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* A meta one for the animators. Computer effects on television are pretty standard nowadays, with a lot of sci-fi and fantasy shows relying heavily on CG effects to cut out the amount of money that would be spent on elaborate sets and practical effects. Buffy was one of the flagship shows for this, as can be seen if you watch the Season 3 extras. They were among the first shows ever to make use of full CGI on television as opposed to movies, notable examples being the dusting, the morphing and the two snake demons of S3. Without Buffy showing that it was possible and cost effective, television as we know it might have been radically different. It may look very much like a 1999 effect today, but back then it was truly incredible stuff being done on a three week production deadline.
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* In the novel, ''Bloody Fool For Love: A Spike Prequel'':
** Darla's meeting with the British Prime Minister, who faces her down rather bravely as she negotiates on behalf of the local vampire guild and secures some good bargaining terms for the uneasy truce between the London vampires and the British government.
** Rieka the werewolf transforms without a full moon and attacks a group of demon enforcers as part of an effort to save her best friend's life.
** Darla's meeting with the British Prime Minister, who faces her down rather bravely as she negotiates on behalf of the local vampire guild and secures some good bargaining terms for the uneasy truce between the London vampires and the British government.
** Rieka the werewolf transforms without a full moon and attacks a group of demon enforcers as part of an effort to save her best friend's life.
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* In the novel ''Portal Through Time'':
** Time-traveling Order of Aurelius members try to kill a young Buffy to save their leader but find out that YouCantFightFate that easily. In the first alternate timeline they create, the alternate Slayer killed and usurped the Master after being turned into a vampire. In another alternate timeline, the new Slayer realizes that the Master can't ascend without drinking her blood and avoids facing him in battle until she and her Watcher can dynamite the Master's cavern lair, killing him and most of his men.
** The vampries then try to kill past Slayers to mess up the Slayer timeline and the Scooby Gang goes after them. Their first attempt leads to a MeleeATrois fight on a battlefield between Romans and Druids, with the latter group using their magic to bring rocks and trees to life as combatants.
** In ancient Sumeria, when the gang is under attack by a plague demon, Willow uses magic to [[SummonBiggerFish summon a dragon to fight the demon]], harnesses the infecteous plagues that are felling the Scooby Gang to incapacitate a vampire assasin, and draws the demon's attention away from her friends by making various DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu insults in a language she barely understands.
** When Buffy is wounded in the crossfire of a battle in UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar, she still wants to get up and defend the wounded soldiers from vampires that are flocking to the abandoned battlefield. Giles stands in for her, and, as Willow watches him dust vamps left and right, she realizes she is seeing what Giles was like during his wild youth, when he was known as Ripper.
** Time-traveling Order of Aurelius members try to kill a young Buffy to save their leader but find out that YouCantFightFate that easily. In the first alternate timeline they create, the alternate Slayer killed and usurped the Master after being turned into a vampire. In another alternate timeline, the new Slayer realizes that the Master can't ascend without drinking her blood and avoids facing him in battle until she and her Watcher can dynamite the Master's cavern lair, killing him and most of his men.
** The vampries then try to kill past Slayers to mess up the Slayer timeline and the Scooby Gang goes after them. Their first attempt leads to a MeleeATrois fight on a battlefield between Romans and Druids, with the latter group using their magic to bring rocks and trees to life as combatants.
** In ancient Sumeria, when the gang is under attack by a plague demon, Willow uses magic to [[SummonBiggerFish summon a dragon to fight the demon]], harnesses the infecteous plagues that are felling the Scooby Gang to incapacitate a vampire assasin, and draws the demon's attention away from her friends by making various DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu insults in a language she barely understands.
** When Buffy is wounded in the crossfire of a battle in UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar, she still wants to get up and defend the wounded soldiers from vampires that are flocking to the abandoned battlefield. Giles stands in for her, and, as Willow watches him dust vamps left and right, she realizes she is seeing what Giles was like during his wild youth, when he was known as Ripper.
