Roger Wyndam-Pryce
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This article is about the real Roger Wyndam-Pryce, for the cyborg imposter see Roger Wyndam-Pryce (cyborg)
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- "You never had any use for me as a child, and you can't bear the thought of me as an adult. Tell me, father, what is it that galls you so, that I was never as good at the job as you... or that I just might be better?"
- ―Wesley Wyndam-Pryce to the cyborg posing as his father[src]
Roger Wyndam-Pryce was the father of Wesley Wyndam-Pryce and one of the most respected members of the Watchers' Council. A cyborg magically disguised as him was portrayed by Roy Dotrice.
Biography
Not much is known about Roger Wyndam-Pryce or how he came to become a Watcher. The only even vague reference we have to his past is that he apparently led a team that encountered Spike when he was slaughtering a Viennan orphanage in 1967, where Spike killed two of Roger's men before escaping.
His ruthless perspective of the good fight, his cold demeanor, and his critical attitute towards his son Wesley molded him into a similarly ruthless though rather insecure and resentful man. Unlike his like-minded colleague Quentin Travers, Wyndam-Pryce was one of the few Watchers that survived the bombing of the Council's headquarters by Caleb, the servant of the First Evil.
It is unknown whether Roger Wyndam-Pryce was involved with the new Council led by Rupert Giles and Buffy Summers, though their more progressive views on the Watcher-Slayer relationship would have come into conflict with Wyndam-Pryce's more conservative and elitist philosophy.
