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Humans
Trish & Roger
Trish & Roger Burkle
Played By: Jennifer Griffin and Gary Grubbs
The parents of Winifred Burkle.
- Good Parents: They might be the best parents in the entire Buffyverse, or at least they're the least traumatic. Both of them are good-humored, kind and loving.
- Happily Married: To each other.
- Improvised Weapon: Trish ends up taking out a bug demon with a city bus.
- Locked Out of the Loop: They are never informed of Fred's death and possession by Illyria. Whenever they show up, Illyria poses as Fred and pretends nothing is wrong.
- Mama Bear/Papa Wolf: Both of them are willing to throw down with demons to protect their precious little girl. Even though their precious little girl is one of the most powerful beings in Buffy canon even after being depowered.
- Nice Guy: These two are some of the most easily likable people in the entire Buffyverse.
- Outliving One's Offspring: Their daughter met a tragic end. Not that they're made aware of it.
- Strange Minds Think Alike: Roger and Angel bond over their mutual appreciation of Bob Hope.
Liam's Father
Liam's Father
Played By: J. Kenneth Campbell
Appears In: "The Prodigal"
A silk and linen merchant from Galway in the 1750s.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: For all his harsh criticism of his son, he does truly love him.
- No Name Given: His name is never stated.
- Outliving One's Offspring: First, his son was killed and raised as a vampire, then his daughter was murdered by said vampire son.
- Small Role, Big Impact: A desire to outperform his father's limited expectations of him proved to be a major part in Angelus' desire to be as much of an inhuman monster as he possibly could be.
- Tough Love: He wants to toughen his son up into a real man, spending most of his time being harsh toward him and trying to push him...only when Liam leaves for the final time does his father seem to realize that he may have made a tragic mistake.Liam: Out of my way.Liam's Father: I was never in your way, boy.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: Liam sought his father's approval, but at some point was forced to give up.
Roger Wyndam-Pryce
Roger Wyndam-Pryce
Played By: Roy Dotrice
Appears In: "Lineage"
The father of Wesley Wyndam-Pryce and a member of the Watcher's Counsel before it's destruction.
- Abusive Parent: It's repeatedly hinted through the series that Wesley's childhood was not a happy one.
- Action Survivor: He's one of the few members of the Watcher's Counsel left.
- Foil: To Fred's parents, made all the more evident by the fact that her father is also named Roger. Where the Burkles are friendly, supportive, and loving to their child, Roger is cold and harsh towards his son.
- Impersonation-Exclusive Character: The real Roger Wyndam-Pryce never appears. The most we get is a cyborg doing a very convincing impression of him.
- Jerkass: Roger takes every available opportunity to belittle his son. The cyborg that impersonated him was brusque, rude, and overly critical, and since Wesley couldn't tell that it was an imposter, we can infer that the real Roger is no better.
- Outliving One's Offspring: Wesley met his end in the series finale, but at last mention, Roger was still alive.
Vampires, Demons and Other Supernaturals
The Powers That Be
The first beings that existed on Earth, alongside the Old Ones. The opposite of the Senior Partners, their role throughout the series serves to help Angel on his path to atonement.
- Big Good: They're the ones who guide Angel on his path as The Atoner. Whistler, the good demon who convinced Angel to become a good guy and help Buffy, works/worked for them.
- The Ghost: Angel never makes contact with the Powers themselves. Only Jasmine, a fallen Power herself, appears on-screen.
- The Gods Must Be Lazy: The planet is filled with multitudes of incredibly dangerous demons (to the point where a superpowered demonic virus in human form is considered mundane), rampant evil deeds and potential apocalypses are common, hell dimensions have frequent recruiting and even their deities are known to take a stroll on Earth with impunity... but the most the Powers ever do is send infrequent, frustratingly vague visions to a single person; even the Slayer is an entirely human invention created with demonic power. Angel and his crew even lampshade this, outright calling them such names as "The Powers That Screw You" and "The Powers That Sit on Their Behinds."
- Good Is Impotent: Seriously, they don't do anything. Except send nigh-indecipherable visions. They don't have a contingency in case those visions get sabotaged, nor do they seem to offer any assistance if the visions cause the recipient fatal cancer or a psychotic breakdown (admittedly, both possibilities were brought up by Skip, an Unreliable Narrator).
- Knight Templar: The rare Power/agent of the Powers who actually does anything tends to be this. So far we've met Jasmine (who thought free will was an acceptable price to pay for world peace), and the Potentates from Angel: Aftermath (who didn't see anything wrong with punishing people before they committed crimes). With precedent like that, we might be better off without them getting too involved.
- Powers That Be: The Trope Namers.
Darla
Darla
"Do you think I ever hesitated when I wanted something? Life's too short. Believe me. I know. Four hundred years, and still too short."
Played By: Julie Benz
Appearances: Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Angel
Angel's sire, the one who turned him into a vampire. The two are together for 150 years, but after Angel is re-ensouled, she kicks him to the curb. The two meet again in Sunnydale, and Angel kills her in defense of Buffy. Years later, Wolfram & Hart bring her back to un-life, hoping she will tempt Angel over to the dark side. Eventually, due to Jasmine's meddling, she becomes pregnant with Connor, her son with Angel, and stakes herself because she can't give birth.
- Action Mom: Being pregnant doesn't stop her from kicking ass.
- Anti-Villain: At first, she's fully evil and villainous; her time carrying Connor to term gives her a soul (albeit a temporary one, which she's sharing with the boy); she immediately begins to feel regret for all of the horrors she's done and grieves for the fact that she won't be able to love Connor once he is born (and takes the soul away from her), making her ultimately sympathetic.
- Back from the Dead: Interesting in that she was staked on Buffy, came back on Angel as a human, killed again and made a vampire by Drusilla, staked herself as a vampire, and then came back as a ghost. Once you've worked for Joss Whedon, you'll always have a job, even if it means dying four times.
- The Baroness: The classy, sadistic, and ruthless dragon to the Master. This actually applies better in Angel, mostly in flashbacks or when she is revampified. She and Drusilla even attempt to build a gang/army to take the city under their command.
