Mr. Trick was a vampire of African-American origin who came to Sunnydale with his master, Kakistos, to hunt down the Slayer known as Faith. Unlike Kakistos, who was driven by bloodlust and killer instinct, Mr. Trick was an innovator who enjoyed comfort and preferred not to get his hands dirty. He enjoyed the comic strip "Marmaduke," admiring the title canine's uncontrollability, and accordingly abandoned his master to meet his demise at the hands of Faith and Buffy Summers because he considered Kakistos retrograde and "cheap".