduation ceremony. This wasn't the end of him though; once Buffy took control of Sunnydale the late mayor started appearing in her Slayer dreams, offering advice on managing both the city and her personal growth. He's apparently cooperating with Sineya and warns of an upcoming apocalypse, but his ultimate motives and even his ghostly nature are uncertain.
Sineya (SHARON FERGUSON): The legendary first slayer who lived thousands of years ago, the ghost of Sineya seems to be the closest thing to a driving consciousness possessed by the mostly dead Old One which is responsible for the slayer mantle and funneling Buffy all her new powers. While she rarely even makes herself known to slayers, she recently orchestrated a fully featured slayer dream teaching Buffy about the ancient history of the Old Ones and the Sundering that resulted in the modern cosmos.
The Rat King: An enigmatic figure from another dimension, the Rat King is literally made of a swarm of rats. His form is so bizarre that looking at him produces cognitive dissonance, and his language is so esoteric that you need to be connected to the tao of rat to speak it. First contracted by Mayor Wilkins long ago, he maintains a spell to prevent the Hellmouth from sickening the population of Sunnydale, and in exchange the current administration lets his nobles visit covertly and subsidizes their shopping. The Rat King's actions seem to suggest he wants to solidify his alliance with Sunnydale, but what that means in a context he understands isn't always easy to figure out.
Amy Madison (ELIZABETH ANNE ALLEN): Amy Madison was transformed into a rat by her own unwisely cast spell for months, but Willow managed to turn her back to human form soon after Graduation. Unfortunately, her magical drug habit left her easy prey to become Rack's spy, and once Andrew discovered her treason Buffy broke her jaw. In spite of this rocky start to the quest Amy worked her way back into the good graces of Sunnydale by becoming the Rat King's translator. Lately she's a closer confidant of his, and apparently, also his royal consort.
Nezumi: Nezumi is one of the nobles introduced to Sunnydale by the Rat King, and has been quick to adapt to its ways. Though he also takes the form of a swarm of rats, it's a rather less incomprehensible one and also usually also mostly wearing little robot costumes. Nezumi has a role in the Lights in the Sky movie, and can understand but not speak English.
Skip (DAVID DENMAN): Originally one of Andrew's extradimensional demon contacts, Skip has grown fond of Sunnydale and is one of the cast members of Lights in the Sky. His fearsome armored and demonic appearance definitely helps with that. He originally proved his worth by outing Amy's early treachery, and since then has been a consistent good apple, despite his scary appearance. He couldn't possibly have any ulterior motive, could he?
Cordelia Chase (CHARISMA CARPENTER): After a lifelong rivalry with Xander and Willow, Cordelia grew to be a friend of the Scooby gang. She recently started a career in the movie business, and got a big role in Lights in the Sky, which brought her back to Sunnydale, at least temporarily. Though she's in town, Cordelia hasn't participated much with government activities or policing the supernatural; she's too busy filming.
Banthasnap, son of Grezelnspar: A Mok'tagar noble, Banthasnap is the drunken uncle of the now deceased Great One, Tapparich. The invasion of Mog'tog'og was intended to secure the Great One mantle for him and set him up to rule his nephew's city state, but things didn't go exactly as planned and he never inherited his family's mantle. He was last seen charging into a castle built into an exploding volcano, but who knows, he might've survived somehow.
The Yeti: The Yeti is a fifteen foot tall giant that was originally imprisoned by Wilkins at the Sunnydale Lodge. Moving by some esoteric means from place to place since then, she has caused some property damage and seems to have bizarre effects on human memory and attention. Despite this, she seems to mean well, as demonstrated by a brief but peaceful meeting with Xander. The Yeti hasn't been spotted in months, but then again, people might just be forgetting she's there.
Sineya (SHARON FERGUSON): The legendary first slayer who lived thousands of years ago, the ghost of Sineya seems to be the closest thing to a driving consciousness possessed by the mostly dead Old One which is responsible for the slayer mantle and funneling Buffy all her new powers. While she rarely even makes herself known to slayers, she recently orchestrated a fully featured slayer dream teaching Buffy about the ancient history of the Old Ones and the Sundering that resulted in the modern cosmos.
