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thebratqueenOkay gang, here's the first rough draft (keywords: Rough Draft) of the is it canon or is it memorex list. Feast your eyes on it.
Things that we're looking for:
1. Episodes for the places where I've clearly marked that I don't have a clue what episode proves the point we just made
2. Information to fill in any blanks for the concepts and characters that I've got
3. Information to fill in any blanks for the concepts and characters that I don't have. This is just the starter list - I'm all for info about Dawn, Lindsey, Lorne - whoever, I just wasn't given any to work with and if I tried to write out everything I can remember right now this thing would never get posted. So if you want to add more info, characters, whatever - PLEASE. =)
VAMPIRES
Vocabulary
Canon: the term "sire" refers to either the vampire that turned you (eg Darla is Angel's sire) or an older vamp of your family line (eg Angel is Spike's sire). (Multiple eps, including but not limited to School Hard, Fool For Love and Dear Boy)
Canon: Familial terms such as "Daddy", "Grandmother", "daughter", "we're a family", etc. have been used in Angelus's family (Darla, Angelus, Dru and Spike). (Multple eps, including Innocence, Darla and Reunion)
Unclear Canon: Other vampires may or may not use these terms.
Unclear Canon: Wes and Gunn's conversation in Reunion ("So the grand-daughter remade the grandmother?") could imply that the familial terms are universal for all vamps (ie Wes learned them as a Watcher) or that it's solely limited to Angelus's family.
Unclear Canon: If Darla disliked the term "grandmother" as a concept, or because she didn't find it flattering. (Darla)
100% Fanon: The terms "childe" and "childre". At no time have either one of these terms - even with their correct spellings - have been used on the show.
Canon: Vamps who follow other vamps are often referred to as "minions" (Multiple eps, including Real Me)
Canon: Darla's sire and the leader of the Order of Aurelius was The Master. (Multiple eps, including Darla and season 1 of Buffy)
Unclear Canon: we're never told if he named himself this, if it was a title, or if other vampires could be "masters".
Unclear Canon: Spike, Angelus and even Harmony could conceivably be thought of as "master" vampires if you're using the term to mean any vamp who leads other vampires.
100% Fanon: that the idea of "master" vs "minion" vamps relates to how you were made (see: Physiology)
Physiology
Canon: "To make you a vampire they have to suck your blood. And then you have to suck their blood. It's like a whole big sucking thing." (Welcome to the Hellmouth)
Canon: Buffy can drink a small (undetermined) amount of vampire blood without turning into a vamp or being harmed by it. (Buffy vs. Dracula)
Unclear Canon: Buffy might not have been harmed because she's the Slayer.We don't know what vamp blood would do to a regular human.
100% Fanon: the concept that there are two ways to make a vamp, and one turns you into a "Master" vampire and the other turns you into a "minion" vampire. Being a "minion" vamp is vampire sociology, not physiology (see: Vocabulary)
Canon: Jossverse vamps should not be able to get, or cause, pregnancy. (Bad Eggs, almost all of season 3 Angel)
Canon: Angel and Darla, for reasons unknown, were able to have a child. (Season 3 Angel)
Unclear Canon: It's implied that even if they are infertile, male vamps at the very least still ejaculate. (Reprise)
Unclear Canon: Whether or not female vamps lubricate.
Unclear Canon: If vamps need to go to the bathroom.
Unclear Canon: What benefits, if any, vamps might get from eating real food. (Multiple eps, including Fool For Love, Crush, I've Got You Under My Skin and Dead End)
100% Fanon: blood tears. Jossverse vamps do not shed blood tears.
Canon: Vampires are affected by alcohol, caffiene and other stimulants. (Multiple eps, including Lover's Walk, She, Eternity and Untouched)
Canon: Vampires can be poisoned. (Graduation I and II)
Unclear Canon: If Slayer blood has any health benefits to vampires other than the antidote for the "Killer of the Dead" poison Faith used on Angel. (Graduation I and II)
Unclear Canon: If the blood of a Slayer is a real aphrodesiac to vamps or if Spike just got off on killing them. (Fool for Love)
BUFFY
Canon: Her full name is Buffy Anne Summers (Multiple eps, including The Gift)
100% Fanon: That her first name is Elizabeth. It's not, it's Buffy. (The Gift)
100% Fanon: That Buffy smells like vanilla.
Unclear Canon: What Buffy does smell like. SMG apparently said in an interview once that she used vanilla-scented perfume, which is where the concept started.
