Cordelia | Oz | Dr. Primrose | Todd | Quentin | Pike Wesley | Riley | Jonathan | Caitlin | Doyle | Gunn Sid the Dummy | Fred/Illyria | Andrew     Rich and beautiful, Cordelia Chase led her clique at Sunnydale High and enjoyed ridiculing those she saw as inferior, like nerds and outcasts. Growing to accept the existence of dark forces in Sunnydale, Cordelia became a full-fledged member of Buffy's 'Scooby Gang' and even dated Buffy's best friend and social outcast, Xander Harris. Of all the Scoobies, Cordelia was the one member who never seemed to contribute anything to group aside from her sarcasm. Tired of being labeled the 'shallow one,' Cordelia decided to change everyone's perception of her by competing in the quiz bowl finals, an event that is televised to the entire nation. To accomplish this, she stole a brooch used by shamen to help them memorize complex spells, but the brooch's thirst for knowledge caused her to go into a frenzied state. She was finally rescued from insanity by Buffy's watcher, Giles, who used a mesmerizing stone to disconnect the link between Cordelia and the brooch.     After high school graduation, Cordelia decided to move to Hollywood to be in feature films. Instead, she joined Buffy's old flame, the vampire with a soul, Angel, and became his Gal Friday. Together they formed Angel Investigations and dedicated themselves to helping people in trouble that are located by visions sent to a half-demon named Doyle by the mysterious and semi-divine Powers That Be. Cordelia continued to pursue an acting career, hoping she finally made it when she landed the starring role in a Blair Witch rip-off about three filmmakers searching for the legendary "Helm of Haraxis," which bestows the individual who wears it with the power to control all demons. During the film's production, Cordelia discovered that the film was a sham and that the Helm was indeed real, being guarded by a cabal of demons. The film's crew is killed by the demons that reside in the forest, but Cordelia managed to evade death long enough for Angel to arrive and save the day.     Cordelia's life changed when Doyle was killed but not before he passed on his gift (as well as his curse) onto her, bestowing her with the gift of the visions, which allowed her to help others. Over the course of the next few years, she came to consider them her reason for being.         Daniel Osbourne, known to most people as "Oz," was transformed into a werewolf by the bite from another such beast, his cousin Jordy. Along with the girl he loved, Willow Rosenberg, Oz spent the time since then aiding the Slayer, Buffy Summers, in her battle against the forces of darkness. He soon came to believe that his curse puts all those around him in peril and decided to set out on a quest to find a way to combat the beast - the darkness - within himself.     Oz traveled to a Tibetan monastery in Lhasa, Tibet, where he hoped that the monks there would be able to rid him of his curse. Upon arrival however, Oz discovered that all but one of the monks had been killed or kidnapped by a legion of demons. The surviving monk told Oz that there was no cure, but helped him to create a place of peace within himself where he learned how to embrace the beast, instead of trying to be rid of it. Helping the monk to vanquish the demon army, Oz finally found his center and began his journey back home with a new perspective on life. Editor's Note: Oz was scheduled to appear one last time during the "Note From The Underground/Hellmouth to Mouth" storyline set during Buffy's sixth season, but was replaced with the character of Pike instead. (see "Pike" biography below) However, Joss Whedon recently announced that he has plans for Oz's return in Buffy Season Eight.         Hank Summers is the father of Buffy and Dawn Summers and the ex-husband of Joyce Summers. The divorce tore Buffy apart, who wondered who was actually responsible for the divorce. She became convinced that her father was having an affair, but was later assured by Hank that no one was to blame. After the divorce, Hank nominally tried to maintain a relationship with Buffy, but slowly stopped playing the role of father altogether.         Dr. Primrose was an ex-watcher who after losing her slayer, tried to reason with the Watchers Counsel to try to get them to realize that it isn't their right to aid and abet the slaughter of all those who are called Slayers under the pretext that they somehow know better. She felt that the Watchers needed to do more than just explain to their charges that with 'great power comes great responsibility.'     