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* In the short story “The Show Must Go On”, Angel, Giles and Jenny track down five vampires who are working backstage at a theater, split up, and manage to dispatch all five vampires without either the audience or Willow and Xander (who are volunteering backstage) finding out what's going on. On a lesser note, Willow and Xander manage to salvage the production while juggling their jobs and those of the disappearing vampire crew members.
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* In the novel ''Blackout'', Nikki Wood engineers a AFistfulOfRehashes scenario between the local vampire gangsters she has spent years failing to defeat and Spike and Drusilla. Spike decimates the opposition almost single-handedly and Nikki deals a serious blow to her biggest enemies.
* In the novel ''Mortal Fear'', BigBad Simon brainwashes nearly everyone in Sunnydale while making their blood poisonous to vampires, giving them super strength, and manipulating Dawn, Willow, and Xander into temporarily joining his side. He achieves a better, more chilling NearVillainVictory in one book than some villains do in entire seasons.
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** Among the highlights of Buffy and her friends entering the gatehouse before knowing its nature are Buffy fighting supernatural panthers, and Cordelia climbing up a chimney and using her cheerleading endurance and agility to keep away from sentient fire while Buffy leaps down entire flights of stairs at a time to come to Cordelia's rescue.
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In the novel ''Doomsday Deck'', Buffy gets diverted from stopping the BigBad by a vampire attack on a convenience store where her Cordelia is visiting with an art critic who Joyce and Cordelia are showing around town. Most of the would-be victims (the critic being a notable exception) [[BadassBystander are fighting back]] when Buffy arrives, although they need her to turn the tide. One teenage customer is throwing cans at one vampire, two other customers and a young cashier are wrestling with another vampire. Cordelia whacks a third vampire over the head with a broom and then stakes him with the broken broom after he snaps it in half.
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* In the novek ''The Lost Slayer IV: Original Sins'', when Anna, a rookie Slayer in a BadFuture, loses her weapons during a pivotal moment of a fight, she tears a vampire's head off with her bare hands.
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* In the novek novel ''The Lost Slayer IV: Original Sins'', when Anna, a rookie Slayer in a BadFuture, loses her weapons during a pivotal moment of a fight, she tears a vampire's head off with her bare hands.
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* The comic one-shot "Sonenblume" ends with the Slayer of 1938, who is on the verge of being seduced by Adolph Hitler's [[RabbleRouser rabble rousing]], snapping out of her brainwashing and vowing to fight Nazis as well as vampires.
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** When Jean-Marc dies and his son and heir isn't close enough to the Gatehouse to absorb it's power, Xander temporarily becomes the new magically powered Gatekeeper, allowing him to inflict just as much damage on the evil cultists as Jean-Marc did.
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** During the attempt to slaughter the Potential Slayers at the Watchers' Council headquarters, extremely elderly sorcerer Trevor Kensington is one of the last Watchers standing and is quite the HeroOfAnotherStory and OneManArmy. He slaughters a roomful of {{Mook}}s off-screen before dueling the BigBad, who knows him by sight and asks "Will you ever die?"
** Seven Potential Slayers arm themselves, insisting on aiding their CrazyPrepared but still outclassed Watcher defenders. They do a good job of fighting their attackers even before Sophie dies in a consecutive battle elsewhere. The fight between the BigBad and the new Slayer is impressive, but also impressive is how one unnamed background Potential manages to survive the battle uninjured along with the new Slayer, her best friend Ariana and an injured BitCharacter.
--> '''Ariana''': Charles Rochemont is up there. My Watcher. I will not let him die for me without at least giving him the respect of standing by his side.
** Seven Potential Slayers arm themselves, insisting on aiding their CrazyPrepared but still outclassed Watcher defenders. They do a good job of fighting their attackers even before Sophie dies in a consecutive battle elsewhere. The fight between the BigBad and the new Slayer is impressive, but also impressive is how one unnamed background Potential manages to survive the battle uninjured along with the new Slayer, her best friend Ariana and an injured BitCharacter.
