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Humans
Tina
Christina "Tina" Clarke
Portrayed By: Tracy Middendorf
Appears In: "City of..."
An actress and aspiring actress- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She's a lonely, but somewhat sunny blonde woman.
- Sacrificial Lion: She's killed in the pilot after a decent amount of prominence and development.
- Took a Level in Badass: Holds Russell at gunpoint for a while in her final scene Unfortunately, he manages to talk her down by professing innocence and playing on her insecurities.
- Waiting for a Break: She's a waitress hoping to be an actress who Angel tries to protect from another vampire.
Bryce
Magnus Bryce
Played By: Todd Susman
Appears In: "Guise Will Be Guise"
A shrewd and rich businessman ranked high among the Los Angeles elite as well as the father of Virginia Bryce.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: He achieves power through sleazy spells and sacrificing loved ones.
- It's All About Me: Virginia pleads desperately to spare her, but Magnus is unsympathetic and scolds her for making the whole Parental Betrayal so hard on him.
- Parental Betrayal: Magnus plans to feed his only daughter to the Goddess Yeska.
Gio
Gio
"As far as I can see, a monster lover ain't no better than a monster. And I kill monsters."
Played By: Khalil Kain
Appears In: "That Old Gang of Mine"
A member of Gunn's Crew after Charles Gunn left it.
- Asshole Victim: His abrupt death at the hands of one of his victims is richly disturbed.
- Berserk Button: Gio doesn't hesitate to bring up his past in Miami, but bringing up one specific Noodle Incident he's covered up makes him lose control.Lorne: Miami.Gio: Did you say something to me, green boy?Gio: Shut up.Lorne: Right up until the end, she trusted you. Did you know that?
- Blood Knight: Gio lives for the kill, taking immense pleasure out of slaughtering demons.
- Breaking Speech: He gives one to Gunn, taunting him about his failure to save his sister. He later gets served with one from Lorne, who's been able to see into his past, his inner turmoil and intentions when he mockingly sings "Wind Beneath My Wings" at Caritas.Gio: Yeah, I think he's one of them. Or maybe you just want to be. Yeah, that's more like it. I bet they won't even let you in their little club. You ain't good enough for the vamps, demons and baby-eating monsters. That's what I'm guessing. Buy them drinks, wine them and dine them, stick up for them. "Oh, yeah, that one's okay". And they still won't put you on. Ain't that a blip?Gunn: Shut up.Gio: What we heard about his sister might not be right. He was the only one there to see it. Know what I'm saying? You the one let her get vamped, right, Chuck? I wouldn't let no bloodsucker get that close to my sister. And why? Were you thinking that finally she was gonna give it up to you? Was that the plan? And that's why you let her get bit. And then when she was there, all vamped out and hungry you thought you might get that eternal kiss. And when she said, "No," that's when you stuck it to her.
- Evil Counterpart: To Gunn; both are young men fighting demons on the street, but Gio searches them out and starts fights, while Gunn was more concerned with protecting his people.
- Fantastic Racism: Toward demons.
- It's What I Do: As he himself says."I kill monsters. That's what I do."
- Jerkass: He's rude, self-righteous and deep down a coward.
- Killed Mid-Sentence: By a seemingly meek bug demon.
- Mean Boss: Right before being killed he just stands in the background lobbing insults at his own crew as their being beaten up, while making no move to intervene and ranting about how their the ones letting him down and he'll start over with someone better.
- Miles Gloriosus: He acts as if he's better than Gunn when really he sucks at his job and is an aggravating moron.
- Noodle Incident: Whatever happened in Miami had a huge effect on Gio, sending him running to Los Angeles out of guilt and shame.
- Off with His Head!: His head is ripped off and eaten by one of the demons he'd been holding hostage.
- Van Helsing Hate Crimes: Gio kills indiscriminately, murdering both evil and peaceful demons without seeing a difference.
- Smug Snake: He really thinks that he has an excuse to be cocky when he's alienating both sides of the city supernatural community.
Marcus
Marcus Roscoe
Appears In: "Carpe Noctem"
"You don't deserve that body!"
A retired salesman who was adept at forcibly exchanging bodies with young athletic men to engage in adventures.
- Catchphrase: His line with women. "Have I ever told you, you are a very beautiful woman?"
- Chekhov's Gun: Marcus has had four heart attacks; when Angel and the gang leave him in the nursing home, he's seemingly started to suffer another one.
- Dirty Old Man: The whole reason he's pulling his Grand Theft Me Body Surf is to use young, attractive bodies to pick up women.
- Evil Old Folks: He's an elderly Serial Killer by way of Grand Theft Me.
- Grand Theft Me: His whole shtick is stealing bodies.
- Hunk: Not Marcus himself, but this is the type of body he targets to take for joy rides.
- Kill and Replace: Once he realizes that Angel's body will never wear out and die, Marcus decides to keep it...by killing his old body.
- Serial Killer: Although he doesn't seek people out with the sole intention of killing; he just steals their bodies, wears them out and lets them die before moving on.
- Threeway Sex: How he's introduced...not in his original body, of course.
Seidel
Professor Oliver Seidel
Played By: Randy Oglesby
Appears In: "Supersymmetry"
A full professor of theoretical physics at the California Physics Institute.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He sets himself up as a kindly, supportive professor, but he's in reality a scheming weasel who banished Fred and several other promising students to hell dimensions out of fear they'll overshadow his own success.
