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 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 he needs money to buy something like, say, the Rolls-Royce he keeps near his vegetable patch, he takes a flyer in the sale of surplus army supplies.

When Captain Dana " Dynamite " Holmes ( Philip Ober ) learns of his reputation as a talented boxer, he recommends that Prewitt join the regimental boxing club that he heads, and promises that Prewitt will be promoted to corporal or even sergeant, if he helps win the boxing trophy on December 15, but Prewitt refuses, though he keeps silent about his reasons.

When the lithosphere keeps subsiding, new accommodation space keeps being created.

When the cord reaches its natural length the jumper either starts to slow down or keeps accelerating depending upon the speed of descent.

When the brake shoes wear a little more, the adjuster can advance again, so it always keeps the shoes close to the drum.

When B receives a message that is not corrupted and has sequence number 0, it starts sending ACK0 and keeps doing so until it receives a valid message with number 1.

When Garraty suffers a charley horse and comes within two seconds of being killed, McVries keeps him talking and distracted long enough to drop a warning, saving his life.

When the Walk comes down to the final three-himself, Garraty, and Stebbins-he keeps his word and sits cross-legged in the street.

When developing software for a simulator, which can range from embedded avionics devices to 3D terrain databases by way of full motion control systems, the engineer keeps a notebook detailing the development " the build " of the project or module.

When he deals with his foes, he handles them mercilessly, but keeps his cool at all times.

When Clegg keeps refusing to let her go, she starts to fantasize about killing him.

When not in human form or possessing a human, a kitsune keeps the ball in its mouth or carries it on its tail.

When the mare finally ovulates, the male that impregnates her keeps her for good.

# When a philosopher with a fork receives a request message, he keeps the fork if it is clean, but gives it up when it is dirty.

When a person keeps his or her eyes directly on a single intersection, the dark dot does not appear.

When the gate current is discontinued, if the current flowing between the two main terminals is more than the so-called latching current, the device keeps conducting, otherwise the device might turn off.

When lining up in front of the receiver to " jam " him or playing just a few steps off, it is important that the corner keeps his body in front of the receiver's body.

When a battle has finished, the winner keeps / captures the land and the defeated is found near the portal they entered the battle or in the faction capital.

When applied to the wrists, a bar keeps the arms spread away from the body, providing an unimpeded access to the subject's torso.

When accelerating out of turn, it keeps the tires at optimal slip ratio.

When a process terminates its execution, either by calling exit ( even if implicitly, by executing a return command from the main function ) or by receiving a signal that causes it to terminate abruptly, the operating system releases most of the resources and information related to that process, but still keeps the data about resource utilization and the termination status code, because a parent process might be interested in knowing if that child executed successfully ( by using standard functions to decode the termination status code ) and the amount of system resources it consumed during its execution.

When it is not in use, Sun Wukong shrinks it to the size of a sewing needle and keeps it behind his ear.

When used with the full shotline, the lazy shot provides a place away from the bubbles of other divers where the divers can decompress, and keeps them clear of the shotline if it is used by other divers.