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== Unseen Nightmares during Nightmares: ==

* I've believed this since the first time I saw the episode. Further evidence: Xander had long been established as a terrible liar, so how was he able to put on such an incredibly convincing performance of "What the heck is going on here?" throughout the episode (even while singing under the influence of the spell, which supposedly compels truthfulness)? On the other hand, Dawn was visibly nervous when she asked Tara if the gang had figured out who summoned Sweet, and only sang two lines -- whichlines—which were implied to be about her stealing, but could just as easily apply to her having called up a demon in a bid for attention. I think Dawn summoned the demon, and Xander, realizing this, improvised a cover story for her. Sweet most likely knew he was lying, but it provided a face-saving way for him to get out of town without appearing completely defeated, so he went along. Xander told Buffy about it later, and she was devastated, which helps explain why her mental condition continued to deteriorate between OMWF and "Normal Again".

There is an eerie artificiality surrounding Dracula's entire appearance in Sunnydale -- hisSunnydale—his arbitrary initial appearance, his blatantly disparate power level and abilities compared to other vampires, the [[Marty Stu]]-style fascination he draws from the cast, his heretofore unmentioned past with other characters, and his oddly anticlimactic and inconclusive defeat (he's clearly ''not'' killed, and yet no one worries that he may return). And then there's the ''castle'' that suddenly appears in Sunnydale for him to live in! The key (no pun intended) to these oddities is that they all occur immediately prior to Dawn's first appearance; all of the events depicted are a sample of the invented memories created by the Order of Dagon when they inserted the Dawn persona into local reality. It has also been suggested that the monks used the blood "Dracula" got from biting Buffy for the spell they used to create Dawn.

* Yeah, this makes sense in a crazy sort of way--Buffyway—Buffy always said that it would "never be Spike"; and yet, as she defeats the First, she says she loves him? And then he says no you don't? There's no way this could be the real Buffyverse.

* That also explains why her getting taken was like one big [[BigNon LippedSequitur Alligator MomentScene]].

One of Yog-Sothoth's aliases is "The Key" -- Dawn—Dawn's known pre-human identity -- andidentity—and like her, it controls access to all times and places in and out of the material universe. The Monks of Dagon and the Dagon Sphere also point to Lovecraft, as Dagon was a servant of Cthulhu. In fact, the [[Backstory]] of the series, with the Earth being home to eldritch monsters in prehistory, is all but identical with that of the Mythos.

It's rather suspicious that Warren's robotic girlfriend is strong enough to fight Buffy on an equal footing -- surelyfooting—surely it would be simpler to make a human-strength robot. It becomes even more suspicious when you realize the robot is about Buffy's height and build; and Warren admits to knowing Buffy from high school. Obviously, Warren's first robot was a copy of Buffy, super-strength included. He just changed its appearance later on, perhaps because he was afraid Buffy would discover it. This meant he could easily change it back when Spike requested the Buffybot.

** If Rose is a slayer, then Ace must be a potential who [[Missed the Call|never got the call]]. This would suggest that, if she survived that long, she must have gotten [[Took a Level Inin Badass|even more badass]] around 2003 ...

== [[Claymore|Claymores]]s are Slayers. ==

* Alternatively, the second shooter deliberately framed Warren to give the Scoobies the perfect fall guy-- oneguy—one who believes that he did it. While the Scoobies are chasing after him, the real killer gets to escape scot-free, knowing that Willow will go evil and kill someone for a crime he did not <s> actually</s> technically commit (he did ''shoot'' Buffy in cold blood).

Her greater recklessness and lower inhibitions explain why her magic seems more powerful-- shepowerful—she was [[I Am Not Left-Handed|not holding back]] anymore.

** The Y chromosome shields him from detection-- thedetection—the spell was only looking for fully-female Potentials.

Angel got his soul as a curse. Therefore, he loses his soul whenever it stops being a curse--thatcurse—that is, when it makes him happy.

