At last. The woman had a young son, whom Angelus killed afterwards. With his body healed, Angel, using various spells and enchantments to provide himself with his vampiric abilities, began patrolling the hell-ridden city with the dragon Cordelia, rescuing citizens and sending them, anonymously, to a safe-house run by Connor, Nina, and Gwen Raiden. She came close to doing so at his request, but was stopped by both Willow and Connor. [98][36][39], Angel was also a fan of pop culture to some degree, enjoying Barry Manilow's music[171] and being a fan of ice hockey;[172] indeed, part of the reason he originally founded Angel Investigations was because of his liking of old detective novels. Drusilla was already there waiting for him, and once again begged him to let her take away his pain. [40] The first time he was cursed, Angel spent some time trying to act like he used to, well enough to deceive Drusilla and Spike that he was still the same vampire during their brief encounter. People who have annoyed him most include Spike, Xander, and Harmony. [citationneeded]. [31], December 25, 1838: Angelus won a card game in Dublin, Ireland, and when his opponent, a man named Daniel who was to be married the next day, could not pay, he took his winnings by killing him. [21], Upon awakening, Angel, along with Faith Lehane, once again dedicated himself to redemption, this time by resurrecting his most recent victim: Rupert Giles. "[2] After his first meeting with Buffy, which left her with a bad impression, she still described him as "gorgeous,"[47] calling him a "honey," claiming most girls would find him attractive "if they [had] eyes," describing him as a "hunk," and saying that his eyes were "penetrating. [59], Upon discovering the truth, Buffy, hurt that Angel never revealed his presence to her, immediately traveled to Los Angeles to confront him, and the two agreed to stay away from one another for the time being. He was also very self-conscious, and worried what other people thought of him very often. Spike was shocked at her phrasing and tried to remind her she knew Dawn. "[50] In addition, in the two times he defeated Eyghon, Angel counted with the aid of his inner demon as a separate entity in the fight;[177] this evil persona was referred to as "Angelus" in the second time,[140] when Spike explained: "Not sure you can call Angelus a 'being,' really. [citationneeded] Angel also appeared to be a master of intimidation; when Connor broke free of his restraints and beat down Gunn and Fred, Angel, despite his weakened condition after three months trapped at the bottom of the ocean and only a limited amount of recently-ingested blood to restore himself, quickly stood up to Connor and ordered him to sit down, which he did after only a slight hesitation.[86]. He broke up with Buffy in the sewer when she told him about her prom being the next night, but he surprised her appearing in the dance.[15]. However, complications arose due to appearances of Whistler, Pearl, and Nash, intending to steal Alasdair's collection. While he did not deny that he had been dominated by Twilight during the actual murder, he reminded Faith that he had been himself on many other occasions, and that he then had more blood on his hands than even Angelus. However, given Angel's currently tense relationship with Spike, as well as the Scoobies' current hostility towards him, Buffy asked Angel to help protect the Slayers from the currently-attacking demons while she went with Spike to investigate his claims.[121]. Whistler told Angel that he wanted his help to prevent it, warranting that having some people die would be better than allowing the world end. [25], In 1998, Spike and Drusilla's arrival in Sunnydale created tension in her relationship with Angel. Angel fought against Whistler, only for him to transform into a blue-horned demon with very strong melting abilities. Angel reveals to Faith his intention to resurrect Giles. As a curse. [145], When the Scooby Gang found themselves facing the demon Archaeus the demon lord who inhabited the Master's bloodline they called Angel for help, during which he learned that Buffy and Spike had started dating again. Believing he was talking to him, the dragon came to believe its own name was Cordelia.