--> '''Ariana''': Charles Rochemont is up there. My Watcher. I will not let him die for me without at least giving him the respect of standing by his side.
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* In the novel ''Spike & Dru: Pretty Maids: All In a Row'':
** Spike and Dru's crusie ship is sunk by a u-boat, and the two vampires swim out to the sub and kill or turn every Nazi onboard.
** StatuesqueStunner Slayer Sophie Cartensen stands by calmly while being given orders to go on a possible SuicideMission. But when a man implied to be Quentin Travers' grandfather insults Yanna, her Watcher, Sophie grabs him by his collar, lifts him off his feet, gives him a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, and orders him to apologize to Yanna.
** Spike and Dru's crusie ship is sunk by a u-boat, and the two vampires swim out to the sub and kill or turn every Nazi onboard.
** StatuesqueStunner Slayer Sophie Cartensen stands by calmly while being given orders to go on a possible SuicideMission. But when a man implied to be Quentin Travers' grandfather insults Yanna, her Watcher, Sophie grabs him by his collar, lifts him off his feet, gives him a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, and orders him to apologize to Yanna.
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** In "A Good Run", Thessilly Thessilonikki survives being the Slayer for ''seventeen years''. Her last mission is acting as an escort for the historical messenger Philippides (who inspired the marathon event), running the same 380-mile route he does while fighting monsters all the way.
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** While Buffy, Oz, and Willow are too busy to deal with local threats, Amy Madison finds herself stepping into the Scooby Gang's role to try and protect the people of Sunnydale, saving Xander from an attacker and ending up hospitalized in a later fight after impressing Ethan Rayne with her spell casting.
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In the novel ''Doomsday Deck'', Buffy gets diverted from stopping the BigBad by a vampire attack on a convenience store where her Cordelia is visiting with an art critic who Joyce and Cordelia are showing around town. Most of the would-be victims (the critic being a notable exception) [[BadassBystander are fighting back]] when Buffy arrives, although they need her to turn the tide. One teenage customer is throwing cans at one vampire, two other customers and a young cashier are wrestling with another vampire. Cordelia whacks a third vampire over the head with a broom and then stakes him with the broken broom after he snaps it in half.
* In ''The Gatekeeper Trilogy'' of novels:
** The first time two cultist flunkies of the BigBad infiltrate the Gatehouse to kill Jean-Marc the GateGuardian, one is killed and the other is told to tell his friends that Jean-Marc will kill any of their number who try to enter the mansion. Plenty still do, and Jean-Marc makes good on his threat. In the next book, Jean-Marc is only mortally wounded while defeating seventeen cultists, who are the last remnants of a much bigger force he has already decimated across several fights over a week or so.
* In the novel ''Monster Island'', fifty-five foot tall Old One god/demon Garth initially refuses to help fight an army of villains largely because he thinks his powers would make the fight too unfair for the villains. Once Garth finally does decide to fight, Fred Burkle describes this as a DeusExMachina. Garth interrupts the invasion of Nazi-like demons who see his neighbors as impure and makes a Breaking Speech about how if someone with his powers and pedigree doesn't view the half-demons as unworthy and impure, then the so-called Coalition of Purity has no right to that mindset. Whether or not his words move all of the villains is unclear, but the ones who are unmoved are too terrified at the idea of fighting Garth to press the matter.
* In the novek ''The Lost Slayer IV: Original Sins'', when Anna, a rookie Slayer in a BadFuture, loses her weapons during a pivotal moment of a fight, she tears a vampire's head off with her bare hands.
* In the ''Tales of the Slayer'' short stories:
** In ''The Rule of Silence'', secretly Jewish thirteenth-century Slayer Espernanza de la Vega is a kind-hearted girl whose Watcher thinks she is too kind to survive the cruciamentum. However, she is a DefiantCaptive when being questioned and tortured by Inquisitors (even biting one when they put her on the rack) and her temporary lack of powers doesn't keep her from escaping from the dungeon's guards and some vampiric and demonic prisoners.
