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* CosmicRetcon: [[OnlyChildSyndrome Only child]] Buffy suddenly has an annoying little sister to butt heads with. Dawn appears out of nowhere yet everyone thinks she's always been a member of the Summers family. It takes several episodes before this mystery is answered.
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* CosmicRetcon: [[OnlyChildSyndrome Only child]] child Buffy suddenly has an annoying little sister to butt heads with. Dawn appears out of nowhere yet everyone thinks she's always been a member of the Summers family. It takes several episodes before this mystery is answered.
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** Spike attempts to rape Buffy in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E19SeeingRed Seeing Red]]", and since Buffy is injured and can't fight him off, he nearly succeeds before she eventually is able to kick him off her long enough for him to stop himself.
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** Spike attempts to rape Buffy in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E19SeeingRed Seeing Red]]", and since Buffy is injured and can't fight him off, he nearly succeeds before she eventually is able to kick him off her long enough for him to realize what he's nearly done and stop himself.
* BaitAndSwitch: When Spike leaves Sunnydale, it seems as though he's planning to have his chip removed, but it turns out he was [[spoiler: getting his soul instead]].
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* DestructiveRomance: Buffy starts a secret relationship with Spike to combat her depression. Unfortunately this only ends up making things worse -- Spike is convinced Buffy wants to come over to TheDarkSide and is frustrated by her unwillingness to either return his love or abandon her friends, while their InterplayOfSexAndViolence, her lust for a soulless monster who's supposed to be her enemy and her [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman guilt over using Spike without respecting his own feelings]] only increases Buffy's self-loathing. At one point she savagely beats an unresisting Spike, describing him in terms that are [[RageAgainstTheReflection clearly referring to herself]] ("There is nothing good or clean in you! You are ''dead'' inside! You can't feel anything real!"). The InUniverse ValuesDissonance between the two reaches a point where [[spoiler:after she ends the relationship, Spike tries to inflict the Loving Force trope on an injured Buffy; fortunately Buffy is able to fend him off and Spike realises that, even for him, this act is crossing the MoralEventHorizon, and motivates him to go on a quest to regain his soul.]]
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* DestructiveRomance: Buffy starts a secret relationship with Spike to combat her depression. Unfortunately this only ends up making things worse -- Spike is convinced Buffy wants to come over to TheDarkSide and is frustrated by her unwillingness to either return his love or abandon her friends, while their InterplayOfSexAndViolence, her lust for a soulless monster who's supposed to be her enemy and her [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman guilt over using Spike without respecting his own feelings]] only increases Buffy's self-loathing. At one point she savagely beats an unresisting Spike, describing him in terms that are [[RageAgainstTheReflection clearly referring to herself]] ("There is nothing good or clean in you! You are ''dead'' inside! You can't feel anything real!"). The InUniverse ValuesDissonance between the two reaches a point where [[spoiler:after she ends the relationship, Spike tries to inflict the Loving Force trope on nearly forces himself an injured Buffy; fortunately Buffy is able to fend kick him off and for long enough for Spike realises that, even for him, realize what he's doing and stop himself. Viewing this act is as crossing the MoralEventHorizon, and motivates him he becomes motivated to go on a quest to regain his soul.]]
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* DontYouDarePityMe: A variation. After revealing to Tara that, as a result of her depression, she'd been allowing Spike to abuse her, Buffy tearfully begs Tara to ''not'' forgive her; not out of anger, but because she's so disgusted with herself that she doesn't think she deserves pity.
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* DontYouDarePityMe: A variation. After revealing to Tara that, as a result of her depression, she'd been allowing Spike to abuse her, she's in a mutually abusive relationship with Spike, Buffy tearfully begs Tara to ''not'' forgive her; not out of anger, but because she's so disgusted with herself that she doesn't think she deserves pity.
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* FirstNameBasis: To drive home that she's not kidding, Buffy calls Spike "William" [[spoiler:when breaking up with him]].
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* HasTwoMommies: Dawn with Willow and Tara. Considering that they were really one of the only good relationships in the show (and by extension, in her life) and that they took care of her for a good year or so, it's no shock.
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* HasTwoMommies: Dawn with Willow and Tara. Considering that they were really one of the only good functional relationships in the show (and by extension, in her life) and that they took care of her for a good year or so, it's no shock.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Last season, Buffy derided Warren for dehumanizing the robot he made for sexual gratification. This season, she's outright abusive to Spike, whom ''she'' dehumanizes and uses for sexual gratification.
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* ImpossiblyTackyClothes: Dear god, the wedding dresses at Anya's wedding. Buffy even describes their awful green as "radioactive".
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* ImpossiblyTackyClothes: Dear god, the wedding bridesmaid dresses at Anya's wedding. Buffy even describes their awful green as "radioactive".
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* {{Irony}}: Buffy learns the value of life at a cemetery.
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* {{Irony}}: Buffy learns the value of life at a cemetery. She's also convinced to keep living by a (un)dead guy.
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* LotusEaterMachine
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* LotusEaterMachineLotusEaterMachine: Played with. The alternate universe Buffy finds herself in in "Normal Again" is hardly paradise, but within it, Joyce is still alive, her parents are still together, and she's a normal girl without the responsibility of the world on her shoulders. It is however, a hallucination she's having from demon venom, which is both slowly killing her and causing her to kill all her friends.
* OperationJealousy: Spike shows up to Xander and Anya's wedding with some random goth girl to make Buffy jealous. She admits it kinda worked.
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* ResurrectionSickness: Buffy. Like Angel back in season three, though inverted. He spent centuries being tortured in a hell dimension and came back a savage beast. She spent her time in heaven and thought she'd been kidnapped into hell.
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* ResurrectionSickness: Buffy. Like Angel back in season three, though inverted. He spent centuries a century being tortured in a hell dimension and came back a savage beast.feral. She spent her time in heaven and thought she'd been kidnapped into hell.
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** TheBigGuy: Spike. It's less obvious than in the last season, however.
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** TheBigGuy: Spike. It's less obvious than in As always, acting as the last season, however.extra muscle at Buffy's side.
* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: To drive home that she's not kidding, Buffy calls Spike "William" [[spoiler:when breaking up with him]].
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: One suspects that the reason Buffy spends ''every single'' scene with Spike is that no one else can stand her anymore. This is to the extent that the Scoobies and the Potentials get fed up with her bossiness, as well as having doubts over both her leadership skills and methods, and finally decide that Faith would be a better leader and kick her out. Then again, considering the sheer amount of PTSD she's dealing with at that point, no wonder Spike is the one who can stand her. Still a bitch, but with, unfortunately, enough justification to make her sympathetic.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: One suspects that The First uses this trope a lot; masquerading as the reason Buffy spends ''every single'' scene with Spike is that no one else can stand her anymore. This is to the extent that the Scoobies ghosts of now-dead loved ones like Joyce and the Potentials get fed up with her bossiness, Cassie (who claims to be speaking for Tara), as well as having doubts over both her leadership skills and methods, and finally decide that Faith would pretending to be a better leader Potential and kick her out. Then again, considering sowing discord from within the sheer amount of PTSD she's dealing with at that point, no wonder Spike is the one who can stand her. Still a bitch, but with, unfortunately, enough justification to make her sympathetic.group.
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* CoolAunt: Where Buffy calls a suicide victim weak and stupid and basically says everybody sucks but her, Faith takes the potentials out partying when the stress gets too much and watches out for their welfare.
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* CoolAunt: Where Buffy calls a suicide victim weak and stupid and basically says everybody sucks but her, delivers a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the rest of the group, Faith takes the potentials out partying when the stress gets too much and watches out for their welfare.
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** When we first see Amanda, she mentions having confusing feelings for a boy that bullies her, and the fact that she retaliates quie physical and effectively. Next episode we see her we find out she is a potential slayer, which is fitting considering the obvious parallels with Spuffy and the natural physical prowess of slayers.
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** When we first see Amanda, she mentions having confusing feelings for a boy that bullies her, and the fact that she retaliates quie quite physical and effectively. Next episode we see her we find out she is a potential slayer, which is fitting considering the obvious parallels with Spuffy and the natural physical prowess of slayers.
** In "Help", Cassie (A girl with precognition powers) will tell a still-insane Spike, "She'll tell you one day", with no other context. In the final episode, Buffy confesses her love to him.
** In "Help", Cassie (A girl with precognition powers) will tell a still-insane Spike, "She'll tell you one day", with no other context. In the final episode, Buffy confesses her love to him.
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* GrandFinaleGrandFinale: The final season of the show, and Buffy fights her biggest foe: the personification of evil.
** Giles spends much of the season deriding Buffy for her faith in Spike, declaring him too dangerous and insisting Buffy must "think like a general" to win against The First--even going as far as to go behind her back to have Spike killed. However, when Buffy does exactly that and wants to pursue the Vineyard again after a failed attack, he participates in the mutiny and allows her to be booted from the house and deposed as leader.
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* PlotMandatedFriendshipFailure: "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E19EmptyPlaces Empty Places]]" has all of Buffy's friends (including her own sister) remove her from leading them and kick her out of her own house after one bad mission that results in two dead Potentials and Xander losing an eye. PlayedWith slightly in that Giles connived things so that Spike and Andrew were sent away for the day, likely so they wouldn't be there to take Buffy's side. It should be noted that the Buffy-less group immediately goes and screws up in exactly the manner they accused Buffy of doing (recklessly falling into a trap that gets even more people killed). While they are doing that, Buffy heads off to complete the mission she was pitching when she got overthrown, succeeds on her own, acquires the scythe and kills Caleb. She's magnanimous enough not to point out how much she got done all alone when they apologize and ask her to be in charge again.
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* PlotMandatedFriendshipFailure: "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E19EmptyPlaces Empty Places]]" has all of Buffy's friends (including her own sister) remove her from leading them and kick her out of her own house after one bad mission that results in two dead Potentials and Xander losing an eye. PlayedWith slightly in that Giles connived things so that Spike [[UndyingLoyalty Spike]] and Andrew [[HeroWorshipper Andrew]] were sent away for the day, likely so they wouldn't be there to take Buffy's side. It should be noted that the Buffy-less group immediately goes and screws up in exactly the manner they accused Buffy of doing (recklessly falling into a trap that gets even more people killed). While they are doing that, Buffy heads off to complete the mission she was pitching when she got overthrown, succeeds on her own, acquires the scythe and kills Caleb. She's magnanimous enough not to point out how much she got done all alone when they apologize and ask her to be in charge again.
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* EverythingIsBetterWithMonkeys: In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E10IntoTheWoods Into the Woods]]", Anya wants to watch a movie about monkeys playing hockey because "The ice is so slippery and monkeys are all irrational".
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* EverythingIsBetterWithMonkeys: EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E10IntoTheWoods Into the Woods]]", Anya wants to watch a movie about monkeys playing hockey because "The ice is so slippery and monkeys are all irrational".
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* SecondYearProtagonist: Buffy, Willow, Xander, and Cordelia are all in tenth grade at the start of the series.
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* PropheticName: Scott Hope. Now, if only his first name were [[YourCheatingHeart Dash]]...
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* PropheticName: Scott Hope. Now, if only his first name were [[YourCheatingHeart Dash]]...Dash...
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* YouKeepUsingThatWord: When the Scooby Gang and the Initiative become hostile towards the end of the fourth season the colonel in charge of the Initiative describes the Scoobies as "anarchists," and when Riley later defects he again uses the term, this time including himself with the group. However, the Scoobies have never advocated any sort of anarchist philosophy or mindset, and several episodes (Both before and after this event) have stressed their wholehearted belief in the need for people, even themselves, to submit to proper established authority when the situation calls for it.
** FridgeBrilliance: [[WellIntentionedExtremist Extremists]] [[BlackAndWhiteInsanity can't tell the difference]] [[WithUsOrAgainstUs between moderates/realists and the opposite extremists.]]
** FridgeBrilliance: [[WellIntentionedExtremist Extremists]] [[BlackAndWhiteInsanity can't tell the difference]] [[WithUsOrAgainstUs between moderates/realists and the opposite extremists.]]
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* BrandX: Trick orders a "medium diet soda" at a drive-thru window without actually specifying ''what'' soda in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E4FaithHopeAndTrick Faith, Hope & Trick]]".
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* BrandX: Trick orders a "medium diet soda" at a drive-thru window without actually specifying ''what'' soda in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E4FaithHopeAndTrick "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E3FaithHopeAndTrick Faith, Hope & Trick]]".
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* FriendToPsychos: In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E3BeautyAndTheBeasts Beauty and the Beasts]]", Debbie tries to cover for her boyfriend Pete when he starts going through a Jekyll/Hyde situation. She's not very good at it, though.
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* FriendToPsychos: In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E3BeautyAndTheBeasts "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E4BeautyAndTheBeasts Beauty and the Beasts]]", Debbie tries to cover for her boyfriend Pete when he starts going through a Jekyll/Hyde situation. She's not very good at it, though.
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* AnticlimaxCut: "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlyerS7E1Lessons Lessons]]":
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* AnticlimaxCut: "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlyerS7E1Lessons "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E1Lessons Lessons]]":
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He was not threatening to rape Dawn, he was trying convince Buffy he deserved to die because of his past deeds by using Dawn as a comparative Relative Button. That he was talking about rape at all is at most implied, and would probably fit better in YMMV.
** By that same token, Xander has NoSympathy for Spike (and before him, Angel) because of their past deeds without their souls, yet defends Anya who--with a soul, mind you--killed an entire house of frat boys over a mean-spirited prank they pulled, not to mention centuries of carnage before that. She may have regretted it, sure, but so do Spike and Angel, and they have the excuse of having had no capacity for real remorse while committing those deeds.
** [[spoiler: Post-soul]] Spike still wears the outward facade of his demon's brash confidence, but clearly thinks very little of himself now. He even goes as far as to beg Buffy to stake him once he remembers the killings he'd done while under the First's control, believing his attempt to be a good person had already failed.
* IAmAMonster: Spike attempts to goad Buffy into StakingTheLovedOne by reminding her of just how evil he'd been before [[spoiler: his soul]]. He points out that even young girls [[RelativeButton like Dawn]] were not free from his cruelty, and that he's a monster who needs to be put down before he hurts anyone else.
* IAmAMonster: Spike attempts to goad Buffy into StakingTheLovedOne by reminding her of just how evil he'd been before [[spoiler: his soul]]. He points out that even young girls [[RelativeButton like Dawn]] were not free from his cruelty, and that he's a monster who needs to be put down before he hurts anyone else.
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* LetThemDieHappy: Attempted by Buffy, shot down by Spike.
* LetThemDieHappy: Attempted by Buffy, shot down by Spike.
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* TheLegionsOfHell
TheLegionsOfHell: The First has a giant army of Ubervamps in it's hell dimension.
* LetThemDieHappy: Attempted by Buffy, shot down by Spike. Whether or not she actually meant it is subject to WildMassGuessing, though the fact that she does choose to spend what very well could have been her final night alive with him rather than Angel suggests she did [[TheFourLoves on some level]].
* LetThemDieHappy: Attempted by Buffy, shot down by Spike. Whether or not she actually meant it is subject to WildMassGuessing, though the fact that she does choose to spend what very well could have been her final night alive with him rather than Angel suggests she did [[TheFourLoves on some level]].
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* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Spike, who now has a soul, tells Buffy she has to kill him before he hurts anyone else. To convince her, he warns her that if he goes evil again, he is liable to hurt Dawn — which includes raping her. Apparently the image of Dawn being tortured and killed isn't enough; Spike has to threaten her with rape to get Buffy's attention.
* SleepCute: Buffy asks Spike to hold her in "Touched", and they end up falling asleep like that. They proceed to do the same thing the next night.
* UndyingLoyalty: Spike proves himself to be this for Buffy, as he's the only person all season who, without fail, takes her side and offers her support no matter what happens.
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* WhoYouGonnaCallWhoYouGonnaCall:
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* IWishedYouWereDead: The reason for Buffy's HeroicBSOD in "The Weight of the World".
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* IWishedYouWereDead: The reason for When Dawn is captured by Glory, Buffy goes into HeroicBSOD mode. In her mind, she repeats the same images over and over again; one of them was her placing a book back on the shelf in the Magic Shop. Buffy explains to Willow (who has gone on a [[JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind journey to the center of Buffy's HeroicBSOD in "The Weight of mind]]) that she had momentarily given up on saving her sister Dawn and briefly wished Dawn would die just so the World".fear would be over.
* LifeWillKillYou: Joyce is simply dead one day. While the audience shouldn't be surprised by a death (in the Buffy-verse, at any rate), it was totally unexpected that she died the way she did. [[spoiler:"[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E15IWasMadeToLoveYou I Was Made to Love You]]" ends with Buffy coming home, and her mother is dead on the floor. The next episode is called "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E16TheBody The Body]]", and quickly reveals that it was a simple aneurysm -- caused by complications from a procedure she underwent earlier in the series to remove a brain tumor.]]
** Bonus points that everyone was so surprised and unsettled that it ''wasn't'' anything extraordinary. Xander, especially, is shaken, saying ''things like this don't just happen.'' Anya, who usually has a very matter-of-fact attitude towards supernaturally related death and violence, is completely at a loss and in tears.
* LifeWillKillYou: Joyce is simply dead one day. While the audience shouldn't be surprised by a death (in the Buffy-verse, at any rate), it was totally unexpected that she died the way she did. [[spoiler:"[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E15IWasMadeToLoveYou I Was Made to Love You]]" ends with Buffy coming home, and her mother is dead on the floor. The next episode is called "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E16TheBody The Body]]", and quickly reveals that it was a simple aneurysm -- caused by complications from a procedure she underwent earlier in the series to remove a brain tumor.]]
