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** It's more than hinted that Bethany, the telekinetic teen runaway in the second season episode "Untouched", was molested by her father.
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* WHAMEpisode: For starters, "Reunion", "Reprise", "Sleep Tight"/"Forgiving", "Home", A Hole In The World".
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* SuperSpeed: Several times in the series, Angel will be seen using his vampire speed in the form of a FlashStep
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** Gunn says the devils controlling ''Smile Time'' have [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy a very distinctive M.O]]. "You seen the last few seasons of ''HappyDays''?"
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** Gunn says the devils controlling ''Smile Time'' have [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy a very distinctive M.O]]. "You seen the last few seasons of ''HappyDays''?"''Series/HappyDays''?"
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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Angel says "[[IncrediblyLamePun Why did it have to be stakes?]]" in "Awakening" (an episode with some blatant ''IndianaJones'' homages) and when entering a nightclub in Rome mutters, "[[ICantDance Dancing. Why did it have to be dancing?]]"
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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Angel says "[[IncrediblyLamePun Why did it have to be stakes?]]" in "Awakening" (an episode with some blatant ''IndianaJones'' ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' homages) and when entering a nightclub in Rome mutters, "[[ICantDance Dancing. Why did it have to be dancing?]]"
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* [[RussianGuySuffersMost Russian Gal Suffers Most]]: Summer Glau's cursed ballerina in "Waiting in the Wings".
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* SelfDeprecation: A meta example in Fredless: Trish Burkle comments on how her husband likes "all those disgusting ''Alien'' movies... he just can't get enough of them. Except for the last one they made, I think he dozed off." Joss Whedon wrote [[Film/AlienResurrection the last movie]] in the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' series, and [[OldShame is not proud of it]].
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* SelfDeprecation: A meta example in Fredless: "Fredless": Trish Burkle comments on how her husband likes "all those disgusting ''Alien'' movies... he just can't get enough of them. Except for the last one they made, I think he dozed off." Joss Whedon wrote [[Film/AlienResurrection the last movie]] in the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' series, and [[OldShame is not proud of it]].
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** ''Smile Time''. [[spoiler:And its Japanese counterpart in the comics]].
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** In the comic continuation, Harmony inexplicably stars in her own reality show, ''Harmony Bites''.
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** ''Smile Time''. [[spoiler:And Time'', and its Japanese counterpart in the comics]].
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* SingleTear: David Boreanaz squeezes one out during his 'date rape' at the hands of Rebecca ("Eternity").
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* SelfRestraint: Faith's prison breakout in the fourth season makes it clear she could have escaped any time she wanted. Alluded to in "Five by Five" and "Sanctuary" where it becomes clear that Angel is helping Faith come round to the idea of wanting to turn herself in because the only way a human prison could ever hold a slayer would be if the slayer '''wanted'' to be held.
** As dismissive, threatening and moderately destructive as Illyria is around the office, that's her being restrained. [[spoiler: She kills everyone in about ten seconds flat when she actually decides to ''fight'' them in a possible future]].
** As dismissive, threatening and moderately destructive as Illyria is around the office, that's her being restrained. [[spoiler: She kills everyone in about ten seconds flat when she actually decides to ''fight'' them in a possible future]].
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* SelfRestraint: SelfRestraint:
** Faith's prison breakout in the fourth season makes it clear she could have escaped any time she wanted. Alluded to in "Five by Five" and "Sanctuary" where it becomes clear that Angel is helping Faith come round to the idea of wanting to turn herself in because the only way a human prison could ever hold aslayer Slayer would be if the slayer '''wanted'' Slayer ''wanted'' to be held.
** As dismissive, threatening and moderately destructive as Illyria is around the office, that's her being restrained. [[spoiler: She kills everyone in about ten seconds flat when she actually decides to ''fight'' them in a possiblefuture]].future.]]
** Faith's prison breakout in the fourth season makes it clear she could have escaped any time she wanted. Alluded to in "Five by Five" and "Sanctuary" where it becomes clear that Angel is helping Faith come round to the idea of wanting to turn herself in because the only way a human prison could ever hold a
** As dismissive, threatening and moderately destructive as Illyria is around the office, that's her being restrained. [[spoiler: She kills everyone in about ten seconds flat when she actually decides to ''fight'' them in a possible
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** When Dennis starts to misbehave, Cordelia threatens to blast the {{Madonna}} version of ''{{Evita}}'' [[LoudOfWar around the clock]].
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** Though involuntary, Fred isn't entirely excluded from this either. [[spoiler:Hey there, Illyria.]]
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* TookALevelInBadass: Wesley, multiple times. Wesley might as well be a TropeCodifier
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* TookALevelInBadass: Wesley, multiple times. Wesley might as well ''Good Lord'', Wesley. He could be a TropeCodifierthe TropeCodifier considering how he started out on ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''.
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* {{Soaperizing}}: In interviews before the show's premiere, JossWhedon said the spin-off ''Angel'' would be a "case of the week"-type show, and not a soap opera like ''Buffy''. It ended up becoming a '''bigger''' soap opera, with multiple love triangles, {{Shot Reverse Shot}}s of people standing around in rooms and rehashing [[YoyoPlotPoint old plot points]], Angel's son going from a baby to teenager and [[spoiler:sleeping with Cordelia]], etc.
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* {{Soaperizing}}: In interviews before the show's premiere, JossWhedon Creator/JossWhedon said the spin-off ''Angel'' would be a "case of the week"-type show, and not a soap opera like ''Buffy''. It ended up becoming a '''bigger''' soap opera, with multiple love triangles, {{Shot Reverse Shot}}s of people standing around in rooms and rehashing [[YoyoPlotPoint old plot points]], Angel's son going from a baby to teenager and [[spoiler:sleeping with Cordelia]], etc.
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* SunglassesAtNight: Jay-Don ("The Shroud of Rahmon"), a Las Vegas vampire who seems to be permanently stuck in the 1960s. Angel assimilates his identity and, in effect, this trope.
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* SunglassesAtNight: Jay-Don ("The Shroud of Rahmon"), a Las Vegas UsefulNotes/LasVegas vampire who seems to be permanently stuck in the 1960s. Angel assimilates his identity and, in effect, this trope.
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-->'''Cordelia''': And the [[AcademyAward Oscar]] goes to...
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* UndercoverWhenAlone: Knox acts puzzled when a large sarcophagus gets delivered to his lab. Turns out he not only knew it was coming, he ordered it, for it contained the essence of his god.
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* UndercoverWhenAlone: Knox acts puzzled when a large sarcophagus gets delivered to his lab. Turns out he not only knew it was coming, he ordered it, for it contained the essence of his god.god.
* UnholyGround: In the backstory, Wolfram & Hart de-consecrated the grounds of the Los Angeles branch office with the spilling of a serial killer's blood in the foundation. The ghost of that killer continued to haunt the offices until Angel & Co brought him back to life, after which they locked him in a sarcophagus for the rest of his eternal life.
* UnholyGround: In the backstory, Wolfram & Hart de-consecrated the grounds of the Los Angeles branch office with the spilling of a serial killer's blood in the foundation. The ghost of that killer continued to haunt the offices until Angel & Co brought him back to life, after which they locked him in a sarcophagus for the rest of his eternal life.
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* WainscotSociety: Vampires, demons, and other supernatural beings run a society of sorts in parallel to the humans on whom they prey, mostly preserving a {{Masquerade.}}
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--->[[{{Firefly}} Shiny!]]
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* SecondLove: Cordelia would be Angel's second love - Buffy, of course, being his first
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* SelfFulfillingProphecy: [[spoiler: Sahjan's action after hearing only "the son would kill Sahjan" part led him to causing Conner to be in the exact position to do just that.]]
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* ProphecyTwist: Spike turns out to be just as eligible for the Shanshu Prophecy as Angel. Or so it seems...
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* PropheticFallacy:
** In the first season finale, Wes translates a prophecy to say that Angel will die. In the end it is revealed that [[spoiler: Wes mistranslated it, and the real prophecy said that he would "live and die" (the language of the prophecy uses the same word for both); in other words, become human]]. Of course, [[spoiler: the prophecy only said "the vampire with a soul," so in the fifth season, a conflict is introduced that it could have been Spike they were talking about. At the time the prophecy was translated, Angel was not only the only vampire with a soul, but the only one that had ''ever'' existed, nobody had even considered the idea that it could refer to someone else]].
** Also the prophecy [[spoiler: "the father will kill the son"]], which drove multiple episodes in the back half of the third season, was [[spoiler:faked by the [[DirtyCoward demon Sahjhan (who, upon revealing this, taunts "read any good prophecies lately?") because the true prophecy was "the one fathered by the vampire with a soul will grow to manhood and kill Sahjhan"]]]]. When Wesley goes to one of the Loa for clarification, he is told that the vampire will certainly devour his child. [[spoiler: Angel's blood supply from the butcher had been spiked with Connor's blood by Wolfram & Hart and at the season 4 finale, Angel 'kills' Connor: he destroys Connor's true identity, giving him a fake one to save his sanity by giving him a normal family life, one that carries no memory of his real lifel]]. Also [[spoiler: Sahjan hearing only "the son would kill Sahjan" led him to causing Conner to be in [[SelfFulfillingProphecy the exact position to do just that]].]]
** In the first season finale, Wes translates a prophecy to say that Angel will die. In the end it is revealed that [[spoiler: Wes mistranslated it, and the real prophecy said that he would "live and die" (the language of the prophecy uses the same word for both); in other words, become human]]. Of course, [[spoiler: the prophecy only said "the vampire with a soul," so in the fifth season, a conflict is introduced that it could have been Spike they were talking about. At the time the prophecy was translated, Angel was not only the only vampire with a soul, but the only one that had ''ever'' existed, nobody had even considered the idea that it could refer to someone else]].
** Also the prophecy [[spoiler: "the father will kill the son"]], which drove multiple episodes in the back half of the third season, was [[spoiler:faked by the [[DirtyCoward demon Sahjhan (who, upon revealing this, taunts "read any good prophecies lately?") because the true prophecy was "the one fathered by the vampire with a soul will grow to manhood and kill Sahjhan"]]]]. When Wesley goes to one of the Loa for clarification, he is told that the vampire will certainly devour his child. [[spoiler: Angel's blood supply from the butcher had been spiked with Connor's blood by Wolfram & Hart and at the season 4 finale, Angel 'kills' Connor: he destroys Connor's true identity, giving him a fake one to save his sanity by giving him a normal family life, one that carries no memory of his real lifel]]. Also [[spoiler: Sahjan hearing only "the son would kill Sahjan" led him to causing Conner to be in [[SelfFulfillingProphecy the exact position to do just that]].]]
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* ScullyBox: In her scenes with Lindsey (Christian Kane), Lilah (Stephanie Romanov) wears high heels to accentuate her height. Kane laughingly referred to the duo as "[[RockyAndBullwinkle Boris and Natasha]]."
** Hamilton (Adam Baldwin) utterly towers over David Boreanaz in his introductory scene, rendering his feel-good personality that much more absurd. As the scene was shot in a parking garage, Baldwin simply stood on the ramped incline.
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** James Marsters is in the opening credits of the first episode of Season 5, though he doesn't turn up 'til the last scene of said episode.
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* {{Suicide By Cop}}/DrivenToSuicide: Faith's actions on ''[[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]]'' drive her to this, attempting to use suicide by vampire. [[EverybodyLives It doesn't work]].
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* {{Suicide By Cop}}/DrivenToSuicide: SuicideByCop}[=/=]DrivenToSuicide: Faith's actions on ''[[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]]'' drive her to this, attempting to use suicide by vampire. [[EverybodyLives It doesn't work]].
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* ThrowItIn: During [[spoiler: Angelus' return]] in season 4, David Boreanaz improvised a lot of his dialogue. Also during the episode "Spin The Bottle" they had to structure a comedic bit so that Angel and Wesley didn't have to look at each other because neither actor could keep a straight face.
* ThrowingTheDistraction: Inverted against the heroes in "War Zone". Gunn issues the evacuation order when vampires firebomb his base. Gunn realizes only too late that it's a distraction, and that he's just sent his little sister outdoors to get chowed down on.
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: Played straight. Angel sure is handy with a scythe. [[IncrediblyLamePun Lindsey, on the other hand...]].
* ThrowingTheDistraction: Inverted against the heroes in "War Zone". Gunn issues the evacuation order when vampires firebomb his base. Gunn realizes only too late that it's a distraction, and that he's just sent his little sister outdoors to get chowed down on.
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: Played straight. Angel sure is handy with a scythe. [[IncrediblyLamePun Lindsey, on the other hand...]].
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* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: Played straight. Angel sure is handy with a scythe. [[IncrediblyLamePun Lindsey, on the other hand...]].
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* {{Stripperific}}: Cordelia's outfit when she's made a "princess."
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** Spike suggests that a hollow tree, if it's not the entrance to the Deeper Well, could be the entrance to [[TheNightmareBeforeChristmas Christmas Land]]. Angel doesn't get it.
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** "[I]f JuliaRoberts ever makes a realistic movie about being an escort, it should be called ''[[PrettyWoman Pretty Skanky Woman]]''."
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* PinPullingTeeth: Wolfram & Harts' black ops unit tries to kill Angel, but are wiped out by VampireHunter Holtz, who ties Angel to a pillar to be tortured and murdered. Angel kicks a grenade (lying in the hand of a dead W&H mook) into the air so he can grab the pin with his teeth, then shakes his head violently to free the pin.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It's never clarified as to whether the whole Universe-going-all-whackadoo-due-to-two-vampire-champions-with-a-soul-existing thing was a legitimate calamity, or just some hoodoo that [[spoiler: Lindsey]] pulled off to put on a show. Then there's also the part where the Senior Partners were only able to stabilize the effects "temporarily". It's never mentioned again.
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* SelfDeprecation: A meta example in Fredless: Trish Burkle comments on how her husband likes "all those disgusting alien movies... he just can't get enough of them. Except for the last one they made, I think he dozed off." Joss Whedon wrote [[AlienResurrection the last movie in the Aliens series]], and [[OldShame is not proud of it]].
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* SelfDeprecation: A meta example in Fredless: Trish Burkle comments on how her husband likes "all those disgusting alien ''Alien'' movies... he just can't get enough of them. Except for the last one they made, I think he dozed off." Joss Whedon wrote [[AlienResurrection [[Film/AlienResurrection the last movie movie]] in the Aliens series]], ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' series, and [[OldShame is not proud of it]].
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* YourMagicsNoGoodHere: When the gang goes to Pylea, Angel is surprised to find out he can be under the sun without bursting into flames. Less good is that putting on his vampiric "game-face" is replaced by a [[SuperpoweredEvilSide uncontrollable berserker monster]], thus his combat potential is actually a bit lower than on Earth (unless he risks hurting innocents).
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* SongsOfSolace: Not only does Angel listen to sad music when he's depressed, his song of choice is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRIylF76-wc Barry Manilow's "Mandy"]].
** A throwaway line in the episode "Sanctuary" revealed that Angel tried to turn Faith on to the "healing power of the Manilow", and that while Manilow seriously wasn't Faith's thing, she had to admit she felt better sometimes after listening to "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRWMixC5jpQ Weekend in New England]]"
** A throwaway line in the episode "Sanctuary" revealed that Angel tried to turn Faith on to the "healing power of the Manilow", and that while Manilow seriously wasn't Faith's thing, she had to admit she felt better sometimes after listening to "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRWMixC5jpQ Weekend in New England]]"
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** And Angel would like everyone to know that he is most definitely not a eunuch.
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* PaedoHunt: Marcus from "In the Dark" is strongly hinted to be a pedophile. This is one vampire you do not want to be impervious to sunlight.
* PaintTheTownRed: Holland predicts L.A. will be reduced to this by the time Darla & Drusilla are finished.
* PalsWithJesus: All of Angel Investigations' members are reduced to Jasmine's lackeys. One by one they manage to break free; Connor, however, elects to stay chummy with She Who Walks Among Us.
* PapaWolf: Angel towards Connor. It took nearly an ''entire episode'' before anybody was allowed to even ''approach'' him. In fact, do not even ''think'' about possibly touching a hair on Connor's head — you will be a bloody pulp before you can get within a block of him.
* ParentalIncest: Heavily implied with Bethany. Wesley concludes that her father's abuse is what triggered her telekinesis.
** Not really, but Connor/Cordelia definitely comes close. Close enough to [[FanDisservice gross out a lot of fans]].
** Angel's relationship with his sire, Darla (to say nothing of Drusilla), has an air about it.
* PeoplePuppet: Gregor Framkin, the creator of "Smile Time".
* PercussivePrevention: Doyle prevents Angel from performing a HeroicSacrifice by punching his lights out, then sacrificing his own life instead.
* PerfectPoison: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] (or maybe {{Hand Wave}}d) by Dr. Meltzer injecting Angel with a paralytic intended for large animals. When used on a human, it induces heart failure. (Good thing he doesn't have one.)
* PerpetualPoverty: Running your detective business out of a moldy vintage hotel isn't as lucrative as one would think. This stops in the last season, where they get all the nigh unlimited wealth and resources of Wolfram & Hart's LA branch
* PersonaNonGrata: Buffy is subjected to this after she tries to kill Faith. In the episode that it happens she is very much treated as the villain, as Angel wants to help people reform when Buffy just wants to kill them, especially Faith, and Angel thinks Buffy is JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope.
* PerversePuppet: Polo, Groofus, and Flora in "Smile Time".
* PerpSweating: Angel's a pro. Contrary to expectation, though, he does not partake in [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique torture]]. (That's Wesley's department).
** Except for poor Merle being hung upside down and dunked in water.
** Wesley tries interrogating Angel when they're first reunited ("Parting Gifts"). Angel [[AvertedTrope casually swats away his crossbow]], leaving Wesley looking rather dejected.
* PhysicalGod: Illyria and Jasmine definitely qualify.
* [[PietaPlagiarism Pietà Plagiarism]]: TheTeaser for "Orpheus" picks up after Faith's final bout with Angelus; Wesley carries Faith's bloodied body into the Hyperion Hotel in slow motion.
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Angel claims to be a private detective/in private security. When actual detective work is required, he has at least once hired a real private detective to do it for him! He just tells people he's a detective because it's easier to explain than "I go around protecting people from hellspawn."
-->'''Kate Lockley:''' ''(holds Angel at gunpoint)'' You're telling me you're an investigator?
-->'''Angel:''' More or less.
-->'''Kate Lockley:''' Where's your license?
-->'''Angel:''' [beat] That's the "less" part.
* PivotalWakeup: Angelus pulls this move inside of Faith's mind.
* PlayAlongPrisoner: Faith. She could totally [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome somersault through that intercom glass divider]] if she wanted.
* PlayingDrunk: Angel does this in his very first scene.
* PlayingPossum: Penn does this after intentionally goading Kate to shoot him.
* PleaseKeepYourHatOn: The psychic hired by Lilah (Kal Penn) wears a fez at all times, to disguise his ''exposed brain''.
** The Vocah's mask conceals his maggot-ridden, moldering face.
* PoliceAreUseless
* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad:
-->'''Rieff:''' I thought all Brachen demons had a good sense of direction.
-->'''Doyle:''' Yeah, we're all pretty good at basketball, too.
** When Harrie calls out Richard's family for attempting to cannibalize Doyle's brain, his siblings indignantly shout "Racist!" She then calls ''them'' out on the hypocrisy of picking and choosing the 'sacred rituals' they want to keep doing and then acting pious when called on it.
** "Sense & Sensitivity" is a giant lampooning of this trope. An EmotionBomb affects Kate's co-workers so deeply that they start letting crooks go free, decrying the justice system for brutalizing the poor prisoners.
** When Lilah mistakingly uses the phrase "handshake deal" when bartering with a demon assassin, Linday quickly jumps in to emphasize that she meant ''metaphorical'' hands. ("Sanctuary")
-->'''Lilah:''' That was species-ist of me. I apologize.
** Played for laughs in "Blind Date". Gunn creates a [[WeNeedADistraction distraction]] in Wolfram & Hart's lobby by launching into a [[MalcolmXerox militant speech]].
-->"Y'all can cater to the ''demon'', cater to the ''dead man'', but '''''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis WHAT! ABOUT! THE BLACK! MAAAN?!]]'''''