- Broken Pedestal: Fred looked up to him and idolized him, and is crushed and furious to discover he banished her to Pylea as a way of Crippling the Competition.Fred: I idolized him, and he sent me to hell. Me and God knows how many others who didn't make it back. So-so sure! I'll calm down when he's dead!
- Crippling the Competition: His reason for sending Fred and other promising students to other dimensions.
- Evil Is Petty: He opens dimensions to disappear promising young students simply because he's worried they'll become more successful than him.
- Neck Snap: At Gunn's hands.
Crane
Dr. Jacob Crane
Portrayed By: Braeden Marcott
Appears In: "Unleashed"
The owner of an exclusive Los Angeles restaurant which served rare creatures, including werewolves.
- Bad Boss: When Team Angel busts into his restaurant to save Nina, they're met with Crane and his mooks. Crane openly admits to Angel that he's willing to let his men die as long as he can serve Nina to his customers.
- Exotic Entree/I'm a Humanitarian: Crane and his group of social elites consider freshly-turned werewolf to be a delicacy, regardless of the fact that werewolves are still human.
Vampires, Demons and other Supernaturals
Griff
Griff
Portrayed By: Markus Redmond
Appears In: "Rm w/a Vu"
A Kailiff demon and a feared hitman working for an unidentified loan shark.
- I Lied: He says he'll give Doyle more time, but changes his mind and returns to kill him.
- Loan Shark: He works for one and, indirectly, as one. He tries to extract money from Doyle.
- Neck Snap: How he meets his end.
Maude
Maude Pearson
Portrayed By: Beth Grant
Appears In: "Rm w/a Vu"
The owner of the Pearson Arms apartments complex in Los Angeles. The widow of William Pearson, she was the over protective mother to her son Dennis. Maude's afterlife consisted of a period of haunting the home in which she died after killing her own son, for over 50 years until Cordelia Chase took tenancy of the apartment.
- Ghastly Ghost: A scary ghostly mother who have killed three women not only in 1959, but also 1965 and 1994.
- Ghostly Goals: She wants to keep Dennis trapped with her and kill his girlfriend over and over.
Richard
Richard Straley
Portrayed By: Carlos Jacott
Appears In: "Bachelor Party"
- Affably Evil: Richard's a very genial guy. He's friendly, kinda dorky and truly loves his fiance. He's also up for eating Doyle's brains with enough Peer Pressure from his family.
Scourge
The Scourge
Portrayed By: Lee Arenberg (Tiernan) & Anthony Cistaro (Trask)
Appears In: "Hero"
- The Dragon: Trask to Tiernan.
- Fantastic Racism: They're fanatical race-purists out to kill all demonic hybrids. For extra irony points, they themselves aren't pure. It's been established that truly pure demons are large, Kaiju-esque beasts. Somewhere in the Scourge's bloodline lies some taint of humanity.
- Master Race: They consider themselves to be pureblooded demons, and therefore the Superior Species of the earth. Of course, any viewers who came to Angel after watching the parent show will immediately see this for the BS that it is. Pure demons are huge, horrifying Eldritch Abominations, not football-headed Nazi gimps.
- A Nazi by Any Other Name: They're so blatantly Nazis that it's downright hilarious.
- Rousing Speech: It's easy to see how Tiernan became the leader of the Scourge. He's a compelling public speaker.''"The other day, I was asked: Why hunt the mongrel? Doesn't its very inferiority guarantee that it poses no threat? Won't it die of its own innate, mortal stupidity? Let me tell you even the smallest of vermin need be addressed. Half-breeds. Worse. They keep cross-breeding forever diluting our precious demon blood with their weak, simpering humanity. If we allow this to happen it's like giving up the call to evil altogether. It's as good as turning human ourselves. Well, I say never! I say, we will not stop until every half-breed is erased and our purity rules this planet! We will not stop because the higher order demands it!
- We Have Reserves: Doyle describes them as such. People fight back against them all the time, but their members fully believe in their cause and are willing to die for it.Angel: Hard to fight fanatics.
Doyle: More like impossible.
Barney
Barney
Played By: Maury Sterling
Appears In: "Parting Gifts"
- Breaking Speech: Being an empath demon, he's able to seize on Cordelia's vulnerabilities with ease.
- Decoy Damsel: He pretends to be an affable Non-Action Guy whose on the run and needs help.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: He does a good job of seeming pleasent and dim.
Alonna
Alonna Gunn
Played By: Michele Kelly
Appears In: "War Zone"
The younger sister of vampire hunter Charles Gunn.
- Evil Feels Good: She tries to sell vampirism to Gunn this way."We were on the right track - just on the wrong team. All that rage and hatred we got? We get to keep all that, only on this side there is no guilt, no grief - just the hunt and the kill - and the fun! And come on, how often did we go out in the daylight anyway?"
Trepkos
Val Trepkos
Played By: Juan A Riojas
Appears In: "The Ring"
Val Trepkos was a demon originating in the "Barren Wastelands of Treshok" and a prisoner of XXI.
- Forced into Evil: He's killed twenty other demons, but only because their other gladiators who would kill him.
- Noble Demon: Literally and figuratively. He's an actual demon and a hardened killer but ultimately helps the others survive and even before that makes his kills quick and painless.
- The Stoic: He's very calm and unflappable in the face of both danger and emotional appeals.
