Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Ranking The Big Bads
From heavily made-up denizens to Alyson Hannigan in a black wardrobe, Buffy tangoed with many weird and wonderful antagonists during her time on TV.
Joss Whedon's seminal supernatural TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer is surely one of the most influential genre shows ever produced, if not the definitive article. Everything from its format - primarily a mixing of high school drama and horror with a fair amount of comedy - to its slang-heavy, unique dialogue - Buffy characters are penchant-y for putting y's on the end of words that don't usually have them - have inspired a range of television shows ever since it first aired as a midseason replacement in 1997. However, the greatest cultural impact Buffy has made on TV is surely coining the phrase 'Big Bad.' A play on the Big Bad Wolf from fairy tales, the term was used both by fans and within the series itself to describe the main villain of an individual season of the show - and has since been adopted by TV fans worldwide. As the progenitor of the phrase, Buffy naturally has a bumper pack of brilliant Big Bads. So join us as we wield the strength and skill to look at a list of vampires, demons and the forces of darkness, from the littlest Bad to the best and Biggest Bad of them all.