** In "Undeadsville" After being turned into a vampire, beatnik Slayer Zoe Kuryakin retains her soul, is able to resist and kill her sire while giving him a BreakingSpeech, and then commits SuicideBySunlight once she starts losing control of her ability to resist drinking blood.
* In the novel ''Slayer: Chosen'', Watcher trainee Rhys Zabuto shoots a crossbow at an evil god while making a BadassBoast about how even if a Slayer has never killed a god, Watchers have.
* In ''The Gatekeeper Trilogy'' of novels:
** The first time two cultist flunkies of the BigBad infiltrate the Gatehouse to kill Jean-Marc the GateGuardian, one is killed and the other is told to tell his friends that Jean-Marc will kill any of their number who try to enter the mansion. Plenty still do, and Jean-Marc makes good on his threat. In the next book, Jean-Marc is only mortally wounded while defeating seventeen cultists, who are the last remnants of a much bigger force he has already decimated across several fights over a week or so.
* In the novel ''Monster Island'', fifty-five foot tall Old One god/demon Garth initially refuses to help fight an army of villains largely because he thinks his powers would make the fight too unfair for the villains. Once Garth finally does decide to fight, Fred Burkle describes this as a DeusExMachina. Garth interrupts the invasion of Nazi-like demons who see his neighbors as impure and makes a Breaking Speech about how if someone with his powers and pedigree doesn't view the half-demons as unworthy and impure, then the so-called Coalition of Purity has no right to that mindset. Whether or not his words move all of the villains is unclear, but the ones who are unmoved are too terrified at the idea of fighting Garth to press the matter.
* In the novek ''The Lost Slayer IV: Original Sins'', when Anna, a rookie Slayer in a BadFuture, loses her weapons during a pivotal moment of a fight, she tears a vampire's head off with her bare hands.
* In the ''Tales of the Slayer'' short stories:
** In ''The Rule of Silence'', secretly Jewish thirteenth-century Slayer Espernanza de la Vega is a kind-hearted girl whose Watcher thinks she is too kind to survive the cruciamentum. However, she is a DefiantCaptive when being questioned and tortured by Inquisitors (even biting one when they put her on the rack) and her temporary lack of powers doesn't keep her from escaping from the dungeon's guards and some vampiric and demonic prisoners.
** In "Undeadsville" After being turned into a vampire, beatnik Slayer Zoe Kuryakin retains her soul, is able to resist and kill her sire while giving him a BreakingSpeech, and then commits SuicideBySunlight once she starts losing control of her ability to resist drinking blood.
* In the novel ''Slayer: Chosen'', Watcher trainee Rhys Zabuto shoots a crossbow at an evil god while making a BadassBoast about how even if a Slayer has never killed a god, Watchers have.
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* Glory appears at the park, and grabs her hand, probably breaking it - at any rate you can see that Tara's in serious pain - but Glory threatens the people around them if Tara draws attention, so she keeps quiet. Then Glory demands to know where Dawn is, threatening Tara with terrifyingly described insanity if she doesn't tell...and again, she keeps quiet, apparently because she'd take anything rather than let someone else be hurt.
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* Glory appears at the park, and grabs her hand, probably breaking it - at any rate you can see that Tara's in serious pain - but Glory threatens the people around them if Tara draws attention, so she keeps quiet. Then Glory demands to know where Dawn is, threatening Tara with terrifyingly described insanity if she doesn't tell...and again, she keeps quiet, apparently because she'd take anything rather than let someone else be hurt. Having spent the entire scene speechless, whimpering in pain, she squares up, looks Glory in the eye, and ''continues to say nothing''.
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* The very first scene is one for the show as a whole. Jock and CatholicSchoolGirl go around at night, the jock lures the girl in an isolated location, [[WhamShot and then the girl reveals herself as a vampire and kills him]]. Nowadays this is almost expected, but at the time it was shocking (and it may be the very reason it's now so expected: [[FollowTheLeader everyone wanted to imitate this]]).