Mellish
Mellish
Played By: Marc Rose
Appears In: "The Ring"
A humanoid demon living in Los Angeles and a prisoner at XXI.
- Doomed Fellow Prisoner: He befriends Angel and is the prisoner most willing to work alongside him but ends up sent into a death match against the most dangerous prisoner in the ring to help break Angel.
- Neck Snap: Trepkos breaks his neck after just a few seconds on the arena.
Cribb
Tom Cribb
Played By: Markus Redmond
Appears In: "The Ring"
A Lizard demon and a prisoner of XXI.
- The Bully: He throws around cruel barbs at the fellow inmates, although this is at least partially as a way of coping himself.
- Even Evil Has Standards: He does work to help the others and show some sympathy at times. He also seems to dislike vampires.
- Hellish Pupils: His eyes are just as reptilian as the rest of him.
- Multi Purpose Tongue: He has a very long tongue which he uses to steal some keys.
- Took a Level in Kindness: He is the most abrasive of Angel's fellow prisoners for most of his scenes, but does show some sympathy for the young Mellish later on and also helps save them all rather than escape himself. By the time of the Schrödinger's Canon short story "A Joyful Noise" (set early in season 3), he makes an appearance at Angel's Christmas party and tips Angel off about a cult murder spree.
Thesulac
Thesulac Demon
"What a beautiful, beautiful dance!"
Played By: Tony Amendola
Appears In: "Are You Now or Have You Ever Been"
A demon that haunted Hyperion Hotel, feeding on the insecurities and fears of its guests and staff for nearly 70 years.
- Breaking Speech: He gives a very smug (and successful) one to Angel during the 50s.Thesulac: I don't know about you...but I'm stuffed! God, I love people. Don't you? They feed me the worst, and I serve it right back. And the fear and prejudice turns to certainty and hate and I take another bite and mmm, mmm, mmm! What a beautiful, beautiful dance! You got your feelings hurt, didn't you? Stick your neck out, and they throw a rope around it. And you thought you made a friend. News flash, you had! That's what made her the yummiest morsel of all. You reached her. Restored her faith in people. Without you, she would've been just another appetizer. But you plumped her up good. Now she's a meal that's gonna last me a lifetime! Hey, you know what? There's a whole hotel here full of tortured souls who could really use your help. What do you say?Angel: [Beat] Take them all.
- Combat Tentacles: The Thesulac is mostly tentacles. His face is seen, but other than that he seems to be a mass of tentacles within a robe. He uses them as weapons, but Angel uses them right back.
- Emotion Eater: He feeds off negative emotions, specifically paranoia.
- Evil Laugh: While delivering his Breaking Speech he's chuckling away.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Angel kills him by connecting one of his Combat Tentacles to a fuse, electrocuting him from the inside out.
- Slasher Smile: When he's talking to Angel, he can't stop smiling with all his grotesque teeth.
Deevak
Jameel/Deevak
Appears In: "First Impressions"
A demon crime lord that surrounded himself with vampires and human thugs and used the cover identity of Jameel.
- Evil Sounds Deep: In his true form, he has a deep demonic voice.
- Ironic Echo: Deevak throws Gunn's earlier threat to Jameel back to him."It's survival of the fittest, bro. And right now you're not looking too fit."
- Large and in Charge: Deevak is massive, one of the largest demons seen in the series.
- Neck Lift: He does this to Gunn, complete with Ironic Echo.
- The Reveal: The stool pigeon Jameel doesn't just have information on Deevak - he is Deevak.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: Deevak is capable of changing into human form.
Bethany
Bethany Chaulk
Played By: Daisy McCrackin & Madison Eginton
Appears In: "Untouched"
A young woman with telekinetic powers. Bethany's father sexually abused her when she was younger, which caused her to develop her powers.
- Abusive Parents: She was sexually abused by her father ever since she was a little girl, and of course it's affected her deeply. She's angry, self-loathing and (according to her) sexually promiscuous because it's the only way she knows how to relate to men.
- Attempted Rape: Bethany is almost raped by two scumbags, but manages to telekinetically smash a dumpster against them, crushing them up against a wall and turning them to jelly.
- Berserk Button: Any mention of her father, particularly sending her back to him, results in Bethany freaking out. It's hard to blame her.
- Dramatic Shattering: When she sees her father again, all the glass in the floor she's on shatters.
- If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!: When Lilah sends Mr. Chaulk to see Bethany, she's faced with the choice of whether or not to kill him for abusing her for so long. She eventually makes the right choice, or at least the more traditionally moral choice by sparing him...after tossing him out a window and halting him just a few feet before a messy death.
- Hates Being Touched: Due to her abusive past.
- Parental Incest: She was a victim of this from her father, from when she was barely five years old. Mr. Chaulk is twisted enough to even see this as a loving relationship and not a vile, predatory act judging by how he shows no fear of her (initially) and seems to think that the way to bring her home is to promise it will be "just the way it was".
- Person of Mass Destruction: Her telekinesis is very impressive, and she had barely started honing it. No wonder Wolfram & Hart saw so much potential in her as a weapon.
- Traumatic Superpower Awakening: The sexual abuse she endured as a child was a catalyst for awakening her powers, and her attempted rape brings her to Angel's attention.
James
James
Played By: Ron Melendez
Appears In: "Heartthrob"
A vampire and the lover of Elisabeth.