The Rat King: An enigmatic figure from another dimension, the Rat King is literally made of a swarm of rats. His form is so bizarre that looking at him produces cognitive dissonance, and his language is so esoteric that you need to be connected to the tao of rat to speak it. First contracted by Mayor Wilkins long ago, he maintains a spell to prevent the Hellmouth from sickening the population of Sunnydale, and in exchange the current administration lets his nobles visit covertly and subsidizes their shopping. The Rat King's actions seem to suggest he wants to solidify his alliance with Sunnydale, but what that means in a context he understands isn't always easy to figure out.
Amy Madison (ELIZABETH ANNE ALLEN): Amy Madison was transformed into a rat by her own unwisely cast spell for months, but Willow managed to turn her back to human form soon after Graduation. Unfortunately, her magical drug habit left her easy prey to become Rack's spy, and once Andrew discovered her treason Buffy broke her jaw. In spite of this rocky start to the quest Amy worked her way back into the good graces of Sunnydale by becoming the Rat King's translator. Lately she's a closer confidant of his, and apparently, also his royal consort.
Nezumi: Nezumi is one of the nobles introduced to Sunnydale by the Rat King, and has been quick to adapt to its ways. Though he also takes the form of a swarm of rats, it's a rather less incomprehensible one and also usually also mostly wearing little robot costumes. Nezumi has a role in the Lights in the Sky movie, and can understand but not speak English.
Skip (DAVID DENMAN): Originally one of Andrew's extradimensional demon contacts, Skip has grown fond of Sunnydale and is one of the cast members of Lights in the Sky. His fearsome armored and demonic appearance definitely helps with that. He originally proved his worth by outing Amy's early treachery, and since then has been a consistent good apple, despite his scary appearance. He couldn't possibly have any ulterior motive, could he?
Cordelia Chase (CHARISMA CARPENTER): After a lifelong rivalry with Xander and Willow, Cordelia grew to be a friend of the Scooby gang. She recently started a career in the movie business, and got a big role in Lights in the Sky, which brought her back to Sunnydale, at least temporarily. Though she's in town, Cordelia hasn't participated much with government activities or policing the supernatural; she's too busy filming.
Banthasnap, son of Grezelnspar: A Mok'tagar noble, Banthasnap is the drunken uncle of the now deceased Great One, Tapparich. The invasion of Mog'tog'og was intended to secure the Great One mantle for him and set him up to rule his nephew's city state, but things didn't go exactly as planned and he never inherited his family's mantle. He was last seen charging into a castle built into an exploding volcano, but who knows, he might've survived somehow.
The Yeti: The Yeti is a fifteen foot tall giant that was originally imprisoned by Wilkins at the Sunnydale Lodge. Moving by some esoteric means from place to place since then, she has caused some property damage and seems to have bizarre effects on human memory and attention. Despite this, she seems to mean well, as demonstrated by a brief but peaceful meeting with Xander. The Yeti hasn't been spotted in months, but then again, people might just be forgetting she's there.
Quentin Travers (HARRIS YULIN): Travers is the senior watcher representing the traditionalist faction on the Sunnydale expedition, and was also the watcher who oversaw Buffy's disastrous Cruciamentum last year and fired Giles afterwards. While the history between him and the scoobies is fraught, Travers seems unconcerned about Buffy getting her hands dirty as mayor and more worried about regaining control of Faith Lehane from the Initiative.
Mary Snow (GINNIFER GOODWIN): Mary was originally a potential slayer, but after not being called eventually ascended to the rank of senior watcher within the Council. She represents the progressive faction and wants to use the resources of the Council to aggressively support Sunnydale and the fight against evil. Mary, for obvious reasons, is also strongly in favor of integrating potentials into Council activities and educating them to be Watchers should they end up aging out.
Nigel Iyer (CHRIS IYER): Nigel is a watcher only moderately experienced in the field, but very accomplished academically, with two doctorates and "a sixth level certification from the Old English Covenry." One of Travers' close associates, he arrived more than a little skeptical of the abilities of Buffy and her group, but is quickly learning otherwise. While he's a little lacking in actual combat applicable magic or skills, he did acquit himself fairly well during the invasion of Mog'tog'og.
Phillip Muirhead (OLIVER MUIRHEAD): A snarky but good natured watcher who specialized in martial arts and covert activities, Phillip was another of Travers' traditionalist faction. Unfortunately he met his end during the invasion of Mog'tog'og, saving a barely conscious Jonathan from a cave-in.
