History YMMV / Angel

** [[spoiler: Jasmine possessing Cordelia's body and forcing her to commit murder as well as [[Squick forcing her to have sex with Connor]] qualifies as this]].

** Rebecca from "Eternity". She's played as a sympathetic figure - an actress whose looks are fading, and considers being made a vampire so she can maintain her career forever. Except she resorts to ''drugging'' Angel to try and get him to sire her, an act that the narrative would present as reprehensible had she [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale been a male doing it to a woman]]. She receives [[KarmaHoudini no comeuppance]] for this, beyond getting scared by Angelus.

* EnsembleDarkhorse:
** Doyle only appeared in nine episodes, but is very fondly remembered. There are a ''lot'' of tie-in novels covering those additional few months where the agency was just him, Angel and Cordelia. Joss even intended to bring him back in Season 3 but Glenn Quinn's sudden death put a stop to those plans.
** Darla with regards to the parent show. She appeared only in three Season 1 episodes and made a cameo in Season 2. But upon being featured more and more on ''Angel'', she became a fan-favorite. Her arc with Drusilla in Season 2 is held up as one of the strongest on the show.
** Skip. He was so popular in his debut appearance in Season 3 that he was brought back for 3 more episodes. Creator/JossWhedon has mentioned that he finds Skip to be among the coolest demons in the series, [[http://www.ign.com/articles/2007/03/02/interview-joss-whedon?page=2 at least in design]].
** Faith's CharacterDevelopment in this series is well-appreciated and adds to her status as this from the original series.
** Lindsey and Lilah tend to get praises for their complexity and often appear on lists of the series' best characters. Separately, Lindsey is liked for being a good rival and {{Foil}} to Angel, while Lilah is beloved for being a ManipulativeBitch DeadpanSnarker.
** NobleDemon Boone from "[[Recap/AngelS02E12BloodMoney Blood Money]]" has his fans for being a decent fighter with a FriendlyRival relationship with Angel [[spoiler:who helps scam Wolfram and Hart in a hilarious and convoluted way]].
** The demons from "[[Recap/AngelS01E16TheRing The Ring]]" have their fans, particularly Trepkos, for being a stone-cold badass with some HiddenDepths and a cool appearance who faces Angel in one of the show's more impressive and evenly matched fight scenes.
** Tina, the BrokenBird DecoyProtagonist from "[[Recap/AngelS01E01CityOf City of...]]" is pretty well-regarded. Some wish she'd gotten to live past her first episode.
** Gwen Raiden, the {{Stripperific}} hired gun with electrical powers has plenty people who wish she'd been in more than three episodes.
** Matthias Pavayne is considered one of the most terrifying villains despite only appearing in [[Recap/AngelS05E04HellBound one episode]]. Which is really saying something given the various {{Big Bad}}s and [[TheDragon Dragons]] he has for competition.
** Wolfram and Hart's chipper records and files keeper [[OneSteveLimit also named Gwen]], is considered a memorably quirky part of "[[Recap/AngelS03E10Dad Dad]]". Being played by the star of the Advertising/{{Progressive}} commercials helps.
** Ilona, head of Wolfram and Hart's Roman office was only in "[[Recap/AngelS05E20TheGirlInQuestion The Girl in Question]]", but has her fans for some funny interactions with Angel and Spike and being one of the more outgoing and less treacherous members of the firm.
** Dana the Slayer only appears in one episode, "[[Recap/AngelS05E11Damage Damage]]", but she is much more memorable to the fanbase than most MonsterOfTheWeek characters for being an interesting kind of fallout from the events of ''Buffy'' Season 7. With all potential Slayers activated, what would happen if even one of these extremely powerful girls were emotionally and psychologically disturbed? Dana answers that question in her episode, and even forces Spike to more seriously confront his horrible actions in the past.
** Mildred Finster, who has an engaging LittleOldLadyInvestigates plotline in the tie-in novel ''Solitary Man'', is one of the better-liked characters exclusive to the show's expanded universe.
** Sewer-dwelling GentleGiant Abner and vampire MissKitty Dyanna are two of the better-liked guest characters from the short-lived Creator/DarkHorseComics series that premiered at the same time as the show.

