Buffy The Vampire Slayer Monster

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Buffythe Vampire Slayer first kicked her way onto screens in 1997 and was based on the movie of the same name that had released a few years prior in 1992. This supernatural TV series was so popular that it ran for seven seasons, and even after it came off the air, it continued in comic-book form. Buffy even spawned a spin-off TV series with Angel.

During her reign as "The Slayer," Buffy had to face many nasties, strange creatures, and demons, some of which were so unsettling that they have stayed with viewers ever since. Read on to check out ten of the most disturbing monsters that Buffy ever had to slay.

This demon plagued the gang in the episode titled "After Life" in season six, and although it goes unnamed throughout the episode, it is referred to as the "Child of Words" by Willow and Tara during their spell. This demon is the consequence of the Buffy gang bringing the slayer back from the dead, and it causes many strange and creepy occurrences when it possesses Buffy and her friends.

If the things it does while possessing the team weren't bad enough, this demon is incorporeal and so Buffy cannot harm it, making it even scarier. Fortunately, Willow and Tara cast a spell to give the demon a physical form so Buffy can slay it.

In season three's "Gingerbread," fans were introduced to a particularly creepy demon. While the name of the demon itself is never revealed, the demon also takes on the form of two dead children called Hans and Gretta Strauss.

Every 50 years, the demon manifests as two dead siblings to cause discord in the community, with the story of Hansel and Gretel apparently being an earlier visit from this creepy guy. It then feeds on the hatred of the community as they persecute those they see as the culprits behind the "murder" of the children. It's always scary when demons take on innocent appearances and disturbing how easily it could divide the Sunnydale community. Additionally, it's true form is also rather creepy too.

In the first season, the episode titled "Nightmares" sees many characters afflicted by their nightmares seemingly coming true. One of these is The Ugly Man, the manifestation of a little boy's nightmare. It has a rather horrifying appearance with a strange club-like arm that it uses to beat people.

The First is the manifestation of evil itself and predates both humans and demons. It appeared in a number of episodes, but debuted in season three in the episode titled "Amends." Its last appearance was in the episode "Chosen" in season seven.

The creepy thing about The First, other than it essentially being a physical form of all existing evil, is that it can take on the appearance of anyone who has died, including vampires. It uses many guises of dead characters to torment Buffy and her friends, making for more than one disturbing situation where the character's heads are completely messed with.

The Killer Clown that appeared in Buffy the Vampire Slayer was not even a main bad-guy, in fact, it was a small appearance in the previously mentioned "Nightmares" episode. This monster was the manifestation of Xander's fear of clowns.

A lot of people are afraid of clowns and so naturally, this creepy character manages to spook the best of viewers straight away. However, it's also particularly frightening as it feeds into the idea of childhood trauma and fears, as Xander's fear of clowns came from when a clown chased him at his sixth birthday party.

These gross little critters are reminiscent of the face-huggers from the Alien franchise. They drain their hosts while they sleep before taking control of them by attaching themselves to their host's bodies.

It just so happens that in this episode, Buffy's mother Joyce is mentally unstable due to a brain tumor. One of the most horrifying and emotional parts of this episode is when Buffy and Dawn try to drown out their mother's babbling as they can't bear to hear her that way, only for viewers to realize that Joyce is speaking to the Queller demon on the ceiling above her.

Season seven's "Same Time, Same Place" episode introduced fans to the Gnarl. This creepy critter has many similarities to Gollum from The Lord of the Rings franchise, including both his appearance and personality. This creepy critter paralyzes his victim and then takes his time flaying their skin strip by strip and eating it while they are still alive but immobile.

One of the worst things about this demon is that he feeds on Willow, though she does survive, and this makes the horror all the more real as he affects a well-known character. Any monster that leaves their victim entirely helpless while they are attacked is definitely one to be feared.

The Gentlemen appeared in season four's "Hush" and have since become one of the most fan-feared demons in the Buffyverse. These creepy demons with unnatural grinning faces steal the voices of everyone in town before killing victims for their hearts with the help of their similarly creepy henchmen in straight jackets.