** Bonus points that everyone was so surprised and unsettled that it ''wasn't'' anything extraordinary. Xander, especially, is shaken, saying ''things like this don't just happen.'' Anya, who usually has a very matter-of-fact attitude towards supernaturally related death and violence, is completely at a loss and in tears.
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* LifeWillKillYou: PlayedWith in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E4Help Help]]". Buffy, while working as a school counselor, meets a student named Cassie who has predicted her own death. The Scoobies spend the episode trying to find out who might be after her, and learn of a cult that intends to sacrifice Cassie. Buffy saves Cassie from the cult, then saves her from a booby-trap by [[ArrowCatch catching a crossbow bolt]] inches from Cassie's head. [[spoiler: Cassie dies soon after of a heart attack.]]
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* BittersweetSeventeen: The events of Buffy's 17th birthday are in one of the most important episodes in the series. She loses her virginity to Angel, who is said to reverse to his evil self called Angellus when he is the happiest in his life, ie: having sex with Buffy. Buffy would finally realise that Angel is definitely not the man (or Vampire) she liked and realises he must be defeated.
* CreateYourOwnVillain: PlayedWith. Angelus was always a threat and The Dreaded, but he had been cursed with a soul and turned good. Buffy ends up breaking the curse in "Innocence" when she has sex with Angel, providing the moment of perfect happiness needed to bring Angelus back; Angelus takes great pleasure in rubbing in Buffy's face that it's her fault he's loose in Sunnydale.
-->'''Angelus''': You know what the worst part was, huh? Pretending that I loved you. If I'd known how easily you'd give it up, I wouldn't have even bothered.
-->'''Buffy''': That doesn't work anymore. You're ''not'' Angel.
-->'''Angelus''': You'd like to think that, wouldn't you? It doesn't matter. The important thing is you made me the man I am today!
-->'''Angelus''': You know what the worst part was, huh? Pretending that I loved you. If I'd known how easily you'd give it up, I wouldn't have even bothered.
-->'''Buffy''': That doesn't work anymore. You're ''not'' Angel.
-->'''Angelus''': You'd like to think that, wouldn't you? It doesn't matter. The important thing is you made me the man I am today!
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In "When She Was Bad", Buffy's attitude problem causes her to get baited easily by the vamps, leaving her friends unprotected so that Willow, Cordelia, Giles, and Miss Calendar get kidnapped by the vampires working for the Anointed One. Xander, normally Buffy's biggest fan, lays it out for her:
Xander: If they hurt Willow, I'll Kill You!.
Xander: If they hurt Willow, I'll Kill You!.
* BroughtDownToBadass: In "Helpless," Giles is forced to strip Buffy of her powers using powerful mixtures of adrenaline suppressors and muscle relaxers as part of her Cruciamentum, a rite of passage to test the Slayer's intellect and wit. Buffy comes out on top against Kralik, the AxCrazy vampire the Council set her up against, by exploiting his dependency on anti-psychotic pills, swapping the water he drinks with them with holy water.
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* HostageForMacGuffin: Subverted: No betrayal happens.Subverted in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E19Choices Choices]]": The Scoobies have captured the Box of Gavrok belonging to Mayor Wilkins, while Mayor Wilkins has captured Willow. The Scoobies debate the morality of destroying the box instead of giving it to the Mayor, but agree to make the trade. Wesley, however, insists on destroying the box rather than letting Wilkins have it, but Oz then proceeds to smash the pot needed for the ritual to do so to ensure that they will trade for Willow. The Mayor does not attempt to kill Willow anyway, and releases her once he has the box. The result is that Willow is safe, but the Mayor has the box.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In "Graduation Day Part 2", the Mayor — normally cheerful, friendly and oddly wholesome for a villain who constantly speaks in a chipper, upbeat tone — goes on a brief, furious VillainousBreakdown after Buffy puts his Faith into a coma.
-->'''Mayor Wilkins''': ''(to Angel)'' Yeah, well I'd get set for a world of weeping! I'd get set for a world of pain! Misery loves company, young man, and I'm more than willing to share that with you and your whore!
-->'''Mayor Wilkins''': ''(to Angel)'' Yeah, well I'd get set for a world of weeping! I'd get set for a world of pain! Misery loves company, young man, and I'm more than willing to share that with you and your whore!
* DespairEventHorizon: Buffy crosses it when, despite her best efforts, Dawn is captured by Glory. The sheer guilt over failing to protect Dawn after everything she's been through renders Buffy catatonic for almost the entirety of the next episode, forcing Willow to embark on a JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind to snap her out of it; during said travel, Buffy confesses she'd long since given up hope of defeating Glory and actually began ''wishing'' that Glory would win just so the fear would finally end.
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** Drusilla is certifiably off her rocker, driven insane by Angelus and in almost every appearance was a Cloudcuckoolander. In "Crush", however, when Spike tries to reunite with her she is the picture of sanity and is clear-headed enough to be hurt and upset over him falling for Buffy.
** In "The Gift", Giles is trying, as gently as possible, to explain to Buffy that it may be necessary to kill Dawn to save not only the world but all of reality. Buffy point-blank says she's not discussing the matter until Giles jumps to his feet and shouts, "YES WE BLOODY WELL ARE!"
** Drusilla is certifiably off her rocker, driven insane by Angelus and in almost every appearance was a Cloudcuckoolander. In "Crush", however, when Spike tries to reunite with her she is the picture of sanity and is clear-headed enough to be hurt and upset over him falling for Buffy.
** In "The Gift", Giles is trying, as gently as possible, to explain to Buffy that it may be necessary to kill Dawn to save not only the world but all of reality. Buffy point-blank says she's not discussing the matter until Giles jumps to his feet and shouts, "YES WE BLOODY WELL ARE!"
* CameBackWrong: Buffy believes she has after Willow reanimates her cadaver using dark rites and blood of animals. Indeed, Spike's chip no longer reads her as human. Ultimately subverted; the spell only altered her molecular structure very slightly, but just enough to confuse Spike's chip.
* DeathSeeker: Implied, but ultimately subverted; after being resurrected, Buffy suffered severe depression and stated at least once that she was happier when dead, but when she discovers she's fading away as a result of the Trio's InvisibilityRay in "Gone," she decides that despite her depression and her current crappy life, she wants to live. It's to the extent that in the finale, Dawn is genuinely surprised that Buffy actually ''didn't'' want Willow to destroy the world. Then again, there's a difference between "wanting to die yourself" and wanting to let everyone die.
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* DontYouDarePityMe: A variation. After revealing to Tara that, as a result of her depression, she'd been allowing Spike to abuse her, Buffy reacts this way after telling tearfully begs Tara about her relationship with Spike -- it's to ''not'' forgive her; not out of anger, but a belief because she's so disgusted with herself that she doesn't deserve any sympathy.think she deserves pity.
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** Buffy doesn't notice all of the obvious signs that Willow has developed an addiction to magic, even after Xander and Anya point it out to her and after Tara breaks up with her because of it; it isn't until Willow's addiction leads to her getting Dawn in a near-fatal car accident that Buffy finally notices.
** Xander doesn't even notice Willow's bloody shirt after [[spoiler:Tara is killed.]]
** Buffy doesn't notice all of the obvious signs that Willow has developed an addiction to magic, even after Xander and Anya point it out to her and after Tara breaks up with her because of it; it isn't until Willow's addiction leads to her getting Dawn in a near-fatal car accident that Buffy finally notices.
** Xander doesn't even notice Willow's bloody shirt after [[spoiler:Tara is killed.]]
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* NoMereWindmill: Buffy stopped trying to explain the very real threat of vampires after her mother had her put in a mental hospital for believing such silly delusions.
* NoMereWindmill: Buffy stopped trying to explain the very real threat of vampires after her mother had her put in a mental hospital for believing such silly delusions.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When Anya doesn't open the magic box for a long time after Xander left her, he is genuinely scared.
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* PowerHigh: When Willow starts to OD on witchcraft it's explicitly analogized to being high on drugs.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: OOCIsSeriousBusiness:
** When Anya doesn't open the magic box for a long time after Xander left her, he is genuinely scared.
** While in early seasons Giles often chided the Scoobies for their immature behavior, he did have a certain respect for their talents and tried to speak to them like rational adults. In "Flooded", when he eventually calls Willow out on her magic by referring to her as a "rank amateur" and an idiot, you know that the line has been crossed.
* PowerHigh: When Willow starts to OD on witchcraft it's explicitly analogized tobeing high on drugs.a drug high. She ends up in Rehab because of this.
** When Anya doesn't open the magic box for a long time after Xander left her, he is genuinely scared.
** While in early seasons Giles often chided the Scoobies for their immature behavior, he did have a certain respect for their talents and tried to speak to them like rational adults. In "Flooded", when he eventually calls Willow out on her magic by referring to her as a "rank amateur" and an idiot, you know that the line has been crossed.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: One suspects that the reason Buffy spends ''every single'' scene with Spike is that no one else can stand her anymore. This is to the extent that the Scoobies and the Potentials get fed up with her bossiness, as well as having doubts over both her leadership skills and methods, and finally decide that Faith would be a better leader and kick her out. Then again, considering the sheer amount of PTSD she's dealing with at that point, no wonder Spike is the one who can stand her. Still a bitch, but with, unfortunately, enough justification to make her sympathetic.
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* SinisterMinister: Caleb, a psychotic misogynist and SerialKiller who used his sermons to lure impressionable young women to him and then brutally murder them. This was before he became TheDragon for the First Evil, who granted him SuperStrength and an army, then tasked him with massacring the Slayer Potentials and the Watchers. He took to his mission with sadistic glee, reciting twisted prayers and Biblical references as he casually broke arms, snapped necks, and put out eyes. Caleb was, bar none, the single vilest villain in the canon, even surpassing ''Angelus'' in depravity and pure hatred.
** Joss Whedon defended himself from backlash by pointing out that the Church had kicked Caleb out.
** And for those who would doubt the above statement about Caleb being worse than Angelus, bear in mind that Angelus is a ''vampire''. He has no soul whereas Caleb has no such excuse for his evil.
** Joss Whedon defended himself from backlash by pointing out that the Church had kicked Caleb out.
** And for those who would doubt the above statement about Caleb being worse than Angelus, bear in mind that Angelus is a ''vampire''. He has no soul whereas Caleb has no such excuse for his evil.
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* TheEndOrIsIt: After polishing off the She-Mantis, we see that there are still some [[Franchise/{{Alien}} Ridley Scott]]-esque hatchlings in her closet. ("Teacher's Pet")
** The Master's skeleton.
** The Master's skeleton.
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** The Master's skeleton.
** The Master's skeleton.
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* TheEndOrIsIt: After polishing off the She-Mantis, we see that there are still some [[Franchise/{{Alien}} Ridley Scott]]-esque hatchlings in TeacherStudentRomance: In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E4TeachersPet Teacher's Pet]]", a new hot-babe teacher seduces boys (including Xander) and invites them to her closet. ("Teacher's Pet")
** The Master's skeleton.home. Of course, she turns out to be a giant man-eating mantis who preys on virgins. Hooray for metaphors.
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* MakeWayForTheNewVillains: Spike pulls this on the Anointed One in season two.
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* MakeWayForTheNewVillains: Spike pulls this on the The Anointed One in season two.
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* TeacherStudentRomance: Wesley and Cordelia had a mutual attraction; in fact, he actually thought ''she'' was a teacher when they first met, in a possible nod to the DawsonCasting. Only a partial example, since Wesley was a mentor to Buffy, not her (and not a very good one), though he was presumably employed by the school in some capacity to justify him hanging out in the library.
* MakeWayForNewVillains: Spike returns ready to cause trouble for Buffy, only to be tasered and captured by members of the Initiative. He escapes from them in the next episode, but has [[RestrainingBolt a chip planted in his head to make sure he can't harm the heroes again]], which wound up sending him directly into [[BadassDecay a certain other trope.]]
** A few episodes later, Initiative professor [[spoiler:Maggie Walsh]] was impaled on a spike and skewered [[KarmicDeath by Adam, the monster she created.]]
** A few episodes later, Initiative professor [[spoiler:Maggie Walsh]] was impaled on a spike and skewered [[KarmicDeath by Adam, the monster she created.]]
* RousingSpeech: Subverted in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E11Doomed Doomed": Spike's sudden unexpected outburst of enthusiasm for "fighting the good fight" (after he realized that the implanted behavioral modification chip didn't punish him for killing demons) meets with helpless silent protestation from Xander and Willow that, and after a long exhausting day of monster-slaying, Spike was blocking their view of the [=TV=] box. The irony of course lies in the fact that Spike is a vampire, and used to be Buffy's enemy until that point.
--->''What's this? Sittin' around watching the telly while there's evil still afoot? It's not very industrious of you. I say we go out there and kick a little demon ass! What? Can't go without your Buffy, is that it? Too chicken? Let's find her. She is the chosen one, after all. Come on! Vampires! Grrr! Nasty! Let's annihilate them, for justice, and for... the safety of puppies... and Christmas, right? Let's fight that evil! Let's kill something!'' [Credits start running.] ''Oh, '''come on!'''''
--->''What's this? Sittin' around watching the telly while there's evil still afoot? It's not very industrious of you. I say we go out there and kick a little demon ass! What? Can't go without your Buffy, is that it? Too chicken? Let's find her. She is the chosen one, after all. Come on! Vampires! Grrr! Nasty! Let's annihilate them, for justice, and for... the safety of puppies... and Christmas, right? Let's fight that evil! Let's kill something!'' [Credits start running.] ''Oh, '''come on!'''''
* TeacherStudentRomance:
** At first Buffy's relationship with Riley ''should'' fit, or at least border on, this trope -- in real life, some universities consider it ''very'' dodgy for a freshman to date ''any'' graduate student, let alone the TA of a class you're in.
** WordOfGod states that Professor Maggie Walsh had feelings for Riley. Seeing as he views her more as a mother figure - and she's completely deranged - this is exceedingly creepy. It's even creepier when you remember that she was experimenting on Riley too. It was extra super creepy that she watched Buffy and Riley have sex from a video camera installed in his room, then decided to have Buffy killed off. Call that lady Queen Squick.
** At first Buffy's relationship with Riley ''should'' fit, or at least border on, this trope -- in real life, some universities consider it ''very'' dodgy for a freshman to date ''any'' graduate student, let alone the TA of a class you're in.
** WordOfGod states that Professor Maggie Walsh had feelings for Riley. Seeing as he views her more as a mother figure - and she's completely deranged - this is exceedingly creepy. It's even creepier when you remember that she was experimenting on Riley too. It was extra super creepy that she watched Buffy and Riley have sex from a video camera installed in his room, then decided to have Buffy killed off. Call that lady Queen Squick.
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* RummageSaleReject: 1977 Spike. DEAR GOD, 1977 Spike.
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* RousingSpeech: Subverted in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E22TheGift The Gift]]" in which Buffy gives an unimpressive speech before the final battle, and Spike and Giles have the following exchange referencing ''Theatre/HenryV'':
--->'''Buffy:''' Hey, everybody knows their jobs. Remember, the ritual starts, we all die. And I'll kill anyone who comes near Dawn.\\
'''Spike:''' Well, not exactly the St. Crispin's Day speech, was it?\\
'''Giles:''' (Wryly) "We few, we happy few..."\\
'''Spike:''' We band of buggered.
--->'''Buffy:''' Hey, everybody knows their jobs. Remember, the ritual starts, we all die. And I'll kill anyone who comes near Dawn.\\
'''Spike:''' Well, not exactly the St. Crispin's Day speech, was it?\\
'''Giles:''' (Wryly) "We few, we happy few..."\\
'''Spike:''' We band of buggered.
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* ShooOutTheClowns: Jonathan and Andrew are sent to jail, and Warren faces off with Dark Willow, who takes over as the Final Boss, seeking vengeance for Tara's demise.
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* RousingSpeech: The greatest has to be Buffy's speech to the Potentials in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E10BringOnTheNight Bring On The Night]]" where she declares war against the [[UltimateEvil source of all evil]].
** Also lampshaded.
--->'''Buffy:''' Hello! All I ''do'' is look at the big picture. The other day, I gave an inspirational speech to the telephone repair man.\\
'''Giles:''' It takes more than rousing speeches to lead, Buffy.
** Also lampshaded.
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'''Giles:''' It takes more than rousing speeches to lead, Buffy.
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* TeacherStudentRomance: In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E4Him Him]]", a magic jacket casts love spells on half the female cast, making Buffy, Willow, Anya, and Dawn chase after the high school football hero, R.J.. Anya is hundreds of years older than the guy, but it's Buffy who follows this trope: she's a counselor at the school now, and before she tries to ''kill the principal'' for her beloved, she gets him up on a desk with naughty things in mind...in time for her lovesick little sister to walk in and catch them (and for Xander to scold Buffy).
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* AchillesInHisTent: Buffy comes back from her summer in L.A. still steaming with issues from being killed for a minute. When the Master's men steal the Master's bones with the intent to resurrect him, Buffy explodes at Giles and blows off the Scooby Gang's attempts at consoling her. This lasts until Willow, Giles, Cordelia, and Miss Calender are captured by the vampires for the resurrection ritual. In this case, the prompt for her glorious return is less than she realizes that she's needed and more that it's brutally spelled out for her by Xander, who basically gives her an "As a result of this mess I'm completely over indulging your self-pity; get over yourself and do what you should have done in the first place" speech.
