Comments on: Billy Idol Totally Looks Like Spike (James Marsters)

By: Melanie

Melanie — Tue, 04 May 2010 23:29:39 +0000

Me also, Billy Idol totally stole Spikes look, said so in the series.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 19:41:32 +0000

and me

By: LadyLunar

LadyLunar — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:59:09 +0000

I came to the comments page to write exactly this.
What a dimwit.

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By: feudelacour

feudelacour — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:09:47 +0000

He even mentions it in the show, he says billy idol stole the look from him

By: Nicole

Nicole — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:33:48 +0000

Line from season seven episode ‘Sleeper’
(after bouncer asks something about the Billie Idol wannabe) Buffy- Actually, Bille Idol stole…

By: HellenBackagain

HellenBackagain — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:19:08 +0000

Yes… and James is the hotter of the two and can pull the look off way better. (^_^) mmmmmm

By: Wren

Wren — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:25:04 +0000

No, you dumb b****. If A=B, B=A. Otherwise, they aren’t EQUAL to each other.

By: Wren

Wren — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:23:54 +0000

OMG you’re stupid.

By: Kortaka

Kortaka — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 06:00:20 +0000

No.

By: Madcapfeline

Madcapfeline — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 03:21:13 +0000

Yes, and the majority of the population voted for Bush…. twice. Don’t underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups. Hell, look at the Twilight phenomenon. Just because it’s popular, doesn’t make it good.

By: lindi

lindi — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:00:43 +0000

I was just thinking that.

By: plethora

plethora — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:50:06 +0000

I wish I was as smart as you.

By: Kari

Kari — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:33:16 +0000

Right! Apparently this person doesn’t pay attention to Buffy!

By: ziggy1321

ziggy1321 — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:33:32 +0000

God I’ve been geeking out and having a Buffy marathon for the past few days. He looks way more like Billy Idol when they show the flashback of him killing Nikki Woods when he had spikey hair and lots of neckalces. And Billy Idol totally stole his look If you go by what he said.

By: Andi

Andi — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 01:57:51 +0000

DVD dear…..some of us have all the seasons.

Like me

By: Boo Dreadly

Boo Dreadly — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:29:01 +0000

Spike totally looks like Billy Idol, not the other way round!

By: sanityinjection

sanityinjection — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:20:43 +0000

You fail. From Wikipedia:

The series usually reached between four and six million viewers on original airings.[1] Although such ratings are lower than successful shows on the “big four” networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox),[2] they were a success for the relatively new and smaller WB Television Network.[3] Reviews for the show were positive,[4] and it was ranked #41 on the list of TV Guide’s 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time as well as #2 on Empire’s 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. Buffy was also voted #3 in TV Guide’s Top 25 Cult TV Shows of All Time and included in TIME Magazine’s 100 Best TV Shows of All Time.[5] It was nominated for Emmy and Golden Globe awards, winning a total of 3 Emmys. The WB network ceased operation on September 17, 2006 after airing an “homage” to its “most memorable series”, including the pilot episodes of Buffy and its spin-off Angel.[6] Buffy’s success has led to hundreds of tie-in products, including novels, comics, and video games. The series has received attention in fandom (including fan films), parody, and academia, and has influenced the direction of other television series.[7]

By: L.

L. — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:08:38 +0000

People actually watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer…?

LMAO xD

By: Bec

Bec — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 07:08:52 +0000

It was Buffy that said that, but it wasn’t to one of the potentials… She said it to the bouncer of a nightclub in the episode Sleeper.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:25:01 +0000

Hilarious, Leujin….taisce, u idiot.

By: Yo

Yo — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:37:27 +0000

Spike totally looks like Billy Idol

By: someone

someone — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:11:11 +0000

actually it’s the other way around, The Ramones came before Green Day…

By: Alana

Alana — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:34:29 +0000

But in our actual universe, James Marsters looks like Billy Idol because he plays Spike in the fictional universe. It’s not like he looks like him anymore or before he took on the role of Spike.

Regardless, Spike is SUPPOSED to look like Billy Idol. Joss Whedon jokes in the show that Billy Idol took his look from Spike. Actually, I think it was Buffy who made the reference when asked about him by one of the potentials in the last season. She says that Idol actually got the look from Spike. So, this is pretty much a “duh” comparison.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:17:49 +0000

Obvious much? Huh. They should have, like, made an origins episode in which Spike references how Billy Idol stole his look from him.

By: Ro

Ro — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:39:37 +0000

Spike is wayyy hotter than Billy Idol HANDS DOWN!!

By: Rina

Rina — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:35:56 +0000

Well, actually, Billy Idol stole Spike’s look lol

By: Aceia

Aceia — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:30:10 +0000

The issue here is that we are currently in our universe, not the Buffy universe. In our universe Billy Idol came first because Josh Wheaton had not yet invented the character Spike. In the Buffy universe, Spike may have come first, but since we don’t live in a fictional universe the point is moot.

By: slatfatf

slatfatf — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:31:36 +0000

>I’ve actually been having a “Buffy” marathon of >sorts these past several weeks,

Don’t you mean a ‘Buffy’ Snickers these last few weeks, it’s not been marathon for 15 years or so.

