The Turok-Han are extremely strong, ancient vampires. The Scoobies named the Turok-Han “Übervamp” because of it’s extreme strength. Turok-Han were sired as vampires when the human was still a Neanderthal. In Bring on the Night, Giles says it was known as the “vampire other vampires fear”. The First resurrected the Turok-Han using the Seal of Danthalzar and created an army of them to fight Buffy and the Potentials. Buffy discovers an ancient Slayer weapon she names a scythe which kills the Turok-Han with relative ease. The original Turok-Han was played by Camden Toy, who also played one of the Gentlemen and Gnarl.
Appeared in: Bring on the Night,
Showtime,
First Date,
Get It Done,
End of Days,
Chosen
July 6th, 2006 at 12:06 pm
The turok-han doesn’t share alot of the characteristics of the Neanderthal. It certainly doesn’t share the characteristics of modern humans nor homo erectus or anything prior. It closest resembles the Neanderthal but it has contradictions. They where shorter on average then modern human but where stockier. Something that the Turok-han doesn’t not share. Altho they might be skinnier due to them being held underground for so long without a source of blood. Its probable that the Turok-han was supposed to be Neanderthal but the writers didn’t due much research and there are things that aren’t easy to pull off such as the shorter legs and arms.
July 7th, 2006 at 4:51 pm
I assumed the in ‘Bring on the Night’ when that mention is made by Giles, it means that the ubervamps are really old (and pretty stupid as well), and nothing else. It never occurred to me that they were meant to be neanderthals, but only that the line is to show how old (and again, stupid) they are.