* It would also explain so much more. When, for the first time in history, there are two Slayers, who shows up? First, a psychopathic nutjob who faked being a new Watcher because of a paperwork error. Sure. Uh huh. What kind of remotely competent ancient conspiratorial organization can't put out a simple burn notice to everyone who needs to know (such as the Field Watchers like Giles) the instant one of their senior operatives goes renegade? But nobody calls to say 'Hey, Giles, one of our female watchers went insane'. Then the person they finally DO send is an ineffectual loser who nearly wets his pants in his first fight, and one who specifically LACKS the confidence of at least one highly-placed senior Watcher (his own father, as it happens).

** Wesley in particular is highly suspicious; Faith's original Watcher, who was apparently assigned to her when she was only a Slayer Potential, was byapparently allsomeone accountsFaith aloved highly-competentvery much and deeplygot caringalong womanwith thatquite well. (While we have virtually no canon on Faith's lovedpre-Sunnydale likelife, on the show Faith is upset/concerned about the loss of her original Watcher to a motherdegree andthat she has never shown about anyone else save Angel in AtS season 4, who Faithby servedthat diligentlypoint andwas wellFaith's ''new'' mentor figure.) So, Thethe Council ''already knows'' exactly what kind of Watcher Faith needs, and her first Watcher would presumably have written her a glowing set of recommendations (as she apparently liked Faith very much, and Faith kills vampires pretty damn good). So what do they do? Neglect her for months and then send her the exact opposite of her prior Watcher, and a guy who needs a lot more seasoning to be any kind of decent Watcher, and then pretend to be surprised when it crashes and burns. Talk about deliberately trying to fail!

Eventually, Dawn begins to view all this as [[Old Shame]]. (Note the burning of years' worth of diaries upon the discovery that Dawn is the Key.) Not ready to give it up, she tries to improve the series by introducing new characters and settings and a more impressive villain, and by changing Willow from a shy nerd to a [[Darker and Edgier|badass lesbian witch]]. (She portrays more and more magic use, possibly having gotten into schoolgirl Wicca on the side. Also she clearly doesn't understand homosexuality yet.) She also writes herself in (as [[Author Avatar|herself]], not her [[Mary Sue|idealized]] big sister) and falls into many of the traps common to writers at that age--Dawnage—Dawn-the-character is the sort-of long-lost sister of the main character, mysterious and more than she seems, the center of everyone's attention with the fate of the world in her hands, which is supposed to result in her death but doesn't. Spike is friendly with her and allows PG romantic tension with the most attractive (to a young teen) character, and even Glory is nice to her toward the end ([[Crowning Moment of Funny|hilariously]]).

* Normal Again, true? Buffy did a tip-top job of creating a spin-off then. And there are things that just don't work--Buffywork—Buffy is imagining Spike dreaming of Buffy? Buffy can get into her friends' and enemies' heads whenever the series switches point of view? Normal Again was an interesting episode but the idea that Buffy's imagining the whole thing just doesn't make sense in the 'Verse.

The only reason a comic book villain wears a mask is because the audience--audience—the the readers-- havereaders—have already met his true identity. The comic has re-introduced virtually EVERY single male character since the beginning of the series, with the exception of Buffy's father.

We know Twilight is incredibly strong. We have no proof that Caleb * couldn't* fly. And the red gash on Twilight's mask is vertical-- resemblingvertical—resembling a bloody stain left behind by someone who has been previously cut in half from the gut-on-upwards? We've only seen the side of Twilight's neck, not the front. Who's to say he hasn't been re-stitched and resurrected by the First?

Her assumption that Buffy has no strong male role model is based on correlation, not proper statistics. She assumes that Buffy being an active woman is a weakness on her part, but it's the only thing that keeps her going as a SlaonSlayer. havingHer thatjudgement knowledgeis areprobably virtuallybased nilon her own psychosis, a jealousy of her strength over her creations, Adam and Riley, who she treats like sons. Saying she has no father figure is a direct blight on Giles, even if she doesn't know it, and completely out of line.