[111]. During his first year in Los Angeles with Angel Investigations, he displayed an acute lack of people skills, and was very anti-social and reclusive. After the robber shot the employee and fled, Angel stayed with the man as he died. 1898: Angelus' unlife took a pivotal turn when Darla kidnapped the favorite daughter of the Kalderash people in Bora, Romania, as a "birthday present." She was able to see that he had attached a magical item known as the Tooth of Ammut to his body, which he intended to use to draw the fragments of Giles' soul trapped in demons and other mystical sources into his body. Angel realized that a vampire might be controlling the Lorophage through hypnosis. Faith defeated Angel but when she refused to kill him, he regained the upper hand and drank from the Slayer, who had injected herself with the Orpheus drug. [115] Defeating Angel in a duel, Gunn undid the magicks keeping Angel alive, reopening every wound he had suffered since turning human. [11] He accompanied Faith to the girl's residence, and as the demon was slaughtered he received a rush of Giles' memories detailing the day he'd fallen in love with Jenny Calendar. [106], Together with his comrades, Angel prepared to destroy the Circle of the Black Thorn, a battle that none of them expected to survive. [108] Angel declared war on the Demon Lords, challenging them to a battle to liberate the city. He could also be unintentionally blunt in his reasonings and manner of speech, though this eventually became less frequent over the years. Though his father told him that he would only end up homeless and alone, Liam stormed out. [124][144][135], Angel described evil as an art and created "masterpieces" out of people through intense physical and emotional torture, as example of Drusilla. [173], During his darker phases, Angel also smoked, such as his reversion to soulless state in 1998,[50] his ensouled depression pre-Buffy,[45] and his dark phase in Los Angeles in late 2000. In the episode "I Will Remember You," Angel becomes human, much to his and Buffy's emotional and physical satisfaction. Instead, Angel chose to kill himself by waiting outside for the sun to rise. As she rampaged, Angel concocted a plan. Watching it, you felt every tear, every wall punch, every clenched hug. [69], In his past, Angel had been known as the man "Liam" and the vampire "Angelus." Its blood, eventually found to be the Blood of Eternity, merges with his own, and he becomes human. [34], 1883: Angelus killed a female servant named Margaret during a Christmas party in London. However, after meeting with Nadira whose magical mutation had stabilized and who appeared to possess some insight into the workings of "Magic Town" Angel began to work with her, her insights directing him to locations where he could do specific good, such as preventing Pearl acquiring bottled magic. Because of this, he could easily make dangerous decisions. When Giles briefly took control, he managed to decapitate Eyghon, which instantly killed him and ended his control over the dead the final piece of Giles' soul was absorbed into the Tooth of Ammuk. [143], After Giles threw a magic fire ball, Nash dropped the plague ball. Darla fled to Vienna, knocking out and abandoning Angelus in a burning barn and riding off on their only horse. Cordelia and Angel discussed how skewed he got from his path and how lost he was without her, Cordelia was shocked to learn that he and the others had taken over "Evil Incorporated." Undead Buffy sends Angel to hell in order to save the world. Following Abrams's decree, however, many of the show's cast fell in line with the idea that Buffy-Spike may have been endgame. Here's how you can watch the Buffy and Angel series in order. [79], In 2002, false prophecies, time travelers, and betrayal led to Angel losing his infant son to an old enemy, Holtz, who abducted Connor soon after his birth, taking him to the dimension of Quor'toth,[80] where time passed differently. He tended to keep up a stoic and brave face, similar to Oz in that regard. [40], 1920s: Angelus spent some time in Chicago, where he saved a little lap dog from being run over by a car; however, finding himself tempted to feed on the dog's owner, a young woman who tried to seduce Angel, he harshly rejected her. [41] Drusilla noted that "Angelus" was always whispering to "Angel" in the back of his mind to encourage him to submit to his vampiric instincts, although he rejected this idea and claimed that he was used to ignoring what people have to say to him. There's a scene in Angel that reveals this, clearly. After an intense duel in which the Slayer seemed to have the upper hand, Faith broke down and pleaded with Angel to kill her. Turning to Angel, he further explained, "Angel suffered alone for decadesdecadesbefore meeting Buffy, and never thought to himself that someone with as terrible a past as his deserved someone as good as her." Turning to Buffy, he continued with a steady voice, "I bet you anything he couldn't believe his ever-living luck when it . [61] A few months later, they were joined by lifelong demon fighter Charles Gunn after Angel resolved a vampire-human street conflict that was turning in favor of the former.