WESLEY
Canon: His full name is Wesley Wyndam-Pryce (Shooting scripts for multiple eps, including Bad Girls, also the second Watcher's Guide)
Unclear Canon: Some online shooting scripts for season 3 episodes of Angel spell his last name "Wyndam-Price".
Unclear Canon: Wesley's past. He was originally created to be "Giles, the next generation" which is where many writers get the idea that he went to Oxford and was "destined" to be a Watcher as Giles did and was. As yet there's been no direct confirmation or denial of this on the show.
Canon: Wesley was "terrorized" by his father who didn't think he was "good enough" and did something with or to him that involved him being "locked up under the stairs" for "hours". (I've Got You Under My Skin)
Canon: Wesley does not get along well with his father. (I've Got You Under My Skin, Belonging, Fredless)
Unclear Canon: How well Wes gets along with his mother. It's implied they have a better relationship than Wes and his dad. (Belonging)
Canon: Wes calls his dad "father" and his mother "mum". (Belonging)
100% Fanon: That Wes was physically or sexually abused by his parents. There's no proof of this on the show. However there's also no proof that he wasn't.
Other names: Multiple characters call him "Wesley" or "Wes". Gunn sometimes calls him "English" (He also referred to Wes's dad as "English Sr." - Belonging). The Host called him "The British Boy" in Happy Anniversary and Merl called him "that British guy" in The Thin Dead Line. Angel called him "Pryce" in Forgiving.
WILLOW
Canon: Her full name is Willow Rosenberg.
Unclear Canon: We don't know if she has a middle name.
Canon: Her parents are Ira and Sheila. (Passion and Gingerbread)
100% Fanon: Willow is Wiccan. She is not.
Canon: Willow is "a Wicca" - the Jossverse term for "witch".
Canon: Willow is Jewish (Multiple eps, including Amends, Listening to Fear and The Body)
100% Fanon: Willow using an exclamation like "Goddess!" - she doesn't.
Unclear Canon: Apparently a comic book written by Amber Benson had Willow, incorrectly, using "Goddess!"
Canon: Willow is gay
Unclear Canon: To all appearances (such as her relationships with Oz and Xander) Willow is actually bisexual.
Canon: Willow "tastes like strawberries" (Smashed, Two to Go)
Unclear Canon: If that's just to another magic user or if she tastes like strawberries in general.
Other names: Spike and Faith have called her "Red" (Doomed, Bargaining, This Year's Girl), Rack called her "Strawberry" (Smashed)
Unclear Canon: If other characters call her "Red". She doesn't register surprise at it, which implies it's a common nickname.
TARA
Unclear Canon: If her full name is Tara Maclay or if she uses her mother's maiden name.
Canon: Her brother is named Donny and she has a cousin Beth.
Unclear Canon: If Tara is Wiccan. She didn't like the Wicca group at UC Sunnydale (Hush) but her stated magic beliefs are similar to those of the Wiccan religion (Multiple eps, including Forever)
100% Fanon: That anyone has called Tara "Glinda"
ANGEL
Canon: Calling him Angel or Angelus
Canon: His mortal name was Liam, he lived from 1727-1753 in Galway, Ireland and was turned in 1753 by Darla. (Prodigal)
Unclear Canon: Liam's last name.
Canon: Wolfram & Hart has records on everything about Angel's past, including his mortal life.(Dad, implied in Blind Date).
Canon: Lilah knows that Angel's mortal name was Liam. (Dad)
Unclear Canon: We assume Darla also knew Angel's mortal name since she turned him.
Unclear Canon: If Angel ever told anybody else his mortal name. He's never gone by it or talked about it during his time as a vamp on either show.
Canon: With regards to his past, Angel has not been known to volunteer the information but he won't deny it if someone asks him about it (Lie to Me, Blind Date).
Canon: He took the name "Angelus" after he was turned. It's implied but not directly stated that he took this name because when he came back to kill his sister Kathy she thought he was an angel come back from the dead. (Prodigal).
Unclear Canon: When, exactly, he started going by the name "Angel". All that's known is that it was after he was cursed. Boone implies he knew "Angel" in "the twenties" in Blood Money but it's not clear if he's only using that name because that's what Angel goes by now, or even if that's when he and Angel originally met. The shooting script for Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been also calls him "Angel" even during the 1950s flashbacks, but again it's unclear if that's what Angel called himself.