Rachel Berenson (BROOKE NEVIN): Rachel has been a potential slayer for years and seems almost old enough to have passed the likely age of calling. In spite of that, she's a firebrand who loves to be on the front lines, perhaps because of emotional trauma related to her father being turned into a vampire. Rachel is currently working on the SDCW, both to gain experience on the hellmouth and to help fill out empty space that opened up when fall began.
Zoe Benson (TAISSA FARMIGA): Another relatively old potential and Rachel's best friend, Zoe is more reserved and bookish. She's also working on the SDCW, even though she's less eager to see the vicious nightlife Sunnydale is famous for.
Wesley Wyndam-Pryce (ALEXIS DESINOF): Wesley was sent to be the watcher on the scene for both Buffy and Faith after Giles was fired last year, and didn't exactly cover himself in glory. After Graduation, he went back to the Council, was largely blamed by everyone for most of what went wrong, and then was summarily fired himself.
Mary Snow (GINNIFER GOODWIN): Mary was originally a potential slayer, but after not being called eventually ascended to the rank of senior watcher within the Council. She represents the progressive faction and wants to use the resources of the Council to aggressively support Sunnydale and the fight against evil. Mary, for obvious reasons, is also strongly in favor of integrating potentials into Council activities and educating them to be Watchers should they end up aging out.
Nigel Iyer (CHRIS IYER): Nigel is a watcher only moderately experienced in the field, but very accomplished academically, with two doctorates and "a sixth level certification from the Old English Covenry." One of Travers' close associates, he arrived more than a little skeptical of the abilities of Buffy and her group, but is quickly learning otherwise. While he's a little lacking in actual combat applicable magic or skills, he did acquit himself fairly well during the invasion of Mog'tog'og.
Phillip Muirhead (OLIVER MUIRHEAD): A snarky but good natured watcher who specialized in martial arts and covert activities, Phillip was another of Travers' traditionalist faction. Unfortunately he met his end during the invasion of Mog'tog'og, saving a barely conscious Jonathan from a cave-in.
Rachel Berenson (BROOKE NEVIN): Rachel has been a potential slayer for years and seems almost old enough to have passed the likely age of calling. In spite of that, she's a firebrand who loves to be on the front lines, perhaps because of emotional trauma related to her father being turned into a vampire. Rachel is currently working on the SDCW, both to gain experience on the hellmouth and to help fill out empty space that opened up when fall began.
Zoe Benson (TAISSA FARMIGA): Another relatively old potential and Rachel's best friend, Zoe is more reserved and bookish. She's also working on the SDCW, even though she's less eager to see the vicious nightlife Sunnydale is famous for.
Wesley Wyndam-Pryce (ALEXIS DESINOF): Wesley was sent to be the watcher on the scene for both Buffy and Faith after Giles was fired last year, and didn't exactly cover himself in glory. After Graduation, he went back to the Council, was largely blamed by everyone for most of what went wrong, and then was summarily fired himself.
Maggie Walsh (LINDSAY CROUSE): Maggie Walsh is the Director of the Initiative, "a federal program to study and contain hostile sub-terrestrials" (known to most people as demons.) Over the course of last spring the Initiative managed to set up a huge underground base in an old bomb shelter beneath UC Sunnydale, but they didn't start frequent patrols of the surface until August. The first the Scoobies knew of them was a plague of disappearing demons, the more innocent of which they've since had released from Initiative prison.
Maggie and her organization lack much of the practical knowledge of demons and magic that other local groups have, but she has an arrogant and domineering personality and won't take a backseat even in spite of that. As if her job managing a government organization wasn't enough, she also takes her cover job as a Psych professor at UC Sunnydale very seriously.
Faith Lehane (ELIZA DUSHKU): Faith Lehane was called as the slayer after the death of Kendra Young, and after a traumatic start made her way to Sunnydale. The events of season three led her to turn on the Scoobies and work for Mayor Wilkins, but before the climactic battle Buffy put her in a coma.
Weeks after Wilkins' death, Faith was kidnapped from the hospital by Teeth during the Triumvirate crisis and disappeared, only to recently resurface working for the Initiative under Maggie Walsh. Despite nominally being a soldier for the US Government now, Faith seems to be as vindictive as ever, and is still more interested in provoking a reaction from Buffy than mending any bridges.
Spike (JAMES MARSTERS): Spike has been a sporadic pain in Buffy's ass for years now, both when he's trying to kill her and when he's theoretically fighting on her side. Recently spotted doing research in an LA museum, the odds are good he's cooking up another one of his ridiculous plans.