- Bad Boss: He casually pushes one of his vampire minions into the sun.
- Despair Event Horizon: Elisabeth's death makes him suicidal.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Boy, does he! James is a romantic who completely defines himself by his relationship with his undead lover, Elisabeth.
- Implacable Man: He essentially turns into the Terminator in his pursuit of Angel.
- Nigh-Invulnerability / Power at a Price: James has his heart surgically removed, meaning he cannot be killed in the traditional ways. However, it only gives him a few hours of life.
- Outlaw Couple: With Elisabeth.
- You Have Failed Me: He kills one of his minions for running away when Elisabeth was killed.
Jenoff
Jenoff
"I don't traffic in wants. I supply needs. Things you gotta have now, or you'll die."
Played By: Patrick St. Esprit
Appears In: "Double or Nothing"
A demon ran a casino out of Los Angeles and had many individuals in his pocket, primarily from his side business in which he would procure requested items at the price of the requestor's soul. The payment was not required up-front, and the individual could live their life until either the merchandise (soul) were in jeopardy of being given to another, or if Mr. Jenoff decided it was time to collect.
- Asshole Victim: He's killed by all the casino workers he surrounds himself with, who also owe him.
- Deal with the Devil: Jenoff is the resident devil, although he's upfront about the fact.
- Eye Scream: How he removes someone's soul.
- Impaled Palm: Cordelia impales his hand to a casino table with a stake.
- Off with His Head!: After Cordelia pins him via Impaled Palm, Angel takes the opportunity to lop off his head.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: He has bright red eyes.
- Sharp-Dressed Man: Always seen in a tuxedo.
- Worthy Opponent: He compliments Angel on his guts.
Menlo
M. James Menlo
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Played By: W. Earl Brown
Appears In: "The Shroud of Rahmon"
A demon specialist in explosives with a talent to open safes. As a result, he was wanted by the police. He organized an attempt to steal the Shroud of Rahmon.
- Guns Akimbo: Menlo is one of few Angel demonic villains to use guns.
- Only in It for the Money: Whereas Vyasa vaguely claims that the Shroud belongs to "his people", Menlo just wants to sell it and get rich.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: With his entire heist team.
- Villainous Demotivator: Menlo threatens to kill anyone who tries to back out of the heist.
- Weirdness Censor: The police don't seem to notice that he's a demon, attributing his appearance to severe burns or plastic surgery.
Vyasa
Vyasa
"You're funny. When I crush your head you'll be even funnier."
Played By: Tony Todd
Appears In: "The Shroud of Rahmon"
A demon of an unknown species who took part in the heist to steal the Shroud of Rahmon.
- Ax-Crazy: Vyasa makes it abundantly clear many times that he'd just love to start killing everyone for the sheer joy of it.
- Boom, Headshot!: Menlo shoots him in the head.
- The Brute: Easily the strongest and most violent of the heist crew.
- Fantastic Racism: He refers to Angel as an "overgrown leech" and has a special distaste for humans.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Vyasa is constantly on the verge of ripping everybody apart at the slightest provocation.
- Hot-Blooded: The guy can't go a few minutes without threatening to murder someone.
- Jerkass Vyasa is impatient, bloodthirsty and racist.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: He has bright red eyes and is very dangerous.
Doug
Doug Sanders
Played By: Pat Healy
Appears In: "Disharmony"
"You owe it to yourself to be the best vampire you can be!"
A vampire and the author of Selective Slaughter.
- Off with His Head!: Angel decapitates him.
- Ponzi: He's running a vampiric pyramid scheme."One vampire turns two humans into vampires. They each turn two more humans into vampires and they turn two more into vampires and so on and so on. And all it takes for each new vampire to buy their way into our co-op is one, you heard me, *one* human - to be deposited here in our very own food bank."
- We Can Rule Together: : He succeeds in convincing Harmony, but not Angel."Why are you working with these humans, Angel? You should be maximizing you inner potential, empowering your vampire self."
Dana
Dana
"Strong. Slayer."
A young woman tormented by the abuse and torture done to her. When she becomes activated as a Slayer she suffers visions from past and current Slayers, flees the hospital she is kept at and tries to make sense of what's done to her.
- An Arm and a Leg: When she thinks Spike was who tortured her she drugs him and cuts off his hands with a bonesaw as retaliation.
- Anti-Villain: Much of her villainous traits are due to first believing Spike was who tortured her, then down to doing exactly what any Slayer would have done.
- Ax-Crazy: First the torture, then having to relive what other Slayers had gone through sends Dana off the deep end.
- Being Tortured Makes You Evil: Dana's torture is the long and short end of her psychotic behavior.
- Beware the Superman: She's the first example of the consequences of Buffy having Willow activating all Slayers worldwide; having been driven Ax-Crazy by torture, gaining the Slayer memories and reliving their lives and deaths drives her completely off the deep end.
- Call-Back: Spike already has Dana out for blood because he's a vampire. He then lets slip he killed first one then two Slayers. Even when he gets through to her that he wasn't the one who tortured her Dana seeks to kill William the Bloody as vengeance for the two slain Slayers.
- Destination Defenestration: Spike letting slip he killed the Chinese Slayer leads Dana to doing this.
- Don't Sneak Up on Me Like That!: After the torture, the visions and the realization she's hunting down the Spike Dana is freaked enough as it is. So when a store clerk surprises her she reacts by breaking his arm.