* OutOfFocus: Joyce is largely absent from the season, as Kristine Sutherland was in Italy at the time.
* PlotMandatedFriendshipFailure: This is actually exploited by Spike, who makes it worse by getting all their problems out into the open to divide the Scoobies. They eventually make up and are stronger then ever, which helps them defeat Adam.
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* ShoutOut: Adam, the name of FrankensteinsMonster, according to Creator/MaryShelley.
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** The interior of the Initiative's headquarters was inspired by The Village from ''Series/ThePrisoner1967''.
** Adam, the name of FrankensteinsMonster, according to Creator/MaryShelley.
** The interior of the Initiative's headquarters was inspired by The Village from ''Series/ThePrisoner1967''.
** Adam, the name of FrankensteinsMonster, according to Creator/MaryShelley.
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* PlotMandatedFriendshipFailure: "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E19EmptyPlaces Empty Places]]" has all of Buffy's friends (including her own sister) remove her from leading them and kick her out of her own house after one bad mission that results in two dead Potentials and Xander losing an eye. PlayedWith slightly in that Giles connived things so that Spike and Andrew were sent away for the day, likely so they wouldn't be there to take Buffy's side. It should be noted that the Buffy-less group immediately goes and screws up in exactly the manner they accused Buffy of doing (recklessly falling into a trap that gets even more people killed). While they are doing that, Buffy heads off to complete the mission she was pitching when she got overthrown, succeeds on her own, acquires the scythe and kills Caleb. She's magnanimous enough not to point out how much she got done all alone when they apologize and ask her to be in charge again.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Xander's furious that Buffy knew that Angel had come BackFromTheDead and withheld the information from the others, when he himself had deliberately neglected to tell Buffy that Willow was planning to curse Angel with a soul again in "Becoming Part 2" to ensure that Buffy ''would'' kill him.
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* HomeFieldAdvantage: A demon breaks into the Summers home and proceeds to trash it while attempting to kill Buffy. She slowly maneuvers it into the basement where there's less stuff to break, and also a convenient weapon (in the form of [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Full! Copper! Repipe!]]).
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* HomeFieldAdvantage: A In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E4Flooded Flooded]]", a demon breaks into the Summers home and proceeds to trash it while attempting to kill Buffy. She slowly maneuvers it into the basement where there's less stuff to break, and also a convenient weapon (in the form of [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Full! Copper! Repipe!]]).Repipe!]]).
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* {{Hypocrite}}: When Willow goes dark, Buffy insists on helping her and talking her down, but when Anya, now a vengeance demon again, kills several people in granting a wish in "Selfless", Buffy jumps right to MurderIsTheBestSolution; when Xander points this out, Buffy replies that it's not the same thing because Willow is human and Anya is a demon. In the same conversation, she states that when it comes to demons, she is the law and her word and judgment is absolute, when previously, she specifically told Faith that Slayers aren't the law or above it.
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--> '''Principal Snyder:''' There are things I will not tolerate. Students loitering on campus after school. Horrible murders with hearts being removed. And also smoking.
* BigNo: The Master does one of these at the end of "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E2TheHarvest The Harvest]]", when [[spoiler:Buffy kills Luke, ruining the Harvest]].
* BlankBook: The book used to seal Moloch was blank until the sealing ritual was performed, at which point it would fill up with words. When Willow scanned it into the library computer, it became blank again, as Moloch was released into the internet.
* BigNo: The Master does one of these at the end of "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E2TheHarvest The Harvest]]", when [[spoiler:Buffy kills Luke, ruining the Harvest]].
* BlankBook: The book used to seal Moloch was blank until the sealing ritual was performed, at which point it would fill up with words. When Willow scanned it into the library computer, it became blank again, as Moloch was released into the internet.
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--> '''Principal Snyder:''' There are things I will not tolerate. Students loitering on campus after school. Horrible murders with hearts being removed. And also smoking.
* BigNo: The Master does one of these at the end of "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E2TheHarvest The Harvest]]", when [[spoiler:Buffy kills Luke, ruining the Harvest]].
* BlankBook: The book used to seal Moloch was blank until the sealing ritual was performed, at which point it would fill up with words. When Willow scanned it intosmoking the library computer, it became blank again, as Moloch was released into the internet.internet.
* AttemptedRape: Xander tries to rape Buffy in "The Pack" (while possessed by a hyena), though nobody is surprised that Buffy fights him off.
* BigNo: The Master does one of these at the end of "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E2TheHarvest The Harvest]]", when [[spoiler:Buffy kills Luke, ruining the Harvest]].
* BlankBook: The book used to seal Moloch was blank until the sealing ritual was performed, at which point it would fill up with words. When Willow scanned it into
* AttemptedRape: Xander tries to rape Buffy in "The Pack" (while possessed by a hyena), though nobody is surprised that Buffy fights him off.
* INeverSaidItWasPoison: Willow realises Malcolm on the internet may not be who he says he is because he mentions Buffy had burned her previous school down, to which Willow responds, "I never told you that."
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* INeverSaidItWasPoison: Willow realises Malcolm on the internet may not be who he says he is because he mentions Buffy had burned her previous school down, to which Willow responds, "I never told you that."
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* INeverSaidItWasPoison: Willow realises Malcolm on InvisibleJerkass: Marcie in "Out of Mind, Out of Sight", who became a psychopath after turning invisible. For her it was a case of Go Mad from the internet may not be who he says he is because he mentions Buffy had burned Isolation; everyone treated her previous school down, like she was invisible so the Hellmouth made her invisible and thereby empowered her to which Willow responds, "I never told you that."get revenge on others.
* AttemptedRape: In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E20GoFish Go Fish]]", a member of the swim team tries this on Buffy. She begins by breaking his nose, but doesn't get much further than that because Snyder shows up, and accuses Buffy of leading him on. Later in the episode, the swim coach offers Buffy to be pack-raped by his team of monster fish. When she escapes and he is trapped with them instead...
-->'''Buffy''': Wow... they really love their coach.
-->'''Buffy''': Wow... they really love their coach.
* BlackComedyRape: In "Go Fish]]", Buffy is captured by the coach who had exposed the swim team to a concoction that transformed them into fish monsters. He tosses her to them to satisfy their "needs", leading her to snark:
-->"Great. This is just what my reputation needs: that I did it with the entire swim team."
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-->"Wow. They really love their coach."
-->"Great. This is just what my reputation needs: that I did it with the entire swim team."
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-->"Wow. They really love their coach."
* DrowningMySorrows: Giles starts drinking heavily after Jenny's death, and it's not PlayedForLaughs. Jenny's death drove Giles to seek fiery vengeance, as well as a bottle. He also got scarily drunk, alone, when the fallout from his Ripper days first encroached on Sunnydale in the form of a demon-possessed corpse by the name of Eyghon. He worked his way through a list of old friends' phone numbers (plus half a bottle of scotch) only to learn they were all dead. His missing an appointment with Buffy for the first time ever was enough to tip her off that something was wrong.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Buffy does Angel, which causes him to lose his soul and revert to his evil mind rapist self. Nice job having the hots for a vampire, slayer. Of course, Angel gets equal blame for not keeping it in his pants despite knowing full well his curse. Though in his defense it's not like he knew that there was a way to break it. Speaking of which, when the gypsy tribe cursed Angel in the first place, it was actually a pretty dumb idea of them to allow a way to break Angelus back as their idea of making Angel suffer more. Especially since that part bit them in the ass when he did.
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* ObfuscatingDisability: In the last four episodes of season 2, Spike is only pretending to still need his wheelchair.
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* SceneryCensor: The Monster of the Week in The Dark Age is naked when he climbs out of his body bag in the morgue, with a conveniently placed autopsy table to cover his lower half.
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* SceneryCensor: The Monster of the Week in The "The Dark Age Age" is naked when he climbs out of his body bag in the morgue, with a conveniently placed autopsy table to cover his lower half.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: While Xander never liked Angel and repeatedly vouched for just dusting Angelus, he doubles down on it after Angelus kills Jenny in cold blood in "Passion", citing it as proof that Angel is beyond redemption.
* AttemptedRape: Xander is almost raped and murdered by Faith in "Consequences". Angel intervens.
-->'''Angel''': He forgot the safety word, is that it?
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* ContinuityNod: "Lily" and her boyfriend attempting to buy lunch at a diner by dumping a bunch of change onto the table. David Arquette and Luke Perry did the exact same thing in the ''Buffy'' feature film.
* DaddysLittleVillain: Faith takes on this role with gusto.
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* ContinuityNod: "Lily" and her boyfriend attempting to buy lunch at a diner by dumping a bunch of change onto the table. David Arquette Creator/DavidArquette and Luke Perry Creator/LukePerry did the exact same thing in the ''Buffy'' feature film.
* DaddysLittleVillain: Despite not really being his daughter, Faithtakes on winds up very much playing this role with gusto.to The Mayor — she's his loyal Dragon, of whom he is clearly protective. Her loyalty is based on him being the first (and possibly ''only'') person who ever valued her just for being her (not using her or trying to change her). When he tells her that even if Buffy did a FaceHeelTurn, he'd still pick Faith over her, it's a weird but touchingly sincere moment that clearly means the world to her. Buffy sending her into a coma led to his one swear word and Buffy taunting him about said loss led to his defeat. Many scenes between Faith and the Mayor involved him acting very fatherly and tender, giving her gifts and general life advice (about respecting and valuing herself) alongside assassination missions. Nice little call back in both Season Seven and the Season Eight comics, showing that Faith remembers him fondly despite her HeelFaceTurn.
* DaddysLittleVillain: Despite not really being his daughter, Faith
* DrowningMySorrows:
** In "The Wish", an alternate-universe Sunnydale without Buffy is overrun by vampires. Giles leads a ragtag band of vampire hunters, and his apartment littered with liquor bottles spells out his desperation.
** In "Doppelgangland", Anya tries to drown her sorrows at the Bronze, but as she looks outwardly like a teenage girl the bartender stubbornly insists on an I.D. "I'm 1,120 years old! Just give me a frickin' BEER!!!"
** There's Spike in "Lovers Walk". Apparently alcohol ''does'' affect vampires.
** In "The Wish", an alternate-universe Sunnydale without Buffy is overrun by vampires. Giles leads a ragtag band of vampire hunters, and his apartment littered with liquor bottles spells out his desperation.
** In "Doppelgangland", Anya tries to drown her sorrows at the Bronze, but as she looks outwardly like a teenage girl the bartender stubbornly insists on an I.D. "I'm 1,120 years old! Just give me a frickin' BEER!!!"
** There's Spike in "Lovers Walk". Apparently alcohol ''does'' affect vampires.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
** When Faith begins to go bad after staking the Deputy Mayor, Buffy and Giles plan to deal with it ''without'' alerting the Watcher's Council, but Wesley finds out anyway after eavesdropping on them and immediately calls in a special ops team to bring her in. In the process of doing so, he [[WhatAnIdiot completely ruins]] Angel's attempts to get through to her just as he was beginning to succeed, setting off a sequence of events that lead to Faith becoming Mayor Wilkins' [[TheDragon dragon]].
** PlayedStraight - somewhat - with the demon Balthazar. Balthazar was Mayor Wilkins' rival - had he regained his power, he would have killed the Mayor. By killing Balthazar, Buffy eliminated one of the two major threats to the Mayor. Of course, the other major threat was herself...
** When Faith begins to go bad after staking the Deputy Mayor, Buffy and Giles plan to deal with it ''without'' alerting the Watcher's Council, but Wesley finds out anyway after eavesdropping on them and immediately calls in a special ops team to bring her in. In the process of doing so, he [[WhatAnIdiot completely ruins]] Angel's attempts to get through to her just as he was beginning to succeed, setting off a sequence of events that lead to Faith becoming Mayor Wilkins' [[TheDragon dragon]].
** PlayedStraight - somewhat - with the demon Balthazar. Balthazar was Mayor Wilkins' rival - had he regained his power, he would have killed the Mayor. By killing Balthazar, Buffy eliminated one of the two major threats to the Mayor. Of course, the other major threat was herself...
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: The Mayor. At first, he seems like a self-serving politician tapping into supernatural powers for personal gain. Then it turns out he commands a small army of vampires and plans to become a pureblood demon. Oh, and he's also invulnerable; not just NighInvulnerable, ''invulnerable''.
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* RecurringExtra: Should you be watching reruns of season 3 episodes, look for a shortish Asian guy carrying a skateboard. He's in many episodes and is referred to as "Asian Dan" by the cast. In the season 4 DVD, Seth Green, Joss Whedon, and Marti Noxon joke about his frequent appearances in the "Wild at Heart" audio commentary.
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* RecurringExtra: Should you be watching reruns of season 3 episodes, look for a shortish Asian guy carrying a skateboard. He's in many episodes and is referred to as "Asian Dan" by the cast. In the season 4 DVD, Seth Green, Joss Whedon, Creator/SethGreen, Creator/JossWhedon, and Marti Noxon joke about his frequent appearances in the "Wild at Heart" audio commentary.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: Faith actually tries to get Willow to give her the whole "you can still be a good guy" speech, instead getting Willow telling her she's way past forgiveness. At least part of this is because she had kidnapped and tied up Willow though. Ironically, Willow becomes one of the few people who actually could later understand what Faith was going through, having gone evil and killed someone only to be brought back by someone showing caring and kindness when she didn't deserve it.
* DrowningMySorrows:
** In "A New Man", Giles is so upset about feeling useless that he goes out and gets drunk with Ethan Rayne. Bad idea. He also gets drunk in "The Yoko Factor" when Spike's manipulations got him feeling he was useless.
** In "Something Blue", Willow isn't drowning her sorrows. She's just bathing them.
** Buffy's beer-drinking spree made her go, in her own words, one million years BC. If ever there was a more literal way to convey the message, "drinking is bad, kids." The only more literal way would be if the episode had been called "Beer Bad", WHICH IT WAS. Given this exchange at the end of the episode, one gets the impression that Joss Whedon couldn't resist subverting the anti-alcohol message:
-->'''Xander''': And was there a lesson in all this, huh? What did we learn about beer?
-->'''Buffy''': Foamy!
-->'''Xander''': Good. Just as long as that's clear.
** In "A New Man", Giles is so upset about feeling useless that he goes out and gets drunk with Ethan Rayne. Bad idea. He also gets drunk in "The Yoko Factor" when Spike's manipulations got him feeling he was useless.
** In "Something Blue", Willow isn't drowning her sorrows. She's just bathing them.
** Buffy's beer-drinking spree made her go, in her own words, one million years BC. If ever there was a more literal way to convey the message, "drinking is bad, kids." The only more literal way would be if the episode had been called "Beer Bad", WHICH IT WAS. Given this exchange at the end of the episode, one gets the impression that Joss Whedon couldn't resist subverting the anti-alcohol message:
-->'''Xander''': And was there a lesson in all this, huh? What did we learn about beer?
-->'''Buffy''': Foamy!
-->'''Xander''': Good. Just as long as that's clear.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Buffy and company get used to thinking of Spike as harmless thanks to the chip implanted in his head that prevents him from physically attacking any humans, but he occasionally shows them that he could still cause them problems or even get them all killed, even if he can't attack them directly.
** When Faith wakes up from her coma and plans to go on a rampage against the group, Giles and Xander run into Spike, and because he's lived with them, fought demons together with them a few times, and generally been unable to harm them, they make the mistake of assuming he'll be an ally. They ask him if he's heard anything about Faith, and Spike feigns concern, which makes them fill him in on the whole Faith situation (as Spike has never seen or heard of Faith before) complete with a physical description and the fact that she's looking for vengeance against the group. With this information in hand, Spike announces that he's going to find the rogue Slayer so he can tell her where they are so he can watch as Faith kills them. And thanks to their assumption that he's harmless, he even has a rough description of the person he should be looking for.
-->'''Spike''': What do you need?
-->'''Xander''': Her. Dark hair, [raises a hand to about Faith's height] ye tall, name of Faith, criminally insane.
-->'''Spike''': Is this bird after you?
-->'''Xander''': In a bad way, yeah.
-->'''Spike''': Tell you what I'll do then: head out, find this girl, tell her exactly where all of you are, then watch as she kills you. ''[Spike smiles at Xander and Giles, then sighs in annoyance at their shocked expressions]'' Can anyone in your damn little Scooby club at least try to remember that I ''hate'' you all. Just 'cause I can't do the damage myself doesn't stop me from aiming a loose cannon your way.
** He manipulates the existing tensions within Buffy's friends and successfully gets them to turn against one another.
** When Faith wakes up from her coma and plans to go on a rampage against the group, Giles and Xander run into Spike, and because he's lived with them, fought demons together with them a few times, and generally been unable to harm them, they make the mistake of assuming he'll be an ally. They ask him if he's heard anything about Faith, and Spike feigns concern, which makes them fill him in on the whole Faith situation (as Spike has never seen or heard of Faith before) complete with a physical description and the fact that she's looking for vengeance against the group. With this information in hand, Spike announces that he's going to find the rogue Slayer so he can tell her where they are so he can watch as Faith kills them. And thanks to their assumption that he's harmless, he even has a rough description of the person he should be looking for.
-->'''Spike''': What do you need?
-->'''Xander''': Her. Dark hair, [raises a hand to about Faith's height] ye tall, name of Faith, criminally insane.
