* Four Indiana Collegiate Conference ( ICC ) Regular Season Championships.

* Four Indiana Intercollegiate Conference ( IIC ) Regular Season Championships

Apparently, things were not expected to change during the fourth season ; in a May 2005 posting at the TrekBBS, Clark explained that the lack of Enterprise novels was intended to avoid any further potential storytelling " land mines " since " Season Four kept doing stuff we wanted / planned to do ".

He leaves the group in Season Four to learn how to control his wolf side and ends up living in Tibet with his new wife and infant son.

In Season Four Faith awakens from a coma and flees to Los Angeles, where Angel again offers to help her.

When Spike tries to return for good in Season Four, the Initiative promptly captures him and fits him with a tracking device and a microchip that prevents him from harming humans.

In the Family Guy Season Four episode Fast Times at Buddy Cianci Jr. High, Peter Griffin is slimed after saying " I don't know ," followed immediately by a still shot that is a direct reference to YCDTOTVs opening sequence, with the words " You can't do that on television " written in red over a man's face.

It debuted during Season Four and was the basis of a spin-off comic book, Spidey Super Stories, an easier-to-read comic that was produced by Marvel Comics from 1974 to 1981.

* Season Four: Not featured on any of the episodes that aired on Noggin or either of the DVD sets but can be seen at the end of Episode 475 ( available at the iTunes Store ).

Spike returns to Sunnydale alone in Season Four, in the episode " The Harsh Light of Day ", briefly living with Harmony Kendall, a shallow young vampire.

In Season Four, Giles must cope with unemployment and a growing awareness that Buffy no longer needs him.

Anya returns to Sunnydale early in Season Four, still infatuated with Xander.

The arrival of Dawn Summers is foreshadowed in cryptic dream sequences in both the Season Three finale " Graduation Day, Part Two " and the Season Four episode " This Year's Girl ", in which a still-comatose Faith says, while making a bed with Buffy in her bedroom, " Little sis coming, I know.

One International Finance Centre ( left ) and Four Season Hotel ( right )

The plot establishes an atmosphere of suspicion amongst the Alpha Quadrant powers, initiated by the shapeshifters ' abilities to assume other identities, which forms the basis of plots for Season Four.

To continue the theme of paranoia about shapeshifters and the Dominion, " The Adversary " was instead scripted to set up a hunt for a Founder aboard the Defiant, incorporating some narrative elements at first intended to commence Season Four, while offering a more self-contained plot and using existing sets to reduce production costs.

Rick Berman, Robert Hewitt Wolfe and Ira Steven Behr originally expected to open Season Four with the two-part adventure, postponed from the end of Season Three, that ultimately became " Homefront " and " Paradise Lost ".

Season Four begins with " The Way of the Warrior ", which marks the arrival of Worf.

" In September 1996, prior to the start of Season Four, O ' Connor was not sure the series was tackling contemporary themes adequately.

In the Season Four mid-season finale episode " Revelations ", the fleet finally reaches Earth, only to discover that it is a radioactive wasteland.

The Initiative was destroyed at the end of Season Four, and Riley was relieved of his military standing.

There is also a connected floating island called " Lost Angles ", a twisted and corrupted area which plays as the lair for the virus Hexadecimal ; this island was revealed in the course of the first half of Season Four to have been Mainframe's sister city until an accident involving Dot and Enzo's father and the arrival of the virus Gigabyte, who immediately morphed into the twin viruses Megabyte and Hexadecimal.

Although he enters the series as a villain, Spike allies briefly with the Scoobies during Season Two to save his vampire lover Drusilla and stop Angel from destroying the world.

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

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.

Spike and Dru were modeled on Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen ; punk, " badass " vampires to contrast sharply with the more ceremonial tradition of the Master and the Order of Aurelius from Season One.

Throughout Season Two, Spike and Dru are the canon's most prominent example of affection between vampires, displaying the humanity and intricacies of vampire relationships.

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.

In Season Five, after some erotic dreams, Spike becomes aware to his horror that he has fallen in love with Buffy.

In Season Seven, a re-ensouled Spike must cope with the guilt of his past actions and try to win back Buffy's trust.

This promotional poster for Brian Lynch's IDW Spike series was drawn by artist Franco Urru in response to the Twilight ( Buffy comic )# Spoiler leak | spoiler leak controversy for the Dark Horse Comics series Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight.

Scott Tipton's 2006 comic Spike: Old Wounds is detective fiction set during Season Five, and also features allusions to Spike's activities in the late 1940s.

Tipton's Spike: Lost and Found in 2006 is a Season Five story that acts as a sequel to the 1999 Buffy / Angel crossover episodes " The Harsh Light of Day " and " In the Dark ", featuring the immortality-bestowing Gem of Amarra in 2005 Los Angeles.

In the explicitly-canonical Whedon stories of 2007, Spike and Angel first appear in a joint cameo in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight ( Dark Horse ) as part of Buffy's sexual fantasies.

In the Dark Horse Presents # 24 Season Eight tie-in, " Always Darkest ", Spike and Angel appear ( again in a dream sequence ) at Buffy's side when she is fighting Caleb, but to her dismay the two start flirting with and kissing one another.

Spike appears in Season Eight properly at the conclusion of the " Twilight " story arc.

The storyline feeds into the " Twilight " and " Last Gleaming " arcs of Buffy Season Eight, concluding Season Eight in 2011 ; Spike comes into possession of a spaceship, which follows him into his Buffy comic debut.

In Season Eight, Spike comes to Buffy's aid to help prevent the end of the universe.

In the follow-up series Season Nine ( 2011-present ), Spike bases himself out of his ship in San Francisco to be near Buffy, but eventually leaves due to the complications of their relationship, with a spin-off miniseries to come.

However, Spike did exercise patience throughout the later half of Buffy Season Two, when he used a wheelchair for several months after a brutal battle with the Scoobies in the episode What's My Line left him paraplegic.

During the weeks between the series finale of Buffy and the Season 5 premiere of Angel, Lindsey McDonald makes an off-screen trip to the crater and digs up the amulet worn by Spike in the final battle.

It is later retconned in the Buffy Season Eight comics that Andrew had fabricated the notion of Buffy dating the Immortal, both as a measure of protective misdirection and as a way of pranking Angel and Spike due to their history with the Immortal.