The best TV vampires ranked – Looper

With monikers like William the Bloody and Spike, you know this vampire has to be pretty formidable. But the most captivating aspect of Spike, who debuted in Buffy the Vampire Slayer season two, is his softer side. Buffy set the lore that soulless vampires are just that soulless and evil and beyond redemption. Even heartthrob Angel loses all of his morals when his one moment of true happiness (i.e., a night in the sack with Buffy) takes away his soul. But Spike's loving relationship with Drusilla, even while soulless, gave Buffy fans their first glimpse that soulless vamps are capable of love their own twisted and bloody brand of it, anyway.

We get a flashback episode in "Fool for Love," where we see Spike in the 1800s as a failed romantic poet who can't woo his rich crush. And while James Marsters' Spike certainly isn't a docile kitty cat (and has been known to eat them), he would die for Drusilla and, later, Buffy, which is more than can be said of any other soulless vampire in the series.

There's a lot of debate on who loved Buffy more, Spike or Angel? True, both of them did horrible, inexcusable things to Buffy when they were soulless, but Spike fell in love with Buffy without a soul. Granted, it starts off really creepy, and then he horrifically tries to assault her when she breaks things off. Yet even when he's presumably without morals, he's so disgusted with himself that he seeks his own soul something Angelus would never do for anyone, especially not Buffy. Spike is a fascinating study in vampire canon, often defying the constraints of the world that created him.

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The best TV vampires ranked - Looper