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[[folder:The Senior Partners[=/=]Wolfram & Hart - Attorneys at Law]]
!!The Senior Partners
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A powerful international and interdimensional law firm. Wolfram & Hart, and its many incarnations in other dimensions, was actually a front organization for the Wolf, Ram and Hart, an ancient cabal of demons known euphemistically as the "Senior Partners" who worked through their powerful principal agents—the Circle of the Black Thorn.

Wolfram & Hart branches, such as the Los Angeles branch, were created over unconsecrated ground. As of 2004, the firm had branches in every major city in the world, as well as satellite offices in many areas of the world where they helped spread oppression and evil.
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* AmoralAttorney: They believe entirely in the cause of evil. And they represent it in court.
* AnimalMotifs: The Wolf, the Ram and the Hart.
* AncientConspiracy[=/=]BeenThereShapedHistory: Holland boasts the firm has been present ever since the first caveman murdered his neighbor. Institutions like the Spanish Inquisition and the Khmer Rouge have either been influenced by W&H or ''been'' W&H, indicating they have been influencing humanity towards violence and abuse of power forever.
* ArmyOfLawyers: They're an evil law firm, after all.
* AsLongAsThereIsEvil: Without evil residing in the hearts of every human alive, the firm could not exist.
* BadBoss: The firm is known for its unforgiving treatment of its employees. Like forcing them to eat their own livers as punishment for poor performance.
* BigBad: The main antagonists of the entire series, with Angel's main goal being to put a dent in their plans. The Partners usually serve as [[GreaterScopeVillain Greater Scope Villains]] that never get directly involved, [[spoiler: but step down to serve as this for the ''Spike'' [=IDW=] series]].
* BodySurf: The Partners are unable to inhabit our dimension while in their native forms, instead manifesting in the bodies of "lower demons" or using living mouthpieces.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Of a sort.
* DestinationDefenestration: No sooner does a Partner materialize in front of its employees, that Angel lunges for its throat and tackles it through a window.
* DimensionLord: The monks of Pylea are hinted to be acolytes.
* EldritchAbomination: Extradimensional [[RealityWarper reality warpers]] capable of doing things like ''[[spoiler: dumping Los Angeles in a Hell dimension'' then just as easily reversing it.]], as well as the fact that they cannot manifest on Earth without taking a lesser form and intense ritual preparation, as they are simply too powerful to do it.
* EldritchLocation: Euphemistically known as the "Home Office." [[spoiler:Eventually subverted. When Angel demands to be taken there, it's revealed that Earth is the home office, the source of the firm's power.]]
* EvilInc: The patent holder of ''cancer'' is a client.
* EvilVirtues: Honesty. At Wolfram & Hart, the deal is king: they never break an agreement. This sometimes means they are capable of doing the right thing, albeit for wrong reasons. Better make sure the agreement is [[ExactWords very carefully worded]], though.
* ExtranormalInstitute
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Back in Illyria's time, they were weaklings who were barely superior to vampires. Now, they're extradimensional beings who practically control the world.
* {{Greater Scope Villain}}s: Angel spends the whole show and all his strength trying to grind their operation to a halt, even for a moment, by destroying their means of influencing Earth. Optimistically, he was ''just'' successful enough to make them focus their attention upon him. The downside would be that [[DoNotTauntCthulhu he now has their attention]]. As of Season 9, their machinations are now starting to affect Buffy and the Scoobies too.
* IHaveManyNames: "[[UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition The Inquisition]]" and "the Khmer Rouge" being among them. It's not even certain if Wolf, Ram & Hart are just pseudonyms. Lilah reports on having met with a "Mr. Suvarta" right before she [[spoiler:decapitates Linwood]]. Though given that Illyria knew them as the Wolf, Ram & Hart during her time, it's likely those are their original names.
* IWantThemAlive: They have big-time plans for Angel, and killing him is strictly off-limits. Of course, that doesn't stop some subordinates from trying to do so.
* InvincibleVillain: Since the departure of the Old Ones, they've been shaping society so that they can never be permanently beaten. Angel spends five seasons, all his strength and the lives of several friends fighting them. In the end, all he can do is inconvenience them enough that they decide to expend the effort required to crush him.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: After years of being untouchable, in the tie-in comics Angel finally manages to kill one and through some trickery banish the other two to another dimension.
* LawEnforcementInc: Have their own special ops outfit.
* LiteralMinded: In one instance, several employees were reported to have been sacked with actual sacks, and Knox mentioned that on at least one occasion they literally [[ManOnFire fired]] an employee. As mentioned by Harmony, there are also non-Human resources.
* TheMarvelousDeer: A dark invocation of the trope, as the Hart's sigil is, of course, a stag, or as Wesley put it "a hart"
* {{Megacorp}}: Although ostensibly a law firm, they also maintain departments of real estate, entertainment, [[{{Magitek}} transmutational science]], and [[ExpospeakGag Interment Acquisitions]] (read: {{grave robbing}}).
* MouthOfSauron: The Conduit. An assortment of Wolfram & Hart brass also fill this role, most notably Marcus Hamilton and Holland Manners.
* OccultLawFirm: Of the nefarious variety.
* PragmaticVillainy: In "Sense and Sensitivity," they refusesto help mobster Little Tony after he attempts to shoot up a police station. They consider him TooDumbToLive, and it would be next to impossible to defend, let alone acquit, a CopKiller.
* ResignationsNotAccepted: [[spoiler:Lee Mercer was rudely awakened to this policy while attempting to jump ship to a rival firm. When they found out during a telepathic scan, they promptly [[BoomHeadshot blew his brains out]].]] Every employee signs a "perpetuity clause" in their contracts, meaning that if they die in the firm's service, they will continue to work as undead.
* RuleOfThree: The Wolf, the Ram, and the Hart.
* SavageWolves: The Wolf
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: As CEO, Angel offhandedly remarks that they kinda, sorta... "own" the police.
* TakeThat: Along with ties to fictional corporations like [[Franchise/{{Alien}} Weyland-Yutani]] and [[Film/TheAdventuresOfBuckarooBanzaiAcrossThe8thDimension Yoyodyne]], Wolfram & Hart also works with [[Creator/FoxNewsChannel Newscorp]].
* TookALevelInBadAss: Granted, it took them potentially millions of years; Illyria was aware of the original Wolf, Ram and Hart in her own time - but they were to ultimate evil as vampires are to them in the present day. It's immediately pointed out to her that things have rather changed in the intervening aeons.
* UltimateEvil: Never properly seen (or heard) on-screen, due to the writers' belief that nothing could match whatever the viewer's imagination conjures up. That said, a Senior Partner ''does'' briefly manifest in the body of a lower demon during the company's annual "review" meeting in "Reprise."
* VillainCred: Even Sahjhan is familiar with the firm's reputation, being as it exists in other dimensions, as well.
* TheVillainKnowsWhereYouLive: On the [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/buffy/angel/wolframandhart/ Wolfram & Hart]] website, if you go to the page to fill out a job application, it simply reads "We know where to contact you. Expect a visit from our recruiters soon."
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: While many of their clients are rich or powerful, the firm is also known to work some cases ''pro bono'', especially when it has an ulterior interest in the client. Lilah even gave the keynote speech at a public school just to get close to a young telekinetic. Holland's division sponsored a high-profile charity event with the intention of [[FakeCharity stealing upwards of 95% of the funds raised]].
-->''"Can we really change the world? At Wolfram & Hart, We're Counting On It.''™"
[[/folder]]

!The Circle of the Black Thorn

[[folder:In General]]
!!The Circle of the Black Thorn

The agents of the Senior Partners on Earth, the Circle are their direct representatives and thus perhaps singularly the most powerful evil force on the planet. Only the most vile of creatures are accepted into their ranks; given the firm's interest in having Angel on their side of the apocalypse, seeing him corrupted enough to be worthy of the Circle is a fond wish. Individual members appear throughout the fifth series, though it is not until near the end that their commonality is actually revealed ahead of the final confrontation.
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* AffablyEvil: They all seem to get along with each other well enough. Even their entry rituals come across as social mixers.
* BigBadDuumvirate: With Hamilton for Season 5.
* CosmopolitanCouncil: They're a varied group, incorporating demon royalty, vampires (once Angel joins), sorcerors, and even a few humans.
* TheDragon: To the Senior Partners, a role they apparently share to some extent with Marcus Hamilton (though the Circle has more power, since Hamilton is just the liaison).
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: They force Angel to sign away his rights to the Shanshu Prophecy to ensure that he would not betray them. It never occurs to them that Angel would kill them simply for the sake of doing good rather than for a divine reward, and that brings about their downfall.
* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: [[spoiler:It's not directly specified whether it was Angel's idea or the Circle's (the trope being invoked if the former, played straight if the latter), but their torturing and his murdering so pure and noble a warrior as Drogyn the Battlebrand is this trope.]]
* InitiationCeremony: [[spoiler:Angel's is the murder of Drogyn the Battlebrand.]]
* NoNameGiven: The human members of the Circle are unnamed.
* OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: That they're incredibly powerful and evil is made clear, what specifically their role as Wolfram & Hart's "agents on earth" entails is not. Basically, they seem to make the world [[DeathByAThousandCuts progressively more unpleasant]] to live in.
* {{Red Herring Shirt}}s: Angel encounters each one separately throughout Season 5.
* SecretCircleOfSecrets: Naturally. They even have chants and Venetian robes.
* SpikesOfVillainy: Their logo. ('Cause, you know, thorns.)
* TrojanHorse: How the Circle are defeated. [[spoiler: Angel manages to fake a FaceHeelTurn convincingly enough for the Circle to let him join; insodoing, he's able to identify their members, and arrange for them to be assassinated separately by different members of his own team.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sebassis]]
!!Archduke Sebassis
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[[caption-width-right:250:''"Yes. Fine. Sycophants, worms. Don't writhe all at once."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/LelandCrooke

A powerful and feared demon of an unidentified species and a member of the Circle of the Black Thorn.
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* AristocratsAreEvil: He's an Archduke, and also the unofficial leader of the Circle of the Black Thorn.
* BlueBlood: Both figuratively and literally. He and the rest of his demon species has blue-colored blood that they drink like wine from their lower-class slaves. Also as a demon aristocrat, Sebassis is as pompous and decadent as they come.
* ChekhovsGunman: He initially appears alongside many demons at the Wolfram & Hart party, and his importance is not revealed until later.
* DeadpanSnarker: Lightly, but it's there.
-->'''Lorne:''' Somehow, I'm making people do things, and I'm controlling them.
-->'''Sebassis:''' Well, then, Pylean, you're making me kill you. Is that consistent with your theory?
* AGlassOfChianti: His race are blood-drinkers just like vampires, he drinks the blue blood of his slave in a glass like wine. [[spoiler:Angel uses this method to kill him]].
* KneelBeforeZod: Plenty of demons kneel before him when he appears. Sebassis, for his part, treats this like something he's obligated to do.
* MonsterLord: Sebassis is considered something close to royalty about demons.
* SnarkToSnarkCombat: With Angel, when they first meet.
-->'''Sebassis:''' So... this is the mighty Angel. I've been told many things about you. Bit of a restless frog, hmm? Making lots of waves in your little swamp.
-->'''Angel:''' Yeah, well, I'm just trying to keep the fly population down.
-->'''Sebassis:''' Yes. Though I do prefer the tales of your counterpart Angelus. Ah, you had flair back then, child.
-->'''Angel:''' Well, I guess we all mellow in our old age.
-->'''Sebassis:''' Your contempt is fragrant.
* WallOfWeapons: He has one behind a sliding door.
* WasntThatFun: At a Halloween party where people are terrified, a monster goes on the loose and one of Sebassis' own people is brutally killed...he decides the party was a success and he had quite a nice time.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Vail]]
!!Cyvus Vail
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[[caption-width-right:250:''"Now, then, let me show you what a real wizard can do."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/DennisChristopher

A demon and a powerful sorcerer, not to mention a member of the Circle of the Black Thorn. Despite his frail and elderly appearance, he proves to be a formidable enemy of Team Angel.
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* ChekhovsGunman: He makes an early appearance and later turns out to be important indeed.
* EvilOldFolks: Vail appears to be an elderly old man (with demonic red skin of course) and considering how old demons can be, he might very well be one of the oldest characters ever seen in the Buffyverse.
* EvilSorceror: And an incredibly powerful one at that.
* HeroKiller: He kills [[spoiler:Wesley]] in the final episode.
* ObfuscatingDisability: [[spoiler:He's always seen with his IV and has trouble without it, but when it comes to his fight with Wesley, he discards it rather easily.]]
* TemptingFate: [[spoiler:Unaware that the sweet, pretty young lady he's threatening is actually an Old One with incredible power, he invites her to take her best shot. As it turns out, her best shot is pretty damn good.]]
* YourHeadAsplode: [[spoiler:Illyria punches his head into nothing.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Brucker]]
!!Senator Helen Brucker
->'''Played By:''' Creator/StaceyTravis

A California Senator, client of the law firm Wolfram & Hart and, secretly, a member of the Circle of the Black Thorn and a demon.
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* CorruptPolitician: She's naturally this, given that she's actually a demon who's taken over a human body (quite probably, Magnus Hainsley was responsible).
* CadreOfForeignBodyguards: Sort of, Brucker is a demon herself but being in a human body means she can be killed like any other so has a cadre of vampire bodyguards who also serve as campaign staff.
* KilledMidSentence: [[spoiler:Gunn throws an axe into her head while she's conducting a phone interview.]]
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Of Hillary Clinton.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: She's the only female member of the member of the Circle, assuming of course that she was female ''before'' being implanted in her human body.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Izzerial]]
!!Izzerial "Izzy"
->'''Played By:''' Creator/MarkColson

* AffablyEvil: He comes across as an upwardly-mobile professional involved with networking. Listen to the character without looking at him, and, aside from the occasional reference to death, you'd be pushed to guess he's a demon.
* {{Expy}}: A very obvious one for Satan. Aside from the name, he's a red demon with a forked tail.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ed]]
!!Ed, Leader of the Fell Brethren
->'''Played By:''' Creator/JeffYagher

The Grand Potentate of the Fell Brethren and a member of the Circle of the Black Thorn. As a symbol of his status, he wore a more ornate version of the jewels worn by his brethren.
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* BaldOfEvil: A powerful evil with no hair
%%* DealWithTheDevil
* FauxAffablyEvil: He politely requests an organic cola, is caring and warm toward the holy child's mother, and generally acts pretty friendly...but it's all a facade. Ed is a lying fundamentalist killer.
* TomTheDarkLord: A demon cult leader with a common human name.
* HumanSacrifice: The rites of Gordabach.
[[/folder]]

!Connections to the Senior Partners

[[folder:The Conduit]]
!!The Conduit to the Senior Partners
->'''Played By:''' Creator/KayPanabaker & Creator/JAugustRichards
->''"I like trouble. But I hate chaos."'' -- Mesektet
->''"I am not your '''friend'''. I am not your flunky. I am your Conduit to the Senior Partners."'' -- The Big Cat in Gunn's form

A position filled by evil being of enormous power that serves as a Mouth of Sauron to the Senior Partners. The first Conduit was Mesektet, one of the Ra-Tet (a family of avatars of the god Ra). The second Conduit was an unnamed being.
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* AppearanceIsInTheEyeOfTheBeholder: [[spoiler:The second Conduit. It reverts to Gunn's shape after Gunn unknowingly arranges the death of Fred.]]
* CatsAreMean: "Big Cat."
* CreepyChild: Mesektet, the first Conduit.
* EldritchLocation: The "White Room."
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Lilah's timid about entering the White Room, mostly because of one employee who went in there and ended up in an asylum as a result.
* GradeSchoolCEO: Mesektet looks very young indeed to be a major figure within EvilInc, though it is unlikely she's actually a young child; she definitely doesn't talk like one.
* LittleMissBadass: Mesektet.
* LittleMissSnarker: Once again, as Mesektet.
* MadeOfEvil: ''Nuclear'' evil.
* MissingFloor: The White Room is accessed by hitting a specific sequence of elevator buttons.
* MouthOfSauron: To the Senior Partners.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: On Gunn, when he tries to get the Conduit's help in saving Fred. It doesn't take kindly to him trying to use it for his own needs.
* PantheraAwesome: The "Big Cat" form.
* PiecesOfGod: Mesektet is a member of The Ra-Tet, a mystical order of five enormously powerful (except for the neutral totem), immortal beings who were "totems" or symbolic manifestations of the Egyptian sun god, Ra. As a whole, The Ra-Tet where a minor example of a CosmicKeystone considering they were created to to protect the sun, rendering it insusceptible to earth-bound incantations and the like. To use magic to affect the sun, one had to retrieve each of the talismans hidden within their bodies, which would require killing all of the Ra-tet. Despite their immense power, [[spoiler: The Beast ultimately killed all five totems and retrieved each talisman. With them, the Beast was able to perform a ritual that blocked out the sun, casting Los Angeles into darkness and threatening the entire world.]] Morality wise, [[DarkIsEvil Mesektet]] is described as the darkest of the five Totems (Considering she willingly works for Wolfram and Hart, this is not a exageration in any way) and fellow Totem Manjet considers her particulary vicious.
* ReadingsAreOffTheScale: Gunn borrowing a 'whisker.'
* Really700YearsOld
* ReplacementGoldfish: The second Conduit.
* SpellMyNameWithAThe
* ScaryBlackMan: [=DoppelGunn=].
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Blithely instructing Angel to snap Lilah's neck... which he moves to oblige, completely nonchalant, until she giggles and calls him off at the last second.
* VillainousRescue: [[spoiler:Mesektet's last act was saving Angel and Co. from The Beast during its attack on Wolfram and Hart.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Hamilton]]
!!Marcus Hamilton
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[[caption-width-right:250:''"It's a business, boys. Not a Batcave."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/AdamBaldwin

-->''"Let me say this as clearly as I can. You cannot beat me. I am a part of them. The Wolf, Ram, and Hart. Their strength flows through my veins. My blood is filled with their ancient power."''

