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* [[Battle Couple]]: With Angel, Riley, and later Spike (once he's been re-ensouled).
* [[Berserk Button]]: Faith was this for Buffy for a good while. [[Wrongfully Accused|Can't]] [[Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil|possibly]] [[Violently Protective Girlfriend|imagine]] [[Grand Theft Me|why]].
* [[Big Brother Instinct|Big Sister Instinct]]: To Dawn.
* [[Blessed with Suck]]
* [[Book Dumb]]: To an extent. Truth be told, much of her Book Dumbness comes from just being too busy saving humanity to study.
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* [[Break the Cutie]]
* [[Cannot Spit It Out]]: Behaves like this toward Xander in Season One.
* [[The Chick]]: In the first few seasons before Faith shows up.
* [[Clipped-Wing Angel]]: After Tara was mindsucked, Willow got amped up on magic and attacked Glory, actually succeeding in hurting her... for a few seconds. Then she got her ass beat.
* [[Covert Pervert]]: She's played by [[Alyson Hannigan]], so hell yeah.
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** "Two to Go": ''There's no one on this earth who has the power to stop me now''. (Giles blasts her with a fireball)
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Mocha coffee.
* [[Tragic Bromance|Tragic Womance]]: Her refusal to lose Buffy pushes her to take more risks with magic than ever before. The resurrection leaves her so high off success that she responds to Giles's concern with threats, setting most of her season six arc into motion.
* [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]]
** Completely subverted in that when she and Xander do get together, she decides she doesn't want him. Then, when she was in a rut with Oz, she discovered that she prefers Tara. She actually has a tendency to make the other person the [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]].
* [[Unstoppable Rage]]: Willow goes into one when Glory sucks Tara's mind, and again when Warren {{spoiler|shoots and kills Tara}}.
* [[Villainous Widow's Peak]]: Willow wears one naturally. It becomes this once she morphs into Dark Willow.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: Word of Joss says the door was left open for either Xander or Willow to come out of the closet. Willow's backdoor was set up in "Doppelgangland" (see Wishverse Willow), and let's not forget Xander and Larry ("[[Mistaken for Gay|Your secret's safe with me!]]"). Seth Green left the show to pursue other projects, and this sealed Willow's fate.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: In Season 6, Dawn slaps her after almost killing her in a car crash and Tara leaves her after she [[Mind Rape|screwed with Tara's head]].
** Tara left her because she promised to not do magic for a week but couldn't last even a day.
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* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Even among an entire cast of snarkers, Xander reigns supreme.
* [[Easy Amnesia]]: [[Exploited]]. After Xander is possessed by hyenas, he tells Buffy and Willow he has no memory of it, but when Giles confronts him, he confesses that he was lying so he wouldn't have to talk about it.
** In Season 2 he inadvertently reveals he was lying.
* [[Embarrassing Middle Name]]
* [[Even Nerds Have Standards]]: His interactions with Andrew Wells.
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* [[Eye Scream]]: See above.
** At least he gets to be [[Nick Fury]] now, right?
* [[The Face]]: He lacks the supernatural powers of his teammates, but is best friends with Buffy and Willow to the end. His storylines tends to revolve around interpersonal relationships, and, as the most consistent of the Scooby Gang, he interacts with everyone.
** [[The Heart]]: It's made clear more than once that Xander's strength doesn't lie in battle or conjuring spells, but in his interpersonal skills which hold the group together and keep them sane despite all the insanity swirling around them. {{spoiler|He brought Willow back from the brink by telling her he loved her.}}
* [[Fatal Attractor]]: All of his dates are demons. ''All'' of them.
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** Another showed him losing it, and it was the least of what happened that night. See "The Zeppo."
* [[The Masochism Tango]]: With Cordelia.
* [[Mission Control]]: Often served in this capacity for the Slayer Organization.
* [[Non-Action Guy]]: Although he doesn't always accept this.
** And his friends wish he were.
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* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: ''Indeed''.
* [[British Stuffiness]]: "He makes that 'tut tut' sound when he's angry but too British to say anything."
** At least to others. Early in Season 3, Joyce acquires an artifact that summons zombies. When he finds out, Giles is pissing and moaning in his car:
{{quote|"'[[Sarcasm Mode|Do you like my mask? Isn't it pretty? It raises the dead.']] ''Americans!''"}}
* [[The Cast Showoff]]: He was the first to show off his awesome singing voice.
