Slayage alternatives

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’.”
   
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    Added: › 4th November 2005
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    11 Comments about “Slayage alternatives”

    1. somethingblue says:

      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?”

    2. somethingblue says:

      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?”

    3. somethingblue says:

      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!”

    4. Mullsen says:

      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?”

    5. mairceridwen says:

      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.”

    6. MagicBone says:

      Rocket launcher

      “Slayer means kill … ooh! I’ll kill the principal!” -Buffy, Him
      “What’s that do?” -The Judge, Innocence

    7. MagicBone says:

      Puppets

      “That’s it. The First hate puppets. If only we could airlift Kermit, Fozzie Bear and Miss Piggy out here…” -Xander

    8. hannah_wish01 says:

      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

    9. MissKittyFantastico says:

      yeah me too. Spike is sooooo funny.

    10. Mel says:

      Spike says that line in Smashed after he finds out that he can hurt Buffy.

    11. Wynter says:

      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!

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