“You listen to me. I've been alive a bit longer than you, and dead a lot longer than that. I've seen things you couldn't imagine, and done things I'd prefer you didn't. I don't exactly have a reputation for being a thinker. I follow my blood, which doesn't exactly rush in the direction of my brain. So I make a lot of mistakes. A lot of wrong bloody calls. A hundred plus years, and there's only one thing I've ever been sure of. You... Hey, look at me. I'm not asking you for anything. When I say I love you, it's not because I want you, or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you... and I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You are a hell of a woman. You're the one, Buffy..”
―Spike to Buffy Summers, "Touched."
Spike is the tritagonist of The Buffyverse-serving as one of the two deuteragonists of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Season 5 of the spin-off series, Angel.
Initially introduced as a villain intent on killing Buffy Summers, he eventually becomes one of her allies and second love interest. He is "love's bitch", to the sarcastic comic relief, to Buffy's romantic interest. Their relationship that grows from miserable lust/mutually abusive to a genuine love. He eventually became a self-sacrificing hero, dying as a Champion at the Hellmouth. However, he is resurrected in the fifth season of Angel.
In the expanded universe, Spike is reunited with Buffy and continues helping her fight the good fight vs. the forces of evil.
He is portrayed by James Marsden, who also portrays Victor Stein in Marvel's The Runaways and Brainiac in Smallville.
Indomitable will: In all the pain and suffering, Spike has endured, he has an indomitable will. He also fought off the effects of the chip on two occasions; once while manhandling Xander while confronting him about resurrecting Buffy and a 2nd time while helping her fight off a cult of humans trying to sacrifice a young girl.
Weaknesses
He cannot go into a house without being invited
Spike has the basics of Vampire weaknesses including
A stake to the heart
Holy water
The cross.
He can also burn from direct sunlight
Physical Appearance
Relationships
Drusilla
Buffy Summers
Notes and trivia
Unlike Angel, Spike never really repented for his misdeeds and did not turn good of his own volition - though in time, Spike would come to be a more heroic individual. Though he regained his soul, Spike loved Buffy even without it.
Even after they broke up, Spike and Buffy actually maintained a friendship after their relationship ended in between Season 11 and Season 12, with possibility at having a serious one someday into the future.
Buffy had only referred to Spike by his real name William twice; once in Season 4 and when she was breaking up with him in Season 6.
Appearances
Television
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003, 96 episodes)
Angel (1999-2000, 2003-2004, 24 episodes)
Comics
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Classic (1999-2002, 29 appearances)
Tales (2003, 1 appearance)
Angel (2005-2011, 36 appearances)
The Ultimate Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Gift (2005, 1 appearance)
Spike (2006-2014, 58 appearances)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2007, 2009-2018, 72 appearances)
Angel (2007-2009, 2012-2014, 27 appearances)
Novels
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1998-2008, 27 novels)
Video games
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2000)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2002)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds (2003)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Sacrifice (2009)
Trivia
In Buffy the Vampire Slayer, he appears as the false main antagonist-turned-anti-hero of season two, a minor antagonist in season three, the secondary antagonist-turned-anti-hero of season 4, the tritagonist of seasons 5 and 6 and the deuteragonist of season 7
Other Slayers Nikki Wood• Kendra Young• Kennedy• Amanda• Colleen• Dianne• Chao-Ahn• Rona• Dominique• Shannon• Soledad• Caridad• Violet Other Allies Pike• Jonathan Levinson• Clement • Joyce Summers Villains The Big Bads: Lothos, The Master, Angelus, Drusilla/Dru, Professor Walsh, Richard Wilkins/The Mayor, Adam, Glorificus/Glory, The Trio (Warren Mears, Jonathan, Andrew Wells), The First Evil, D'Hoffryn, Joanna Wise, Simon Doffler, Harth Fray, Wolfram & Hart (Lindsey McDonald, Lilah Morgan, and Lee Mercer, Holland Manners), Jasmine, Circle of the Black Thorn, Whistler, Archaeus Secondary Antagonists: The Anointed One, Darla, The Initiative, Dark Willow, Caleb, Daniel Holtz, Sahjhan, Holland Manners
