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== A ==
* [[Abandoned Warehouse]]
* [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer]]: Though Sunnydale's [[Justified Trope|were deliberately built to be demon accessible]] by the Mayor.
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* [[All Women Love Shoes]]: At least Buffy and Cordelia have one thing in common.
* [[Alternate Universe]]: Plenty of em, 3 mentioned or seen: The Wishverse, the One with No Shrimp and the One That Is All Shrimp.
* [[Amazon Admirer]]:
** [[Discussed Trope|Discussed]] often. Most of the guys interested in her do like that she can kick ass while looking hot, but they run on a spectrum from the well-meaning adrenaline junkie to supernatural dude that keeps switching sides. In between are those like Riley, who struggle with inadequacy about the number of exes that Buffy has.
** Xander had the hots for Buffy all through season one, until he reluctantly accepted that she had feelings for Angel. He started dating Cordelia after she [[Took A Level In Badass]] and actually became useful with her car in the second part of "What's My Line". It's treated as one of Xander and Willow's low points when they're caught cheating on their partners in Season 3 by kissing each other, namely Cordelia and Oz respectively. After Cordelia gets her groove back in Season Three when saving Buffy and Willwo during "Gingerbread," she and Xander at least start to patch things up as friends and part civilly.
** Angel had an unhealthy relationship with Buffy, owing to the whole "stalking her for a year" when she was fifteen and the age difference. He did admire how tough she was, and in an alternate timeline died so that she could stop the Master. Part of his [[Character Development]] in his spinoff show was acknowledging that Buffy was not a paragon or the hero for him, and certainly not someone he could treat with condescending worship.
** Robin Wood's infatuation with Buffy is partly influenced by the fact that his mother Nikki was a previous Slayer, one that {{spoiler|Spike killed before he got his soul restored}} and because of her dedication to stop the First. Later, he {{spoiler|sleeps with Faith after voting for her to lead the potentials}}.
* [[Ancient Conspiracy]]: The Watcher's Council.
* [[Ancient Grome]]: Justified, seeing as all the various gods seem to exist.
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* [[Attack of the Killer Whatever]]: Subverted.
* [[Ax Crazy]]: Drusilla, Faith, Caleb, Warren Mears.
== B ==
* [[Baddie Flattery]]: In her nightmare encounter with the Master, he comments that Buffy is prettier than the last Slayer. He compliments her aim in "Prophecy Girl", after casually [[Arrow Catch|catching her crossbow bolt]].
** The Mayor concurs with that assessment ("Choices"). "She's pretty, Angel! [[Expecting Someone Taller|A little skinny]]."
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** Billy Idol stole his look from Spike
** Martha Stewart is a witch.
* [[Betty, Veronica and Archie Switcheroo]]:
** Buffy was the Archie between Angel, her love interest in seasons one and two, and Xander briefly. Thing is that while Xander would normally be the Betty, his jealousy for Angel led to him being a [[Jerkass]] on several occasions and even considering his childhood friend Willow as a consolation prize. Willow called him out for this in the season one finale, that she is no one's second choice.
** Willow and Xander both gain significant others in season two: musician Oz and [[Alpha Bitch]] Cordelia respectively. They also realize they are attracted to each other in season three, and both would be considered the Bettys for each other. Thing is that Oz and Cordelia truly loved their partners, and are devastated when seeing the two kiss. The rest of the season turns Cordelia into [[The Woobie]] as she undergoes a [[Humiliation Conga]], and it takes Oz a long time to forgive Willow.
* [[Beyond the Impossible]]: Willow breaks the supernatural {{spoiler|"One Slayer" rule}} set down by the Council. This was solid internal logic for the bulk of the series until then..
* [[Big Brother Instinct]]: Spike to Dawn.
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* [[But Not Too Gay]]: Willow and Tara were a couple for about eighteen episodes before they so much as kissed on-screen, probably partly for this and partly to avoid claims of sensationalism.
** Although, this is most likely also done so Joss could do it without the Executives advertising it, by placing their first on-screen kiss in The Body.
== C ==
* [[Calling Your Orgasms]]
* [[Can't You Read the Sign?]]
