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-->'''Marcus:''' Illyria destroyed 11 torture units before she found your man. 2 troop carriers, an ice cream truck, and 8 beautifully maintained lawns.



* BatmanGambit

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-->'''Lorne:''' That's funny. I didn't even see her leave.
-->'''Spike:''' Well, that's the problem. You don't always see her when she's-- (explodes into ash, revealing Illyria behind him with a stake)



* PowerIncontinence: Her physical form proves to unstable to contain her essence. She's forced to power down permanently, or else explode.

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* PowerIncontinence: Her Illyria's physical form proves to unstable to contain her essence. She's forced to power down permanently, or else explode.



* [[StakingTheLovedOne Striking the Loved One]]

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* [[StakingTheLovedOne Striking the Loved One]]One]]: Subverted with Illyria and Spike -- he doesn't care if she has Fred's body, even though Fred was his buddy.
-->'''Illyria:''' You held affection for this shell, and yet you strike at its form without remorse.


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* TakingTheBullet: Realising Spike is about to die (again), Angel shoves him aside, taking Illyria's stake in his gut.

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* IncrediblyObviousTail: Angel gets Lorne to follow Illyria around. Needless to say a [[HatCoatMask hat, blue suit and dark sunglasses]] aren't much of a disguise for a flamboyant green-skinned demon.

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* IncrediblyObviousTail: Angel gets Lorne to follow Illyria around. Needless to say a [[HatCoatMask [[PaperThinDisguise hat, blue suit and dark sunglasses]] aren't much of a disguise for a flamboyant green-skinned demon.



* LaymansTerms

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* LaymansTermsLaymansTerms: Spike's engine-leak analogy.



* RoomFullOfCrazy

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* RoomFullOfCrazyRoomFullOfCrazy: Gunn watches uneasily as Wesley beavers away in his office strewn with TomeOfEldritchLore, obsessively gathering every fact he can on Illyria. Lorne later warns him to stay away from there. "That's where he keeps his full-strength crazy!"
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* IncrediblyObviousTail: Angel gets Lorne to follow Illyria around. Needless to say his hat and dark sunglasses aren't much of a disguise for a flamboyant green-skinned demon.
-->I repeat, [[SpySpeak Bluebird got wise. Secret Demon's cover is blown.]] Over. Hel-hello?! Is this on? (puts the walkie-talkie away) Hey, Leery, now, when did you catch on to me? In the elevator? That was a tough one.

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* IncrediblyObviousTail: Angel gets Lorne to follow Illyria around. Needless to say his hat a [[HatCoatMask hat, blue suit and dark sunglasses sunglasses]] aren't much of a disguise for a flamboyant green-skinned demon.
-->I -->"I repeat, [[SpySpeak Bluebird got wise. Secret Demon's cover is blown.]] Over. Hel-hello?! Is this on? (puts (Lorne puts the walkie-talkie away) Hey, Leery, now, when did you catch on to me? In the elevator? That was a tough one. one."

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* BatmanGambit



* DoNotTauntCthulhu: Pretty much a RunningGag in this episode. Angel, Wesley and Spike all test their DeadpanSnarker skills on Illyria.

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* DoNotTauntCthulhu: Pretty much a RunningGag in this episode. Angel, Wesley and Spike all test their DeadpanSnarker skills on Illyria.flirt with death by deliberately pissing off a PhysicalGod.



* SenseiForScoundrels: Can't believe Angel is actually ''wangsting'' over ''being the head of a multi-billion dollar conglomerate''. At the end of the episode, Angel takes her words to heart.

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* SenseiForScoundrels: Can't Illyria can't believe Angel is actually ''wangsting'' ''{{wangst}}ing'' over ''being the head of a multi-billion dollar conglomerate''. At the end of the episode, Angel takes her words to heart.



* ShutUpHannibal

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* ShutUpHannibalShutUpHannibal: Angel to Illyria.
-->"My God, the speechifying. Has it ever occurred to you that now might not be the best time for [[PunyEarthlings when-we-were-muck]] stories?"



