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== Angel Investigations ==
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* [[Open-Heart Dentistry]]: Angel has shown himself able to dig bullets out of his own body when pressed for time.
* [[Open Says Me]]: Angel fights the good fight—against doors.
* [[Papa Wolf]]: Towards Connor. It took an entire episode before anyone was allowed to even ''approach'' him.
* [[Power Loss Makes You Strong]]: The Senior Partners, upon sending L.A. to Hell (''After the Fall''), simultaneously [[Be Careful What You Wish For|turn Angel human at the least convenient time possible]].
* [[
* [[Real Men Wear Pink]]: He's fond of [[Barry Manilow]]. {{spoiler|And Spike's poetry.}}
* [[Riches to Rags]]: Angelus never had trouble maintaining a nice pad, expensive clothes, or box theater seats. ("I just ate the people who had 'em.") Once cursed and jilted by Darla, he spent years as a homeless bum.
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* [[Action Girl]]
* [[All Women Love Shoes]]
* [[
* {{spoiler|[[Back for the Dead]]}}: In her Season Five appearance.
* [[Bad Bad Acting]]: Enough to make Angel nostalgic for Hell.
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* [[Team Mom]]: Not-so-subtly lampshaded once a baby enters the picture.
* [[The Thing That Would Not Leave]]: Cordelia in "Rm w/a Vu". Within a few hours, Angel's basement is covered wall-to-wall with Cordelia's trophies, there's peanut butter on his bed, his leather chair is ruined, and Cordelia is busily cutting up his linoleum floor to examine the hardwood.
* [[Took a Level
* [[Trash of the Titans]]: Her first apartment.
* [[Try to Fit That on A Business Card]]: The Venerable Monarch of Pylea, General of the Ravenous Legions, Eater of Our Enemy's Flesh, Prelate of the Sacrificial Blood Rites, and Sovereign Proconsul of Death.
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** [[Handicapped Badass]]: A zombified cop's bullet lands Wesley in a wheelchair for a while, but you don't need legs to load a shotgun!
** [[Heartbroken Badass]]: I don't think can be any doubt about this one.
** [[Took a Level
* [[British Stuffiness]]
* [[Chekhov's Skill]]: Specifically, darts.
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** He's even got room for a [[Grappling Hook Pistol]] under there.
* {{spoiler|[[Our Ghosts Are Different]]}}: Brought back in ''After the Fall'' by the Senior Partners. This is doubly ironic, as Wesley is bound to a {{spoiler|"standard perpetuity clause" in his contract, the same as Holland Manners and Lilah}}. Furthermore, he now serves as liaison to the Senior Partners, taking over from Hamilton (whom Angel killed in the series finale).
* [[Perma-Stubble]]: After he [[Took a Level
{{quote|'''Willow:''' Oh, and it's [[Lampshade Hanging|the Marlboro man]].}}
* [[Properly Paranoid]]: Wesley is never entirely at ease with a vampire boss, and is always preparing countermeasures against Angel's heel turn. His background as a former Watcher ensures this kind of thinking.
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* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: Even Faith agrees.
* [[Badass Normal]]: Very, very [[Badass Normal]]. In the spin-off comics, Angel states outright that Gunn could have beaten him in a fight if he ever got angry enough. He's probably the toughest character ''without'' supernatural powers in Buffy/Angel canon.
** [[Took a Level
* [[Bald Black Leader Guy]]: To his own gang. At Angel Investigations, he's more like "Bald Black Big Guy". Subverted when he grows his hair out in the fifth season.
{{quote|"Heh, what'd you think, [[Rhetorical Question Blunder|I was prematurely bald?]] (''beat'') I wasn't."}}
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* [[Quizzical Tilt]]: It usually means you're in for a beating.
* [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]: Well, a coffin.
* [[Sealed Inside a Person
{{quote|'''Illyria:''' This fate is [[Fate Worse Than Death|worse than death]]. Condemned to live out existence in a vessel incapable of sustaining my true glory. How am I to function with such limitation? <br />
'''Lorne:''' Have you ever tried a [[Drowning My Sorrows|Sea Breeze]]? }}
* [[Sensei for Scoundrels]]: Can't believe Angel is actually ''wangsting'' over ''being the head of a multi-billion dollar conglomerate''. Illyria sets him straight with this speech.
{{quote|'''Illyria:''' So much power here! And you quibble at its price. If you want to win a war, you must serve no master but your own ambition.}}
* [[Soul Jar]]: Her sarcophagus, although closer to a [[Dungeons
** [[Power Crystal]]: Gem-encrusted too.
* [[Sour Supporter]]: "The intricacies of your fates are meaningless."
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* [[Double Consciousness]]: After Wesley inadvertently restores his old memories.
* [[The Dreaded]]: The demons of Quor-Toth were ''terrified'' of him. They called him things like "the bringer of torment".
* [[Emo Teen]]: Gets accused of this a lot.
* [[Fake Memories]]: {{spoiler|Angel has Wolfram & Hart change his memories and give him a new life to make him better adjusted}}. Even once his original memories are restored, he's a lot more grounded.
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Being raised by Holtz has caused him to be prejudiced against demons. At one point, he openly referred to Lorne as "filthy demon". Katheiser even likened him to a kid who was raised by a racist.
