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By Chris Snellgrove | Published
It is easy to get lost in the middle of all hilarious writing and captivating performance, but Buffy The Vampire Slayer It is a show full of great names, especially for its favorite monster villains of the week. From the sweet and of the murderously mute knights, this is a show full of memorable monsters. In one case, however, this was an accident: when David Greenwalt wrote the “Reptile Boy” episode, he was very proud to find “Machida” as the name of the main villain of the episode, without realizing that he was subconsciously inspired by the Makita team used for the production of the series.
Machida Buffy Origins
On this Buffy Episode, Machida is a particularly hungry demon who often receives human sacrifices from some evil types in exchange for wealth and power. David Greenwalt wrote this episode of memory, and admitted in the DVD comment that he was initially impressed with himself for finding such a large demon name. However, he later felt silly when he realized that the program used Makita brand teams and that this probably served as subconscious inspiration for the name of his demon.
While this Buffy Appointing the fool would have been shameful for any writer, it was particularly pressing for the man behind Machida because Greenwalt is one of the greatest creative forces of the program. In addition to writing several episodes of BuffyHe served as executive co-producer of the program for seasons 1 and 2 before becoming an executive producer of season 3. And only left this program to cook the Angel Spin -off, making Greenwalt one of the biggest engines and agitators of the Buffyverse.
Fun, this previous Buffy Bigwig had a kind of meeting with Machida in Angel… Or, more exactly, the man behind Machida. In “Reptile Boy”, this memorable monster was played by Robin Atkin Downes, an English actor who returned to play a Pockla demon in the Angel Episode “Deat End”. That episode was written by David Greenwalt, which allowed him to meet with the man behind the monster he had killed at the end of “Reptile Boy.”
Most Buffy Fans are aware that, although Machida did not survive at the end of “Reptile Boy”, his spirit lived through Avilas, a demon of the episode of season 7 “help” that offered the wealth and prosperity to those who provided human sacrifices. Despite the main similarities with Machida, this posterior demon is not related to the previous one. Interestingly, Machida was originally written to survive the “Reptile Boy” events and Willow had a line about his possible return; If this alternative end had been filmed, season 7 could have presented Machida’s return instead of Avila, his duplicate Dimstore.
Buffy Veteran David Greenwalt felt bad to accidentally name Machida after the production team, but should not be hit … after all, there are only so many completely different names to use for the many program monsters. And subconsciously inspire a name that you see innumerable times every week is really null for the course even for the best writers. Even so, we cannot avoid laughing that Machida’s name, one of the best early villains, possibly has the most embarrassing History of origin in everything Buffy history.
