Top 20 BtVS/AtS Characters | 1. Buffy Summers
“It doesn’t stop! It *never* stops! Do you think I chose to be like this? Do you have any idea how lonely it is, how dangerous? I would *love* to be upstairs watching TV or gossiping about boys or… God, even studying! But I have to save the world… again.”
Top 20 BtVS/AtS Characters | 2. Wesley Wyndham-Pryce
“There’s love. There’s hope…for some. There’s hope that you’ll find something worthy… that your life will lead you to some joy… that after everything… you can still be surprised.”
Top 20 BtVS/AtS Characters | 5. Anya
“I don’t understand how this all happens. How we go through this. I mean, I knew her, and then she’s…there’s just a body, and I don’t understand why she just can’t get back in it and not be dead anymore. It’s stupid. It’s mortal and stupid. And Xander’s crying and not talking, and I was having fruit punch, and I thought, well, Joyce will never have any more fruit punch ever, and she’ll never have eggs, or yawn or brush her hair, not ever, and no one will explain to me why!”
Top 20 BtVS/AtS Characters | 4. Spike
“I know I’m not the first choice for heroics, and Buffy’s tried to kill me more than once. And I don’t fancy a single one of you at all. But… Actually, all that sounds pretty convincing. I wonder if Danger Mouse is on.”
Top 20 BtVS/AtS Characters | 6. Lilah Morgan
“There was always a small part of you that thought you could pull me back from the brink of my evil, evil ways. Help me find redemption. Angel’s influence, I suppose. The whole not giving up on someone, no matter how far he—or she— has fallen. Oh, well. Too late for me. Let’s just get it over with.”
Top 20 BtVS/AtS Characters | 7. Angel(us)
“In the greater scheme or the big picture, nothing we do matters. There’s no grand plan, no big win. If there is no great glorious end to all this, if nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do. ‘cause that’s all there is. What we do, now, today. - I fought for so long. For redemption, for a reward, finally just to beat the other guy, but… I never got it. “
Top 20 BtVS/AtS Characters | 10. Xander Harris
“Seven years, Dawn. Working with the slayer. Seeing my friends get more and more powerful. A witch. A demon. Hell, I could fit Oz in my shaving kit, but come a full moon, he had a wolfy mojo not to be messed with. Powerful. All of them. And I’m the guy who fixes the windows. They’ll never know how tough it is to be the one who isn’t chosen. To live so near to the spotlight and never step in it. But I know. I see more than anybody realizes because nobody’s watching me. “
Top 20 BtVS/AtS Characters | 8. Darla
“We did so many terrible things together. So much destruction, so much pain. We can’t make up for any of it. You know that, don’t you? This child… Angel, it’s the one good thing we ever did together. The only good thing. You make sure to tell him that.”
Top 20 BtVS/AtS Characters | 9. Cordelia Chase
“It’s not the pain. It’s the helplessness. The certainty that there is nothing you can do to stop it, that your life can be thrown away in an instant by someone else. He doesn’t care. He’ll beat you down until you stay down because he doesn’t even *think* of you as alive. - No woman should ever have to go through that, and no woman strong enough to wear the mantel of ‘vicious bitch’ would ever put up with it.”
Top 20 BtVS/AtS Characters | 3. Dawn Summers
“You wanna know what I’m scared of? Me. I’m like a lightning rod for pain and hurt and everyone around me suffers and dies. I must be something so horrible, to cause so much pain and evil.”
Top 20 BtVS/AtS Characters | 11. Charles Gunn
“Because I was weak. Because I wanted to be somebody that I wasn’t. Because I don’t know where I fit. Because I never did. Because a thousand other reasons that don’t mean a damn ‘cause she’s gone.”
Top 20 BtVS/AtS Characters | 12. Riley Finn
“I thought I knew … but I don’t. I don’t know anything. I don’t know which team I’m on. Who the bad guys are. Maybe I’m the bad guy. Maybe I’m the thing you should kill.”
Top 20 BtVS/AtS Characters | 13. Rupert Giles
“Do you want me to wag my finger at you and tell you that you acted rashly? You did. And I can. I know that you loved him. And he has proven more than once that he loved you. You couldn’t have known what would happen. The coming months are going to be hard, I suspect on all of us, but… if it’s guilt you’re looking for, Buffy, I’m not your man. All you will get from me is my support. And my respect.”
Top 20 BtVS/AtS Characters | 14. Kennedy
“Hey, I’m the first one to call her out when she’s not making sense. In fact, this may have escaped your keen notice, but I’m kind of a brat. I’ve always sort of gotten my way… so you’re going to make it through this no matter how dark it gets. Because now, you’re my way.”
Top 20 BtVS/AtS Characters | 15. Holden Webster
“Aw, come on. I mean, we had a moment. You opened up. It was really sweet. It made me want to bite you. I’m sorry if I overstepped my bounds. I’m just new to this mortal enemy stuff. Pretty fast learner, though, right?”
