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* MyGirlIsASlut: Xander [[RescueRomance runs down a demon Faith is fighting]]. They run to her hotel room and, [InterplayOfSexAndViolence sexually frustrated over not being able to kill]], she has sex with Xander. Cue romantic music and snuggles under the bedsheets, then a SmashCut to Faith booting Xander out the door now she's finished making use of him.

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* CoolCar

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* CoolCarCoolCar: Xander tries to make himself cool by renting a light blue 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air convertible.

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* AlwaysABiggerFish

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* AlwaysABiggerFishAlwaysABiggerFish: An axe-wielding Xander chases Zombie!Dickie into a room, only for them both to come tearing out again pursued by the Sisterhood of Jhe.



* MoodWhiplash: Whenever the overly-dramatic events of TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt cut to Xander's antics with the zombie gang, culminating in a BattleRoyale with a shrieking MultipleHeadCase Hellmouth demon {{Smash Cut}}s to Xander and Jack's quite face-down over the TimeBomb.

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* MoodWhiplash: Whenever the overly-dramatic events of TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt cut to Xander's antics with the zombie gang, culminating in when a BattleRoyale with a shrieking MultipleHeadCase Hellmouth demon {{Smash Cut}}s to Xander and Jack's quite face-down over the TimeBomb.
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'''Xander:''' How do I defuse... ''(Xander drives too close to a mailbox which knocks Parker's head off) I probably should've left out that whole middle part.

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'''Xander:''' How do I defuse... ''(Xander drives too close to a mailbox which knocks Parker's head off) off)'' I probably should've left out that whole middle part.

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* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique

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* JackBauerInterrogationTechniqueJackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Xander grabs Zombie!Parker and drags him alongside his moving car until he reveals where the bomb is.
-->'''Parker:''' It's in the, it's in the boiler room!\\
'''Xander:''' Alright. Now I'm gonna ask you this once, and you better pray you get the answer right.\\
'''Parker:''' Okay, okay!\\
'''Xander:''' How do I defuse... ''(Xander drives too close to a mailbox which knocks Parker's head off) I probably should've left out that whole middle part.


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* {{Melodrama}}: Spoofed when the usual romantic wangst of a tearful Buffy arguing with a determined Angel is interrupted by Xander bursting in on them.
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* MoodWhiplash: Whenever the overly-dramatic events of TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt cut to Xander's antics with the zombie gang, culminating in a BattleRoyale with a shrieking MultipleHeadCase Hellmouth demon {{Smash Cut}}s to Xander and Jack's quite face-down over the TimeBomb.

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* DistractedByTheSexy



* HannibalLecture: Cordelia does this to Xander [[WomanScorned and loves it]]. At the end of the episode Xander just smiles and walks off, having gained the required coolness.



* TheLoad



* TemptingFate

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* TemptingFateTemptingFate: Xander finds himself faced with a ticking TimeBomb
-->'''Xander:''' (breathing hard) Less than two minutes. Dumb guy. Little bomb. How hard can it be?\\
''(Jack jumps him from behind)''\\
'''Jack:''' And it just got harder.

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* LetsSplitUp: O'Toole's gang in the school.

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* LetsSplitUp: LetsSplitUpGang: O'Toole's gang in the school.



-->'''Oz''': [[BadMusician Not the way I play it]].

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-->'''Oz''': [[BadMusician [[DreadfulMusician Not the way I play it]].

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'''Willow:''' Every nightmare I have that doesn't revolve around academic failure or public nudity is about that thing. In fact, once I dreamt that it attacked me while I was late for a test and naked.

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'''Willow:''' Every nightmare I have that doesn't revolve around academic failure or [[NotWearingPantsDream public nudity nudity]] is about that thing. In fact, once I dreamt that it attacked me while I was late for a test and naked.

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* AnxietyDreams: Willow

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-->'''Bob:''' Good for chopping.
* AnxietyDreams: WillowAnxietyDreams
-->'''Buffy:''' Do you remember [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E12ProphecyGirl the demon that almost got out the night I died]]?\\
'''Willow:''' Every nightmare I have that doesn't revolve around academic failure or public nudity is about that thing. In fact, once I dreamt that it attacked me while I was late for a test and naked.


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* BarrierBustingBlow: Xander relaxes after escaping a zombie, only for the head (one of them at least) of the Hellmouth demon to burst through the wall next to him.


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* AManIsNotAVirgin: Averted; Xander drops some big hints to Faith that he's never actually done it before. It doesn't stop her.


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* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Xander finds himself the wheelman outside the store the zombie gang are looting when Willow walks by.
-->'''Willow:''' Xander, what are you doing here?
-->'''Xander:''' Nothing! Certainly not crime.
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* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl

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* AlwaysABiggerFish
* AnAxeToGrind



* DialogueReversal: Xander's gambit at the end mirrors the "Who has less fear?" dialogue from his earlier confrontation with [[ICallHerVera "Katie"]].



* GoryDiscretionShot
* IncrediblyObviousBomb / TimeBomb
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique



* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: The Sisterhood of Jhe wants to open the Hellmouth

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* OurZombiesAreDifferent
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: The Sisterhood of Jhe wants to open the HellmouthHellmouth.
* FreudWasRight: Xander's penis car.



* DialogueReversal: Xander's gambit at the end mirrors the dialogue from his earlier confrontation with [[ICallHerVera "Katie"]].

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* DialogueReversal: Xander's gambit at TheLastDance: Willy suggests Buffy and Angel get together as the world's going to end mirrors anyway.
* LetsSplitUp: O'Toole's gang in
the dialogue from his earlier confrontation with [[ICallHerVera "Katie"]].school.
* NotBigEnoughForTheTwoOfUs



-->'''Oz''': Not the way I play it.

