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|First = "[[Homecoming]]"
  
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|Last = ''[[No Future For You]]''
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|Last = ''[[Finale]]''
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|Name = Richard Wilkins I
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|Name = Richard Wilkins
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|Aliases = Richard Wilkins II<br />Richard Wilkins III<br/>Olvikan<br />Sugardaddy<br />Dick<small> (used by Buffy)</small>
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|Aliases = The Mayor<br />Richard Wilkins II<br />Richard Wilkins III<br />Olvikan<br />Dick<small> (used by Buffy)</small><ref name=":0" />
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|Died = May 1999, [[Sunnydale]]<ref name=":0" />(restored)<ref name=":5" /><br />[[Chronology#2011|2011]], San Francisco<ref name="Finale" />
 
|Status = Deceased
  
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|Classification = Human Immortal/Old One
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|Classification = [[Human]]<small> (former)</small><br />[[Warlock]]<br />[[Old One]]
 
|Affiliation = [[Sunnydale]] City Government
  
|Affiliation = [[Sunnydale]] City Government
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|Known relatives = [[Edna May Wilkins]] <small>(wife)</small>
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|Known relatives = [[Edna May Wilkins]] (wife)<br />Unidentified mother<ref name=":4" />
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|Actor = [[Harry Groener]]<br />Chris Mezzolesta<ref>''[[Season Eight Motion Comic]]''</ref>
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* Skilled sorcerer adept at performing dark incantations.
  
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* Immortality and eternal youth granted to him by demonic benefactors.
  
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* For 100 days before the Ascension, he could not be killed or harmed in any way.
  
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* Possessed vast political power due to his position as mayor, as well as control over much of Sunnydale's supernatural population.
  
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* In the form of Olvikan, he possessed superhuman strength, stamina, and endurance, armored skin, sharp teeth and mandibles, and a spiked bone-tail club.
  
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|Actor = [[Harry Groener]]<br />Chris Mezzolestaref''<ref>Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight'' motion comics</ref>
  
 
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{{Quote|I've made certain deals to get where I am today. This [[Lurconis|demon]] requires his tribute. You see, that's what separates me from other politicians, [[Mr. Trick]]... I keep my campaign promises.|Richard Wilkins III|Band Candy}}
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{{Quote|I've made certain deals to get where I am today. This demon requires his tribute. You see, that's what separates me from other politicians, Mr. Trick… I keep my campaign promises.|Richard Wilkins|Band Candy}}
   
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'''Richard Wilkins III''' was the Mayor of [[Sunnydale]]. A family man with an aversion to swearing, he almost always wore a smile on his face and was obsessed with cleanliness. Additionally, he was a sorcerer bent on becoming a pure-breed [[demon]], Wilkins had made a number of pacts with demons to obtain immortality as well as his power-base, though his public persona was that of a charismatic, conservative and pleasant family man.
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'''{{PAGENAME}}''' was the Mayor of [[Sunnydale]] since its foundation up to 1999. He was a sorcerer bent on becoming a pure-breed [[demon]], Wilkins had made a number of pacts with demons to obtain immortality as well as his power-base, though his public persona was that of a charismatic, conservative, and pleasant family man.
   
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== Biography==
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==Biography==
 
===Background===
  
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Wilkins arrived in California in the 1800s. He went on to found the town of Sunnydale, California in May 1899<ref name=":0" /> on the location of Boca del Infierno after the last [[Slayer]], [[Naayéé'neizgháni]], died there.<ref>"[[The Glittering World]]"</ref> Wilkins found the [[Hellmouth]] infested with demons, with whom he made a pact to avoid being killed himself.
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[[Image:RichardWilkinsTotS.jpg|thumb|left|Richard Wilkins, before founding Sunnydale.]]
  
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He agreed to found a town on the Hellmouth where demons could freely feed on the inhabitants of the town. In his deals with demons such as [[Lurconis]],<ref name=":3" /> he sold his [[soul]] and gained immortality. In 1899, he began planning his [[Ascension]] into the form of an [[Old One]] called [[Olvikan]] that would take place in one hundred years.
   
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[[File:MayorPast.png|thumb|Wilkins circa 1907.|left]]
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Wilkins arrived in California in the 1800s. He went on to found the town of [[Sunnydale]], California in 1841<ref>''[[Buffy the Animated Series]]''</ref> on the location of Boca del Infierno after the last [[Slayer]], [[Naayee Neizghani|Naayéé'neizgháni]], died there. Wilkins found the [[Hellmouth]] infested with demons, with whom he made a pact to avoid being killed himself.
  
   
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Wilkins married [[Edna May Wilkins|Edna May]] in 1903. In time, she grew senile and cursed him for his youth until she finally died of old age. It was not a happy time for the couple and Wilkins learned from experience what an immortal's relationship with a mortal would become.<ref name="Choices">"[[Choices]]"</ref>
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He agreed to found a town on the [[Hellmouth]] where demons could freely feed on the inhabitants of the town. In his deals with demons (including [[Lurconis]]), he sold his soul and gained immortality. In 1899, he began planning his [[Ascension]] into the form of a [[Old One|pure demon]] called [[Olvikan]] that would take place in one hundred years.
  
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Richard Wilkins III also happened to be Richard Wilkins Senior and Junior. He pretended to be his own son in each subsequent generation, in order to conceal his immortality.<ref name="Enemies" />
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[[File:MayorPast.png|thumb|Wilkins circa 1907]]
  
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Wilkins married [[Edna May Wilkins|Edna May]] in 1903. In time, she grew senile and cursed him for his youth until she finally died of old age. It was not a happy time for the couple and Wilkins learned from experience what an immortal's relationship with a mortal would become.<ref name=Choices>"[[Choices]]"</ref>
  
   
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===Preparing for the Ascension===
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Richard Wilkins III also happened to be Richard Wilkins Senior and Junior. He pretended to be his own son in each subsequent generation, in order to conceal his immortality.
  