[62]. [169] While soulless, Angel was unaffected by the Judge, a demon who could incinerate any being with "humanity," or the ability to feel human emotions. 1727, Galway, Ireland Angel agrees to join her, only for the fight to be interrupted when Spike appears claiming to have the answer to the current crisis. They split up; Angel meets the demon on his route. Making their way to Los Angeles, the group reunited with Gunn and Connor, the latter of whom unhesitatingly agreed to Willow's plan because he had seen what was happening and knew that Willow was right. [8] He also expressed a childish distaste of riding on the back of a motorcycle with other men on two occasions: first, with Wesley, who tried to make him wear a pink helmet,[167] and later, with Spike. The two subsequently returned to London, where they put the Crown in Alasdair Coames' care for the purpose of having it studied, and went to the cemetery where Giles' had been buried to exhume his remains. Accepting this, Angel returned to Los Angeles to prepare the second front, hoping he would not have to use it, and told Buffy, "I ain't getting any older. Angel fought Boone for three-and-a-half hours until the sun came up and Boone honorably let him go. [citationneeded], Angel's love life had never been very active, originally because he held a reluctance to get close to someone and possibly lose his soul. Darla declined to kill Holtz, telling Angelus that she was having too much fun tormenting him and he was then "like family." He had a tendency to bottle up his emotions, feelings and problems behind stoicism, causing him to appear difficult to read and secretive. Giles explains to the others that the current events tie in to a prophecy of a supernatural upheaval where the world shall be recreated after a Slayer changes the world, with Buffy and Angel having been selected to serve as the catalysts of that change. Gunn manages to make it to the meeting point, the alley behind the Hyperion Hotel, where he, Angel, Spike, and Illyria engaged in battle with the dark armies that the Senior Partners had sent against them. Angel refused, and told Nadira that resurrecting Giles was only possible because his life had been so deeply steeped in magic. He is the only character to appear in the first and last episodes of both. Under Twilight's influence, Angel murders Rupert Giles. After The Oracles a link to The Powers That Be confirm he is human again, Angel and Buffy spend a blissful night together. [citationneeded]. Art skills: He had "very nice handwriting"[106] and was a skillful artist, using charcoal[52] and China ink[citationneeded] to draw portraits. His pre-existing abilities, such as his strength, speed, agility, reflexes, and senses, were also greatly enhanced. Angel confronts Whistler at a pizzeria in London. The group finally reconciled,[71] and Wesley was appointed the official leader. [88], In 2003, a very powerful demon known only as the Beast arrived in Los Angeles and began an attempt to bring forth an apocalypse. The trio formed Angel Investigations, a private detective agency whose mission statement was to "help the helpless." Advanced combat: Angel was a highly skilled combatant and generally fought unarmed, using circular attacks such as spinning kicks and back hands. Because time flowed differently in other dimensions, he had experienced a century of torment while only a few months had passed on Earth. He managed to kill almost four-hundred other vampires in the process. "[71] Following Whistler's self-sacrifice to save the world and the advice he parted with him, Angel gained a certain degree of peace with himself. Over the years, Angel became increasingly disillusioned with the Shanshu Prophecy, eventually coming to believe that the prophecy was wholly unreliable, causing him to focus on doing good for the sake of it rather than for a reward. How do you interpret Buffy getting her memory back in "Tabula Rasa"? That was everything to me. His most prominent and mocked trait was his tendency to be overly gloomy and brooding. After the destruction of Sunnydale High,[58] Angel departed for Los Angeles. Despite the show ending, a comic book series produced by Buffy creator Joss Whedon has continued. Embittered by the consequences of becoming close to a human, Angel abandoned Judy and everyone else. So, Angel sets out with Doyle to kill the demon, without Buffy's much-needed supernatural assistance. Angel again attempted to reason to Whistler over the wrongness of killing so many innocent