I think I would have made a great Xander. On this 20th anniversary of Buffy, go forth and slay, Scoobies. Whether a stake, magic, fangs, or a simple yellow crayon is your instrument of choice, just save the world. A lot. Lauren Sarner. Related Tags TV Shows. Mind and Body. Buffy argued fiercely with him, refusing to believe that Faith could be trusted or changed. After she had turned herself in willingly, Buffy told Angel she had been worried over him when she realized Faith was after him, not convincing Angel in the least.
Bitter and with the intent to hurt him, Buffy coldly informed Angel that she had a new boyfriend that she loved, and one she could actually trust.
Successfully hurting him, Angel was launched a tirade against Buffy, reminding her that, while it was great she had moved on, he himself could not and had no one to share his pain, before telling Buffy that she didn't know him anymore and that she had no right to just show up with her "great new life" and tell him how to do things before harshly demanding that she go back to Sunnydale immediately. Buffy was clearly pained by his harsh tone, seeing it as Angel choosing Faith over her.
Buffy hesitantly left Los Angeles and returned home. Returning to Sunnydale, she was still deeply hurt by Angel's anger to her and refused to tell Riley about it when he had concernedly probed her of it. After Angel visited her in her dorm, Buffy was still angry with what he had said to her and quickly expressed it to him. However, complications arose when Riley arrived and insisted he get away from her. Buffy was annoyed and angry over this when told of his fight with him, believing that Angel's intent had been to harm her boyfriend out of jealousy.
After breaking up yet another fight between Riley and Angel, Buffy allowed Angel to explain himself. When he told her what had happened with Riley and sincerely apologized, Buffy forgave him and was grateful he had come. She also admitted that he was right before in saying they weren't part of each other's lives anymore, and she was sorry for her judgmental behavior. Given his tense relationship with Riley, Buffy declined his offer to help her against Adam and asked him to leave Sunnydale, but was nonetheless grateful and amused by Angel's jealousy of Riley.
After her mother's, Joyce Summers , sudden death, Angel reappeared in Sunnydale to comfort her and try to ease some of her grief. Buffy confessed to him her feeling of purposelessness and how she doubted her ability to get through it, noting how everyone expected her to be "so strong.
Buffy would impulsively ask if he could stay with her forever, but quickly shook it off and implied her worry of sleeping with him again in her vulnerable state. The two kissed, spurning Buffy's worries of her neediness enough that she believed he should go. He apologized for this, but she expressed her immense gratitude for his presence and how it gave her some energy to get through the night.
They sat in the cemetery for a few more minutes until sunrise before Angel went back to Los Angeles. Following Buffy's resurrection, Angel and Buffy met again, [38] an event she later described it as "intense". After the first fight was done, Buffy kissed him. Buffy discouraged Angel's intention to stay to fight with her against the First. She reasoned to him that she needed a second front in case she failed to fight against the First. After having a brief argument with him over it, he acutely pegged her other reason for wanting him to leave, one that involved Spike.
When Buffy made no effort to deny it, Angel displayed jealousy and confusion over her connection with him, persistently probing her of it. She was irritated of his possessive and childish behavior, increasing more at his dislike of Spike receiving a soul as well. When Angel expressed an interest in re-starting their relationship at some point, Buffy explained she didn't think she was ready for a serious relationship and that she still had a lot of growing up to do, comparing herself to cookie dough that was still "baking.
Buffy admitted to him that she did still considered a future together with Angel, but made it clear it would be a "long time coming, years if ever. While they continued to be apart, Buffy maintained her feelings for Angel.
At some point during her position as general of the Slayer Organization, she would have a sexual dream of Angel and Spike holding her naked while she was wearing a nurse outfit , [21] and dreamed of him again when she was thrown back in She had consciously chosen to wear the first cross Angel had given her long ago, and then quickly denied it meaning anything when he had taken notice of it.
Despite being somewhat standoffish with him on the outside, Buffy reflected on his attractiveness. She then asked him if he would change the future if he could which he had disagreed with. Buffy and Angel didn't meet again until over a year later, when Angel suddenly reappeared in her life as a masked villain with the intention of empowering her by murdering her fellow Slayers.