Dracula (RUDOLF MARTIN): Dracula appeared in Sunnydale claiming that he wanted to tutor Buffy in the use of her new powers, but it was soon revealed that he had more sinister motives and was looking for the secret source of rapid growth. Once his plan was in tatters, Dracula fled before Buffy could fight him seriously, disappearing castle and all.
The Little Men: The Little Men are a race of demon gnomes, many of which had initially been imprisoned by Wilkins at the Sunnydale Lodge. After their escape, they infested the old CRD building and covered it with traps as their numbers seemed to grow exponentially. While they were routed there, some are still at large and they may remain a threat to the town.
Digby Van Dyne: He was one of Mayor Wilkins' surviving vampire minions. He seemed to have a prominent position among them and wanted to inherit the rulership of Sunnydale himself, but after gathering allies into a Triumvirate and hatching a plan he was staked by Buffy during an attack on the police station.
Teeth (RAYMOND O'CONNOR): A shark-headed demon mob boss, Teeth was a minor villain in Sunnydale until he joined the Triumvirate and robbed the hospital. Teeth was executed by Buffy a day later for his role in Joyce's kidnapping, and soon his corpse will be on display at the Sunnydale Lodge.
Rack (JEFF KOBER): Rack is a sorcerer specializing in dealing magical highs, cloaking things, and moving stuff around. He was the most effective member of the Triumvirate, but after extracting a ransom for Joyce's return and betraying Teeth he fled Sunnydale for Europe.
Kathy Newman (DAGNEY KERR): Kathy was a Mok'tagar college student who managed to work her way into the Sunnydale government as the "Minister of Interdimensional Trade", but less than a week after her appointment she came into bitter conflict with Buffy and Harmony over her distaste towards their interspecies relationship. Things escalated into violence, and after almost re-killing Harmony Kathy was executed by Buffy.
Tapparich, son of Danthanap (ROGER MORRISSEY): A Mok'tagar "Great One" that ruled a City State in the hell dimension Mog'tog'og, Tapparich was originally reluctant to let his daughter Kathy stay in Sunnydale for her education, but was won over by Buffy. After Buffy ended up killing Kathy, The Scoobies decided to get rid of Tapparich before he took revenge by invading Sunnydale. Buffy and her team succeeded in killing him despite his powerful magic, though his death also triggered an unfortunate volcano which may have caused thousands of demon casualties.
Maggie and her organization lack much of the practical knowledge of demons and magic that other local groups have, but she has an arrogant and domineering personality and won't take a backseat even in spite of that. As if her job managing a government organization wasn't enough, she also takes her cover job as a Psych professor at UC Sunnydale very seriously.
Faith Lehane (ELIZA DUSHKU): Faith Lehane was called as the slayer after the death of Kendra Young, and after a traumatic start made her way to Sunnydale. The events of season three led her to turn on the Scoobies and work for Mayor Wilkins, but before the climactic battle Buffy put her in a coma.
Weeks after Wilkins' death, Faith was kidnapped from the hospital by Teeth during the Triumvirate crisis and disappeared, only to recently resurface working for the Initiative under Maggie Walsh. Despite nominally being a soldier for the US Government now, Faith seems to be as vindictive as ever, and is still more interested in provoking a reaction from Buffy than mending any bridges.
Spike (JAMES MARSTERS): Spike has been a sporadic pain in Buffy's ass for years now, both when he's trying to kill her and when he's theoretically fighting on her side. Recently spotted doing research in an LA museum, the odds are good he's cooking up another one of his ridiculous plans.
Dracula (RUDOLF MARTIN): Dracula appeared in Sunnydale claiming that he wanted to tutor Buffy in the use of her new powers, but it was soon revealed that he had more sinister motives and was looking for the secret source of rapid growth. Once his plan was in tatters, Dracula fled before Buffy could fight him seriously, disappearing castle and all.
The Little Men: The Little Men are a race of demon gnomes, many of which had initially been imprisoned by Wilkins at the Sunnydale Lodge. After their escape, they infested the old CRD building and covered it with traps as their numbers seemed to grow exponentially. While they were routed there, some are still at large and they may remain a threat to the town.
Digby Van Dyne: He was one of Mayor Wilkins' surviving vampire minions. He seemed to have a prominent position among them and wanted to inherit the rulership of Sunnydale himself, but after gathering allies into a Triumvirate and hatching a plan he was staked by Buffy during an attack on the police station.
