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* SequelEpisode: A loose one to Season Five's [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E7FoolForLove "Fool for Love"]]. It revisits both Spike's siring in 1880 and his duel with the 1970s Slayer, adding additional context to both events.
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* HiddenDisdainReveal: Being turned into a soulless vampire allows Spike's mom to reveal that she's always hated his smothering attention and awful poetry.
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** Wood cures Spike, and Giles forces Buffy to act like a General.
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** Wood cures Spike, and Giles forces Buffy to act like a General.
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* {{Matricide}}: Spike resurrected his mother as a vampire after her untimely death, but losing her soul made her become a vile monster. After she tells Spike how much she hates him and tries to seduce him, the horrified Spike stakes her to kill her for good.
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* {{Matricide}}: Spike resurrected turned his mother as into a vampire after to prevent her untimely death, natural death due to terminal illness, but losing her soul made her become a vile vile, contemptuous monster. After she tells Spike how much she hates him and tries to seduce him, the horrified Spike stakes her to kill her for good.
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nothing in his reaction showed "appalled"; if anything it affirned the point he was trying to make about Spike
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Giles is appalled that Buffy would consider letting Dawn die to save the world, yet he was willing to do exactly that way back in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E22TheGift The Gift]]".
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* DoorClosesEnding: The episode ends on Buffy shutting her bedroom door in Giles' face after his attempt to kill Spike.
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* DoorClosesEnding: The episode ends on Buffy shutting her bedroom door in Giles' face after his attempt to kill Spike. have Spike killed behind her back.
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* BaitAndSwitch: Spike doesn't kill Wood, though only because Wood ended up helping him (even if that wasn't the intent).
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* BaitAndSwitch: Spike doesn't kill Wood, though only because Wood ended up helping him (even if that wasn't the intent).Wood.
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Oedipus Complex is a disambiguation
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* OedipusComplex: Played with but eventually subverted. William was very close to his mother (and his father was nowhere in sight), but even without a soul, he's utterly horrified to be propositioned with ParentalIncest by her after she became a vampire.
--> '''William:''' No, I loved you, but not like that.
--> '''William:''' No, I loved you, but not like that.
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* WhamLine: "The mission is all that matters." Said by Buffy to a beaten, bitten, bleeding, Robin.