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[[File:MayorHomecoming.jpg|thumb|The Mayor hires Mr. Trick to do his dirty work.]]
   
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Filling the power vacuum left by the absence of [[Angel]]us, [[Spike]], and [[Drusilla]], Wilkins quickly assumed control and leadership over Sunnydale's [[vampire]] population. In the coming months to the ascension, Wilkins worked to ensure his transformation into an Old One would run smoothly and free from interference. This involved using the principal of [[Sunnydale High School]], [[Snyder]], keep the Slayer [[Buffy Summers]] out of school (which proved unsuccessful)<ref>"[[Dead Man's Party]]"</ref> and hiring the vampire [[Mr. Trick]] to help organize some of his supernatural dealings,<ref name=":4">"[[Homecoming]]"</ref> such the ritual offering of Lurconis that was thwarted by Buffy when she killed the demon.<ref name=":3">"[[Band Candy]]"</ref>
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=== Preparing for the Ascension ===
  
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[[File:MayorHomecoming.jpg|thumb|The Mayor hires [[Mr. Trick]] to do his dirty work]]
  
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Filling the power vacuum left by the absence of [[Angel]]us, [[Spike]], and [[Drusilla]], Wilkins quickly assumed control and leadership over Sunnydale's [[vampire]] population. In the coming months to the ascension, Wilkins worked to ensure his transformation into an [[Old One]] would run smoothly and free from interference. This involved using the principal of [[Sunnydale High School]] — [[Principal Snyder]] — to keep the [[Slayer]] [[Buffy Summers]] out of school (which proved unsuccessful)<ref>"[[Dead Man's Party]]"</ref> and hiring the vampire [[Mr. Trick]] to help organize some of his supernatural dealings, such the ritual offering of [[Lurconis]] that was thwarted by Buffy when she killed the demon.<ref>"[[Band Candy]]"</ref> Wilkins also kept tabs on Spike's various "shenanigans" the previous year and when it was discovered that he had returned to Sunnydale, Wilkins had Trick arrange a "welcoming committee" consisting of Spike's former lackeys to keep him from messing in his plans. Again, this "welcoming committee" was thwarted by the Slayer.<ref>"[[Lovers Walk]]"</ref>
  
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[[File:MayorBadGirls.jpg|thumb|left|The Mayor gains total invincibly in preparation for the ascension.]]
  
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Two day before the [[Dedication]] commencing the 100 days of invulnerability before the Mayor's ascension, Wilkin's old rival [[Balthazar]] arrived in Sunnydale along with his [[El Eliminati|vampire army]] in search of his amulet that would restore his power so that he could have his revenge on Wilkins who crippled him many years ago. Mr. Trick presented the Mayor with evidence that Balthazar's minions had come to town, but the Mayor decided to just keep an eye on them in hopes that the vampires and the Slayers — Buffy and [[Faith Lehane|Faith]] — would kill themselves off. He was attacked by one of Bathazar's minions who managed to intercept his office, and then used the minion to test his immortality following the Dedication.<ref>"[[Bad Girls]]"</ref> During this, the Mayor's deputy [[Allan Finch]] betrayed him by leaving a paper trail of the Mayor's dealings (which the Mayor subsequently shredded) and going to fill in the Slayers behind his back. However, Faith accidentally killed him in the crossfire and dumped the body. The Mayor initially saw this as beneficial because it meant one of the Slayers would end up in prison and out of his hair, but he soon realized that the Slayers were onto him when he discovered them sneaking into town hall on the building's security camera. Because he lacked sufficient evidence to lock them away, Wilkins ordered Mr. Trick to assassinate the Slayers. To the Mayor's surprise, Faith killed Trick along with his henchmen in the attack before visiting the Mayor himself and agreeing to work for him in Trick's place.<ref>"[[Consequences]]"</ref>
  
   
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Wilkins also kept tabs on Spike's various "shenanigans" the previous year and when it was discovered that he had returned to Sunnydale, Wilkins had Trick arrange a "welcoming committee" consisting of Spike's former lackeys to keep him from messing in his plans. Once again, his attack had been thwarted by the Slayer.<ref>"[[Lovers Walk]]"</ref>
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===Working with Faith===
  
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[[File:MayorChoices.jpg|thumb|Faiths joins the Mayor as his personal assassin and errand girl.]]
  
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Faith and the Mayor quickly got along swimmingly and he even bought her a full-sized, fully furnished apartment complete with a PlayStation, because he did not like to see her stay at a place with an "unsavory reputation." In the meantime, the [[Scooby Gang]] was trying to find out all they could about the Mayor. Because Faith was still working alongside them despite
 
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the fact they're fully aware of what she did, Faith told Wilkins that [[Willow Rosenberg|Willow]] was going through his personal files and he ordered to have her killed (which was fortunately averted when the henchmen he sent mistook her [[Willow Rosenberg (Wishverse)|vampire counterpart]] for her who beat them into submission).<ref>"[[Doppelgangland]]"</ref>
  
   
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[[File:MayorBadGirls.jpg|thumb|The Mayor gains total invincibility in preparation for the ascension.]]
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The Mayor and Faith formed something of a father-daughter relationship. Wilkins treated her like a young woman rather than a cold-bolded killer, while at the same time fostering her descent into evil by assigning her on deadly missions and rewarding her with an [[Faith's knife|expensive knife]] for her services.<ref name=Choices/> The Mayor's assignments for Faith in preparation for his ascension include killing a [[Skyler|demon]] who offered the Slayers the [[Books of Ascension]] for a price and taking the books to prevent the Scooby Gang from learning more,<ref name=Enemies>"[[Enemies]]"</ref> picking up the [[Box of Gavrok]] and murdering the courier so they got it free of charge,<ref name=Choices/> and murdering a [[Lester Worth|volcanologist]] who discovered the fossil remains of the same Old One the Mayor aspired to ascend to in a previous ascension.<ref name=GDP1>"[[Graduation Day, Part One]]"</ref>
 
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[[File:MayorEnemies.jpg|thumb|left|The Mayor uses Angelus to get rid off Buffy.]]
  
