In Gingerbread, Buffy and her mother found two murdered children in a playground, with occult marks on their bodies. The ‘children’ were really a chaos demon which fed on negative emotion. As Giles says in the episode, “Some demons thrive by fostering hatred and persecution amongst the mortal animals. Not …

Hank was Buffy and Dawn’s elusive father. Divorced from Joyce Summers, he became increasingly distant towards Buffy (for example, standing her up on her birthday in Helpless). Hank failed to attend Joyce’s funeral or contact his daughters after their mother died. Buffy mentioned he had run off with his …

Halfrek was a vengeance demon who specialised in vengeance for abandoned children. Halfrek was both a friend and rival of Anya. She was cynical of Anya’s relationship with Xander. Halfrek tricked Dawn into making a wish which locked the Scoobies in Buffy’s house during a party, as she realised Dawn …

Gwendolyn was a maverick Watcher who wanted the Glove of Mynnigon. She tricked the Scoobies into believing she was Faith’s new Watcher and got them to find the Glove. Buffy killed Gwendolyn when she realised she was bad in Revelations. Gwendolyn successfully isolated Faith from the rest of the Scoobies.
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Gronx was one of Glory’s female minions who was a seamstress and seer, seen in Spiral.

Dr. Gregory was a grey-haired Science teacher at Sunnydale High School. He was the first teacher to show confidence in Buffy (and not think she’s a felon). He was killed by Natalie French, the giant preying mantis in Teacher’s Pet, and his headless corpse was discovered by Cordelia in the …

Writer Doug Petrie had a football friend at college named Graham Miller. He decided to make a character in the show named Graham, and he became a friend of Riley and member of the Initiative.

Along with Forrest Gates, Graham was one of Riley’s closest friends. He was also a member Commando team of the Government scheme the Initiative, in which demons were caught and tested. Unlike Forrest, Graham liked Buffy and supported Riley’s relationship with her. When the Initiative was destroyed, Graham survived and …

The Gorrah demon was a large, three-headed demon which lived near the Hellmouth. Dawn needed the demon’s eggs to perform a resurrection spell on Joyce so Spike battled the demon to distract it in Forever.

Gnarl was a parasite-demon with long fingernails that secreted a poison, which he used to paralyse his victims. The paralysis is permanent, but wore off when the demon was killed. Gnarl slowly cut off strips of his victim’s skin and ate it, while they are still alive. Gnarl also drank …

Glory was one of three hellgods who ruled over a demon dimension. Her power started to outstrip that of the other two and they expelled her from their dimension, by trapping her inside a human body. The idea was that she would die when the man in which she was …

Gleaves helped to expel Balthazar and El Eliminati from Sunnydale one hundred years ago. He took Balthazar’s amulet (the source of the demon’s power) which was buried with him when he died. El Eliminati took back the amulet in Bad Girls.

Gina was an older employee at the Doublemeat Palace, who managed not to get eaten by the wig-lady. She was a victim of the Palace’s bizarre atmosphere and acted pretty much like a zombie. Gina also appeared in the episode Dead Things.

Rupert Giles became Buffy’s Watcher when she moved to Sunnydale (Welcome to the Hellmouth). This was a career he was told he was destined to have when he was ten so he rebelled as much as he could when he was in college. At Oxford, Giles (known then as ‘Ripper’) …

The German twins, Frederick and Hans Gruenstahler, were said by Deputy Mayor Alan Finch to be, “wanted in Germany for capital murder, terrorism, the bombing of Flight 1402…”. They were competitors in Mr Trick’s Slayerfest ‘98. The twins planned to kill the Slayers using expensive technology and weapons, tracked by …