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   Top 10 Most Powerful Demons In Buffy The Vampire Slayer   
      
   Buffy Summers and the Scooby Gang have faced a lot of baddies over the   
   course of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's many seasons. Living in a town right on   
   top of the Hellmouth means coming in contact with all sorts of supernatural   
   villains looking to utilize it. From vampires to demi-gods and everything in   
   between the Slayer and her friends have fought them all countless times.   
      
   One of the most prominent antagonist of the series has always been demons.   
   From the demons that are just trying to do their jobs (Vengeance demons), to   
   the truly diabolical (The Gentlemen), they all have different capabilities   
   that make them dangerous no matter their motivation. Demons can hypnotize   
   their victims, transport them to another dimension, cast spells, and even   
   breathe fire. Here are the heaviest hitting demons on the show, from the   
   disgusting to the truly disturbing.   
      
      
   10  SWEET   
      
   You’d think wanting to add a little more song and dance to your impending   
   nuptials wouldn’t turn into a dance off with a demon, but that’s exactly   
   what happened when Xander Harris decided to use a talisman to summon Sweet,   
   a demon as old as Emperor Nero, who has the ability to possess people to   
   literally “dance themselves to death”.   
      
   Not only that, but while under Sweet’s spell, victims confess their   
   innermost thoughts and darkest secrets, prompting chaos and calamity from   
   the damaged parties. The Scoobies learn all sorts of things about each   
   other, which proves almost more dangerous to their unity than Sweet’s   
   control of their physical motions.   
      
      
   9  WIG LADY   
      
   Buffy Summers has been late to the party in a lot of areas pertaining to   
   typical young adult milestones. She described driving as “cars and Buffy are   
   unmixy things”, and when it came to maintaining a job, well, she was too   
   busy saving the world and in her off time going to school. Eventually in   
   Season 5 however, she decided to join the ranks of the workforce at the   
   Doublemeat Palace, a burger chain in Sunnydale.   
      
   Unbeknownst to the Slayer, one of the regulars (dubbed “Wig Lady”) wasn’t   
   visiting the palace for its Doublemeat Medley but rather, for its employees.   
   The reason there was such a high turnover rate wasn’t because the job   
   sucked, but because a parasitic demon was paralyzing employees and sucking   
   them dry.   
      
      
   8 ANYA JENKINS   
      
   Though Anya has been a vital member of the Scooby Gang through many of their   
   greatest trials, she began her life as a vengeance demon, fulfilling the   
   wishes of scorned and jilted women. Capable of truly horrific acts of   
   revenge on behalf of the injured parties, she once massacred an entire   
   fraternity for their acts of cruelty.   
      
   Besides having demon strength, the ability to teleport, healing powers, and   
   hypnosis, Anya has been known to alter reality, such as when she sent Willow   
   and Xander to an alternate dimension where they were both vampires that   
   drained Cordelia’s blood, and Buffy died trying to stop The Master. A truly   
   powerful demon, she (usually) fought on the side of good.   
      
      
   7 HALFREK   
      
   Anya wasn’t the only vengeance demon operating in Sunnydale. Her   
   centuries-old friend Halfrek also had occasion to pass by the town built on   
   the Hellmouth. Halfrek was a powerful vengeance demon that unlike Anya,   
   didn’t   
   seek justice for scorned women, but for children that had been neglected.   
      
   In some ways, Halfrek could be as noble as Anya when she chose to be, but   
   her methods for enacting vengeance often seemed an overreaction. She once   
   coaxed Dawn into calling upon her powers when she felt neglected by the   
   Summers family, causing Halfrek to trap them all in the Summer’s house   
   during Buffy’s birthday. Like Anya, she possessed superior strength and   
   healing abilities, only able to be smited by their mutual boss, D’Hoffryn.   
      
      
   6 D'HOFFRYN   
      
   D’Hoffryn was an ancient demon that oversaw the activities of all Vengeance   
   demons. Normally he remained in the Hell dimension, known as Arashmaharr.   
   Not one to flaunt his powers, he often showed up to steward his demon   
   underlings, but make no mistake, he was one of the mightiest demons   
   Sunnydale had ever seen. In his lowliest state, he could create rifts in   
   time, fly, and destroy other Vengeance demons with a snap of his fingers.   
      
   In his prime, D’Hoffryn could resurrect the dead and perform pyrokinesis,   
   though he didn’t make a habit of it (it was far too messy). He spent most of   
   his time recruiting to fill his ranks (he occasionally had to kill Vengeance   
   demons when they broke the rules), always hoping to sway Willow to his side.   
      
      
   5 THE JUDGE   
      
   The Judge may not have gotten a lot of screen time on the series, but he was   
   an incredibly powerful demon who possessed the ability to burn the humanity   
   from his victims. Like his name implies, his ancient demon could sense the   
   dark or the light in people’s souls and arbitrarily decide which way they   
   leaned.   
      
   According to scholars he couldn’t be killed, and centuries of armies   
   attempted to smite him to no avail. Legends spoke of his dismembered limbs   
   being hidden at the far corners of the world, only to become reattached.   
   Drusilla and Spike reassembled him in an attempt to incinerate the citizens   
   of Sunnydale, but Buffy was able to stop him with a rocket launcher.   
      
      
   4 ADAM   
      
   While not technically a full-fledged demon, the Frankenstein monster-esue   
   Adam was made from parts of a demon, as well as human and machine. He   
   absorbed electricity to power himself, which gave him ten times the strength   
   of a human. Neither the soldiers of the Initiative or Buffy and the Scooby   
   Gang could keep him at bay.   
      
   The Big Bad of Season 4, Adam was only able to be killed when Giles and the   
   rest of the Scoobies cast a spell on him, which imbued Buffy with the power   
   of the First Slayer during their epic standoff. His vision of creating a   
   master race in his own image would die with him.   
      
      
   3 THE GENTLEMEN   
      
   Some of the most horrifying demons to ever show up in Sunnydale, The   
   Gentlemen swept into the sleepy town one night to steal the entire   
   population’s voices while their ghoulish lackeys carved out their hearts.   
   Though their powers weren’t flashy, the ease with which they incapacitated   
   everyone was terrifying, rendering the Scooby Gang unable to communicate   
   with one another.   
      
   Unfortunately for the Scoobies, The Gentlemen couldn’t be harmed by normal   
      
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