** In ''[[Recap/AngelS05E02JustRewards Just Rewards]]'', you can clearly see the bodies in the showroom swaying and blinking.

** Years before anyone had ever heard of ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'', "[[Recap/AngelS03E01Heartthrob Heartthrob]]" featured a vampire from Angel's past named James who undergoes an operation to make himself temporarily invincible (but will kill him after a few hours) in order to avenge the death of his girlfriend who was killed by Angel. The entire episode deconstructs the idea that true love means that you should commit suicide if you lose the other person. So Angel had an episode criticizing one of the most irritating and controversial aspects of the ''Twilight'' novels, using a villain with the same name as one of the ''Twilight'' villains, years before the other series was even written. %% Keep the comics stuff out of here.

* EvilIsSexy:
** Lilah Morgan really works this trope, especially in Season 4, during her relationship with Wesley.
** Lindsey [=McDonald=] may be an at-best-morally-ambiguous corrupt lawyer, but he is also incredibly pretty.
** Evil liaison, Child of the Senior Partners, and [[spoiler:Lindsey's main squeeze]] Eve is pretty hot too.

** Connor, after the Wolfram Hart DealWithTheDevil that Angel made, came out a much nicer, sane, laid-back fellow after having new memories and a new upbringing put in. Even after he got his memories back, he still was much improved. However, his case is very much Downplayed. After a full season of being an extremely unlikeable main character, he only appeared as his more kind and laidback self in two episodes of the final season.

** The first villain in the series is a vampire that Angel kills outside a bar and is played by Creator/JoshHolloway, far more famous for his later role as Sawyer from ''Series/{{Lost}}''. Several other villains from the show (both lawyers for Wolfram and Hart) appeared on ''Lost'' as well: Daniel Dae Kim and Sam Anderson.
** Creator/JulieBenz would later become far more famous for her regular role in ''{{Series/Dexter}}''.

** [[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 Lieutenant]] [[Creator/SamWitwer Crashdown]] has longer hair this time but goes crazy again, and tries to kill Jasmine. You may also recognize his voice as [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars Darth Maul]].

** Sewer-feeling GentleGiant Abner and vampire MissKitty Dyanna are two of the better-liked guest characters from the short-lived Creator/DarkHorseComics series that premiered at the same time as the show.

** Connor: AxCrazy with a serious case of OedipusComplex, or unable to overcome his distrust from being trained to hate Angel from infancy and clinging to the only person in his life who's nice to him?

** Alot of fans have trouble feeling bad for Kate when her father dies due to her blaming Angel when he tried to help him and was in no way at fault for him deciding to be a DirtyCop. The fact she consistently tries to use her power to pursue a personal vendetta aginst a man who had only ever tried to help her causes alot of fans to be happy when the police departmeent fired her.

** Alot of fans have trouble feeling bad for Kate when her father dies due to her blaming Angel when he trid to help him and was in no way at fault for him deciding to be a DirtyCop. The fact she consistently tries to use her power to pursue a personal vendetta aginst a man who had only ever tried to help her causes alot of fans to be happy when the police departmeent fired her.

** Alot of fans have trouble feeling bad for Kate when her father dies due to her blaming Angel when he trid to help him and was in no way at fault for him deciding to be a [[DirtyCop]]. The fact she consistently tries to use her power to pursue a personal vendetta aginst a man who had only ever tried to help her causes alot of fans to be happy when the police departmeent fired her.

** Season 5 for suddenly switching from arc-based storylines to standalone episodes. Some welcomed the change, after the gloominess of Season 4, and found the new setting of Wolfram & Hart was interesting enough to warrant standalone episodes just getting to know the place. Others weren't happy with the abrupt shift from Angel Investigations.

* AngstWhatAngst: [[spoiler:Cordelia's death is barely acknowledged afterwards. Compare with how everyone goes to pieces when Fred gets sick and dies]].

* RonTheDeathEater: Angel's original form Liam is often painted as a monstrous rapist despite the fact that his only real sins are drinking, sleeping around and not getting along with his father. These fans also seem to ignore any posutive qualities such as having a good relationship with his sister.