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Wolfram & Hart
Attorneys at Law

First appearance
"City Of"
 (episode 1.01)
Last appearance
"Not Fade Away"
 (episode 5.22)
Created by
Joss Whedon
 David Greenwalt
Information

Purpose
Represent the interests of the Senior Partners
Membership
Key members:
Senior Partners
Lilah Morgan
Lindsey McDonald
Holland Manners
Nathan Reed
Linwood Murrow
Eve
Marcus Hamilton
Darla
Drusilla
Angel
Wesley Wyndam-Pryce
Charles Gunn
Winnifred Burkle
Harmony Kendall
Spike
Lorne
Faith
Gavin Park

Wolfram & Hart − Attorneys at Law is a fictional, international, and interdimensional law firm featured in the television series Angel, as well as other extended materials in Joss Whedon's Buffyverse.


Contents  [hide]
1 Fictional history
2 Operations 2.1 Special Projects
2.2 Human resources
2.3 Circle of the Black Thorn
3 Los Angeles branch 3.1 White Room
4 Other realms
5 Production details 5.1 Conception
5.2 Locations
6 See also
7 References
8 External links

Fictional history[edit]
"The Wolf, The Ram, and The Hart" are the names of the members in an ancient trio of true demons. The group was at one point, before the dawn of human history, considered relatively insignificant, and was not regarded as a threat by the Old Ones.[1] After humanity's triumph over the demons they remained, and slowly gained power and influence, eventually leaving this dimension altogether. In the present day on Earth they are referred to as the Senior Partners by their employees, and enact their will through various puppet organizations. One of the groups they command on Earth is the 'law firm' '"Wolfram & Hart"'.
While the Senior Partners have left Earth's dimension, the source of Wolfram & Hart's power, the Home Office, exists on Earth itself. Without the evil residing within every living person, the firm would not exist.[2]
In the Buffy and Angel universe the firm maintains offices in many major cities throughout the world.[3] However, the only branch offices featured in the television series are in Los Angeles and Rome (both have identical interiors); in Italy the firm is known as Wolfram e Hart.
The earthly manifestation of one of the Senior Partners is slain by Angel in the Los Angeles branch, in the episode "Reprise".
In Angel: After the Fall, the canonical comic book continuation of the television series, the Wolfram and Hart office buildings have retroactively vanished; the site is now being used for the construction of a "Doublemeat Palace" facility, and few people remember that there ever was a WR&H branch there.[4] In the Spike (2010–11) series however, Spike later observes that a Wolfram & Hart branch has sprung up in the heart of Las Vegas, Nevada.[5] The Senior Partners reveal to Spike that they are aware of a coming apocalypse in which they have no part (referencing the events of Dark Horse Comics' Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight), and have built themselves a special space ship. They use the ship to flee from the universe in the final issue of the series.
The organisation crossed over into Buffy for the first time in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Nine #11 (2012), when social media entrepreneur Theo Daniels hires vampire slayers Buffy and Kennedy to protect him from the firm during a trip to San Francisco. Wolfram & Hart were revealed to have funded Daniels' TinCan social networking website on the condition they could install demonic technology into it, in the event that the coming apocalypse in Season Eight was averted but resulted in a world without magic, as it did-leaving the firm cut off from Earth. Buffy and Kennedy destroy TinCan's servers and avert Wolfram & Hart's return to this dimension.
Operations[edit]
As a law firm, Wolfram & Hart typically defends unscrupulous and detestable clients, including stalkers,[6] mobsters,[7] murderers,[8] corrupt senators,[9] and a number of demonic individuals and groups.[6][10] While many of these clients are rich or powerful, the firm is also known to work some cases pro bono, especially when it has a secondary interest in the client.[11][12] The firm also maintains departments of Real Estate;[13] Entertainment;[14] Science;[14] Research and Intelligence;[15] and Interment Acquisitions (the firm's term for grave robbery).[16]
Special Projects[edit]
In addition to the many legal functions the firm performs, Wolfram & Hart also maintains a Special Projects Division.[17] Special Projects is responsible for a wide range of activities, from sponsoring high-profile charity events with the intention of stealing upwards of 95% of the funds raised,[11] to hiring assassins to kill individuals deemed threatening to the Senior Partners.[12] At the Los Angeles branch, Special Projects devotes a considerable amount of attention to Angel. According to prophecies, Angel is destined to play a key role in the Apocalypse, but it is not known which side he will take. The Special Projects division is committed to ensuring Angel will be on their side when the prophecy is fulfilled.[11] Among the resources at the division's disposal is a heavily armed special ops team, which carries out operations such as kidnapping at the firm's behest.[18] Marcus Hamilton claims that the patentholder for cancer is a client of theirs.[19]
Human resources[edit]
Wolfram & Hart is known for its unforgiving treatment of its employees. The firm conducts random sweeps of employees, using telepaths to find workers who are disloyal to the company they pledged to work for. When discovered, these individuals are often executed on the spot.[12] The Senior Partners are reputed to have forced employees to eat their own liver if unhappy with their performance.[20] In another instance, several employees were reported to have been sacked with actual sacks. They have also permitted employees to execute and replace their superiors in light of poor performance,[21] and it was said by Knox that on at least one occasion they literally fired an employee ("He was set on fire.").
Every 75 years, the firm conducts a review of its employees. During the Review, a Senior Partner takes corporeal form to punish employees who have shown unfavorable performance. Many employees live in fear of the Review, and in the days preceding it do whatever they can to endear themselves to the Senior Partners, including animal and human sacrifices.[2]
However, departmental heads at Wolfram & Hart can use discretion when dealing with insubordination. If a manager thinks highly enough of an employee, he or she may decide to forgo punishment in favor of a second chance.[12]
Wolfram & Hart's employees often have a "perpetuity clause" in their contracts, meaning that they 'remain with the firm even after their death.'[2][14]
As mentioned by Harmony Kendall, there is also a 'Non-Human Resources Department' specifically committed to their numerous demonic and vampiric employees.
Since many of the employees and clients of Wolfram & Hart are non-human, many amenities are offered within the building, ranging from special catering for non-traditional palates, blood is also kept "on tap" for those who need it (which was changed to animal blood after Angel's group took over operations). All the windows in the building are made of "Necro-Tempered" type-glass that blocks the fatal effects of sunlight and UV rays so that Vampires can walk around the building free from accidental immolation throughout the day.
Circle of the Black Thorn[edit]
The members of the circle act as the earthly instruments of the Senior Partners, charged with being the driving force behind Wolfram & Hart's apocalyptic plans and dedicated to keeping the wheel of "man's inhumanity to man" perpetually spinning. The members of the Circle do this not from a belief in evil per se, but because being a Black Thorn allows them to amass power for themselves and wield that power with impunity.
The Circle's lineup in 2004 is: Archduke Sebassis; Senator Helen Brucker; Cyvus Vail; Ed, Grand Potentate of the Fell Brethren; the leader of the Sahrvin Clan; Izzerial the Devil; and three other men whose names were never mentioned. Their latest recruit was Angel, who pretended to have been corrupted by Wolfram & Hart in order to infiltrate the circle and assassinate its members. After Angel and his team kill all members of the circle, the Senior Partners send an army of demons to destroy them as vengeance. As seen in comic book continuation Angel: After the Fall, the Senior Partners sent all of Los Angeles to Hell as a punishment.[22]
Los Angeles branch[edit]
The Los Angeles branch of Wolfram & Hart is founded in 1791 over holy ground de-consecrated through a ritual employing the blood of serial murderer Matthias Pavayne, who is able to survive as a spirit in the building for over 200 years.[15] The branch is notable because it operates in the same city as Angel, who becomes the focus of many W&H projects. Several attorneys whose duties focus on Angel—Lindsey McDonald, Lee Mercer, Lilah Morgan, Linwood Murrow—all share the same initials.
In 2003, the Los Angeles branch of Wolfram & Hart is destroyed by The Beast after it launched a brutal assault on their offices[23] and then slaughtered almost everyone else in the city who worked for the company.[24] The building is quickly rebuilt (and somehow managed to replace the staff extremely quickly), and Angel is offered stewardship of the branch by their now-deceased employee Lilah Morgan, ostensibly as a reward for preventing world peace.[14] In reality, the Senior Partners hope to turn Angel to their side, and keep him from recognizing the firm's apocalypse already in progress.[25] Angel accepts the offer on one condition: in exchange, Wolfram & Hart agrees to alter his son Connor's memories and place him with a loving family.[14] The remaining members of Angel Investigations also join Wolfram & Hart, assuming control of various departments.[26]
Angel struggles with the moral ambiguities of his position as branch manager. While he is able to make some changes to the business, such as firing the more evil employees[26] and instituting a zero tolerance policy on killing humans,[27] he must keep the business profitable in order to maintain control of the branch.[26] As a result Angel must keep his often immoral clientele happy through creative solutions to their problems that best fit his understanding of doing good. After running the branch for months, Angel and the others disrupt the Senior Partners' plans by killing all of the members of the Circle of the Black Thorn, the Partners' major representatives on Earth, effectively destroying their influence and stalling the plans of the Partners. Next, during a battle between Angel and Liaison to the Senior Partners Marcus Hamilton, the Los Angeles branch collapses.[28]
White Room[edit]
Within the Wolfram & Hart solicitor's building, one can enter 'The White Room'. This is an interdimensional space that serves as a "Conduit" to the Senior Partners—it is the most direct line to them, but it requires speaking through an intermediary. The 'Room' is accessed by pressing a certain sequence of buttons on an elevator panel. If conditions are met, the elevator doors open and a blinding light transports the occupants to the White Room.[29]
When it is first visited by Angel, the room is occupied by a small girl[29] named Mesektet, the most malevolent member of the Ra-Tet, a family of mystic beings.[30] When Angel visits the Room looking for the demon Sahjhan, the girl offers a brief history on the demon.[29] When Wolfram & Hart falls under siege by The Beast, Angel and his group find their only refuge in the White Room; they arrive just in time to see The Beast draining the dark energies from Mesektet, killing her. Before her death, she transports the group back to the Hyperion Hotel before The Beast can kill them as well.[23]
When the employees of Angel Investigations are offered positions at Wolfram & Hart, Charles Gunn is taken to the White Room as part of his personalized tour. To his surprise, he is greeted by a black panther;[14] the new Conduit's form is determined by the viewer.[3] During his tenure with Wolfram & Hart, Gunn makes use of the Conduit when he has exhausted all other resources.[15] When Gunn visits in search of a way to save Fred's life, he encounters a mirror image of himself, who viciously beats him for his insolence in using the Room for his own convenience.[3]
Other realms[edit]
In addition to its operations on Earth, Wolfram & Hart maintains a presence in a number of other dimensions.[31]
The region of the extradimensional world of Pylea, visited by Angel Investigations, is ruled by priests known as the Covenant of Trombli. This group possesses a trio of holy texts emblazoned with a wolf, a ram, and a hart (male red deer) respectively, a hint that reveals to Cordelia and the others that they shouldn't trust the Covenant.[32] The Covenant has since been overthrown after Cordelia kills the main priest Silas,[33] and the full extent of Wolfram & Hart's influence on Pylea or in other dimensions is unknown; however, there are assumed to be many more, as Angel tells Spike in "A Hole in the World": "Wolfram & Hart has branches in every major city in the world, and a lot more out of it."
Production details[edit]
Conception[edit]
Series creator Joss Whedon has described why Wolfram & Hart was created as the ideal antagonist for the show's setting and tone:
“ [Actor Christian Kane as Lindsey McDonald] embodies what we wanted for our villains, which is a group of young, go-getter lawyers who are just evil incarnate, working for a great conglomerate. Rather than have The Master, or some seeable villain as we had on Buffy, to have an entire corporation: just sort of an unseen, all-encompassing, 'we make the bad world run' L.A. kind of corporation be the villain.[34] ”
Locations[edit]
The distinctive exterior of the Wolfram & Hart offices seen in the first four seasons of the series is actually the Sony Pictures Plaza, located in Culver City, California.[35]
The exterior shots in season five are of the Arco Center towers in Long Beach, California.
The interior of the Los Angeles branch seen in "Home" is actually a large business complex in Thousand Oaks, California.[36]
See also[edit]
Angel Investigations
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Shells". Angel. Season 5. Episode 16. 2004-03-03.
2.^ Jump up to: a b c "Reprise". Angel. Season 2. Episode 15. 2001-02-20.
3.^ Jump up to: a b c "A Hole in the World". Angel. Season 5. Episode 15. 2004-02-25.
4.Jump up ^ Angel: After the Fall #16 (January 2009)
5.Jump up ^ Lynch, Brian (w), Urru, Franco and Zanni, Nicola (a), Priorini, Andrea (col), Uyetake, Neil (let). "What Happens in Vegas, Stays in Vegas" Spike 2 (November 10, 2010), San Diego: IDW Publishing
6.^ Jump up to: a b "City of". Angel. Season 1. Episode 1. 1999-10-05.
7.Jump up ^ "Sense & Sensitivity". Angel. Season 1. Episode 6. 1999-11-09.
8.Jump up ^ "Billy". Angel. Season 3. Episode 6. 2001-10-29.
9.Jump up ^ "Power Play". Angel. Season 5. Episode 21. 2004-05-12.
10.Jump up ^ "The Girl in Question". Angel. Season 5. Episode 20. 2004-05-05.
11.^ Jump up to: a b c "Blood Money". Angel. Season 2. Episode 12. 2001-01-23.
12.^ Jump up to: a b c d "Blind Date". Angel. Season 1. Episode 21. 2000-05-16.
13.Jump up ^ "That Vision Thing". Angel. Season 3. Episode 2. 2001-10-01.
14.^ Jump up to: a b c d e f "Home". Angel. Season 4. Episode 22. 2003-05-07.
15.^ Jump up to: a b c "Hell Bound". Angel. Season 5. Episode 4. 2003-10-22.
16.Jump up ^ "Just Rewards". Angel. Season 5. Episode 2. 2003-10-08.
17.Jump up ^ "Reunion". Angel. Season 2. Episode 10. 2000-12-19.
18.Jump up ^ "Quickening". Angel. Season 4. Episode 8. 2001-11-12.
19.Jump up ^ "Time Bomb". Angel. Season 5. Episode 19. April 28, 2004.
20.Jump up ^ "To Shanshu in L.A.". Angel. Season 1. Episode 22. 2000-05-23.
21.Jump up ^ "Deep Down". Angel. Season 4. Episode 1. 2002-10-06.
22.Jump up ^ "Angel: After the Fall", November 2007 - ongoing
23.^ Jump up to: a b "Habeas Corpses". Angel. Season 4. Episode 8. 2003-01-15.
24.Jump up ^ "Calvary". Angel. Season 4. Episode 12. 2003-02-12.
25.Jump up ^ "Underneath". Angel. Season 5. Episode 17. 2004-04-14.
26.^ Jump up to: a b c "Conviction". Angel. Season 5. Episode 1. 2003-10-01.
27.Jump up ^ "Harm's Way". Angel. Season 5. Episode 9. 2004-01-14.
28.Jump up ^ "Not Fade Away". Angel. Season 5. Episode 22. 2004-05-19.
29.^ Jump up to: a b c "Forgiving". Angel. Season 3. Episode 17. 2002-04-15.
30.Jump up ^ "Long Day's Journey". Angel. Season 4. Episode 9. 2003-01-22.
31.Jump up ^ "Loyalty". Angel. Season 3. Episode 15. 2002-02-25.
32.Jump up ^ "Through the Looking Glass". Angel. Season 2. Episode 21. 2001-05-15.
33.Jump up ^ "There's No Place Like Plrtz Glrb". Angel. Season 2. Episode 22. 2001-05-22.
34.Jump up ^ Whedon, Joss & Greenwalt, David, "City of" (Commentary by Joss Whedon & David Greenwalt), Angel: Season One on DVD, Twentieth Century Fox, 2002.
35.Jump up ^ "TV Locations - part 7". Retrieved 2007-08-01.[dead link]
36.Jump up ^ Minear, Tim, "Home" (Commentary by Tim Minear), Angel: Season Four on DVD, Twentieth Century Fox, 2004.
External links[edit]
Wolfram & Hart website (BBC)
Wolfram & Hart page on City of Angel - city of angel is already down


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List of minor Angel characters
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This article features minor fictional characters who appear as guest stars on the cult television program Angel, ordered alphabetically. For the show's main characters, please see the article list of Angel characters.

