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* IJustWantToBeNormal: Inverted; Buffy has always stated this, but on losing her superpowers Buffy starts worrying how she'll be able to cope.

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* IJustWantToBeNormal: Inverted; Buffy has always stated this, but on losing her superpowers Buffy starts worrying how she'll be able to cope.cope, knowing there are demons out there and being powerless to fight them off.
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* FightOffTheKryptonite: Oz and Xander suggest this is why Buffy is getting weaker, then get into a nerdy argument over which type of Kryptonite is involved.
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* RoomFullOfCrazy

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* RoomFullOfCrazyRoomFullOfCrazy: Buffy enters a room to find the walls covered in polaroids of her mother.
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* GoryDiscretionShot: Giles finding the Watcher Redshirt's body; he just runs out of the room retching.

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* GoryDiscretionShot: Giles finding the Watcher Redshirt's Hobson's body; he just runs out of the room retching.

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* GenreSavvy

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* GenreSavvyGenreSavvy: Buffy doesn't want to celebrate her birthday because bad things will happen. Of course bad things happen anyway.
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* HypocriticalHumor: Xander enjoys Buffy weakness because he do manly things like open jars for her, then finds he can't open the peanut butter jar either.

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* HypocriticalHumor: Xander enjoys Buffy Buffy's weakness because he do manly things like open peanut butter jars for her, then finds he can't open the peanut butter jar either.
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* UseYourHead

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* UseYourHeadUseYourHead: When Buffy finds herself pinned by the first vampire, she escapes by headbutting him.

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* TooKinkyToTorture: Buffy tries to ward off Kralik with a cross. Kralik presses it to his body and enjoys the burning.

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* TooKinkyToTorture: Buffy tries to ward off Kralik with a cross. Kralik presses it to his body and enjoys the burning.pain, [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar telling her to move it lower]].


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* WhoAreYou: Buffy asks this of Giles when she finds out he betrayed her.
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* GenreSavvy


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* UseYourHead
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* MarsNeedsWomen: Kralik intends to change Buffy into a vampire so he won't be alone.


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* SelfMadeOrphan: Kralik, and he intends to make Buffy just like him, saying to Joyce that when Buffy wakes up a vampire, "Your face will be the first thing she eats."
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* VampireInvitation: Kralik lures Joyce out of the house by wrapping himself in Buffy's red coat and ambushing Joyce when she runs out to check why 'Buffy' is lying unconscious on the verandah.

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* VampireInvitation: Kralik lures Joyce out of the house by wrapping himself in Buffy's red coat and ambushing Joyce when she runs out to check why 'Buffy' is lying unconscious on the verandah.verandah.
* YouFightLikeACow: Buffy and the vampire she's fighting at the beginning of the episode. Until her strength starts to fade along with her punning abilities. Suddenly the vamp is the only one making wisecracks.
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* BullyHunter: Averted when Buffy sees a boy at school roughing up Cordelia and tries to do her usual thing, only to be knocked down and Cordelia to end up driving him off with a barrage of girly punches. It's then that Buffy really starts to panic.
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* BoundAndGagged: Joyce


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* CaptainObvious: Oz on ice. It's cool. And it's water, but it's not.


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* {{Expy}}: A WickedCultured [[ImAHumanitarian cannibal]] SerialKiller in a [[InstitutionalApparel straitjacket]]. Hmm, [[SilenceOfTheLambs sounds familiar]].


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* GoryDiscretionShot: Giles finding the Watcher Redshirt's body; he just runs out of the room retching.


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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[StarTrekEnterprise Malcolm Reed]] is the Watcher who gets turned into a vampire mook.


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* [[IHaveYourWife I Have Your Mother]]


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* ParentalSubstitute: After Buffy's DisappearedDad fails to take her to the ice show, Buffy drops a big hint that Giles could take her instead.
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* CallBack: Angel tells Buffy of how he first saw her, depicted in "Becoming, Part 2".
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* ScreamingWoman: Buffy being chased by Kralik on the way home.


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* ValleyGirl: Angel points out that Buffy spent most of her life being normal, but that only makes Buffy worried.
-->'''Buffy:''' Before I was the Slayer, I was... Well, I, I don't wanna say shallow, but... Let's say a certain person, who will remain nameless -- we'll just call her Spordelia -- looked like a classical philosopher next to me.
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* TooKinkyToTorture: Buffy tries to ward off Kralik with a cross. Kralik presses it to his body and enjoys the burning.