Quitting the Council, Primrose became a psychiatrist and worked at a psychiatric rehabilitation institute in Los Angeles, California. When Buffy Summers was called to be the next Slayer, her parents committed her to a psychiatric ward when they discovered her crazed diary entries of slaying vampires. At the institute, Dr. Primrose became the doctor to help Buffy purge herself of all the "supernatural delusions."     During their sessions, Dr. Primrose helped Buffy to realize she has a choice in being the Slayer and not just accepting her destiny. While residing at the institution, Buffy uncovered a plot by another doctors, really a demon in disguise, to turn the female he was treating patients into his slaves. Dr. Primrose assisted Buffy, supplying her with a battleaxe to kill the demon with.         Todd Dahl was a classmate of Buffy's at Sunnydale High, and performed in a band called Double-Cross, which made him extremely popular with the female student body. Setting his sights on Buffy as his next conquest, he was surprised to be rejected by her, but put out a rumor that he had slept with Buffy in order to save face. Buffy's friend Amy decided to teach Todd a lesson about spreading nasty rumors, and transmuted him into a girl. When Buffy deduced that the "new girl" at Sunnydale High was Todd, she asked Amy to change him back before the prank got out of hand. A few weeks later, Buffy saved Todd from a vampire party, but he misread her intentions as a sign of affection and fell in love with her. Showering Buffy with gifts, Todd got himself killed when he distracted Buffy from her Slayer duties during one of her nightly patrols.         Shortly after Buffy Summers was called to be the Slayer, her Watcher was killed in the line of duty. Quentin Travers, a senior member of the Watcher's Council, was ready to assign the job of Watcher to Rupert Giles, but after Giles showed himself to be unworthy, Quentin sent him to Ireland to the Blackshed, to see if he could struggle to rise above himself or die trying, in order to prove he was worthy of his Slayer. Giles passed the test and was sent to Sunnydale to serve as Buffy's Watcher.     Buffy took orders from the Council of Watchers until they fired Giles for caring about her too much. Buffy never forgave Quentin, who personally fired Giles, or the Council itself. The Council's image tarnished, Quentin tried to save face by allowing a new kind of operative that wouldn't be constrained by the Council's rules and policies. The Council of Watchers gave the operative, Alexa Landry, access to great magical power. Quentin's arrogance made him ignorant of Alexa's true purpose -- getting revenge on Buffy's one-time lover Angel, who had been a mass murderer that tortured and killed Alexa's ancestors.     Growing concerned after not hearing from Alexa in weeks, Quentin traveled to the States to handle the matter personally. Discovering that Alexa had gone rogue and had set her sights on Angel and his people, Quentin confronted Alexa, but she saw him as an obstacle in the way of her vengeance and attacked him upon confrontation. Alexa was later defeated by Buffy and Angel, and sent back to London in Quentin's custody to stand before a board of inquiry.         A mutual dislike formed between LA High School students Pike and Buffy Summers, until she saved him from a vampire attack. After the death of the Buffy's Watcher Merrick while attempting to slay the vampire king Lothos, Pike helped her to take out Lothos' vampires. Although Pike became attracted to Buffy, no serious relationship had time to form.     After Buffy was expelled from LA, she and Pike patrolled the streets for vampires at night. The two visited Las Vegas in an attempt to remove a vampire nest. Pike left Buffy, believing that the Slayer could not afford friends or loved ones. Buffy went back to L.A., continuing her slayer duties, as Pike left.     Pike showed up in Sunnydale six years after they went their separate ways, to help Buffy defeat a fascist demon group, the Scourge. Pike helped Buffy rescue her friends and save Sunnydale, later departing once again for parts unknown.         Wesley Wyndam-Pryce was a member of the Watcher's Council and later became a crucial member of Angel Investigations. His early appearances showed him to be clean-cut, pompous, and a bit of a brownnoser, reporting fellow member Rupert Giles to Quentin Travers when he discovered that Giles intended to dabble in forbidden magicks. After being fired from the Watcher's Council, Wesley began working at Angel Investigations, filling the void that the recently deceased member Doyle left. Wesley put his vast knowledge of demonology as well as his talent for translating and interpreting many non-human languages to good usage at the detective agency.     