** Wesley reports of saving a pair of power-walking heath nuts from a Hacklar demon, and getting socked in the face for his trouble. [[ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike By the health nuts]].
-->'''Wesley:''' Apparently she felt I disrespected the Hacklar's culture by killing it.
-->'''Cordelia:''' This town sucks.
* PoorCommunicationKills: You know, you could have just ''told'' Angel about the prophecy [[spoiler: that he would kill his son]]. {{Nice Job Breaking It|Hero}}, [[spoiler: Wesley]].
** A less arc-heavy example is the unclear nature of the visions from the Powers That Be. In the season two opener, Angel ended up killing a protector demon because neither he nor it knew the other was fighting for good.
* PopularIsDumb: Cordelia in Season One, though she eventually grows out of it. Played straight with Harmony, though.
* PossessionBurnout: In "Lonely Hearts."
* ThePowerOfActing: Although Cordelia's skill is usually BadBadActing, it does help her bluff Angelus when the chips are down. Cordelia is fairly consistently shown to be pretty good at improv acting, but horrible at following a script.
** Also, when Wesley impersonates Angel he fools a wizard/businessman/mobster and his thugs.
** Also, Angel when impersonating both Jay-Don and Herb Sanders
* PowerDegeneration: Thorn.
* PowerGlows When it's about to destroy a few city blocks via involuntarily exploding.
* PowerTattoo: Jhiera sports a black facial tattoo over her left eye.
* PowerTrio: Angel, Cordelia, and Doyle (later replaced by Wesley). Note that this only applies to Season One.
* PowerWalk: A flashback to 1900 AD shows Angel and his posse (Darla, Spike, and Drusilla) walking amidst the flames of the Chinese Boxer Rebellion.
** Joss Whedon loves these. The show (all of his shows, actually) averages at least one per season, and they usually end up featuring prominently in the opening credits.
* PowersThatBe: ''The'' Powers That Be. [[OmniscientMoralityLicense And they border on being bad guys with some of the stuff they do]].
* PrayerPose: The final episode was advertised with a full page ad of David Boreanaz as Angel in this pose.
* PreemptiveShutUp
* ProWrestlingEpisode: "The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco"
* {{Profiling}}: Gunn and the zombie police in "The Thin Dead Line".
* PromotionToOpeningTitles: Lorne and Harmony.
* ProphecyTwist: Spike turns out to be just as eligible for the Shanshu Prophecy as Angel. Or so it seems...
** The half-demon clan of "Hero" tell of a prophecy which foretold a "Chosen One" who would save them from The Scourge. The obvious assumption is it's Angel. At the episode's conclusion, though, it's [[spoiler:Doyle]] who sacrifices his life to save them all.
* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: All of the regulars (with the exception of Fred) become borderline {{AntiHero}}es once they take over Wolfram & Hart.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: You wouldn't guess it, but Lorne comes from a dimension ''full'' of these.
* PsychicAssistedSuicide: The demon-possessed Ryan 'sleepwalks' into the middle of traffic, almost getting killed before Angel tackles him out of a car's path. The demon later confesses that he would have also died had the car struck. By leaping into a body of a remorseless child, the Ethros had unwittingly [[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan trapped itself]] forever, with death as the only escape.
* PsychicLink: Vampires and their sires share these, though only when they are in close proximity. Angel goes absolutely off the rails whenever his 'family' is nearby.
** The Haxil demon of "Expecting" impregnates human women, then controls them via some sort of psychic umbilical.
* PsychicRadar: Wolfram & Hart uses psychics specifically to scan if a vampire has entered their building.
* PsychoForHire: Marcus in "In the Dark".
* PsychoRangers: Holtz's "groupies" (™ Sahjhan). They're vampire hunters, too; only in this case, they're beefing up to take out Angel's entourage: Wes, Fred, Cordelia and Gunn.
** The Jasmaniacs could be considered this, seeing as they succeeded where Angel Investigations failed: exiling all of the demons underground forever, blowing Wolfram & Hart to smithereens, and [[UpToEleven bringing about world peace]].
--->'''Connor:''' All your talk of "saving the world". Well, now somebody's [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor actually gone and done it!]]
* PunchClockVillain: Several hapless W&H employees, especially in Season 5.
* PunchAWall: In the aftermath of Faith's first duel with Angelus (which Faith lost), the next episode opens with her [[ShowerOfAngst taking a shower]] in Wesley's bathroom. Her body is battered, bruised and covered with blood. Without warning, Faith explodes into violence, repeatedly punching the shower tiles until her fists have driven through the wall. Needless to say, this is not played for {{Fanservice}}.
* PunnyName: [[HoratioHornblower Ratio Hornblower]], one of the demonic puppets of "Smile Time".
* PuppeteerParasite: Talamour, a "Burrower" demon preying on the regulars at a singles bar.
* PuppetPermutation: Happens to Angel in "Smile Time." Within the episode, he fights other, demonic puppets. It also contains the line "You're a wee little puppet man!" from Spike. May or may not be a hint that Angel is being turned into a metaphorical puppet.
** Spike and Lorne later get the same treatment in the comic ''Spike: Shadow Puppets'' when they travel to Japan where Smile Time is still popular.
* PurpleEyes: Princess Jhiera, along with the rest of the Oden Tal.
* PuttingOnTheReich: The Scourge is an army of pure-blood demons bent on the extermination of all "half-breeds". They all dress up in faux-S.S. uniforms, making this a not-so-subtle allegory; Their leader even delivers a [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Hitler-style, genocidal speech]] to an audience of mooks.
** For bonus points, from what we know of demons in general, the Scourge are about as pure-blood as Germans are Aryan.
*** Now proven [[spoiler: In the comics, the Scourge get involved with one of ''Illyria's'' former pets named Baticus, who is also an Old One. Baticus incinerates the Scourge but the same attack doesn't scratch Illyira]].
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* RagtagBunchOfMisfits
* RageAgainstTheReflection: Shortly after being re-ensouled, Darla is found lying amongst shattered glass in her apartment, having smashed all the mirrors.
** Lorne punches his own reflection after [[TheManInTheMirrorTalksBack it gets mouthy]] with him.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Creator/CharismaCarpenter became pregnant during the fourth season, which required a lot of shuffling around of the intended story.
** WrittenInInfirmity: David Boreanaz [[DirectedByCastMember directed]] "Soul Purpose", in which Angel is rendered immobile for the majority of its running time. Boreanaz suffered a severe knee injury prior to filming, which necessitated a story in which he doesn't move very much.
* RealMenGetShot: And thrown from rooftops, and stabbed in the neck with their own stakes.
* RealWomenHaveCurves: In "Double or Nothing" when Gunn is fake breaking up with Fred she asks if there's another woman, and asks her name, to which he cruely respons "Her name is 'I'm-a-real-woman-not-a-stick-figure' get the picture?
* RealityEnsues: From "Over the Rainbow" when Team Angel was facing down a whole village.
-->'''Wesley''': I think we're winning! (cut to Team Angel tied up)
* RecapByAudit: In Angel, Doyle asks Angel to snoop around his ex-wife's new fiancée, leading to an awkward scene where Angel spots the beau with a knife and tackles him through a plate-glass window. The next morning, Angel grouses that Richard belongs to a family of a harmless restauranteurs "with some pretty expensive windows."
** Marcus Hamilton reading off a list of damages caused by Angel's flunky during a rescue mission.
-->"Illyria destroyed 11 torture units before she found your man; 2 troop carriers, an ice cream truck, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking eight beautifully maintained lawns]]."
* RedHerring: "Lonely Hearts" goes out of its way to mislead viewers as to [[RedHerring which character]] the Burrower demon has {{BodySurf}}ed into. The opening half of "I've Got You Under My Skin" uses a similar trick to make Angel suspect the wrong man of being [[DemonicPossession possessed]], a demon that actually possessed a child and forced it to horrible things. [[spoiler:In the end the demon reveals that the child was born with no soul, and the demon had been the boy's prisoner while he did the horrible things]].
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Used straight and played with in a few instances. [[spoiler:Angel refused to fight Faith when she wanted to be killed, Connor was "killed" and given a new life. Played completely straight when Doyle died, elevating himself from "weasel" to hero]].
* RedemptionInTheRain: Faith's complete breakdown at the end of "Five by Five". Also, Darla staking herself in the episode "Lullaby" to allow Connor to be born.
* RedOniBlueOni: Spike is the Red Oni by being... Spike. Where as Angel is known for his brooding thus qualifying him as a Blue Oni. One could argue that this dated back to their days with Darla and Drusilla.
* ReformedButRejected: Faith's supposed reformation doesn't track with Buffy, who arrives in town with the sole purpose of killing her. Angel think she's acting like a spoiled brat, causing the former lovers to part on bad terms.
* RegularlyScheduledEvil: The undead warrior Tezcatcatl is damned to return every 50 years. In this case, however, it's a bonus; the curse grants him unlimited chances to find his talisman, which would render him invincible.
* RelationshipResetButton: "I Will Remember You" is all about this.
* RelativeButton: Holtz sets this one up for Connor.
* ResetButton: Rather frequently in the first season.
* ResidualSelfImage: Cordelia has an out-of-body experience; Skip the demon remarks that her astral appearance works like this.
-->'''Skip''': "You're a remarkably self-confident individual, you know that?"
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: Jhiera clashes with Angel over her willingness to sacrifice humans for the sake of protecting her [[LaResistance refugee operation]] on Earth.
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: The first mate on the ship ferrying the Brachen clan out of the country decides to rat them all out for money. The Scourge repay his help by testing their human-disintegrating Beacon on him.
* RevengeBeforeReason: Despite hating demons and knowing they couldn't be trusted, Holtz jumps at the chance to travel over 200 years into the future to kill Angelus and Darla despite knowing he's making a deal with a demon who isn't sharing his own motives for wanting Angel and Darla dead.
* RevengeByProxy: Holtz likes to go for the heartstrings.
* RevengeThroughCorruption: Holtz does this to Connor.
* RightBehindMe: Cordy's wild fantasies about how rich they're going to get working for Rebecca Lowell -- at the exact moment the star walks in ("Eternity").
* RippedFromThePhonebook
* RippleEffectProofMemory: Used twice with Angel: First, erasing Buffy's memories of their time together ("I Will Remember You"), and again when signing a deal with Wolfram & Hart, giving Connor a brand new family ("Home").
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Holtz takes out 378 vampires during his hunt across Europe for Angelus and Darla.
* RooftopConfrontation: Buffy's face-off with Faith on the roof of Angel's building. The throwdown gets postponed when the rifle-toting Watcher's Special Ops Team arrives in helicopters and tries to pick off both Slayers at once.
** The entire team facing off against The Beast in a sky lounge.
** Wesley and [[spoiler:Robo-Dad]] in a MexicanStandoff on Wolfram & Hart's roof.
* RoomFullOfCrazy: Lampshaded in "Somnambulist": Angel [[ShutUpHannibal deflates]] one of Penn's evil rants by accurately describing the layout of his "killer shrine" wall, right down to the news clippings and candles -- without ''ever having seen it with his own eyes''. "Oh, you are ''so'' prosaic."
** Angel's suite temporarily turns into one of these in "Darla": Wesley appears in the doorway and expresses his concern that Angel isn't exactly well. Angel, who is busily sketching Darla in various poses, brushes him off. Wesley steps inside, revealing pages upon pages of drawings blanketing the entire floor.
** While imprisoned in Pylea, Fred wrote on the walls of her cave to stay sane. It [[CloudCuckooLander didn't take]]. Once back in L.A., she immediately starts scribbling on the walls of her room in the Hyperion.
** Even after her supposed '[[BoredWithInsanity rehabilitation]]' later in the series, Fred continues to cope with trauma or stress by writing on walls. Wesley and Gunn lampshade it in the fifth season.
-->'''Wesley:''' ''(at Fred writing on the windows)'' ''That's'' never good.
-->'''Fred:''' What? Oh, no, I-- I just ran out of white board. I'm not crazy. Again.
** Wesley's office after Illyria's arrival becomes one of these due to his obsession with learning everything he can about her. Lampshaded by Lorne when Gunn mentions having gone in there.
--> "Oh, God! Don't go in there! That's where he keeps his full-strength crazy!"
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Jhiera is princess of another dimension, where she is fighting an ongoing battle to liberate the females of her species.
** Averted with Cordelia in Pylea, where her attempts of using her power for anything meaningful are met with severe demonstrations that she is but a figurehead.
* RubberForeheadAliens: Prevalent throughout the first season, though the makeup effects improved dramatically by Season Two.
* RuleOfSymbolism: The Season Five changeover to Wolfram & Hart. David Greenwalt likened it to Greenpeace taking hold of Shell Oil.
* RunningGag: "There's no such thing as leprechauns." Always spoken while dealing with the supernatural.
* RunForTheBorder: The Brachen demons in "Hero" charter a cargo ship to take them to Ecuador, where others of their kind are living peacefully.
* [[RussianGuySuffersMost Russian Gal Suffers Most]]: Summer Glau's cursed ballerina in "Waiting in the Wings".
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* SacrificialLamb
* SadisticChoice: Allow Holtz to flee to Quor'toth, or he'll [[WouldHurtAChild snap baby Connor's neck]].
* SamaritanSyndrome: Cordelia, starting in Season 2 (and arguably as early as "To Shanshu in L.A.", the first-season finale) had this ''bad''.
* SameClothesDifferentYear: Angel's wearing a black leather jacket in TheSeventies. It goes great with [[IWasQuiteAFashionVictim the striped pants, semi-unbuttoned shirt, gold necklace and gratuitously wide collars]]. ("Orpheus")
** Likewise with Spike in "Why We Fight." He becomes so taken with a Nazi captain's leather trenchcoat, [[HistoryRepeats he kills him for it]].
* SandInMyEyes: Wesley tearfully blots his eyes after officially being hired at Angel Investigations, complaining of "allergies". Invoked again at the end of "Expecting".
* SameStoryDifferentNames: In ''Buffy's'' "Becoming", the heroine had to run a sword through Angel before he opened a portal and destroyed the world. In "Inside Out", Angel raises his sword to slay a loved one before she can bring forth a demon to enslave the world. (Interestingly, he fails.)
* ScaryBlackMan: Griff, the debt collector ("Rm v/a Vu"). Technically a Scary Black Demon but you get the idea.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Wes and Cordy pose as a police detectives in order to intimidate a wealthy couple outside the XXI fight club. The man counters by dropping the name of their "boss", the police chief - and a close personal friend of his. Cordy swoops in and improvises by pretending they're about to raid the club, and are giving the rich couple an opportunity to scram. They do.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Practically all of Wolfram & Hart's clientèle.
* ScullyBox: In her scenes with Lindsey (Christian Kane), Lilah (Stephanie Romanov) wears high heels to accentuate her height. Kane laughingly referred to the duo as "[[RockyAndBullwinkle Boris and Natasha]]."
** Hamilton (Adam Baldwin) utterly towers over David Boreanaz in his introductory scene, rendering his feel-good personality that much more absurd. As the scene was shot in a parking garage, Baldwin simply stood on the ramped incline.
* SealedCastInAMultipack: Subverted; Illyria was a SealedEvilInACan, and had an army waiting for her in some kind of pocket dimension. But when she found her way to this pocket dimension, she found that the army had died while waiting in its "can," and she despaired that she was all alone, [[LastOfHisKind the last of her kind]] with no chance of reviving her army or finding any other Old Ones living on Earth.
* SecondLove: Cordelia would be Angel's second love - Buffy, of course, being his first
** Wesley would be Fred's second love - her first love having been Gunn.
* SecretCircleOfSecrets: The Circle of the Black Thorn.
-->'''Archduke Sebassis''': The Circle does not abide secrets.\\
'''Angel:''' Which is interesting for a "[[SarcasmMode secret society]]".
* SecretIngredient: Angel once drinks a cup of blood with an unusual taste. He's told "the secret ingredient is otter."
** Another time, he finds that his blood supply has been intentionally tainted with [[spoiler:his son's blood]].
* SealedEvilInACan: Oh, just about half of the villains. Drogyn's Deep Well is practically the Canned Evil aisle.
* {{Seers}}
* SelectiveCondemnation: When a villain hands out [[FateWorseThanDeath fates worse than death]], it's seen as awful. When Angel makes a guy immortal, but locked in a room, unable to move or look at something else or speak because he normally takes people to hell but got resurrected (ok, so the guy was evil in life and was only doing the hell thing to stay out of hell, but remember, he was doing it on Wolfram & Hart's property, so most people he did it to probably asked for it), it's never mentioned again.
** Plus, Willow mind wiping Tara on Buffy was supposed to be awful, but Angel removing everyone's memories of Conner only is brought up again when Wes finds out, and is quickly dropped again afterwards.
** To be fair, the terrible part about Willow's mind wipe was that it was violation of the worst kind; Willow was effectively forcing Tara to remain in a sexual relationship that Tara didn't want to continue, making her actions date rape at best. Angel, on the other hand, wanted to remove horribly traumatic memories from his friends' minds not for his benefit but for their own; wiping away Wesley's tragic betrayal, Connor's insanity, etc.
* SelfDefeatingProphecy: The visions sent to Angel's sidekicks are often of a monster killing a human, which Angel is then able to prevent.
* SelfDefenseless: Cordelia's "demon repellent". Not to be mistaken for [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial a popular brand of breath freshener]].
* SelfDeprecation: A meta example in Fredless: Trish Burkle comments on how her husband likes "all those disgusting alien movies... he just can't get enough of them. Except for the last one they made, I think he dozed off." Joss Whedon wrote [[AlienResurrection the last movie in the Aliens series]], and [[OldShame is not proud of it]].
* SelfMadeMan: One of Angel's richest clients, David Nabbit, made his millions by inventing software which allows blind people surf the internet.
* SelfRestraint: Faith's prison breakout in the fourth season makes it clear she could have escaped any time she wanted. Alluded to in "Five by Five" and "Sanctuary" where it becomes clear that Angel is helping Faith come round to the idea of wanting to turn herself in because the only way a human prison could ever hold a slayer would be if the slayer '''wanted'' to be held.
** As dismissive, threatening and moderately destructive as Illyria is around the office, that's her being restrained. [[spoiler: She kills everyone in about ten seconds flat when she actually decides to ''fight'' them in a possible future]].
* SerialKiller: Penn is nicknamed "The Pope" by the L.A. press, due to his habit of carving crosses onto the faces of his victims (a quirk he adopted from Angel).
* SequelEpisode: Billy Blim, the freed prisoner from "That Vision Thing", turns up again to bring mayhem in "Billy."
* ShadowDictator: The Senior Partners.
* ShapeShifting
* SheepInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler: Fred's parents]], in a cast full of AbusiveParents, despite their frightening whispering and how Fred runs away when she sees them... are proved to be generous and balanced people who are just very suspicious and worried for their daughter and thus, difficult to meet after five years of separation.
* ShipTease: [[BreatherEpisode "Provider"]] is ''made'' of this. Includes moments between [[TheyDo Wes and Fred]], [[OddCouple Gunn and Fred]], [[UnresolvedSexualTension Angel and Cordy]], [[AllMenArePerverts Cordy and Gunn]], and ''especially'' [[HoYay Wes and Gunn]].
* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Averted - not when the Beast is concerned, to Wesley's misfortune.
* ShowWithinAShow: Angel's client in "Eternity" is Rebecca Lowell, former star of the much-adored ''On Your Own'' which was recently "canceled by the idiot network!"
** ''Smile Time''. [[spoiler:And its Japanese counterpart in the comics]].
** ''Cordy!'' is a cheesy ''{{Friends}}''-style sitcom in an alternate timeline.
** In the comic continuation, Harmony inexplicably stars in her own reality show, ''Harmony Bites''.
* SchmuckBait: The kidnapping of Alonna. Angel warns her brother that if he tries to invade the vampires' nest, it will turn into a bloodbath. Predictably, Gunn doesn't hear him - or care.
* ShaggyDogStory: The last five seconds of "The Ring." Whoops.
* ShootTheDog: [[spoiler: Drogyn]].
* ShoutOut:
** Since Ben Edlund (of TheTick fame) was involved in the show through most of season 5, one of the characters even refers to themself as [[ShoutOut being "nigh invulnerable"]].
** Cordy's reaction to a Geiger counter that Fred and Gunn were using.
--->[[{{Firefly}} Shiny!]]