- Big Bad: In Season 2.
- Big Bad Duumvirate: In Season 2 with Drusilla.
- Big Bad Wannabe: After Darla is re-sired as a vampire, she and Drusilla are positioned as the Big Bads of Season Two...for about two episodes. Angel sets the pair of them on fire, then calls it a day. It could be said that Angel's true opponent in Season Two is (unwittingly) himself.
- The Chanteuse: Everybody gets a turn at the mic at Caritas. Julie Benz does her own singing for the song "Ill Wind" by Ella Fitzgerald.
- Character Development: She started out as one of the Master's lackeys who relished being evil and ended up finding redemption, ultimately sacrificing herself for her and Angel's child.
- Characterization Marches On: In "Welcome to the Hellmouth" and "The Harvest", she's whiny, cowardly, not particularly smart or capable, and seemingly not even all that important in the Master's hierarchy (Luke, for one, clearly outranked her). She's a lot more charismatic and dangerous in "Angel" and the spinoff.
- Combat Pragmatist: One of the few vampires to remember that a slayer was still human. When Buffy comes trying to stake her, Darla whips out a pair of guns.
- Death by Childbirth: She dies during Connor's birth; but in a twist, it is because she stakes herself, allowing Connor to live since she was physically incapable of delivering a child.
- Deliver Us from Evil: By all means, the fact that her unborn child had a soul meant that technically so did she for the duration of the pregnancy-but she became a lot nobler than she was for most of the time she possessed a soul of her own. Well apart from craving specifically innocent blood, but that stage passed. Creepiest example of Wacky Cravings ever?
- When she realizes that once the baby is born (if it's born at all, vampires' anatomy not begin designed for labor) she'll no longer be able to love it without a soul and may even try to kill it, she makes Angel promise to tell their son how much she loved him and then stakes herself, turning to dust and leaving behind only her (living) son. Did we mention it's pouring rain?
- Depraved Bisexual: It's heavily implied that she occasionally has sex with Drusilla.
- Died in Your Arms Tonight: Her final death had Darla stake herself while being held by Angel.
- Dying Alone: By the time the Master turned up at her doorstep.
- Ethereal White Dress: Darla's final appearance on Angel is as a ghost in a white gown trying to convince her son Connor not to murder an innocent teenager.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Despite her cruelty and evil nature, she genuinely loved Angelus and later their son Connor.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Due to being a soulless vampire, she was disgusted by Angelus soul and desperately tried to get rid of it and bring "her boy" back.
- Evil Counterpart: Like Angel, she is resurrected, but she finds no value in the second chance given her and wants to be a conscienceless, monstrous vamp again.
- Faux Affably Evil: As a vampire, Darla keeps up a sweet, charming demeanor that hides the vain, cruel, child killing monster beneath.
- The Fog of Ages: Darla, being even older than Angelus, can no longer remember her human birth name.
- Good Wears White: Darla pulls a Heel–Face Turn, sacrificing herself to give birth to her son Connor. When she reappearsas a ghost, she is dressed entirely in white and is trying to stop Connor from killing a girl to help the Big Bad. This is in contrast to Cordelia who has been corrupted by evil and is wearing black.
- Guy on Guy Is Hot: In a flashback, she seemed pretty excited at the thought of Angelus and Spike "driving their poles through each other."
- Heel–Face Door-Slam: Just when it seems she's finally accepted her humanity and resolved to do some good with the little time she has left, Drusilla walks in and re-sires her.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Darla stakes herself to give birth to Connor.
- High-Class Call Girl: Implied to have once been a well-to-do prostitute in colonial Virginia. She even had property, which is almost unheard of.
- I Can Change My Beloved: Four years later, she's still out to drag Angel back to his evil roots.
- I Love You, Vampire Son: Darla's affection for Angel(us) has been fairly constant (albeit often volatile) from the day she sired him.
- In Love with Your Carnage: Angelus' unparalleled savagery was one of the things Darla loved most about him.
- Insistent Terminology: With a few exceptions (usually when's she ensouled), she consistently refers to Angel as Angelus, even his post-Heel–Face Turn modern incarnation.
- Ironic Nursery Tune: Her theme music.
- It's All About Me: She would place her own safety over others, as seen when she left Angelus with a murderous mob and fled with the only horse.
- Lady in Red: A lot of her wardrobe consists of the color.
- Law of Inverse Fertility: She realizes - after demanding an end to her pregnancy - that she loves her son.
- Love Redeems: Her maternal love for Connor is what prompts her Heroic Sacrifice.
- Nay-Theist: She scoffed at religion and was displeased when the Master appeared disguised as a priest.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Darla "looked everywhere" for that gypsy girl as a birthday present for Angel. An attempt to reverse the curse went south when Spike prematurely ate the whole clan.
- No Name Given: "Darla" is a name bestowed on her by the Master. Her birth name is long forgotten, even by Darla herself.
- Pregnant Badass: Actually even tougher in this state; the fetus causes Darla to crave blood all the time, driving her into an unstoppable frenzy.
- Really 700 Years Old: She's well over 300 years old.
- Redemption Equals Death: Her last heroic action before she can lose her soul to childbirth is to stake herself so Connor can be born. Sure enough, her sacrifice and death as a hero allows the Powers to send her spirit to Connor in a last-ditch effort to redeem him. It doesn't work.
- Slap-Slap-Kiss: Her relationship with Angelus included a fair amount of violence and backstabbing (she left him at Holtz's mercy to save herself, smacked him around over a lover's spat (which Angelus noted that he'd repay when they inevitably reunited), and cheated on him with the Immortal and Drusilla) on top of their insatiable desire for one another.
- Super-Strength: She had the standard powers and vulnerabilities of a vampire. Additionally, she was stronger than most vampires because of her age and possessed a higher resistance to holy items. When Monseigneur Rivalli tried to ward her off with his cross necklace, Darla tossed him aside without a care (she was around 200 years old at that point). It appears that Darla did not suffer a reduction in her powers after being re-born, as she was able to easily overpower Angel moments after re-awakening as a vampire (possibly meaning that the second time she was sired she was imbued with the same demonic essence she was imbued with the first time she was sired).
