Warren Mears
Warren Mears is a male television character who features in Buffy-Angel.
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Biography
Warren Mears was a male human who came to grow up in Sunnydale where at school he excelled in science and technology. (Episode: I Was Made to Love You) However, he came to be bullied by his peers among which included Frankie. (Episode: Seeing Red) As a teenager, he attended Sunnydale High School for a semester before moving on to a tech college in Dutton. He eventually built a robot girlfriend that he named April, who was programmed to love and obey him. At first, Mears assumed that he would love her in return but came to grow bored of how easy and predictable things were with her. Instead, he met and fell in love with Katrina Silber who was a strong-minded girl in his engineering seminar, and the pair began dating. However, Warren was unable to bring himself to break up with April, so he went home for spring break without her, hoping that her batteries would run out. In 2001, April came to follow Warren and Katrina to Sunnydale, where she proceeded to question everyone she met about Warren's whereabouts. This caught the attention of the Scooby Gang which included the Slayer Buffy Summers. April's behavior came to grow increasingly erratic and violent leading to Buffy tracking down Warren in order to confront him. He explained that April must have been recharging her batteries somehow, and Buffy became concerned about the danger she posed. When Katrina told April that Warren was her boyfriend, the robot attacked her, but Buffy and Warren showed up just in time to save her life. Warren then came to tell April that he did not love her causing her to react violently. This led to her and Buffy fighting whereupon Katrina realized that April was a robot and left Warren in disgust. He ran after her, leaving Buffy to deal with April, whose batteries finally ran out. Warren was later approached by the vampire Spike, who harbored a romantic obsession with Buffy. (Episode: I Was Made to Love You) He forced Warren to build a robotic version of the Slayer for him to have sex with before he supposedly skipped town. (Episode: Intervention)
Sometime later, Warren resurfaced as part of the Trio, along with Jonathan and Andrew. The Trio was little more than a criminal group who strove to take over Sunnydale, though most of their plans revolved around neutralizing Buffy, who, as the Slayer, was the one thing standing in their way. (Episode: Flooded) Warren showed his true colors as a dangerous, misogynistic individual. When Katrina reappeared, Warren used the cerebral dampener device to make her obey his will, including serving and kissing him. When she resisted the device, Warren attacked and accidentally killed her. He then hatched a scheme using Rwasundi demons and their temporal disturbances to confuse Buffy into thinking she was responsible for Katrina's death. His plan nearly succeeded, but just as Buffy was about to turn herself into the Sunnydale Police Department, she overheard them identify Katrina's body and immediately realized the truth, subsequently vowing to bring Warren to justice. (Episode: Dead Things) After Katrina's death, Jonathan became increasingly unhappy with Warren's lack of conscience. Warren plotted with Andrew, who was enamored with him, to ditch Jonathan. (Episode: Entropy) Additionally, Warren began to dominate his teammates, reserving the usage of any scientific devices and mystical artifacts they created or acquired for himself. (Episode: Seeing Red)
Warren made a bid for major villain status when he stole Orbs of Nezzla'Khan which gave him strength and invulnerability. He, Jonathan, and Andrew attempted to rob an armored car, but Buffy arrived and the two fought, during which it was clear that Warren's Orb-granted strength made him more than a match for the Slayer, even taking the time to gloat that he had finally defeated the Slayer, something that many had tried (and failed) to accomplish in the past. In the midst of the fight, Jonathan appeared to attack Buffy, but in fact surreptitiously told her how to defeat Warren. Just as Warren was apparently about to finish Buffy off, she saw the pouch containing the orbs and destroyed them. As a contemptuous Buffy advanced, an enraged and humiliated Warren escaped with a jet pack, vowing that he would take Buffy down, and left Jonathan and Andrew to take the fall with the police. (Episode: Seeing Red) The next day, Warren, furious that Buffy had foiled his plans again, appeared in Buffy's backyard with a gun. He fired several shots, hitting Buffy, who only survived because of Willow's intervention, and accidentally killing Tara with a stray bullet. This event pushed Willow deeper into dark magics as she sought vengeance. Upon discovering that Buffy had survived his assassination attempt and that Willow was after him, Warren immediately travelled to the hideout of sorcery dealer Rack, who supplied him with protection spells. These were not enough to stop Willow, who eventually had Warren at her mercy. Although Warren attempted to reason with Willow, his pleas fell upon deaf ears when she exposed that he was indeed responsible for Katrina's death. Willow tied him up with various tree branches and tortured him with the bullet she had extracted from Buffy's body, slowly forcing it into his chest before growing bored with him. She telekinetically flayed him alive in front of her friends, then went on a rampage to kill Andrew and Jonathan, despite them not being directly involved. (Episode: Villains)
Overview
Personality and attributes
Powers and abilities
He was shown to be skilled enough to making robots sophisticated enough to resemble humans. Even vampires, with their enhanced senses are incapable of differentiating the robots that Warren made from actual people, though their mannerisms and speech patterns were stilted and imperfect by human standards. (Episode: I Was Made to Love You)
Notes
- Warren Mears was created by Joss Whedon and Jane Espenson where he was portrayed by actor Adam Busch and featured in the Buffy-Angel universe.
In other media
Comics
- In Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season Ten v1 (2014), Warren Mears appeared in the comic continuation published by Dark Horse Comics. Warren's family buried his skin, the only remains they could find, in a cemetery in Sunnydale. the real Warren returned months after the destruction of Sunnydale. Seconds after he was killed by Willow, Amy had used her magic to resurrect Warren and keep him surviving despite his lack of skin. He was the one who gave Amy the idea of cursing Willow in order to become him, and he bore a considerable grudge against both Willow for flaying him and Buffy for ruining all of his schemes.
Appearances
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
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