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| - The Immortal is a fictional character from the Buffyverse, first 'appearing' in the Angel episode "The Girl in Question". The Immortal never appears on screen throughout the entire episode and is only mentioned. However, from the descriptions we can gather that he is incredibly attractive, athletic, intelligent and also apparently genuinely immortal and unaging. He has accomplished numerous incredible feats and managed to seduce many women, including Darla and Drusilla. In Angel Season Five, Andrew Wells says that Buffy has been dating the Immortal. But, in Joss Whedon's canonical comic series of Buffy's eighth season, it is revealed that this is not really Buffy, but one of two decoys pretending to be her, so she can stay hidden from some evil force. Andrew was the one who decided for the Buffy imposter to date the Immortal, because he thought it would be funny, given Angel and Spike's shared history with Buffy abd The Immortal, with both viewing the Immortal as one of their greatest enemies. Buffy herself doesn't know about the reasons why Andrew thought it was funny. Not much information is given about who or what the Immortal is; Darla says that "he's not some common vampire." According to Angel and Spike, he "may or may not be evil."
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