Fanfic / An Extraordinary Journey

"I don't belong here. I stayed for others, I didn't stay for me. I want a new life, a different life than the one I'm in right now. I wish I could go somewhere I would feel needed for being me. I want to be around people who want me for me, somewhere I don’t need to use magic to cause others pain."

— Willow Rosenberg, the words that kick off the story in Chapter 1.

An Extraordinary Journey is a Stargate SG-1/Buffy the Vampire Slayer crossover^note initially called An Extraordinary Meeting by fmfan1980. The story starts when Willow makes a mistake reversing the "My Will Be Done" spell in "Something Blue". She laments out loud that she doesn't belong in Sunnydale, and wants to go somewhere she'll feel needed for being her. At this point she realizes she had only reversed the effects of the spell and not the spell itself, which is still active. The spell gives her exactly what she asked for: she winds up (literally) dropping in on SG-1 who are in the middle of a briefing. This changes the course of her life. She decides to leave Sunnydale for good and go to the Air Force Academy. Upon graduation, she joins the Stargate program and is assigned to SG-1, where she is later joined by Faith.

With 200+ chapters and over 1.5 million words to date, the story is quite a Doorstopper. Some of the spin-offs are quite long and ongoing, as well. Direct spinoffs (i.e. universes where characters from An Extraordinary Journey interact with the locals in some way) are noted as such below.

The Stories:

• An Extraordinary Journey: The main story.
• Aftermath of a Mirror Journey: Spins off of An Extraordinary Journey Chapters 61-64.
  • The Aftermath: Follows the Willow from this universe after AEJ!Willow departs. Story complete.
  • The Aftermath: The End: Continues the story after a time skip. Incomplete and on hiatus.
• Tara Sheppard: Has its own page. The title pretty well sums up the premise: what if Tara was actually John Sheppard's half-sister? Incomplete.
• The Faith Chronicles: A Related in the Adaptation and For Want Of A Nail Fic in which Sam Carter had a baby at 16. The Watchers’ Council won’t allow any military—including a military family — to have a potential Slayer, so they kidnap her, use a spell to make Sam believe she was stillborn, and give her to a family in Boston: the Lehanes. Spins off of An Extraordinary Journey Chapter 129.
  • Born into Darkness: Complete.
  • Out Into the Light: Incomplete and on hiatus.
• The Truth of Us: What if Dawn wasn’t the first person the Order of Dagon altered reality for? What if two refugees from a planet that was wiped out, a woman and her newborn niece, made it to Earth with the aid of an Ascended Ancient and the monks gave them a life on Earth as Joyce and Buffy Summers?
• World’s End: A universe in which the signal sent by the Wraith at the end of “Vegas” is received in a reality with no SGC. Complete.
• Wishverse Sisters: How the aftermath of Buffy’s wish in "The Wish" would play out in the AEJ-verse. Consists of 2 (quite short) parts: Lost Sister & The Soul. Complete.
• The Return: Adds Star Trek to the mix. Set in the Dominion War era.
• The Darkness and an Ancient: Takes the character of an Ascended Athena and has her explore the Star Wars galaxy during the Clone Wars. Only a few chapters so far. Incomplete.

An Extraordinary Journey contains examples of:

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• Abusive Parents: The Lehanes. Dear God, the Lehanes. Faith's dad is a murderer who gets sent to prison for it, sometimes based on Faith telling the cops what he did. Her mother beats her and later sells time with Faith to her clients. In some universes, she gives Faith to her first Watcher for a sizable check.
• Abusive Precursors: The Furlings, and how. At least, the Mystical sects were. Among other things, they tricked the Ancients into opening the Sunnydale Hellmouth, all in the name of getting more mystical power.
• Accomplice by Inaction: The entire Ren family^note Moros, Melina, Athena, and Hera frequently subscribe to this view, which is a problem for Ascended beings, due to the Alien Noninterference Clause
• Achievements in Ignorance: While trapped on Kobol and hunted by vampires, Tessa—a Number Eight Cylon—manages to save herself by hiding in a downed Raptor, basically claiming it as her home and thus preventing the vampires from reaching her without an invitation.
• Achilles' Heel: The normal Deflector Shields used by ships in this universe are bubbles. This means that ships equipped with Furling point-jump drives can bypass them to directly attack the ship inside.
• Action Girl: Most adult women who get any screen time or lines are either this or Action Survivor
• Action Girlfriend: Plenty of these! In fact, most of the female characters who are involved with someone qualify.
• Action Mom: Sam after Debra is born
  • Buffy is headed this way (she's not a mom yet, but she is pregnant).
  • Kennedy, after she and Tara adopt Camille. Kind of hard to avoid this trope when you're a Slayer.
  • Janet, as per canon. It gets her killed like in canon, too, in most universes.
• Action Survivor: Apart from the SG-1 canon example of Cassandra, there are others.
  • Joyce and their two kids are the only survivors of the Ori plague on Edina.
  • Camille survives the Cylons destroying her home planet because she hid until they passed her by, then ran for the gate.
• Actor Allusion: Shows up a couple times
  • Played for Laughs when Anya meets Willow in Colorado Springs. Anya had spent time in New York, where she met Willow's Doppelgänger.
  • Played for Laughs again when Willow meets a guy who looks just like Angel—with a very different fashion sense—in D.C.
  • Played for Drama with Satterfield and the Model 8 Cylons.
  • Also Played for Drama in The Aftermath: The End, where Carolanne Adama says that Dr. Frasier is a dead ringer for her former mother-in-law and flips out.
• Adaptation Name Change: Helo and Sharon's daughter is named Hope rather than Hera, representing how their contact with the SGC gave the Colonials and the Cylons new hope for the future, particularly after Sharon received asylum and protection from her harsh treatment on Pegasus.
• Adaptational Villainy:
  • Pete Shanahan, Sam's boyfriend/fiancé in the seventh and eighth seasons; while he was a decent person overall in canon, here he often attempts to subtly manipulate Sam's emotions to get her to resign from the SGC so that she can basically 'devote' herself to being his wife. This escalates to the point that he basically tricks her into becoming pregnant by sabotaging her protection methods in the hope that she will resign after giving birth, only for Willow Rosenberg to sense Pete's true intentions and reveal the truth to Sam. Learning of Pete's plans, Sam divorces him and gets him put on the sex offenders register, which costs him his job and forces him to move in with his parents. When Pete later attempts to abduct Sam's daughter Debra- shooting Jacob Carter in the process- the SGC fake Pete's death by using a clone of him to stage a thwarted home invasion and then exile Pete to another planet with a broken DHD and no other sentient life; they will send him supplies for the first six months, after which he will have to fend for himself.
  • Once Earth makes contact with the Twelve Colonies, this arguably applies to Admiral Helena Cain; not only does she retain her canon fixation on vengeance on the Cylons at the cost of her very humanity, but she later goes against Adama and Roslin to join the forces of the Ori just because they promised to destroy the Cylons, to the point that Cain becomes a Prior of the Ori.
  • Quentin Travers, head of the Watchers' Council, counts in both the main story and The Faith Chronicles. He wasn't exactly a good guy in Buffy canon, but he certainly didn't try to mind control Slayers (AEJ) or kidnap babies (The Faith Chronicles).
• Advanced Ancient Humans: The Ancients, which is SG-1 canon, but the Furlings, too. Ditto for Humanity Came from Space.
• Adventures in Comaland: Happens to Willow sometimes. Dawn, too, after she remembers being Hera.
• After-Action Healing Drama: Happens a lot, even when members of the cast have a Healing Factor and/or Healing Hands.
  • Over the course of the Slayer Council debacle, Willow winds up with severed vocal cords. Normal Earth medical science can't fix that, but a Goa'uld healing device can. They just have to get it out of storage at Area 51.
  • After her possession by Anubis, Willow goes through some serious stuff, including nightmares and Clone Angst.
  • In The Aftermath, the Asgard save Willow in the nick of time, but there are some complications that take until nearly the end of the story to resolve.
• Afterlife Antechamber: The place halfway between Ascension and returning to life looks like the Sunnydale High cafeteria to Willow.
• Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: At their wedding, Pete makes sure Sam gets very drunk, then manipulates Sam into a paranoid rant where she outs Willow.
• Alcoholic Parent: Faith's mother and father. Except in The Faith Chronicles, where her real mother is Sam.
• Alien Abduction: Loki's kidnapping and cloning of Jack O'Neill still happens in this universe. He does the same thing to Joyce Summers, but the clone he left died of a brain aneurysm, so he has to drop the latter off on a different planet.
• Aliens Speaking English: Zig-zagged. Playing it straight is SG-1 canon and is in effect for everyone except the Colonials and Cylons, who speak a dialect of Ancient Greek.
• All Therapists Are Muggles: Averted. Characters are specifically required to see counselors and therapists, though finding ones with the necessary background knowledge and clearance can be a challenge.
• Almost Out of Oxygen:
  • The Earth ships in the aftermath of the battle at the supergate are having some issues making sure their life support is working.
  • SG-2's improvised barrier keeping them safe from a Horde of Alien Locusts is air-tight. The Cavalry has to get there before they suffocate or the barrier collapses.
• Alternate Self: With the number of times various members of the cast travel to alternate universes? It'd be a shock if this didn't happen.
• Alternate Universe Fic: With several alternate universes inside of it!
• Always Save the Girl: Willow and Faith averting this is the reason they're allowed on the same SG team.
• Amazon Brigade: Buffy is looking to turn the Potentials into this through the Slayer Council, simply to give them some form of protection or preparation if one is ever Called as a Slayer.
  • Later, once they find the Scythe, they are able to activate 1 Potential per year, so the Slayers might eventually become this
• Amicable Exes: Willow and Dylan Thompson. He was even invited to Willow's wedding.
• Amnesiac Hero: After the Asgard clone Willow a new body and transfer her consciousness into it in The Aftermath, they wake up with no memory of their life. That's not to say she doesn't have any memories. They're just all of her life as Athena.
• Amnesiac Lover: Willow wakes up in her new, cloned body with no memory of their Love Interest in The Aftermath.
• Anachronism Stew: Modern things are mentioned as being used by people in an early Turn of the Millennium setting.
  • In the main story Dawn's noise-cancelling headphones are explicitly justified, as one of the SGC engineers built them for her. Tablet computers are rather less justifiable. Characters mentioning watching something on Netflix is right out, since their streaming video service didn't start until 2007.
  • There are several instances in multiple stories of people connecting to WiFi at places like a coffee shop. Likewise, smartphones show up in pre-iPhone times.
• Anal Probing: Mentioned by Xander when he finds out about aliens. He is mocked for it.
• And Then John Was a Zombie: When the SGC and the Colonials return to Kobol, not only do they learn that Elosha has been turned into a vampire, but Lee Adama is sired as well, although they are able to capture Lee and restore his soul.
• And Your Little Dog, Too!: Kathy plans to kill her brother, Angel, eventually, but she wants to kill everyone he cares about, first.
• Anti-Magic: Sam creates a power suppressing device. The human form Replicators copy the idea and figure out it works on magic, as well as psionic powers..
• Anti-Regeneration: Using their Healing Hands too much results in a diminished or non-functional Healing Factor for Willow.
  • Sam also built a gadget to suppress Ancient-style powers, including the Healing Factor.
• Apocalypse How: Examples from numerous points on the scale.
  • Class 2: Earth at the start of World's End, courtesy of the Wraith's Orbital Bombardment.
  • Class 3a:
    • Edina at the hands of the Ori
    • Any planet attacked by the Nocturna from The Truth of Us.
  • Class 4:
    • Tegalus only averts Class 5 because the Earthers are able to rescue some people.
    • Anywhere there are Nirathi.
  • Class X:
    • Invoked with nukes to make sure the aforementioned Nirathi don't make it off the planet they were found on.
    • Accidentally caused by the Cylons when they nuke a planet with a naquadah refinery on it.
• Artificial Human: Several examples, some created with technology, others with magic.
  • The biological weapons developed by Athena. Also Willow herself, after her original body breaks down and the Asgard clone her a replacement.
  • Then there's the Joyce Summers who died of the brain aneurysm.
• Ascended Extra: Lauren Satterfield, introduced in a Lower-Deck Episode as one of a group of potential recruits for the SGC, is now an active member of the program, and becomes a prominent face in their interaction with the Colonials due to her being her team's linguist and the double of the Number Eight Cylons.
• Asshole Victim: Pete Shanahan, Quentin Travers, Rack in both the “Going Home” arc and Tara Sheppard, Baltar.
• Astral Projection: Used a few times by Willow and once by Faith to find the alternate reality Willow got sent to by the Ascended.
• Ate His Gun: Willow gets an involuntary look into O'Neill's memories, including scenes of him getting closer and closer to killing himself in the aftermath of Charlie's death.
  • In the AU Willow is stuck in during the “Going Home” arc, he actually went through with it.
• The Atoner: Athena after the clones she gave to the Furlings were sacrificed to empower the Slayer.
  • Natalie's faction of Cylons realize they were wrong, apologize, and start trying to make amends.
• Attempted Rape: In one of the universes, Faith is Called as a Slayer right as a man is trying to force himself on her. With Slayer strength, she throws him off of her and hard into a wall.
• Aura Vision: Tara. It makes her a Living Lie Detector, and she can also suss out details about peoples' personalities and pasts.
• Awesome, but Impractical: The Ancient-style weapons installed on Earth ships, sometimes. Normally they fire balls of plasma. Their more awesome mode involves them firing much more damaging beams. Firing them that way tends to make the generators powering the weapons explode.
  • Furling point-jump drive. Sure, you can teleport your ship from one point to another instantaneously, but the range is short, the power requirements are very high, and it requires a lot of computer power. There's a reason the Furlings switched to hyperdrive.
• Ax-Crazy: Kathy. She goes on a killing spree in Sunnydale to get Angel's attention.
• Babies Ever After: The Return starts at a point in the distant future where the children of most of the main characters from An Extraordinary Journey are now the ones on the front lines. And there are quite a few offspring.
• Bad Future: What the protagonists are trying to prevent, after getting warnings via dreams from both Willow and Dawn.
• Badass and Child Duo: Tara, Kennedy, and Camille are more like a trio…
• Badass Boast: Several characters get a chance, not just Willow.
  • In Chapter 28 Willow gets one.
    Willow: My name is Willow Rosenberg, Captain, United States Air Force, and you're not going to get a single thing from me.
  • When interrogating the Goa'uld Athena, Willow breaks her by talking about how she is the real Athena and a descended Ancient, etc.
• Badass Crew: SG-1 is canon, but SG-2 gets some screen time showing them to be one, as well.
  • The new SG-1 (all the original members have gone on to other things) from The Aftermath: The End qualifies.
• Badass in Distress: With this many badasses, this is bound to happen
  • The Slayer Council debacle resulted in this for Willow. It's made much worse for her by the fact that the people holding her are supposed to be her friends.
  • Faith and Buffy get taken prisoner by vampires under the command of the former head of the Watchers' Council, who intends to infect them with demonic parasites (i.e. Goa'uld). Faith's heart actually stops due to the blood loss, resulting in Kennedy being Called as a Slayer.
  • Faith gets trapped in a Lotus-Eater Machine, but thinks she's going through Mental Time Travel. Willow has to rescue her before the machine kills her.
  • SG-2 gets attacked by a Horde of Alien Locusts. One team member has to jury-rig a way to keep the team alive, while another uses the MALP to dial the SGC and call for help.
  • Apollo when the exploration expedition to Kobol gets attacked by vampires. A vampire actually kills and turns him.
  • Cam and Faith are captured by the Sodan. They stall for time, mainly by Faith training for a ritual combat, until the rest of SG-1 can show up and get them released.
• Bait-and-Switch Comparison: Used by Willow as part of a Take That! at Kennedy.
  Willow: Yea. you have three really hot women, and Kennedy.
• Band of Brothers: The SGC and, later, the BPRI.
• Bargain with Heaven: At one point, Faith goes to the Powers That Be asking that they bring Willow home from the alternate reality she got sent to. Their requested price is so ludicrous Faith refuses and looks for another way.

