History Recap / AngelS05E11Damage

* GhostMemory: Dana gets the memories from past Slayers along with their powers, causing her to confuse her own traumatic memories with theirs.

** One of the effects of turning every Potential in the planet into a Slayer.
** AntiHero example with Spike throughout the episode. First he reveals to Dana that he's a vampire, then let's slip he killed one Slayer, then that [[SayingTooMuch he killed Nikki Wood.]] Spike going after a emotionally scarred girl who thought he was the one who tortured her, then telling her he's the famed vampire that killed two Slayers, [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge that'll end well.]]

* AmazonBrigade: Andrew's backup consists of about twenty slayers, none of whom has ever dated Angel, who wisely doesn't antagonise them.

* BilingualBonus: Dr. Rabinaw sees that the nurse is working a crossword and says, "Give me one." She suggests, "'In a mellifluous manner.' 7 letters, ends in a 'Y'." It is hardly secret knowledge that the Latin word for honey is "mellis," and "fluens" means "spilling", which suggests that the answer is "sweetly." Perhaps it does suggest something about his character that Dr. Rabinaw gives up and says, "Give me another one."

* ContinuityNod: We're filled in on what has happened with the Scoobies and Potentials after the ''Series/{{Buffy|the Vampire Slayer}}'' GrandFinale.

* DidntSeeThatComing: Andrew takes Dana to be with the other Slayers, by having 12 Slayers with him, all of whom ''hadn't'' dated Angel.

* GhostMemory: Dana gets the memories from past slayers along with their powers, causing her to confuse her own traumatic memories with theirs.

** Andrew gets in a whammy when he implies that Buffy doesn't trust Angel any more because he's gone over to the enemy.

* UsedToBeASweetKid: At the end of the episode, when Spike and Angel talk about themselves as vampires and Dana as a psychotic slayer, Spike says she's a monster, like them, Angel retorts that she's an innocent victim, and Spike replies that "So were we. Once upon a time.".

** Andrew to Wes, showing some people in Sunnydale are still pissed about the events of [=BtVS=] Season 3. "My hypothesis exactly, Pryce. I see Mr. Giles may have been wrong about you."

* {{Foil}}: Spike and Angel talk about how they acted as vampires. [[BloodKnight Spike just loved the fight and the kill]], [[ForTheEvulz Angel loved the cruelty of the kill and drew it out as long as possible]].

* FlippingTheBird: Spike wants to do it to Angel, but without the feeling in hands, it's a bit difficult.

* FlippingTheBird: Spike wants to do it to Angel, but without hands, it's a bit difficult.

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* InJoke: Spike's comment that Angel is looking "old" is an reference to Creator/DavidBoreanaz's inevitable visible signs of aging, despite the fact that Angel, as a vampire, is immortal.

* GhostMemory

** An off-screen one; Buffy refuses to let Angel have a Slayer because he's now working for Wolfram & Hart.

* TakeThat: Andrew says that Buffy is in Europe training Slayers, giving them "...the full ''Film/XMen1'' minus the crappy third act]]". Creator/JossWhedon wrote a draft for the first movie that was thrown out save for a couple of lines.

** Any hope of Buffy and Angel reconnecting are dashed to hell when Andrew tells Angel that ''nobody'' in his camp trusts him anymore due to his association with Wolfram & Hart, least of all Buffy, who instructed Andrew to retrieve Dana.

* AsYouKnow: Andrew's exposition starts out like this for the benefit of the non-''Series/{{Buffy|The Vampire Slayer}}'' watchers. Lampshaded.

* {{Corpsing}}: As Andrew begins to explain about the "Slayer of the Vampyres," the camera pans left and catches Creator/AmyAcker concealing a laugh behind her hand.

* CelebrityParadox: Lorne says Vernon does readings for Creator/TomArnold, who appeared opposite Creator/AlysonHannigan and Glenn Quinn in ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'' and Creator/ElizaDushku in ''Film/TrueLies''.

* ImprovisedWeapon: Dana's bonesaw.

* NotSoDifferent:

* CelebrityParadox: Lorne says Vernon does readings for Creator/TomArnold, who appeared opposite Creator/AlyssonHannigan and Glenn Quinn in ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'' and Creator/ElizaDushku in ''Film/TrueLies''.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
-->"Willow and Kennedy are in Brazil. They're based in Sao Paulo, but, um, every time I talk to them, they're in Rio."
** Angel tells Lorne to "get the whip cracking" on his sources. We hear a LiteralMinded Lorne in the background [[CasualKink enthusiastically]] [[WhipItGood calling for a whip]].