YMMV / Buffy the Vampire Slayer S3E1 "Anne"

• Complete Monster: The demon known as "Ken" poses as a friendly man who runs a shelter for troubled teenage runaways. In truth a slaver, Ken lures them in and takes them to his dimension where they are tortured and enslaved in backbreaking labor. Not content with this, Ken has them mentally tormented, grinding down their self-esteem and forcing them to admit they are "no one", killing any who resist. After decades of work in his dimension, Ken throws them to the streets of LA, broken and insane, to die when they cease to be of use, gloating that his realm is hell solely for the pure absence of hope those who enter it suffer.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Ken's line, "This is not a good place for a kid to be. You get old fast out here," becomes this trope in Angel when we see Cordelia becoming a Broken Bird once she moves to LA.
• Retroactive Recognition: Hey, it's Carlos Jacott! Who also played that guy on Angel! And another guy on Firefly! He managed to nab himself the rare Whedon Hat Trick, appearing on three of his shows.
• Spoiled by the Format: Angel's sudden return to life would've been a great twist if David Boreanaz hadn't appeared in the credits at the beginning. For extra irony, the credits are a character montage, so even people who didn't know the actors name still saw the character would come back.

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