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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ·
 See also ·
 External links

A[edit]
Alonna Gunn[edit]
Alonna Gunn (played by Michele Kelly) was the sister of Charles Gunn, and the most important person in his life. The siblings took care of each other while growing up in the "Badlands" (a fictional neighborhood in Los Angeles). Alonna was turned into a vampire in her first appearance ("War Zone"). Gunn eventually found Alonna as a vampire and confronted her, but was ultimately forced to stake her with Angel looking on. Alonna continued to appear in future episodes in Gunn's memory, flashbacks, and dreams. She was also mentioned in many episodes including "That Old Gang of Mine". It was the death of Alonna that made Gunn receptive to Angel's help and also caused him to drift away from his old crew, as he was tired of seeing his friends "picked off one by one".
Anne Steele[edit]
Anne Steele (also known as "Sister Sunshine", "Chanterelle" and "Lily") is a recurring character crossed over from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, portrayed by Julia Lee. Initially known as "Chanterelle", she first appeared in the Buffy season two episode "Lie to Me" as a member of the Sunset Club, a naïve cult that worships vampires, which they refer to as "The Lonely Ones". Chanterelle discovers the true nature of vampires when the club is raided by Spike's bloodthirsty gang, and her life is saved by Buffy Summers. The character reappears in the third season episode "Anne", now known as "Lily" and in love with a boy called Rickie. Buffy is working as a waitress at a diner under her middle name, "Anne", after running away to Los Angeles. Lily explains to Buffy that she always changes her identity and persona as she moves from place to place. When Rickie is killed by demons, Buffy and Lily are taken to a hell dimension where humans are worked as slaves. Lily helps Buffy defeat the demons, and afterwards Buffy decides to go home, leaving her job, apartment, and identity as "Anne" to Lily.
When Anne appears in the second season of Angel, she is an administrator at a shelter for homeless teenagers called the East Hills Teen Center. In the episode "Blood Money", when the corrupt law firm Wolfram & Hart presents itself as a benefactor to the shelter, Angel convinces Anne to expose their plans to pocket a majority of the money raised on behalf of the shelter. Later in the season, Anne helps Gunn, Wesley and Cordelia find sanctuary in her shelter from undead police officers. Anne's last onscreen appearance is in the final episode of Angel, "Not Fade Away". During what Gunn assumes will be his last day alive, he chooses to assist Anne at the shelter. Gunn asks Anne what she would do if she knew it was all a lie; she asserts she would get the truck unpacked before the new stuff gets there (meaning she would continue doing all she could to improve the world).
Archduke Sebassis[edit]
Archduke Sebassis (Leland Crooke) is a hairless demon with long, antelope-like horns, pointed ears, yellow eyes and white skin. Sebassis is the latest in a long line of demonic royalty and commands over forty demonic legions. He is the overall leader of the Circle of the Black Thorn, a secret society at the service of the Senior Partners of Wolfram & Hart charged with being the driving force behind the firm's scheduled apocalypse and with maintaining corruption in the world. His background and legions of minions are what earned him the seat in the circle in the first place. Besides the legions under his command, Sebassis is served by a number of demons of his same species. He also keeps a chained slave at his side, who provides the blue blood Sebassis is accustomed to drink.
Sebassis is one of the most famous demons in the Los Angeles underworld, for which he is invited to most events and parties, such as the Wolfram & Hart Halloween Bash, to which he was personally invited by Angel, the new CEO of W&H. At first full of contempt for Angel due to the fact he fed on pig's blood, which Sebassis considered filthy, Sebassis ultimately agrees to attend the party, after some insistence by Lorne. Sebassis was wary of a trap, so he and his people cast anti-detection spells to conceal weapons they brought with them. In the end, it was Lorne who unwittingly proved a danger, and a monster which had split off from him after he had removed his need to sleep killed one of Sebassis' aides. Angel saved Sebassis' life by restoring Lorne, and Sebassis showed his support, citing he enjoyed blood sports at social events (having previously being bored to death by the party Lorne originally organized).
Months later, Sebassis assisted in Angel's initiation to the Circle of the Black Thorn and tortured Drogyn the Battlebrand alongside the other Black Thorns. Before revealing himself, Sebassis wore a white bauta mask. At first, Sebassis was delighted, believing Angel had reverted to Angelus, but accepted the notion Angel had been corrupted instead. However, he remained suspicious Angel might be deceiving the Circle, hoping to wipe them out in hopes of fulfilling the Shanshu Prophecy contained in the Scrolls of Aberjian. At the Circle's insistence, Angel signed away his rights to the Shanshu. Sebassis never suspected Angel would kill them merely to do good and not for a reward. When Team Angel decides to destroy the Black Thorn to temporarily sever the Senior Partners' hold on Earth and go out in a blaze of glory, Angel claims he will go after Sebassis; however, Angel had earlier poisoned the blood of his slave, which spread to Sebassis the next time he drank and killed him instantly.
B[edit]
Betta George[edit]
Betta George is a giant telepathic fish, a Splenden Beast, who appears solely in Angel comics. Created by Brian Lynch, he first appears in Spike: Asylum and later Spike: Shadow Puppets. Joss Whedon liked Betta George and decided that the character should appear in Angel: After the Fall, thus becoming part of the Angel canon.[1] In the series, he is described as a Splenden Beast, a race of fish-like demons who possess extremely powerful telepathic powers, to the extent that they can even read the minds of vampires, who are typically immune to telepathy. George is seen reluctantly working for Kr'ph, the demon lord of Westwood in the hellbound Los Angeles. Kr'ph is killed by the vampire Charles Gunn, who then kidnaps Betta George. Gunn uses George's skills to allow himself to train against captive Slayers. When George, freed, is reunited with Spike and introduced to Angel, he is the one to inform the team of an enraged Illyria's motives and plan for destruction. Angel instructs George to fill Illyria's mind with Wesley and Spike's memories of Fred, and a stunned Illyria is defeated by the Senior Partners.
The canonicity of George's appearances in Asylum and Shadow Puppets are deliberately ambiguous; in After the Fall, he states, "I've hung out with vampires," which Brian Lynch claims can be interpreted as a vague reference to his previous encounters with Spike. Later issues see George contact the Mosaic Wellness Center, and other Asylum characters. Lynch says he writes George as an audience surrogate, "He's supposed to be the most normal character. Because I know that if you have a talking fish hanging out with everyone's favourite characters, people are going to not like him immediately. Because he could be Jar Jar very easily. So I try to make him the nicest, most normal character, and the one who would react like the audience would react." He also denies that Betta George speaks in any particular accent, but advises readers to hear him in their own accent, to help them identify with him.[2]
Later, George was selected as a main character for the 2010 Spike ongoing series, which later became a miniseries due to the transfer of Angel characters and properties from IDW Publishing to Dark Horse. His final appearance is in the Angel Yearbook, IDW's send-off publication, in a story by Brian Lynch featuring the entire Angel gang.
Beast[edit]
The Beast is a demon, portrayed by Vladimir Kulich. He is very strong, able to defeat the entirety of the Angel Investigations team plus Faith with relative ease, and possesses a rock-like hide, making him highly resistant to physical damage. He first appears in the Season Four episode "Apocalypse, Nowish", when he tears his way out of the earth from the Hell dimension to which he was previously banished. The first people to encounter the Beast are Cordelia Chase and Connor, who find the Beast arriving on Earth at the exact spot at which Connor had been born. A fight ensues, during which both Connor and Cordelia are injured. Believing he has something to do with the coming apocalypse, Connor distances himself from his teammates, who do not trust him. Angel, Gunn, and Lorne decide to take on The Beast. Wesley rejoins them to help in the battle, but they fail nonetheless, and are all badly injured. The Beast then conjures a rain of fire over Los Angeles, awakening Jasmine inside of Cordelia, and causing Cordelia's possession by Jasmine.
The Beast, seeking to reach Mesektet (The Little Girl of the White Room), kills everyone working at Wolfram and Hart as he tries to reach the White Room. The Beast kills Mesektet and drains her of her dark energy. Following the death of Mesektet, the Beast hunts down the rest of her "family", an order of mystical beings known as the Ra-Tet. Ma'at, Ashet and Semkhet are killed by the Beast. The final Ra-Tet, Manjet, is killed by Jasmine/Cordelia in secret. Using the metal wings in Ashet and Semkhet and the heart of Ma'at, the Beast starts a ritual to cause a solar eclipse, which is completed when the dark energy of Mesektet is imbued in the orb which was extracted from Manjet's head. The eclipse begins as a sunlight-blocking spot that spreads covering Los Angeles and is supposed to eventually cover the totality of earth.
Angel's team believe their only hope is in Angel's evil alter ego Angelus, who apparently knew The Beast in the past even though Angel does not remember the encounter. This is revealed to be because all references to the Beast in this dimension were magically erased. However, Angelus was unaffected as he did not, technically, exist at the time when the spell was cast.
Once freed in "Awakening", in the following episode, "Soulless", Angelus is eventually convinced to reveal the details of his encounter with the Beast; the Beast had attempted to recruit Angelus in 1789 to stop some priestesses who were attempting to banish the Beast, but Angelus declined and was knocked out before the Beast was banished. After Angel's soul is stolen and a ritual to restore his soul via dark magic is faked, in "Calvary", Angelus breaks free and seeks out the Beast. In "Salvage", Wesley breaks Faith out of jail to assist the heroes. She is beaten badly in battle with the Beast. It is then Angelus who, in an act of betrayal, stabs the Beast with a knife made from its own bones, as he had correctly surmised the only thing that could kill the Beast was the Beast itself. The death of the Beast also undoes the spell to eclipse the sun, leaving Faith in the sunlight and Angelus confined to the shadows, much to the vampire's annoyance (Angelus hadn't expected the Beast's death would restore the sun).
Co-executive producer Jeffrey Jackson Bell employed the effects shop Almost Human to design Vladimir Kulich's costuming and make-up. According to Almost Human makeup designer Chris Burdett, it took 2–3 days for four people to sculpt the costume and another 7 hours to fill and shape the huge fiberglass mold. Burdett explains a life cast was made of Vladimir so the suit would fit him exactly. The night before shooting was to begin, the crew finally established the costume's paint scheme.[3]
Vladimir went through the daily eight hour make-up process to transform him into the character of The Beast, including prosthetics and fiberglass body suit, but "The worst part was the contact lenses...[that] cover the entire eyeball," the actor said. However, the isolating nature of the 50 lb (23 kg) costume[4] meant that "I was able to search a little deeper for material while I was in the character because I was cocooned off...It was liberating."[5]
Billy Blim[edit]
Billy Blim (played by Justin Shilton) is a half-demon nephew of a congressman who lives in Los Angeles. He possesses the power to induce extreme misogyny in any man he touches or forces to come into contact with his body fluids. The writers have confirmed that Billy is half-demon, and that he was conceived when an evil human man raped a benevolent demon woman.[6]
Billy is first seen in "That Vision Thing" when Angel breaks him out of a prison dimension guarded by the amiable demon Skip. His significance is not revealed until his second appearance.
In Billy's second appearance, in the eponymous "Billy" shows Cordelia has a vision of an old man murdering his wife at a grocery store. Angel and his team find out it happened a week ago and are puzzled. Billy is staying at Wolfram & Hart and is being entertained by Gavin. Lilah Morgan enters and is annoyed at this, viewing it as Gavin trying to steal the congressman's favor from her. Gavin then starts an argument with Lilah and severely beats her, leaving her with a black eye.
Angel stalks Billy and enters his house as the police arrive. Billy is taken away and touches one of the officers causing him to argue with his female partner. The lady cop shoots him and Billy is able to escape to an airport.
Cordelia, feeling responsible for the people Billy is killing, interrogates Lilah at her apartment and learns where Billy is. She confronts him at the airfield and hits him in the groin with a taser blast. Angel arrives and tells Cordelia he will handle Billy, and she replies since she is a woman, his power won't work on her.
Meanwhile, Wesley and Fred are analyzing some of Billy's blood under a microscope. As a result, Wesley accidentally touches some and is affected. Since, as Lilah said earlier "Billy's touch affects every man in a different way." Wesley's murderous misogyny is more quiet and subdued, in keeping with his personality. Fred does not realize anything is wrong until Wesley strikes her, throwing her into some stairs. She runs into some of the hotel's rooms, Wesley following closely behind and insulting her. Fred locks herself in one of the rooms and barricades the door. She is spooked by Gunn and explains the situation. Gunn is horrified to learn about the powers of Billy's blood since he accidentally touched some earlier. He gives Fred a club and tells her to knock him out. Fred falters and Gunn starts yelling at her and threatens to beat her to death, showing Billy's blood affected him nearly instantly, due to his quick temper. Fred knocks him out and goes to cower in a corner.
A short time later, Wesley breaks in and menaces Fred some more. He then trips a trap Fred set for him, causing a fire extinguisher to hit him and knock him through a hole in the floor.
Billy then touches Angel's face and stands back to watch him kill Cordelia. Angel walks up to Cordelia and then spins around and punches Billy in the face, revealing he is unaffected. He and Billy have a fistfight with Billy hitting the ground making red light flow into his body towards the end of it. Their fight is cut short when Billy is shot twice by Lilah and falls to the ground, dead.
Later, Cordelia asks why Billy's touch did not affect Angel. Angel explains when he was Angelus he killed for sport or pleasure, but was never angry with his victims, and never hated them.
Boone[edit]
Boone is a humanoid demon of an unknown species and an old rival of Angel. He was played by Mark Rolston in the episode "Blood Money". Boone met Angel in Juarez, in the 1920s, and fought over a woman while Boone was hung over. However, the fight was stopped because of sunlight, and Boone's sense of honor prevented him from taking advantage. Boone was left with the doubt of who would win in an evenly matched fight.
Decades later, the two met again and teamed up in order to humiliate Lindsey McDonald and Lilah Morgan of Wolfram & Hart. Boone offered the two lawyers his services as an assassin, and even though he told them he had no interest in money and he held no real grudge against Angel, neither Lilah nor Lindsey suspected Boone was actually in league with his supposed target.
During the Highway Robbery Ball, Boone helped Angel infiltrate the fund raiser's premises. Angel and Boone pretended to fight while Anne Steele played a tape supposedly incriminating W&H's plot to steal most of the fund raiser's money. However, the tape was nothing more than a distraction: Angel just wanted to mess with Lindsey and Lilah, using Anne in the process. Meanwhile, as the tape was played and every attendant was distracted, Boone took the two million dollars himself, as per his and Angels deal.
With Boone gone from the party, Angel thought he had seen the last of the demon. However, Boone still wanted to know who was the better warrior. In the ensuing fight, Angel proved himself as the better fighter and won the money. It's unclear if he survived the fight or not as his and Angel's blood covered the money which Angel gave to Anne.
Boone can emit coils of a metallic material that wrap around his fists, thus making his punches even more damaging. Like most regular demons he also has superhuman strength. His demon physiology also appears to give him a lifespan much longer than that of a human.
Trish and Roger Burkle[edit]
Trish and Roger Burkle (played by Jennifer Griffin and Gary Grubbs) are the parents of Winifred Burkle. They appear in four episodes of Angel: "Fredless," "A Hole in the World, "Shells" and "The Girl in Question." In their first appearance, they come to Los Angeles looking for Fred, who has been lost for five years. Due to Fred's reluctance to see her parents, the gang at Angel Investigations believes at first that the Burkles may have been abusive, but later discover they are in fact loving and supportive, and that Fred's strange behavior stems from her trauma at having been lost in Pylea. Once the misunderstanding is cleared up, the Burkles take the existence of the supernatural in stride and prove friendly, brave, and resourceful; at one point Trish, a retired school bus driver, rescues the gang from a demon by driving a bus into it, while Roger and Angel bond over their shared knowledge that Spiro Agnew was a Grathnar demon. When Fred decides that her place is with the Angel Investigations team, Trish and Roger respectfully accept her decision. Their second and third appearances are in flashbacks as they see Fred off to L.A. to pursue her graduate studies. In their fourth and last appearance, they show up for a surprise visit at Wolfram and Hart, not knowing Fred has been killed. Illyria assumes Fred's appearance and manner for the duration of their visit, and they leave never the wiser.
They later reappear in Angel: Only Human, in which they attend the funeral of Fred's uncle. They remain unaware of Fred's death, dismissing the form and appearance of Illyria as a "blue goth phase."
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Cordelia (dragon)[edit]
Cordelia is a dragon that first appears in "Not Fade Away" and features prominently in Angel: After the Fall. It appears as part of the demon army sent by the Senior Partners to destroy Angel's team; Angel expresses a desire to slay it. However, early on in the fight, Angel discovers that the dragon is in fact good, but had been duped into fighting on the wrong side just as he had. When the Senior Partners send L.A. to Hell, the dragon discovers Angel, who, unaware that the Partners had made him human again, had jumped off a rooftop and broke his spine and both his legs. The dragon subsequently took him to the W&H building, where he was subjected to a months-long ritual to heal his broken body. Angel spent every second awake and in agony, and dealt with the pain by talking to an imaginary Cordelia Chase; the dragon, thinking that Angel was talking to him, thus believed that "Cordelia" was his name. He assists Angel in combating the Demon Lords and a traitorous Gwen Raiden before he is ripped apart by hostile dragons, only to be resurrected when the Senior Partners took back the fall. In order to remain as inconspicuous as possible, Angel leaves Cordelia in the care of the Groosalugg.
