Buffy shows some ingenious ways of killing demons, and the gang have some great suggestions too. Here’s a list of alternative ways of killing, seen or mentioned on the show:
- Hummus and Ebola: In Graduation Day (Part 2), Oz suggests, “We attack the Mayor with hummus.” Cordelia later suggests, “No, we’ll get a box with the Ebola virus and… or it doesn’t even have to be real. We can just get a box that says Ebola on it and… chase him! … With the box!”
- Drowning and licking: In Something Blue, When Spike’s in the bath-tub at Giles’ apartment, he yells, “Passions is on! Timmy’s down the bloody well, and if you make me miss it, I’ll…” Giles yells back at him “You’ll do what? Lick me to death?” In the same episode, Anya and Xander drown a Pargo demon to kill it (the only way, apparently).
- Nuzzling: In Buffy vs Dracula, Riley says to Giles about his being found with Dracula’s ladies: “You were gonna nuzzle ‘em to death?”
- Rocket launcher: In Him, Buffy attempts to kill Principal Wood with a rocket launcher, something she killed the Judge with in Innocence.
- Puppets: In Get It Done, Xander says, “Puppets! That’s it. The First hates puppets. Now if we can just airlift Kermit, Fozzy the Bear and Miss Piggy into town, The First will be a-runnin’.”
November 5th, 2005 at 2:08 am
Season 7, episode 11, when the gang is trying to figure out how to kill the Turok-Han, Buffy says “…We know stakes don’t kill it, but anything in those ancient books about what does? Sunlight, fire, germs?”
November 5th, 2005 at 2:20 am
Licking to Death
From my obviously favorite episode: Spike’s in the tub at Giles’ apartment and yells “Passions” is on! Timmy’s down the bloody well, and if you make me miss it, I’ll?”
Giles yells back at him “You’ll do what? Lick me to death?”
November 5th, 2005 at 2:25 am
Drowning
From season 4, Something Blue Episode again: the demon that breaks in and attacks Anya and Xander, Anya says “it’s a Pargo demon! Drowning it’s the only way to kill it!”
November 6th, 2005 at 12:46 pm
Nuzzling:
From Buffy vs. Dracula
Riley: “It coulda been worse. At least you weren’t making time with the dracu-babes like Giles here.”
Giles: “I was not making time! I, I was, uh, just about to kill those, uh, loathsome creatures when Riley interrupted me.”
Riley: “You were gonna nuzzle ‘em to death?”
November 6th, 2005 at 7:10 pm
I love the how to defeat the mayor planning session:
Oz: “Well, Angel, you hung with him the most. Is there something that he’s afraid of?” Buffy’s looking down uncomfortably.
Angel: “Well, he’s not crazy about germs.”
Cordelia: “Of course, that’s it. We attack him with germs!”
Buffy: “Great! We’ll corner him and then you can sneeze on him.”
Cordelia gesturing excitedly: “No! No, we’ll get a box with the Ebola virus and… and…. Or it doesn’t even have to be real, we can just get a box that says Ebola on it and… uhm (snaps her fingers) chase him… (Oz frowns and no one else says anything) with the box…”
Xander: “I’m starting to lean towards the humus offensive.”
Oz: “He’ll never see it coming.”
January 31st, 2006 at 4:23 am
Rocket launcher
“Slayer means kill … ooh! I’ll kill the principal!” -Buffy, Him
“What’s that do?” -The Judge, Innocence
January 31st, 2006 at 5:40 am
Puppets
“That’s it. The First hate puppets. If only we could airlift Kermit, Fozzie Bear and Miss Piggy out here…” -Xander
April 22nd, 2006 at 12:10 am
Although I’m not sure what episode it is in but i think somewere Buffy says to Spike ‘what are you going to do…walk behind me to death!?’
That made me laugh
April 22nd, 2006 at 1:27 am
yeah me too. Spike is sooooo funny.
April 22nd, 2006 at 3:59 am
Spike says that line in Smashed after he finds out that he can hurt Buffy.
May 11th, 2006 at 1:12 am
There’s a kinda relevant moment in the Angel episode “Over The Rainbow”. It’s when Angel and Wesley are trying to figure out how to rescue Cordelia and lawyers from W&H turn up. They spout some unimportant rubbish and Angel says something like “they’re gonna annoy me to death”. It was very funny!