Angel had been manipulated by both Whistler and a mysterious entity called Twilight , who had convinced Angel that he needed to enforce its plan in order to save the world and ensure that Buffy survive. After discovering Twilight's true identity, Buffy was brought to the brink of despair, but became a superpowered Deity-like creature as a result of Angel's influence.
Upon discovering that Angel had not lost his soul again, she immediately tried to stake him, disgusted with him for torturing her and the other Slayers for the better part of a year he was responsible for the deaths of over of Buffy's Slayers. Angel, however, could not be killed as a result of the powers granted to him by Twilight. Buffy started to calm down slightly after hitting him a few more times when Angel explained he did what he did to focus her and lower the death rate in her war against humanity.
After a while, she began to feel the effects of Twilight's influence on her, which caused her to act upon her feelings of lust and love for Angel.
The two of them had airborne sex that led to the birth of a new universe, Twilight, which they later came to discover threatened Earth's existing universe. Angel tried to convince her to stay with him in the Twilight paradise, but Buffy refused him, believing that Twilight was only a trap.
Angel told her that it was what she was meant for all along; while Buffy briefly considered Angel's offer, upon hearing Xander's scream of pain, rejected it fully, and justified that she was meant to fight for her family and friends, not personal happiness. Angel eventually agreed to leave the paradise, choosing to fight by Buffy's side instead. When Spike reappeared in his ship with a plan to save the world, Angel was visibly jealous, but Buffy told him that jealousy was beneath him, and confessed that she still loved him and wanted to be with him.
However, she appeared to be uncharacteristically happy, considering their sexual encounter had caused an apocalypse, which implied that Twilight's glow was still affecting her to some unknown level. She also told Angel that she didn't trust him, but that he was had her heart. Buffy managed to convince Angel to undo the damage he had done as Twilight, and reassured him that she was only going to Spike for information and help. She then left with Spike.
Later, Angel was possessed by Twilight again, and attempted to kill Spike in rage and fought to protect the Seed of Wonder in the ruins of Sunnydale. The battle reached its climax with Angel brutally murdering Buffy's Watcher, Rupert Giles, before her very eyes. In despair, she completed her duty and smashed the Seed, destroying Twilight's influence for good. She recovered herself enough to quickly jump between an enraged Xander and helpless Angel, preventing her friend from killing him with her scythe.
Buffy tearfully reasoned to Xander, telling him: "Please. I can't lose anybody else. I can't lose you, Xander. Angel's guilt left him catatonic. Buffy, unable to look at him without feeling disturbed and unhappy but still believing he should be taken care of, left him in the care of Faith in London. While she was glad Giles was alive, she didn't particularly comment on Angel's involvement or her current feelings on him. Two years later, they were reunited and cooperated during the Reckoning ; Angel did his best not to look smug that Buffy and Spike had broken up as he had predicted, [53] while Buffy was apparently jealous that Angel was then in a relationship with Illyria.
She told him: "who doesn't want the people they love around? As opposed to Buffy and Angel, Buffy and Spike were originally brutal enemies. They became reluctant allies when Angel and Drusilla threatened to suck the world into hell, but remained adversaries until Spike was implanted with a chip that prevented him from hurting humans. Spike's affection for her began as completely one-sided; he began trying to help and comfort her in any way he could, but his absence of a soul made his love come off as twisted and obsessive.
Initially, Buffy remained either oblivious or in denial of his newfound feelings, constantly expressing hostility towards him and repeatedly injured him. After nearly dying by vampire with her own stake , Buffy sought out Spike to improve herself since he had killed two Slayers himself.
Meeting at the Bronze , she was impatient and repeatedly insisted to him to tell her how he killed them. Spike told Buffy his life story and eventually reached the fate of the two slayers he had killed, shaking Buffy when he told her they only died because some part of them had wanted to, to end the constant life-or-death of a slayer; even Buffy herself. Rattled, Buffy was angered to see Spike attempt to kiss her and forced him to the ground, saying that even if she did want to die, it would never be by his hand since he was "beneath her.
