I just fell in love with you again.' But back then he was supposed to be kind of a jerk boyfriend, because he was going to get killed by Angel and she was going to take up with Angel, so Spike was being set up so the audience was not going to feel so bad when he got killed off. In contrast to the brooding Angel, Spike has a dry, sarcastic sense of humor. My favorite thing about is you is that you are seeing the stars, but it's the ceiling. I decided to rest my chin on my hand like, 'You are so weird and that's what I love about you. "That line is actually the one I had to deal with the most. Also it's day." The line was meant to be delivered in a way that would make Spike seem unkind, but that wasn't Masters' interpretation. It was scripted, but its hard to make ancient, brooding & tortured spark with teen-queen-suddenly-slayer Buffy. Spike responds by saying, "You can't see the stars, love. Marsters even spoke specifically about a line from the season 2 episode "Innocence," in which Drusilla is telling him that she's naming all the stars. Then you find the gold in the mountain, and then you have the rocket fuel and you can go anywhere." It could be love denied, love twisted, it doesn't have to be sweet, but you have to find the love. I always say when you are doing anything in art, you got to find the love. No problem dude.' He turns his back and I'm like, 'No way in Hell.' If you play it like that, the audience has nothing to grab onto and there's no reason not to kill you off. So, how did an actor hired for a few episodes manage to stick around for practically the entire series? However, Spike's longevity might be even more impressive considering the fact that Whedon apparently wasn't too happy about the character's popularity (via "Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum"). Several others, including Faith (Eliza Dushku), Anya (Emma Caulfield), and even Angel (David Boreanaz), all survived past their initial expiration dates, with the latter even starring in his own spin-off.
SPIKE FROM BUFFY SERIES
Spike is hardly the only character series creator Joss Whedon planned to kill off early on.
However, the vampire was never supposed to be around that long in the first place.
Of course, Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar) wasn't having any of it, and sent him packing on more than one occasion. If we're being completely honest, here, we can't help but think Marsters made the character one of the more unheralded supervillains in the MCU, even if there's some question about Runaways' place in the canon.Also known as William the Bloody, Spike was introduced in season 2, episode 3, "School Hard." Brilliantly played by James Marsters, Spike rolled into Sunnydale with his girlfriend Drusilla (the equally excellent Juliet Landau) in the hopes of wreaking havoc in the Hellmouth town. Of course, that family infighting led to an act of self-defense that ultimately allowed the show's true villain to take control of Victor's mind and body, so, in a sense, Marsters did get to play the evil mastermind behind PRIDE after all. While Marsters' Victor Stein was far from the worst of the worst on the series, he was, in fact, an evil, megalomaniacal genius who abused both his wife (Ever Carradine) and son. As you probably guessed, James Marsters was not one of the good guys on Runaways, playing papa to one of the titular teens (Gregg Sulkin). That includes the series' 2003 finale, in which the once-reviled Spike ultimately became the savior-slash-destroyer of Sunnydale after valiantly sacrificing himself to close the Hellmouth once and for all.įor those who missed out on Runaways in its three-season run on Hulu, the series follows a group of special teens who, upon discovering their parents are actually super-powered villains fronting a sinister organization called PRIDE, decide to leave home and form their own super team with the sole intent of bringing their troublemaking folks to justice. That may be overstating things, but Marsters' scene-stealing work as Spike was clearly a big part of the show's success, if only because Buffy the Vampire Slayer's writers gave him some of the best lines of the series and put him front and center during some of the show's most vital moments. Some might even argue that Buffy the Vampire Slayer didn't truly begin to transform into the era-defining genre treat as which it's regarded until Spike entered the picture. It was a long road to get Spike to that point, one that found the bleached-blonde bad boy of Buffy the Vampire Slayer change in ways no one could've conceived when he made his grand entrance early in the show's second season. We are not allowed to distance the evil he has caused. Played with an unrepentant mix of cocksure swagger, raw sexuality, and soul-searching pathos by a then relatively unknown James Marsters, the character also became one of the most beloved in the Buffy-verse. Spike's attack on Buffy represents his attacks on all his earlier victims: the horror is brought home.