Maggie Walsh
Maggie Walsh is a female television character who features in the Buffyverse.
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Biography
Maggie Walsh was a female human who came to operate in the modern world. At some point, she came to join a top-secret military Initiative that was tasked with combating supernatural threats and studying the threats posed by them. She came to head the operation as Director and senior scientist where she used her expertise to study the Subterrestrials. (Episode: The Initiative)
She later took part in a secret experiment alongside Dr. Francis Angleman with this being the 314 Project. This aimed to ceate a race of bio-mechanical demonoids combining traits from humans, demons and machines that would serve as supersoldiers. The culmination of this project was Adam who was being developed in secret at their Sunnydale facility. (Episode: Primeval)
Walsh maintained a close relationship with Riley. As he developed a relationship with Buffy, the identity of the Slayer became known to Walsh. Though she initially thought that Buffy was a useful ally, Walsh soon disliked her unpredictability and unwanted curiosity, especially in regards to Project 314. Eventually, Walsh tried to kill Buffy by sending her on a mission on which she was ambushed by two demons released from the Initiative's holding cells while armed with a defective taser blaster. However, Buffy defeated the demons and appeared on the monitors when Walsh prematurely announced Buffy's death to Riley, causing the latter to lose trust in her. As Walsh retreated to the labs of Project 314, she plotted how to use Adam to defeat Buffy. However, the creature awoke and impaled Walsh with his Polgara skewer, killing her, and escaped from the Initiative. (Episode: The I in Team)
Adam artificially reanimated Walsh's and Angleman's corpses with 'moderate brain activity' for the final stage the 314 Project, which involved locking up the Initiative and then unleashing all captured demons on the soldiers so they would annihilate each other. This would leave behind a large number of human and demon corpses to build an entire army of creatures like Adam. Walsh also had set Riley up to be part of 314 by implanting a behavior modifier chip within his chest that could be used to control his actions. When Buffy appeared at the secret laboratory to confront Adam and save Riley, the undead Walsh tried to attack her with a bone saw. Riley managed to remove the chip in his body and ripped out the tubes pumping blood to keep Walsh reanimated, killing her for good. After the Scooby Gang defeated Adam and defeated the demons rampaging within the complex alongside the Initiative soldiers, the U.S. government deemed Walsh's vision of using demons for military purposes brilliant, but ultimately impossible due to the volatile nature of demonkind, officially closing down the Initiative. (Episode: Primeval)
Overview
Personality and attributes
At university, she had a fierce reputation as both a harsh academic and taskmaster. (Episode: The Freshman)
Powers and abilities
After being killed, she was reanimated with 'moderate brain activity' to serve Adam. (Episode: Primeval)
Within the Initiative, she headed a secret experimented called the 314 Project that looked to harness the power of subterrestrials and use them to create bio-engineered warriors. (Episode: Primeval)
Notes
- Maggie Walsh was created by Joss Whedon where she was portrayed by actor Lindsay Crouse and featured in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
- Producer Doug Petrie commented on the character, "It's very much a Frankenstein story wherein someone creates a monster and then the monster is out of their control. That's what this was. We knew from the beginning that Maggie Walsh was going to be killed by her own creation. Then we got Lindsay Crouse, the great Lindsay Crouse. This is the episode where sadly she shines the most and this is her best episode. As often happens, just when things really start cooking, they've got to go. She's one of the bigger names that we've gotten on the show and we know that we had her for a limited time, so there was a practical consideration as well. It's very much in the vein of Frankenstein's monster and we felt it essential that the first thing the monster do is kill its creator — to hand over the baton as it were and give someone else the villain's mantle for season four."
- In Buffy the Vampire Slayer magazine #18 (UK, March 2001), Crouse commented on the character, "She's such an extremist. She has a vision of what she wants to do. She feels like she's testing the boundaries of something, and any human being always feels important no matter who they are. I'm sure she admires Dr. Frankenstein - or Einstein. She's probably a mix of those two. I like her caustic nature, because she's not a mean person. I have always imagined that Maggie treats people like grown-ups. That she doesn't want to live in a world of babies. She doesn't have the time for it. The Initiative is her baby."
Appearances
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
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