Are There Any Watchers in Buffy the Vampire Slayer That Aren’t English?

By Sara Bellum On April 24, 2012 In Sara Bellum No Comments

Dear Sara,

Are there any Watchers in Buffy the Vampire Slayer that aren’t English? Weren’t the first Slayers created in Africa? Shouldn’t there be Watchers from all over the world, not just Great Britain?

Faith in Willow

Dear Faith,

There were Watchers from many countries and cultures but both Rupert Giles and Wesley Wyndham Pryce were sent to Buffy from the Watchers Council of Britain. The Council was founded by the Shadow Men who created the Slayers in ancient Africa but at some point they had to have migrated and being in Great Britain they adopted the language and apparently also a lot of native Britains into the organization. Buffy’s first Watcher was an American (Merrick), Andrew Wells who was part of the Trio that plagued Buffy and the Scoobies for a season later trained to become a Watcher and was very much an American, Roger “Sam” Zabuto who was Kendra’s Watcher was from Jamaica.

-Sara Bellum

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Sara Bellum

Editor at Buzzy Multimedia Publishing

The name's Sara Bellum, and I'm the editor-at-large here at BuzzyMag - the hostess with the mostess, if you will. I like to think that my first calling is fighting crime and delivering a heaping dose of sweet, sweet justice to all manner of thugs, miscreants, hoodlums, ruffians, and ne'er-do-wells, but unfortunately, violent vigilantism doesn't exactly pay big bucks these days.

Times are tough, my friends, and I've got bills to pay, so I decided to put my encyclopedic knowledge of all things sci-fi & fantasy-related to use to help me land a day job. To tell you the truth, it's kind of a nice change of pace. My manicures have been lasting a bit longer lately.