Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S5/E13 Blood Ties: Difference between revisions

* [[Anger Montage]]: Dawn trashes her room and destroys her diaries.

* [[Badass Boast]]:

** and then...

** Both subverted when Orlando defeats Jinx and prepares to deliver the killing blow, only for him be stopped by Glory.

* [[Bait and Switch Comment]]: Dawn is trying to string Glory along to find out more about her nature as the Key.

* [[Barehanded Blade Block]]: Glory grabs a sword just as it's about to be stabbed into Jinx.

* [[Blood Brothers|Blood Sisters]]: When Dawn insists she's not Buffy's sister, Buffy takes blood from her shoulder wound, presses it to Dawn's bleeding hand and declares that "Summers blood", runs through their veins. Not a literal version of this trope but affirming a link that already exists.

* [[Buffy-Speak]]

* [[Casual Kink]]: Anya and Xander sexual roleplay involves firemen and shepherds.

* [[Continuity Nod]]: Spike's birthday gift for Buffy is the box of chocolates he crumpled in "Triangle".

* [[Description Cut]]: Dawn teases Buffy that she should have defeated Glory as "She didn't look that tough." Cut to Glory torturing her prisoner.

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: Dawn's angst over discovering she's the Key is played similar to a child finding out they were adopted.

* [[Exact Eavesdropping]]: Dawn runs off when she hears Buffy say she isn't real. Security guards rush past discussing the man Glory murdered, letting Buffy know Glory is in the hospital.

* [[Exact Words]]

'''Buffy:''' Just how I remember it. }}

** Becomes a [[Brick Joke]] in "Tough Love", when we discover that Dawn's [[Exact Words]] answer is covering for her playing hooky.

* [[Flash Step]]: Dawn turns her head away from Glory (who's standing across the room) then jumps as Glory is suddenly in front of her. {{spoiler|Justified as we later discover Glory has [[Super Speed]].}}

* [[Genre Savvy]]: Spike says that as [[The Hero]] Buffy will rescue Dawn in the nick of time. And she does.

* [[Glamor Failure]]: People "outside reality" (seers and the insane) see the Key's true nature.

* [[He Is Not My Boyfriend]]: And it won't be the last time Buffy will deny this about Spike.

'''Buffy:''' He is ''NOT'' my boyfriend! }}

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Poor Dawn.

* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]: Dawn forgets {{spoiler|Ben is Glory.}} We later discover this is due to a spell.

* [[The Last of These Is Not Like the Others]]

* [[Major Injury Underreaction]]: Xander whacks Glory over the head with a crowbar, causing her to gripe, "Hey! Watch the hair!"

* [[Neck Snap]]: Glory kills a security guard who walks in on her and Dawn.

* [[Spider Sense]]: Glory is changing her clothes with her back to Dawn, who looks at the door, clearly thinking of making a run for it.

* [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner]]: Glory is about to brain-suck Dawn to send the Slayer a message when Buffy enters.

'''Buffy:''' Conversation's over, hell-bitch. }}

* [[Psychic Nosebleed]]: Willow after she uses the teleportation spell.

* [[Redshirt Army]]

* {{spoiler|[[The Reveal]] / [[Jekyll and Hyde]]: Ben and Glory are the same person.}}

* [[Taking the Bullet]]: Glory throws a crowbar at Dawn and Buffy leaps in its path.

* [[Talk About That Thing]]: Xander trying to get Anya out of the room, as she's acting strange even for her around Dawn.

'''Anya:''' Xander needs help with [[That Came Out Wrong|his thing!]] }}

* [[Tempting Fate]]: Loads in the battle with Glory at the end.

* [[There Was a Door]]: Lampshaded when Dawn is complaining of how long Spike is taking to pick the lock of the Magic Shop; Spike says that normally he just kicks open the door.

* [[Toplessness From the Back]]: Glory

* [[Walk in Chime In]]

'''Jinx:''' You really think ''he'' is going to help you? }}

* [[You Know What They Say]]

'''Anya:''' The faster they stomp you into nothing. }}

* [[You Need to Get Laid]]: Glory is torturing Orlando.

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