Teeth (RAYMOND O'CONNOR): A shark-headed demon mob boss, Teeth was a minor villain in Sunnydale until he joined the Triumvirate and robbed the hospital. Teeth was executed by Buffy a day later for his role in Joyce's kidnapping, and soon his corpse will be on display at the Sunnydale Lodge.
Rack (JEFF KOBER): Rack is a sorcerer specializing in dealing magical highs, cloaking things, and moving stuff around. He was the most effective member of the Triumvirate, but after extracting a ransom for Joyce's return and betraying Teeth he fled Sunnydale for Europe.
Kathy Newman (DAGNEY KERR): Kathy was a Mok'tagar college student who managed to work her way into the Sunnydale government as the "Minister of Interdimensional Trade", but less than a week after her appointment she came into bitter conflict with Buffy and Harmony over her distaste towards their interspecies relationship. Things escalated into violence, and after almost re-killing Harmony Kathy was executed by Buffy.
Tapparich, son of Danthanap (ROGER MORRISSEY): A Mok'tagar "Great One" that ruled a City State in the hell dimension Mog'tog'og, Tapparich was originally reluctant to let his daughter Kathy stay in Sunnydale for her education, but was won over by Buffy. After Buffy ended up killing Kathy, The Scoobies decided to get rid of Tapparich before he took revenge by invading Sunnydale. Buffy and her team succeeded in killing him despite his powerful magic, though his death also triggered an unfortunate volcano which may have caused thousands of demon casualties.
Angel (DAVID BOREANAZ): Angel is a Vampire With A Soul who had a torrid romance with Buffy over the course of the first three seasons, but the problems of curses and dramatic angst eventually led him to leave town for LA. Buffy has worked with him on a few occasions since, but between her increasing political power and some of her more unscrupulous actions, Angel's trust in her is starting to wear thin. Angel recently acquired a magical Kris sword from Achard the Tribune.
Lorne the Host (ANDY HALLETT): Lorne is a very unusual Deathwok that runs a karaoke bar in LA, 'Caritas', that serves as a peaceful sanctuary for both humans and demons. In addition to that, Lorne can use his demon powers to read the destinies of those who sing there and offer them helpful advice. Buffy was rather intimidating on her first trip to Caritas, but Lorne proved to be quite helpful in spite of (or perhaps because of) that. Later, he also read Harmony, though the nature of his assistance was pretty risky given that he aimed her at Spike for a vampire-to-vampire chat.
Nathaniel Smith (JACK GLEESON): Nathaniel, or as Buffy likes to call him, "Nate", is an un-favored son of the sorcerer clan 'Transmuters Material'. While he'd struggled to justify his existence to his father before, Buffy's help in winning him the Crown of the First Sorcerer-King on Sour's game show has given him some much needed breathing room with his clan.
Ivgol the Dwarf: He's a pretty stereotypical Dwarf who runs a tinker shop in LA and loves working with metal. He has an armory setup in his basement and provided Buffy with a very high quality Warhammer in exchange for some mithral Wilkins had squirreled away.
Congressman Gold: Representing one of LA's districts in the House of Representatives, Gold is secretly a Lizard person, though this doesn't seem to affect his decisions very much. He helped aim Buffy and Willow in the right direction when dealing with Wolfram and Hart, and got a folder of stolen WRH data for his trouble. He also kept the lid on her anti-assassin rampage through LA, preventing any awkward police interference.
Lindsey McDonald (CHRISTIAN KANE): Lindsey is a lawyer for the Special Projects division of Wolfram and Hart, a supernatural law firm with a reputation for evil. He was in charge of trying to expand Wolfram and Hart's influence into Sunnydale, and his means for doing so was to prop up the campaign for mayor by Carl Gervais. He enacted various scummy and supernatural plans to mess up the Summers administration, but all of them were neatly handled as his efforts were frustrated at every turn.
Holland Manners (SAM ANDERSON): The Head of Operations for Wolfram and Hart's Special Projects division in LA, Holland Manners was the one who negotiated the truce between Sunnydale and Wolfram and Hart, keeping both groups out of each others' hair and putting a lot of "tribute" money in Buffy and Willow's pockets. While the cash was enough to solve a major budget crisis, it's been hinted that Wolfram and Hart also profited from the agreement significantly, even beyond not having to worry about their LA assassins getting assassinated anymore.