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* The very first scene is one for the show as a whole. Jock and CatholicSchoolGirl [[CatholicSchoolGirlsRule Catholic School Girl]] go around at night, the jock lures the girl in an isolated location, [[WhamShot and then the girl reveals herself as a vampire and kills him]]. Nowadays this is almost expected, but at the time it was shocking (and it may be the very reason it's now so expected: [[FollowTheLeader everyone wanted to imitate this]]).
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** To hammer it in a little more, there was every chance that had Giles not wanted to prolong Angelus's suffering, he could have easily staked him right there. The only reason Angelus turned the tables was because he seized on an opening that Giles accidentally gave him, but until then, he was entirely at the man's mercy.
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-->'''Glory''': Lost your hammer, sweetcheeks. What are you gonna hit me with now?
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-->'''Buffy''': Whatever's handy.
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-->'''Buffy''': Whatever's handy.
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-->'''Glory''': Lost your hammer, sweetcheeks. What are you gonna hit me with now?
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-->'''Buffy''': Whatever's handy.
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** It may be a bit morbid, but what he says beforehan sticks out for sheer badass content.
--->'''Giles''': ...[Buffy] couldn't take a human life. She's a hero, you see. She's not like us. \\
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-->'''Glory''': Know what they used to do to witches, lover? Crucify 'em.
-->''Glory pulls her arm back to stab her, but Buffy appears and grabs Glory's wrist''.
-->'''Buffy''': They used to bow down to gods. Things change.
-->''Glory pulls her arm back to stab her, but Buffy appears and grabs Glory's wrist''.
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* Buffy [[FoeTossingCharge nonchalantly pushing Doc off Glory's tower]]. Doc was in mid-sentence. It was like a non-verbal "Whatever."
* Let's not forget Buffy sacrificing herself. Like the tombstone said: She saved the world. A lot.
* Let's not forget Buffy sacrificing herself. Like the tombstone said: She saved the world. A lot.
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* Buffy [[FoeTossingCharge nonchalantly pushing Doc off Glory's tower]]. Doc was in mid-sentence.tower]], [[KilledMidSentence mid-sentence]]. It was like a non-verbal "Whatever."
*Let's not forget Buffy sacrificing herself. Like the tombstone said: She saved the world. A lot.
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* Buffy hunting down Fork Guy and using him to find the she-mantis's lair. Bonus points for staking him when he breaks free.
* Buffy hunting down Fork Guy and using him to find the she-mantis's lair. Bonus points for staking him when he breaks free.
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-->'''Buffy:''' [[BondOneLiner It's in about nine hours]], [[WhatAnIdiot moron.]]
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** That's right, Xander pulled off a [[Franchise/MassEffect Paragon Interrupt]] on the Apocalypse!
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** That's right, Xander pulled off a [[Franchise/MassEffect Paragon Interrupt]] on the Apocalypse!Apocalypse! And he did it with love.
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* At one point, Ethan Rayne spies a crowbar and attempts to reach for it in an attempt to attack Buffy. He’s stopped almost immediately by Giles pointing the ''[[ChekhovsGun same gun]]'' at him. Even when magically changed to act like a teenager, Giles is still TeamDad.
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** Give Riley props for actually giving Angel a pretty good fight.
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* A minor one, but acknowledged. When [[spoiler: the child-beating coach]] tries to make his getaway in the end, Xander is the one to take him down.
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** And then talks Jonathan down, while simultaneously chewing him out for his actions. [[spoiler: The sad part was, Jonathan's not a school shooter - he was about to kill [[DrivenToSuicide himself.]]]]
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* After Angel is poisoned and Buffy discovers that the only way to cure it is the blood of a slayer - she instantly prepares to take on Faith. She knows how powerful Faith is and that the fight won't be easy - but she'll do whatever she has to in order to save Angel. And tactically it's also a sound idea - removing a powerful obstacle from the enemy's side. The last part works - [[spoiler:although Faith lives, being left comatose means she's unable to help the Mayor in the Ascension.]]