people, not feeling any desire to kill him. After the two were forced to realize their limitations as a couple,[15] Angel left Buffy and moved to Los Angeles. While he denied Buffy's pleas to continue living, it began to snow on Sunnydale for the first time, and the sun was blotted out all Christmas. This thought process eventually triggered Angel into a massive depression after being severely thwarted by several obstacles (Wolfram & Hart, Darla's resurrection), changing his outlook and attitude. [52], Angel then murdered Jenny, which served him in two ways. Under Twilight's influence, he was indirectly responsible for the death of two hundred slayers defending it on the grounds that more would have died if he had done nothing , created a dimension with Buffy that threatened to destroy Earth itself, and later murdered Giles under Twilight's influence. [41] However, unlike Buffy, who adamantly refused to kill humans no matter how evil they were,[157] Angel had no such reservations and would kill a human easily if they murdered or threatened innocents; for example, he unhesitatingly killed the human assassin Vanessa Brewer, whom Wolfram & Hart repeatedly prevented from being brought to justice for her crimes, when she was hired by them to kill the Holy Triumvirate. [41] In Ciudad Jurez, Mexico, Angel had a disagreement with a demon named Boone over a "seorita," for which Boone called him out. This was made most obvious through his interactions with Connor, Cordelia, and Buffy. The destruction of a human being. Portrayed by Basically, Angel leaves Buffy and moves to LA specifically because he doesn't think it's fair to date a young, human girl. An epiphany followed, and Angel realized that his purpose was still to do all the good he could, even if he couldn't do all the good he wanted to. This episode, in which Angel relinquishes the chance to have a normal, happy life with Buffy in order to "fulfill his penance," perfectly typifies Angel's character and fate, says Beagle. With rabid fury, they ambushed Angel, beat him, and then hanged him. Motorist skills: Angel could drive and had a good eye for cars, owning a black 1967 Plymouth GTX and a Dodge Viper, along with an entire garage full of other cars as W&H CEO. He also possessed a high pain tolerance, able to withstand prolonged periods of torture without succumbing.[183]. To save herself, Angel's new friend pointed the mob in his direction, saying he had been found with blood. Buffy Sainte-Marie, CC (born Beverly Sainte-Marie, February 20, 1941) is an Indigenous Canadian-American (Piapot Cree Nation) singer-songwriter, musician, composer, visual artist, educator, pacifist, and social activist. [2] Due to his advanced age, however, he was considerably more powerful than an average vampire; for example, he was able to run at such speeds that he appeared to teleport several meters,[42][159][70][92], was strong enough that he could lift up a heavy security gate[87], survive explosions and falls from skyscrapers with little injury,[78][39][70] and withstand prolonged exposure to sunlight and holy items to no ill effect. With David Boreanaz, Charisma Carpenter, Glenn Quinn, Carey Cannon. [16], In Los Angeles, Angel again began to isolate himself from humanity, in order to combat the lust for human blood that had been awakened within him after feeding on Buffy. [citationneeded] The notable exceptions to this rule were when Angel wore a Hawaiian shirt while undercover,[4] a cream pullover identical to his darker ones to make a customer more comfortable,[3] an uncharacteristic white and yellow striped dress shirt while under Jasmine's thrall and a loud Italian sports jacket[39] (although this last was only because his usual clothes were damaged by a bomb planted by the Immortal and there was nothing else available for him to wear). As planned, he went to Alasdair to borrow his magical items only to have the archmage refuse him. Vampire (Van-Tal in Pylea)Puppet demon (formerly) [107] The Senior Partners sent all of Los Angeles to a hell dimension between moments of time, turning the city into an apocalyptic battlefield full of demons. [69] Angel was also able to physically dominate The Beast, forcing the demon to its knees before finally succumbing to The Beast's strength. Before moving to Los Angeles, he was inclined to spend much of his time alone, and was never open with friends or allies, with the exception of Buffy to an extent, though he still kept quiet about his past from her, as he felt it would disgust her. [152] However, while Angel enjoyed "helping the helpless," he was also especially motivated by the prospect of redemption in the form of Shanshu. Angel