spike
Spike, also known as William the Bloody, got his nickname due to his penchant for torturing
victims with railroad spikes. However, his William the Bloody nick name has less glamorous
origins it turns out that he had the name before his vampire days, as a result of his "bloody
awful poetry." William wasn't always a bad boy prior to being vamped, he was a shy, sensitive,
aspiring poet. After getting shot down by the girl who inspired his poetry, he was killed and
then sired by Drusilla. Drusilla, of course, was the love of his un-life, until she left him
twice: first for a Chaos demon and then for a Fungus demon.
Only 120 years old (using the most
recent evidence "Fool For Love"), Spike has already killed two Slayers. He tried multiple times
to kill Buffy, but to no avail (but then again, she didn't kill him either). After being gone
for all but one episode of season three ("Lovers Walk"), Spike became a regular in season four,
and he's not having any better luck in Sunnydale this time around thanks to the Initiative,
he's got a chip in his head which renders him unable to kill or hurt anything other than another
demon (which he does, leaving him unpopular in the demon world).
Much to his chagrin, he's
not only impotent, but also dealing with a major crush on the Slayer herself. This crush led
him to reject both Drusilla and Harmony in favor of the non-reciprocating Buffy, and to have
a Buffy sex-robot built to allow him to fulfill his kinky fantasies. Unfortunately for
Spike, the real Buffy came across the robot, and took it from him. The combination of the
chip and his love for Buffy appears to be having a positive effect on Spike, who is no longer
quite the bloodthirsty demon he once was.
Driven by his love for Buffy, Spike went to Africa
in search of a soul of his own. His soul had the cleansing power and wiped out Sunnydale and
the army of Turok-Han as he was dusted in the last few moments of the season. Right before he died
Buffy finally told him that she loved him.
