Russell Winters – Encountered in the first episode, this powerful businessman has an unhealthy fetish for young, attractive women "with no families and no one to care". After Doyle has a vision of one of these women, Tina, Angel meets her where she works in a downtown diner. Despite an attempted abduction in the car park of the Argyle Restaurant, Angel offers her safe haven back at the bat cave. After a misunderstanding, Tina runs off, as she does Angel is caught in sunlight and reveals his "true" self. At Tina's apartment she finds Russell waiting for her... Angel later her finds her dead. Russell Winters enjoys the protective cloak of Wolfram and Hart, Lindsay McDonald offers him advice on legally avoiding problems surrounding the recent disappearances. Angel ends up rescuing Cordelia from Russell's mansion and declares war on Russell. At the penthouse office of Russell Winters Enterprises, Angel confronts Russell. The last we see of this "businessman" is as he falls towards earth, bursting into flames before the chair hits the ground covered in ash...
 

Talamour – A stealth demon who inhabits humans, passing from one to another and leaves the previous host very dead. This is a physical demon and needs close intimate contact to pass between bodies, often leaving a large exit wound in the previous host. Once possessed, the new host loses all controls to mental and bodily functions. After making several jumps, the demon finally takes over the Bar Tender at the nightclub and after trying to jump into Kate, Angel uses its' only weakness against it to bring an end to its wanderings... The bar tender dies in the ensuing fire.
 
Marcus – a vampire hired for his expertise in the art of torture... Marcus his hired by Spike in his attempts to get the ring of Amara which gives a vampire the ability to walk in sunlight and be virtually invincible. As with most of Spike's plans, all doesn't go too well and Marcus takes the ring for himself. Marcus is known for his attraction to children and Angel, Oz, Cordelia and Doyle find him at a pier where Angel leaps from the van and pushes Marcus and himself off the pier, hitting the water before Angel burns too much from the sunlight. After a brief struggle, Marcus is deprived of the ring after he is impaled on a piece of the pier, ending his reign as the top torturer.
 
Oz – The bass player for the band "Dingoes Ate My Baby", he comes to LA to deliver the ring of Amara on behalf of Buffy. He later helps Doyle and Cordelia first rescue Angel from the hands of Marcus and Spike and then to defeat Marcus at the beach. He later returned to Sunnydale where he was himself captured by the Initiative because of his werewolf traits. After being rescued by the Scooby gang, he leaves Sunnydale, leaving a very confused Willow behind...
 
Spike – Originally known as William the Bloody and gets his reputation from impaling his victims with railroad spikes. Sired by Angel, Spike is never to be trusted, even by his own closest allies. Spike follows Oz to LA after the ring of Amara is stolen from him.
 
Dr. Roland Meltzer – A prominent severed nerve consultant who uses radical techniques that enable him to separate parts of his body and reattach them using psychic surgery he developed under the tuition of Dr. Vinpu Natpudin. He stalks, Melissa, a woman with whom he only dated once but has now become the focus of his obsession. By detaching various parts of his anatomy, he can watch her wherever she goes. He meets his doom when he is forced to separate numerous parts of his body while battling Angel and co. in the bat cave. He is now safely buried in different parts of the city, embedded in concrete.
 
Dennis Pearson – The friendly ghost, who comforts Cordelia in times of distress. He was released by Cordelia and co. after they discovered he was suffocated to death by his own mother, Maude. After getting revenge for being bricked up inside the wall of the apartment, he has since made the odd "appearance" and seems to be a non-malevolent, protective guardian for Cordelia in her apartment.
 
Maude Pearson – Died of a hear attack shortly after bricking up the wall that entombed her only son, Dennis, after he threatened to elope with his girlfriend. Since then, her restless spirit has deterred all tenants of the apartment, considering them to be unworthy her of beloved son, some of the tenants were murdered by her and made to look like suicide. She eventually leaves the apartment after the spirit of her son is released, never to be heard of again.
 
Lloyd Allen – hired by Wolfram & Hart to assist one of their clients, "Little Tony" Pappasian, from escaping justice. Lloyd, who lives at 322 Fletcher, uses a cursed "talking stick" as a talisman in several sessions which alters the police's emotions to being almost out of control. This allows Little Tony and several other prisoners to escape.
 