-->'''Spike''': Is this bird after you?
-->'''Xander''': In a bad way, yeah.
-->'''Spike''': Tell you what I'll do then: head out, find this girl, tell her exactly where all of you are, then watch as she kills you. ''[Spike smiles at Xander and Giles, then sighs in annoyance at their shocked expressions]'' Can anyone in your damn little Scooby club at least try to remember that I ''hate'' you all. Just 'cause I can't do the damage myself doesn't stop me from aiming a loose cannon your way.
** He manipulates the existing tensions within Buffy's friends and successfully gets them to turn against one another.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Part of Faith's attempts to hurt Buffy after stealing her body was to seduce Riley, essentially raping both of them. This is treated as Faith's MoralEventHorizon, to the point where subsequent episodes revolve around it, Angel doesn't want to talk about it once he finds out, and after using it for motivation to stop Faith (he immediately tries to shoot her first chance he gets) Buffy shows up to kill her, and since Angel won't is willing to go through him to do so. It's even a special kind of evil for Faith, as after she does the deed is disgusted, then believes she is a monster on par with Angelus and becomes a DeathSeeker.
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* FictionAsCoverUp: Dracula got Stoker to write his book to pump up his street cred. Other vampires thought it was a really dick move, because it let the normal humans in on a lot of their secrets.
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* FeudEpisode: "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlaayerS5E11Triangle Triangle]]" has Xander's best friend (Willow) and his girlfriend (Anya) feud because they are both worried that the other will hurt him.
* FictionAsCoverUp: Dracula gotStoker Creator/BramStoker to write his book to pump up his street cred. Other vampires thought it was a really dick move, because it let the normal humans in on a lot of their secrets.
* FictionAsCoverUp: Dracula got
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** Glory constantly goes on about how much she hates being human and considers human things beneath her, and yet she adores silk and has quite the shoe collection.
** Buffy shows compassion and empathy for Warren's SexBot April, but later views the Buffybot, who was designed by Warren for Spike for a similar purpose, as nothing but an "it."
** Glory constantly goes on about how much she hates being human and considers human things beneath her, and yet she adores silk and has quite the shoe collection.
** Buffy shows compassion and empathy for Warren's SexBot April, but later views the Buffybot, who was designed by Warren for Spike for a similar purpose, as nothing but an "it."
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* MindRape: The people Glory drains to stop herself going crazy [[spoiler:including Tara.]]
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* MindRape: The people Glory drains to stop herself going crazy [[spoiler:including Tara.]]pulls people's sanity straight out of their skull and feeds on it, leaving them as gibbering messes. Tara eventually ends up as one of her victims.
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* UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny: "Buffy vs. Dracula"
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* UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny: "Buffy vs. Dracula"Dracula" ends inconclusively, with Buffy killing the Count, but with him clearly able to come BackFromTheDead at will.[[note]]Though Drac was wise enough not to reform near Buffy, who shooed him away threateningly.[[/note]] The show also had to break many of its [[MagicAIsMagicA own rules]] about [[OurVampiresAreDifferent how its vampires work]] [[labelnote:*]] though season 8 reveals his powers are a result of his skill in magic.[[/labelnote]] in order to pit Buffy against a recognizable version of Dracula; the whole episode relied heavily on RuleOfCool.
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* [[spoiler:AttemptedRape: After Buffy breaks off their relationship, Spike tries to force himself upon an injured Buffy, who is barely able to fight him off. His MyGodWhatHaveIDone reaction causes Spike to go on a quest to regain his soul.]]
* ArmouredClosetGay: Larry.
** Scott Hope, Buffy's only normal high school boyfriend. He accused every girl who broke up with him that they're gay. He came out in season 6 apparently.
* ArmouredClosetGay: Larry.
** Scott Hope, Buffy's only normal high school boyfriend. He accused every girl who broke up with him that they're gay. He came out in season 6 apparently.
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**
* AttemptedRape:
** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E13DeadThings Dead Things]]", Katrina is almost being raped by Warren, Andrew and Jonathan under the effects of a device that suppresses her will. She is less than happy about it when it wears off just in time. Her calling them out on it and the events that follow cements Warren's slide into monster territory and starts Jonathan down the road toward his Heel–Face Turn.
** Spike attempts to rape Buffy in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E19SeeingRed Seeing Red]]", and since Buffy is injured and can't fight him off, he nearly succeeds before she eventually is able to kick him off her long enough for him to stop himself.
* BlackComedyRape: In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E11Gone Gone]]", Buffy, while invisible, "forces" oral sex on Spike, who has just told her to get dressed and get out. His reaction is a simple "Hey, that's cheatin'!".
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* DrowningMySorrows: After failing college, Xander being forced to fire her from construction after a demon attack and not being able to stand working at the Magic Shop, Spike pours Buffy a scotch. They then go out to a demon bar where Buffy wants to get information, takes a bottle of Khalua handed from Spike and drinks through it and snarks when Spike plays cards to get the demons talking. HilarityEnsues when Buffy becomes roaringly drunk off her ass.
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* DrowningMySorrows: After DrowningMySorrows:
** In "Life Serial", after failing college, Xander being forced to fire her from construction after a demon attack and not being able to stand working at the Magic Shop, Spike pours Buffy a scotch. They then go out to a demon bar where Buffy wants to get information, takes a bottle of Khalua handed from Spike and drinks through it and snarks when Spike plays cards to get the demons talking. HilarityEnsues when Buffy becomes roaringly drunk off herass.ass.
** In "Entropy", Anya tries to get Spike drunk so he'll curse Xander after breaking up with him. As Spike has been dumped by Buffy, the two end up sharing the bottle and having Sex for Solace.
** In "Life Serial", after failing college, Xander being forced to fire her from construction after a demon attack and not being able to stand working at the Magic Shop, Spike pours Buffy a scotch. They then go out to a demon bar where Buffy wants to get information, takes a bottle of Khalua handed from Spike and drinks through it and snarks when Spike plays cards to get the demons talking. HilarityEnsues when Buffy becomes roaringly drunk off her
** In "Entropy", Anya tries to get Spike drunk so he'll curse Xander after breaking up with him. As Spike has been dumped by Buffy, the two end up sharing the bottle and having Sex for Solace.
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* InvisibleJerkass: Buffy in "Gone."
* {{Irony}}: Season 6 Buffy learns the value of life at a cemetery.
* {{Irony}}: Season 6 Buffy learns the value of life at a cemetery.
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* InvisibleJerkass: "Gone" involves a Jerkass moment from Buffy in "Gone."
herself. The point was that she had so much stress and depression going on at the time that she felt trapped and powerless. The invisibility let her get away with doing the things she ''wanted'' to do anyway, without having to take any responsibility for her actions—as Spike points out, she's pretending that she isn't really "there" as she does it.
* {{Irony}}:Season 6 Buffy learns the value of life at a cemetery.
* {{Irony}}:
* MindRape:
** Willow erases Tara's memories of their arguments while they're in a relationship. Repeatedly. Tara is especially upset because she remembers Glory's prior violation of her mind. She is likely also not happy with Willow taking advantage of this mind rape magic to ''literally'' rape her.
** Not to mention, Rack , who basically uses Willow (and others) as some sort of telepathic crack whore. Both Rack and Willow make orgasm faces when he transfers power into her, and then tells her that she "tastes like strawberries."
** Willow erases Tara's memories of their arguments while they're in a relationship. Repeatedly. Tara is especially upset because she remembers Glory's prior violation of her mind. She is likely also not happy with Willow taking advantage of this mind rape magic to ''literally'' rape her.
** Not to mention, Rack , who basically uses Willow (and others) as some sort of telepathic crack whore. Both Rack and Willow make orgasm faces when he transfers power into her, and then tells her that she "tastes like strawberries."
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* MusicalEpisode: [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E7OnceMoreWithFeeling "Once More With Feeling"]]. For tropes specific to that episode see the recap page.
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* MusicalEpisode: [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E7OnceMoreWithFeeling "Once More With Feeling"]]. For tropes specific to that episode see Feeling"]] bizarrely sends up the recap page.musical genre (and its respective subgenres) as a whole, musical and dance genres from rock to ballet, and (in typical Joss Whedon fashion) the series itself with wicked glee, yet also manages to fit plot and CharacterDevelopment in as well and come up with a plausible (for Buffy) explanation for why everyone's singing.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:Willow brings Buffy back from the dead, thinking she's in Hell. It turns out Buffy was in Heaven and being brought back to the real world gives her a HeroicBSOD, as well as opening the way for the First One.]]
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: The Trio, but ''especially'' Warren.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: The Trio, but ''especially'' Warren.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: NiceJobBreakingItHero:
** [[spoiler:Willow brings Buffy back from the dead, thinking she's in Hell. It turns out Buffy was in Heaven and being brought back to the real world gives her a HeroicBSOD, as well as opening the way for the First One.]]
** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E19SeeingRed Seeing Red]]", due to all the shit she was dealing with, rather than just subduing Warren, she humiliates him, and lets him get away. Several hours later he shows up with a gun, shoots her, and kills Tara, resulting in an [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge extremely pissed off Willow]].
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: The Trio, but ''especially'' Warren. At first, they're kind of silly with their arguments over ''Franchise/StarTrek'' and the best actor to play Film/JamesBond, and their kinda weird attempts to challenge Buffy in ways that, really, were nothing compared to five seasons of big bads and various monsters of the week. Warren stops being funny when he tries to rape his ex via mind control and kills her when she tries to escape, and near the end of the season he shoots Buffy and murders Tara.
** [[spoiler:Willow brings Buffy back from the dead, thinking she's in Hell. It turns out Buffy was in Heaven and being brought back to the real world gives her a HeroicBSOD, as well as opening the way for the First One.]]
** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E19SeeingRed Seeing Red]]", due to all the shit she was dealing with, rather than just subduing Warren, she humiliates him, and lets him get away. Several hours later he shows up with a gun, shoots her, and kills Tara, resulting in an [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge extremely pissed off Willow]].
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: The Trio, but ''especially'' Warren. At first, they're kind of silly with their arguments over ''Franchise/StarTrek'' and the best actor to play Film/JamesBond, and their kinda weird attempts to challenge Buffy in ways that, really, were nothing compared to five seasons of big bads and various monsters of the week. Warren stops being funny when he tries to rape his ex via mind control and kills her when she tries to escape, and near the end of the season he shoots Buffy and murders Tara.
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* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Sporadically used, notably with Spike and Warren. Verges into Sci-fi with Warren as it involved MindControl. Faith body-switched with Buffy technically raped Riley (sex under false pretense), but everyone on that one ended with everyone worse for it.
* RedHerring: The episode "All the Way" spends the first half building up the creep factor of an old man, watching kids menacingly through his window. When Dawn, her friend, and two guys try to pull a trick on them, he invites them inside for some "treats" and then goes into the kitchen with one of the boys, and reaches for a knife. [[spoiler: Then, it's revealed that he really is a harmless man making brownies, and the two guys are vampires]]
* RedHerring: The episode "All the Way" spends the first half building up the creep factor of an old man, watching kids menacingly through his window. When Dawn, her friend, and two guys try to pull a trick on them, he invites them inside for some "treats" and then goes into the kitchen with one of the boys, and reaches for a knife. [[spoiler: Then, it's revealed that he really is a harmless man making brownies, and the two guys are vampires]]
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* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Sporadically used, notably with RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil:
** Spike is a soulless demon who has tortured andWarren. Verges into Sci-fi killed hundreds. Yet he remains the Loveable Rogue, up to the point when he tries to rape Buffy. At that point, he even loses the sympathy of Dawn, who used to think he was pretty cool. More importantly, the attempt even shocks Spike himself, and sends him down the road that leads to him regaining his soul. Equally pointedly, this is the only Spike behavior that Buffy ''really'' has a problem with since at least Season 4 if not earlier. Apparently every other despicable thing Spike did on-camera and had done in his past was forgivable from Buffy's point-of-view.
** Warren's MoralEventHorizon comes when he tries to rape, and then kills, his ex-girlfriend, Katrina. The "kills" is probably the more important part of that equation, but the attempted rape definitely takes him several degrees down the spectrum towards villainy. The point is driven home with LampshadeHanging and MoodWhiplash. The Trio has used a mind control device on Warren's ex; this is initially played for laughs as they make her dress up in a French maid outfit and serve drinks. Just as Warren is about to realize the PowerPerversionPotential of his invention, however, she snaps out of it—and the tone immediately gets much darker asit involved MindControl. Faith body-switched with Buffy technically raped Riley (sex under false pretense), but everyone on she angrily points out that one ended with everyone worse for it.
there's nothing funny—and everything immoral and illegal—about what they were doing to her.
* RedHerring:The episode "All "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E6AllTheWay All the Way" Way]]" spends the first half building up the creep factor of an old man, watching kids menacingly through his window. When Dawn, her friend, and two guys try to pull a trick on them, he invites them inside for some "treats" and then goes into the kitchen with one of the boys, and reaches for a knife. [[spoiler: Then, it's revealed that he really is a harmless man making brownies, and the two guys are vampires]]
** Spike is a soulless demon who has tortured and
** Warren's MoralEventHorizon comes when he tries to rape, and then kills, his ex-girlfriend, Katrina. The "kills" is probably the more important part of that equation, but the attempted rape definitely takes him several degrees down the spectrum towards villainy. The point is driven home with LampshadeHanging and MoodWhiplash. The Trio has used a mind control device on Warren's ex; this is initially played for laughs as they make her dress up in a French maid outfit and serve drinks. Just as Warren is about to realize the PowerPerversionPotential of his invention, however, she snaps out of it—and the tone immediately gets much darker as
* RedHerring:
* ThisIsUnforgivable: After Warren shoots Buffy and Tara, nearly killing the former and actually killing the latter, Xander agrees with Dawn that Warren deserves to die, declaring he's no better than the vampires and demons they fight every day. Even, despite being physically sick at the sight of Willow flaying him alive, Xander still insists that Warren deserved what he got.
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* DisContinuityNod: Giles' declaration that magic is not an addiction.
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* DisContinuityNod: DiscontinuityNod: Giles' declaration that magic is not an addiction.addiction.
* DrillSergeantNasty: In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E15GetItDone Get It Done]]", Kennedy, the most senior of the potentials and who has received substantial training from her watcher, has taken up this role with the others, shouting at one of them, Chloe, and calling her a "maggot" when she does her steps wrong; then as an aside she jokes to Buffy how cool it was that she got to call somebody a "maggot". The First drives Chloe to suicide that night, and then taunts Kennedy by implying that the "maggot" insult led to the suicide.
** Buffy herself fared little better. When a reformed Faith comes to town, she makes no effort to horn in on the gig but quickly demonstrates that Buffy is a failure as a leader. In fact, her reaction to Chloe's suicide could have come right from the ''Film/FullMetalJacket'' script.
* DrillSergeantNasty: In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E15GetItDone Get It Done]]", Kennedy, the most senior of the potentials and who has received substantial training from her watcher, has taken up this role with the others, shouting at one of them, Chloe, and calling her a "maggot" when she does her steps wrong; then as an aside she jokes to Buffy how cool it was that she got to call somebody a "maggot". The First drives Chloe to suicide that night, and then taunts Kennedy by implying that the "maggot" insult led to the suicide.
** Buffy herself fared little better. When a reformed Faith comes to town, she makes no effort to horn in on the gig but quickly demonstrates that Buffy is a failure as a leader. In fact, her reaction to Chloe's suicide could have come right from the ''Film/FullMetalJacket'' script.
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* ForgottenPhlebotinum: In the seventh season, the First falsely claims to have captured a potential Slayer, and nobody thinks to use the spell they used just a few weeks ago which can detect potentials.
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* ForgottenPhlebotinum: In the seventh season, the The First falsely claims to have captured a potential Slayer, and nobody thinks to use the spell they used just a few weeks ago which can detect potentials.
* OutOfFocus: Several characters suffer from this, Xander probably getting the worst of it, but Giles, Anya, Dawn, and to a lesser extent Willow are all massively pushed to the sidelines in order to accommodate more storylines for {{Sp|otlightStealingSquad}}ike. Although Giles' reduced screentime is more due to the fact that Creator/AnthonyStewartHead moved back to England to spend more time with his family.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Spike, who now has a soul, tells Buffy she has to kill him before he hurts anyone else. To convince her, he warns her that if he goes evil again, he is liable to hurt Dawn — which includes raping her. Apparently the image of Dawn being tortured and killed isn't enough; Spike has to threaten her with rape to get Buffy's attention.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Spike, who now has a soul, tells Buffy she has to kill him before he hurts anyone else. To convince her, he warns her that if he goes evil again, he is liable to hurt Dawn — which includes raping her. Apparently the image of Dawn being tortured and killed isn't enough; Spike has to threaten her with rape to get Buffy's attention.
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* SickAndWrong: Xander lasciviously eyes a gyrating nymphet on the dance floor ("Daddy ''like''!"), only for her to turn around and reveal herself as Dawn. Cue {{facepalm}}.
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* SickAndWrong: In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E4Him Him]]", Xander lasciviously eyes a gyrating nymphet on the dance floor ("Daddy ''like''!"), only for her to turn around and reveal herself as Dawn. Cue {{facepalm}}.