Cyvus Vail[edit]
Cyvus Vail (Dennis Christopher) is a powerful and elderly demon warlock, recognizable by his red skin and stringy white hair, whose influence extends throughout Los Angeles thanks to his vast economic power and his membership of the Circle of the Black Thorn. Vail led the team of warlocks who performed the reality alteration allowing Angel's son Connor to obtain a normal life. He also has a grudge against the demon Sahjhan, whom Vail is unable to fight due to his failing health, which forces him to receive continuous IV transfusions. Vail mentions Sahjhan has "a nasty habit of trying to kill [him]". Cyvus Vail thus manipulates Angel to allow Connor to fight Sahjhan (Connor was prophesied to kill Sahjhan), who had been imprisoned in an urn which Cyvus had now obtained. The only way for Connor to be ruthless and skilled enough to fight Sahjhan, however, is to restore his memories, which Wesley does by smashing the Orlon Window which held them. He does so, thinking he might be able to bring Fred back to life. Connor proceeds to kill Sahjhan.
Vail goes underground to escape Angel's retaliation, but is present at Angel's initiation in the Circle of the Black Thorn, wearing a Venetian scaramouche mask, characterized by its long nose. The old demon paid his respects and accepted Angel's statement he had been pretending to look for Vail. However, he remained distrustful of Angel and feared he was merely pretending to have been corrupted in order to infiltrate the Circle. He also wanted to keep close tabs on Wesley, whom Vail considered unstable and a loose cannon that would betray Angel to obtain his seat in the Circle. Wesley had more influence on Illyria than any other member of Angel's team.
When Angel decides to wipe out the entire Circle, Angel chooses Wesley to attack and kill Vail because he is the only one capable of facing Vail's warlock powers. Despite managing to take Vail by surprise with a fire ball, Vail subsequently immobilizes Wesley and stabs him in the gut. A last-ditch magical attack by Wesley knocks Vail out for a few moments. As Wesley lies dying, Illyria comes to his aid out of concern for his life. Illyria takes on the form of Fred to comfort him in his last moments and allowing him to say good-bye to the woman he loved. The revived Vail, not realizing who Illyria really is, taunts her to take her "best shot". She proceeds to kill Vail by shattering his skull to pieces with a single punch.
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Dana[edit]
Dana (Navi Rawat) is a Potential Slayer, meaning that she could become a Vampire Slayer one day, though she apparently did not know this. When she was 10 years old, her family was murdered by a man named Walter Kindel, who kidnapped, drugged, and tortured Dana until she managed to escape. The ordeal at Kindel's hands, however, had left Dana severely traumatized, and she was confined in a psychiatric hospital. During her stay at the hospital, Dana experienced visions and dreams, like other potential Slayers.
At the time of "Chosen", Dana's Slayer powers manifested, thanks to Willow Rosenberg's spell which activated all potential Slayers. Unfortunately, the dreams and memories of past Slayers pushed her further over the edge and she began speaking quotes from past Slayers, even in their native languages (Romanian, Chinese, etc.).
Dana escapes several months later. During and after her escape, she injures or kills several innocent people. Both Angel and Spike attempt to track her down; Spike faces Dana twice, and on both occasions, she manifests the personalities of the two Slayers whom Spike has killed in his life, causing Spike to initially mistake her new Slayer status for possession by a Chinese demon when she taps into the Slayer he killed during the Boxer Rebellion.
Due to her insanity, Dana begins to confuse her own memories with those of the past Slayers, and begins to believe Spike and Kindel are the same person. She captures him and saws off his hands, declaring he "can't touch [her]" now. Angel later apprehends Dana, but Andrew Wells and a squad of Slayers arrive and take her into custody, stating they (including Buffy and the rest of the Scooby Gang) no longer trust him due to his current status as head of Wolfram & Hart. They declare they will help her, since she is one of their own, and take her away.
David Nabbit[edit]
David Nabbitt, played by David Herman, is a wealthy software developer living in Los Angeles, who appears in three episodes of the first and second seasons of Angel. He is a lonely man with no real friends, who throws extravagant parties for his clients at which he sits quietly in the corner. Nabbitt first appears in the episode "War Zone", in which he hires Angel to track down a blackmailer. He appears later in the episodes "To Shanshu in L.A." and "First Impressions"; in both episodes he shows up at Angel's offices wearing a purple Dungeon Master cape, hoping pathetically, but futilely, to be included in Angel's adventures. In the latter episode, he gives Angel some useful advice on how to finance his purchase of the Hyperion Hotel; this is his last appearance in the series. (Also revealed in this episode is the fact that he made his first million developing a product that lets blind people use the internet.)
Dennis Pearson[edit]
Dennis Pearson (portrayed as a human by BJ Porter) first appears in the first season Angel episode "Rm w/a Vu". Cordelia moved into an apartment where Dennis and his mother, Maude Pearson, once resided. The Angel Investigations team, which consisted of Angel, Cordelia Chase, and Doyle at the time, discovered the apartment was haunted by Dennis' mother Maude.
After some investigation, the gang discovered Maude Pearson had died of what was believed to be a heart attack on the same day her son had disappeared. The group came to the conclusion Dennis had killed his mother in order to be with a woman she didn't approve of. However, after being haunted by the ghost of Maude, Cordelia breaks down a wall in her house, revealing the still tied-up body of Dennis Pearson. The team deduces Maude had tied her son up when she learned he was leaving her to be with his girlfriend. She then built a brick wall and trapped him inside, where he suffocated to death. When Cordelia broke down the wall, it unleashes the spirit of Dennis, who destroys his mother's ghost. Because the ghost of Dennis still inhabits the apartment, and Cordelia refuses to move out, Dennis resides with Cordelia as an invisible, and rather benevolent, roommate.
In the season 3 episode "Waiting in The Wings" Cordelia states the best romantic action she can get nowadays is "an invisible ghost who's good with the loofah", hinting at a deeper relationship than just roommates.
Their "living" situation continues until Cordy comes back from being a higher being in season 4, with Dennis never being seen again. It can be assumed Dennis is still 'haunting' the apartment Cordelia used to live in. He is occasionally referred to as "the phantom Dennis."
Though normally invisible, Dennis possesses a monstrous physical form, as a ghostly skull surrounded by tendrils of light. He appears in this form when Cordelia breaks down the wall where his corpse was hidden.
Desdemona[edit]
Desdemona, or Dez, is a werecat featured in Angel: Aftermath. Dez was once a jaguar cub, who was captured by Mayan priests and transformed into a human along with her sister, Penelope (Pen for short). The two were raised to be the priests' "Jaguar Warriors" to fight on their side during a prophesied Apocalypse (presumably the Shanshu Prophecy). They were subject to monthly rituals to retain their human forms, but were also kept prisoner and beaten. Eventually growing tired of being treated like common animals, Dez and Pen escaped and traveled to Los Angeles just as the Senior Partners transported it into Hell. Dez found work as an assassin for the Demon Lord of Sherman Oaks, but Pen began to revert to her feline form; Dez attempted to perform the ritual, but it failed when the Senior Partners returned L.A. to Earth and Pen subsequently disappeared.
 Soon afterwards, animals across L.A. were being transformed into humans, and Dez, realizing that the animals did not want to be human, worked to change them back. While doing so, she was ordered to assassinate Angel to pay off her debt to her Lord, but she refused and joined Angel Investigations, who, after some difficulties concerning her motives, helped her return the transfigured animals back to normal.
 Sometime afterwards, the mystical side effects of Illyria's heat period caused Dez to engage in a three-way with Angel and Kate Lockley. Shortly afterwards, however, Liss Hubble, a soul-sucking demon sent by James to destroy Angel and Spike, attacks Angel Investigations and consumes Dez's soul before being slain by Angel, who promises Illyria that they would grieve for their comrade later.
Doctor Sparrow[edit]
Doctor Sparrow, played by Marc Vann, appears in three episodes in Season Five of Angel: "Conviction", "Smile Time", and "Shells". Sparrow is a surgeon who performs contracts for Wolfram and Hart.
In "Conviction", on the orders of the Senior Partners, Sparrow implants Gunn with absolute knowledge of all human and demon laws, demonic languages, golf techniques, and Gilbert & Sullivan compositions, thus making him the head of Wolfram & Hart's Legal Department.
He next appears in "Smile Time", when Gunn discovers that he is losing his mental upgrades; not wanting to go back to simply being "the muscle" of Angel's crew, Gunn makes a deal with Sparrow: in exchange for getting a sarcophagus out of Customs, his upgrade is improved and made permanent.
In "Shells", Sparrow is revealed to be a worshipper of Illyria, conspiring with Knox to resurrect her using Fred's body. Upon discovering this, Gunn assaults Sparrow, demanding knowledge of how to bring Fred back and eject Illyria from her body, but Sparrow calmly informs him that Fred's soul was completely destroyed when Illyria was resurrected; thus, Fred is indeed gone forever. After telling Gunn that he now has to live with the consequences of their deal, he is pistol-whipped by Wesley and subsequently tortured by Spike, ultimately revealing Illyria's plans.
Sparrow returns in the post-Not Fade Away comic Angel: Old Friends, in which he creates evil clones of the Angel Investigations team as he last saw them and sends them out to destroy the originals. Angel, Spike, Gunn, and Illyria easily take care of the assorted doubles and track Sparrow down. Ultimately, Angel's clone (the last one left alive) betrays Sparrow and destroys his work before dying himself.
Drogyn[edit]
A mystic warrior who has been alive for at least a thousand years and who had encountered Angel at some point during the twentieth century. Drogyn (portrayed by Alec Newman) first appears in "A Hole in the World", where it is revealed that, since meeting Angel, he has become the keeper of the Deeper Well, a prison for ancient dead demons. The Well travels straight through the entire planet, with a mouth in the Cotswolds, in rural England. Drogyn himself is mystically compelled to answer all questions truthfully. This sometimes results in violent lashing out when people ask him questions.
Angel and Spike go to the Deeper Well to try to prevent the resurrection of the ancient demon Illyria. This demon is killing Fred in order to claw its way back into the world. Drogyn informs them that he can save Fred and draw Illyria back to the Deeper Well, but Illyria's essence would spread to and kill everyone between the Cotswolds and Los Angeles in the process. As much as they care for Fred, Angel and Spike are unwilling to let such an atrocity happen, and thus Illyria is reborn.
Drogyn returns in "Power Play", where arrives in Los Angeles after he is badly injured by a demon assassin and believes it was sent by Angel. This is in fact Angel's intention as part of a larger plan. Drogyn believes Illyria was freed by Angel in order to kill Fred, an accomplishment which would endear him to the powerful demonic organization called the Circle of the Black Thorn. Illyria, now somewhat loyal to Angel, is left with Drogyn as a bodyguard. Marcus Hamilton, an agent of Wolfram & Hart defeats Illyria and takes Drogyn to the Circle. After much torture, Drogyn is presented to Angel, who then kills him as a further step to infiltrate and deceive the group.
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Eddie Hope[edit]
Eddie Hope is an ice-manipulating devil who appears in the IDW ongoing series. After the Senior Partners took back the Fall, Eddie embarked on a campaign to destroy people known to have committed atrocities during L.A.'s time in hell. He has recently been shown coming after Gunn due to his actions in Hell as a vampire.
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Gavin Park[edit]
Park was a corporate lawyer for Wolfram & Hart played by Daniel Dae Kim. First appearing in one episode in season two, he was present for parts of seasons three and four, and had a running competition with Lilah Morgan. Gavin filled the void Lindsey McDonald left by becoming Lilah's company rival, although he tended to focus on attempting to hamper Angel via exclusively legal means- such as threatening to take the Hyperion Hotel from him by accusing him of lease violations- rather than the more mystical methods of attack used by Lindsey and Lilah. He and Lilah seemed to be both striving for the same promotion. After Lilah became "Head of Special Projects" (effectively becoming his boss), Gavin became more taciturn. Gavin's greatest success was installing surveillance equipment in the Hyperion to spy on Team Angel, only for the devices to be discovered and rendered useless when Lorne- who possessed hearing sensitive enough to hear the hums generated by the devices- moved in. He was killed by The Beast in season four, but then re-animated as a zombie by Wolfram & Hart. The Zombie Gavin was killed by Gunn, who claimed he didn't like seeing somebody he knew like that no matter how much he didn't like Gavin.
Groosalugg[edit]
Main article: Groosalugg
Gwen Raiden[edit]
Gwen Raiden (portrayed by Alexa Davalos) is first introduced in season four's "Ground State" as a mutant with the ability to funnel electricity. (Her name is likely[weasel words] a reference to Raiden, a thunder and lightning god in Japanese mythology.) Her backstory is shown to the audience before the primary action of the episode takes place. Born with these abilities, Gwen has little control over her abilities as a child, and in 1985, is taken to a boarding school. She accidentally kills one of her new classmates when a toy car he offers to share conducts her electrical charge into him.
In 2002, the 25-year-old Gwen is using her powers to facilitate her career as a successful, wealthy, professional thief. She meets Angel when she is hired to steal a valuable artifact called The Axis Of Pythia, which he needs in order to find Cordelia Chase on her higher plane. Finding the artifact, Gwen and Angel fight over its possession. During the course of the battle, Gwen tries to kill Angel with an electric shock. However since he's already dead, her attack actually serves to make his dead heart beat again for a few seconds (this power had been illustrated earlier in the episode, where she restarts Gunn's normal heartbeat after her own powers affected him). Caught in the moment, Angel gives Gwen a passionate kiss. After he regains his focus on Cordelia, the man who hired Gwen reveals he had trapped her and intended to kill her with poison gas. The vampiric Angel is unaffected by the gas, enabling him to rescue Gwen. In gratitude, Gwen allows Angel to use the artifact. Afterwards, he returns it to her, and she presumably sells it for a high price.
The second time Gwen appears (in "Long Day's Journey"), she assists Angel in fighting against the machinations of The Beast and takes an interest in Gunn. During her last appearance, she asks Gunn to help her with a mission under the pretense of helping a kidnapped girl; in fact, she is trying to steal an experimental device which will allow her to touch others without killing them. Gunn agrees and ultimately helps her to steal the item. Gwen is grateful for Gunn helping her and the two have sex once the device is installed and seems to be functional.
Gwen has the ability to generate and manipulate electricity. This power can be used in several ways, from creating powerful and damaging electric blasts to manipulating and controlling electronic devices. The latter proves especially useful in her role as a high-tech, professional thief, a career at which she seems especially skilled and adept, making herself quite wealthy in the process. She can also use the electricity that she generates internally to augment her physical performance, allowing her to hold her own against Angel in hand-to-hand combat. Although her powers initially came with dangerous, uncontrollable elements, the inability to touch others and the tendency to attract lightning, these drawbacks appear to have been rectified after use of the device she appropriated in her final televised appearance.
In Angel: After The Fall, Gwen provides humans and good demons sanctuary with the help of Nina Ash and Connor after Los Angeles was sent to hell by the Senior Partners. She joins Angel in his battle for control of all of Los Angeles. Gwen and Connor are romantically involved, though the fall of Los Angeles rendered her control device ineffective. This lack of control had led her to accidentally kill a boyfriend while they were on the beach. Soon, Gwen betrays Angel's crew to their enemies and, after a brief fight with Angel's dragon, sacrifices herself to destroy some of the legions of dragons sent by the Senior Partners, only to be revived when the Senior Partners rewind time. She is currently a full-time member of Angel Investigations, having joined in an attempt to regain Connor's trust.
Later, Gwen captures the werecat Desdemona, believing her to be turning humans into animals. However, the discovery that Dez was actually reversing the unwilling transformation of animals into humans, as well as Gwen's inhumane treatment of her, only increases Connor's hostility towards her. She is currently one of the people on Eddie Hope's hit list.
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Holland Manners[edit]
Holland Manners (portrayed by Sam Anderson) is head of Special Projects at Wolfram & Hart, and is instrumental in the goings-on there in parts of the first and second seasons. He supervises Lilah Morgan, Lee Mercer and a number of other lawyers at the beginning of the series. He enforces loyalty by using mind-readers, and arranges the deaths of persons both outside the firm and within it who are seen as a threat to its interests. During his first years in the firm, Holland also recruited personnel, as he recruited fallen champion Número Cinco.
In early 2000, Holland is supervising the legal team defending assassin Vanessa Brewer, while at the same time rooting out[clarification needed] the best among the lawyers under his supervision. He uses a pair of mind readers and discovers that Lee Mercer has chosen to move to a rival firm and take his client list with him. Manners immediately has Mercer shot. The mind-readers also detect that Lindsey has agreed to help Angel save three innocent children, putting Holland in the difficult decision of whether to terminate Lindsey, who had become Holland's favorite in the company, or not. Lindsey, however, has prepared incriminating evidence against his employer. In recognition of Lindsey's savvy and aware of his potential, Manners allows him to have a "crisis of faith" and then offers him a promotion.
In his last years at the firm, Manners personally supervises Wolfram & Hart's operations regarding Angel. In particular, he oversees the resurrection of Angel's sire Darla and orchestrates her return to vampirism by Drusilla in an attempt to corrupt Angel.
Holland Manners is eventually killed by Darla and Drusilla in his wine cellar during their ploy to get revenge on Wolfram & Hart for using them as pawns against Angel. Ironically, before his death, Holland pleaded with Angel to save him, but, in a form of poetic justice, he had succeeded in corrupting Angel so thoroughly that he instead helped Darla and Dru kill him and the other employees. Holland's position at the Special Projects Division is given to Lindsey and Lilah jointly, while the firm itself is overseen by Nathan Reed.