As Angel Investigations grew in members, Wesley became infatuated with one of the female additions, Winifred 'Fred' Burkle. Fred, however, did not pick up on Wesley's affections for her and instead pursued a relationship with another co-worker, Knox. When Knox was stricken down with a lethal venom, Wesley was forced to deal with his own affection for Fred and their ramifications when he was left with the choice of letting Knox die or saving his life, as. Wesley cured Knox of his condition, since he would rather sacrifice his chances of being with Fred in order to see her happy than to let Knox die and feel responsible for her sadness.     Eventually Fred realized she had feelings for Wesley but their romantic relationship was short-lived after Fred became infected with a parasitic agent that hollowed her out to make her body the vessel for a demon named Illyria. This left Wesley a broken man but decided to help Illyria understand the world, a move that furthered Wesley's suffering, but also allowed him to keep some part of Fred close to him. Shortly after Illyria's arrival, Wesley died after being mortally wounded by a demon in a battle.         Riley was Buffy's rebound relationship after breaking up with Angel. During their courtship, Buffy found out that Riley lead a double life as a soldier in a secret organization called The Initiative. Buffy and Riley fought demons together and continued and saved the world numerous times, but Riley was never quite let into Buffy's inner circle. When a rogue female operative of the Watcher's Council set her eyes on Angel and his people, Buffy set out to Los Angeles to help him, but ousts Riley from the case, feeling that his involvement would only distract her. Riley took the matter personally, and felt even further detached from Buffy's life after she declined his desire to meet her mother for dinner. Riley sensed that Buffy would never truly love him, which led to their eventual break-up.         Jonathan Levinson attended Sunnydale High School where he was often bullied, ridiculed and ignored by his more popular peers. After graduation, Jonathan cast a spell on the town of Sunnydale to make everyone believe that he was a superstar. Shortly before this alternate reality dissolved, Jonathan recruited Buffy and her friends to help him save Sunnydale from Russian vampire mobsters. Traveling through the sewers to the Hellmouth where the vampire mafia resided, Team Jonathan slayed most of the vampires, but the remaining ones managed to flood their own operation in hope of killing their attackers.     A consequence of Jonathan's spell made Buffy and her friends forget that they could handle their own when it came to fighting the forces of darkness. They had become conditioned to believe that they could not handle ordinary fights on their own without Jonathan's help. The augmentation spell that Jonathan had cast left the Scooby Gang to be less prepared than usual for battle, almost getting Buffy's Watcher killed during the battle with the Russian vampires. A week after the battle, Jonathan's spell was broken, and things returned to normal.         Caitlin was a UC Sunnydale student from Willow and Tara's Wicca group that was envious of their friendship. Trying to prove herself to them, Caitlin unwittingly called upon a Deity that punished anyone Caitlin instinctively perceived as a threat. Not using charms or wards to bind the Deity to her will, Caitlin watched helplessly as the Deity killed the members of the Wicca group one by one. Willow and Tara intervened, along with the remaining members of the Wicca group to cast a binding spell that banished the Deity. Having learned her lesson, Caitlin gave up practicing magic and became the president of the Wicca group.         Doyle was a seer, who receives prophetic visions from The Powers That Be, usually of people in peril. His half-Brachen demon physiology granted him the ability to shift from normal human to demonic appearance (red eyes and green skin adorned with blue spikes), in which he has heightened sense of smell and superior strength.Doyle was a seer, who receives prophetic visions from The Powers That Be, usually of people in peril. His half-Brachen demon physiology granted him the ability to shift from normal human to demonic appearance (red eyes and green skin adorned with blue spikes), in which he has heightened sense of smell and superior strength.     After getting a vision about a young woman in danger, he rushed to try and save her from a grisly fate, but was too late to save her. After some investigating, he found the person responsible for her death; a woman who was running a shop catering to human-eating demons, selling harvested human organs. Doyle battled her and defeated her, burning down her shop to make sure its contents were destroyed. Shortly afterwards, he went to meet Angel for the first time, with a message about a young woman named Tina.     