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* [[Casual Kink]]: Several times, most notable in "The I in Team".
* [[Character-Magnetic Team]]
* [[Character Development]]: Plenty for all, but it's worth noting that ones who get the most of it are the ones who end up on ''[[Angel]]'': [[Defrosting Ice Queen|Cordelia]], [[Took a Level
* [[Characterization Marches On]]: '''Wow.''' In the first episode of ''Buffy'', Buffy herself was a perky cheerleader, Darla was somewhat whiny, and Angel was aloof, mysterious, and kind of chipper. Fast forward to the episode ''Angel'', and they've developed more into the personalities that they're known for.
** With Darla, it's somewhat hard to tell, considering that she gets dusted so soon, but she does come back on ''[[Angel]]'', and it's a lot more apparent.
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* [[Chekhov's Skill]]: Willow's magic in Season 3, Xander's construction job in Season 5. Giles' skill with black magic in Season 8.
* [[Chop Sockey]]
* [[Chosen Family]]: The Scoobies have become this, to the point where two of them become a [[Parental Substitute]] duo to Dawn, who is the only minor left in the group by season six. While Buffy started hanging with Willow and Xander after they learned about vampires and decided to do what they could to help, Cordelia joined the group under protest after supernatural forces killed one of her boyfriends and started targeting her on a regular basis.
* [[Cigarette of Anxiety]]: Happens a few times. In the episode "Spiral", Spike tries it. Problem is, his hands are screwed up from the fight they were just in, so Xander ends up lighting it for him. Reversed in the episode "Get It Done". Spike, who has been various flavors of [[The Woobie]] throughout the first half of the season, and who has just gotten [[Curb Stomp Battle|curb stomped]] by a demon that he needs to kill to help Buffy, goes back to an old hideout of his to retrieve [[Iconic Item|his duster]], before going out to fight the demon again. After he dispatches the demon, he lights up a smoke to show that [[He's Back]] to his old [[Badass]] self.
** When Faith returns to help save the world with people who hate her she sneaks down into the basement when she gets sick of the potentials to smoke. In the comics she returns to being very cynical and uses smoking to cope, and when tricked to kill a slayer who is targeting Buffy she needs a lot of cigarettes to cope, then seemingly quits after getting with Giles then Angel.
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* [[Cryptic Background Reference]]
* [[Cutesy Name Town]]: Welcome to ''"Sunnydale"'', the most evil and horrible place on the planet, next to [[Running Gag|Cleveland]].
== D ==
* [[Damned By Faint Praise]]: Willow's excited to hear that since Angel came to our fair shores about eighty years ago, there are no reports of him hunting ("Angel"). She reads this as proof that he is a ''good'' vampire. "I mean, [[On a Scale From One To Ten|on a scale of one to ten]], 10 being someone who's killing and maiming every night, and 1 being someone who's... not."
** In "Prophecy Girl", Xander takes the plunge and asks out Buffy. She's at a loss for words. "Well, you're not laughing, so that's a good start."
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{{quote|'''Buffy:''' [[Aside Glance|Miss me?]]}}
** Buffy actually manages this in 'Halloween' in a scene where she was physically present the entire time, when the spell that was keeping her helplessly afraid and unaware of who she was ends in the middle of Spike's attack on her:
{{quote|'''Buffy:''' (flips herself upright) Hi honey. I'm ''home''. (ass kicking)}}
** While Angelus is busy with her Watcher, Buffy swoops out of nowhere and judo kicks him in the back ("Passion").
{{quote|'''Angelus''': ''(to Giles)'' All right, you've had your fun, but you know what it's time for now?
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** In the same episode, Angelus readies himself to free Acathla as his acolytes look on. Buffy enters quietly behind one of the henchvamps and cleanly decapitates him. O hai!
** In "[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S3/E15 Consequences|Consequences]]", Faith is straddling Xander in her bed and [[Go Out With a Bang|about to strangle him]]. She hears a sound and looks over to see Angel swinging a baseball bat before [[Smash to Black|the screen goes black]]. Ow.
== E ==
* [[Embarrassing Cover Up]]
* [[Emergency Impersonation]]: Willow impersonates the captured alternate universe Willow to get her mooks to go outside.