- Too Kinky to Torture: Darla is a fan of pain.You're hurting me. I like it!
- Tsundere: To Angel."Just because we had a thing for 200 years, don't think you know me!"
- Undying Loyalty: To the Master. As much time as she spent with Angelus, Darla would always return to her sire's service.Angelus: Her precious Master sent for her. You know Darla; Master's pet.
- The Vamp: She often used her beauty and sexuality to lure unsuspecting prey. Unlike her more aggressive male counterparts (Angelus and Spike), she was rarely seen hunting; her prey willingly approached her, never suspecting their fate until it was too late.
- Victorian Novel Disease: An advanced case of syphilis closed the book on Darla's human life. Upon being revived by Wolfram & Hart, she is shocked to learn that her resurrection as a human came part and parcel with the disease. As she put it, she was dying, and not "someday, but now. Right now."
- Wicked Cultured: She had a taste for luxury, classical music, and places with a view.
- Would Hurt a Child: Never averse to feeding on children, Darla becomes especially driven to do so late in her pregnancy, as she finds herself craving purer blood to nourish her child.
Drusilla
Sahjhan
Sahjhan
"Do I look like I need more skin problems?"
Played By: Jack Conley
Holtz: And is this the part of the tale where the demon offers the broken man a chance to change all that?
Sahjhan: I'll take you to them. Two centuries into the future.
Holtz: Through black magic and sorcery.
Sahjhan: No, on a mule cart. Of course through black magic and sorcery, I'm a demon.
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 time travel, Sahjhan is unable to learn details of his own future, thus can only relies on prophecies of his own fate.
- Been There, Shaped History: He claims to have invented Daylight Savings Time, although he may have just been trying to impress Lilah.
- Blood Knight: Sahjhan comes from a whole species of fight-happy guys.
- Brought Down to Badass: Angel casts a spell to recorporealize him, stripping him of his Time Master powers and making him killable. Sahjhan, for his part, actually considered it a favor, since doing so allowed him to deal death and destruction himself, his love of which was the reason he was made incorporeal in the first place. That, and when recorporealized, he has the Super-Strength and Super-Toughness to not only survive being hit by a truck, but lift it off of him, as well as take Angel on in a straight fight and almost dust him.
- The Chessmaster: His efforts ultimately do little more than ensure his own demise, but Sahjhan's efforts at manipulating the cast are quite impressive and, if it hadn't been for Holtz being too difficult to control, would have resulted in Connor's death and the biggest threat to Sahjhan being removed.
- Covered with Scars: "Hey, do I look like I need more skin problems?"
- Curb-Stomp Battle: He completely pounds Angel in a fight and nearly stakes him after being re-corporealized. This goes the other way for him eventually; he kicks Connor's ass quite easily but the second that Wesley breaks the memory spell, he gets decimated and decapitated.
- Deadpan Snarker: He is quite the sarcastic fellow."Really? You and me?
Buddy cops, latest summer release movie. We iron out our wacky differences and bond? Don't think so.""Love the whole chained-undead look you got goin' on. Really sets off your fern." - Face Death with Dignity: Zigzagged When he meets Connor face-to-face, knowing full-well of the prophecy that Connor will kill him, he chats amicably with him before throwing down. But given his penchant for fighting agent fate and Connor's weakened state her int' completely resigned yet and looks a bit dazed Sandor frustrated once Connor gains the upper hand and is about to finish him off.
- Fate Worse than Death: For him, being turned intangible; he can't do anything fun.
- Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence: This particular Sword of Damocles is a baby — Angel's, to be precise. Ironically, Cyvus Vail ends up feeling the same way about Sahjhan once he gets corked into a jar.
- Glamour: Capable of switching to his "street face" (actually, Jack Conley without makeup) to blend in public.
- Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: His introductory scene shows him standing around being ominous and demonic...and then lighting up a smoke and looking at his watch impatiently, establishing Sahjhan without a word.
- Greater-Scope Villain: For Season 3; he creates the Angel vs. Holtz conflict that dominates the latter half of the season (or at least renews it), but because of his being incorporeal, he can't take any direct role until it's too late. This also leads to many of the disastrous events of the remaining two seasons.
- Hidden Agenda Villain: For a long time, nobody knows what his true goal is; not Angel, not Wolfram & Hart, not even his supposed puppet Holtz knows why Sahjhan wants Angel dead. It's only after his plan is complete that he reveals his motivations.
- Laughably Evil: Sahjhan is responsible for some of the most destructive acts on the show, but he's sarcastic, snarky and a massive amount of fun.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: After banishing Holtz and Connor to Quortoth in the mid-season finale, he says, "Have a nice summer."
- Like a Duck Takes to Water: Despite his outdated getup (he can't exactly shop for clothes), Sahjhan is right at home in cushy, image-conscious L.A.
- Made of Iron: The moment he's made corporeal Sahjhan is run over by a two-ton pickup truck. He lifts it off of him and walks away.
- Off with His Head!: He looks baffled right before it happens, too. All that work, to no good end?
- Our Wormholes Are Different: Contrary to their name, Timeshifters do not manipulate time per se. They can move between time and dimensions.
- Prophetic Fallacy: As part of his plan to put a halt to a prophecy about him, he re-writes another. "I don't like to brag but...read any good prophecies lately?"
- Red Baron: "The Timeshifter."
- Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: He went out of his way to prevent Connor from killing him as prophesied, but his actions effectively lead to it happening; by sending Connor to Quor'toth, he turned him into a big badass demon killer.
- Thrown Down a Well: Justine ends up trapping him in a magic urn.
- Time Master: He doens't actually control spacetime, he just can move between time and dimensions, but he nevertheless exploits this ability to manipulate events.
- Wrote the Book: Boasts that he invented daylight savings time, though one could argue that he was joking.
- You Can't Fight Fate: His attempts to circumvent his prophesied death. They end up guaranteeing it.
