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5	[[caption-width-right:350:''Atonement's a bitch.''[[note]]Left to right: [[TheSmartGirl Fred]], [[TheLancer Wesley]], [[TheLeader Angel]], [[TheHeart Cordelia]], and [[TheBigGuy Gunn]].\
6	Not pictured: [[DroppedABridgeOnHim Doyle]], [[SixthRanger Lorne]], [[EmoTeen Connor]], [[{{Transplant}} Spike]], and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Harmony]].[[/note]]]]
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9	->''"Well, I guess I kinda worked it out. If there's no great glorious end to all this, if nothing we do matters... then all that matters is what we do."''
10	-->-- '''Angel''', "Epiphany"
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12	''Angel'', a SpinOff of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', aired on Creator/TheWB Network from 1999-2004. Part melodrama, part FantasticNoir, with a helping of comedy (a given for [[Creator/JossWhedon Whedon]]), ''Angel'' ran for a respectable five years but never quite escaped the shadow of its parent show.
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14	The eponymous hero, Angel, is a troubled man who can't accept the bottom line on vampirism. (Killing people is in the job description.) A Romani curse gave Angel his soul back -- along with two centuries' worth of guilt for all the lives he's taken. On ''Buffy'', Angel learned he could make amends for said crimes and left to pursue redemption on his own. He soon cobbled together his own WestCoastTeam (albeit on the [[UsefulNotes/LosAngeles same coast]] as Buffy) and formed a detective agency to battle the forces of evil. [[EvilInc And their lawyers.]]
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16	The oddest thing about ''Angel'' is that the show changes quite a bit as the seasons move. Over the course of its run, the show experimented with MonsterOfTheWeek episodes laced with a [[CityNoir hard-boiled]], Sin City atmosphere, but later jettisoned it for something more akin to UrbanFantasy. The overarching plot became a meditation on the nature of good and evil, with Angel serving as an enigma on both sides. Characters have huge arcs that alter not just the plot but the way the story is told, and the last season is a [[{{Retool}} wild transition]] even when compared to the previous season; by the fifth year, of the original starring cast of three, only Creator/DavidBoreanaz as the title character remained. That being said, several ''Buffy'' alumni wound up migrating to ''Angel'', totaling out at four by series end. (Not counting numerous [[CrossOver crossovers]] within the '[[{{Franchise/Buffyverse}} verse]].)
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18	Though the network cancelled the show abruptly during its fifth season, Joss and Creator/MutantEnemy still had enough time to put together a SeriesFinale.
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20	''Angel'', to one degree or another, greatly influenced ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'', which could be considered its British equivalent. Just compare the page images.
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22	Angel's adventures continued in a comic named ''Angel: After The Fall,'' published by IDW. Its tropes can be found [[ComicBook/AngelIDW here]], though that page is a work in progress. Creator/DarkHorseComics currently publishes the latest continuation, an ongoing series with Faith called ''ComicBook/AngelAndFaith''.
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25	!! Like its parent show, ''Angel'' contains [[JustForFun/TropeOverdosed loads and loads of trope examples]]:
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27	[[index]]
28	* Angel/TropesAToE
29	* Angel/TropesFToJ
30	* Angel/TropesKToO
31	* Angel/TropesPToZ
32	[[/index]]
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35	->''Angel Investigations, [[{{Spoonerism}} we hope you're helpless!]]''
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