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* [[Accidental Athlete]]: Buffy discovers her untapped fighting prowess when she punches Merrick in the nose during a tantrum.
* [[Action Dress Rip]]: Actually starts out with [[I See London]] overtones. Pike tries to keep Buffy from pursuing the vampires at the dance but tears her ball gown in the process, [[Show Some Leg|exposing her legs]] and [[Panty Shot|petticoats]]. But Pike promptly makes up for his mistake by lending Buffy his [[Hell-Bent for Leather|large black leather jacket]] to cover herself. Voila, back to [[Badass]] mode!
* [[Action Girl]]: The original intent of the film was to take a typical horror film's '[[Dumb Blonde]]' who either dies first or only survives because she's the hero's love interest, and make her the [[Chosen One]] of Destiny, while the [[Loveable Loser]] that she 'surprisingly' falls in love with, who would ordinarily become the [[Badass]] [[Chosen One]], takes her place as the film's [[Damsel in Distress]].
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* [[Dare to Be Badass]]: Merrick gives this ultimatum to Buffy, albeit with the admission that it's pretty much his fault she's been put on the spot. (He had a hard time finding her.)
* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: Merrick.
* [[Decoy Damsel]]: A rare heroic example, with Buffy pretending to be frightened in order to lure a vampire into a blind alley so she can kill it.
* [[Delusions of Eloquence]]: "Are ''you'' addressing ''I''?"
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{{quote|'''Biker:''' Hey babe, you want to get some real power between your legs?
'''Buffy:''' Yeah, I do. ''[beats the guy up and steals his motorbike]'' }}
* [[Hey, Wait!]]: When Buffy comes home late after her first slaying, her mother latches onto her and asks "Do you know what time it is?" -- but it's not a guilt-trip question, she genuinely wants to know, and hasn't even noticed that Buffy's just got home.
* [[Hippie Teacher]]: Mr. Murray, the school guidance counselor.
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* [[Mentor Archetype]]: Merrick.
* [[Metaphorgotten]]: This chant, apparently written by Buffy or one of the other cheerleaders: "[[Jive Turkey|How funky is your chicken?]]..../How loose is your goose?..../So come on, all you Hog fans..../And shake your caboose!" [[Don't Explain the Joke|(So, is the chant about chickens, geese, pigs, or trains?)]]
* [[Moral Dissonance]]
* [[Mugging the Monster]]: A boy at school learns about this the hard way when he tries to grab Buffy's rear end.
* [[Muscles Are Meaningless]]: Buffy doesn't look very physically formidable. But she is.
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* [[The Obi-Wan]]: Merrick
* [[Oh Crap]]: Amilyn flashes one just before he gets hit in the face by a tree branch.
* [[Ominous Latin Chanting]]: We hear a bit of this in scenes set in Lothos's lair, and again at the climax.
* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]: With the obvious exception of [[Classical Movie Vampire|Lothos]], the bloodsuckers in this flick look a lot more like stereotypical 1980s delinquents (black leather, "punk" hairstyles, etc.) than the caped continentals of old.
* [[Parental Neglect]]: Buffy's parents come off as self-absorbed yuppie types who always seem to be running off to yet another social event. They're almost never at home, take little notice of Buffy when they ''are'' home, and don't seem to care when their daughter has been staying out all night in [[Wretched Hive|a town where vampires are hardly the only unsavory characters roaming the streets after dark]].
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* [[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!]]: "You threw a knife at my head!"....You threw a ''knife'' - at my ''head''!"
* [[Rashomon Style]]: During the credits, everyone at the dance give off their own accounts on what happened.
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech|"The Reason We Suck" Speech]]: Late in the film, Buffy tries to explain to her three friends what is going on. When they don't listen, she reveals [[Defector From Decadence|how disgusted she has become with the pointless, shallow lifestyle they've all been leading]]. Although Buffy implicates herself in the accusation, the other girls just think that she's attacking ''them'' and become angry.
* [[Refused the Call]]: Buffy, distressed after {{spoiler|Merrick's death}}.
* [[Reincarnation]]: Buffy and Merrick have both had hundreds of previous lives, always as Slayer and Watcher.
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* [[Sliding Scale of Comedy and Horror]]: Usually comfortably on the "comedy" end of the scale, though the scenes set in the vampires' lair are genuinely chilling.
* [[Something Else Also Rises]]: In a restaurant, Pike's friend Benny harasses Buffy by holding a frankfurter between his legs in front of her. [[Foreshadowing|She takes a knife]] and [[Groin Attack|slices the wiener in two]].
* [[Stab the Sky]]: Parodied. First you see a slayer in the past hold up a stake, then Buffy is holding up a pom-pom.
* [[Stepford Snarker]]: Buffy, at least during the first quarter of the film.
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* [[That Makes Me Feel Angry]]:
** "Now I'm really pissed off."
* [[Took a Level in Badass]]: After spending the majority of the film as a [[Bumbling Sidekick|bumbling]] [[Non-Action Guy]], Pike imitates one of Buffy's jump-kick moves while fighting a vampire at the dance - and ''pulls it off''.
* [[Training Montage]]: For Buffy.
* [[Upper Class Twit]]: Buffy's parents aren't ''quite'' this, but they act like it. (One throwaway line of dialogue suggests that Buffy's family will be coming into some serious money in the near future.)
* [[Wall Slump]]: Amilyn, after he is skewered by Buffy.
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{{quote|''"Yes, I am."''}}
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