** One of the demonic ''Series/SesameStreet''-esque puppets is a [[BuffySpeak big purple animal thingy with a horn mouth]] named {{Horatio Hornblower}}
** [[Franchise/{{Alien}} Weyland-Yutani]] and [[Film/TheAdventuresOfBuckarooBanzaiAcrossThe8thDimension Yoyodyne]] are clients of Wolfram and Hart.
** [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration "Shut up, Wesley"]]
** Spike suggests that a hollow tree, if it's not the entrance to the Deeper Well, could be the entrance to [[TheNightmareBeforeChristmas Christmas Land]]. Angel doesn't get it.
** A drunk Wesley calls Illyria a [[Franchise/TheSmurfs smurf]]. She doesn't understand the reference but does realise it's an attempt to insult or disrespect her so she's offended all the same.
* It's been said that the scene with Connor saying his name is Stephen was a shout-out to or inspired by a somewhat well known made-for-TV movie called ''I Know My First Name is Stephen''
* ShutUpHannibal: The object of Dr. Meltzer's desire, Melissa Burns, delivers a stinging one when Meltzer comes for her in "I Fall To Pieces". Melissa reaffirms her refusal to be afriad, having been convinced by Angel that she has survived everything Meltzer has done to her so far. This causes Meltzer to (literally) [[VillainousBreakdown fall apart at the seams]].
** Kate tracks her father's killers to an auto repair shop, dusting one of them like a pro. Her [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge Roaring Rampage]] is interrupted by el jefe: a humongous, steroid-injected demon who lectures Kate on how she cannot comprehend the world she's entered into. Enter Angel:
-->"A big ugly drug-running demon who thinks he's a lot scarier than really he is, maybe? Yeah, she knows."
** Angelus tries to get under Cordelia's skin by ridiculing her total lack of acting ability. Cordy gets the last laugh when she bluffs Angelus into believing her thermos is full of holy water, resulting in his defeat.
-->'''Cordelia''': And the [[AcademyAward Oscar]] goes to...
* [[{{UsefulNotes/Skinheads}} Skinheads]]: The vampires in "War Zone".
* SignificantMonogram: Several Wolfram & Hart lawyers have the initials "LM," [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything much like]] [[{{Satan}} someone else]].
* SignsOfTheEndTimes: In "Apocalypse Nowish" there are birds crashing into buildings, snakes coming out of plumbing, rats everywhere, and eventually, all the phone calls they get about these things make an ancient symbol of destruction.
* SingleTear: David Boreanaz squeezes one out during his 'date rape' at the hands of Rebecca ("Eternity").
* SinisterScythe: The Vocah.
* SixthRanger: The cast rotates these out after the core five of [[TheHero Angel]], [[TheChick Cordy]], [[TheLancer Wesley]], [[TheBigGuy Gunn]], and [[TheSmartGuy Fred]] are clearly established. Some examples include Darla, Connor, Lorne, Faith, or whomever is making a cameo from [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Sunnydale]] that week.
* SkywardScream: Angel lets one loose after feeding on a murder victim during the 1970s.
* SleepCute: Angel and Cordy cuddled up with Baby Connor.
* SlipperySkid: Angel squeezes a bag of whole coffee beans to test Cordelia's theory that he can effectively grind the coffee with his "vampire strength." The bag bursts, of course, scattering coffee beans everywhere just as Cordelia and Wesley come in the door; Wesley immediately slips and falls.
* SlippingAMickey: In an effort to make Angel lose his soul and turn her into a vampire, Rebecca Lowell drugs his champagne with a bliss-inducing prescription drug.
* SlowMotionDrop: Wesley's slo-mo knife drop at the end of "Five By Five". In the next episode, Faith breaks a glass upon seeing a TV news report declaring her to be a wanted fugitive. PlayedForLaughs when Spike drops the Cup of Perpetual Torment with a stunned expression after drinking from it [[spoiler:because it contains soft drink]].
* SlutShaming: As with Series/{{Buffy|the Vampire Slayer}}, Angel has a tendency to punish sexual promiscuity. In this case, Cordelia ends up with demonic pregnancies. One client of Angel Investigations displays internalized shame with the question, "Does it surprise you? That I'm a giant slut?" after attempting to seduce Angel.
* SmithicalMarriage: Wes and Cordelia as "Mr. and Mrs. Penborne".
* SmokeShield: Jasmine, after getting zapped by a downed power line. Turns out once you've endured the Big Bang, electricity isn't a much of a hinderence.
* SmugSnake: Eve and Gavin. Also Lilah in the first couple of seasons.
* SoftGlass: Prettty much required given Angel's fondness for [[SuperWindowJump SuperWindowJumps]].
* SoHappyTogether: Gunn and Fred, and later Fred and Wesley.
* SoWasX: Followng Angel's (temporary) reversion to human, Cordy and Doyle suddenly find themselves out of work. Doyle is upbeat:
-->'''Doyle:''' I'll finally be free to go out and make me own mark on the world.
-->'''Cordelia:''' We had a cat that used to do that.
** When Holtz starts fretting about the fact that Angel has a soul, Sahjhan snarkily remarks that Atilla the Hun had one, too.
-->"Not to mention [[NotEvilJustMisunderstood a heart as big as all outdoors]] when it came to gift-giving..."
* {{Soaperizing}}: In interviews before the show's premiere, JossWhedon said the spin-off ''Angel'' would be a "case of the week"-type show, and not a soap opera like ''Buffy''. It ended up becoming a '''bigger''' soap opera, with multiple love triangles, {{Shot Reverse Shot}}s of people standing around in rooms and rehashing [[YoyoPlotPoint old plot points]], Angel's son going from a baby to teenager and [[spoiler:sleeping with Cordelia]], etc.
-->'''Fred:''' Who's Darla?\\
'''Gunn''': Angel's old flame from way back.\\
'''Fred''' Not [[{{Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer}} the one who died?]]\\
'''Gunn:''' Yeah. --No, not that one, the ''other'' one that died and came back to life. She's a vampire.\\
'''Fred''': ''(confused)'' [[MetaGuy Do y'all have a chart or somethin'?]]\\
'''Gunn''': In the files, I'll get it for you later.
** Lampshaded by Cordy herself: "''Tell me'' we're not living in a soap opera."
** Lampshaded by Gunn as well in "Players": "Listen, I spent most of this year trapped in what I can only describe as a turgid supernatural soap-opera."
* SoftspokenSadist: Marcus ("In the Dark"). He sounds like the guy who sells you Chakra stones.
* SomethingElseAlsoRises: Wesley's, erm, ''sword'' shooting out of his coat sleeve in Fred's presence ("Spin the Bottle").
* SomewhereAMammalogistIsCrying: "Through the Looking Glass". Had Wesley simply used the term "hart" or "stag" in the layman fashion (to refer to any male red deer regardless of its age), it might not have been accurate but it wouldn't have been comment-worthy. Unfortunately, he goes into detail saying a hart is "a male red deer or staggard" indicating the script-writers may have attempted to research the proper naming convention that exists for male red deer (that or they thought a "stag" and "staggard" meant the same thing). A staggard is a male red deer in its fourth year of life. A stag is a male red deer in its fifth year of life. A hart is a male red deer over five years old (i.e., in its sixth year of life). The picture itself shows a 10-point deer (5 tines on each antler) which is a "great hart" (a stag over six years old, i.e., seven years old or older with 10-16 tines). By using generalised layman terms, it all could have been handwaved as an ordinary conversation or at least the "hart" being a contraction of "great hart" where the picture itself was concerned. The attempt to be clever by referring to "staggard" simply emphasised the writers had failed to do their research.
* SoulJar: Angel's soul is imprisoned in one in the fourth season, in order to temporarily release Angelus.
** The "Ethros Box".
** Justine traps her boss' boss, Sahjan, in a jar.
* SoundOnlyDeath: When the youngest runt in XXI is pitted against Trepkos in the next match, Cribb remarks, "That's not a fight, it's an execution." Trepkos ignores Angel's imploring him not to kill the kid, instead promises to "kill him quick." Indeed, the fight has barely begun before Angel hears a telltale NeckSnap sound.
* SoundtrackDissonance: Angel's flashback to a donut shop robbery, in which he witnessed the clerk get fatally shot. Angel drinks the corpse's blood as "Mandy" plays on a jukebox.
** Fred manages to get ''one line'' into "You make me happy", a classic target for this trope, before [[spoiler:coughing up blood and collapsing]].
* SpaceWhaleAesop: Cordelia, in ''The Ring''.
-->This is why I don't gamble. You place one small bet, and then another . . . and next thing you know, albino Beetlejuice guys are knocking at your door.
* SpecialEditionTitle: After Angel loses his soul in Season Four, the promo for "Soulless" modified the usual ''Angel'' logo to spell ''Angelus''.
* SpearCounterpart: To Buffy.
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: The Conduit and The Beast. In "Habeas Corpses", the former is killed by the latter.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Sahjhan can't control Holtz as well as he'd like.
* SpikesOfDoom: Angel gets to experience the full extent of Gunn's vampire-proofing in "War Zone". Upon chasing Angel into Gunn's own building, Gunn rams the wall with his spiked truck, narrowly missing Angel's head. Disoriented, Angel stumbles over a tripwire, triggering a hurricane of arrows as well as a falling spike trap.
* SpiritedCompetitor: Trepkos, who warmly congratulates Angel on "a good fight." ("The Ring")
* SpoilerOpening: Averted. One episode features AlysonHannigan as a surprise guest star. The actor's name was removed from the opening credits to hide the surprise; instead they get top billing in the end credits. The same was done to hide Faith's first appearance.
** James Marsters is in the opening credits of the first episode of Season 5, though he doesn't turn up 'til the last scene of said episode.
** Another sort of aversion: Amy Acker's credit sequence for season five includes shots of Illyria ... but only after [[spoiler: Fred dies]].
* {{Squee}}: Cordy keeps giggling like a madwoman after being invited out shopping with TV actress Rebecca Lowell.
* StakingTheLovedOne: Gunn to his sister.
* StaringDownCthulhu: You think a ghost is going to make Cordelia leave a rent-controlled apartment? Ha!
* StarterVillain: Russell Winters, whose defeat officially puts Angel on Wolfram & Hart's radar.
* StepfordSuburbia: For defying the Senior Partners, Lindsey is incarcerated in a {{Hell}} modeled upon this.
* StepIntoTheBlindingFight: Inverted in an episode where a blind assassin can sense motion including heartbeats and breath-falls. Angel, being a vampire lacks both a pulse and the necessity to inhale or exhale, so when he stands completely still, the assassin is incapable of seeing him.
* SugarApocalypse: What happens when Angel pulls the plug on Jasmine's enchantment over Los Angeles. It's a tough argument for free will when cars are exploding around you during your speech.
* SueDonym: As a reward for rescuing their son from walking into oncoming traffic, Mrs. Anderson invites Angel in for some coffee. When probed about his name, Angel replies "Angel-- Jones. Angel Jones."
** At the hospital where Connor was brought after birth, he is officially registered as "Connor Angel," as Fred gave his father the alias "Geraldo Angel."
*** He's a pet psychiatrist with a small practice in Pacoima.
* {{Suicide By Cop}}/DrivenToSuicide: Faith's actions on ''[[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]]'' drive her to this, attempting to use suicide by vampire. [[EverybodyLives It doesn't work]].
** [[BlackHumor Kate Lockley]].
* SugarBowl: In Angel's nightmare about being usurped by Spike, the view of Los Angeles is replaced by a matte painting of pink castles and rainbows.
* SunglassesAtNight: Jay-Don ("The Shroud of Rahmon"), a Las Vegas vampire who seems to be permanently stuck in the 1960s. Angel assimilates his identity and, in effect, this trope.
* SuperDickery: In TheTeaser of "Power Play", Angel charges in to rescue a good guy who's being beaten by MalevolentMaskedMen, only to vamp out and chomp on his neck.
* SupernaturalElite: The Circle of the Black Thorn from the series finale.
* SupernaturalSoapOpera: Lampshaded by multiple characters, particularly once babies enter into the mix.
* SuperpowerMeltdown: Narrowly averted with Illyira.
* SuperSenses: Angel and Spike (along with any other vampire) have these, as does Connor.
* SuperStrength: Angel, Spike, Illyria, Doyle in Demon form, and most of their foes.
* SuperWeight:
** Type -1: Countless, nameless [[VictimOfTheWeek victims]]
** Type 0: [[OmnidisciplinaryScientist Fred]], early-series Wesley and Cordelia, Lorne, [[FemmeFatale Lilah]]
** Type 1: Gunn, later-series Wesley, [[TheHunter Holtz, Justine]], Lindsey
** Type 2: [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Angel, Spike]] and other vampires, Groo, Gwen Raiden, Connor, Sajhan
** Type 3: The Beast, Jasmine, Marcus Hamilton, [[HumanoidAbomination Illyria]]
** Type 4: The Senior Partners, ThePowersThatBe, Illyria in her true form, [[spoiler: Cordelia after Ascending]].
* SupervillainLair: In an inversion of this trope, Jasmine takes over the Hyperion Hotel, and Wolfram & Hart becomes Angel's base.
* SurpriseWitness: Angel unexpectedly drops in on a courtroom proceeding with an eyewitness in tow -- the same kid who was thought to have been intimidated by Lindsey into silence. His testimony effectively torpedoes Lindsey's murder case ("Five By Five").
* SuspectIsHatless: When interviewing witnesses to a demon assault on the subway, the best Kate can glean from them is suspect is of 'average' height, 'average' build, and 'average' weight. Well, that was helpful.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial:
-->'''Partygoer:''' "Nice sweater. Hand-knit?"
--> '''Wesley:''' Certainly not by ''me''!"
** In "Bachelor Party", Doyle is invited to a stag party for his old flame's new fiancée -- who just so happens to be a demon, too. But something is amiss...
--> '''Aunt Martha:''' Well, they're certainly not going to eat your ex-husband's brains. ''(Everyone stares)'' ...For instance.
* SwissCheeseSecurity: Wolfram & Hart.
-->'''Lilah:''' Vampire Detectors [[LampshadeHanging my ass]].
** For such a high-security building, [[MyopicArchitecture the roof]] is oddly unguarded.
* SwordFight: Between Angel and [[spoiler: Lindsey]] in the last season.
* SwordOverHead: Pressed by Gunn's oncoming gang, Angel ends up violently disarming one of his attackers and almost stabs him with his own stake. He stops when he realizes that his prey is a mere kid.
** Untwisted in the Season Four finale ("Home"). Angel finds himself raising a knife over [[spoiler:Connor]]'s neck, fulfilling Wesley's prophecy from long ago. Against all expectation, however, Angel brings the knife down with full force.
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* TabloidMelodrama: According to ''The Inquirer'', Rebecca Lowell once slept with Creator/ErnestBorgnine, and is bulimic.
-->'''Angel:''' [supportively] I hear Borgnine is a [[MemeticBadass very skilled lover]].
* TailorMadePrison: Billy Blim is imprisoned in a cube of fire.
* TakeItToTheBridge: Angel tracks the depowered Jasmine to an overpass, where she proceeds to MotiveRant as the city erupts into chaos.
* TakeThat: At [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallagher_(comedian) Gallagher]]. Cordelia comments that the comedian has changed his act more times than Penn has in two centuries of ritual killings. (Wesley seems to like him though.)
** When Dennis starts to misbehave, Cordelia threatens to blast the {{Madonna}} version of ''{{Evita}}'' [[LoudOfWar around the clock]].
** "[I]f JuliaRoberts ever makes a realistic movie about being an escort, it should be called ''[[PrettyWoman Pretty Skanky Woman]]''."
** Fred's mom mentions that her husband, Roger, can't get enough of those Ridley Scott movies with [[{{Franchise/Alien}} the slime and the teeth]].
--->"...Except for that last one they made. I think he dozed off."
*** This could be SelfDeprecation, depending on whether or not she meant ''Alien: Resurrection''.
** Gunn says the devils controlling ''Smile Time'' have [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy a very distinctive M.O]]. "You seen the last few seasons of ''HappyDays''?"
** Lorne's dislike of AndrewLloydWebber and Diane Warren. Playing the latter ''will'' result in your death.
** Angel toys with the idea of finally seeing ''[[{{Theatre/LesMiserables}} Les Mis]]'' while in England. "Trust me," Spike warns, "halfway through the first act you'll be drinking humans again."
-->'''Joss Whedon''': I'm usually not that snarky, I don't like to diss things. [[IResembleThatRemark But Les Mis went down]].
** Much eyebrow wagging at Knox's [[SissyVillain Rick Springfield screen saver]]. Interestingly, this works as GallowsHumor if one considers his plans for Fred. ("''I wish I was with Jesse's girl''")
** In the related "Spike: After The Fall", after [[spoiler: L.A. goes literally to Hell]], someone comments, 'No new movies have come out for months, the internet is down, the televisions only play that awful show about the witch sisters.'---"Charmed" is considered highly derivative of "Buffy" and "Angel", and the show followed "Angel" in reruns for at least three years.
* TakeAThirdOption: In "The Ring", Angel implores the other fighters at XXI not to cooperate in the matches. Cribb eventually releases the prisoners, who mob the entire ring and bring the club to a halt.
* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler:Doyle]] sacrfices himself in order to shut down The Scourge's beacon in order to prevent Angel from doing it.
* TapOnTheHead
* TattooedCrook: In "Five By Five", Angel mentors a street hoodlum in his own [[PerpSweating distinctive style]]. Cordelia snarkily vocalizes her doubt that "a guy with that many tattoos" can be reformed.
* TeachHimAnger: While the pair is hunting for Angelus, Wesley [[WarriorTherapist devises a number of tests]] to determine whether Faith has gotten too soft. He goads Faith with memories of how she tortured him, then mocks her apparent reformation, calling her a rabid animal who should have been put down long ago. As expected, Faith lunges for the limey's throat.
-->'''Wesley:''' There, that wasn't so hard was it? ''It's what you'll need to beat him.”
* TeamKiller: Angel attempting to smother [[spoiler:Wesley]] in his hospital bed. Before he does, Angel very calmly puts Wes' mind to rest that [[FalseReassurance this is not Angelus talking]].
* {{Technobabble}}: Fred's technobabble always comes off as kind of cute.
** Fred has made ''homicidal rage'' look cute. Technobabble is as nothing.
* TemptingFate: Cordelia and Doyle commiserate over drinks, wondering if they're out of a job now that Angel's human ("I Will Remember You"). Doyle figures that if Angel's no longer working for the PowersThatBe, that must mean he's off the hook, too. Cue another vision, causing poor Doyle's head to slam into the bar top. ..[[BecauseDestinySaysSo Guess not]].
** Before departing L.A., Buffy makes a passing laceration at Angel by comparing to her new boyfriend (Riley), whom she "knows" and "trusts" ("Sanctuary"). As we later find out on ''Buffy'', she doesn't know the ''real'' Riley very well at all.
* TenMinuteRetirement: Angel quits the hero business in Season Two (though it lasts [[InvertedTrope considerably longer]] than ten minutes), firing his team and devoting all his energies toward crushing Wolfram & Hart. Once he finds that the Senior Partners don't exist to be beaten, only fought, he comes to his senses and reunites the team.
* TerseTalker: PlayedForLaughs in "In the Dark", when the reigning kings of [[TheStoic stoicism]] greet each other.
-->'''Angel:''' ''(deadpan)'' Oz.
-->'''Oz:''' Angel.
-->'''Angel:''' Nice surprise.
-->'''Oz:''' Thanks.
-->'''Angel:''' Staying long?
-->'''Oz:''' Few days.
-->''(long pause)''
-->'''Doyle:''' ''(to Cordelia)'' ......They always like this?
-->'''Oz:''' No, we're usually laconic.
* ThanatosGambit: Holtz giving Angel a note to give to Angel's human son Connor. It explains that the two of them should be together. He also tells Angel the same thing, seemingly having finally made peace with Angel for Connor's sake. Then he has his accomplice stab him twice in the neck so it looks like Angel killed Holtz out of spite. This pretty much destroyed the relationship between Angel and his son forever, especially given the vicious cycle that resulted.
** In ''After the Fall'', [[spoiler: this is how Angel gets L.A. out of Hell]].
* ThemeInitials: A disproportionate number of Wolfram & Hart lawyers have the initials L.M - Lindsay [=McDonald=], Lilah Morgan, Lee Mercer and Linwood Morrow.