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You Look Familiar: Conley previously played Gib Cain, a werewolf hunter of dubious morals, in the Buffy episode "Phases". - You Talk Too Much!: Angel recognizes this as Sahjhan's tactic for disarming his opponents.
Skip
Skip
"I respect what you're trying to do. It's noble and heroic and all that other Russell Crowe "Gladiator" crap."
Played By: David Denman
"Angel, buddy, whatever's going on, I'm telling you true: Not a dupe!"
A formidable and powerful demon, whose body is plated in armor. 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.
- Attack Its Weak Point: After Angel tears off his horn, Wesley shoots him in the brain, which turns out not to be immune to bullets.
- Bad Samaritan: While acting as Cordelia's Spirit Advisor, he's actually manipulating her into becoming the mortal vessel for Jasmine.Angel: You're saying her ascension was all part of this thing's plan?
- Blade Below the Shoulder: He has a very formidable extendable wrist blade.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: he pretends to be an affable and friendly servant of the Powers That Be, but he's actually a sadistic mercenary serving Jasmine.
- Dark Is Evil: Averted, and then played straight. Despite his intimidating appearance, Skip comes across as disarmingly friendly...but it's played straight when he's revealed to be a self-serving mercenary.
- Deadpan Snarker: An extremely potent one. He nears Sahjhan levels of sarcasm.
- Distaff Counterpart: In After the Fall, Angel is forced into mortal combat with a "She-Skip".
- Even Evil Has Standards: It depends on the fact that he was working with Jasmine all along. But if he was, even he thinks Billy Blim was monstrous, or at least has no respect for him, referring to him as a "runt".
- Faux Affably Evil: When we first met Skip, he's affable, friendly, considerate and willing to share his buffalo wings. When he's revealed as The Mole, he shows himself to be a good deal more sadistic and smug.
- Fluffy the Terrible: A large, metallic-skinned demon with red eyes, a wrist blade and incredible strength...who's named Skip. Or Skipper.
- Gentle Giant: The image he likes to cultivate with people. It's distressingly false.Skip: What? You thought a big ol’ boy like me was weak and couldn’t fight? [backhands Wesley across the room] Oh, please.
- I Let You Win: According to him, he took the fall during the first encounter he had with Angel. Their second fight does lend credence to this.
- Immune to Bullets: While his exoskeleton is too tough for bullets, his squishy insides aren't.
- Improbable Aiming Skills: Not him, but how he is undone by Wesley's uncanny marksmanship. In his battle against Angel, the vampire had torn off one of his horns, leaving a tiny hole in the side of his head. Wesley later takes advantage of this and shoots at that hole, killing him in one hit.
- The Jailer: For Billy Blim.
- Large Ham: Intentionally. In "Birthday" when Cordelia meekly asks him if he is Death, here to take her away, he gives an epic Evil Laugh only to later cheerfully and calmly tell her that he's joking.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: "I love a story with scope!"
- The Mole: He's Jasmine's main string-puller on the ground, working to manipulate Cordelia while posing as a friend.
- The Nose Knows: Subtle, but he is able to determine Angel works for TPTB by sniffing the air.
- Pop-Cultured Badass: He's an extremely dangerous foe who runs circles around Angel Investigations, while also being a big fan of The Matrix. Gladiator, not so much.
- Professional Killer: "I'm just a merc. I go where the deal is."
- Punch-Clock Villain: He commutes.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Skip has bright red eyes.
- Skeletons in the Coat Closet: His exoeskeleton
- Spirit Advisor: For Cordelia.
- Tempting Fate: "Do those EVER work? I mean really."
The Beast
The Beast
"This is all you are?"
Played By: Vladimir Kulich
A large, stony fellow who is reportedly the herald of the apocalypse. Surprisingly crafty — a trait which is met with much suspicion from his old pal Angelus, who never knew The Beast to be so well-organized. In due course, he's revealed to be a mere foot soldier of Jasmine.
- Achilles' Heel: The weapon he carved from his own flesh is capable of destroying him. Angelus is only disgusted that it worked because the Beast's death also restored the sun.
- The Brute: For Jasmine; he's not very smart and is used as a tool more than anything else.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Against everyone. He easily steamrolls over everyone who tries to fight him, placing a decisive smackdown on the entire Angel Investigations team, even stabbing Angel in the neck with his own stake. The Beast never actually loses a fight. Even a powerful Slayer like Faith was nearly beaten to death with absolutely no injury sustained on his part, and Angelus only killed him when taking him by surprise.
- Dimension Traveller: In one battle with Angel Investigations, they banish him to another dimension... only for him to reappear right behind them unscathed as soon as the portal closes.
- Disc-One Final Boss: He's portrayed as the main villain throughout the first half of Season 4, but it gradually comes to light that he's merely a willing puppet for Jasmine. Angelus dispatches him with his own weapon in the last third of the season.
- The Dragon: To Jasmine.
- Dumb Muscle: The Beast is so focused on smashing things without displaying any kind of deeper thought that him even having a plan is a sign to Angelus that he's working for someone else.
- Evil Sounds Deep: Though this inexplicably changes.
- For the Evulz: Prior to becoming a disciple of Jasmine, The Beast was all about wanton destruction for no apparent reason.
- Hellish Pupils: As is fitting for the supposed herald of the apocalypse.
- Hoist by Their Own Petard: A knife carved from his "unworthy flesh" as a gift to his Master. Angelus correctly surmises that it's the only thing capable of penetrating his stony hide, and uses it to kill him. The Beast should've got his Master a toaster or something.
- In a Single Bound: Despite his massive, lumbering size, the Beast is capable of tremendous leaps.
- I Want Them Alive!: One clue that Connor is somehow linked with these events is that on several occasions The Beast beats him, but declines to finish him off. He does the same to Angel in their first fight.
- Immune to Bullets: Even a point-blank shotgun blast to the face does nothing but knock him off balance for a few seconds. Oh dear.
- The Juggernaut: This guy blasts through Wolfram & Hart killing absolutely everyone and doesn't slow down for even a moment.
