Although he enters the series as a villain, Spike allies briefly with the Scoobies during Season Two to save his vampire lover Drusilla and stop Angel from destroying the world.

Although capable of developing sound battle strategies, Spike ( particularly in the days before receiving his chip and being re-ensouled ) often loses patience with anything more complicated than outright attack, as mentioned in the episode " In the Dark ".

Although Spike bears a slight resemblance, Wario was not to receive his true debut until 1992.

Although Xander, Anya, Spike, and Dawn are happy to let him interview them, Buffy is angered by his attempt to turn everything into a story and forces him to finally face up to the seriousness of his actions.

Although Spike Jonze had never acted in a movie before, Russell wrote the part of Conrad Vig specifically for him, and the two practised Conrad's southern accent over the phone while Jonze directed his first feature film, Being John Malkovich.

** Although Buffy retains many of her Slayer instincts, she and Spike feel no instinctive animosity towards each other, foreshadowing the significant change in direction of the relationship between the two in that season.

Although the Japanese toyline, like the West, gave the Headmaster components different names to the larger Transtectors – Spike ( no longer that character ) was renamed " Cerebros " – the animated series used only one name for both the head and the Transtector ; for Fortress Maximus, there was no Spike, and no Cerebros – there was simply Fortress.

Although the " mind numbing " visions that Lindsey reports are non-existent, the events described are true, such as Spike rescuing a woman from a vampire attack.

Although not depicted in fiction, the general events of the television series pilot seemed to take place in the Dreamwave continuity-with Bumblebee meeting and befriending Spike Witwicky.

Although the name, date, and location were changed to protect his privacy, this death was featured in the American television show 1000 Ways to Die on Spike TV.

Although Spike initially protests the sudden increase of " manly responsibilities ", he agrees to look after them ; after a moment's awkwardness, Joyce and Spike discover their shared addiction to a common soap opera and sit down to watch it together.

* Although Angel and Spike have a particularly acrimonious relationship where Buffy is concerned, this adventure ( and Buffy having moved on from them both ) provides them with somewhat of a bonding experience-they drink together, engage in their most civil dialogue to date, and reminisce about the past.

Although he manages to revive and finish the game, he dies next morning from internal bleeding in the skull, leaving his son an orphan.

Although turret presses operate much like single stage presses, they eliminate much of the setup time required in positioning individual dies correctly.

Although the Mind has been rescued the cost has been terrible-all the crew of the Clear Air Turbulence have been killed, the drone is severely damaged, and the fatally wounded Horza dies just as Balveda gets him back to the surface.

Although loss of function is almost immediate, there is no specific duration of clinical death at which the non-functioning brain clearly dies.

Although Conon quickly escapes, he dies in Cyprus without returning to Athens.

Although not mentioned directly by name, the novel Cryptonomicon depicts an assault of a similar fortress U. S. Marine Sergeant Bobby Shaftoe dies assaulting in 1945.

Although fast enough to keep ahead of those in pursuit, Black Bess eventually dies under the stress of the journey.

Although the film adaptation of the book does not portray George as bisexual or incestuous, it does portray him and Anne contemplating incest, which in the 16th century would have amounted to treason by intent, and it also portrays him as a somewhat weak and ineffectual young man who dies on the scaffold as a coward.

Although she is eventually able to break her drug habit after much effort, she has already contracted HIV from a needle containing infected blood and dies from complications from AIDS in 1986 at the age of 26.

Although the Mint continued to rely on the Royal Mint to produce the master tools required for the creation of its punches and dies, the Mint was finally under Canadian control.

' Although Gandy dies in ' Legends Are Forever ,' Bellisario liked the character enough to adapt him to the present day.

Although not stated when this occurred in the original release of the film, Peter Preston, who dies with Scotty at his bedside, was Scotty's nephew.

Although they both injure each other with bullet wounds, Kid's wounds prove fatal and he dies in the Lady's arms.

Although immortal thanks to an alien artifact hidden in Atlantis, Sinclair dies five days before the game begins, as his immortality slowly failed after leaving Earth.

Although the shock of what she has done immediately strikes her, she can do nothing but hold Cooper as he dies in her arms.

Although Ken nearly dies from exposure, the cold running water cures Flicka's fever, and all ends well.

Although confident in his ability to work the spell, Camber reluctantly decides that he does not have the right to make such a decision for another person, and the loved one dies shortly thereafter.

Although Camber is monitoring Davin's actions through a psychic link, he can do nothing but watch as his grandson dies.