** Initially {{justified|Trope}}; Lindsay [=McDonald=]'s, Lilah Morgan's, and Lee Mercer's first appearances were all written to be the same person.
* ThereAreNoCoincidences: When Kate catches her father lingering around a crime scene, she assumes he's been [[ReluctantRetiree craving "action" and listening the police scanner at home]] again. It didn't escape Angel's notice, though; he soon learns that Trevor removed a piece of evidence from the scene.
** Invoked on a mammoth scale in Season Four, when Skip reveals the accidents that brought Team Angel together were ''no'' accidents.
* ThereAreNoTherapists: The following people did not receive therapy: Gunn, who spent much of his life on the streets fighting for his life, and had to kill his sister. Wesley, whose father was verbally abusive and used to lock him under the stairs. Fred spent five years living feral in a dimension where humans were enslaved, and came back babbling and hiding in her room for weeks. And Connor, who was brought up in a hell dimension by a fanatical vampire hunter from the 18th century who taught Connor that his father was pure evil. The one time Angel went to a guru to talk about his problems, the guy turned out to be an impostor. It might have worth tracking down a psychiatrist who catered to the supernatural, particularly for the last two.
* ThereWasADoor: Gunn isn't too receptive to the idea of a noble vampire at first. When Angel suggests an alliance, Gunn expresses his skepticism by locking him in a meat locker. Angel spends the next few minutes trying to punch his way out, only for Cordelia and Wesley to unlock the door.
* TheseHandsHaveKilled: Angel being forced to execute Baker during a cage fight. As the crowd cheers, Angel just stares at [[TheseHandsHaveKilled his blood-stained hands]] ("The Ring").
** Faith goes a little nuts after slaying a demon assassin in Angel's basement. With what she's gone through, the last thing Faith needed to see was her hand holding a bloody knife.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: After Faith drugs Angelus he is forced to relive the good acts he's done. He actually freaks out to Faith when he realizes what's coming.
* ThrowItIn: During [[spoiler: Angelus' return]] in season 4, David Boreanaz improvised a lot of his dialogue. Also during the episode "Spin The Bottle" they had to structure a comedic bit so that Angel and Wesley didn't have to look at each other because neither actor could keep a straight face.
* ThrowingTheDistraction: Inverted against the heroes in "War Zone". Gunn issues the evacuation order when vampires firebomb his base. Gunn realizes only too late that it's a distraction, and that he's just sent his little sister outdoors to get chowed down on.
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: Played straight. Angel sure is handy with a scythe. [[IncrediblyLamePun Lindsey, on the other hand...]].
* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: Cordelia in "Rm w/a Vu". Within a few hours, Angel's basement is covered wall-to-wall with Cordelia's trophies, there's peanut butter on his bed, his leather chair is ruined, and Cordelia is busily cutting up his linoleum floor to examine the hardwood.
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: In Angel's "Smile Time" episode, from one muppet to another: "I'm gonna tear you a new puppet hole, bitch!"
* ThisMeansWar: Kate Lockely in "To Shanshu in L.A". Subverted in that Kate can't quite make up her mind about this; she and Angel share quite a few "This Means War" moments in Season 2, but always manage to bury the hatchet some way or another.
** After what Angelus did to his family, the only hatchet Holtz wants to bury is the one he can plant inside Angel's head.
* ThreeWaySex: In addition to reportedly having a herculean physique, the Immortal has the stamina of a racehorse, as Darla and Drusilla can attest. (To Spike and Angel's vast annoyance.)
* ThouShaltNotKillMuggles: Further deconstructed with each passing year. So, butchering hundreds of demons is okay, but a professor who feeds his students to wormholes = the angels weep?
** Subverted by Angel leaving a whole pack of [[spoiler:Wolfram & Hart lawyers to be fed on by Darla and Dru]].
** Same goes for Jasmine's pod people. Angel dutifully reminds the viewers at home that these people are under a spell, but it comes down to us vs. them... Gun injects, "Believe me, I'm ''there''."
** An interesting footnote to Season Five: Nina winds up deeply disturbed by the lives she took while a werewolf, regardless of how depraved those people were. Angel? He's cool with it. This highlights the differences between them, as well the gradual darkening of Angel's team.
* ToCreateAPlaygroundForEvil: Seemingly the Beast's motivation for blocking out the sun.
* ToHellAndBack: All of L.A. in ''After the Fall''.
* TomesOfProphecyAndFate: The Shanshu Prophecy.
* TooHappyToLive: A textbook example with [[spoiler: Wesley and Fred]], who get to spend approximately ten minutes of one episode as a happy couple after seasons of WillTheyOrWontThey before [[spoiler: Fred is slowly and painfully killed so her body can host Illyria]].
* TookALevelInBadass: Wesley, multiple times. Wesley might as well be a TropeCodifier
** Lilah too. It's easy to forget in the later seasons that she was a largely ineffective SmugSnake for the first two and half years of the show, ultimately getting a promotion only because Lindsey turned it down. It's only from season 3 on that she emerges as a genuinely dangerous and capable figure.
** Gunn as well [[spoiler:via a mental upgrade]] became the go to guy in court. Able to speak multiple demon languages and knowledgable in Demon diplomacy, while still able to take multiple vampires hand to hand. Cordelia from cheerleader to Katana wielding Seer and Fred from crazy Survivor slave to flame thrower wielding bad ass scientist. Angel Investigations, you didn't need to be a {{badass}} to work there, but it helped.
* TookALevelInKindness: When Faith first appeared on the show she thought if she did enough damage [[DrivenToSuicide she'd get someone to kill her]]. When she failed to get even [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge Buffy]] to [[MercyKill put her out of her misery]] Faith goes to prison for murder, where she could have easily broken out but chose to stay to get her head together. When we next see her she's a much calmer, civil chosen one, even going as far as to send Conner home rather than have him try and kill Angelus.
* TortureAlwaysWorks
* TortureTechnician: Marcus the vampire is alleged to have "invented some of the classics", but he's closed-mouthed about which. ("In the Dark")
** Faith has a cute system for separating torture into five groups (àla the Food Pyramid), which Wesley gets to experience firsthand ("Five By Five").
** Angelus was pretty handy with torture devices in his day. By and large, Angel gave that habit up. In "Forgiving", though, he comes very close to torturing a captive Linwood with [[{{Macgyvering}} stuff he finds lying around the office]]. (This is a special case, as Angel is desperate to recover his son.)
* ToServeMan: All part of a balanced breakfast for Jasmine. Gunn lampshades this word-for-word.
* TouchedByVorlons: Happens twice to Cordelia.
* TradeSnark: As Wesley is reading aloud from the owner's manual for Cordy's new security system, he actually recites the "TM" at the end.
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The themesong montages have a habit of spoiling that someone will be promoted to main cast, most notably Spike in the season 5 opener when he doesn't appear until the end of the episode.
** The british dvds have a habit of doing this to go with the general TheyJustDidntCare presentation. The Making of Smile Time was [[WhatAnIdiot on the disk just before Smile Time]].
* {{Transplant}}: Cordelia originally. Later to be followed by Wesley, whose arc had concluded in ''Buffy'' Season 3. Spike, who 'died' in that show's finale, promptly reappeared on ''Angel'' in its final season. (Can't keep a good [[BreakoutCharacter Fonzie]] down!)
* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: "Untouched": Bethany, the girl with telekenesis, had it awakened when she was abused physically and sexually by her father. It also flared up when someone threatened her in an alley early in the ep.
* TrashTheSet: Angel's Season 1 office gets [[StuffBlowingUp dynamited]], Caritas in season 3 and the Wolfram & Hart offices in seasons 4 ''and'' 5.
* TrueLoveIsBoring: Outright stated in regards to Fred and Gunn. Possibly the case for Angel himself.
* TryNotToDie: Illyria to Gunn in the final episode.
* TryingToCatchMeFightingDirty: After tracking the Mohra demon to a salt refinery silo, a (now-human) Angel tosses salt in the demon's eyes while Buffy goes for the kill. Justified in that Angel didn't have his typical vampire strength and combat ability to rely on.
* TwerpSweating: Angel giving the third degree to Pierce, a day trader and Cordelia's date ("Bachelor Party").
** Cordy refuses to bring her next date to meet Angel, convinced he'll act like a forbidding father. But she didn't count on Phantom Dennis! When Cordy brings Wilson over to her apartment, Dennis [[MomentKiller kills the mood]] by slamming the front door, brightening the lights she dims, and adjusting the radio dial to blast jaunty polka ("Expecting").
** A flashback to the 18th century shows Darla introducing her beau (Angelus) to the Master. Darla tries impressing him with her boyfriend's killing record, but Angelus doesn't warm to his new father-in-law ("Darla").
* TwoGuysAndAGirl: The original dynamic, with Wesley taking Doyle's place mid-season.
* TwoRoadsBeforeYou: Lindsey undergoes a crisis of conscience when asked to facilitate the deaths of three children. (Hey, [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Lawyers Have Standards]].) In the end, he is faced with a choice of either taking Holland's bribe, or walking out the door. Lindsey winds up [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic shutting the doors in front of him]].
** During the S2 Darla arc, Angel tries to redeem Darla out of a misplaced sense of filial loyalty. Eventually, even Lorne warns Angel that he's about to jump the track.
** Angel is offered a choice between preventing Darla and Drusilla from killing a roomful of Wolfram & Hart employees, or simply walking away. [[spoiler:Angel decides the lawyers made their own bed and leaves them]].
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* UltimateEvil: The Wolf, Ram and Hart (AKA the "Senior Partners").
* UndercoverWhenAlone: Knox acts puzzled when a large sarcophagus gets delivered to his lab. Turns out he not only knew it was coming, he ordered it, for it contained the essence of his god.
* UnpredictableResults: A giant egg that apparently ''might do anything'', but... turned Angel into a puppet?
* UnresolvedSexualTension: Between Cordelia and Doyle. Though they did come ''close'' to resolving it. ([[StupidJetpackHitler Stupid demon Nazis]].)
** And later Angel/Cordelia and Wesley/Fred. [[spoiler: Bothwomen [[YankTheDogsChain die at the point of resolution]]]].
* UnstuckInTime: Illyria in "Time Bomb."
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Ryan Anderson's reaction to Angel shoving him out of the path of a speeding car. Noticing the bloody scrape on Angel's shoulder, Ryan, who seems completely unfazed by his brush with death, asks Angel if he's going to cry. This is an early sign that this kid belongs in a padded room.
* UnwittingPawn: Pretty much everyone as far as Jasmine's concerned.
** Angel inadvertently beats up a few [[KnightTemplar Knight Templars]] in "That Vision Thing".
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* VaderBreath: Cyvus Vail.
* VaguenessIsComing: The Beast's arrival in season 4 of Angel is foreseen in vague implications of blood, and fire from the sky, and all that good stuff.
** In Season Five, Lindsey reveals that Wolfram & Hart are laying the groundwork for the upcoming apocalypse by, um...not telling anyone about it.
* VampireDetectiveSeries
* VampireHunter: Both good and evil varieties.
* VanHelsingHateCrimes: Most prominently seen in "The Old Gang of Mine", in which Gunn's old vampire-hunting crew begins hunting anything non-human.
* VillainousDemotivator: The head vampire in "War Zone", Knox, claps his buddy Ty on the shoulder and says its not his fault for getting ambushed by Gunn's crew. Right before he stakes him.
* VirginSacrifice: Magnus Bryce has this in mind for his daughter, Virginia. It didn't work because [[spoiler:he didn't watch her closely enough--she'd lost her "purity" a ''long'' time ago]].
** Connor crosses his MoralEventHorizon when he agrees to slaughter a female virgin, furthering Evil Cordy's goals.
* VivaLasVegas: "The House Always Wins" from Season 4, filmed on location in Sin City.
* VoiceChangeling: The Ethros demon possessing Ryan displays this ability. It taunts Wesley in a voice identical to his own, reminding him of his unceremonious sacking from the Watcher's Council; then it strikes out at Angel by channeling Doyle's voice, playing on Angel's guilt. And also makes him [[UnstoppableRage angry]].
* VolleyingInsults:
-->'''Spike''': Never much for small talk, were you? Always too busy trying to perfect that "brooding block of wood" mystique. God, I ''love'' that.
-->'''Angel''': Not as much as I loved your non-stop yammering.
-->'''Spike:''' The way you always had to be the big swingy, swaggerin' around, barkin' orders--
-->'''Angel:''' Never listening.
-->'''Spike:''' Always ''interrupting''.
-->'''Angel:''' And your hair, what color do they call that? "Radioactive"?
-->'''Spike:''' Never much cared for you, Liam, even when we were evil.
-->'''Angel:''' Cared for ''you'' less.
-->'''Spike:''' Fine!
-->'''Angel:''' Good!
-->''(long pause)''
-->'''Angel:''' There was ''one'' thing about you.
-->'''Spike:''' Really?
-->'''Angel:''' Yeah, I never told anybody about this, but I liked your poems.
-->'''Spike:''' ''You'' [[DamnedByFaintPraise like Barry Manilow!]]
* VomitDiscretionShot: During the acid trippy sequence of "Spin the Bottle", the camera cuts to Fred, who is petting a potted fern with fascination. Right before she vomits off to the side.
** Following the rooftop showdown in "Lineage", Wesley expresses shock at shooting [[spoiler:his father]] by shambling over to a nearby air conditioning unit. This is followed by the sound of him retching.
*** Connor conveniently makes it out to the sidewalk and behind a wall before spewing his guts in ''Soulless''.
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* WaifProphet
* WalkInChimeIn: When Angel warns his buddies about how Buffy would react if she found out he'd been stalking her in Sunnydale, Buffy pops into his office to finish his thought. "A little upset." [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Oh boy]].
** Happens quite a lot in Season 4, when the main arc requires the cast to reunite and spout exposition quickly.
** Pretty much a RunningGag with Angel throughout the series.
* WallOfWeapons: Angel's basement in Season 1. After he joins agrees to run Wolfram & Hart, Angel's office comes furnished with one.
* WasOnceAMan: The end of season five episode, ''Damage''; after Dana the insane slayer has been carted off, Angel and Spike have a sombre discussion in the latter's hospital room about the nature of evil:
-->'''Spike:''' The tingling in my forearms tells me she's too far gone to help. She's one of us now. She's a monster.
-->'''Angel:''' She's an innocent victim.
-->'''Spike:''' [[WasOnceAMan So were we, once upon a time]].
-->'''Angel:''' Once upon a time.
* WatchingTheSunset: Angel allows himself to watch one last sunset before smashing his {{Ring of Power}}.
* WatchingTroyBurn: Heroes and villains alike look on with fear as The Beast rains fire on Los Angeles.
* WaxingLyrical: Cordelia wonders aloud why anyone in their right mind would try dating in L.A. You'll just end up being stalked by a surgeon with anatomic limbs or impregnated with demon spawn.
-->'''Doyle:''' People ''need'' people. And people...who need people...[[BarbraStreisand are the luckiest peo--]] ''(Cordy glares, Doyle shuts up)''
** A CallBack to this line occurs in "The Magic Bullet", via Connor of all people. Cue incredulous stares from everyone in the room.
-->'''Lorne:''' You been sneakin' peeks at my Streisand collection again, kiddo?
-->'''Connor:''' ''(defensively)'' It just kinda popped out.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:Doyle]], who at least got to go [[HeroicSacrifice heroically]].
* WeHelpTheHelpless: Angel's agency slogan.
** Originally, it was "We help the hopeless", which let Doyle have the hilarious fumble on picking up the phone: "Angel Investigations, we hope you're helpless..."
** A list of FanFiction spoofs on the line [[http://www.trinitylast.com/thedge/quotes3.htm can be found on this page]].
** And on ''[[Series/BuffytheVampireSlayer Buffy]]'', when Spike (and everyone) loses his memory, he thinks that "Maybe I'm a ''good'' vampire...I help the helpless...[[HilariousInHindsight on a path of redemption...I'm a vampire with a soul]]!" (which Buffy, of course, immediately waves aside as being ridiculous and "lame")
* WeUsedToBeFriends:
--> '''Wesley''': I have no idea where Angel is, Lilah, or what happened to him. And I really couldn't care.
--> '''Lilah''': Wow. That was cold. I think we're finally making progress. Come on. Doesn't it bother you just a little bit? The not knowing?
--> '''Wesley''': That part of my life is dead. Doesn't concern me now.
* WeakenedByTheLight: The "Beacon" is a weapon which emits a light deadly to humans and demi-humans alike. The Scourge intend to use to annihilate every half-breed demon within a quarter-mile radius.
* WelcomeToMyWorld: Darla's first words to Angel following his 'rebirth' as a vamp.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Trevor Lockley was always cold to Kate, having shut down all emotion following his wife's death. Despite this, Kate is deeply distraught at the murder of her father. In response to Trevor's death, she begins to hate all paranormal creatures (especially vampires) and turns openly-hostile towards Angel.
** "The Prodigal" is interspersed with flashbacks to Angel's upbringing in Ireland, revealing a not-dissimilar relationship with his own father.
** Roger Wyndam-Pryce manages to wear down his son's spirit every time he opens his mouth.
* WHAMEpisode: For starters, "Reunion", "Reprise", "Sleep Tight"/"Forgiving", "Home", A Hole In The World".
* WhamLine: "[[IronicEcho And yet somehow]], [[OhCrap I just can't seem to care]]."
** After trying his best to find out the secrets of the Senior Partners, and finally trying to invade their home dimension in HeroicSacrifice, Angel finds out their homeworld from Holland Mathers: [[HellOnEarth "Welcome to the home office."]]
* WhammyBid: Played with: The item for sale: Cordelia's visions, or more specifically, her eyeballs. To stall for time, Cordelia incites a bidding war by claiming to be able to see the locations of buried treasure. This escalates until one of the two highest bidders [[EvilIsPetty kills the other one]]. Finally, a female attorney for Wolfram & Hart closes the auction with a ridiculous low WhammyBid of $30,000.
* WhatTheHellHero: The rest of Angel Investigations calls Angel out after he [[spoiler:lets Darla and Drusilla massacre a lot of Wolfram and Hart lawyers]].
* WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys: Have fun waiting around for an explanation, because there isn't one. Angel ditches most of his cool accessories in the second season, though a few random ones still pop up now and again.
** Gunn's original street crew included one guy who's armed with a [[FireBreathingWeapon flamethrower]]. Where did they ''get'' that?
** Wesley's collapsible wrist-swords came from an ArmsDealer who specialized in esoteric weaponry (seen in "Lineage"). Presumably Angel ordered from the same guy.
* WhiteVoidRoom: The Conduit room.
* WhoShotJFK: A conspiracy theorist is informed by Jasmine that there was no second gunman.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever
* WholeEpisodeFlashback: The heroes relocate to the defunct Hyperion Hotel in "[[{{Recap/AngelS02E02AreYouNowOrHaveYourEverBeen}} Are You Now or Have You Ever Been]]". In the process, they must uproot a demon who held some connection to Angel in TheFifties.
** Darla's [[{{Recap/AngelS02E07Darla}} eponymous episode]] shows her rise from syphilis-stricken prostitute to big-league vampire.
** And in "Why We Fight", Angel and Spike punch some Nazis.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Angel says "[[IncrediblyLamePun Why did it have to be stakes?]]" in "Awakening" (an episode with some blatant ''IndianaJones'' homages) and when entering a nightclub in Rome mutters, "[[ICantDance Dancing. Why did it have to be dancing?]]"
* WhyWeCantHaveNiceThings: Harmony is not to be trusted with ancient books.
* WickedCultured: Most of the high-class baddies on this series are fond of classical music -- even [[SouthernFriedGenius Lindsey]]. In their first scene together, he and Darla shoot the breeze about Frédéric Chopin.
** Marcus the vampire plays a BrokenRecord of Mozart's ''Symphony #41'' to interrogate Angel.
* WifeBasherBasher: The ColdOpen for "In the Dark" follows Angel saving a woman from her drug addict boyfriend, who Angel proceeds to pound unconscious. Ouch.
* WilhelmScream: Heard at the beginning of "The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco", when the {{redshirt}} is tossed into the air.
* WillfullyWeak: It's established that Angel is stronger in GameFace, and that he sometimes holds back rather than scare off the people he's trying to save. Occasionally, a character will punch him repeatedly in order to make him vamp out. This happened once with Buffy (in "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E21GraduationDayPart1}} Graduation Day]]"), and again with adult Connor.