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* [[Expy]]: Der Kindestod, of [[A Nightmare on Elm Street|Freddy]].
** Ted, and [[The Stepfather]].
** For another example, look at Gnarl from "Same Time, Same Place" and tell us he doesn't remind you of [[The Lord of the Rings|Gollum.]] They even have the same habit of referring to themselves in the third person.
== F ==
* [[Failed Attempt At Drama]]: The Trio do this a few times.
** And Willow in "Doppelgangland", when she meekly explains that she's storming off now. "It doesn't really work if you come with me."
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* [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampires]]: But not very many.
* [[Frozen Fashion Sense]]: According to Buffy, this is the dead giveaway. Another one is hilariously outdated dance moves.
== G ==
* [[Gayngst]]: Despite having four (possibly [[Ambiguously Gay|five]]) homosexual characters, there is very little gayngst on the show. Larry suffers a little before coming out of the closet but by the time it's mentioned again, he's out and quite happy about it. Spike manages to bring out a little gayngst in Willow during "The Yoko Factor" but that too fades rather quickly.
* [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot]]: Xander certainly thinks so.
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** Except that one time, when they were. To kill a smurf.
== H ==
* [[Hair-Raising Hare]]: To Anya, anyway.
* [[Halloween Episode]]: Three of them. In Season 2, "Halloween". In Season 4, "Fear Itself". In Season 6, "All the Way".
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** Xander is a massive example. Continuously blows down on Spike at any chance he gets for his past crimes. Yet it's never mentioned that Anya, who is far older than Spike, spent 1000 torturing and killing men, not to mention being a misanthropic man hater. And to make matters worse, Anya has never been sorry for doing what Vengeance Demons do, and caught nowhere near the amount of criticism Xander gave to Spike, or even Angel.
* [[Hypothetical Casting]]: The tabletop RPG made a lot of hay out of the televised nature of its inspiration; the GM position is called 'The Director', and individual adventures are called 'Episodes' and meant to be part of a larger 'Season'. To top it all off, the rulebook encouraged players to identify the actor who would play their character if the game they were in was actually a TV show.
* [[I Call It Vera|I Call It Mr. Pointy]]▼
== I ==
▲* [[I Call It "Vera"|I Call It "Mr. Pointy"]]{{context}}
* [[I Don't Like the Sound of That Place]]: Sunnydale's original name, before the Mayor renamed it.
* [[I Just Want to Be Special]]: Xander and Dawn.
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* [[It's Not You, It's My Enemies]]: Tried with Riley. Sadly, it fails.
* [[It's Probably Nothing]]
== J ==
* [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique]]: In the Season 2 premiere, Buffy tortures a vamp by making her swallow her silver necklace.
** If Band Candy is anything to go by, Ripper, even years before he was at his worst, was a huge fan of this.
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Larry for Xander, and Percy for Willow.
== K ==
* [[Karma Houdini]]: Andrew, Drusilla, Willow, Anya, Harmony.
** In the Season 2 finale, Willow asks Xander to tell Buffy to buy some time while fighting Angelus, so that Willow can do the spell to return Angel's soul. Instead, when Xander catches up to Buffy, he says Willow's message is: "Kick his [Angelus's] ass." Buffy ends up having to [[Staking the Loved One|kill a re-ensouled Angel]] to save the world, which leads to a major [[Heroic BSOD]]. Xander's actions are only brought up once, years later, and even then he never suffers any consequences.
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* [[Knight Templar]]: The Knights of Byzantium.
** The Watcher's Council.
== L ==
* [[Lame Comeback]]:
{{quote|'''Buffy:''' Let's be realistic Willow, your basic spells are usually only about 50/50.
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* [[Love Floats]]: Tara and Willow do this a few times.
* [[Luck Manipulation Mechanic]]: In the ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' RPG, Drama Points can be used to increase the chance of success for Heroic Feats.
== M ==
* [[Mad Scientist]]: Professor Walsh, Warren Mears, Ted.
* [[Magic Floppy Disk]]: Ms. Calendar's spell, Maggie Walsh's data.
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* [[My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels]]: "The cow should touch me from Thursday."