* Credit where credit is due Faith does not go down easily in her final fight with Buffy. Despite having Faith cornered in her own apartment, having an entire seasons worth of reasons to want to see Faith dead and needing to drain her blood in order to save Angel's life, Faith still manages to give Buffy one of her most intense and difficult fights in the entire series. And at the end [[spoiler: when Faith gets gutted by Buffy by her own knife and is close to dying]] Faith more or less [[DefiantToTheEnd gives her a defiant screw you]] and purposely jumps off the top of her apartment building into a moving truck in order to prevent Buffy from getting her blood.
* Credit where credit is due Faith does not go down easily in her final fight with Buffy. Despite having Faith cornered in her own apartment, having an entire seasons worth of reasons to want to see Faith dead and needing to drain her blood in order to save Angel's life, Faith still manages to give Buffy one of her most intense and difficult fights in the entire series. And at the end [[spoiler: when Faith gets gutted by Buffy by her own knife and is close to dying]] Faith more or less [[DefiantToTheEnd gives her a defiant screw you]] and purposely jumps off the top of her apartment building into a moving truck in order to prevent Buffy from getting her blood.
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* Credit where credit is due Faith does not go down easily in her final fight with Buffy. Despite having Faith cornered in her own apartment, having an entire seasons worth of reasons to want to see Faith dead and needing to drain her blood in order to save Angel's life, Faith still manages to give Buffy one of her most intense and difficult fights in the entire series. And at the end[[spoiler: when Faith gets gutted by Buffy by her own knife and is close to dying]] dying Faith more or less [[DefiantToTheEnd gives her a defiant screw you]] and purposely jumps off the top of her apartment building into a moving truck in order to prevent Buffy from getting her blood.
* Credit where credit is due Faith does not go down easily in her final fight with Buffy. Despite having Faith cornered in her own apartment, having an entire seasons worth of reasons to want to see Faith dead and needing to drain her blood in order to save Angel's life, Faith still manages to give Buffy one of her most intense and difficult fights in the entire series. And at the end
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** Let's face it, her torture and hunt for him was pretty special as well. Before she foregoes the torture and shows just what she's capable of by ordering Warren off the bus before choking him until his head pops like a grape. [[spoiler: It was a robot clone, but NoNonsenseNemesis much?]]
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* Willow [[spoiler: using her magic to unlock all the Potentials' powers]], powers, complete with [[OneWingedAngel white-haired glowing Willow]], "Oh. My. Goddess.", and an appropriate summation when the spell is over and Willow flops to the floor, exhausted: "That was nifty."
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* Xander gets a series long SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome simply for surviving. Buffy's a slayer and she died, twice. Willow's a witch and the most powerful character on the show. Anya's a demon [[spoiler: and she died]]. Spike's a vampire [[spoiler: and he died]]. Xander's human, arguably not even a BadassNormal, and he's survived.
* Even if you weren't a Spuffy shipper you have to admit Spike being willing to [[spoiler: go up ''in flames'' even when he knew she didn't return his feelings to save the day]] is awesome.
* Even if you weren't a Spuffy shipper you have to admit Spike being willing to [[spoiler: go up ''in flames'' even when he knew she didn't return his feelings to save the day]] is awesome.
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* Xander gets a series long SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome simply for surviving. Buffy's a slayer and she died, twice. Willow's a witch and the most powerful character on the show. Anya's a demon [[spoiler: and she died]]. died. Spike's a vampire [[spoiler: and he died]].died. Xander's human, arguably not even a BadassNormal, and he's survived.
* Even if you weren't a Spuffy shipper you have to admit Spike being willing to[[spoiler: go up ''in flames'' even when he knew she didn't return his feelings to save the day]] day is awesome.
* Even if you weren't a Spuffy shipper you have to admit Spike being willing to
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** Toru managing to trick Dracula out of his powers and give them to his hundreds of Vampire mooks, steal the Scythe from Buffy, [[spoiler:kill two Slayers]], and very nearly succeed in his plan to depower the Slayer army.
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** Toru managing to trick Dracula out of his powers and give them to his hundreds of Vampire mooks, steal the Scythe from Buffy, [[spoiler:kill kill two Slayers]], Slayers, and very nearly succeed in his plan to depower the Slayer army.
