Jonathan Levinson
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Jonathan Levinson (born in 1981 in Sunnydale, California and died in November 2002 in Sunnydale, California) is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon for the cult television program Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The character is portrayed by Danny Strong.
Biography
Character history
Jonathan Levinson was born in 1981 and raised in Sunnydale, California. He attended Sunnydale High School where he was often bullied, ridiculed and ignored by his more popular peers, thereby developing low self-esteem.Season 2
In 1997, while attending the World Culture Dance, Jonathan was singled out by Ampata Gutierrez, who was in fact a resurrected Incan princess, who wanted to kiss him and transfer his life-force to her own. Not knowing her true nature, Jonathan did not resist either, believing his luck in love had changed; he was only saved when Xander Harris came to the rescue. A week later, Jonathan was later picked by Cordelia Chase to accompany her to the Bronze after she had a bad dating experience with Crestwood College student Richard Anderson who tried to sacrifice her to Machida. The relationship did not last though and she soon moved on to Xander.The following year, in 1998, like so many others in the school, Jonathan became possessed by a Bezoar that had been given to the class by Mr. Whitmore. As soon as Buffy Summers killed the mother Bezoar, Jonathan was freed from the Bezoar's control, believing himself to have been caught in a gas leak. Jonathan's self-esteem was dealt another crushing blow later that year when he tried out for the school's swim team and did not make it only to be picked on by Dodd McAlvy, who repeatedly dunked his head in a bucket of ice cold water to see how long he would be able to hold his breath. Buffy saved him, further bashing his esteem and he went on to urinate in the swimming pool, which he later confessed to Willow Rosenberg under duress.
Season 3
The following academic year, Jonathan became a senior and he was invited to a welcome back party for Buffy at her home in Revello Drive. Zombies raised by Ovu Mobani crashed the party and Jonathan was one of the few guests who made it out alive. Prior to the Homecoming Dance, both Cordelia and Buffy were campaigning to become Homecoming Queen, allowing Jonathan to show his mercenary side by trying to get as much out of both of them as he could in exchange for his vote. Towards the end of that year, while minding his own business, Jonathan was later singled out by socialite Harmony Kendall and the Cordettes as a possible boyfriend for Cordelia, who had just been cheated on by Xander. The incident was humiliating for Jonathan and was yet another incident that contributed to his ever-decreasing confidence.Having had enough, Jonathan took steps the following year, in 1999, to commit suicide atop a bell tower at the high school, leaving a suicide note for Freddy Iverson to publish in the Sunnydale High Sentinel. Buffy soon tracked Jonathan down, mistakenly believing that he planned to kill other students with his rifle. Buffy talked Jonathan out of suicide, informing him that everyone in the school was dealing with just as much pain as he was. For bringing a gun into the school, Jonathan was suspended for a couple of weeks. Upon returning to the school, Jonathan's confidence had marginally increased and at the Sunnydale High Senior Prom he had a date with a girl much taller than he was. At the prom, he also found the confidence to present Buffy with a Class Protector award. Come graduation day, Jonathan joined the rest of the Class of 1999 in fighting against Mayor Richard Wilkins III who had completed his Ascension to become the demon Olvikan. During the battle, Jonathan aggressively pounced on many vampires and survived to see the school be blown up and catch a jumpy Cordelia in his arms.
Season 4
After trying to kill himself, Jonathan entered into counseling where he met another suicidal person who introduced him to an augmentation spell, which Jonathan cast in 2000. The spell created a monster (metaphorically and literally) as though to contrast with the ideal image that Jonathan had created for himself. As a result of the spell, Jonathan became everyone’s ideal and had several pieces of merchandising created in his honor such as Jonathan posters, and his autobiography Oh, Jonathan where he claimed to have created the Internet. Jonathan was also believed to have starred in The Matrix despite never having left Sunnydale, which was one of a few things that tipped off Buffy, whom he had supposedly led in fighting vampires, to discover the spell he had cast. Jonathan reluctantly assisted Buffy in killing the monster and thus breaking the illusion; he apologized to Buffy the following day after the Swedish twins Ilsa and Inga left him at his mansion and he lost his job as tactical consultant at the Initiative.Season 6