Although he was generally cast as a nice guy, his two Twilight Zone episodes display an impressive range as he acted out two very different characters, both with dysfunctional personalities: the tough-talking hood who dies and finds the afterlife a little too pleasant in the classic episode " A Nice Place to Visit ," and the titular vain, cowardly cowboy star in the comedic episode " Showdown with Rance McGrew.

Although he dies in Episode 9, he is brought back to " correct the imbalance ".

Although Wang succeeds in retrieving the money and giving it back, he is seriously injured in the fray, and subsequently dies.

Although Joseph Smith taught that after the president in a presidency is released or dies the presidency no longer exists, Rigdon overlooked this teaching and returned to attempt to convince the other saints that he was to be the leader of the church.

Although she escapes and makes her way to a hospital, she is severely injured, and supposedly dies in a hospital bed as Batman sits beside her.

* Although Kamelion dies in this story, he makes a posthumous reappearance in the audio Circular Time.

Although leverage can increase potential returns, the opportunity for larger gains is weighed against the possibility of greater losses.

Although PADI is often referred to facetiously as a mnemonic for ' Put Another Dollar In ', PADI is a for-profit organization dedicated to generating commercial returns from diver training.

Although the film portrays the way Lester returns to that role positively, he does not become " the hypermasculine figure implicitly celebrated in films like Fight Club ".

Although doctors have asked him to allow them to make one more attempt to restore his voice, Ebert has refused, indicating that he is done with surgery, and will likely decline significant intervention even if his cancer returns, as he feels that the last procedure he underwent did more harm than good.

Although her memories of her time with the Legion are erased before she returns to the present, the mental blocks break down upon encountering the pre-Crisis versions of Legionnaires Karate Kid and Triplicate Girl ( Una ).

Although alone ( besides Sam in the form of a ghost ) in the apartment, Willy becomes startled when Sam's girlfriend Molly Jensen ( Demi Moore ) returns home.

Although the capital for private equity originally came from individual investors or corporations, in the 1970s, private equity became an asset class in which various institutional investors allocated capital in the hopes of achieving risk adjusted returns that exceed those possible in the public equity markets.

Although Canynges benefitted from the wide trade connections of his forebears and a large inheritance, he does not seem to have followed them in the cloth manufacturing industry as his name was never recorded in the aulnage returns, but rather specialised in the shipping of cloth to south-west Europe.

Although disconcerting to the patient, the effect is normally temporary and after a period of six to eight weeks, the cornea usually returns to its former transparency.

Although Quatermass succeeds in launching a three-man crew, the rocket vastly overshoots its projected orbit and returns to Earth much later than planned, crash-landing in London.

Although you can't hurt a person's astral form, if two or more users are both astral then they can do damage to each other ( As seen when Chow fought Jackie ) and the user's body is susceptible to all damage when the astral user returns to the body ( i. e. Hak Foo during his fight with Tohru ).

Although not originally a design goal, the operators became very adept at estimating the size of detected formations from the shape of the displayed returns.

Although she died before the end of the One Year War, Lalah Sune's spirit occasionally returns from beyond the grave to haunt both Char and Amuro Ray, as seen in Char's Counterattack.

Although the spread remains constant, the majority of floating rate notes contains quarterly coupons that pay-out interest every 3 months with variable percentage returns.

Although the Standard Linear Solid Model is more accurate than the Maxwell and Kelvin-Voigt models in predicting material responses, mathematically it returns inaccurate results for strain under specific loading conditions and is rather difficult to calculate.

Although advertised as an easy way to dispose of an old car, donors need to fulfill certain post-donation requirements to qualify for the tax deduction, such as obtaining a written acknowledgment of the car's subsequent sale by the charity, and itemizing tax returns instead of taking the standard deduction.

Although flattered, Philip refuses as he is still eager to travel and returns to London.

Although the album was certified gold by the RIAA for shipments to stores of over 500, 000 copies, the album did not sell well, and returns from retailers of unsold copies were high.

Although marked as killed in the production of the original Clayfighter 63⅓ (" This animal was severely injured during the making of this game "), Lockjaw returns to ravage the competition in the Sculptor's Cut.

Although he occasionally returns to Kaito, with chapters published irregularly since.

Although the detachment at Málaga was transferred away, each year a platoon of legionaries returns to march in the Holy Week procession with the Christ of the Good Death, a life-size effigy of Christ Crucified, adopted by the Legion as Patron in the 1920s.

Although intrigued by Rhys ' discovery, Camber quickly returns to Valoret, where the aging King Cinhil's health is steadily declining.

Although the private operators are expected to receive 18 – 20 % returns on capital, for the type of risk associated with major upgrades, most of the work is low-risk maintenance and replacement.

Although when he returns, he is given supernatural fighting skills.