The replacement liaison for Eve following her collusion with Lindsay to kill Angel -- a big no-no as far as the the Senior Partners are concerned. Like Eve, Hamilton shares a direct line with the Partners, though he is vastly more powerful.
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* ArtificialHuman: Like Eve, he's implied to be a Child of the Senior Partners.
* BadassInANiceSuit: Even Angel agrees that it's a ''nice'' suit.
* BigBadDuumvirate: With the Circle of the Black Thorn.
* CorporateSamurai: He's equally at home busting down walls or gladhanding clients.
* TheConsigliere: To Angel who is pretending to have become corrupted by the firm.
* DeadpanSnarker: It's a WorldOfSnark, after all. All things considered he's a mild example, more deadpan, less snark, but he gets in some pretty good digs.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: He lays a brutal beatdown on Illyria, an EldritchAbomination PhysicalGod.
-->'''Marcus:''' I gotta tell you, I'm a little disappointed. Didn't think a big scary Old One bled this easily. Maybe it's this skinny little body you chose to infect. Or maybe it's that ray gun they shot you with to keep you from exploding. [[PunctuatedPounding Or maybe you're just not that cool]].
* TheDragon: As close to the Senior Partners as Angel and company ever get, though it's suggested that Marcus and by extension Wolfram & Hart's offices on Earth are all actually very ''low'' on the cosmic totem pole.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: He spends an entire episode hunting down Eve, slaughtering anyone in his way... just to offer her a pen to sign away her duties and privileges to him.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Lampshaded during the FinalBattle, where he asks Angel ''why'' the latter continues to fight despite having signed away his rights to the Shanshu Prophecy. Angel retorts that "[[PatrickStewartSpeech The people who don't care about anything will never understand the people who do.]]" Hamilton punches him across the room and deadpans, "[[ShutUpKirk Yeah, but we won't care.]]"
* EvilSoundsDeep: Adam Baldwin's usual baritone in the body of a merciless killing machine in service to Wolfram & Hart.
* ExplainingYourPowerToTheEnemy: Gloating that his blood is imbued with the power of the Senior Partners to a ''vampire'' of all beings wasn't exactly a smart move. Angel even lampshades it before taking a nice, long, refreshing drink.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He's impeccably polite, but is an unrepentant killer in service to what amount to gods of evil on a cosmic scale. Only Hamilton could chat about torture devices and sound like Martha Stewart.
* GeniusBruiser: He's a lawyer. A ''very large'' lawyer, but he's still intimately familiar with contracts, deals, fine print and associated scheming.
* TheHeavy: Sent in when Wolfram & Hart decide to try the stick, he's the face and muscle of the perpetually offscreen Senior Partners. Along with the Circle of the Black Thorn, he gives Team Angel a target to punch and serves as the final onscreen fight of the entire series.
* HumanoidAbomination: Like Eve, he's neither demon nor human, but a Child of the Senior Partners. Illyria refers to him as "that creature".
* ImplacableMan: Especially in his introduction, which is scripted and filmed as if he's the demonic equivalent of Film/TheTerminator.
* TheJuggernaut: His cred is established when he walks into the foyer of [=W&H=] and serenely ''puts his fist through'' a security guard trying to waylay him, then continues on without so much as a change in expression. When Angel starts fighting him, his first punch doesn't even get a reaction from the guy.
-->'''Angel''': Did that hurt at all?\\
'''Hamilton''': Little bit. ''[punches Angel across the room]''
* LoadBearingBoss: Wolfram & Hart's offices immediately crumble the moment he bites the dust. Mainly because that's the point when the Senior Partners realize what Angel's up to and that's when they begin to get ''angry'', not because of anything related to Hamilton himself.
* NeckSnap: How he dies: Angel punches him in the face so hard that his neck breaks.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: He stupidly gloats to Angel, a ''vampire'' of all beings, that his blood is filled with the ancient power of the Senior Partners. Angel lampshades it before biting and drinking from him.
* NighInvulnerability: "Terminator in Armani" was used to describe him, and it is apt.
* OneManArmy: Try to imagine an M-1 tank in Armani.
* ThePowerOfBlood: His blood is imbued with the power of the Senior Partners, granting him strength that surpasses that of a vampire of -- at least -- Angel's age. The fact that his power is literally [[ExactWords in his blood]] proves to be the key to defeating him.
* PunchedAcrossTheRoom: His go-to move.
* Really700YearsOld: Previously acquainted with Drogyn, an immortal swordsman who's been alive for at least 1000 years.
-->'''Hamilton''': Oh, we go ''way'' back.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: He gives one to Angel in "Not Fade Away".
-->'''Marcus:''' The Senior Partners have expended an awful lot of time and resources into you. Personally, if it was up to me, I would have told them not to bother. You're gutter trash. That's where you should have stayed. Drinking and whoring your way through an unremarkable life. But the fates stepped in and made you a vampire... with a soul, no less. A champion. A hero to the people. And yet, you still managed to fail everyone around you. Doyle, Cordelia, Fred... dead. They're all gone. It's time you followed.
* RedHerring: During the whole episode “Underneath” one is led to believe that Marcus actually ''is'' a Senior Partner, thanks to Eve's reaction to him. This is not the case.
* ShutUpKirk: Runs on these, the better to wear down the heroes' will. They can't fight him physically, but as Wolfram & Hart has done from the start, Hamilton stresses that submission to evil is the only ''reasonable'' course of action.
* SupernaturallyDeliciousAndNutritious: Hamilton makes the grave mistake of telling Angel, a vampire, that great power flows through his ''veins''. Angel immediately decides to find out if this is literally true. It is. Whoops.
* TomTheDarkLord: A HumanoidAbomination with a slightly PreppyName. Applies to every lawyer at Wolfram & Hart to some degree, but most of them are human -- Marcus Hamilton is a Child of the Senior Partners, and in effect a kind of demigod.
* UnskilledButStrong: It's rather clear that Angel's the better fighter even if Hamilton is stronger. After Angel gets supercharged from drinking the blood of the Senior Partners from Hamilton's neck, he takes the big man down in under a minute.
* VillainousLineage: As a Child of the Senior Partners, evil runs in the family and [[ThePowerOfBlood flows through his veins]].
[[/folder]]

!Lawyers

[[folder:Lilah]]
!!Lilah Morgan
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[[caption-width-right:250:''"I don't do errands. Unless they're evil errands."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/StephanieRomanov

-->''"Funny thing about [[BlackAndWhiteMorality black and white]], you mix it together and you get grey. And it doesn't matter how much'' white ''you try and put back in, you're never gonna get anything but grey."''

Another Wolfram & Hart lawyer, she is the rival of Lindsey, the two often vying with each other internally, when they're not trying to make Angel's life miserable. After Lindsey's departure, she begins to climb up the ladder at W&H, bringing her into conflict with Angel time and time again.
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* ActionSurvivor: [[spoiler:Sometimes skirting this and ActionGirl. The Beast slaughters every employee at Wolfram & Hart -- ''except'' Lilah. She escapes the building with Wesley's help, then later turns up in the sewers, sans stylish clothes and shampoo. She's also pretty handy with a gun, and manages to fight off and escape Angelus. Had Cordy not been possessed, Lilah likely would have survived.]]
* AffablyEvil: Her interactions with Angel don't really show this (mostly because they transparently hate each other), but there are times when Lilah shows a certain charm and courtesy. It mostly comes out with her clients and with Wesley.
* AmbitionIsEvil: Arguably, the reason she outlasts the other lawyers is because of her sex. She's had to be "quicker, smarter, faster" than any man at Wolfram & Hart.
* AmoralAttorney: By default, since she's from Wolfram & Hart.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:An interesting case, since her contract with Wolfram & Hart extends even past her death.]]
* BecomingTheMask: She cheerfully admits to this.
* BeingEvilSucks: Lilah lives in essentially constant fear that she'll either be betrayed by her co-workers and killed, scapegoated by a superior and killed, or that Angel will get pissed and kill her. The closest things she has to friends are Team Angel and Lindsey, all of whom are her enemies, [[spoiler:and her ultimate fate is arguably even worse than Fred's, who at least can no longer suffer.]] All of this was entirely her ''choice'', mind you - but given the show's themes about redemption, one can't help but wonder if changing her decision really was completely beyond her. As she herself points out in the end, we'll never know for sure.
* BigDamnHeroes: In return for Cordelia helping her get over being beaten by Billy's victims, she shoots the latter, saving Cordelia in the process.
* CardCarryingVillain: Unapologetically places herself on the side of evil, accepting all its consequences.
* CharacterDevelopment: Starts out as a SmugSnake who's utterly useless compared to Lindsey, and is constantly afraid of Angel. Over the course of Season 2 and 3, she develops into a much stronger character, stealing Lindwood's position, being able to stare Angel down as an equal, and even shows a more sensitive side with her relationship with Wesley.
* CoDragons: With Lindsey. And later his off-brand substitute, Gavin.
* DatingCatwoman: Things get awfully complicated between her and Wesley. More complicated than either of them had ever really imagined it getting.
* DeadpanSnarker: Reaches tremendous levels during the fight against The Beast.
* DefrostingIceQueen: It's suggested at a few points that she's fallen in love with Wesley. This is ironic, since the whole point of Lilah's seduction was to lure Wesley over to Wolfram & Hart. Their liaisons end up transforming him into a bone fide Ice King, albeit until he makes amends with the gang, while Lilah's true feelings go unreciprocated.
* TheDogBitesBack: Linwood treats her and Gavin as walking scapegoats during Season 3, shifting blame for his own humiliating defeats to the pair of them without a hint of shame. In Season 4, Lilah goes to a Senior Partner who agrees with her about Linwood's incompetence and cowardice...resulting in Lilah cutting off his head with some office furniture.
* EmotionallyTongueTied: She never does manage to blurt out her feelings for Wesley. Her 'ghost' tries to, but Wesley cuts her off by decapitating her corpse.
* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:Joins with Angel Investigations in Season 4 to help fight against The Beast/Angelus/Jasmine. She also helps Cordelia fight Billy Blim.]]
* [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas Even Lawyers Love Their Mamas]]: She has mentioned that her mother has Alzheimer's and is in a nursing home; in one episode they have a phone conversation, during which the mother apparently starts crying when she's told Lilah can't visit that day.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:Her point-blank execution of Billy Blim, one of her own clients. Of course, this might be because she was personally hurt by Billy.]]
* {{Expy}}: She's very similar to ComicBook/EmmaFrost. They both seem to be seemingly businesswomen with irreproachable functions but which show themselves sinister and calculators. Because of their social and professional status, their enemies cannot stop them by the strength, at the risk of showing themselves too in the eyes of the majority of people. Also, Lilah's involvement with Bethany Chaulks is similar to Frost with The Hellions, her class of young mutants.
* {{Foil}}: To Angel.
* HeelFaceDoorSlam: [[spoiler:Her short-lived alliance with Angel Investigations.]]
* HelloAttorney: Lilah is damn sexy, as is observed by a few characters, not least of all Wesley.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: She blackmails Angel into breaking AxCrazy StrawMisogynist Billy Blim out of a PrisonDimension... only for Billy to touch her rival Gavin Park and provoke him into brutally beating her, which results in her helping Angel Investigations take him down.
* InsultBackfire: On one occasion, Cordelia flat-out calls her a "vicious bitch" to her face. Lilah's response?
-->'''Lilah''': So you know me.
* KlingonPromotion: [[spoiler:Elevates herself to President of Special Projects by beheading Linwood.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma:
** As mentioned above, she tortures Cordelia and blackmails Angel into helping her spring Billy Blim, only for her to become the first victim of Billy's HatePlague.
** [[spoiler:Decapitating Linwood]] during a board meeting, thereby assuming his position. In due course, Lilah is stabbed in the neck by Cordelia who leaves her body behind for Angelus to feed on, obliging Wesley to chop off her head due to the gang not realizing Angelus didn't kill her rather than risk her coming back as a vampire.
* MarriedToTheJob: The quintessential career woman -- and judging by how quick she was to [[VampiresAreSexGods jump Angel's bones]], it's not for lack of desire.
-->'''Gavin:''' From what I hear, bumping uglies with an old man that [[GrandTheftMe body-jumped into a vampire]] is the closest thing you've had to a meaningful relationship in years.
* NotSoDifferent: She's met her match in Cordelia.
* PetTheDog: She gets one of these when we learn one of her reasons for working for Wolfram and Hart may be to pay for the care of her senile mother.
* PleaseKeepYourHatOn: [[spoiler:Following her beheading, Lilah develops a preference for scarfs. She still wears them in the comic.]]
* SignedUpForTheDental: Aside from a comfortable living, her salary goes toward paying [[PetTheDog her sick mother's care.]] (Well, and shoes.)
* SmugSnake: Seasons 1-2; prior to Lindsey [[PutOnABus leaving]], she tended to be rather weak and ineffective.
* TheStarscream: [[spoiler:Sorry, Linwood. You can only threaten a gal's life so many times before she takes preemptive action.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: After Season 1, she gained a spine and a brain, and became able to face off with Angel on more or less equal footing - while she was just a BadassNormal human woman, her supernatural pool of resources coupled with her limitless funding in Special Projects made her the most successful adversary from Wolfram and Hart that Team Angel faced.
* TheVamp
* WickedCultured: Quotes Shakespeare in conversation and appears to be well versed in ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'', especially (big surprise) ''Dante's Inferno''.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Gavin]]
!!Gavin Park
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[[caption-width-right:250:''"I'm fighting Angel in my own way."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/DanielDaeKim

A lawyer at Wolfram & Hart Real Estate Division.
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* AmoralAttorney: Due to his employment with Wolfram & Hart.
* EverythingsDeaderWithZombies: What he becomes after he is killed by The Beast.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: However, by actually using the law instead of assassins or demons, he actually puts Angel in trouble.
* NoHonorAmongThieves: If Gavin and Lilah can be said to cooperate ''at all'', as both are vying for Linwood's approval. Once Lilah takes over the firm, Gavin is downgraded to her lickspittle.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: His plans to take out Angel are largely through legal means; he even points out that they can put Angel Investigations out of business simply by pointing out [[UndeadTaxExemption Angel's ID issues]] with the government.
* OffWithHisHead: Gunn beheads the zombified Gavin as a MercyKill, unwilling to see someone he knew, even a weasel like Gavin, in such a state.
* ProfessionalButtKisser: Shamelessly sucks up to Linwood, and later to Lilah when she ends up in charge.
* SmugSnake: While he occasionally keeps up with Lilah in their battles for respect among members of the firm, he never really emerges as a viable threat to Angel Investigations, and he's disposed of by the Beast rather unceremoniously.
* StatingTheSimpleSolution: Wolfram & Hart usually send demons and assassins after Angel, and go through grandiose {{Evil Plan}}s. In "Carpe Noctem," Gavin points out that they can easily put Angel and his crew out of business by simply informing the government of Angel's UndeadTaxExemption; of course, soon after he points this out, [[TheRival Lilah Morgan]] gives Angel all the documents he needs just to spite him.
-->'''Gavin''': The guy has no social security number, no tax payer ID, no last name as far as I know. How can he go down to the building department, or anywhere else in officialdom for that matter? He's the rat and we're the maze.
* UnknownRival: Gavin believed himself to be the next Lindsey [=McDonald=], a MagnificentBastard who could arguably be called Angel's Archenemy (well, ''he'' would argue that he could), but he just wasn't the man, lawyer or villain that he'd replaced.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Holland]]
!!Holland Manners
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/9c33c2bf7a96ae50ee5fd22a33769851.png]]
[[caption-width-right:250:''"Actually, the world isn't that complicated: it's designed for those who know how to use it."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/SamAnderson

-->''"See, for us, there is no fight. Which is why winning doesn't enter into it. We go on, no matter what. Our firm has always been here on Earth... in one form or another. The Inquisition. The Khmer Rouge. We were there when the very first cave man clubbed his neighbor on the head with a rock for stealing his dinner. See, we're in the hearts and minds of every single living being. And that, friend, is what's making things so difficult for you. You see, the world doesn't work in spite of evil, Angel. It works with us. It works because of us."''

