Drusilla reappears in the Spike mini-series by IDW.

In Italy, Andrew reappears in the Angel episode " The Girl in Question ", explaining to Spike and Angel that Buffy is now dating the Immortal, a longtime rival of Angel and Spike.

Warren reappears in the Season Seven première episode, " Lessons " ( 2002 ) as an apparition of the First Evil ( a primordial evil entity ), taunting Spike.

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.

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.

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 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, Spike was introduced to fill the antagonistic role that Cordelia had in seasons One to Three ; as Joss Whedon explains on the DVD featurette, " All of our characters got to the point where they were loving and hugging, and it was sort of like, where's Cordelia?

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.

He provided the voices of various characters for Disney ( Black Pete and the Big Bad Wolf in Three Little Pigs and its spin-offs ), MGM ( Spike the Bulldog and in some occasions even Tom, in Tom and Jerry ), and Warner Bros. ( many characters, most notably the Papa Bear of Chuck Jones ' The Three Bears after Mel Blanc had performed the role in the initial entry ).

The success of those two films led to the Gulf War thriller Three Kings, starring George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube and Spike Jonze.

* The Three Musketeers ( 1973 film ), and The Four Musketeers ( film ) ( 1974 ), a two-film adaptation starring Michael York, Charlton Heston, Raquel Welch, Oliver Reed, Frank Finlay, Richard Chamberlain, and Spike Milligan

Data for other omitted wrestlers, including Spike Dudley, Billy Kidman, Billy Gunn, William Regal, Bradshaw and Three Minute Warning remains on the final discs.

Both Willow ( in the season one episode " Witch ") and Spike ( in the season four episodes " The I in Team " and " The Yoko Factor ") have used the term in the show on different occasions.

** Spike, reluctantly and unreliably from the episode " Pangs " until the episode " The Yoko Factor ".

In the episode " The Girl in Question ", Angel and a resurrected Spike travel to Rome to find her, where they learn she is apparently now dating the Immortal.

* In the fifth season episode " Just Rewards " of the WB series Angel, vampires Angel and Spike try to put a rogue necromancer named Magnus Hainsley out of commission.

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

Spike was initially conceived as a disposable villain to be killed off, but proved so popular with fans that Joss Whedon decided to merely injure him instead, in the episode " What's My Line, Part Two ", in which Spike is crushed by a collapsing pipe organ and left paralyzed.

" Spike appeared in every episode thereafter with the exception of " The Body ".

Spike had previously appeared in the season 1 episode of Angel " In the Dark ", Spike goes to Los Angeles at the same time as Oz arrives to give Angel the Gem of Amarra, Spike's objective was to get the ring and kill Angel.

The 2005 IDW comic book Spike: Old Times, by Peter David, depicts Spike's encounter with the vengeance demon Halfrek, explaining his recognition of her in Buffy episode " Older and Far Away ", and clarifying that she was in fact his beloved Cecily.

Following Angels cancellation, Spike immediately appeared in the Angel miniseries Spike vs. Dracula by Peter David, a sequel to the Buffy episode " Buffy vs. Dracula " and expanding on the characters ' century-old rivalry established in that episode.

Lynch and Urru also penned Spike: Shadow Puppets, featuring Spike and Lorne doing battle with the muppet demons of Angel episode " Smile Time " in Japan.

Spike admits this to an inquiring Buffy in the season 5 episode Fool for Love, and the impact of his revelation has probably not been completely felt as of the completion of season 8.

Joss Whedon credits this antipathy as what convinced him in the episode " Lovers Walk " to bring Spike back as a cast regular.

Although capable of developing sound battle strategies, Spike ( particularly in the days before receiving his chip and being re-ensouled ) often loses patience with anything more complicated than outright attack, as mentioned in the episode " In the Dark ".

The second series of six episodes ( written from storylines suggested by Speight ) were mostly written by Sykes, although he co-wrote one episode each with John Antrobus and Spike Milligan.