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* TooKinkyToTorture: Buffy tries to ward off Kralik with a cross. Kralik presses it to his body and enjoys the burning.burning.
* VampireInvitation: Kralik lures Joyce out of the house by wrapping himself in Buffy's red coat and ambushing Joyce when she runs out to check why 'Buffy' is lying unconscious on the verandah.

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* PreMortemOneLiner: Lampshaded by Buffy, who explains that if she were at full power she would be punning.

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* PreMortemOneLiner: Lampshaded by Buffy, who explains that if she were Buffy.
-->'''Buffy:''' If I was
at full power she would Slayer power, I'd be punning.punning right about now.
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* ComeOutComeOutWhereEverYouAre: "Hide and seeek, hide and seeek..."

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* ComeOutComeOutWhereEverYouAre: ComeOutComeOutWhereverYouAre: "Hide and seeek, hide and seeek..."
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* ComeOutComeOutWhereeverYouAre: "Hide and seeek, hide and seeek..."

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* ComeOutComeOutWhereeverYouAre: ComeOutComeOutWhereEverYouAre: "Hide and seeek, hide and seeek..."
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: After a rather... tense training session with Angel, Buffy is sat down with Giles revising the effects of crystals, and is rather fidgety. At one point she twiddles a [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything rather long and thin crystal]], and when Giles asks her if she's alright she responds:
-->'''Buffy:''' I guess that... I just have some... energy to burn.

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* BarrierBurstingBlow

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* BarrierBurstingBlowBarrierBustingBlow


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* IJustWantToBeNormal: Inverted; Buffy has always stated this, but on losing her superpowers Buffy starts worrying how she'll be able to cope.

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* MommyIssues: Kralik. He's well aware of them.

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* MommyIssues: LittleDeadRidingHood: When Kralik first attacks Buffy, she's walking home wearing a red coat.
-->'''Kralik:''' Why did you come to the dark of the woods? (opens Buffy's bag of weapons) To bring all these sweets to grandmother's house?
* MommyIssues / FreudianExcuse:
Kralik. He's well aware of them.it.



* PrecisionFWord

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* PrecisionFWordPrecisionFStrike
-->'''Giles:''' I don't give a rat's ass about the Council's orders. There will be no test.

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* BadLiar: Giles; tragically Buffy trusts him so much she doesn't even notice.
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* MommyIssues: Kralik

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* ChekhovsGun: Kralik's pills. [[spoiler:More specifically, then fact that he needs to down them with a nice glass of water.]]
* ComeOutComeOutWhereeverYouAre: "Hide and seeek, hide and seeek..."
* HolyBurnsEvil
* HypocriticalHumor: Xander enjoys Buffy weakness because he do manly things like open jars for her, then finds he can't open the peanut butter jar either.
-->Willow, can you give me a hand here?
* MommyIssues: KralikKralik. He's well aware of them.



* PapaBear: Quentin Travers admonishes Giles that he has "a father's love" for Buffy rendering him "incapable of clear and impartial judgement".
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** Quentin Travers admonishing Giles that he has "a father's love" for Buffy rendering him "incapable of clear and impartial judgement".

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** Quentin Travers admonishing Giles that he has "a father's love" for * TooKinkyToTorture: Buffy rendering him "incapable of clear tries to ward off Kralik with a cross. Kralik presses it to his body and impartial judgement".enjoys the burning.
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* TearJerker: Giles injecting Buffy with the chemical that stripped her of her powers, planting a seed of distrust that wouldn't blossom until [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E17LiesMyParentsToldMe Lies My Parents Told Me]].

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* TearJerker: Giles injecting Buffy with the chemical that stripped her of her powers, planting a seed of distrust that wouldn't blossom until [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E17LiesMyParentsToldMe Lies My Parents Told Me]].Me]].
** Quentin Travers admonishing Giles that he has "a father's love" for Buffy rendering him "incapable of clear and impartial judgement".
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* PreMortemOneLiner: Lampshaded by Buffy, who explains that if she were at full power she would be punning.
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* OutOfGenreExperience: Has more of a horror movie feel as opposed to the usual action-y approach of the series.
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*AxCrazy: Kralik


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* RedShirt: Both Blair and Hobson
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* BreadEggsBreadedEggs:
-->'''Willow:''' You can vote now! You can be drafted! You can vote to not be drafted!
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* RoomFullOfCrazy

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* RoomFullOfCrazyRoomFullOfCrazy
* TearJerker: Giles injecting Buffy with the chemical that stripped her of her powers, planting a seed of distrust that wouldn't blossom until [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E17LiesMyParentsToldMe Lies My Parents Told Me]].
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* MommyIssues: Kralik

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* MommyIssues: KralikKralik
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