A high-ranking executive at Wolfram & Hart, later promoted to head of its Special Projects Division, i.e. the "Screwing With Angel's Head and other apocalyptic plans" division. Holland's not the last to hold this office, given its [[DangerousWorkplace high turnover]] rate.

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* AboveGoodAndEvil
-->"It's not about good or evil. It's about who wields the most power. And we wield a lot of it here -- and you know what? I think [[SocialDarwinist the world's better for it]]."
* AffablyEvil: Or possibly FauxAffablyEvil, part of Holland's allure is that the audience is never ''quite'' sure... and even when he's one, he can change between both with ''horrifying'' speed.
* AmbitionIsEvil: Symbolized by him.
* AmoralAttorney:
* BigBad: Meets the criteria for the Big Bad of season 1 and the first half of season 2; his machinations leave a lasting impression with Angel throughout the ''remainder'' of the season and, arguably, the rest of the series.
* CardCarryingVillain: A [[MyCard literal case]].
* TheCorrupter: Very arguable, but his interaction with Lindsey does sometimes give this vibe and keeps him from getting out while there was still a chance for him to reform.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* DragoninChief[=/=]HypercompetentSidekick: He's much more effective than his Smug Snake superior, Linwood Murrow, the President of the Special Projects Division, which runs quite smoothly under Holland's vicepresidency until his death.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He has a wife, and, judging from his horrified expression when he realises that Darla and Drusilla killed her, seems to have genuinely cared for her.
* EvilMentor: For Lindsay and Lilah, although less so for her (of course, ''she's'' a rotten apple from the start).
* EvilOldFolks: Holland is clearly into middle age, and his work for Wolfram & Hart speaks for itself.
* GoneHorriblyRight: His plan to corrupt Angel works, all right. He brings Darla back, and then has Drusilla turn her back into a vampire after Angel just went through all sorts of hell to try and save her. Then he encourages Darla and Drusilla to go on a massacre, and organizes a wine tasting to celebrate his victory. Darla and Drusilla proceed to crash the party, intending to [[ExactWords massacre]] every Wolfram & Hart employee there out of revenge for being used as pawns. When Angel shows up, Holland begs for help, but unfortunately (for him), he has corrupted Angel to the extent that he simply throws back an IronicEcho before locking the doors and letting Drusilla and Darla go nuts.
* IronicEcho: When Angel criticizes him for endangering innocents, Holland simply remarks that he "just can't seem to care." Angel says these exact words to him during the GoneHorriblyRight incident mentioned above.
* KarmicDeath: Encouraging Angel's corruption and Darla and Drusilla's killing spree comes back to bite him in the neck.
* LackOfEmpathy: This exchange sums it up quite well:
-->'''Angel:''' You set things in motion, play your little games up here in your glass and chrome tower, and people die - ''innocent'' people!\\
'''Manners:''' And yet, I just can't seem to ''care''.
* MagicallyBindingContract: He is the first sign of how truly binding a deal with Wolfram and Hart can be.
-->'''Manners:''' Oh, no. I'm quite dead. Unfortunately my contract with Wolfram and Hart extends well beyond that.
* TheManBehindTheMan: In Season 1, as the superior of Lindsey, Lilah and Lee, overseeing their activities. Angel doesn't meet Holland until "Reunion".
* ManipulativeBastard: Tempts Lindsey with power and succeeds triumphantly.
* NietzscheWannabe: For him, is not about good and evil, its about power, and W&H is power.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: One of the show's most triumphant example.
-->'''Angel:''' You're not gonna win.
-->'''Manners:''' Well... no. Of course we aren't. We have no intention of doing anything so prosaic as "winning." [laughs]
-->'''Angel:''' Then why?
-->'''Manners:''' I'm sorry. Why what?
-->'''Angel:''' Why fight?
-->'''Manners:''' That's really the question you should be asking yourself, isn't it? See, for us, there is no fight. Which is why winning doesn't enter into it. We — go on — no matter what. Our firm has always been here. In one form or another. The Inquisition. The Khmer Rouge. We were there when the very first cave man clubbed his neighbor. See, we're in the hearts and minds of every single living being. And ''that'' — friend — is what's making things so difficult for you. See, the world doesn't work in spite of evil, Angel. It works with us. It works because of us. Welcome to the home office.
-->'''Angel:''' This isn't...
-->'''Manners:''' Well, you know it is. You know ''that'' better than anyone. Things you've seen. Things you've, well, done. You see, if there wasn't evil in every single one of them out there why, they wouldn't be people. They'd all be angels. Have a nice day.
* NumberTwo: As Vice-President of Special Projects, he's below Lindwood Murrow, President of Special Projects, in the W&H hierarchy.
* ScarsAreForever: His undead body still bears Darla's bite marks.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity
* VillainousBreakdown: When he realizes that Angel won't be saving him from Darla and Drusilla.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Linwood]]
!!Linwood Murrow
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/3e7ea8352bb455a2268f027e3fd654bf.JPG]]
[[caption-width-right:250:''"Lilah, this is my corner of the sky. I decide when the sun rises and when it sets."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/JohnRubinstein

-->''"This is outrageous! Are you actually telling me that you went over my head?"''

A lawyer at Wolfram & Hart and President of the Special Projects Division.
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* AdultFear: Both his sons were taken by the Senior Partners.
* AmoralAttorney: Par for the course at W&H
* BadBoss: Even for Wolfram & Hart. Whereas Holland was rather encouraging and rewarded initiative, Linwood makes it abundantly clear that he has no compunction shifting blame to his underlings to save his own oily hide. And of course, being from Wolfram & Hart, he tends to kill those who fail him.
-->'''Psychic:''' "I can't apologize enough, sir."\\
'''Linwood:''' "You're right. You can't. (Laughs) But I'm not without compassion. I'm gonna give you a chance to save your job - and your skin."\\
''(Psychic smiles relieved, then frowns and leans in a bit closer to Linwood)''\\
'''Psychic:''' "No, you're not. You're gonna have me killed."\\
'''Linwood:''' "Now, why couldn't you have had that kind of foresight when we needed it?"\\
''(Someone puts a plastic bag over the psychic's head and smothers him)''
* TheChessmaster: What he thinks of himself. He really isn't. Holland Manners wouldn't give this guy the time of day.
* CustomUniform: Unlike other W&H executives, Linwood doesn't like to wear a tie.
* DirtyCoward: The reason why he provides Angel the code to enter the White Room. And why when Angel's trapped under the sea he does nothing to find him, even though a trapped Angel also works against the firm's plans for the vampire.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He apparently had kids, who the Senior Partners took. It's unclear if he gave them willingly as a sacrifice or otherwise, but he shows some slight regret over it.
* EvilOldFolks: Evil and well over sixty.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Linwood can turn on a smile, but he can't turn off his smug attitude.
* KillAndReplace: Lilah kills him and replaces him as the head of W&H.
* TheManBehindTheMan: As President of Special Projects, he was the superior of Holland Manners. How is it that Holland is vicepresident and the much less effective Linwood is above him is a case of FridgeLogic never brought up.
* OffWithHisHead: Lilah kills him with a mechanical blade attached to his chair.
* TermsOfEndangerment: Angel congratulating him on becoming Connor's godfather -- with the added stipulation that, should any harm befall the baby, Linwood will suffer the same injury.
* RememberTheNewGuy: Never mentioned prior to Season 3, he's introduced as if he's been there all along even though we never even saw him when his new NumberTwo gets chosen in "Dead End".
* WouldHurtAChild: Despite his soft spot for children, he's still perfectly willing to have a child kidnapped and dissected.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Nathan]]
!!Nathan Reed
->'''Played By:''' Creator/GerryBecker

A veteran lawyer at Wolfram & Hart, he was in charge of the Special Projects Reevaluation.
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* BadBoss: Nathan tells Lindsey and Lilah that if Angel kills them both, he'll consider it a win.
* BaldOfEvil: There's not a strand of hair on his evil dome.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: It's unclear what happened to Nathan; after Lindsey leaves the firm, he disappears and is 'replaced' by Linwood as the elder lawyer figure overseeing the younger ones (Lilah and Gavin). It's possible, in a case of FridgeBrilliance, he was punished in some way for allowing Lindsey to leave or his offshore accounts where discovered and got eaten by the Senior Partners.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He has a wife and son.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: A glasses wearing villain that cares nothing for those working for the firm.
* TheStoic: Nathan is mostly calm and collected, see how during Lindsey's resignation, which includes gunshots and threats, he never looses his cool, and smoothly calls to "amend the minutes" by having Lilah promoted and an ambulance called for the poor guard that got his foot shot.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: From the point of view of Lindsey and Lilah; whereas Holland Manners gave the pair of them a certain leeway because he had a soft spot for them, Nathan views them only as tools. The possibility that he'll have them both killed looms over them frequently.
* WeHaveReserves: As he tells Lindsey and Lilah, they're replaceable.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lee]]
!!Lee Mercer
->'''Played By:''' Creator/ThomasBurr

-->''"It's my ass on the line here. I don't want you to make me look bad."''

A lawyer at Wolfram & Hart who, alongside Lindsey [=McDonald=] and Lilah Morgan, worked under the supervision of Holland Manners.
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* AmoralAttorney: By default, since he's working for Wolfram & Hart. Lee isn't even moral within Wolfram & Hart, since he was poaching clients.
* BoomHeadshot: How he dies. Manners laments this. You just can't get cerebral matter out of carpets.
* ButtMonkey: Not that he doesn't deserve it, but he really does get shit on by just about everyone.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: He started out as TheStoic emotionless boy but evolved into Lilah's ButtMonkey rival.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: His assassin rant after Faith kills a demon sent to kill her after she didn't kill Angel. "This is getting ridiculous. The first assassin kills the second assassin - sent to kill the first assassin - who didn't assassinate anyone until we hired the second assassin to assassinate her!"
* {{Jerkass}}: As Lilah says, he has no people skills. As such, neither Lilah nor Lindsey have any problem when Faith quickly gets sick of Lee and beats him senseless.
* FindingJudas: A villainous variation.
* NoSocialSkills: According to Lilah.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mac]]
!!Mac
-> '''Played By:''' Creator/DominiqueJennings
->'''Appears In''': "[[Recap/AngelS01E10PartingGifts Parting Gifts]]"

A lawyer for the firm who represents them during an early clash with Angel
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* AuctionOfEvil: Her job appears to be attending them and she tries to buy a kidnapped Cordelia’s new seer eyes.
* ButNotTooBlack: She appears to be mixed race.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: She is only in one episode.
* GenderBlenderName: Mac is often a male name as well.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: She retreats as Angel and Wesley fight the demons she was dealing with.
* SexySpectacles: She swears a somewhat attractive pair of glasses.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ilona]]
!!Ilona Costa Bianchi
-> '''Played By:''' Creator/CaroelRaphaelleDavis
->'''Appears In'': "[[Recap/AngelS05E20TheGirlInQuestion The Girl in Question]]"

The CEO of Wolfram and Hart's branch office in Rome.
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* AmbiguouslyHuman: She claims that she doesn't need to breath, indicating she's a vampire, but never shows a vamp face.
* AffablyEvil: You don't get to rise up in Wolfram and Hart by being a moralist, but over her one episode Ilona comes across as arguably the friendliest and most trustworthy employee of the firm to appear in the series.
* BenevolentBoss: She gives her employees a lot of leeway and even lets one sleep on the job.
* {{Fangirl}}: It's hinted that she is one to Angelus, due to showing slight disappointment at not meeting him.
* GratuitousItalian: She peppers several sentences with Italian phrases.
* HelloAttorney: She is head of a law office, and wearing a very form fitting dress.
* SpitefulSpit: Whenever she mentions gypsies she follows this with a spit.
[[/folder]]

!Other Employees

[[folder:Spike]]
!!![[Characters/BuffyTheVampireSlayerScoobyGang See Buffy The Vampire Slayer Scooby Gang]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Knox]]
!!Knox
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1ac0c691589018667f9ac014f87bf347.JPG]]
[[caption-width-right:250:''"You think I'd have my God hatched out of some '''schmuck'''?"'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/JonathanMWoodward

A scientist at Wolfram & Hart who turned out to be a worshipper of Illyria.
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* AffablyEvil: Up until his MoralEventHorizon where we become far too disgusted with him to consider him this.
* AssholeVictim: Angel and Spike show little remorse over Wesley's gunning him down, with Spike explicitly stating that he "had it coming." Even Illyria has little concern for him, even kicking his body at Wesley during the subsequent fight.
* BeneathTheMask: "I just mix the potions, y'know?" Sure, you're ''real'' humble.
* ConsummateLiar: Managed to slip past Lorne's employee screening (read: a capella singing).
** He likely used the same trickery as Dr. Royce ("Unleashed") and ate calendula to prevent Lorne from scanning his aura.
* ExpectingSomeoneTaller: Illyria reacts this way when Knox announces that he is her high priest.
* EvilGloating: In "A Hole in the World," he boasts to Gunn about how he was behind Illyria infecting and killing Fred. He takes particular delight in revealing that [[NiceJobBreakingItHero it was Gunn's signature that got Illyria's sarcophagus out of customs.]]
* KarmicDeath: Shot by Wesley for his role in the death of Fred, who chose Wesley over Knox.
* KilledMidSentence: While Angel is monologuing about how they're the good guys so they have to protect any member of humanity, Wesley kills Knox.
* TheLabRat: His job in the Practical Science Division.
* MisanthropeSupreme: He criticizes humans for being deceitful bastards, and (as happens often), Illyria is surprised that a human can take a position like identifying against his own race rather than with it. Knox's reply amounts to agreeing that yes, he does identify with demonkind rather than humanity.
* NoNameGiven: Knox is probably his surname, but he's never addressed as anything else.
* PleaseKeepYourHatOn: As per "the ancient ways," Knox stitched a bunch of occult items just over his heart. The scar is messily stitched together.
* SayingTooMuch: From "[[Recap/AngelS05E15AHoleInTheWorld A Hole in the World]]":
-->'''Knox:''' I don't just ''care'' about Fred - I practically worship it.
-->'''Gunn''': You said "it".
-->'''Knox''': What?
-->'''Gunn''': Not "her". You said "'I worship ''it''".
-->'''Knox''': (''smirking'') Oops.
** In this context, "it" refers to [[spoiler:the [[EldritchAbomination Old One]] Illyria, about to be reborn via the sacrifice of our beloved Fred. Fred is the "her". In this case, Knox believes that only Fred was worthy to be Illyria's host.]]
* SycophanticServant: A follower of the ancient demon Illyria before he resurrects her and even more of a slavish follower afterwards. Having been dead, Illyria had no direct contact with him until that point.
* VillainousCrush: On Fred.
%%* WrongGuyFirst
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Number Five]]
!!Número Cinco
->'''Played By:''' Creator/DannyMora & Creator/JeffreyBell

An employee at Wolfram & Hart as well as a former wrestler and Champion. Alongside his four brothers, he was one of the Hermanos Número, until they were killed and he joined Wolfram and Hart after losing all hope. Decades later he is an elderly and bitter mail room employee.
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* CallBack: In a later episode, where Angel begins to fear that he has lost his path and is no longer a Champion, he has a nightmare where he starts pushing Number Five's mail cart.
* DeathEqualsRedemption: [[spoiler:It's left ambiguous whether or not he's truly redeemed himself, but Angel says that he "died a hero".]]
* DespairEventHorizon: Crossed it decades ago.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: He is disgusted that his brother's sacrifice is memorialised only by a midget wrestling match.
** He's also surprised that Angel has never heard of his family's victory over "El Diablo Robotica".
* EarlyBirdCameo: Is seen in the background of earlier episodes pushing his mail cart.
* JadedWashout: Once a Champion of good, he's now so broken down that Wolfram and Hart have him pushing a mail cart rather than actually using his abilities to further their cause.
* MaskedLuchador: He wears the mask and apparently helped inspire the luchador movement.
* ScrapHeapHero
* StillWearingTheOldColors: Still wears his mask.
* YouAreNumberSix: His name is the number he and his brothers had.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Gwen]]
!!Gwen
->'''Played By:''' Creator/StephanieCourtney
->'''Appears In''': "[[Recap/AngelS03E10Dad Dad]]"
An employee at Wolfram & Hart who was charge of the firm's Files and Records, in fact she seemed to be Files and Records personified, as she had access to every file and reference in the firm.
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* {{Catchphrase}}: ''"I'm Files and Records. It's my job."''
* ElectronicEyes: Her eyes flicker like someone's changing the channel when she's looking up something in her PhotographicMemory.
* PhotographicMemory: She has every file, reference, backroom dealing and line of history in her brain.
* PluckyOfficeGirl: She’s a PerpetualSmiler with a chipper tone of voice who filed paperwork.
* YouDidntAsk: After twelve hours of fruitless research Lilah finds out that Gwen has memorized the information she’s after and could have told her from the start if Lilah had explained that was what she was after.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Cyril]]
!!Cyril
->'''Played By:''' Creator/MattCaspar
->'''Appears In''': "[[Recap/AngelS03E08Quickening Quickening]]"

