Although " The Replacement " sets up its narrative as an evil twin television narrative trope, its catch is that both Xanders are in fact the real Xander.

Although Buffy centered around its titular character, " Doppelgangland " primarily focused on the character Willow, much like the season three episode " The Zeppo " focused on the character Xander.

" An allusion to her duet with Xander " I'll Never Tell " is also included, in the line " Although he can be — I'll never tell.

* Although Xander will never acquire special powers, the importance of the emotional strength his support lends the group will be demonstrated by his assumption of the role of " Animus " ( heart ) in the superbeing created by merging the psyches of Buffy, Willow, Xander, and Giles in the season 4 episode Primeval.

Although when Kiani was born, due to Killian's militant ways, they parted ways and gave Kiani up to another family, a decision that haunted Anya forever.

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 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 Spike dies, he returns nineteen days later in the Angel episode " Conviction " as a ghost.

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 three more books, Prince Caspian, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and The Horse and His Boy, were already complete, they were not released at the time.

Although he reserved a distaste for abstract and dogmatic religions founded around personality cults, he was attracted to the type of people he met at the Golden Dawn.

Although Ab Fab was produced by Saunders and French's production company, Dawn French only appeared on the show once, in a cameo in the first-series episode " Magazine ".

Although the characters who were present at the epic battle at the dawn of time ( Crisis on Infinite Earths # 10, " Death at the Dawn of Time ") — Psycho-Pirate, Lady Quark, Harbinger, and Pariah — were initially treated as exceptions, this idea did not stick.

Although articles by the likes of Mick Farren ( whose article " The Titanic Sails At Dawn ", a call for a new street led rock movement in response to stadium rock ) were published by the NME that summer it was felt that younger blood was needed to credibly cover the emerging punk movement, and the paper advertised for a pair of " hip young gunslingers " to join their editorial staff.

Although Kanzi learned to communicate using a keyboard with lexigrams, Kanzi also picked up some American Sign Language from watching videos of Koko the gorilla, who communicates using sign language to her keeper Penny Patterson ; Savage-Rumbaugh did not realize Kanzi could sign until he signed " You, Gorilla, Question " to anthropologist Dawn Prince-Hughes, who had previously worked closely with gorillas.

Although Dawn is unaware of what she is, Buffy learns her true identity after becoming suspicious that Dawn is attempting to harm Joyce.

" Although he did not invent it, Tarantino popularized the trunk shot, which is featured in Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, From Dusk Till Dawn, Kill Bill and Inglourious Basterds.

Although the final novel so far in the Night's Dawn Universe, ( a ' guidebook ' to the setting, The Confederation Handbook, was later published ) Hamilton has occasionally hinted at returning to the setting in future books in the form of a sequel series set up to 500 years after the events in the trilogy.

Although Ronald Coleman was originally to be cast as the lead actor in The Dawn Patrol, Richard Barthelmess, who had gained fame as a pilot in Wings ( 1927 ) became available.

* Although Dawn Davenport was executed at the end of the film, US capital punishment was suspended from 1972 to 1976 due to the Supreme Court's ruling in the case of Furman v. Georgia.

Although Buffy and her friends deal with death every week, often in very gruesome and fantastic ways, in this episode they are bewildered by the natural death of Joyce Summers, the divorced mother of Buffy and her sister Dawn and occasionally a mother figure to their friends.

Although there would be no Tarantulas toy for the Universe line, Tarantulas ( seemingly in the Vok-afflicted body from Primeval Dawn ) appeared in the Transformers: Universe comic book series.

Although Soma himself was viewed as a stereotypical echo of previous Castlevania protagonists, the new context that the storyline Aria of Sorrow and Dawn of Sorrow provided for him rectified this.

Although The Temple of Dawn contains lengthy arguments in favour of the theory of reincarnation, Mishima's biographers note that he did not believe in it himself.