Unclear Canon: When the characters started to uniformly call the unsouled version of Angel "Angelus". Jenny does it in Innocence but ironically Spike and Dru do not. As the years go on, however, both Angel and those around him start to use "Angelus" to refer to his unsouled self. (Multiple eps, including Eternity, Carpe Noctem and Forgiving)
Canon: Angel was cursed with a soul in 1898. He loses the soul and reverts to Angelus if he experiences a moment of "perfect happiness". (Multiple eps, including Innocence and Becoming I and II)
Canon: Angel does not need to lose his soul in order to act evil or do Angelus-like things. (Multiple eps, most notably Reunion and Forgiving)
Unclear Canon: What consititutes "perfect happiness" other than the one time he had sex with Buffy.
100% Fanon: That Angel can have sex with demons and not break the curse. This is incorrect. Being a demon has nothing to do with it. It's whether or not he experiences perfect happiness. (Epiphany)
Canon: Angel can have sex without experiencing perfect happiness. (Reprise, Epiphany, implied by the Furies in That Old Gang of Mine)
Canon: Angelus has sired more than one vampire. The two known vamps are Dru (Multiple eps, first mentioned in Lie to Me) and Penn (Sonambulist).
Unclear Canon: If he's sired more vamps besides them in his pre-souled days. It's also unclear how many vamps he may have turned himself, if any, when he was terrorizing Buffy in season 2.
Unclear Canon: If he sired James or Elizabeth. (Heartthrob)
Canon: Both Angel and Angelus have a "thing" for nuns, convents and the Catholic Church (Multiple eps, most notably Sonambulist, Dear Boy and Sleep Tight)
Canon: Both Angel and Angelus have used the term "boy" as a condescending term for a vamp they thought was beneath them. (Multiple eps, including Innocence and Heartthrob)
Unclear Canon: If they ever used it as a term of affection, or as an ongoing nickname for Spike or any other vamp.
Nicknames: Angelus was known as the Scourge of Europe (??? - can anyone cite an episode for this???). Xander once called Angel "Deadboy" (Lie to Me). Spike has on multiple occasions called Angel and Angelus "poofter" "ponce" and referred to him and his "nancy-boy" ways (Multiple eps, including In the Dark and Fool for Love) and once called Angel "Peaches" (Lover's Walk) and referred to him as "my sire" (School Hard). Dru calls him (particularly Angelus) "Daddy" and has referred to Angel as "the Angel-beast" (Multiple eps, including Reunion). Darla called him "my boy", "dear boy" and "lover". (Multiple eps, including Dear Boy and Offspring). In the Wishverse, Vamp Willow, Xander and The Master referred to Angel as "The Puppy" (The Wish)
Unclear canon: How often the "Deadboy" and "Peaches" nicknames were used offscreen. Angel's response of "Could you not call me that?" to Xander calling him "Deadboy" is said in a tone of voice which implies he's heard it before but we've no proof of this beyond that. Spike only calls Angel "Peaches" the once while intoxicated, there's no way of telling if he made a habit of it offscreen.
DRUSILLA
Canon: She was turned in 1860 by Angelus (Multiple eps, including Dear Boy)
Canon: She saw visions as a mortal and continues to see them as a vampire. (Multiple eps including Innocence and Dear Boy)
Canon: Angelus tormented her, drove her insane and turned her into a vampire on the day that she took her vows to become a nun. (Multiple eps, including Becoming and Dear Boy)
Canon: Drusilla appears to be her real first name.
Unclear Canon: Dru's last name.
Canon: Dru can somehow "tell" the difference between Angel and Angelus. (Multiple eps including Innocence and Reunion)
Canon: Drusilla is Spike's sire. (Fool For Love)
Canon: Drusilla also turned Darla the second time around. (The Trial).
Other Names: Multiple characters call her both Drusilla and Dru. Spike and Angelus have also used terms of affection with her like "princess", "baby", "precious", etc. (Multiple eps, including School Hard and Darla)
DARLA
Canon: Darla is not her mortal name. Angel guesses that the Master gave her that name. (Darla)
Canon: Darla was turned in 1609 by The Master in the Virgina Colony. (Darla)
Canon: Darla was a prostitute. (Multiple eps, including Darla and Epiphany)
Unclear Canon: How many vamps Darla has sired besides Angelus.