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* SmashCut: Creator/JossWhedon loves this trope, but particular mention goes to Selfless which cuts from Anya singing a happy song to her [[spoiler: being skewed with a sword by Buffy]]
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* SmashCut: Creator/JossWhedon loves this trope, but particular mention goes to Selfless "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E5Selfless Selfless]]" which cuts from Anya singing a happy song to her [[spoiler: being skewed with a sword by Buffy]]Buffy]]
* SuicideIsShameful: In "Get it Done", Buffy expresses this when Chloe, spurred by the First Evil's manipulations, hangs herself. After burying her, Buffy has absolutely NoSympathy for her trauma or struggles, and openly calls her a stupid, weak idiot in front of the Scoobies and other Potential Slayers.
-->Anyone want to say a few words about Chloe? Let me. Chloe was an idiot. Chloe was stupid. She was weak. And anyone in a rush to be the next dead body I bury, it's easy. Just...think of Chloe, and do what she did. And I'll find room for you next to her and Annabelle.
* SuicideIsShameful: In "Get it Done", Buffy expresses this when Chloe, spurred by the First Evil's manipulations, hangs herself. After burying her, Buffy has absolutely NoSympathy for her trauma or struggles, and openly calls her a stupid, weak idiot in front of the Scoobies and other Potential Slayers.
-->Anyone want to say a few words about Chloe? Let me. Chloe was an idiot. Chloe was stupid. She was weak. And anyone in a rush to be the next dead body I bury, it's easy. Just...think of Chloe, and do what she did. And I'll find room for you next to her and Annabelle.
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* NoSympathy: "Xander, try not to bleed on my couch / I just had it steam-cleaned" ♪
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* NoSympathy: "Xander, try Spike is captured by the Initiative and implanted with a cerebral microchip that prevents him from harming humans; he turns to the Scoobies for help, and they all take great delight in tormenting him and mocking him to his face, except for Willow, who pities him. It reaches a head in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E11Doomed Doomed]]": Xander is pissed that Spike tried to commit suicide simply because he wanted to stake Spike himself, and Buffy's line when they go to the high school says it all for her:
-->'''Buffy''': Why is he even here? It's notto bleed on my couch / I just had it steam-cleaned" ♪like he can fight.\\
'''Willow''': If we leave him alone, he'll stake himself.\\
'''Buffy''': And that's bad because...?
-->'''Buffy''': Why is he even here? It's not
'''Willow''': If we leave him alone, he'll stake himself.\\
'''Buffy''': And that's bad because...?
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* UnflinchingFaithInTheBrakes: Willow does this in the sixth season, when using magic to stop an oncoming bus.
* UnsatisfiableCustomer: The time loop of 'Life Serial' has one of these that Buffy must satisfy to escape the loop. HilarityEnsues.
* UnsatisfiableCustomer: The time loop of 'Life Serial' has one of these that Buffy must satisfy to escape the loop. HilarityEnsues.
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* TravellingAtTheSpedOfPlot: The relationship between the Spike subplot and the Willow main plot becomes somewhat muddled with "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E20Villains Villains]]". Xander refers to Spike’s assault on Buffy as "the other night," though it would have been the night before, or "last night." After the attempted rape, Spike is shown leaving town on his motorcycle that same night, but his arrival in Africa is inter-cut with Willow’s Warren-hunt plot, which occurs in its entirety the night after Spike assaults Buffy. A flight from LA to Africa is at least 20 hours, so there is no way through conventional means Spike could have left town when he did and made it to a tribal village in Africa in less than a day (and on Angel he later remarks he’s never been on a plane before). Therefore, unless he found someone to teleport him to Africa (which is certainly possible), it’s reasonable to assume his entire Africa subplot takes place sometime after the Willow plot and is edited in for dramatic effect.
* UnflinchingFaithInTheBrakes: Willow does this inthe sixth season, "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E20Villains Villains]]", when using magic to stop an oncoming bus.
* UnsatisfiableCustomer:The time loop of 'Life Serial' Buffy has to deal with a spell creating one of these that Buffy must in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E5LifeSerial Life Serial]]". The spell is cast to create an endless time loop until she can satisfy to escape the loop. HilarityEnsues.customer. Hilarity Ensues. This may actually be a subversion. The customer is satisfied by a very reasonable action on Buffy's part. The frustration and anger seen in previous attempts usually results from Buffy's poor efforts at handling the problem in the first place (trying to sell her a damaged and useless item for example). That is: Any person with decent customer service skills could have satisfied this customer initially. Buffy, on the other hand...
* UnflinchingFaithInTheBrakes: Willow does this in
* UnsatisfiableCustomer:
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* AmnesiaDanger
* BittersweetEnding: Xander saves Willow (and the world) with his friendship speech, Buffy regains her desire to live, and Dawn proves to Buffy that she's more that Just a Kid in need of protection when it comes to battle, suggesting a healthy shift in their relationship. However, Tara is still dead, and while Willow no longer wants to destroy the world, she's still last seen sobbing into Xander's arms, with the viewer uncertain of how long it may take her to recover from the trauma of the last few episodes. Additionally, Xander and Anya are still broken up, The Magic Box has been wrecked, and Jonathan and Andrew, terrified of Willow's rampage, flee to Mexico (with Jonathan either ignoring the epiphany he had in the previous episode or deciding that Buffy's inability to stop Willow left him with no other option). Meanwhile, Spike reclaims his soul, but given how he last left things in Sunnydale, it's unclear where things might go from here now that he has it.
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** The whole series is darker compared to the campy flick it was based on.
*** The film was supposed to be darker and edgier than it was. ExecutiveMeddling occured...
*** The film was supposed to be darker and edgier than it was. ExecutiveMeddling occured...
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* BilingualBonus: While discussing the newly-found scythe, one name comes up: "M question-mark." Giles points out that the "question mark" (ʔ) is actually a glottal stop in the International Phonetic Alphabet. What does "mʔ" sound like? The closest English example would be "[[LoudGulp gulp]]."
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* BilingualBonus: While discussing the newly-found scythe, one name comes up: "M question-mark." Giles points out that the "question mark" (ʔ) is actually a glottal stop in the International Phonetic Alphabet. What does "mʔ" sound like? The closest English example would be "[[LoudGulp gulp]]."
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* {{BFG}}: Buffy DoesNotLikeGuns. She thinks guns are never helpful. Apparently she doesn't think a AT-4 rocket launcher is a gun, as she uses one to kill The Judge.
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* BrainwashResidue: Xander retains some of his soldier knowledge after "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E8Halloween Halloween]]". A rare positive (or at least useful) example.
* BreakInThreat: Angelus sneaks into Buffy's bedroom while she's sleeping and draws a picture of her, which he leaves for her to find in the morning. (Buffy had previously allowed Angel into her home, and hadn't removed the permission after Angel turned into Angelus. Once she became aware of this, she had Willow perform a spell to uninvite him.)
* BreakInThreat: Angelus sneaks into Buffy's bedroom while she's sleeping and draws a picture of her, which he leaves for her to find in the morning. (Buffy had previously allowed Angel into her home, and hadn't removed the permission after Angel turned into Angelus. Once she became aware of this, she had Willow perform a spell to uninvite him.)
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* BrainwashResidue: Xander retains some of his soldier knowledge after "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E8Halloween "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E6Halloween Halloween]]". A rare positive (or at least useful) example.
* BreakInThreat: In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E17Passion Passion]]", Angelus sneaks into Buffy's bedroom while she's sleeping and draws a picture of her, which he leaves for her to find in the morning. (Buffy had previously allowed Angel into her home, and hadn't removed the permission after Angel turned into Angelus. Once she became aware of this, she had Willow perform a spell to uninvite him.)
* BreakInThreat: In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E17Passion Passion]]", Angelus sneaks into Buffy's bedroom while she's sleeping and draws a picture of her, which he leaves for her to find in the morning. (Buffy had previously allowed Angel into her home, and hadn't removed the permission after Angel turned into Angelus. Once she became aware of this, she had Willow perform a spell to uninvite him.)
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* DieHardOnAnX: "[[Recap/BuffTheVampireSlayerS2E1SchoolHard School Hard]]", AKA ''Film/DieHard'' with vampires. The Bronze is also a popular location for hostage-takings.
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* DieHardOnAnX: "[[Recap/BuffTheVampireSlayerS2E1SchoolHard "[[Recap/BuffTheVampireSlayerS2E4SchoolHard School Hard]]", AKA ''Film/DieHard'' with vampires. The Bronze is also a popular location for hostage-takings.
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* EnemyMine: In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E12ProphecyGirl Prophecy Girl]]", Xander enlists his hated enemy's (Angel) help to storm the Master's lair, and save Buffy. Angel scoffs at that, so Xander shoves a cross in his face for extra convincing.
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* BreakInThreat: Angelus sneaks into Buffy's bedroom while she's sleeping and draws a picture of her, which he leaves for her to find in the morning.
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* BreakInThreat: Angelus sneaks into Buffy's bedroom while she's sleeping and draws a picture of her, which he leaves for her to find in the morning. (Buffy had previously allowed Angel into her home, and hadn't removed the permission after Angel turned into Angelus. Once she became aware of this, she had Willow perform a spell to uninvite him.)
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* DoomedAppointment: Ms. Calendar.
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* DoomedAppointment: Ms. Calendar.In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E17Passion Passion]]", Jenny is working on the spell to restore Angel's soul and tells Giles she wants to see him later, but doesn't tell him what she's working on. Naturally, Angel kills her moments after she completes her work. Therefore we know the spell exists, but Buffy and the Scoobies don't.
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* FishPeople: The [[{{Mutants}} mutated]] swim team in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E20GoFish Go Fish]]".
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%%* ForgottenFriendNewFoe: Billy Fordham, "Lie To Me".
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* FishPeople: The [[{{Mutants}} mutated]] swim team in In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E20GoFish Go Fish]]".
%%*Fish]]" the Sunnydale High swim team [[LegoGenetics mutates]] into fish dudes due to their coach giving them illegal, Soviet fish-based steroids. Unusually for monsters in a Buffy episode, they all lived HappilyEverAfter in the ocean -- although they did lose their human personalities, so the swim team essentially died.
* ForgottenFriendNewFoe: In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E7LieToMe Lie To Me]]", BillyFordham, "Lie To Me".Fordham--"Ford"--an old friend of Buffy's from LA, shows up in Sunnydale. He has figured out she's a Slayer... and that's just for starters. He makes a deal with vampires to bring them Buffy and some [[VampireVannabe vampire wannabes]] to feed on, so that they will turn him in exchange. He's trying to avoid dying of cancer.
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* ForgottenFriendNewFoe: In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E7LieToMe Lie To Me]]", Billy
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* GroupieBrigade: "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered".
* HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster: One of the trope namers. With Buffy coming out to her mother as a Slayer.
* HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster: One of the trope namers. With Buffy coming out to her mother as a Slayer.
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* GroupieBrigade: "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered".
Bewildered" has a spell go wrong (as they often do) and Xander is chased by hordes of love-sick fans. Only they want to tear his flesh off, not his clothes.
* HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster:One of the trope namers. With Joyce's reaction to learning about Buffy coming out to and vampires was, literally, "Have you tried...not being the Slayer?" She later describes herself as "marching in the Slayer Pride parade." To be fair, Joyce's reaction is a lot more understandable than most examples on this page, since her mother as a biggest concern is that Buffy could get seriously hurt or killed being the Slayer.
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* IfICantHaveYou: An alarmingly common conclusion among the enchanted female populace in "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered".
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* IfICantHaveYou: An alarmingly common conclusion among the enchanted female populace in "Bewitched, In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E16BewitchedBotheredAndBewildered Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered".Bewildered]]", a creepy, creepy love spell causes ''every woman in town'' (except for Cordelia, who was unaffected) to try to do this to Xander.
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* KissOfDeath: Ampata, via LifeDrinker (see below).
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* KissOfDeath: Ampata, via LifeDrinker (see below).Ampata in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E4IncaMummyGirl Inca Mummy Girl]]" steals the life of various men in order to keep herself alive.
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* EnemyMine: A very brief one occurs in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E19Choices Choices]]", when the Mayor and Faith, in the interest of mutual survival, team up with the Scooby Gang in the high school cafeteria when demon spiders escape from the Box of Gavrok.
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* BecomingTheCostume: "Halloween".
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* BecomingTheCostume: "Halloween".In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E6Halloween Halloween]]", a powerful spell transforms everyone in town into whatever they had dressed as for the night -- Willow becomes a ghost, Xander a trigger-happy soldier and Buffy a hapless 18th-century noblewoman. Only the costumes from one specific shop, the one run by the guy who did the spell, do this -- regular Halloween costumes have no effect on their wearers at all.
* BatmanGambit: Giles pulls one on Buffy in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E4FaithHopeAndTrick Faith, Hope & Trick]]" to get her to reveal what happened when she killed Angel back in "Becoming, Part 2". By asking her under the pretext of needing information to create a binding spell to prevent Acathla from being re-awakened, Giles eventually gets her to admit the painful truth without questioning his motives in asking.
-->'''Willow''':...I really could help with that binding spell.
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-->'''Willow''':...I really could help with that binding spell.
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* AttackBackfire: Season four's BigBad got a rush off of the Initiative's electricity guns.
* BatmanGambit: Spike's plan in "The Yoko Factor".
* BatmanGambit: Spike's plan in "The Yoko Factor".
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* AttackBackfire: Season four's BigBad Adam got a rush off of the Initiative's electricity guns.
* BasementDweller: Xander doesn't get to go to college and lives in his parents' basement, where he pays rent. And he's forced to keep Spike there for a while.
* BatmanGambit:Spike's plan Spike uses this to good effect in "The "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E20TheYokoFactor The Yoko Factor".Factor]]". Knowing the personalities and temperament of each character, he casually plants information with each of them to turn them on each other. He does it in a way that's particularly ingenious: he relies on their own expectations of ''him'' to lead the characters into "discovering" the false rumors for themselves... so that each of them thinks it was their own idea.
** YMMV on whether it counts as "ingenious" - the fight lasted less than an episode, and directly led them to the idea which helped them destroy Adam. If it was a BatmanGambit, it wasn't a very good one.
** The fight only ended so quickly because Spike realised that if they weren't talking, Willow wouldn't decode the {{MacGuffin}} for the team and so he had to remind her to do it, which led to the gang talking, which led to them figuring out that Spike had been manipulating them the whole time. If Spike and Adam had given it a little more thought, it would have worked perfectly.
* BasementDweller: Xander doesn't get to go to college and lives in his parents' basement, where he pays rent. And he's forced to keep Spike there for a while.
* BatmanGambit:
** YMMV on whether it counts as "ingenious" - the fight lasted less than an episode, and directly led them to the idea which helped them destroy Adam. If it was a BatmanGambit, it wasn't a very good one.
** The fight only ended so quickly because Spike realised that if they weren't talking, Willow wouldn't decode the {{MacGuffin}} for the team and so he had to remind her to do it, which led to the gang talking, which led to them figuring out that Spike had been manipulating them the whole time. If Spike and Adam had given it a little more thought, it would have worked perfectly.
* BasementDweller: The Trio's headquarters is in Warren's parents' basement. ("Why can't we have a lair with a view?")
* BatmanGambit: The magic Willow stole from Giles tapped into what humanity was left in her. As a result Willow senses the pain of all human beings. And her reaction is to try to wipe out all life on Earth. However, this also gives Xander the opportunity to get through to her and talk her down.
* BatmanGambit: The magic Willow stole from Giles tapped into what humanity was left in her. As a result Willow senses the pain of all human beings. And her reaction is to try to wipe out all life on Earth. However, this also gives Xander the opportunity to get through to her and talk her down.
* CradleOfLoneliness: Willow does this after Tara breaks up with her.
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* DeconstructorFleet: The blond girl doesn't die, even after having sex -- she instead turns out to be GenreSavvy and an ActionGirl and proceeds to kick vampire butt.
** Season 6 deconstructs what the show is about. The focus is on the Scoobies' foray into the real world and not the whole saving the world plot and being heroes. Only the bad guys care about that.
** Season 6 deconstructs what the show is about. The focus is on the Scoobies' foray into the real world and not the whole saving the world plot and being heroes. Only the bad guys care about that.
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* DeconstructorFleet: The blond girl doesn't die, even after having sex -- she instead turns out to be GenreSavvy and an ActionGirl and proceeds to kick vampire butt.
**Season 6 deconstructs what the show is about. The focus is on the Scoobies' foray into the real world and not the whole saving the world plot and being heroes. Only the bad guys care about that.
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* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Buffy and Spike spend much of season 6 doing this. Also, in the season 3 episode "Band Candy", Joyce and Giles have sex on the hood of a police car.
* MasterApprenticeChain: The Master > Darla > Angelus > Drusilla > Spike
* MissionImpossibleCableDrop: when Andrew drops down to steal a diamond, only to have Warren and Jonathan stroll into the museum without issue.
* MasterApprenticeChain: The Master > Darla > Angelus > Drusilla > Spike
* MissionImpossibleCableDrop: when Andrew drops down to steal a diamond, only to have Warren and Jonathan stroll into the museum without issue.
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* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces:
** Buffy and Spikespend much of season 6 doing this. Also, in Season 6 have sex on [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E9Smashed the season 3 episode "Band Candy", Joyce walls and Giles floor (because they've smashed up all the furniture)]], [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E12DoublemeatPalace in a back alley outside Buffy's workplace]], [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E15AsYouWere on the lawn of her house with Dawn waiting inside]] and [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E13DeadThings on an interior balcony of the Bronze with her friends dancing below]] -- behaviour which causes Buffy to feel both excitement and self-loathing.