* WithFriendsLikeThese

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* WithFriendsLikeTheseWithFriendsLikeThese: Illyria frees Gunn and wipes out their profit margin at the same time.
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* DoNotTauntCthulhu: Pretty much a RunningGag in this episode.

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* DoNotTauntCthulhu: Pretty much a RunningGag in this episode. Angel, Wesley and Spike all test their DeadpanSnarker skills on Illyria.



-->'''Spike:''' "Dear {{Penthouse}}, I don't normally write letters like this, but--" (Illyria [[TalkToTheFist punches him in the face]]) Oh, ho ho!

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-->'''Spike:''' "Dear {{Penthouse}}, Penthouse, I don't normally write letters like this, but--" (Illyria [[TalkToTheFist punches him in the face]]) Oh, ho ho!

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* ILied



* IncrediblyObviousTail / SpySpeak

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* IncrediblyObviousTail / SpySpeakIncrediblyObviousTail: Angel gets Lorne to follow Illyria around. Needless to say his hat and dark sunglasses aren't much of a disguise for a flamboyant green-skinned demon.
-->I repeat, [[SpySpeak Bluebird got wise. Secret Demon's cover is blown.]] Over. Hel-hello?! Is this on? (puts the walkie-talkie away) Hey, Leery, now, when did you catch on to me? In the elevator? That was a tough one.



* LaymansTerms



* PocketDimension



* TalkingToPlants: MindMeld with a potted fern.

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* {{Take Over the World}}: Wes predicts that Illyria will never quit her pursuit of this.
* TalkingToPlants: MindMeld According to Spike, Illyria spent two hours {{Mind Meld}}ing with a potted fern.
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* YouOweMe

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* YouOweMeYouOweMe
* YouRemindMeOfX: Gunn describes the worst of his StepfordSuburbia being the buried knowledge that the the happy facade concealed horrors without ever being able to know what they were. Angel, who had his son's memories wiped and placed him with a happy, suburban family to conceal the horrors of his past, is silently but noticeably troubled by the description.

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* BecomingTheMask

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* BecomingTheMaskBecomingTheMask: Illyria accuses Wesley of betrayal, then realises that the fact that it bothers her is more disturbing.



-->'''Wesley:''' This is a Mutari generator. It creates a pinhole to an infinite extra-dimensional space, a negatively charged [[PocketDimension pocket universe]], that should draw her radiant essence, her power, into itself.



* DeadpanSnarker

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* DeadpanSnarkerDeadpanSnarker: Wesley mood-shifts between this and the ragged edge of lunacy.



* DescriptionCut: "more violent". Cut to her punching Spike in the training room.

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* DescriptionCut: "more violent". Cut DescriptionCut / BitingTheHandHumor
-->'''Wesley:''' She's monumentally self-possessed. She still thinks she's the god-king of the universe.
-->'''Gunn:''' So she's like a TV star.
-->'''Wesley:''' No, nothing that bad. Bit more violent, though.
-->''(Cut
to her Illyria punching Spike in across the training room.room)''



-->'''Illyria:''' When the world met me, it shuddered, groaned. It knelt at my feet!
-->'''Spike:''' "Dear {{Penthouse}}, I don't normally write letters like this, but--" (Illyria [[TalkToTheFist punches him in the face]]) Oh, ho ho!
-->'''Illyria:''' Illyria was all they needed to know.
-->'''Spike:''' (rubbing his jaw) Then came the Internet.



* TheNicknamer: "[[PaulBunyan Babe the Blue Ox]]"
* NotHerself: Illyria. Wes too is starting to worry his friends with his obsession with her.

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* TheNicknamer: Illyria is called "[[PaulBunyan Babe the Blue Ox]]"
Ox]]" (by Spike) and "Our Lady of the Blue Bummer" (by Lorne).
* NotHerself: Illyria. Wes Wesley too is starting to worry his friends with his obsession with her.



* SelfHarm

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* SelfHarmSelfHarm / LaserGuidedKarma: The Wrath
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* BetterToDieThanBeKilled

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* BetterToDieThanBeKilledBetterOffDead

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* AllTheMyriadWays



* GoodCostumeSwitch: Gunn now wears the hooded sweatshirt of his gangbanger days, rather than the natty suit he wore after his brain upgrade.