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* [[The Extremist Was Right]]: Along with the other Watchers.
* [[Fake Guest Star]]: Throughout Season Seven. But we'll act conciliatory and call him a Super-Duper Extra Special Guest Star.
* [[Foe Yay]]: Two words -- Ethan Rayne.
* [[Former Teen Rebel]]: Most of his friends from his rebellious twentysomethings still call him "Ripper."
* [[Gentleman Snarker]]
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{{quote|""I know I'm back in America now; I've been knocked unconscious."}}
* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]}}: {{spoiler|Giles got between a Twilight possessed Angel and Buffy as they fought near the Seed of Wonder, wielding the Scythe to try and destroy the Seed himself and end Twilight's invasion of Earth, or get killed by Twilight and give Buffy the motivation she needed to take the Scythe and end things herself.}}
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Pre-series-he used to be pretty much evil in his younger days, practicing dark magic and stuff like that and and was known as Ripper.
* [[Helping Would Be Killstealing]]: Giles in the sixth season of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. {{spoiler|He chose to abandon Buffy because he felt that she was limiting herself by clinging to him in a immature way.}} In principle he had good reasons, but he chose to make his stand right in the middle of a crisis, and forbade everyone else from helping Buffy. That can only vaguely be justified by him following musical logic at the time.
* [[Hopeless with Tech]]
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* [[And Your Little Dog, Too]]: He meant ''actual'' dogs.
** Giles' profile on Angelus suggests that he will lash out at everything that made him feel human. Buffy tops the list.
* [[The Atoner]]
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* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]: Liam always wanted to get out of Galway and see the world. So naturally, he jumped at Darla's offer to see it together.
* [[Big Bad]]
* [[Big Fancy House]]: A creepy, art deco mansion on the edge of town. Angelus moves into the abandoned residence along with Drusilla and Spike.
* [[The Champion]]: He appointed himself as Buffy's guardian shortly after she was called as a Slayer.
* [[The Corrupter]]: Angelus, in his past.
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* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]
* [[Deuteragonist]]
* {{spoiler|[[Dying as Yourself]]}}: Reversed when he came back.
* [[Enemy Within]]: Angelus
* [[Evil Is Hammy]]
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* [[For the Evulz]]
* [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampire]]
* [[Hell-Bent for Leather]]: Angelus' leather pants.
* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: In every sense of the word. Buffy {{spoiler|runs him through with a replica of his own blessed sword, which in turns sucks him through his own hell portal}}. Putting a damper on this irony is the knowledge that {{spoiler|Angel suffers the fate reserved for Angelus}}.
* [[Hollywood Tone Deaf]]: On his own show, which displays his more vulnerable sides in a way the original show doesn't.
* [[Jekyll and Hyde]]
* [[Hunk]]: His attractiveness is how he got his nickname.
* [[Kick the Dog]]: As Angelus, oh so much. Giles was going to read something about an incident with a puppy:
{{quote|'''Buffy:''' Skip it. [[Squick|I don't have a puppy, I don't want to know]]. [["No. Just... No" Reaction|Skip it]].}}
* [[Knight of Cerebus]]: Sort of. The previous villains certainly weren't harmless, but the show did become darker once Angelus was unleashed.
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* [[All Women Love Shoes]]: Her passion for footwear is noted on several occasions.
* [[Alpha Bitch]]: Was definitely this while at Sunnydale during the first season. She eventually became the [[Lovable Alpha Bitch]].
* [[Backhanded Compliment]]: Any time Cordy tries to be relatively nice, this is the result.
* [[Bad Liar]]: It's just as well that doesn't sugarcoat the truth, because she can't lie to save her life.
* [[The Brainless Beauty]]: Was originally led to be this, but then subverted all to hell when she showed [[Hidden Depths]].
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* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: Well, 1,120. And she's still being carded.
* [[Redemption Equals Death]]
* [[Revenge Against Men]]: Describes herself as a righteous sword for all [[Woman Scorned]] (her actual behaviour as a demon belies this -- Anya essentially tricks women into inflicting [[Disproportionate Retribution]] on former loved ones, and took [[For the Evulz|open pleasure]] in the [[Crapsack World]] she accidentally created in "The Wish").
* [[Start of Darkness]]: "Selfless".