Although the game's use of the Havok physics engine was an early tidbit, it was only later revealed that Dawn of Mana was in development for the PlayStation 2.

Although Buffy thinks it's a waste of time, Dawn soon finds a demon that meets their specifications named Gnarl.

Although the moral ambiguity of killing Ben is discussed earlier in the episode, as well as Ben's innocence (" I know he's an innocent, but ... not like ' Dawn ' innocent "), Giles is never shown to have feelings of guilt afterwards ; he did what needed to be done.

Although he questions the extent and nature of the alleged revival of religion and the alleged increase in conformity, and thinks that `` hedonistic '' present-time orientation does not have the meaning usually attributed to it, he does conclude that Americans increasingly enjoy leisure without guilt, do not stress achievement so much as formerly, are more accepting of group harmony as a goal, more tolerant of diversity and aware of other cultures.

Although the false glamour surrounding bourbon or other whisky commercials is possibly no more fatuous than the pseudo-sophistication with which TV soft-drinks are downed or toothpaste applied, there is a sad difference between enticing a viewer into sipping Oopsie-Cola and gulling him into downing bourbon.

Although the United States and the U.S.S.R. have been arguing whether there shall be four, five or six top assistants, the most important element in the situation is not the number of deputies but the manner in which these deputies are to do their work.

Although today's trucks are as fast as passenger cars, a truck driver has to be a sensible person and guard against hogging the road.

Although they are forbidden to sit with the customers, the dancers are sometimes proffered drinks, and most of them can bolt one down in mid-shimmy.

Although there are many sound reasons for adopting uniform and coordinated fiscal years in Rhode Island, there are also certain difficulties encountered.

Although the site may not contain the features themselves, there are often opportunities to include them as additional interest to the site.

Although the play does show a certain structural amateurishness ( there are eleven acts varying in length from twenty-five seconds to an hour and a half ), the statement it makes concerning the ceaseless yearning and searching of youth is profound and worthy of our attention.

Although there is no question but that the process of washing fabrics involves a number of phenomena which are related together in an extremely complicated way and that these phenomena and their interrelations are not well understood at the present, this section attempts to present briefly an up-to-date picture of the physical chemistry of washing either fabrics or hard surfaces.

Although the standard deviation values on which spread of the lines is based are relatively larger for those centers which begin to ossify early ( Table 1 ), there are considerable differences in this value between centers having the closely timed Onsets.

Although in both emotions sympathetic symptoms are present, different autonomic-somatic patterns underlie aggression and anxiety, respectively, as indicated by the rate of the excretion of the catecholamines, the state of the muscle tone, and the Mecholyl test.

Although we are still far from a complete understanding of these problems, as a first approximation, it is suggested that alterations in the hypothalamic balance with consequent changes in the hypothalamic-cortical discharges account for major changes in behavior seen in various moods and states of emotions in man and beast under physiological circumstances, in experimental and clinical neurosis, and as the result of psychopharmacological agents.

Although the inner functions of religion are not of direct significance in social organization, they have important indirect consequences.

Although the Brandywine population is still predominantly rural, `` there are indications of a consistent and a statistically significant trend away from the older and relatively isolated rural communities.

Although science has given us more effective materials, preparations from anise, castorbean, colchicum, nux vomica, mustard, fennel, and stramonium are familiar to many for the relief of human ailments.

Although the Administration's program cut crop acreage to the lowest point since 1934, farmers, with the help of extra fertilizer and good weather, are getting such high yields per acre that many are being forced to buy new harvesting machines.

Although progress has been made in America's system of libraries it still falls short of what is required if we are to maintain the standards that are needed for an informed America.

Although the theological forms of the past continue to exist in a way they do not in a more secularized situation, the striking thing is the rapidity with which they are being reduced to a marginal existence.

Although there are landscapes in the show ( one of the strongest is a vista of `` Gloucester Harbor '' in 1915 ), the human element was the compelling factor in Sloan's art.