• Battle Couple: Several examples.
  • Willow and Faith.
  • Later Dawn and Jon.
  • Recently there's been Satterfield and Grogan on SG-2, although they will stop being one when they report their relationship and one of them gets reassigned to a different SG team.
  • Cam and Vala aren't officially a couple yet, but Vala is wearing him down.
  • Aftermath of a Mirror Journey has Willow and Tara
  • World's End also has Willow and Tara.
• The Battlestar: The Earth-made 304 class ships. The Trope Namer herself (or, rather, her version from the remake) shows up, too.
• Beat the Curse Out of Her: Defied. When Anubis possesses Willow, Faith doesn't hold back. The physical pain eventually makes Anubis relinquish control, but it's only temporary.
• Been There, Shaped History: After her arrival on Earth, Athena adopts Sineya, who later becomes the First Slayer. She also creates the Slayer Scythe.
• Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: Apart from the canon examples (e.g. Moros/Merlin), there's Athena and Hera.
• Being Tortured Makes You Evil: Played straight with Kathy, though it took years.
• Berserk Button:
  • Early on in The Aftermath, Buffy makes the mistake of disparaging Tara. Willow...does not take it well.
  • Harm Hera in any way at your own risk. Athena will make you regret it.
  • The last person who took the last cup of blue Jell-O had to spend a week at the Alpha site to let Major Carter calm down.
  • Also, if you empty the coffee pot, refill it or Daniel Jackson will hunt you down and yell at you.
• Beta Couple: In the main story it's one of the Summers girls and her significant other. Which one it is varies.
• Better as Friends: Willow and Dylan came to this conclusion about their relationship.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Hoo, boy, do not threaten, hurt, or kill Hera. Athena will not take it well.
  • Even as Ascended, Hera and Melina will use their powers to defend a Descended Athena (i.e. Willow), regardless of any punishment from The Others.
• Beyond Redemption: The view of most of the BPRI towards Kathy. Angel disagrees. She is his sister, after all.
  • Quentin Travers, head of the Watchers' Council, has this opinion about Faith in The Faith Chronicles and The Aftermath.
• Big Damn Heroes:
  • The Avalon in the aftermath of the battle at the supergate. They show up just in time to prevent the Lucian Alliance from taking advantage of things and also help out the ships with damaged life support.
  • When Willow is being held captive by the Scoobies at the Slayer Council, it's SG-1.
  • The Asgard when Willow's powers start killing her.
  • The Excalibur when SG-2 are trapped and unable to reach the gate due to a swarm of Nirathi.
  • Willow for the Asgard in the Alternate Universe from the “Going Home” arc. She knows how to beat the Replicators and how to reverse their cloning-induced genetic degradation.
• Big Eater: Slayers and Jaffa (or maybe it's just Teal'c) require a lot of calories.
• Big Sister Instinct: Athena towards Hera. That attitude carries over when they both Descend and become Willow and Dawn, respectively.
• Big "WHAT?!": Dr. Beckett on Atlantis when he finds out what Angel is.
• Biological Weapons Solve Everything: After her sister, Hera, was murdered by the Wraith, Athena really went off the deep end and looked into creating genetically engineered combat clones. In Tara Sheppard, she did, and those clones survived as Human Popsicles.
• Bitch Alert: Kennedy in both An Extraordinary Journey and The Faith Chronicles. She becomes somewhat more tolerable over time in the former.
• Bitch Slap: Cordelia hauls off and delivers one to Willow after the Scoobies all wind up imprisoned for holding Willow captive.
• Bittersweet Ending: Adria is gone and the anti-Ori weapon has been successfully deployed! Also, Dawn now remembers her time as Hera. But Willow is stranded in an Alternate Universe with no clear way home.
• Black Site: Where anyone with knowledge of the SGC, Goa'uld, or the supernatural is held if they go evil.
• Blackmail: When Riley finds out Faith is on SG-1, he is pissed. He tells her to resign or he'll tell Willow what she did in the past. Faith counters with a threat to reveal everything the Initiative did. Willow later reminds Faith that she already told SG-1 everything Riley could reveal, something Faith had forgotten. After reading a bit more on what Faith has done since joining the SGC, Riley changes his mind. He'll never be friendly with Faith, but he is now willing to work with her.
• Blatant Lies:
  • As part of a Secret Test of Character, Sineya, the First Slayer pulls Giles' soul (temporarily) out of his body, making him collapse. Anna sees all the supernatural stuff happen, and Giles' attempted explanations are...not exactly credible.
  • When Willow takes a trip back to Sunnydale, Kennedy starts spouting some bullshit reasons there was a mixup and they don't have any room for Willow to sleep in.
    Agent Reed: “...you just lied your teeth off to a psychic.”
• Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: The women of SG-1 in several universes.
  • In An Extraordinary Journey, after Faith joins up, it's Sam, Faith, and Willow, respectively. Vala joining up messes up the mix.
  • In The Aftermath: The End, it's Buffy, Satterfield, and Willow. With an extra helping of “Blonde” from Tara.
• Blood from the Mouth:
  • Willow towards the end of the Slayer Council debacle. She severed her own vocal cords to avoid revealing anything classified while under the influence of a truth spell.
  • Angel after a Wraith stabs him.
• Bluffing the Murderer: Used by Faith to get information out of the Goa'uld Nerus.
• Blunt Metaphors Trauma: Willow suspects that Teal'c invokes this for his own amusement.
• Boldly Coming: Happened in the backstory, otherwise modern humans wouldn't have genetic material from The Ancients (SG-1 canon), but there's also the non-canon example of the Furlings.
  • Has happened more recently, too, with Giles and Anna (a Cylon). In The Return, that union has produced offspring.
• Bonding over Missing Parents: Tara and Camille.
• Bouquet Toss: Happens at Buffy's wedding. It's caught by Angel.
• Boxing Lessons for Superman: The whole idea behind training Slayers, Potential Slayers, and Willow also, later, Dawn is so that their abilities can supplement and enhance their skills, rather than being the sole thing to rely on in a fight.
• Brain Bleach:
  • Willow really wishes she had some after she and Faith arrive home where Dawn and Jon are busy going at it like bunnies. Willow, as a telepath and empath, “overhears” them.
  • Buffy and the others who stand guard outside the room while Angel and Cordy test if the new spell they cast will keep Angel from losing his soul if he experiences a moment of perfect happiness,
    Buffy: I need to wash my head out of all the Cordy sex noises
• Break the Badass:
  • When Willow gets sent to an unknown Alternate Universe, Faith completely shuts down.
  • Buffy in the aftermath of the Slayer Council fiasco.
• Break the Cutie:
  • Sineya. She goes from a bright, intelligent, friendly little girl to being an animalistic killer of demons and vampires as the First Slayer.
  • Kathy, too, though it occurs almost entirely off-screen.
  • The First is attempting this on the Tara from the "Going Home" reality; using Willow's image and voice to torment her.
• Break Them by Talking: Yep.
  • When confronting the First Evil in an Alternate Universe, Willow demands it show them someone she knows is alive on another planet, but everyone else in the room knows is dead. When it does, Willow verbally takes it apart.
• Broad Strokes: The exact backstory of characters, including the name of characters who were not given one in canon^e.g. most notably Faith's parents and Tara's mother, varies from universe to universe, but it doesn't have much effect on the characters.
• Broken Bird: Faith, but the therapy and counseling help her deal with her Dark and Troubled Past.
• Broken Pedestal: Helo is naturally upset and outraged when he learns about the treatment Sharon was subjected to on the Pegasus, even if he recognises that Adama in particular was just forbidden to do anything by regulations rather than him approving of what Cain was doing to Sharon.
• Brought Down to Badass: In Buffy canon, the Watchers' Council has drugs to take away a Slayer's powers.
  • When Willow gets sent to an Alternate Universe as punishment for using her powers as an Ascended, her powers stop working temporarily. She's still dangerous as hell.
  • Sam develops a device to suppress Willow's powers (at Willow's suggestion).
• Bullying a Dragon: There are several instances of people or groups antagonizing the SGC, even after they know it's a bad idea.
  • Pete shooting Jacob and kidnapping Debra and Zarek taking SGC members hostage spring to mind.
  • Kennedy also takes any opportunity she can to try and one-up, insult, or just make things difficult for Willow.
• Call-Forward: Various members of the SGC make jokes about space vampires. Faith puts money down on them existing. When the reports come back from Atlantis, she gets her payout.
• Calling the Old Man Out: Faith considers invoking this when her mother tracks her down, but decides against it. Instead, she gets a restraining order.
• Cannot Tell a Lie: The truth spell used on Willow towards the end of the Slayer Council mess would force her to answer any question put to her completely and without evasion. That's a problem because of all the classified stuff she knows.
• Can't Have Sex, Ever: In Buffyverse canon, Angel was cursed with a soul and will lose it if he experiences a moment of perfect happiness^i.e. has sex. Eventually the BPRI comes up with a way to avert this by tying Angel's soul to Cordelia's^note his girlfriend/lover. After Lee Adama is turned, they use the same spell to tie him to Cally.
• Captive Audience: Melina treats Tara to a view of the battle at the Ori supergate in a dream. Tara can't do anything, but does tell General Landry when she wakes up.
• Car Fu: Well, it was a Puddle Jumper, but Willow still used it to get rid of an alternate universe's version of Caleb.
• Card-Carrying Villain: The Nocturna from The Truth of Us greatly enjoy the terror they bring when they start eating a planet's sentient population.
• Cast from Hit Points: Those with an Ancient-style Healing Factor can project it to other people to heal them. Using it a lot in a short span of time can result in the user getting sick or passing out.
  • Holding a telekinetic barrier in place for a long period of time, especially with a big load on it, results in brain damage.
• Casual Kink: Given Anya's complete lack of a filter, her casually mentioning handcuffs isn't surprising in the least.
• The Cavalry: Happens a lot.
  • Athena for the Scoobies and Slayers during the “Going Home” arc.
  • The Avalon for the survivors of the battle at the supergate.
  • Willow, in her first trip to an Alternate Universe, saves the local alternate of Dawn.
  • SG-1 (and assorted other SGC personnel) for Willow during the Slayer Council.
  • Willow and some SGC personnel for Faith, Buffy, and several potentials who were caught by Quentin Travers.
  • The Excalibur for SG-2, who are trapped by a Horde of Alien Locusts. They're protected, but that protection is slowly suffocating them and it won't last long.
  • SG teams, with the assistance of Angel, when the joint Earther/Colonial/Cylon expedition to Kobol gets attacked by lots of vampires.
• Chastity Couple: Angel and Cordy, since sex leads to Angel losing his soul. Later averted when the BPRI develops a spell to prevent that loss.
• Checkpoint Bluff: Attempted by Willow while going through an Alternate Universe Initiative base. She doesn't expect it to work (and it doesn't), but it buys her enough time to figure out how to deal with the guards.
• Chekhov's Gun: Several
  • The power dampening device Sam develops at Willow's request. This one reappears often enough to be a Chekhov's Boomerang.
  • Your soul can cross the barrier between realities if you are near death.
  • Willow using her telekinesis to fling water around during a water fight at O'Neill's cabin.
• Civilization Destroyer:
  • Athena wanted to become one after her sister was murdered by the Wraith.
  • The Nocturna in The Truth of Us. And they revel in it.
  • The Nirathi are a Horde of Alien Locusts who eat pretty much any animal on a planet, turning them into goo. The only saving grace is, unlike the Nocturna, they are non-sentient.
  • There's also the canon example of the Cylons from BSG 2003