- Make Way for the New Villains: The Beast easily usurps Wolfram & Hart by killing everyone in the Los Angeles branch with his bare hands.
- Mighty Glacier: Despite being crazy strong and Nigh-Invulnerable, he's so slow that, when he fights Angelus (while the vampire isn't bothering to try and fight back), the latter easily dodges his attacks and even finds time to crack jokes and taunt him while doing so.
- Nigh-Invulnerability: Blunt force, axes, swords, bullets... everything failed to pierce the Beast's thick hide except for a dagger made of his own flesh.
- No Name Given: "The Beast" is just what Angel Investigations dubs him. His true name, if he even has one, is unknown.
- Obviously Evil: Horns, black volcanic rock for skin, deep voice, fondness for mass slaughter... yeah, this guy's not exactly subtle about his moral standing.
- Out-of-Character Alert: Only realized by Angelus as the only person who met the Beast before this rampage; considering that the Beast was only interested in smashing things and killing people when he confronted Angelus, the fact that he's operating with any kind of plan now proves to Angelus that there's another player behind the Beast's current actions.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: He gives a short one to Faith; he sounds genuinely disappointed that she isn't giving him a challenge."This is all you are? I had heard the Slayer possessed great strength, but there's no real power here. My master's power is beyond all limits, beyond your petty imagining. You are weak. You're nothing. You could not even defeat me."
- Spell My Name with a "The": He's known primarily as "The Beast," though it isn't a name of his own choosing. If he even has a real name, he never mentions it.
- Technicolor Death: Sunlight explodes out of him after Angelus punctures his rocky hide.
- To Create a Playground for Evil: He shrouds Los Angeles in permanent night, allowing vampires a twenty-four hour buffet.
- Unholy Matrimony: Shows signs of this with Jasmine.
- Unperson: Before his arrival, any record or memory of The Beast is erased from history. Only Angelus is unaffected, as he was technically replaced by Angel at the time the spell was cast.
- We Can Rule Together: He tried to pull this with Angelus in 1789. Angelus declined, and was cracked across the face for his trouble. The Senior Partners tried to pull this with The Beast himself, but he already had a partnership.
Drogyn
Drogyn the Battlebrand
Played By: Alec Newman
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.
- Badass Boast: He makes one when Gunn accuses him of not getting the correct information from his would-be assassin."No one lies when they're at the mercy of my wrath."
- Cannot Tell a Lie: He's somehow unable to lie at all.
- The Comically Serious: Drogyn being involved in a conversation with Spike and trying to figure out Crash Bandicoot are both the source of a few laughs despite Drogyn's eternally stoic demeanor.
- Gate Guardian: Drogyn is the guardian to the "Deeper Well" where the Old Ones are kept.
- Good Is Not Nice: He casually mentions how he tortured an assassin for information for hours.
- The Jailer: To the entombed Old Ones
- Mysterious Past: His origins are shrouded in mystery. Who is Drogyn really? Where did he come from? How did he get his job? Why is he able to live forever? What was his experience with Angel and Hamilton?
- Neck Snap: By Angel.
- Really 700 Years Old: Drogyn is eternally youthful, and has been alive for at least a thousand years.
- The Stoic: Drogyn is always straight-faced and serious. Even when Spike inadvertently angers him, Drogyn mostly keeps his cool.
- We Meet Again: With Hamilton, who he greets as 'Marcus'. They go way back, according to him.
The Oracles
The Oracles
Played By: Carey Cannon & Randall Slavin
Servants of The Powers That Be. The Oracles were a pair of higher beings - male and female - whose task was to guide the warriors of good, communicating them the will and actions of the Powers That Be, though they did so in exchange for a tribute.
- Ancient Grome: They dress in Roman-esque togas with bronze paint.
- Brother–Sister Team: They are referred in the scripts as "Brother Oracle" and "Sister Oracle"
- Good Is Not Nice: While they serve The Powers That Be and are considered allies, they're still assholes.
- Jerkass: They're irritable, condescending, rude, snobbish, self-important and vain. The female Oracle shows a little more empathy, though.
- Time Master: They are capable of manipulating time, as demonstrated when they folded time to prevent Angel from becoming human.
- Those Two Guys: They are, of course, only ever seen together.
Pylea
Landok
Landokmar of the Deathwok Clan
Played By: Brody Hutzler
An Anagogic demon, a member of the Deathwok Clan and cousin of Lorne.
- Politically Incorrect Hero: Like most of the Pyleans, he considers humans little more than livestock and cheers on the possibility of Angel executing Fred.
- Proud Warrior Race Guy: He's the quintessential Deathwok warrior. He's a superb one too, on par with Angel.
Silas
Silas
Played By: Michael Phenicie
A male demon of an unnamed species and the leading priest of the Covenant of Trombli, making him the de facto ruler of Pylea.
- Arc Villain: For the Season 2 Pylea arc.
- Black Eyes of Evil: He has pure black eyes and is most certainly evil.
- Evil Sounds Deep: Silas has an inhumanly low voice.
- In the Hood: His ceremonial, monk-like robe.
- The Man Behind the Man: While the royal ruler is the face of Pylea's leadership and ostensibly the one in charge, Silas and his Religion of Evil are the true rulers of Pylea. Though they themselves are strongly hinted to have their own masters. See Below.
- Off with His Head!: Cordelia dispatches him with an axe to the neck, thus releasing his head from his shoulders.
- Religion of Evil: He's the leader of the Covenant of Trombli, which at the very least has ties to Wolfram & Hart and very well may be Pylea's branch of the firm.
- Sinister Minister: Due to being the leader of Pylea's Religion of Evil.
Lorne's Mother
Mother of the Vile Excrement
Played By: Tom McCleister
An aged and bearded Deathwok demon and the mother of Krevlornswath, Numfar of the Deathwok Clan and a third child whom she and her husband devoured. She heaped curses on Lorne both coming and going.
- Abusive Parent: To Lorne, who she despises and whose disappearance she celebrated. She also eats her kids, although this is all par for the course in Pylea.
- Eats Babies: As she tells Lorne, his father was right: they ate the wrong son.
