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* AlphaBitch: She tries to take over Cordelia's position as this after she throws her lot in with Buffy and co. It didn't really work out.

* EvilCounterpart: To Cordelia - an intensely stupid bimbo who also gained a few IQ points, moved to the big city, and ended up working in an office.

-->'''Gunn:''' (''irritated'') Don't we kill 'em anymore? He

* IFightForTheStrongestSide: Inverted more than once. Harmony is in Angel's employ for less than a day before defecting to a vampire cult that she was ''supposed'' to be investigating. Three years later, she's back working for Angel again--but only after he's become Wolfram & Hart's CEO. [[spoiler:Harmony betrays Angel]] at the earliest opportunity (again) by bedding [[spoiler:Hamilton]], who is incidentally higher on the totem pole than Angel is.
* IgnoredEpiphany: Fondly remembers high school, and desperately wishes to be accepted by friends that way again. Unfortunately, Harmony self-sabotages every friendship she has due to being StupidEvil.

* AffablyEvil: For an undead creature of the night, Holden is a very affable and even goofy guy. He listens to Buffy, doesn't judge her, helps her through her issues and is exceedingly patient. He even puts her on the couch (a stone bier)! Buffy actually seems pretty sorry that she has to kill him.
* AmbiguouslyBi: Had a girlfriend, but was sired by Spike and may have been picked up by him like Spike's other victims.
* BadassInANiceSuit: He is a fairly competent vampire fighter, and dressed in a nice suit when he fights Buffy.
* CardCarryingVillain: Holden offhandedly and casually mentions that he's evil and he's pleased about it from time to time.
* TheConfidant: He briefly serves as one to Buffy, since she knows he won't be leaving the cemetery alive anyway. Plus, he is a genuinely friendly guy. Why not take advantage of some free therapy?
* DrunkOnTheDarkSide: A bit, as per usual for young vampires - which makes him underestimate Buffy. See EvilFeelsGood.

* EvilFormerFriend: Although "friend" is pushing it, he was an acquaintance of Buffy when they were in school and happily greets her like an old friend at a reunion. Unfortunately, she doesn't quite remember him. Now he's a vampire, of course.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: A rare intentional example. While he does intend to kill Buffy (it's NothingPersonal - he's a vampire, she's a Slayer, it's what they do), he can't resist trying to analyse her and help her work through her issues. This ends up having a positive long term impact. He also tips Buffy off to the fact that Spike is (unwillingly) killing and siring people, derailing the First's plans for him.
* NothingPersonal: With Buffy. They have to fight, since they're vampire and slayer, but otherwise they get along quite well.

* UnderestimatingBadassery: As a newborn vampire who's a little drunk on power, and a trained martial artist, he thinks that he can best Buffy fairly comfortably. That turns out not to be the case.

* TheDragon: To the Anointed One
* EvilIsHammy: Sounds a lot like a minister

* KillItWithFire: How Buffy dispatches him.

* ScaryBlackMan: A large, bald Afroamerican vampire.
* ScreamingWarrior: Charges into battle with a tough cry.

* AlphaBitch: Attempted to take over Cordelia's position as this. It didn't really work out.

* BrainlessBeauty: Harmony's pretty but ''painfully'' airheaded.
* BullyingADragon: Joined Cordelia in picking on and insulting Buffy despite both girls knowing that she burned her last high school's gym down.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Vapid, shallow, and utterly hopeless as a vampire and a villain. But the final season of ''Angel'' shows that she's surprisingly competent as a secretary.

** Asked if she could turn Creator/AntonioBanderas into a vampire. Spike vetoed the idea.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: He's {{implied|trope}} to have one, if the below line to the Mayor is any indication. It possibly has something to do with being a victim of racism.

* EvilerThanThou: Comes to regard Kakistos as an old-fashioned fool, abandoning him to be killed by Faith and Buffy ("These vengeance crusades are out of style, it's the modern vampire who sees the big picture.")

* PopCulturedBadass: References comics, and generally seems up with the times.

