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| Buffy's Season 6 introduced us to 3 Super-Villians who bound together to take over Sunnydale and the World. What made it fun for Buffy fans was that these 3 "villians" were actually a bunch of techno geeks who came to be known as the "Nerd Troika" and they shared a love of all things Star Wars. Warren, Jonathon and Andrew each played roles in Sunnydale's history. No one every suspected that they would team up and try to take down the Slayer. Thanks to the various writers at Buffy such as David Fury, Doug Petrie, Drew Goddard, Drew Greenberg, Jane Espenson and Marti Noxon (among others), we were treated to some of the funniest dialogue and Star Wars inspired interaction the show has ever displayed. |
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| THE TROIKA |
| This feature was made possible in part by the wonderful article in the Star Wars Insider Magazine; Issue 65, February 2003. |
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| The Nerd Troika: Warren, Jonathon and Andrew |
| "Hey, point that thing somewhere else." |
| Flooded Ep 6x4 Warren goes over to the demon, puts his arm around the demon's shoulders turning him away from the other two. He reaches his other hand in his pocket and pulls out a piece of paper. WARREN: (whispers) Here's the Slayer's name, address, and telephone number. You wanna kill her? Make it so. The demon takes the paper with a low growl, leaves. Warren pats him on the back, turns around and sees the others watching him. Warren swaggers back over to them as they stare, impressed. JONATHAN: (awed) How'd you make him do that? ANDREW: What are you, some kind of ... Jedi? WARREN: (casual) The Force can sometimes have great power on the weak-minded. Andrew and Jonathan nod and go "Hmm" in awe. |
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| Life Serial Ep 6x5 They come around to the other side and find Andrew spray-painting a huge Death Star on the side of the van. WARREN: W-what the hell is that? ANDREW: Death Star, dude! Wicked, huh? JONATHAN: (scornfully) Thermal exhaust port's *above* the main port, numb-nuts. ANDREW: For your information, I'm using the Empire's revised designs from Return of the Jedi. JONATHAN: That's a flawed design! |
| Later on� Andrew grabs for the binoculars and Warren shoves him away. Andrew falls halfway onto Jonathan's lap. His elbow hits the steering wheel and activates the horn, which plays the Star Wars theme song. Cut to the construction site. Buffy hears the honking and peers curiously out of the building. She sees the black van sitting on the street beyond the fence. The Star Wars music continues. |
| Troika Wheels |
| Smashed 6x9 SPIKE: Knock knock, robot boy. (knocks on Warren's head) Need you to look at my chip. JONATHAN: Is that like, British slang or something? 'Cause we're not- SPIKE: In my head, the chip in my head. WARREN: We're kind of in the middle of something. SPIKE: Well, you can play holodeck another time. Right now, I'm in charge. WARREN: Yeah, what are you gonna do if we don't especially feel like maybe playing your- Spike turns around, sees a display of action figures, reaches for it. WARREN: What are, wait, what are you doing? Spike picks up the Boba Fett action figure, removing it from its display stand. SPIKE: Examine my chip, or else Mister... (looks at the label on the stand) ...Fett here is the first to die. Spike holds the action figure in one hand and takes its head in the other hand as if he's going to pull the head off. The geeks are extremely nervous. JONATHAN: Hey, all right, let's not, let's not do anything crazy here. ANDREW: That's a limited edition, 1979 mint condition Boba Fett. Spike grins, pretends to pull the head off. WARREN: All right, dude ... chill. You can still make it right. You know you don't wanna do this. SPIKE: What I want ... is answers, nimrod. WARREN: Right. But you don't wanna hurt the Fett, 'cause man, you're *not* comin' back from that. You know, you don't just do that and walk away. SPIKE: That right? Let's find out. Spike fakes pulling the head off again. Warren yells in alarm. WARREN: Wah, uh, one second. |
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| Don't mess with the Fett! |
| Two to Go 6 x21 Willow has gone witchy and bad. The Slayer and her allies try to keep the Evil Troika (well, now duo after Willow flayed Warren) safe from further harm., yet they have no idea how they'll do it, though Xander tries to keep things light. ANDREW: And then what? You think your little witch buddy's gonna stop with us? (Xander and Anya glaring at him) You saw her! She's a truck-driving Magic Mama! And we've got maybe seconds before Darth Rosenberg grinds everybody into Jawa-burgers, and not one of you bunch has the midichlorians to stop her. XANDER: You've never had any tiny bit of sex, have you? |
| Two to Go 6 x 21 Warren and Andrew planned to escape the Slayer using jet packs, not unlike the one worn by Boba Fett. Warren gets away (for a bit), but Andrew's malfunctions. At least he got one. They never let Jonathon in on the escape plan. ANDREW: (pulls his arm away) Shut up, Jerk-athan! You see this? This is why we get jet packs and all you get is left behind. JONATHAN: So you admit it. ANDREW: (shrugs) Why not? You were out of the Trio a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away and you know why, little feller? No respect for the chain of command. |
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| Conversations with Dead People 7x8 Even though Dark Willlow killed Warren at the end of Season 6, he came back. Actually it was "The First" (as in The First Evil, that is), who took on the guise of Warren, appearing to Andrew to do his evil bidding ANDREW You keep leaving me. I hate it when you leave me. One time you died, and I ended up a Mexican. WARREN We've been over this. Now, that death thing was all part of the master plan. Come on, "If you strike me down..." ANDREW (doing an impression) "I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine." (laughs) Of course. Do you think, maybe, Willow could kill me, too? WARREN Hey, don't worry. If short round pulls off his end of the bargain, we'll both become gods. ANDREW (turns to look down hall where Jonathan went) (doing an impression) "That boy is our last hope." WARREN (walks forward to stand beside Andrew) "No, there is another." ANDREW (looks at Warren) Wait, really? Who's our last hope? WARREN No, I was just going with it. It was a thing. He's our last hope |
| You can't keep a good villian down |
| Never Leave Me 7x9 WARREN Excellent. We've got work to do. ANDREW I have to do work right now? Can't I just walk around for a while in my coat? WARREN Don't go soft on me now. We're right in the trench, and the exhaust port's in sight. ANDREW I thought that was it. I did what you told me. It's not my fault it didn't work. Why do I have to do all the wet works? WARREN (stops walking) Hey! You know the rules. I can't take corporeal form. Here, feel. (nods) Mm-hmm. ANDREW (sticks hand through Warren's chest) Cool. WARREN Pretty bitchin', right? I'm like Obi Wan? ANDREW Or Patrick Swayze |
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| The First, in guise of Warren, tries to manipulate Andrew with his Obi Wan Kenobi impressions. |
| The Troika is the GREATEST example of the Star Wars/Buffy connection, but that don't hold a license on Star Wars references. Check out some MORE! |
| Jonathon wonders why he didn't get a jet pack. |