A Wolfram & Hart employee who worked at the mailroom. He was also a servant of Master Tarfall, Underlord of Pain.
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* DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent: He says he wants to work for Lilah, but he's actually working for Gavin. No, wait, he's working for Master Tarfall, Underlord of Pain.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: He appears for less than five minutes of a single episode but he’s the one who spreads word about Darla's pregnancy to the greater demon and supernatural community.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Hauser]]
!!Agent Hauser
->'''Played By:''' Creator/DaneNorthcutt
->'''Appears In''': "[[Recap/AngelS05E01Conviction Conviction]]"

The leader of Wolfram & Hart's Special Ops Team.
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* TheBrute: The violent and murderous head of a group of mercenaries serving W&H.
* CardCarryingVillain: Hauser is fully aware that he's evil and admits as much.
* TheFundamentalist: He believes firmly in the cause of evil (the exact cause and subsequent benefit are a little unclear).
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Killed with his own shotgun.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: He gives one to Angel about his moral compromise in taking over Wolfram & Hart, which sets up much of the internal conflict for Season 5. At least Angel gives him a nice ShutUpHannibal via shotgun blast.
-->''"You're minuscule. A dust mote on the shelf of that great institution. Now, you think I'm just a [[SociopathicSoldier trigger-happy jerk]] who [[JustFollowingOrders follows orders]], but I am something you will never be. I'm pure. [[CardCarryingVillain I believe in evil]]. You and your friends, [[GreyAndGrayMorality you're conflicted. You're confused]]. We're not. That is why you are gonna lose, because we possess the most powerful thing in the world... [[TitleDrop Conviction]]."''
* WouldHurtAChild: He's absolutely willing to kill a small child.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Royce]]
!!Dr. Evan Royce
->'''Played By:''' Creator/JohnBillingsley
->'''Appears In''': "[[Recap/AngelS05E04Unleashed Unleashed]]"

A cryptozoologist and an employee of Wolfram & Hart at the Research and Intelligence Department.
----
* LaserGuidedKarma: He sells people to be cannibalized and possibly meets the same fate.
* NerdGlasses: a bespectacled slightly bumbling scientist.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Ninja]]
!!The Ninja
--> '''Played By:''' Creator/ChristopherLeps
-->'''Appears In''': "[[Recap/AngelS03E08Quickening Quickening]]"
One of the firm's assassins.
----
* MindOverMatter: He has telekinetic powers and is able to hold a note over an open flame until it burns to ash without burning himself.
* {{Ninja}}: He dresses in black robes and is credited as 'Ninja', and seems to operate by stealth, but his skills and powers are no help for a lone human up against a whole {{cult}} of vampires.
* ShirtlessScene: He’s introduced meditating with his shirt off.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Hired by Lilah to kill Darla, he gets a very intimidating introductory scene but [[BaitAndSwitch goes down less than ten seconds into a fight]] with the Cult of Ul-Thar, a cult of vampires eager to protect the "Miracle Child".
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lilah’s Translator]]
!! Lilah's translator
-> '''Played By:''' Creator/JimOrtleib
->'''Appears In''': "[[Recap/AngelS03E09Lullaby Lullaby]]"
The man who helps the firm translate ancient scrolls.
----
* GoldenTranslator: A skilled translator of ancient languages albeit a somewhat slow one to Lilah's frustration.
* PunchClockVillain: He seems fairly non-malicious despite his employers.
* SeriousBusiness: He’s horrified to learn that Lilah highlighted an ancient Nyazian scroll. Justified given his job.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Young Man in Fez]]
!!Young Man in Fez
--> '''Played By:''' Creator/KalPenn
-->'''Appears In''': "[[Recap/AngelS03E02ThatVisionThing That Vision Thing]]"

A psychic used by Lilah to hack into Cordelia's visions, with life-threatening side effects.
----
* BrainMonster: His brain is visible, quivering as he uses his psychic skills.
* CoolHat: He wears a fez, which covers up that the top of his skull is missing, exposing his brain.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: By Angel, for what he did to Cordy, and as a warning to Lilah.
* NoNameGiven: His real name is unknown.
* PsychicPowers: He's able to inflict fake visions form the Powers That Be and levitate as he does so.
* PunchClockVillain: He's a pretty evil person, but before he does his work there's a scene of him signing some tax forms to make sure he can get paid for it and complaining about the monotony of it.
* SlasherSmile: He makes a very creepy grin as he starts to inflict a vision filled with fire on Cordelia.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: He's the last credited character in his sole episode, but its his powers threatening Cordelia's life that first brings the team into contact with Skip as they break Billy Blim out of hell, something which has severe repercussions over the remainder of the show.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Rudy]]
--> '''Played By:''' Creator/ChristopherGehrmane
An employee during Angels time running the firm.
* AmbiguousSituation: Given how his job involves regulating employees to make sure they haven't been killing humans (which doesn’t sound like something the previous management would have cared about) it’s unclear if he’s a new employee hired by Angel or a long term one who just got reassigned to something more benign.
* DeathGlare: He gives Harmony a pretty annoyed look while holding an ice pack to his head after she knocked him unconscious after being framed for drinking human blood and being afraid he’d tell Angel
* InternalAffairs: He goes around scanning employees for human blood consumption.
* StrictParentsMakeSneakyKids: Implied. When Harmony realizes she was framed and yells out she didn't do it, Rudy, arriving on the scene with no idea what she's talking about, comments his six year old son is always saying the same thing.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Brittany and Charlotte]]
--> '''Played By:''' Creator/JenniferHarworth and Creator/StacyReed
A pair of secretaries.
----
* AllTheOtherReindeer: They repeatedly ignore Harmonys efforts to befriend them.
* GossipyHens: They're scenes in their one episode are mostly discussing new rumors.
* ThoseTwoGirls: Their always seen together.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tamika]]
-->'''Played By:''' Creator/DanielleNicolet
A vampire secretary jealous of Harmony
----
* JustBetweenYouAndMe: She doesn’t hesitate to brag about her plan while alone with Harmony.
* PassedOverPromotion: She thinks she should be Angels assistant due to her typing skills, pleasant phone voice and five years at the firm.
* RapidFireTyping: She boasts of typing 80 words a minute. Being a vampire helps.
* TheStarscream: A stenographer under Harmony who tries to frame her for murder and get her staked so she can become Angels assistant.
* UndignifiedDeath: Harmony stakes her with a pair of chopsticks.
* UnknownRival: To Harmony, who doesn’t even know her name.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Danny]]
--> '''Played By:''' Creator/DavidGangler
Lorne’s assistant.
----
* TheApprentice: Claims that Lorne is grooming him and calls him Dan the Man.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: he’s only seen in one mid season episode and mentioned in one other despite his job working for Lorne.
* SitcomArchNemesis: He and Harmony feud over who gets to use the microwave.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Eli]]
--> '''Played By:''' Creator/BrendanHines
A demon and one of the firms accountants.
----
* AffablyEvil: He's a mass murderer who nonetheless chats pleasantly with other employees about promotion prospects.
* OffWithHisHead: Angel decapitates him for killing virgins.
* VirginSacrifice: He kills virgins for food and dies for it.
[[/folder]]

!Clients

[[folder:Billy]]
!!Billy Blim
->'''Played By:''' Creator/JustinShilton

-->''"I have never hurt a woman in my life...I just like to watch."''

While appearing to be a normal young man, he was actually a half-demon with contagious, vicious misogyny, and had the power to turn any man he touched or who came in contact with his bodily fluids extremely savage and brutal toward anyone female. And he had no real reason to do this, other than his personal amusement.
----
* AxCrazy: He takes an unhealthily sadistic enjoyment in driving men into misogynistic frenzies and setting them upon any woman in reach.
* ChildByRape: According to WordOfGod, they personally believe that Billy was conceived when a demon woman - a ''good'' demon woman - was raped by an [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters evil human male]]. This is just as screwed up as it sounds.
* TheDreaded: By his own ''family.'' They have "rules" around him, such as never leaving him alone with a woman and crucially ''never'' let him touch you.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Billy is a well-mannered young man with an unassuming voice. He's also a world-class sadist.
* FeedItWithFire: He can absorb the kinetic energy from impacts to enhance his own strength. By punching the concrete a few times, he became strong enough to crack it and overpower Angel.
* ForTheEvulz: His reason for setting men upon women. He just loves watching it to satisfy his sadistic desires.
* HatePlague: His power to bring out the "primal misogyny" of any man who touched him or came into contact with his body fluids (sweat, blood, etc.). Angel is immune, because, as he put it, he gave up on hate a long time ago; even as Angelus, he killed and tortured people ForTheEvulz, but never felt any hate or anger towards those he did it to.
* HalfHumanHybrid: The Angel Investigations team is able to confirm early on that he's not fully human; Angel can tell by [[TheNoseKnows the smell of his blood]] and the fact that he [[MustBeInvited didn't need an invitation to enter the Blim estate]].
* HeManWomanHater: UpToEleven. Although he claims to not hate women and be a MisanthropeSupreme, the fact that he only targets women is highly suspect.
* KarmicDeath: His first act upon being broken out of a PrisonDimension by Lilah is to [[UngratefulBastard induce Gavin into beating the hell out of Lilah for kicks]]. Fittingly, Lilah is ultimately the one to finish him off, shooting him InTheBack while he's fighting Angel.
* MoreThanMindControl: According to Lilah, this is how Billy's powers work. All men are actually {{Straw Misogynist}}s deep down; Billy just removes their inhibitions.
* PlayAlongPrisoner: He purposely turns himself into the police to get out of his solitary confinement at his family estate. The arresting officers turn out to be a male-female duo, and he induces the man to start fighting with the woman and uses the ensuing chaos to slip away.
* PsychoticSmirk: His default expression, usually exaggerated when he's just done something horrible.
* {{Sadist}}: For all his claims that he just "watches", Billy clearly loves watching men brutalise women and knowing that he's the cause of it.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: He's the nephew of Senator Blim, patriarch of one of the most powerful families in the United States. Like any family, the Blims prefer to keep their 'black sheep' out of the public eye.
* TheSociopath: Among Angel's villains of the week, it's hard to top Billy Blim for clearly falling into this category. The fact that it was actually the normally very cold and amoral Lilah who took him out says volumes.
* StrawMisogynist: He hates women and enjoys using his HatePlague to make men beat them up.
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: There's nothing extraordinary about Billy; he's a somewhat handsome young man, of average height and build who doesn't stand out in a crowd.
* UngratefulBastard: Lilah fights tooth and nail to free him, even {{blackmail}}ing Angel into breaking him out. How does Billy repay her for it? He thanks Gavin, her [[TheRival rival]], instead and induces him into beating the mortal shit out of Lilah while he walks away with a PsychoticSmirk. [[spoiler: It comes back to bite him in the ass though]].
* VigilanteExecution: Lilah unloading her pistol at him on an airstrip.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Winters]]
!!Russell Winters
->'''Played By:''' Creator/VytoRuginis
->'''Appears In''': "[[Recap/AngelS01E01CityOf City of...]]"
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/russell_winters.jpg]]
An old and wealthy vampire who owned the investment firm Russell Winters Enterprises. A client of Wolfram & Hart, his vast wealth made him one of the most powerful men in Los Angeles, living among humans and using his connections and power to kill with impunity.
----
* BigFancyHouse: As befitting his status as a CorruptCorporateExecutive.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Of Russell Winters Enterprises.
* DestinationDefenestration: Angel shoves him out the window of his high-rise. He burns up in the sun before he even hits the ground.
* FauxAffablyEvil: His polite air is nothing but a smug veneer for a true savage.
* KarmicDeath: Oh so very much.
* ManipulativeBastard: He's very good at manipulating his victims both personally and financially.
* MustBeInvited: Russell manages to bypass this little barrier by setting his victims up in apartments he owns, thus negating the need for an invitation.
* NightmareFace: His GameFace is considerably more deformed than most other vampires, to the point of possessing a faint green tinge.
* {{Sadist}}: Even for a vampire, he's a sadistic piece of work. He traps his victims into abusive relationships for months, torturing them without even disclosing he's a vampire until the last minute.
-->'''Tina:''' He likes pain. I mean, he really does. He talks about it like it's a friend of his.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Thanks to his [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney wealth]] and connections, he can stalk and kill with impunity.
* SmugSnake: Winters is extremely confident that he's able to do whatever he wants, as long as he pays his taxes and stays rich. Angel disabuses him of this notion, and he's surprised to say the least.
-->'''Winters:''' Look at me. I pay my taxes, keep my name out of the paper and I don't make waves. And in return, I can do anything I want.
-->'''Angel:''' Really? [[PreMortemOneLiner Can you fly?]]
* StarterVillain: He's the first villainous character on ''Series/{{Angel}}''.
* VampiresAreRich: Winters has amassed vast wealth over his time on the Earth (and considering that he's started to lose his human appearance, he must be very old indeed behind the Master and Kakistos).
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Meltzer]]
!!Dr. Ronald Meltzer
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/8b749dce8ed338ea12a751aff64a3e76.png]]
[[caption-width-right:250:''"I'm more than meets the eye."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/AndyUmberger
->'''Appears In''': "[[Recap/AngelS01E04IFallToPieces I Fall to Pieces]]"

A brilliant surgeon with the power to sever and reattach his body parts, over which he had some sort of telekinetic control (he could levitate them in the air) thanks to his mastery of psychic surgery after being inspired by a book about how everyone was connected to the world around them due to them sharing molecules. He was also a deranged stalker and a client of Wolfram & Hart, fixating on Melissa Burns after he saved her sight in an operation and they shared a single drink with her, watching her in her apartment by leaving an eye in the area.
----
%%* BaldOfEvil
* BondVillainStupidity: After injecting Angel with a paralytic intended for large animals, Meltzer walks away and leaves him in his office, not bothering to make sure the poison actually kills him. Justified; Angel ''wouldn't'' have survived it if he was human, and Meltzer doesn't know he's a vampire.
* DetachmentCombat: He can sever and reattach his body parts at will. He uses it offensively during the climax by shooting his teeth at Angel.
%%* EvilHand
* EyeSpy: He regularly detaches his eye to spy on Melissa and others.
* IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance: Meltzer is one of Angel's few enemies who never learns Angel isn't human, with the result that he tries to kill Angel with a paralytic toxin that has no serious effect on Angel because he's already biologically dead.
* LogicalWeakness: Despite his psychic surgery skills, his body parts can't stay detached for too long or they will suffer necrosis from the lack of nutrients. Angel uses this to his advantage by dividing his body parts between twelve safety deposit boxes and dumping them in the foundations of a nearby subway.
* MadDoctor: Ronald is deeply insane.
* NotSoDifferent: Angel has quite an insight into how Meltzer's twisted little mind works, due to his own history of stalking as Angelus.
-->'''Cordelia:''' What about Melissa has got him going all O.J.?
-->'''Angel:''' Nothing. It's not about her. It's about rage. He's too messed up to deal with a real woman so he creates a fantasy about a girl he barely knows. She'll fail him, and he has to hurt her because when he looks at her, all he sees is how useless he is--
-->'''Cordelia:''' What a fun date you must have been back in your bad vamp days. But, it should give you some insight into the jerks of the world.
* OffWithHisHead: Angel knocks his head off, but this doesn't kill him, just incapacitates him.
* PowerPerversionPotential: He uses his DetachmentCombat to spy on Melissa getting undressed, and later to feel her up while she's asleep.
* PullingThemselvesTogether: Meltzer's hands pop right back onto his arms when he's done having them skitter around people's bedrooms.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: In the past, Meltzer's stalking led Melissa to take him to court and try to have a restraining order placed on him. Sadly, Meltzer was backed by [[AmoralAttorney Wolfram & Hart]], who got a restraining order against ''Melissa''.
* StalkerWithACrush: By the time of his debut, he's been stalking Melissa to the extent that she tried to take legal actions against him... which failed because of Wolfram & Hart's maneuvering.
* ToThePain:
-->''"I developed this injector while working with animals. (Angel pulls out the dart and looks at it. It drops from his fingers) They don’t like their limbs cut off any more than we do and they can hurt you if you get to close. (Angel is gasping, his eyes wide) You’ll feel a slight sinking sensation – that’s your heart slowing down as the paralytic takes effect. Eventually it’ll stop all together."''
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Little Tony]]
!!Anthony "Little Tony" Papazian
->'''Played By:''' Creator/JohnCapodice
->'''Appears In''': "[[Recap/AngelS01E06SenseAndSensitivity Sense and Sensitivity]]"