* TheStarscream: To Kakistos -- once it becomes clear he won't listen to Trick's suggestions to embrace modernity, he abandons him to die. He's much more loyal to Mayor Wilkins, though.
* TwoferTokenMinority

* AllGirlsLikePonies: She had an affinity with unicorns. While living with Spike in his underground liar, she hung up posters of unicorns along with many other unicorn paraphernalia. When she led her own gang, one of her minions, former boyfriend Brad Konig, took the liberty of bringing her a 10-inch ceramic unicorn figure imported from Thailand priced at $12.95. She also possessed a wooden carousel unicorn, which Buffy used to kill another minion of Harmony's. While working at Wolfram & Hart, Harmony decorated her desk with unicorns as well as having unicorn stickers on her blood thermos. To please her, Clem made these creatures real, a joyful surprise to her. After this, she rode an unicorn for her arrival at VampCon. Her throne room in the 23rd century was also decorated with unicorn and Pomeranian motifs.

* BrutishCharacterBrutishWeapon: His weapon is a weapon.

* DropTheHammer: His weapon

* ScaryBlackMan: A large, bald afroamerican vampire.

* DemotedToDragon: After Kakistos's death, he's the main vampire boss, but then Mayor Wilkins makes him his lackey. Trick doesn't seem to mind that much, though, considering that Wilkins is a [[AffablyEvil personable]] BenevolentBoss and shares his pragmatic attitude.

* TheSociopath: As a whole, vampires are this due to their [[TheSoulless lack of a soul]]. They have a complete or near-complete LackOfEmpathy, are AlwaysChaoticEvil, and are specifically described as lacking a conscience and being incapable of remorse. Even for those vampires who are capable of love, it has a twisted, selfish or obsessive bent.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Just because they became vampires doesn't mean that makes her and the others automatic fighters. Their first attempt at fighting Buffy barely had the Slayer have to do anything as they ended up tripping over themselves in trying to attack her. They only avoid being staked that time because Hester overheard Willow and Buffy talking about her Queen Bee days and stunned Buffy with an ArmorPiercingQuestion, allowing a cheap shot that knocks Buffy down and them running off

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Just because they became vampires doesn't mean that makes her and the others automatic fighters. Their first attempt at fighting Buffy barely had her have to do anything as they ended up tripping over themselves in trying to attack her. They only avoid being staked that time because Hester overheard Willow and Buffy talking about her Queen Bee days and stunned Buffy with an ArmorPiercingQuestion, allowing a cheap shot and them running off.

* CoolLoser: He's treated like a social pariah (alongside Xander and Willow) by Cordelia, yet he's played by the tall and attractive Eric Balfour. True enough, when he becomes more assertive and stylish as a vampire, Cordy almost immediately melts for him.

* BadassInANiceSuit: He's one of the best dressed villains in the show

%%* JiveTurkey

* TheStarscream: To Kakistos.

* {{Expy}}: Of the Master.

Introduced in the very first episode as Xander and Willow's [[ThreeAmigos closest friend]], he ends up getting killed, turned into a vampire, and then accidentally staked by Xander in very short order. His old friends proceed to honor his memory by -- [[ForgottenFallenFriend forgetting he ever existed]], apparently, as he's never mentioned even once throughout the rest of the show.

* HealingFactor: It's shown more in the comics, but they apparently heal much faster than humans.

* OedipusComplex: After rising as a vampire she taunts William with the notion that he actually wants to engage in ParentalIncest.

* FieryRedhead: His hair is auburn and he is quick to swear revenge against enemies or tell loudmouths when they're being annoying.
* GeniusBruiser: Billy Bob is shrewd, pragmatic and tech savvy in addition to being a burly brawler who makes an excited war whoop while charging a crowd of opponents.
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: He is a typically murderous vampire, but he is far less dangerous than the BigBad of the book, who is takign over people's minds and is scheming to do this on a worldwide scale. This leads to an EnemyMine situation.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Once his EnemyMine moment with Buffy is over, he and his gang leave Sunnydale for "greener, bloodier pastures", although Buffy speculates that the pull of the Hellmouth and the oppurtunity to get famous by killing a Slayer will bring at least some of them back one day.
* SouthernFriedGenius: He is a fat, bearded southerner who is also a former computer repairman who can hack into cable channels to watch his favorite shows without paying. He is also a decently tactical leader.