** "Guise Will Be Guise" hints at Angel's inner fear. In a stick-fighting match with a hermit, Angel repeatedly gets beatenback while his opponent asks him why he's holding back. "Because if I let it, ''it'll kill you''."
** The Season Two finale puts Angel on Pylea, an alternate dimension where his GameFace manifests as a crazed, spiked monster. He accidentally switches over while trying to protect Fred, and doesn't revert back until he [[RageAgainstTheReflection catches his reflection]] in a pool of water. The sight of it traumatizes Angel so much that he has a nervous breakdown, and refuses to fight anyone else.
** Doyle has much the same problem: He's ashamed of his demon half and will even allow himself to be beaten to a pulp rather than transform. This despite Doyle being practically invulnerable in demon form.
* WireFu: One of the things that made the fights in this show more distinct from ''Buffy''
* WithAFriendAndAStranger: Initially, with Angel and Cordelia as "friends", and Doyle as the stranger.
* WithDueRespect: At Wolfram & Hart, no one dares contradict a senior manager. Except [[DeepSouth Lindsey]].
* WithOrWithoutYou
-->'''Wesley Wyndam-Pryce''': I thought you'd like to know that we're keeping the agency open. With or without you.
* [[WolfMan Wolf Chick]]: Nina Ash.
* WomanInBlack: Jhiera in "She".
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Connor by the end of Season 4.
* WorfHadTheFlu: Faith's big fight with Angelus in season four. Angel finally wins a fight with a Slayer... who's previously injured and high on magic heroin.
** Wins? Try lost. As Faith said, "Kicked his ass."
** Somewhat brilliantly applied in-universe by Hamilton. [[spoiler: Hamilton completely avoids Illyria until she (partly at Hamilton's instruction) gets zapped with a depowering weapon. He then mocks and unloads on a extremely depressed, Crash Bandicoot-playing "big scary Old One" and chalks it up. Notable here because the ''last'' time Illyria was around, she was at least two tiers higher in power, was presumably feeling a hell of a lot better, and would have eaten the Senior Partners themselves]].
* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: The entire point of "You're Welcome."
* WouldHitAGirl: Angel decks Buffy in the face in an effort to keep her from running upstairs to kill Faith. ("Sanctuary")
-->'''Angel:''' Not to go all schoolyard on you, but [[NoYou you hit me first]]. And in case you've forgotten you're a little bit ''stronger'' than I am.
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* YouCantFightFate: Both played straight as a key point of the MythArc, and subverted when a baddie makes up a fake prophecy to screw with Angel.
** Sahjhan learns it the hard way, despite his relentless [[TheChessmaster chessmastering]].
* YankTheDogsChain: The happier Angel is, the worse things are going to turn out.
* YearInsideHourOutside: After coming back from the Oracle's realm, Doyle assumes the incantation never worked as Angel only appeared gone for a moment.
* YouAreInCommandNow: Lawson is briefly put in charge of a captured German submarine following the murder of his captain by Spike. Once aboard, Angel assumes control of the sub thanks to the command codes provided for him by the U.S. military.
* YouHaveNoIdeaWhoYoureDealingWith: A skinhead vampire gets in Angel's face for proposing a truce between his pack and Gunn's street gang. Without so much as blinking, Angel [[OffhandBackhand jams a stake through him]] ("I wasn't actually talking to you.") and proceeds with the rest of his speech.
* YouAreTooLate: Invoked in the very first episode, for cripes' sake.
** The same thing happens to Angel again in "The Prodigal": Realizing Kate's father is in danger, Angel rushes over to his apartment, but is unable to convince Trevor to invite him in. Angel is then forced to watch as Trevor is killed by his vampire associates, who were invited inside a mere minute earlier.
** The good guys seem to be constantly running late in Season Four. Angel and co. fail to catch The Beast before he blots out the sun, prevent the deaths of the Ra-Tet (one of whom is massacred right under their noses), or stop Cordelia from birthing Jasmine. In the case of the latter, Angel makes it in time to stop Cordelia and raises his sword to kill her, but hesitates for a crucial moment.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: In the end, Holtz was engaging in actions that were the reason he hated Angelus and Darla in the first place.
* YouCanKeepHer: Jack [=McNamara=] steps a bit too close to the red line in "The Ring", giving Angel an opportunity to grab him without disintegrating. When Jack's brother (Darin) shows up, Angel demands to be set free or he'll break Jack's neck. Darin casually pulls a gun and shoots his brother, and Angel is knocked out by a barrage of [[StunGuns cattle prods]].
* YouKilledMyFather: Adopted father in this case, but Holtz kills himself to deliberately set Connor against Angel because of this reasoning.
* YouKnowImBlackRight: Cordelia calls up Willow (from ''Buffy'') to inquire about Harmony's weird behavior... before learning that Harmony's been turned into a vampire during her absence. Along with some [[SuddenlySexuality other developments]].
-->'''Cordelia:''' ''(on the phone)'' Oh! Harmony's a vampire! All this time I thought she'd become a great big lesbo! ''(beat)'' Oh. Really? ...well, that's great! Good for you!
-->'''Willow:''' [[SarcasmMode Thanks for the validation]].
* YouLookFamiliar: Harriet Doyle's rebound boyfriend, Richard Straley, is played by Carlos Jacott. He previously played Ken, another (seemingly) milquetoast villain on Season 3 of ''Buffy'' ("Anne") and would later appear in the first two episodes of ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' as Lawrence Dobson.
** The guy who played Knox previously played Holden in ''Buffy'' ("Conversations With Dead People") and Kal Penn played an obnoxious college student in "Beer Bad" before appearing in ''Angel'' as a guy with an exposed brain.
** The "Mustard" guy (executive producer David Fury) from "Once More With Feeling" reappears on "Smile Time" as the human puppet.
** Weatherby, of the Watchers' Council's Special Ops members, later played a similarly ruthless agent as one of the "Hands of Blue" in ''Firefly''.
* YouNeedToGetLaid
* YouRemindMeOfX: Penn selects his victims based on their physical resemblance to his family members. Like Angel says, he's "been getting back at (his) father for over 200 years."
** Holland delivers this spiel to Lindsey in "Blind Date", implying that he once had an IgnoredEpiphany of his own.
** Faith's journey is an obvious parallel to Angel's, even moreso when she becomes TheAtoner. Angel's rehabilitation of her is a CallBack to his earlier (thwarted) attempt to do so in the third season of ''Buffy''.
* YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo: Wesley's reaction to the Watcher Council's Ops Team after they go back on their word to protect Angel from harm. Ha ha....no. ("Sanctuary")
* YouWillBeAssimilated: Despite his non-threatening appearance, Barney is an auctioneer of stolen body parts from demons and other empowered beings.
* YouTasteDelicious: Lorne, after he's obliged to swill down some of Sebassis' favorite beverage.
* YourHeadAsplode: Illyria dispatches Cyvus Vail in this manner.
* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: This is the gist of Season Four. By episode 16, Angel and co. have bested Wolfram & Hart, the demon hordes, the Beast, ''and'' Angelus, and it's looking like the job is finally sewn up. -- O hai [[HiddenVillain Preggo Cordy]].
** As Angel later learns, the heroes didn't really accomplish anything. Jasmine was busy snuffing out every supervillain in L.A., because she wants to be the only game in town.
* YourVampiresSuck: Angel's irate reaction to anyone who mentions coffins.
** After Angel confesses to being a vampire, Rebecca reacts in true Hollywood fashion: by listing off famous actors who have played vampires (Creator/BelaLugosi and Creator/GaryOldman). Angel remarks under his breath that "Frank Langella was the only performance I ''believed''..."
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* ZombieApocalypse: In the fourth season, Wolfram & Hart becomes a ZombieApocalypse in a single building: Security Voodoo to hit anyone after a major attack.
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* PaedoHunt: Marcus from "In the Dark" is strongly hinted to be a pedophile. This is one vampire you do not want to be impervious to sunlight.
* PaintTheTownRed: Holland predicts L.A. will be reduced to this by the time Darla & Drusilla are finished.
* PalsWithJesus: All of Angel Investigations' members are reduced to Jasmine's lackeys. One by one they manage to break free; Connor, however, elects to stay chummy with She Who Walks Among Us.
* PapaWolf: Angel towards Connor. It took nearly an ''entire episode'' before anybody was allowed to even ''approach'' him. In fact, do not even ''think'' about possibly touching a hair on Connor's head — you will be a bloody pulp before you can get within a block of him.
* ParentalIncest: Heavily implied with Bethany. Wesley concludes that her father's abuse is what triggered her telekinesis.
** Not really, but Connor/Cordelia definitely comes close. Close enough to [[FanDisservice gross out a lot of fans]].
** Angel's relationship with his sire, Darla (to say nothing of Drusilla), has an air about it.
* PeoplePuppet: Gregor Framkin, the creator of "Smile Time".
* PercussivePrevention: Doyle prevents Angel from performing a HeroicSacrifice by punching his lights out, then sacrificing his own life instead.
* PerfectPoison: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] (or maybe {{Hand Wave}}d) by Dr. Meltzer injecting Angel with a paralytic intended for large animals. When used on a human, it induces heart failure. (Good thing he doesn't have one.)
* PerpetualPoverty: Running your detective business out of a moldy vintage hotel isn't as lucrative as one would think. This stops in the last season, where they get all the nigh unlimited wealth and resources of Wolfram & Hart's LA branch
* PersonaNonGrata: Buffy is subjected to this after she tries to kill Faith. In the episode that it happens she is very much treated as the villain, as Angel wants to help people reform when Buffy just wants to kill them, especially Faith, and Angel thinks Buffy is JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope.
* PerversePuppet: Polo, Groofus, and Flora in "Smile Time".
* PerpSweating: Angel's a pro. Contrary to expectation, though, he does not partake in [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique torture]]. (That's Wesley's department).
** Except for poor Merle being hung upside down and dunked in water.
** Wesley tries interrogating Angel when they're first reunited ("Parting Gifts"). Angel [[AvertedTrope casually swats away his crossbow]], leaving Wesley looking rather dejected.
* PhysicalGod: Illyria and Jasmine definitely qualify.
* [[PietaPlagiarism Pietà Plagiarism]]: TheTeaser for "Orpheus" picks up after Faith's final bout with Angelus; Wesley carries Faith's bloodied body into the Hyperion Hotel in slow motion.
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Angel claims to be a private detective/in private security. When actual detective work is required, he has at least once hired a real private detective to do it for him! He just tells people he's a detective because it's easier to explain than "I go around protecting people from hellspawn."
-->'''Kate Lockley:''' ''(holds Angel at gunpoint)'' You're telling me you're an investigator?
-->'''Angel:''' More or less.
-->'''Kate Lockley:''' Where's your license?
-->'''Angel:''' [beat] That's the "less" part.
* PivotalWakeup: Angelus pulls this move inside of Faith's mind.
* PlayAlongPrisoner: Faith. She could totally [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome somersault through that intercom glass divider]] if she wanted.
* PlayingDrunk: Angel does this in his very first scene.
* PlayingPossum: Penn does this after intentionally goading Kate to shoot him.
* PleaseKeepYourHatOn: The psychic hired by Lilah (Kal Penn) wears a fez at all times, to disguise his ''exposed brain''.
** The Vocah's mask conceals his maggot-ridden, moldering face.
* PoliceAreUseless
* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad:
-->'''Rieff:''' I thought all Brachen demons had a good sense of direction.
-->'''Doyle:''' Yeah, we're all pretty good at basketball, too.
** When Harrie calls out Richard's family for attempting to cannibalize Doyle's brain, his siblings indignantly shout "Racist!" She then calls ''them'' out on the hypocrisy of picking and choosing the 'sacred rituals' they want to keep doing and then acting pious when called on it.
** "Sense & Sensitivity" is a giant lampooning of this trope. An EmotionBomb affects Kate's co-workers so deeply that they start letting crooks go free, decrying the justice system for brutalizing the poor prisoners.
** When Lilah mistakingly uses the phrase "handshake deal" when bartering with a demon assassin, Linday quickly jumps in to emphasize that she meant ''metaphorical'' hands. ("Sanctuary")
-->'''Lilah:''' That was species-ist of me. I apologize.
** Played for laughs in "Blind Date". Gunn creates a [[WeNeedADistraction distraction]] in Wolfram & Hart's lobby by launching into a [[MalcolmXerox militant speech]].
-->"Y'all can cater to the ''demon'', cater to the ''dead man'', but '''''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis WHAT! ABOUT! THE BLACK! MAAAN?!]]'''''
** Wesley reports of saving a pair of power-walking heath nuts from a Hacklar demon, and getting socked in the face for his trouble. [[ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike By the health nuts]].
-->'''Wesley:''' Apparently she felt I disrespected the Hacklar's culture by killing it.
-->'''Cordelia:''' This town sucks.
* PoorCommunicationKills: You know, you could have just ''told'' Angel about the prophecy [[spoiler: that he would kill his son]]. {{Nice Job Breaking It|Hero}}, [[spoiler: Wesley]].
** A less arc-heavy example is the unclear nature of the visions from the Powers That Be. In the season two opener, Angel ended up killing a protector demon because neither he nor it knew the other was fighting for good.
* PopularIsDumb: Cordelia in Season One, though she eventually grows out of it. Played straight with Harmony, though.
* PossessionBurnout: In "Lonely Hearts."
* ThePowerOfActing: Although Cordelia's skill is usually BadBadActing, it does help her bluff Angelus when the chips are down. Cordelia is fairly consistently shown to be pretty good at improv acting, but horrible at following a script.
** Also, when Wesley impersonates Angel he fools a wizard/businessman/mobster and his thugs.
** Also, Angel when impersonating both Jay-Don and Herb Sanders
* PowerDegeneration: Thorn.
* PowerGlows When it's about to destroy a few city blocks via involuntarily exploding.
* PowerTattoo: Jhiera sports a black facial tattoo over her left eye.
* PowerTrio: Angel, Cordelia, and Doyle (later replaced by Wesley). Note that this only applies to Season One.
* PowerWalk: A flashback to 1900 AD shows Angel and his posse (Darla, Spike, and Drusilla) walking amidst the flames of the Chinese Boxer Rebellion.
** Joss Whedon loves these. The show (all of his shows, actually) averages at least one per season, and they usually end up featuring prominently in the opening credits.
* PowersThatBe: ''The'' Powers That Be. [[OmniscientMoralityLicense And they border on being bad guys with some of the stuff they do]].
* PrayerPose: The final episode was advertised with a full page ad of David Boreanaz as Angel in this pose.
* PreemptiveShutUp
* ProWrestlingEpisode: "The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco"
* {{Profiling}}: Gunn and the zombie police in "The Thin Dead Line".
* PromotionToOpeningTitles: Lorne and Harmony.
* ProphecyTwist: Spike turns out to be just as eligible for the Shanshu Prophecy as Angel. Or so it seems...
** The half-demon clan of "Hero" tell of a prophecy which foretold a "Chosen One" who would save them from The Scourge. The obvious assumption is it's Angel. At the episode's conclusion, though, it's [[spoiler:Doyle]] who sacrifices his life to save them all.
* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: All of the regulars (with the exception of Fred) become borderline {{AntiHero}}es once they take over Wolfram & Hart.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: You wouldn't guess it, but Lorne comes from a dimension ''full'' of these.
* PsychicAssistedSuicide: The demon-possessed Ryan 'sleepwalks' into the middle of traffic, almost getting killed before Angel tackles him out of a car's path. The demon later confesses that he would have also died had the car struck. By leaping into a body of a remorseless child, the Ethros had unwittingly [[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan trapped itself]] forever, with death as the only escape.
* PsychicLink: Vampires and their sires share these, though only when they are in close proximity. Angel goes absolutely off the rails whenever his 'family' is nearby.
** The Haxil demon of "Expecting" impregnates human women, then controls them via some sort of psychic umbilical.
* PsychicRadar: Wolfram & Hart uses psychics specifically to scan if a vampire has entered their building.
* PsychoForHire: Marcus in "In the Dark".
* PsychoRangers: Holtz's "groupies" (™ Sahjhan). They're vampire hunters, too; only in this case, they're beefing up to take out Angel's entourage: Wes, Fred, Cordelia and Gunn.
** The Jasmaniacs could be considered this, seeing as they succeeded where Angel Investigations failed: exiling all of the demons underground forever, blowing Wolfram & Hart to smithereens, and [[UpToEleven bringing about world peace]].
--->'''Connor:''' All your talk of "saving the world". Well, now somebody's [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor actually gone and done it!]]
* PunchClockVillain: Several hapless W&H employees, especially in Season 5.
* PunchAWall: In the aftermath of Faith's first duel with Angelus (which Faith lost), the next episode opens with her [[ShowerOfAngst taking a shower]] in Wesley's bathroom. Her body is battered, bruised and covered with blood. Without warning, Faith explodes into violence, repeatedly punching the shower tiles until her fists have driven through the wall. Needless to say, this is not played for {{Fanservice}}.
* PunnyName: [[HoratioHornblower Ratio Hornblower]], one of the demonic puppets of "Smile Time".
* PuppeteerParasite: Talamour, a "Burrower" demon preying on the regulars at a singles bar.
* PuppetPermutation: Happens to Angel in "Smile Time." Within the episode, he fights other, demonic puppets. It also contains the line "You're a wee little puppet man!" from Spike. May or may not be a hint that Angel is being turned into a metaphorical puppet.
** Spike and Lorne later get the same treatment in the comic ''Spike: Shadow Puppets'' when they travel to Japan where Smile Time is still popular.
* PurpleEyes: Princess Jhiera, along with the rest of the Oden Tal.
* PuttingOnTheReich: The Scourge is an army of pure-blood demons bent on the extermination of all "half-breeds". They all dress up in faux-S.S. uniforms, making this a not-so-subtle allegory; Their leader even delivers a [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Hitler-style, genocidal speech]] to an audience of mooks.
** For bonus points, from what we know of demons in general, the Scourge are about as pure-blood as Germans are Aryan.
*** Now proven [[spoiler: In the comics, the Scourge get involved with one of ''Illyria's'' former pets named Baticus, who is also an Old One. Baticus incinerates the Scourge but the same attack doesn't scratch Illyira]].
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* RagtagBunchOfMisfits
* RageAgainstTheReflection: Shortly after being re-ensouled, Darla is found lying amongst shattered glass in her apartment, having smashed all the mirrors.
** Lorne punches his own reflection after [[TheManInTheMirrorTalksBack it gets mouthy]] with him.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Creator/CharismaCarpenter became pregnant during the fourth season, which required a lot of shuffling around of the intended story.
** WrittenInInfirmity: David Boreanaz [[DirectedByCastMember directed]] "Soul Purpose", in which Angel is rendered immobile for the majority of its running time. Boreanaz suffered a severe knee injury prior to filming, which necessitated a story in which he doesn't move very much.
* RealMenGetShot: And thrown from rooftops, and stabbed in the neck with their own stakes.
* RealWomenHaveCurves: In "Double or Nothing" when Gunn is fake breaking up with Fred she asks if there's another woman, and asks her name, to which he cruely respons "Her name is 'I'm-a-real-woman-not-a-stick-figure' get the picture?
* RealityEnsues: From "Over the Rainbow" when Team Angel was facing down a whole village.
-->'''Wesley''': I think we're winning! (cut to Team Angel tied up)
* RecapByAudit: In Angel, Doyle asks Angel to snoop around his ex-wife's new fiancée, leading to an awkward scene where Angel spots the beau with a knife and tackles him through a plate-glass window. The next morning, Angel grouses that Richard belongs to a family of a harmless restauranteurs "with some pretty expensive windows."
** Marcus Hamilton reading off a list of damages caused by Angel's flunky during a rescue mission.
-->"Illyria destroyed 11 torture units before she found your man; 2 troop carriers, an ice cream truck, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking eight beautifully maintained lawns]]."
* RedHerring: "Lonely Hearts" goes out of its way to mislead viewers as to [[RedHerring which character]] the Burrower demon has {{BodySurf}}ed into. The opening half of "I've Got You Under My Skin" uses a similar trick to make Angel suspect the wrong man of being [[DemonicPossession possessed]], a demon that actually possessed a child and forced it to horrible things. [[spoiler:In the end the demon reveals that the child was born with no soul, and the demon had been the boy's prisoner while he did the horrible things]].