* [[My Species Doth Protest Too Much]]
== N ==
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]] : '''The First Evil'''.
** Um...the '''''Slayer?'''''
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* [[Not So Dire]]: Very common gag.
==
* [[Offscreen Afterlife]]: Twice -- Buffy in Heaven and Angel in Hell.
* [[Off to See the Wizard]]: Buffy refers to the hyena-possessed bullies in "The Pack" as the "winged monkeys".
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* [[Our Zombies Are Different]]: Season 3 gives us Type V zombies, Season 8 gives us Type O, popped into existence by an angry witch.
* [[Outlaw Couple]]: Most notably Spike and Drusilla, but also Angel & Darla, Evil Willow & Xander and Spike & Harmony.
== P ==
* [[Parrot Expowhat]]: Both Buffy and Willow do this a fair amount.
{{quote|'''Anya:''' Buffy's got some kind of job there helping junior deviants, Spike's insane in the basement, Xander's there doing construction on the new gym —
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** [[The Bus Came Back]]: Oz and Riley both get episodes like this.
* [[Put on a Bus to Hell]]: Oz and Riley.
== R ==
* [[Ready for Lovemaking]]
* [[Reality Ensues]]: Season 5 final -- Buffy approaches [[The Dragon]] atop a tower. He gears up for a fight, {{spoiler|and she just knocks him off the tower}}.
** In the Season 3 premiere, the [[Monster of the Week]] knocks [[The Chick]] down and does a speech about how his realm is inescapable. Then the girl gets up and pushes him off the edge.
* [[Rebellious Prisoner]]:
** Capturing a Slayer means you either have a death wish, a spell brainwashing you like the spell in "Gingerbread", ignorance about their true nature, or a ''lot'' of confidence that you can kill them. Slayers are not mortal, but they are tough. And pretty snarky.
*** Faith tends to think that people putting her in cuffs or ropes means they want to have fun with her, rather than trying to keep her from attacking them randomly. Angel had to convince her that he just wanted to talk, and the shackles were because she tried strangling and raping Xander for trying to reason with her. Her [[Character Development]] in ''Angel'' involves shedding this tendency, surrendering herself to the police for {{spoiler|killing the sheriff's deputy}}.
*** Buffy makes it clear that she does not break. Getting kidnapped by a fraternity that wanted to sacrifice her and Cordelia to a giant snake? She breaks free and kicks their asses, all the while snarking. Being impressed into a dimension where demons use human girls as servants and convinces them they are nothing with physical abuse? She says when asked who she is, "I'm Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, and you are?" When the demon attempts to beat her into submission, she turns the tables on him as well as the other captors.
** The mayor's retinue with a [[Face Heel Turn]] Faith manage to kidnap Willow during the Scoobies' attempt to interfere with a deal for a box he needs for his Ascension. Willow uses a pencil and telekinesis to stake a vampire, smuggles some notes about the ritual into her boots to give to her friends later, and straight-up tells Faith that she threw away her chances of redemption with her choices and is nothing now. She takes Faith punching her in the face with grace, snarking that Faith must have lacked a witty comeback.
* [[Rebuilt Set]]: Sunnydale High 2.0.
** The Bronze underwent a major renovation following the rampage of Olaf the Troll, including a new sign.
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* [[Ritual Magic]]: Very popular in the Buffyverse, whether it be the gypsies who cursed Angel, or Willow doing incantations.
* [[Rubber Forehead Aliens|Rubber Forehead Demons]]: A lot of demons are pretty much indistinguishable from humans apart from skin tone and horns or some other head feature. There are also a fair number of non-humanoid ones.
== S ==
* [[Sacrificial Lamb]]: Jesse.
* [[Saving the World]]: The Watcher's Council seems way too uncaring about the amount of apocalypses in Sunnydale.
* [[
* [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]: The Master, Acathla, the Seal of Danzalthar, among others..
* [[Secret Circle of Secrets]]: Several.
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* [[Shoot the Dog]]
* [[Shout-Out]]: The Master’s sunken lair is reminiscent of the 1987 vampire classic ''[[The Lost Boys]]'', one of Whedon’s inspirations for ''Buffy''.