She was confused, but was far too miserable and overwhelmed to question his behavior. Buffy's antagonism softened somewhat to a point, requesting he keep her mother and Dawn safe at his crypt since Glorificus was close and he was the strongest person around who could protect them, but warned him if they died, she would kill him in a instant; Spike was surprised, but agreed.
The two argued over Dawn, but Buffy's hostility disappeared when Spike told her she should've just been honest with her from the start and things wouldn't have been as bad if she did. Buffy remained cold, harshly telling him the only chance he would ever have with her was when she was knocked out. After she escaped, she severed all bonds between them, and alienated him from the Scoobies, warning him to stay away from her and her family.
She was, however, very moved when he withstood intense torture to protect both her and her sister, and rewarded him with a kiss.
Her intense hatred of him lessened into mild dislike, not hesitating to point out her revulsion of him creating the Buffybot to sleep with but gratefully promised him she would never forget what he did for her and Dawn. Spike declared that he knew she would never love him, but she treated him like a man and that was enough for him. She visibly acknowledged this, but did not comment.
After Buffy was resurrected, Spike expressed worry for her wounded hands, and consoled her for having to dig her way out of her own grave by admitting that he once had to do the same thing.
Spike was also the first person Buffy told about her being cast out of what she described as Heaven instead of a hell dimension, and how truly depressed she felt. When the demon Sweet cursed the inhabitants of Sunnydale to reveal their true feelings through songs, Buffy revealed to her friends that she had been ripped from heaven, and went into a fatal dance under the influence of the spell.
Spike, however, saved her at the last minute, and told her that she had to go on living. Afterward, she followed him to the alley outside the Bronze, where the two kissed.
After Giles left for England, she once more kissed Spike, [65] but she would rationalize to him that she was vulnerable because of Giles. Their relationship changed when Spike realized he could hurt the newly-resurrected Buffy despite his chip. Frustrated with her continued rejection and treatment of him, he provoked her to fight him in an abandoned, dilapidated building. In the midst of their dual, Buffy suddenly kissed him again, but did not stop as she had before. The two of them had sex for the first time, and the house collapsed around them, foreshadowing the initial destructive nature of their relationship.
Buffy was stricken with confusion and self-disgust over this as it prolonged. At this point, she developed genuine feelings of care and affection for him despite his status as a soulless vampire.
She had begun to believe that his love for her was in fact real and this burdened her with all-encompassing guilt and sympathy for Spike, knowing full-well that she was using him because she did not return his love. After a visit from her ex-boyfriend Riley, Buffy broke off their relationship, and told him that she couldn't love him and was only using him to "feel alive. Buffy's continued rejection of his advances caused Spike to have drunken sex with Anya Jenkins.
Buffy was visibly hurt by their encounter, leading to her friends and sister finally learning about her relationship with Spike. When he met her, he tried once more to convince Buffy that she did love him and simply didn't want to admit it. Buffy subsequently told Spike that he was right in thinking that she had feelings for him, but matter-of-factly insisted she didn't love him like he wanted to believe.
She enforced her point by saying she could never trust him enough to feel that way. In a misguided attempt to connect to Buffy through sex and to make her admit his belief that she loved him, Spike tried to rape her. Though she was able to fight him off in her weakened condition, in tears, she dared him to ask her once again why she could never love him. Shocked and disgusted with himself, Spike fled Sunnydale for Africa, where he fought to regain his soul, for without it, he could be neither a man nor a monster.
Several months passed before Buffy reunited with Spike, whom she found living off rats in the basement of Sunnydale High School. Spike's love and and devotion were only heightened by his new soul, and he and Buffy quickly developed a strong, meaningful connection with each other. While Spike dealt with the inner demons associated with being ensouled, Buffy offered support and told him repeatedly that she believed him and trusted him.
When Spike's chip started to malfunction, convinced that he could be a good man and wouldn't be a danger to her friends, Buffy contacted Riley in order to have it removed. After the Scoobies and the Potentials rejected her leadership and kicked her out of her own house, Spike followed her to an abandoned house and comforted her. He expressed to a dejected Buffy that he not only loved her, but believed in her completely.