A dangerous crime boss of Los Angeles, and a former client of Wolfram & Hart until he attempted to murder Kate Lockley in a room full of witnesses.
----
* DirtyOldMan: He leers at Kate and flirts with her.
* FatBastard: Tony is a notably overweight criminal.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He's oddly personable for a ruthless crime lord.
-->''"You guys, you're working for Little Tony now. ''[shooting a cop]'' You'll find I'm stern but fair."''
* TheMillstone: After he fails to escape and gets himself captured yet again despite the opportunities Wolfram & Hart provided, they see him as a dead weight and drop him as a client.
* RevengeBeforeReason: Despite having the opportunity to escape the city and thus avoid life imprisonment, he hangs around to kill Kate. He fails, gets arrested and Wolfram & Hart drop him as a client.
* SnarkToSnarkCombat: With Kate.
-->'''Little Tony:''' You've been running after me for a long time, haven't you, sweetheart? If I'd known how bad you wanted me, I might've had you catch me sooner.
-->'''Kate:''' If I knew how much you needed the exercise I might've let you run a little longer.
* TalkingToPlants: He tells his mooks to water his plants and talk to them while he's gone.
-->'''Little Tony:''' And don't forget to water my plants.
-->'''Mook:''' Sure thing.
-->'''Little Tony:''' And talk to them. They like that.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The [=MacNamaras=]]]
!!Darin & Jack [=MacNamara=]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/DouglasRoberts & Creator/ScottWilliamWinters
->'''Appear In''': "[[Recap/AngelS01E16TheRing The Ring]]"

* DecoyDamsel: Darin comes to Angel as a client, when he's actually just laying a trap.
* TheDragon: Jack is one to Darin.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Averted. When Jack is taken hostage, Darin doesn't hesitate to coldly shoot his own brother.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Cribb and Trepkos use Darin's own enchanted slavery bracelet to kill him.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Darin is killed with one of the bracelets he used to keep the demons imprisoned.
* SiblingsInCrime: As brothers, they're co-owners of an illegal fighting ring.
* SharpDressedMan: Darin, due to him being the face of
* ShootTheHostage: Darin does this with his own brother.
* SmugSnake: Jack a little moreso than Darin; Jack is prone to sadistically taunting his charges.
* TheSociopath: Darin, who murders his own brother without batting an eye.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Vanessa]]
!!Vanessa Brewer
->'''Played By:''' Creator/JenniferBadger
->'''Appears In''': "[[Recap/AngelS01E21BlindDate Blind Date]]"

A blind assassin working for Wolfram & Hart as well as their client.
----
* AchillesHeel: Because she relies on her [[SuperSenses extremely sharp hearing]] to "see" her targets, Angel is invisible to her as long as he's standing still, since he neither breathes nor has a heartbeat.
%%* DarkActionGirl
* DisabilitySuperpower: Has the standard ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}-style super hearing to compensate for her blindess.
%%* EnlightenmentSuperpowers
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Killed with her own walking stick weapon.
* ProfessionalKiller: She's an assassin, working largely for Wolfram & Hart.
* ProphetEyes: Vanessa has pure white eyes. Even Holland finds her creepy.
* PsychoForHire: A child-killing psychopath who accepts commissions from Wolfram & Hart.
%%* PsychoticSmirk
* WouldHurtAChild: She has no problem whatsoever about killing three blind children.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Fries]]
!!Corbin Fries
->'''Played By:''' Creator/RodRowland
->'''Appears In''': "[[Recap/AngelS05E01Conviction Conviction]]"

A client of Wolfram & Hart, both a businessman and a dangerous mobster.
----
* DeadpanSnarker: In a very sardonic, nasty way.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He has a young son who's going to a good school and seems well-adjusted, but it's averted. He considers his child to be a tool and little more.
* {{Hypocrite}}: He doesn't let his son read ComicBook/ThePunisher presumably because it's violent, and he's a vicious criminal and unrepentant psychopath.
* {{Jerkass}}: Fries is a thoroughly vile piece of work. He's aggressive, rude, short-tempered and basically a repulsive asshole.
* KarmaHoudini: Despite being one of the most despicable characters in the series, he gets off scot-free and his intimidation tactics work.
* TakingYouWithMe: In his attempts to avoid jail, he plants a mystical virus inside his own son which will be activated once he says the magic word, killing the entire population of California. If he's found guilty, he says the magic word.
* WouldHurtAChild: He placed a deadly mystical virus within his own young son as part of his TakingYouWithMe plan. Essentially, he's turned his own child into a walking time bomb of genocide.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Hainsley]]
!!Magnus Hainsley
->'''Played By:''' Creator/VictorRaiderWexler
->'''Appears In''': "[[Recap/AngelS05E02JustRewards Just Rewards]]"

A rich and powerful member of the Los Angeles elite as well as a powerful Necromancer. He provided demons with dead human bodies to inhabit, using himself as a conduit to "install" them.
----
* BadassBoast: He gives one to Angel.
-->''"Who do you think you're talking to? I eat the dead for breakfast, son. And you're just another plate o' bacon and eggs."''
* BaldOfEvil: Hainsley is bald and has people who annoy him chopped into enough pieces that they wind up in buckets.
* FatBastard: Heavy-set and far from the nicest of individuals.
* {{Necromancer}}: His talent and his profession. It makes him an extremely dangerous for Angel to have. As he says himself, he eats the dead for breakfast and could dust Angel with zero effort; he doesn't even need a stake.
* OffWithHisHead: Angel decapitates him (or, more accurately, his dead body as controlled by Spike) with a serving platter.
* SquishyWizard: Due to his age and status as a human, Hainsley doesn't pose much of a threat without his powers. Angel rather easily kills him once his abilities are incapacitated.
[[/folder]]

!Other

[[folder:Torture Demon]]
!!The Torture Demon/Holding Dimension Demon
->'''Played By:'''

An unidentified demon torturer at the Senior Partners' Holding Dimension. He would ritualistically and repeatedly cut out the heart of the human prisoner. Illyria took the necklace that identified the prisoner and placed it around his neck, forcing him to cut out his own heart until another prisoner took his place.
----
%%* AffablyEvil
%%* ChainedByFashion
* ColdBloodedTorture: Inflicts this on prisoners in the Holding Dimension. The victims we see on-screen are Lindsey, Gunn, and the torture demon himself.
%%* CreepyBasement
* LaserGuidedKarma: He ends up a victim of the very same nightmare he helped perpetuate.
* TheQuietOne: He never speaks, although his screaming as he starts torturing himself implies that it's not for a lack of ability.
* SelfHarm: Illyria manages to free Gunn from the Holding Dimension by placing the prisoner's binding necklace onto the torture demon, forcing him to continually torture himself per the rules of the dimension.
%%* TortureCellar
* TortureTechnician: He's a torture demon. Torture's kind of his thing.
* WallOfWeapons: The walls of his chamber are decked with a variety of torture devices that he puts to good use.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sparrow]]
!!Dr. Sparrow
->'''Played By:''' Creator/MarcVann

A doctor and scientist that performed certain services to Wolfram & Hart and other extremely wealthy clients. The procedures that he performed included implanting knowledge into people's minds, brainwashing, and giving people x-ray vision.
----
* AfraidOfBlood: Oddly enough for a doctor who might as well be a butcher.
-->''"Always messy when you have to open 'em up. That's why I prefer the less invasive procedures. Never got used to the sight of blood. Ugh. Still makes me nauseous."''
* BaldOfEvil: He's evil and shiny-headed.
* ChekhovsGunman: After an appearance in the first episode of Season 5, he returns to cause major trouble later in the season.
* DealWithTheDevil: And of course, he is the devil in this case. The deal he makes is with Gunn, who wants his brain upgrade back when it starts to wear off.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Sparrow is polite and smiling, but is clearly a vile person.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: He's a glasses-wearing psychopath.
* MadDoctor: His sanity is debatable considering that he thinks resurrecting an ancient EldritchAbomination is a fun way to spend your time.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He's never seen again after Illyria's debut episode; all we know is that Spike tortured him for info and got "screams, various fluids, and a name" out of him.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Pavayne]]
!!Matthias Pavayne
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1399b5dfb82626e83322b8d1fbafa68c.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:250:''"An eternity of suffering for your sins. But first, I get to play. Let's get started then, shall we?"'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/SimonTempleman
->'''Appears In''': "[[Recap/AngelS05E04HellBound Hell Bound]]"

A multiple murderer that managed, through a DealWithTheDevil, to delay his own journey to hell through torturing the damned. For the early parts of Season 5, he's responsible for Spike's being dragged to hell.
----
* AndIMustScream: Due to his FateWorseThanDeath. While there's no actual screaming, his expression is still one of vacant horror.
* AristocratsAreEvil: Pavayne was an 18th century English aristocrat.
* BadassBaritone: Simon Templeman is the voice actor of [[VideoGame/LegacyOfKain Kain]] after all.
* BadassLongcoat: His LimitedWardrobe consists of a long coat.
* BackFromTheDead: Against his will. Pavayne was happy hanging around Wolfram & Hart as a ghost, but Fred's device makes him flesh and blood again...and subsequently he's trapped in a little dark room that immobilizes him completely and left there, forever...
* BreakingSpeech: He delivers these from time to time, sometimes summoning his own collection of ghostly images to speak for him.
* BritishTeeth: Pavayne hails from the time of poor dental care, and it shows.
* CasualDangerDialogue: When Fred is about to re-corporealize Spike, he merely says, "This won't do. This won't do at all."
* ColdBloodedTorture: Torture is Pavayne's job, hobby and passion. He submits Spike and hundreds of others to vicious physical and psychological torture.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: While he's far from goofy, it appears he can't hold his own when somebody fights back... then he delivers an impressive PunchCatch and shows he can.
-->'''Spike:''' Not so much fun when we hit back, is it?
-->'''Pavayne:''' [PunchCatch] It's starting to be.
* DeadlyDoctor: In life, when he was nicknamed "The Reaper", "for performing unnecessary surgery on his patients".
* DealWithTheDevil: Pavayne should have gone to hell a long time ago, but has managed to stick around as Wolfram & Hart's resident ghost by torturing the souls of others who died and sending them down to hell instead.
-->'''Spike:''' Cute little racket you've got carved out for yourself. Prying off spirits and sucking 'em down the chute. Kept your own toasties out of the fire, didn't it?
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: His torture of Spike, specifically Spike being stripped and then tortured more, has horrible overtones of rape.
* EvilBrit: Very evil and very British.
* EvilOldFolks: He was in his older years when he first died. Of course, as a ghost he's pretty damn old.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Pavayne has a deep, soft voice, which makes him even more intimidating.
* FateWorseThanDeath: While he is already dead, he's ultimately returned to corporeality and forced to live forever in a box that keeps him paralyzed but completely aware, and just to twist the knife, containing a window with an unchanging view...
-->'''Angel:''' Congratulations. You get to live forever...unable to move...to touch...or to feel. Or to affect anything in the world around you. [[FalseReassurance But don't worry...I had 'em give you a window.]] WelcomeToHell.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Pavayne is capable of being rather polite, even when he's ripping you apart in particularly sadistic ways.
* HiddenVillain: Pavayne only appears in a single episode, but since Spike's first appearance as a ghost he's been slowly preparing him for Hell. As a ghost, he's been present throughout the entire series, torturing other poor bastards who died in the Wolfram & Hart offices before sending them off to Hell. This means Lee Mercer, Linwood Murrow and Gavin Park all had the pleasure of his company.
* HumanSacrifice: Wolfram & Hart sacrificed Pavayne to deconsecrate the holy ground they intended to build their L.A. office on. They needed a particularly evil soul, and Pavayne fit the bill.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Pavayne spent centuries cheating his fate of being sent to hell. Angel's words when leaving him to a [[FateWorseThanDeath particularly unenviable fate]]?
-->'''Angel''': WelcomeToHell.
* LimitedWardrobe: Due to being a ghost.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Although technically dead, Pavayne has mastered being a ghost. He's able to interact with the physical world at his own whims. There's no slamming doors or cheap tricks here; Pavayne can easily reach into the real world and brutally kill. You can't touch him, but he sure as hell can touch you.
* {{Sadist}}: He has devoted his entire life and death to the torture of others, which he greatly enjoys.
* SadisticChoice: Tries pulling one on Spike by threatening Fred and forcing him to choose between her continued life and him becoming corporeal again. Unfortunately for him, Spike isn't the person he used to be and he shoves her out of the way before tossing Pavayne into the re-corporealization machine himself, allowing Angel to beat him down and imprison him.
* SerialKiller: In life, he was a multiple murderer.
* ShutUpHannibal: During a rant after being re-corporealized:
-->'''Pavayne''': Defilers! [[CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon I'll...cut you into nothing! I'll feast on your brains. I'll swim in lakes of your own blood!]]
-->'''Angel''': (''[[PunchedAcrossTheRoom punches him across the room]]'') You'll shut the hell up!
* SoftSpokenSadist: Due to being played by Simon Templemen. Pavayne has a soft, gentle voice up until his VillainousBreakdown.
* VillainousBreakdown: When Spike starts fighting back, he's thrown for a loop and starts to cower. He recovers quickly, though. After being made corporeal, he's reduced to ineffectually screaming violent threats before being knocked out by Angel.
[[/folder]]

!Former Employees

[[folder:Lindsey]]
!!Lindsey [=McDonald=]
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[[caption-width-right:250:''"You're either with the one with power or you're powerless!"'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/ChristianKane

A lawyer at Wolfram & Hart and both an enemy and ally of Angel Investigations.
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* AffablyEvil: Lindsey has a certain "good ol' boy" charm that downplays the amorality of his actions, and even though he hates Angel, any respect Lindsey shows towards him is completely genuine.
* AmbitionIsEvil: His driving motive is his cynicism and ambitions, as pointed out by his actor:
-->''"I still think this cat looks at the glass as being half empty. And so, damn it, I’m going to drink the rest of that water."''
* AmoralAttorney: Not to the extent of his Wolfram & Hart co-workers, but he still uses blatantly illegal means to put his murderous, inhuman clients back on the street. Not to mention the time he and Lilah tried to steal from a charity for homeless teens.
* AnArmAndALeg: After threatening Cordelia's life in front of Angel. Bad idea. The shamans at Wolfram & Hart graft a (pre-owned) hand onto his stump.
* ArchEnemy: He likes to think of himself as Angel's, but Angel sees him as more of a persistent annoyance than a true nemesis. Compared to the likes of Holtz, Lindsey just doesn't measure up.
* BackForTheFinale: After having been absent since Season 2 of ''Angel'', Lindsey returns near the midway point of the Season 5 and is a recurring element throughout the final episodes.
* BeyondRedemption: As of Season 5, Angel and his crew believe this of Lindsey [=McDonald=], considering his [[AmbitionIsEvil ambitions]] and constant trips through the HeelFaceRevolvingDoor. It's to the extent that in "[[GrandFinale Not Fade Away]]", [[spoiler:when they team up against the Circle of the Black Thorn, Lorne shoots him dead on Angel's orders; having previously heard Lindsey sing and [[{{Seers}} read his future]], Lorne states outright that Lindsey isn't part of "the solution" and never ''will'' be.]]
-->'''Lindsey''': There's always time for redemption. Isn't that ''your'' whole bit?\\
'''Angel''': You had your chance. I guess some people, they just never change.
* BadassInANiceSuit: Comes standard with the job. He ditches the suit though after he returns.
* BigBadWannabe: Lindsey puts up a good show as a would-be BigBad for Season 5, but once Team Angel works out his plans, it doesn't take long for Lindsey to be thoroughly beaten and left to the mercy of the Senior Partners.
* BloodSplatteredInnocents: In "Blind Date". He's hardly innocent, but he ''does'' look appropriately traumatized when the man next to him is shot and it ''is'' one of the rare occasions he's trying to do the right thing.
* BroughtDownToBadass: In Season 5, he has numerous mystical tattoos on his body which make him invisible to both mystical and technological surveillance, and also grant him the strength to hold his own against Angel. When the tattoos are removed, he still proves to be a MasterSwordsman in the series finale, easily slaughtering numerous demons by himself.
* BodyguardBetrayal: [[spoiler:By Lorne, on Angel's orders, in the series finale.]]
* TheCastShowOff: Christian Kane is a country/rock musician, and is seen strumming his guitar and singing in "Dead End". He also picked up some sword-fighting skills while working on ''Film/SecondhandLions'', which he shows off in "You're Welcome".
* DeadpanSnarker: Not to the extent of Lilah, but he has an understated wit.
-->'''Lilah:''' Oh, what's wrong, Lindsey? You bitter cause your girlfriend didn't slit my throat?
-->'''Lindsey:''' I think you might be overstating it. I'd say more like "bummed."