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** Toru intercept's Dracula's sword as it's thrown to him, but he takes it away and utterly destroys Toru by cutting off his arms and a leg, followed by Xander doing an UnflinchingWalk through the battlefield to take Dracula's sword from him and decapitate Toru in revenge for him killing [[spoiler:Renee]]. And during the first part of that, Dracula's YouHaveNoIdeaWhoYoureDealingWith speech towards Toru.
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** Toru intercept's Dracula's sword as it's thrown to him, but he takes it away and utterly destroys Toru by cutting off his arms and a leg, followed by Xander doing an UnflinchingWalk through the battlefield to take Dracula's sword from him and decapitate Toru in revenge for him killing [[spoiler:Renee]].Renee. And during the first part of that, Dracula's YouHaveNoIdeaWhoYoureDealingWith speech towards Toru.
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* With ''Angel & Faith'' having kicked into high gear the main series needed to step up and the long awaited return to Sunnydale does so big time. For a while now it's been hinted that Warren will be resurrected. Well...[[spoiler: the Scoobies chase Andrew when he steals the Vampyer book who intends to use it to bring Johnathan BackFromTheDead. There's someone else he intends to resurrect as well.]] [[spoiler: [[WhamLine Tara. McClay]].]] Oh... here we go.
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* With ''Angel & Faith'' having kicked into high gear the main series needed to step up and the long awaited return to Sunnydale does so big time. For a while now it's been hinted that Warren will be resurrected. Well...[[spoiler: the Scoobies chase Andrew when he steals the Vampyer book who intends to use it to bring Johnathan BackFromTheDead. There's someone else he intends to resurrect as well.]] [[spoiler: [[WhamLine Tara. McClay]].]] Oh... here we go.
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* Some may remember Nadira, the violent vigilante Slayer. [[spoiler: When Drusilia kidnaps her she's all smiles and perfectly happy to go along. Why? Meeting Archaeus, the [[GodOfEvil King of Hell,]] she wants to save him.]] ''[[TookALevelInKindness Oh Nadira? Really? Kindness levels don't go up that high.]]'' Nadira tries to reason, and when that doesn't work, [[TechnicalPacifist well she never stopped being a Slayer.]]
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* Some may remember Nadira, the violent vigilante Slayer. [[spoiler: When Drusilia kidnaps her she's all smiles and perfectly happy to go along. Why? Meeting Archaeus, the [[GodOfEvil King of Hell,]] she wants to save him.]] ''[[TookALevelInKindness Oh Nadira? Really? Kindness levels don't go up that high.]]'' Nadira tries to reason, and when that doesn't work, [[TechnicalPacifist well she never stopped being a Slayer.]]
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** Spike's insecurities get the better of him and he suggests he and Buffy break up before they ruin their friendship too? Buffy doesn't let him take the easy way out and they talk the issue out while in between stops of Buffy's plan to stop [[spoiler: D'Hoffryn]], sticking together and admitting they're both scared.
* [[spoiler: The ghost Anya]] cleverly using ExactWords to pretend she'd killed Xander, but really all she'd done is turn him intangible briefly.
* Some credit to [[spoiler: Jonathan]] and the other Vengeance demons, who quit working for [[spoiler: D'Hoffryn]] after seeing him dispose of [[spoiler: Ghost Anya]] and realizing how how disposable they are to him.
* The finale and final fight against [[spoiler: D'Hoffryn]]. When the tide of battle turns on him with [[spoiler: the Anya ghost's betrayal]] he quickly hightails it out of that dimension to recover. The crew ''don't let him'' and hunt him down. He quickly tries to get on their good sides, promising them one wish each, no backstabbing, using insecurities or other long-standing wishes they've had throughout the season (Xander to bring Anya back, Giles to be restored to his real age, Spike to be TheChosenOne and/or human, Buffy and Dawn to have Joyce back, and Willow to have Tara back). Everyone turns him down and Buffy cuts his head off.
