Turok-Han

The Turok-Han vampires are fictional characters from Joss Whedon TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. They appear in the 7th and final season of the series, making their first appearance in the episode "Never Leave Me", when the Seal of Danzalthar is opened under the basement of Sunnydale High, over the Hellmouth. As watcher Rupert Giles describes it in the episode "Bring on the Night", the Turok-Han are to vampires as Neanderthals are to humans.

They are a race of ancient powerful vampires resistant although not invulnerable to crosses and being staked and otherwise stronger and fiercer than the regular vampires from the series, though holy water harms them and sunlight and beheading do kill them. Buffy calls them ubervamps.

The name "Turok-Han" bears resemblance to "Uruk-hai" a powerful breed of Orcs in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. Also the final battle in the show when Buffy, Faith and the Potentials look down at the army of Turok-Han is also very similar to the Urak-Hai's base.