When Willow discloses to Buffy what she feels for Tara, she indicates that she has fallen in love with Tara, not that she is a lesbian, and avoids categorizing herself.

" When asked how he came up with the name of " Buffy ," Whedon states " It was the name that I could think of that I could take the least seriously.

When Buffy rejects his advances, Spike attempts to prove his love by kidnapping her so that she can witness him killing Drusilla for her, to little avail ; in her disgust, Buffy un-invites him from her house ( something she had not bothered to do in the almost three years since their alliance against Angelus ) and alienates him from the group.

When Spike's chip begins to malfunction, causing him intense pain and threatening to kill him, Buffy trusts him enough to order the Initiative operatives to remove it from his head.

When new Slayer Kendra Young arrives in Sunnydale, Giles shares with her an appreciation for obscure texts, resulting in Buffy nicknaming her the " She-Giles.

When Buffy keeps Angel's return from hell a secret from the other Scoobies, Giles feels betrayed by her love for the man who tortured him and murdered Jenny, but later agrees to help Angel in " Amends ".

When Buffy briefly finds herself endowed with telepathic powers, she ' hears ' her mother remembering that Giles was " like a stevedore " during sex.

When Ethan Rayne casts a spell on Giles which turns him into a Fyarl demon (" A New Man "), he must enlist Spike's help to escape the Initiative and Buffy, which believes him to be a demon who murdered Giles.

When Dawn learns of her origin, she resorts to self-harm and runs away from home, until Buffy assures her they are real sisters no matter what, securing it with a blood oath.

When Glory successfully uses Dawn's blood to break down the dimensional barriers, Buffy sacrifices her own life, realizing that their blood is now the same, to end the apocalypse and save Dawn.

When Buffy tricks her into leaving town before the impending apocalypse, Dawn adamantly returns to fight against the First, during which she battles alongside Xander and once again proves her worth by killing several Ubervamps and survives.

When Buffy encounters Oz, he is the leader of a pack of werewolves who can completely control their wolf forms ; Oz assists in the final battle of the book, set during a full moon.

When Buffy prepares to face Angelus in the season two finale, he arrives with a rock in hand saying " Cavalry's here.

When Warren accidentally kills Tara Maclay while aiming for Buffy, Tara's vengeful girlfriend and powerful witch Willow Rosenberg hunts Warren down and skins him alive.

When Angel tried to take Dana back to Wolfram & Hart, Andrew asserts his authority, standing up to Angel ( one of the few who do ) and explains that she belongs with them, not him, also revealing that the Scooby Gang no longer deems the Angel Investigations team trustworthy due to their association with Wolfram & Hart, Buffy herself having ordered Andrew not to leave Dana with Angel.

When Wesley fails to convince the Watchers ' Council to help save the life of her vampire lover Angel ( David Boreanaz ), an enraged Buffy severs all ties with them.

" Writer Jane Espenson draws comparisons between the characters of Buffy and Warren, claiming, " When Buffy's talking with Warren about his break-up with April, she's actually identifying with him, because she did a lot of the same stuff with Riley that he did with April.

When it moved to Tuesday, its ratings surpassed its time slot competitor, popular series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which moved to the United Paramount Network ( UPN ) but retained the same time slot.

" When a girl pulls out her hair due to supernatural forces in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode " Where the Wild Things Are ," the character Xander remarks, " People are going all ' Felicity ' with their hair ," while in the One Tree Hill episode " The Desperate Kingdom Of Love ," when Lucas walks up to Keith at the beach, his uncle says, " Nice job, Felicity ," referring to his new shorter haircut.

When Buffy arrives in the school library, however, she finds that the new librarian, Giles ( Anthony Head ), is expecting her and ready to continue her training.

When Buffy finally encounters him in the season finale, The Anointed One turns out to inhabit the body of a little boy.

When Riley refuses to acknowledge their bond, Adam skewers Riley, and knocks Buffy across the room while Forrest and Graham are trying to enter the locked door.

When they learn that the only antidote to the poison is the blood of a Slayer, Buffy tries to capture Faith in order to use her blood to cure Angel.

When one particular Watcher, Rupert Giles, defies the rules of the test and interferes in the Cruciamentum of his Slayer – Buffy Summers – he is dismissed from his position immediately.

When Rosencrantz complains that there is not enough action, pirates attack.

When Maggio complains that Judson's piano playing is interfering with his dancing, the two nearly come to blows.

When Socrates tells the child that he ( Socrates ) will later be smaller without losing an inch because Theaetetus will have grown relative to him, the child complains of dizziness ( 155c ).

When she complains that the porter which she has been advised by the doctor to take is making her feel worse, the doctor takes her off it and puts her on hot milk instead, but Edward forces her to continue drinking porter.

When Jeremiah complains to the Lord about this persecution, the Lord explains that the attacks on him will become worse.

When Shaft returns home, he wakes the woman up, and as she leaves his place, she complains about his rotten manners out of bed, leading to a brief verbal spat.

When he complains to event director Doris Walker ( Maureen O ' Hara ), she persuades Kris to take his place.

When Porter complains about his wife dancing with another man, she tells him he has no idea how much Lora Mae really loves him, but Porter is certain his wife only sees him as a " cash register ".

* When Corwin first meets Eric in Nine Princes in Amber, Eric complains " It's true, that uneasy-lies-the-head bit.

When Romulus complains that a low fertility rate has rendered the abduction of the Sabine women pointless, Juno, in her guise as the birth goddess Lucina, offers an instruction: " Let the sacred goat go into the Italian matrons " ( Italidas matres … sacer hirtus inito, with the verb inito a form of inire ).

When Van Daan complains that the addition will diminish their food supply, Dussell recounts the dire conditions outside, in which Jews suddenly disappear and are shipped to concentration camps.

When a child complains about a monster in the cupboard or under the bed, most parents would go to great lengths to carefully explain to the child that there is no monster.

' When Gwen complains she can't play a queen because of her race, Hobb mentions how Catherine of Aragon was actually black due to the Moors mixing with Spainards.

When the devil tells Faust to sign the pact with blood, Faust complains that the devil does not trust Faust's word of honor.

When Remy complains, Fudge mocks and threatens him, causing Remy to move out.

When he eludes them, they split up and Preston puts some virtuality goggles on Biderman and with a video game controller, makes him imagine he's in a jungle with the jungle sounds, watching a flock of sheep, chased by a bellowing bull, kicked in the butt by a braying donkey and warding it off with a dinosaur statue in the corner of the room, waking up to the crowing of a rooster and sitting down to milk a cow to which he complains.

When Beet complains and asks them why they are doing this, it is revealed that Zenon is Beet ’ s brother.

When Cassie complains, Stacey takes her outside the store, where Cassie bumps into a white girl, Lillian Jean.

When T complains, he is labeled a troublemaker by the airline company.

When Bart complains he never gets any mail, Marge gives him the family's junk mail.

When back in the car, Andy complains that he is hungry.

When Noodle quickly wins, it is revealed that 2D and Murdoc are using them as video game characters, and Murdoc complains that the Russel character " can't do nothing " and that his controller is broken.

When his brother complains about the conditions inside the trunk, Tank will slam it down on him again.

When Pinkard complains, he gets a phone call directly from Ferdinand Koenig ( who under the innocuous title of " Attorney General " actually heads the analog of the S. S .), who informs him that no extra food is forthcoming, and hints that a solution is available-" reducing the population " by taking black prisoners to deserted areas and having firing squads shoot them.