• Classified Information: Willow has quite a bit of this in her head. It takes Buffy and the others in Sunnydale some time, including prison time, to accept that she can't tell them.
• Clone Army: Athena wanted to create one to take down the Wraith. Permission to do so was denied.
• Clone Angst:
  • After Willow has her consciousness transferred to a genetically engineered clone body, they have nightmares. Overcoming this takes quite a bit of time with an Asgard therapist.
  • Averted for Jon O'Neill, though he is worried Dawn might not want to be involved with him after finding out he's a clone.
• Closest Thing We Got:
  • When the SGC rescue some of the ships Cain abandoned and the Colonials want evidence of what happened to them, Lieutenant Margaret “Racetrack” Edmondson is sent to talk with the survivors while posing as a scientist, as the Fleet's remaining scientists are all busy elsewhere and the SGC are concerned that Cain's victims won't react well to a member of the Colonial fleet.
  • With Daniel currently being held captive by Adria and Ori, General O'Neill turns to Sarah Gardner for information about Zeus and the Lords of Kobol, reasoning that her time as Osiris's host makes her the most likely person to know anything about what Zeus was up to, as well as her possible expertise as a translator.
• Code of Honor: Willow develops one, with research and input from several others, regarding her telepathy.
• Cold-Blooded Torture: Kathy goes through years of this. It eventually breaks her.
• Compelling Voice: Kathy. It works on any human (including Slayers) who can hear her in person. If her voice is distorted or filtered in any way (e.g. through a microphone and speaker), it loses the compulsion effect.
• Cool Starship: The 305, or Avalon-class. They're quicker to build than the 304's, and just as fast and durable, but not as well armed, nor do they really have any fighters. They're like a cruiser or destroyer to the 304's battlecruiser or battleship.
• Covered in Mud: Athena, after spending many hours trying to catch frog-like creatures as an apology to Hera.
• Crazy-Prepared: Different examples in different universes. Sometimes a preparation is mentioned many chapters previously, other times a character just happens to have the necessary item or skill.
  • In World's End, Egeria uses her host's knowledge of history and technology to jump start a millenia-long military buildup.
  • Giles just happens to have an Orb of Thesula in storage in case a vampire needs to be cursed with a soul.
• The Creon: When O'Neill gets promoted and Sam gets reassigned to Area 51, Willow tells General Landry that she's fine with not being put in command of SG-1, since she's only a Major.
• Crossover: between SG-1 and Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  • Later includes BSG2003.
• Crossover Relatives:
  • Not only do characters speculate that the resemblance between SGC Major Lauren Satterfield and the Number Eight Cylon models is because the Eights were based on a distant relative of Satterfield's, but it is also eventually revealed that Willow Rosenberg and Dawn Summers are formerly-Ascended Ancients who were actually sisters in their original lives, and the daughters of none other than Moros before he adopted the name ‘Merlin'; Athena/Willow chose to take human form again to try and help Sineya's successor (i.e. the Slayer), and Hera/Dawn bonded herself to the Key to help prevent Glory using it to destroy the universe.
  • Willow and Dawn are the descended sisters Athena and Hera Ren, respectively.
  • There are one or two passing mentions of Faith's cousin, a cop in Boston named Rizzoli.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: When Athena hears that a boy on Atlantis is only showing interest in Hera to sleep with her, Athena threatens to throw him through the Stargate and into a black hole.
• Cruel Mercy: During the “Going Home” arc, Rack reads Willow's mind. She can't let him hang on to that knowledge, but killing him would result in the First Evil gaining it. So she wipes his mind, slowly taking everything from him until he's a drooling vegetable.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Riley is certain he's about to see one when he hears Teal'c is about to spar with Willow. That ain't what happens.
• Cut Himself Shaving: Willow's new cloned body is explained away as the result of a nigh-fatal lab accident. Spike and Angel notice her changed scent, but accept the cover story. Anya is able to see the change in her soul. Oz, who has a much better sense of smell than the vampires, doesn't believe a word of it, either. They both have to be read into the Stargate program.
  • In The Aftermath, the SGC tries to avert this when Willow loses her memories of being Willow, but they have a hell of a time coming up with excuses Willow's parents will accept.
• Daddy Didn't Show: Hank is conspicuously absent from Buffy's wedding. Giles steps in.
  Giles: I'm sorry your father couldn't give you away, my dear.
  Buffy: My father is giving me away.
• Damsel out of Distress: Willow in the “Going Home” arc.
• Dare to Be Badass: Willow to her local counterpart in an Alternate Universe. This leads into the Aftermath of a Mirror Journey spinoff.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Faith, Tara, and Athena, at the very least.
  • Joyce in The Truth of Us.
• Daughter of a Whore: Faith's mother made the money she needed to buy more booze by selling herself.
• A Day in the Limelight: Some minor characters get some time as the POV characters.
  • Lt. Edmondson, Dylan, Haikon (Lord of the Sodan), Narim, the list goes on.
• Daywalking Vampire: Lantea's sun is different enough from Sol that Angel (or any other vampire) won't be dusted by it.
• Dead Alternate Counterpart: Willow in the “Going Home” universe. The people in Sunnydale are, understandably, dumbfounded and suspicious when Major Willow shows up.
• Dead Person Impersonation: Angel thinks someone is using information provided by the First Evil to impersonate one of Angelus' early victims, specifically Kathy, his sister.
• Death by Adaptation: Several examples, some straight, some played with.
  • Gaius Baltar is killed by an enraged Kara Thrace after she learns of his role in the destruction of the Colonies.
  • Played with for Pete Shanahan. Pete is legally dead on Earth, but was actually dumped on a planet with a non-functional DHD after he was caught trying to murder General Carter and kidnap Sam's daughter.
  • Jack O'Neill is alive in the main story, but one of the alternate realities Willow visits has no SGC because the Langford expedition never found the Stargate. With his son dead and nothing left to live for, that reality's Colonel O'Neill committed suicide.
  • Played straight for Walter Harriman in The Return.
• Death by Childbirth: Athena's mother, Melina, dies of complications shortly after giving birth to Hera.
• Death Glare: When Willow gets angry enough, this will happen. Her eyes turning completely black enhances the effect.
• Defiant Captive: Pretty much any SGC member or Scooby.
• Deflector Shields: The ovoid, bubble-type are what ships use in SG-1 canon, but the SGC in this story reverse-engineers another type of shielding from Ancient tech that hugs the skin of a ship.
  • The offer of installing shields on the Galactica is one of the enticements used to convince the Colonials to work with the Earthers.
  • After an incident with an Ancient Repository, Willow draws up plans for small shield generators that can be retrofitted around blast doors and the Stargate
• Deliberate Injury Gambit: Willow while Anubis is possessing her, but temporarily suppressed, takes herself through the gate to an ice world. Either she dies of hypothermia, taking Anubis with her, or Anubis leaves and she gets a chance (however slim) to save herself.
  • Willow knows The Cavalry is on its way to rescue her from her captors at the Slayer Council, but she's about to be hit with a spell that will force to answer questions completely and truthfully, thus revealing classified information. To stall for time she directs her telekinesis inward and severs her vocal cords.
• Department of Child Disservices: Any caseworker looking in on Faith was bribed to notice nothing, either with cash or sex.
• Despair Event Horizon:
  • Athena crosses it when her sister is murdered by the Wraith. It happens again when she can't save her adopted daughter Sineya from being forced to become the first Slayer.
  • Buffy, in the aftermath of the Slayer Council debacle.
  • Tara in The Aftermath when Willow dies.
  • The Willow from the first alternate reality that AEJ!Willow visited goes completely off the deep end when Tara is killed (much like Buffy canon), but partially blames AEJ!Willow for it.
• Destructo-Nookie: Faith and Willow can sometimes get a little out of hand, due to the former's Slayer strength and the latter's Psychic Powers.
• Detachment Combat: Inverted by the human-form Replicators in The Aftermath. RepliCarter hides replicator versions of Willow and Buffy inside herself and lets them out when she betrays the Earthlings.
• Determinator: Willow. She gets ejected from her home universe into one with no Stargate program and non-functional powers. She immediately gets to work figuring out how to help the locals and get herself home.
• Did I Just Say That Out Loud?: Happens a fair amount.
  • One of the first things Willow says after touching the Stargate for the first time is “This is so much cooler than fighting vampires every other night”. Then she sees SG-1's reactions and realizes that, yes, she did say that out loud.
• Did Not Do the Bloody Research: Inverted. While this has improved as the story continues, there are several instances of American characters using British-isms, including “bloody”
• Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: Willow to the First Evil at one point.
• Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?: In the same incident, Willow tricks the First Evil into revealing its weakness and lies about its history.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: Several examples, as you might expect with a crossover
  • Anya in Tara Sheppard gets shot to death by Warren while protecting Dawn.
  • Adria is killed by Willow using the powers of an Ascended being. Except, she survives.
• Dirty Mind-Reading: Played Straight when Willow meets Kinsey. Played for Laughs when Willow and Faith arrive home while Dawn and Jon are occupied with each other. Willow's squicked-out reaction leaves Faith laughing so hard she can't drive at first.
  • Ben (Glory's host) in The Truth of Us gets killed by the Nocturna.
• Dirty Old Man: When Kinsey meets Willow, both she and O'Neill can tell where his thoughts are going when he looks at her. O'Neill calls him one in his own head, but Willow overhears it. Then O'Neill wonders what that makes him, given his thoughts about Carter.
• Disproportionate Retribution: The last person who took the final cup of blue Jell-O had to spend a week at the Alpha site while Major Carter calmed down.
• Doing In the Wizard: Invocation attempted by, among others, Sam Carter and Rodney McKay. Even Thor confirming the existence of magic and Willow displaying psionic powers isn't enough to convince McKay.
• Don't Make Me Destroy You: Buffy and assorted others trying to convince Willow reveal what she does after they take her captive at the Slayer Council.
• Doorstopper: Fully half the stories qualify. The main story is at 1.5 million words and counting. Combined across all the stories it's over 2.8 million^note 415k from Aftermath of a Mirror Journey, 300k from The Faith Chronicles, 224k from Tara Sheppard, and 173k from The Return.
• Doppelgänger Gets Same Sentiment: While the SGC maintain a philosophy of not worrying too much about alternate universes, when circumstances send Willow to parallel universes she can't help but try and help her local counterparts, ranging from saving Dawn from a car accident to fighting her magic-corrupted alternate self, and everyone else in SG-1 feels her sorrow when she reveals that, in one reality she visited where there was never a Stargate Program, Jack O'Neill was Driven to Suicide by Charlie's death.
• Double Standard: Exploited by the Shadow Men/the Furlings when they choose to make the Slayer female.
• Drama-Preserving Handicap: During the “Going Home” arc, Willow is stuck in an Alternate Universe. Being in a different universe from Faith stops her powers from working.
• Dramatic Irony: When Willow is being offered Ascension, anyone familiar with the relevant SG-1 episode knows that the strange guy "Jim" is really Anubis. Willow doesn't know and there's no indication of a later realization, either.
• Dramatic Unmask:
  • Willow, while pleading with the local Riley in the “Just Another Tuesday for Dawn” arc, removes her Holographic Disguise to try and drive home her point.
  • While Willow is in a Flash Forward (possible) dream. Anubis shows her the face of his host: Willow Rosenberg.
• Dream Within a Dream: Shortly after having her consciousness transferred to a new, cloned, body, Willow has a nightmare about her original body trying to kill her. She wakes up in a panic and uses her telekinesis to push everything near her away. This includes Faith, who impacts the wall at an odd angle, breaking her neck. Then Willow wakes up again, this time to reality.
• Dreaming of Things to Come: Happens to Willow and, later, Dawn
  • Tara, too, in Aftermath of a Mirror Journey.
• Dreaming of Times Gone By: Willow, when she had the temporary mental link to Colonel O'Neil, saw scenes from his past.
• Driven to Suicide: Tara in the AU from the “Going Home” arc was headed in this direction, with the encouragement of the First Evil, until Major Willow arrived.
• Dropping the Bombshell:
  • Every time disclosure about the Stargate program happens onscreen is an instance
• Dying Moment of Awesome:
  • Sineya, who takes down a literal army of demons, receives mortal wounds in the process. She then forgoes the offer of Ascension and uses her death to power the creation of the Slayer lines.
  • Buffy, Faith, Kennedy, Giles, and Wesley get killed fighting the spirit of the First Slayer. It turns out to have been a Secret Test of Character to see if they were worthy and they're not really dead.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: In earlier chapters there is a tendency for British-isms to show up.
• Earth-Shattering Kaboom: The Cylons are very surprised when a planet they nuke blows up. They had never previously encountered naquadah.
  • This is also the recommended way of dealing with a Nirathi infestation.
• Easily Forgiven: Willow quickly forgives Sam for outing her at Sam & Pete's wedding reception. Pretty much all the blame falls on Pete for getting Sam drunk and manipulating her into it.
• Elective Mute: After losing her whole planet, Camille spends several days not talking. Tara gets her to talk again.
• Embarrassing Pyjamas: Willow has pajama pants with a rocketship pattern on them. Faith finds this amusing.
• Emergency Transformation:
  • To get rid of Adria, Willow Ascends. In the instant between making that decision and fully Ascending, they can use their powers to demolish Adria. Once the Ascension is complete, the rest of the Ascended beings levy punishment.
  • The Asgard transferring Willow's consciousness into a cloned body had to be done, and done quickly, because her powers were killing her original body.
• The Empath: The first ability Willow develops after she stops using magic is the ability to sense emotions.
• Enemy Mine: Happened in the distant past of The Truth of Us to exterminate the Nocturna. Finding out there are still some around makes the Asgard panic and invoke this again.
• Entitled to Have You: As far as he is concerned, Pete is entitled to Sam.
• Epic Fail:
  • The Powers That Be in the Alternate Universe from the “Going Home” arc try to interfere and keep Willow from changing the way things are going to go with the fight against the First Evil^i.e. Exactly like in Buffy the Vampire Slayer canon. This convinces the Ascended to set aside their Alien Noninterference Clause.
  • Pete's attempt to kidnap Debra. Not only does Jacob survive, but Pete is now legally dead on Earth and abandoned on a planet with a broken DHD.
  • A Wraith attempts to feed on Angel. He mocks the Wraith, then kills it.
  • Sam tried to make ramen in the lab once. It caught on fire.
• Et Tu, Brute?: The Scoobies betray Willow by taking the latter captive and attempting to make her betray the SGC's secrets.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • Loki abducts someone, but finds that the clone he left in their place has died. Does he kill the abductee? Of course not, he's not a monster. He cures their diseases and deposits them on an inhabited world with no contact with Earth.
  • Even the Goa'uld think the Nocturna take things a bit far.
• Exact Words: A new recruit to the SGC has a crush on Faith. Willow warns him that she's unavailable and involved with a crazy jealous person. She just doesn't specify who that person is^i.e. Willow herself.
• The Exile: One of the punishments for an Ascended being using their abilities is banishment (either permanent or temporary) from the higher planes. It has at various times happened to Athena, Hera, and Melina. And Willow, who gets sent to another reality.
• Expendable Alternate Universe: During the “Going Home” arc, Willow straight up tells the Alternate Universe First Evil that she doesn't give a damn about the locals. She's lying, but she had to buy herself time to set things up to take the First down.
• Expendable Clone: Defied; while the SGC express some discomfort at helping the Cylons after they destroyed the Colonies, they are willing to grant Sharon's request for asylum after confirming that she didn't play a direct part in the destruction of the Colonies or the deaths of any humans, and treat all remaining Cylons as valid people after the Cylon surrender.
• Explosive Leash: Used by Cavil on other Cylons whom he thinks have shaky loyalty.
• Explosive Overclocking: The Ancient-style weapons systems on Earth's capital ships normally shoot out spheres of plasma. They can be switched over to firing much more damaging beams, but, since they are powered by highly-unstable naquadria, this tends to make them go kaboom.
• Failsafe Failure: Planning for this when testing prototypes is a good reason to have the tester be someone with a Healing Factor
  • You'd think the reactors powering a weapon system blowing up would be an example, but it's an aversion. The naquadria powering the weapons is so unstable, using the weapons too much can make it explode, so the failsafes eject the reactors.
• Faking Amnesia: In The Aftermath, after Willow gets their memory restored, they pretend not to remember their Significant Other as a prank.
• False Prophet: The Furlings when they told the Ancients they knew how to cure the plague. They actually used the Ancients' help to open the Sunnydale Hellmouth.
• A Family Affair: At the start of The Truth of Us, Gina is regularly sleeping with Linton, her sister's husband.
• Family of Choice: You've got the canon examples, of course, but the crossover leads to some changes in the makeup of each group, depending on the universe.
• Famous Ancestor: Given that Athena as a child looks like Willow as a child, this is thought to be the case. Turns out Willow is a Descended Athena.
• Fantastic Legal Weirdness: Seeing justice is done can be problematic when dealing with supernatural entities, like when Kathy kills a Potential. They can't exactly prosecute her, can they?
• A Father to His Men: Faith comes to view Jack as more of a father to her than her own father ever was.
  • He's also a father figure to Willow.
• Feel No Pain: Using a combination of telepathy and telekinesis, Willow can invoke this. It's specifically used to get an implanted tracking device out of Dawn while they're stuck in an Alternate Universe.
• Fell Asleep Crying: The local universe's Tara in the “Going Home” arc does so frequently. She lost her Willow, you see.
• Feral Vampires: The vampires on Kobol are ancient and powerful, but they haven't had sentients to feed on in so long that whether they're still sentient is questionable.
• Fiery Redhead: Averted with Willow. If you get her really pissed off, her hair changes color from red to black.
• Fights Like a Normal: Willow has magic, but doesn't use it. Later zig-zagged when she develops Ancient powers, which she uses in fights with regularity.

