7. Doom, Apocalypse & The Riddler - Bring On The Night
In the Buffy episode "Bring on the Night", the Scoobies, who had previously caught Andrew Wells buying pig's blood from a butcher's shop, have him tied to a chair in the Summers household. Andrew is pleading with them to untie him, citing the reason that he can be a big help to them in their fight against the First Evil. The following conversation occurs...
Andrew Wells: "Listen to me, man, I've got a bad feeling about this."
Xander Harris: "Of course you've got a bad feeling, dude. You're-you're tied to a chair."
Andrew Wells: "No. Yeah, but above and beyond that. I'm telling you that my spider-sense is tingling. This is gonna get hairy. I'm talking weird with a beard. Better untie me."
Buffy Summers: "And that'll help us, how?"
Andrew Wells: "(sighs) OK, I know what you're thinking. Andrew, bad guy. You think I'm a super-villain like Dr. Doom or Apocalypse or-or the Riddler. But I admit I went over to the dark side, but just to pick up a few things, a-and now I'm back. I've learned. I'm good again." In addition to another nice little spider-sense reference, Andrew also likens himself to the Marvel comic books villains Dr. Doom and Apocalypse and the DC villain the Riddler - none of which he is anything like whatsoever, but it's a neat little reference to a trio of major comic book baddies.