Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S2/E21 Becoming, Part 1: Difference between revisions

* [[Femme Fatalons]]: Darla instructs Liam to close his eyes, changes to her vampire visage, and bites his neck. Liam swoons to the ground, and Darla seals the deal by slashing a fingernail across open her [[Of Corsets Sexy|corseted bosom]] and forcing Angel's mouth onto it. Not as kinky as it sounds.

** This is shown to be the [[Boob Bite|preferred method for female vampires]] (well, Darla and Drusilla, anyway) to sire their mates.

* [[Flashback Echo]]: "Everything that I am, everything that I have done, has led me to here." intones Angelus ominously. We then go back in time to 1996 Manhattan, where a homeless, half-crazed Angel is tearing up some trash cans, ineffectively trying to catch a rat.

** Inverted in the final flashback, with Angel resolving to aid the Slayer and "become somebody." We're then zipped back to the present with Angelus basking before Acathla, saying, "I have strayed. I have been lost. But Acathla redeems me. With this act, ''we'' will be free."

** When Willow proposes to try to perform the spell, Giles warns her that she may be opening a door that can't be easily closed. He's right—the Restorations spell sets Willow on a path of dark magic. She begins practicing seriously in season three, and grows steadily more powerful as the series progresses. Giles's concerns about Willow becoming too involved in magic will prove well founded in Season 6.

** Whistler says that there are moments in a person's life that affect the whole path their life will take, even though they might not know it. This episode features several such moments: Liam takes up Darla's offer to show him the world; Willow takes her first step on the path to being a witch; Kendra's attention wanders for a moment and she is killed by Drusilla, causing a new Slayer (Faith) to be called; and in the next episode, Spike {{spoiler|betrays Angelus and helps Buffy save the world}}.

* [[Glowing Eyes]]: Angelus' eyes glow orange as his soul is restored. {{spoiler|The effect is repeated next episode}}.

* [[Hell On Earth]]: Actually Earth sucked ''into'' Hell.

* [[Hobos]]: Angel in early 1997

* [[Human Sacrifice]]: Just like in seemingly every vampire ceremony, this one requires a human sacrifice.

* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: A member of her [[Girl Posse]] asks Buffy the [[Valley Girl]] if she's going to take Tyler to the dance.

* [[Let's Fight Like Gentlemen]]: Upon her arrival at the scene, Drusilla claps her hands smartly and calls off the rest of her gang: "Enough." The vamps surrounding Kendra automatically withdraw. This can't end well.

** Subverted with Angelus -- he knows Buffy will accept the challenge for one-on-one combat, not realising it's just a ruse to separate her from the Scoobies.

* [[The Men in Black]]: In 1997, an older man in a black suit approaches our heroine and asks if she's Buffy Summers. Buffy briefly worries that a department store sent him, because she "[[Suspiciously Specific Denial|meant to pay for that lipstick!]]" Actually, this is Merrick, Buffy's first (and [[Mentor Occupational Hazard|short-lived]]) Watcher.

** Between Angel in his hooptie and this pudgy older guy in a dark suit soliciting teen girls, this school is crawling with [[Unfortunate Implications]].

* [[Only the Chosen May Wield]]: Inverted, as the bad guys are the ones trying to unsheathe it.

* [[Origins Episode]]

* [[Oral Fixation Fixation]]: SMG as pre-Sunnydale Buffy.

* [[Our Wormholes Are Different]]

* [[Ritual Magic]]

* [[Sealed Evil in A Can]]: Sunnydale Museum has a new arrival: a big ominous rock. Giles is invited over in his capacity as the "best authority" on old relics in town. Giles spots a large crack running up the side, which indicates it could be opened, but he asks the curator to wait a few days before opening it so he can translate the runes on the outside. Bad call, Giles. Evil waits for no man.

* [[Shaped Like Itself]]: Back at the mansion, Angelus grandly shows off his new toy to an unimpressed Spike. "It's a big rock.", Spike snarks. "I can't wait to tell my friends. ''They'' don't have a rock this big."

** In the german dub, Kendra's stake is called "Van Heugen", the nemesis of [[Dracula|Graf Dracula]].

* [[Sickening Crunch]]: Xander's arm being snapped by a vampire.