** Spike and Anya have sex on thehood of a police car.
* MasterApprenticeChain: The Master > Darla > Angelus > Drusilla > Spike
table in the Magic Box shop in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E18Entropy Entropy]]"... and get caught on camera doing it.
* MissionImpossibleCableDrop:when When Andrew drops down to steal a diamond, only to have Warren and Jonathan stroll into the museum without issue.
** Buffy and Spike
** Spike and Anya have sex on the
* MasterApprenticeChain: The Master > Darla > Angelus > Drusilla > Spike
* MissionImpossibleCableDrop:
* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Xander and Anya have sex on the kitchen floor, as the rest of the house is crowded with sleeping Potentials. The one free bed has already been nabbed by Willow and Kennedy -- the [[RightThroughTheWall noise of their lovemaking sets Xander and Anya to doing it as well]].
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* RememberTheNewGuy: {{Deconstructed}}. When a Vampire recognizes Buffy in ''Conversations With Dead People'' he explains that they went to High School together and shared a few classes. Buffy, however, does not recognize him at all, not even when he tells her his name, and it is only after ten minutes of explaining when they met and things they had done together that she remembers who he is. To the end of the episode he never becomes a close and dear friend from her past, instead remaining a minor acquaintance that she met on rare occasions and had forgotten in the time since then because they had never been very close in the first place.
** A season 2 flashback showed Angel was there when Buffy was called meaning he was in the movie only we never saw him.
** A season 2 flashback showed Angel was there when Buffy was called meaning he was in the movie only we never saw him.
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* RememberTheNewGuy: {{Deconstructed}}. When a Vampire recognizes Buffy in ''Conversations "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E7ConversationsWithDeadPeople Conversations With Dead People'' People]]" he explains that they went to High School together and shared a few classes. Buffy, however, does not recognize him at all, not even when he tells her his name, and it is only after ten minutes of explaining when they met and things they had done together that she remembers who he is. To the end of the episode he never becomes a close and dear friend from her past, instead remaining a minor acquaintance that she met on rare occasions and had forgotten in the time since then because they had never been very close in the first place.
** A season 2 flashback showed Angel was there when Buffy was called meaning he was in the movie only we never saw him.place.
** A season 2 flashback showed Angel was there when Buffy was called meaning he was in the movie only we never saw him.
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* VainSorceress: Catherine MadisonMadison from "The Witch", who stole her own daughter's body to relive her high school glory days.
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* YouAreWhoYouEat: The brain-eating demon that wanted to eat Giles' brain to look human.
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* YouAreWhoYouEat: The brain-eating demon that wanted group "Brotherhood of Seven" have to eat Giles' the heart and brain of a human/s every seven years in order to look human.maintain their disguise.
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* AndThisIsFor: Xander in "Reptile Boy""[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E5ReptileBoy Reptile Boy]]":
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* {{Cliffhanger}}: "[[Recap/buffyTheVampireSlayerS1E4TeachersPet Teacher's Pet]]". The she-mantis has left some eggs and they're starting to hatch. [[AbortedArc This is never followed up on, at least not on-screen]].
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* {{Cliffhanger}}: "[[Recap/buffyTheVampireSlayerS1E4TeachersPet "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E4TeachersPet Teacher's Pet]]". The she-mantis has left some eggs and they're starting to hatch. [[AbortedArc This is never followed up on, at least not on-screen]].
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* CarFu: Cordelia plows through a horde of vampires with her car in "Prophecy Girl."
* ChekhovsClassroom: "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E4TeachersPet Teacher's Pet]]" features a lecture from the science teacher's substitute about the cannibalism seen in female praying mantises. Also how some bats who prey on mantises use sound to stun them before attacking. Guess what the MonsterOfTheWeek is?
* ChekhovsClassroom: "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E4TeachersPet Teacher's Pet]]" features a lecture from the science teacher's substitute about the cannibalism seen in female praying mantises. Also how some bats who prey on mantises use sound to stun them before attacking. Guess what the MonsterOfTheWeek is?
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* CarFu: One of the moments that brings Cordelia plows around to the side of awesome is when she drives her car straight through a an amassing horde of vampires and right into the high school, plowing through the halls until she pulls up in front of the library in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E12ProphecyGirl Prophecy Girl]]".
* CharacterizationMarchesOn:
** Angel, Buffy ''and'' Darla had remarkably different personalities in the first few episodes; Angel was mysterious and kind of chipper (especially his first appearance), Buffy was a perky cheerleader and Darla was whiny, cowardly, not particularly smart or capable, and seemingly not even all that important in the Master's hierarchy (Luke, for one, clearly outranked her). It wasn't until the episode "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E7Angel Angel]]" that they settled into the personalities they are better known for; Angel became brooding, Buffy was a kind of grim optimist and Darla had a distant, haunting persona (since she died in this episode, this is better seen when she returns from the dead in ''Series/{{Angel}}'').
** Angel specifically shows very little of his alleged badassness in early episodes. Mostly he's knocked around by whatever BigBad they're fighting to show how much stronger Buffy is than he. After his FaceHeelTurn he does actually become majorly badass, then is stuck somewhere in between badass and {{Wimpification}} post-resurrection. He finally is shown as the Badass AntiHero he's meant to be when he gets his own show.
** Harmony was an obnoxious but not particularly stupid SmugSnake in her earlier appearances before turning into the airheaded HarmlessVillain she is known for. Being turned into a blood sucking demon just might have something to do with that: Other vampires lose their soul. Harmony lost hercar in "Prophecy Girl."
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* ChekhovsClassroom: "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E4TeachersPet Teacher'sPet]]" features Pet]]": In order to defeat the evil science teacher who is actually a lecture giant praying mantis, Buffy uses the recorded sound of bat sonar to "make [her] nervous system go kerplooey". She learnt about that in science class earlier in the episode (though, thankfully, from the previous science teacher's substitute about teacher. No villain should be stupid enough to teach a class their own weaknesses). Although that's not how she ultimately kills the cannibalism seen in female praying mantises. Also how some bats who prey on mantises use sound to stun them before attacking. Guess what the MonsterOfTheWeek is?mantis. She does that with a big machete. It's Buffy, after all.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn:
** Angel, Buffy ''and'' Darla had remarkably different personalities in the first few episodes; Angel was mysterious and kind of chipper (especially his first appearance), Buffy was a perky cheerleader and Darla was whiny, cowardly, not particularly smart or capable, and seemingly not even all that important in the Master's hierarchy (Luke, for one, clearly outranked her). It wasn't until the episode "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E7Angel Angel]]" that they settled into the personalities they are better known for; Angel became brooding, Buffy was a kind of grim optimist and Darla had a distant, haunting persona (since she died in this episode, this is better seen when she returns from the dead in ''Series/{{Angel}}'').
** Angel specifically shows very little of his alleged badassness in early episodes. Mostly he's knocked around by whatever BigBad they're fighting to show how much stronger Buffy is than he. After his FaceHeelTurn he does actually become majorly badass, then is stuck somewhere in between badass and {{Wimpification}} post-resurrection. He finally is shown as the Badass AntiHero he's meant to be when he gets his own show.
** Harmony was an obnoxious but not particularly stupid SmugSnake in her earlier appearances before turning into the airheaded HarmlessVillain she is known for. Being turned into a blood sucking demon just might have something to do with that: Other vampires lose their soul. Harmony lost her
* ChekhovsClassroom: "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E4TeachersPet Teacher's
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* DemonicDummy: Subversion. It seemed like Sid {{Subverted}} in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E9ThePuppetShow The Puppet Show]]". People are getting murdered around the school, one of Buffy's classmates has been caught yelling at his dummy in a way that implies it wants to kill people, and then said dummy attacks Buffy. However, it turns out that the dummy was killing students, but it turned out he was is actually ''hunting'' haunted by the thing that ghost of a demon hunter, and thought ''Buffy'' was the one killing the students.other students (having seen her use SuperStrength earlier).
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* FaceYourFears: Xander gets to punch a punches an evil knife-wielding clown right in "Nightmares".its evil knife-wielding clown face during "[[Recap/BuffyTHeVampireSlayerS1E10Nightmares Nightmares]]". In fact all the characters had to face their fears - even the Master, who laid his hand on a cross to make a point - but he was the only one who literally knocked his out.
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* GlasgowSmile: Marcie intends to do this to Cordelia in "Out of Mind, Out of Sight".
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* GlasgowSmile: Marcie intends to do this to Cordelia in "Out "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E11OutOfMindOutOfSight Out of Mind, Out of Sight".Sight]]".
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* HauntedTechnology: "I Robot, You Jane".
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* HauntedTechnology: "I "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E8IRobotYouJane I Robot, You Jane".Jane]]" has a demon which possesses a computer (and then the Internet, and finally a robot body) as the result of a book-scanning project.
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* MailerDaemon: Moloch the Corruptor.
* MurderByCremation: "Never Kill a Boy on the First Date".
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* MailerDaemon: "I Robot, You Jane" had another twist on it, when Willow's cyber-boyfriend turned out to be a literal demon on the Internet, Moloch the Corruptor.
Corruptor. (The magical book in which it was sealed had been scanned into a computer.) The metaphor was lampshaded when Buffy used it as an argument to persuade Willow to check up on "Malcolm".
* MurderByCremation: In "Never Kill a Boy on the FirstDate".Date", Buffy kills a particularly tough vampire by shoving it into the cremation oven; they were at a morgue because that's where he woke up.
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* SacrificialLamb: Jesse.The special double-length pilot episode introduces Jesse, best friend of Xander. It seems that Xander and Jesse will be a regular pairing throughout the show, mirroring the Buffy and Willow friendship. Then Jesse is turned into a vampire and Xander is forced to kill him. But that's okay, because he's never mentioned again.
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** It's hinted that Mr. Snyder was conspiring with Mayor Wilkins to eliminate Buffy as a threat by bullying her, and later by expelling her from school on trumped-up murder charges. Season 3 reveals that while he was doing some work with the mayor, Snyder was still as much in the dark about what was going on as the rest of the adults of Sunnydale.
** Willow suddenly becomes a lot stronger in magic and seems possessed while performing the curse to restore Angel's soul. The other characters are notably frightened. Despite this being a good starting explanation for Willow's developing magical powers, the possession is never mentioned again.
** The Anointed One — a prepubescent child who'd been made a vampire in the first season — was meant to be the main villain of the season. The problem was, while vampires don't age, the actor playing the role had had something of a growth spurt and clearly wouldn't be able to hold up as an immortal, ageless vampire. As a result, his storyline was scrapped and he was killed off rather anticlimactically — if satisfyingly — by Spike three episodes into the season.
** It's hinted that Mr. Snyder was conspiring with Mayor Wilkins to eliminate Buffy as a threat by bullying her, and later by expelling her from school on trumped-up murder charges. Season 3 reveals that while he was doing some work with the mayor, Snyder was still as much in the dark about what was going on as the rest of the adults of Sunnydale.
** Willow suddenly becomes a lot stronger in magic and seems possessed while performing the curse to restore Angel's soul. The other characters are notably frightened. Despite this being a good starting explanation for Willow's developing magical powers, the possession is never mentioned again.
** The Anointed One — a prepubescent child who'd been made a vampire in the first season — was meant to be the main villain of the season. The problem was, while vampires don't age, the actor playing the role had had something of a growth spurt and clearly wouldn't be able to hold up as an immortal, ageless vampire. As a result, his storyline was scrapped and he was killed off rather anticlimactically — if satisfyingly — by Spike three episodes into the season.
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* AndIMustScream: Happens at the end of "The Witch".
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* AndIMustScream: Happens In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E3TheWitch The Witch]]", Amy's body-swapping witchy mom has one of her spells turned back on her, and seemingly vanishes. At the end of the episode, it turns out she's been trapped in one of her old cheerleading trophies. She presumably died when they blew the school up at the end of "The Witch".season three, but fans speculate that this somehow released Catherine to possess her daughter Amy again, explaining Amy's otherwise inexplicable FaceHeelTurn.
** The comics confirm that she's still trapped.
** The comics confirm that she's still trapped.
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* BigNo: The Master does one of these at the end of "The Harvest," when [[spoiler:Buffy kills Luke, ruining the Harvest]].
* BlankBook: Moloch's prison-book after he escapes.
* BlankBook: Moloch's prison-book after he escapes.
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* BigNo: The Master does one of these at the end of "The Harvest," "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E2TheHarvest The Harvest]]", when [[spoiler:Buffy kills Luke, ruining the Harvest]].
* BlankBook:Moloch's prison-book after he escapes.The book used to seal Moloch was blank until the sealing ritual was performed, at which point it would fill up with words. When Willow scanned it into the library computer, it became blank again, as Moloch was released into the internet.
* BlankBook:
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* TheBully: Four of them feature in "The Pack".
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* TheBully: Four of them feature in "The Pack"."[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E6ThePack The Pack]]".
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* ChekhovsClassroom: "Teacher's Pet" features a lecture from the science teacher's substitute about the cannibalism seen in female praying mantises. Also how some bats who prey on mantises use sound to stun them before attacking. Guess what the MonsterOfTheWeek is?
* TheChosenZero: Giles's initial reaction to Buffy.
* CliffHanger: "Teacher's Pet". The she-mantis has left some eggs and they're starting to hatch. [[AbortedArc This is never followed up on, at least not on-screen]].
* ConspicuousTrenchcoat: “I Robot, You Jane”
* TheChosenZero: Giles's initial reaction to Buffy.
* CliffHanger: "Teacher's Pet". The she-mantis has left some eggs and they're starting to hatch. [[AbortedArc This is never followed up on, at least not on-screen]].
* ConspicuousTrenchcoat: “I Robot, You Jane”
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* ChekhovsClassroom: "Teacher's Pet" "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E4TeachersPet Teacher's Pet]]" features a lecture from the science teacher's substitute about the cannibalism seen in female praying mantises. Also how some bats who prey on mantises use sound to stun them before attacking. Guess what the MonsterOfTheWeek is?
* TheChosenZero:Giles's Giles' initial reaction to Buffy.
*CliffHanger: "Teacher's Pet".{{Cliffhanger}}: "[[Recap/buffyTheVampireSlayerS1E4TeachersPet Teacher's Pet]]". The she-mantis has left some eggs and they're starting to hatch. [[AbortedArc This is never followed up on, at least not on-screen]].
* ConspicuousTrenchcoat:“I When Giles suggests Buffy tail someone in "I Robot, You Jane”Jane", she sarcastically replies, "What, in dark glasses and a trenchcoat?" GilliganCut to Buffy following Dave in a trendy short trenchcoat and pink-framed sunglasses.
* TheChosenZero:
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* ConspicuousTrenchcoat:
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* DeadStarWalking: Joss Whedon hoped to include actor Eric Balfour (Jesse) in the title credits to shock viewers when his character dies. Unfortunately, the show literally could not afford an extra set of title credits at the time.
* DemonicDummy: Subversion. It seemed like the dummy was killing students, but it turned out he was actually ''hunting'' the thing that was killing the students.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Buffy originally had a fairly different, more 'Valley Girl' inspired look with big jewellry (especially rings), big hair and short skirts. In Season Two, the producers decided they wanted a different look for the character. This coincided with Sarah Michelle Gellar having her hair cut shorter, and dyed blonder, for her role in ''Film/{{Scream 2}}'', which she filmed in-between seasons one and two.
* DemonicDummy: Subversion. It seemed like the dummy was killing students, but it turned out he was actually ''hunting'' the thing that was killing the students.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Buffy originally had a fairly different, more 'Valley Girl' inspired look with big jewellry (especially rings), big hair and short skirts. In Season Two, the producers decided they wanted a different look for the character. This coincided with Sarah Michelle Gellar having her hair cut shorter, and dyed blonder, for her role in ''Film/{{Scream 2}}'', which she filmed in-between seasons one and two.
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* DeadStarWalking: Joss Whedon Creator/JossWhedon hoped to include actor Eric Balfour (Jesse) in the title credits to shock viewers when his character dies. Unfortunately, the show literally could not afford an extra set of title credits at the time.
* DemonicDummy: Subversion. It seemed like Sid the dummy was killing students, but it turned out he was actually ''hunting'' the thing that was killing the students.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Buffy originally had a fairly different, more 'Valley Girl' inspired look with big jewellry (especially rings), big hair and short skirts. In Season Two, the producers decided they wanted a different look for the character. This coincided with Sarah Michelle Gellar having her hair cut shorter, and dyed blonder, for her role in''Film/{{Scream 2}}'', ''Film/Scream2'', which she filmed in-between seasons one and two.
* DemonicDummy: Subversion. It seemed like Sid the dummy was killing students, but it turned out he was actually ''hunting'' the thing that was killing the students.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Buffy originally had a fairly different, more 'Valley Girl' inspired look with big jewellry (especially rings), big hair and short skirts. In Season Two, the producers decided they wanted a different look for the character. This coincided with Sarah Michelle Gellar having her hair cut shorter, and dyed blonder, for her role in
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** The pilot and "Harvest" are two of the few episodes that feature the upper level of the Bronze. Joss Whedon wrote the script to feature the two levels, but didn't realize how difficult it would be to shoot these scenes. Not only was it impractical in terms of filming and lighting, but it stretched their already non-existent budget. It shows up a few times in season 6.
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** The pilot and "Harvest" "The Harvest" are two of the few episodes that feature the upper level of the Bronze. Joss Whedon wrote the script to feature the two levels, but didn't realize how difficult it would be to shoot these scenes. Not only was it impractical in terms of filming and lighting, but it stretched their already non-existent budget. It shows up a few times in season 6.