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The Mayor also attempted to have [[Angel]] lose his soul and become evil in hopes that he would get Buffy out the way and be another asset to the Mayor that would be at his side during the ascension. He initially got Faith to try to seduce him, but failed due to Angel's ability to refrain from intimacy and his devotion to Buffy. Wilkins then employed a [[Shrouded Man|demonic shaman]] to remove Angel's soul magically. The Mayor then had the seemingly-desouled Angelus team up with Faith to capture and torture, but not kill her as it would lead to a replacement Slayer. However, it turned out the loss of Angel's soul was actually a ploy set by the Scooby Gang to trick Faith into revealing that the ascension occurred during this year's Graduation Day at Sunnydale High, with even shaman Wilkins hired being in on the plot. This event revealed Faith's true allegiance to everyone, fully isolating herself from the gang and bringing her closer to the Mayor.<ref name=Enemies/>
  
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===The Ascension===
  
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[[File:TheMayorOlvikan.jpg|thumb|left|The ascension is finalized; Wilkins becomes a pure demon.]]
  
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It later turned out that the ascension will occur during the graduation ceremony because the Mayor himself will attend the event as a guest speaker. In order to distract Buffy the day before the event, the Mayor had Faith shoot Angel with an arrow tipped with [[Killer of the Dead]], and poison that slowly kills vampires in a slow and excruciating way. Buffy learned that the blood of the Slayer was the only thing that could cure Angel and fought Faith to the death using her own knife.<ref name=GDP1/> Faith survived, but was rendered into a coma due to her severe injuries. Wilkins was so distraught by Faith's predicament and displeased that she wouldn't be alongside him come time his ascension, so he attempted to smother Buffy to death with his bare hands in her hospital bed after she was taken to the same hospital for letting Angel drink her own blood because Faith's was unavailable.
  
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[[File:Olvikan.jpg|thumb|180px|The Mayor moments before his death]]
  
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Wilkins then achieved his ascension into the gigantic demon known as [[Olvikan]] during the graduation ceremony (earlier than expected to his annoyance since he had not finished his speech) and planned on devouring all the graduating students. However, Buffy and her friends managed to get everyone of the graduates to fight back against Wilkins and his vampire lackeys. The Mayor resisted their attempts and killed many people there, like Snyder and several students (such as [[Larry Blaisdell]]). Buffy exploited his love for Faith by taunting him with the knife he had given to Faith and with which Buffy put her in a coma. That, combined with calling him a "dick", caused the Mayor to charge at her angrily. Buffy lured Wilkins into the empty library, now filled with bags of dynamite, a trap also planned by the class. [[Rupert Giles]] pressed the trigger that obliterated the Mayor and the school building. Staying true to his distaste for foul language, Wilkins' last words are "Well, gosh."<ref>"[[Graduation Day, Part Two]]"</ref>
  
   
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Two day before the [[Dedication]] commencing the 100 days of invulnerability before the Mayor's ascension, Wilkin's old rival [[Balthazar]] arrived in Sunnydale along with his vampire army of [[El Eliminati]] in search of his amulet that would restore his power so that he could have his revenge on Wilkins who crippled him many years ago. Mr. Trick presented the Mayor with evidence that Balthazar's minions had come to town, but the Mayor decided to just keep an eye on them in hopes that the vampires and the Slayers — Buffy and [[Faith Lehane]] — would kill themselves off. He was attacked by one of Bathazar's minions who managed to intercept his office, and then used the minion to test his immortality following the Dedication.<ref name=":1">"[[Bad Girls]]"</ref>
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=== Legacy and Afterlife ===
  
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[[File:TheMayorVideoMessage.jpg|thumb|left|The Mayor's message to Faith.]]
  
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Immediately after Faith feel into a coma, Wilkins knew that she would eventually wake up despite the doctors telling him otherwise. Accepting the possibility that his plan would fail, Wilkins filmed a message to Faith on videotape for her to receive when she came out of her coma (given to her in an envelope by a demon courier). Wilkins knew that Faith wouldn't last in this world without him so he left her a [[Draconian Katra]], a magical trinket he got over the years. This gave Faith the opportunity to start her life anew by switching bodies with another person. She did this with Buffy, but the Scooby Gang nevertheless discovered what had happened and returned them to their respective bodies. With nobody to stand on, Faith left Sunnydale for [[World locations|L.A.]].<ref>"[[This Year's Girl]]"</ref>
  
   
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During this, the Mayor's deputy [[Allan Finch]] betrayed him by leaving a paper trail of the Mayor's dealings (which the Mayor subsequently shredded) and going to fill in the Slayers behind his back. However, Faith accidentally killed him in the crossfire and dumped the body. The Mayor initially saw this as beneficial because it meant one of the Slayers would end up in prison and out of his hair, but he soon realized that the Slayers were onto him when he discovered them sneaking into town hall on the building's security camera. Because he lacked sufficient evidence to lock them away, Wilkins ordered Mr. Trick to assassinate the Slayers. To the Mayor's surprise, Faith killed Trick along with his henchmen in the attack before visiting the Mayor himself and agreeing to work for him in Trick's place.<ref>"[[Consequences]]"</ref>
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When Buffy, [[Willow Rosenberg]], [[Alexander Harris|Xander Harris]], and [[Spike]] visited the ruins of the high school to prevent the [[Hellmouth]] from opening, the Mayor's burnt remains were founded scattered all over the dilapidated halls. Xander stepped on his corpse and remarked, "Mayor meat, extra crispy".<ref>"[[Doomed]]"</ref> [[The First Evil]] used his likeness on occasion.<ref>"[[Lessons]]"</ref><ref>"[[Touched]]"</ref>
  
