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* [[Face Full of Alien Wingwong]]: On three separate occasions, Cordelia's body has been used to grow demons, demon babies and demon messiahs.

* [[Face Heel Turn]]: {{spoiler|Skip}} and, later, {{spoiler|Knox}}.

** Showcased in "That Vision Thing", though the locals are decidedly ''un''friendly this time around.

* [[Fur Against Fang]]: Averted. Angel has no problem dating a werewolf in Season 5 (well, no problems with her lycanthropy, at least). Connor lampshades the kinkiness of this arrangement.

* [[Gambit Roulette]]: Nearly everything that happened in seasons 2, 3, and 4 are [[retcon]]ned to have been a ''massive'' [[Gambit Roulette]] all along.

** And then there was that time it snowed in Sunnydale. Hmmm...

** Interestingly enough, this tactic [[Guns Are Useless|rarely works.]] Illyria drops the bullets Matrix-style, {{spoiler|Skip's}} carapace seems to be bullet proof, and the Beast seemed more amused than hurt.

* [[Guns Are Useless]]: Despite being incredibly badass, Wesley's [[John Woo]] routine rarely works.

* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: A great number of demons (Doyle included) are some variation of this, causing no small consternation on the part of "purebloods" who wish to preserve the genetic line.

* [[Halfway Plot Switch]]: The first half of season 2 was about Angel trying to stop Wolfram & Hart's plan with Darla. He succeeds but he fires his team in the process and he tries to win them back for the rest of the season.

** How does ''[[The Grapes of Wrath]]'' <small>[[Recycled in Space|IN SPACE]]</small> grab ya?

{{quote|[on the phone] "I'm pretty sure Henry Fonda's dead, honey. ..."Bring him back to life"?!"}}

* [[I Always Wanted to Say That]]: Cordelia, while queen of Pylea, says "Off with their heads!" when asked what to do about her captured friends. She quickly says "Just kidding" and sheepishly admits she's always wanted to say that.

* [[I Can't See Myself]]: Marcus Roscoe's reaction upon [[Body Surf|bodysurfing]] into Angel.

* [[It's Personal]]: After Angel telephones Giles to learn what horrors Faith inflicted on Buffy, Wesley notices that Angel is absolutely fuming ("Five By Five").

* [[It's a Wonderful Plot]]: "Birthday", in which Cordelia witnesses a vision of her life had she never crossed paths with Angel during the pilot episode.

* [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique]]: Wesley has no qualms about sticking a few blades in people for information. Or if he's pissed off. And this is ''before'' his [[Darker and Edgier|gritty makeover]]—he's torturing people as early as Season One, which gives us this gem not long after Wesley's dorky, incompetent arrival on the show:

{{quote|"You should understand that the man I work for [[Ho Yay|means a great deal to me]]. And I will not give you a single red cent. What I will do, sir, is beat it out of you if I have to." {{[[[Impaled Palm]] pins informant's hand}} to a wall with a small, rather painful-looking crossbow bolt, and proceeds to twist it slowly] "Where is my employer?"}}

* [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope]]: Angel knows the evil things Faith had done, perhaps even more than Buffy as he had witnessed at least Faith's attempted rape and murder and it's never shown he shares this. Despite this he offers Faith sanctuary when she is so disgusted at how evil she had become she wants Angel to kill her. Buffy on the other hand is more than happy to honor that request, enraged at what Faith had done and enraged that Angel wants to reform her.