* LaughingMad: Wesley gives some rather disturbing giggles when discussing Illyria.

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* LaughingMad: Wesley gives has a tendency to give some rather disturbing giggles when discussing Illyria.Illyria.
* TheMagnificent: "I am Illyria, [[GodEmperor God-King of the Primordium]], Shaper of Things!"



* TheNicknamer: "Babe the Blue Ox"

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* TheNicknamer: "Babe "[[PaulBunyan Babe the Blue Ox"Ox]]"
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Illyria rescues Gunn. She then finds herself moving back and forth in time.

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Illyria rescues Gunn. She then finds herself Gunn so Team Angel will owe her a favour. But when she starts moving back and forth in time.
time, she becomes convinced they want her dead.

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* HolyChild / HumanSacrifice

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* HolyChild / HumanSacrificeHolyChild
* HumanSacrifice: The rites of Gordabach.



* NeckLift


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* PocketDimension
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* CompletelyMissingThePoint

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* CompletelyMissingThePointCompletelyMissingThePoint: Illyria steps through a portal into Angel's office, with Gunn in a NeckLift. She asks how much he's worth to them. Angel {{Death Glare}}s and snarls threats; Wesley quickly steps in saying they are grateful to her for rescuing their valued friend. Satisfied that she's got a marker from Team Angel, Illyria tosses Gunn at their feet and strides off.



* DescriptionCut

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* DescriptionCutDescriptionCut: "more violent". Cut to her punching Spike in the training room.
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** She describes vampires as "The ooze that eats itself."
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* EnemyMine

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* EnemyMineEnemyMine: Marcus tips off Wesley as to what's wrong with Illyria in the hope Team Angel will destroy her -- the Senior Partners know her of old and they ''really' don't want her around. Angel realises she's more useful as an ally against the Senior Partners than dead.

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* AllTheMyriadWays



* BreadEggsMilkSquick
-->'''Gunn:''' No, hang on. I just wanna get this clause straight. "The child will be pampered, worshipped, and fed a holy diet of berries, [[ExoticEntree panda meat]], and urine."
-->'''Fell leader:''' Well, it's consecrated urine.



* CurbStompBattle: Illyria wipes out Team Angel in less than a minute, without even slowing down time.



* DealWithTheDevil: Amanda's husband can no longer work due to brain damage from a workplace injury, and they can't afford to raise a child. The Fell Brethren has promised to cure her husband and raise her child in a dimension where he will be worshiped as holy.



* EnemyMine



* HolyChild

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* HolyChildHolyChild / HumanSacrifice



* LaughingMad
* MoodWhiplash

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* LaughingMad
KilledMidSentence: Spike
* MoodWhiplashLaughingMad: Wesley gives some rather disturbing giggles when discussing Illyria.
* MoodWhiplash: The Fell Brethren are cooing over Amanda and her child; meanwhile Gunn is trying to get her to look at the fine print of the contract she has to sign. Gunn suddenly realises the child will be sacrificed and is blurting this out when the Fell leader pounds the table and shouts, ''"WHOSE LAWYER ARE YOU?!"''



* NotHerself

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* NotHerselfNotHerself: Illyria. Wes too is starting to worry his friends with his obsession with her.

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* PowerIncontinence: Her physical form proves to unstable to contain her essence. She's forced to power down permanently, or else explode.



* SenseiForScoundrels

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* SenseiForScoundrelsSenseiForScoundrels: Can't believe Angel is actually ''wangsting'' over ''being the head of a multi-billion dollar conglomerate''. At the end of the episode, Angel takes her words to heart.
-->'''Illyria:''' A true ruler is as moral as a hurricane, empty but for the force of his gale. But you... trapped in the web of the Wolf, the Ram, the Hart. So much power here! And you quibble at its price. If you want to win a war, you must serve no master but your own ambition.


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* WhatTheHellHero: Angel hands the pregnant woman over to the Fell Brethren.

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* AloofAlly



* UnstuckInTime



* UnstuckInTime

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* UnstuckInTimeWithFriendsLikeThese

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* CompletelyMissingThePoint



* DoNotTauntCthulhu: Pretty much a RunningGag in this episode.



