Line #6 ComicBook/AngelIDW


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3	From 2007--2011, Creator/IDWPublishing published a series of tie-in comics based on ''Series/{{Angel}}''. The first arc, ''Angel: After the Fall'', picks up in the aftermath of the last episode of the TV Series. ''After the Fall'' was penned by series creator Creator/JossWhedon and is considered canon to the Franchise/{{Buffyverse}}. Everything after that is either non-canon or BroadStrokes, as ''Season 8'' comics show what happened with Angel right after L.A. is restored to normalcy by the Senior Partners.
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5	This page is intended to cover all ''Angel'' and ''Spike'' comics between "After the Fall, Part One" and "Stranger Things". For the subsequent - and canonical - Creator/DarkHorseComics series, see ''ComicBook/AngelAndFaith''. Also, keep in mind that spoilers from the televised Buffyverse are not tagged.
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7	Not to be confused with ''ComicBook/{{Fallen Angel\|2003}}'', another IDW-published comic book with "Angel" in its title. It is worth noting, however, that Illyria made a crossover appearance in ''Fallen Angel: Reborn''.
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10	!!Tropes included in the series:
11	* AccidentalMisnaming: Spike keeps mixing up his friend Jeremy's name and calling him "Jerry".
12	* AmazonBrigade: The demon lord Non has one made up of demonic warrior women, which Spike and Illyria inherit after defeating her. Although it turns out most of them didn't know much about fighting without a telepathic assist from Non's Sadecki demon.
13	* BackForTheDead: Kate Lockley appears in one flashback story, showing up to save Connor right after LA goes to Hell and then performing a HeroicSacrifice. Fortunately, with the ResetButton being pressed at the end of the miniseries, she comes back to life after the first arc.
14	* BroadStrokes: There are several differences between the film's events and the "real" events.
15	** Wesley survives longer in the film than the "real" Wesley did.
16	** Lorne is a minion of Satan going by the name "[=OverLorne=]".
17	** Betta George becomes Angel's dog and the TeamPet, George.
18	* TheBusCameBack:
19	** Kate Lockley returns after her last appearance in late Season 2. Since being suspended from the police force, she's become an antiquity store owner, but still carries MoreDakka.
20	** The Groosalugg also returns, and has his groove back.
21	** Gwen Raiden is helping Connor and Nina Ash take care of human refugees at the Hyperion.
22	* CallBack: Teeth, the [[VisualPun Loan Shark]] from [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E8TabulaRasa "Tabula Rasa"]], resurfaces as the demon lord of Santa Monica, and is revealed to be really named Bro'os.
23	* CareBearStare: Referred to by name by Betta George when he overwhelms Old One!Illyria with Wesley and Spike's memories of Fred.
24	* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Spike's friend Jeremy is based on [[Creator/JohnKrasinski Jim]] from the American version of ''[[Series/TheOfficeUS The Office]]''.
25	* ContinuityNod
26	** The lot formerly occupied by the LA branch of Wolfram & Hart is now a [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E12DoublemeatPalace Doublemeat Palace]].
27	** The Doublemeat Palace gets another nod in "Last Angel in Hell", as the Palace is promoting the titular movie.
28	** Possibly accidental: A prophecy regarding the title character's death is fulfilled with a "death" that causes a ResetButton, just like the death of [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E9TheWish Wishverse Buffy]].
29	* CoolUncle: Spike to Connor, working with him to save innocents in Hell A and training him, which makes Angel mildly jealous after he wakes up from his extended recovery. When asking Angel for romantic advice, Connor also mentions that Spike's advice is more of the "weird uncle" variety. Technically, Spike ''is'' Connor's uncle, by "blood". But Connor is also Spike's uncle. [[TangledFamilyTree That family tree is twisted]].
30	* DemonLordsAndArchdevils: The various territories of Los Angeles have been divided up between a group of powerful demons who call themselves lords.
31	* DontExplainTheJoke
32	-->'''Spike:''' Illyria, have you lost weight? See, because--\
33	'''Illyria:''' Because I was a massive creature. I understand. It was a marginally successful attempt at humor.