- Facial Markings: Dana had taken to putting blood on her face like war paint.
- Fighting from the Inside: Dana reveals that she thinks Spike is the one who tortured her, as well as believing she is Nikki Wood and the Chinese Slayer he killed. He eventually is able to reason that he did nothing to her, but because he did kill two Slayers that doesn't stop her.
- Girl with Psycho Weapon: She nicks a bonesaw while fleeing the hospital and we are left to guess whether she uses it in self defense, not that Dana needs it, but it's only shown used on Spike.
- Good Is Not Nice: Okay, Spike and Angel were evil. Dana doesn't care that they have a soul now, or who she has to hurt or kill to get at them. Whether Andrew and the Slayers he brought to help her have better luck is Left Hanging.
- It's the Only Way to Be Sure: Cited by Dana numerous times. "Stake the heart, cut off the head. Keep cutting until you see dust."
- It Sucks to Be the Chosen One: Having the memories of slain Slayers forced upon an already tortured mind makes it a small miracle Dana held it together as well as she had.
- Many Spirits Inside of One: Dana is already crazy because of the torture she went through. Now that she relives the previous Slayers as well she resembles a psychotic Faith.
- Messy Hair: Her unkempt curly locks.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: On the one hand Willow activating every potential Slayer brings on the likes of Kennedy and Satsu. On the other hand, Dana.
- Spike reveals to Dana he's a vampire. Then that he killed one Slayer. Then he killed another. Even a reasonably sane Dana thinks William the Bloody has to die.
- Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book: Dana painting on the walls of the hospital ward, trying to make sense of what's happened to her.
- The Ophelia: After a lifetime of torture and having centuries of horrors suddenly thrust on her Dana could hardly be anything else but a crazed, Survival Mantra spouting Slayer bent on revenge. She becomes comparatively more sane, but still considered a lost cause.
- Past-Life Memories: Dana relives what every Slayer went through, quickly twigs who Spike is, at the cost of losing her sanity and when worked up actually believing she is, say, Nikki.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: On Spike, first for what she thinks he did to her, then when convinced he wasn't responsible for his admission of killing two Slayers.
- Slasher Smile: When Spike vamps out in front of her Dana looks like a kid on Christmas, cluing him in there may have been one tiny flaw in his plan.
- Survival Mantra: "Heart and head. Don't be scared. Stab the heart, cut off the head. Keep cutting until you see dust. It's the Only Way to Be Sure."
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Because of tricky legal and copyright issues Dana is never heard from again, what with her being a Angel character and the ongoing comics being considered a continuation of Buffy.
The Smile Time Gang
Polo, Flora, Goofus & Ratio Hornblower
Apppear In: "Smile Time"
- Affably Evil: Groofus, due to Becoming the Mask. He even writes his own songs! What a guy!Groofus: So tomorrow's gonna be a pretty big show, huh?Polo: The biggest.Groofus: Cool. 'Cause I been workin' on this great new song about the difference between analogy and metaphor- [Polo throws something at him] Man!Polo: Are you out of your mind?Groofus: Well, we want it to be good, don't we?Polo: We eat babies' lives!Groofus: And uphold a certain standard of quality "edu-tainment"!
- Bad Boss: Polo doesn't treat his pals very well, accusing them at times of things they didn't do.
- Becoming the Mask: Groofus seems to have gone native, appearing more concerned with the show and a high-quality standard of edu-tainment.
- Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: They were apparently responsible for Happy Days Jumping the Shark.
- The Cassandra: Flora warns Polo that turning Angel into a puppet is going to "bite us in the ass" but is brushed aside.
- Depraved Kids' Show Host: All of them, but special mention goes to sadistic, short-tempered, hard-drinking and forever-swearing Polo.
- Dogs Are Dumb: Groofus, in a dog puppets possessed by demons are kind of dumb way.
- Eye Scream: Flora tries to do this to Gunn.Flora: Give me those pretty eyes!
- Evil Plan: They want to harvest the souls of LA's children to make themselves rich down in Hell.
- Evil Redhead: Polo.
- Fantastic Drug: The "innocence" they harvest from children.
- Faux Affably Evil: All of them to a certain extent, since they maintain the public face of lovable puppets when they're really a bunch of greedy demons.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Polo flies off the handle pretty easily.
- Jerkass: Polo, who's an aggressive asshole.
- Muppet: They're clearly more muppets than puppets.
- Off with His Head!: Groofus is decapitated by Gunn.
- Sadist: They all take twisted pleasure in torturing poor Gregor Framkin.
- Sir Swears-a-Lot: Polo, who refers to his underlings variously as, "short-bus bastards" and "dickwad".
- The Television Talks Back: They use a mystical glamor to talk directly to the children at home and steal their souls.
- The Unintelligible: Ratio Hornblower blows his horn rather than talking, although the other puppets understand him easily.
- Would Hurt a Child: They specifically target children.
- Your Soul Is Mine!: Their entire scheme revolves around stealing souls.
Novel Exclusive Humans
Adrian
Adrian Heath
Appears In: Bruja (novel)
A television producer who hires Angel, Cordelia, and Doyle to look for his missing wife, Marisa.- Non-Idle Rich: He has a $100,000,000 inheritance, but finds happiness in producing sitcoms. Although it has been several years since his last show, he is interested in restarting his career.