However, his employment with Wolfram and Hart does not end with his death: according to company practice, his contract binds him to the firm for eternity. Thus, when Angel attempts to reach the Senior Partners via the elevator of Wolfram & Hart, he is greeted by Holland, who takes the opportunity to mock Angel's desire to destroy the Senior Partners and prevent their desired apocalypse, pointing out that there will surely be another apocalypse to follow it (as seen on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, apocalypses of various kinds are indeed a recurring threat in the Buffyverse, and preventing one does nothing to forestall a subsequent one), and to inform Angel that Wolfram and Hart's power in fact comes from the evil within humanity itself, which completely breaks Angel's spirit. He leaves and is presumably still working for the Partners.
In contrast to his charming personality, Manners has proven himself to be one of the most cold-hearted agents in Wolfram & Hart's employ. He shows no hesitation or remorse when liquidating any and all threats to the interests of the firm. Respected and feared by those around him, he conceals his incredibly calculating mind behind the guise of a caring father figure, in a manner similar to Mayor Wilkins. He uses power's allure to control those below him and keep their interests in line with Wolfram & Hart's agenda. When Angel tells him that his actions will cause the death of several innocents, he coldly replies, "And yet, somehow, I just can't seem to care." Angel repeats this line when Manners, about to be murdered along with his guests by Drusilla and Darla, begs Angel to save them.
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Ilona Costa Bianchi[edit]
Ilona Costa Bianchi is the voluptuous Italian CEO of Wolfram and Hart's Rome offices in "The Girl in Question". She is fluent in English and superficially very helpful, although she appears to have little respect for Spike and Angel's ability to deal with the complexities of Roman life. She gives them replacement jackets after an explosion. She twice refers to the gypsies who cursed Angel, both times spitting and saying "We will speak of them no more." She implies that she has slept with The Immortal. Played by Carole Davis.
The Immortal[edit]
The Immortal is first mentioned in the episode "The Girl in Question". The Immortal's face never appears on screen (though his back is presumably seen when he dances with the pseudo-Buffy). Secondhand accounts describe him as incredibly attractive, athletic, intelligent and also apparently genuinely immortal. He has accomplished numerous incredible feats and managed to seduce many women, including Darla and Drusilla (simultaneously, in fact), while holding Angelus and Spike in chains. This event leading both vampires to share a grudge towards their captor, which continues even after they both regained their souls.[7]
In the fifth season of Angel, Andrew Wells says Buffy has been dating the Immortal.[7] In Joss Whedon's canonical comic series of Buffy's eighth season, it is revealed it is not really Buffy who is dating the Immortal, but one of her two decoys pretending to be her so she can stay hidden from evil forces. Andrew was the one who decided the Buffy decoy should date the Immortal, because he "thought it would be funny." Both Angel and Spike still view the Immortal as one of their greatest enemies, resenting him apparently again being involved with another woman in their lives. Buffy herself doesn't know why Andrew thought it would be funny.[8]
Not much information is given about who or what the Immortal is; Darla says "he's not some common vampire," though it is ambiguous whether she is disparaging the claim of common or vampire, or both. According to Angel and Spike, he "may or may not be evil." He is also said to have climbed Mount Everest several times, had numerous encounters with the Roman office of Wolfram and Hart, got Spike arrested for tax evasion, and wrote a self-help book that is "a real life-changer." He also supposedly disdains the use of magic, finding it to be vulgar.
The Immortal makes an appearance in the Buffyverse Expanded Universe (non-canon), in the novel Queen of the Slayers, which details the start of the relationship between Buffy and the Immortal.
Izzerial the Devil[edit]
Izzerial or "Izzy" (Mark Colson), a member of the Circle of the Black Thorn, appears in three episodes of season 5. He is first seen in a brief exchange with Angel in "You're Welcome". He returns in "Power Play", playing raquetball with Angel. He is a red-faced devil, and informs Angel that the Fell Brethren are pleased with their sacrifice, a baby, that Angel acquired for them. When Angel inquires about receiving an answer about his initiation into the circle, Izzy tells him it will be soon.
Izzy appears later in the same episode after Angel kills Drogyn, drinking champagne and introducing Angel to the various other members.
In the final episode, "Not Fade Away", Izzy stabs Angel so that he may sign away the Shanshu prophecy with his own blood. Illyria is sent by Angel to kill Izzy and three other members of the Black Thorn after their dinner engagement. After he gets into his car with the other members, Illyria appears and easily kills the four of them.
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Jamaerah[edit]
Jamaerah, or James, is introduced as a member of the Potentates, a warrior race of angels in service to the Powers That Be, who appears in post-Angel: After the Fall comics. He was created by fantasy writer Kelley Armstrong. At some point in his backstory, James disobeyed the orders of the Powers and was sentenced to live on Earth for a century as punishment. While Los Angeles was in hell, an army of Potentates fought against the Senior Partners's forces. When time was reverted, they were all captured, and James was sent to the hospital where he was rescued by Angel, who helped him track down the other Potentates. However, Angel turned against the Potentates when he discovered that they were hunting down and killing humans for crimes that they had yet to commit, and James sided with him. As their mission was not to kill Angel, the Potentates retreated, and James joined Angel Investigations.
However, when former Watcher Laura Kay Weathermill joined the team, James's true purpose was revealed in Bill Willingham's story arc "Immortality for Dummies". He was not actually an angel, but an as-yet-unidentified demonic higher power who had allegedly "purchased" Earth from his sister and had been "examining his property". His deception exposed, he escaped, but not before beating Laura unconscious and ripping off Angel's hands and feet with his bare hands, subsequently summoning a soul-sucking demon to kill Angel and Spike while he carried out his plans. It has recently been revealed that James intends to transform the Earth into a demonic breeding farm using the humans as incubators, beginning these plans by donating laced food to the people at Anne Steele's homeless shelter.
Justine Cooper[edit]
Justine Cooper (portrayed by Laurel Holloman) is a young woman who becomes a vampire hunter after her twin sister, Julia Cooper, is killed by vampires. Unable to cope with the death of Julia, Justine turns to alcohol and roams graveyards at nights, killing any vampire she encounters.
She is the first vengeful soul Daniel Holtz recruits in his battle against Angel. After having her hand impaled with an ice pick for hours, she reluctantly joins the cause and forms a bond with him. Justine seeks out others who, like herself and Holtz, lost loved ones to vampires and were consumed by their desire for revenge. Wesley, who is meeting in secret with Holtz in order to protect Connor, tries to reach out and turn Justine away from Holtz.
However, Justine deceives Wesley and slits his throat in order to kidnap Connor and deliver him to Holtz. After a standoff amongst the members of Wolfram and Hart, Angel and Sahjhan, Holtz abandons Justine and jumps into the hell dimension, Quor-toth. Justine, amazed and saddened rallies the remaining members of Holtz's militia to kill Angel. She fails, but hours later, she imprisons the demon Sahjhan in a Resikhian Urn in revenge for trapping Holtz in Quor-Toth.
Upon his return to Earth, Holtz is found by Justine and prompts her to kill him. She stabs him in the throat with an ice pick, making the wounds resemble a vampire bite mark. Following Holtz's last wish, she frames Angel for the killing by telling Connor that Angel was the one who killed Holtz. She then aids Connor in his plan to trap Angel at the bottom of the ocean.
In the following months, Justine is kidnapped by Wesley under unknown circumstances, who imprisons her in a closet, bound and gagged, with a little food and a bucket. Reluctantly, she helps him find the metal box in which she and Connor put Angel, while at the same time, Justine taunts Wesley by telling him he has turned to evil, "banging the enemy and keeping slave girl in his closet". Wesley counters by telling her that she had been a slave to Holtz and to her own desire for revenge. Wesley had broken Justine to the point of being capable of dissuading her from attacking him by threatening to take away her bucket.
Back on land and with Angel released, Wesley cuffs Justine to a railing. She taunts Wesley once more, telling him Angel will turn on him. Wesley merely throws her the key to her cuff and tells her she now has the choice of moving on with her life or continue to be a slave.
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Knox[edit]
Knox (portrayed by Jonathan Woodward) first appears in "Home", the final episode of Season Four of Angel; he gives Fred a tour of Wolfram and Hart's science lab. In Season Five, Fred becomes Knox's boss, although the two seem to work mostly as partners, and Knox quickly develops a crush on her. Fred rejects Knox's advances at first, but the two date for a while. Fred eventually decides they had best remain friends and co-workers – concluding she wanted someone who made her laugh, and Knox had been working at Wolfram & Hart for too long to be the 'right' kind of funny – and pursues a relationship with Wesley.
In "A Hole in the World", Knox is revealed to be a worshipper of Illyria, one of the Old Ones, and the mastermind behind the demon's resurrection in Fred's body. Once Illyria has taken over Fred's body and returned to Wolfram & Hart to recuperate her full powers, Knox reveals himself as her Qwa'ha Xahn, her High Priest. Knox has worshipped Illyria since he was eleven and confesses to spending hours staring at illustrations that represent the demon. Illyria takes Knox to her former site of worship, hoping to break the lock on the portal to her temple. Before she can jump through the portal, she and Knox are confronted by Angel, Spike and Wesley. In his grief for Fred, and rage at Knox's betrayal, Wesley shoots Knox dead, unfortunately ruining a profound speech Angel had just been attempting to make about how he would still fight for Knox's life despite what Knox had done to them.
Jonathan Woodward says Knox is "a complete indulgence in all of the parts of myself that I am most shy about." After reading the script for "Smile Time" in which it was clear Knox and Fred were not going to be falling in love, Woodward says he was "very sad but I think it was nice, because it took Knox from all of the ways you thought Knox would be." He had tried to predict the character's arc, he says, but "they picked the one I couldn't even think of. You know something is going happen but they pick the thing you know nobody had been able to figure out."[9]
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Landok[edit]
Landokmar of the Deathwok Clan, better known as Landok, is an Anagogic demon, a member of the Deathwok Clan and cousin of Lorne. He was portrayed by Brody Hutzler. Having been transported to Los Angeles via a portal, Landok encounters Angel, Cordelia, Wesley and Lorne as they are investigating a library while searching for information about a portal, subsequently allying himself with them to hunt a drokken – a beast from his own dimension. Despite his general disdain for humans like everyone in his dimension, Landok is impressed by Angel's skills as a warrior when he defeats the drokken in single combat, and although Angel's standing goes down when he refuses to execute the captive Winifred Burkle as part of a celebration he still helps the group reassemble the body parts of his cousin Lorne, who was considered a traitor.
Laura Weathermill[edit]
Laura Kay Weathermill is an ex-member of the Watchers' Council who appears in the ongoing IDW comic series. Despite her youthful appearance, she is in fact in her late forties or early fifties, having been working for the Council for forty-seven years. After the Council was destroyed by agents of the First Evil and subsequently rebuilt under better pretenses by Buffy Summers and her allies, Laura forsook the good fight and focused instead on making money. At one point, she was hired by Innovation Labs, whose attempts to duplicate Angel's status as a vampire with a soul had failed, but she simply staked all of their vampire clients outright. Meeting Angel and Illyria in the process of their destroying Innovation Labs, she subsequently joined Angel Investigations as their new research and intelligence specialist. While interviewing members of the team, she discovered the true demonic nature of James, and was subsequently beaten unconscious and left with a broken leg.
 After she regained consciousness, she was confronted by Spike, who asked her about the precise nature of prophecies and whether or not they were ever explicit about anything (curious over whether or not the Shanshu Prophecy was truly meant for Angel), only for the two to have sex due to the mystical side effects of Illyria's heat period. Later, when Liss attacks A.I. under James' orders and claims that Spike is currently soulless, Laura attempts to weaken her by mixing Illyria's blood with a potion in a bath, though the attempt fails and Liss kills Dez before being killed by Angel in turn. Subsequently, Laura discovered that Liss could not detect Spike's soul because he had been infected with a rare spiritual parasite when he was revived as a ghost at Wolfram & Hart, and agrees to attempt a ritual to remove it from Spike's body.
Lee Mercer[edit]
Lee Mercer was a colleague of Lindsay and Lilah in the first season, played by Thomas Burr. This triad of lawyers (all with the initials L.M.) became so annoyed with Angel's meddling that they hired Faith to kill Angel. Lee was killed when Holland Manners accused him of planning to leave the firm and take clients with him. Mr. Mercer claims he misled his prospective employers and did not really intend to leave Wolfram & Hart. His first appearance was in Sense & Sensitivity as Little Tony's lawyer, terminating their connection at the end of the episode.
Linwood Murrow[edit]
Linwood Murrow, played by John Rubinstein, was a lawyer for Los Angeles branch of Wolfram & Hart whose children were taken by the Senior Partners. As President of Special Projects Division, he was the direct superior of Lilah Morgan. Unlike preceding W&H leaders Holland Manners or Nathan Reed, Linwood was more concerned with his personal agenda and safety than with Wolfram & Hart's plot to corrupt Angel, going as far as trying to kill Angel, which was a violation of company policy. Lilah often clashed with Linwood, unlike Gavin Park, who followed Linwood in an attempt to get rid of Lilah. Linwood oversees the attempt to capture Connor for scientific study, this results in Angel storming Wolfram & hart, cutting Linwood's cheek due to Connor having a cut on his cheek and telling him that if anything happened to Connor, Linwood would be held accountable, naming him Connor's godfather. Angel would later abduct Linwood after Connor was taken to Quor'Toth, forcing him to help. Linwood is eventually replaced by Lilah Morgan who had spoken to the Senior Partners about him and his fear of Angel. Linwood accused her of going over his head, at which point, she decapitated him with a blade hidden in his chair, replying she went "just under it".
Liss Hubble[edit]
Liss Hubble is a Soul Eater that appears in the IDW "Connorland" arc. Shortly after James is outed as a demon by Laura Weathermill, he raises Liss from the body of a murdered apartment tenant and sends her after Angel and Spike. Tracking down Bradley Hubble, an Angel Investigations client, Liss uses him to get into the Hyperion and uses his unpaid bill as an excuse to meet Angel and Spike. Upon doing so, she injures both vampires and then declares that Spike is apparently soulless. Despite this shock, Spike and Illyria successfully subdue Liss, and she is kept underwater in a bathtub filled with a mixture of a potion and Illyria's blood for five hours. Eventually, the starving Liss escapes and devours Desdemona's soul before being beheaded and stabbed in the lower spine by Angel.
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Merl[edit]
Merl (Matthew James) is a tongue-less Parasite demon with the reputation of a snitch among the underworld community. He hangs around mostly at Caritas, the karaoke bar that fellow green-skinned demon Lorne runs. He is introduced to Angel by Wesley, who had used his services before, in exchange for money. Afterwards, he is frequently used by Angel for information about the vampires Darla and Drusilla. However, instead of being paid for his services, Angel constantly abuses Merl (both verbally and physically) in order to force him to give him information, similar to how Willy the Snitch was regularly beaten up by Buffy for information in Buffy seasons 2 and 3.
Merl is largely used for comedic relief during the darker turn the show takes during its second season, centered around the frequent abuse the character is forced to endure. Over the course of the second season, Merl grows to dislike Angel, and his friends by association. Early in the third season Angel attempts to apologize to Merl, but before he can do so Merl is killed by a new demon killer called Gio, who runs with Gunn's old hunting crew.
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Nathan Reed[edit]
Nathan Reed (Gerry Becker) was Lilah and Lindsay's new superior after Holland Manners' death. He appeared in "Blood Money", "Reprise" and "Dead End". He disappeared following season two, and was never mentioned again.
Nina Ash[edit]
Nina Ash (portrayed by Jenny Mollen) is introduced in the third episode of the fifth season, "Unleashed". A young art major living at home with her older sister and niece, she is bitten by a werewolf during a night run. She herself eventually becomes a werewolf and a potential love interest for Angel. After becoming a werewolf, she voluntarily comes to Wolfram & Hart every month during the full moon in order to be caged, a similar arrangement Oz had in the Sunnydale High library. During the episode "Smile Time", Angel realizes, with the help of Wesley, it is time to pick up the pieces of his shattered love life and ask Nina out for coffee. This is hindered by the fact that Angel has morphed into a puppet, but regardless, he overcomes his fear of dating and invites her to breakfast.
Although Spike already references her as Angel's girlfriend in "The Girl in Question", she is not seen again on-screen until episode 21, "Power Play". She and Angel are seen in bed, and she jokes about whether or not Angel is perfectly happy. She tries to get closer to Angel, who, worried about the impending apocalypse at the hands of the Senior Partners, tries to send Nina, her sister, and her niece away. Nina is angered at this, and argues with Angel, but appears to relent in the end. Nina was intended to become a main character in the unproduced sixth season of Angel, with Oz appearing as a recurring character and teaching her how to control her transformation.[citation needed]
In Angel: After the Fall, Nina currently provides humans and good demons sanctuary with the help of Connor and Gwen Raiden after Los Angeles was sent to hell by the Senior Partners. In the hellish Los Angeles, the sun and the moon are out at the same time; while the sun keeps Nina from transforming, the moonlight makes her more primal in her attitude and actions. Angel refers to her as his ex-girlfriend, revealing their relationship ended after "Power Play."