   
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===Working with Faith===
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Wilkins lived on as a ghost for a while, possessing the bodies of dead animals, demons, and vampires.<ref>''[[Haunted (Buffy comic)|Haunted]]''</ref> In the process, he was responsible for the creation of [[Adam]], when he possesses the corpse of a powerful [[Hostile Six|demon]] (his earlier [[Richards|vampire]] body had been captured by [[The Initiative (organization)|the Initiative]]) and badly injured then-human Adam. After a battle with Buffy in the clock tower, where Buffy finally learned of his inhuman nature after she decapitating his current body to no effect. Willow, with the assistance of Xander and Buffy, sent him to the next realm. Faith later told Angel in prison that she recalled the Mayor's ghost visiting her using the body of a dead bird while she was in her coma.
  
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[[File:MayorChoices.jpg|thumb|Faiths joins the Mayor as his personal assassin and errand girl.]]
   
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Faith and the Mayor quickly got along swimmingly and he even bought her a full-sized, fully furnished apartment complete with a PlayStation, because he did not like to see her stay at a place with an "unsavory reputation". In the meantime, the [[Scooby Gang]] was trying to find out all they could about the Mayor. Because Faith was still working alongside them (despite the fact they were fully aware of what she did), Faith told Wilkins that [[Willow Rosenberg]] was going through his personal files and he ordered her to be killed (which was averted when the henchmen he sent mistook [[Willow Rosenberg (Wishverse)|her vampire counterpart]] for her, and she beat them into submission).<ref name=":2">"[[Doppelgängland]]"</ref>
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== Powers and abilities ==
  
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{{Quote|You see, I'm what you might call "impervious." Can't be killed, or harmed, in any way.|Mayor Wilkins to [[Angel]]|Enemies}}
  
   
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The Mayor and Faith formed something of a father-daughter relationship. Wilkins treated her like a young woman rather than a cold-blooded killer, while at the same time fostering her descent into evil by assigning her deadly missions and rewarding her with [[Faith Lehane's knife|an expensive knife]] for her services.<ref name="Choices" /> The Mayor's assignments for Faith in preparation for his ascension include killing the demon [[Skyler]], who offered the Slayers the [[Books of Ascension]] for a price and taking the books to prevent the Scooby Gang from learning more;<ref name="Enemies">"[[Enemies]]"</ref> picking up the [[Box of Gavrok]] and murdering the courier, so they got it free of charge;<ref name="Choices" /> and murdering [[Lester Worth]], a volcanologist who discovered the fossil remains of the same Old One the Mayor had aspired to ascend to.<ref name="GDP1">"[[Graduation Day, Part One]]"</ref>
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Before transforming into a demon, Wilkins was a powerful sorcerer who specialized in the dark arts. He had a cabinet full of shrunken heads, bones and supernatural paraphernalia. He became immortal and gained eternal youth thanks to demonic benefactors. After performing the [[dedication]], he could not be harmed in any way for 100 days until the Ascension, and was able to heal from massive injuries immediately.
  
   
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The Mayor also attempted to have Angel lose his soul and become evil in hopes that he would get Buffy out the way and be another asset to the Mayor that would be at his side during the ascension. He initially got Faith to try to seduce him, but failed due to Angel's ability to refrain from intimacy and his devotion to Buffy. Wilkins then employed [[Shrouded Man|a demonic shaman]] to remove Angel's soul magically. The Mayor then had the seemingly-desouled Angelus team up with Faith to capture and torture Buffy (but not kill her as it would lead to a replacement Slayer). However, it turned out that the loss of Angel's soul was actually a ploy set by the Scooby Gang to trick Faith into revealing that the ascension would occur during this year's Graduation Day at Sunnydale High, with even shaman Wilkins hired being in on the plot. This event revealed Faith's true allegiance to everyone, fully isolating herself from the gang and bringing her closer to the Mayor.<ref name="Enemies" />
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As the embodiment of the [[Old One|demon Olvikan, he possessed inhuman strength, endurance, and size, endowed with a thick, bone-armored hide, sharp t]]eeth and mandibles, and a spiked tail-club.
  
   
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===The Ascension===
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Additionally, Wilkins possessed great political power. After the departure of the [[Order of Aurelius]], and their successors, [[Angelus]], Spike, and Drusilla, he filled the power vacuum left behind, allowing him to assume control of the majority of Sunnydale's vampire population.
  
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[[File:TheMayorOlvikan.jpg|thumb|The ascension is finalized; Wilkins becomes a pure demon.]]
   