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Used straight and played with in a few instances. [[spoiler:Angel refused to fight Faith when she wanted to be killed, Connor was "killed" and given a new life. Played completely straight when Doyle died, elevating himself from "weasel" to hero]].
* RedemptionInTheRain: Faith's complete breakdown at the end of "Five by Five". Also, Darla staking herself in the episode "Lullaby" to allow Connor to be born.
* RedOniBlueOni: Spike is the Red Oni by being... Spike. Where as Angel is known for his brooding thus qualifying him as a Blue Oni. One could argue that this dated back to their days with Darla and Drusilla.
* ReformedButRejected: Faith's supposed reformation doesn't track with Buffy, who arrives in town with the sole purpose of killing her. Angel think she's acting like a spoiled brat, causing the former lovers to part on bad terms.
* RegularlyScheduledEvil: The undead warrior Tezcatcatl is damned to return every 50 years. In this case, however, it's a bonus; the curse grants him unlimited chances to find his talisman, which would render him invincible.
* RelationshipResetButton: "I Will Remember You" is all about this.
* RelativeButton: Holtz sets this one up for Connor.
* ResetButton: Rather frequently in the first season.
* ResidualSelfImage: Cordelia has an out-of-body experience; Skip the demon remarks that her astral appearance works like this.
-->'''Skip''': "You're a remarkably self-confident individual, you know that?"
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: Jhiera clashes with Angel over her willingness to sacrifice humans for the sake of protecting her [[LaResistance refugee operation]] on Earth.
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: The first mate on the ship ferrying the Brachen clan out of the country decides to rat them all out for money. The Scourge repay his help by testing their human-disintegrating Beacon on him.
* RevengeBeforeReason: Despite hating demons and knowing they couldn't be trusted, Holtz jumps at the chance to travel over 200 years into the future to kill Angelus and Darla despite knowing he's making a deal with a demon who isn't sharing his own motives for wanting Angel and Darla dead.
* RevengeByProxy: Holtz likes to go for the heartstrings.
* RevengeThroughCorruption: Holtz does this to Connor.
* RightBehindMe: Cordy's wild fantasies about how rich they're going to get working for Rebecca Lowell -- at the exact moment the star walks in ("Eternity").
* RippedFromThePhonebook
* RippleEffectProofMemory: Used twice with Angel: First, erasing Buffy's memories of their time together ("I Will Remember You"), and again when signing a deal with Wolfram & Hart, giving Connor a brand new family ("Home").
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Holtz takes out 378 vampires during his hunt across Europe for Angelus and Darla.
* RooftopConfrontation: Buffy's face-off with Faith on the roof of Angel's building. The throwdown gets postponed when the rifle-toting Watcher's Special Ops Team arrives in helicopters and tries to pick off both Slayers at once.
** The entire team facing off against The Beast in a sky lounge.
** Wesley and [[spoiler:Robo-Dad]] in a MexicanStandoff on Wolfram & Hart's roof.
* RoomFullOfCrazy: Lampshaded in "Somnambulist": Angel [[ShutUpHannibal deflates]] one of Penn's evil rants by accurately describing the layout of his "killer shrine" wall, right down to the news clippings and candles -- without ''ever having seen it with his own eyes''. "Oh, you are ''so'' prosaic."
** Angel's suite temporarily turns into one of these in "Darla": Wesley appears in the doorway and expresses his concern that Angel isn't exactly well. Angel, who is busily sketching Darla in various poses, brushes him off. Wesley steps inside, revealing pages upon pages of drawings blanketing the entire floor.
** While imprisoned in Pylea, Fred wrote on the walls of her cave to stay sane. It [[CloudCuckooLander didn't take]]. Once back in L.A., she immediately starts scribbling on the walls of her room in the Hyperion.
** Even after her supposed '[[BoredWithInsanity rehabilitation]]' later in the series, Fred continues to cope with trauma or stress by writing on walls. Wesley and Gunn lampshade it in the fifth season.
-->'''Wesley:''' ''(at Fred writing on the windows)'' ''That's'' never good.
-->'''Fred:''' What? Oh, no, I-- I just ran out of white board. I'm not crazy. Again.
** Wesley's office after Illyria's arrival becomes one of these due to his obsession with learning everything he can about her. Lampshaded by Lorne when Gunn mentions having gone in there.
--> "Oh, God! Don't go in there! That's where he keeps his full-strength crazy!"
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Jhiera is princess of another dimension, where she is fighting an ongoing battle to liberate the females of her species.
** Averted with Cordelia in Pylea, where her attempts of using her power for anything meaningful are met with severe demonstrations that she is but a figurehead.
* RubberForeheadAliens: Prevalent throughout the first season, though the makeup effects improved dramatically by Season Two.
* RuleOfSymbolism: The Season Five changeover to Wolfram & Hart. David Greenwalt likened it to Greenpeace taking hold of Shell Oil.
* RunningGag: "There's no such thing as leprechauns." Always spoken while dealing with the supernatural.
* RunForTheBorder: The Brachen demons in "Hero" charter a cargo ship to take them to Ecuador, where others of their kind are living peacefully.
* [[RussianGuySuffersMost Russian Gal Suffers Most]]: Summer Glau's cursed ballerina in "Waiting in the Wings".
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* SacrificialLamb
* SadisticChoice: Allow Holtz to flee to Quor'toth, or he'll [[WouldHurtAChild snap baby Connor's neck]].
* SamaritanSyndrome: Cordelia, starting in Season 2 (and arguably as early as "To Shanshu in L.A.", the first-season finale) had this ''bad''.
* SameClothesDifferentYear: Angel's wearing a black leather jacket in TheSeventies. It goes great with [[IWasQuiteAFashionVictim the striped pants, semi-unbuttoned shirt, gold necklace and gratuitously wide collars]]. ("Orpheus")
** Likewise with Spike in "Why We Fight." He becomes so taken with a Nazi captain's leather trenchcoat, [[HistoryRepeats he kills him for it]].
* SandInMyEyes: Wesley tearfully blots his eyes after officially being hired at Angel Investigations, complaining of "allergies". Invoked again at the end of "Expecting".
* SameStoryDifferentNames: In ''Buffy's'' "Becoming", the heroine had to run a sword through Angel before he opened a portal and destroyed the world. In "Inside Out", Angel raises his sword to slay a loved one before she can bring forth a demon to enslave the world. (Interestingly, he fails.)
* ScaryBlackMan: Griff, the debt collector ("Rm v/a Vu"). Technically a Scary Black Demon but you get the idea.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Wes and Cordy pose as a police detectives in order to intimidate a wealthy couple outside the XXI fight club. The man counters by dropping the name of their "boss", the police chief - and a close personal friend of his. Cordy swoops in and improvises by pretending they're about to raid the club, and are giving the rich couple an opportunity to scram. They do.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Practically all of Wolfram & Hart's clientèle.
* ScullyBox: In her scenes with Lindsey (Christian Kane), Lilah (Stephanie Romanov) wears high heels to accentuate her height. Kane laughingly referred to the duo as "[[RockyAndBullwinkle Boris and Natasha]]."
** Hamilton (Adam Baldwin) utterly towers over David Boreanaz in his introductory scene, rendering his feel-good personality that much more absurd. As the scene was shot in a parking garage, Baldwin simply stood on the ramped incline.
* SealedCastInAMultipack: Subverted; Illyria was a SealedEvilInACan, and had an army waiting for her in some kind of pocket dimension. But when she found her way to this pocket dimension, she found that the army had died while waiting in its "can," and she despaired that she was all alone, [[LastOfHisKind the last of her kind]] with no chance of reviving her army or finding any other Old Ones living on Earth.
* SecondLove: Cordelia would be Angel's second love - Buffy, of course, being his first
** Wesley would be Fred's second love - her first love having been Gunn.
* SecretCircleOfSecrets: The Circle of the Black Thorn.
-->'''Archduke Sebassis''': The Circle does not abide secrets.\\
'''Angel:''' Which is interesting for a "[[SarcasmMode secret society]]".
* SecretIngredient: Angel once drinks a cup of blood with an unusual taste. He's told "the secret ingredient is otter."
** Another time, he finds that his blood supply has been intentionally tainted with [[spoiler:his son's blood]].
* SealedEvilInACan: Oh, just about half of the villains. Drogyn's Deep Well is practically the Canned Evil aisle.
* {{Seers}}
* SelectiveCondemnation: When a villain hands out [[FateWorseThanDeath fates worse than death]], it's seen as awful. When Angel makes a guy immortal, but locked in a room, unable to move or look at something else or speak because he normally takes people to hell but got resurrected (ok, so the guy was evil in life and was only doing the hell thing to stay out of hell, but remember, he was doing it on Wolfram & Hart's property, so most people he did it to probably asked for it), it's never mentioned again.
** Plus, Willow mind wiping Tara on Buffy was supposed to be awful, but Angel removing everyone's memories of Conner only is brought up again when Wes finds out, and is quickly dropped again afterwards.
** To be fair, the terrible part about Willow's mind wipe was that it was violation of the worst kind; Willow was effectively forcing Tara to remain in a sexual relationship that Tara didn't want to continue, making her actions date rape at best. Angel, on the other hand, wanted to remove horribly traumatic memories from his friends' minds not for his benefit but for their own; wiping away Wesley's tragic betrayal, Connor's insanity, etc.
* SelfDefeatingProphecy: The visions sent to Angel's sidekicks are often of a monster killing a human, which Angel is then able to prevent.
* SelfDefenseless: Cordelia's "demon repellent". Not to be mistaken for [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial a popular brand of breath freshener]].
* SelfDeprecation: A meta example in Fredless: Trish Burkle comments on how her husband likes "all those disgusting alien movies... he just can't get enough of them. Except for the last one they made, I think he dozed off." Joss Whedon wrote [[AlienResurrection the last movie in the Aliens series]], and [[OldShame is not proud of it]].
* SelfMadeMan: One of Angel's richest clients, David Nabbit, made his millions by inventing software which allows blind people surf the internet.
* SelfRestraint: Faith's prison breakout in the fourth season makes it clear she could have escaped any time she wanted. Alluded to in "Five by Five" and "Sanctuary" where it becomes clear that Angel is helping Faith come round to the idea of wanting to turn herself in because the only way a human prison could ever hold a slayer would be if the slayer '''wanted'' to be held.
** As dismissive, threatening and moderately destructive as Illyria is around the office, that's her being restrained. [[spoiler: She kills everyone in about ten seconds flat when she actually decides to ''fight'' them in a possible future]].
* SerialKiller: Penn is nicknamed "The Pope" by the L.A. press, due to his habit of carving crosses onto the faces of his victims (a quirk he adopted from Angel).
* SequelEpisode: Billy Blim, the freed prisoner from "That Vision Thing", turns up again to bring mayhem in "Billy."
* ShadowDictator: The Senior Partners.
* ShapeShifting
* SheepInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler: Fred's parents]], in a cast full of AbusiveParents, despite their frightening whispering and how Fred runs away when she sees them... are proved to be generous and balanced people who are just very suspicious and worried for their daughter and thus, difficult to meet after five years of separation.
* ShipTease: [[BreatherEpisode "Provider"]] is ''made'' of this. Includes moments between [[TheyDo Wes and Fred]], [[OddCouple Gunn and Fred]], [[UnresolvedSexualTension Angel and Cordy]], [[AllMenArePerverts Cordy and Gunn]], and ''especially'' [[HoYay Wes and Gunn]].
* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Averted - not when the Beast is concerned, to Wesley's misfortune.
* ShowWithinAShow: Angel's client in "Eternity" is Rebecca Lowell, former star of the much-adored ''On Your Own'' which was recently "canceled by the idiot network!"
** ''Smile Time''. [[spoiler:And its Japanese counterpart in the comics]].
** ''Cordy!'' is a cheesy ''{{Friends}}''-style sitcom in an alternate timeline.
** In the comic continuation, Harmony inexplicably stars in her own reality show, ''Harmony Bites''.
* SchmuckBait: The kidnapping of Alonna. Angel warns her brother that if he tries to invade the vampires' nest, it will turn into a bloodbath. Predictably, Gunn doesn't hear him - or care.
* ShaggyDogStory: The last five seconds of "The Ring." Whoops.
* ShootTheDog: [[spoiler: Drogyn]].
* ShoutOut:
** Since Ben Edlund (of TheTick fame) was involved in the show through most of season 5, one of the characters even refers to themself as [[ShoutOut being "nigh invulnerable"]].
** Cordy's reaction to a Geiger counter that Fred and Gunn were using.
--->[[{{Firefly}} Shiny!]]
** One of the demonic ''Series/SesameStreet''-esque puppets is a [[BuffySpeak big purple animal thingy with a horn mouth]] named {{Horatio Hornblower}}
** [[Franchise/{{Alien}} Weyland-Yutani]] and [[Film/TheAdventuresOfBuckarooBanzaiAcrossThe8thDimension Yoyodyne]] are clients of Wolfram and Hart.
** [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration "Shut up, Wesley"]]
** Spike suggests that a hollow tree, if it's not the entrance to the Deeper Well, could be the entrance to [[TheNightmareBeforeChristmas Christmas Land]]. Angel doesn't get it.
** A drunk Wesley calls Illyria a [[Franchise/TheSmurfs smurf]]. She doesn't understand the reference but does realise it's an attempt to insult or disrespect her so she's offended all the same.
* It's been said that the scene with Connor saying his name is Stephen was a shout-out to or inspired by a somewhat well known made-for-TV movie called ''I Know My First Name is Stephen''
* ShutUpHannibal: The object of Dr. Meltzer's desire, Melissa Burns, delivers a stinging one when Meltzer comes for her in "I Fall To Pieces". Melissa reaffirms her refusal to be afriad, having been convinced by Angel that she has survived everything Meltzer has done to her so far. This causes Meltzer to (literally) [[VillainousBreakdown fall apart at the seams]].
** Kate tracks her father's killers to an auto repair shop, dusting one of them like a pro. Her [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge Roaring Rampage]] is interrupted by el jefe: a humongous, steroid-injected demon who lectures Kate on how she cannot comprehend the world she's entered into. Enter Angel:
-->"A big ugly drug-running demon who thinks he's a lot scarier than really he is, maybe? Yeah, she knows."
** Angelus tries to get under Cordelia's skin by ridiculing her total lack of acting ability. Cordy gets the last laugh when she bluffs Angelus into believing her thermos is full of holy water, resulting in his defeat.
-->'''Cordelia''': And the [[AcademyAward Oscar]] goes to...
* [[{{UsefulNotes/Skinheads}} Skinheads]]: The vampires in "War Zone".
* SignificantMonogram: Several Wolfram & Hart lawyers have the initials "LM," [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything much like]] [[{{Satan}} someone else]].
* SignsOfTheEndTimes: In "Apocalypse Nowish" there are birds crashing into buildings, snakes coming out of plumbing, rats everywhere, and eventually, all the phone calls they get about these things make an ancient symbol of destruction.
* SingleTear: David Boreanaz squeezes one out during his 'date rape' at the hands of Rebecca ("Eternity").
* SinisterScythe: The Vocah.
* SixthRanger: The cast rotates these out after the core five of [[TheHero Angel]], [[TheChick Cordy]], [[TheLancer Wesley]], [[TheBigGuy Gunn]], and [[TheSmartGuy Fred]] are clearly established. Some examples include Darla, Connor, Lorne, Faith, or whomever is making a cameo from [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Sunnydale]] that week.
* SkywardScream: Angel lets one loose after feeding on a murder victim during the 1970s.
* SleepCute: Angel and Cordy cuddled up with Baby Connor.
* SlipperySkid: Angel squeezes a bag of whole coffee beans to test Cordelia's theory that he can effectively grind the coffee with his "vampire strength." The bag bursts, of course, scattering coffee beans everywhere just as Cordelia and Wesley come in the door; Wesley immediately slips and falls.
* SlippingAMickey: In an effort to make Angel lose his soul and turn her into a vampire, Rebecca Lowell drugs his champagne with a bliss-inducing prescription drug.
* SlowMotionDrop: Wesley's slo-mo knife drop at the end of "Five By Five". In the next episode, Faith breaks a glass upon seeing a TV news report declaring her to be a wanted fugitive. PlayedForLaughs when Spike drops the Cup of Perpetual Torment with a stunned expression after drinking from it [[spoiler:because it contains soft drink]].
* SlutShaming: As with Series/{{Buffy|the Vampire Slayer}}, Angel has a tendency to punish sexual promiscuity. In this case, Cordelia ends up with demonic pregnancies. One client of Angel Investigations displays internalized shame with the question, "Does it surprise you? That I'm a giant slut?" after attempting to seduce Angel.
* SmithicalMarriage: Wes and Cordelia as "Mr. and Mrs. Penborne".
* SmokeShield: Jasmine, after getting zapped by a downed power line. Turns out once you've endured the Big Bang, electricity isn't a much of a hinderence.
* SmugSnake: Eve and Gavin. Also Lilah in the first couple of seasons.
* SoftGlass: Prettty much required given Angel's fondness for [[SuperWindowJump SuperWindowJumps]].
* SoHappyTogether: Gunn and Fred, and later Fred and Wesley.
* SoWasX: Followng Angel's (temporary) reversion to human, Cordy and Doyle suddenly find themselves out of work. Doyle is upbeat:
-->'''Doyle:''' I'll finally be free to go out and make me own mark on the world.
-->'''Cordelia:''' We had a cat that used to do that.
** When Holtz starts fretting about the fact that Angel has a soul, Sahjhan snarkily remarks that Atilla the Hun had one, too.
-->"Not to mention [[NotEvilJustMisunderstood a heart as big as all outdoors]] when it came to gift-giving..."
* {{Soaperizing}}: In interviews before the show's premiere, JossWhedon said the spin-off ''Angel'' would be a "case of the week"-type show, and not a soap opera like ''Buffy''. It ended up becoming a '''bigger''' soap opera, with multiple love triangles, {{Shot Reverse Shot}}s of people standing around in rooms and rehashing [[YoyoPlotPoint old plot points]], Angel's son going from a baby to teenager and [[spoiler:sleeping with Cordelia]], etc.
-->'''Fred:''' Who's Darla?\\
'''Gunn''': Angel's old flame from way back.\\
'''Fred''' Not [[{{Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer}} the one who died?]]\\
'''Gunn:''' Yeah. --No, not that one, the ''other'' one that died and came back to life. She's a vampire.\\
'''Fred''': ''(confused)'' [[MetaGuy Do y'all have a chart or somethin'?]]\\
'''Gunn''': In the files, I'll get it for you later.
** Lampshaded by Cordy herself: "''Tell me'' we're not living in a soap opera."
** Lampshaded by Gunn as well in "Players": "Listen, I spent most of this year trapped in what I can only describe as a turgid supernatural soap-opera."
* SoftspokenSadist: Marcus ("In the Dark"). He sounds like the guy who sells you Chakra stones.
* SomethingElseAlsoRises: Wesley's, erm, ''sword'' shooting out of his coat sleeve in Fred's presence ("Spin the Bottle").
* SomewhereAMammalogistIsCrying: "Through the Looking Glass". Had Wesley simply used the term "hart" or "stag" in the layman fashion (to refer to any male red deer regardless of its age), it might not have been accurate but it wouldn't have been comment-worthy. Unfortunately, he goes into detail saying a hart is "a male red deer or staggard" indicating the script-writers may have attempted to research the proper naming convention that exists for male red deer (that or they thought a "stag" and "staggard" meant the same thing). A staggard is a male red deer in its fourth year of life. A stag is a male red deer in its fifth year of life. A hart is a male red deer over five years old (i.e., in its sixth year of life). The picture itself shows a 10-point deer (5 tines on each antler) which is a "great hart" (a stag over six years old, i.e., seven years old or older with 10-16 tines). By using generalised layman terms, it all could have been handwaved as an ordinary conversation or at least the "hart" being a contraction of "great hart" where the picture itself was concerned. The attempt to be clever by referring to "staggard" simply emphasised the writers had failed to do their research.
* SoulJar: Angel's soul is imprisoned in one in the fourth season, in order to temporarily release Angelus.
** The "Ethros Box".
** Justine traps her boss' boss, Sahjan, in a jar.
* SoundOnlyDeath: When the youngest runt in XXI is pitted against Trepkos in the next match, Cribb remarks, "That's not a fight, it's an execution." Trepkos ignores Angel's imploring him not to kill the kid, instead promises to "kill him quick." Indeed, the fight has barely begun before Angel hears a telltale NeckSnap sound.
