List of Watchers
Note: Some Slayers have had more than one Watcher in the course of their careers.
| Watcher | Slayer(s) | First appearance (as a Watcher) |
|---|---|---|
| Merrick | Buffy Summers | Buffy the Vampire Slayer (non-canon), "Becoming, Part One" |
| Giles, Rupert | Buffy Summers & Faith Lehane |
"Welcome to the Hellmouth" |
| Zabuto, Roger "Sam" | Kendra Young | Mentioned in "What's My Line, Part One" |
| Post, Gwendolyn* | Faith Lehane | "Revelations" |
| Wyndam-Pryce, Wesley | Buffy Summers & Faith Lehane |
"Bad Girls |
| Travers, Quentin | none (chairman of the Council) | "Helpless" |
| Crowley, Bernard | Nikki Wood | Mentioned in "First Date" |
| Sirk, Rutherford | Unknown | "Home" |
| Wyndam-Pryce, Roger | Appears as a robot in "Lineage" | |
| Wells, Andrew | Many | "Damage" |
* Watcher fraudulently "assigned" herself to Faith after being expelled from the Council.
The following have been featured with no significant details known about them. Not all of these are true Watchers, some of them are merely operatives on payroll.
- Blair
- Hobson
- Lydia—Wrote a thesis on William the Bloody
- Nigel
- Phillip
- Robson
- Faith's first Watcher
- Giles' father
- Giles' paternal grandmother (named Edna in a Tales of the Vampires comic by Joss Whedon)
- Collins, Weatherby and Smith—The Council Special Ops Team
- Faith's nurse
- Wesley's thugs
The (non-canon) novels and comics, specially those focusing on previous Slayers, show or mention other Watchers including: Michaela Tomassi (The Gatekeeper trilogy), Archibald Lassiter (Giles), Harold and John Travers (Pretty Maids All in a Row), Yanna Narvik (watched over the Slayer, Sophie Carstensen in Pretty Maids All in a Row), Marie-Christine Fontaine (watched Slayer, Eleanor Boudreau in Pretty Maids All in a Row), Diana Dormer (the name given to Faith's first Watcher in Go Ask Malice).
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