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** In "Witch" (season 1, episode 3), Giles seems unfamiliar with magiks, saying "Pretty good for my first [spell-]casting, eh?" and such--which is totally at odds with his, y'know, rebellious ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}} youth period.
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** In "Witch" (season 1, episode 3), "Witch", Giles seems unfamiliar with magiks, saying "Pretty good for my first [spell-]casting, eh?" and such--which is totally at odds with his, y'know, rebellious ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}} youth period.
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* {{Fanservice}}: On the first DVD of season 1, the menu [[http://horror-music.narod.ru/Buffy1_meny1.jpg opens]] with a seductive-looking Creator/SarahMichelleGellar crawling towards you wearing a low-cut top. Also, in "Nightmares", one gets ten seconds of a mostly-naked Nicholas Brendan. Willow's outfit in "Halloween".
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* {{Fanservice}}: On the first DVD of season 1, the menu [[http://horror-music.narod.ru/Buffy1_meny1.jpg opens]] with a seductive-looking Creator/SarahMichelleGellar crawling towards you wearing a low-cut top. Also, in "Nightmares", "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E10Nightmares Nightmares]]", one gets ten seconds of a mostly-naked Nicholas Brendan. Willow's outfit in "Halloween".Brendon.
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* GloryDays: A witch switches places with her cheerleader daughter because she misses being a cheerleader.
* GrandTheftMe: See GloryDays.
* GrandTheftMe: See GloryDays.
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* GloryDays: A witch switches Amy's mother never got over her glory days as a cheerleader, so forcibly switched places with her cheerleader daughter because she misses being a cheerleader.
to relive "her glory days".
* GrandTheftMe:See GloryDays.In "The Witch", Amy Madison's witch mother swaps bodies with her so that the mother can have a second shot at eternal fame and glory as a high school cheerleader.
* GrandTheftMe:
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* SpontaneousHumanCombustion: In one of the earliest episodes, Giles initially attributes this as the cause for a cheerleader bursting into flames; it's later revealed to have been caused by a witch's spell.
* StabTheScorpion: Variation between the Master and a mook in "Never Kill a Boy on the First Date" where the Master (who could certainly kill the mook with his index finger) plucks a bug out of the air next to the mook's head.
* StabTheScorpion: Variation between the Master and a mook in "Never Kill a Boy on the First Date" where the Master (who could certainly kill the mook with his index finger) plucks a bug out of the air next to the mook's head.
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* SpontaneousHumanCombustion: In one of the earliest episodes, "The Witch", Giles initially attributes this as the cause for a cheerleader bursting into flames; it's later revealed to have been caused by a witch's spell.
* StabTheScorpion: Variation between the Master and a mook in"Never "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E5NeverKillABoyOnTheFirstDate Never Kill a Boy on the First Date" Date]]" where the Master (who could certainly kill the mook with his index finger) plucks a bug out of the air next to the mook's head.
* StabTheScorpion: Variation between the Master and a mook in
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* TakeFive: In "Prophecy Girl", Xander wants to get Buffy alone so he can ask her out:
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* TakeFive: In "Prophecy Girl", "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E12ProphecyGirl Prophecy Girl]]", Xander wants to get Buffy alone so he can ask her out:
* TrashTheSet: The library gets wrecked in the finale, mainly because they had no idea if there would be a second season.
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* AbsurdlyIneffectiveBarricade: In the episode "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered", after a spell gone awry has caused every girl in the school aside from Cordelia to fall madly in love with Xander, he attempts to take refuge in the school library by moving the card catalogue in front of the double doors that serve as the entrance. Since he apparently didn't realize that the doors open outwards, a coat (and not much else) wearing Buffy calmly opens the doors and walks around the catalogue while Xander's back is turned.
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* AbsurdlyIneffectiveBarricade: In the episode "Bewitched, "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E16BewitchedBotheredAndBewildered Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered", Bewildered]]", after a spell gone awry has caused every girl in the school aside from Cordelia to fall madly in love with Xander, he attempts to take refuge in the school library by moving the card catalogue in front of the double doors that serve as the entrance. Since he apparently didn't realize that the doors open outwards, a coat (and not much else) wearing Buffy calmly opens the doors and walks around the catalogue while Xander's back is turned.
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* BlatantLies: “Lie to Me”
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* BlatantLies: “Lie "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E7LieToMe Lie to Me”Me]]".
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* BrainwashResidue: Xander retains some of his soldier knowledge after "Halloween". A rare positive (or at least useful) example.
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* BrainwashResidue: Xander retains some of his soldier knowledge after "Halloween"."[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E8Halloween Halloween]]". A rare positive (or at least useful) example.
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* [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique Buffy Summers Interrogation Technique]]: In the season 2 premiere, Buffy channels her inner [[Series/TwentyFour Jack Bauer]] by pulling this stunt with a burning cross ''shoved down a vampire's burning throat,'' [[OlderThanTheyThink several years]] before ''24'' aired and discussed much the same form of torture.
* ByTheEyesOfTheBlind: The child-killing demon Der Kindestod from "Killed by Death" can only be seen by young people with fevers.
* ByTheEyesOfTheBlind: The child-killing demon Der Kindestod from "Killed by Death" can only be seen by young people with fevers.
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* [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique Buffy Summers Interrogation Technique]]: In the season 2 premiere, "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E1WhenSheWasBad When She Was Bad]]", Buffy channels her inner [[Series/TwentyFour Jack Bauer]] by pulling this stunt with a burning cross ''shoved down a vampire's burning throat,'' [[OlderThanTheyThink several years]] before ''24'' aired and discussed much the same form of torture.
* ByTheEyesOfTheBlind: The child-killing demon Der Kindestod from"Killed "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E18KilledByDeath Killed by Death" Death]]" can only be seen by young people with fevers.
* ByTheEyesOfTheBlind: The child-killing demon Der Kindestod from
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* CarnivalOfKillers - the Order of Teraka sent a superstrong cyclops, a WormThatWalks and a BadassNormal posing as a uniformed cop to kill Buffy.
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* CarnivalOfKillers - the CarnivalOfKillers: The Order of Teraka sent a superstrong cyclops, a WormThatWalks and a BadassNormal posing as a uniformed cop to kill Buffy.
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* DeadlyHug: Buffy does this to Angel in the season 2 finale, although she has to let go of him first since she does it with a sword.
* DeadMansChest: In "Inca Mummy Girl" the mummy hid the body of the real Ampata in one of his trunks.
* DeadMansChest: In "Inca Mummy Girl" the mummy hid the body of the real Ampata in one of his trunks.
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* DeadlyHug: Buffy does this to Angel in the season 2 finale, "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E22BecomingPart2 Becoming Part 2]]", although she has to let go of him first since she does it with a sword.
* DeadMansChest: In"Inca "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E4IncaMummyGirl Inca Mummy Girl" Girl]]", the mummy hid the body of the real Ampata in one of his trunks.
* DeadMansChest: In
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* DieHardOnAnX: ''School Hard'', AKA Die Hard with vampires. The Bronze is also a popular location for hostage-takings ("The Harvest", "Doppelgangland").
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* DieHardOnAnX: ''School Hard'', "[[Recap/BuffTheVampireSlayerS2E1SchoolHard School Hard]]", AKA Die Hard ''Film/DieHard'' with vampires. The Bronze is also a popular location for hostage-takings ("The Harvest", "Doppelgangland").hostage-takings.
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* EggSitting: Sunnydale Health Class students are given the usual "treat an egg as your child" lesson. Xander boils his to make the project easier, which saves him from the embryonic demons in the eggs. Because Sunnydale.
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* EggSitting: In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E12BadEggs Bad Eggs]]", Sunnydale Health Class students are given the usual "treat an egg as your child" lesson. Xander boils his to make the project easier, which saves him from the embryonic demons in the eggs. Because Sunnydale.
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* FishPeople: The [[{{Mutants}} mutated]] swim team in "Go Fish".
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* FishPeople: The [[{{Mutants}} mutated]] swim team in "Go Fish"."[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E20GoFish Go Fish]]".
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* LateToThePunchLine: In ''Lie To Me'', Buffy recounts listening to the Divinyls' song "I Touch Myself", in fifth grade to help her get over Ford's rejection, and then mentions that she had no idea at the time what the song was about. Thirty seconds later Willow says, "Oh! ''That's'' what that song is about?!"
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* LateToThePunchLine: In ''Lie "Lie To Me'', Me", Buffy recounts listening to the Divinyls' song "I Touch Myself", in fifth grade to help her get over Ford's rejection, and then mentions that she had no idea at the time what the song was about. Thirty seconds later Willow says, "Oh! ''That's'' what that song is about?!"
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* StuffedIntoTheFridge: In "Passion", Angelus not only kills Jenny Calendar, but after he kills her, he takes her body and puts it in Giles' bed and leaves a trail of romantic symbols (such as rose petals) that lead Giles to Jenny's body.
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* StuffedIntoTheFridge: In "Passion", "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E17Passion Passion]]", Angelus not only kills Jenny Calendar, but after he kills her, he takes her body and puts it in Giles' bed and leaves a trail of romantic symbols (such as rose petals) that lead Giles to Jenny's body.
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* TalkingDownTheSuicidal: In "I Only Have Eyes For You," [[spoiler:Angel]] talks [[spoiler:Buffy]] out of killing herself, but they are both not themselves at the time - they are possessed by the ghosts of other people.
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* TalkingDownTheSuicidal: In "I "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E19IOnlyHaveEyesForYou I Only Have Eyes For You," You]]", [[spoiler:Angel]] talks [[spoiler:Buffy]] out of killing herself, but they are both not themselves at the time - they are possessed by the ghosts of other people.
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* WhatTheHellHero: During the first episode of the season, 'When She Was Bad", Buffy's behavior in the Bronze, toward Xander in particular, is so obnoxious that [[AlphaBitch Cordelia]], of all people, decides to call her on it, warning her that if she doesn't cool it, she'll "lose even the loser friends you have now."
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* WhatTheHellHero: During the first episode of the season, 'When "When She Was Bad", Buffy's behavior in the Bronze, toward Xander in particular, is so obnoxious that [[AlphaBitch Cordelia]], of all people, decides to call her on it, warning her that if she doesn't cool it, she'll "lose even the loser friends you have now."
* WhoNeedsEnemies: Spike's uneasy alliance with Buffy at the end of the second season.
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* WhoNeedsEnemies: Spike's uneasy alliance with Buffy at the end of the second season.
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* AreYouSureYouCanDriveThisThing: Buffy drives to the Bronze even though she failed her driving test, with Willow in the passenger's seat. Willow gets increasingly anxious, despite Buffy's relaxed-ness. They make it to the Bronze [[spoiler:which they discover is full of middle-aged people acting like teenagers due to cursed candy]]; then Buffy attempts to drive to Giles' house, which results in a crash.
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* AreYouSureYouCanDriveThisThing: In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E6BandCandy Band Candy]]", Buffy drives to the Bronze even though she failed her driving test, with Willow in the passenger's seat. Willow gets increasingly anxious, despite Buffy's relaxed-ness. They make it to the Bronze [[spoiler:which they discover is full of middle-aged people acting like teenagers due to cursed candy]]; then Buffy attempts to drive to Giles' house, which results in a crash.
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** Gingerbread: In order to escape being burned at the stake, Amy turns ''herself'' into a rat. She... not so much gets better at the end of the episode.
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** Gingerbread: "[[Recap/BuffyTheVamipreSlayerS3E11Gingerbread Gingerbread]]": In order to escape being burned at the stake, Amy turns ''herself'' into a rat. She... not so much gets better at the end of the episode.
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* BrandX: Trick orders a "medium diet soda" at a drive-thru window without actually specifying ''what'' soda in "Faith, Hope & Trick".
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* BrandX: Trick orders a "medium diet soda" at a drive-thru window without actually specifying ''what'' soda in "Faith, "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E4FaithHopeAndTrick Faith, Hope & Trick".Trick]]".
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* BuryYourGays: Larry in "Graduation Day, part two. Was confirmed later.
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* BuryYourGays: Larry in "Graduation "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E22GraduationDayPart2 Graduation Day, part two.Part Two]]". Was confirmed later.
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* DestructoNookie: the overtly sexualized scene in the season finale when Buffy makes Angel vamp out and drink her blood. While he's lying on top of her, she grabs a metal object for support, and it just crumples. She also kicks a table through a wall. Angel leaves her with the most insane hickey in history through all of season 4.
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* DestructoNookie: the The overtly sexualized scene in the season finale when Buffy makes Angel vamp out and drink her blood. While he's lying on top of her, she grabs a metal object for support, and it just crumples. She also kicks a table through a wall. Angel leaves her with the most insane hickey in history through all of season 4.
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* EverybodyKnewAlready: Revealed in "The Prom" that everyone knows in school that Buffy protects them from bad stuff.
* FaceHeelTurn: Faith. It starts in "Consequences". The sad part is, it's partially the Scoobies fault.
* FaceHeelTurn: Faith. It starts in "Consequences". The sad part is, it's partially the Scoobies fault.
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* EverybodyKnewAlready: Revealed in "The Prom" "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E20TheProm The Prom]]" that everyone knows in school that Buffy protects them from bad stuff.
* FaceHeelTurn: Faith. It starts in"Consequences". "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E15Consequences Consequences]]". The sad part is, it's partially the Scoobies Scoobies' fault.
* FaceHeelTurn: Faith. It starts in
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* FriendToPsychos: In "Beauty and the Beasts," Debbie tries to cover for her boyfriend Pete when he starts going through a Jekyll/Hyde situation. She's not very good at it, though.
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* FriendToPsychos: In "Beauty "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E3BeautyAndTheBeasts Beauty and the Beasts," Beasts]]", Debbie tries to cover for her boyfriend Pete when he starts going through a Jekyll/Hyde situation. She's not very good at it, though.
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* TheGlomp: Willow, courtesy of, well...''everybody''. The Scoobies, having mistaken her for Wishverse Willow, are elated when she turns out to be still alive.
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* TheGlomp: Willow, courtesy of, well...''everybody''.''everybody'' in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E16Doppelgangland Doppelgangland]]". The Scoobies, having mistaken her for Wishverse Willow, are elated when she turns out to be still alive.
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* GratuitousGerman: In the episode "Gingerbread", the newspaper article the gang looks up and the chant Giles is doing at the end of the episode qualify for this.
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* GratuitousGerman: In the episode "Gingerbread", the newspaper article the gang looks up and the chant Giles is doing at the end of the episode qualify for this.
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* ItsAWonderfulPlot: In "The Wish", Cordelia unwittingly makes the demon Anyanka create a world wherein Buffy never moved to Sunnydale, which has turned into a truly hellish place where the Master and his army of vampires rule practically unopposed. The whole thing later gets a twist as Cordelia gets killed about halfway through the episode, leaving Giles to find a way to undo the wish.
* ItsPersonal: Season 3 premiere.
-->Oz: If I may suggest: "This time it's personal." I mean, there's a reason why it's a classic.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Spike's legendary "Love's Bitch" speech.
* ItsPersonal: Season 3 premiere.
-->Oz: If I may suggest: "This time it's personal." I mean, there's a reason why it's a classic.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Spike's legendary "Love's Bitch" speech.
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* ItsAWonderfulPlot: In "The Wish", "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E9TheWish The Wish]]", Cordelia unwittingly makes the demon Anyanka create a world wherein Buffy never moved to Sunnydale, which has turned into a truly hellish place where the Master and his army of vampires rule practically unopposed. The whole thing later gets a twist as Cordelia gets killed about halfway through the episode, leaving Giles to find a way to undo the wish.
* ItsPersonal:Season 3 premiere.
-->Oz:Discussed in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E1Anne Anne]]":
-->'''Oz''': If I may suggest: "This time it's personal." I mean, there's a reason why it's a classic.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Spike's legendary "Love's Bitch"speech.speech from "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E8LoversWalk Lovers Walk]]".
* ItsPersonal:
-->Oz:
-->'''Oz''': If I may suggest: "This time it's personal." I mean, there's a reason why it's a classic.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Spike's legendary "Love's Bitch"
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* KirkSummation: Subverted by Willow in "Choices"
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* KirkSummation: Subverted by Willow in "Choices""Choices".
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* MaskOfPower: "Dead Man's Party" and the Nigerian zombie mask. Note a MaskOfPower that does not need to be worn. Though the Mask wants to be worn by one of its zombies to unlock its full power.
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* MaskOfPower: "Dead "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E2DeadMansParty Dead Man's Party" Party]]" and the Nigerian zombie mask. Note a MaskOfPower that does not need to be worn. Though the Mask wants to be worn by one of its zombies to unlock its full power.
* ActorAllusion: Giles puts on "Danse Macabre" during his silent presentation in "Hush". "Danse Macabre" is the theme tune of ''Series/JonathanCreek''. Creator/AnthonyStewartHead played magician Adam Klaus in the pilot episode of that show.
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* AndIMustScream: The episode "Hush".
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* AndIMustScream: The episode "Hush"."[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E10Hush Hush]]".
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* BigLittleMan: "Fear, Itself" has [[MonsterOfTheWeek Gachnar the Fear Demon]]... who is 4 inches tall. Buffy stomps him like a bug.
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* BigLittleMan: "Fear, Itself" "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E4FearItself Fear, Itself]]" has [[MonsterOfTheWeek Gachnar the Fear Demon]]... who is 4 inches tall. Buffy stomps him like a bug.