34	* TheElevatorFromIpanema: Mocked in ''Spike: After the Fall'', when he ends up on one of these elevators.
35	* FaceHeelTurn: Gunn, who was sired during the unseen fight that happens following the cut to black in "Not Fade Away".
36	* {{Glamour}}: One would think Los Angeles being literally dragged into Hell would be freaking out the rest of the world. But when one of Angel's allies manages to contact a friend outside, they flip on the TV...and see just a regular night in L.A. with police chases and such. While Betta George is stunned, Gunn relates he already figured out the Senior Partners cast a spell so the outside world doesn't see anything is wrong (or find it at all odd travel in and out of L.A. has stopped).
37	* HumanityEnsues:
38	** Angel is made human by the Senior Partners in ''After the Fall'', albeit using magicks to give himself his vampiric abilities.
39	** Gunn is reverted to being human when the Senior Partners push the ResetButton and everyone in LA is snapped back to where they were at the end of "Not Fade Away". However, he [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone still remembers what he did as a vampire]].
40	* IChooseToStay: It turns out that Nina Ash ''didn't'' board the plane out of LA with her sister and niece in the finale, and is working with Connor and Gwen Raiden to shelter refugees in the Hyperion Hotel. Fortunately for her odds of survival, the environment of Hell A makes her werewolf traits come to the surface.
41	* InconsistentSpelling: As is usual, there is no agreement on how to spell Wesley's last name. It's given as "Wyndham-Price" in ''After the Fall #1'' and "Wyndam-Price" in ''After the Fall #17'', both of which conflict with the canonical "Wyndam-Pryce".
42	* IronicHell: The Senior Partners force the ghost of Wesley to appear as he did in his early appearances in ''Buffy'', essentially forcing him to regress back to a point in his life he's grown beyond.
43	* KlingonPromotion: Illyria and Spike become lords of Beverly Hills in Hell A after killing Non.
44	* LifeDrain: Non's attack and source of power.
45	* LikesOlderWomen: Connor's predilection for this strikes again. He and Gwen are now dating.
46	* ProphecyTwist: Angel's "death" in ''After the Fall'' technically fulfills the Shanshu Prophecy, even though the ResetButton is pressed.
47	* ResetButton: ''After the Fall'' ends with Angel forcing the Senior Partners to revert the Fall by getting himself killed so that they have to turn back time to the last moment when he was "intact". The citizens of Los Angeles temporarily kept their memories, but the memories eventually faded out and only Angel remembered. [[note]]Wait, [[Recap/AngelS01E08IWillRememberYou this seems familiar...]][[/note]]
48	* {{Retcon}}: It is revealed Angel is still a candidate to the Shanshu Prophecy because the Circle of the Black Thorn never got around to filing the scroll with Angel's signature renouncing his potential fate, and the renunciation was actually a SecretTestOfCharacter all along. The Senior Partners still want him to play a pivotal role in the apocalypse, after all, on their side.
49	* SexyCatPerson: The Kelley Armstrong run introduced Dez, a sexy assassin and ShamelessFanserviceGirl with several nude scenes, who is a Mayan Jaguar Warrior - [[HumanityEnsues a jaguar with magically augmented intelligence and the ability to shapeshift into a human]].
50	* ShapeshifterModeLock: In Hell A, with the sun and moon both being out all the time, Nina is stuck in a LittleBitBeastly mostly human but partly werewolfish form.
51	* SharingABody: It initially seems like Illyria and Fred are doing this, but the latter is just Illyria mimicking Fred's personality and appearance in moments of emotional instability. [[spoiler:Later, in the ''Buffy'' comics from Season 10 onwards, this happens for real]].
52	* SheIsTheKing: Female demon lords are called "lords".
53	* ShoutOut: ''Immortality for Dummies'' features a vampire wearing a ''Webcomic/PvP'' shirt.
54	* TakeThat: A survivor in ''Spike: After the Fall'' says that "[[Series/Charmed1998 that awful show about the witch sisters]]" is the only program playing in Hell A. Later one of Non's AmazonBrigade refers to "that awesome show about the witch sisters".
55	* TeamPet: Angel has tamed the dragon from the end of the TV series, who as it turns out was GoodAllAlong, and accidentally named him "Cordelia".
