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Scifinow.co.uk Buffy The Vampire SlayerBTVS’ Giles in the Ten of the best SciFi MentorsThursday 14 August 2008, by Webmaster Rupert Giles Franchise: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Mentor to: Buffy Summers First Patrick Stewart and now Anthony Head – why do British guys make the best mentors? Because we know it all, that’s why. Despite coming from a long line of Watchers, it was never Giles’s dream to enter into the family business, in fact, he admits that he actually wanted to be a fighter pilot or a green grocer, but that wouldn’t be nearly as exciting as watching an adolescent girl kick endless vampire ass. After excepting his calling as a Watcher, Giles dropped out of Oxford University and began to explore dark magic before meeting a certain Buffy Summers, whom he begins training for her future as a Slayer. Never far from Buffy’s side, Giles and Summers swiftly establish a father/daughter relationship with Rupert using his immense knowledge of demonology and Slayer combat to keep her safe. Fluent in several languages and fairly mild mannered, he also has a dark side, exposed when he viciously beat Angelus with a bat and tried to set him on fire. A friend and confident to Buffy, she would have never released her true Slaying potential had Giles never walked in to Sunnydale. Click on the link for more : |