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* CoincidentalBroadcast: In "The Harsh Light Of Day", Giles tells them that watching TV isn't going to help them with their problem. Sure enough the news showed a clue to Spike's whereabouts.
* CollectiveGroan: In "Doomed", when the gang realized they have to prevent the end of the world ''again''.
* CollectiveGroan: In "Doomed", when the gang realized they have to prevent the end of the world ''again''.
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* CoincidentalBroadcast: In "The "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E3TheHarshLightOfDay The Harsh Light Of Day", Day]]", Giles tells them that watching TV isn't going to help them with their problem. Sure enough the news showed a clue to Spike's whereabouts.
* CollectiveGroan: In"Doomed", "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E11Doomed Doomed]]", when the gang realized they have to prevent the end of the world ''again''.
* CollectiveGroan: In
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* ConflictBall: Spike deliberately passes it around in ''The Yoko Factor,'' making insinuating and subversive comments to make the Scoobies turn on each other and vent repressed feelings of anger and resentment that had been bottled up. He even lampshades the trope, pointing out that people latch onto one specific event or situation as a cause of strife, but that what really happens is that the event or situation is just an excuse to bring to the forefront issues that were there all along.
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* ConflictBall: Spike deliberately passes it around in ''The "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E20TheYokoFactor The Yoko Factor,'' Factor]]", making insinuating and subversive comments to make the Scoobies turn on each other and vent repressed feelings of anger and resentment that had been bottled up. He even lampshades the trope, pointing out that people latch onto one specific event or situation as a cause of strife, but that what really happens is that the event or situation is just an excuse to bring to the forefront issues that were there all along.
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* JerkAss: Forrest.
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* JerkAss: {{Jerkass}}: Forrest.
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* ShoutOut: Adam, the name of FrankensteinsMonster, according to [[WordOfGod Mary Shelley.]]
** Giles puts on "Danse Macabre" during his silent presentation in "Hush". "Danse Macabre" is the theme tune of ''Series/JonathanCreek''. Anthony Stewart Head, who plays Giles, played magician Adam Klaus in the pilot episode of that show.
** Giles puts on "Danse Macabre" during his silent presentation in "Hush". "Danse Macabre" is the theme tune of ''Series/JonathanCreek''. Anthony Stewart Head, who plays Giles, played magician Adam Klaus in the pilot episode of that show.
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* ShoutOut: Adam, the name of FrankensteinsMonster, according to [[WordOfGod Mary Shelley.]]
** Giles puts on "Danse Macabre" during his silent presentation in "Hush". "Danse Macabre" is the theme tune of ''Series/JonathanCreek''. Anthony Stewart Head, who plays Giles, played magician Adam Klaus in the pilot episode of that show.Creator/MaryShelley.
** Giles puts on "Danse Macabre" during his silent presentation in "Hush". "Danse Macabre" is the theme tune of ''Series/JonathanCreek''. Anthony Stewart Head, who plays Giles, played magician Adam Klaus in the pilot episode of that show.
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* WorryingForTheWrongReason: In "Pangs", Xander is in a panic because he has been cursed with a host of diseases. He's most stressed about the syphilis. Anya says comfortingly:
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* WorryingForTheWrongReason: In "Pangs", "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E8Pangs Pangs]]", Xander is in a panic because he has been cursed with a host of diseases. He's most stressed about the syphilis. Anya says comfortingly:
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* CompletelyMissingThePoint: The [[MediaWatchdog PTC]] decried ''The Gift'' on account of Buffy committing suicide. No!!! Don't save the world!!! Giving your life for the sake of the human race is '''EVIL!!!'''
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* CompletelyMissingThePoint: The [[MediaWatchdog PTC]] decried ''The Gift'' "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E22TheGift The Gift]]" on account of Buffy committing suicide. No!!! Don't save the world!!! Giving your life for the sake of the human race is '''EVIL!!!'''
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* DaydreamSurprise: Used brutally in "The Body", and as a LoveEpiphany for Spike.
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* DaydreamSurprise: Used brutally in "The Body", "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E16TheBody The Body]]", and as a LoveEpiphany for Spike.
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* EverythingIsBetterWithMonkeys: In "Into the Woods", Anya wants to watch a movie about monkeys playing hockey because "The ice is so slippery and monkeys are all irrational".
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* EverythingIsBetterWithMonkeys: In "Into "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E10IntoTheWoods Into the Woods", Woods]]", Anya wants to watch a movie about monkeys playing hockey because "The ice is so slippery and monkeys are all irrational".
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* HonorRelatedAbuse: Tara's family is like this. They abuse her emotionally [[spoiler:and lie to her to make her hate herself, fooling her into believing that she's less than human]]. When she breaks free and makes a life of her own, they start threatening to move on to physical abuse, and would most likely have made good on their threats if it wasn't for almost the entire cast closing ranks around her and telling them that they would have to [[GoThroughMe go through them]] to get to her.
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* HonorRelatedAbuse: Tara's family is like this.this in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVmpireSlayerS5E6Family Family]]". They abuse her emotionally [[spoiler:and lie to her to make her hate herself, fooling her into believing that she's less than human]]. When she breaks free and makes a life of her own, they start threatening to move on to physical abuse, and would most likely have made good on their threats if it wasn't for almost the entire cast closing ranks around her and telling them that they would have to [[GoThroughMe go through them]] to get to her.
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* OnlySaneMan: Spike has a major case of this in "The Weight of the World", when [[spoiler: he is the only one immune to the glamour that prevents mortals from remembering that Ben is Glory. See also GlamourFailure.]]
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* OnlySaneMan: Spike has a major case of this in "The "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E21TheWeightOfTheWorld The Weight of the World", World]]", when [[spoiler: he is the only one immune to the glamour that prevents mortals from remembering that Ben is Glory. See also GlamourFailure.]]
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* TheSecretOfLongPorkPies: Averted in that the Double Meat Burger is actually made from soy. The secret ingredient... is meat.
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* ActionDressRip: In the The Trio's first appearance, a monster attacks a bank and Buffy initially couldn't fight because of her "stupid skirt". She [[CallBack does it again]] when fighting a demon at Xander's wedding.
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* ActionDressRip: In the The Trio's first appearance, "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E4Flooded Flooded]]", a monster attacks a bank and Buffy initially couldn't fight because of her "stupid skirt". She [[CallBack does it again]] when fighting a demon at Xander's wedding.
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* AmbiguousSituation: "Normal Again", in which Buffy is injected with a poison that make her hallucinate... Or is it the other way around? According to a psychiatrist, who may or may not be a real person, she is in fact getting better: She has been sick all along, and now she's finally waking up from years of catatonic schizophrenia. So, the whole series is either ThisIsReality or a mad AllJustADream with a dash of TheSchizophreniaConspiracy. In the end, Buffy choses her life in Sunnydale over her life in the mental institution, but the ending leaves it ambiguous whether or not the world she settled for is the real one. Of course, when you consider the show has [[Series/{{Angel}} a spinoff]] full of people she never met...
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* AmbiguousSituation: "Normal Again", "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E17NormalAgain Normal Again]]", in which Buffy is injected with a poison that make her hallucinate... Or is it the other way around? According to a psychiatrist, who may or may not be a real person, she is in fact getting better: She has been sick all along, and now she's finally waking up from years of catatonic schizophrenia. So, the whole series is either ThisIsReality or a mad AllJustADream with a dash of TheSchizophreniaConspiracy. In the end, Buffy choses her life in Sunnydale over her life in the mental institution, but the ending leaves it ambiguous whether or not the world she settled for is the real one. Of course, when you consider the show has [[Series/{{Angel}} a spinoff]] full of people she never met...
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* TheCastShowOff: The musical episode allowed for several actors to show off either musical or dancing talent (Anthony Steward Head, Amber Benson, James Marsters, Michelle Trachtenberg). Others ...got sidelined for the episode. (Alyson Hannigan asked to be given a smaller singing role and no dancing role.)
** Emma Caulfield apparently surprised Joss Whedon with her singing voice, resulting in the writers giving her another song in Season 7 (in a flashback to Season 6).
* CavemenVsAstronautsDebate: The Trio debated who was the best Film/JamesBond in "Life Serial". It got so bad that Warren and Andrew actually came to blows.
** Emma Caulfield apparently surprised Joss Whedon with her singing voice, resulting in the writers giving her another song in Season 7 (in a flashback to Season 6).
* CavemenVsAstronautsDebate: The Trio debated who was the best Film/JamesBond in "Life Serial". It got so bad that Warren and Andrew actually came to blows.
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** Emma Caulfield apparently surprised Joss Whedon with her singing voice, resulting in the writers giving her another song in Season 7 (in a flashback to Season 6).
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* DidYouDie: In "As You Were," Buffy and Riley promise to swap stories if they get a chance and see whose were more exiting/dangerous/crazy ext.. She asks if he died, and when he says he didn't, she says, "I'm going to win."
* DisappointedInYou: Discussed and subverted in "All The Way":
* DisappointedInYou: Discussed and subverted in "All The Way":
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* DidYouDie: In "As "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E15SAsYouWere As You Were," Were]]", Buffy and Riley promise to swap stories if they get a chance and see whose were more exiting/dangerous/crazy ext.. She asks if he died, and when he says he didn't, she says, "I'm going to win."
* DisappointedInYou: Discussed and subverted in"All "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayeS6E6AllTheWay All The Way":Way]]":
* DisappointedInYou: Discussed and subverted in
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* GilliganCut: In the 3rd Halloween episode, Dawn's friend Janice didn't want her and her friends to go into the creepy old man's house. Sure enough...
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* GilliganCut: In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E6AllTheWay All the 3rd Halloween episode, Way]]", Dawn's friend Janice didn't want her and her friends to go into the creepy old man's house. Sure enough...
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* VolleyingInsults: Xander and Anya's duet in "Once More With Feeling."
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* VolleyingInsults: Xander and Anya's duet in "Once "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E7OnceMoreWithFeeling Once More With Feeling."Feeling]]".
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* XanatosGambit: "Grave" Giles arrives with the powers of a coven in order to defeat Willow after she does a FaceHeelTurn. If he defeats her then threat neutralized, if he loses Willow will take his power and thus giving Willow a window to her emotions, so Xander could stop her. Its mixed with BatmanGambit as he was banking on the emotional appeal.
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* XanatosGambit: "Grave" In "[[Recap/buffyTheVampireSlayerS6E22Grave Grave]]", Giles arrives with the powers of a coven in order to defeat Willow after she does a FaceHeelTurn. If he defeats her then threat neutralized, if he loses Willow will take his power and thus giving Willow a window to her emotions, so Xander could stop her. Its mixed with BatmanGambit as he was banking on the emotional appeal.
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* AnticlimaxCut: "Lessons":
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* AnticlimaxCut: "Lessons":"[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlyerS7E1Lessons Lessons]]":
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** Angel shows back up to help Buffy in the last two episodes of the series after not appearing in-person since Season 5's "Forever". It was his only time appearing in the show after ''Buffy'' moved to the UPN.
** Faith returns (and takes on a major role) for the last 5 episodes of the series. Prior to that, her most recent appearance had been in "Who Are You?" from Season 4. The arc setting up her return was mapped out in Seasons 1 and 4 of ''Angel''.
** Faith returns (and takes on a major role) for the last 5 episodes of the series. Prior to that, her most recent appearance had been in "Who Are You?" from Season 4. The arc setting up her return was mapped out in Seasons 1 and 4 of ''Angel''.
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** Angel shows back up to help Buffy in the last two episodes of the series after not appearing in-person since Season 5's "Forever"."[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E17Forever Forever]]". It was his only time appearing in the show after ''Buffy'' moved to the UPN.
** Faith returns (and takes on a major role) for the last 5 episodes of the series. Prior to that, her most recent appearance had been in"Who "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E16WhoAreYou Who Are You?" You?]]" from Season 4. The arc setting up her return was mapped out in Seasons 1 and 4 of ''Angel''.
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** All of the show's previous Big Bads show up as projections of the First Evil at the end of the season's first episode in a speech made to Spike, with it taking the forms of Warren, Glory, Adam, The Mayor, Drusilla, and The Master. It continues to use the forms Drusilla, The Mayor, and Warren at various points of the season to respectively manipulate Spike, Faith, and Andrew.
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** All of the show's previous Big Bads show up as projections of the First Evil at the end of the season's first episode in a speech made to Spike, with it taking the forms of Warren, Glory, Adam, The Mayor, Drusilla, and The Master. It continues to use the forms of Drusilla, The Mayor, and Warren at various points of the season to respectively manipulate Spike, Faith, and Andrew.
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* BrickJoke: In Episode 9, "Never Leave Me" we see [[spoiler: Warren (actually The First Evil)]] coaching Andrew on sacrificing a pig for its blood in the basement of Sunnydale High, at which Andrew fails miserably. Later in Episode 16, "Storyteller" we find Buffy and Principal Wood in that basement trying to figure out why strange phenomena are happening... when a a squealing pig runs by.
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* BrickJoke: In Episode 9, "Never "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E9NeverLeaveMe Never Leave Me" Me]]" we see [[spoiler: Warren (actually The First Evil)]] coaching Andrew on sacrificing a pig for its blood in the basement of Sunnydale High, at which Andrew fails miserably. Later in Episode 16, "Storyteller" we find Buffy and Principal Wood in that basement trying to figure out why strange phenomena are happening... when a a squealing pig runs by.
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* CatchTheConscience: The episode ''Storyteller,'' in order to make Andrew feel remorse for killing Jonathan.
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* CatchTheConscience: The episode ''Storyteller,'' "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E16Storyteller Storyteller]]", in order to make Andrew feel remorse for killing Jonathan.
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* [[FakeBrit Fake Brit]]: The two English slayers are played by Americans with particularly bad accents. Not helped by the fact that they share a lot of there screen time with Giles who is actually played by an Englishman and a lot of the season is devoted to Spike an American that does have a good working-class English accent showing how their accent isn't either.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In "Sleeper", Aimee Mann sings a song called "Pavlov's Bell." During the next episode "Never Leave Me" the Scooby Gang discusses the possibility that Spike is being controlled by means of Pavlovian conditioning.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In "Sleeper", Aimee Mann sings a song called "Pavlov's Bell." During the next episode "Never Leave Me" the Scooby Gang discusses the possibility that Spike is being controlled by means of Pavlovian conditioning.
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** Done with Dawn in "Real Me".
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* ManInWhite: The Angel who appears in Buffy's dreams.
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all [[PainfulRhyme the other fishes]]!" ♪
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all [[PainfulRhyme the other fishes]]!" fishes!" ♪
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* {{BFG}}: Buffy DoesNotLikeGuns. She thinks guns are never helpful. Apparently she doesn't think a AT-4 rocket launcher is a gun, [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome as she uses one to kill The Judge.]]
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* {{BFG}}: Buffy DoesNotLikeGuns. She thinks guns are never helpful. Apparently she doesn't think a AT-4 rocket launcher is a gun, [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome as she uses one to kill The Judge.]]
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-->[[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments "Wooo Summers, you drive like a]] '''[[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments SPAZ!!!]]'''
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** Despite being accepted into Oxford, Willow announces to Buffy that she "will be matriculating with Class of 2003" at UC Sunnydale. The mischievous smile. "...Say, isn't that where you're going?" Buffy squees and [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments tackles her to the grass]].
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** Despite being accepted into Oxford, Willow announces to Buffy that she "will be matriculating with Class of 2003" at UC Sunnydale. The mischievous smile. "...Say, isn't that where you're going?" Buffy squees and [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments tackles her to the grass]].grass.
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* MustBeInvited: Buffy tolerates Spike's StalkerWithACrush behavior until she [[AnguishedDeclarationOfLove discovers he's fallen in love with her]] (and realizes he's getting too close to her family). She then gets Willow to bar Spike from the house. Then Spike shows himself willing to give his life to protect Dawn, so in the season finale Buffy invites him back into her home in a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}.
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* MustBeInvited: Buffy tolerates Spike's StalkerWithACrush behavior until she [[AnguishedDeclarationOfLove discovers he's fallen in love with her]] (and realizes he's getting too close to her family). She then gets Willow to bar Spike from the house. Then Spike shows himself willing to give his life to protect Dawn, so in the season finale Buffy invites him back into her home in a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}.home.
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* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: Buffy realizing (see NiceJobFixingItVillain) that [[spoiler: the first watchers ''invented'' the "one-Slayer" rule, and that Willow was powerful enough to [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome change that rule, giving every potential Slayer in the world their power simultaneously]]]]
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* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: Buffy realizing (see NiceJobFixingItVillain) that [[spoiler: the first watchers ''invented'' the "one-Slayer" rule, and that Willow was powerful enough to [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome change that rule, giving every potential Slayer in the world their power simultaneously]]]]simultaneously]]
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* SnowMeansLove: A providential snowfall prevents Angel from committing suicide-by-sun. He and Buffy then go for a walk in the snow. This is ''southern California.'' Y'know, [[CaptainObvious because snow is]] [[DontExplainTheJoke nearly impossible there.]]
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* SnowMeansLove: A providential snowfall prevents Angel from committing suicide-by-sun. He and Buffy then go for a walk in the snow. This is ''southern California.'' Y'know, [[CaptainObvious because snow is]] [[DontExplainTheJoke is nearly impossible there.]]
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* MacGuffinBlindness: Glory searches all through the season for the key, but doesn't realize that it was Buffy's sister Dawn all along until right near the end.
