Favorite One-Shot Vampire Character?

[Taaroko]

We spend a lot of time on BB discussing the vampires who got the most screentime, but how about some love for the ones we only got for a single episode? For the purposes of this thread, I'm only talking about characters who are already vampires when we meet them, not characters like Jesse, Theresa, Sheila, Eddie, or Alonna who first appear as humans. Possible exception for Ford, since he was already big with the evil plans before he turned.

My favorite is the Prince of Lies. He's an absolute delight in all of his three-ish scenes.

Highlights include: [after being on a submarine for weeks, presumably] "...Ve are undervater?"

and

 

[WillowFromBuffy]

The Prince of Lies is pretty great, but I have to go with Holden Webster. Too bad he had to go. He would have been amazing on AtS s5. Maybe he was there, though, in disguise.

 

[Taaroko]

Eh...

...I don't see it.

 

[WillowFromBuffy]

I can imagine him narrating the advert at the start of Harm's Way and working as a vampire-relations consultant.

 

[GoSpuffy]

He's more than a one shot but I have to give a shout out to Dalton. The geeks shall inherit the earth!!.

 

[Mrs Gordo]

Technically he was a two shot but Lyle Gorge was great. We Texans have to stick together.

 

[Taaroko]

*recoils in horror* Noooo, not Lyle Gorch! I grew up in Texas and did three years of college at Texas A&M, and I have always loathed Lyle Gorch and his stupid brother and his stupid wife for being such heinous stereotypes.

Fred and Lindsey are the only Buffyverse Texans I like.

 

[Mrs Gordo]

*recoils in horror* Noooo, not Lyle Gorch! I grew up in Texas and did three years of college at Texas A&M, and I have always loathed Lyle Gorch and his stupid brother and his stupid wife for being such heinous stereotypes.

Fred and Lindsey are the only Buffyverse Texans I like.

I know I know...He is so outlandish I love it. Lol. We were actually just talking about whether Lindsay was Texan or not. Apparently Angel says he is but his truck had Oklahoma license plates.. so hmm.

Side note - your an Aggie!? You think you know someone haha. 🙂 My whooooooooole family are Longhorns I’m the only one who went rogue and went to a small private liberal arts college and they hate me for it haha.

 

[Taaroko]

I know I know...He is so outlandish I love it. Lol. We were actually just talking about whether Lindsay was Texan or not. Apparently Angel says he is but his truck had Oklahoma license plates.. so hmm.

Side note - your an Aggie!? You think you know someone haha. 🙂 My whooooooooole family are Longhorns I’m the only one who went rogue and went to a small private liberal arts college and they hate me for it haha.

*plugs ears against arguments about Lindsey being a non-Texan* LALALALALALA NOT LISTENING!

I'm actually twice an Aggie! First for A&M (I was like six credits away from earning the Aggie ring when I transferred. Still bitter.), and then for Utah State, which is also Aggies, and that's where I finished undergrad and got the master's. It being the pride and joy of my hometown and having the greatest marching band in the country, Texas A&M is the only school I've ever felt school spirit for in my life. But it wasn't really ideal once I switched majors from biochemistry to English, particularly because all my Texas high school friends went to UT. Traitors.

Also my parents' dog's name is Aggie, which was my idea.

I haven't been back to Texas in...six and a half years. I miss dewberries, Schlitterbahn, proper Texas thunderstorms, people saying "howdy" instead of awkwardly avoiding eye contact when passing you on sidewalks, grocery stores with tortilla-making stations and entire salsa aisles, and even the humidity. *pout*

 

dcai0830: You miss the humidity? You are crazy. 🙂 It was a balmy 85 degrees today in Houston....!

I like feeling like I'm actually breathing something. Here, the air's so dry you can get a sore throat from it. Also, more humidity means less static electricity. My car zaps me every time I get out of it, and if I shift around at all on my living room furniture, it generates enough static to make my laptop zap me, which will screw up the picture for a second if it's hooked up to my TV.

That being said, no, it's not fun to feel like the air is sweating on you the second you step outside, even in shade.

 

[Priceless]

Zachary Kralik was a great vampire, one of the scariest in the whole show, and I loved how Buffy eventually killed him.

 

[EarthLogic]

I really loved Mr Trick. He was fun - and funny.

Does he count? I know he spanned a few episodes...
 

We spend a lot of time on BB discussing the vampires who got the most screentime, but how about some love for the ones we only got for a single episode? For the purposes of this thread, I'm only talking about characters who are already vampires when we meet them, not characters like Jesse, Theresa, Sheila, Eddie, or Alonna who first appear as humans. Possible exception for Ford, since he was already big with the evil plans before he turned.

My favorite is the Prince of Lies. He's an absolute delight in all of his three-ish scenes.

Highlights include: [after being on a submarine for weeks, presumably] "...Ve are undervater?"

and

Prince of Lies was great. Loved Nostroyev too: 'I was Rasputin's lover!'

 

[Skanky Vamp]

I refuse to call the Nosferatu character the Prince of Lies, he was Nosferatu, but yes, I liked that one as well. The only reason I like it is it was an attempt at doing Dafoe's Max Schreck from Shadow of the Vampire, which is a film I adore.

 

[Mr Trick]

Not sure I have one. Most of the best ones are ones that are given a few episodes. Holden is maybe the closest. Though I don't know if that is the character rather than the writing in that episode. Sunday was a bit under whelming IMO.

 

[Athena]

Sunday!! 😀

 

[Skanky Vamp]

Sunday!! 😀

Bloody Sunday

 

[Fool for Buffy]

I'd have to go with old Zach Kralik as well, one of the few I actually felt threatened by. And the acting was fantastic.

 

[Mylie]

Sunday!! 😀

I initially thought of her too! But then I read @Priceless post about Kralik and now I'm torn. Oh well, they're both great vampires who were shown as a real threat when Buffy was feeling low and she managed to kill them both!

 

[Puppet]

My old banner says it all 😀

 

[GwenRaiden]

Russell Winters.

 

[Taake]

Sunday!! 😀

Stop trying to make fetch happen 😛

This was harder then I thought. Reading through this thread I find myself agreeing with every post (except Sunday) so clearly I'm easily swayed and have no opinion of my own. Some great one-shot vampires on these shows!