* [[spoiler: The ghost Anya]] cleverly using ExactWords to pretend she'd killed Xander, but really all she'd done is turn him intangible briefly.
* Some credit to [[spoiler: Jonathan]] and the other Vengeance demons, who quit working for [[spoiler: D'Hoffryn]] after seeing him dispose of [[spoiler: Ghost Anya]] and realizing how how disposable they are to him.
* The finale and final fight against [[spoiler: D'Hoffryn]]. When the tide of battle turns on him with [[spoiler: the Anya ghost's betrayal]] he quickly hightails it out of that dimension to recover. The crew ''don't let him'' and hunt him down. He quickly tries to get on their good sides, promising them one wish each, no backstabbing, using insecurities or other long-standing wishes they've had throughout the season (Xander to bring Anya back, Giles to be restored to his real age, Spike to be TheChosenOne and/or human, Buffy and Dawn to have Joyce back, and Willow to have Tara back). Everyone turns him down and Buffy cuts his head off.
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** Spike's insecurities get the better of him and he suggests he and Buffy break up before they ruin their friendship too? Buffy doesn't let him take the easy way out and they talk the issue out while in between stops of Buffy's plan to stop [[spoiler: D'Hoffryn]], D'Hoffryn, sticking together and admitting they're both scared.
*[[spoiler: The ghost Anya]] Anya cleverly using ExactWords to pretend she'd killed Xander, but really all she'd done is turn him intangible briefly.
* Some credit to[[spoiler: Jonathan]] Jonathan and the other Vengeance demons, who quit working for [[spoiler: D'Hoffryn]] D'Hoffryn after seeing him dispose of [[spoiler: Ghost Anya]] Anya and realizing how how disposable they are to him.
* The finale and final fight against[[spoiler: D'Hoffryn]]. D'Hoffryn. When the tide of battle turns on him with [[spoiler: the Anya ghost's betrayal]] betrayal he quickly hightails it out of that dimension to recover. The crew ''don't let him'' and hunt him down. He quickly tries to get on their good sides, promising them one wish each, no backstabbing, using insecurities or other long-standing wishes they've had throughout the season (Xander to bring Anya back, Giles to be restored to his real age, Spike to be TheChosenOne and/or human, Buffy and Dawn to have Joyce back, and Willow to have Tara back). Everyone turns him down and Buffy cuts his head off.
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* Buffy's speech about why this is the solution: Because the rule that it be "one girl in all the world" is arbitrary. So change the rules.
--> What if you could have that power...now? In every generation, one Slayer is born... because a bunch of men who died thousands of years ago made up that rule. They were powerful men. This woman-" (re: Willow) "-is more powerful than all of them combined. So I say we change the rule. I say ''my'' power... should be ''our'' power.
--> What if you could have that power...now? In every generation, one Slayer is born... because a bunch of men who died thousands of years ago made up that rule. They were powerful men. This woman-" (re: Willow) "-is more powerful than all of them combined. So I say we change the rule. I say ''my'' power... should be ''our'' power.
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* Though it's terribly {{anvilicious}}, Giles' rage against the old fundamentalist is still rather magnificent. [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped And needed.]]\n
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* After Angel is poisoned and Buffy discovers that the only way to cure it is the blood of a slayer - she instantly prepares to take on Faith. She knows how powerful Faith is and that the fight won't be easy - but she'll do whatever she has to in order to save Angel. And tactically it's also a sound idea - removing a powerful obstacle from the enemy's side. The last part works - although Faith lives, being left comatose means she's unable to help the Mayor in the Ascension.
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* After Angel is poisoned and Buffy discovers that the only way to cure it is the blood of a slayer - she instantly prepares to take on Faith. She knows how powerful Faith is and that the fight won't be easy - but she'll do whatever she has to in order to save Angel. And tactically it's also a sound idea - removing a powerful obstacle from the enemy's side. The last part works - although [[spoiler:although Faith lives, being left comatose means she's unable to help the Mayor in the Ascension.]]
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