Buffy The Vampire Slayer: 12 Best Cult Heroes
2. Rupert Giles
He might be there from Buffy's pilot episode right to its finale but Giles was only a guest player in the final two seasons of the show so we can just about call him a cult hero. After all, he's so popular. How much you like the others characters on this list probably depends on personal taste but not Giles - everyone loves Giles.
Though subtler than the arcs of some of the other characters around him, Giles - played by the great Anthony Head (despite Spike and Wesley being Brits, Giles is the only one played by an actual Englishman) - certainly grows across the seven years.
He's a stuffy, by-the-book librarian when we first meet him but he becomes a guitar-playing kickass hero with a dark past by the end. When you've got Giles on your side, you know that the world is definitely not doomed.