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* HoldingHands: Used for foreshadowing. Willow and Tara hold hands to cast a spell, but Willow breaks free to finish the spell because she's much more powerful than Tara now. Spike holds Buffy's hands while waiting for Dawn to fetch antiseptic to patch them up. As the season continues, Willow and Tara will break up over Willow's abuse of magic, while Spike and Buffy start a SecretRelationship.

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* HoldingHands: Used for foreshadowing. Willow and Tara hold hands to cast a spell, but Willow breaks free to finish the spell because she's much more powerful than Tara now. Spike holds Buffy's hands while waiting for Dawn to fetch antiseptic to patch them up. [[spoiler: As the season continues, Willow and Tara will break up over Willow's abuse of magic, while Spike and Buffy start a SecretRelationship.]]
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* CantYouReadTheSign: When Buffy confides in Spike, he's standing next to a discarded door with a BEWARE OF DOG sign — a RunningGag with Spike, but this time hinting at the DestructiveRomance to follow.

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* CantYouReadTheSign: When Buffy confides in Spike, he's standing next to a discarded door with a BEWARE OF DOG sign — a RunningGag with Spike, [[spoiler: but this time hinting at the DestructiveRomance to follow.]]



** Willow breaks away from Tara to finish her spell. Spike is the only one Buffy confides in. As the season progresses Buffy will be drawn towards Spike while Willow and Tara will break up over Willow's abuse of magic.
** Buffy tells Spike "It's okay. I can be alone with you here." before confiding in him about being pulled out of heaven. She will go on to continually refuse to regard him as a person but still rely on the catharsis he provides for most of the rest of the season, as her side of their DestructiveRomance.

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** Willow breaks away from Tara to finish her spell. Spike is the only one Buffy confides in. [[spoiler: As the season progresses Buffy will be drawn towards Spike while Willow and Tara will break up over Willow's abuse of magic.
magic.]]
** Buffy tells Spike "It's okay. I can be alone with you here." before confiding in him about being pulled out of heaven. [[spoiler: She will go on to continually refuse to regard him as a person but still rely on the catharsis he provides for most of the rest of the season, as her side of their DestructiveRomance.]]

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This is the Wham Line. The heaven admission comes after she has described her experience in detail.


* WhamLine: "I think I was in Heaven"

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* WhamLine: "I think After three episodes of the characters (and audience) believing, and Buffy outright stating, that she was sent to hell after her death, she quietly drops the bomb when alone with Spike.
--> '''Buffy:'''
I was in Heaven"happy.
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* RuleOfSymbolism: There's an allusion to Buffy being in heaven when she's walking in the graveyard and sort of pauses in front of a statue of an angel. It makes it look as though she has wings.

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* RuleOfSymbolism: There's an allusion to Buffy being in heaven when she's walking in the graveyard and sort of pauses slowly passes in front of a statue of an angel. It makes it look as though she has wings.
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* CameBackWrong: Averted as it turns out the demon was created by the resurrection spell -- not some demon hitch-hiking on Buffy as she crossed over. Subverted with Buffy who will spend the entire season trying to drag herself out of depression over having been wrenched back to the real world.

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* CameBackWrong: Averted as it turns out the demon was created by the resurrection spell -- not some demon hitch-hiking on Buffy as she crossed over. Subverted with Buffy who will spend the entire season trying to drag herself out of depression over having been wrenched back to the real mortal world.
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* AnAxeToGrind / OffWithHisHead: Willow and Tara cast a spell to make the demon corporeal so Buffy can lop its head off.
-->'''Dawn:''' (wincing) That's probably the sort of thing I'm not supposed to see, right?
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** All the talk of EquivalentExchange: Willow gets Buffy back from the dead but her girlfriend Tara will be dead by the end of the season.

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** All the talk of EquivalentExchange: Willow gets Buffy back from the dead but [[spoiler:but her girlfriend Tara will be dead by the end of the season.]]

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