Robin Wood (Buffy-Angel)
Robin Wood is a male television character who features in Buffy-Angel.
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Biography
Robin Wood was a male human born in 1973 to one of the Chosen Slayers with Nikki Wood being the reigning one at the time. His mother fought a number of supernatural threats such as Vampires until her death at the hands of Spike. Robin was only 4 years old at the time where he came to be raised by his mother's Watcher. (Episode: First Date)
Robin took up the post of principal of the newly rebuilt Sunnydale High School in 2002. (Episode: Lessons) Knowing that the school was built above a Hellmouth, Robin set up stake in Sunnydale as a freelance vampire hunter. (Episode: First Date) Robin learned that Buffy Summers was the current Slayer and took an interest in her. Though she was inexperienced, he offered her a job as a guidance counselor at the school. (Episode: Lessons) Buffy was suspicious of the mysterious principal, especially after learning that, in the rebuilt building, his office was directly above the Hellmouth. When Robin asked Buffy on a date, she was not sure what to make of it until he led her right into a vampire ambush. Presuming that he was evil, Buffy was shocked to discover his true origins. Robin joined Buffy's fight against the First Evil though he was initially put off by Buffy's alliance with a vampire — Spike. Robin was later visited by the First, appearing to him as his mother, who told him that the vampire was the one that killed her. (Episode: First Date)
As retribution for his mother's murder, Robin conspired with Watcher Rupert Giles to distract Buffy and kill Spike. Robin lured Spike into his garage where he played the old folk song that the First used as a trigger to enable a feral state in Spike so that he could kill the monster that took his mother away from him. However, the plan failed; Spike was freed from the First Evil's influence and turned the tables on Robin. While Spike spared Robin's life out of respect for Nikki, Buffy assured Robin that she would allow Spike to kill him if he tried anything again, having enough to deal with in the war with the First without having to deal with personal vendettas. Though initially shocked, Robin respected Buffy's wishes and ended his vendetta, subsequently firing her so that she could focus her energies on the mission, telling her that "the mission is what matters," something his mother often said to him as a child. (Episode: Lies My Parents Told Me)
When Slayer Faith Lehane arrived and everyone began questioning Buffy's leadership, he was one of the ones who voted that Faith take the leadership position. (Episode: Empty Places) After discussing with Faith their respective conversations with the First, the two became physically intimate. (Episode: Touched) Prior to the final battle, Robin expressed concern that Faith viewed men as mere sex objects, and pledged to surprise her. Though badly wounded in the final battle, Robin surprised Faith by surviving. (Episode: Chosen)
Overview
Personality and attributes
Robin had an easy going attitude and confidence. Those traits were in sharp contrast compared to his predecessors, the nervous Principal Robert Flutie and strict disciplinarian Principal Snyder. Buffy described him as 'solid' and 'funny'. She also said he had that he was 'too charming to be real kinda thing' going for him. (Episode: First Date)
He was the son of a Slayer by the name of Nikki Wood but she was killed by Spike when Robin was only 4 years old. After her death, he came to be raised by his mother's Watcher. (Episode: First Date)
Powers and abilities
He came to regard himself as a 'freelance' demon hunter. (Episode: First Date)
Notes
- Robin Wood was created by Joss Whedon where he was portrayed by actor D. B. Woodside and featured in the setting of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
- In The Complete Seventh Season on DVD audio commentary for the episode "Lessons", Joss Whedon stated that the character was given a gender-ambiguous name because he was not sure whether the character would be a woman or a man.
In other media
Comic Books
- In Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Nine, Robin Wood appeared in the meta-series set after the television series that were published by Dark Horse Publishing.
Appearances
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
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