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-->'''Oz''': [[BadMusician Not the way I play it.it]].


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* SexyDiscretionShot: Xander and Faith sex is shown reflected in her TV screen.
* TemptingFate

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* AnxietyDreams: Willow



* BloodMagic: O'Toole cuts his palm to raise his zombie friends.



* DescriptionCut: Loads of them.



* ICallHerVera: "Katie"

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** Also O'Toole threatening vengeance on Xander, only to open a door and be killed by werewolf Oz.
* KnifeNut / ICallHerVera: O'Toole has a very large Bowie knife he calls "Katie"



* SelfParody

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* SelfParodySelfParody
* YouGetMeCoffee: The TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt is coming, so Xander asks how he can help. Buffy sends him to get donuts.
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* IronicReversal: Xander's gambit at the end mirrors the dialogue from his earlier confrontation with [[ICallHerVera "Katie"]].

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* IronicReversal: DialogueReversal: Xander's gambit at the end mirrors the dialogue from his earlier confrontation with [[ICallHerVera "Katie"]].
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* IronicReversal: Xander's gambit at the end mirrors the dialogue from his earlier confrontation with [[ICallHerVera "Katie"]].
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* SelfDeprecation: Desperate for coolness, Xander asks Oz if it is hard to play the guitar.
-->'''Oz''': Not the way I play it.
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* LateToThePunchline
-->'''Xander''': Hey! They're not baking any cakes!
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* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: While raiding a shop for weapons, Faith lectures Buffy on the simplicity of life as a Slayer: Want, Take, Have. A few smashed display cases later, the police shows up. Whoops.
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* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: While raiding a shop for weapons, Faith lectures Buffy on the simplicity of life as a Slayer: Want, Take, Have. A few smashed display cases later, the police shows up. Whoops.
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Set into despair by Cordelia's insults, Xander tries desperately to appear "cool." For this purpose, he borrows his uncle's [[CoolCar Bel-Air.]] In an odd series of events, he ends up killing several zombies, stopping a bomb, and sleeping with Faith.

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Set into despair by Cordelia's insults, Xander tries desperately to appear "cool." For this purpose, he borrows his uncle's [[CoolCar Bel-Air.]] In ]]This triggers an odd series of events, events in which he ends up killing several zombies, stopping a bomb, and sleeping with Faith.
Faith. At the end of the episode, he's gained a lot of self-confidence after staring down a psychopathic zombie.

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Xander borrows his uncle's car and is then forced by a gang of zombies into becoming their wheelman. In other news, another demon cult tries to open the Hellmouth.

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Set into despair by Cordelia's insults, Xander tries desperately to appear "cool." For this purpose, he borrows his uncle's car [[CoolCar Bel-Air.]] In an odd series of events, he ends up killing several zombies, stopping a bomb, and is then forced by a gang of zombies into becoming their wheelman. sleeping with Faith.

In other news, yet another demon cult tries to open the Hellmouth.
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* NoodleIncident: Angel almost died, Giles did the bravest thing Buffy had ever seen, and Willow saw the Hellmouth beast's "real" face.

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* NoodleIncident: Angel almost died, Giles did the bravest thing Buffy had ever seen, seen ("Stupidest," he corrects), and Willow saw the Hellmouth beast's "real" face.
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* RiddleForTheAges

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* RiddleForTheAgesRiddleForTheAges
*SelfParody

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Xander borrows his uncle's car and is then forced by a gang of zombies into becoming their wheelman. In other news, another demon cult tries to open the Hellmouth for the umpteenth time.

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Xander borrows his uncle's car and is then forced by a gang of zombies into becoming their wheelman. In other news, another demon cult tries to open the Hellmouth for the umpteenth time.
Hellmouth.


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* ICallHerVera: "Katie"
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: The Sisterhood of Jhe wants to open the Hellmouth
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* NoodleIncident: Angel almost died, Giles did the bravest thing Buffy had ever seen, and Willow saw the Hellmouth beast's "real" face.

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* NoodleIncident: Angel almost died, Giles did the bravest thing Buffy had ever seen, and Willow saw the Hellmouth beast's "real" face.face.
*RiddleForTheAges
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* NoodleIncident: Angel almost died, Giles did the bravest thing Buffy had ever seen, and Willow the saw Hellmouth beast's "real" face.

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* NoodleIncident: Angel almost died, Giles did the bravest thing Buffy had ever seen, and Willow saw the saw Hellmouth beast's "real" face.
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* NoodleIncident: The gang saving the day again. Angel almost died, Giles did the bravest thing Buffy had ever seen, and Willow the saw Hellmouth beast's "real" face.

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* NoodleIncident: The gang saving the day again. Angel almost died, Giles did the bravest thing Buffy had ever seen, and Willow the saw Hellmouth beast's "real" face.
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* NoodleIncident: The gang saving the day again. Angel almost died apparently, Giles did the bravest thing Buffy had ever seen, and Willow saw Hellmouth beast's "real" face.

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* NoodleIncident: The gang saving the day again. Angel almost died apparently, died, Giles did the bravest thing Buffy had ever seen, and Willow the saw Hellmouth beast's "real" face.
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* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: How Xander stopped a zombie gang from blowing up the school.

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* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: How Xander stopped a zombie gang from blowing up the school.school.
*NoodleIncident: The gang saving the day again. Angel almost died apparently, Giles did the bravest thing Buffy had ever seen, and Willow saw Hellmouth beast's "real" face.

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