As of now, the forces of good include an army of several hundred [[Super Soldier|Super Soldiers]]s committed to the cause of righteousness, and a witch of near-deific power. Wolfram & Hart may have been destroyed (see above), and the First is in retreat. Evil is still present in the world, but it is weak. Buffy's enemies consist primarily of those who don't want an army of [[Action Girl|Action Girls]]s with superpowers running around, not forces bent on destroying the world.

Spike-with-a-soul is hardly very different to Spike-without-a-soul, or much different (in his base characteristics) from William. Angel is nothing like Angelus ''or'' Liam. Angel's soul was randomly plucked from the 'ether' and put into him when he was cursed, and isn't the same one that Liam possessed when he was alive. It's possible that he recieves a different soul each time he is re-cursed, as well -- itwell—it would explain the slight personality shifts he went though after each time:

For one thing, that's why Buffy doesn't register as a human anymore, based on Spike's chip (though we really don't know how it works). Humans normally get a 1-way ticket past Anubis, and the ritual invoked Osiris to tell him that you're supposed to go back to earth if your friends want you so much-- butmuch—but doesn't give you a new ticket. You can die, but your ba and ka will still be stuck on earth and may as well continue moving around, slaying demons, breathing.

** The ''cover'' isn't insulting, but in the season eight comics, Twilight is an evil entity possessing and manipulating Buffy's protagonists in order to transform the world into one where magic is dead and women are less empowered. That's negative. Also, it's more than just a nod -- thenod—the idea that Twilight is using Buffy and Angel for its own selfish purposes and leaving a screwed-up society in its wake ''provides the main plot for the entire season''. This troper is surprised and a little confused that more people aren't making a fuss over this. Did I miss the fuss?

When Willow reprogrammed the Buffybot to operate in full-time Slayer mode, she apparently still had a few quirks relating to Spike, even though Willow assured him that she'd purged all the sexbot subroutines from her system. She actually did--itdid—it's just that Buffybot had fallen for Spike on her own. Her programming clearly has her showing affection to Willow and Dawn, and she seems to love Dawn as much as she would if she were actually Buffy. And for the past three months she's seen Spike guard Dawn during every waking moment. She knows that Spike loves Dawn, has been tortured for her, and would probably die for her. Which leads her to love Spike as well. The reason she expresses it so strangely is because, well, she's a sexbot. She's basically speaking in her first language.

This is mostly based on just the show itself, though I don't know if it's actually made impossible by the season 8 comics. Anya became a vengeance demon who avenges wronged women against men. Given Warren's issues with women, he probably considers himself wronged by women and could be given the job to avenge wronged men against women. Warren and Anya are actually pretty similar--considersimilar—consider what Anya tried to do to Xander after the failed wedding (I can just imagine Warren making a woman's breasts rot off the same as Anya tried to do to Xander's penis).

Back in reality, either Buffy [[Killed Off for Real|stays dead]] or [[Back Fromfrom the Dead|doesn’t]], but either way, the actual events in the Buffyverse post-''The Gift'' were a lot different. You can think up whatever you want for that, if you want. [[But Now I Must Go|My work here is done.]]

* And lest we forget, "insane" doesn't equal "disconnected". She percieved Dawn's true nature, after all. It's entirely possible that she actually got to visit team Angel in this reality, probably twice: first time before the existence of Conner was revealed to team Angel (probably that time we saw Willow bring the news... make it the gang), then again after it (else how would she know of Angel [[If You Know What I Mean|doing it]] with Darla? Her appearances in early Season 3 are [[Retcon|Retcons]]s). Conner himself exists in reality, but we have no clue to his real character. Given all that, she could have made up Angel Seasons 3 through 6 based on her sketchy idea of him and his team, hence the mess with Conner, Angel/Angelus split personality Wall Banger and Angel's accepting of Wolfram & Hart.

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