Buffy asked him to hold her, and the two spent a night together, Spike just holding Buffy. Though Spike at first worried that Buffy would poke fun at him for his mindless devotion, she surprised him by saying that their encounter had been important to her as well, and that she had been right there with him through it all. They could not, however, define their relationship.
When Spike asked what it meant, Buffy replied questionably "I don't know? Does it have to mean something? When Angel returned and Buffy greeted him with a kiss, Spike witnessed their interaction from afar. She said that she was not in a relationship with Spike, but he still had a place close to her heart nonetheless. However, she did say she did not see "fat grandchildren," implying she did not truly see a successful future between them but with Spike, he was helping making some sense of things around her.
When she went back to her house and realized his anger over Angel, Buffy became irritated, as she had grown visibly sick of Angel and Spike's jealousy over her because of the love they both shared for her.
She claimed to Spike that her kiss with Angel had been a "hello. She told him that it was only meant to be worn by a Champion of the people before giving it to him. Spike was moved by her belief in him.
They spent the final two nights before the battle together. The following day, Buffy and Spike, along with her friends and fellow Slayers, battled the First Evil in the Hellmouth. The amulet activated during the fight, and emitted a powerful blast of sunlight that destroyed the entire Turok-Han army.
Though Buffy tried to get Spike to return to the surface with her, he told her that he had to give up his life, and in acceptance, her eyes became teary and clasped hands with him, smiling at him proudly for proving his merit as a champion. Their hands burst into flame as the Hellmouth collapsed around them in one of the series' most memorable and iconic romantic images. Buffy finally told Spike that she loved him — the first time she used the words "I love you" romantically to anyone since Angel —, but Spike replied: "No you don't, but thanks for saying it," and forced her to leave him behind.
At some point, Buffy eventually discovered that Spike had been resurrected and, according to Willow, had followed several leads to ensure the information was valid, [77] but couldn't find the time to contact him.
The two were finally reunited after Buffy had Twilight-induced sex with Angel and endangered the entire world.
She was gruff with Spike, who had just saved her life, and did not hug him, but did thank him for his "studly" sacrifice. As he revealed his plan to save the world, she fantasized sexually about him.
In the fantasy, she reminded him that he was the person she confided in when she couldn't talk to anyone else — her "dark place". Spike, however, wrongly assumed that she was fantasizing about Angel; she was too embarrassed to correct him, and brushed her fantasy off as an after effect of the Twilight glow.
Later, the two fought the Master [79] and Twilight together, and were able to overcome both, although Buffy's Watcher, Giles, was killed by a Twilight-possessed Angel in the battle to destroy the Seed of Wonder. Following the destruction of the Seed, Spike and Buffy both moved to San Francisco, where they kept in regular contact with one another. Spike was one of the few people who remained supportive of Buffy, which caused her to burst into tears and run away. When Buffy believed herself pregnant after a night she didn't remember, she briefly considered asking Spike to run away with her so they could raise the baby together.
She decided, however, that she couldn't be a faithful mother to a child at that time, and instead asked Spike to accompany her to the abortion clinic. Spike comforted her and agreed. Spike was hurt, believing that he was just someone she went to when she had no one else to turn to.
Buffy regretted her blunt words as he left the room. They went to the rescue of Dowling against a group of zompires , and the detective told Buffy that he knew Spike was still in love with her. Surprised, Buffy questioned Spike, who admitted his feelings for her once again, and told her that he could try his best to give her the "normal life" she wanted.
The moment was interrupted when a zompire tore off Buffy's arm, revealing her to be a robot. Once the crisis was resolved, Spike came to the decision to leave Buffy in order to "discover himself. He made sure she understood that he didn't blame her, but that he needed to spend time away from her. Before leaving, Spike earnestly expressed that he had faith in her and would always have her back. Despite her disappointment and sadness, she did not try to stop him, and allowed him to leave on his bug ship.