-->'''Lindsey:''' It's a secret society.
-->'''Gunn:''' Never heard of 'em.
-->'''Lindsey:''' That's 'cause it's "secret".
* DirtyBusiness: He waffles a bit, though.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: During Season 5; he's a HiddenVillain for most of it, but is defeated before he can release the Wolfram & Hart fail-safe and subsequently placed in a holding dimension by the Senior Partners.
* EasilyForgiven:
** In "Dead End", Cordelia, Wesley, and Gunn practically trip over themselves to compliment Lindsey on his singing despite the fact that he was directly responsible for several catastrophes that Wolfram & Hart had inflicted on them over the last few months, like trying to burn the scroll that would cure Cordelia from her torment in "To Shanshu in L.A." or resurrecting Darla and helping to sire her as a vampire again (leading Angel to briefly go down a path of darkness that the team had just forgiven ''him'' for in the previous two episodes).
** Averted with Angel, who was antagonistic throughout both "Blind Date" and "Dead End" when Lindsey expressed uncertainty with his moral leanings due to feeling burned by their previous encounters and mainly accepted Lindsey's help after it was clear that the greater good required putting biases aside. While the two do seem to part on fair terms at the end of Season 2, it's immediately subverted when it's revealed that Angel planted a "Cops Suck" sign on the back of Lindsey's car as a parting shot. By the time Lindsey returns in Season 5 to cause havoc and engage in another round of HeelFaceRevolvingDoor, Angel has had enough and [[spoiler:[[KilledOffForReal puts a stop to him permanently.]]]]
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Once he equips himself with some handy tattoos, he can fight toe to toe with Angel.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Lindsey is wooed by Darla, to the point of confessing he wouldn't "mind" if she were the one to kill him.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He's is highly disturbed by the idea of Wolfram & Hart having three young children killed by PsychoForHire Vanessa Brewer, which is why he helps Angel stop her. Things come to a head when he discovers the true source of his new hand, and he leaves Wolfram & Hart for good.
* EvilHand: Subverted. It's not actually evil; just suicidal.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: When he returns in season five, he has longer hair.
* FatalFlaw: Lindsey's lack of moral conviction, his resentment of Angel, and his ambition collectively screw him over and ultimately bring him to his ruin. In the first two seasons, he knows that Wolfram & Hart is evil and is very uncomfortable with that, even occasionally helping Angel to sabotage the firm's efforts, but he lacks the strength of character to resist being seduced by the money and power that the firm offers. Even when he finally does leave, his jealousy towards Angel ends up drawing Lindsey back, with his attempts to destroy Angel earning him the wrath of the Senior Partners. [[spoiler:Despite joining Angel's attack on the Circle of the Black Thorn and realizing that GoodFeelsGood, Lindsey has ultimately flip-flopped between good and evil too many times for Angel to trust him, and so he has Lorne assassinate Lindsey. If Lorne's final remarks to Lindsey are any indication, these flaws are something that Lindsey would never have been able to overcome, and he would never have been "part of the solution".]]
** Lindsey's ego with regards to his place in Angel's world also ends up doing him in. [[spoiler:If his final lines are anything to go by, it's clear he expected that even if Angel did end up turning on him, it would have been in a grand one-on-one battle between the two of them as a way of putting a cap on their long feud. He doesn't realize that Angel views him as little more than a pest in the grand scheme of things and, as a result, is completely flabbergasted when Angel does the pragmatic thing and has Lorne take him out when Lindsey's guard is down.]]
* FreudianExcuse: Lindsey grew up in abject poverty, and constantly has something to prove as a result. He resolved never to end up like his father, grovelling to the repo men as he was being evicted. Angel is unsympathetic, however.
-->'''Lindsey:''' I'm talking dirt poor, no shoes, no toilet, six kids in a room. After flu season, we were down to four. I was 7 when they took the house. They just came right in, and ''took'' it. And my daddy's being nice, y'know, joking with the bastard while he signs the deed. My choice was to be stepped on or get stepping and I swore I'd never be the guy with the ''stupid grin'' on my face - while my life got dribbled out -
-->'''Angel:''' Sorry, I nodded off. Get to the part where you're evil.
* GenderBlenderName: Lindsey is usually a woman's name.
* GoodFeelsGood: Helping Angel destroy the Circle of the Black Thorn makes Lindsey feel pretty good about the fact that he's fighting the good fight for a change. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, this is too little too late, and doesn't save Lindsey from two bullets in the chest.]]
* HardWorkHardlyWorks: His motivation throughout Season 5 is that he's pissed that he started in the mailroom at Wolfram & Hart and worked his ass off to become a lawyer while the Senior Partners just ''gave'' Angel the position of CEO overnight.
* TheHeavy: One of the three recurring lawyers in the first season, and the one Angel gains the most mutual animosity for.
* HeelFaceDoorSlam:
** He gets one of these when he tries to leave Wolfram & Hart. Angel first doesn't trust him, then doesn't care, and when he finally does agree to help Lindsey bring down the company, he winds up leaving him behind to get caught. While somewhat understandable, this still probably contributed to Lindsey's decision to stay.
** [[spoiler:Later, when Lindsey tried to join the team in the series finale, Angel has Lorne kill him. Interestingly, Lindsey knew this was coming and was only upset that he was killed by "a flunky".]]
--->[[spoiler:'''Lorne''': You're not part of the solution, Lindsey. You never ''will'' be.]]
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: One minute, he's working for Wolfram & Hart. The next, he's helping Angel. [[spoiler:This eventually leads to his HeelFaceDoorSlam.]]
* HiddenDepths: Is an amazingly talented singer and guitar player, and was one of Lorne's favorite regulars at his bar.
* HijackedByGanon: Works alongside his lover, Eve, to play Angel and Spike against each other, with the hope of usurping Angel's position at the firm and (if we're aiming high) buying his way into the Circle of the Black Thorn.
* IconicItem: The fleur-de-lis bracelet that Lindsey wears throughout the show. It's a keepsake that Christian Kane wears to remind him of his mother, who is from UsefulNotes/NewOrleans.
* IgnoredEpiphany: He is truly appalled by Wolfram & Hart's plot to murder a trio of child seers, and assists Angel in thwarting them. Subverted when Holland dangles a fat paycheck over his head.
** Lindsey resigns for good in Season 2, ironically after having earned a top position and a replacement hand to boot; he leaves UsefulNotes/LosAngeles, burying the hatchet with Angel for good. Except not really. Actually, he was studying for years on how to join the elite Circle of the Black Thorn.
* ItsPersonal: Develops this for Angel, especially after Angel [[AnArmAndALeg chops off his hand]] at the end of Season 1.
* LookWhatICanDoNow: Returns from Nepal with some cool martial arts tricks, [[{{Hammerspace}} materializing swords out of thin air]], and using The Force to...well, close doors. But the point is it ''looks'' cool.
** Lorne makes an offhand reference to Lindsey's "demon-strength", though it isn't elaborated on. This would explain how he's able to keep up with Angel.
* ManipulativeBastard: Appears to have picked up a couple of Holland Manners' tricks.
* MinionShipping: Some occasional sexual tension with Lilah, including a parting ass grab when he leaves L.A.%%
* MrFanservice: A very handsome young man who doesn't hesitate to ditch the shirt, especially in Season 5.
* NervesOfSteel: His greatest attribute; enough to impress Darla and Drusilla to spare him when they massacre everyone at Holland's house.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Inverted. [[spoiler:Lindsey's kind of upset when Lorne kills him. It was ''supposed'' to be Angel!]]
* PutOnABus: And then came back.
* RagsToRiches: Born into a dirt-poor dysfunctional family in the south-central United States, he worked hard to overcome his upbringing and became a lawyer.
* TheResenter: Lindsey deeply resents Angel for stealing the affections of Darla and being handed control of Wolfram & Hart on a silver platter after years of struggle and strife failed to get Lindsey anywhere close to that level of power. His comments while presenting his FreudianExcuse to Angel imply that Lindsey also resents the relatively privileged childhood Angel had as a human.
* TheRival: Angel unwittingly provokes Lindsey's wrath at every turn, from ruining his court cases, to stealing his would-be girlfriend (Darla), to having the entire firm handed to him on a silver platter, to finally having sex with Lindsey's ''new'' girlfriend, Eve, while under the influence of spell (and oblivious to Lindsey's connection to her). When Lindsey consoles himself that Eve is one of the only things in his life that Angel "never got his mitts on", Eve wisely holds her tongue. A good thing, too, because otherwise his brain might have imploded.
* SmallNameBigEgo: While undoubtedly a legitimate threat, he fancies himself much more powerful than he actually is and is convinced he's Angel's ArchEnemy. Angel, for his part, just views him as a persistant annoyance in the grand scheme of things.
* SouthernFriedGenius: His exact origin is ambiguous, though he has an Oklahoma license plate on his pickup truck. Angel dismissively calls him a "tiny Texan" at one point; this could be an in-joke directed at Christian Kane, who hails from [[UsefulNotes/DFWMetroplex Dallas]].
* SuperStrength: Thanks to an unrevealed mystical process, he became gifted with superhuman strength, allowing him to go toe-to-toe with Angel in single combat. He could overpower Angel physically and leap great heights with his super strong legs.
* SuperToughness: Thanks to an unrevealed mystical process, he became gifted with superhuman durability. He could take on powerful hits from Angel.
* TattooedCrook: Post-Tibet Lindsey had super magic stealth tattoos that let him hide from the Senior Partners. [[spoiler:It doesn't last.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: Between Seasons 2 and 5, he apparently learned a bunch of kung-fu and got a bunch of [[PowerTattoo mystical tattoos making him invisible to the Senior Partners]].
* UndignifiedDeath: [[spoiler:For all his so-called bravado, he dies furiously complaining about how Angel should have been the one to kill him instead of Lorne.]]
* UnknownRival: He's a known and legitimate threat, but he thinks he and Angel are [[ArchEnemy each others' absolute greatest enemies]]. Angel views him as little more than a pest. [[spoiler:Lindsey's indignant reaction to getting offed by ''Lorne'', of all people, instead of Angel himself is simultaneously a little sad and deeply, hilariously pathetic.]]
* VillainRespect: He ''hates'' Angel's guts and deeply resents him, but he nonetheless genuinely respects him.
* WildCard: Nobody can depend on Lindsey for anything; he's easily swayed by events and his motivations frequently shift, leading to a HeelFaceRevolvingDoor. [[spoiler:It's ultimately what gets him killed. Angel knows he's too unpredictable and prone to betrayal to keep alive, and has Lorne kill him.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Eve]]
!!Eve
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/0c11395d904657c4fad4f0e319f6e8c2.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:250:''"Hey, I can't be held responsible for how you dress me in your fantasies."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/SarahThompson

The first "liaison" to the Senior Partners assigned to Angel. Later revealed to be a child of the Wolf, Ram, and Hart, created to do their bidding.
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* ArtificialHuman: She appears to be human, but she's not actually one.
* BelligerentSexualTension: With Angel. She flirts shamelessly with him (as she does with everyone) and he despises her. Lorne eventually tells them to get a room, which they do.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: After finding out Lindsey is dead, Eve just stays in the collapsing Wolfram & Hart building rather than go and face the Senior Partners' hordes.
* ConsummateLiar: Eve's lying abilities are very impressive considering she purposefully comes across as untrustworthy; it's clear Angel would never trust someone working for the Senior Partners anyway.
* DespairEventHorizon: With Lindsey dead, Eve has absolutely nothing in the world: no family, no friends, no job, nothing. She succumbs entirely to despair.
* DirtyCoward: In "Underneath," she goes from angrily swearing she'll never help Angel again and blasting him for letting the Senior Partners take Lindsey to desperately begging him for help and offering him any info he wants as soon as the Partners pinpoint her location.
* DrivenToSuicide: After discovering that Angel has Lindsey assassinated, she remains behind in the collapsing W&H building, stating she has nowhere else to go.
* ExactWords: In "Underneath," she repeatedly tells Angel that she'll die if the Senior Partners' enforcer, Marcus Hamilton, catches up to her. When he eventually does, it turns out that he's come to replace her as Angel's liaison, and taking her immortality as well.
-->'''Angel''': I thought you said you were gonna die.\\
'''Eve''': And now, one day I ''will''.
* ItDoesntMeanAnything: After they have sex under Lorne's unintended magical influence, Eve makes it clear the sex didn't mean anything to her.
-->'''Eve:''' Angel, it's not like this is the first time I've had sex under a mystical influence. I went to U.C. Santa Cruz.
* KissingUnderTheInfluence: With Angel in "Life of the Party."
* MissExposition: Due to being a liaison for the Senior Partners, she's privy to knowledge that can be very helpful to Angel and co...when she chooses, of course. When it comes to knowledge of Wolfram & Hart's inner workings, she's very much holding all the keys.
* TheMole: She's secretly working for Lindsey.
* MysteriousPast: We learn very little about Eve's past and origins; she states that she is an alum of UC Santa Cruz, although she doesn't actually come from Santa Cruz.
* NeuroVault: Eve says she has information on the Senior Partners, but can only remember it when they want her to.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Hinted at. Eve also enjoys using condescending terms like "kid" and "princess" to refer to Angel and co.
-->'''Wesley:''' Still, a pretty powerful position for a young woman.
-->'''Eve:''' How exactly can you be sure I'm either of those things?
* OnlyOneName: She's only known as "Eve". Even the other child of the Senior Partners, Hamilton, got a surname.
-->'''Angel:''' Do you even have a last name?
-->'''Eve:''' Do you?
* ThePowerOfLove: Eve fell in love with Lindsey, causing her to turn against the Senior Partners and even give up her immortality for him.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: She comes across as fairly-obvious (albeit more smug) Lilah 2.0, so much so that Cordelia lampshades it. She gradually gets more of her own personality as her motivations come to life.
* StealthHiBye: Eve has an unnerving ability to do this, which Gunn calls her out on.
-->'''Gunn:''' This gonna be a thing with you, jumping out at people, or do you just not have an office of your own?
* TemptingApple: Eve's entrance (given her name, it's practically obligatory).
* UnholyMatrimony: With Lindsey. Together they try to get to the Senior Partners.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sirk]]
!!Rutherford Sirk
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[[caption-width-right:250:''"These are complicated times. Lines become blurry."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/MichaelHalsey

A former member of the Watchers' Council, Rutherford Sirk lacked the moral clarity of other Watchers of his generation and found himself doubting about the good fight and the Council's mission, though he was far from the only Watcher corrupted by the knowledge he obtained at the Council.

Tempted by power and ambition, Sirk joined Wolfram & Hart and took along with him several valuable tomes belonging to the Council, including the Devandiré Sybilline Codex.
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* ChekhovsGunman: After his initial appearance in "Home" he subs for an absent Wesley in "Destiny".
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Sirk betrayed the Watcher's Council ''and'' Wolfram & Hart.
* DeadpanSnarker: Snark is required reading for a Watcher, and it doesn't go away.
* EvilBrit: By default, due to working for Wolfram & Hart (even before Angel Investigations took it over). And he even managed to betray them.
* EvilCounterpart: To Wesley; both are former Watchers with a first-class education in the Dark Arts, except Sirk is a self-serving backstabber.
* FaceHeelTurn: He was a member of the Watcher's Council before joining Wolfram & Hart; he stole from them when he left too.
* {{Jerkass}}: Sirk is a pompous, contemptuous bastard who barely bothers to hide his disdain for others.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When his betrayal is uncovered, Sirk rather wisely decides to make himself scarce. He isn't seen after that.
* SmugSnake: Sirk considers himself to be the smartest person in the room. In reality, he usually comes in at around fourth. Fifth if Wesley is in the room.
* WaistcoatOfStyle: He's seen wearing one when giving exposition in "Destiny".
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After he goes on the run, Sirk isn't seen again. It's unclear whether he had an off-screen comeuppance or a complete KarmaHoudini. Considering how the Senior Partners handle betrayal, it's unlikely Sirk had a happy ending.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Harmony]]
!!! See Characters/BuffyTheVampireSlayerVampires
[[/folder]]
----

%%* EyeSpy

%%* PullingThemselvesTogether
%%* StalkingIsLove

* GoldenTranslator: A skilled translator of ancient languages albeit a somewhat slow one to Lilah’s frustration.

