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 Fosdick showed the letter to Baker his negative response was: `` For God's sake, Raymond, don't show this to the President or he'll stop the war ''.

When he showed this model as his `` solution '' as to how the Howe sewing machine operated, he was told he was `` wrong '', and discovered to his amazement that the Howe Machine, which was unknown to him in detail, used two threads while the one that he had perfected used only one.

When disaggregated, only petroleum and non-petroleum groupings showed different results: a country with relatively low levels of dependence on petroleum exports is at slightly less risk, while a high-level of dependence on oil as an export results in slightly more risk of a civil war than national dependence on another primary commodity.

When asked about the " DK " logo in an interview, Jello Biafra explained, "... I wanted to make sure it was something simple and easy to spray-paint so people would graffiti it all over the place, and then I showed it to Winston Smith.

When he showed the film to people they praised the actor's acting — the hunger in his face when he saw the soup, the delight in the child, and the grief when looking at the dead woman.

When he captured her with his ice powers, she telepathically showed him his insecurities.

When Ivan showed a film with a naked woman Stalin shouted: " Are you making a brothel here Bolshakov?

When viewed by zoologists and professors of natural history it was concluded that it showed a seal, possibly a grey seal.

" When Stalin showed signs of consciousness, Beria dropped to his knees and kissed his hand.

When Powell showed illustrations of various animals, both alive and extinct, to natives, they generally suggested that the Diplodocus was the closest match to " n ' yamala ".

When compared to the opioids hydromorphone, fentanyl, oxycodone, and pethidine / meperidine, former addicts showed a strong preference for heroin and morphine, suggesting that heroin and morphine are particularly susceptible to abuse and addiction.

When they gave blood and urine samples the methadone showed up in some individuals samples as much as four weeks after it was not evident in other individuals samples.

When Mach 3 attempted to move most of the operating system into user-space, the overhead became higher still: benchmarks between Mach and Ultrix on a MIPS R3000 showed a performance hit as great as 67 % on some workloads.

When the smell of rosemary was pumped into cubicles where people were working, they showed improved memory, though with slower recall.

When he returned to New York in 1870, he showed his material to Fleming.

When a cannon was fired, it partially disarmed the ship, so needlessly firing a cannon showed respect and trust.

When Nintendo revealed the Nintendo GameCube on August 24, 2000, the day before Nintendo's SpaceWorld 2000 exposition, a software demonstration showed a realistically styled real-time duel between Ganondorf and Link.

When Joan died during her first childbirth, Jesus College showed its regard for Cranmer by reinstating his fellowship.

" When Walter Hooper asked Lewis where he found the word ' Narnia ', Lewis showed him Murray's Small Classical Atlas, ed. G. B.

When the early months of the Korean War showed how poorly prepared the Defense Department was, Truman fired Secretary Louis A. Johnson and named Marshall as Secretary of Defense in September 1950.

When his calculations showed that the manholes on telephone routes were sufficiently close together to be able to insert the loading coils without the expense of either having to dig up the route or lay in new cables he changed to this new plan.

When the general in command of the Verdun sector showed up to inspect Fort Douaumont in January 1916, he was refused entry because he did not carry the necessary authorizations emanating from Paris.

When the experimenters showed the body-dissatisfied participants the positive body their body satisfaction increased.

When the " Red Chinese " showed photographs of downed U. S. UAVs via Wide World Photos, the official U. S. response was, " no comment.

When Boschert conducted her research, major auto makers showed little interest in large orders for large-format NiMH batteries.