These guys definitely rank high-up when it comes to the scare factor, their appearance alone is bad enough, plus the fact they float through the air in an unsettling way. However, everyone is afraid of not being able to shout for help when being attacked, so The Gentlemen are even worse as they render their victims mute.

Season two's episode titled "Killed by Death" introduced viewers to a demon by the name of Der Kindestod, who drained the life out of small children. He targeted sick children in hospitals so it looked as though they simply died from a fever.

There are numerous creepy things about this guy. Firstly, he crouches over his victims while in bed, reminiscent of Old Hag Syndrome. Der Kindestod can also only be seen by kids with high-fever. Lastly, his horrifying blank eyeballs stretch out on stems and open up to do the "life-sucking." Notably, Der Kindestod is linked to Buffy's childhood, which adds to his creepiness and brings a whole other emotional level to this episode.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, when it aired, was a near-instant hit with fans of science-fiction, fantasy and horror alike. With Sarah Michelle Gellar cast as the titular vampire slayer, and a strong cast of fellow heroes backing her up, she went up against many villains. Everything from demons and vampires to science experiments gone wrong featured in Buffy Summers's extensive list of monsters.

While many of these villains only appeared in one episode, several others presented long-term, season-spanning threats. In fact, Buffy the Vampire Slayer was known for breaking down two distinct types of villains: the monster of the week and the "big bad," which presented a seasonal antagonist. Many fans consider these monsters as some of the most iconic TV villains in history.

The season four main villain, Adam, was the result of a scientific super soldier experiment to fuse human soldiers with the biology of monsters. One of Buffy's most formidable villains, Adam sought to transform The Initiative's soldiers and monsters into his own army.

Providing the key "big bad" villain of the fourth season, Adam was repeatedly able to beat Buffy in physical combat. It required the use of magic and the entire gang to be able to beat Adam, but not before he had largely succeeded in his plan to create new hybrids.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer's third season, which built to Buffy's high school graduation, presented Sunnydale's mayor as a mysterious threat. While spending the bulk of the season in human form, the mayor built up towards the idea of an "ascension."

During the graduation ceremony, the mayor, revealed to be an ancient pure demon, transformed into a giant snake-like monster. His full terror was revealed when he began a killing spree on the people of Sunnydale, including the many students and teachers at the ceremony.

After building up Angel as a heroic vampire seeking redemption, as well as a love interest for Buffy, the second season radically changed this. After a night together, Angel was robbed of his soul due to an ancient curse, and reverted to his evil persona: Angelus.

Shortly after doing his best to break her heart, Angelus then sets about torturing Buffy psychologically, using her closest friends to get to her. He then begins a plan to unleash an ancient demon that would bring about the end of the world and unleash Hell itself.

In the show's seventh season, Willow returned from rehabilitating in England following her dark turn in the previous season. However, when she arrived in Sunnydale, Willow was shocked to learn that, somehow, she was completely invisible to her friends.

Gnarl held Willow captive in his cave, where he had her paralyzed and slowly began to consume her as he had many before in the most gruesome way imaginable. Gnarl was defnitely unsettling for both the characters in the show and the viewers.

The episode "Hush" saw the arrival of a group of suit-and-tie monster men who went around Sunnydale killing innocent people and removing their hearts. The so-called Gentlemen created a shroud of silence over Sunnydale that muted all of its residents.

One of the things that made the Gentlemen so terrifying was that with their silence, their victims were unable to cry out, creating an almost claustrophobic threat. The Gentlemen were also one of few threats who worked in a large group, using surgical tools as weapons.

In the episode "Anne," Buffy was trying to make a new life for herself in Los Angeles after the events of the second season finale left her alienated from her mother. While in the city, she met a man named Ken but also found herself investigating a slew of missing persons cases.

When the trail led her back to Ken, the man was revealed to be a demon responsible for transporting young people to another dimension and enslaving them. When Buffy found herself trapped, she came face-to-face with the demon in charge of controlling the people, with a design that looked ripped from the likes of Hellraiser.

The main antagonist for the seventh and final season, the First was a shape-shifting ancient entity, the first evil to ever walk the Earth. Rather than being just another demon, the First Evil was actually the literal personification of evil itself with no redeeming qualities.

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