* [[Spock Speak]]
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* [[The Comically Serious]]
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[Fake Band]]: Oz is in a band called Dingoes Ate My Baby, after the famous case where Azaria Chamberlain was reportedly taken by a wild dog.
** [[Fridge Brilliance]]: Dingoes are from [[Everything Trying to Kill You|Australia]], or 'Oz.'
* [[Fantastically Indifferent]]
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* [[Spiky Hair]]
* [[Split Personality Takeover]]: Comes very close to invoking this voluntarily after it appears his struggles against his werewolf self are futile.
* [[The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body]]: The closer it is to sunset on a full moon night, the harder it is to resist his most primal urges.
* [[The Nose Knows]]
* [[The Quiet One]]
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* [[Anti-Hero]]: [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|Type V]]. Turns Type III after getting his soul back.
* [[Author Appeal]]: [[Show Runner]] Marti Noxon is often accused of having an affinity for Naked!Spike.
* [[Badass]]: Until [[Badass Decay|his decay]].
** [[Badass Biker]]
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* [[Basement Dweller]]: Parts of Season 4 and 7.
* [[Beethoven Was an Alien Spy]]: He didn't steal [[Billy Idol]]'s [[Expy|look]]. Billy Idol stole ''his''!
* [[Blood Knight]] Light: Fighting isn't all he lives for, but it's a good portion of it. He especially likes it when he really can't tell who's going to win, which Angelus found unsophisticated.
* [[Bond Breaker]]: In the season four finale. He didn't create the problems they were facing, but made them likelier to anger and alienate each other. He calls it the [[Yoko Oh No|Yoko Factor]].
* [[Breakout Character]] / [[Breakout Villain]]
* [[Break the Haughty]]: For a guy that cocky, his face sure does seem to be a fist-magnet.
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* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[Depending on the Writer]]: Spike's level of evilness after being chipped seems to depend on who's writing him. Borders on [[Heel Face Revolving Door]].
* [[Drop
* [[Embarrassing Nickname]]: "William the Bloody" actually refers to his bloody awful poems.
* [[Entitled Bastard]]: Spike expecting Buffy's help when the Initiative are after him.
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* [[Spotlight-Stealing Squad]]: Like it or not, Spike eventually became the center of gravity for the entire cast. This started out gradually, kicking into overdrive once Marti Noxon took the helm. There's a reason it's just him and Buffy on the Season 7 box.
** On the other hand, many viewers hold this opinion of all of Buffy's boyfriends [[Die for Our Ship|who aren't Angel]]. "Something Blue" routinely ends up on Best Episode lists solely due to Buffy/Spike's short-lived (and magically-inspired) 'engagement', thanks in no small part to their immediate chemistry... in marked contrast to (yep) Buffy's ''then''-boyfriend Riley Finn, who is mostly detested by fans. Sensing a pattern here?
* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: How he acts initially after falling in love with Buffy.
* [[The Starscream]]: First to the Anointed One, then to Angelus, both successfully.
* [[Start of Darkness]]: "Fool for Love".
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* [[Stylistic Suck]]: Spike's bloody awful poetry.
{{quote|"''Effulgent''"?}}
* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: Spike was initially demoted to comic relief as a way of filling the gap left by Cordelia. Joss felt the absence of both Cordy ''and'' Oz left the heroes without a dissenting voice.
* [[There Is Another]]: Spike gradually takes on 'Angel' mantle in Seasons 5-7, whereupon he get treated to guilt, hallucinations, [[Reduced to Ratburgers|eating rats]] -- the works.
{{quote|'''Robin Wood:''' Because [[Entertainingly Wrong|the military gave him a soul]]?}}
** He still caught a lot more breaks that Angel did. When Angel got his soul back, he was obliged to let himself be shackled to the wall of an empty house. Spike gets tied up [[Chained to a Bed|in Buffy's bedroom with nice soft rope]].
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* [[Feel No Pain]]: An eventual side-effect of Professor Walsh's experiments, though the strain it put on his body led to a [[Hollywood Heart Attack]].
* [[The Generic Guy]]
* [[Good
* [[Good People Have Good Sex]]: Accidentally sleeping with Faith (in Buffy guise). His tenderness is so alien to her that she nearly [[Freak-Out|freaks out]].
* [[Happily Married]]: After returning in Season 6.
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