History Recap / BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E18Intervention

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Glory on seeing Spike. "What the hell is that, and why is its hair that color?"

* StickyFingers: Dawn steals Anya's earrings--unlike in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E13BloodTies Blood Ties]]" or "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E17Forever Forever]]" she's not after something plot-related, {{foreshadowing}} the kleptomania that becomes a serious issue in Season 6.

* ChekhovsGunman: The Buffybot will prove useful to the Scoobies in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E22TheGift The Gift]]" and "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E1BargainingPart1 Bargaining]]". Warren Mears flees town, but returns in Season 6 as a BigBadWannabe.

** "Love will bring you to your gift. Death is your gift." In the season finale "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E22TheGift The Gift]]", Buffy's love for Dawn leads her to perform a HeroicSacrifice that saves the world.
** "Love is pain, and the Slayer forges strength from pain." Buffy's DestructiveRomance with Spike leads to a stronger relationship between the two of them in Season 7, after both parties learn to accept their love and forgive each other.

** After 'Buffy' reveals the lurid details of what she did with Spike, Willow tells the Buffybot she just wants to help her. The Buffybot replies, "You're my best friend. You're recently gay." Unfortunately Xander interrupts before HilarityEnsues.

* {{Sexbot}}: Spike intimidates Warren into building a Buffybot. HilarityEnsues.

-->'''Spike:''' If [Buffy] [[Foreshadowing turns to me for comfort, well, I'm not gonna deny it to her]]. I'm not a monster.\\

-->'''Spike:''' If [Buffy] turns to me for comfort, well, I'm not gonna deny it to her. I'm not a monster.\\

* ThrowTheDogABone: Spike loses the Buffybot and gets tortured to near-death by Glory... but gets a thank-you kiss from the real Buffy, as well as some good favor with her, because he was willing to die rather than sell Dawn out.

* HeIsNotMyBoyfriend: Buffy's reaction to the accusation of being with Spike.

* AdoptTheDog: Pretty much ''the'' definitive moment in Spike's change from immoral to good (which is different to his HeelFaceTurn, strangely enough). To elaborate: Spike is in love with Buffy and has a soft spot for Dawn. Then Glory abducts Spike for information about the location of a the Key—who Spike knows is actually Dawn. Despite brutal torture, Spike refuses to give Dawn up and is rescued. Later Spike's adoring Buffybot offers to reveal the Key's identity and so protect Spike from future harm, but Spike forbids the Buffybot to do so: if Buffy lost Dawn, it would destroy her, and Spike "couldn't live with her being in that much pain." After this point, Spike still commits morally questionable to downright horrible acts, but he never pulls a full FaceHeelTurn again. And this was before he got a soul.

* TortureIsIneffective: Spike proves willing to ''die'' rather than betray Buffy.

* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: After this episode Buffy's attitude to Spike changes from loathing and flirting to treating him as a FireForgedFriend. Spike responds in kind, substituting his StalkerWithACrush behaviour to one of [[CourtlyLove service without any expectation of reward]]. And for all the problems between them in Seasons 6 and 7, his loyalty to Buffy never wavers.

* AdoptTheDog: Pretty much ''the'' definitive moment in Spike's change from evil to good (which is different to his HeelFaceTurn, strangely enough). To elaborate: Spike is in love with Buffy and has a soft spot for Dawn. Then Glory abducts Spike for information about the location of a the Key—who Spike knows is actually Dawn. Despite brutal torture, Spike refuses to give Dawn up and is rescued. Later Spike's adoring Buffybot offers to reveal the Key's identity and so protect Spike from future harm, but Spike forbids the Buffybot to do so: if Buffy lost Dawn, it would destroy her, and Spike "couldn't live with her being in that much pain." After this point, Spike still commits morally questionable to downright horrible acts, but he never pulls a full FaceHeelTurn again. And this was before he got a soul.

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* BillBillJunkBill: Spike's description of Giles' life: "Cup of tea, cup of tea, almost got shagged!, cup of tea."

* AnAxeToGrind: Xander and the Buffybot.
-->'''Buffybot:''' Get me something big and sharp.

* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: After this episode Buffy's attitude to Spike changes from loathing and FoeYay to treating him as a FireForgedFriend. Spike responds in kind, substituting his StalkerWithACrush behaviour to one of [[CourtlyLove service without any expectation of reward]]. And for all the problems between them in Seasons 6 and 7, his loyalty to Buffy never wavers.

** Buffy is going off about the bot looking nothing like her. Willow had been staring at it for a long time and reluctantly agrees, while Tara looks on all, [[RomanticTwoGirlFriendship "Would you?"]]

* ItIsPronouncedTroPay: Giles gripes that Spike hasn't programmed the Buffybot to say his name correctly, pronouncing it "Guy-els." This is an InJoke on fans who mispronounce the character's name despite claiming to have watched the show.

* KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade: The Scoobies are perfectly willing to dust Spike to prevent him from selling Dawn out. It doesn't come to that, of course.

* PlatonicKissing: Buffy gives Spike thank-you kiss on the cheek for not telling Glory about Dawn.

* TakeThat: The Buffybot pronounces "Giles" with a hard g (as in "guy-els"). Creator/JossWhedon and Marti Noxon have said on several occasions that they get annoyed with "so-called fans of the show" when they pronounce "Giles" in this way.[citation needed] This pronunciation is present as well in some official international dubbing for the series.

* YellowSnow

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: There's no delicate way of putting this, Spike is enjoying a cigarette when the Buffybot pops up from below. There's absolutely no way to misinterpret what she was doing.
** Slightly darker is when Glory throws a tied up Spike on her bed, straddling him and digging a finger into his chest while he screams and struggles in pain.