* AffablyEvil: He's a mass murderer who nonetheless chats pleasantly with other employees about promotion suspects.

* FamousLastWords: [[spoiler:After being shot by Lorne.]]
-->[[spoiler:"'''YOU''' kill me? A flunky?! I'm not just--! ...[[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou Angel kills me]]. You -- Angel..."]]

->'''Played By:''' Creator/LelandCrooke, Creator/DennisChristopher, Creator/StaceyTravis, Creator/MarkColson, Creator/JeffYagher

* BigBad: For Season 5.

* VilainousLineage: As a Child of the Senior Partners, evil runs in the family and [[ThePowerOfBlood flows through his veins]].

->'''Played By:''' Leland Crooke, Creator/DennisChristopher, Stacey Travis, Mark Colson, Jeff Yagher

->'''Played By:''' Leland Crooke

->'''Played By:''' Stacey Travis

->'''Played By:''' Mark Colson

->'''Played By:''' Jeff Yagher

->'''Played By:''' Stephanie Romanov

->'''Played By:''' John Rubinstein

->'''Played By:''' Gerry Becker

->'''Played By:''' Thomas Burr

-> '''Played By:''' Dominique Jennings

-> '''Played By:''' Caroel Raphaelle Davis

->'''Played By:''' Jonathan M. Woodward

->'''Played By:''' Danny Mora & Jeffrey Bell

->'''Played By:''' Stephanie Courtney

->'''Played By:''' Matt Caspar

->'''Played By:''' Dane Northcutt

--> '''Played By:''' Christopher Leps

-> '''Played By:''' Jim Ortleib

--> '''Played By:''' Christopher Gehrmane

--> '''Played By:''' Jennifer Harworth and Stacy Reed

-->'''Played By:''' Danielle Nicolet

--> '''Played By:''' David Gangler

--> '''Played By:''' Brendan Hines

->'''Played By:''' Justin Shilton

->'''Played By:''' John Capodice

->'''Played By:''' Douglas Roberts & Creator/ScottWilliamWinters

->'''Played By:''' Jennifer Badger

->'''Played By:''' Rod Rowland

->'''Played By:''' Marc Vann

->'''Played By:''' Sarah Thompson

->'''Played By:''' Michael Halsey

[[folder:Eve]]
!!Eve
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/0c11395d904657c4fad4f0e319f6e8c2.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:250:''"Hey, I can't be held responsible for how you dress me in your fantasies."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Sarah Thompson

The first "liaison" to the Senior Partners assigned to Angel. Later revealed to be a child of the Wolf, Ram, and Hart, created to do their bidding.

[[folder:Lindsay]]
!!! See Characters/AngelBigBads
[[/folder]]

* InTheBlood: As a Child of the Senior Partners, evil runs in the family and [[ThePowerOfBlood flows through his veins]].

!!! See Characters/AngelOtherCharacters

* Wolfram and Hart

* AuctionOfEvil: Her Job appears to be attending them and she tries to buy a kidnapped Cordelia’s new seer eyes.

* LaserGuidedKarma: He sells people to be cannibalizes and possibly meets the same fate.

-> '''Played By:''' Christopher Leps
->'''Appears In''': "[[Recap/AngelS03E08Quickening Quickening]]"

-> '''Played By:''' Creator/KalPenn
->'''Appears In''': "[[Recap/AngelS03E02ThatVisionThing That Vision Thing]]"

—> '''Played By:''' Christopher Gehrmane

* AmbiguousSituation: Given how his job involves regulating employees to make sure they haven’t been killing humans (which doesn’t sound like something the previous management would have cared about) it’s unclear if he’s a new employee hired by Angel or a long term one who just got reassigned to something more benign.

* StrictParentsMakeSneakyKids: Implied. When Harmony realizes she was framed and yells out she didn’t do it, Rudy, arriving on the scene with no idea what she’s talking about, comments his Sox year old son is always saying the same thing.

—> '''Played By:''' Jennifer Harworth and Stacy Reed

->'''Played By:''' Creator/KayPanabaker & J. August Richards

->'''Played By:''' Andy Umberger

[[folder:The MacNamaras]]

->'''Played By:''' Douglas Roberts & Scott William Winters

->'''Played By:''' Victor Raider-Wexler

->'''Played By:''' Leland Crooke, Dennis Christopher, Stacey Travis, Mark Colson, Jeff Yagher

->'''Played By:''' Dennis Christopher

* KnightOfCerebus: His introduction sets up Wolfram and Hart as the BigBad of the entire series rather than the shadowy ManBehindTheMan and benefactors of the MonsterOfTheWeek they were in the first half of Season 1, which is what initially moves the show to arc-based storytelling from the episodic structure it had before. He also helped resurrect Darla, leading to her revamping, Connor's birth and all that followed; an arc that dominated more than half of the series.

* KnightOfCerebus: He stands out as an extremely memorable one-episode villain due to how blatantly terrifying he is. His 'parlor tricks' are utterly horrifying and he's spent hundreds of years sending people to hell. Any comedic elements are completely sucked out of the room when he appears.

* TomTheDarkLord: A HumanoidAbomination with a slightly PreppyName. Applies to every lawyer at Wolfram & Hart to some degree, but most of them are human -- Marcus Hamilton is Child of the Senior Partners, and in effect a kind of demigod.

* TomTheDarkLord: A HumanoidAbomination with a slightly preppy name. Applies to every lawyer at Wolfram & Hart to some degree, but most of them are human -- Marcus Hamilton is child of the Senior Partners, and in effect a kind of demigod.

* InTheBlood: His blood is imbued with the power of the Senior Partners, granting him strength that surpasses that of a vampire of -- at least -- Angel's age. The fact that his power is literally [[ExactWords in his blood]] proves to be the key to defeating him.

* PunchClockVillain: He's a pretty evil person, but before he does his work there's a scene of him sign gin out some tax forms to make sure he can get paid for it and complaining about the monotony.

!Clients

[[folder:Billy]]
!!Billy Blim
->'''Played By:''' Justin Shilton

-->''"I have never hurt a woman in my life...I just like to watch."''

While appearing to be a normal young man, he was actually a half-demon with contagious, vicious misogyny, and had the power to turn any man he touched or who came in contact with his bodily fluids extremely savage and brutal toward anyone female. And he had no real reason to do this, other than his personal amusement.

* AxCrazy: He takes an unhealthily sadistic enjoyment in driving men into misogynistic frenzies and setting them upon any woman in reach.
* ChildByRape: According to WordOfGod, they personally believe that Billy was conceived when a demon woman - a ''good'' demon woman - was raped by an [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters evil human male]]. This is just as screwed up as it sounds.
* TheDreaded: By his own ''family.'' They have "rules" around him, such as never leaving him alone with a woman and crucially ''never'' let him touch you.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Billy is a well-mannered young man with an unassuming voice. He's also a world-class sadist.
* FeedItWithFire: He can absorb the kinetic energy from impacts to enhance his own strength. By punching the concrete a few times, he became strong enough to crack it and overpower Angel.
* ForTheEvulz: His reason for setting men upon women. He just loves watching it to satisfy his sadistic desires.
* HatePlague: His power to bring out the "primal misogyny" of any man who touched him or came into contact with his body fluids (sweat, blood, etc.). Angel is immune, because, as he put it, he gave up on hate a long time ago; even as Angelus, he killed and tortured people ForTheEvulz, but never felt any hate or anger towards those he did it to.
* HalfHumanHybrid: The Angel Investigations team is able to confirm early on that he's not fully human; Angel can tell by [[TheNoseKnows the smell of his blood]] and the fact that he [[MustBeInvited didn't need an invitation to enter the Blim estate]].
* HeManWomanHater: UpToEleven. Although he claims to not hate women and be a MisanthropeSupreme, the fact that he only targets women is highly suspect.
* KarmicDeath: His first act upon being broken out of a PrisonDimension by Lilah is to [[UngratefulBastard induce Gavin into beating the hell out of Lilah for kicks]]. Fittingly, Lilah is ultimately the one to finish him off, shooting him InTheBack while he's fighting Angel.
* MoreThanMindControl: According to Lilah, this is how Billy's powers work. All men are actually {{Straw Misogynist}}s deep down; Billy just removes their inhibitions.
* PlayAlongPrisoner: He purposely turns himself into the police to get out of his solitary confinement at his family estate. The arresting officers turn out to be a male-female duo, and he induces the man to start fighting with the woman and uses the ensuing chaos to slip away.
* PsychoticSmirk: His default expression, usually exaggerated when he's just done something horrible.
* {{Sadist}}: For all his claims that he just "watches", Billy clearly loves watching men brutalise women and knowing that he's the cause of it.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: He's the nephew of Senator Blim, patriarch of one of the most powerful families in the United States. Like any family, the Blims prefer to keep their 'black sheep' out of the public eye.
* TheSociopath: Among Angel's villains of the week, it's hard to top Billy Blim for clearly falling into this category. The fact that it was actually the normally very cold and amoral Lilah who took him out says volumes.
* StrawMisogynist: He hates women and enjoys using his HatePlague to make men beat them up.
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: There's nothing extraordinary about Billy; he's a somewhat handsome young man, of average height and build who doesn't stand out in a crowd.
* UngratefulBastard: Lilah fights tooth and nail to free him, even {{blackmail}}ing Angel into breaking him out. How does Billy repay her for it? He thanks Gavin, her [[TheRival rival]], instead and induces him into beating the mortal shit out of Lilah while he walks away with a PsychoticSmirk. [[spoiler: It comes back to bite him in the ass though]].
* VigilanteExecution: Lilah unloading her pistol at him on an airstrip.

[[folder:Winters]]
!!Russell Winters
->'''Played By:''' Creator/VytoRuginis
->'''Appears In''': "[[Recap/AngelS01E01CityOf City of...]]"
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/russell_winters.jpg]]
An old and wealthy vampire who owned the investment firm Russell Winters Enterprises. A client of Wolfram & Hart, his vast wealth made him one of the most powerful men in Los Angeles, living among humans and using his connections and power to kill with impunity.

* BigFancyHouse: As befitting his status as a CorruptCorporateExecutive.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Of Russell Winters Enterprises.
* DestinationDefenestration: Angel shoves him out the window of his high-rise. He burns up in the sun before he even hits the ground.
* FauxAffablyEvil: His polite air is nothing but a smug veneer for a true savage.
* KarmicDeath: Oh so very much.
* ManipulativeBastard: He's very good at manipulating his victims both personally and financially.
* MustBeInvited: Russell manages to bypass this little barrier by setting his victims up in apartments he owns, thus negating the need for an invitation.
* NightmareFace: His GameFace is considerably more deformed than most other vampires, to the point of possessing a faint green tinge.
* {{Sadist}}: Even for a vampire, he's a sadistic piece of work. He traps his victims into abusive relationships for months, torturing them without even disclosing he's a vampire until the last minute.
-->'''Tina:''' He likes pain. I mean, he really does. He talks about it like it's a friend of his.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Thanks to his [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney wealth]] and connections, he can stalk and kill with impunity.
* SmugSnake: Winters is extremely confident that he's able to do whatever he wants, as long as he pays his taxes and stays rich. Angel disabuses him of this notion, and he's surprised to say the least.
-->'''Winters:''' Look at me. I pay my taxes, keep my name out of the paper and I don't make waves. And in return, I can do anything I want.
-->'''Angel:''' Really? [[PreMortemOneLiner Can you fly?]]
* StarterVillain: He's the first villainous character on ''Series/{{Angel}}''.
* VampiresAreRich: Winters has amassed vast wealth over his time on the Earth (and considering that he's started to lose his human appearance, he must be very old indeed behind the Master and Kakistos).

[[folder:Meltzer]]
!!Dr. Ronald Meltzer
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/8b749dce8ed338ea12a751aff64a3e76.png]]
[[caption-width-right:250:''"I'm more than meets the eye."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Andy Umberger
->'''Appears In''': "[[Recap/AngelS01E04IFallToPieces I Fall to Pieces]]"

A brilliant surgeon with the power to sever and reattach his body parts, over which he had some sort of telekinetic control (he could levitate them in the air) thanks to his mastery of psychic surgery after being inspired by a book about how everyone was connected to the world around them due to them sharing molecules. He was also a deranged stalker and a client of Wolfram & Hart, fixating on Melissa Burns after he saved her sight in an operation and they shared a single drink with her, watching her in her apartment by leaving an eye in the area.

%%* BaldOfEvil
%%* EvilHand
%%* EyeSpy
* MadDoctor: Ronald is deeply insane.
* NotSoDifferent: Angel has quite an insight into how Meltzer's twisted little mind works, due to his own history of stalking as Angelus.
-->'''Cordelia:''' What about Melissa has got him going all O.J.?
-->'''Angel:''' Nothing. It's not about her. It's about rage. He's too messed up to deal with a real woman so he creates a fantasy about a girl he barely knows. She'll fail him, and he has to hurt her because when he looks at her, all he sees is how useless he is--
-->'''Cordelia:''' What a fun date you must have been back in your bad vamp days. But, it should give you some insight into the jerks of the world.
* OffWithHisHead: Angel knocks his head off, but this doesn't kill him, just incapacitates him.
%%* PullingThemselvesTogether
%%* StalkingIsLove
* ToThePain:
-->''"I developed this injector while working with animals. (Angel pulls out the dart and looks at it. It drops from his fingers) They don’t like their limbs cut off any more than we do and they can hurt you if you get to close. (Angel is gasping, his eyes wide) You’ll feel a slight sinking sensation – that’s your heart slowing down as the paralytic takes effect. Eventually it’ll stop all together."''

[[folder:Little Tony]]
!!Anthony "Little Tony" Papazian
->'''Played By:''' John Capodice
->'''Appears In''': "[[Recap/AngelS01E06SenseAndSensitivity Sense and Sensitivity]]"

A dangerous crime boss of Los Angeles, and a former client of Wolfram & Hart until he attempted to murder Kate Lockley in a room full of witnesses.

* DirtyOldMan: He leers at Kate and flirts with her.
* FatBastard: Tony is a notably overweight criminal.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He's oddly personable for a ruthless crime lord.
-->''"You guys, you're working for Little Tony now. ''[shooting a cop]'' You'll find I'm stern but fair."''
* TheMillstone: After he fails to escape and gets himself captured yet again despite the opportunities Wolfram & Hart provided, they see him as a dead weight and drop him as a client.
* RevengeBeforeReason: Despite having the opportunity to escape the city and thus avoid life imprisonment, he hangs around to kill Kate. He fails, gets arrested and Wolfram & Hart drop him as a client.
* SnarkToSnarkCombat: With Kate.
-->'''Little Tony:''' You've been running after me for a long time, haven't you, sweetheart? If I'd known how bad you wanted me, I might've had you catch me sooner.
-->'''Kate:''' If I knew how much you needed the exercise I might've let you run a little longer.
* TalkingToPlants: He tells his mooks to water his plants and talk to them while he's gone.
-->'''Little Tony:''' And don't forget to water my plants.
-->'''Mook:''' Sure thing.
-->'''Little Tony:''' And talk to them. They like that.

[[folder:The MacNamaras]]
!!Darin & Jack [=MacNamara=]
->'''Played By:''' Douglas Roberts & Scott William Winters
->'''Appear In''': "[[Recap/AngelS01E16TheRing The Ring]]"

* DecoyDamsel: Darin comes to Angel as a client, when he's actually just laying a trap.
* TheDragon: Jack is one to Darin.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Averted. When Jack is taken hostage, Darin doesn't hesitate to coldly shoot his own brother.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Cribb and Trepkos use Darin's own enchanted slavery bracelet to kill him.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Darin is killed with one of the bracelets he used to keep the demons imprisoned.
* SiblingsInCrime: As brothers, they're co-owners of an illegal fighting ring.
* SharpDressedMan: Darin, due to him being the face of
* ShootTheHostage: Darin does this with his own brother.
* SmugSnake: Jack a little moreso than Darin; Jack is prone to sadistically taunting his charges.
* TheSociopath: Darin, who murders his own brother without batting an eye.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Vanessa]]
!!Vanessa Brewer
->'''Played By:''' Jennifer Badger
->'''Appears In''': "[[Recap/AngelS01E21BlindDate Blind Date]]"

A blind assassin working for Wolfram & Hart as well as their client.

