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It's my second skin. It's who I am.
Spike[src]

Spike wore a black leather duster which originally belonged to Nikki Wood.[1] It was part of the vampire's trademark look for over two decades.[2]

History[]

In 1977, New York City, Spike first fought the Slayer Nikki, when he commented that he loved her coat.[3] In July of that year, they fought again on a New York subway, and the vampire stripped her off the duster just after killing her.[1] In 1998, when Spike was first seen again, he still wore the coat almost constantly.[4]

Notably, in 2002, when Spike left Sunnydale to seek his soul, he left the duster behind.[5] When he returned to the town, he had abandoned his previous look as an effect of his penance, but called this attempt a "costume."[6] After Buffy Summers called him out for holding his violence back even in emergencies, Spike needed to fight a particularly difficult demon, so he finally retrieved the duster from Sunnydale High School's basement and was able to relish in the violence of the fight.[7]

In 2003, Spike died burning in the sunlight wearing the duster,[8] but three weeks later he returned as a ghost still wearing it.[9] He then became corporeal along with all his clothing.[10] In the next year, the duster was irreparably damaged by a bomb while Spike was in a mission in Rome. After the vampire complained that the jacket was irreplaceable, Ilona Costa Bianchi, as CEO of the Wolfram & Hart Rome branch, gave him an identical coat, along with 10 others and some new shoes that were sent to the Los Angeles branch, allowing him to quickly get over it.[2]

Despite not being the original duster, Spike still wore these coats as often as he did the previous piece, a part of his continuing trademark look.[11]

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Appearances[]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Angel

References[]

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