Buffy The Vampire Slayer: 10 Best Characters Only In One Episode
2. The Gentlemen
Frequently ranked as Buffy the Vampire Slayer's best episode, Hush (season four, episode ten) brings with it the fearsome, silver-toothed, whisper-quiet Gentlemen.
Human hearts are the key to keeping the Gentlemen alive, and they float (quite literally) from town to town, with their straight-jacketed minions, in search of sustenance.
As the Gentlemen's only known weakness is the sound of a human voice, they steal Sunnydale's voices with a mystical box of tricks and set out with scalpels to collect their jar of hearts, cut straight from the warm chests of seven silently screaming victims.
And, if the sheer terror of their skull-like faces and manic grins were not enough, they also have some meta monster credentials; one of their number is played by Doug Jones (alongside Camden Toy, Don Lewis and Charlie Brumbly), Guillermo del Toro's go-to monster man (see: The Shape of Water, Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth).
The Gentlemen are last seen rapidly redecorating their clock tower hideaway. Green's in this season, right?
"Can't even shout.
Can't even cry.
The Gentlemen are coming by."