Since the restoration of magic, Spike has returned to Buffy and spent months working together with the Scooby Gang. The two often commented on the mature aspect of their friendship, but their close friends noticed the forceful nature of these statements. While Buffy often remarked their unhappy past together and fear of repeating history, [49] [50] [87] Spike confessed his lasting interest on the Slayer to his close friends Dowling and Xander, after insistence from both.
His accusations made angered her, and she left. After a conversation with Xander, who supported them together, Spike sough Buffy to apologize, but she then agreed with him, saying Spike and his friendship were too important to complicate again, and thanked him for doing the right thing. Spike, though, pointed one problem: he was in love with her. They had sex that night and since then have resumed their relationship. During a visit of Angel, Buffy revealed her renewed relationship with Spike, and he was visibly bothered.
Finally accepting them together, he stated that he would not interfere with them, but told Willow in secrecy that he doubted that it'd last, recognizing over the years that Spike sough relationships that he believed would save him from himself, only to push his partners away and convince himself his problems were simply unfixable.
Something no real person could ever be," and that he was starting to understand he just loved a fantasy, would do things to push her away, hurting her to make her end it, so he could play "the martyr, the heartbroken romantic, rejected by the woman he loved," comparable to his history with Drusilla and Cecily.
In parallel, Vicki accused Buffy of being "into the tortured bad boy," who wanted what she didn't have and get bored with what she can, pretending to be shocked when Spike starts acting like what he is, saying he turned evil, stabbing him, and sending him to hell, in clear comparison with Angel. When Buffy was faced with a critical crisis to save the world, she took her anger and frustration on her friends, in special on his boyfriend Spike.
Saddened he wanted to help but only making her angry, Spike suggested them to break up. He pointed his inability to give her a normal life despite his want, and it'd be easier for the to call things off before it hurts worse later. Buffy immediately stopped crying and disagreed with him, and asked him to follow her in her mission and hit the road.
With the time, Buffy agreed it would be easier to break up indeed, but it wasn't right; she could've had a normal relationship with Riley, but it didn't erase other challenges, as nothing would ever be perfect.
Buffy declared that they together was something she didn't want to lose without a fight, and she wanted to give it a try. Spike recognized he did make her a symbol of everything he needed: salvation, redemption, love, a reason to go on and be better; that he was selfish and needed it at the time.
But he didn't anymore, so he wanted to give it a try too, this time with the actual her. Spike confided with Dowling, about his relationship with Buffy, that "things are ace now. Equal, like. About how we make each other better, not some selfish neuroses our mom and dad hammered into us. A year later, Buffy and Spike had had a mutual decision of breaking up. As Buffy described to Willow, the quiet year that passed made them both realize they didn't really worked as a couple when there was no crisis.
Although, she still thought the problem wasn't in her relationship with Spike, but with herself. After the crisis was averted, Buffy told Spike seeing him fighting so hard, caring so much, willing to give up everything, filled her heart. She added that their relationship could happen again, any time, so it was important they were happy and together, and didn't want anything to get in the way of that.
He answered that he wasn't going anywhere, he was his best around her and nothing was going to change that. They hugged while she told him this went both ways. At first, she didn't show much interest in him — instead focusing on Parker — while Riley himself saw her as strange.
On a mission to capture Hostile 17 for the Initiative, Buffy was shocked to see Riley when she was trying to kill Spike. She tried hard to get him away from her for his protection when Spike was around, coming off as rude and desperate. After it was over and she failed to find him, Buffy later apologized for her odd behavior, teasingly calling him "peculiar" after another random outburst of his.
Buffy continued to spent time with him and even asked him if he would like to be a their own Thanksgiving, only for Riley explain he was traveling back to Iowa to be with his family. However, she felt like something was missing with him. Much to Buffy's despair, she expressed a preference for intense and passion-filled relationships as opposed to the "safe, reliable ones".
Under the effects of Willow's backfired " My Will Be Done " spell, Buffy had cheerfully rejected Riley and insensitively told him about her "relationship" with her fiancee' Spike, thoroughly confusing and alienating him.
Once the spell was broken, Buffy was horrified and embarrassed over what she had done. Claiming she was "over" bad boys, she sought out Riley and said she was joking over marrying Spike. Riley accepted this explanation, glad to know she was still single. She would reflect on this to Willow, expressing her guilt they she had to keep her role as The Slayer secret from him.
