Buffy the Vampire Slayer slayer. Buffy receives guidance from her Watcher, Rupert Giles (Anthony Stewart Head). Giles, rarely referred to by his first name (it is later revealed that in his misspent younger days he went by "Ripper"), is a member of the Watchers' Council, whose job is to train and guide the Slayers. Giles researches the supernatural creatures that Buffy must face, offers insights into their origins and advice on how to defeat them, and helps her stay in fighting form. Buffy is also helped by friends she meets at Sunnydale High: Willow Rosenberg (Alyson Hannigan) and Xander Harris (Nicholas Brendon). Willow is
Vampire (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) Vampire (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) In the fictional world of the television series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and its spin-off series "Angel", a vampire is a unique variety of demon that can only exist on the earthly plane by inhabiting and animating a human corpse. In "Fray", a "Buffy" comic book spin-off set about a century in the future, vampires are also called lurks. The vampires in the canonical Buffyverse differ greatly from those that appear in the 1992 "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" movie. The movie's vampires are able to fly, look pale but relatively human, and do not crumble