• Flashback: When Willow and Faith telepathically bond, they both see each others' past. At times we also get flashbacks to various other scenes from Willow's past. When she regains her memories of being Athena, we're treated to a few chapters worth of flashbacks.
• For Want Of A Nail: Quite a few examples
  • In The Aftermath Tara, having dreamed of the deadly danger to Janet on an upcoming mission^note the one where she died in SG-1 canon, gives her some magical protection. This results in Willow taking a staff blast to the chest.
  • Of course, there's the big one: Athena Descending to become Willow, with Hera later joining her as Dawn.
• Forced Out of the Closet: Willow's orientation—though an open secret within the Stargate program and in Sunnydale—is not really known outside those confines. Right up until Sam gets very drunk at her wedding to Pete and, while shouting, refers to Willow with a particular slur.
• Forced to Watch: Happens to Athena twice. First the Wraith murder Hera in front of her, then the Furlings force her adopted daughter to become the First Slayer while Athena is chained to a wall.
  • Kathy wants to do this to Angel as part of her torturing him before killing him.
• Forceful Kiss: In the “Going Home” arc, Willow winds up in an Alternate Universe, but doesn't realize it at first. When the local Faith shows up, Willow thinks it's her Faith and kisses her, much to Faith's surprise.
• Foreshadowing: Quite a bit of it, often served at the same time as a Chekhov's Gun
  • Why does Athena as a child look like Willow?
  • How did Dawn activate the Quantum Mirror? Yes, they have the Ancient Gene, but, previously, only Willow could get it to work.
  • Why does an unconscious Willow speak a few phrases in Ancient?
  • When Daniel first Ascends, why does Oma seem to recognize Willow?
  • Willow uses her telekinesis to throw globs of water around during a water fight at General O'Neill's cabin. This ability comes in useful at the Siege of Atlantis.
  • How is Illyria going to make use of one of Buffy's, as-yet unborn, children?
• Forgiven, but Not Forgotten: Willow does eventually forgive the other Scoobies for the Slayer Council debacle, but she doesn't forget it.
• Forgotten First Meeting: Given the various mechanisms for inducing Laser-Guided Amnesia, there are a few of these.
  • Ira and Sheila Rosenberg^note Willow's parents first encountered Athena and Hera in a diner before Willow was born. The conversation Athena overhears between them, combined with some things said by a time-displaced Elizabeth Weir, prompts her to Descend and be born as Willow.
  • Willow and Dawn obviously don't remember meeting until they get their memories of being Athena and Hera, respectively, restored.

• Friendly Tickle Torture: Willow has been known to telekinetically hold Faith down and tickle her.
• Full-Name Ultimatum: Faith directs one at Willow when she realizes Willow kept looking into ways to return Angel to human form, despite all the ways it could go wrong and being asked not to by numerous people, including Angel. Given Faith's status as The Nicknamer, Willow realizes almost right away that she's in big trouble.
• The Fundamentalist: The Shadow Men a.k.a. The Mystical Sect of the Furlings know that they have the solution to the problem of vampires and demons. Nothing can stand in their way, including the cold-blooded murder of 5,000 people or the potential wrath of Athena Ren, who, at one point, was willing to wipe out all life in the Pegasus Galaxy
• Future Imperfect: Given the length of time between the era Athena lived in and the present day, there are several errors, most notably the belief that Athena was a goddess.
• Futureshadowing: Willow gets some dreams about possible futures. Later on, so does Dawn.
  • One of Willow's dreams had Buffy taken over by a Goa'uld and Anubis posessing Willow.
  • Another involved Lieutenant General Samantha Carter giving a speech at the Homeworld Security Memorial. A monument with many familiar names on it, including Willow's

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• Geeky Turn-On: Willow talking at high speed about science stuff can get Faith worked up.
• General Ripper: Some definite examples.
  • Cavil turns into one in the quest to exterminate humanity.
  • Athena attempted to become one after Hera was murdered, but she was prevented.
• Genocide Dilemma: Not for Athena! After the Wraith murder her sister, she's hell bent on wiping them all out.
• Genocide Survivor: Camille, who is the only survivor after the Cylons attack.
  • Jay, Rose, and their mother, Joyce are the only survivors of the Ori plague on Edina.
  • Gina and Artemis from Asherah in The Truth of Us. Later known as Joyce and Buffy Summers, respectively.
• Get a Room!: Directed, verbatim, by Dawn at Willow and Faith. They yell back that they have one and they're already in it.
• Give Away the Bride:
  • Hank doesn't turn up for Buffy's wedding, so Giles steps in.
    Giles: I'm sorry your father couldn't give you away, my dear.
    Buffy: My father is giving me away.
  • Jack steps in to give away Faith at her wedding.
• Go and Sin No More: Several of the Cylons realize they were in the wrong and don't want to fight the humans anymore.
  • Angel is attempting to make Kathy go this way. She's not interested in atoning.
• Godzilla Threshold:
  • Ori ships can No-Sell the plasma balls that Earth ships are firing. So Willow rigs them up to fire plasma beams, knowing that doing so will almost certainly make the naquadria reactors powering the weapons explode.
  • The Nocturna from The Truth of Us. Upon discovering that even one of them has turned up, the Asgard force an immediate halt to all hostilities in the Milky Way until they can be found and exterminated.
• Gone Horribly Right: In The Aftermath, Tara repeatedly dreamed about Janet dying on a mission. When that mission came around, she gave Janet some magical protection, which saved her life, but also resulted in Willow taking a mortal wound from a staff.
  • Even after the Asgard show up and move to fix things by cloning her a new body and transferring her consciousness, they wake up with Athena's memories dominant and Willow's suppressed.
• Good Armor, Evil Armor: Averted. The SGC has no problem with using the Kull warrior armor. They just have to engineer something to keep the person inside it alive, since it was never designed for human use, and repeated impacts make it heat up..
• Good-Looking Privates: Faith likes the way Willow looks in her uniform.
• Good Shepherd: Jack O'Neill is friends with a Rabbi who is fine with performing a lesbian wedding, even if he does have to change some things around.
• Good Thing You Can Heal: If the SGC is testing some new prototype that might be a little too dangerous, Willow will volunteer to do it.
• Government Agency of Fiction: The Bureau of Paranormal Research and Investigation in a few universes.
• Grave-Marking Scene:
  • Willow visits Melina and Hera's graves with Faith after Willow regains her memories of being Hera.
  • Faith visits Professor Worth's (the man the Mayor had her kill) grave in several stories
  • After Moros dies, an Ascended Melina places a marker for him next to her grave marker.
  • While visiting D.C., Willow and Cassie visit Janet's grave in Arlington.
  • Athena visits the marker for her adopted daughter regularly, even after she Ascends.
  • Once the survivors of Tegalus are settled on Edina, Joyce, the sole surviving adult, asks that they permit her to visit her husband's grave.
• Guilt-Free Extermination War: Athena wants one against the Wraith after they murder her sister. The rest of the Ancients prevent her.
• Gun Stripping: Done with telekinesis!
• Half-Human Hybrid: Sarah from The Return. She's the daughter of Anna the Cylon, and Rupert Giles.
• Hallway Fight: Any hostile trying to make their way around the SGC will have to deal with one of these.
• Hannibal Lecture: After becoming a vampire, Lee delivers a few of these before his soul is restored, most notably provoking Kara into killing Baltar after he tells her about Baltar's role in the destruction of the Colonies.
• Happily Adopted:
  • Athena and Sineya view each other as mother and daughter.
  • Camille looks like she's heading this way with Tara and Kennedy.
• Hard on Soft Science: Rodney McKay thinks Willow's abilities are all faked. She has fun tweaking him about it.
• Harmless Freezing: Averted. The hypothermia and frostbite Willow suffers after Anubis stops possessing her is treated as a big, and potentially lethal, problem.
• Have We Met Yet?: Happens, not due to time travel, but due to alternate universes being at different points on the timeline.
  • Though when Faith gets stuck doing some involuntary Mental Time Travel, it's played straighter. Except it isn't, because she's not time travelling, she's trapped in a Lotus-Eater Machine.
• Having a Blast: Telekinesis can be used to vibrate air molecules energetically enough to create an explosion. Sam helps Willow figure out how to do it, but they don't use it due to needing finer control.
• He Knows Too Much: An Alternate Universe version of Rack (the dark magic dealing warlock who helped feed Willow's habit in Buffyverse canon) reads Willow's mind and learns everything about her past, including secrets she is sworn to keep. The problem with just killing him, though, is that the First Evil would then gain all his knowledge. So Willow wipes his memories. All of them, leaving Rack a vegetable.
• Heal It with Booze: Invoked by Willow when she is doing some quick surgery to remove a tracking device that an Alternate Universe version of the Initiative implanted in Dawn.
• Healing Factor: It's one of the abilities of an Ancient, including the ability to heal others. Willow develops it.
• Healing Hands: Goes hand-in-hand with the Healing Factor.
• Heartbroken Badass:
  • O'Neill when Sam gets engaged to Pete, though he doesn't show it. Being an empath, Willow can feel how much it hurts him; it's so intense she can barely stand.
  • Athena when Hera is murdered.
  • Tara in The Aftermath when Willow dies. It Gets Worse when she is saved, but can't remember he life as Willow and hates Tara for being part Furling.
• Heel Realization:
  • Haikon of the Sodan has one when he realizes the “threat” the Ori have told him to wipe out is a planet full of peaceful farmers.
  • Each of the Scoobies has one at different times after the Slayer Council.
  • Natalie, which leads to her apologizing to the Colonials and offering an immediate cessation of hostilities.
• Heinz Hybrid: Part Ancient, part Furling, mostly human? Sounds like we have an example in Willow.
• Help Yourself in the Future: Played with due to Narnia Time being in effect regarding different universes.
  • The mirror universe Willow visits that winds up kicking off The Aftermath of a Mirror Journey is at an earlier point on the timeline, so Willow and her companions can make certain things work out well for their counterparts.
  • The universe Faith travels past while searching for Willow is before the Mayor's Demonic Ascension, so Faith can ask Giles to help her local counterpart before departing. This is the start of The Faith Chronicles.
  • In Worlds End, the surviving members of SG-1, who were thrown far into the past, set things up so they can help as much as possible in the future.
• Hero Stole My Bike: Willow does this twice, both times when she's in an Alternate Universe.
• Heroic BSoD: Several examples
  • Athena, after her (adopted) daughter is forced to become the First Slayer by the Furlings.
  • The local Tara from the “Going Home” arc. Willow being killed really messed her up.
  • Angel, when he is confronting Kathy. She's his little sister.
  • Willow, after getting her consciousness transferred to a new, cloned body has some awful nightmares that leave her able to do little more than curl up in a fetal position and sob.
  • Vampire Lee Adama, once his soul is restored and he thinks about what he did after being turned.
  • Buffy, in the aftermath of the Slayer Council.
  • Tara in The Aftermath when Willow takes a mortal wound from a staff blast. It's made worse because Tara did give magical protection to someone going on that mission: Janet Frasier.
  • Joyce after Loki finds that the clone duplicate he left on Earth has died, so he deposits her on a different planet where they don't know how to use the Stargate.
• Heroic RRoD:
  • Happens several times to Willow. When she uses a scrying spell to reach Sam Carter who is missing in space, after Anubis stops possessing her, then there's the time she goes on a space walk without a spacesuit to save the Prometheus from a Kill Sat...
  • Happens to Tara near the end of The Aftermath as a combination of combat damage and excessive use of magic.
  • Happens to Giles while he and Wesley are locked out of a fight that Buffy, Faith, and Kennedy are having against Sineya, the First Slayer. Making a hole in the barrier to allow Wesley through kills Giles. Luckily it was all a Secret Test of Character, and he's not really dead.
• Heroic Sacrifice: When a Cylon patrol on Kobol is attacked by vampires, once only a Number Eight and a Centurion are left, the Centurion ‘instructs' the Cylon to cover herself in its internal fluid in the hope that it would hide her scent, despite this requiring the Centurion to sacrifice itself.
• Heroic Second Wind: Willow vs. Adria. Adria has Willow on the ropes. Right up until Willow makes the conscious decision to Ascend, after which Adria has no chance.
• Heroic Willpower: Discussed by Kennedy when she hears about Anubis possessing Willow. Kennedy doesn't believe an invocation would have been impossible.
• Heteronormative Crusader: Half of Willow's relatives who received invitations refuse to attend her wedding because they “don't approve of [her] new age lifestyle”.
• Hidden in Plain Sight: The BPRI. Officially, they investigate claims of paranormal activity. That makes a great cover for dealing with demons, vampires, and the like.
• High-Dive Escape: Enforced on Willow by Faith when the latter is mentally sent back to the Slayer Council.
• Holographic Disguise: The ones from the SG-1 episode “Foothold” get used by Willow during the “Just Another Tuesday for Dawn” arc.
• Homosexual Reproduction: Faith glimpses a universe where she and Willow have a son who is obviously biologically related to the both of them. With Asgard cloning technology, this is something that may become possible in the future.
• Hope Spot: When Willow wakes up after surviving Anubis' possession, being left on an ice planet with a broken DHD, and the hypothermia and frostbite, it looks like things are good. Then all her internal organs start failing.
• Horde of Alien Locusts: SG-1 canon has the Replicators, and the Buffyverse has vampires and demons, but there are examples unique to this story
  • The Nirathi from An Extraordinary Journey are non-sentient, burrowing, winged...things...that eat all the animals on a planet.
  • The Nocturna from The Truth of Us are sentient and revel in killing every other sentient thing on a planet. They are so feared that the discovery of even one of them is enough to make the Asgard panic.
• Hostage Situation: Upon arriving at Cylon Earth, Zarek has several of the Earth soldiers there taken hostage and tries to use them as bargaining chips to get to the “real” Earth.
• How Do I Shot Web?: Trying to get their powers to work when they want them to is something Willow and Dawn have to work out on their own.
• Human Aliens: Much like the Ancients, Furlings are visually indistinguishable from humans and can interbreed with them.
• Human Popsicle: You have the canon examples from SG-1, of course, but also most of SG-1 in World's End, the biological weapons^note clones genetically engineered for combat in Tara Sheppard, Trianna on Furling Earth in An Extraordinary Journey, and both Trianna and her father in The Aftermath: The End.
• Human Sacrifice: The Shadow Men a.k.a. Furlings create the Slayer by forcing a demon into a human girl. Prior to this, they empower the demon by sacrificing thousands of genetically engineered combat clones given to them by Athena.
• Humanity Came from Space: Well, Human Aliens, at any rate. Both Ancients and Furlings.
• Humiliation Conga: Pete gets hit with one after everyone finds out about him sexually assaulting Sam. Forced to agree to immediate divorce from Sam, Sam gets full custody of their daughter, forced to confess what he did to his fellow cops, fired from his job as a cop, and forced to register as a sex offender.
• Hyperactive Metabolism: The Slayers. Also, Teal'c. The amount of food they eat is commented upon several times by different people in different stories.
• I'm a Humanitarian: When the SGC find some of the survivors of the Colonial ships abandoned by the Pegasus, the remaining crew have been forced to start eating each other out of a lack of food.
• I Did What I Had to Do: Buffy's view on holding Willow captive and forcing her to spill Classified Information about her work.
• I Hate Past Me: Willow is seriously scared of what Athena was willing to contemplate after crossing the Despair Event Horizon.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: Willow at the start of Chapter 1. She changes her mind very quickly once she hears about the Stargate.
• "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: Faith vs. Willow when the latter is possessed by Anubis.
  • Tara takes Faith's place in the analogous fight at the end of The Aftermath.
• Ideal Illness Immunity: Willow, after she gains the powers of the Ancients.
• Identical Grandson: Willow starts having dreams where she sees an Ancient; a young girl named Athena, who looks identical to her as a child. Later, she has dreams where she sees events from Athena's life through her eyes. Willow, and the other people who know about these dreams, hypothesize that this trope is being invoked. It's actually subverted. Athena Descended to be reborn as Willow and had her memories locked away in the process.
• Idiot Ball:
  • Sam Carter grabs it and holds on tight when Willow tells her what she thinks Pete has been up to (basically stalking Sam). Even knowing everything, she still stays with him and, eventually, marries him.
• If I Can't Have You…: Played With. Pete Shanahan doesn't want to kill Sam Carter, he wants to make her suffer a Fate Worse than Death by kidnapping her daughter Debra.
• If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...: Jon is on the receiving end of one of these speeches from Dawn's little brother, Jay. And it is adorable.
• The Immodest Orgasm: Referenced at times (usually in reference to Faith and/or Willow), but only rarely seen in text.
• Improvisational Ingenuity: When SG-2 runs into a Horde of Alien Locusts, they make a run for the gate. They won't make it, so new team member Dawn has to improvise some protection while Satterfield tries to use radio controls to have the MALP dial the SGC and request help.
• Improvised Weapon: Telekinesis allows anyone with Ancient powers to turn anything into a weapon. Ditto Slayer strength.
• In Spite of a Nail: Quite a few examples of this, too.
  • Despite the Langford expedition not finding the gate in World's End or in the reality from the “Going Home” arc (Chapters 123-128), Sunnydale is still pretty much identical to how it appears in other AU's in this multiverse.
  • Despite heeding the warnings and taking her health much more seriously, Joyce in The Aftermath still suffers a fatal aneurysm. Well...the clone Loki made does. Joyce survives.
  • Even with Willow and her Healing Hands, the Ori plague still hits much like it did in SG-1 canon.
  • In The Aftermath: The End, even SG-1 getting to the Colonies before they're nuked into oblivion isn't enough to save them.
• In the Blood: Furling ancestry makes it easier to do magic.
• Inappropriately Close Comrades: Satterfield and Grogan are both on SG-2 and are also sleeping together. They plan to tell their higher-ups, at which point one of them will be reassigned.
• Innocence Lost: Kathy, after years of torture.
• Insane Troll Logic: When the Willow from the “Alternate Land” arc loses Tara, she decides that Captain Willow is partially to blame and sets out to kill her.
• Intercontinuity Crossover: BtVS & SG-1. With a later inclusion of BSG2003.
• Interdimensional Travel Device: The Quantum Mirror from SG-1 makes a reappearance, but there is now an alternate form of it that looks like a geode until activated.
• Internal Reveal: If the reader is far enough along in the main story, then various reveals in the AU's are only surprising to the characters.
  • Also happens every time with disclosure about the Stargate program.
  • And whenever anyone is brought up to speed on the supernatural.
  • Willow and Faith know that Dawn is Hera. Well, Willow tells Dawn, but she doesn't believe her. Nobody else knows, until Melina restores her memories.
  • Some lines that could be wham lines in side stories become this instead if the reader is past a certain point in the main story.
• Ironic Echo: “No tears; We'll meet again.” were Angel's last words to his sister before he died. Then someone used some of the victims' blood at a murder scene to write them on the wall.
• It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time: The mystical sect of the Furlings convinced the Ancients that a combination of magic and technology could be used to somehow find a cure to the plague that was affecting them. Actually, the Furlings used it to open the Hellmouth as a source of power.
• It's All About Me:
  • This sums up the Scoobies' initial 'justification' for their treatment of Willow when she returns to Sunnydale after officially joining the SGC; when their telepaths can't read Willow's mind and their hackers can't access her classified record, Buffy becomes convinced that Willow's new assignment is something to do with the supernatural and attempts everything up to outright torture to get Willow to tell them about her new job, including a truth spell so powerful that Willow only stops herself talking by using her telekinesis to sever her own vocal chords.
• It's Personal: Very personal for Athena after the Wraith murder Hera.
• It's the Only Way to Be Sure: Once you find a planet with Nirathi on it, you need to nuke it into rubble.
  • The Nocturna from The Truth of Us get a similar treatment.
• Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Zarek on Major Thompson in an effort to find out where the “real” Earth is.
• Jerkass Gods: The Powers That Be. When Willow gets stranded in another reality, Faith goes to ask the PTB's to bring her back. They offer to do so , but only if Faith agrees to return to being a Slayer full time and have everyone in the world (except her) forget her relationship with Willow.
• Junkie Parent: Faith's mother in pretty much every universe except The Faith Chronicles, where her real mother is Sam Carter.
• Keeping Secrets Sucks: Willow's view of things, at least as far as the Scoobies are concerned. It doesn't help that her unwillingness to divulge anything makes Buffy and the others paranoid enough to kidnap her and try to force her to tell them what she does via magic.
• Kick the Dog:
  • The Nocturna in The Truth of Us do this every chance they get.
  • Pete sabotaging Sam's birth control.
• Kill the Host Body: After Willow is possessed by Anubis, they arrange things so they get sent to an ice world. If Anubis doesn't leave, they'll get served a helping of this, with a side of Kill It with Ice.
• Killer Cop: Borderline case with Pete, who was fired from his job as a cop. They try to kill Jacob, but fail when medical help gets to him in time.
• Kinky Cuffs: Apparently, Anya likes being cuffed. She has no filter, especially about sex, so it takes a rather surprising amount of time for other characters to find this out.
• Kiss of Distraction: Faith and Willow's first kiss. Faith uses the distraction to taze Willow
• Knee Capping: Willow, when she's trying to break out of the Slayer Council, deliberately breaks Faith's ankle.
• Knight Templar: Athena wanted to create a Clone Army to exterminate the Wraith.
• Knight Templar Parent: Jacob is ready to tear Pete apart when he finds out he sexually assaulted Sam by sabotaging her birth control
• Kryptonite Factor: Invoked by Sam at the request of Willow. Willow wants a way to nullify her powers available in case Bad Stuff happens.