* SoundtrackDissonance: Angel's flashback to a donut shop robbery, in which he witnessed the clerk get fatally shot. Angel drinks the corpse's blood as "Mandy" plays on a jukebox.
** Fred manages to get ''one line'' into "You make me happy", a classic target for this trope, before [[spoiler:coughing up blood and collapsing]].
* SpaceWhaleAesop: Cordelia, in ''The Ring''.
-->This is why I don't gamble. You place one small bet, and then another . . . and next thing you know, albino Beetlejuice guys are knocking at your door.
* SpecialEditionTitle: After Angel loses his soul in Season Four, the promo for "Soulless" modified the usual ''Angel'' logo to spell ''Angelus''.
* SpearCounterpart: To Buffy.
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: The Conduit and The Beast. In "Habeas Corpses", the former is killed by the latter.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Sahjhan can't control Holtz as well as he'd like.
* SpikesOfDoom: Angel gets to experience the full extent of Gunn's vampire-proofing in "War Zone". Upon chasing Angel into Gunn's own building, Gunn rams the wall with his spiked truck, narrowly missing Angel's head. Disoriented, Angel stumbles over a tripwire, triggering a hurricane of arrows as well as a falling spike trap.
* SpiritedCompetitor: Trepkos, who warmly congratulates Angel on "a good fight." ("The Ring")
* SpoilerOpening: Averted. One episode features AlysonHannigan as a surprise guest star. The actor's name was removed from the opening credits to hide the surprise; instead they get top billing in the end credits. The same was done to hide Faith's first appearance.
** James Marsters is in the opening credits of the first episode of Season 5, though he doesn't turn up 'til the last scene of said episode.
** Another sort of aversion: Amy Acker's credit sequence for season five includes shots of Illyria ... but only after [[spoiler: Fred dies]].
* {{Squee}}: Cordy keeps giggling like a madwoman after being invited out shopping with TV actress Rebecca Lowell.
* StakingTheLovedOne: Gunn to his sister.
* StaringDownCthulhu: You think a ghost is going to make Cordelia leave a rent-controlled apartment? Ha!
* StarterVillain: Russell Winters, whose defeat officially puts Angel on Wolfram & Hart's radar.
* StepfordSuburbia: For defying the Senior Partners, Lindsey is incarcerated in a {{Hell}} modeled upon this.
* StepIntoTheBlindingFight: Inverted in an episode where a blind assassin can sense motion including heartbeats and breath-falls. Angel, being a vampire lacks both a pulse and the necessity to inhale or exhale, so when he stands completely still, the assassin is incapable of seeing him.
* SugarApocalypse: What happens when Angel pulls the plug on Jasmine's enchantment over Los Angeles. It's a tough argument for free will when cars are exploding around you during your speech.
* SueDonym: As a reward for rescuing their son from walking into oncoming traffic, Mrs. Anderson invites Angel in for some coffee. When probed about his name, Angel replies "Angel-- Jones. Angel Jones."
** At the hospital where Connor was brought after birth, he is officially registered as "Connor Angel," as Fred gave his father the alias "Geraldo Angel."
*** He's a pet psychiatrist with a small practice in Pacoima.
* {{Suicide By Cop}}/DrivenToSuicide: Faith's actions on ''[[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]]'' drive her to this, attempting to use suicide by vampire. [[EverybodyLives It doesn't work]].
** [[BlackHumor Kate Lockley]].
* SugarBowl: In Angel's nightmare about being usurped by Spike, the view of Los Angeles is replaced by a matte painting of pink castles and rainbows.
* SunglassesAtNight: Jay-Don ("The Shroud of Rahmon"), a Las Vegas vampire who seems to be permanently stuck in the 1960s. Angel assimilates his identity and, in effect, this trope.
* SuperDickery: In TheTeaser of "Power Play", Angel charges in to rescue a good guy who's being beaten by MalevolentMaskedMen, only to vamp out and chomp on his neck.
* SupernaturalElite: The Circle of the Black Thorn from the series finale.
* SupernaturalSoapOpera: Lampshaded by multiple characters, particularly once babies enter into the mix.
* SuperpowerMeltdown: Narrowly averted with Illyira.
* SuperSenses: Angel and Spike (along with any other vampire) have these, as does Connor.
* SuperStrength: Angel, Spike, Illyria, Doyle in Demon form, and most of their foes.
* SuperWeight:
** Type -1: Countless, nameless [[VictimOfTheWeek victims]]
** Type 0: [[OmnidisciplinaryScientist Fred]], early-series Wesley and Cordelia, Lorne, [[FemmeFatale Lilah]]
** Type 1: Gunn, later-series Wesley, [[TheHunter Holtz, Justine]], Lindsey
** Type 2: [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Angel, Spike]] and other vampires, Groo, Gwen Raiden, Connor, Sajhan
** Type 3: The Beast, Jasmine, Marcus Hamilton, [[HumanoidAbomination Illyria]]
** Type 4: The Senior Partners, ThePowersThatBe, Illyria in her true form, [[spoiler: Cordelia after Ascending]].
* SupervillainLair: In an inversion of this trope, Jasmine takes over the Hyperion Hotel, and Wolfram & Hart becomes Angel's base.
* SurpriseWitness: Angel unexpectedly drops in on a courtroom proceeding with an eyewitness in tow -- the same kid who was thought to have been intimidated by Lindsey into silence. His testimony effectively torpedoes Lindsey's murder case ("Five By Five").
* SuspectIsHatless: When interviewing witnesses to a demon assault on the subway, the best Kate can glean from them is suspect is of 'average' height, 'average' build, and 'average' weight. Well, that was helpful.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial:
-->'''Partygoer:''' "Nice sweater. Hand-knit?"
--> '''Wesley:''' Certainly not by ''me''!"
** In "Bachelor Party", Doyle is invited to a stag party for his old flame's new fiancée -- who just so happens to be a demon, too. But something is amiss...
--> '''Aunt Martha:''' Well, they're certainly not going to eat your ex-husband's brains. ''(Everyone stares)'' ...For instance.
* SwissCheeseSecurity: Wolfram & Hart.
-->'''Lilah:''' Vampire Detectors [[LampshadeHanging my ass]].
** For such a high-security building, [[MyopicArchitecture the roof]] is oddly unguarded.
* SwordFight: Between Angel and [[spoiler: Lindsey]] in the last season.
* SwordOverHead: Pressed by Gunn's oncoming gang, Angel ends up violently disarming one of his attackers and almost stabs him with his own stake. He stops when he realizes that his prey is a mere kid.
** Untwisted in the Season Four finale ("Home"). Angel finds himself raising a knife over [[spoiler:Connor]]'s neck, fulfilling Wesley's prophecy from long ago. Against all expectation, however, Angel brings the knife down with full force.
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* TabloidMelodrama: According to ''The Inquirer'', Rebecca Lowell once slept with Creator/ErnestBorgnine, and is bulimic.
-->'''Angel:''' [supportively] I hear Borgnine is a [[MemeticBadass very skilled lover]].
* TailorMadePrison: Billy Blim is imprisoned in a cube of fire.
* TakeItToTheBridge: Angel tracks the depowered Jasmine to an overpass, where she proceeds to MotiveRant as the city erupts into chaos.
* TakeThat: At [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallagher_(comedian) Gallagher]]. Cordelia comments that the comedian has changed his act more times than Penn has in two centuries of ritual killings. (Wesley seems to like him though.)
** When Dennis starts to misbehave, Cordelia threatens to blast the {{Madonna}} version of ''{{Evita}}'' [[LoudOfWar around the clock]].
** "[I]f JuliaRoberts ever makes a realistic movie about being an escort, it should be called ''[[PrettyWoman Pretty Skanky Woman]]''."
** Fred's mom mentions that her husband, Roger, can't get enough of those Ridley Scott movies with [[{{Franchise/Alien}} the slime and the teeth]].
--->"...Except for that last one they made. I think he dozed off."
*** This could be SelfDeprecation, depending on whether or not she meant ''Alien: Resurrection''.
** Gunn says the devils controlling ''Smile Time'' have [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy a very distinctive M.O]]. "You seen the last few seasons of ''HappyDays''?"
** Lorne's dislike of AndrewLloydWebber and Diane Warren. Playing the latter ''will'' result in your death.
** Angel toys with the idea of finally seeing ''[[{{Theatre/LesMiserables}} Les Mis]]'' while in England. "Trust me," Spike warns, "halfway through the first act you'll be drinking humans again."
-->'''Joss Whedon''': I'm usually not that snarky, I don't like to diss things. [[IResembleThatRemark But Les Mis went down]].
** Much eyebrow wagging at Knox's [[SissyVillain Rick Springfield screen saver]]. Interestingly, this works as GallowsHumor if one considers his plans for Fred. ("''I wish I was with Jesse's girl''")
** In the related "Spike: After The Fall", after [[spoiler: L.A. goes literally to Hell]], someone comments, 'No new movies have come out for months, the internet is down, the televisions only play that awful show about the witch sisters.'---"Charmed" is considered highly derivative of "Buffy" and "Angel", and the show followed "Angel" in reruns for at least three years.
* TakeAThirdOption: In "The Ring", Angel implores the other fighters at XXI not to cooperate in the matches. Cribb eventually releases the prisoners, who mob the entire ring and bring the club to a halt.
* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler:Doyle]] sacrfices himself in order to shut down The Scourge's beacon in order to prevent Angel from doing it.
* TapOnTheHead
* TattooedCrook: In "Five By Five", Angel mentors a street hoodlum in his own [[PerpSweating distinctive style]]. Cordelia snarkily vocalizes her doubt that "a guy with that many tattoos" can be reformed.
* TeachHimAnger: While the pair is hunting for Angelus, Wesley [[WarriorTherapist devises a number of tests]] to determine whether Faith has gotten too soft. He goads Faith with memories of how she tortured him, then mocks her apparent reformation, calling her a rabid animal who should have been put down long ago. As expected, Faith lunges for the limey's throat.
-->'''Wesley:''' There, that wasn't so hard was it? ''It's what you'll need to beat him.”
* TeamKiller: Angel attempting to smother [[spoiler:Wesley]] in his hospital bed. Before he does, Angel very calmly puts Wes' mind to rest that [[FalseReassurance this is not Angelus talking]].
* {{Technobabble}}: Fred's technobabble always comes off as kind of cute.
** Fred has made ''homicidal rage'' look cute. Technobabble is as nothing.
* TemptingFate: Cordelia and Doyle commiserate over drinks, wondering if they're out of a job now that Angel's human ("I Will Remember You"). Doyle figures that if Angel's no longer working for the PowersThatBe, that must mean he's off the hook, too. Cue another vision, causing poor Doyle's head to slam into the bar top. ..[[BecauseDestinySaysSo Guess not]].
** Before departing L.A., Buffy makes a passing laceration at Angel by comparing to her new boyfriend (Riley), whom she "knows" and "trusts" ("Sanctuary"). As we later find out on ''Buffy'', she doesn't know the ''real'' Riley very well at all.
* TenMinuteRetirement: Angel quits the hero business in Season Two (though it lasts [[InvertedTrope considerably longer]] than ten minutes), firing his team and devoting all his energies toward crushing Wolfram & Hart. Once he finds that the Senior Partners don't exist to be beaten, only fought, he comes to his senses and reunites the team.
* TerseTalker: PlayedForLaughs in "In the Dark", when the reigning kings of [[TheStoic stoicism]] greet each other.
-->'''Angel:''' ''(deadpan)'' Oz.
-->'''Oz:''' Angel.
-->'''Angel:''' Nice surprise.
-->'''Oz:''' Thanks.
-->'''Angel:''' Staying long?
-->'''Oz:''' Few days.
-->''(long pause)''
-->'''Doyle:''' ''(to Cordelia)'' ......They always like this?
-->'''Oz:''' No, we're usually laconic.
* ThanatosGambit: Holtz giving Angel a note to give to Angel's human son Connor. It explains that the two of them should be together. He also tells Angel the same thing, seemingly having finally made peace with Angel for Connor's sake. Then he has his accomplice stab him twice in the neck so it looks like Angel killed Holtz out of spite. This pretty much destroyed the relationship between Angel and his son forever, especially given the vicious cycle that resulted.
** In ''After the Fall'', [[spoiler: this is how Angel gets L.A. out of Hell]].
* ThemeInitials: A disproportionate number of Wolfram & Hart lawyers have the initials L.M - Lindsay [=McDonald=], Lilah Morgan, Lee Mercer and Linwood Morrow.
** Initially {{justified|Trope}}; Lindsay [=McDonald=]'s, Lilah Morgan's, and Lee Mercer's first appearances were all written to be the same person.
* ThereAreNoCoincidences: When Kate catches her father lingering around a crime scene, she assumes he's been [[ReluctantRetiree craving "action" and listening the police scanner at home]] again. It didn't escape Angel's notice, though; he soon learns that Trevor removed a piece of evidence from the scene.
** Invoked on a mammoth scale in Season Four, when Skip reveals the accidents that brought Team Angel together were ''no'' accidents.
* ThereAreNoTherapists: The following people did not receive therapy: Gunn, who spent much of his life on the streets fighting for his life, and had to kill his sister. Wesley, whose father was verbally abusive and used to lock him under the stairs. Fred spent five years living feral in a dimension where humans were enslaved, and came back babbling and hiding in her room for weeks. And Connor, who was brought up in a hell dimension by a fanatical vampire hunter from the 18th century who taught Connor that his father was pure evil. The one time Angel went to a guru to talk about his problems, the guy turned out to be an impostor. It might have worth tracking down a psychiatrist who catered to the supernatural, particularly for the last two.
* ThereWasADoor: Gunn isn't too receptive to the idea of a noble vampire at first. When Angel suggests an alliance, Gunn expresses his skepticism by locking him in a meat locker. Angel spends the next few minutes trying to punch his way out, only for Cordelia and Wesley to unlock the door.
* TheseHandsHaveKilled: Angel being forced to execute Baker during a cage fight. As the crowd cheers, Angel just stares at [[TheseHandsHaveKilled his blood-stained hands]] ("The Ring").
** Faith goes a little nuts after slaying a demon assassin in Angel's basement. With what she's gone through, the last thing Faith needed to see was her hand holding a bloody knife.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: After Faith drugs Angelus he is forced to relive the good acts he's done. He actually freaks out to Faith when he realizes what's coming.
* ThrowItIn: During [[spoiler: Angelus' return]] in season 4, David Boreanaz improvised a lot of his dialogue. Also during the episode "Spin The Bottle" they had to structure a comedic bit so that Angel and Wesley didn't have to look at each other because neither actor could keep a straight face.
* ThrowingTheDistraction: Inverted against the heroes in "War Zone". Gunn issues the evacuation order when vampires firebomb his base. Gunn realizes only too late that it's a distraction, and that he's just sent his little sister outdoors to get chowed down on.
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: Played straight. Angel sure is handy with a scythe. [[IncrediblyLamePun Lindsey, on the other hand...]].
* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: Cordelia in "Rm w/a Vu". Within a few hours, Angel's basement is covered wall-to-wall with Cordelia's trophies, there's peanut butter on his bed, his leather chair is ruined, and Cordelia is busily cutting up his linoleum floor to examine the hardwood.
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: In Angel's "Smile Time" episode, from one muppet to another: "I'm gonna tear you a new puppet hole, bitch!"
* ThisMeansWar: Kate Lockely in "To Shanshu in L.A". Subverted in that Kate can't quite make up her mind about this; she and Angel share quite a few "This Means War" moments in Season 2, but always manage to bury the hatchet some way or another.
** After what Angelus did to his family, the only hatchet Holtz wants to bury is the one he can plant inside Angel's head.
* ThreeWaySex: In addition to reportedly having a herculean physique, the Immortal has the stamina of a racehorse, as Darla and Drusilla can attest. (To Spike and Angel's vast annoyance.)
* ThouShaltNotKillMuggles: Further deconstructed with each passing year. So, butchering hundreds of demons is okay, but a professor who feeds his students to wormholes = the angels weep?
** Subverted by Angel leaving a whole pack of [[spoiler:Wolfram & Hart lawyers to be fed on by Darla and Dru]].
** Same goes for Jasmine's pod people. Angel dutifully reminds the viewers at home that these people are under a spell, but it comes down to us vs. them... Gun injects, "Believe me, I'm ''there''."
** An interesting footnote to Season Five: Nina winds up deeply disturbed by the lives she took while a werewolf, regardless of how depraved those people were. Angel? He's cool with it. This highlights the differences between them, as well the gradual darkening of Angel's team.
* ToCreateAPlaygroundForEvil: Seemingly the Beast's motivation for blocking out the sun.
* ToHellAndBack: All of L.A. in ''After the Fall''.
* TomesOfProphecyAndFate: The Shanshu Prophecy.
* TooHappyToLive: A textbook example with [[spoiler: Wesley and Fred]], who get to spend approximately ten minutes of one episode as a happy couple after seasons of WillTheyOrWontThey before [[spoiler: Fred is slowly and painfully killed so her body can host Illyria]].
* TookALevelInBadass: Wesley, multiple times. Wesley might as well be a TropeCodifier
** Lilah too. It's easy to forget in the later seasons that she was a largely ineffective SmugSnake for the first two and half years of the show, ultimately getting a promotion only because Lindsey turned it down. It's only from season 3 on that she emerges as a genuinely dangerous and capable figure.
** Gunn as well [[spoiler:via a mental upgrade]] became the go to guy in court. Able to speak multiple demon languages and knowledgable in Demon diplomacy, while still able to take multiple vampires hand to hand. Cordelia from cheerleader to Katana wielding Seer and Fred from crazy Survivor slave to flame thrower wielding bad ass scientist. Angel Investigations, you didn't need to be a {{badass}} to work there, but it helped.
* TookALevelInKindness: When Faith first appeared on the show she thought if she did enough damage [[DrivenToSuicide she'd get someone to kill her]]. When she failed to get even [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge Buffy]] to [[MercyKill put her out of her misery]] Faith goes to prison for murder, where she could have easily broken out but chose to stay to get her head together. When we next see her she's a much calmer, civil chosen one, even going as far as to send Conner home rather than have him try and kill Angelus.
* TortureAlwaysWorks
* TortureTechnician: Marcus the vampire is alleged to have "invented some of the classics", but he's closed-mouthed about which. ("In the Dark")
** Faith has a cute system for separating torture into five groups (àla the Food Pyramid), which Wesley gets to experience firsthand ("Five By Five").
** Angelus was pretty handy with torture devices in his day. By and large, Angel gave that habit up. In "Forgiving", though, he comes very close to torturing a captive Linwood with [[{{Macgyvering}} stuff he finds lying around the office]]. (This is a special case, as Angel is desperate to recover his son.)
* ToServeMan: All part of a balanced breakfast for Jasmine. Gunn lampshades this word-for-word.
* TouchedByVorlons: Happens twice to Cordelia.
* TradeSnark: As Wesley is reading aloud from the owner's manual for Cordy's new security system, he actually recites the "TM" at the end.
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The themesong montages have a habit of spoiling that someone will be promoted to main cast, most notably Spike in the season 5 opener when he doesn't appear until the end of the episode.
** The british dvds have a habit of doing this to go with the general TheyJustDidntCare presentation. The Making of Smile Time was [[WhatAnIdiot on the disk just before Smile Time]].
* {{Transplant}}: Cordelia originally. Later to be followed by Wesley, whose arc had concluded in ''Buffy'' Season 3. Spike, who 'died' in that show's finale, promptly reappeared on ''Angel'' in its final season. (Can't keep a good [[BreakoutCharacter Fonzie]] down!)
* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: "Untouched": Bethany, the girl with telekenesis, had it awakened when she was abused physically and sexually by her father. It also flared up when someone threatened her in an alley early in the ep.
* TrashTheSet: Angel's Season 1 office gets [[StuffBlowingUp dynamited]], Caritas in season 3 and the Wolfram & Hart offices in seasons 4 ''and'' 5.
* TrueLoveIsBoring: Outright stated in regards to Fred and Gunn. Possibly the case for Angel himself.
* TryNotToDie: Illyria to Gunn in the final episode.