* IllKillYou
-->'''Illyria:''' Touch me and die, vermin.



* NeckLift



* TemptingFate: "Bill me."

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* TalkingToPlants: MindMeld with a potted fern.
* TemptingFate: "Bill me."" "We will."
* ThisCannotBe: Angel's reaction to jumping forward in time and finding Team Angel massacred.


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-->'''Angel:''' All the evil we've stopped so far, and we're still the partners' number-one earner.
-->'''Hamilton:''' (walking in unannounced) Not anymore. Let me ask you something, Angel. Have you ever heard the term "surgical strike"?
-->'''Angel:''' Ever heard the term "appointment"?
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* BetterToDieThanBeKilled
-->'''Illyria:''' You want to take my power... to let me live. But [[IAmTheNoun I am my power]]. And I would rather be a titanic crater than to be like unto you.


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* FalseReassurance
-->'''Spike:''' It's not murder if you say yes.


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* PunyEarthlings: Loads of this from Illyria.
-->"Jealousy. Plankton envying the ocean that holds them."


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* ShutUpHannibal

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Illyria finds herself moving back and forth in time.

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Illyria rescues Gunn. She then finds herself moving back and forth in time.


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* {{BFG}}


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* IncrediblyObviousTail / SpySpeak


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* MoodWhiplash


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* NotHerself

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Illyria finds herself moving back and forth in time.

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking
* BattleDiscretionShot / OpenSaysMe / PunchedAcrossTheRoom
* BecomingTheMask



* DeadpanSnarker
* DescriptionCut



* {{Hiroshima As a Unit of Measure}}: Wesley's conservative guess of the destruction caused by Illyria's implosion: Several city blocks. Angel requests an "unconservative" guess. Wes: "Rand & McNally will have to redraw their maps."

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* DramaticNecklaceRemoval
* {{Hiroshima As a Unit of Measure}}: Wesley's conservative guess of the destruction caused by Illyria's implosion: Several city blocks. Angel requests an "unconservative" guess. Wes: "Rand & McNally [=McNally=] will have to redraw their maps."



* InadvertentEntranceCue: Inverted
* LaughingMad
* TheNicknamer: "Babe the Blue Ox"



* RoomFullOfCrazy
* SelfHarm



* [[StakingTheLovedOne Striking the Loved One]]
* TemptingFate: "Bill me."



* UnstuckInTime

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* UnstuckInTimeTroubleEntendre: Angel says they need to get rid of Illyria. Spike asks "Pasture or slaughterhouse?"
* WalkInChimeIn
* UnstuckInTime
* YouOweMe

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-> '''[[ManOfWealthAndTaste Marcus]]:''' Curing cancer, Mr. Wyndam-Pryce? \\

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-> --> '''[[ManOfWealthAndTaste Marcus]]:''' Curing cancer, Mr. Wyndam-Pryce? \\


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* SenseiForScoundrels
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* DePower


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* PoorCommunicationKills: Why would Wes claim the device would kill her, seeing as Angel wanted Illyria depowered anyway?
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-> '''[[ManOfWealthAndTaste Marcus]]:''' Curing cancer, Mr. Wyndam-Pryce? \\
'''[[KnightInSourArmor Wesley]]:''' Wouldn't be cost-effective. I'm sure we make a lot from cancer. \\
'''Marcus:''' Yes, [[OccultLawFirm the patent holder is a client]].
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* HolyChild

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* HiroshimaAsAUnitOfMeasure

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* HiroshimaAsAUnitOfMeasure{{Hiroshima As a Unit of Measure}}: Wesley's conservative guess of the destruction caused by Illyria's implosion: Several city blocks. Angel requests an "unconservative" guess. Wes: "Rand & McNally will have to redraw their maps."
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* HiroshimaIsAUnitOfMeasure

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* HiroshimaIsAUnitOfMeasureHiroshimaAsAUnitOfMeasure
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* CureForCancer
* HiroshimaIsAUnitOfMeasure
* TimeBomb
* UnstuckInTime

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