SPIKE
Canon: He was turned by Dru in 1880. (Fool For Love)
Canon: His real name is William (Fool For Love)
Unclear Canon: His full mortal name
Canon: Spike's usual accent is fake. He started out with a posh accent not unlike Giles's, then adopted a new one and rechristened himself Spike the same year he was turned. (Fool For Love)
Canon: Spike has referred to the women on the show as "luv" or "pet". (??? - anyone got some episodes for this???)
100% Fanon: That he's ever referred to any of the men on the show this way.
100% Fanon: He has ever called Xander or anyone else "whelp"
Canon: He once referred to Buffy as "Slutty the Vampire Slayer" when taunting Angel (??? - anyone got an episode for this???).
Unclear Canon: If he ever called Buffy that to her face. If so, he did it offscreen.
Canon: He once, sarcastically, told Xander "You're a nummy treat." (Hush)
100% Fanon: He refers to Xander as "Nummy".
Canon: Spike has killed two Slayers. One in China during the Boxer Rebellion (1900) and the other in the New York subway system (1977). (Fool For Love)
Unclear Canon: The tie-in novel Pretty Maids in a Row tells a different story about who the second Slayer was.
Other names: In history he was known as William the Bloody (School Hard). Angelus, Darla and Dru used to call him William (Fool For Love). Buffy called him William when she broke up with him (As You Were). Angelus called him "my boy" (Innocence).
Unclear Canon: How many times, if any, Buffy called him "William" offscreen. Likewise how many times, if any, Angelus called him "my boy" offscreen.
XANDER
Canon: His full name is Alexander LaVelle Harris. Not may people know his middle name. (Teacher's Pet)
Canon: Xander's parents fight a lot, his father is an alcoholic, and his homelife was so unpleasant that Xander prefered to sleep outside in the backyard than with his family on holidays. (Multiple eps, including Amends and Hell's Bells)
100% Fanon: If Xander was ever physically or sexually abused. We've never seen any evidence that he was, we've never seen any evidence that he wasn't.
Unclear Canon: How close Xander was to Jesse. He's refered to as Xander's friend and the two of them are obviously comfortable together, but it's difficult to say if the two of them shared "best friend" status or not. (Welcome to the Hellmouth)
Canon: Xander lost his virginity to Faith. (The Zeppo)
Unclear Canon: How many bases Xander and Cordy rounded while they were dating over the course of seasons 2-3.
Unclear Canon: If Xander took his Uncle Rory's 57 Chevy on his post-grad trip. It's unlikely, however, given that the car he took broke down, was "entirely made of rust" and he left it in Oxnard when he came back to Sunnydale. His Uncle Rory's car was a classic in good condition. (The Zeppo, The Freshman)
Other names: (???? - any help here guys???)
GILES
Canon: His full name is Rupert Giles. (Multiple eps, including I Robot, You Jane)
Canon: His father and grandmother were Watchers, he was told at an early age that he was to be a Watcher, and he attended Oxford. (Multpile eps, including Never Kill a Boy on the First Date and Teacher's Pet)
Canon: He didn't want to be a Watcher so he rebelled by dropping out of Oxford and playing around with the dark arts with, amongst others, Ethan Rayne. (Multiple eps, including The Dark Age)
Canon: Giles's nickname during those days was "Ripper". Whenever Giles does something particularly strong, violent or otherwise against his quiet, bookish persona, the shooting scripts refer to him as being "Ripper-like" or "pure Ripper". (Multiple eps, including The Dark Age and Two To Go)
100% Fanon: That Giles has Dissociative Identity Disorder (aka Multiple Personality Disorder). Giles and Ripper are the same person. Ripper is not another personality, it's a nickname from his past. "Ripper" is used both as a nickname and as a state of mind, but it's not a personality.
Other Names: Xander once called him "G-Man" (??? - got an episode to cite guys???)
CORDELIA
Canon: Her full name is Cordelia Chase
Unclear Canon: If she's got a middle name
Unclear Canon: Who she lost her virginity with and when she lost it.
Canon: Her parents were busted for tax evasion. (Multiple eps, including The Prom and Through the Looking Glass)
Unclear Canon: How her parents were punished for tax evasion beyond having their money and property seized, or if her mother and father were both punished for it.
Unclear Canon: What contact, if any, she's had with her family since she left Sunnydale.
Other Names: Many characters have called her Cordelia and Cordy on both shows. She has only been called "Cor" once and that was by Angel in Tomorrow. Doyle and Groo have both called her "princess" (Multiple eps, including Hero and Through the Looking Glass)
100% Fanon: That any of the characters ever called her "Delia".
