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Backer, Doctor Stanley: Pediatrician at Sunnydale Hospital. Bit of a risk taker. Had a malpractice suit filed against him. Was killed by Der Kinderstod because he was curing all the sick children (flu victims) with an experimental treatment.

Balthazar: Huge, five hundred pound demon that sat in a vat of water, constantly having it ladled over him so that he didn’t dry out. Richard Wilkins had driven Balthazar and his minions, El Eliminati, from Sunnydale one hundred years ago. A man named Gleaves had at this time taken Balthazar’s amulet from him. This amulet was purported to give the demon his strength, and was later buried with Gleaves. Balthazar had the power of telekinesis. He returned to Sunnydale when he heard that his old enemy, The Mayor, was soon to ascend. He sent El Eliminati to search for his amulet. Buffy electrocuted him by dropping an electric lamp into his vat.

Band candy: The students had to sell forty bars of band candy each to pay for new uniforms for the marching band. This highly addictive candy was contaminated by Ethan Rayne. Anyone eating it began acting like a teenager. With all the adults in Sunnydale reduced to hormonal adolescents, the Mayor was free to collect a tribute for the demon Lurconis. Under the influence of the candy Giles/Ripper stole a coat for Joyce, and twice had sex with her on a police car after beating the policeman unconscious.

Barton, Miss: elderly faculty member at Sunnydale High School. Started acting like a teenager while under the influence of the band candy.

Be kind, rewind: say that again.

Beast, The: see Glorificus.

Beatman, Miss: geography teacher at Sunnydale High School. Bewitched by Amy Madison into accepting non-existent homework.

Beats, Carol: sired ‘Brandon from the sewer gang’. Told Harmony that some demons were planning to kill Buffy. See also Leoff demon.

Behaviour modifier: tied directly into the central nervous system through the thoracic nerve. Professor Maggie Walsh implanted one in Riley without his knowledge. He came under Adam’s power when Adam activated it. Riley cut it out of himself with a shard of broken glass in order to save Buffy from Forrest.

Behavioural modification chip: implanted in Spike’s head by The Initiative. It rendered him incapable of attacking humans without intense neurological pain. See also xenamorphic behavioural modification.

Belinda: name Buffy called herself when she went snooping at Ted’s place of work.

Belize: Riley’s first assignment after rejoining the army was in Belize. A demon tribe had been attacking missionaries there. Major Ellis was in charge of the operation.

Ben: male nurse who cared for Joyce when she first went for tests at the hospital. Dated Buffy briefly. Turned out to be the mortal half of The Beast. When Giles was badly wounded during a battle with the Knights of Byzantium, it was Ben that Buffy called to save his life. Although at first he tried to protect Dawn, Ben ultimately turned on her, and delivered her to be sacrificed. Giles suffocated him in order to kill Glory.

Beth, Cousin: Tara’s cousin. Very pretty, but spiteful and selfish.

Bezoar: Offspring of the Mother Bezoar. Hatch from eggs, and look like mini versions of the ‘face suckers’ from Alien. Attached themselves to the backs of their human hosts, and took control of their motor functions through spinal clamping. See also Whitmore, Mister.

Big Bad, The: name that Spike called himself. Has since been used by the Scoobies to describe the major evil of the day.

Billy Fordham: see Fordham, Billy.

Billy Palmer: see Palmer, Billy.

Binding field: Giles held Black Magic Willow in a binding field. It put her in a kind of stasis. Willow used telepathy and mind control to make Anya free her.

Binding ritual: A spell performed to ‘bind’ the soul of a creature in one place. See also Kayless, The Circle of and Cortona.

Bizarro land: When Cordy dumped Xander for smooching with Willow she was visited by the vengeance demon Anyanka. Anyanka granted Cordy’s wish that Buffy had never come to Sunnydale, and Cordelia was transported to an alternate reality that she dubbed ‘bizarro land’. Sunnydale was so overrun with vamps that there was an evening curfew. Students dressed in muted colours, and held a monthly memorial service. Willow and Xander were vamps, and the Master’s favourites. The Master had risen, and made The Bronze his lair. Angel had tried to fight the Master and lost, and was kept chained as a pet to be tortured. The only people to stand up to the vamps were Giles, Oz, Larry and Nancy. Buffy was a scarred and battle-hardened Slayer living in Cleveland. Within a day Angel was dead, Willow and Xander killed Cordelia, Buffy staked Xander, Oz staked Willow, and The Master broke Buffy’s neck. Things returned to normal when Giles invoked Anyanka and destroyed her power centre. See also The Puppy, The Plant, vamp Willow and vamp Xander.

Black Chronicles, The: a book that Giles has in his occult library.

Black Frost: beer brewed at the on campus bar. Turned those that drank it into Neanderthals. Xander worked at the bar, and discovered that the manager, Jack, had created Black Frost with his warlock brother-in-law. Jack brewed it to take revenge on the college know-it –alls that talked down to him. Under its influence, Buffy beat Parker Abrams unconscious.

Black hat: bad guy.

Black magic: evil magic, or magic that goes against the usual laws of nature.

Black Magic Willow: consumed with grief after Tara’s murder, Willow went to the Magic Box and absorbed the knowledge from all of the dark arts books, leaving the pages empty. Her hair and eyes turned black when she did this. She saved Buffy’s life at the hospital by removing the bullet, and healing the wound. Black Magic Willow later magically bound Warren Meers between two trees in the woods, and made the same bullet slowly and painfully burrow its way through his body. She then flayed him alive and incinerated him. Willow tried to kill Andrew Wells and Jonathon Levinson as well, but was thwarted by Buffy, Xander and Anya. When her power began to drain, she went to see Rack, and killed him after absorbing all of his magic. Too strong even for Buffy, Willow was held in a binding field temporarily by Giles. She escaped, and drained him of the magic he had borrowed from a Devonshire coven. This good/natural magic put her back in touch with her feelings. Unable to cope, she went to Kingman’s Bluff to end the world. Here she raised the temple of Housapexa from the ground, but Xander defeated Black Magic Willow by telling her that he loved her. She found herself unable/unwilling to kill him, and allowed her grief to show.

