YMMV / Angel S01E16 "The Ring"

• Complete Monster: Darin MacNamara is a greedy ringmaster and a demon slavedriver. Running an arena where he kidnaps demons and forces them to fight to the death, Darin refuses to let any of them go until they've had their 21st kill. Anyone who tries to escape or refuses to fight gets incinerated by an electric bracelet they are forced to wear. After luring Angel into his trap and watching his brother be taken hostage, Darin simply shoots his own brother dead, only saying "now he's my dead brother". After Angel refuses Darin's offer to be let free for his own financial gain, Darin, believing Angel had outlived his usefulness, puts him in a fight against the ruling "champ", who's at his 21st fight, in hopes of him getting killed. Greedy, ruthless, and seeing even his own brother as a mere tool, Darin stands out as the worst of humanity's evil.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: The demons have their fans, particularly Trepkos, for being a stone-cold badass with some Hidden Depths who faces Angel in one of the shows more impressive fight scenes.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: A villain mockingly refers to Angel as Captain America. Joss Whedon would later on direct The Avengers (2012) and Avengers: Age of Ultron.

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