In the Family Reunion arc of Angel & Faith Gunn mentions that Nina has gotten married. Angel says that is good for her.
She is a different "breed" of werewolf than the type that Oz is. In werewolf form, she bears a resemblance to White Wolf's Garou in their half-man half-wolf form.
Numfar[edit]
Numfar, Lorne's brother, appears in "Through the Looking Glass" in season 2. Numfar has no lines, but performs a variety of dances. Numfar is a cameo appearance by Joss Whedon.
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Oracles[edit]
Two powerful beings that serve as a connection to the Powers That Be for Angel in Season One. The Oracles (Randall Slavin and Carey Cannon) first appear in the episode "I Will Remember You" where they turn back time and make Angel a vampire again after he was made human by a Mohra demon. They also appear two episodes later, at the start of Parting Gifts where Angel begs them to bring his recently deceased friend Doyle back. They make their last appearance in the Season One finale; their bodies are found by Angel after they have been slaughtered by a demon raised by Wolfram & Hart, the malevolent law firm, who seek to eliminate Angel's connections to the Powers. They are never mentioned again.
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Pee Pee Demon[edit]
Pee Pee Demon was the personal slave of Archduke Sebassis, played by Ryan Alvarez. A pale, emaciated demon led around on a leash, he had a cork in his wrist which was removed to pour blood into a glass for Sebassis to drink. He first appeared in "Life of the Party", attending the Wolfram & Hart Halloween party, where he earned his name by sniffing Gunn's urine and saying "Pee pee." He reappeared in "You're Welcome", where he frightened Cordelia and was revealed to have been living off photocopier toner in the meantime. His final appearance was in "Not Fade Away", in which he was murdered by Angel as part of a plan to assassinate Sebassis; Angel poisoned Pee Pee Demon and subsequently Sebassis through his blood. Pee Pee Demon was featured as IGN's "Obscure Character of the Day", where they claimed he "was a totally random and silly little part of the series, but, wow, was he unique."[10]
Polyphemus[edit]
Polyphemus is a Monasterenser Magnaserm, a rock-like creature that functions as a living library for information on supernatural beings, introduced in Angel: The Crown Prince Syndrome. He is partnered with Laura Weathermill, and joins Angel Investigations when she does. Through him, James' true nature is revealed. Additionally, when Angel is revealed to have the power to regenerate lost limbs, Polyphemus reveals that this is due to a mystical upheaval that is changing the world both naturally and supernaturally.
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Rondell[edit]
Charles Gunn's friend, and co-founder with Gunn of their old vampire-hunting crew. He appears in three episodes: "The Thin Dead Line", "Belonging", and "That Old Gang of Mine". Gunn also mentions him in "Not Fade Away". It is presumed that Rondell took over leadership of the crew once Gunn left. Rondell was played by Jarrod Crawford.
Rutherford Sirk[edit]
Rutherford Sirk (portrayed by Michael Halsey) is a former member of the Watchers' Council, Rutherford Sirk lacked the moral clarity of other Watchers of his generation and found himself doubting about the good fight and the Council's mission, though he was far from the only Watcher corrupted by the knowledge he obtained at the Council.
Tempted by power and ambition, Sirk joined Wolfram & Hart and took along with him several valuable tomes belonging to the Council, including the Devandiré Sybilline Codex. Later when Angel Investigations was offered the L.A. branch of Wolfram & Hart in the episode "Home" (his first appearance), he was sent to the Los Angeles branch and was the one showing Wesley around their research and intelligence division. He received a punch in the face because of his attitude and because Wesley wanted to infiltrate the firm's files and records department.
He showed up once again, now part of Eve and Lindsey's plot against Angel in "Destiny". Sirk claimed to have translated the entire Shanshu Prophecy, sending Angel and Spike against each in the false quest for the Cup of Perpetual Torment, a fake relic filled with Mountain Dew, which was supposed to reveal the true champion of the prophecy. After his deception was discovered, Sirk fled from Wolfram & Hart and the Senior Partners. His current whereabouts and status are unknown.
Rutherford Sirk makes an appearance in the Buffyverse Expanded Universe (uncanon), in Book of the Dead.[11] The novel reveals the extent of Rutherford's power within W&H, and the circumstances under which he left the Watchers' Council and joined the law firm.
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Sahjhan[edit]
Sahjhan is portrayed by actor Jack Conley. Sahjhan is one of a race of demons known as the Granok who thrive on chaos and violence. The Granok are pale and disfigured, with faces covered in scars and markings. Wolfram and Hart made Sahjhan and the rest of his kind immaterial. Mesekhtet (the little girl in the White Room) claims this was because she liked trouble, but hated the chaos the Granok were bringing. Once an immaterial being, however, Sahjhan became capable of teleporting through time and dimensions, earning him the nickname Timeshifter. Despite his capability of traveling through time, Sahjhan is unable to learn details of his own future, thus can only relies on prophecies of his own fate. Sahjhan claims to have invented daylight saving time, although he has a tendency towards sarcasm and dry wit. Sahjhan is responsible for bringing vampire hunter Daniel Holtz to the present. Sahjhan claims to have a grudge against both Angelus and his sire Darla; however, it is later reveals that, being a time traveler, Sahjhan is aware that Angelus would becomes the benevolent champion Angel after his soul is restored and Darla also would becomes the mother of his son Connor. His plan is, in fact, to use Holtz to kill Connor because of the prophecies in the Nyazian Scrolls, which, foretell the vampires' son killing him, thus the motive of his hatred towards them. In order to confuse Angel and his friends, Sahjhan alters the passage in the prophecy about his death; the passage now reads "The Father Will Kill the Son", leading Wesley to the conclusion Angel will kill Connor.
However, Sahjhan grows impatient with Holtz, who, instead of just killing Connor, lies out and executes an elaborate plan to kidnap Angel's son. Sahjhan seeks the help of Wolfram & Hart's Lilah Morgan, thus setting up a chain of events that ends with Holtz disappearing into a Hell dimension known as Quor-Toth, taking Connor with him. Sometime later, Angel uses a spell to re-corporeal Sahjhan, determined to kill him out of revenge for Connor's disappearance, only to end up nearly killed him. Later, Justine imprisons Sahjhan in Holtz's Resikhian Urn as revenge for Holtz's disappearance, which she blames on Sahjhan. However, Angel still wants revenge and wait for the right opportunity.
Two years later, Sahjhan is released under the watch of his enemy Cyvus Vail, whom Sahjhan had tried to kill on a number of occasions. Despite wanting to kill Sahjhan himself, Angel reluctantly agrees to let Connor facing the demon. Minutes later, after Sahjhan reveals that he is directly responsible of sending Connor to Quor-Toth, he is killed by Connor, and thus the prophecy of the Nyazian Scrolls is finally fulfilled after all his efforts to prevent it. Sahjhan's actions, which under a predestination paradox of both the Nyazian Scrolls and his own time travels, ironically led to a series of events causing his own death: by sending Connor to Quor-Toth, he inadvertently provided Connor the motive and turned him into an extremely skilled fighter.
Sam Lawson[edit]
Sam Lawson (Eyal Podell) is a vampire from Angel's past. As revealed in the episode "Why We Fight", Lawson is the only vampire Angel sired after regaining his soul in 1898.
Lawson was an engineer on a submarine that captured a Nazi team and its prisoners – three vampires. The vampires – Spike, the Prince of Lies, and Nostroyev, a Russian vampire – had escaped when Lawson's submarine sank and killed most of Lawson's crew. Angel is sent to rescue the men and their prisoners. During the encounter, Lawson – the only one who can restore the submarine to working condition – is mortally wounded; to save the submarine, Angel makes him a vampire. Angel then lets Lawson go, telling him that he would kill him the next time they saw each other.
Sixty years later, Lawson finds Angel at Wolfram & Hart and takes Gunn, Fred, and Wesley prisoner as he recounts the tale of his encounter with Angel. He also tells Angel that he killed and caused chaos like a typical vampire, but had no emotions about his actions. Lawson questioned Angel if his turning Lawson into a vampire after he had a soul was the reason for Lawson's emotional state and if he had a soul, although Angel did not believe Lawson did. Threatening their lives, Lawson forces Angel into a fight and Angel reluctantly kills Lawson as Lawson asks 'for a mission'. Angel surmised that Lawson was simply looking for a reason to live.
Senator Helen Brucker[edit]
Senator Helen Brucker (Stacey Travis) is not a real human being, but a demon "installed" in a woman's body; the circumstances behind this are unknown, but the process apparently altered her body chemistry to the extent that her host's blood was green. Her ambition is to become President of the United States in 2008 thanks to the financial aid of hostile countries and the vast influence she possesses as a member of the Circle of the Black Thorn. She also tends to surround herself with vampires, who work both as her bodyguards and campaign staff. She's also a client of Wolfram & Hart, at least since the days of Holland Manners.
Senator Brucker visits Wolfram & Hart to obtain the firm's help to defeat her rival Mike Conley, also a candidate for the Senate. She plans to have Conley brainwashed into becoming a pedophile so Brucker can win the 'chick vote'. As part of the act he stages to make the Black Thorn believe he has been corrupted by power, Angel agrees to aid Senator Bruckner and to have Conley brainwashed in the following days.
Brucker is present at Angel's initiation in the Circle of the Black Thorn, participating in the torture of Drogyn. Before revealing herself to Angel, she wore a bronze-colored Tre Facce mask. When Angel and his crew agree to wipe out all members of the Black Thorn, Gunn is sent to kill Senator Brucker at her campaign headquarters, a mission in which he succeeds. He kills her by throwing an axe into her head.
Skip[edit]
Skip (portrayed by David Denman) is a formidable and powerful demon, whose body is plated in armor. He appears in four episodes of the series. The demon sports a confident, charismatic personality and frequently makes humorous references to human popular culture and turn-of-phrase, claiming to have watched and loved The Matrix but not loved Gladiator. The history and nature of Skip is largely unknown since much of what Skip says is later revealed to be a lie. Skip is revealed to be a servant of Jasmine who is used to trick Cordelia Chase into becoming a vessel for the possession and birth of Jasmine.
Skip is first seen in the season 3 episode "That Vision Thing". Angel is forced to rescue an evil man named Billy Blim from torment in a demon dimension in order to save Cordelia's life. Skip guards and controls Billy's prison of fire, even being able to make Billy's screams inaudible so he doesn't have to hear them. When Angel first enters this dimension, he and Skip have a very pleasant conversation where Skip claims he works for The Powers That Be. Skip's pleasant demeanor (juxtaposed with his intimidating appearance) is a surprise for Angel, who has to fight him anyway. Angel wins, and is able to trade Billy for Cordelia's life. Later, Skip claims he threw this fight.
Because of the popularity of his character in his first appearance Skip was brought back in the episode "Birthday" where he informs Cordelia she will die if she continues receiving visions from the Powers. He serves as Cordelia's guide through a "what-if" scenario where she had never inherited her visions and had become a celebrity. After realizing that fighting evil is her true calling, Cordelia asks to keep her visions. Skip offers to make her part-demon so she can continue to bear the visions and Cordelia agrees.
In the season three finale, Skip once again returns to Cordelia, this time to say she has been chosen to ascend to a higher realm and become a higher being. Cordelia agrees and ascends to become all seeing but is unable to act and becomes very bored.
After Cordelia returns and appears to have become evil, Angel and the remainder of the group realize something bad had happened to Cordelia on the higher realm. Angel seeks out Skip for an explanation. In the episode "Inside Out", Angel once again enters Skip's dimension and questions him about Cordelia's changes. Skip feigns ignorance, but Angel realizes Skip is hiding something, and a fight ensues. During the fight, Angel is able to defeat Skip by using a length of heavy chain, shearing off a small projection of his armor near his ear in the process. Angel then brings Skip back to Los Angeles where he is bound to this dimension and questioned. Skip reveals he is part of a conspiracy to bring Jasmine into the world. He also claims most of the important plot points of the entire series were directed by Jasmine (though he does not mention her by name), including tricking Cordelia into becoming part-demon and her ascension. How much of Skip's story is true is unknown as much of it contradicts previous and later events. Skip also reveals killing Cordelia is the only way to stop Jasmine's birth. Able to escape thanks to an earthquake that breaks the containment spell, he engages the members of Angel's team, but is killed when Wesley shoots a bullet in the exact place where Angel earlier broke his armor. His last words were an amazed, "Well, that ain't right." Later on, Gunn and Wesley dismember his corpse with a buzz saw in the basement of the Hyperion Hotel.
The character of Skip is a tribute to Skip Schoolnik, a producer and director for Buffy and Angel. Schoolnik is credited as co-producer on a number of episodes, including "That Vision Thing", the episode that introduced the character. Schoolnik directed 5 episodes for Angel including "Habeas Corpses", "Slouching Toward Bethlehem", "Destiny", "Quickening", and "Underneath".
Whedon has hinted that Skip is aesthetically his favorite demon on the show, promising demons will be more cool-looking, but not as cool as Skip, in the canonical Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight comic series.[12] In the canonical Angel continuation, Angel: After the Fall a female of Skip's species appears in issue No. 4, referred to as a "She-Skip" by Lorne.
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The Transuding Furies (Heidi Marnhout, An Le, Madison Gray) are three sisters possessing magical abilities who can cast a spell to prevent any form of violence committed by both demons and humans. Whether this is the extent of their magical abilities is unconfirmed. Very dreamy and spacey, not to mention sensuous, they float a few feet above the ground and finish each other's sentences or talk in unison with their melodious voices.
In the third season episode "That Old Gang of Mine", Cordelia goes to them to lift the spell they have put on Lorne's Club Caritas. They agree to do it for a price, one only Angel is "equipped" to pay. This becomes a running theme with them, as every time Angel is mentioned or when he walks into a room they are in they moan in unison "Mmmm, Angel". They return again later that season in the episode "Offspring" to re-cast the spell on Caritas (this time banning human violence as well as demon violence) so Lorne can re-open it.
Their last off-screen appearance is in the fourth season episode "Release", telling Lorne how to cast the sanctuary spell over the hotel to ensure Angelus doesn't return and hurt anyone.
Trevor Lockley[edit]
Trevor Lockley, played by John Mahon, was a retired police officer and the father of Kate Lockley. He first appeared in "Sense & Sensitivity" (season 1), which featured his retirement party. Kate, unknowingly under a spell making her and every cop in her precinct highly sensitive, gave a speech about how distant and unloved he had made her feel as a child. He wrote this off as just her being drunk.
He would later appear working for a drug-pushing demon. When Angel began looking into this, the demon sent two vampires after Trevor, and they killed him despite knowing that Angel would instantly kill them in revenge (Angel was immediately outside Trevor's apartment when he was killed, but Trevor did not invite him in, so could not enter so long as Trevor was alive).
This would start Kate's dislike/hatred of supernatural beings, especially vampires, as well as her hostility towards Angel, which would stay until "Epiphany".
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Virginia Bryce[edit]
Wesley's girlfriend, played by Brigid Brannagh introduced in "Guise Will Be Guise". Her father was a wealthy businessman who wanted to hire Angel to protect his daughter. Wesley impersonated Angel, who was visiting a shaman, and took the job. The family money actually came from wizardry. Virginia and Wesley grew very close while he was impersonating Angel, even sleeping together. After learning he was not Angel, Mr. Bryce fired Wesley.
When it was learned Virginia's father planned to sacrifice her to the demon Yiska on his 50th birthday, Wesley and company stormed the party. She asked why he came back, to which Wesley replied he had promised to protect her. Yiska refused her as a sacrifice as she was "impure", or not a virgin. This shocked and dumbfounded her father, who thought he had kept her away from all men; indeed, this was why he had attempted to hire Angel, misunderstanding his curse and believing him to be a eunuch (an assessment that greatly offended Angel). Virginia smugly revealed that she had not been a virgin for a very long time; she apparently lost her virginity to her father's chauffeur at the age of sixteen, and had two lovers since that time. After this, she punched her father for trying to kill her.
She dated Wesley for a while before realizing how dangerous his job truly was and couldn't stand the fear of him getting hurt, and left shortly after.
See also[edit]
List of Angel characters
List of Buffy the Vampire Slayer characters
List of minor Buffy the Vampire Slayer characters
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Brian Lynch (w), Franco Urru (p), Ilaria Traversi (i). Angel: After the Fall 1 (November 2007), IDW Publishing
2.Jump up ^ Brian Lynch (January 23, 2008). "Your Qs Totally A'd, part one!". Angry Naked Pat.com (Podcast). Retrieved January 25, 2008.
3.Jump up ^ Bratton, Kristy, The Monster's Bash: Behind the Makeup with the Artists of Almost Human and Angel, retrieved September 15, 2007
4.Jump up ^ "RON MEETS THE BEAST: A Conversation with Vladimir Kulich", Slayage.com, December 24, 2002
5.Jump up ^ DiLullo, Tara, The Big Vlad: an Exclusive Spotlight on Vladimir Kulich, retrieved September 15, 2007
6.Jump up ^ Angel Season 3 "Billy" audio commentary
7.^ Jump up to: a b Joss Whedon, Steven S. DeKnight, Drew Goddard, David Greenwalt (2004-05-05). "The Girl in Question". Angel. Season 5. Episode 20. WB.
8.Jump up ^ Joss Whedon (w), Georges Jeanty (p), Andy Owen (i). "The Long Way Home" Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight 1: 5/2 (March 2007), Dark Horse
9.Jump up ^ The Wolfram & Hart Annual Review 2004, retrieved January 30, 2008
10.Jump up ^ IGN: OCD: Angel's Pee Pee Demon
11.Jump up ^ McConnell, Ashley, Book of the Dead, (Pocket Books 2004), pages 156–165, 267–269, 283–291.
12.Jump up ^ "IGN Interview with Joss Whedon, page 2".
External links[edit]
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Angel Investigations
(aka Team Angel)

