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{{quote|'''Xander''': I'd like to see you handle having an evil twin!
'''Willow''': [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S3
A demon accidentally fires something into Xander which creates a Xander clone.
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'''Giles:''' Um, sort of more ... uh ... turned and swept out majestically. }}
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Scruffy!Xander
* [[Call Back]]: Willow, to the events of [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S3
{{quote|'''Willow:''' Xander. You already knew that he was taking over your life, and you didn't think of Anya until just now?
'''Xander:''' Hey, you wait until you have an evil twin. Let's see how you handle it. (Exits)
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* [[Continuity Cavalcade]]: Riley is helping Xander leave his parent's basement forever.
{{quote|'''Riley:''' Getting nostalgic?
'''Xander:''' I don't know. At first it's just a place, then you start to make memories, and ... then you're like, (pointing) [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S4
* [[Damned By Faint Praise]]
{{quote|'''Xander:''' But I never help. I get in trouble and Buffy saves me.
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* [[Did Not Do the Bloody Research]]: [[In-Universe]] -- Buffy assumes that "Toth" is British for "moron".
* [[Empathic Environment]]: It rains on Xander when he goes to get Buffy's help, only to find his other self has got their first and Buffy is fixing to kill him.
* [[Evil Twin]]: {{spoiler|
* [[Eyes Never Lie]]: Averted; Anya can't tell the difference between the two Xanders, despite Scruffy!Xander's plea.
* [[Get a Room]]: Xander opens a door in his new apartment to find Buffy and Riley making out. He tells them to go find a bedroom, then realises they're already in one.
* [[Hollywood Healing]]: Averted; Anya is still recovering from a dislocated shoulder, after being knocked down by Mort in the previous episode.
* [[Hypno Trinket]]: Xander notices his [[Evil Twin]] carries a shiny coin that appears to change everyone's attitude towards him.
* [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy]]: Toth is very strong, very durable, and the weapon he uses (a "ferula-gemina") is potentially very deadly. Fortunately for Buffy, he has very bad aim.
* [[Improvised Weapon]]: Giles rummages in a box for something to ward off Toth. He finds a rabbit's foot, then a wooden statue.
{{quote|'''Toth:''' That is a fertility god. (Giles looks at it in dismay) Feeble man, you are not going to distract me-- (Giles hits him with the statue)}}
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Latest revision as of 02:42, 27 February 2023
Xander: I'd like to see you handle having an evil twin! |
A demon accidentally fires something into Xander which creates a Xander clone.
- Acting for Two: Averted as the second Xander was played by Nicholas Brendon's real-life identical twin, though Nicholas would play the main speaking role in each scene.
- An Aesop: Xander realises his inner potential. Again.
- An Axe to Grind: Buffy in the garbage dump.
- Applied Phlebotinum: Toth's "creepy stick thing", the ferula-gemina. "It splits one person in half, distilling personality traits into two separate bodies."
- Artistic License Gun Safety: Averted; Xander unloads his pistol before handing it to Buffy.
- Badass Long Robe: Toth
Buffy: He ran away, huh? |
- Butt Monkey: Scruffy!Xander
- Call Back: Willow, to the events of Doppelgangland, relating to the similarities and contrasts with the current episode.
Willow: Xander. You already knew that he was taking over your life, and you didn't think of Anya until just now? |
Buffy: If Xander kills himself, he's dead. (frowns) You know what I mean. |
- Continuity Cavalcade: Riley is helping Xander leave his parent's basement forever.
Riley: Getting nostalgic? |
Xander: But I never help. I get in trouble and Buffy saves me. |
- A Day in the Limelight: This applies to Xander twice over!
- Deadpan Snarker: Joyce shows that It Runs in The Family.
Dawn: Mom, I can stand in the hallway, right? |
- Description Cut: Willow re witch cliches. "Who uses a cauldron any more?" Cut to the demon using a bubbling cauldron for his incantation.
- Did Not Do the Bloody Research: In-Universe -- Buffy assumes that "Toth" is British for "moron".
- Empathic Environment: It rains on Xander when he goes to get Buffy's help, only to find his other self has got their first and Buffy is fixing to kill him.
- Evil Twin: Subverted
- Eyes Never Lie: Averted; Anya can't tell the difference between the two Xanders, despite Scruffy!Xander's plea.
- Get a Room: Xander opens a door in his new apartment to find Buffy and Riley making out. He tells them to go find a bedroom, then realises they're already in one.
- Hollywood Healing: Averted; Anya is still recovering from a dislocated shoulder, after being knocked down by Mort in the previous episode.
- Hypno Trinket: Xander notices his Evil Twin carries a shiny coin that appears to change everyone's attitude towards him.
- Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Toth is very strong, very durable, and the weapon he uses (a "ferula-gemina") is potentially very deadly. Fortunately for Buffy, he has very bad aim.
- Improvised Weapon: Giles rummages in a box for something to ward off Toth. He finds a rabbit's foot, then a wooden statue.
Toth: That is a fertility god. (Giles looks at it in dismay) Feeble man, you are not going to distract me-- (Giles hits him with the statue) |
- Literal Split Personality: Toth's weapon was meant to split Buffy into her human and Slayer sides -- he would then kill the weaker human version, causing the other to die. Instead it seperates Xander into an "aggressive" Xander (charming, well-groomed, and confident; but hot-headed and impetuous) and a "passive" Xander (awkward, paranoid, and insecure; but with Xander's trademark sense of humor).
- Martial Arts Do Not Work That Way: Buffy complains about the unrealistic fight scenes in the chop-socky movie.
- Moment Killer: Dawn on the Buffy/Riley snog.
My friend Sharon's older brother knows a girl who died because she choked on her boyfriend's tongue. |
Giles: Oh dear Lord. (Scoobies keep talking among themselves) I said, "Oh, dear lord." |
- Pop-Cultured Badass: Buffy's "bad ice-skating movie obsession".
- I Say What I Say
Buffy: What if it doesn't work? |
- Red Herring: The shiny coin the other Xander carries isn't used to hypnotize people, it's just a trinket. Also Spike's dummy appears to be about him plotting to kill Buffy, but it's actually Foreshadowing his obsession with her.
- Shaped Like Itself: "It's an evil robot, constructed from evil parts that look like me designed to do evil!"
- Shirtless Scene: Our first sight of Suave!Xander.
- Shout-Out: When they try to put the two Xanders back together.
Anya: What do we do if this doesn't work? |
- Spot the Imposter: Xander does the Snoopy dance to prove he's the real Xander. Willow is rather confused, as she doesn't even know there's two Xanders walking around.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: Not that Xander is still into Buffy -- not that he ever was.
- Taking the Bullet: Xander gets hit by Toth's magical blast when he shoves Buffy aside.
- Twin Threesome Fantasy
Anya: So... you Xanders really do have all the same memories, all the same... (looking downward) physical attributes? |
- Wham! Line: "But she doesn't love me".
- What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?: One look at the dump and Riley continues to lose faith in humanity.
Riley: People say they're recycling. They're not recycling. |
- Your Door Was Open: Lampshaded when Willow bursts into Giles' place.
Giles: I swear, this time I know I had that locked. |