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* RoughOveralls: Buffy's 'Dungarees of Depression' makes an appearance when a BroughtDownToNormal Buffy prepares to fight a vampire that kidnapped her mother. Likely the extra pockets is needed as without her strength, Buffy is down to making use of holy water and stakes.
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* HypocriticalHumor: Xander enjoys Buffy's weakness because he can do manly things like open peanut butter jars for her, then finds he can't open the jar either.
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* HypocriticalHumor: Xander enjoys Buffy's weakness because he can do manly things like [[ImpossiblePickleJar open peanut butter jars jars]] for her, then finds he can't open the jar either.
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* WouldHitAGirl: A douchebag guy knocks Powerless!Buffy over a stone bench after she attempts and fails to protect Cordelia from getting physically roughed up. [[BerserkButton Cordy, to her credit, absolutely is livid at seeing Buffy get hurt.]]
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* OutOfCharacter:
** Buffy is supposed to be as weak as a regular person, but somehow manages to topple a full bookshelf onto a vampire in a split second.
** A vampire takes several mouthfuls of holy water, swallows them and only several seconds later notices that it burns like hell. FridgeBrilliance: He had already been shown to have a high tolerance to pain.
** Buffy is supposed to be as weak as a regular person, but somehow manages to topple a full bookshelf onto a vampire in a split second.
** A vampire takes several mouthfuls of holy water, swallows them and only several seconds later notices that it burns like hell. FridgeBrilliance: He had already been shown to have a high tolerance to pain.
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* ThePowerOfLove: Giles loves Buffy like a father. This gets him fired, but it cements their relationship and helps Buffy as a slayer.
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* {{Foil}}: Quentin Travers serves as one to Giles. He's also an older British man in three piece tweed (with leather elbow patches, no less) who tells the Slayer what to do. However, Giles cares about Buffy, Travers could give half a shit. Giles wants to help Buffy be her best self; Travers wants her to be an obedient weapon.
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* StrawMisogynist: This the first time we get direct interaction with the Watcher's Council (previously, we only got Giles struggling to get them to help him over the phone). They quickly establish themselves, through Travers, as controlling {{Jerkass}} hateful old men.
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* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Buffy and Angel both realize that his [[StealthPun heartwarming metaphor]] would, if taken literally, be creepy as hell.
-->'''Angel:''' Because I could see your heart. You held it before you for everyone to see. And I worried that it would be bruised or torn. And more than anything in my life, I wanted to keep it safe. To warm it with my own. \\
[they embrace]\\
'''Buffy:''' That's beautiful. Or taken literally, incredibly gross.\\
'''Angel:''' I was just thinking that, too.
-->'''Angel:''' Because I could see your heart. You held it before you for everyone to see. And I worried that it would be bruised or torn. And more than anything in my life, I wanted to keep it safe. To warm it with my own. \\
[they embrace]\\
'''Buffy:''' That's beautiful. Or taken literally, incredibly gross.\\
'''Angel:''' I was just thinking that, too.
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** The watchers preparing the Cruciamentum treat dealing with Kralik like they're a couple with a newborn baby.
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* ToBeLawfulOrGood: Giles spends the episode wrestling with his conscience; should he do what's best for Buffy or should he do what the Council tells him? He ultimately comes down on the side of good, and is fired as a result.
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** Buffy's love of ice skating, from "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E9WhatsMyLinePart1 What's My Line]]".
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** Buffy's love of ice skating, from "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E9WhatsMyLinePart1 What's My Line]]".Line]]", returns in the form of her birthday ice show tradition with her father.
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* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: The episode ends with Giles fired by the Watcher's Council and they promise to send a new Watcher to more appropriately control Buffy and Faith.
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* ParentalSubstitute: After Buffy's DisappearedDad fails to take her to the ice show, Buffy drops a big hint that Giles could take her instead.
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* ParentalSubstitute: After Buffy's DisappearedDad fails to take her to the ice show, Buffy drops a big hint that Giles could take her instead. The Watcher's Council agrees that Giles is her real father, and fires him, because a real Watcher should be willing to let their Slayer die.