First appearance
"City Of"
 (episode 1.01)
Last appearance
Angel: After the Fall
Created by
Joss Whedon
Information

Purpose
Helping the helpless/hopeless, saving lost souls, demon hunting, forming an opposition to Wolfram & Hart
Membership
Current:
Angel
Connor
Kate Lockley
Spike
Charles Gunn
Illyria
Betta George
Laura Weathermill
Polyphemus
Former:
Lorne
Gwen Raiden
James
Deceased:
Allen Francis Doyle
Wesley Wyndam-Pryce
Cordelia Chase
Winifred Burkle
Dez
Allies:
Merl
List of minor Angel characters
The Groosalugg
Nina Ash
Beck
Anne Steele
Faith Lehane
Buffy Summers
Scooby Gang
Lindsey McDonald (occasionally)

Angel Investigations is a fictional detective agency run by the title character Angel previously on the WB television series Angel (a spin-off from Buffy the Vampire Slayer). It is sometimes abbreviated as AI. The agency allows Angel to openly advertise his willingness to assist people in trouble without specifying the agency's specialization in supernatural cases; their slogan We Help the Helpless is especially appealing to people who are unfamiliar with the supernatural world and therefore are afraid to ask for help, fearing they will be considered crazy, but who are nonetheless in desperate need of aid.
Throughout most of the series' run, the agency has employed most of the characters, and provided the series with a steady income of storylines. Because of this, AI is somewhat synonymous to the group of main characters. It is also known as Team Angel, a term that could be employed even following the demise of Angel Investigations as a business.


Contents  [hide]
1 Story of the agency
2 Members
3 Team variations 3.1 Season 1
3.2 Season 2
3.3 Season 3
3.4 Season 4
3.5 Season 5
4 Comics 4.1 After the Fall
4.2 Aftermath
4.3 Team Spike
4.4 Angel & Faith