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• Language Barrier: For some reason Colonial Standard is not translated by the Stargate like every other language in the universe. This causes numerous problems.
  • In Aftermath: The End an Earth ship picks up a Cylon, who starts spouting off about their plans to nuke the Twelve Colonies. The delay in translating his statements is enough for it to happen.
• Large Ham: One of the best ways to break a Goa'uld is to combine this with Badass Boast and Break Them by Talking. It doesn't always work, though.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia:
  • When an Ascended being Descends, their memories of their past life and their time as an Ascended are locked away.
  • If residents of the lower planes somehow perceive an Ascended being, they can be made to forget it.
• Last of Her Kind: By way of Human Popsicle, Trianna is the last living inhabitant of Furling Earth. Subverted in The Aftermath: The End where her father also survives.
• Late-Arrival Spoiler: Some of the alternate universe stories assume a certain level of familiarity with the main story. If the reader doesn't have that familiarity, they'll have some plot twists and other reveals spoiled.
  • It's to the point where some of the narration (e.g. in Tara Sheppard) just assumes the reader already knows the information and doesn't make any effort to hide it.
• Law of Inverse Fertility: Buffy and Xander only forgot to use protection once. It was enough.
  • Sam takes birth control injections specially formulated to work with the naquadah in her blood, but they didn't work. Of course they didn't work. Pete switched them with saline!
• Lawman Gone Bad: Pete Shanahan after everyone discovers what he did to his wife, Sam, commits attempted murder and kidnapping.
• Leave No Survivors:
  • Athena wants to do this to the Wraith after they murder her sister.
  • Cavil to any human inhabited world his ships encounter.
• Lethal Chef: Sam isn't a bad cook, she just gets distracted. And winds up doing things like burning ramen.
• Light 'em Up: The solaris bombs Tara came up with. Great for dusting any vamps in the vicinity and mimicking the "flash" part of "flashbang".
• Living Lie Detector: Tara (through aura reading) and Spike & Angel (through listening to a speaker's heartbeat).
• Living Relic: Moros/Merlin is SG-1 canon, but then he gives Willow back her memories of her life as Athena. Later, Melina gives Dawn back her memories of being Hera.
• Locked Out of the Fight: Giles and Wesley are prevented from helping Buffy, Faith, and Kennedy in a fight against Sineya, the First Slayer. Deciding to find a way to join the fight anyway, despite the cost to them, means they pass a Secret Test of Character.
• Long-Lived: Kathy. She's not a true vampire, so she's not The Ageless, but it's a very slow process.
  • Anyone who is bonded to a vampire to prevent loss of their soul gains a longer life-span.
• Long-Lost Relative: Willow and Dawn turn out to be siblings. specifically, Athena and Hera.
• Loophole Abuse: Willow and Faith can be both in a relationship and assigned to SG-1 because Faith is a civilian consultant, not in the military. Also, Willow and Faith technically work for the Department of Homeworld Security and are “on loan” to the SGC to prevent the NID or BPRI from screwing around with them.
• Look What I Can Do Now!: After returning from over a month of post-cloning therapy with the Asgard, Willow almost right away uses her telekinesis to put up a shield to protect SG-1 as they evacuate under fire from a planet.
• Love Redeems: After her sister's murder, Athena was so far past the Despair Event Horizon, she was perfectly willing to commit genocide. Then she meets, and later adopts, Sineya.
• Love Transcends Spacetime: When Willow gets lost in an Alternate Universe with no SGC or access to a quantum mirror, Faith (with some magical help from Tara and medical help from Dr. Lam) uses her connection to Willow to send her soul across the intervening realities to her wife.
• Lovely Angels: Present in some universes, but not all.
  • An Extraordinary Journey has Willow and Faith. The latter is a dark-haired high school dropout with preternatural strength and reflexes and a healthy helping of street smarts. The former is a redheaded Air Force officer with a science PhD and the powers of an Ancient, like telekinesis and telepathy.
• Made of Iron: Slayers are Buffyverse canon. There's also anyone with Ancient powers. A Healing Factor combined with telekinetic barriers to block or lessen damage makes for a character who is very hard to disable.
• The Magic Touch: Per SG-1 canon, anyone with the Ancient Gene can activate Ancient technology. But this fic adds that only close blood relatives can open the family quarters of the leaders of Atlantis.
• Magical Girlfriend: Tara for Willow in The Aftermath. Until Willow develops psionic powers, anyway.
• Major Injury Underreaction: After she develops her Healing Factor, Willow becomes prone to this.

