When he was a child, his mother nicknamed him " Spike.

When he was in junior high and high school, Spiegel hung out at Bethesda Community Store, where the former owner Mike Henderson gave him his nickname " Spike Jonze " in reference to Spike Jones.

When Spike tries to return for good in Season Four, the Initiative promptly captures him and fits him with a tracking device and a microchip that prevents him from harming humans.

When Angel loses his soul and rejoins Spike and Dru, Spike's initial celebration soon turns to resentment when Angelus starts pursuing Drusilla as a lover and taunting him.

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 Nikki Wood's son Robin tries to kill Spike, he unwittingly frees Spike from his hypnotic trigger: the song " Early One Morning ", a favorite of his mother, which evokes Spike's traumatic memories of his mother's abusive behavior toward him after she turned ; after Spike is able to address these issues, he realizes his mother had always loved him, knowledge which frees him from the First's control.

When they arrive at the location they find out that Spike had lied about releasing Angel.

When Fred is killed by Illyria, Spike mourns her death and decides to join Team Angel in her honor.

When vampire Gunn causes Illyria to revert to her monster form, memories of Fred from Spike and Wesley are transplanted into her to restore her humanity.

When Buffy's decision sees the world lose its magic, Spike is the only one to be emphatically supportive of the decision she had to make.

When the coat was destroyed by a bomb from the Immortal in Italy, Spike heartbrokenly declared it to be irreplaceable ; but the Italian branch of Wolfram & Hart quickly supplied him with a whole wardrobe of new ones, nearly identical, which he happily began wearing.

When Spike was transformed into a ghost-like intangible state following the destruction of Sunnydale and the Hellmouth and his subsequent materialization at Wolfram & Hart, he was capable of walking through solid objects.

When he discovers that Drusilla can be cured by the blood of her sire, Spike captures Angel and allows Drusilla to torture him until it is time to perform the ritual.

When Flipper returns to his Harlem home after visiting his friend Cyrus ( Spike Lee ), he tells his wife Drew ( Lonette McKee ) about his promotion.

One program that signals the shift was the foundation's support as the underwriter of Spike Lee's documentary on New Orleans, When the Levees Broke.

When Wolverine invades the forest base of the Brotherhood, Spike is one of the characters that attacks him, demonstrating abilities identical to those shown by the Spyke character before he lost control of his mutation.

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When he was compared to Spike Lee because the film was being compared to Lee's Do the Right Thing, he noted the irony:

When the Autobots began to suffer from Cybertonium deficiency, Spike Witwicky and his girlfriend Carly attempted to persuade the Dinobots-who continued to function perfectly, as they had been built on Earth without Cybertonium-to steal some of the mineral from a Decepticon shipment coming in from Cybertron.

When Stink pretended to be injured, Kevin got on top of Spike's back to gather fruit from a tree before Spike fought with Scarface again.

When the Ark crashed in Canada in 1991, Spike found himself drawn to the crash site, where he recombined with Maximus to battle the deranged Galvatron, even as the two personalities struggled to overcome their own internal conflict.

When they are gone, Spike stands up and kicks the chair aside, revealing that he has healed from his spinal injury and is looking for revenge on Angelus.

When Dr. Adenauer was approached by a world citizen delegation to find out his disposition of my case, he gave them his personal approval of my entry, saying that all men advocating peace should be welcomed into Germany.

When that monk came down and approached him with a respectful salutation, he asked: `` Where art thou from ''??

When the presidential election of 1856 approached, Johnson and supporters harbored a vague hope for the presidency, and he gave a speech to the Tennessee Democratic delegates reiterating his views ; some county conventions designated him a favorite son and the Nashville Union and American proposed his nomination.

When Hunt, Adams, and Howsam were unable to secure a controlling interest in the Chicago Cardinals, they approached NFL commissioner Bert Bell and proposed the addition of expansion teams.

When Saint Anthony felt that the day of his departure had approached, he commanded his disciples to give his staff to Saint Macarius, and to give one sheepskin cloak to Saint Athanasius and the other sheepskin cloak to Saint Serapion, his disciple.

When the Japanese army approached Wuhan in the fall of 1938, Chiang's forces abandoned the city without a fight and withdrew farther inland, to Chongqing.

When Ford approached the U. S. Federal Aviation Administration ( FAA ) about regulatory issues, the critical problem was that the ( then ) known forms of air traffic control were inadequate for the volume of traffic Ford proposed.

When asked to recommend someone else, Davis suggested Robert E. Lee, then an army major in Baltimore ; López approached Lee, who also declined on the grounds of his duty.

When approached by John's niece Natasha Irons, Luthor gladly allows her to be one of his first test subjects.

When the third sacrifice approached, Theseus volunteered to slay the monster.

When the ship approached, " many canoes ventured out to meet the ship.

When the war between father and sons resumed in Easter 833, Gregory was approached by Lothair, seeking his intervention to bring about reconciliation between Lothair and his father.

When a ( positive ) alpha particle approached sufficiently close to the nucleus, it was repelled strongly enough to rebound at high angles.

Waits found himself in a situation similar to his earlier one with Frito Lay in 2000 when Audi approached him, asking to use " Innocent When You Dream " ( from Franks Wild Years ) for a commercial broadcast in Spain.

When the administration was approached by the comparatively smaller Boom town of Tulsa and offered a chance to move, the decision was made to relocate.

When Mr Gladstone appeared on the Tyne he heard cheer no other English minister ever heard ... the people were grateful to him, and rough pitmen who never approached a public man before, pressed round his carriage by thousands ... and thousands of arms were stretched out at once, to shake hands with Mr Gladstone as one of themselves.

: When Bartlett's approached me in — I forget what year, five or six years ago — I got a call from the editor.

When a scheduling conflict forced Crow to drop out of the project, Nicks first approached R & B producer Dallas Austin, but these sessions have never surfaced.

When a trader from Georgia approached Brodess about buying Rit's youngest son, Moses, she hid him for a month, aided by other slaves and free blacks in the community.

When the Muslims approached Portus, he summoned the Repubbliche Marinare ( or mariner cities of Italy ) – Naples, Gaeta and Amalfi – to form a league.

When the Ohio off-year campaign of 1879 approached, Garfield turned his attention to securing the U. S. Senate seat for Ohio, vacated by John Sherman.

When Shanley approached him, Hamilton pulled a pistol and shot him twice, killing Shanley, then escaped.

When the novel sold well, Eon producers Harry Saltzman and Albert Broccoli approached Deighton to write the script for the next 007 film, From Russia With Love ( 1963 ); despite Deighton's efforts, little of his screenplay was filmed.

When Di Carlo became an informer in June 1996, he denied that he was the killer, but admitted that he had been approached by Calò to do the job.

When store owner Max Levinson was approached by Carter about stocking the device, he called in his brother-in-law Abe Bookman, a graduate of Ohio Mechanics Institute.