Story of the agency[edit]
The agency is founded by Angel on the first episode Season One, "City Of". Angel makes friends with Doyle, a half-demon who's been given visions by The Powers That Be of people in need of Angel's help. After they successfully rescue former Sunnydale associate Cordelia Chase, she joins them and encourages them to front their operations with a detective agency, with the hope of having a steady paycheck while she attempts to make it as an actress. Cordelia also coins their slogan, "We help the hopeless" and designs their business logo, a stylized angel which resembles "a lobster."
Halfway through Season 1, Doyle passes his visions on to Cordelia just prior to his death. Another old Sunnydale friend, self-styled "rogue demon hunter" and former Watcher Wesley Wyndam-Pryce, joins Angel Investigations soon thereafter bringing an extensive knowledge of demons and magic to the agency. At the end of season one, street tough vampire hunter Charles Gunn also joins AI, adding much-needed brawn to their group. AI originally operate out of Angel's residence, a basement apartment beneath a ground floor office space comprising an inner executive office and an outer reception area. At the end of the first season, however, an agent of the evil law firm Wolfram and Hart blows up the building as part of their scheme against Angel.
Cordelia's residence is pressed into service as AI headquarters until shortly into Season 2, when AI moves to a new location, the Hyperion Hotel. Now empty and all but abandoned, the Hyperion is a luxury hotel where Angel stayed in 1952. The Hyperion was abandoned due to a demon that drove the occupants to insanity. AI kills the demon and takes control of the building for use as their headquarters, Angel concluding that they will redeem the building like he seeks to redeem himself. The manager's office in the lobby is used by Angel (and later Wesley) and several of the empty rooms are used as a residence for various characters. Halfway through season two, Angel fires his three colleagues after escalating disagreements about his growing moral corruption. Instead of disbanding while Angel deals with his private issues, Gunn, Cordelia, and Wesley continue running AI without him in a rented office. They opt to keep the name "Angel Investigations" because they feel they are continuing the "mission" that Angel started out with, but their attempts to operate independently are hamped by the lack of Angel's supernatural abilities and his weapons stockpile. Eventually, Angel rejoins them and their base of operations returns to the Hyperion Hotel. As part of his amends, he agrees to work for them and Wesley is selected as the leader of the team; however, Angel, being the group's champion and greatest fighter, is often unofficially in charge, leading their fights against Gunn's old gang and Wolfram & Hart's attempts to capture the pregnant Darla. At the end of the second season, A.I. spent three episodes in the demon-dimension Pylea, home to friend Lorne. There they rescue Winifred Burkle, a stranded former physics student, who joins the agency around the middle of Season 3 after spending some time recovering from the trauma of her time in Pylea.
After a falling-out in Season 3, Wesley leaves the group and sets up his own group, which is run more as a paramilitary mercenary group than a detective agency. Angel resumes his function as leader with the departure of Wesley, and remains the de facto leader when he returns.
At the end of Season 4, the agency is dissolved when Angel assumes control over the L.A. branch of their former enemy Wolfram & Hart.
In Season 5, the A.I. team is now known as Team Angel, though, in "Underneath", Angel claims that they "don't have a name". Due to their alliance with Wolfram & Hart this season, Angel's friends and allies in the Scooby Gang, including Buffy, have deemed him, and his crew by extension, untrustworthy.
By After the Fall, the team seems to have been fully disbanded, though the members are still active, albeit operating mostly independent of each other; the now-human Angel and a ghostly Wesley are combating the Demon Lords from the destroyed Wolfram & Hart building, Spike and an unstable Illyria are posing as Demon Lords in order to save humans and benevolent demons, a vampiric Gunn is fighting the Demon Lords and plotting revenge against Angel for letting him die, Connor is heading a safe house for humans and benevolent demons (most of them having been rescued and evacuated into his care by Spike and an anonymous Angel) alongside Nina Ash and Gwen Raiden, and Lorne is the neutral Lord of Silver Lake with the Groosalugg as his champion. In Angel's battle with the other Demon Lords' champions, Lorne rallies the others in order to help him in the fight, and afterwards, they all move back into the Hyperion.
After the Senior Partners rewind time, Angel and his crew are back in the Hyperion, running Angel Investigations as a business yet again, albeit with several difficulties due to Angel's newly acquired fame; most of their recent clients are fans and admirers rather than people who actually need help.
As seen in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, Angel has been working undercover in an anti-Slayer paramilitary group, indicating that, by that time, Angel Investigations has either been disbanded or is simply continuing to function without him.
Aforementioned karaoke-demon Lorne, and Angel's son Connor, are also associated with the agency, although it is unclear whether or not they are actually employees.
Members[edit]
In order of length of membership:
Angel, the team's namesake and a member throughout. The exception to this being a period in Season 2, where technically he disbanded the team, but the other members simply continued without him. Originally he had been the team's leader and boss, when he returned after his absence from the team, he was de jure subordinate to Wesley. When Wesley left the team, Angel essentially became the de facto leader once again.
Wesley Wyndam-Pryce, a member from mid-season 1 onwards and team leader for some period. His actions in Season 3 forced him to leave, though he was gradually accepted back into the group again. He died in the series finale.
Charles Gunn, an ally from the end of Season 1 onwards, Gunn officially joins the group in Season 2, when he starts receiving a salary. He leaves the group between Angel Season 5 and After the Fall, because he was turned into a vampire. No longer a vampire, he takes a leave of absence with Illyria in Aftermath and returns in the ongoing IDW series.
Cordelia Chase, a founding member until her disappearance at the end of Season 3. She returned in Season 4 but, possessed, was working against AI from within. She fell into a coma at the end of that season and died the following year. In Angel: After the Fall she is revealed to be a genuine Higher being for the Powers That Be.
Winifred Burkle, introduced towards the end of Season 2, Fred becomes a member in Season 3 and is a core member of the group until her death in Season 5.
Lorne, a long-time ally since his introduction in the first episode of Season 2, it is hard to pinpoint when he becomes a genuine member of the group, though most likely in Season 3 after the destruction of his karaoke club Caritas. Lorne leaves the group after Season 5, but returns as an ally in After the Fall.
Spike, an old ally of Angel back in his soulless days, joins the team during the fifth season when he comes back alive after his death in the finale of Buffy.
Allen Francis Doyle, a founding member. Doyle was a half-demon with precognitive abilities. He died in Season 1.
Connor, Angel's son is introduced in Season 3 and has a complicated relationship with the group, more often than not he is working against them or is indifferent to them due to his belief that Angel is inherently evil. He finally accepts Angel as his father and joins the group in Angel: After the Fall, continuing as a current member of the team.
Nina Ash, a werewolf who Angel dated in Season 5. Once LA got sucked into Hell after "Not Fade Away", she teams up with Connor and Gwen to help people stuck in the city. She joins Angel's team in Issue #5 of Angel: After the Fall.
Illyria, a depowered Old One who was introduced in Season 5 after being revived in the shell of Fred's body. She joins Angel's team for a short period of time during Angel: After the Fall.
Gwen Raiden, a professional thief and electrokinetic mutant introduced early on in Season 4. Initially an ally of the team, she becomes a part-time member of the group in Angel: After the Fall onwards.
Team variations[edit]
Season 1[edit]
Main Team:
Angel
Cordelia Chase
Wesley Wyndam-Pryce, starting with the episode "Parting Gifts"
Allen Francis Doyle, until his death in "Hero"
Allies:
Kate Lockley, starting with the episode "Lonely Hearts" until "The Prodigal".
Charles Gunn, starting with the episode "War Zone".
Buffy Summers, when she visits LA in the episodes "I Will Remember You" and "Sanctuary".
Daniel 'Oz' Osbourne, when he visits LA in the episode "In the Dark".
The Scooby Gang, shown towards the end of Season One of Angel that Angel and Cordelia are still in contact with Scooby Gang members Rupert Giles and Willow Rosenberg.
Lindsey McDonald during the episode "Blind Date".
Season 2[edit]
Main Team:
Angel, until he leaves the team in "Reunion", and then rejoins in "Epiphany"
Cordelia Chase
Wesley Wyndam-Pryce
Charles Gunn, officially joins in "Untouched"
Allies:
Lorne, who frequently gives Angel advice from the episode "Judgement" onwards.
Kate Lockley, from "The Shroud of Rahmon" until she leaves town in "Epiphany".
Winifred Burkle, helps the gang from the episode "Over the Rainbow" onwards in Pylea.
Willow Rosenberg in a phone conversation with Cordelia in "Disharmony"
Season 3[edit]
Main Team:
Angel
Cordelia Chase
Charles Gunn
Winifred Burkle, starting from around the episode "Fredless".
Wesley Wyndam-Pryce, until he leaves the group in "Sleep Tight" with Connor.
Lorne, starting with the episode "Dad"
Allies:
The Groosalugg, starting with the episode "Couplet"
Season 4[edit]
Main Team:
Angel, until he becomes Angelus in "Awakening" but returns in "Orpheus"
Cordelia Chase, until she becomes possessed by Jasmine in "Calvary"
Charles Gunn
Winifred Burkle
Lorne, after his return from Las Vegas in "The House Always Wins"
Wesley Wyndam-Pryce, rejoins the group in the episode "Apocalypse, Nowish"
Allies
Connor, unreliably starting with the episode "Slouching Toward Bethlehem" until he solely listens to Jasmine in Cordelia's body in "Release"
Faith, starting with the episode "Salvage" until she leaves town in "Orpheus" with Willow.
Gwen Raiden, from around "Ground State", helps the group out in "Long Day's Journey" and requests their help in "Players"
Willow Rosenberg visits to help restore Angel's soul in the episode "Orpheus"
Season 5[edit]
Although Angel and Team work for Wolfram and Hart, and no longer run Angel Investigations, there still is a core team and allies:
Angel
Wesley Wyndam-Pryce
Charles Gunn
Lorne until he leaves the group in "Not Fade Away"
Winifred "Fred" Burkle, until her death in "A Hole in the World"
Spike, initially an ally until he officially joins them in "A Hole in the World"
Illyria, goes from antagonist, to ally, and finally acts as a member of the group from "Not Fade Away" onwards.
Cordelia Chase, briefly returns in "You're Welcome".
Allies:
Harmony Kendall until "Not Fade Away"
Connor works with Angel during "Origin" and "Not Fade Away".
Lindsey McDonald during the episode "Not Fade Away".
Comics[edit]
After the Fall[edit]
Angel
Wesley Wyndam-Pryce, until time is reversed in Angel: After the Fall #16
Cordelia Chase, in Angel: After the Fall #12 and #13
Spike, starting with Angel: After the Fall #5
Connor, starting with Angel: After the Fall #5
Nina Ash, starting with Angel: After the Fall #5
Illyria, starting with Angel: After the Fall #5 until she reverts to her true form in #14
Gwen Raiden, starting with Angel: After the Fall #5, until her betrayal in Angel: After the Fall #11
Cordelia (dragon)
Allies:
Lorne, starting with Angel: After the Fall #4
The Groosalugg, starting with Angel: After the Fall #4
Aftermath[edit]
From issue 18 to present
Angel, until becoming Twilight in Buffy Season 8
Spike, until Angel: After the Fall #38
Connor, acting as leader from, Angel: After the Fall #28 to present
Illyria, until Angel: After the Fall #44
Charles Gunn to present
Betta George, until Angel: After the Fall #38 when he then leaves with Spike
Laura Weathermill to present
Polyphemus, until Angel: After the Fall #44
James, until Angel: After the Fall #33
Dez, until Angel: After the Fall #36
Allies:
Kate Lockley
Anne Steele
Eddie Hope
Team Spike[edit]
Spike's Team featured in the various Spike titles including: Spike: Asylum, Spike: Shadow Puppets, Spike: After the Fall, Spike: The Devil You Know and Spike (IDW Publishing)
Spike
Beck
Betta George
Jeremy Johns
Allies:
Angel Investigations
Spider
The Spikettes
Illyria
Lorne
Eddie Hope
The Groosalugg
Cordelia (dragon)
Willow Rosenberg
Drusilla
Angel & Faith[edit]
After the events of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight in which Angel was the masked Big Bad known as Twilight and was later possessed by the cosmic entity of the same name when he killed Rupert Giles, Slayer Faith Lehane inherits Giles' home in London and takes Angel in to rehabilitate him. As such, Angel Investigations is no more. However Charles Gunn and Angel's son Connor appear for one arc known as Family Reunion when Angel & Faith visit LA with Willow. There, Gunn mentions Nina has gotten married and Kate Lockley is back with the LAPD investigating supernatural crimes, since the mystical world became public knowledge in Season Eight. And Illyria later appears in the Buffy title set in San Francisco.


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Angel: Live Fast, Die Never

Soundtrack album by Various Artists

Released
February 14, 2005 (UK)
 May 17, 2005 (US)
Recorded
1999-2004
Genre
Television Soundtrack
Length
79:00
Label
Rounder Records
Producer
Christopher Buchanan
Robert J. Kral
Joss Whedon
Angel: Live Fast, Die Never is a soundtrack album for the TV series Angel.
The album primarily features scores composed by Robert J. Kral. In addition it also contains an extended version of the opening credits by Darling Violetta, performances from actors Andy Hallett, and Christian Kane, as well as Kim Richey's "A Place Called Home" which is featured in the episode "Shells" and VAST's "Touched" which was featured in the second episode "Lonely Hearts". The album was released in the United States on May 17, 2005, a year after the show's final episode.
All of the tracks performed by outside bands meant something special to the show. "I'm Game" was composed by Christophe Beck, who also composed seasons two through four of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and was used throughout the series as a theme for whenever Angel or his team were involved in heroic actions. "Touched" was considered by many fans to be a theme of the show, and VAST's music was used in the original unaired pilot episode of Angel.
"LA Song" was written by David Greenwalt, who co-created the series, and was performed by Christian Kane who played Lindsey McDonald through all five seasons of the show. "Lady Marmalade" and "It's Not Easy Being Green" were both performed by Andy Hallett, the actor who portrayed Lorne in the series. "A Place Called Home" by Kim Richey was performed during the final season as a tribute to the character Fred Burkle.
Elin Carlson provided all vocals featured in the score tracks. Robert J. Kral stated that the tracks were culled from all five seasons of the series based on popularity amongst fans. Many of the tracks are actually extended suites that combine many score pieces from one episode.
Track listing[edit]
1."Angel Main Theme [The Sanctuary Extended Remix]" - Darling Violetta
2."Start the Apocalypse"
3."The End of the World"
4."Massive Assault"
5."Home"
6."Hero" (Featuring Elin Carlson)
7."Judgment & Jousting"
8."The Birth of Angelus" (Featuring Elin Carlson)
9."Rebellion"
10."The Trials for Darla"
11."Dreaming of Darla"
12."Untouched/Darla's Fire"
13."Darla's Sacrifice"
14."Welcome to Pylea"
15."Through the Looking Glass"
16."Castle Attack"
17."Cordy Meets Fred"
18."Princess Cordelia"
19."Farewell Cordelia"
20."I'm Game" - Christophe Beck
21."Touched" - VAST
22."LA Song" - Christian Kane
23."Lady Marmalade" - Andy Hallett
24."It's Not Easy Being Green" - Andy Hallett
25."A Place Called Home" - Kim Richey


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Angel Complete Series DVD packaging.
DVDs of the television show Angel were produced by 20th Century Fox and released beginning in 2001. These sets contained not only the episodes, but extra features, such as: audio commentaries by the shows makers, documentary features, blooper reels, shooting scripts and so on.


Contents  [hide]
1 Release dates
2 Differences between versions 2.1 Scenes from previous episodes
2.2 Subtitles
3 Season 1 3.1 Disc 1
3.2 Disc 2
3.3 Disc 3
3.4 Disc 4
3.5 Disc 5
3.6 Disc 6
4 Season 2 4.1 Disc 1
4.2 Disc 2
4.3 Disc 3
4.4 Disc 4
4.5 Disc 5
4.6 Disc 6
5 Season 3 5.1 Disc 1
5.2 Disc 2
5.3 Disc 3
5.4 Disc 4
5.5 Disc 5
5.6 Disc 6
6 Season 4 6.1 Disc 1
6.2 Disc 2
6.3 Disc 3
6.4 Disc 4
6.5 Disc 5
6.6 Disc 6
7 Season 5 7.1 Disc 1
7.2 Disc 2
7.3 Disc 3
7.4 Disc 4
7.5 Disc 5
7.6 Disc 6
8 Collections
9 See also
10 References 10.1 Release dates
10.2 Specific references


Release dates[edit]