Brought together through the loss of their voices because of the Gentlemen , the two finally had their first kiss. In the midst of the battle against the Gentlemen, Buffy and Riley accidentally come across each other in the fight, effectively exposing their double lives.
Riley visited her in her dorm and the two uncomfortably conclude they had to talk. While he showed awe of her skills and strength when she told Riley who she was, Buffy was distrusting and upset that he had kept secrets from her. His heart may be in the right place, but Angel should read some relationship advice from this millennium. When Robin Wood, new principal to the rebuilt Sunnydale High, met Buffy, he quickly offered her a job as a guidance counselor.
He later revealed he only hired her because he knew she was the Slayer, not for her comical ineptitude at the job. Dating for Buffy had been hard enough, so this revelation definitely fell in the plus column.
Furthermore, Buffy and Robin had palpable chemistry. However, when Robin asked Buffy on a date, he didn't have romance on his mind, but revenge. He wanted to infiltrate Buffy's inner circle in an effort to kill Spike. Vengeance, however sympathetically motivated, is never the answer.
Nor is pretending to be attracted to someone you're not. Come on, Robin! The Slayer has been through enough man troubles. Robin did redeem himself when he put the good of saving the world above his own bloodthirsty desires. He joined the mission to fight evil, and wound up connecting with Faith. Their banter was out of this world on the chemistry scale, and the two shared an intimate night of lovemaking.
Faith let herself be vulnerable with Robin because he genuinely made her feel safe. He's definitely a keeper. As a bookish Watcher, Giles may seem like a bit of a fuddy-duddy, but behind his polished glasses and disapproving stare lies a romantic heart.
Initially, he may have clashed with techno-pagan Jenny Calendar, but their constant analog vs. Giles was an adorable ball of nerves at the prospect of asking Jenny out. He even practiced on a chair! Luckily, Jenny took the lead and Giles was happy to follow.
But their relationship would be a rocky road, full of secrets and betrayals. When the two eventually reconciled and finally planned to be intimate, Angelus killed Jenny. Her death was one of the most tragic of the show. After Jenny, Giles didn't have much luck in the love department, other than a few inexplicable encounters with a random woman named Olivia, and a crazy night with Joyce, Buffy's mom. The latter was the result of enchanted candy bars, causing adults to revert back to their teenage selves.
Apparently, for Giles and Joyce, this meant hooking up atop a cop car. When the magic wore off, Giles and Joyce didn't pursue a relationship. However, when she died, Giles mourned her by playing to a record they once listened to together. Such a romantic. Let me be clear. Spike is not 2 on this list because of his relationship with Buffy. This may upset the Spuffy shippers, but while I do concede Buffy and Spike shared some tender moments - and some steamy ones too - their relationship was also fraught with destruction and abuse.
There are definitely a few unsavory Spuffy scenes fans would rather forget. Spike is the runner-up on this list for his relationship with Drusilla. We may think of Spike as a leather-clad, punk rocker of a vampire, and he definitely is, but he is also the biggest romantic of the show.
When he and Dru were together, everything he did was for her. Though he pined to kill the Slayer, he always let his ambitions play second fiddle to pursuing a cure for his weakened paramour. Later, Angelus came back into the picture, threatening Spike and Dru's happy relationship.
Spike joined forces with Buffy, his sworn enemy, in an effort to win back the love of his life. This didn't turn out as planned, but in the fight of love, Spike will always get back up and keep swinging. From the moment he saw Willow, Oz was hooked, whispering to himself, "who is that girl? To list every example of Oz's awesomeness would require its own article, but here are a couple: he showered Willow with thoughtful gifts like a witch PEZ dispenser, and he forgave her for her tryst with Xander.
When Willow wanted to prove her commitment to Oz by offering him her virginity, he declined. Oz could have had easy sex, but he wasn't ready because he wanted the moment between them to be completely, unequivocally, all about them and their love for each other. Sadly, Oz discovered his werewolf side was out of control, and was forced to break up with Willow.
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