- Sheep in Sheep's Clothing: He acts like a Happily Married Nice Guy, but Angel and Doyle view him as a suspect who may be using them as Detective Patsies. It turns out that he really is an innocent nice guy. While a company he owns is involved in dangerous pollution (which played a role in his wife disappearing), Adrian is uninvolved in the actual management.
- Wealthy Yacht Owner: He is a multimillionaire who owns a sixty-five-foot yacht with lots of crew members and security guards.
Marisa
Marisa Heath/Maria Segura
Appears In: Bruja (novel)
The missing wife of a television producer who she met while starring in one of his shows. She is also a runaway from a poor Hispanic neighborhood, something she hides from her husband. After a string of tragedies, she summons a Vengeful Ghost, hoping it will kill her, but she cannot control the spirit.- I Cannot Self-Terminate: She summons La Llorona because she wants to die but can't work up the resolve to kill herself. Instead, La Llorona leaves her alive to act as an anchor to the mortal plane while the ghost goes on a killing spree, which naturally increases her depression, guilt, and suicidal feelings. Even when she later tries to help Angel stop La Llorona, she still wants the ghost to kill her until Angel, speaking from both personal experience and practical considerations regarding how La Llorona works, convinces Marisa to forgive herself, putting the spirit to rest.
- Mr. Smith: After she runs away from home to become an actress, she says her name is Marisa Smith and her (supposedly) late parents are named John and Mary.
- The One Who Made It Out: She comes from a particularly poor L.A. neighborhood where one of her brothers died due to gang violence, but she grew up to become an actress in a successful TV show, while also marrying a multimillionaire. She is also a Deconstructed Character Archetype of the trope, though, as getting out made her cut ties with her mother and baby son despite still loving them, and she feels immense guilt after one of the companies financing her new life is accused of indirectly causing her son's death and other people's poor health in her old neighborhood.
- Outliving One's Offspring: She suffers an unwanted miscarriage and then, a few months later, the son she abandoned eight years ago dies of an asthma attack that is (possibly incorrectly) linked to pollution from a company Adrian owns. These joint tragedies and the discovery that Adrian fathered a son with his last girlfriend before they met prompt her I Cannot Self-Terminate feelings.
- Two Aliases, One Character: Marisa and Maria are both mentioned early in the story but seem to be separate characters involved in separate subplots until the final chapters.
Vinnie
Vinnie Stefano
Appears In: Bruja (novel)
A newspaper deliveryman who witnesses one of La Llorona's killings.- Kind Hearted Simpleton: He has a developmental disorder that leaves him with the intelligence and disposition of a child. He is a considerate man who loves animals and does favors for people. La Llorona comments that she can sense how he has the soul of an innocent child. This tempts her to kill him before she decides that it isn't the same thing as killing an actual child and lets him go.
- Smarter Than They Look: Kind Hearted Simpleton or not, he understands that the beat cops at one of his delivery routes are dangerous people who do bad things to women, and he tries to warn La Llorona about them right before a Mugging the Monster scenario unfolds.
Eleadora
Eleadora Longoria
Appears In: Bruja (novel)
A teacher whose students are attacked by La Llorona.- Gut Feeling: Some indescribable but accurate instinct makes her recognize that La Llorona is dangerous from the moment she starts approaching the school. Part of it is how her unborn baby starts squirming around due to feeling the same sense of unease La Llorona inspires in most kids.
- Pregnant Badass: She is sixteen days away from her due date, but at the first sign of trouble she gets all of her students inside and away from danger, then stands between La Llorona and the kids when the ghost tries to follow and kill them.
Harry
Harold "Harry" Worthington
Appears In: Shakedown (novel)
A cemetery caretaker and target of several demons who need sacrificial victims.- Ambiguous Innocence: Harry seems like a plucky Cool Old Guy but the other potential victims of the demons are former Wolfram & Hart clients with Dark Secrets, making it possible Harry is also less benevolent than he seems.
- Crusty Caretaker: He is a suspicious cemetery groundskeeper who carries a shotgun with bullets mixed with communion bread to put down undead creatures.
- We All Die Someday: He is very keen on memorizing mortality statistics, and acknowledges they are particularly bad in his hometown, but he refuses to let these statistics govern his life choices.
Phil
Phil Baxter
Appears In: Haunted (novel)
A retired cop who once investigated Wolfram & Hart for crimes related to their long-running Evil Plan in that book. He is questioned for information by Gunn and, after a hostile first meeting, forms an Odd Friendship with him.
- The Atoner: He helps investigate the novel's mystery, initially reluctantly and then with fierce determination, out of guilt that he gave up on seeking justice for a missing woman after Wolfram & Hart threatened to ruin his career and got rid of the evidence, (and the witness) against them. Learning that Wolfram & Hart have claimed many more victims since makes him determined to stop whatever they are doing.
- Mr. Exposition: Due to having lots of friends who are still serving on the LAPD, he is able to get lots of information about old murder and abduction cases that Angel and his team couldn't find themselves.
- Retirony: A variant. He is already retired, but he declines an invitation to come out of retirement permanently and join Angel Investigations (preferring to return to his retiree hobbies) right before the climactic fight which he doesn't walk away from.
Faroe
Faroe Burke
Appears In: Image (novel)
A painter and former grafitti artist who is the target of demon attacks and lives above a gym where Gunn boxes.- Action Girl: She is a good pistol shot who fights back against demon attackers and also against a man who takes her hostage, leaving him with a broken nose.
