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 ).

Ignoring this revelation, Gunn continues to attack his former friends, his team of Slayers apparently staking Spike-although Spike is later seen alive thanks to Illyria's timeslips-before he is kicked out of a window by Connor while trying to kill Angel again.

In Erin B. Waggoner's book Sexual rhetoric in the works of Joss Whedon, he found it interesting that the ancient Oedipus complex continues to be used as a way to underscore one's masculinity, but he added that " Connor is not the only one Angel, Wes, Spike and even Fred ( through Gunn ) kill father or father figures in order to come into their own as individuals.

Xander shows up, but Spike quickly knocks him out of the way and continues to beat up Buffy.

" Parody " in this serious sense continues to be a term in musicological use, existing alongside the more common use of the term to refer to parody for humorous effect by composers from Bach to Sondheim and performers from Spike Jones to " Weird Al " Yankovic.

The core of the Brian May Band ( Neil, Cozy, Spike Edney and Jamie Moses ) became the basis of the SAS Band ( Spike's All Stars ), which continues to this day, playing sporadic live gigs with many famous guest vocalists, including Paul Rodgers, Brian May, Roger Taylor, Chaka Khan, Arthur Brown, Lionel Richie, Bob Geldof and many others.

Spike continues to speak of all the voices that are in his head, those from his past and new ones alike.

Abe Wheeler continues to work on the railroad until the First Transcontinental Railroad was completed on May 10, 1869, when the driving of the Golden Spike joins the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads at Promontory Summit in Utah ( sometimes called Promontory Point, which is, however, a different location at the southern tip of a peninsula in the Great Salt Lake ).

The First in Drusilla's form gets angry with Spike as he continues to refuse to cooperate.

Dawn continues to mingle through the crowd and encounters Spike with a goth date.

In Africa, Spike continues to complete stages of his ordeal.

As the fight progresses, Spike continues to relive the events that transpired between him and his mother, due to the Prokaryote Stone.

In a cave in Africa, Spike continues to pass stages in his ordeal.

Spike leaves and Marcus continues to shove hot pokers into his captive, then shoots holes in the building's ceiling so that Angel, agonized by any movement, must stretch and hold himself at the limit of his chains to avoid the pencil-thin beams of sunlight.

With Willow doing a spell to buy them time, and Spike passed out from drinking to anesthetize him for " surgery ," Giles continues his attempts to get the tracer out of the vampire's shoulder.

* Since The First's plan to use Angel to kill Buffy failed, it won't appear again until season seven, where it continues to try to have Buffy killed, this time using Spike.

Spike continues to tear apart the Scooby gang by making Xander feel unwanted by convincing him that the rest of the gang doesn't feel he's useful.

During this period he found time to model for She magazine and also appear in a 1967 stage production of Treasure Island as Squire Trelawney, alongside Spike Milligan and Barry Humphries at the Mermaid Theatre in London.

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.

In IDW's Angel: After the Fall, Spike does not appear until the second issue, written by Brian Lynch with art by Franco Urru ( the creative team of Spike: Asylum and Spike: Shadow Puppets ) with plotting and " executive production " by Whedon himself.

A stage actress and model who had appeared as an extra in The Persuaders !, a secretary in The Saint, and other TV shows and films, she started to appear as an extra in BBC comedy productions, including The Two Ronnies, Morecambe and Wise and Spike Milligan.

Originally, Giles was to appear in " A Hole in the World " as the one whom Angel and Spike approached in an attempt to save Fred, because Whedon needed a character who would be instantly believed ( by the characters and by the audience ) when he said there was no way to save Fred.

In 2012, it was removed from the Lifetime lineup and reruns only occasionally appear on Spike.

He also embraced WSM radio host Ralph Emery during his early years, forming a bond which would be influential throughout his career, as Waltrip would appear frequently on Emery's early morning television show on local Nashville television station, WSMV, and later substitute for Emery in the 1980s on Emery's television show, Nashville Now on the former TNN cable network ( later, Spike TV ).

This makes Spike the only character to appear in both the G1 and G3 cartoons.

In mid-1990, Levi's began producing a series of TV commercials directed by Spike Lee for their 501 button fly jeans, which included an onscreen 800 number that viewers who worked in unique jobs could call in order to appear in the company's commercials.

In the episode " Dirty Girls ", Caleb murders two potential Slayers ( One being Molly ; one of the first potentials to appear in the series ) and effortlessly defeats Buffy, Faith, and Spike.

A boy named Spike would appear as a regular character in Seasons 1 and 2.

* This is the only time that Spike and the Master appear together, though the Master is only a manifestation of the First, and Spike and the Master never actually met onscreen.

It is not known whether the animated television series was contiguous with the feature-films ; but if it was it may take place before them because the only one of his pets to appear in the series is his capuchin monkey, Spike.

Max Force, Mr. Big, Spike, and Joe all appear on the animated series, The Power Team, which is part of the video game show, Video Power.

* Along with " Fool for Love ", " Darla " and " The Girl in Question ", this is one of only four Buffyverse episodes in which all four members of the Whirlwind ( Angelus / Angel, Spike, Darla and Drusilla ) appear.

* Stacey Scowley who appears as the young woman Spike kills would go on to appear as Cindy Perrin in Joss Whedon's Dollhouse.

* Along with " Becoming, Part One ", " Darla " and " The Girl in Question ", this is one of only four Buffyverse episodes in which all four members of the Whirlwind ( Angel, Spike, Darla and Drusilla ) appear.

She went on to appear in several movies, including Save the Last Dance ( 2001 ), The Human Stain ( 2003 ), Spike Lee's She Hate Me ( 2004 ), Ray ( 2004 ), Mr. & Mrs. Smith ( 2005 ), Little Man ( 2006 ), I Think I Love My Wife ( 2007 ), and as a wife of 1970s Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in the UK historical drama The Last King of Scotland ( 2006 ).

On occasion, Spike would be the only character to appear on screen, meaning only the set would be filmed.

The series was published in the United States from 1956 through 1971 for 98 issues, when due to Mayer's failing eyesight that limited his drawing ability, Sugar and Spike ceased to appear.

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.

Drusilla is delighted by Angelus's determination to destroy the world and encourages his ongoing sexual attention ; both dynamics strongly disturb Spike, who wants Drusilla to himself again and does not particularly want the world to end.

In February 2007, he began to make appearances for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, on Spike TV, siding with Team 3D as their cousin in their ongoing battle against The Latin American Xchange.

With most of the remaining G4 original shows having been severely altered, many saw this as G4's ongoing attempt to be a competitor to other male-oriented networks such as Spike.