Things that we're looking for:
1. Episodes for the places where I've clearly marked that I don't have a clue what episode proves the point we just made
2. Information to fill in any blanks for the concepts and characters that I've got
3. Information to fill in any blanks for the concepts and characters that I don't have. This is just the starter list - I'm all for info about Dawn, Lindsey, Lorne - whoever, I just wasn't given any to work with and if I tried to write out everything I can remember right now this thing would never get posted. So if you want to add more info, characters, whatever - PLEASE. =)
VAMPIRES
Vocabulary
Canon: the term "sire" refers to either the vampire that turned you (eg Darla is Angel's sire) or an older vamp of your family line (eg Angel is Spike's sire). (Multiple eps, including but not limited to School Hard, Fool For Love and Dear Boy)
Canon: Familial terms such as "Daddy", "Grandmother", "daughter", "we're a family", etc. have been used in Angelus's family (Darla, Angelus, Dru and Spike). (Multple eps, including Innocence, Darla and Reunion)
Unclear Canon: Other vampires may or may not use these terms.
Unclear Canon: Wes and Gunn's conversation in Reunion ("So the grand-daughter remade the grandmother?") could imply that the familial terms are universal for all vamps (ie Wes learned them as a Watcher) or that it's solely limited to Angelus's family.
Unclear Canon: If Darla disliked the term "grandmother" as a concept, or because she didn't find it flattering. (Darla)
100% Fanon: The terms "childe" and "childre". At no time have either one of these terms - even with their correct spellings - have been used on the show.
Canon: Vamps who follow other vamps are often referred to as "minions" (Multiple eps, including Real Me)
Canon: Darla's sire and the leader of the Order of Aurelius was The Master. (Multiple eps, including Darla and season 1 of Buffy)
Unclear Canon: we're never told if he named himself this, if it was a title, or if other vampires could be "masters".
Unclear Canon: Spike, Angelus and even Harmony could conceivably be thought of as "master" vampires if you're using the term to mean any vamp who leads other vampires.
100% Fanon: that the idea of "master" vs "minion" vamps relates to how you were made (see: Physiology)
Physiology
Canon: "To make you a vampire they have to suck your blood. And then you have to suck their blood. It's like a whole big sucking thing." (Welcome to the Hellmouth)
Canon: Buffy can drink a small (undetermined) amount of vampire blood without turning into a vamp or being harmed by it. (Buffy vs. Dracula)
Unclear Canon: Buffy might not have been harmed because she's the Slayer.We don't know what vamp blood would do to a regular human.
100% Fanon: the concept that there are two ways to make a vamp, and one turns you into a "Master" vampire and the other turns you into a "minion" vampire. Being a "minion" vamp is vampire sociology, not physiology (see: Vocabulary)
Canon: Jossverse vamps should not be able to get, or cause, pregnancy. (Bad Eggs, almost all of season 3 Angel)
Canon: Angel and Darla, for reasons unknown, were able to have a child. (Season 3 Angel)
Unclear Canon: It's implied that even if they are infertile, male vamps at the very least still ejaculate. (Reprise)
Unclear Canon: Whether or not female vamps lubricate.
Unclear Canon: If vamps need to go to the bathroom.
Unclear Canon: What benefits, if any, vamps might get from eating real food. (Multiple eps, including Fool For Love, Crush, I've Got You Under My Skin and Dead End)
100% Fanon: blood tears. Jossverse vamps do not shed blood tears.
Canon: Vampires are affected by alcohol, caffiene and other stimulants. (Multiple eps, including Lover's Walk, She, Eternity and Untouched)
Canon: Vampires can be poisoned. (Graduation I and II)
Unclear Canon: If Slayer blood has any health benefits to vampires other than the antidote for the "Killer of the Dead" poison Faith used on Angel. (Graduation I and II)
Unclear Canon: If the blood of a Slayer is a real aphrodesiac to vamps or if Spike just got off on killing them. (Fool for Love)
BUFFY
Canon: Her full name is Buffy Anne Summers (Multiple eps, including The Gift)
100% Fanon: That her first name is Elizabeth. It's not, it's Buffy. (The Gift)
100% Fanon: That Buffy smells like vanilla.
Unclear Canon: What Buffy does smell like. SMG apparently said in an interview once that she used vanilla-scented perfume, which is where the concept started.