* AchillesHeel: Because she relies on her [[SuperSenses extremely sharp hearing]] to "see" her targets, Angel is invisible to her as long as he's standing still, since he neither breathes nor has a heartbeat.
%%* DarkActionGirl
* DisabilitySuperpower: Has the standard ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}-style super hearing to compensate for her blindess.
%%* EnlightenmentSuperpowers
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Killed with her own walking stick weapon.
* ProfessionalKiller: She's an assassin, working largely for Wolfram & Hart.
* ProphetEyes: Vanessa has pure white eyes. Even Holland finds her creepy.
* PsychoForHire: A child-killing psychopath who accepts commissions from Wolfram & Hart.
%%* PsychoticSmirk
* WouldHurtAChild: She has no problem whatsoever about killing three blind children.

[[folder:Fries]]
!!Corbin Fries
->'''Played By:''' Rod Rowland
->'''Appears In''': "[[Recap/AngelS05E01Conviction Conviction]]"

A client of Wolfram & Hart, both a businessman and a dangerous mobster.

* DeadpanSnarker: In a very sardonic, nasty way.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He has a young son who's going to a good school and seems well-adjusted, but it's averted. He considers his child to be a tool and little more.
* {{Hypocrite}}: He doesn't let his son read ComicBook/ThePunisher presumably because it's violent, and he's a vicious criminal and unrepentant psychopath.
* {{Jerkass}}: Fries is a thoroughly vile piece of work. He's aggressive, rude, short-tempered and basically a repulsive asshole.
* KarmaHoudini: Despite being one of the most despicable characters in the series, he gets off scot-free and his intimidation tactics work.
* TakingYouWithMe: In his attempts to avoid jail, he plants a mystical virus inside his own son which will be activated once he says the magic word, killing the entire population of California. If he's found guilty, he says the magic word.
* WouldHurtAChild: He placed a deadly mystical virus within his own young son as part of his TakingYouWithMe plan. Essentially, he's turned his own child into a walking time bomb of genocide.

[[folder:Hainsley]]
!!Magnus Hainsley
->'''Played By:''' Victor Raider-Wexler
->'''Appears In''': "[[Recap/AngelS05E02JustRewards Just Rewards]]"

A rich and powerful member of the Los Angeles elite as well as a powerful Necromancer. He provided demons with dead human bodies to inhabit, using himself as a conduit to "install" them.

* BadassBoast: He gives one to Angel.
-->''"Who do you think you're talking to? I eat the dead for breakfast, son. And you're just another plate o' bacon and eggs."''
* BaldOfEvil: Hainsley is bald and has people who annoy him chopped into enough pieces that they wind up in buckets.
* FatBastard: Heavy-set and far from the nicest of individuals.
* {{Necromancer}}: His talent and his profession. It makes him an extremely dangerous for Angel to have. As he says himself, he eats the dead for breakfast and could dust Angel with zero effort; he doesn't even need a stake.
* OffWithHisHead: Angel decapitates him (or, more accurately, his dead body as controlled by Spike) with a serving platter.
* SquishyWizard: Due to his age and status as a human, Hainsley doesn't pose much of a threat without his powers. Angel rather easily kills him once his abilities are incapacitated.

!Other

[[folder:Torture Demon]]
!!The Torture Demon/Holding Dimension Demon
->'''Played By:'''

An unidentified demon torturer at the Senior Partners' Holding Dimension. He would ritualistically and repeatedly cut out the heart of the human prisoner. Illyria took the necklace that identified the prisoner and placed it around his neck, forcing him to cut out his own heart until another prisoner took his place.

%%* AffablyEvil
%%* ChainedByFashion
* ColdBloodedTorture: Inflicts this on prisoners in the Holding Dimension. The victims we see on-screen are Lindsey, Gunn, and the torture demon himself.
%%* CreepyBasement
* LaserGuidedKarma: He ends up a victim of the very same nightmare he helped perpetuate.
* TheQuietOne: He never speaks, although his screaming as he starts torturing himself implies that it's not for a lack of ability.
* SelfHarm: Illyria manages to free Gunn from the Holding Dimension by placing the prisoner's binding necklace onto the torture demon, forcing him to continually torture himself per the rules of the dimension.
%%* TortureCellar
* TortureTechnician: He's a torture demon. Torture's kind of his thing.
* WallOfWeapons: The walls of his chamber are decked with a variety of torture devices that he puts to good use.

[[folder:Sparrow]]
!!Dr. Sparrow
->'''Played By:''' Marc Vann

A doctor and scientist that performed certain services to Wolfram & Hart and other extremely wealthy clients. The procedures that he performed included implanting knowledge into people's minds, brainwashing, and giving people x-ray vision.

* AfraidOfBlood: Oddly enough for a doctor who might as well be a butcher.
-->''"Always messy when you have to open 'em up. That's why I prefer the less invasive procedures. Never got used to the sight of blood. Ugh. Still makes me nauseous."''
* BaldOfEvil: He's evil and shiny-headed.
* ChekhovsGunman: After an appearance in the first episode of Season 5, he returns to cause major trouble later in the season.
* DealWithTheDevil: And of course, he is the devil in this case. The deal he makes is with Gunn, who wants his brain upgrade back when it starts to wear off.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Sparrow is polite and smiling, but is clearly a vile person.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: He's a glasses-wearing psychopath.
* MadDoctor: His sanity is debatable considering that he thinks resurrecting an ancient EldritchAbomination is a fun way to spend your time.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He's never seen again after Illyria's debut episode; all we know is that Spike tortured him for info and got "screams, various fluids, and a name" out of him.

[[folder:Pavayne]]
!!Matthias Pavayne
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1399b5dfb82626e83322b8d1fbafa68c.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:250:''"An eternity of suffering for your sins. But first, I get to play. Let's get started then, shall we?"'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/SimonTempleman
->'''Appears In''': "[[Recap/AngelS05E04HellBound Hell Bound]]"

A multiple murderer that managed, through a DealWithTheDevil, to delay his own journey to hell through torturing the damned. For the early parts of Season 5, he's responsible for Spike's being dragged to hell.

* AndIMustScream: Due to his FateWorseThanDeath. While there's no actual screaming, his expression is still one of vacant horror.
* AristocratsAreEvil: Pavayne was an 18th century English aristocrat.
* BadassBaritone: Simon Templeman is the voice actor of [[VideoGame/LegacyOfKain Kain]] after all.
* BadassLongcoat: His LimitedWardrobe consists of a long coat.
* BackFromTheDead: Against his will. Pavayne was happy hanging around Wolfram & Hart as a ghost, but Fred's device makes him flesh and blood again...and subsequently he's trapped in a little dark room that immobilizes him completely and left there, forever...
* BreakingSpeech: He delivers these from time to time, sometimes summoning his own collection of ghostly images to speak for him.
* BritishTeeth: Pavayne hails from the time of poor dental care, and it shows.
* CasualDangerDialogue: When Fred is about to re-corporealize Spike, he merely says, "This won't do. This won't do at all."
* ColdBloodedTorture: Torture is Pavayne's job, hobby and passion. He submits Spike and hundreds of others to vicious physical and psychological torture.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: While he's far from goofy, it appears he can't hold his own when somebody fights back... then he delivers an impressive PunchCatch and shows he can.
-->'''Spike:''' Not so much fun when we hit back, is it?
-->'''Pavayne:''' [PunchCatch] It's starting to be.
* DeadlyDoctor: In life, when he was nicknamed "The Reaper", "for performing unnecessary surgery on his patients".
* DealWithTheDevil: Pavayne should have gone to hell a long time ago, but has managed to stick around as Wolfram & Hart's resident ghost by torturing the souls of others who died and sending them down to hell instead.
-->'''Spike:''' Cute little racket you've got carved out for yourself. Prying off spirits and sucking 'em down the chute. Kept your own toasties out of the fire, didn't it?
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: His torture of Spike, specifically Spike being stripped and then tortured more, has horrible overtones of rape.
* EvilBrit: Very evil and very British.
* EvilOldFolks: He was in his older years when he first died. Of course, as a ghost he's pretty damn old.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Pavayne has a deep, soft voice, which makes him even more intimidating.
* FateWorseThanDeath: While he is already dead, he's ultimately returned to corporeality and forced to live forever in a box that keeps him paralyzed but completely aware, and just to twist the knife, containing a window with an unchanging view...
-->'''Angel:''' Congratulations. You get to live forever...unable to move...to touch...or to feel. Or to affect anything in the world around you. [[FalseReassurance But don't worry...I had 'em give you a window.]] WelcomeToHell.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Pavayne is capable of being rather polite, even when he's ripping you apart in particularly sadistic ways.
* HiddenVillain: Pavayne only appears in a single episode, but since Spike's first appearance as a ghost he's been slowly preparing him for Hell. As a ghost, he's been present throughout the entire series, torturing other poor bastards who died in the Wolfram & Hart offices before sending them off to Hell. This means Lee Mercer, Linwood Murrow and Gavin Park all had the pleasure of his company.
* HumanSacrifice: Wolfram & Hart sacrificed Pavayne to deconsecrate the holy ground they intended to build their L.A. office on. They needed a particularly evil soul, and Pavayne fit the bill.
* KnightOfCerebus: He stands out as an extremely memorable one-episode villain due to how blatantly terrifying he is. His 'parlor tricks' are utterly horrifying and he's spent hundreds of years sending people to hell. Any comedic elements are completely sucked out of the room when he appears.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Pavayne spent centuries cheating his fate of being sent to hell. Angel's words when leaving him to a [[FateWorseThanDeath particularly unenviable fate]]?
-->'''Angel''': WelcomeToHell.
* LimitedWardrobe: Due to being a ghost.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Although technically dead, Pavayne has mastered being a ghost. He's able to interact with the physical world at his own whims. There's no slamming doors or cheap tricks here; Pavayne can easily reach into the real world and brutally kill. You can't touch him, but he sure as hell can touch you.
* {{Sadist}}: He has devoted his entire life and death to the torture of others, which he greatly enjoys.
* SadisticChoice: Tries pulling one on Spike by threatening Fred and forcing him to choose between her continued life and him becoming corporeal again. Unfortunately for him, Spike isn't the person he used to be and he shoves her out of the way before tossing Pavayne into the re-corporealization machine himself, allowing Angel to beat him down and imprison him.
* SerialKiller: In life, he was a multiple murderer.
* ShutUpHannibal: During a rant after being re-corporealized:
-->'''Pavayne''': Defilers! [[CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon I'll...cut you into nothing! I'll feast on your brains. I'll swim in lakes of your own blood!]]
-->'''Angel''': (''[[PunchedAcrossTheRoom punches him across the room]]'') You'll shut the hell up!
* SoftSpokenSadist: Due to being played by Simon Templemen. Pavayne has a soft, gentle voice up until his VillainousBreakdown.
* VillainousBreakdown: When Spike starts fighting back, he's thrown for a loop and starts to cower. He recovers quickly, though. After being made corporeal, he's reduced to ineffectually screaming violent threats before being knocked out by Angel.

!Former Employees

[[folder:Eve]]
!!Eve
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/0c11395d904657c4fad4f0e319f6e8c2.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:250:''"Hey, I can't be held responsible for how you dress me in your fantasies."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Sarah Thompson

The first "liaison" to the Senior Partners assigned to Angel. Later revealed to be a child of the Wolf, Ram, and Hart, created to do their bidding.

* ArtificialHuman: She appears to be human, but she's not actually one.
* BelligerentSexualTension: With Angel. She flirts shamelessly with him (as she does with everyone) and he despises her. Lorne eventually tells them to get a room, which they do.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: After finding out Lindsey is dead, Eve just stays in the collapsing Wolfram & Hart building rather than go and face the Senior Partners' hordes.
* ConsummateLiar: Eve's lying abilities are very impressive considering she purposefully comes across as untrustworthy; it's clear Angel would never trust someone working for the Senior Partners anyway.
* DespairEventHorizon: With Lindsey dead, Eve has absolutely nothing in the world: no family, no friends, no job, nothing. She succumbs entirely to despair.
* DirtyCoward: In "Underneath," she goes from angrily swearing she'll never help Angel again and blasting him for letting the Senior Partners take Lindsey to desperately begging him for help and offering him any info he wants as soon as the Partners pinpoint her location.
* DrivenToSuicide: After discovering that Angel has Lindsey assassinated, she remains behind in the collapsing W&H building, stating she has nowhere else to go.
* ExactWords: In "Underneath," she repeatedly tells Angel that she'll die if the Senior Partners' enforcer, Marcus Hamilton, catches up to her. When he eventually does, it turns out that he's come to replace her as Angel's liaison, and taking her immortality as well.
-->'''Angel''': I thought you said you were gonna die.\\
'''Eve''': And now, one day I ''will''.
* ItDoesntMeanAnything: After they have sex under Lorne's unintended magical influence, Eve makes it clear the sex didn't mean anything to her.
-->'''Eve:''' Angel, it's not like this is the first time I've had sex under a mystical influence. I went to U.C. Santa Cruz.
* KissingUnderTheInfluence: With Angel in "Life of the Party."
* MissExposition: Due to being a liaison for the Senior Partners, she's privy to knowledge that can be very helpful to Angel and co...when she chooses, of course. When it comes to knowledge of Wolfram & Hart's inner workings, she's very much holding all the keys.
* TheMole: She's secretly working for Lindsey.
* MysteriousPast: We learn very little about Eve's past and origins; she states that she is an alum of UC Santa Cruz, although she doesn't actually come from Santa Cruz.
* NeuroVault: Eve says she has information on the Senior Partners, but can only remember it when they want her to.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Hinted at. Eve also enjoys using condescending terms like "kid" and "princess" to refer to Angel and co.
-->'''Wesley:''' Still, a pretty powerful position for a young woman.
-->'''Eve:''' How exactly can you be sure I'm either of those things?
* OnlyOneName: She's only known as "Eve". Even the other child of the Senior Partners, Hamilton, got a surname.
-->'''Angel:''' Do you even have a last name?
-->'''Eve:''' Do you?
* ThePowerOfLove: Eve fell in love with Lindsey, causing her to turn against the Senior Partners and even give up her immortality for him.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: She comes across as fairly-obvious (albeit more smug) Lilah 2.0, so much so that Cordelia lampshades it. She gradually gets more of her own personality as her motivations come to life.
* StealthHiBye: Eve has an unnerving ability to do this, which Gunn calls her out on.
-->'''Gunn:''' This gonna be a thing with you, jumping out at people, or do you just not have an office of your own?
* TemptingApple: Eve's entrance (given her name, it's practically obligatory).
* UnholyMatrimony: With Lindsey. Together they try to get to the Senior Partners.

[[folder:Sirk]]
!!Rutherford Sirk
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/b77f593112d7b097c23349e7e0327358.JPG]]
[[caption-width-right:250:''"These are complicated times. Lines become blurry."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Michael Halsey

A former member of the Watchers' Council, Rutherford Sirk lacked the moral clarity of other Watchers of his generation and found himself doubting about the good fight and the Council's mission, though he was far from the only Watcher corrupted by the knowledge he obtained at the Council.

Tempted by power and ambition, Sirk joined Wolfram & Hart and took along with him several valuable tomes belonging to the Council, including the Devandiré Sybilline Codex.

* ChekhovsGunman: After his initial appearance in "Home" he subs for an absent Wesley in "Destiny".
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Sirk betrayed the Watcher's Council ''and'' Wolfram & Hart.
* DeadpanSnarker: Snark is required reading for a Watcher, and it doesn't go away.
* EvilBrit: By default, due to working for Wolfram & Hart (even before Angel Investigations took it over). And he even managed to betray them.
* EvilCounterpart: To Wesley; both are former Watchers with a first-class education in the Dark Arts, except Sirk is a self-serving backstabber.
* FaceHeelTurn: He was a member of the Watcher's Council before joining Wolfram & Hart; he stole from them when he left too.
* {{Jerkass}}: Sirk is a pompous, contemptuous bastard who barely bothers to hide his disdain for others.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When his betrayal is uncovered, Sirk rather wisely decides to make himself scarce. He isn't seen after that.
* SmugSnake: Sirk considers himself to be the smartest person in the room. In reality, he usually comes in at around fourth. Fifth if Wesley is in the room.
* WaistcoatOfStyle: He's seen wearing one when giving exposition in "Destiny".
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After he goes on the run, Sirk isn't seen again. It's unclear whether he had an off-screen comeuppance or a complete KarmaHoudini. Considering how the Senior Partners handle betrayal, it's unlikely Sirk had a happy ending.

[[folder:Lindsay]]
!!! See Characters/AngelOtherCharacters

[[folder:Harmony]]
!!! See Characters/BuffyTheVampireSlayerVampires

->'''Appears In''': "[[Recap/AngelS01E04IFallToPieces I Fall to Pieces]]"