* TryingToCatchMeFightingDirty: After tracking the Mohra demon to a salt refinery silo, a (now-human) Angel tosses salt in the demon's eyes while Buffy goes for the kill. Justified in that Angel didn't have his typical vampire strength and combat ability to rely on.
* TwerpSweating: Angel giving the third degree to Pierce, a day trader and Cordelia's date ("Bachelor Party").
** Cordy refuses to bring her next date to meet Angel, convinced he'll act like a forbidding father. But she didn't count on Phantom Dennis! When Cordy brings Wilson over to her apartment, Dennis [[MomentKiller kills the mood]] by slamming the front door, brightening the lights she dims, and adjusting the radio dial to blast jaunty polka ("Expecting").
** A flashback to the 18th century shows Darla introducing her beau (Angelus) to the Master. Darla tries impressing him with her boyfriend's killing record, but Angelus doesn't warm to his new father-in-law ("Darla").
* TwoGuysAndAGirl: The original dynamic, with Wesley taking Doyle's place mid-season.
* TwoRoadsBeforeYou: Lindsey undergoes a crisis of conscience when asked to facilitate the deaths of three children. (Hey, [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Lawyers Have Standards]].) In the end, he is faced with a choice of either taking Holland's bribe, or walking out the door. Lindsey winds up [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic shutting the doors in front of him]].
** During the S2 Darla arc, Angel tries to redeem Darla out of a misplaced sense of filial loyalty. Eventually, even Lorne warns Angel that he's about to jump the track.
** Angel is offered a choice between preventing Darla and Drusilla from killing a roomful of Wolfram & Hart employees, or simply walking away. [[spoiler:Angel decides the lawyers made their own bed and leaves them]].
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* UltimateEvil: The Wolf, Ram and Hart (AKA the "Senior Partners").
* UndercoverWhenAlone: Knox acts puzzled when a large sarcophagus gets delivered to his lab. Turns out he not only knew it was coming, he ordered it, for it contained the essence of his god.
* UnpredictableResults: A giant egg that apparently ''might do anything'', but... turned Angel into a puppet?
* UnresolvedSexualTension: Between Cordelia and Doyle. Though they did come ''close'' to resolving it. ([[StupidJetpackHitler Stupid demon Nazis]].)
** And later Angel/Cordelia and Wesley/Fred. [[spoiler: Bothwomen [[YankTheDogsChain die at the point of resolution]]]].
* UnstuckInTime: Illyria in "Time Bomb."
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Ryan Anderson's reaction to Angel shoving him out of the path of a speeding car. Noticing the bloody scrape on Angel's shoulder, Ryan, who seems completely unfazed by his brush with death, asks Angel if he's going to cry. This is an early sign that this kid belongs in a padded room.
* UnwittingPawn: Pretty much everyone as far as Jasmine's concerned.
** Angel inadvertently beats up a few [[KnightTemplar Knight Templars]] in "That Vision Thing".
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* VaderBreath: Cyvus Vail.
* VaguenessIsComing: The Beast's arrival in season 4 of Angel is foreseen in vague implications of blood, and fire from the sky, and all that good stuff.
** In Season Five, Lindsey reveals that Wolfram & Hart are laying the groundwork for the upcoming apocalypse by, um...not telling anyone about it.
* VampireDetectiveSeries
* VampireHunter: Both good and evil varieties.
* VanHelsingHateCrimes: Most prominently seen in "The Old Gang of Mine", in which Gunn's old vampire-hunting crew begins hunting anything non-human.
* VillainousDemotivator: The head vampire in "War Zone", Knox, claps his buddy Ty on the shoulder and says its not his fault for getting ambushed by Gunn's crew. Right before he stakes him.
* VirginSacrifice: Magnus Bryce has this in mind for his daughter, Virginia. It didn't work because [[spoiler:he didn't watch her closely enough--she'd lost her "purity" a ''long'' time ago]].
** Connor crosses his MoralEventHorizon when he agrees to slaughter a female virgin, furthering Evil Cordy's goals.
* VivaLasVegas: "The House Always Wins" from Season 4, filmed on location in Sin City.
* VoiceChangeling: The Ethros demon possessing Ryan displays this ability. It taunts Wesley in a voice identical to his own, reminding him of his unceremonious sacking from the Watcher's Council; then it strikes out at Angel by channeling Doyle's voice, playing on Angel's guilt. And also makes him [[UnstoppableRage angry]].
* VolleyingInsults:
-->'''Spike''': Never much for small talk, were you? Always too busy trying to perfect that "brooding block of wood" mystique. God, I ''love'' that.
-->'''Angel''': Not as much as I loved your non-stop yammering.
-->'''Spike:''' The way you always had to be the big swingy, swaggerin' around, barkin' orders--
-->'''Angel:''' Never listening.
-->'''Spike:''' Always ''interrupting''.
-->'''Angel:''' And your hair, what color do they call that? "Radioactive"?
-->'''Spike:''' Never much cared for you, Liam, even when we were evil.
-->'''Angel:''' Cared for ''you'' less.
-->'''Spike:''' Fine!
-->'''Angel:''' Good!
-->''(long pause)''
-->'''Angel:''' There was ''one'' thing about you.
-->'''Spike:''' Really?
-->'''Angel:''' Yeah, I never told anybody about this, but I liked your poems.
-->'''Spike:''' ''You'' [[DamnedByFaintPraise like Barry Manilow!]]
* VomitDiscretionShot: During the acid trippy sequence of "Spin the Bottle", the camera cuts to Fred, who is petting a potted fern with fascination. Right before she vomits off to the side.
** Following the rooftop showdown in "Lineage", Wesley expresses shock at shooting [[spoiler:his father]] by shambling over to a nearby air conditioning unit. This is followed by the sound of him retching.
*** Connor conveniently makes it out to the sidewalk and behind a wall before spewing his guts in ''Soulless''.
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* WaifProphet
* WalkInChimeIn: When Angel warns his buddies about how Buffy would react if she found out he'd been stalking her in Sunnydale, Buffy pops into his office to finish his thought. "A little upset." [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Oh boy]].
** Happens quite a lot in Season 4, when the main arc requires the cast to reunite and spout exposition quickly.
** Pretty much a RunningGag with Angel throughout the series.
* WallOfWeapons: Angel's basement in Season 1. After he joins agrees to run Wolfram & Hart, Angel's office comes furnished with one.
* WasOnceAMan: The end of season five episode, ''Damage''; after Dana the insane slayer has been carted off, Angel and Spike have a sombre discussion in the latter's hospital room about the nature of evil:
-->'''Spike:''' The tingling in my forearms tells me she's too far gone to help. She's one of us now. She's a monster.
-->'''Angel:''' She's an innocent victim.
-->'''Spike:''' [[WasOnceAMan So were we, once upon a time]].
-->'''Angel:''' Once upon a time.
* WatchingTheSunset: Angel allows himself to watch one last sunset before smashing his {{Ring of Power}}.
* WatchingTroyBurn: Heroes and villains alike look on with fear as The Beast rains fire on Los Angeles.
* WaxingLyrical: Cordelia wonders aloud why anyone in their right mind would try dating in L.A. You'll just end up being stalked by a surgeon with anatomic limbs or impregnated with demon spawn.
-->'''Doyle:''' People ''need'' people. And people...who need people...[[BarbraStreisand are the luckiest peo--]] ''(Cordy glares, Doyle shuts up)''
** A CallBack to this line occurs in "The Magic Bullet", via Connor of all people. Cue incredulous stares from everyone in the room.
-->'''Lorne:''' You been sneakin' peeks at my Streisand collection again, kiddo?
-->'''Connor:''' ''(defensively)'' It just kinda popped out.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:Doyle]], who at least got to go [[HeroicSacrifice heroically]].
* WeHelpTheHelpless: Angel's agency slogan.
** Originally, it was "We help the hopeless", which let Doyle have the hilarious fumble on picking up the phone: "Angel Investigations, we hope you're helpless..."
** A list of FanFiction spoofs on the line [[http://www.trinitylast.com/thedge/quotes3.htm can be found on this page]].
** And on ''[[Series/BuffytheVampireSlayer Buffy]]'', when Spike (and everyone) loses his memory, he thinks that "Maybe I'm a ''good'' vampire...I help the helpless...[[HilariousInHindsight on a path of redemption...I'm a vampire with a soul]]!" (which Buffy, of course, immediately waves aside as being ridiculous and "lame")
* WeUsedToBeFriends:
--> '''Wesley''': I have no idea where Angel is, Lilah, or what happened to him. And I really couldn't care.
--> '''Lilah''': Wow. That was cold. I think we're finally making progress. Come on. Doesn't it bother you just a little bit? The not knowing?
--> '''Wesley''': That part of my life is dead. Doesn't concern me now.
* WeakenedByTheLight: The "Beacon" is a weapon which emits a light deadly to humans and demi-humans alike. The Scourge intend to use to annihilate every half-breed demon within a quarter-mile radius.
* WelcomeToMyWorld: Darla's first words to Angel following his 'rebirth' as a vamp.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Trevor Lockley was always cold to Kate, having shut down all emotion following his wife's death. Despite this, Kate is deeply distraught at the murder of her father. In response to Trevor's death, she begins to hate all paranormal creatures (especially vampires) and turns openly-hostile towards Angel.
** "The Prodigal" is interspersed with flashbacks to Angel's upbringing in Ireland, revealing a not-dissimilar relationship with his own father.
** Roger Wyndam-Pryce manages to wear down his son's spirit every time he opens his mouth.
* WHAMEpisode: For starters, "Reunion", "Reprise", "Sleep Tight"/"Forgiving", "Home", A Hole In The World".
* WhamLine: "[[IronicEcho And yet somehow]], [[OhCrap I just can't seem to care]]."
** After trying his best to find out the secrets of the Senior Partners, and finally trying to invade their home dimension in HeroicSacrifice, Angel finds out their homeworld from Holland Mathers: [[HellOnEarth "Welcome to the home office."]]
* WhammyBid: Played with: The item for sale: Cordelia's visions, or more specifically, her eyeballs. To stall for time, Cordelia incites a bidding war by claiming to be able to see the locations of buried treasure. This escalates until one of the two highest bidders [[EvilIsPetty kills the other one]]. Finally, a female attorney for Wolfram & Hart closes the auction with a ridiculous low WhammyBid of $30,000.
* WhatTheHellHero: The rest of Angel Investigations calls Angel out after he [[spoiler:lets Darla and Drusilla massacre a lot of Wolfram and Hart lawyers]].
* WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys: Have fun waiting around for an explanation, because there isn't one. Angel ditches most of his cool accessories in the second season, though a few random ones still pop up now and again.
** Gunn's original street crew included one guy who's armed with a [[FireBreathingWeapon flamethrower]]. Where did they ''get'' that?
** Wesley's collapsible wrist-swords came from an ArmsDealer who specialized in esoteric weaponry (seen in "Lineage"). Presumably Angel ordered from the same guy.
* WhiteVoidRoom: The Conduit room.
* WhoShotJFK: A conspiracy theorist is informed by Jasmine that there was no second gunman.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever
* WholeEpisodeFlashback: The heroes relocate to the defunct Hyperion Hotel in "[[{{Recap/AngelS02E02AreYouNowOrHaveYourEverBeen}} Are You Now or Have You Ever Been]]". In the process, they must uproot a demon who held some connection to Angel in TheFifties.
** Darla's [[{{Recap/AngelS02E07Darla}} eponymous episode]] shows her rise from syphilis-stricken prostitute to big-league vampire.
** And in "Why We Fight", Angel and Spike punch some Nazis.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Angel says "[[IncrediblyLamePun Why did it have to be stakes?]]" in "Awakening" (an episode with some blatant ''IndianaJones'' homages) and when entering a nightclub in Rome mutters, "[[ICantDance Dancing. Why did it have to be dancing?]]"
* WhyWeCantHaveNiceThings: Harmony is not to be trusted with ancient books.
* WickedCultured: Most of the high-class baddies on this series are fond of classical music -- even [[SouthernFriedGenius Lindsey]]. In their first scene together, he and Darla shoot the breeze about Frédéric Chopin.
** Marcus the vampire plays a BrokenRecord of Mozart's ''Symphony #41'' to interrogate Angel.
* WifeBasherBasher: The ColdOpen for "In the Dark" follows Angel saving a woman from her drug addict boyfriend, who Angel proceeds to pound unconscious. Ouch.
* WilhelmScream: Heard at the beginning of "The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco", when the {{redshirt}} is tossed into the air.
* WillfullyWeak: It's established that Angel is stronger in GameFace, and that he sometimes holds back rather than scare off the people he's trying to save. Occasionally, a character will punch him repeatedly in order to make him vamp out. This happened once with Buffy (in "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E21GraduationDayPart1}} Graduation Day]]"), and again with adult Connor.
** "Guise Will Be Guise" hints at Angel's inner fear. In a stick-fighting match with a hermit, Angel repeatedly gets beatenback while his opponent asks him why he's holding back. "Because if I let it, ''it'll kill you''."
** The Season Two finale puts Angel on Pylea, an alternate dimension where his GameFace manifests as a crazed, spiked monster. He accidentally switches over while trying to protect Fred, and doesn't revert back until he [[RageAgainstTheReflection catches his reflection]] in a pool of water. The sight of it traumatizes Angel so much that he has a nervous breakdown, and refuses to fight anyone else.
** Doyle has much the same problem: He's ashamed of his demon half and will even allow himself to be beaten to a pulp rather than transform. This despite Doyle being practically invulnerable in demon form.
* WireFu: One of the things that made the fights in this show more distinct from ''Buffy''
* WithAFriendAndAStranger: Initially, with Angel and Cordelia as "friends", and Doyle as the stranger.
* WithDueRespect: At Wolfram & Hart, no one dares contradict a senior manager. Except [[DeepSouth Lindsey]].
* WithOrWithoutYou
-->'''Wesley Wyndam-Pryce''': I thought you'd like to know that we're keeping the agency open. With or without you.
* [[WolfMan Wolf Chick]]: Nina Ash.
* WomanInBlack: Jhiera in "She".
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Connor by the end of Season 4.
* WorfHadTheFlu: Faith's big fight with Angelus in season four. Angel finally wins a fight with a Slayer... who's previously injured and high on magic heroin.
** Wins? Try lost. As Faith said, "Kicked his ass."
** Somewhat brilliantly applied in-universe by Hamilton. [[spoiler: Hamilton completely avoids Illyria until she (partly at Hamilton's instruction) gets zapped with a depowering weapon. He then mocks and unloads on a extremely depressed, Crash Bandicoot-playing "big scary Old One" and chalks it up. Notable here because the ''last'' time Illyria was around, she was at least two tiers higher in power, was presumably feeling a hell of a lot better, and would have eaten the Senior Partners themselves]].
* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: The entire point of "You're Welcome."
* WouldHitAGirl: Angel decks Buffy in the face in an effort to keep her from running upstairs to kill Faith. ("Sanctuary")
-->'''Angel:''' Not to go all schoolyard on you, but [[NoYou you hit me first]]. And in case you've forgotten you're a little bit ''stronger'' than I am.
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* YouCantFightFate: Both played straight as a key point of the MythArc, and subverted when a baddie makes up a fake prophecy to screw with Angel.
** Sahjhan learns it the hard way, despite his relentless [[TheChessmaster chessmastering]].
* YankTheDogsChain: The happier Angel is, the worse things are going to turn out.
* YearInsideHourOutside: After coming back from the Oracle's realm, Doyle assumes the incantation never worked as Angel only appeared gone for a moment.
* YouAreInCommandNow: Lawson is briefly put in charge of a captured German submarine following the murder of his captain by Spike. Once aboard, Angel assumes control of the sub thanks to the command codes provided for him by the U.S. military.
* YouHaveNoIdeaWhoYoureDealingWith: A skinhead vampire gets in Angel's face for proposing a truce between his pack and Gunn's street gang. Without so much as blinking, Angel [[OffhandBackhand jams a stake through him]] ("I wasn't actually talking to you.") and proceeds with the rest of his speech.
* YouAreTooLate: Invoked in the very first episode, for cripes' sake.
** The same thing happens to Angel again in "The Prodigal": Realizing Kate's father is in danger, Angel rushes over to his apartment, but is unable to convince Trevor to invite him in. Angel is then forced to watch as Trevor is killed by his vampire associates, who were invited inside a mere minute earlier.
** The good guys seem to be constantly running late in Season Four. Angel and co. fail to catch The Beast before he blots out the sun, prevent the deaths of the Ra-Tet (one of whom is massacred right under their noses), or stop Cordelia from birthing Jasmine. In the case of the latter, Angel makes it in time to stop Cordelia and raises his sword to kill her, but hesitates for a crucial moment.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: In the end, Holtz was engaging in actions that were the reason he hated Angelus and Darla in the first place.
* YouCanKeepHer: Jack [=McNamara=] steps a bit too close to the red line in "The Ring", giving Angel an opportunity to grab him without disintegrating. When Jack's brother (Darin) shows up, Angel demands to be set free or he'll break Jack's neck. Darin casually pulls a gun and shoots his brother, and Angel is knocked out by a barrage of [[StunGuns cattle prods]].
* YouKilledMyFather: Adopted father in this case, but Holtz kills himself to deliberately set Connor against Angel because of this reasoning.
* YouKnowImBlackRight: Cordelia calls up Willow (from ''Buffy'') to inquire about Harmony's weird behavior... before learning that Harmony's been turned into a vampire during her absence. Along with some [[SuddenlySexuality other developments]].
-->'''Cordelia:''' ''(on the phone)'' Oh! Harmony's a vampire! All this time I thought she'd become a great big lesbo! ''(beat)'' Oh. Really? ...well, that's great! Good for you!
-->'''Willow:''' [[SarcasmMode Thanks for the validation]].
* YouLookFamiliar: Harriet Doyle's rebound boyfriend, Richard Straley, is played by Carlos Jacott. He previously played Ken, another (seemingly) milquetoast villain on Season 3 of ''Buffy'' ("Anne") and would later appear in the first two episodes of ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' as Lawrence Dobson.
** The guy who played Knox previously played Holden in ''Buffy'' ("Conversations With Dead People") and Kal Penn played an obnoxious college student in "Beer Bad" before appearing in ''Angel'' as a guy with an exposed brain.
** The "Mustard" guy (executive producer David Fury) from "Once More With Feeling" reappears on "Smile Time" as the human puppet.
** Weatherby, of the Watchers' Council's Special Ops members, later played a similarly ruthless agent as one of the "Hands of Blue" in ''Firefly''.
* YouNeedToGetLaid
* YouRemindMeOfX: Penn selects his victims based on their physical resemblance to his family members. Like Angel says, he's "been getting back at (his) father for over 200 years."
** Holland delivers this spiel to Lindsey in "Blind Date", implying that he once had an IgnoredEpiphany of his own.
** Faith's journey is an obvious parallel to Angel's, even moreso when she becomes TheAtoner. Angel's rehabilitation of her is a CallBack to his earlier (thwarted) attempt to do so in the third season of ''Buffy''.
* YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo: Wesley's reaction to the Watcher Council's Ops Team after they go back on their word to protect Angel from harm. Ha ha....no. ("Sanctuary")
* YouWillBeAssimilated: Despite his non-threatening appearance, Barney is an auctioneer of stolen body parts from demons and other empowered beings.
* YouTasteDelicious: Lorne, after he's obliged to swill down some of Sebassis' favorite beverage.
* YourHeadAsplode: Illyria dispatches Cyvus Vail in this manner.
* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: This is the gist of Season Four. By episode 16, Angel and co. have bested Wolfram & Hart, the demon hordes, the Beast, ''and'' Angelus, and it's looking like the job is finally sewn up. -- O hai [[HiddenVillain Preggo Cordy]].
** As Angel later learns, the heroes didn't really accomplish anything. Jasmine was busy snuffing out every supervillain in L.A., because she wants to be the only game in town.
* YourVampiresSuck: Angel's irate reaction to anyone who mentions coffins.
** After Angel confesses to being a vampire, Rebecca reacts in true Hollywood fashion: by listing off famous actors who have played vampires (Creator/BelaLugosi and Creator/GaryOldman). Angel remarks under his breath that "Frank Langella was the only performance I ''believed''..."
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* ZombieApocalypse: In the fourth season, Wolfram & Hart becomes a ZombieApocalypse in a single building: Security Voodoo to hit anyone after a major attack.
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