Later, Larry, the school bully, threatens Xander while asking him about Buffy, who smashes Larry into a soda machine.

The power of the ' big bad ' always threatens to end the world, but Buffy ultimately overcomes him or her in the season finale.

Buffy physically assaults and threatens Dawn, telling her to stay away from their mother, but Buffy's supposed little sister appears truly confused and doesn't understand Buffy's sudden change in attitude.

* That one of Angel's first acquaintances threatens him with pepper spray in the Angel premiere, " City of " recalls Buffy's response to one of her first acquaintances in the Buffy premiere, " Welcome to the Hellmouth ".

During this confrontation, Glory openly threatens to kill all of Buffy's friends and family and force Buffy to watch her do so.

He threatens that if Buffy does not return his love, he'll untie Drusilla and let her kill Buffy.

As surprised as Willow is with Vamp Willow, she feels bound to her, and does not have the heart to allow Buffy to kill her.

A story arc in Season Eight has Buffy travel 200 years into the future to battle and kill Dark Willow.

" Jason Middleton feels that Buffy avoids the " final girl " character trope seen in horror films, where the androgynous and celibate heroine gets to outlive her friends and exact revenge on their killer ; in Middleton's words, " she ... gets to have sex with boys and still kill the monster ".

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.

When Spike's chip begins to malfunction, causing him intense pain and threatening to kill him, Buffy trusts him enough to order the Initiative operatives to remove it from his head.

His encyclopedic knowledge, affinity for magic, moderate fighting skills and willingness to kill make him an asset to Buffy in her fight against the supernatural evils that plague Sunnydale, California.

Buffy is forced to kill Angel to save the world, despite Willow's restoring his soul, and subsequently leaves Sunnydale.

Buffy, about to kill him, at the last moment recognizes his eyes and " annoyed " expression, and Ethan is taken into custody by the Initiative.

In a 2011 interview, Whedon stated that his decision to kill off Giles could not be discussed in detail " because ripples from that event " will also be a large part of both Buffy Season Nine and Angel and Faith.

In Queen of the Slayers, forces conspire to kill Buffy for destroying the Hellmouth in Sunnydale.

In the season finale " Becoming, Part Two ", Xander decides not to tell Buffy about Willow's plan to re-ensoul Angel — who has lost his soul and is going to bring about the apocalypse — so that she will not hesitate to kill him in order to save the world.

She again appears in the third season episode " Amends " in the guise of the First Evil, who assumes the faces of many people Angel has killed, tormenting him and insisting he kill Buffy.

At one point, she confronts Buffy in her own home, openly threatening to kill Buffy's friends and family and force Buffy herself to watch her do so.

One set, for the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, issued by Inkworks, had pieces of the stake used by Buffy to kill vampires.

Perceiving that Buffy poses a risk to the project, Walsh tries to kill Buffy by sending her on a mission on which she is ambushed by two demons released from the Initiative's holding cells.

" Neither Spike nor Harmony are satisfied with their relationship ; Spike is frustrated by Harmony's ignorance and clinginess while she is exasperated with his endless broken promises and repeated attempts to kill Buffy.

After separating from Spike, Harmony wants to be an independent, strong vampire who can get by on her own ; accordingly, in the episode " Real Me ," she gathers her own gang and makes her own attempt to kill Buffy, which ends in disaster.

The premise of the series is that Buffy ( Sarah Michelle Gellar ) is a Slayer, a teenage girl endowed with superhuman strength and other powers which she uses to kill vampires and other evil beings.

The Master's incarceration underground was a device used by the writers to avoid having Buffy meet him and then thwart his attempts to kill her each week.

Luke goes to The Bronze, the local nightclub frequented by Buffy and her friends and begins to feed on the patrons before Buffy — following a delay caused by getting grounded by her mother — can kill him.

In the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Spike refers to a scythe as the Holy Hand Grenade

Over time, Spike falls in love with Buffy, and he briefly becomes Buffy's lover in Season Six.

Spike later went off on his own, inherited a ship full of giant insects and reunited with Buffy.

In the show's second season ( 1997 – 1998 ), Buffy continues to come to terms with her destiny, finds forbidden love with benevolent vampire Angel ( David Boreanaz ), and clashes with new villains Spike ( James Marsters ) and Drusilla ( Juliet Landau ).

Buffy suffers emotional turmoil throughout this season, including the realization Dawn is not actually her sister, the deterioration of her relationship with Riley, the discovery that Spike has become obsessed with her, and her mother's death from a brain aneurysm.

She also confesses her love to a disbelieving Spike before he sacrifices himself to save the world ; as he dies, Buffy escapes Sunnydale's destruction with the surviving characters.

Spike also leaves San Francisco after it becomes difficult for him to be around Buffy anymore.

Spike, played by James Marsters, is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon for the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.

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 ".

Over the course of Buffy, Spike falls in love with the Slayer, acquires a soul to prove himself to her, and dies a hero in the Buffy 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.

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.

Inasmuch as Buffy knew of the " theft " as of " Sleeper ," Spike presumably shared the detail with her in an undepicted moment.

Spike first arrives in Sunnydale in the second season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, in the episode " School Hard ", accompanied by Drusilla.

Notably, Spike's first act in Sunnydale is to attack Buffy and a large group of people at her school, making his first appearance the deadliest of any of Buffys " Big Bads ", as he very nearly kills Buffy, but Buffy's mother distracts Spike long enough for Buffy to recover.

Spike and Drusilla are major enemies of Buffy for much of the second season.

He reunites with Angel and seems genuinely pleased to see him, but is disgusted to find that Angel has a soul ( whether or not Spike in fact knew that Angel's acquisition of a soul is why he left the group nearly a century before has never been made clear ) and is in love with the current Slayer, Buffy Summers.

Spike decides to ally himself with Buffy against Angelus ; as he explains to Buffy, in addition to wanting Drusilla back, he also wants to " save the world ":

Spike reappears in the Season Three episode " Lovers Walk ", in a drunken depression after Drusilla, offended by his alliance with Buffy, dumps him for a Chaos demon.