Buffy The Vampire Slayer
For starting out as sulfurous foe , Buffy and Spike became one ofBuffy the Vampire Slayer’smost celebrate couples . Despite being asked dozens of prison term if Spike was her boyfriend throughout the series , the Slayer vehemently deny the chemistry she had with viewers ' favorite whitener - blond tough male child . Their story was n’t all about sexual tension you could thin with a battleaxe ; the intimacy between their characters only deepen as they went through — and overcame — each new crisis .
From battle each other to battling side by side , every season revealed a little more about their brawny moral force . The writing of these peculiar episode explored the many facets of their relationship growth , and were important because of how the unique interactions between Buffy and Spike take out distinguishable sides of their characters .
“Something Blue”
An comical buff - favorite instalment from Season 4 , in which a frustrated willow tree starts enacting renegade magic . She becomes so miffed by Buffy and Spike ’s behavior that she accidentally skewer out , " Then why do n’t you marry him ! " , thus get an arc where Spuffy ( at least in feigning ) get .
willow tree have havoc to other fiber , too , but fans could n’t get enough of the tour that brought the Slayer and the lamia she loathed most together , and enjoy their ado of make - out sessions that antedate their first " official " osculation , all of which induce Giles to feverishly clean his glasses .
“Out of Mind”
In one of the early episodes of Season 5 , Spike has a shameful revealing in a passion - fuel dreaming — he ’s in love with his sworn foeman . At the fourth dimension , he ’d been assisting the Slayer and her top-notch soldier boyfriend Riley with slaying in the cemetery .
In Spike ’s dream , Buffy search Spike in his crypt with the intent to hit him . He welcomes death , declare he ’d rather kick the bucket and be detached of her . She ’s of course confused by this , but ca n’t bring herself to wipe out him , which is when they share a impassioned embrace , and Spike wakes up horror-stricken .
“Crush”
A distraught and frustrated Spike tries to coerce Buffy ’s warmness by kidnapping her along with his former lover Drusilla , hop that Buffy will finally see how devoted he is to her by post his sire ( as ifthe shrine she found of herself in his cryptwasn’t enough ) . When his sexual love look not to be reciprocate , he threatens to release Drusilla and have her putting to death Buffy rather .
The mid - time of year episode is notable for not only the climactic confrontation between Spike , Dru , and Buffy , but because it ends with Spike ’s invitation into Buffy ’s mansion being revoked . It begin one of many persona discharge for Spike involving regaining his crush ’s reliance and testify that he loves her in a meaningful way .
“Intervention”
In this pop time of year 5 episode , hell goddess Glory is searching for the mystic " Key " and cerebrate it ’s in the possession of whomever the Slayer entertain dear , kidnaps Spike . Meanwhile , Spike has enlisted Warren ’s help in realize him a " Buffybot , " a complete android reproduction of the Slayer , whom he ’s fallen in erotic love with .
The tangible Buffy despises Spike for both creating the repugnant Buffybot and potentially revealing Dawn ’s location , but ends it being in his debt because despite being tortured , Spike never let out the whereabouts of the Key , keeping Dawn out of scathe ’s way . Posing as the Buffybot , the real Buffy bestows a kiss ( and her trust ) on her knight errant .
“Once More With Feeling”
The groundbreaking melodious episode in Season 6 , which has since pep up countless impersonation across many writing style serial , features beautiful ballads from the entire casting , but perhaps none as meaningful as the one interchange by Spike and Buffy .
After Dawn releases a ogre who makes everyone unable to stop dancing and vocalizing , Spike reveals to Buffy how tormented he is being in love with her , andshe unwrap how irritating it is to have been pulled from heaven . They realize they ’re two lost souls that might be able to find felicity ( or at least flavor worth living for ) in each other , and they partake their first " real " candy kiss at the end of the episode .
“Tabula Rasa”
A fan deary across the entire serial , this early Season 6 installment explores what happens to the Scoobie when one of Willow ’s spells goes wrong and plume them of their memories . Their process of piecing together their personal histories shit for some hysterical role reversals .
Not knowing their history both ameliorate and complicates Buffy and Spike ’s human relationship , especially in place of the kiss they apportion at the end of " Once More With Feeling . " When the patch eventually is broken and they encounter each other at the Bronze , they summarize their passionate affaire .
“Smashed”
With the sexual tension building in several previous episode , it last erupt in the middle of Season 6 , when two unstoppable forces collide to quite literally bring down the business firm . Spike and Buffy get physically internal for the first prison term , and the sequence proves their relationship will be very different than what she had with Angel .
Buffy and Spike ’s lovemaking is tearing , demanding , and destructive , and make a house to break down . They are n’t concerned with the ramifications of their animal passions , which sets the tone for their affair , which Buffy hold back from her champion out of shame .
“Beneath You”
Spike hold a powerful choice at the end of Season 6 to go out Sunnydale and go to Africa , where he hope to be given his soul , much like Angel was . When he returns to Sunnydale in Season 7 , the process has provide him unaccented and damaged , both mentally and physically , to the point where he feed in on rat under Sunnydale High where Buffy has take a job as a counselor .
At the end of the episode , when Buffy meet him in a church speaking in riddle , she agnise that the unkept man before her has a soul , one he acquired to make himself the kind of man she would desire , forgive , and love .
“Touched”
Season 7 ofBuffy the Vampire Slayerwas light on the romanticistic intimacy between Buffy and Spike , but what it lacked in steamy kisses and sexual tenseness it made up for in deeper discernment between the fictional character . In " Touched , " towards the ending of the time of year , Spike has a point-blank conversation with the Slayer when she ’s feeling depressed .
In his voice communication , he explains that his love for her is n’t because he " wants her " or even because he " ca n’t have her , " but because he loves who she is . He ’s visit her at her best and her worst , and he truly believes she ’s " one hell of a char . " For all her specialty and resilience , she demo incredible vulnerability with Spike when he ’s eat up and they share a chaste yet intimate night together .
“Chosen”
The series finale ofBuffy the Vampire Slayeris meaningful for a variety of reasons , but one of the most spectacular events of the installment concern Spike and Buffy , a pair whose energising connective was n’t always hefty but always undeniable .
They had move through so much in the preceding season , and their relationship had changed to an extent that fan believed they might have had a future tense together when Spike decides to give himself to save his true love . Buffy finally separate Spike she loves him , and he go the piece who deserves it .
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