Spike (2019)

↳ Note: This article is about the Spike from 2019 comic series. For other uses, see Spike.

The subject of this article is of alternative canonicity. While created as part of licensed material, it is not part of the original Buffyverse, but its own developed story.

Spike
Name	William Pratt
Aliases	Spike
Status	Undead
Classif.	Vampire
Appearances
Debut	Welcome Back to the Hellmouth, Part Two

“What's a nice British guy like you lurking around high school campuses for?”

―Cordelia Chase

Spike, born William Pratt, was a vampire and consort of the Mistress Drusilla.

Biography

Spike was born William Pratt in England, and began using the nickname in the 90s. According to Drusilla, at the time of she sired him he was "pitiful, weak, in love with the wrong girl."

In 2019 Sunnydale, after his first encounter with Cordelia Chase at Sunnydale High School parking lot, the girl developed a crush on him, although without knowing his true nature.

He then went after Drusilla at Anyanka's magic shop, commenting the naivety of the girls this town, but encountered a then freed Camazotz, destroyer of vampires. As Anya was tired of cleaning up after Drusilla's mess, she lent the vampires a necklace that granted them immunity so they'd go after the creature themselves. Camazotz led them to the Slayer, Buffy Summers, for much of Spike's surprise. Although, before they were able to fight, Buffy took the necklace from him, and her friends of the Scooby Gang arrived to defend her from Drusilla. The couple retreated, but with the Slayer's cellphone in hands. As the days passed, Spike kept watching the Slayer from afar.

As he was better at texting than Drusilla, Spike eventually used Buffy's cellphone to catfish her friend Alexander Harris into meeting them. As the boy showed up and learned the truth about his unrequited love for the Slayer, Drusilla took advantage of his vulnerability and offered to sire him. He accepted and she bit him, but intended to leave the boy to die. Spike decided to give him his blood to complete the siring, believing in Xander's potential as a vampire after "being around those uppity goodie girls." Drusilla, though, pointed out that Spike just saw himself in the boy when he was sired. They left him on the doorstep of Buffy's Watcher, Rupert Giles, with a note pinned to his shirt: "Tasteless".

Drusilla was disappointed with the outcome, which reminded of when she sired William. He told her he had given things she needed and desired, that he was well strong, having killed and died for her after she "summoned" him to be hers "eternally". She disagreed with him, telling she needed an army, while he was soft and delicate. Drusilla then showed him her plan of reigning over the Hellmouth after making the men of Sunnydale her soldiers: the Dagger of Sekhmet.

They eventually found the weapon in an Egyptian exhibit in an art gallery, and they crashed the opening party demanding the dagger. Giles was present, so he quickly hid the dagger, which caused Spike to follow Drusilla's demanding of killing everyone, starting the curator of the exhibit: Joyce Summers, Buffy's mother. Before he could bit her, Jennifer Calendar confessed the dagger was with them, and, as soon as Drusilla took the weapon in her hands, the stabbed Spike on his chest, activating the Hellmouth with the "blood of the loyal", and she left him while the floor cracking under them.

Gallery

Appearances

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2019)
01 Absent	02 Appears	03 Appears	04 Appears	"Frenemies" Absent	05 Appears	06 Absent	07 Absent	08 Appears
09 Vision	10 Absent	11 Absent	12 Absent	Willow #1 Absent	Willow #2 Absent	Willow #3 Absent	Willow #4 Absent	Willow #5 Absent
13 Absent	14 Absent	15 Absent	16 Absent	17 Absent	18 Absent	19 Absent	20 Absent	21 Absent
22 Absent	Faith Absent	23 Absent	"Conversations with (Vexing) Dead People" Absent	24 Absent	25 Absent	26 Absent	27 Absent	28 Absent
29 Absent	"Aughie and Camazotz in: Birthday Brew" Absent	30 Absent	31 Absent	32 Absent	33 Absent	34 Absent	Epilogue Absent	"Yearbook" Absent

Angel + Spike
Prologue Appears		01 Absent	02 Absent	03 Absent	04 Absent	05 Absent	06 Appears	07 Absent
08 Absent	09 Absent	10 Absent	11 Absent	12 Absent	13 Absent	14 Absent	15 Absent	16 Absent