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** It's also a subversion of this common plot. Most often the wisher experiences their wished-for CrapsackWorld first-hand and then undoes the wish, vowing to [[AnAesop never carelessly wish for anything again]]. Here, the wisher is killed halfway through and once the ResetButton is pushed, remains completely oblivious to what happened.

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** It's also a subversion of this common plot. Most often the wisher experiences their wished-for CrapsackWorld first-hand and then undoes the wish, vowing to [[AnAesop never carelessly wish for anything again]].again. Here, the wisher is killed halfway through and once the ResetButton is pushed, remains completely oblivious to what happened.
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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Angel's reward for trying to protect people from The Master's minons is to be regularly tortured by Willow and Xander.
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* TheUnmasquedWorld: Not quite; the people of Sunnydale refuse to acknowledge why they don't wear bright clothes, and no one goes out at night, but the [[CrapsackWorld Crapsack nature]] of the AlternateUniverse has stretched their WeirdnessCensor to the breaking point.

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* TheUnmasquedWorld: Not quite; the people of Sunnydale refuse to acknowledge why they don't wear bright clothes, clothes and no one goes out at night, but the [[CrapsackWorld Crapsack nature]] of the AlternateUniverse has stretched their WeirdnessCensor to the breaking point.
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* CrapsackWorld: Cordelia gets transported to an alternate universe where Buffy never came to Sunnydale. The normal Sunnydale is no picnic either, but it was preferable to this.

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* CrapsackWorld: Cordelia gets transported to an alternate universe reality where Buffy never came to Sunnydale. The normal Sunnydale is no picnic either, but it was preferable to this.
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no point in spoiling this — it's talked about at length everywhere else on the page.


* FakeBetterAlternateTimeline: After losing her popularity for being a Scooby, dating Xander and subsequently getting cheated on, Cordelia wishes that Buffy had never come to Sunnydale. Her wish is granted, and at first seems to be as she wanted; she's still popular and never dated Xander. However, because Buffy never came to Sunnydale, [[spoiler:Willow and Xander were turned into vampires, Angel is Vamp-Willow's torture slave and Sunnydale is ruled by vampires--The BigBad of season 1, the Master, having fully taken over with Buffy not there to stop him. Partway through the episode, Cordelia herself is ''killed'', and the wish is ultimately reversed by the alternate-timeline-Giles, who reasons that whatever the original timeline was like, it had to have been better than theirs.]]

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* FakeBetterAlternateTimeline: After losing her popularity for being a Scooby, dating Xander and subsequently getting cheated on, Cordelia wishes that Buffy had never come to Sunnydale. Her wish is granted, and at first seems to be as she wanted; she's still popular and never dated Xander. However, because Buffy never came to Sunnydale, [[spoiler:Willow Willow and Xander were turned into vampires, Angel is Vamp-Willow's torture slave and Sunnydale is ruled by vampires--The BigBad of season 1, the Master, having fully taken over with Buffy not there to stop him. Partway through the episode, Cordelia herself is ''killed'', and the wish is ultimately reversed by the alternate-timeline-Giles, who reasons that whatever the original timeline was like, it had to have been better than theirs.]]
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* VisionaryVillain: The Master, up on a dais with Xander and Willow, giving a RousingSpeech about the wonders of technology. He goes on that some have pooh-poohed such an advancement: "They claim that death is our art. I say to them -- well, [[BadBoss I don't say anything to them because I killed them]]." He then adds that the human concept of mass production will aid them in taking over the world.

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* VisionaryVillain: The Master, up on a dais with Xander and Willow, giving a RousingSpeech about the wonders of technology. He goes on that some have pooh-poohed such an advancement: "They claim that death is our art. I say to them -- well, [[BadBoss I don't say anything to them because I killed kill them]]." He then adds that the human concept of mass production will aid them in taking over the world.
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Obviously she does *have* one.


* LaResistance: The "White Hats" is the derogatory term used by Xander to refer to a Scooby-esque band of vampire hunters -- a reference to cowboy movies in which [[DressCodedForYourConvenience heroes wear white hats and villains wear black hats]]. Their members consist of ex-Watcher Giles, Oz, Larry, and a [[SpearCarrier minor character]] without a prime reality counterpart named Nancy.

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* LaResistance: The "White Hats" is the derogatory term used by Xander to refer to a Scooby-esque band of vampire hunters -- a reference to cowboy movies in which [[DressCodedForYourConvenience heroes wear white hats and villains wear black hats]]. Their members consist of ex-Watcher Giles, Oz, Larry, and a [[SpearCarrier minor character]] without a named Nancy whose prime reality counterpart named Nancy.is never seen.

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