Riley Finn

Encyclopedia : R : RI : RIL : Riley Finn

Riley Finn

Marc Blucas as Riley Finn

First appearance The Freshman
Last appearance As You Were
Created by Joss Whedon

Statistics
Name Riley Finn
Status Alive
Species Human
Affiliation United States Army, formerly the Scooby Gang and The Initiative
Notable powers

Military training grants him knowledge of strategy, combat techniques, tracking and handling of weapons.
Temporarily possessed enhanced strength due to the drugs he was secretly fed.
Portrayed by Marc Blucas

Riley Finn (born in Huxley, Iowa) is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon for the cult television program, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The character is portrayed by Marc Blucas.

Biography

Riley, a native of Iowa, was Buffy's boyfriend for parts of season four and five. Leading a double life as part of a secret organization called The Initiative, but also as a regular college guy, Buffy found some normality in Riley, but she also found someone she could relate to. Initially, each kept the other from knowing of the secret lives, but the truth came out during the events in the Emmy-nominated episode "Hush."

Buffy and Riley fought demons together and continued saving each other's lives and the world, though to some degree Riley was never quite let into Buffy's inner circle. The Initiative was destroyed at the end of the fourth season, and Riley was relieved of his military standing. Left at loose ends, his behavior grew reckless. Seeking thrills, he began to let vampires feed from him, which Buffy discovered in the season five episode "Into the Woods". His behavior, as well as a sense that Buffy would never truly love him, led to their breakup. Riley left Sunnydale to join another army unit fighting demons elsewhere, and left the show.

Riley returned in the season six episode "As You Were", in which he showed up unexpectedly, tracking a demon about to hatch eggs that could wipe out Sunnydale. However, he did not return to make up with Buffy, having recently gotten married to a fellow demon hunter. The battle done, Riley left Sunnydale, never to return again.

Riley, the opposite of both the eternally brooding Angel and the tortured "bad boy" Spike, held out the possibility of normalcy in Buffy's life, but most fans failed to embrace him, seeing him as a bit too bland. Riley is also notable in that he is the only boyfriend of Buffy who had a friendship with her usually jealous friend Xander.

Late in the series Riley reappears with his wife and together with Buffy they hunt down a demon. After Riley and his wife leave for Brazil.

Appearances

Riley has appeared in:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Riley was introduced in the show's fourth season as a recurring character but he became a regular in Doomed and continued on as a regular until season five's Into the Woods, appearing once afterwards.

: Season 4 - The Freshman, Fear Itself, Beer Bad, Wild at Heart, The Initiative, Pangs, Something Blue, Hush. Regular from Doomed onwards.

: Season 5 - Regular from Buffy vs. Dracula to Into the Woods.

: Season 6 - As You Were

"The people who appeared in the opening credits (Scooby Gang & Fang Gang/FG) appear in the box, and the most important villains/friends who had a significant emotional impact on multiple of those opening credits characters - as long as they have a significant episode count, and preferably if they appear in three or more seasons."

-->

Buffyverse
Main	Canon \| Index Chronology: Ancient \| Modern \| BS1 \| BS2 \| BS3 \| BS4/AS1 \| BS5/AS2 \| BS6/AS3 \| BS7/AS4 \| AS5 \| Future \| Flashbacks
Buffy	Characters (main) \| Characters (minor) \| Episodes \| Plot \| Comics \| Film \| Pilot (unaired) \| Promo: History.. \| Novels \| Promos: Pre-"Bargaining"
Angel	Characters (main) \| Characters (minor) \| Episodes \| Plot \| Comics \| Corrupt (unaired) \| Novels \| Pilot (unaired)
Spin-offs	Comics \| Fan made productions \| Fray \| Novels \| Spike movie \| Undeveloped productions Buffy Animated \| Card Game \| RPGs \| Tales of Slayer (prose) \| Tales of Slayers \| Tales of Vampires \| Toys \| Video Games Upcoming: Blackout \| \| \| \| \| \| Portal Through Time \| Spike vs Dracula \|
Powers	Angel Investigations \| Circle of the Black Thorn \| Order of Aurelius \| The First Evil \| The Initiative \| Monsters \| Old Ones \| The Powers That Be \| Ra-Tet \| Scooby Gang \| Senior Partners \| Watchers' Council \| Wolfram & Hart
People	Adam \| Amy \| Andrew \| Angel \| Anya \| Buffy \| Caleb \| Connor \| Cordelia \| Dawn \| Darla \| Doyle \| Dru \| Eve \| Faith \| Fred \| Giles \| Glory \| Gunn \| Harmony \| Holtz \| Illyria \| Jasmine \| Jenny \| Joyce \| Jonathan \| Kate \| Kennedy \| Lilah \| Lindsey \| Lorne \| The Master \| Mayor Wilkins \| Oz \| Professor Walsh \| Riley \| Spike \| Tara \| Warren \| Wesley \| Willow \| Xander
Places	L.A. \| Sunnydale Bronze \| Caritas \| Hellmouth \| Hyperion \| Library \| Magic Box \| Pylea \| Sunnydale High
Music	Complete Tracklist \| Use of Music in Buffy & Angel \| Dingoes Ate My Baby \| Film \| \| \| Once More, With Feeling
Key Terminology	"Demon" \| "Slayer" \| "Vampire" \| "Watcher" \| "Werewolf" \| "Witch" "Child of Senior Partners" \| Shanshu \| Sunnydale Syndrome \| Tro-Clon

From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details.

Riley Finn

Biography

Appearances

See also