Pre-History | Season One | Season Two Season Three | Season Four - Five | Season Six | Season Eight     In 1880, William Pratt was an ineffectual poet who was called "William the Bloody" behind his back by his peers, because hi poemss were so "bloody awful." After the aristocratic Cecily rejected his romantic overtures, a despondent William accepted comfort in the arms of Drusilla, only to be bitten and transformed into a vampire. Euphoric with his newfound vampire abilities, and hungry for revenge on his peers, William abandoned the genteel hypocrisy of Victorian life. He became a rebel, becoming prone to impulsiveness and violence. He adopted the nom de guerre "Spike" because of a habit of torturing people with railroad spikes. (Spike: Old Times)     In 1898, a tribe of gypsies inflicted a terrible curse upon Drusilla's sire, Angelus. In response to the curse, Angelus' sire, Darla, along with Drusilla and Spike brought vengeance to the tribe and slaughtered them. However, the gypsy clan had a dark and powerful supporter in Count Dracula, who outraged over the slaughter of the gypsies, sought revenge upon the three vampires. Upon confrontation, Dracula began a rivalry between himself and Spike that lasted for over a century, after he cavalierly tossed a signed first edition of Bram Stoker's Dracula intro a fire, which had cost Spike eleven quid. (Spike vs. Dracula)     Later, a sect of Astrides demons kidnapped Drusilla, which left Spike to seek assistance from a demon cult called the Blood of Carthage to free Drusilla. Spike promised the cult's leader Vraka that he would provide the them with a powerful weapon, which would give them the winning edge they needed to defeat the Astrides, in exchange for their help. The Blood of Carthage unwittingly agreed to help Spike, but after Drusilla was freed, Spike double crossed them, and left leaving Venice that night to avoid their wrath. (BtVs: Blood of Carthage)     During 1900, in one of his proudest moments, Spike killed Xin Rong, a Chinese Slayer, during the Boxer Rebellion, and tore her body apart and scattered the pieces. The vampire couple were followed by Xin Rong's brothers, who finally caught up to them thirty three years later in Chicago, where they attacked Spike and Dru at the World's Fair. Spike and Dru, with the assistance of a chaos demon, killed the rest of the Rong family. (Spike and Dru: All's Fair)     In 1930s Hollywood, during a live performance of the play "Dracula" starring Bela Lugosi, Spike confronted Dracula, thwarting his attempt to kill Lugosi. Spike believed Dracula to die that night in a fiery airplane crash, but sure enough Dracula resurfaced in 1943, forging a temporary alliance with Spike whilst the two were in Berlin, in order to free Darla and one of his brides from Nazi captivity. (Spike vs. Dracula)     In the 1950s, Spike briefly encountered Dracula again in Rome, when an alchemist kidnapped Drusilla. After rescuing her, Spike and Drusilla split up for a few decades, where Spike relocated to New York City during the 70s, joining up with a sect of vampires that fed off of groupies at rock concerts. (Spike vs. Dracula #4, Spike: Rock N' Roll All Night)         While in Prague, Drusilla ws attacked and severely injured in an attack by an angry mob, leaving her in a weakened and frail condition. Spike cared for her as the couple traveled to a Hellmouth in Sunnydale, California, a place of increased supernatural energy that attracted demons and other supernatural creatures. Spike hoped that the Hellmouth's energy would cure Drusilla, while the presence of a Slayer whome he could fight, only made the town even more attractive to visit. (Tales of Vampires: The Problem with Vampires)     Along the way, Spike and Dru stopped in St. Louis, Missouri, visiting the Queen of Hearts, a steamboat that had been transformed into a floating casino. Discovering that the casino owner and his employees were actually demons that sacrificed patrons to their deity that resided in the water, Spike and Dru spoiled the party and set the boat ablaze, which killed the demons and their deity. (Spike and Dru: The Queen of Hearts)         Arriving in Sunnydale, Spike and Drusilla became major thorns in Buffy the Vampire Slayer's side. During one of their battles, Spike became severely injured and became confined to a wheelchair. When Angel reverted back to Angelus after experiencing true happiness with Buffy, he joined the vampire duo. When Angelus began to woo the appreciative Dru as a lover and persistently taunted the temporarily helpless Spike, his longtime rivalry with Spike was renewed.     In his search for ultimate power, Angelus revived the samurai demon Kelgor, but was instead betrayed by the demon. Kelgor took Drusilla as his girlfriend, which forced Spike and Angelus into an uneasy alliance with Buffy to defeat the samurai demon. Kelgor was defeated by Buffy, and Spike, being the pushover that he is, took Drusilla back despite her temporary betrayal. (BtVs: Ring of Fire)     Becoming increasingly jealous of Angelus' advances towards Drusilla, Spike took Drusilla back to Europe, far away from Angelus and Sunnydale. While in Cicagne, a small fishing village in Italy, Spike became infuriated when Drusilla continued to utter Angelus' name in her sleep. Spike's rage overcame him, as he threw Drusilla out the window into the daylight. Rescuing Drusilla before she incinerated, Spike left her alone, knowing she would never forgive him for what he had done. Venturing to Saru, a hidden city near Turkey, Spike took over and became the city's leader. (Spike and Dru: Paint the Town Red)         Two months into his regime as ruler of Saru, Spike crossed paths with Drusilla once more. Fully healed from her sun exposure, Drusilla found herself a new boyfriend, Koines, a zombie necromancer. The two stormed Spike's palace in an effort to kill him, but when Koines realized his power extended to the undead as well, he betrayed Drusilla, which forced Spike and Dru to form a truce until they could defeat Koines. Casting a spell to open up a portal to the lowest circle of Hell that would draw in any demon nearby, Drusilla created ward necklaces for herself and Spike, but Spike threw his away, believing that Drusilla was trying to trick him. Wardless during the spell, Spike began to wither away, but Drusilla gave him her ward, which saved his life but the portal's drain severely weakened Drusilla. Spike quickly found a villager for Drusilla to feed off of. Healthy again, the vampires put their problems behind them and headed off to Brazil. (Spike and Dru: Paint the Town Red)     Drusilla finally ended their relationship when she decided that he was not demon enough for her. Finding Drusilla in bed with a fungus demon, Spike resolved to win Drusilla back the old-fashioned way: by torturing her until she liked him again. The vampires temporarily got back together, but Drusilla grew bored of him again soon after that and cheated on him with another demon. Realizing that there was no way for them to be together, Spike settled for destroying all of Drusilla's possessions in Rio where she was located at the time. When that still was not enough, Spike fingered Drusilla as the culprit for all the murders he had committed, instigating a public riot that chased her out of town. (Spike and Dru: Who Made Who?)         