Buffy The Vampire Slayer: 10 Best Single Episode Villains

8. Daryl Epps

Episode: Some Assembly Required (Season 2, Episode 2) Daryl Epps was a student at Sunnydale High. A popular guy who was the running back for the Sunnydale Razorbacks and all-round talented football player whom Cordelia Chase had been in love with. Sadly, Daryl was killed in a rock climbing accident which heavily affected his entire family. His brother, Chris, became something of a recluse and ultimately used an unknown means to reanimate Daryl's corpse, bringing him back to life as an undead being - and a character whose physical appearances was attributed to that of Frankenstein's monster. Furthermore, the Frankenstein theme was extended by Daryl's need for a mate. Chris attempted to create an undead bride for Daryl, taking the bodies of three dead teenage girls from the scene of a car accident and making the perfect girl from their body parts. Sadly, due to tissue degeneration, the attempts failed as Chris realised he needed a fresh brain - and thus needed to kill a girl in order to take her still-functioning brain for the bride. Cordelia was chosen as the girl whose brain would be used, but Buffy and Xander reached Chris and Daryl before they had the chance to kill her. Buffy and Daryl fought, resulting in some hazardous containers toppling over and causing a fire, which Daryl chose to die in.