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Spike (Buffyverse)

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Spike, played by James Marsters, is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon for the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. Spike is a vampire and played various roles on the shows, ranging from villain to anti-hero. For Marsters, the role as Spike began a career in science fiction television, becoming "the obvious go-to guy for US cult [television]". For creator Whedon, Spike is the "most fully developed" of his characters. The character had intended to be a brief villain, with Whedon originally adamant to not have another major "romantic vampire" character like Angel - Marsters says "Spike was supposed to be dirty and evil, punk rock, and then dead" - but the character ended up staying for the second season, and then returning in the fourth to replace Cordelia as "the

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Buffy Season 2 *"School Hard" *"Halloween" *"Lie to Me" *"What's My Line, Part One" *"What's My Line, Part Two" *"Surprise" *"Innocence" *"Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" *"Passion" *"I Only Have Eyes for You" *"Becoming, Part One" *"Becoming, Part Two" Buffy Season 3 *"Lovers Walk" Buffy Season 4/Angel Season 1 *"The Harsh Light of Day" *"In the Dark" *"Wild at Heart" *"The Initiative" *"Pangs" *"Something Blue" *"Hush" *"Doomed" *"A New Man" *"The I in Team" *"Goodbye Iowa" *"This Year's Girl" *"Who Are You" *"Superstar" *"Where the Wild Things Are" *"New Moon Rising" *"The Yoko Factor" *"Primeval" *"Restless" Buffy Season 5/Angel Season 2 *"Buffy vs. Dracula" *"Real Me" *"The Replacement" *"Out of My Mind" *"No Place Like Home" *"Family" *"Fool for Love" *"Darla" *"Shadow" *"Listening to Fear" *"Into the Woods" *"Triangle" *"Checkpoint" *"Blood Ties" *"Crush" *"I Was Made to Love You" *"The Body" *"Forever" *"Intervention" *"Tough Love" *"Spiral" *"The Weight of the World" *"The Gift" Buffy Season 6 *"Bargaining, Part One" *"Bargaining, Part Two" *"After Life" *"Flooded" *"Life Serial" *"All the Way" *"Once More, with Feeling" *"Tabula Rasa" *"Smashed" *"Wrecked" *"Gone" *"Doublemeat Palace" *"Dead Things" *"Older and Far Away" *"As You Were" *"Hell's Bells" *"Normal Again" *"Entropy" *"Seeing Red" *"Villains" *"Two to Go" *"Grave" Buffy Season 7 *"Lessons" *"Beneath You" *"Same Time, Same Place" *"Help" *"Selfless" *"Him" *"Conversations with Dead People" *"Sleeper" *"Never Leave Me" *"Bring on the Night" *"Showtime" *"Potential" *"The Killer in Me" *"First Date" *"Get It Done" *"Storyteller" *"Lies My Parents Told Me" *"Dirty Girls" *"Empty Places" *"Touched" *"End of Days" *"Chosen" Angel Season 5 *"Conviction" *"Just Rewards" *"Unleashed" *"Hell Bound" *"Life of the Party" *"The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco" *"Lineage" *"Destiny" *"Harm's Way" *"Soul Purpose" *"Damage" *"You're Welcome" *"Why We Fight" *"Smile Time" *"A Hole in the World" *"Shells" *"Underneath" *"Origin" *"Time Bomb" *"The Girl in Question" *"Power Play" *"Not Fade Away" Angel: After the Fall/Angel IDW ongoing *"After the Fall, Part Two" *"After the Fall, Part Three" *"After the Fall, Part Four" *"After the Fall, Part Five" *"After the Fall, Part Six" *"After the Fall, Part Nine" *"After the Fall, Part Ten" *"After the Fall, Part Eleven" *"After the Fall, Part Twelve" *"After the Fall, Part Thirteen" *"After the Fall, Part Fourteen" *"After the Fall, Part Fifteen" *"After the Fall, Part Sixteen" *"After the Fall, Part Seventeen" * Aftermath * Boys and Their Toys * Immortality for Dummies * Crown Prince Syndrome * Illyria: Haunted Spike: After the Fall *"Spike: After the Fall, Part One" *"Spike: After the Fall, Part Two" *"Spike: After the Fall, Part Three" *"Spike: After the Fall, Part Four" Spike: The Devil You Know *"The Devil You Know, Part One" *"The Devil You Know, Part Two" *"The Devil You Know, Part Three" *"The Devil You Know, Part Four" Spike: Ongoing Series *Spike #1-8 Buffy Season 8 *The Long Way Home *Always Darkest *Twilight, Part Four *Last Gleaming Buffy Season 9 *Freefall *On Your Own *Apart (of Me) *The Core, Part One *The Core, Part Two Spike: A Dark Place * All five issues Willow: Wonderland * Wonderland, Part Four Angel & Faith *Death and Consequences, Part Three *Death and Consequences, Part Four *Spike and Faith *What You Want, Not What You Need, Part One

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* Advanced age gives him physical abilities superior to most other vampires and demons. * Highly skilled in both armed and unarmed combat. * Capable of operating a wide variety of vehicles. * Fluency in several languages . * Knowledge of poetry. * Temporarily had the ability to phase through solid objects as a ghost. In addition to the common powers and vulnerabilities of vampires, Spike possesses many qualities unique to himself:

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Spike, played by James Marsters, is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon for the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. Spike is a vampire and played various roles on the shows, ranging from villain to anti-hero. For Marsters, the role as Spike began a career in science fiction television, becoming "the obvious go-to guy for US cult [television]". For creator Whedon, Spike is the "most fully developed" of his characters. The character had intended to be a brief villain, with Whedon originally adamant to not have another major "romantic vampire" character like Angel - Marsters says "Spike was supposed to be dirty and evil, punk rock, and then dead" - but the character ended up staying for the second season, and then returning in the fourth to replace Cordelia as "the character who told Buffy she was stupid and about to die". Within the series' narrative, William was an unsuccessful aspiring poet in the Victorian era who was mocked and called "William the Bloody" because of his "bloody awful" poetry. Sired by the vampire Drusilla (Juliet Landau), William became an unusually passionate and romantic vampire. Alongside Drusilla and Angelus (David Boreanaz), William acquired the nickname Spike for his preferred method of torturing people with railroad spikes. He was noted for killing two vampire Slayers; one at the end of the 1800s during the Boxer Rebellion, the other in 1970s New York, where Spike acquired his trademark leather duster. During the second season of the series Spike comes to Sunnydale hoping to kill a third Slayer, Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar), with whom he later forges an uneasy alliance. Over the course of Buffy, Spike falls in love with the Slayer, reacquires his soul to prove himself to Buffy and dies a hero in the show's series finale before being resurrected in the fifth season of spin-off series Angel. Considered a 'breakout character', Spike proved immensely popular with fans of Buffy. The character appears substantially in Expanded Universe materials such as comic books and tie-in novels. Following the cancellation of Angel in 2004, Whedon considered creating a Spike film spin-off. Canonically, the character appears in issues of the comic books Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight and Angel: After the Fall in 2007, several Spike miniseries, and a Spike ongoing series in 2010.

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