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Starting in the late '90s with the well-loved TV show and continuing with the ongoing comics written by Jordie Bellaire, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the 'Buffyverse' continue to entertain and delight fans. One of the ways Buffy keeps fans interested is in a slew of changing villains, some of which are hilariously lame, while others are genuinely terrifying or downright cool.
The Buffyverse has always delivered a good dose of comedy, and it loves poking fun at itself with outlandish, over-the-top villains, as well as some that are just plain lame. While there is some crossover between the TV show and the comics, the main comic villains come after season seven, when the show came to an end.
12 Lamest: Vampy Cats
While these weren't 'main' villains, they get an honorable mention as some of the weirdest, and lamest, villains in the Buffy comic books. These demon cat-like dolls, modeled after 'Hello Kitty,' appear in the Buffyverse comics in season eight.
Appearing as harmless stuffed animals, these demons are purchased by unsuspecting victims and brought into their households. The Vampy Cats then possess the humans by crawling into their mouths. Thankfully, and grossly, they can be vomited out too. The Vampy Cats are a hilariously lame example of a comic Buffyverse villain.
11 The Sculptor
This villain was pretty hideous, with four eyes and waxlike, melting skin. He was able to create and control flesh golems, which are undead spirits encased in dead flesh. The Sculptor's necromantic abilities were pretty cool, but its unfortunate appearance made it a little lame for a villain. The Sculptor also relies on its flesh golems as weapons and, once the golems are defeated, is actually fairly weak as a villain. He crops up in season ten alongside The Mistress and The Soul Glutton.
10 The Soul Glutton
This villain, which appeared in season ten, lived in its own hell dimension, eating human souls and becoming larger and more powerful as a result. When its family is killed by an Aztecan Slayer, the Soul Glutton vows to avenge them and finds an opportunity in Buffy.
Being an eater of souls and having a blood vendetta against the Slayers makes this villain more interesting than many other run-of-the-mill bad guys. For this villain, the fight is personal, and this makes the Soul Glutton a lot more interesting.
9 The Mistress
The Mistress appears in season ten of the Buffy Comics. She is the leader of a group of sirens who lure men into bars and then consume them. The sirens use a hypnotizing song to entrance their prey. Spike and Xander find themselves susceptible to the song and are almost eaten.
The Mistress, with her octopus-like tentacles, has been likened to Ursula, the sea-witch humanoid octopus from The Little Mermaid. She wasn't the best-looking villain, but she did control a pack of siren demons, making her a moderately cool villain.
8 Severin the Siphoner
Severin was a vampire slayer from San Francisco who became Buffy's enemy in season nine after she destroyed the Seed of Wonder. He has the power to siphon off supernatural powers and initially uses this to fight demons and vampires. However, after becoming a villain, he tries to rob Buffy of her supernatural powers and he may have succeeded if he hadn't been shot. He gets a few cool points for his abilities and a few lame points for turning against the Slayer.
7 Maloker
Maloker is an Old One, an ancient and powerful demon, and the original creator of the vampires. He shares many of the vampires' weaknesses, including stakes and fire. In season nine, this villain takes over Dracula's body in order to achieve corporeal form but is driven out of Dracula's body when Dawn stakes him.
However, Dracula can survive staking, as can the immortal consciousness of Maloker. Maloker may have lost his body, but he still lives and will likely come back in another form. This is a pretty cool trick and makes him a very powerful foe.
6 D'Hoffryn
Fans first meet the demon D'Hoffryn in the Buffy TV show, where he is introduced as a sort of boss/father figure of vengeance demons like Anya. He later appears in the comics that continue after the show ends. D'Hoffryn is a very powerful higher-level vengeance demon.
His many abilities and powers include being able to teleport between dimensions, create portals, fly, and cause people to spontaneously combust. All these abilities make D'Hoffryn a formidable foe, and one of the cooler villains of the Buffy comics.
5 Angel
In the comics following the end of the TV show, Angel assumes god-like powers and becomes the masked 'Twilight' persona. Twilight and Whistler convince Angel that in order to save the earth from destruction, he has to right the imbalance created by all the potential Slayers being called.
However, as part of this plan for the greater good, he leads a group of villains who kill over 200 Slayers. The fact that he did all of this as Angel and not Angelus makes the carnage much worse. His competence in creating havoc, his lying to Buffy, and his duplicitous behavior, all made Angel an interesting and terrifying villain.
4 Joanna Wise
Joanna is a power-hungry human villain who makes herself into a magic-using cyborg. Joanna has the ability to wield the combined magic of many supernatural beings, including witches, werewolves, and demons. She is able to do a large amount of damage to her enemies in a fight, and as a cyborg is very difficult to harm in return.
One of the coolest things about this villain is that on top of being a super-foe with the combined attributes of so many other villains, she is also a Senator who can manipulate events on a political scale. She is eventually defeated when Willow throws her into the mouth of a dragon that Joanna herself summoned.
3 Harth Fray
Harth is a character who appears in season twelve, which is set several centuries in the future. As a young teenager, he uses precognition to save himself during a vampire attack by figuring out how to turn himself into a vampire. This amazing feat allows him to assume control of the vampires of his city as a sort of messiah. He finds a way to bring the past Buffy Summers into the future in order to kill her. He manages the time-traveling but does not succeed in killing Buffy, who returns to her own time.
Having precognition, engaging in time travel, and leading a city of vampires at the age of fourteen make this character one of the coolest villains in the Buffyverse.
2 Simone Doffler
Simone is a rogue Slayer who believes in her own superiority over regular humans. While she started out on Buffy's side, Simone felt constrained by rules and eventually took other Slayers with her on a more extreme path. In season nine, she steals a cache of modern weapons and takes over an Italian island, forcing its inhabitants out. Fans can't help but be reminded of a younger Faith, loving the fight, hating the rules, and thinking she is better than everyone else and can do whatever she wants.
Simone's criminal activities and extreme methods eventually put her in direct opposition to Buffy. Simone sets out to kill Buffy, trying to become a zombie-vampire to do so. She also releases the Old One, Maloker, to help in her attempt to get rid of Buffy. The transition from evil-fighting Slayer to zompire makes this character a fascinating villain.
1 Coolest: Twilight
This villain's coolness comes from being the consciousness of an entire dimension that somehow has sentience. In season eight, the Twilight dimension seeks to supplant the existing Earth dimension, erasing it and existing in its place. As a means of bringing this about, Twilight is able to manipulate many individuals, most notably Angel, into doing its bidding. Twilight's status as a whole dimension makes it the coolest Buffy comic villain.
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June 19, 2021 at 12:00AM