• Make a Wish:
  • A later attempted invocation by Daniel to remove a bracelet Vala put on him fails, because Anya can only grant vengeance-related wishes.
  • Yet another attempted invocation, this time by Sam against Pete for kidnapping her daughter and shooting her father, fails because Anya has been made human again for not granting enough wishes.
• Malicious Misnaming: Willow, Faith, and Cassie call Pete “Peter” to his face, simply because he hates it so much. When he's not in earshot, they call him “potato face” or “the potato”.
• Mama Bear: Quite a few examples, and not always the same people in each universe.
  • In the main story: Sam for her daughter, Debra, Buffy for all the Potentials, Willow towards Dawn, Melina towards Athena and Hera even when they Descend and become Willow and Dawn, and Tara and Kennedy for Camille
  • In The Aftermath, Joyce for Faith.
  • Tara's mother (whose name varies from universe to universe) for Tara.
• Manipulative Bastard: Pete. He convinces Sam that quitting the Air Force is the best thing to do, deliberately tries to destroy her friendship with Willow^note and the rest of the SGC, but he especially dislikes Willow, and also sabotages her birth control so she gets pregnant.
• Maternal Death? Blame the Child!: Defied with Hera. neither Athena nor Moros blame her for Melina's death
• Masquerade: Two different instances, and most people “in the know” with regards to one aren't allowed to know about the other. The SG-1 masquerade is gradually being deliberately weakened in anticipation of eventual disclosure.
• Mauve Shirt: Dylan Thompson. He's been given enough characterization (and even POV time) that he's clearly no longer a Red Shirt
• May–December Romance: Played With. Dawn and Jon are physically about the same age, but he's got all of Jack O'Neill's memories up until the point he was cloned, so his mental age is more of a question mark. Also, Dawn had a life as Hera Ren, sister of Athena, then spent millenia as an Ascended.
• Mayfly–December Romance: Daniel starts dating Anya, an immortal vengeance demon. Apparently, having personal knowledge of events dating back over a millennium is attractive to an archaeologist. Later averted when Anya's powers and demonic status get taken away because she hasn't been using them and she becomes human again.
• Meaningful Rename: On her wedding day, Sam asks Jack if they can drop the military formalities and just be “Sam” and “Jack” to each other for that day. He agrees.
• Meet the In-Laws: Mostly happens off-screen, but we do sometimes hear how things went.
  • Pete's first meeting with Jacob went very poorly, due to Pete repeatedly putting his foot in his mouth.
  • On the other hand, Jon's meeting with Dawn's family in Sunnydale goes pretty well.
• Mêlée à Trois: The Earthers, the Colonials, and the Cylons. Made even more complex when an Ori ship enters the fray.
• Mental Space Travel: Played with. Faith's soul is sent across several realities searching for Willow, after she is sent there in retaliation for using Ascended powers to dismantle Adria
• Mental Time Travel: Faith thinks she's experiencing this at one point. It's actually a Lotus-Eater Machine designed to help people let go of their burdens and Ascend.
• Metaphorically True: Used by Willow whenever she has to tell people about Athena, but doesn't want to tell them she was Athena.
• Military Academy: The US Air Force Academy is in Colorado Springs, so many of the SGC members went there. Willow's time there is dealt with mainly by a time skip. Ditto for Buffy's time there in the Aftermath of a Mirror Journey universe.
• A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read: Played Straight and Played for Laughs at different times.
  • Senator Kinsey is a Dirty Old Man, given the direction his thoughts turn when he meets Willow. Both Willow and Colonel O'Neill are squicked out by it.
  • After Colonel O'Neill gets the Ancient repository downloaded into his head, Willow winds up with an intermittent link to his mind. She sees what happened to Charlie and how Jack reacted.
  • Willow's reaction to telepathically overhearing the carnal activities Dawn and Jon are up to leaves Faith laughing so hard she can barely drive.
• Mind over Manners: Willow has an ethical code regarding reading the minds of people who aren't confirmed enemies. She does warn people not to “think too loudly”, because she can still “overhear” loud thoughts without trying.
• Mind over Matter: Telekinesis is one of the abilities of the Ancients. Willow and Dawn both develop it.
• Mind Rape:
  • Used in conjunction with more usual torture methods to get Kathy to hate her brother, Angel.
  • Buffy orders a truth spell be used on Willow, which would force her to answer any questions asked to her fully and completely. Dealing with the aftereffects of this takes Willow a long time.
• Mindlink Mates: Deliberately Invoked by Willow when she telepathically bonds with Faith.
• Mirror Self: The Willow from the first Alternate Universe AEJ!Willow visits goes way off the deep end when Tara dies, delves deep into dark magic, comes to the conclusion that it was AEJ!Willow's fault, and heads off to kill her.
• Misplaced Retribution:
  • One of Angelus's victims went to great lengths to twist Kathy, Liam's sister, into a particularly twisted vampire who retained her human soul but fused it with demons. As a result, Kathy is not only stronger than a vampire her age should be, but she also has a particularly powerful form of telepathy that lets her control others, and a strong desire to see her brother suffer. Her creator apparently ignored not only the fact that Angelus wouldn't care about Kathy's current state if they met, but the human soul who would care about it didn't do anything more serious than go after the wrong woman in an alley.
  • The Willow from the first Alternate Reality Willow visits in An Extraordinary Journey loses Tara, just like in Buffy canon. She blames Captain Willow, and heads off to the main story's reality to kill her.
• Moral Myopia: Happens to Buffy and the Scoobies. They're completely justified in keeping secrets and doing illegal/unethical things. But if you keep secrets from them? Not allowed. They pay the price for their actions, and eventually realize they were wrong.
• Morality Chain: Hera was Athena's. Athena does not take Hera's murder by the Wraith well.
  Athena: My sister was my light, they took it away from me. I want them all to pay.
  • She gets a new one in her adopted daughter. Who is also taken from her.
• More Dakka: The Tau'ri capital ships get built, or retrofitted, with Ancient-derived weapons systems that shoot balls of plasma. Unfortunately, Ori vessels can No-Sell them.
• Morton's Fork:
  • After the Colonials learn about Baltar's role in the sabotage of the Colonial defence network, they are forced to let him live in exile because they don't have any legitimate evidence to formally charge him.
  • After Willow gets stranded in an Alternate Universe with no SGC, Faith is desperate to get her back. With Tara's help, she petitions the Powers That Be to bring her wife home. They offer to do so, but only if Faith agrees to return to Slaying and have everyone's memories wiped about her relationship with Willow. The only one who would remember they were ever in love would be Faith. Faith turns down the deal and looks for another way.
• Mrs. Robinson: Zig-zagged so much that Dawn and Jon give up trying to figure out if it's a straight example, an aversion, or gender-flipped. He has all of Jack's memories up until he was cloned, but she had a whole other life—plus millenia as a Ascended afterwards—as Hera.
• Mugging the Monster: Several examples
  • The Cylons (both centurion type and humanoid) try to engage Buffy in hand-to-hand combat in The Aftermath: The End. It goes about as well as you'd expect it to for them.
  • Buffy and the Scoobies to Willow during the Slayer Council mess.
• The Multiverse: Yep. Several of them get their own independent stories. Others a few chapters when a viewpoint character visits.
• Mundane Utility:
  • Willow's telekinesis can be, and often is, used during foreplay and immediately afterwards.
  • Faith's Slayer strength means it's easier for her to schlep heavy things around on moving day.
• Murder Is the Best Solution: The view of the Watchers' Council regarding disobedient Slayers in The Faith Chronicles and The Aftermath.
• Must Be Invited: Doesn't just affect homes. It also holds for government buildings (like the SGC) that aren't open to the public.
• Must Make Amends: Faith towards Willow because of the former's part in Slayer council debacle.
• Mutual Masquerade: The BPRI deals with supernatural stuff while the SGC and Homeworld Security deal with extraterrestrial related stuff. The people at the very top of each organization are aware of the other, and the two do help each other out a little, but that's about it.
• My Death Is Just the Beginning: Sineya is dying from her wounds after taking down an army of demons. Athena, her adopted mother, is there, as well as an Ascended Hera. Hera offers to help Sineya Ascend, but she refuses and uses her death to create the Slayer lines, ensuring that there will be other Slayers after her as long as the Earth survives.
• My Friends... and Zoidberg: When Sam Carter finds out she's pregnant, she starts listing all the people she needs to call.
  Carter: I need to call Dad, Cassie, General O'Neil, General Hammond...who'd I forget?
  Faith: Pete?^i.e. Her husband
• My God, What Have I Done?:
  • Dawn, who had been an epically Ungrateful Bitch, after she hears Willow may be dying.
  • Sam, immediately after Pete manipulates her into outing Willow at her (Sam's) wedding^note Obviously anyone attending Willow's wedding would already know that she was involved with a woman.
  • Athena, after she realizes how the Furlings used the clones she gave them. Then she sees the end result: her adopted daughter is forced to become the First Slayer.
  • Once Eileen Lehane gets sent to prison, she gets sober and clean. Then the true horror of what she inflicted on Faith hits her.
  • After the vampire Lee Adama's soul is restored, he breaks down sobbing at the memory of how his vampire self killed an innocent woman and threatened so many of his friends and colleagues.
• My God, You Are Serious!: When Faith and Willow tell Willow's parents about what they really do, it takes some convincing.
  • Also the usual reaction from science-y people being told about magic.
• My Sensors Indicate You Want to Tap That: Anya, after seeing Willow and Faith together.
  Anya: Oh...so now the both of you do a lot of orgasm stuff? You're orgasm buddies?
• Narnia Time: Different universes are at different points along the timeline and have time moving at different speeds.
• Near-Rape Experience: Happens to Faith in at least the main universe, where she gets Called as a Slayer just in time to use the enhanced strength to throw her would-be rapist into the wall.
• Neglectful Precursors: The Furlings, much more so than the Ancients.
• Neuro-Vault: In The Aftermath, the Order of Dagon creating Dawn triggers a message that AEJ!Willow left in her local counterpart's mind for when this exact situation occurred.
• Never My Fault: Pete can do no wrong. Just ask him!
• Never the Selves Shall Meet: Averted, but, per SG-1 canon, staying in a universe where you have a double results in being torn apart at the quantum level, which hurts a lot.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Athena makes a deal to provide genetically engineered combat clones to the Shadow Men a.k.a. a Mystical Sect of the Furlings in exchange for them leaving her adopted daughter alone. They renege, and 5,000 clones are sacrificed to empower the demon they use to make Athena's daughter, Sineya, the First Slayer.
• Nightmare Sequence: After her consciousness is transferred to a new body, drinking alcohol will cause Willow some serious nightmares.
• No Bisexuals: Averted, but only barely. Willow explicitly describes herself at one point as bisexual, but preferring women. That's about the only reference to it in over 200 chapters.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown:
  • Adria is on the receiving end of one from Willow, wielding the powers of an Ascended.
  • Buffy against the Cylons at the start of Aftermath: The End.
  • An Anubis-possessed Willow receives one from Faith as part of an "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight.
• No-Sell: A couple examples.
  • When Willow visits Sunnydale, Buffy takes her on a tour of the Slayer Council. The receptionist (Amy) tries to look in Willow's head and Willow gives her a headache for her efforts.
  • With their ability to create telekinetic shields to block incoming projectiles or melee attacks and Healing Factor to fix any damage they do receive, Willow and, later, Dawn. Though Dawn hasn't had cause to use the Healing Factor, so it's not canonically established that she's developed it yet.
  • Vampires are immune to Wraith stunners, though the energy blast can knock them back a bit.
  • Adria can do this to pretty much anything her opponents can throw at her. Including Willow's Ancient powers.
  • With their shields, Tau'ri vessels can do this to Colonial and Cylon weaponry, which comes as quite a shock.
• No Such Thing as Alien Pop Culture: Averted. The 12 Colonies had a drama series called “The Protector” that was basically their version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. When various people from Sunnydale hear about this, they are quite amused.
• The Nose Knows: After Willow has her consciousness transferred to a new body, their scent changes. Angel and Spike notice it, but the cover story satisfies them (though Angel remarks that it's not very believable). Oz, on the other hand, doesn't believe a word of it and has to be read in on part of the Stargate program to stop believing Willow is actually a demon in disguise.
• No One Could Survive That!: Adria after getting systematically destroyed by Willow using some Ascended powers is presumed dead. We see from the text that, not only did they survive, they are pissed.
• Non-Standard Game Over: When Faith is caught in a Lotus-Eater Machine, she thinks she's experiencing Mental Time Travel and can fix her mistakes. The only way out without the machine killing her is to repeat a mistake. In her case, that's murdering Professor Worth.
• Not Quite the Right Thing: Athena makes a deal with the Furlings. They'll leave Sineya alone, and, in return, Athena will make them a genetically engineered Clone Army. The Clones get used as part of a Human Sacrifice.
• Note to Self: AEJ!Faith leaves a video message for her local counterpart in the Aftermath of a Mirror Journey universe. Willow does much the same thing to her alternate, only that message is mental and set to unlock when Dawn comes around.
• Nuke 'em: When Willow hears that SG-2 has encountered Nirathi, she recommends a full nuclear bombardment on the planet.
  • The two nations on Tegalus nuke each other.
• Obstructive Bureaucrat: The governmental ministers of the Rand Protectorate and the Caledonian Federation that survive both sides nuking each other. The SGC takes them to a planet that recently had its population wiped out by the Ori plague and, rather than trying to make things work, they immediately start fighting and pointing fingers. Joyce sets them straight.
• Oh, Crap!: Several times
  • Right after Willow finishes her rant in Chapter 1, wishing to go somewhere she'd be needed for her, instead of being “magic girl”, she realizes she had said the words to reverse the effects of the “My Will Be Done” spell, but that the spell itself was still active.
  • Willow during her flash-forward gets a look at Anubis' chief general, a Goa'uld-infested Buffy. She also sees the face of Anubis' host. It's her.
  • Athena, when she realizes that the life signs for the clones she just delivered as part of her “leave Sineya alone” deal have just vanished.
  • When Willow is in an alternate reality, she discovers that someone has stolen the Quantum Mirror she needs to get back home.
  • In yet another alternate reality, she discovers that there's no Stargate program because the Langford expedition never found the gate.
  • In The Truth of Us, the Asgard have this reaction to finding out the Nocturna were not exterminated as previously thought.
  • In The Aftermath: The End, Tara realizes there are nukes inbound and only has a few moments to set up some magical protections for her team and those nearby.
  • Angel's reaction when he sees the message written in blood on the wall at a murder scene in Sunnydale: “Oh Liam, where art thou.”
  • Janeway in The Return when The Doctor's scan shows that Cassie could be an Augment.
• Older Than They Look:
  • Kathy looks like she's around 20. She's actually centuries old. And also Angel's sister.
  • Pretty much all the Tau'Ri in The Return
• One-Steve Limit: Averted. Setting aside alternate reality counterparts, there's Hank Landry and Hank Summers, as well as Eileen Davis (wife of an SGC member) and Eileen Lehane (Faith's mother). So, an aversion, but only when one or both of the characters with duplicate names has little or no screen time.
• Only Mostly Dead: Shortly after Willow returns to the SGC when Anubis stops possessing her, they wind up dying over the course of the next few days. Luckily, Asgard science is able to fix things by cloning Willow a new body.
  • An almost identical situation happens in The Aftermath, only it's after the mission to P3X-666 from "Heroes", where Janet Frasier died in canon.
  • Adria gets practically ripped apart by Willow wielding the powers of the Ascended. No One Could Survive That!, right? Except, they do, and they are pissed.
• Only One Me Allowed Right Now: There's no problem with meeting your past self through time travel or your double from an Alternate Universe. But if you are in a universe where your double is alive and well, the universe itself will object and tear you apart. Painfully.
• Orbital Bombardment: A couple instances
  • The Wraith to Earth in World's End.
  • Anubis' ships in the dream Willow has of the future.
  • The Cylon homeworld to several human-settled planets.
• Our Vampires Are Different: Potentially, anyway; when vampires are discovered on Kobol, characters question if crucifixes and holy water from Earth would work on them as these vampires would have no context for or understanding of the religious significance of those relics, prompting others to speculate that Colonial priests should bless the water themselves.
  • There are also two different types of vampires: Buffyverse vampires and the Wraith.
• Outside-Context Problem:
  • Angel is one for the Wraith during the siege of Atlantis. He can No-Sell their stunners and their life-draining ability.
  • Naturally nobody in the Colonial Fleet or any Cylons have any idea what to do when they realise that there are ‘blood demons' (their term for vampires) on Kobol, while the SGC has some experience thanks to Willow's own personal history.
  • Buffyverse style magic (and monsters) for any scientist-type who finds out about it.
    • Vampires for the joint Earther/Cylon/Colonial expedition to Kobol.
    • Stargate-style enemies and tech are this for the Star Trek characters in The Return
• Over-the-Top Secret: Willow and Faith's files are so classified that only 3 people can look at them: the President, the Director of Homeworld Security, and the head of the SGC.
• Papa Wolf: Jack O'Neill views Faith and Willow as the daughters he never had
  • The Jack from “An Alternate Land” arc is ready to take a bat to Willow in defense of his daughter.
• The Pardon: After their parole is up, the President pardons the Scoobies for holding Willow captive.
• Parental Neglect: Pretty much every cast member closely associated with Sunnydale, except for Giles and Joyce (in the universes where she's alive). It's why their bonds as a Family of Choice are so strong and Dawn, in particular, views Willow leaving as a betrayal.
• Parental Sexuality Squick:
  • Averted with Joyce's girls in The Aftermath when she returns from her date
  • Played Straight when a widowed and quite alive Joyce talks about dating again and her kids don't like the idea.
• Parental Substitute:
  • Faith for Dawn in The Aftermath after Joyce's aneurysm.
  • Jack for Faith in An Extraordinary Journey. He fills the role for Willow, too, but to a lesser extent.
• Passing the Torch:
  • Discussed, then invoked in The Aftermath, where Buffy turns the job of being the Slayer in Sunnydale over to Faith.
  • Occurs during the time skip between The Aftermath and The Aftermath: The End, where all the original members of SG-1 go on to other things.
• Person of Mass Destruction: Willow's powers make them one.
• Phlebotinum Overload: The Ancient-style weapons systems on Earth ships need to be used carefully, or the naquadria used to power them will go kaboom.
• Politically Correct History: People in general, and US Military members in particular, are much more accepting of Willow's orientation and relationship with Faith than they would have been at the Turn of the Millennium.
• Polluted Wasteland: Cylon Earth. Because of radiation, it's not even safe to drink the water, and anything solid has to be decontaminated before removal.
• Power Degeneration: While possessing Willow, Anubis activates all of the latent powers in the host's body. Once Anubis leaves, having all those powers unlocked starts killing Willow.
• Power Nullifier: A device created by Sam at Willow's suggestion does this. It works on psionic and magical powers.
• The Power of the Sun: The Solaris bombs Tara came up with. Basically silent magical flashbangs that can dust vamps.
• Power-Strain Blackout: Astral projecting herself from a planet to the Prometheus where Major Carter is stuck causes Willow to faint and get a nosebleed. When she does it again, it stops her heart for a moment.
• Powered by a Forsaken Child: The demon the Shadow Men/Furlings forced into the First Slayer. To empower it, they murdered thousands of clones that Athena sent them.
• Practically Different Generations: Jay and Rose for Buffy and Dawn.
• Precision F-Strike: A couple.
  • Faith to Willow in Chapter 49 to convince Willow that she's not a hallucination.
  • Col. Feretti (by way of a translation from Satterfield) to a bunch of Colonials who are Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like.
  • In the “Going Home” arc, Willow curses out the Powers That Be in an Alternate Universe.
  • When Faith's mother tracks her down and calls her, Faith tells her to fuck off.
• Pretending to Be One's Own Relative: Deliberately averted by Willow when the Sodan mistake her for Athena.
• Promoted to Love Interest:
  • After Willow reunites with her friends from Sunnydale, eventually she and Faith get married.
  • After Lee Adama becomes a vampire and is cursed with his soul, Cally Henderson is chosen to be the spiritual anchor who will ensure that he won't lose it. While all characters make it clear that this doesn't require Lee and Cally to be anything more than friends, their subsequent psychic link prompts Lee and Cally to start spending time together for reasons that go beyond the bond, which eventually develop into deeper feelings for each other.