- Girls with Moustaches: She is indistinguishable from a male Pylean, right down to the beard.
Numfar
Numfar
Played By: Joss Whedon
A Deathwok demon and the second brother of Lorne, the first having been eaten by their own parents. When Lorne originally vanished, he apparently danced the "Dance of Joy" for three days.
- Creator Cameo: Was played by Joss Whedon.
- Happy Dance: The Dance of Joy.
One-shot Characters
Marcus
Marcus
Played By: Kevin West
Appears in: "In the Dark"
A vampire and a torturer for hire. He also had a taste for feeding on and killing young children.
- Bald of Evil: He's bald, in addition to being a pedophile and torturer.
- Cold-Blooded Torture: His specialty; when he tortures Angel, he does so with cool and clinical detachment.
- Daywalking Vampire: Briefly, due to the Gem of Amarra. He heads straight to a beach to better indulge his pedophiliac tendencies.
- Faux Affably Evil: He might be a repulsive sadist, but damn if Marcus isn't impeccably polite at all times.
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul: He makes a point of donning his spectacles before he gets to work.
- Homoerotic Subtext: He complimentsa bare-chested Angel on the lack of damage to his skin over 200 years.Spike: Do you two need to be alone, or can we go on to the ouchy part?
- Hyper-Awareness: Like some other vampires, he can sense Angel's soul.
- Lean and Mean: He has a very slender, creepy look to him.
- Light Is Not Good: He's a torturer vampire with pedophiliac tendencies and wears a white shirt.
- Living Lie Detector: Part of what makes Marcus' torture effective is that he knows when someone is lying, even if they just give up false information to make the pain stop.
- Not So Stoic: Although usually eerily calm with a placid expression, he shows much more emotion when he gets the Gem of Amara.
- Offscreen Villainy: He had a reputation as a master torturer, but we neither get clarity about what techniques he created nor do we see other people aside from Angel get tortured.
- Pædo Hunt: He's all but outright-stated to be a paedophile.Spike: You like kids, don't you, Marcus? Well, likes to eat. And other nasty things.
- Psycho for Hire: Spike hires him explicitly because Marcus has no interest in the Gem of Amara; his only desire is to hurt people. Unfortunately, he also realizes that the Gem gives him more opportunity to hurt people.Angel: You hired a vampire. What do you think he'll do with it when he finds it? Hand it to you?Spike: Oh, good lord, why didn't I think--? Oh, half a mo. I did! I hired a guy who doesn't care about the ring or anything else except taking blokes apart one piece at a time. It's called addiction. We all have them.
- Soft-Spoken Sadist: Marcus has a very calm, even voice that is oddly disarming. He's also a merciless torturer.
- To the Pain: He's enamored of pain, and waxes poetic about it to his literally captive audience.''"It's through the pain that we find the truth of who we are. It strips us of our defenses. We are made innocent again, like children. I like children, Angel. I'm here to help you find that innocence here with the light.
- Torture Technician: His entire thing is torture. It's his job, his hobby and his passion. He's legendary for it.Spike: Marcus is an expert. Some say "artist" but I've never been comfortable with labels. He's a bloody king of torture, he is. Humans, demons, politicians, makes no difference. Some say he invented several of the classics but he won't tell me which ones.
- Wicked Cultured: Marcus likes to play classical music (specifically Mozart's Symphony #41) during his torture session.
- Would Hurt a Child: Children are his preferred targets.
Penn
Penn
"Think of the worst possible thing you can imagine, and I'll see you there."
Played By: Jeremy Renner
Appears in: "Somnambulist"
A vampire sired by Angelus in 1786 and, in later centuries, a serial killer nicknamed "The Pope" by the Los Angeles press.
- Ax-Crazy: He's been a serial killer for more than 200 years, and joyfully anticipates killing whatever victims he can get his hands on.
- Calling Card: Penn leaves his mark by slicing an upside-down cross on the cheek of each victim. It earns him the nickname "The Pope" by the Los Angeles press.
- Evil Speech Of Evil: Penn enjoys the sound of his own voice, and tends to go on a bit.
- Mad Artist: Penn considers his killings to be his art, but Angel calls him out on his unoriginality and ego. At least he takes Angel's critique.Angel: I'm sorry what I turned you into.Penn: A first-class killer? An artist? A bold re-interpreter of the form?Angel: Try "cheesy hack"." You've been getting back at your father for over 200 years. It's pathetic. You've probably got a killer's shrine on your wall. News clippings, magazine articles, maybe a few candles. Oh, you are so prosaic.
- Room Full of Crazy: Angel accurately pegs Penn as having a shrine to his killings.
- Self-Made Orphan: After becoming a vampire, he killed his entire family.
- Serial Killer: He kills not just for food, but to recreate his first murder of his family and leaves his own calling card.
- Small Role, Big Impact: He only appears in one episode and is dusted at the end, but it's because of him Kate discovers Angel is a vampire and The Masquerade is broken for her.
- Super-Speed: Even in comparison to the supernatural abilities of other vampires and demonstrated in multiple fights against where he was able to move so quickly that Angel appeared incapable of keeping up with him. So much so that in the final fight of the episode he was able to fight Angel and Kate Lockley simultaneously and capture Angel in a full-nelson; no mean feat when we consider Angel's own prodigious fighting ability and super-speed allowing him to move so fast he appears to teleport on multiple other occasions. Also demonstrated when he dodges multiple bullets to move with impunity through an entire police station to capture Kate Lockley.
- Super-Strength: Also shown to be unusually strong even by supernaturally-strong vampire standards. Demonstrated during his earlier fight with Angel when he is able to leap up to the roof of a high room from a prone position with Angel on top of him with such force that Angel is smashed into the roof with a significant impact.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: Penn had an antagonistic relationship with his father, who never approved of him and placed him under pressure. Even after killing him (and his entire family) Penn never got over it and has been reliving that murder for 200 years.
- You Talk Too Much!: As is pointed out by Angel and Cordy, Penn has a tendency to keep on talking. It's a wonder he ever got around to killing anyone.