- Reality Warper: She has the same ability to influence reality with her paintings that Gabriel Dantz from the same novel does.
- Slashed Throat: She gets cut through the neck while struggling with a man holding her at swordpoint in the climax. Unusually for the trope, she survives without any serious injuries, as the blade doesn't pierce any arteries or vocal cords.
- Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: Her father was a gambler and named her after a card game (albeit one spelled a bit differently).
Mildred
Mildred Finster
Appears In: Solitary Man (novel)
An elderly mystery buff who appears in the novel Solitary Man. She wants to be a real detective and goes to Angel and his crew to make her dream a reality.- Hyper-Competent Sidekick: Mildred is a good actress and diligent investigator who finds out a lot of important information that Angel and his team can't.
- Kind Hearted Cat Lover: She is a polite and compassionate woman who likes talking to her beloved cat.
- Little Old Lady Investigates: Mildred is a seventy-one-year-old mystery reader and bored retiree who tries to become an apprentice detective at Angel Investigations. Mildred is good at exploring clues and helps the regular cast stop an Evil Sorcerer.
- Locked Out of the Loop: Angel and his team keep her from learning about The Masquerade for most of the book.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: Mildred is a Cozy Mystery fan who wants to have adventures like the ones she reads about. Witnessing the brutality of the Occult Detective work Angel performs makes her decide to stop being a detective and stick to reading.
Mr. Atkins and Mr. Dodds
Mr. Atkins and Mr. Dodds
Two operatives of the Scholars of the Infinite, a more ruthless Renegade Splinter Faction of the Watchers. They appear in the novel Solitary Man, tracking down the Big Bad.- Badass in a Nice Suit: Their formal attire stands out wherever they go and both men are fierce, well-motivated fist-fighters and gunmen.
- False Friend: They approach a lonely civil servant at a shooting range, befriend him, and make him their informant, but are casual about shooting the guy once they think he has been compromised.
- Renegade Splinter Faction: They belong to a group that split off from the Watchers due to believing that they needed to fight evil themselves rather than rely on the Slayer. The principle is an admirable one, but they also think that more people should be Killed to Uphold the Masquerade.
- Those Two Guys: They are bantering constant companions who have different temperaments and physical traits
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: They buy into the Scholars of the Infinite philosophy that The Needs of the Many make it okay to Leave No Witnesses and kill anyone who finds out about the world of monsters. However, they are dedicated to protecting the world from psychotic monsters and sorcerers and have stopped some major threats. After they stop the Big Bad together, Angel thanks them for their help and lets them live but makes it clear how pissed off he is at them for hurting citizens of his city.
Kyle
Dr. Kyle LaMott
An L.A. plastic surgeon with a largely deominc clientele. Angel visits him for information in Solitary Man.- Back-Alley Doctor: He is a plastic surgeon who lost his license to practice medicine two years ago, but runs a clinic with a burly male nurse (whose female predecessor was scared away by a patient with tentacles) that provides surgery to otherworldly patients like vampires who need botox injections or want their fangs filed.
- Red Herring: Angel thinks that the old-looking but strong Big Bad is one of LaMott's patients who made himself look old, but the doctor has no connection to the villain, quickly convinces Angel of this, then departs the story.
Alicia
Alicia Austin
- Appears in Nemesis (novel)
- Alliterative Name: Her first and last names begin with A.
- Boom, Headshot!: She is shot through the head while waiting to meet Fred at a restaurant.
- Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie: She wants to have her ashes scattered over the ocean.
- Ms. Fanservice: Her model-like looks are described in detail and she sometimes enters and wins wet t-shirt contests for extra spending money.
David
David Arnnette
Appears In: Impressions (novel)
A photographer who starts impersonating Angel and taking clients in his stead after witnessing Angel save people in the pilot.- Freudian Excuse: He implicitly has a Friendless Background, partially because, for most of his life, one of his legs was longer than the other (he later got surgery to make them the same length). Consequently, he is deeply invested in an I Just Want to Be Badass fantasy.
- I Just Want to Be Badass: He impersonates Angel because it makes him feel powerful and important. The name commands respect and makes him confident.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: He takes a job as a bodyguard for a man who possesses a dangerous magical object from another dimension and inadvertently endangers the city when he interferes with efforts to retrieve the item.
- Redemption Equals Death: After spending the novel as a shady, selfish Identity Impersonator, the first time he does the right thing because it is the right thing, he dies. Angel describes this Heroic Sacrifice as David finally realizing what it means to be Angel.
- Sham Supernatural: He pretends to be a Friendly Neighborhood Vampire by wearing fake fangs and assuming the identity of an established vampire. He claims that an enchanted trench coat lets him be a Daywalking Vampire.
- Van Helsing Hate Crimes: In his first scene, he displays an All Crimes Are Equal attitude while chasing a demon purse snatcher and unsuccessfully tries to kill him even after the purse snatcher abandons the purse.
Novel Exclusive Supernatural Characters
Whitney
Moira O'Braonian/Whitney Tyler
Appears In: Redemption (novel)
Whitney Tyler appears in the tie-in novel Redemption as a popular actress who resembles a mysterious Irish member of the Cadre of Blood (a Creature-Hunter Organization allied with the Watchers) which Angel fought in his days as Angelus. He eventually realizes that they are the same women and she was possessed by a vengeful, Ax-Crazy banshee after the first time he fought her.- The Atoner: After the banshee is exorcised from her and she returns to normal, she feels responsible for what happened, pleads guilty to murder in court and resolves to spend her life trying to help troubled women in prison.