Doyle joined forces with Angel and his Gal Friday, Cordelia, to fight evil in Los Angeles. Doyle fancied Cordelia, but their relationship never really developed. During a demonic battle, Doyle proved himself a reluctant hero, when he sacrificed himself to save his friends. However, Shortly before sacrificing himself, he passed on his visions on to Cordelia, which changed the course of her life considerably.         Charles Gunn was the leader of a gang of street fighters in Los Angeles who protect their turf from vampires using guerrilla warfare tactics. Angel recognized Gunn's strength and called on to be on the lookout for a runaway who was cursed with pyrokinesis. Eventually becoming a fulltime member of Angel Investigations, gaining mutual respect for those he fights side by side with while finding his place in the world.     When the evil law firm Wolfram and Hart cut a deal to have Angel take over their L.A. branch, Gunn underwent a remarkable transformation, submitting to a procedure at the hands of the W&H medical department to enhance his mind with a comprehensive understanding of the law. When Gunn's starry-eyed cousin from Ohio ran away from home and wound up in L.A., Gunn had to find him and get him to safety before the demon life in city could chew him up. Managing to survive the battle against the demonic legion sent by the Senior Partners of Wolfram & Hart, Gunn changed his focus to the human monsters, later calling Angel out of hiding to help him solve a series of brutal vampiric murders in L.A.         Rebecca was a visiting librarian at Sunnydale who had a short romance with Buffy's Watcher, Giles during his brief period of unemployment. Though Giles fancied her quite a bit, Buffy and the Scoobies felt they could not trust her, and even suspected that she have been the mastermind behind the bug invasion in Sunnydale at the time. Realizing that her relationship with Giles would only be compromised by Sunnydale's demonic activity, Rebecca left Giles and returned back home.         Sid was a ventriloquist's dummy that was possessed by the soul of a demon hunter. In order for his soul to properly be laid to rest he had to kill a cadre of demons. When a malevolent force created an interdimensional bleed, a Sid from an alternate reality came to Sunnydale to help Buffy and her friends seal the breach. Sid went to the Magic Box where Buffy's watcher was researching how to seal the dimensional bleed and opened a book that Giles had missed to a spell that would stop the dimensional bleed and would send him along with anything else that came through, back to their original dimensions. The spell was a success and Sid was sent back leaving Giles and everyone else to wonder what caused the bleed to occur in the first place.         Winifred "Fred" Burkle was rescued by Angel from the demon dimension Pylea, and opted to work alongside with Angel and his team upon returning to Earth. When the evil law firm Wolfram and Hart cut a deal to have Angel take over their L.A. branch, Fred received her own laboratory and became the head of the Science Division. A major asset to the team, Angel consistently relied on her department to quickly and efficiently solve problems. After going on a few dates with her co-worker Knox, she began to have feelings for Wesley. The two dated for a short while before Fred was killed unexpectedly.     Fred became infected by the essence of Illyria, one of the original, purebred demons known as Old Ones, which ate away from the inside out to make her body its vessel into this world. Illyria attempted to bring about the destruction of humans by resurrecting her vicious ancient army, but soon discovered that it had been destroyed long ago. Lost and without purpose, Illyria agreed to learn how to adjust to the modern world with the help of Wesley, who felt drawn to the being because it shared the resemblance to the woman he loved.     Wesley had Illyria run tasks for the Wolfram & Hart, one of which was delivering a human prisoner to a clan of demons that wanted revenge on the human for murdering one of their own. Illyria agreed to take on the assignment in an effort to learn about remorse and learn if she herself was cable of feeling regret for her role in Fred's death, but discovered that she was not capable of human emotion.         Sure, he tried to kill Buffy for a whole year, but Andrew always seemed a bit out of place with the villainous Trio. Andrew was captured by the Scoobies, who rehabilitated him, and he found a kindred nerdy soul in Xander. He currently heads over a Slayer cell in Southern Italy.

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