must make a difficult decision regarding Buffy when a demon's blood makes him mortal once more. [87] It was complicated further by the return of an amnesiac Cordelia, who preferred to stay with Connor because he told her the truth while the others hid the truth from her. While investigating recent murders with Sophia and Lavinia's aid, Angel witnessed a newly-turned vampire walking in sunlight and displaying a greater resistance to the usual anti-vampire weapons, confirming that the restoration of magic had changed the rules for new vampires. Simply put, Angel had difficulty trusting others, and it took him a long time to feel comfortable around his companions. [citationneeded], Nadira and her fellow Slayers arrived unexpectedly, carrying with them the body of a dead Slayer. Having saved each other once more, Angel and Faith made an uneasy truce. As a frustrated Spike left the two (being the only one who actually remembered Buffy's connection to Dawn), Angel forced his attention to return to bringing Giles back. [28] Holtz then devoted himself to capturing Angelus and Darla, and chased them across Europe. [14] By the 1950s, Angel reached a point where he was compared to "Angelus without the sadism," possessing a cynical view of the world and generally uninterested in social interaction without actually wanting to kill anybody. Affiliation Angel was also established as detached from reality, and didn't find many things in his life he could look forward to. Buffy and Angel reveled in finally being able to be happy together, but Angel soon discovered that the Powers That Be had not yet offered him forgiveness as he had not sufficiently atoned. He helped out with the people, but rejected Alasdair's implication of him becoming the next balance demon. At Alasdair's, Angel and Faith regrouped their forces. [citationneeded] Jasmine once commented that Angelus was dangerous because he "[lied] with the truth," providing enough information to turn his enemies against each other while withholding crucial details. Without a soul, he commented that he failed to understand his previous concerns with the "human condition," regarding humans' only purpose as being to suffer and die. [7] He was also a convincing improvisational actor, deceiving Faith and Mayor Richard Wilkins as well as later the Circle of the Black Thorn and his own allies into believing that he had either lost his soul or gone corrupt. He was also known as the One with the Angelic Face because of his physical beauty. For a few months, he became more hardened and emotionless to the point he had fired his entire crew from Angel Investigations. Holtz took his own life in such a way that Connor was led to believe he was killed by Angel,[84] making Connor hate his father and be determined to make him pay for the suffering he had caused Holtz and others. [104], Fall of Los Angeles: Following the Fall of Los Angeles, Angel was turned human by the Senior Partners as a way to deprive him of his strength when he most needed it. Angel forces the Lorophage to feed on itself. [171], Whenever his curse took effect, it took a few moments for Angel to remember his actions,[12][27] but he soon became horrified at the memories. Ehygon attempted to overtake Angel as well, but was met with resistance by the three beings already inhabiting Angel's body. [72], After the death of Buffy's mother, Angel returned to Sunnydale to comfort Buffy, and the two spent a night discussing how life would continue after Joyce's death. He killed her first, and then murdered his mother. Buffy described as being happy and at peace in this place; feeling warm, loved, finished, and complete. [46], Angel followed Buffy to Sunnydale, where he lived in an apartment and consumed bagged human blood. Darla noticed this, angry at his deception and inability to kill innocent humans while Spike had recently killed a Slayer. One moment of true happiness, of contentment, one moment where the soul that we restored no longer plagues his thoughts, and that soul is taken from him." Enyos [src] The Ritual of Restoration was a curse to restore a vampire 's soul. He inculpated Whistler for allowing so many people to die for his cause, and for manipulating both him and Buffy in the past. "[183] Doyle attempted to offend Angel describing his forehead as "overhanging. He refused, and along with Faith, left the church. After dealing with the unfortunate effects of the aunts magical deals, Angel and Faith were suddenly visited by Willow Rosenberg. Angel was Buffy's first love; he treated her in almost a fairytale way and he knew her when she was at her highest point in life; Spike fell for Buffy at her lowest point.