Percy West (ETHAN ERICKSON): Percy is a stereotypical jock and leader of other jocks, but the events of season three led him to respect the Buffy gang as pretty much universally tougher than him and therefore worth listening to. He joined the SDCW over the summer and proved himself a capable fighter, but recently left to college at UCLA. Now he and some of his old '99er friends are patroling the streets of Los Angeles.
Charles Gunn (J. AUGUST RICHARDS): Gunn runs his own crew of vampire fighters on the downtrodden streets of LA, and even though they don't have the superpowers, funding, or resources of Buffy's people they do a pretty decent job. After he helped Buffy in a battle against Wolfram and Hart assassins, she put him in contact with Percy and his friends.
Alonna Gunn (MICHELE KELLY): Gunn's little sister, Alonna is one of the younger members of his ragtag group. She's recently shown an interest in learning magic, and she's commuted to Sunnydale a few times for sporadic lessons and studying in the past month.
Lorne the Host (ANDY HALLETT): Lorne is a very unusual Deathwok that runs a karaoke bar in LA, 'Caritas', that serves as a peaceful sanctuary for both humans and demons. In addition to that, Lorne can use his demon powers to read the destinies of those who sing there and offer them helpful advice. Buffy was rather intimidating on her first trip to Caritas, but Lorne proved to be quite helpful in spite of (or perhaps because of) that. Later, he also read Harmony, though the nature of his assistance was pretty risky given that he aimed her at Spike for a vampire-to-vampire chat.
Nathaniel Smith (JACK GLEESON): Nathaniel, or as Buffy likes to call him, "Nate", is an un-favored son of the sorcerer clan 'Transmuters Material'. While he'd struggled to justify his existence to his father before, Buffy's help in winning him the Crown of the First Sorcerer-King on Sour's game show has given him some much needed breathing room with his clan.
Ivgol the Dwarf: He's a pretty stereotypical Dwarf who runs a tinker shop in LA and loves working with metal. He has an armory setup in his basement and provided Buffy with a very high quality Warhammer in exchange for some mithral Wilkins had squirreled away.
Congressman Gold: Representing one of LA's districts in the House of Representatives, Gold is secretly a Lizard person, though this doesn't seem to affect his decisions very much. He helped aim Buffy and Willow in the right direction when dealing with Wolfram and Hart, and got a folder of stolen WRH data for his trouble. He also kept the lid on her anti-assassin rampage through LA, preventing any awkward police interference.
Lindsey McDonald (CHRISTIAN KANE): Lindsey is a lawyer for the Special Projects division of Wolfram and Hart, a supernatural law firm with a reputation for evil. He was in charge of trying to expand Wolfram and Hart's influence into Sunnydale, and his means for doing so was to prop up the campaign for mayor by Carl Gervais. He enacted various scummy and supernatural plans to mess up the Summers administration, but all of them were neatly handled as his efforts were frustrated at every turn.
Holland Manners (SAM ANDERSON): The Head of Operations for Wolfram and Hart's Special Projects division in LA, Holland Manners was the one who negotiated the truce between Sunnydale and Wolfram and Hart, keeping both groups out of each others' hair and putting a lot of "tribute" money in Buffy and Willow's pockets. While the cash was enough to solve a major budget crisis, it's been hinted that Wolfram and Hart also profited from the agreement significantly, even beyond not having to worry about their LA assassins getting assassinated anymore.
Percy West (ETHAN ERICKSON): Percy is a stereotypical jock and leader of other jocks, but the events of season three led him to respect the Buffy gang as pretty much universally tougher than him and therefore worth listening to. He joined the SDCW over the summer and proved himself a capable fighter, but recently left to college at UCLA. Now he and some of his old '99er friends are patroling the streets of Los Angeles.
Charles Gunn (J. AUGUST RICHARDS): Gunn runs his own crew of vampire fighters on the downtrodden streets of LA, and even though they don't have the superpowers, funding, or resources of Buffy's people they do a pretty decent job. After he helped Buffy in a battle against Wolfram and Hart assassins, she put him in contact with Percy and his friends.
Alonna Gunn (MICHELE KELLY): Gunn's little sister, Alonna is one of the younger members of his ragtag group. She's recently shown an interest in learning magic, and she's commuted to Sunnydale a few times for sporadic lessons and studying in the past month.
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