- The Cat Came Back: Angel breaks her arms and leaves her to drown on a sinking ship, then watches her return with no signs of injury the very next day, leading a mob of hunters after Angel, Darla, and their comrades. Darla shoots her during the fight, only for Moira to show up leading a mob of mounted pursuers. Then, after Angelus escapes from her mob, he thinks that she'll die of old age before she can find him again, which is proven wrong when they meet again two centuries later.
- Empowered Badass Normal: As a human, she is a skilled swordsman with combat powers that rival the Slayers. Then, after a banshee possesses her, she becomes impossible to kill and far more driven to kill anyone who crosses her.
The Serpentene
The Serpentene (Galvin, Maureen etc.)
Appear In: Shakedown (novel)
A tribe of wealthy serpentine demons who hide underneath artifical human skins and hire Angel to deal with attemtps to force them off their property. They claim descent from the serpent in the Garden of Eden from The Bible.- Conspicuous Consumption: Everything they own (watches, suits, dresses, cars etc.) is extremly luxurious and expensive.
- Knowledge Broker: The true source of their wealth is entering alternate dimensions to find prized possessions that people involved in things like big business and organized crime will trade for infinite amounts of profitable information about entities.
- A Lighter Shade of Black: Unlike most demons, the Serpentene never directly kill or injure humans, although they regularly extort and manipulate them for profit. They are also all very friendly to associates and initially seem like a completely benevolent race.
- Manipulative Bastard: They excel at finding things that are easily attainable in one dimension but that people will give priceless insider information for in their home dimension. They sometimes hang these informants out to dry after extracting all that they can from them. The tribe also hires Angel to defend their home from demons before eventually revealing that they've always known those demons are working with Wolfram & Hart, who want to force them off their land due to thinking there is oil underneath it. The Serpentene tribe is actually fine with moving and are just trying to manipulate Wolfram & Hart into making a bigger offer after bribing a geologist to lie about the oil. Angel isn't happy about being used but feels that their scheme is Actually Pretty Funny.
- Walking Spoiler: A lot of key information about their motives and income sources is only revealed in the final pages of Shakedown.
- Weakened by the Light: Sunlight makes them sluggish so they prefer to stay in underground condos.
Gabriel
Gabriel Dantz
Appears In: Image (novel)
An artist whom Angel knew in 1815 and is surprised to discover is still alive and being sought after for sinister purposes.- Beautiful Singing Voice: He gets a standing ovation after doing a powerful rendition of "Forever Young" at Caritas.
- Been There, Shaped History: He accidentally inspired Mary Shelley to write Frankenstein while saving her from a monster attack that she dismissed as a dream.
- MacGuffin Super-Person: He is sought after due to how his powers can be used to control reality. Furthermore, he is the living tether to letting a murderous demon he accidentally created with one of his paintings travel between dimensions (which is why she forcibly made him absorb some of her demon essence so he couldn't die of old age). He urges Angel to kill him at one point, but Angel won't accept his Heroic Sacrifice.
- Mister Seahorse: His Half-Human Hybrid son was conceived inside of his body and born out of his back.
- Reality Warper: He has a rare gift to channel magic through art and a woman he paints from his imagination comes alive.
MacKenna
Padraic MacKenna
Appears In: Stranger to the Sun (novel)
An Irish immigrant who was a New York hoodlum and Wild West outlaw before being turned into a vampire. He and his maker spent years as an Outlaw Couple before her death left him Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life, which he found working on a plan to change the rotation of the Earth so that the sun will never shine on half of the world and vampires can reign supreme.- Fighting Irish: He is an Irishman who has fought and killed scores of people even before gaining vampiric strength and reflexes.
- Only One Name: He hasn't used his first name in over a century, while his surname inspires fear in many circles.
- Visionary Villain: He has spent decades working to build a world where vampries can reign supreme over Earth, without having to hide their faces or run from the sun. When Angel calls him a delusional Generic Doomsday Villain, he points out that he does have a clear, rational endgame in mind and that, in spite of Angel's efforts, he's actually succeeding at his plan.
- We Can Rule Together: He repeatedly tells Angel to embrace his nature as a vampire and join his scheme, and is disappointed when Angel refuses.
Dyanna
Dyanna Allegra
Appears In: "Strange Bedfellows" (comic)
A vampire madame who is questioned by Angel after one of her prostitutes starts killing people.- Femme Fatale: She runs a brothel, doesn’t seem to be above doing some of the sex work herself, and flirts heavily with Angel while he is unsure about her trustworthiness.
- Miss Kitty: She runs a vampire brothel that is into blood games, but is strict about not allowing murders and will try to kill any girl who breaks that rule. She speaks encouragingly to her girls, but her lack of apparent concern (although that could be mere pragmatism) after Angel kills three of them in a Poor Communication Kills fight can make her sincerity questionable.
- Retired Monster: She has been a vampire for many, many years and tells Angel she won't pretend to be something that she's not, but in the modern age, she finds it simple and productive to take blood without killing anyone when there are so many men who see losing a little blood as just a kinky sex game.