By: Lizzy

Lizzy — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 04:50:34 +0000

Torak said: “I’m loving this discussion of Buffy canon ”

I’ve actually been having a “Buffy” marathon of sorts these past several weeks, going through all the seasons…so some of this stuff is kind of fresh in my mind *lol*

By: Lizzy

Lizzy — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 04:31:44 +0000

Yeah, there’s the guy in the flashback that says that, but I believe that the idea is that it’s because of what that guy said that prompts Spike to subsequently use railroad spikes once he becomes a vampire (otherwise, if it had just been the one victim, I doubt it would’ve made it into one of Giles’ books that he gained the nickname because he liked using railroad spikes to torture victims (note the plural) in Spike’s first episode ‘School Hard’)

By: Torak

Torak — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:11:20 +0000

No, he killed Nikki Wood by snapping her neck on the subway. He also stole her coat, which he still wears.

I’m loving this discussion of Buffy canon

By: Jane St.Clair

Jane St.Clair — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:48:24 +0000

I thought he killed the slayer with the railroad spike but I will admit that it has been a long time since I’ve seen Buffy and I am probably wrong. I do remember that William the Bloody ended up being because his poetry was “so bloody awful”. I had mixed feelings about the flashback. On one hand I liked it but on the other hand I feel that they were taking away all of Spike’s badassness.

By: forge

forge — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:21:50 +0000

Uh. But Sid had black hair and didn’t pierce his face or wear black fingernail polish or any of that.

By: forge

forge — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:18:25 +0000

Hehe, Marsters was 40 by the time the show ended. They were always kind of indiscriminate about saying his actual age.

By: forge

forge — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:17:24 +0000

Marsters is actually a pretty cool guy and Idol is just an old pop star who had a lot of fun when he was fab.

By: forge

forge — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:16:03 +0000

Brigitte Nielsen is about four inches taller than either Billy Idol or James Marsters.

By: forge

forge — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:06:54 +0000

Except for the part where the man William who became the vampire Spike was born in the late 18th century.

By: forge

forge — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:05:39 +0000

John Lydon nee’ Rotten has always been a redhead albeit at 54 he’s probably actually silverhaired by now.

By: Bookaholic

Bookaholic — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 11:03:37 +0000

I think it was just the one victim, and it was the guys idea in the first place.

“I’d rather have a railroad spike driven through my head than listen to his…” etc, etc.

Oh, and in the context of the show, Billy Idol took his look from Spike. I’m just sayin’, that’s how they worked it…

By: jasonx

jasonx — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 07:40:16 +0000

Or “Banana Totally Looks like Guy in Banana Costume”.

By: jasonx

jasonx — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 07:38:05 +0000

Too bad for you. Buffy was a great show.

By: Anonny-nonny

Anonny-nonny — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 04:28:13 +0000

DUH! So many of these are like “hey, thing 2 looks like thing 1!” Um, duh, because thing 2 was MODELED ON thing 1. Sigh. Rampant stupidity.

By: Lizzy

Lizzy — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:56:32 +0000

“I believe it was when they were showing where Spike killed the previous slayer and thereby got his nickname.”

Minor correction to your comment, Spike had his nickname LONG before his encounter with Nikki Wood in the 70′s. He adopted the name not too long after he first became a vampire (because he enjoyed torturing his victims with railroad spikes)

By: lindsay

lindsay — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:53:06 +0000

About 5 or 6 years ago I saw James Marsters and his band Ghost of the Robot in London. It was a little disappointing. Kind of expecting to see Buffy’s “Spike”, but of course he was that much older – in his forties. Bleach blonde hair outgrown – just plain brown and very short. Music wasn’t bad … they’ve broken up now. *sigh* When you watch Buffy re-runs it’s easy to forget how time goes by. In the final episodes of the final season, in flashbacks when they tried to make “Spike” look like he did when he was first turned, you can see they had a hard job to make him up.

By: Jane St.Clair

Jane St.Clair — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:58:35 +0000

He’s also got the herpes.

By: Jane St.Clair

Jane St.Clair — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:56:12 +0000

Yes, since the scene in question was actually a flashback scene to either the late 70′s/early 80′s. If I could just nerd out for a minute I believe it was when they were showing where Spike killed the previous slayer and thereby got his nickname. He was definitely more Billy Idol in the scene, with his hair spiked up and the clothes.

By: lespikefan

lespikefan — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 12:26:40 +0000

Hate to point the obvious out but in the real world Spike was based on Sid Vicious. In the TV show Buffy it was revealed that Spike says Billy Idol stole his image. The coat came from one of the slayers, Nikki Wood in 1977 that Spike killed. Spike based his look from Sid Vicious and Billy Idol stole the look.

By: ShadowQuest

ShadowQuest — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 06:11:10 +0000

Ya’d think they’d at least use a picture of Shirtless!Spike for the look-alike. I’m pretty sure there’s a couple of them floating around out there somewhere.

By: INventive

INventive — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 04:41:17 +0000

If A came first in Pop Culture, then A would not equal B, B would equal A. The point is to say, Shirley Temple looks like a Cupie Doll, not a Cupie Doll looks like Shirley Temple, see?