Spike returned to Sunnydale where his (un)life took a pivotal turn after the Initiative, a secret government demon-fighting army, captured him and implanted a microchip in his head that caused crippling pain whenever he harmed or attempted to harm a human being. He discovered that the chip did not stop him from hurting demons, so he fought alongside Buffy and her Scooby Gang whenever it suited him.     When Buffy accidentally instigated the rise of a demon named Ky-Laag, the Blood of Carthage come to Sunnydae in hopes of stopping it and potentially the end of the world. Having never forgiven Spike for his betrayal, Vraka allows Spike to to earn Vraka's favor by helping Buffy and the Blood of Carthage to stop Ky-Laag. After Ky-Laag became dormant once more, the Blood of Carthage departed Sunnydale, and left Buffy to watch over Ky-Laag. (BtVs: Blood of Carthage)     In Season Five, to his horror, Spike had somehow developed feelings for and had fallen in love with Buffy. Spike also became a more active participant in the Scooby Gang, jumping into several of Buffy's fights to provide assistance whether she wanted it or not. Disgusted, particularly after witnessing the full extent of Spike's obsession, Buffy rejected him. Still, Buffy came to rely on him, forcibly having to ask him for his help when demon manifestations of jealousy known as Avendschrook had been attacking her friends. Unable to defeat them herself without becoming tainted by their powers, Buffy had Spike defeat them, who was immune to their powers due to his lack of soul and compassion. (BtVs: Ugly Little Monsters)     During an apocalyptic battle, Buffy sacrificed her life to stop an interdimensional bleed. Spike honored her memory by remaining loyal to the Scoobies, fighting at their side and acted as a baby-sitter/father-figure/protector to Buffy's kid-sister Dawn. Blaming himself for Buffy's death, Spike became a wreck and an alcoholic. His grief was so strong that it drew the attention of a lovelorn demon that toyed with his emotions and attempted to coerce him into killing himself to prove his undying love for Buffy. The Scoobies saved Spike from dusting himself in time, and standing united, they were able to celebrate Buffy's life instead of mourn her death, which killed the grief demon. (BtVs: Lost and Found)         After Buffy's resurrection, she and Spike became lovers of a sort, engaged in a twisted sexual but emotionally one-sided relationship in which Buffy did not return his intense, obsessive love. Buffy decided to call it off shortly thereafter, admitting that she was just using him. Spike, his obsession out of control, continued to make aggressive sexual advances, but when she refused him, he attacked her in desperation, apparently intending to rape her. Horrified at his actions, he left town shortly after. The incident came back to haunt Buffy, when she stumbled into his former holding cell at the abandoned site of the Initiative. (BtVs: Withdrawal, Note From the Underground)     Leaving Sunnydale, Spike arrived in Los Angeles where he confronted Cecily, the woman who had spurned Spike advances back when he was a human, which set in motion the events that led William to become a vampire. Cecily was actually a vengeance demon named Halfrek, who had been 'on the job' that night, and had caused the deaths of the rude partygoers who laughed at William's poetry. Spike discovered that she was in L.A. for someone else who deserved her wrath, a young man, whose ancestor had raped and killed her close friend when she was a human. Playing with Halfrek's emotions to lift the curse, Spike then spurned her affections, and finally got even with her. (Spike: Old Times)         Following the destruction of Sunnydale, Spike appeared at the Los Angeles branch of evil law firm Wolfram and Hart, as an untouchable, ghostly version of himself. When Dracula arrived at Wolfram and Hart, a non-corporeal Spike realized he could spend eternity tormenting Dracula. Dracula finally put the feud to rest and paid Spike the eleven quid that he owed. Still, Dracula managed to get the last laugh since Spike couldn't pick up the money, being a ghost. (Spike vs. Dracula)     After Spike managed to become corporeal again, a retired L.A. detective arrived at Wolfram and Hart, to inform Angel, who was CEO, that Spike had been responsible for the Black Dahlia killings that took place decades earlier. Attempting to solve one of the most infamous unsolved crimes in L.A. history, Spike went to McNeal's apartment but the Black Dahlia killer had already killed the detective. Following a lead, Spike managed to find and defeat the killer. (Spike: Old Wounds)     Spike's protracted, insidious battle of wits with Angel came to an end when they finally came to an understanding and acceptance of their unique brotherhood on their journey to redemption. Their understanding let Spike stand loyally beside Angel in their last battle against the forces of the Senior Partners. (Angel: Old Friends)     When Spike was contacted by a family to find their missing daughter Ruby, a half-demon, who had checked into a rehab facility designed to cure the demonic. Upon entering, Spike realized too late that he had killed the daughter when he was a souless monster, and the family had tricked him into entering the rehab as punsihment. While trapped at the facility, Spike faced down the rehab's staff, who hoped to cure his vampire nature, and its clientele, who wanted him dead. (Spike: Asylum)

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