WESLEY
Canon: His full name is Wesley Wyndam-Pryce (Shooting scripts for multiple eps, including Bad Girls, also the second Watcher's Guide)
Unclear Canon: Some online shooting scripts for season 3 episodes of Angel spell his last name "Wyndam-Price".
Unclear Canon: Wesley's past. He was originally created to be "Giles, the next generation" which is where many writers get the idea that he went to Oxford and was "destined" to be a Watcher as Giles did and was. As yet there's been no direct confirmation or denial of this on the show.
Canon: Wesley was "terrorized" by his father who didn't think he was "good enough" and did something with or to him that involved him being "locked up under the stairs" for "hours". (I've Got You Under My Skin)
Canon: Wesley does not get along well with his father. (I've Got You Under My Skin, Belonging, Fredless)
Unclear Canon: How well Wes gets along with his mother. It's implied they have a better relationship than Wes and his dad. (Belonging)
Canon: Wes calls his dad "father" and his mother "mum". (Belonging)
100% Fanon: That Wes was physically or sexually abused by his parents. There's no proof of this on the show. However there's also no proof that he wasn't.
Other names: Multiple characters call him "Wesley" or "Wes". Gunn sometimes calls him "English" (He also referred to Wes's dad as "English Sr." - Belonging). The Host called him "The British Boy" in Happy Anniversary and Merl called him "that British guy" in The Thin Dead Line. Angel called him "Pryce" in Forgiving.
WILLOW
Canon: Her full name is Willow Rosenberg.
Unclear Canon: We don't know if she has a middle name.
Canon: Her parents are Ira and Sheila. (Passion and Gingerbread)
100% Fanon: Willow is Wiccan. She is not.
Canon: Willow is "a Wicca" - the Jossverse term for "witch".
Canon: Willow is Jewish (Multiple eps, including Amends, Listening to Fear and The Body)
100% Fanon: Willow using an exclamation like "Goddess!" - she doesn't.
Unclear Canon: Apparently a comic book written by Amber Benson had Willow, incorrectly, using "Goddess!"
Canon: Willow is gay
Unclear Canon: To all appearances (such as her relationships with Oz and Xander) Willow is actually bisexual.
Canon: Willow "tastes like strawberries" (Smashed, Two to Go)
Unclear Canon: If that's just to another magic user or if she tastes like strawberries in general.
Other names: Spike and Faith have called her "Red" (Doomed, Bargaining, This Year's Girl), Rack called her "Strawberry" (Smashed)
Unclear Canon: If other characters call her "Red". She doesn't register surprise at it, which implies it's a common nickname.
TARA
Unclear Canon: If her full name is Tara Maclay or if she uses her mother's maiden name.
Canon: Her brother is named Donny and she has a cousin Beth.
Unclear Canon: If Tara is Wiccan. She didn't like the Wicca group at UC Sunnydale (Hush) but her stated magic beliefs are similar to those of the Wiccan religion (Multiple eps, including Forever)
100% Fanon: That anyone has called Tara "Glinda"
ANGEL
Canon: Calling him Angel or Angelus
Canon: His mortal name was Liam, he lived from 1727-1753 in Galway, Ireland and was turned in 1753 by Darla. (Prodigal)
Unclear Canon: Liam's last name.
Canon: Wolfram & Hart has records on everything about Angel's past, including his mortal life.(Dad, implied in Blind Date).
Canon: Lilah knows that Angel's mortal name was Liam. (Dad)
Unclear Canon: We assume Darla also knew Angel's mortal name since she turned him.
Unclear Canon: If Angel ever told anybody else his mortal name. He's never gone by it or talked about it during his time as a vamp on either show.
Canon: With regards to his past, Angel has not been known to volunteer the information but he won't deny it if someone asks him about it (Lie to Me, Blind Date).
Canon: He took the name "Angelus" after he was turned. It's implied but not directly stated that he took this name because when he came back to kill his sister Kathy she thought he was an angel come back from the dead. (Prodigal).
Unclear Canon: When, exactly, he started going by the name "Angel". All that's known is that it was after he was cursed. Boone implies he knew "Angel" in "the twenties" in Blood Money but it's not clear if he's only using that name because that's what Angel goes by now, or even if that's when he and Angel originally met. The shooting script for Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been also calls him "Angel" even during the 1950s flashbacks, but again it's unclear if that's what Angel called himself.