Jhiera
Jhiera
Played By: Bai Ling
Appears in: "She"
The princess of the demon people from the dimension Oden Tal.
- Buxom Beauty Standard: Her Cleavage Window really emphasizes and pushes up her breasts.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: She was intended to be a recurring character, but for whatever reason she never reappeared.
- Cute Monster Girl: She is gorgeous for a demon. Angel even acknowledges it.
- Facial Markings: Just like other Oden-Tal demons.
- Knight Templar: She will do what it takes to free the women of her world, even if it means putting human safety at risk. Angel calls her out on it.
- Ms. Fanservice: Jhiera has Hell-Bent for Leather, Cleavage Window, Buxom Beauty Standard... She's hot, OK?
- Unresolved Sexual Tension: With everyone, but especially Angel.
- Warrior Princess: She is the daughter of Oden-Tal King and a brave warrior in her own right.
Vocah
The Vocah
Played By: Todd Stashwick
Appears in: "To Shanshu in L.A."
"The old order passes away, the new order is come... He that was first shall now be last, he that was dead shall now arise..."
A powerful demon summoned by Wolfram & Hart to aid them in their fight against the vampire Angel. He could be recognized by his bronze-colored mask and black hood.
- Black Cloak: He wears a sweeping black robe.
- Cool Mask: To hide his Facial Horror.
- Evil Sounds Deep: He has a very deep, intimidating voice.
- Facial Horror: His true face is partially rotted with maggots squirming around his nose and eyes.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Angel kills him with one of his discarded scythes.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: The Vocah is also known as "The Bringer of Calamity". He's an extremely formidable fighter.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: A red-eyed demon in service to the evil Wolfram & Hart.
- Sinister Scythe: He can pull another scythe out of Hammerspace whenever it is discarded or lost.
- Small Role, Big Impact: He only makes an appearance in "To Shanshu in L.A.", but his presence has some everlasting consequences on the series.
- He infects Cordelia with a mark that forces her to experience endless visions of those suffering around her. Upon being cured, Cordelia takes the experience to heart and starts to become a more selfless person, as she feels highly motivated to help those in pain.
- Vocah blows up the Angel Investigations offices, forcing them to relocate to the Hyperion Hotel in subsequent seasons.
- He murders the Oracles, taking away one of Angel's means of communicating with the Powers That Be.
- Vocah proves essential in helping Wolfram & Hart to complete the Raising, as he both re-obtains the Scrolls of Aberjian and keeps Angel busy while Lindsey finishes the ritual. This results in Darla's resurrection, which eventually leads to Connor's birth and Jasmine's introduction.
Boone
Boone
Played By: Mark Rolston
Appears in: "Blood Money"
A humanoid demon of an unknown species and an old rival of Angel. The two had met in Juarez in the 1920's, 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 of that. Boone was left with the doubt of who would win in an evenly matched fight.
- Affably Evil: He's a Blood Knight out to kill Angel, but he's unfailingly polite and very honorable.
- Badass Longcoat: He wears a nifty long coat.
- Blood Knight: Boone is very orientated on proving his own abilities and having a good fight. He enjoys throwing fists with the best of the best.
- Friendly Enemy: To Angel, who he likes and respects.
- Honor Before Reason: Boone is very much all about honor. Money holds no meaning for him. In fact, he'd rather fight Angel than walk away with 2 million. In fact, the main reason Angel and Boone's original fight ended in a stalemate is because the sun rose, and Boone refused to take advantage of it to beat Angel.
- Power Fist: His main ability involves curling seemingly organic ropes of metal around his fists.
- Uncertain Doom: Boone's fate after his rematch with Angel is unknown, although said fight left a decent amount of Boone's blood on the money that was also in the room at the time.
- Worf Had the Flu: Averted! This guy fought Angel for almost 4 hours straight...while working off a three-day hangover.
Prima Ballerina
Prima Ballerina
Played By: Summer Glau & Charisma Carpenter
Appears in: "Waiting in the Wings"
A young woman who was employed as a dancer for the Blinnikov World Ballet Corps by Count Kurskov.
- Fate Worse than Death: She's trapped in a time bubble, forced to dance the same ballet over and over until Count Kurskov is finally defeated.
- No Name Given: She's known only as the Prima Ballerina.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: With Stefan.
Stefan
Stefan
Played By: David Boreanaz
A dancer at the Blinnikov World Ballet Corps and the lover of the company's Prima Ballerina until Count Kurskov found out.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: With the Prima Ballerina.
Kurskov
Count Kurskov
Played By: Mark Harelik & Alexis Denisof
The owner of the Blinnikov World Ballet Corps.
- Amulet of Concentrated Awesome: The source of his power.
- Aristocrats Are Evil: Kurskov is a pretty classic evil count.
- Green-Eyed Monster: He was so obsessed with the Prima Ballerina and so angered by her falling in love with another man that he traps everyone in a time bubble, forcing her to dance for him every single night.
- Love Makes You Crazy: The Count is motivated by his obsessive love for the Prima Ballerina.
- Wicked Cultured: Averted; he might own a ballet, but he doesn't know it as well as he should. He doesn't even recognise a mistake on stage.
Lawson
Sam Lawson
"Come on, chief. Give me a mission."
Played By: Eyal Podell
Appears in: "Why We Fight"
- "We all need a reason to live, even if we're already dead."
An ensign of the United States Navy during World War II and a vampire.
- Affably Evil: He's very polite to Fred despite planning to hold her hostage, and he maintains a reasonably calm demeanor with Angel despite hating him for what he's become.
- Blessed with Suck: Despite all the vampiric powers, the fact that an ensouled Angel turned him means that Lawson isn't one thing or the other. As a vampire, he gets no joy from blood-letting and doesn't have the ability to return to a human life.
- Blood-Splattered Innocents: After the Captain is killed, his blood splatters all over a still-human Lawson.
- Death Seeker: It isn't hard to guess that's why Lawson broke into Wolfram & Hart to confront Angel. He wanted to die.
- Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: He's completely driven by the need to serve a higher purpose in life, to be guided by a cause giving sense to his actions. While Lawson blames the fact that Angel had a soul when he sired him on the fact that he derives no pleasure from killing and torturing people, Angel believed it was simply because Lawson didn't have a cause to live for.
- A Father to His Men: While he was in charge of his surviving crew members.
- I Hate You, Vampire Dad: As a vampire he highly resents Angel for turning him, dooming him to a life of desperate misery."You gave me just enough, didn't you? Enough of your soul to keep me trapped between who I was and who I should be. I'm nothin' because of you."
- Nice Guy: Loyal, dedicated and kind. Until he was turned into a vampire, that is.
- This Is Gonna Suck: According to him, his last thoughts as he dies.
- Tragic Villain: Lawson was a good man who was forced into becoming a vampire by circumstances. He gains no joy from his cruel acts like other vampires, making him a miserable outcast wandering the Earth in search of a purpose and unable to find satisfaction from anything. He's too monster to be a man but has too much man in him to fully become a monster.
- Transhuman Treachery: After becoming a vampire, he sees his former crew members as possible meals.
- You Are in Command Now: When his captain dies.
Nostroyev
Nostroyev
Played By: Bart McCarthy
Appears in: "Why We Fight"
A Siberian vampire who was kidnapped alongside Spike and the Prince of Lies for a Nazi-funded World War II super-soldier project.
- Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: He claims to have been Rasputin's lover.
- Bullying a Dragon: This moron thinks he's badder than Angelus and acts accordingly. It gets him staked very swiftly, and that was when Angel actually had a soul. Had Nostroyev been dealing with Angelus himself, his death would likely have been very prolonged.
- The Butcher: Nostroyev is the "Scourge of Siberia and Butcher of Alexander Palace". Maybe people call him that, maybe he calls himself that.
- Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon: He gets a good one. Shame for him it comes to nothing.Nostroyev: I will tear you open and play "Coachman, Spare Your Horses" on the lute of your entrails.
- Smug Snake: Despite his supposed Villain Cred and boasts, Angel takes him out with no trouble at all.
- Villain Cred: Nostroyev expects Angel (or Angelus) to have heard of him, and is outraged that he hasn't. Whether this was because Angel was out of the loop or Nostroyev just isn't the infamous vampire he thinks he is, isn't clear.Nostroyev: Used to be quite the terror back in the day. Haven't heard much of you lately, though.Angel: Haven't heard much of you, ever.
Prince of Lies
Prince of Lies
"I am as ancient as the darkness itself."
Played By: Camden Toy
Appears in: "Why We Fight"
An ancient vampire who was captured by the Third Reich during World War II as part of an effort to surgically alter vampires on a psychological level in order to create an army of vampire-soldiers.
- Badass Boast: Due to being such a Large Ham, he's prone to these.Prince of Lies: You think I don't know? I am as ancient as the darkness itself.Angel: [Beat] Yeah, you're real old. We know.
- Bald of Evil: As part of his Looks Like Orlok style.
- Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon: To the Nazi officer:"I will suck the brain from your skull and digest your thoughts like a sour pudding!"
- Evil Laugh: He has a rather awkward laugh that causes everyone else in the room to look curiously at him before he stops, embarrassed.
- In the Back: Angel stakes him in the back while he's making a Badass Boast.
- Laughably Evil: The Prince of Lies is memorable largely for Camden Toy's hilarious comic performance of a hammy old vampire who is completely out of touch with the modern world.
- Large Ham: He acts like he's in a silent movie, exaggerating every single gesture and movement with melodramatic finesse.
- Looks Like Orlok: The Prince of Lies is the most blatant example in the entire Buffyverse, serving as a clear homage.
- Not-So-Harmless Villain: In spite of his hilarity, it's established that he's a powerful older vampire much like the Master when he effortlessly backhands Angel across the room.
Novel Exclusive Humans
Franklin
Franklin Ayers-Bishop
Appears In: Stranger to the Sun (novel)
An associate of Wesley who is studying tribal magic in New Zealand and proves to be an unseen but pivotal one-time ally.
- A Friend in Need: When Cordelia sends all of Wesley’s email contacts a message about how he has been rendered comatose by a poison and she needs help curing him, only Franklin replies and tries to help.
- Hero of Another Story: After getting an inkling about the conflict of the novel, he quickly organizes many wizards in different countries to respond to the ritual the Big Bad is doing to permanently shroud the Earth in darkness, all without ever meeting another named character in person.
- Non-Protagonist Resolver: He is on the other side of the world as the heroes, but after their emails tell him that the Big Bad is trying to change the rotation of the Earth to let vampires run wild 24-7, Franklin and his circle of wizard acquaintances are the ones to carry out a series of rituals that stop the plan. Angel actually fails to stop the villain from completing his ritual, but Franklin and the others still save the world with their counter-spells. That being said, Franklin notes they still would have failed if not for Angel slowing down the villain with his own efforts.
- Voice with an Internet Connection: He and Cordelia trade emails about how to save Wesley and stop the villain, but they never meet.
Joe Ed
Joe Ed Hollister
Appears In: Love and Death (novel)
A Texas mechanic who listens to a Conspiracy Theorist broadcaster who urges his listeners to come to L.A. and hunt the monsters there in the book Love and Death.
- Handicapped Badass: He is a tough fighter despite having a trick knee and remains a threat to Angel even after receiving a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown that would have hospitalized many people.
- I Just Want to Be Badass: He is a little too eager to go to L.A. to look for monsters to fight on the word of a broadcaster and wishes he had been old enough to fight in The Gulf War.
- Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: He starts out as a loutish but curious and well-meaning radio listener who is listening to a Rabble Rouser but nonethless has a Badass Bystander moment killing a murderous vampire. Then he steps into Van Helsing Hate Crimes territory when he tries to burn down an apartment building while falsely thinking vampires are supposed to be inside, accidentally shoots another monster hunter while trying to kill Angel and dismisses any suggestion that some vampires may be benevolent. In his last scene, he even holds his own loyal companion and brother-in-law hostage to try to make Angel let them kill him after observing Angel's determination to save people's lives.