DVD
Original release date

Region 1
Region 2
The Complete First Season February 11, 2003 December 10, 2001
The Complete Second Season September 2, 2003 April 15, 2002
The Complete Third Season February 10, 2004 March 3, 2003
The Complete Fourth Season September 7, 2004 March 1, 2004
The Complete Fifth Season February 15, 2005 February 21, 2005
Differences between versions[edit]
The Angel DVD sets were released in at least three encoding formats:
Region 1 (United States and Canada), in NTSC format
Region 2 (United Kingdom and Europe), in PAL format
Region 4 (Australia and New Zealand), in PAL format
Unlike the Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVDs, the choice of widescreen versus standard screen does not vary by region. In all regions, season one of Angel is presented in the standard format (4:3), and seasons two through five are presented in widescreen (16:9). This matches the way the show itself was broadcast from seasons 3-5, although in the U.S. season 2 was presented as standard format but was changed to widescreen for the DVD. This change did lead to some issues on the season 2 DVD release, such as instances where objects that would have remained outside of the broadcast image on the standard format become apparent, creating evident mistakes (e.g. Angel's usually-invisible reflection being visible in the extremities of a number of shots in the first episode).
Aside from the region encoding (and the packaging), the Region 2 and Region 4 DVDs are identical. However, there are several content differences between the Region 1 DVDs and the Region 2 and 4 DVDs.
Scenes from previous episodes[edit]
The Region 2 and 4 DVDs (except Season 1) include the scenes from previous episodes ("Previously on Angel") at the beginning of each episode; the Region 1 DVDs do not, except in Season 5.
Subtitles[edit]
In the Region 2 and 4 releases, episodes with commentaries include two English subtitles: the show itself, and the commentary. The Region 1 releases do not offer subtitles for the commentaries.
The Region 1 DVDs also offer a smaller choice of non-English languages subtitles than the Region 2 and 4 DVDs.
Season 1[edit]
Disc 1[edit]
Episodes
Episode 1: "City of"
Episode 2: "Lonely Hearts"
Episode 3: "In the Dark"
Episode 4: "I Fall to Pieces"
Special features
Commentary on "City of" by co-writer/director Joss Whedon and co-writer David Greenwalt
Disc 2[edit]
Episodes
Episode 5: "Rm w/a Vu"
Episode 6: "Sense & Sensitivity"
Episode 7: "Bachelor Party"
Episode 8: "I Will Remember You"
Special features
Commentary on "Rm w/a Vu" by writer Jane Espenson
Disc 3[edit]
Episodes
Episode 9: "Hero"
Episode 10: "Parting Gifts"
Episode 11: "Somnambulist"
Special features
Featurette: "Season 1"
Cast Bios
Still Gallery
Disc 4[edit]
Episodes
Episode 12: "Expecting"
Episode 13: "She"
Episode 14: "I've Got You Under My Skin"
Episode 15: "The Prodigal"
Disc 5[edit]
Episodes
Episode 16: "The Ring"
Episode 17: "Eternity"
Episode 18: "Five by Five"
Episode 19: "Sanctuary"
Special features
Script for "Five by Five" and "Sanctuary"
Disc 6[edit]
Episodes
Episode 20: "War Zone"
Episode 21: "Blind Date"
Episode 22: "To Shanshu in L.A."
Special features
Featurette: "I'm Cordelia"
Featurette: "Introducing Angel"
Featurette: "The Demons"
Season 2[edit]
Disc 1[edit]
Episodes
Episode 1: "Judgment"
Episode 2: "Are You Now or Have You Ever Been"
Episode 3: "First Impressions"
Episode 4: "Untouched"
Special features
Commentary on "Are You Now or Have You Ever Been" by writer Tim Minear
Disc 2[edit]
Episodes
Episode 5: "Dear Boy"
Episode 6: "Guise Will Be Guise"
Episode 7: "Darla"
Episode 8: "The Shroud of Rahmon"
Special features
Script for "Darla"
Disc 3[edit]
Episodes
Episode 9: "The Trial"
Episode 10: "Reunion"
Episode 11: "Redefinition"
Special features
Featurette: "Making up the Monsters"
Featurette: "Inside the Agency"
Still Gallery
Blue Prints
Disc 4[edit]
Episodes
Episode 12: "Blood Money"
Episode 13: "Happy Anniversary"
Episode 14: "The Thin Dead Line"
Episode 15: "Reprise"
Disc 5[edit]
Episodes
Episode 16: "Epiphany"
Episode 17: "Disharmony"
Episode 18: "Dead End"
Episode 19: "Belonging"
Special features
Script for "Disharmony"
Disc 6[edit]
Episodes
Episode 20: "Over the Rainbow"
Episode 21: "Through the Looking Glass"
Episode 22: "There's No Place Like Plrtz Glrb"
Special features
Commentary on "Over the Rainbow" by director Fred Keller
Featurette: "Stunts"
Featurette: "Season 2 Overview"
Season 3[edit]
Disc 1[edit]
Episodes
Episode 1: "Heartthrob"
Episode 2: "That Vision Thing"
Episode 3: "That Old Gang of Mine"
Episode 4: "Carpe Noctem"
Disc 2[edit]
Episodes
Episode 5: "Fredless"
Episode 6: "Billy"
Episode 7: "Offspring"
Episode 8: "Quickening"
Special features
Commentary on "Billy" by writers Tim Minear and Jeffrey Bell
Disc 3[edit]
Episodes
Episode 9: "Lullaby"
Episode 10: "Dad"
Episode 11: "Birthday"
Special features
Commentary on "Lullaby" by writer/director Tim Minear and Mere Smith
Deleted scenes from "Birthday" with commentary by Tim Minear and Mere Smith
Featurette: "Darla: Deliver Us From Evil"
Angel Series Outtakes
Disc 4[edit]
Episodes
Episode 12: "Provider"
Episode 13: "Waiting in the Wings"
Episode 14: "Couplet"
Episode 15: "Loyalty"
Special features
Commentary on "Waiting in the Wings" writer/director by Joss Whedon
Deleted scenes from "Waiting in the Wings" with commentary by Joss Whedon
Disc 5[edit]
Episodes
Episode 16: "Sleep Tight"
Episode 17: "Forgiving"
Episode 18: "Double or Nothing"
Episode 19: "The Price"
Disc 6[edit]
Episodes
Episode 20: "A New World"
Episode 21: "Benediction"
Episode 22: "Tomorrow"
Special features
Featurette: "Season 3 Overview"
Featurette: "Page to Screen"
Screen Tests: Amy Acker and Vincent Kartheiser
Still Gallery
Season 4[edit]
Disc 1[edit]
Episodes
Episode 1: "Deep Down"
Episode 2: "Ground State"
Episode 3: "The House Always Wins"
Episode 4: "Slouching Toward Bethlehem"
Special features
Commentary on "The House Always Wins" by writer David Fury and actor Andy Hallett
Disc 2[edit]
Episodes
Episode 5: "Supersymmetry"
Episode 6: "Spin the Bottle"
Episode 7: "Apocalypse, Nowish"
Episode 8: "Habeas Corpses"
Special features
Commentary on "Spin the Bottle" by writer/director Joss Whedon and actor Alexis Denisof
Commentary on "Apocalypse, Nowish" by director Vern Gillum and writer Steven S. DeKnight
Featurette: "Angel and the Apocalypse"
Disc 3[edit]
Episodes
Episode 9: "Long Day's Journey"
Episode 10: "Awakening"
Episode 11: "Soulless"
Disc 4[edit]
Episodes
Episode 12: "Calvary"
Episode 13: "Salvage"
Episode 14: "Release"
Episode 15: "Orpheus"
Special features
Commentary on "Orpheus" by director Terrence O'Hara and co-executive producer Jeffrey Bell
Disc 5[edit]
Episodes
Episode 16: "Players"
Episode 17: "Inside Out"
Episode 18: "Shiny Happy People"
Episode 19: "The Magic Bullet"
Special features
Commentary on "Inside Out" by writer/director Steven S. DeKnight
Commentary on "The Magic Bullet" by writer/director Jeffrey Bell
Disc 6[edit]
Episodes
Episode 20: "Sacrifice"
Episode 21: "Peace Out"
Episode 22: "Home"
Special features
Commentary for "Home" by writer/director Tim Minear
Featurette: "Prophesies: Season Four Overview"
Unplugged: Season Four Outtakes"
Featurette: "Last Looks: The Hyperion Hotel"
Featurette: "Fatal Beauty and the Beast"
Featurette: "Malice In Wonderland: Wolfram & Hart"
Season 5[edit]
Disc 1[edit]
Episodes
Episode 1: "Conviction"
Episode 2: "Just Rewards"
Episode 3: "Unleashed"
Episode 4: "Hell Bound"
Special features
Commentary on "Conviction" by writer/director Joss Whedon
"Hey Kids! It's Smile Time" featurette
Disc 2[edit]
Episodes
Episode 5: "Life of the Party"
Episode 6: "The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco"
Episode 7: "Lineage"
Episode 8: "Destiny"
Special features
Commentary on "Destiny" by director Skip Schoolnik, writers David Fury and Steven S. Deknight, and actress Juliet Landau
Disc 3[edit]
Episodes
Episode 9: "Harm's Way"
Episode 10: "Soul Purpose"
Episode 11: "Damage"
Special features
Commentary on "Soul Purpose" by actor/director David Boreanaz, writer Brent Fletcher, and actor Christian Kane
Disc 4[edit]
Episodes
Episode 12: "You're Welcome"
Episode 13: "Why We Fight"
Episode 14: "Smile Time"
Episode 15: "A Hole in the World"
Special features
Commentary on "You're Welcome" by writer/director David Fury, and actors Christian Kane and Sarah Thompson
Commentary on "A Hole in the World" by writer/director Joss Whedon, and actors Amy Acker and Alexis Denisof
"Angel 100" featurette
Disc 5[edit]
Episodes
Episode 16: "Shells"
Episode 17: "Underneath"
Episode 18: "Origin"
Episode 19: "Time Bomb"
Special features
Commentary on "Underneath" by director Skip Schoolnik, writers Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain, and actor Adam Baldwin
"Angel: Choreography of a Stunt" featurette
Disc 6[edit]
Episodes
Episode 20: "The Girl in Question"
Episode 21: "Power Play"
Episode 22: "Not Fade Away"
Special features
Commentary on "Not Fade Away" by co-writer/director Jeffrey Bell
Featurette: "Angel: The Final Season"
Featurette: "To Live & Die in L.A.: The Best of Angel"
Featurette: "Halos & Horns: Recurring Villainy"
Featurette: "Angel Unbound: The Gag Reels"
Collections[edit]
The complete series box set of Angel (seasons 1-5) was released in the UK on October 30, 2006. They have also been released in Australia, in 4 episode, half season, full season, and complete series box sets.
The Angel season box sets were also re-released in the UK at a lower price point and in cheaper plastic boxes. Seasons 1 and 2 were released on October 3, 2005; seasons 3 and 4 on March 6, 2006; and season 5 on May 8, 2006.
The Region 1 Angel Collector's Set was released on October 30, 2007,[1] with a newly packaged re-release following on October 12, 2010.[2]
As with the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Region 2 character-based releases, several Angel DVDs, based around individual characters have been released, under the banner "The Vampire Anthology." This collection includes DVD's themed around Cordelia, Wesley, Gunn and Fred.
See also[edit]
Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVDs
References[edit]
The DVD sets themselves
Release dates[edit]
"Buffy DVD and VHS" Bbc.co.uk (2004). Reveals UK release dates.
"Angel Season 5" Amazon (2005).
"DVD details for Angel" Imdb (2006).
Specific references[edit]
1.Jump up ^ http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Angel/7789
2.Jump up ^ http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Angel-The-Complete-Series/14191


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Reading Angel
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Reading Angel
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Author
Various. Edited by Stacey Abbott
Subject
Buffyverse
Genre
academic publication, Media Study
Publisher
I. B. Tauris

Publication date
 September 22, 2005
Pages
256
ISBN
ISBN 1-85043-839-0
OCLC
61164560

Dewey Decimal
 791.45/72 22
LC Class
PN1992.77.A588 R43 2005
Reading Angel: The TV Spin-off With a Soul is an academic publication relating to the fictional Buffyverse established by TV series, Buffy and Angel.
Book description and contents[edit]
The collection covers many topics including Angel's setting, the cinematic aesthetics of Angel, its music, shifting portrayals of masculinity, the noir Los Angeles setting, the superhero, the evolution of the show's characters and the series' premature end.

Chapter
Title
Author

01
 "Angel: Redefinition and Justification through Faith" Phil Colvin
02
 "Ubi Caritas?: Music as Narrative Agent in Angel" Matthew Mills
03
 "Transitions and Time: The Cinematic Language of Angel" Tammy A. Kinsey
04
 "A Sense of Ending: Schrödinger's Angel" Roz Kaveney
05
 "Los Angeles: The City of Angel" Benjamin Jacob
06
 "Outing Lorne: Performance for the Performers" Stan Beeler
07
 "'LA's got it all': Hybridity and Otherness in Angel's Postmodern City " Sara Upstone
08
 "Gender Politics in Angel: Traditional vs. Non-Traditional Corporate Climates" Janine R. Harrison
09
 "The Rule of Prophecy: Source of Law in the City of Angel" Sharon Sutherland & Sarah Swan
10
 "The Dark Avenger: Angel and the Cinematic Superhero" Janet K. Halfyard
11
 "'And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine': Wesley/Lilah and Complicated Role of the Female Agent on Angel" Jennifer Stoy
12
 "From Rogue in the 'Hood to Suave in a Suit: Black Masculinity and the Transformation of Charles Gunn" Michaela D. E. Meyer
13
 "'Nobody Scream... or Touch My Arms': The Comic Stylings of Wesley Wyndam-Pryce" Stacey Abbott
14
 "Stacey Abbott Monstrous Mother and Vampires with Souls: Investigating the Abject in 'Television Horror'" Matt Hills & Rebecca Williams
15
 "Afterword: The Depths of Stacey Abbott and the Birth of Angel studies" Rhonda V. Wilcox & David Lavery
16
 "We'll Follow Angel to Hell... or Another Network': The Fan Response to the End of Angel" 
External links[edit]
Phil-books.com - Review of this book
slayageonline.com - Chapter from this book


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Blood Relations: Chosen Families in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel
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Blood Relations
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Author
Jes Battis
Subject
Buffyverse
Genre
academic publication, Media Study
Publisher
McFarland & Company

Publication date
 June 23, 2005
Pages
200
ISBN
ISBN 0-7864-2172-X
OCLC
60311847

Dewey Decimal
 791.45/72 22
LC Class
PN1992.77.B84 B38 2005
Blood Relations: Chosen Families in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel is an academic publication relating to the fictional Buffyverse established by TV series, Buffy and Angel.
Book description[edit]
This book looks at the conceptions of family explored in Buffy and Angel. Jes Battis asserts that the series explored nontraditional families that were not necessarily related by blood.
How does "family" relate to concepts of gender, sexuality, power and the supernatural? This book considers such questions. It also examines the "chosen family" as used successfully by programs such as Friends and Sex and the City.
Contents[edit]

Chapter
Title

1
 "Willow as Hybrid, Hero and Middle Child of the Scooby Family"
2
 "Xander as Hero, Big Brother and Male in Progress"
3
 "Buffy and the Paradox of Mothering"
4
 "Fathers Who Watch in Buffy & Angel"
5
 "Demonic Maternities, Complex Motherhoods: Cordelia, Fred and the Puzzle of Illyria"
6
 "Open and Closed Family Systems"
Afterword
 "Families Beyond Buffy"
External links[edit]
Phil-books.com - Review of this book
Slayage.tv - Chapter from this book


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Reading the Vampire Slayer
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Reading the Vampire Slayer
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Author
Various. Edited by Roz Kaveney
Subject
Buffyverse
Genre
academic publication, Media Study
Publisher
Tauris Parke Paperbacks

Publication date
 March 18, 2004 (second updated edition)
Pages
288
ISBN
ISBN 1-86064-984-X
OCLC
54899596
Reading the Vampire Slayer is an academic publication relating to the fictional Buffyverse established by TV series, Buffy and Angel.
Book description and contents[edit]
Covers both Buffy (up to its final season) and Angel (up to Season 4). The book gives in depth analysis highlighting show titles, quotes, key comments that foreshadow something else. The book progresses season by season discussing character growth, and many hidden metaphors.
These are the contents for the first edition (published 2001):

Chapter
Title
Author

01
 "She Saved the World. A Lot: An Introduction to the Themes and Structure of Buffy and Angel" Roz Kaveney
02
 "Entropy as Demon: Buffy in Southern California" Boyd Tonkin
03
 "Vampire Dialectics: Knowledge, Institutions and Labour" Brian Wall & Michael Zryd
04
 "Laugh, Spawn of Hell, Laugh" Steve Wilson
05
 "'It Wasn't Our World Anymore--They Made It Theirs': Reading Space and Place" Karen Sayer
06
 "'What You Are, What's to Come': Feminism, citizenship, and the divine" Zoe-Jane Playden
07
 "'Just a Girl': Buffy as Icon" Anne Millard Daugherty
08
 "'Concentrate on the kicking movie': "Buffy" and East Asian Cinema" Dave West
09
 "Staking a Claim: The Series and Its Slash Fan-Fiction" Esther Saxey
10
 "'They always mistake me for the character I play!': Transformation, identity and role-playing in the Buffyverse (and a defence of fine acting)" Ian Shuttleworth
External links[edit]
Phil-books.com - Review of this book
Nika-summers.com - Review of "Reading the Vampire Slayer"


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Five Seasons of Angel
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Five Seasons of "Angel"
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Author
Various. Edited by Glenn Yeffeth
Subject
Buffyverse
Genre
academic publication, Media Study
Publisher
Benbella Books

Publication date
 October 28, 2004
Pages
240
ISBN
ISBN 1-932100-33-4
OCLC
55018718

Dewey Decimal
 791.45/72 22
LC Class
PN1992.77.A588 F58 2004
Five Seasons of Angel is an academic publication relating to the fictional Buffyverse established by TV series, Buffy and Angel.
Book description[edit]
Characters and themes in Angel are examined in a collection of essays by a variety of writers, including a horror author, a sex expert, a television critic, a science fiction novelist, and Buffy writer Nancy Holder.
Contents[edit]

Chapter
Title
Author

01
 "Angelus Populi" Don DeBrandt
02
 "That Angel Doesn't Live Here Anymore" Laura Resnick
03
 "Angel by the Numbers" Dan Kerns
04
 "Welcome to the Wolfram and Hart: The Semi-Complete Guide to Evil" Roxanne Longstreet Conrad
05
 "Jasmine: Scariest Villain Ever" Steven Harper
06
 "A World Without Love: The Failure of Family in Angel" Jean Lorrah
07
 "It's Not Easy Being Green and Non-Judgmental" Abbie Bernstein
08
 "Angel: An Identity Crisis" Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
09
 "Parting Gifts" Sherrilyn Kenyon
10
 "Why We Love Lindsey" Michelle Sagara West
11
 "It's a Stupid Curse" Margurite Krause
12
 "The Good Vampire: Spike and Angel" Peter S. Beagle
13
 "To All the Girls Who Loved, Maimed and Banged Before" Candice Havens
14
 "Victim Triumphant" Jacqueline Lichtenberg
15
 "Where Have all the Good Guys Gone" K. Stoddard Hayes
16
 "The Path of Wesley Wyndam-Pryce" Amy Berner
17
 "Death Becomes Him: Blondie Bear 5.0" Nancy Holder
18
 "Angel or Devil: Playing with Mythology and Folklore in the Angelverse" Josepha Sherman
19
 "True Shanshu: Redemption through Compassion and the journey of Cordelia Chase" Laura Anne Gilman
20
 "The Assassination of Cordelia Chase" Jennifer Crusie
21
 "There's My Boy" Joy Davidson
External links[edit]
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Darkworlds.com - Review of this book


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