** ''Buffy'' gives a shout out to ''Charmed'': in the series finale, Willow, {{spoiler|after performing the spell that awakens all the Slayers on earth}}, exclaims, "Oh my goddess!" This is the title of the fifth season finale of ''Charmed''. [https://web.archive.org/web/20090429090512/http://www.tv.com/charmed/oh-my-goddess-1/episode/236597/trivia.html Apparently] Joss Whedon saw the title of the episode, thought it was awesome, and threw it into the finale.
** Buffy's last name might be a shout out to [[wikipedia:Montague Summers|Montague Summers]]. Quotith [[The Other Wiki]]: "He was responsible for the first English translation, published in 1928, of the notorious 15th-century witch hunter's manual, the Malleus Maleficarum." He also believed in vampires, witches and other things.
*** Joss has stated that Buffy's last name is a [[Shout-Out]] to Cyclops (IE Scott Summers).
** Dawn wolfing down two bowls of "[[Calvin and Hobbes|Sugar Bombs]]".
** On the eve of the final battle, when Xander, Giles, Amanda, and Andrew are playing ''[[Dungeons
** During "No Future For You", Giles mentions the great [[Alan Moore|bearded wizard of Northampton]].
* [[Shrinking Violet]]: Willow and Tara. Also, Marcie Ross from the first season is this trope taken [[Up to Eleven]]: She was so shy that she eventually began to feel invisible, a feeling that was made worse by the fact that no one in school really noticed her. The power of the Hellmouth made that feeling into reality and Marcie could no longer be seen by anyone.
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* [[Staking the Loved One]]: Xander's stakes his best bud in the two-parter series premiere, albeit comedically.
** Season Two is a protracted inner struggle for Buffy, who can't bring herself to stake Angelus in their first encounter.
* [[Stealth Mook]]:
** The Gentleman are creepy precisely because they do not make a sound. They can glide into your room and rip out your heart long before you notice. To add to the horror, you can't even scream because they steal everyone's voices.
** "Once More With Feeling" has Sweet's mooks demonstrating this. Several kidnap Dawn without breaking a sweat or making a sound, despite her being in the Summers house.
* [[Stock Phrases]]
** From "The Harvest".
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{{quote|'''Angel:''' [[Captain Obvious|Little wide...]]}}
** Buffy nearly overpowers Angelus in their first encounter ("Innocence"), but can't bring herself to finish him. ..So she settles for a [[Groin Kick|kick to the groin]] instead.
* [[Tailor-Made Prison]]: Angelus, which he gets out of via perfect happiness brought on by screwing Buffy (she must be VERY good in the sack). The Ubervamps are in one (the Hellmouth) as well.▼
== T ==
▲* [[Tailor-Made Prison]]: Angelus, which he gets out of via perfect happiness brought on by screwing Buffy (she must be
* [[Talking in Your Dreams]]: Buffy and Angel in "Amends", though there's no actual talking involved. The First Slayer also communicates with Buffy and the gang this way in "Restless".
* [[Tangled Family Tree]]: ''[[Angel]]'' has one, which gets even worse on his own show and in ''Buffy'' Season 7. The Master sired Darla, who sired Angel, who sired Drusilla who sired Spike. Angel killed Darla, who was later brought back from the dead on Angel, as a human. Dru then sired Darla, making her Darla's mother grandchild and Darla her own Great Grandchild. This makes Spike her brother and Great Grandchild and Angel her son and Grandfather. Angel and Darla then break the laws of reality, having a child. This child is Angel's brother, child and Great Grandchild. His Grandchild/Brother/Child then has Jasmine with Cordelia, making Jasmine his Grandchild, Great Great Grandchild and Niece. Meanwhile, Spike went on a siring rampage against his will. Some of those vamps can be assumed to have sired others, making them all clean, if numerous, branches on a very fucked up tree. I would imagine Spike and The Master would be looking on with horror as to what's going on behind/in front of them on the family tree.
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* [[To Create a Playground For Evil]]: Quite a few villains have this as their goal.
* [[Too Happy to Live]]: This trope is Joss's best friend in life. Seriously, it happens to alot of people.