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* NotImportantToThisEpisodeCamp: Faith's plot-necessary absence (otherwise Buffy would have got her help re saving Joyce).
-->'''Buffy:''' Sorry. It's just with Faith on one of her unannounced walkabouts, I feel like somebody should be patrolling.
-->'''Buffy:''' Sorry. It's just with Faith on one of her unannounced walkabouts, I feel like somebody should be patrolling.
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* AdultFear: After losing her powers, even a couple of louts making rude remarks as she walks home makes Buffy nervous.
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* DissonantSerenity: Quentin drinks tea from a china cup while calmly discussing Buffy's impending peril.
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* SpotOfTea: Quentin drinks tea from a china cup while [[MoodDissonance calmly discussing Buffy's impending peril]].
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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Giles is fired as Buffy's Watcher; he won't be reinstated until [[spoiler:"[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E12Checkpoint Checkpoint]]" in Season 5.]]
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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Giles is fired as Buffy's Watcher; he [[spoiler:he won't be reinstated until [[spoiler:"[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E12Checkpoint "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E12Checkpoint Checkpoint]]" in Season 5.]]
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does it in any way other than the red coat, though, which could just as easily be little red riding hood? there's no couple, no dead child
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* {{Homage}}: This episode pays homage to ''Film/DontLookNow'', where a couple's love and resolve is tested after their child drowns.
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* RuleOfSymbolism: Buffy's [[FightingInThePlayground first fight]] is in a [[AbandonedPlayground playground at night]], with all the 'leave childhood behind' metaphors that implies.
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* RuleOfSymbolism: Buffy's [[FightingInThePlayground first fight]] is in a [[AbandonedPlayground playground at night]], with all the 'leave childhood behind' metaphors that implies. When running down the dark streets powerless, she wears a red hood, invoking Little Red Riding Hood.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: After a rather... intense training session with Angel, Buffy is sat down with Giles revising the effects of crystals, and is rather fidgety. At one point she twiddles a rather long and thin crystal, and when Giles asks her if she's alright she responds:
-->'''Buffy:''' I guess that... I just have some... energy to burn.
* DoubleEntendre: Buffy teasing Angel that she's seeing an older man who "likes it when I call him Daddy." Angel's worried for a moment.
-->'''Buffy:''' I guess that... I just have some... energy to burn.
* DoubleEntendre: Buffy teasing Angel that she's seeing an older man who "likes it when I call him Daddy." Angel's worried for a moment.
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%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
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* PreAssKickingOneLiner: {{Subverted}}: Buffy gets BroughtDownToNormal for the duration, which also neuters her ability to deliver a suitable line when she finally managed to defeat the bad guy
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* PreAssKickingOneLiner: {{Subverted}}: Buffy gets BroughtDownToNormal for the duration, which also neuters her ability to deliver a suitable line when she finally managed to defeat the bad guyguy.
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no tropes without examples.
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* BondOneLiner: It's implied that this is one of Buffy's Slayer powers. She remarks to the recently-defeated Kralik, "If I were at full Slayer strength, I'd probably be punning about now."
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* {{Homage}}: This episode pays homage to ''Film/DontLookNow'', where a couple's love and resolve is tested after their child drowns.
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* DisappearedDad: This episode [[CharacterisationMarchesOn marks a change]] from Buffy's father simply being estranged from Joyce, to one who refuses to turn up even when Buffy needs him such as during Joyce's funeral.
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* DisappearedDad: This episode [[CharacterisationMarchesOn marks a change]] from Buffy's father simply being estranged from Joyce, to one who refuses to turn up even when Buffy needs him such as during Joyce's funeral.[[spoiler:Joyce's funeral]].
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** Buffy gripes about being the responsible Slayer while Faith is out having fun--in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E14BadGirls Bad Girls]]" after Giles is replaced by a less competent Watcher, Buffy starts exploring her delinquent side with Faith.
** Buffy's disillusionment with the Watchers' Council starts here, eventually leading to her resignation in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E21GraduationDayPart1 Graduation Day, Part 1]]".
** Buffy's disillusionment with the Watchers' Council starts here, eventually leading to her resignation in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E21GraduationDayPart1 Graduation Day, Part 1]]".