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* [[Psycho Supporter]]: To the Jasmaniacs.
* [[Sanity Slippage]]: With every emotional disaster dumped on him, his stability goes down a tick.
* [[Scarily Competent Tracker]]: You can thank Holtz for tying Connor to a tree in the middle of nowhere, then leaving him to [[Training
* [[Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome]]: After already getting a [[Plot-Relevant Age-Up]], Connor was later also a victim of [[Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome]] when they changed his age from sixteen to eighteen to make his relationship with 22-year-old Cordelia less squicky.
** This is especially amusing considering that, due to the [[Year Inside, Hour Outside|circumstances]] of Connor's rapid aging, nobody, including Connor himself, can really be sure of exactly how old he is. That doesn't stop several characters from explicitly stating that he's "eighteen", for the first time, in that very same episode, all apparently just to keep the [[Media Watchdog|media watchdogs]] at bay.
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* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: You are my sunshine, my only sunshine... ♪
* [[Spiky Hair]]
* [[Took a Level
* [[The Unfavorite]]: His cousins use their empathic powers to hunt. Lorne used his to read peoples' destinies, and was considered a freak. He preferred music over hunting, even though music doesn't really exist in his dimension.
* [[Verbal Tic]]: Whenever Lorne finishes a sentence he refers to the person he's talking to as some kind of endearment, often a foodstuff: Pumpkin, [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Angel cakes]], Kiwi, Sweet potato, Muffin.
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* Anti-Hero: Was a Type V bet recently staggered to a Type IV
* [[Back
* [[Badass]]
** [[Badass Decay]]: Reversed a bit in the last season.
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* [[The Rival]]
* [[Unexplained Recovery]]: Lampshaded by Spike himself. "Flash-fried in a pillar of fire saving the world. I got better."
== Wolfram & Hart ==
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* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money]]: As CEO, Angel offhandedly remarks that they kinda, sorta... "own" the police.
* [[Shadow Dictator]]
* [[Took a Level
* [[Ultimate Evil]]: 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."
* [[Villain Cred]]: Even Sahjhan is familiar with the firm's reputation, being as it exists in other dimensions, as well.
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* [[Initiation Ceremony]]: Angel's is the murder of {{spoiler|Drogyn the Battlebrand}}.
* [[No Name Given]]: The human members of the Circle are unnamed.
* [[Omniscient Council of Vagueness]]: 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 [[Death
* [[Red Herring Shirt]]s: Angel encounters each one separately throughout Season Five.
* [[Secret Circle of Secrets]]: Naturally. They even have chants and Venetian robes.
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* [[Creepy Child]]: Mesektet.
* [[Eldritch Location]]: The "White Room."
* [[Go Mad
* [[Grade School CEO]]
* [[Little Miss Badass]]: Mesektet.
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* [[Freudian Excuse]]: His dirt-poor childhood. Lindsey resolved never to end up like his father, grovelling to the repo men as he was being evicted.
* [[Gender Blender Name]]
* [[Heel Face Revolving Door]]: Until it [[
* [[Hijacked by Ganon]]: 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.
* [[Iconic Item]]: 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 New Orleans.
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* [[Southern-Fried Genius]]: 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 Dallas.
* [[Tattooed Crook]]: Post-Tibet Lindsey had super magic stealth tattoos that let him hide from the Senior Partners. {{spoiler|It doesn't last.}}
* [[Took a Level
* [[Unknown Rival]]: He comes to view himself as the [[Arch Enemy]] to Angel. Angel doesn't. {{spoiler|Lindsey's indignant reaction to getting offed by ''Lorne'', of all people, is simultaneously somewhat sad and deeply, hilariously pathetic.}}
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* [[Action Survivor]]: The Beast slaughters {{spoiler|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.
* [[Ambition Is Evil]]: 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.
* [[Back
* [[Becoming the Mask]]: She cheerfully admits to this.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: {{spoiler|In return for Cordelia helping her get over being beaten by Billy's victims, she shoots the latter, saving Cordelia in the process.}}
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* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Her point-blank execution of Billy Blim, one of her own clients.
* [[Foil]]: To Angel.
* [[
* [[Hello, Attorney!]]
* [[Klingon Promotion]]: Elevates herself to senior management by {{spoiler|beheading Linwood}}.
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* [[Sexy Secretary]]: In Season 5.
* [[Super Loser]]
* [[Took a Level
* [[Unholy Matrimony]]: With {{spoiler|Hamilton}}.
* [[You! Get Me Coffee!]]: Or in this case, blood served in a mug which says "#1 Boss".
{{quote|"The secret ingredient is otter!"}}
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* [[Action Mom]]
* [[Anti-Villain]]
* [[Back
* [[The Baroness]]: Though she quickly rebels.
* [[Being Evil Sucks]]: She'll break your heart, and rip it right out again...still beating.
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* [[Evil Counterpart]]: Like Angel, she was resurrected but she finds no value in the second chance given her and wanted to be a vamp again.
* [[The Fog of Ages]]: Darla, being even older than Angelus, can no longer remember her human birth name.
* [[
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]
* [[High-Class Call Girl]]: Implied to have once been a well-to-do prostitute in colonial Virginia. She even had property, which is almost unheard of.
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* [[Wide-Eyed Idealist]]
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