Buffy The Vampire Slayer

6: Spike - a.k.a. William "the Bloody" (James Marsters)

Buffy The Vampire Slayer (US TV 1997-2003)

I don’t mind that the clearly-insane and rampantly murderous London-born vampire was to prove a mess of mixed-up feelings, severely in need of a shrink for his oedipal complex and many other issues. The problem was when he stopped being the enemy and ‘joined the team’, coercion or not. After entering the series with the excellent Juliet Landau as a freeform undead Vicious/Spungen combo, it was sad to see Marsters reduced to eccentric comic relief, even if he was very funny.

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