56	* TokenGoodTeammate: The only non-evil demon lords in Hell A are the lords of Beverly Hills (Illyria and Spike, after defeating Non) and Silver Lake (Lorne), with Silver Lake being the most pleasant territory to live.
57	* TokenNonhuman: Well, multiple members of the cast aren't human or fully human, but Spike's old buddy Betta George is the Token Non-Humanoid, being a Splenden Beast: a large, floating telepathic Betta Splenden (Siamese fighting fish). He's also meant by Brian Lynch to be the AudienceSurrogate, oddly enough, reacting to events the way a normal person would, and par for the course for the Buffyverse he's a DeadpanSnarker.
58	* TRexpy: One of the five champions that the lords send against Angel is a demonic T-Rex (that can talk), [[FluffyTheTerrible named Kenny]].
59	* TrickedToDeath: Bro'os, AKA Teeth, provides the other Demon Lords with Hagan Shafts, allegedly weapons that can kill an immortal and could be used to kill Angel. However, Angel reveals that he provided Bro'os with the shafts as he guessed that Bro'os would be the one most eager to betray the others; the purpose of the Hagan Shafts is to allow immortals to kill ''themselves'' in a suitably dramatic manner.
60	* WellIntentionedExtremist:
61	** Despite being sired, feeding on humans, and having his own vampire crew, Gunn is still trying to be a "good guy" in his own mind. Unfortunately, being a vampire comes with a warped sense of right and wrong. He stabs Illyria in Fred shape to make her assume her full gigantic Old One form so that she can take back time to before Hell A. When he learns that she's instead trying to take time back all the way to [[OmnicidalManiac before the universe existed]], he considers that an acceptable alternative.
62	** Likewise, Illyria tries to MercyKill all of existence this way because she thinks it's what Fred would want (mixed with a bit of NeverBeHurtAgain after Gunn's betrayal), until a deluge of memories of Fred from Wesley and Spike telepathically sent her way by Betta George convinces her otherwise.
63	* WeNamedTheMonkeyJack: Angel's dragon and Groo's black pegasus are both named "Cordelia" after the deceased Cordelia Chase.
64	* WhamLine:
65	** Angel's narration for the first three issues neglects to mention certain events, leading into:
66	-->'''Angel (narration):''' "[Vampires] can still mend quickly. Which, of course, would mean so much more... [[HumanityEnsues if I were still a vampire]]."
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68	!!Tropes included in ''Last Angel in Hell'', an [[ShowWithinAShow in-universe film]] about the events of ''After the Fall'':
69	%% Don't list these on trope pages, as including Show Within A Show tropes could lead to confusion.
70	* AdaptationalHeroism: Gunn is still loyal to Angel's team within the film, as opposed to being a vampire during the actual Fall of Los Angeles.
71	* AdaptationalVillainy: Lorne is portrayed as one of Satan's top henchmen.
72	* AdaptedOut: Several characters get no mention at all, including Nina, Spider and the "Spike-ettes", and Wolfram & Hart.
73	* BabiesEverAfter: Sara returns at the end pregnant with Angel's son, mirroring the "real" Darla becoming pregnant with Connor.
74	* BigBad: Satan, of the BigRedDevil variety.
75	* CompositeCharacter:
76	** Sara is a composite of Spike and Darla.
77	** Fred is a composite of Fred, Illyria, and Gwen.
78	** Gunn is a composite of Gunn and [[spoiler:Cordelia the dragon]].
79	* GenderFlip: Spike/Sara from male to female, as a result of being a CompositeCharacter with Darla.
80	* PhlebotinumKilledTheDinosaurs: According to the movie, a T-Rex was the first vampire, and killed the rest of the dinosaurs.
81	* RaceLift: Fred from Caucasian to African-American (via CompositeCharacter with Gwen), and Gunn from African-American to dark-skinned Hispanic. [[note]]Gunn's real-life actor Creator/JAugustRichards is Latino, but Gunn the character is African-American.[[/note]] Also, this Gunn is still (mostly) human, unlike the "real" Gunn who had been turned by vampires by this point.

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