‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer’: What Happened To James Marsters After His Role As Spike? – TheThings

If you're feeling nostalgic about Buffy the Vampire Slayer just like we are, it might help to binge the entire seven-season series all over again and cry, laugh, and fall in love with it all over again. You might even find some things you didn't originally pick up on too.

As you rewatch the beloved series again though, you might have some questions about what the cast of Buffy is up to today. After the series finale in 2003, the cast had to move on and find other projects, but one actor actually got to play his character for a little while longer, and fans loved it.

Just because Buffy ended, didn't mean that would be the last time we'd see Spike, even if his ending in the show said otherwise. We got to see Spike for an extra season when his ghostly body was transferred to L.A. to help Angel in the last season of the Buffy spinoff.

But what happened to James Marsters after he said goodbye to Spike for good?

The character of Spike was never meant to havinga lasting effect on the show. In fact, creator Joss Whedon never meant for him to last more than a couple of episodes.But the overwhelming love of the character made Whedon second guess cutting him out.

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After his debut in season two of Buffy, we were never really sure how long Spike would survive on the show but after season four he was pretty much locked in as a reoccurring character. One that went through a multitude of changes right up until he sacrificed himself in the ending battle for Sunnydale.

As we know, Marsters was able to continue playing Spike for the last season of Angel,annoying his grand-sire as a snarky ghost until he became corporeal again and helping to save the world...again.

Shortly after Angel's series finale in 2004, Marsters said goodbye to Spike, for real this time, when he decided to shave off his platinum blonde Spike hair for charity. Now hedidn't look like Spike anymore and was able to move onto other projects.

Pretty much right after ending Angel, Marsters jumped on board of another popular WB series, Smallville, as Milton Fine, later Brainiac. Marstersdebuted on the origin series of Superman in 2005 for five episodes and was virtually unrecognizable without his platinum locks.

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Marsters' character turned out to be the body holding Kryptonian artificial intelligence or BrainInterActive Construct. Like the comics, Marsters' character transformed into the supervillain Brainiac throughout his 14-episode run on the show but by the time he came back in 2010 as Brainiac 5, he was good and helping Clark Kent.

During his appearances on Smallville, Marsters had a busy 2007 and was also trying his hand at starring in films. He played Jack in the horror film, Shadow Puppets, as one of the eight people who randomly awaken in an abandoned facility and have to fight off a shadow trying to kill them.

That same year, fans were delighted to see Marsters in the rom-com P.S. I Love You, playing John, the best friend, and business partner of Gerard Butler's character Jerry. After that, he made a brief appearance on Saving Grace, Without A Trace, and Torchwood.

He's also had reoccurring roles on series like Caprica, Warehouse 13, Witches of East End, and Marvel's brief show on Hulu, Runaways, where he jumped into the villain role once again.

In 2011, he starred in an episode of Supernatural called, "Shut Up, Dr. Phil", with his Buffy co-star, Charisma Carpenter.

More recently he's closed out his role as Victor Hesse on Hawaii Five-0, which he debuted in 2010 and appeared in five episodes throughout its ten-year run.

Marsters has lent his voice for Spike in Buffy video games, but he's continued to voice characters through the years as well. He was also the voice of Sergei on the Spider-Man television series, Lex Luthor in Superman/Doomsday,Captain Argyus in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and Mr. Fantastic in The Super Hero Squad Show.

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In 2009, Marsters played Lord Piccolo in the live-action film, Dragonball Evolution, and then more recently hasvoiced Zamasu in multiple Dragonball series and video games including Dragon Ball Super, Dragon Ball FighterZ and Dragon Ball Legends.

This year, Marsters played Xavier, in two episodes of season two of Netflix's The Order.Xavier is the head of the Sons of Prometheus, a rival magic society of the titular Order.

Even though most of the Sons of Prometheus were killed at the end of Marsters' two-parter cameo, Xavier did survive, making fans question whether he'll be back in more episodes in the next season.

During his many appearances in television and film, Marsters has also enjoyed a successful music career, one he started during his time on Buffy and Angel, and has released many solo albums.

Even though Marsters has become a prominent part of all things sci-fi, he'll never forget his time as Spike on Buffy. Speaking back in 2018, Marsters said he'd totally be down to play Spike again in a Buffy reboot, but that they'd need some really good lighting and special effects if they're going to be able to sell the punk vampire's return.

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Hannah Wigandt is an avid reader and writer of all things pop culture and entertainment, based in New Jersey. She's been an entertainment features writer for her colleges newspaper, an intern as an entertainment staff writer, and is now a contributing writer for TheThings.com. She is a graduate from Montclair State University College of the Arts, earning a bachelors degree in Journalism. Her hobbies are calligraphy, scrapbooking, and collecting books, and she likes to travel often.

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