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It later turned out that the ascension would occur during the graduation ceremony because the Mayor himself would attend the event as a guest speaker. In order to distract Buffy the day before the event, the Mayor had Faith shoot Angel with an arrow tipped with [[Killer of the Dead]], a poison that slowly kills vampires in a slow and excruciating way. Buffy learned that the blood of the Slayer was the only thing that could cure Angel and fought Faith almost to the death using her own knife.<ref name="GDP1" /> Faith survived, but was put into a coma due to her severe injuries. Wilkins was so distraught by Faith's predicament and displeased that she wouldn't be alongside him come the time of his ascension, so he attempted to smother Buffy to death with his bare hands in her hospital bed after she was taken to the same hospital for letting Angel drink her own blood because Faith's was unavailable.<ref name=":0" />
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==Personality==
  
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{{Dialogue a-b|Faith|Thanks, sugar daddy.|Wilkins|Oh! Faith. I don’t find that sort of thing amusing. I’m a family man. Now, let’s kill your little friend.|Faith and Richard Wilkins|Doppelgängland}}
  
   
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Wilkins then achieved his ascension into the gigantic demon known as [[Olvikan]] during the graduation ceremony (slightly earlier than expected, to his annoyance, since he had not finished his speech) and planned on devouring all the graduating students. However, Buffy and her friends managed to get every one of the graduates to fight back against Wilkins and his vampire lackeys. The Mayor resisted their attempts and killed many people there, like Principal Snyder and several students (such as [[Larry Blaisdell]]). Buffy exploited his love for Faith by taunting him with the knife he had given to Faith and with which Buffy put her in a coma. That, combined with calling him "Dick", caused the Mayor to charge at her angrily. Buffy lured Wilkins into the empty library, now filled with bags of dynamite, a trap also planned by the class. [[Rupert Giles]] pressed the trigger that obliterated the Mayor and the school building. Staying true to his distaste for foul language, Wilkins' last words are "Well, gosh."<ref name=":0">"[[Graduation Day, Part Two]]"</ref>
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[[File:The-mayor-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-1195621_500_644.jpg|thumb]]
  
   
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===Legacy===
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Wilkins had quite a pleasant demeanor. A polite man with an aversion to swearing and bawdy humor, he nearly always wore a smile on his face. He called himself a “family man”, though he claimed that he never had any children<ref>“[[No Future For You]]”</ref> and his wife, Edna Mae, died resenting him for his youth. He loved “The Family Circus”, Tollhouse Cookies and miniature golf, but he disliked Marmaduke, who seemed unsanitary to him. Despite his status as a [[demon]], he was quite friendly. He had a close father-daughter relationship with Faith, and seemed genuinely distraught when she went into a coma. Wilkins’ most notable trait was his obsessive hygiene.
  
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[[File:TheMayorVideoMessage.jpg|thumb|The Mayor’s message to Faith.]]
   
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Immediately after Faith fell into a coma, Wilkins knew that she would eventually wake up, despite the doctors telling him otherwise. Accepting the possibility that his plan would fail, Wilkins filmed a message to Faith on videotape for her to receive when she came out of her coma (given to her in an envelope by a demon courier). Wilkins knew that Faith wouldn't last in this world without him so he left her a [[Draconian Katra]], a magical trinket he got over the years. The device would allow Faith to switch bodies with someone else and, as payback for being "moving on" and overall jealousy towards Buffy's life, she switched with her. However, her ruse was discovered and Buffy managed to swap back. With nobody to lean on, Faith fled Sunnydale for Los Angeles.<ref>"[[This Year's Girl]]"</ref>
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However, it was this same parental love for Faith that allowed his darker side to show. When Buffy managed to critically hurt her, Wilkins, in a fit of grief and rage, almost smothered Buffy to death in the hospital (until Angel stopped him, and he tells Angel that “misery loves company” and then refers to Buffy as Angel’s “whore” — a break in his normally clean language that showed the depth of his distress). Buffy was able to bait Wilkins after his Ascension into following her by taunting him with the custom knife he had given to Faith as a present, which Buffy had taken and still was smeared with Faith’s blood.
  
   
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When Buffy, Willow, [[Alexander Harris]], and Spike visited the ruins of the high school to prevent the Hellmouth from opening, the Mayor's burnt remains were founded scattered all over the dilapidated halls. Xander stepped on his corpse and remarked: "Mayor meat, extra crispy."<ref>"[[Doomed]]"</ref> The [[First Evil]] used his likeness on occasion, especially with Faith.<ref>"[[Lessons]]"</ref><ref>"[[Touched]]"</ref>
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Wilkins displays the flag of the United States on the viewer’s right. This is incorrect; the flag is supposed to be displayed on “its own right,” which is to say the viewer’s left.
  
   
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===Return===
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== Behind the Scenes ==
  
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During the [[Reckoning]], Wilkins returned once again as a threat to the Scooby Gang. He revealed to have survived his apparent death during the Graduation Day battle thanks to his Old One constitution, spending years pulling himself back together.<ref name=":5">''[[One Year Later]]''</ref> During the decisive battle of the Reckoning, he was eventually killed for a second time, betrayed by [[Harth Fray]], who beheaded him to preserve the power just to himself.<ref name="Finale">''[[Finale]]''</ref>
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*Despite only making an appearance starting Season 3, the Mayor has been referenced several times in earlier seasons.
  
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*He was the first [[Big Bad]] of Buffy that was not a vampire.
  
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*He was portrayed by [[Harry Groener]] and by Chris Mezzolestaref in the Buffy Season Eight Motion Comics.
  
   
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==Powers and abilities==
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*Richard Wilkins, along with [[Collin|The Anointed One]], was one of the few Big Bads with whom Buffy did not physically fight.
  
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{{Quote|You see, I'm what you might call 'impervious'. Can't be killed, or harmed, in any way.|Richard Wilkins|Enemies}}
   
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*'''Magical manipulation:''' Before transforming into a demon, Wilkins was a powerful sorcerer who specialized in the dark arts. He had a cabinet full of shrunken heads, bones and supernatural paraphernalia.<ref name=":3" />
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*In a deleted scene of the series premiere of ''[[w:c:Firefly:Firefly|Firefly]]'', it is learned that the Alliance troops who advanced on the Independents in Serenity Valley were led by General Richard Wilkins. The characters are not related, as ''Firefly'' is not part of Whedon's [[Buffyverse]].
  