* [[Took a Level
* [[Town with a Dark Secret]]: There's an entrance into Hell under the high school, the Mayor wants to be a demon, vampires rise from the cemetery every night and there are buried (sometimes magical) treasures hidden in the right mausoleum. The secret government lab under the college is the least exciting secret there was.
* [[Tracking Device]]: Willow's oft-used "locator spells".
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* [[Two Girls and a Guy]]: With Buffy, Willow, and Xander.
* [[Two Words: Obvious Trope]]: Out. For. A. Walk... Bitch.
== U ==
* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: It's amazing how they just walked around Sunnydale High throwing words around like "Vampire", "Slayer", "Witch", "Demon", "Disembowelment", and "Innards" in full view of others with no one paying attention.
** It was implied that most of the town either knew or was in such deep denial that you could dust a vamp in front of them and they wouldn't change their views. Hell, it happened a bunch of times.
* [[Unrequited Love Switcheroo]]: In the Season Eight continuation, {{spoiler|Buffy and Xander}}.
* [[Urban Fantasy]]
== V ==
* [[Vampire Hunter]]: [[Captain Obvious|No shit.]]
* [[Vampire Invitation]]: You need one if you're a vampire. There exist loopholes though; a hotel is a public accommodation, for instance. For some reason, vampires are never savvy enough to just burn down the house from the outside.
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* [[Van Helsing Hate Crimes]]
* [[Victoria's Secret Compartment]]
* [[Villain-Beating Artifact]]: Too many examples of artifacts, like:
** The Troll God's Hammer that's used in Season 5 to cut down Glory.
** An ancient scythe that can defeat/kill [[The Dragon|Caleb]].
** Hope's Dagger, which was forge from the first rays of the sun on earth. It's the only weapon to injure the First Evil.
* [[Villain Episode]]: "Fool For Love" (Spike) and "Who Are You" (Faith).
* [[The Villain Must Be Punished]]:
** Xander's hatred of Angel first spurs from jealousy; he nurses a crush on Buffy, but Angel becomes Buffy's boyfriend in season two. Things get complicated when Buffy causes Angel to lose his soul and revert to the soulless serial killer vampire he used to be, but she ''still'' can't kill him. Xander is not the only one who calls out Buffy for this; Giles wants a piece of Angelus for what he does to Jenny Calendar. When Angelus kidnaps Giles in the season two finale and prepares to cause the apocalypse using his intel under interrogation, even though it will kill him as well, Willow prepares to restore Angel's soul before that happens and asks Xander to relay a message that Buffy should stall Angelus for as long as possible. Xander instead relays this message to Buffy: "Kick his ass." It takes several years for Buffy to learn the truth, and she's furious with Xander long after she and Angel have broken up and he moved to another city. With that said, Buffy also acknowledges that she hesitated in killing Angelus and that she bears some blame.
** Warren Mears, the [[Big Bad]] of Season 6, quickly shows himself to be a vile excuse for a human being, using a [[Mind Control Device]] to turn his ex-girlfriend into a [[Sex Slave]], killing her when she snaps out of it and tries to escape, and using magic and time-distorting demons to dupe Buffy into thinking ''she'' killed Katrina so she'll take the fall, which [[Near Villain Victory|nearly succeeds]]. By the final episodes of the season, he's shot Buffy, nearly killing her, and killed Tara, the latter of which unleashes [[Super-Powered Evil Side|Dark Willow]], who fully intends to kill Warren for it. Dawn and Xander are so disgusted and furious with him that they openly support Willow's intentions; Buffy, meanwhile, preaches [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]], but only because she [[If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him|doesn't want Willow to become a murderer]].
* [[Villain Pedigree]]: Vampires, the [[Big Bad|Big Bads]] for the first two seasons, are little more than no-name [[Mook|Mooks]] by the end.
* [[Villain World]]: The world we see in "The Wish".
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* [[Visit by Divorced Dad]]: Buffy encounters what she thinks is her father in "Nightmares", but is actually a cruel manifestation of all of her own insecurities as a delinquent daughter. She spends the summer with her dad over the first season hiatus, but their relationship remains frosty.
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Spike and Angel and Willow and Anya.