Unclear Canon: When the characters started to uniformly call the unsouled version of Angel "Angelus". Jenny does it in Innocence but ironically Spike and Dru do not. As the years go on, however, both Angel and those around him start to use "Angelus" to refer to his unsouled self. (Multiple eps, including Eternity, Carpe Noctem and Forgiving)
Canon: Angel was cursed with a soul in 1898. He loses the soul and reverts to Angelus if he experiences a moment of "perfect happiness". (Multiple eps, including Innocence and Becoming I and II)
Canon: Angel does not need to lose his soul in order to act evil or do Angelus-like things. (Multiple eps, most notably Reunion and Forgiving)
Unclear Canon: What consititutes "perfect happiness" other than the one time he had sex with Buffy.
100% Fanon: That Angel can have sex with demons and not break the curse. This is incorrect. Being a demon has nothing to do with it. It's whether or not he experiences perfect happiness. (Epiphany)
Canon: Angel can have sex without experiencing perfect happiness. (Reprise, Epiphany, implied by the Furies in That Old Gang of Mine)
Canon: Angelus has sired more than one vampire. The two known vamps are Dru (Multiple eps, first mentioned in Lie to Me) and Penn (Sonambulist).
Unclear Canon: If he's sired more vamps besides them in his pre-souled days. It's also unclear how many vamps he may have turned himself, if any, when he was terrorizing Buffy in season 2.
Unclear Canon: If he sired James or Elizabeth. (Heartthrob)
Canon: Both Angel and Angelus have a "thing" for nuns, convents and the Catholic Church (Multiple eps, most notably Sonambulist, Dear Boy and Sleep Tight)
Canon: Both Angel and Angelus have used the term "boy" as a condescending term for a vamp they thought was beneath them. (Multiple eps, including Innocence and Heartthrob)
Unclear Canon: If they ever used it as a term of affection, or as an ongoing nickname for Spike or any other vamp.
Nicknames: Angelus was known as the Scourge of Europe (??? - can anyone cite an episode for this???). Xander once called Angel "Deadboy" (Lie to Me). Spike has on multiple occasions called Angel and Angelus "poofter" "ponce" and referred to him and his "nancy-boy" ways (Multiple eps, including In the Dark and Fool for Love) and once called Angel "Peaches" (Lover's Walk) and referred to him as "my sire" (School Hard). Dru calls him (particularly Angelus) "Daddy" and has referred to Angel as "the Angel-beast" (Multiple eps, including Reunion). Darla called him "my boy", "dear boy" and "lover". (Multiple eps, including Dear Boy and Offspring). In the Wishverse, Vamp Willow, Xander and The Master referred to Angel as "The Puppy" (The Wish)
Unclear canon: How often the "Deadboy" and "Peaches" nicknames were used offscreen. Angel's response of "Could you not call me that?" to Xander calling him "Deadboy" is said in a tone of voice which implies he's heard it before but we've no proof of this beyond that. Spike only calls Angel "Peaches" the once while intoxicated, there's no way of telling if he made a habit of it offscreen.
DRUSILLA
Canon: She was turned in 1860 by Angelus (Multiple eps, including Dear Boy)
Canon: She saw visions as a mortal and continues to see them as a vampire. (Multiple eps including Innocence and Dear Boy)
Canon: Angelus tormented her, drove her insane and turned her into a vampire on the day that she took her vows to become a nun. (Multiple eps, including Becoming and Dear Boy)
Canon: Drusilla appears to be her real first name.
Unclear Canon: Dru's last name.
Canon: Dru can somehow "tell" the difference between Angel and Angelus. (Multiple eps including Innocence and Reunion)
Canon: Drusilla is Spike's sire. (Fool For Love)
Canon: Drusilla also turned Darla the second time around. (The Trial).
Other Names: Multiple characters call her both Drusilla and Dru. Spike and Angelus have also used terms of affection with her like "princess", "baby", "precious", etc. (Multiple eps, including School Hard and Darla)
DARLA
Canon: Darla is not her mortal name. Angel guesses that the Master gave her that name. (Darla)
Canon: Darla was turned in 1609 by The Master in the Virgina Colony. (Darla)
Canon: Darla was a prostitute. (Multiple eps, including Darla and Epiphany)
Unclear Canon: How many vamps Darla has sired besides Angelus.
