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Daylight Horror is no longer a trope, don't link it anywhere.


* DaylightHorror: Angel's messenger visits Buffy in the middle of the day during a test. The vampire burns up once exposed to the sunlight from the windows in front of the whole class.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Xander is disgusted that Buffy is willing to overlook/forgive all the crimes Angelus has committed if it means getting Angel back.

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* WhatTheHellHero: Xander is disgusted disgusted, assuming that Buffy is willing to overlook/forgive all the crimes Angelus has committed if it means getting Angel back.
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* {{Hobos}}: Angel in early 1997

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* {{Hobos}}: Angel in early 19971996

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* FailedASpotCheck: Dru alerting Angelus that there's a tomb waiting for them at the museum "with a surprise inside." Angelus marvels at his delicate seer and asks if she can see all that in her head. "No, you ninny. She read it in the morning paper," deadpans Spike, and shows him the paper with a headline reading "[-MYSTERY OBELISK UNEARTHED-]." Angelus irritably snatches it.


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* SherlockCanRead: Dru alerting Angelus that there's a tomb waiting for them at the museum "with a surprise inside." Angelus marvels at his delicate seer and asks if she can see all that in her head. "No, you ninny. She read it in the morning paper," deadpans Spike, and shows him the paper with a headline reading "[-MYSTERY OBELISK UNEARTHED-]." Angelus irritably snatches it.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Xander is absolutely correct that Buffy's willing to overlook Angelus's crimes "just so [she] can get her boyfriend back."

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* JerkassHasAPoint: Xander is absolutely correct that Buffy's willing to overlook Angelus's crimes "just so [she] can get her boyfriend back."back," though the Jerkass part is amplified by the way he interrupts Giles' support of the plan to make his point.
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* TakenForGranite: Angelus explaining the story behind Acathla. He was, of course, stabbed by the aforementioned pesky virtuous knight and turned to stone, [[NecessaryWeasel as you do]].

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* TakenForGranite: Angelus explaining the story behind Acathla. He was, of course, stabbed by the aforementioned pesky virtuous knight and turned to stone, [[NecessaryWeasel as you do]].do.
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* InternalReveal: The Scoobies finally learn that Jenny had been working on a way to restore Angel's soul (and that ''this'' is why Angelus really killed her).
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* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Angelus is later portrayed as a more... artisanal murderer. Preferring long-term crafted torments for individuals (as he's been doing to Buffy, or did to Drusilla), or especially meaningful murders/slaughters (like the favored daughter of the Kalendash tribe, or the occasional convent). However, here he decides to suck the world into hell.

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* BackForTheDead: Kendra.

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* BackForTheDead: Kendra.Kendra gets killed by Drusilla at the end of the episode.


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* BewareTheSillyOnes: Though Angel and Spike were always hyped as the Big Bads of this season, it's Drusilla that kills a Slayer.


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* TheBusCameBack: Darla returns for the first of Angel's flashbacks, and Kendra returns in the present to help fight the "dahk powa that is abut to rayse".
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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Oz once again has a box of animal crackers open in front of him in the cafeteria.

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* MysteriousWatcher: Even when he's evil, Angelus still has to get his fix of Buffy-stalking.

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* MysteriousWatcher: Even when he's evil, Angelus still has to get his fix of Buffy-stalking. Angel also got one in Whistler.


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* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: As a century old vampire who was sired in the British North American colonies, Darla ''should'' speak with an accent somewhere between [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPlpphT7n9s&ab_channel=OpenLearnfromTheOpenUniversity Shakespeare's Original Pronunciation]] and [[https://outofthiscentury.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/early-american-accents/ the Yosemite Sam sound of Abraham Lincoln]] (as a frontiersman, his accent would have been a good 50 years out of date by east coast standards, pronouncing "vermin" as "varmin" and "inaugural" as "inoggerel").
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** Buffy is revealed to be quite TheDitz (like Cordelia, even down to the GirlPosse) before she found her destiny. This will be mentioned in a later episode in which Buffy confesses she once made Cordy [[UpToEleven look deep by comparison]].

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** Buffy is revealed to be quite TheDitz (like Cordelia, even down to the GirlPosse) before she found her destiny. This will be mentioned in a later episode in which Buffy confesses she once made Cordy [[UpToEleven look deep by comparison]].comparison.

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* NiceHat: Whistler's porkpie hat.



* PrivateEyeMonologue: Whistler's narration.
** In the original cut of this episode it is Angel (not Whistler) who delivers the voice-over.

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* PrivateEyeMonologue: Whistler's narration.
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narration. In the original cut of this episode it is Angel (not Whistler) who delivers the voice-over.
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* PsychoStrings: From young Drusilla's flashback, we cut to present day Dru sashaying down Angelus' stairs to the screech of Victorian violins.

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* PsychoStrings: From young Drusilla's flashback, we cut to present day Dru sashaying down Angelus' Angelus's stairs to the screech of Victorian violins.
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* DeconstructedTrope: While Angelus put his own dark spin on StalkingIsLove, this episode subverts the [[RomanticVampireBoy Bangel romance]] with a ''Literature/{{Lolita}}'' {{subtext}} that portrays Angel as a pathetic loser motivated as much by his desire for the innocent 15-year old Buffy, as by his quest for redemption. This theme is reinforced by the Season 3 episode "Amends."

