History Angel / TropesPToZ

* PurpleEyes: Princess Jhiera, along with the rest of the Oden Tal.

* 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.

* [[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.

** "A Hole in the World". A primordial evil known as Illyria devours [[spoiler: Fred]] whole, and [[spoiler: takes over her body]]; Gunn's actions in the previous episode turned out to be the cause of these events happening, so he takes his anger out on [[spoiler: [[TheMole Knoc]]; and the cute stuffed animal Higgenbotham introduced at the start as Fred's security blanket, [[spoiler: when at the end she tearfully begs that she needs Higgenbotham, but Illyria has devoured so much of Fred's soul that Fred realizes that she no longer remembers who Higgenbotham is]], and throws a third ChekhovsGun onto the heap with Lorne, whose behavior the rest of the ep seems out of character: He threatens Eve, and [[spoiler: tells her to run away after sensing her grim future]].

** "A Hole in the World". A primordial evil devours [[spoiler: Fred]] whole; and the cute stuffed animal Higgenbotham introduced at the start as Fred's security blanket, [[spoiler: when at the end she tearfully begs that she needs Higgenbotham, but Illyria has devoured so much of Fred's soul that Fred realizes that she no longer remembers who Higgenbotham is]], and throws a third ChekhovsGun onto the heap with Lorne, whose behavior the rest of the ep seems out of character: he violently decks someone when before he was a pacifist, and is almost hesitant about seeking his contacts for help.

** "Apocalypse, Nowish/Habeas Corpses": Angel and his team are unable to prevent the apocalypse from happening, as The Beast takes all of them out and causes fire to rain down all over LA. [[spoiler: And then he storms Wolfram & Hart and massacres everyone but Lilah]]. If that's not enough, Connor and Cordelia have sex, and Wesley breaks up with Lilah only to rejoin Angel Investigations.
** "Awakening": Angel voluntarily gives up his soul to help his team find a way to defeat The Beast, causing him to become Angelus again.

** "Apocalypse, Nowish": Angel and his team are unable to stop the Apocalypse, as The Beast arrives to cause fire to rain down all over LA. And then in the next episode, the Beast completely destroys Wolfram & Hart.

** "Tomorrow": Angel and Cordelia realize that they have feelings for each other, but before they can do anything about it, [[spoiler: Connor traps Angel in a cage at the bottom of the ocean, and Cordelia is taken off to a higher plan of existence.]] And if that's not enough, Wesley sleeps with Lilah, Lorne and the Groosalugg leave, and Fred and Gunn are left at the hotel unable to contact ''anyone''.

** "Hi, [[spoiler: dad.]]"

** "Happy Anniversary": Downplayed, but Angel reveals to Lorne that he fired his team to keep them away from that kind of dark territory, as he thought it would do more damage to them than firing them and staying away from them, despite that they would've rather prevented Angel from doing anything as horrible (or more horrible) as what he did to Wolfram & Hart's lawyers, as they cared about him. But Angel was better at choosing who cares about him than Daisy "Quake" Johnson was in the Ghost Rider arc of Season 4 of ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''. It worked best on Cordelia, who said "I don't know who you are anymore!" in a later episode, when Angel reluctantly used force when trying to look up something for his mission, and still refused to ever explain why he fired them.

** "Lineage" reveals just how drastically Wesley's changed from his introduction in Buffy. He's gone from a stuttering, smitten, stickler for rules to a man whom his father points out is working for the enemy, and who ends up [[spoiler: gunning down his father without hesitation when the man threatens Fred, to Wesley's own horror]]. When Fred offers up that Wesley must've known deep down that [[spoiler: his father was a robot, Wesley corrects her, saying he was absolutely certain he was killing the real deal]]. In a lesser series this would've meant Fred realized the depths of his affection for her, but not on ''Angel''. [[spoiler: Wesley spends the final moments of the episode awkwardly trying to reconcile with his abusive father, who angrily and dismissively admonishes his son for calling him at such an early hour.]]

** "Happy Anniversary": Downplayed, but Angel reveals to Lorne that he fired his team to keep them away from that kind of dark territory, as he thought it would do more damage to them than firing them and staying away from them, despite that they would've rather prevented Angel from doing anything as horrible (or more horrible) as what he did to Wolfram & Hart's lawyers, as they cared about him. But Angel was better at choosing who cares about him than Daisy "Quake" Johnson was in the Ghost Rider arc of Season 4 of ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''. It worked best on Cordelia, who said "I don't know who you are anymore!" in a previous, when Angel reluctantly used force when trying to look up something for his mission, and still refused to ever explain why he fired them.
** "A Hole in the World". A primordial evil devours [[spoiler: Fred]] whole; and the cute stuffed animal Higgenbotham introduced at the start as Fred's security blanket, [[spoiler: when at the end she tearfully begs that she needs Higgenbotham, but Illyria has devoured so much of Fred's soul that Fred realizes that she no longer remembers who Higgenbotham is]], and throws a third ChekhovsGun onto the heap with Lorne, whose behavior the rest of the ep seems out of character: he violently decks someone when before he was a pacifist, and is almost hesitant about seeking his contacts for help.

** And later Angel/Cordelia and Wesley/Fred. [[spoiler: Bothwomen [[YankTheDogsChain die at the point of resolution]]]].

* WHAMEpisode: For starters, "Hero", "Reunion", "Reprise", "Sleep Tight"/"Forgiving", "Home", A Hole In The World".

* SoftGlass: Prettty much required given Angel's fondness for [[SuperWindowJump SuperWindowJumps]].

* SoftspokenSadist: Marcus ("In the Dark"). He sounds like the guy who sells you Chakra stones.

-->'''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.

* PlayAlongPrisoner: Faith. She could totally [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome somersault through that intercom glass divider]] if she wanted.

* 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.

* 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.