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**'''Extended longevity:''' He had gained an extended lifespan and eternal youth thanks to demonic benefactors.<ref name="Enemies" />
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**'''Regenerative healing factor:''' After performing the Dedication, he could not be harmed in any way for 100 days until the Ascension, and was able to heal from massive injuries immediately.
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*'''Political influence:''' Additionally, Wilkins possessed great political power. After the departure of the [[Order of Aurelius]] and their successors, he filled the power vacuum left behind, allowing him to assume control of the majority of Sunnydale's vampire population.<ref name=":4" /> He used his political power to cover up supernatural phenomenon<ref>"[[I Only Have Eyes for You]]"</ref> and keep an eye on the Slayer in Sunnydale.<ref>"[[Becoming, Part Two]]"</ref>
   
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*Harry Groener later guest-starred with [[Charisma Carpenter]] ([[Cordelia Chase]]), [[Brian Thompson]] ([[Luke]]/[[The Judge]]), [[Christopher Wiehl]] ([[Owen Thurman]]), [[Armin Shimerman]] ([[Principal Snyder]]), [[Greg Vaughan]] ([[Richard Anderson]]), [[Julia Lee]] ([[Anne Steele]]), Lorna Scott ([[Ms. Beakman]]), [[Jeremy Roberts]] ([[Kakistos]]), Mariah O'Brien ([[Nancy (Wishverse)|Nancy]]), [[Jeff Kober]] ([[Zachary Kralik]]/[[Rack]]), [[Channon Roe]] ([[Jack O'Toole]]), Eric Matheny ([[Colm]]), [[Bailey Chase]] ([[Graham Miller]]), [[Alastair Duncan]] ([[Collins]]), [[Jeff Ricketts]] ([[Weatherby]]), [[Charlie Weber]] ([[Ben Wilkinson]]), [[Amy Adams]] ([[Beth Maclay]]), Brigid Brannagh ([[Virginia Bryce]]), Kevin Weisman ([[Dreg]]), [[Daniel Dae Kim]] ([[Gavin Park]]), Leland Crooke ([[Lillian]]/[[Sebassis]]), [[Keith Szarabajka]] ([[Daniel Holtz]]), Ron Melendez ([[James (vampire)|James]]), David J.Miller ([[Rat-faced Demon (Life Serial)|Rat-faced Demon]]), Andrew Reville ([[Timothy Blane]]), [[Ivana Milicevic]] ([[Samantha Finn]]), [[Alex Breckenridge]] ([[Kit Holburn]]) on ''[[Wikipedia:Charmed|Charmed]]''.
  
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As the embodiment of the demon Olvikan, he possessed inhuman strength, endurance, and size, endowed with a thick, bone-armored hide, sharp teeth and mandibles, and a spiked tail-club.<ref name=":0" /><ref>''[[The Reckoning]]''</ref>
   
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*'''Self-reconstitution:''' After being blown up in 1999,<ref name=":0" /> Wilkins spend about a decade reconstituting himself back into being.<ref name=":5" />
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Wilkins had quite a pleasant demeanor. A polite man with an aversion to swearing and bawdy humor, he nearly always wore a smile on his face. He called himself a "family man",<ref name=":2" /> though he claimed that he never had any children<ref>''[[No Future for You, Part Four]]''</ref> and his wife, Edna May, died resenting him for his youth.<ref name="Choices" /> He loved ''[[Wikipedia:The Family Circus|The Family Circus]]'', Toll House cookies, and miniature golf, but he disliked ''[[Wikipedia:Marmaduke|Marmaduke]]'',<ref name=":1" /> who seemed unsanitary to him. Despite his status as a demon, he was quite friendly. He managed to develop a close father-daughter relationship with Faith (despite attempting to send her to prison and killing her at first) and was genuinely distraught when she went into a coma. One of Wilkins' most notable traits was his obsessive hygiene,<ref name="Enemies" /> which he learned from his mother.<ref name=":4" />
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However, it was this same parental love for Faith that allowed his darker side to show. When Buffy managed to critically hurt her, Wilkins, in a fit of grief and rage, almost smothered Buffy to death in the hospital (until Angel stopped him). He tells Angel that "misery loves company" and then refers to Buffy as Angel's "whore" (which was a break in his normally clean language that showed the depth of his distress). Buffy was able to bait Wilkins after his Ascension into following her by taunting him with the custom knife he had given to Faith as a present, which Buffy had taken and which was still smeared with Faith's blood, exploiting the remnants of his humanity.<ref name=":0" />
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Despite early signs of bad decision making, Faith's full transition into Buffy's enemy was aided by the Mayor, who freely pushed her to embrace being a rogue Slayer. Combined with gifts such as her own apartment,<ref name=":2" /> a custom knife,<ref name="Choices" /> and poison,<ref name="GDP1" /> Faith saw no apparent downsides to being evil, and only much later realized how manipulated she had been by Wilkins.
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Revision as of 12:44, 8 August 2020

“I've made certain deals to get where I am today. This demon requires his tribute. You see, that's what separates me from other politicians, Mr. Trick… I keep my campaign promises.”
―Richard Wilkins[src]

Richard Wilkins was the Mayor of Sunnydale since its foundation up to 1999. He was a sorcerer bent on becoming a pure-breed demon, Wilkins had made a number of pacts with demons to obtain immortality as well as his power-base, though his public persona was that of a charismatic, conservative, and pleasant family man.

Biography

Background

Wilkins arrived in California in the 1800s. He went on to found the town of Sunnydale, California in May 1899[1] on the location of Boca del Infierno after the last Slayer, Naayéé'neizgháni, died there.[6] Wilkins found the Hellmouth infested with demons, with whom he made a pact to avoid being killed himself. He agreed to found a town on the Hellmouth where demons could freely feed on the inhabitants of the town. In his deals with demons such as Lurconis,[7] he sold his soul and gained immortality. In 1899, he began planning his Ascension into the form of an Old One called Olvikan that would take place in one hundred years.