Over a year later, in 2001, Jonathan, in a moment of boredom, joined Warren Mears and Andrew Wells, and they agreed to take over Sunnydale, with Jonathan using his expertise in magic to help them. A month later, Andrew summoned a M’Fashnik Demon to cause a distraction in the Sunnydale Securities Bank while they robbed it. Buffy interfered and almost ruined the plan. Over Jonathan's objections, Warren steered the demon into a fight with Buffy, who killed it. Soon afterward the Trio spent some time harassing Buffy with mystical and technological tests of her abilities, making it a competition among themselves for ingenuity; Jonathan used his experience with magic to put Buffy in a time loop which could only be broken if she performed a seemingly impossible task for a customer at The Magic Box. On escaping the loop, Buffy suspected that she was being tested and nearly succeeded in tracking down the Trio; to shake her, Jonathan used magic to impersonate a horned demon, which she kicked and punched a few times before Jonathan managed to retreat. A few weeks later, Jonathan aided the other two in stealing a large diamond from a museum in Sunnydale, freezing the guard, Rusty, with their Freeze Ray in the process. The three were later confronted by Spike who wanted Warren to examine his defective behavior-modification circuitry, to which Warren agreed to do after the three negotiated the safety of their Boba Fett action figure.In 2002, after accidentally making Buffy invisible with another of Warren's gadgets, Jonathan agreed with Andrew that they should return her to normal before she disintegrated. Thus a meeting was set up at Noah’s Arcade where not only was Warren planning on going behind his partners’ backs but the Trio’s identities were revealed to an underwhelmed Buffy. With the Scooby Gang now knowing who the Trio were and where they were based, the Trio fled Warren’s basement. When Warren accidentally killed Katrina Silber after using their newly created Cerebral Dampener on her, Jonathan suggested turning themselves in to the Sunnydale police. Warren's plan to frame Buffy for the killing failed, but Katrina's death was ruled a suicide. As neither Warren nor Andrew showed remorse, Jonathan felt increasingly alienated from them, and soon found that they were keeping some of Warren's plans from him. He finally betrayed Warren by telling Buffy how to defeat him when his strength had been enhanced by the Orbs of Nezzla’khan. Warren escaped with a jetpack, leaving Jonathan and Andrew to be arrested.
In jail, Jonathan made sure that Andrew knew Warren would not be coming to save them, nor would Andrew’s aunt, insisting they would be forced to spend time in prison. To make matters worse, while the pair had been in jail, Warren had killed Tara Maclay (in an attempt to kill Buffy), causing Willow to go on a homicidal rampage; with Warren dead, Jonathan and Andrew were her next targets. Anyanka teleported to warn them and Buffy helped them escape, driving them to the Magic Box for protection. Willow eventually tracked them down and the pair accompanied Xander and Dawn Summers to safety as Buffy fought Willow. Andrew became nervous though and threatened Xander with a sword only to be threatened back by Jonathan who informed Andrew that after Willow was defeated they would be going back to jail. The four made their way to a cemetery to hide but they were attacked by a ball of fire sent by Willow and were only narrowly saved by Buffy, with Xander knocked unconscious. With no one to keep them there, both Jonathan and Andrew resolved to go to Mexico and promptly ran away.
Season 7
While in Mexico, both Jonathan and Andrew began having dreams that led them back to Sunnydale where they knew a great power was rising, which in actual fact was the First Evil. The two returned on November 12th, with Jonathan having the intention of finding the Seal of Danthalzar and alerting Buffy to it so she could stop the coming and allow Jonathan to join the Scooby Gang. As they made their way into the school basement to uncover the seal, it was revealed that Andrew is being guided by an ethereal image of Warren. While digging, the two engaged in a conversation and Jonathan revealed that he had reached a redemption of sorts - all the pain and hurt associated from his highschool years - the pain that shaped his life - has faded away. He wishes the people he spent 6 years with well, even if they don't care about him (echoing back to Earshot). Andrew is not impressed and with a glance at Warren stabs Jonathan, letting his blood flow on the seal. Jonathan dies, but his blood isn't sufficient to open the seal (because he didn't tell anyone of his anemia). Robin Wood subsequently buried Jonathan.Powers & Abilities
Though he had no innate powers, Jonathan became an accomplished sorcerer, capable of performing reality alterations ("Superstar"), time loops and glamours ("Life Serial").Romantic Interests
- Ampata.
- Cordelia Chase favored him with her presence — even though he forgot the extra foam on her cappuccino — after narrowly escaping sacrifice by some frat boys ("Reptile Boy").
- Ilsa and Inga. Swedish twin sisters who live with Jonathan during the season four episode "Superstar", in which he casts a spell on the town to make everyone believe he is a paragon.
Appearances
Jonathan has appeared in:
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Jonathan appeared as a guest in 29 episodes
- Season 1 (1997) - Unaired Pilot.
- Season 2 (1997, 1998) - Inca Mummy Girl; Reptile Boy; What's My Line, Part Two; Bad Eggs; Passion; Go Fish.
- Season 3 (1998, 1999) - Dead Man's Party; Homecoming; The Wish; Earshot; The Prom; Graduation Day, Part Two.
- Season 4 (1999, 2000) - Superstar.
- Season 6 (2001, 2002) - Flooded; Life Serial; Smashed; Gone; Dead Things; Normal Again; Entropy; Seeing Red; Villains; Two to Go; Grave.
- Season 7 (2002, 2003) - Conversations with Dead People; Never Leave Me (as The First Evil); First Date (as The First Evil); Storyteller (flashbacks and dreams).
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