Buffy The Vampire Slayer: You'll Never Get 100% On This Rupert Giles Quiz!
Buffy the Vampire Slayer's polite patriarch - the good guys are always stalwart and true.
Rupert Giles, or Ripper to his ex-friends and fiends, is the long-suffering Watcher, full-time father figure and provider of long-winded narrative exposition to Buffy Summers for all seven seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
His deep affection for Buffy and the Scoobies is matched only by his intelligence, with fluency in many languages, a strong connection with the mystic arts and a capacity for research at any hour.
An Englishman through and through, Giles is never far from a cup of tea, polishing his glasses to distance himself from the distasteful Americanism he so often finds himself submerged in, and making that weird cluck-cluck sound with his tongue when he is mad but too English to say anything.
His trajectory through the show has not been an easy one, from librarian to shop owner to the profoundly unemployed; via his torture, the murder of his girlfriend and the death of his slayer. Nonetheless, with a stiff upper lip, he stood strong through it all and has found new life (literally) in the comics.
Now, don't be afraid to hit the books, get stuck in and seize the moment, 'cause tomorrow you might be dead.