• Psychic Nosebleed: Using her powers too much makes Willow's nose bleed.
• Psychic Powers: Ancients. Sometimes one of their descendants will have one or two powers, too.
• Psychoactive Powers: Before they train themselves to be able to use them at will, this is the case for Willow and Dawn.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Cavil as time goes on and his grip on sanity loosens.

Q-Z

• Quitting to Get Married: When Sam marries Pete, she resigns from the Air Force. Willow convinces her to change her mind.
• Rank Up: Willow starts at the SGC as a Lieutenant, gets promoted to Captain in Chapter 27, then again to Major in Chapter 77. Dawn sees her as a Lieutenant Colonel in a dream.
  • Willow dreams about a speech being made, many years in the future, by Lieutenant General Samantha Carter. Was she Dreaming of Things to Come? Hopefully not, because that speech was next to a memorial monument that had all sorts of recognizable names on it, including Willow's.
• Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil:
  • When everyone finds out what happened, there needs to be a concerted effort to keep Jacob and Teal'c from killing Pete.
  • In some of the universes, Faith's mother, a sex worker, sold Faith to her clients for big money.
• Ready for Lovemaking: In The Aftermath, Tara and Buffy do this as part of a prank on Willow. They string her along for a bit, then jump out of bed, put on clothes, and camp out on the couch to watch trashy reality TV.
• Real Name as an Alias: Buffy is visiting Willow in Colorado Springs when Willow sees Sam approaching. The problem with introducing Buffy is that Willow had previously told her coworkers at the SGC that Buffy was dead. So Willow double checks that Anne is Buffy's middle name, and then introduces her to Sam as “Anne”.
• Really 700 Years Old: Kathy looks like she's in her early 20's, but she's only a few years younger than Angel.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Willow to the local version of the First Evil in the “Going Home” arc.
• Reasonable Authority Figure:
  • While they don't trust the Cylons, after the Ori attack the Colonial fleet, Adama and Roslin accept their appeal for surrender, even if they make it clear that both sides while have to live on separate planets.
  • When the Colonials, Cylons and the SGC make a return visit to Kobol, Natalie (the Number Six leading the Cylons) asks that the Colonials give any Cylon found on Kobol a chance to surrender as they won't know about the current situation, but accepts that the others will have a right to defend themselves if the Cylons fight back.
  • Cordy and Angel, once they take up leadership of the BPRI.
  • Jack O'Neill and George Hammond are canon examples of this, but it takes Willow a bit to believe it.
• Recursive Fanfiction: AU's of AU's.
• Reed Richards Is Useless: Averted. The materials, medicines, and technology that the Stargate program has been finding are being gradually introduced to the Earth at large. They just can't do it too quickly or they risk compromising The Masquerade.
• Rejected Marriage Proposal: Zig-zagged. When Faith proposes to Willow, Willow starts laughing and Faith's heart promptly plummets. Then Willow pulls a ring box out of her purse. She was laughing because Faith proposed a day before Willow planned to propose to her.
• Religious Bruiser: Thanks to training and experience in the Stargate program, Tara gradually becomes a badass in The Aftermath of a Mirror Journey, all while maintaining her strong faith.
• Remember the New Guy?:
  • Dylan Thompson isn't introduced until several in-story years after Willow graduates the Academy. Apparently he dated Willow back then, but they decided they were Better as Friends. He was even invited to Faith and Willow's wedding.
  • Willow knew this would be coming up in-universe in the Aftermath of a Mirror Journey reality when Dawn was created, so she left a telepathic message for her local double.
• Remember When You Blew Up a Sun?: Given that SG-1 is the trope namer, this is a given.
• Required Secondary Powers: While a modern human body can access and use one or two of the powers of an Ancient in the right circumstances and if they have the right genes, activating all of the powers will kill someone in a few days. When Anubis possesses Willow, he has the knowledge and abilities on his own to keep it from killing her. Once he leaves her, she starts dying.
• Rescue Romance: Jayden and Joyce Summers.
• The Resenter: In The Aftermath, Buffy really doesn't like that Willow gets to choose to leave Sunnydale and join the Air Force, but she can't leave the Hellmouth with no Slayer in residence. Giles and Joyce figure out a way around it: ask Faith to take over.
• Retroactive Preparation: in World's End, the various members of SG-1 who got flung back in time prepared for the future. Tara learned all sorts of powerful magic from the Nox before she and the others become Human Popsicles. Sam becomes the host for Tok'Ra queen Egeria and the two of them start an immediate military buildup, which they keep up over the intervening millenia
• The Right of a Superior Species: The mystical sect of the Furlings look at humans this way.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: After the Wraith killed her sister, Athena wanted to go on one of these, killing everything in the Pegasus Galaxy, then “salting the earth” so nothing would ever grow there again.
• Roommate Drama: When Dawn first moves in with Willow, she hates her and takes every opportunity she can to hurt Willow emotionally.
• Rouge Angles of Satin: "Yea" shows up quite a bit instead of "Yeah". Also people sometimes talk about Willow's "emphatic" abilities.
• Rule 50: Yep. In 3 different universes, no less.
• Run or Die: When SG-2 find Nirathi on a planet, they book it for the gate. They realize they're not going to make it, so they have to start improvising.
• Sadistic Choice: Willow's abilities aren't enough to defeat Adria. If she continues trying, she, and the rest of SG-1 are all dead. Or she can Ascend, which will give her enough of a power boost to win, but the Others will punish her severely for breaking the rules.
• Sarcastic Confession: Used on occasion.
  • Willow is on her laptop trying to squeeze a bit more speed and lower power consumption for the ZPM they're going to use to send the Daedalus to Atlantis. Xander wakes up and asks what she's up to instead of sleeping.
    Willow: Oh you know, just trying to see if we can do warp speed.
    Xander: Willow, all you have to do is say that it's all classified, you don't have to come up with a ridiculous reason like that.
• Scare 'Em Straight: A teenaged Athena overhears a boy boasting about how he was just interested in Hera to sleep with her. Athena threatens to throw him into a black hole.
• Schmuck Bait:
  • Really, Athena? You actually thought the Furlings would keep their word?
  • Faith tries to convince Riley that Zats aren't held the way you'd think (i.e. she tries to get him to shoot himself). Riley doesn't buy it.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!:
  • Invocation attempted by Giles after the SGC rescues Willow from captivity at the Slayer Council. It fails, because the SGC has better connections.
  • This seems to be a “Watcher” thing. Quentin Travers (head of the Council) tries this several times in The Faith Chronicles, with varying success.
• Screw Yourself: Willow has no desire to do this, but Faith is certainly interested in the idea of a threesome with two Willows when there are visits to or from alternate realities involved.
• Sealed Army in a Can: When the characters find out about the biological weapons (genetically engineered clones) Athena invented, they're very hopeful that this is Played Straight and that the clones will be helpful. It ultimately turns out to be averted, however. Except in Tara Sheppard
• Secret Legacy: Given their similar looks, Willow comes to believe she is descended from an Ancient named Athena Ren. Subverted because Willow is Athena. This is quickly Double Subverted because she finds out her father is Moros, who is better known as Merlin.
• Secret Test of Character: Giles and Wesley face one when Kennedy, Faith, and Buffy get involved in a Prove Your Worth fight against Sineya, the First Slayer and the two Watchers are Locked Out of the Fight. By deciding to try and join the fight, even at the cost of their own lives, they pass.
• Secret War: The people fighting against extraterrestrial attackers and the supernatural have to keep them secret from the public at large and the people fighting the other war. This causes problems for Willow when she returns to Sunnydale and Buffy and the others get really paranoid about why Willow won't tell them what she does.
  • After the establishment of the BPRI, there's some overlap between the two groups.
  • Disclosure day for the Stargate program is creeping closer, at which point the extraterrestrial threats won't really be secret anymore.
• Series Continuity Error:
  • Early mentions of the BPRI call it the BPIR.
  • In The Aftermath, mention is made of Sam dumping Pete, but she mentions going on a date with him several chapters later.
• Sexy Discretion Shot:The romance never really gets above PG-13. All that gets explicitly described in the text is foreplay, flirting, or the overheard sound of someone crying out.
• Shaped Like Itself: While on Atlantis, Willow identifies Angel as a "Specialist" for their upcoming fight against the Wraith.

  Lt. Ford: Sir, what kind of specialist are you?

  Angel: The special kind of specialist.

• Shipping Torpedo: It is suggested that Willow had a crush on Buffy back in Sunnydale, but any potential for a relationship ends when Buffy tries to interrogate Willow about her current assignment because she can't accept that it has nothing to do with the supernatural, although they're eventually able to become friends again.
• Shock and Awe: One of the powers of the Ancients. Using it results in electrical burns on the hand used to direct the lightning. The Healing Factor takes care of the physical damage pretty quick, but the pain lingers a while.
• Shower of Love: Willow and Faith are quite fond of showering together.
• Shut Up, Hannibal!: Willow gets a couple of instances, but she's not the only one.
  • Once against Anubis who has possessed her, Willow gets to do this.

• Faith to the Watchers' Council in The Faith Chronicles when they are about to execute her after a show trial.

