evilista

English

Alternative forms

• Evilista

Etymology

evil +‎ -ista

Noun

evilista (plural evilistas)

1. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer fandom slang) A fan who wanted Spike to remain evil and unredeemed.
   • 2001 June 25, Mrs. Poet, “Re: The standard of goodness for Spike”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer‎^[1] (Usenet):

     OTOH, James differs from most evilistas in that he seems to think that despite all of this, Spike can consistently do good and can be with Buffy.

   • 2002 May 7, Rose, “Re: James Marsters in Baltimore, MD July 12-14 2002”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer‎^[2] (Usenet):

     Redemptionists hope this will be the crisis that forces him to change, evilistas are shrugging it off as typical Spike behavior, and even perhaps showing him in a better light than they thought as he is remorseful.

   • 2002 December 3, Juleen, “Re: Buffy fan subgroups”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer‎^[3] (Usenet):

     There are the Evilistas that believe the only good vampire is a dusty vampire.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:evilista.

Antonyms

• redemptionista

Anagrams

• ilvaites, vasilite, vitalise