MayorPast

Wilkins circa 1907.

Wilkins married Edna May in 1903. In time, she grew senile and cursed him for his youth until she finally died of old age. It was not a happy time for the couple and Wilkins learned from experience what an immortal's relationship with a mortal would become.[8] Richard Wilkins III also happened to be Richard Wilkins Senior and Junior. He pretended to be his own son in each subsequent generation, in order to conceal his immortality.[9]

Preparing for the Ascension

MayorHomecoming

The Mayor hires Mr. Trick to do his dirty work.

Filling the power vacuum left by the absence of Angelus, Spike, and Drusilla, Wilkins quickly assumed control and leadership over Sunnydale's vampire population. In the coming months to the ascension, Wilkins worked to ensure his transformation into an Old One would run smoothly and free from interference. This involved using the principal of Sunnydale High School, Snyder, keep the Slayer Buffy Summers out of school (which proved unsuccessful)[10] and hiring the vampire Mr. Trick to help organize some of his supernatural dealings,[4] such the ritual offering of Lurconis that was thwarted by Buffy when she killed the demon.[7]

Wilkins also kept tabs on Spike's various "shenanigans" the previous year and when it was discovered that he had returned to Sunnydale, Wilkins had Trick arrange a "welcoming committee" consisting of Spike's former lackeys to keep him from messing in his plans. Once again, his attack had been thwarted by the Slayer.[11]

MayorBadGirls

The Mayor gains total invincibility in preparation for the ascension.

Two day before the Dedication commencing the 100 days of invulnerability before the Mayor's ascension, Wilkin's old rival Balthazar arrived in Sunnydale along with his vampire army of El Eliminati in search of his amulet that would restore his power so that he could have his revenge on Wilkins who crippled him many years ago. Mr. Trick presented the Mayor with evidence that Balthazar's minions had come to town, but the Mayor decided to just keep an eye on them in hopes that the vampires and the Slayers — Buffy and Faith Lehane — would kill themselves off. He was attacked by one of Bathazar's minions who managed to intercept his office, and then used the minion to test his immortality following the Dedication.[12]

During this, the Mayor's deputy Allan Finch betrayed him by leaving a paper trail of the Mayor's dealings (which the Mayor subsequently shredded) and going to fill in the Slayers behind his back. However, Faith accidentally killed him in the crossfire and dumped the body. The Mayor initially saw this as beneficial because it meant one of the Slayers would end up in prison and out of his hair, but he soon realized that the Slayers were onto him when he discovered them sneaking into town hall on the building's security camera. Because he lacked sufficient evidence to lock them away, Wilkins ordered Mr. Trick to assassinate the Slayers. To the Mayor's surprise, Faith killed Trick along with his henchmen in the attack before visiting the Mayor himself and agreeing to work for him in Trick's place.[13]

Working with Faith

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Faiths joins the Mayor as his personal assassin and errand girl.

Faith and the Mayor quickly got along swimmingly and he even bought her a full-sized, fully furnished apartment complete with a PlayStation, because he did not like to see her stay at a place with an "unsavory reputation". In the meantime, the Scooby Gang was trying to find out all they could about the Mayor. Because Faith was still working alongside them (despite the fact they were fully aware of what she did), Faith told Wilkins that Willow Rosenberg was going through his personal files and he ordered her to be killed (which was averted when the henchmen he sent mistook her vampire counterpart for her, and she beat them into submission).[14]

The Mayor and Faith formed something of a father-daughter relationship. Wilkins treated her like a young woman rather than a cold-blooded killer, while at the same time fostering her descent into evil by assigning her deadly missions and rewarding her with an expensive knife for her services.[8] The Mayor's assignments for Faith in preparation for his ascension include killing the demon Skyler, who offered the Slayers the Books of Ascension for a price and taking the books to prevent the Scooby Gang from learning more;[9] picking up the Box of Gavrok and murdering the courier, so they got it free of charge;[8] and murdering Lester Worth, a volcanologist who discovered the fossil remains of the same Old One the Mayor had aspired to ascend to.[15]

The Mayor also attempted to have Angel lose his soul and become evil in hopes that he would get Buffy out the way and be another asset to the Mayor that would be at his side during the ascension. He initially got Faith to try to seduce him, but failed due to Angel's ability to refrain from intimacy and his devotion to Buffy. Wilkins then employed a demonic shaman to remove Angel's soul magically. The Mayor then had the seemingly-desouled Angelus team up with Faith to capture and torture Buffy (but not kill her as it would lead to a replacement Slayer). However, it turned out that the loss of Angel's soul was actually a ploy set by the Scooby Gang to trick Faith into revealing that the ascension would occur during this year's Graduation Day at Sunnydale High, with even shaman Wilkins hired being in on the plot. This event revealed Faith's true allegiance to everyone, fully isolating herself from the gang and bringing her closer to the Mayor.[9]

The Ascension

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The ascension is finalized; Wilkins becomes a pure demon.