• Shut Up, Kirk!: Glory to Melina and Hera while they are protecting the monks from the Order of Dagon, who are trying to hide the Key.
• Sibling Murder: Kathy is working up to this with Angel. She wants to torture him first, though.
• Sibling Team: Played With for Willow and Dawn after the latter joins the SGC, since they're a Family of Choice. Except they're both descended Ancients; the sisters Athena and Hera Ren, so it's played straight.
• Sickbed Slaying: Attempted by a Watchers' Council Special Operations team against a comatose Faith in The Aftermath. Joyce and Giles object.
• Sickening "Crunch!": Faith's ankle when Willow breaks it in the process of trying to escape from the Slayer Council.
• Side Bet: Walter, in addition to his canonical role as a Hyper-Competent Sidekick, runs numerous betting pools for SGC personnel. Some of the topics: “When will Jack O'Neill and Sam Carter get together (if ever)?”, “When will Sam divorce Pete?”, “When will Willow and Faith get engaged and/or married?”, and “Do Space Vampires exist?”.
• Silent Treatment: After the Slayer Council debacle, Dawn refuses to acknowledge anything Willow says, and the only time she talks to her is to try to hurt her.
• Sins of Our Fathers: In The Aftermath, Athena has this view about Tara, because she has some Furling DNA.
• The Slow Path: In World's End, most of SG-1 are forced to do this as human popsicles. Except Sam. She becomes host to Egeria, Queen of the Tok'Ra.
• Sole Survivor: Camille. One of the people the SGC calls in to help her is Cassie, who can definitely sympathize.
• Something Only They Would Say: Several instances.
  • An Alternate Universe version of Buffy and Dawn know that Joyce is real when she calls Dawn “My little pumpkin belly”.
  • Kathy tries to prove who she is to Angel by writing the last words he said to her while alive in blood on the wall at a house where Kathy murdered everyone. Angel refuses to believe it, insisting it must be the First Evil.
• Space Jews: Discussed by Willow when she and Faith inform Willow's parents about the Stargate program.
  Willow: They were having their own version of an exodus, escaping from genocide at the hands of a religious sect of their own people.
• Space Station: After the Prometheus almost gets destroyed by a Kill Sat, it is patched up and reconfigured into an Earth-defense space station.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Played straight, Played with, and averted. Which way it goes depends on the universe.
  • It is eventually revealed that Joyce was actually replaced by a clone by Loki, who left the original Joyce on another planet and didn't collect her before he was captured by SG-1, until Willow finds her a couple of years later.
  • Played straight for General Carter, Narim, Joyce, Tara, Anya, Spike
  • Played With for Janet Frasier. In The Aftermath, Tara gives her magical protection before she goes on the mission that got her killed in canon. In most other universes, she still dies on that mission, but Melina helps her Ascend.
• Spit Take: Buffy was, unfortunately, taking a drink of wine when Willow comes out with this..
  Willow: Yea. You have three really hot women, and Kennedy.
• Stable Time Loop: Athena hears Ira and Sheila Rosenberg talking in a diner. When a waitress refers to them as "the Doctors Rosenberg", she recognizes their names because the time-displaced version of Elizabeth Weir confused her for Willow. Athena realizes Ira and Sheila won't be able to have kids without some sort of intervention and, from that fact, deduces she is in a Stable Time Loop, with her Descending and being born as Willow being the next step in maintaining the loop.
• Starting a New Life: Willow. Leaving Sunnydale to join the Air Force is the inciting incident for both An Extraordinary Journey and Aftermath of a Mirror Journey.
  • Joyce Summers doesn't have a choice after an Alien Abduction from Loki leaves her stranded on another planet.
• Stay in the Kitchen: Pete thinks Sam should stay home and look after their (eventual) children.
• Stealth in Space: Earth-made cloaking devices, reverse engineered from the ones on Puddle Jumpers, are installed on some specially modified 302's
• Stop Worshipping Me: The Sodan revere Athena, who used her abilities as an Ascended to help them break free of the Goa'uld centuries prior. Willow looks almost exactly like her, so this reverence gets transferred to her when they meet, much to her annoyance and Faith's amusement. Things aren't helped when Willow finds out she is Athena.
• Suicide Attack: Lucian Alliance assassins sent to kill or capture SG-1 have bombs implanted in them that they can activate to take out anyone and anything nearby. One of them demolishes General O'Neill's house that Willow, Faith, and Dawn are renting.
• Suicide Mission: In a dream, Dawn sees Willow flying a cloaked puddle jumper to a ship under the command of Helena Cain that has been pounding an the Earth ship to disable or destroy it.
• Superweapon Surprise: Superdense water at the siege of Atlantis.
• Suppressed History: Yep!
  • The Shadow Men created the Slayer (that's Buffyverse canon). They never mention that much of the power they needed came from the genetically engineered clones given to them by Athena in an effort to get them to leave Sineya alone.
  • Athena deliberately invokes this when she tells the Guardians of the Ones not to mention her as the creator of the Scythe.
• Surprise Incest: Technically, anyway; when the SGC, the remaining Cylons, and the survivors of the Twelve Colonies find a survivor on the Earth of the Thirteenth Tribe, the woman, Triana, is swiftly identified as the source of the DNA used to create the Number Six Cylon models, who reveals that the Twos are based on her father. As a result, technically any Twos and Sixes who have gotten involved are committing incest, with the Two present when Triana reveals their connection quickly expressing discomfort at this revelation.
• Surprise Pregnancy: Buffy after taking several pregnancy tests, since she and Xander were always sure to use protection...except that one time they forgot.
• Survivor Guilt: Moros after Melina dies, Athena after Hera is murdered, Camille after her whole planet is killed, and Joyce after she and her children survive the Ori plague on Edina. Cassie used to have it, but got therapy.
• Sympathetic Adulterer: Gina in The Truth of Us. She knows screwing her pregnant sister's husband is wrong. She's willing to spend the rest of her life looking after her infant niece to try and atone. Linton (the husband) is portrayed far less sympathetically.
• Take a Third Option: When the Nox and the Tau'ri act as mediators to negotiate the Cylons' surrender to the Colonials, one particular point of debate is the charges to be levied against Caprica Six for her role in the sabotage of the Colonial defence network. As the Nox refuse to agree to the Colonials' desired death sentence and the Colonials naturally want her to be punished, both parties agree for Caprica Six to be exiled to another Tau'ri-affiliated world.
• Take Off Your Clothes: During the “Another Tuesday for Dawn” arc, Willow has to cut out a tracker Dan had implanted in her shoulder by the local version of the Initiative and tells her to take off her shirt. Dawn jokes that she's going to tell Faith.
• Taking You with Me: The assassins the Lucian Alliance sends after SG-1 have bombs implanted in them if they can't take out their targets.
• Talking to the Dead: Moros would often take his daughters, Athena and Hera, to Melina's grave marker. There was an interactive hologram there, so the deceased could respond, after a fashion. After Hera was murdered, a similar hologram was made for her grave marker.
• Talking with Signs: Required if people on opposite sides of an active quantum mirror wish to communicate with each other. Whiteboards certainly help.
• Tampering with Food and Drink: Sharon Valerii suspects the Earthers of this. Major Satterfield convinces her the food is not poisoned by bringing 2 and letting Sharon pick one, while Satterfield will eat the other.
• Tears of Remorse: Dawn, when she realizes what an Ungrateful Bitch she's been to Willow, and she might never get a chance to apologize, because Willow is at death's door.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Riley and Faith. Over time, the teeth unclench a little. Or they snipe at each other less, anyway.
  • Most of the groups working together to deal with the Nocturna threat in The Truth of Us.
• The Teetotaler: Willow. After getting her new, cloned body, alcohol causes some serious side effects.
• Telepathy: First shows up for Willow right after her mind was temporarily linked to Colonel O'Neil's. She doesn't go looking in peoples' heads (unless they're enemies), but if someone is “thinking too loud”, she can still pick up on the thought.
• Terrifying Rescuer: The Earthers, Colonials, and Cylons are being chased by a horde of hungry vampires. The SGC sends help, including Angel. Obviously, his “game face” doesn't do much to convince the non-Earthers that he's there to help.
• There Are No Therapists: Averted, but finding ones with the knowledge and ability to help, not to mention the security clearance, is a challenge.
• Thoroughly Mistaken Identity: Moros, after waking up, identifies the people around him with names out of Arthurian legend. Except Willow. Her he identifies as his daughter, Athena.
• A Threesome Is Hot: According to Faith, if it involves her, Willow, and one of Willow's alternates.
  • Willow in the Aftermath-verse agrees, something Tara and Buffy use to their advantage in a prank.
• Tied-Together-Shoelace Trip: In Chapter 90, Willow is annoyed at Cam and Daniel, so she uses her telekinesis to tie their shoelaces together without them noticing.
• Time Skip:
  • The story starts with Willow magically being dropped on the SGC briefing room table. After a few more chapters of setup, her 4 years at the Academy are mostly glossed over.
  • There is also a skip between the end of The Aftermath and the start of The Aftermath: The End
• To the Pain: Invoked by Willow towards Pete, after they find out everything he did to Sam. He doesn't heed the warning, and it costs him.
• Too Dumb to Live: Pete. He convinces himself that he was just seeing things when Willow threatened him, he knows that the SGC has access to all sorts of alien tech, and the people at the SGC are relentless. He still shoots Jacob and tries to kidnap Debra.

• Tracking Device: The Alternate Universe counterpart of the Initiative implants one in Dawn. Willow later removes it and flushes it down the toilet.
• Trading Bars for Stripes: Played With. Faith doesn't officially join the military, but she does sign on as a civilian specialist for the SGC.
• Tranquil Fury: Athena after the Wraith killed her sister Hera.
  • General O'Neill towards Sam at her wedding reception after Sam outs Willow.
• Transhuman Treachery: Lee Adama, after being turned, attacks President Roslin.

• Trauma Conga Line: Quite a few people are put through the wringer, such as Commander Adama having to arrest Kara for murder after Lee becomes a vampire, or Tessa (a Number Eight Cylon) spending days trapped in an old Colonial Raptor while a vampire taunts her from outside, until she manages to stake her tormentor.
• Trespassing to Talk:

• In her first trip to an Alternate Universe, the local Jack O'Neill and Samantha Carter-O'Neill suspect Willow of doing this. She's actually an astral projection and showed up in their house by accident after her body was badly injured.

• Twin Threesome Fantasy: Faith suggests several times that she wants to take Willow and an Alternate Universe version of Willow to bed at the same time.
• Underestimating Badassery: Riley to Willow when he joins the SGC. Kennedy to Willow pretty much any time, though with decreasing frequency as time passes. The Scoobies to Willow during the whole Slayer Council mess.
• Unfinished, Untested, Used Anyway: The Avalon is still under construction and missing bits when General Landry orders it to launch to aid the survivors of the battle at the supergate.
• Ungrateful Bitch:
  • Dawn after the Slayer Council debacle. Willow bends over backwards, risking her reputation and career to keep Dawn out of prison by personally vouching for her to President Hayes. Dawn then proceeds to do everything she can to hurt Willow. She eventually gets better and they reconcile.
  • Kennedy pretty much always, though the An Extraordinary Journey version of her does mellow out some.
• Universal Translator: Tara has a spell that does this in The Aftermath: The End, but it only works when on or near a planet.
• Vehicular Assault: Willow uses a Puddle Jumper to take out an Alternate Universe version of Caleb. She rams him with it, takes him into space, and then lets him experience reentry.
• Vehicular Kidnapping: Attempted by an Alternate Universe Initiative against the local Willow after they get a look at AEJ!Willow's powers. SG-1 (and Willow) foils the attempt.
• Vengeance Denied: Athena's plans to use a Clone Army to wipe out the Wraith are stopped by the Atlantis Council.
• Victim-Blaming: Attempted by Pete towards his wife, Sam, after Debra is born. It fails, spectacularly, and a Humiliation Conga ensues.
• Vocal Dissonance: Immediately after Carter uses the Goa'uld healing device to restore Willow's severed vocal cords, her voice is all scratchy and “Clint Eastwood-y”.
• Wacky Marriage Proposal: Faith takes Willow up for a night in space in a Puddle Jumper, complete with music and a picnic. What makes it even funnier is that Willow tried to do the exact same thing, but Faith had already booked the Jumper.
• Waking Non Sequitur: Willow, sometimes.
  Willow: Colonel, no, shields are down…. More coming… the Frog people are….
• Waking Up Elsewhere:
  • Happens pretty much any time someone dreams about the future.
  • Athena towards the end of The Aftermath. The last thing she remembered was preparing to Ascend, but, suddenly, she's waking up on an Asgard ship.
  • Willow at the start of the “Going Home” arc. Last she remembered, she was on a spaceship, but she's waking up in a vineyard on a planet somewhere. It's an alternate reality version of Earth.
• Walking Armory: Alternates of the Scoobies in Sunnydale during the “Going Home” arc look at Willow this way.
• War Memorial: During a dream sequence, Willow sees the “Homeworld Security Memorial”. Her name is listed among the casualties on the memorial, along with several other familiar names.
• War Refugees: The SGC tries to help any it comes across. This includes the survivors of the nuclear exchange on Tegalus; Camille, a child whose entire planetary population was killed by Cylons; and Jay, Rose, and Joyce from Edina.
• Wave-Motion Gun: The Ancient weapons systems on Earth ships can do this. They just normally don't because of the high risk of reactor overload.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist:
  • Buffy and the rest of the leadership of the Slayer Council firmly believe they're doing the right thing by holding Willow captive and attempting to force her to give up the Classified Information about what she does.
  • The Shadow Men/Furlings will do whatever they feel they have to to protect Earth from vampires and other demons. Including Human Sacrifice and reneging on a deal with a woman who, in the past, was willing to commit genocide.
  • Lord Haikon of the Sodan lets himself get talked into becoming one by a Prior of the Ori. Their first job? Exterminate the residents of a planet who are a threat to the Ori. Upon finding out they're actually simple farmers, he reconsiders.
• Wham Episode: There's a couple of these.
  • “Heroes” still is one, but for different reasons in An Extraordinary Journey and The Aftermath.
  • “A Visit to Sunnydale” (Chapters 27-29)
• Wham Line: Crops up from time to time
  • A text message received in Chapter 28 by Faith:
    Buffy: Willow threat. Take down authorized.
  • The last line of Chapter 104:
    Faith: Red isn't Athena's descendent. She is Athena.
• What Measure Is a Non-Human?:
  • As far as the Ori are concerned, the Cylons are useless to their campaign to gain worshippers as they apparently don't have souls.
  • Athena gives us a double dose of this after the Wraith murder Hera. With the biological weapons (clones designed for combat) she develops, she sees nothing wrong with putting a kill command in their genetic code that will wipe them out if they ever turn on the Ancients. She wants the Wraith wiped out, too.
    • The Furlings have a similar attitude towards the clones as Athena did when she first developed them. She changed her mind after leaving Atlantis.
• What the Hell, Hero?: several examples
  • Buffy and the rest of the Scoobies after they hold Willow prisoner.
  • Faith calls Dawn out for being an Ungrateful Bitch to Willow, to the point where Willow breaks down crying. Then Faith tells Dawn she's going to have to explain to Buffy how she hurt Willow.
  • The people of Edina to the Sodan when the latter show up to exterminate them on orders from the Ori. It triggers a Heel Realization.
• Who Would Want to Watch Us?: Angel's reaction to hearing about “The Protector”, a show the Colonials had about a mystically powered teenage girl who fights blood demons.
• With Us or Against Us: Buffy says this, pretty much verbatim, to Willow while holding the latter captive at the Slayer Council.
• Working Out Their Emotions: Faith. She also tries to get Willow to do it.
• Would Hit a Girl: Faith's father.
  • The Shadow Men a.k.a. The Mystical Sect of the Furlings to Athena.
• Would Hurt a Child: several characters.
  • Kathy. She's willing to kill anyone in an effort to get Angel's attention
  • Xan and the other Shadow Men/Furlings do this to Sineya.
  • Faith's mother in pretty much every universe, turns this up to eleven by selling her daughter to her clients.
  • Cavil wants to Kill All Humans, including children.
• Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Kathy uses this to get close to some of her victims.
• Xenafication:
  • Tara wasn't exactly a wimp, per se, in Buffy canon, but, in the Aftermath of a Mirror Journey universe, she signs on as a civilian specialist to an SG team. Specifically, memetic trouble magnet SG-1.
  • Willow. She was a Person of Mass Destruction in Buffy canon, yes, but the timeline here diverges before she reached that point. So she learns to fight under the tutelage of SG-1. When she later gets powers, she uses them, but she doesn't need them to kick ass.
• You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious: Faith reserves calling people (especially Willow) by their actual name for special occasions.
• You Can Barely Stand: Tara at the end of The Aftermath when Willow is possessed by Anubis. Physically beaten up and approaching magical exhaustion, but still fighting.
• You Can't Go Home Again: Several characters can't return home.
  • The Ancients who evacuated Atlantis to Earth, including Athena.
  • Camille after her planet's population was killed by Cylons.
  • Sineya after she is forced to become the Slayer. Specifically, the First Slayer.
  • Joyce in The Truth of Us, not that she remembers it at first.
  • Joyce in both An Extraordinary Journey and The Aftermath was marooned on a planet by Loki.
  • Trianna, since her homeworld, Cylon Earth, was nuked.