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** Buffy gripes about being the responsible Slayer while Faith is out having fun--in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E14BadGirls Bad Girls]]" after Giles is replaced by a less competent Watcher, Buffy starts [[spoiler:starts exploring her delinquent side with Faith.
Faith]].
** Buffy's disillusionment with the Watchers' Council starts here, eventually leading to herresignation [[spoiler: resignation]] in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E21GraduationDayPart1 Graduation Day, Part 1]]".
** Buffy's disillusionment with the Watchers' Council starts here, eventually leading to her
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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Giles is fired as Buffy's Watcher; he won't be reinstated until "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E12Checkpoint Checkpoint]]" in Season 5.
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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Giles is fired as Buffy's Watcher; he won't be reinstated until "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E12Checkpoint [[spoiler:"[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E12Checkpoint Checkpoint]]" in Season 5.]]
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* WhoAreYou: Buffy asks this of Giles when she finds out he betrayed her. It's a fair question--we see more of this Giles who's willing to betray Buffy for the greater good in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E22TheGift The Gift]]" and "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E17LiesMyParentsToldMe Lies My Parents Told Me]]".
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* WhoAreYou: Buffy asks this of Giles when she finds out he betrayed her. It's a fair question--we question--[[spoiler: we see more of this Giles who's willing to betray Buffy for the greater good in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E22TheGift The Gift]]" and "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E17LiesMyParentsToldMe Lies My Parents Told Me]]".]]
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** After a rather... intense training session with Angel, Buffy is sat down with Giles revising the effects of crystals, and is rather fidgety. At one point she twiddles a [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything rather long and thin crystal]], and when Giles asks her if she's alright she responds:
--->'''Buffy:''' I guess that... I just have some... energy to burn.
** Buffy teasing Angel that she's seeing an older man who "likes it when I call him Daddy." Angel's worried for a moment.
** After a rather... intense training session with Angel, Buffy is sat down with Giles revising the effects of crystals, and is rather fidgety. At one point she twiddles a [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything rather long and thin crystal]], and when Giles asks her if she's alright she responds:
--->'''Buffy:''' I guess that... I just have some... energy to burn.
** Buffy teasing Angel that she's seeing an older man who "likes it when I call him Daddy." Angel's worried for a moment.
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** After a rather... intense training session with Angel, BuffyGettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is sat down with Giles revising on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the effects of crystals, and is rather fidgety. At one point she twiddles a [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything rather long and thin crystal]], and when Giles asks her if she's alright she responds:
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** Buffy teasing Angel that she's seeing an older man who "likes it when I call him Daddy." Angel's worried for a moment.make sure your example fits the current definition.
** After a rather... intense training session with Angel, Buffy
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** Buffy teasing Angel that she's seeing an older man who "likes it when I call him Daddy." Angel's worried for a moment.
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* TooKinkyToTorture: Buffy tries to ward off Kralik with a cross. Kralik presses it to his body and enjoys the pain, [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar telling her to move it lower]].
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* TooKinkyToTorture: Buffy tries to ward off Kralik with a cross. Kralik presses it to his body and enjoys the pain, [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar telling her to move it lower]].lower.
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* DisappearedDad: This episode [[CharacterisationMarchesOn marks a change]] from Buffy's father simply being estranged from Joyce, to one who refuses to turn up even when Buffy needs him [[spoiler:such as during Joyce's funeral.]]
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* DisappearedDad: This episode [[CharacterisationMarchesOn marks a change]] from Buffy's father simply being estranged from Joyce, to one who refuses to turn up even when Buffy needs him [[spoiler:such such as during Joyce's funeral.]]
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* DisappearedDad: This episode [[CharacterisationMarchesOn marks a change]] from Buffy's father simply being estranged from Joyce, to one who refuses to turn up even when Buffy needs him such as during Joyce's funeral.
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* DisappearedDad: This episode [[CharacterisationMarchesOn marks a change]] from Buffy's father simply being estranged from Joyce, to one who refuses to turn up even when Buffy needs him such [[spoiler:such as during Joyce's funeral.]]
