* Kurgan Rising-With an increasing number of Immortals disappearing, Duncan and Watcher Joe Dawson decide to investigate, but nothing can prepare the Highlander for what he will find: an ancient terror reborn!

* Watcher ( Highlander )

* The Watcher and Other Weird Stories ( 1894 ), another collection of short stories, published posthumously.

They are mentored by the school librarian who is also Buffy's Watcher, Rupert Giles ( Anthony Stewart Head ), who often works closely with Willow in researching the various monsters the group encounters.

She becomes best friends with Xander Harris ( Nicholas Brendon ) and Willow Rosenberg ( Alyson Hannigan ), and meets her new Watcher, Rupert Giles ( Anthony Stewart Head ).

These actors include Mark Hamill ( The Joker, Wolverine and the Watcher from Darksiders ), Michael Dorn ( various characters from World of Warcraft and Gatatog Uvenk from Mass Effect 2 ) and Claudia Black ( Chloe Frazer from the second and third entries in the Uncharted series ).

Giles has extensive knowledge of demonology and Slayer combat ( including at least a theoretical knowledge of jujutsu and aikido, but excelling at the art of fencing ), mainly due to his training as a Watcher.

Xander meets Buffy Summers ( Gellar ), the Slayer, on her first day at Sunnydale High, as well as her Watcher Rupert Giles ( Anthony Head ).

* Watcher ( comics ), an extraterrestrial species who watches the universe in Marvel Comics

* The Watcher ( 1851 novel ), an 1851 novel written by Sheridan Le Fanu

* The Watcher ( 1981 novel ), a 1981 novel written by Kay Nolte Smith

* The Watcher ( TV series ), a 1995 UPN TV series starring Sir Mix-a-Lot

* The Watcher ( film ), a 2000 film directed by Joe Charbanic

* Watcher ( Buffy the Vampire Slayer ), a member of the Watcher's Council in the Buffy and Angel television series

* Watcher ( Doctor Who ), a character in the 1981 Logopolis serial of the television series Doctor Who

* Watcher ( presence ), a subscriber for presence information

Unlike the long line of Slayers before her, Buffy accomplishes this with the help of her friends ( dubbed the Scooby Gang ), including her Watcher, Giles, who is also the school librarian.

* SWAP ( instrument ) ( Sun Watcher using Active Pixel System Detector and Image Processing ), a space instrument aboard the PROBA2 satellite

Nice wrote nearly 250 papers on birds, 3, 000 book reviews and several books including the Birds of Oklahoma ( 1924 ), The Watcher at the Nest ( 1939 ) and her autobiography.

As a songwriter Hendryx subsequently wrote powerful ballads (" You Turn Me On " and " Nightbird " from Nightbirds, " Going Down Makes Me Shiver " from Labelle's final album, Chameleon ), and a wealth of more uptempo numbers (" Space Children ," " Messin ' With My Mind ," " Gypsy Moths ," and " Who's Watching the Watcher ").

These include The Watcher ( also called the Silent Watcher or the Great Silent Watcher ), whose function it is to continually watch the akashic records and download daily all the information on them relevant to the life waves of Earth and forward it to the Custodian of the Hall of Records.

( the Watcher is part of a special race of beings who fulfill this function that are posted on planets thruout the Cosmos ); the Lords of Karma – Alice A. Bailey mentioned three Lords of Karma but did not name them ; they are called in the Ascended Master Teachings the Karmic Board and they are stated to number seven and each of them is identified by name: The Great Divine Director ( 1st ray ), The Goddess of Liberty ( 2nd ray ), Lady Master Nada ( 3rd ray ), Cyclopea ( 4th ray ), Pallas Athena ( 5th ray ), Lady Master Portia ( 6th ray ), and Kwan Yin ( 7th ray ).

In the fictional Buffyverse established by the television series Buffy and Angel, a Watcher is a member of a secret organization, the Watchers ' Council, which seeks to prepare the Slayer to fight demonic forces.

When MacLeod chases down two men watching from across the street, Dawson follows and tells Duncan that he is his Watcher, one of a secret society of mortals who observe and record the history of the Immortals, but never interfere.

Giles's primary role in the series is Watcher to Buffy ( Sarah Michelle Gellar ) in her capacity as vampire Slayer ; he is in the employ of the Watchers ' Council, a British organization that attempts to oversee the actions of the Slayer.

* Watcher ( optional ): The Watcher watches running programs for installation programs ( and usually offers to start the logger when such programs are detected ).

The powerful Watcher, Uatu, watches the Solar System from a base on the Moon.

In the two-part finale to series two, " Counterfeit " ( 1994 ), James Horton ( Peter Hudson ), a renegade Watcher who believes all Immortals must be eliminated, uses killer Lisa Halle ( Meilani Paul ) to try and kill MacLeod.

Dawson introduces MacLeod to Barton, Xavier's Watcher, ignoring that Barton is a renegade Watcher helping Xavier and James Horton to behead Immortals.

He later became a field Watcher, observing Immortals like Roy Ferrer ( 1971 – 1974 ) and Liza Grant ( 1975 – 1978 ), later being assigned to Duncan MacLeod in 1979.

* Widget ( TV series ) or Widget the World Watcher, a 1990s animated television series

First forming in the Season One episode " The Harvest " to prevent The Master from opening a portal to hell, the line-up of the group varied from year to year, but the core that remained intact throughout the series ' run was Buffy herself and her best friends, Xander Harris and Willow Rosenberg, as well as her Watcher, Rupert Giles.

In 1995, Sir Mix-a-Lot starred as the titular character of the short-lived TV series The Watcher.

* Ratchet, a character in the Widget the World Watcher television series

However, Xander's unique position as both outside of and within the main group enhances his insight into the other characters, especially as the series continues ; in Season Eight, he is Buffy's unofficial " Watcher ".

* Watcher in the Water, a creature from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy book series The Lord of the Rings

The Lost Slayer is a series of Buffy novels set in an alternate future where Wesley is Watcher to the current Slayer, Anna.

Noboru Tanaka filmed Watcher in the Attic as part of Nikkatsu's Roman porno series in 1976.

Morasca and Zohn also starred in " The Watcher ", a 20 minute horror movie included in the Drive-In Horror Show series,

The stories of the inaugural series ( 1977 – 1984 ) feature the alien, Uatu the Watcher as a narrator.

Uatu was used similarly in the second series ( 1989 – 1998 ) until a point where, in the Fantastic Four comic book, Uatu was punished for destroying another Watcher.

In the early 2006 series, a hacker, whose online alias is " The Watcher ", opens each of the six issues.

An early version of the Fellowship's encounter with the Watcher is found in The Return of the Shadow, part of The History of Middle-earth series, wherein the textual development of Tolkien's Middle-earth-related fantasy is discussed and analyzed by his son and literary executor, Christopher Tolkien.

Notable Watchers include Rupert Giles, Watcher of series protagonist Buffy, and Wesley Wyndam-Pryce, who temporarily takes over in season 3.

* In Tales of the Slayer story " House of the Vampire ", part of an unofficial series of short stories based on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Peter Van Helsing ( cousin to Abraham ) is a Watcher ( an advisor and trainer of vampire slayers.