History Buffy / TropesHToN

* NerdsSpeakKlingon: In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E19SeeingRed Seeing Red]]", Buffy finds a bunch of documents in the lair of the nerdy Trio. Willow and Tara are not able to decipher all the documents, but Xander recognises it on sight.

* NeverTrustATrailer: There were a ''lot'' of ads for Dracula's appearance and a lot of effort to make it look like he was going to be a major villain for Season 5. His actual time in the show? A single episode where he shows up, gets beaten by Buffy, turns to mist and leaves.
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: A justified trope with Willow. A natural consequence of being a witch whose powers grew over time was that Willow was often shown displaying some plot relevant power which she'd never been shown to use before (either not having had the power previously or just never having to use it among all her other witchly powers). [[spoiler: Particularly notable in the finale when she was able to activate all the Slayers at once, an ability never even alluded to being possible within the series' lore previously.]]

** Okay, you have the hots for this guy you know is a vampire. So you do the deed, which ends up causing him to lose his soul and become the mind raping BigBad. Yeah, nice job bringing in Angelus, Buffy. Of course, Angel gets equal blame for not keeping it in his pants although he didn't know the details of his curse (and of course neither did Buffy).

** Nice job bringing Buffy back to life, and allowing The First to enact his EvilPlan.

** Toyed with in "Fear, Itself": Nice job breaking the seal and instantly bringing the Fear Demon into his corporeal form Buffy....wait a minute, he's just 4 inches tall?! SQUISH!
** By the way, well done Buffy, your bitchiness did half The First Evil's job and fractured the team to the point it nearly won. In fairness she realizes she had a narcissist complex after being kicked out of the team.
** Hey Robin and Giles, maybe killing Spike exactly as the BigBad wanted you to was ''not'' such a hot idea?

* NoDressCode: Buffy herself, at least during the first three seasons. To the point where it was more note-worthy when she ''didn't'' wear an outfit that was either painted on, cropped, strapless, cleavage-bearing, midriff-baring, too short, spaghetti-strapped or some combination of all of the above. She was usually the only one who dressed this way, or at least the only one who did so on a regular basis, but was only called out for this once (and not by one of the Scooby Gang, or even Giles, who had good reason to ask her to wear more practical slaying outfits). This was seemingly done for little more than FanService, despite the character of Buffy generally shown to be the only Scooby who ''wasn't'' obsessed with popularity, fashion and/or sex. However, it could be a little bit justified, in a meta sense, as Buffy is supposed to look like your typical California bubble-headed blonde monster target, while actually being the monster's worst nightmare.
* NoOSHACompliance: Mayor Willikins lampshades an exposed gas main crossing an elaborate sewer set in Band Candy; also towers built by crazy people don't hold up very well.

** Spike managed to improve his social skills over the course of a century, but he has a mixed bag of vaguely bipolar, obsessive, borderline and schizoid tendencies which come and go with the story. Whenever he's bored, he'll do something ridiculously suicidal just for the hell of it, he stalked Buffy for over a year, and once had a full-blown psychotic episode.

** The Kindergarten incident Xander mentions to Dark Willow to calm her down in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E22Grave Grave]]", about how she cried her eyes out after breaking a yellow crayon. This was lampshaded later in the Season 7 episode "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E13TheKillerInMe The Killer In Me]]". When Willow falls victim to a curse that makes her look like psycho-bad-guy Warren, and she has to convince Buffy, Xander, and the gang that she really is Will and not Warren or The First.

'''Willow/Warren:''' (pissed) There are ''other'' stories from kindergarten. ''Non''-yellow-crayon stories in which you don't come out in such a good light. An incident involving ''Aquaman underoos'', for example -- want me to start talkin'?\\
'''Xander:''' (hurriedly) Hey, it's Willow!
** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E1WelcomeToTheHellmouth Welcome to the Hellmouth]]" Xander asks Buffy if she's ever decapitated anyone, and she brings up an incident where there was a Varsity quarterback with a really thick neck and all she had was a [[WithThisHerring teeny tiny x-acto knife]]. This is ''probably'' a reference to a confusing incident in [[Film/BuffyTheVampireSlayer the movie]] where Buffy leaps onto the shoulders of a vampire who matches that description and the audience never see what she actually does to him.

*** In the second season, the two-parter [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E13Surprise "Surprise"]]" & [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E14Innocence "Innocence"]], Angel's soul is destroyed after sharing a tender moment with Buffy.

** Major and semi-major villains usually take several seconds to 'dust'. For instance, [[spoiler:in ''The Harvest'', Luke has time to fall from the stage to the floor before dusting]], but run-of-the-mill vamps most often dust before the stake is removed. This may be loosely based on the vampire's power, given that The Master was reduced to a skeleton but never dust.
** Also applies to the good guys. [[spoiler:Jenny, Joyce, Tara, and Anya]] all died quick deaths. On the other hand, [[spoiler:when Buffy [[HeroicSacrifice sacrificed herself]] at the end of Season Five, she takes about a minute to die - and from her expression, it was an agonizing minute.]]
** Could also be considered a subversion because all those characters were very important, yet all [[spoiler:(save Buffy)]] died almost instantly.
** Hilariously mocked in TheMovie, when TheDragon (Peewee Herman) spends the entire rest of the movie in his death throes? [[TheTag Clear past the closing credits]].

* LoveTheme: Angel and Buffy have a slightly mournful, sweet melody called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7Q80e487SU "Close Your Eyes"]] that underscores many of their scenes throughout Seasons 1-3.

* HollywoodDateless: ''Everybody'' complains about not getting dates, yet every Scooby has had multiple long-term partners (Willow and Xander had two, and Buffy has had three). That's not even mentioning the several guys and girls of the week they've all had.

** Buffy moped over Ford for months, and would sit in her room listening to "[[SongsOfSolace I Touch Myself]]" by the Divinyls. She quickly shifts gears by saying she had [[ADateWithRosiePalms no idea what the song was about]].

* NoDressCode: Buffy herself, at least during the first three seasons. To the point where it was more note-worthy when she ''didn't'' wear an outfit that was either painted on, cropped, strapless, cleavage-bearing, [[BareYourMidriff midriff-baring]], too short, spaghetti-strapped or some combination of all of the above. She was usually the only one who dressed this way, or at least the only one who did so on a regular basis, but was only called out for this once (and not by one of the Scooby Gang, or even Giles, who had good reason to ask her to wear more practical slaying outfits). This was seemingly done for little more than FanService, despite the character of Buffy generally shown to be the only Scooby who ''wasn't'' obsessed with popularity, fashion and/or sex. However, it could be a little bit justified, in a meta sense, as Buffy is supposed to look like your typical California bubble-headed blonde monster target, while actually being the monster's worst nightmare.

* HouseInspection: Buffy finds herself entirely unprepared for a home inspection by a social worker who comes to check on whether it's appropriate for Dawn. She encounters a mess, Spike who does his best but doesn't exactly come across as wholesome, and Willow with a bag of "magic herbs" (actual magical herbs). To make it worse, Buffy ''knew'' the inspector was coming ahead of time but failed to realize what day it was (Buffy's life is [[WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld hectic]], but [[TheMasquerade it's hard to explain]] in any meaningful way to the inspector.)