It later turned out that the ascension would occur during the graduation ceremony because the Mayor himself would attend the event as a guest speaker. In order to distract Buffy the day before the event, the Mayor had Faith shoot Angel with an arrow tipped with Killer of the Dead, a poison that slowly kills vampires in a slow and excruciating way. Buffy learned that the blood of the Slayer was the only thing that could cure Angel and fought Faith almost to the death using her own knife.[15] Faith survived, but was put into a coma due to her severe injuries. Wilkins was so distraught by Faith's predicament and displeased that she wouldn't be alongside him come the time of his ascension, so he attempted to smother Buffy to death with his bare hands in her hospital bed after she was taken to the same hospital for letting Angel drink her own blood because Faith's was unavailable.[1]

Wilkins then achieved his ascension into the gigantic demon known as Olvikan during the graduation ceremony (slightly earlier than expected, to his annoyance, since he had not finished his speech) and planned on devouring all the graduating students. However, Buffy and her friends managed to get every one of the graduates to fight back against Wilkins and his vampire lackeys. The Mayor resisted their attempts and killed many people there, like Principal Snyder and several students (such as Larry Blaisdell). Buffy exploited his love for Faith by taunting him with the knife he had given to Faith and with which Buffy put her in a coma. That, combined with calling him "Dick", caused the Mayor to charge at her angrily. Buffy lured Wilkins into the empty library, now filled with bags of dynamite, a trap also planned by the class. Rupert Giles pressed the trigger that obliterated the Mayor and the school building. Staying true to his distaste for foul language, Wilkins' last words are "Well, gosh."[1]

Legacy

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The Mayor’s message to Faith.

Immediately after Faith fell into a coma, Wilkins knew that she would eventually wake up, despite the doctors telling him otherwise. Accepting the possibility that his plan would fail, Wilkins filmed a message to Faith on videotape for her to receive when she came out of her coma (given to her in an envelope by a demon courier). Wilkins knew that Faith wouldn't last in this world without him so he left her a Draconian Katra, a magical trinket he got over the years. The device would allow Faith to switch bodies with someone else and, as payback for being "moving on" and overall jealousy towards Buffy's life, she switched with her. However, her ruse was discovered and Buffy managed to swap back. With nobody to lean on, Faith fled Sunnydale for Los Angeles.[16]

When Buffy, Willow, Alexander Harris, and Spike visited the ruins of the high school to prevent the Hellmouth from opening, the Mayor's burnt remains were founded scattered all over the dilapidated halls. Xander stepped on his corpse and remarked: "Mayor meat, extra crispy."[17] The First Evil used his likeness on occasion, especially with Faith.[18][19]

Return

During the Reckoning, Wilkins returned once again as a threat to the Scooby Gang. He revealed to have survived his apparent death during the Graduation Day battle thanks to his Old One constitution, spending years pulling himself back together.[2] During the decisive battle of the Reckoning, he was eventually killed for a second time, betrayed by Harth Fray, who beheaded him to preserve the power just to himself.[3]

Powers and abilities

“You see, I'm what you might call 'impervious'. Can't be killed, or harmed, in any way.”
―Richard Wilkins[src]
  • Magical manipulation: Before transforming into a demon, Wilkins was a powerful sorcerer who specialized in the dark arts. He had a cabinet full of shrunken heads, bones and supernatural paraphernalia.[7]
    • Extended longevity: He had gained an extended lifespan and eternal youth thanks to demonic benefactors.[9]
    • Regenerative healing factor: After performing the Dedication, he could not be harmed in any way for 100 days until the Ascension, and was able to heal from massive injuries immediately.
  • Political influence: Additionally, Wilkins possessed great political power. After the departure of the Order of Aurelius and their successors, he filled the power vacuum left behind, allowing him to assume control of the majority of Sunnydale's vampire population.[4] He used his political power to cover up supernatural phenomenon[20] and keep an eye on the Slayer in Sunnydale.[21]

Demon physiology

As the embodiment of the demon Olvikan, he possessed inhuman strength, endurance, and size, endowed with a thick, bone-armored hide, sharp teeth and mandibles, and a spiked tail-club.[1][22]

  • Self-reconstitution: After being blown up in 1999,[1] Wilkins spend about a decade reconstituting himself back into being.[2]

Personality

“Oh! Faith. I don't find that sort of thing amusing. I'm a family man. Now, let's kill your little friend.”
―Wilkins answers being called "sugar daddy"[src]
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Wilkins had quite a pleasant demeanor. A polite man with an aversion to swearing and bawdy humor, he nearly always wore a smile on his face. He called himself a "family man",[14] though he claimed that he never had any children[23] and his wife, Edna May, died resenting him for his youth.[8] He loved The Family Circus, Toll House cookies, and miniature golf, but he disliked Marmaduke,[12] who seemed unsanitary to him. Despite his status as a demon, he was quite friendly. He managed to develop a close father-daughter relationship with Faith (despite attempting to send her to prison and killing her at first) and was genuinely distraught when she went into a coma. One of Wilkins' most notable traits was his obsessive hygiene,[9] which he learned from his mother.[4]

However, it was this same parental love for Faith that allowed his darker side to show. When Buffy managed to critically hurt her, Wilkins, in a fit of grief and rage, almost smothered Buffy to death in the hospital (until Angel stopped him). He tells Angel that "misery loves company" and then refers to Buffy as Angel's "whore" (which was a break in his normally clean language that showed the depth of his distress). Buffy was able to bait Wilkins after his Ascension into following her by taunting him with the custom knife he had given to Faith as a present, which Buffy had taken and which was still smeared with Faith's blood, exploiting the remnants of his humanity.[1]

Despite early signs of bad decision making, Faith's full transition into Buffy's enemy was aided by the Mayor, who freely pushed her to embrace being a rogue Slayer. Combined with gifts such as her own apartment,[14] a custom knife,[8] and poison,[15] Faith saw no apparent downsides to being evil, and only much later realized how manipulated she had been by Wilkins.

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Behind the scenes

  • He was portrayed by Harry Groener, then dubbed by Chris Mezzolestaref in Season Eight Motion Comic.
  • In a deleted scene of the series premiere of Firefly, it is learned that the Alliance troops who advanced on the Independents in Serenity Valley were led by General Richard Wilkins. The characters are not related, as Firefly is not part of Whedon's Buffyverse.

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