Spike sacrificed his life in battle against the First Evil, both defeating its army of Turok-Han and permanently closing the Sunnydale Hellmouth, as well as the town of Sunnydale itself. Eventually, Spike realized that he had fallen in love with Buffy and officially joined the Scooby Gang, later being motivated by his love for her to successfully fight to regain his soul.
Though he quickly established himself as one of Buffy Summers' most dangerous enemies, he was eventually forced into multiple uneasy alliances with her and her team, the Scooby Gang, after he was captured by the Initative and implanted with a cerebral microchip that rendered him unable to harm humans. Spike first traveled to Sunnydale in 1997, accompanied by Drusilla. After being sired by Drusilla, he reinvented himself and terrorized Europe alongside Drusilla, Angel and Darla throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. In his human life, William was an unsuccessful and unappreciated romantic poet known as William the Bloody, for his "bloody awful" poetry, though after he became a vampire, that moniker was repurposed to imply he was very violent. Spike (born William Pratt) was a famous and widely feared vampire, well-known among both humans and demons for having faced and killed two Slayers throughout his unlife and for his history of torturing his victims with railroad spikes (which is what it is rumored the moniker of "Spike" is derived from) in fact, his reputation for evil and bloodshed was second only to that of his grandsire Angelus'. If we're being completely honest, here, we can't help but think Marsters made the character one of the more unheralded supervillains in the MCU, even if there's some question about Runaways' place in the canon.James Marsters " I may be love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it" ―Spike Of course, that family infighting led to an act of self-defense that ultimately allowed the show's true villain to take control of Victor's mind and body, so, in a sense, Marsters did get to play the evil mastermind behind PRIDE after all. While Marsters' Victor Stein was far from the worst of the worst on the series, he was, in fact, an evil, megalomaniacal genius who abused both his wife (Ever Carradine) and son. As you probably guessed, James Marsters was not one of the good guys on Runaways, playing papa to one of the titular teens (Gregg Sulkin).
BUFFY AND SPIKE SERIES
That includes the series' 2003 finale, in which the once-reviled Spike ultimately became the savior-slash-destroyer of Sunnydale after valiantly sacrificing himself to close the Hellmouth once and for all.įor those who missed out on Runaways in its three-season run on Hulu, the series follows a group of special teens who, upon discovering their parents are actually super-powered villains fronting a sinister organization called PRIDE, decide to leave home and form their own super team with the sole intent of bringing their troublemaking folks to justice.
That may be overstating things, but Marsters' scene-stealing work as Spike was clearly a big part of the show's success, if only because Buffy the Vampire Slayer's writers gave him some of the best lines of the series and put him front and center during some of the show's most vital moments. Some might even argue that Buffy the Vampire Slayer didn't truly begin to transform into the era-defining genre treat as which it's regarded until Spike entered the picture. It was a long road to get Spike to that point, one that found the bleached-blonde bad boy of Buffy the Vampire Slayer change in ways no one could've conceived when he made his grand entrance early in the show's second season. Played with an unrepentant mix of cocksure swagger, raw sexuality, and soul-searching pathos by a then relatively unknown James Marsters, the character also became one of the most beloved in the Buffy-verse.
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