== W ==
* [[Wake Up, Go to School, Save the World]]
* [[Walk and Talk]]: The hallways of SHS and UC Sunnydale.
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** Taken to its extreme in an episode where Willow lampshades this and [[Literal Genie|accidentally turns Xander into a literal demon magnet]].
* [[We Used to Be Friends]]: Faith, Cordelia, Angelus, Giles, Willow - a lot of characters at some point in the story.
* [[Wham! Shot]]: Has a few:
** Season 2 has Buffy prepare to fight Angelus to the death. Then just as she's about to behead him, Willow completes the soul restoration from her hospital bed. Angel returns, confused, and asks what's going on, as the hell dimension opens behind him. Buffy asks Angel to close his eyes, stabs him, and pushes him through the portal. No wonder Buffy is traumatized for most of season three's beginning.
** Faith has taken Xander's virginity in "The Zeppo". Xander assumes it means they have a special bond. Buffy informs him that Faith sleeps with men for casual sex, so it means nothing to her. Nevertheless, Xander goes to talk to Faith, to attempt to reason with her. Her response is to push him on her motel bed, start feeling him up; then she tries to strangle him with her Slayer strength. Angel has to save Xander.
* [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|What Do You Mean, It's Not Symbolic?]]: The Cheese Man that appears in everyone's dreams in "Restless", who Joss Whedon has said means absolutely nothing.
* [[What the Hell Is That Accent?]]: Kendra and Angel.
* [[When Dimensions Collide]]: Every attempt to open the Hellmouth is generally described as a Type II event ready to happen -- but it's only at the end of Season 5 that we actually see hell dimensions bleeding over onto Earth when Doc uses Dawn's blood to break down the walls between dimensions.
* [[Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?|Where Do They Get All Those Wonderful Swords, Axes, Knives and Medieval Crossbows?]] Seriously, is there a mail-order catalog?
* [[Working with the Ex]]: ''Buffy The Vampire Slayer'' is not shy about using this trope.
** [[Angel]] and Buffy during Season 3 of her show.
** Buffy ended up working briefly with Riley and his wife in the sixth season in the episode "As You Were".
* [[Workout Fanservice]]: Angel doing his shirtless, exercising Tai Chi routine. Plus, this trope is acknowledge by [[Word of God]].
* [[World of Snark]]: Just about every character ever seen is snarky as hell.
== X ==
* [[X Meets Y]]: Marti Noxon's vision for Seasons 6-7 was "''[[Party of Five]]'' with monsters." Well, that [[Contemplate Our Navels|explains a lot]].
* [[You Have Failed Me]]: The Master kills one of his minions in episode 2. "[[Eye Scream|You have something in your eye]]."▼
== Y ==
▲* [[You Have Failed Me...]]: The Master kills one of his minions in episode 2. "[[Eye Scream|You have something in your eye]]."
** The Anointed One and his lackeys try to pull this on Spike. ''Tried.''
** It looked like Spike was going to pull this on Billy Fordham in "Lie To Me" when Billy's plan to deliver several dozen [[I'm a Humanitarian|people]] to Spike is foiled by Buffy. {{spoiler|But not only does Spike not kill Billy, but he keeps his end of the deal and sire Billy. After all, Billy kept up his part of the deal, and [[Fridge Brilliance|Spike probably knew that Buffy would be waiting at Billy's grave to stake him when he rose anyways]]}}.
** Also averted in 'Band Candy'. At the end of the episode the Mayor and Mr. Trick are sitting around and talking about how the entire night was a bust because Buffy killed the demon they were going to sacrifice the kidnapped babies to, meaning they'd set up the Band Candy incident as a giant diversion for a plan that failed anyway. The Mayor then asks Mr. Trick what he did with Ethan Rayne, who'd cast the Band Candy spell.
{{quote|'''Mr. Trick''': I ''paid'' him. The man did ''his'' job.}}
** Glory does this to 2 of her minions in "Intervention".
* [[You Look Familiar]]: Brent Jennings played the vampire pastor Absalom ("When She Was Bad") before being cast as Mr. Trick a year later.
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** Dracula gets this alot from Spike. To be fair, Drac still owes him money.
* [[Youth Is Wasted on the Dumb]]
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