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* DeconstructedTrope: While Angelus put his own dark spin on StalkingIsLove, this episode subverts the [[RomanticVampireBoy Bangel romance]] with a ''Literature/{{Lolita}}'' {{subtext}} that portrays Angel as a pathetic loser motivated as much by his desire for the innocent 15-year old Buffy, as by his quest for redemption. This theme is reinforced by the Season 3 episode "Amends."[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E10Amends "Amends"]].
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* Overcrank: Buffy's run through the Sunnydale High School hallway on her way to the library.

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* Overcrank: {{Overcrank}}: Buffy's run through the Sunnydale High School hallway on her way to the library.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Xander is absolutely correct that Buffy's willing to overlook Angelus' crimes "just so [she] can get her boyfriend back."

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* JerkassHasAPoint: Xander is absolutely correct that Buffy's willing to overlook Angelus' Angelus's crimes "just so [she] can get her boyfriend back."
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* IronicHell: Willow apologizing that she won't be able to help Buffy prepare for finals, what with being busy with the conjuring spell and the end of the world and all. But Buffy reassures her, noting that "if we go to hell by then, I won't have to take them. [beat] Or," she reflects ominously, "I'll be taking them ''forever''."

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* IronicHell: Willow apologizing that she won't be able to help Buffy prepare for finals, what with being busy with the conjuring spell and the end of the world and all. But Buffy reassures her, noting that "if we go to hell Hell by then, I won't have to take them. [beat] Or," she reflects ominously, "I'll be taking them ''forever''."
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*Overcrank: Buffy's run through the Sunnydale High School hallway on her way to the library.

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* ArtisticLicenceBiology / BloodlessCarnage: Kendra's slashed jugular produces only the tiniest trickle of blood.

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* ArtisticLicenceBiology / BloodlessCarnage: Kendra's slashed jugular produces only the tiniest trickle of blood.



* BloodMagic: To awaken Acathla

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* BloodMagic: To awaken AcathlaAcathla.
* BloodlessCarnage: Kendra's slashed jugular produces only the tiniest trickle of blood.
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* IronicEchoCut: We cut from Angelus saying, "Soon, it'll scream" to Buffy in class yelling that a problem doesn't make any sense.
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* RockBottom[=/=]TwoRoadsBeforeYou: Angel, in his flashbacks.

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* RockBottom[=/=]TwoRoadsBeforeYou: RockBottom: Angel, in his flashbacks.flashbacks, scrounging in alleyways for rats.



* SelfImmolation[=/=]ThrowingDownTheGauntlet: Angelus' "immolation-o-gram."

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* SelfImmolation[=/=]ThrowingDownTheGauntlet: SelfImmolation: Angelus' "immolation-o-gram."
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* RitualMagic[=/=]HumanSacrifice: Angelus invokes this to awaken Acathla, killing a human and trying to use his blood. It doesn't work.

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* RitualMagic[=/=]HumanSacrifice: RitualMagic: Angelus invokes this to awaken Acathla, [[HumanSacrifice killing a human human]] and trying to use his blood. It doesn't work.
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* OralFixation[=/=]PinkMeansFeminine: SMG as pre-Sunnydale Buffy.

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* OralFixation[=/=]PinkMeansFeminine: SMG as pre-Sunnydale Buffy.OralFixation: Pre-Sunnydale Buffy is sucking on a lollipop while wearing a [[PinkIsFeminine garishly pink outfit.]]
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* HypnoticEyes[=/=]CompellingVoice: Drusilla uses a combination of the two in her fight against Kendra.

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* HypnoticEyes[=/=]CompellingVoice: HypnoticEyes: Drusilla uses a combination of the two this and a CompellingVoice in her fight against Kendra.
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* {{Cliffhanger}}[=/=]FromBadToWorse: Buffy sprinting across town, only to find she's too late; Giles has been kidnapped, her friends are injured, and Kendra lies dead on the library floor. Buffy collapses to her knees and strokes Kendra's face with her hand as a gun is raised behind her. "Freeze!" shouts a police officer. Caught red-handed.

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* {{Cliffhanger}}[=/=]FromBadToWorse: {{Cliffhanger}}: Buffy sprinting across town, only to find she's too late; Giles has been kidnapped, her friends are injured, and Kendra lies dead on the library floor. Buffy collapses to her knees and strokes Kendra's face with her hand as a gun is raised behind her. "Freeze!" shouts a police officer. Caught red-handed.
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* BookEnds[=/=]CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: As Buffy dusts her last vamp in the [[BatmanColdOpen cold open]], she gives a hand up to Xander, who has been conked out and hidden behind a headstone for this whole scene. He insists he was [[HalfTruth doing okay]] in the fight until "they resorted to fisticuffs." Later, Xander's arm is broken by a vampire, but surprisingly, he manages to fight on anyway. Ironically, he ends up being the most victorious of the non-superpowered Scoobies.

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* BookEnds[=/=]CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: BookEnds: As Buffy dusts her last vamp in the [[BatmanColdOpen cold open]], she gives a hand up to Xander, who has been conked out and hidden behind a headstone for this whole scene. He insists he was [[HalfTruth doing okay]] in the fight until "they resorted to fisticuffs." Later, Xander's arm is broken by a vampire, but surprisingly, he manages to fight on anyway. Ironically, he ends up being the most victorious of the non-superpowered Scoobies.
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* MisdirectedOutburst: When Xander insists to Buffy Angel shouldn't get his soul back and deserves to die, Cordelia, who usually snarks on Xander, says she agrees with him. Xander immediately snaps at her that he wishes she'd back him up, but immediately realizes his mistake and apologizes, turning his anger back on Buffy.

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