SPIKE
Canon: He was turned by Dru in 1880. (Fool For Love)
Canon: His real name is William (Fool For Love)
Unclear Canon: His full mortal name
Canon: Spike's usual accent is fake. He started out with a posh accent not unlike Giles's, then adopted a new one and rechristened himself Spike the same year he was turned. (Fool For Love)
Canon: Spike has referred to the women on the show as "luv" or "pet". (??? - anyone got some episodes for this???)
100% Fanon: That he's ever referred to any of the men on the show this way.
100% Fanon: He has ever called Xander or anyone else "whelp"
Canon: He once referred to Buffy as "Slutty the Vampire Slayer" when taunting Angel (??? - anyone got an episode for this???).
Unclear Canon: If he ever called Buffy that to her face. If so, he did it offscreen.
Canon: He once, sarcastically, told Xander "You're a nummy treat." (Hush)
100% Fanon: He refers to Xander as "Nummy".
Canon: Spike has killed two Slayers. One in China during the Boxer Rebellion (1900) and the other in the New York subway system (1977). (Fool For Love)
Unclear Canon: The tie-in novel Pretty Maids in a Row tells a different story about who the second Slayer was.
Other names: In history he was known as William the Bloody (School Hard). Angelus, Darla and Dru used to call him William (Fool For Love). Buffy called him William when she broke up with him (As You Were). Angelus called him "my boy" (Innocence).
Unclear Canon: How many times, if any, Buffy called him "William" offscreen. Likewise how many times, if any, Angelus called him "my boy" offscreen.
XANDER
Canon: His full name is Alexander LaVelle Harris. Not may people know his middle name. (Teacher's Pet)
Canon: Xander's parents fight a lot, his father is an alcoholic, and his homelife was so unpleasant that Xander prefered to sleep outside in the backyard than with his family on holidays. (Multiple eps, including Amends and Hell's Bells)
100% Fanon: If Xander was ever physically or sexually abused. We've never seen any evidence that he was, we've never seen any evidence that he wasn't.
Unclear Canon: How close Xander was to Jesse. He's refered to as Xander's friend and the two of them are obviously comfortable together, but it's difficult to say if the two of them shared "best friend" status or not. (Welcome to the Hellmouth)
Canon: Xander lost his virginity to Faith. (The Zeppo)
Unclear Canon: How many bases Xander and Cordy rounded while they were dating over the course of seasons 2-3.
Unclear Canon: If Xander took his Uncle Rory's 57 Chevy on his post-grad trip. It's unlikely, however, given that the car he took broke down, was "entirely made of rust" and he left it in Oxnard when he came back to Sunnydale. His Uncle Rory's car was a classic in good condition. (The Zeppo, The Freshman)
Other names: (???? - any help here guys???)
GILES
Canon: His full name is Rupert Giles. (Multiple eps, including I Robot, You Jane)
Canon: His father and grandmother were Watchers, he was told at an early age that he was to be a Watcher, and he attended Oxford. (Multpile eps, including Never Kill a Boy on the First Date and Teacher's Pet)
Canon: He didn't want to be a Watcher so he rebelled by dropping out of Oxford and playing around with the dark arts with, amongst others, Ethan Rayne. (Multiple eps, including The Dark Age)
Canon: Giles's nickname during those days was "Ripper". Whenever Giles does something particularly strong, violent or otherwise against his quiet, bookish persona, the shooting scripts refer to him as being "Ripper-like" or "pure Ripper". (Multiple eps, including The Dark Age and Two To Go)
100% Fanon: That Giles has Dissociative Identity Disorder (aka Multiple Personality Disorder). Giles and Ripper are the same person. Ripper is not another personality, it's a nickname from his past. "Ripper" is used both as a nickname and as a state of mind, but it's not a personality.
Other Names: Xander once called him "G-Man" (??? - got an episode to cite guys???)
CORDELIA
Canon: Her full name is Cordelia Chase
Unclear Canon: If she's got a middle name
Unclear Canon: Who she lost her virginity with and when she lost it.
Canon: Her parents were busted for tax evasion. (Multiple eps, including The Prom and Through the Looking Glass)
Unclear Canon: How her parents were punished for tax evasion beyond having their money and property seized, or if her mother and father were both punished for it.
Unclear Canon: What contact, if any, she's had with her family since she left Sunnydale.
Other Names: Many characters have called her Cordelia and Cordy on both shows. She has only been called "Cor" once and that was by Angel in Tomorrow. Doyle and Groo have both called her "princess" (Multiple eps, including Hero and Through the Looking Glass)
100% Fanon: That any of the characters ever called her "Delia".
