History Recap / BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E21WeightOfTheWorld

* {{Foreshadowing}}: For Season 6 Spuffy.

* CallBack: Willow warning Spike against attempting payback on Glory is one to her own attempt in "Seeing Red" two episodes prior, in which she tried and failed to go after Glory for attacking Tara.

* TapOnTheHead: Worried that Ben will turn back into Glory, Dawn hits him over the head with a [[ChainPain bunch of chain]]. Unfortunately, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero knocking out Ben only enables Glory to surface]].

* TapOnTheHead / NiceJobBreakingItHero: Worried that Ben will turn back into Glory, Dawn hits him over the head with a [[ChainPain bunch of chain]]. Unfortunately, knocking out Ben only enables Glory to surface.

* OutDamnedSpot: Ben starts to remember all those Glory has killed.
-->'''Ben:''' ''[staring at his hands]'' All the blood. I can feel it... still warm and... wet. Glory. Oh, God. She slaughtered hundreds of men. But I can feel them... breaking.

-->"“Buffy’s out. Glory has Dawn. Sometime real soon, she’s gonna use Dawn to tear down the barrier between every dimension there is. So if you two wanna fight, do it after the world ends, okay? Alright, first we head back to Sunnydale. Xander’ll take Giles to a hospital, Anya’s looking after Tara, and Spike, you find Glory. Check her apartment, see if she’s still there. Try anything stupid, like payback, and I will get ''very cranky''. Everyone clear?”

-->"“Buffy’s out. Glory has Dawn. Sometime real soon, she’s gonna use Dawn to tear down the barrier between every dimension there is. So if you two wanna fight, do it after the world ends, okay? Alright, first we head back to Sunnydale. Xander’ll take Giles to a hospital, Anya’s looking after Tara, and Spike, you find Glory. Check her apartment, see if she’s still there. Try anything stupid, like payback, and I will get very cranky. Everyone clear?”

* OrpheanRescue: Buffy goes catatonic, requiring a JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind by Willow to help her snap out of it.

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Creator/SarahMichell Gellar was away for a great deal of time when the end of season five was shot, as she was filming ''Film/ScoobyDoo'' in Australia, which is why she features very little in this episode. Doug Petrie told Creator/TheBBC Buffy website about how they thought of a way to overcome the problem:
-->We knew for some weeks in advance what her schedule would be like and we were all very interested in accommodating that schedule. But we had the second-to-last episode of the season and no Buffy. What do you do? [[Creator/JossWhedon Joss]] and I were both big fans of the ComicBook/DoctorStrange comics. Dr Strange was a mystic magician who lived in Greenwich Village, New York and could leave his body. His astral self would go off on these adventures.

* IWishedYouWereDead: In Buffy's mind, she repeats the same images over and over again; one of them was her placing a book back on the shelf in the Magic Shop. She explains to Willow that, in that moment, she gave up on saving Dawn and wished her little sister would die, just so the fear would be over.

-->We knew for some weeks in advance what her schedule would be like and we were all very interested in accommodating that schedule. But we had the second-to-last episode of the season and no Buffy. What do you do? Joss and I were both big fans of the ComicBook/DoctorStrange comics. Dr Strange was a mystic magician who lived in Greenwich Village, New York and could leave his body. His astral self would go off on these adventures.

* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Buffy's friends try to talk her out of her comatose state gently. Spike gets annoyed and starts shaking and hitting Buffy instead, and when the other Scoobies object points out that the Slayer's MadeOfIron nature means he doesn't have to be delicate.