From Spike + -o- + -phile.
Spikeophile (plural Spikeophiles)
- (Buffy the Vampire Slayer fandom slang) A fan of the character Spike from the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
1999 July 24, Lord Usher, “Re: Pure Demon theory”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer[1] (Usenet):(The rabid Spikeophiles are expecially fond of it, as they use it to demonstrate that he's not a soulless demon like the rest of vampirekind.)
2002 July 25, Clairel, “Re: New Fury interview: Spike & soul”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer[2] (Usenet):If you mean that Spikeophiles are wrong to love this fictional character, well, that's just silly.
2002 September 9, Ray Stark, “Re: Faith (S3) vs Buffy (S6)”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer[3] (Usenet):This all or nothing thinking is probably what causes the Spikeophiles and the anti-Spikists to go at each other so hard.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Spikeophile.