Blair: Watcher assigned to the Sunnydale Arms to prepare Buffy’s cruciamentum. He was killed and sired by the vampire Zachary Kralik, who he then helped to escape. The two of them murdered Blair’s partner, Hobson.

Blake, Michelle: blonde bimbo who jointly won the Homecoming Queen competition with Holly Charleston. They beat rivals Buffy and Cordelia.

Blayne Mall: see Mall, Blayne.

Blood rat: insulting name for a vampire.

Bloodstone Vengeance Spell: hits the body like a quart of alcohol, then eradicates the immune system. Kills within hours. Cast on Buffy by Catherine Madison.

Blush Beautiful Cosmetics: fictitious company that assassin Norman Pfister claims to represent. He gains entry into his victim’s home with the promise of free sample products.

Bob: shot trying to rob a liquor store. Was ‘raised’ by his friend Jack O’Toole after eight months. (Jack had kindly recorded all the episodes of Walker, Texas Ranger for him while he was dead.) Xander crushed Bob beneath a drink machine for trying to blow up Sunnydale High School. See also Dickie and Parker.

Boba Fett: Star Wars figure that Spike took hostage until Warren agreed to check out a potential problem with his chip.

Boca Del Infierno: Spanish settlers’ name for Sunnydale, meaning ‘the mouth of Hell’ or ‘Hellmouth’.

Bogarty, Mister: owner of The Magic Box before Giles. Killed by Harmony’s minions.

Books of Ascension: see Ascension, Books of.

Boost bars: awful tasting nutrition bars that Xander tried to sell for a living. They came in three flavours – cherry berry, maple walnut and liquorice.

Borba, Andrew: A religious nut and multiple killer who was turned into a vampire. Buffy mistakenly believed him to be The Anointed. She destroyed him by throwing him into an incinerator at the morgue.

Bored now: catch phrase of vampire Willow from bizarro land.

Box of Gavrok, The: see Gavrok, The Box of.

Brad Connick: see Connick, Brad.

Breath of the Atropics: spell required to destroy the Box of Gavrok. Ingredients include essence of toad, and twice blessed sage.

Brian: vampire hired by Spike. His job was to dig a tunnel underneath the crypt containing the Gem of Amarrah.

Brie: lesbian at the Bronze. Amy Madison did a spell to make her attracted to Willow.

Bringers, The: Also known as harbingers, they are the high priests of The First. Able to conjour spirit manifestations and set them on people/haunt them. They did this to Angel. ‘For they are the harbingers of death. Nothing shall grow above or below them. No seed shall flower, neither in man or woman.’

Bristow’s Demon Index: Occult reference books belonging to Giles.

Bronze, The: Nightclub located in ‘the better part’ of Sunnydale. The coolest place in town.

Brown, Agent: accompanied Graham and Agent Goodman to apprehend Riley Finn, and try to take him to a doctor. Riley kicked their butts!

Brown Brothers Mortuary, The: where Joyce’s funeral was held.

Buchanan, Ted: computer software salesman ironically nicknamed ‘The Machine’ due to his incredible sales record. Salesman of the year. Dated Joyce, but was really a homicidal robot. Great cook, but put the drug Dematorin (a tranquilizer) into food to make people more accepting and pliant. The original Ted was left by his wife, and constructed the robot to woo her back. After Ted #1 died, the robot continued to ‘bring back’ wives. In all, he married and murdered four women. During a fight with Buffy Ted got pushed down the stairs. He shut down for a while, making everyone believe that Buffy had killed him. His ‘death’ was investigated by Detective Stein. See also Belinda.

Buffy Anne Summers: see Summers, Buffy Anne.

Buffybot: created by Warren Meers to be Spike’s sexbot. Was decapitated during the final battle with Glory. Willow fixed her so that she could pretend to be Buffy after the Slayer died. Was torn to pieces by Hellions the night of Buffy’s resurrection.

Bug Man, The: Member of The Order of Teraka, and one of three hired by Spike to kill The Slayer. Calls himself Norman Pfister, and pretends to be a salesman for Blush Beautiful Cosmetics. The Bug Man is actually made up of thousands of ‘maggot-like’ creatures, and can assemble and disassemble his human form at will. Can only be killed in his maggot state. Stomped to death by Cordelia and Xander after they trapped him in liquid adhesive.

Bunnies: Anya has bunny phobia.

Burlap and bloodlarvae: traditional clothing for bridesmaids at demon weddings.

Burman, Kevin: in Dawn’s class at school.

Burns, Stewart: In Chicago in 1914 Anyanka made him a demon and sent him to a hell dimension. He wanted revenge, and found his way back here just in time to ruin her wedding. Stewart disguised himself as an old man, pretending to be Xander from the future. He showed Xander false visions of a hellish married life to Anya. Xander later crushed him with a pillar for trying to kill her. See also Josh and Sara.

Butcher, Thomas: member of Ripper’s gang who was later murdered by Eyghon.

Byzantium, The Knights of: an ancient order of knights who are the sworn enemies of The Beast. Had been searching for the Key for centuries. Tried to kill Dawn so that Glorificus could not use the Key. Glory wiped out their army in a single battle. See also The General, Dante Chevalier and Orlando.