Adam (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
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Adam was a creation of Maggie Walsh of The Initiative. He was part human, part demon and part robot, and was to be the perfect organism. He was created in Lab 314, and his first act was to kill Maggie with a retractable stabbing weapon inside one of his arms. He killed children and demons, in order to get an understanding of biology, and had a considerable intelligence.
Spike worked for Adam for a short period of time, to help Adam stop the Slayer with an idea he got from the Beatles. Luckily for the Scooby Gang, the plan failed. Adam does not need to eat, because he has a uranium-based power source in his chest. He is aware of every aspect of himself, and is immune to universe-changing spells, such as the one cast by Jonathan.
He considers himself a brother to Riley Finn, because Maggie Walsh experimented on both of them to make them perfect lifeforms. Adam is defeated when Buffy, Willow Rosenberg, Xander Harris, and Rupert Giles combine their strengths through a magic spell to make Buffy extremely powerful, and she rips out Adam's power source.
In the final episode of season four, "Restless", Buffy in a dream sees Adam in his human form, before Walsh's experiments. When Buffy asks for his name, the dream Adam replies "Before Adam? Not a man among us can remember."
Like certain other characters in the show, Adam might be regarded as partly a salute to, and partly a satire of, other horror and science fiction characters (Frankenstein's monster and Terminator, for instance, spring to mind). (Likewise, in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode, "Dead Things," the writers both praise and satirize the zombies in George Romero's film, "Night of the Living Dead," and the pets in Stephen King's novel, "Pet Sematary".) Such inside jokes are part of creator Joss Whedon's and his writers' tongue-in-cheek approach to the horror and science fiction genres and to the popular culture of which their own show is a part.