Andrew J. Ferchland as The Anointed One

The Anointed One is a fictional character in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The character is played by Andrew J. Ferchland. A fictional character is any person who appears in a work of fiction. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a U.S. television series loosely based on the 1992 movie of the same name. ...

Introduced in season one to help The Master escape his confinement, he is killed by Spike in the season two episode "School Hard". The Master is a fictional character in the U.S. television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, played by Mark Metcalf. ... William Pratt, better known as Spike, is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon for the cult television programs, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. ... School Hard is an episode of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer that introduces two new important characters. ...

A prophecy foretold the coming of the Anointed One:

And there will be a time of crisis, of worlds hanging in the balance. And in this time shall come the Anointed, the Master's great warrior... The Five will die, and from their ashes the Anointed shall rise. The Brethren of Aurelius shall meet him and usher him to his immortal destiny. ...the Slayer will not know him, will not stop him, and he will lead her into hell.

In the episode "Never Kill a Boy on the First Date", a bus in Sunnydale was attacked by a group of the Master's vampires. The five inside it were killed, and a little boy in the bus, Collin, turned out to be the Anointed. After his "death" on the bus, he proved to be a bloodthirsty and vicious companion for the Master. Never Kill a Boy on the First Date is an episode of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer in which Buffy gets to go on her first date. ...

In the second season, after the Master had been defeated, it was shown that the Anointed One has influence over other vampires and can make them do his will.

In the third episode of the second season, he was killed by Spike. Spike placed him in a cage and hoisted it into the sunlight, destroying him.

The Anointed One is also referred to by fans as The Annoying One, a name also used by Spike for the boy.

The Hebrew word for "anointed one" is Messiah. Hebrew (עִבְרִית ‘Ivrit) is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken by more than 7 million people, mainly in Israel, the West Bank, the United States and by Jewish communities around the world. ... In Judaism, the Messiah (מָשִׁיחַ anointed one, Standard Hebrew , Tiberian Hebrew Arabic ) initially meant any person who was anointed by a prophet of God. ...