Trevor Lockley – Badge number 6783, also a police officer who had a retirement send off party at the Blue Bar, and brought up Kate on his own after his wife died. He has never shown any real approval for Kate's choice of career or been supportive towards her, especially in her younger years. After getting into some dodgy deals with a client of Wolfram and Hart, he is murdered by a vampire in his own apartment in front of Angel; who he refused to let in. This didn't do the relationship between Angel and Kate any favours.
 
Harriet Doyle - The surprise element... She turns up at the office to get a divorce from Doyle, although they have been separated for several years.
 
Richard Howard Strayley - The fiancé of Harriet. Richard is also a half demon (Anamovic) and together with other members of his family, plan to reinstate their ancient ritual of gaining the previous husbands' blessing for their forthcoming marriage by eating Doyles' brains. 
Buffy - If you have to ask...
Morha Demon - A demon who's blood runs with eternal life, which makes it virtually invincible as it can regenerate itself when injured. Angel is infected with its' blood while fighting it in the office and later in the sewers as he and Buffy track it heading towards the ocean. The demon is killed by blinding it in its eye in the centre of the forehead.
 
The Scourge – Very much styled on the Nazi war machine of the second World War. They also have the same views on "ethnic cleansing", wanting to rid the world of half-breed demons who infect the purebreeds. They are indirectly responsible for Doyles' death.
  
The Oracles – The link between Angel and the "Powers That Be", sending visions to Doyle and then Cordelia after his death to warn Angel or lead him to lesser beings in need of help. These figures look very similar to the Roman and Greek gods - both in appearance and attitude. Both are killed in "To Shanshu in LA" which is a little odd as they weren't "alive" to start off with.
 
Barney - an Empath Demon who searches out other Demons and also humans that have special gifts. Once found her kidnaps them to be auctioned off to the highest bidder. Cordelia unfortunately gets caught as the visions that Doyle left her with cause great interest. Cordelia kills Barney in the end.
 
Penn (200 year old puritan) – A vampire sired by Angelus over a century ago, and has always lived in his shadow (pardon the pun) ever since. He eventually tracks Angel down to LA where he starts a killing spree and leaves the calling card he picked up from his master, Angel. At first Angel is convinced he is committing these crimes himself, only to realise who is actually doing them.
 
Big ugly dude Haksaal Beast, Inner Earth Demon - who wants to become a dad, young men work for him impregnating young women in return for riches and powers. Cordelia is one of the un-expecting victims who awakes after a passionate night 9 months pregnant with the Demons babies. Angel eventually defeats the huge Demon and all the girls return to normal.
 
Princess Jhiera Olden Tao - a royal in her own world and called the bringer of chaos by the men that are tracking both her and her fellow people. The men tracking her and her kind are after taking them back to enslave them, to do this they must take away their impulses by unmaking them, ultimately making them powerless. Angel helps Jhiera protect the girls and fight off the men trying to take them back.
 
Ryan – Possessed by an Ethros demon. However, after the demon leaves his body, the demon reveals to Angel and Wesley that the child has no soul and is without remorse, pity or compassion.
 
Lilah Morgan – One of the fellow lawyers employed by Wolfram and Hart, she is fully aware of their dealings with otherworldly figures and is present at the resurrecting of Darla. Together with Lindsay, she is a formidable opponent without any morals.
 
Rebecca – A failing actress who is concerned about her waning work commitments as she gets older and less desirable. She orchestrates a number of events to place her back in the spotlight with little success. She knows that Angel is a vampire and tries to seduce him into biting her so she can retain her looks and live life as an immortal. She drugs Angel in his apartment, using a drug to induce a state of sheer bliss, something that turns Angel, for a short time in to the ruthless killer of old. When Wesley and Cordelia realise what the actress has done, they fight Angelus, which leads to him being pushed down the liftshaft and knocking him out. Rebecca does not end up as the vampire she hoped to be.
 
Darla – Sired Angel when he was an arrogant, upper class lout in Ireland in 1753. Darla has been a big part of Angel's life as a vampire, despite losing touch with him in Romania in the latter part of the 19th century. She later appeared in Sunnydale working for the master and was killed by her protégé. She has since been resurrected by Wolfram and Hart in their ongoing battle with Angel, the exact purpose of her resurrection is not yet known.
 
Faith – Called as a result of Kendra's death at the hands of Drusilla. A very unstable young woman who witnessed the horrific death of her watcher at the hands of Kakistos. Feeling she is in constant competition with Buffy, she spirals towards the darker side of Sunnydale and eventually winds up working for Mayor Richard Wilkins III. After fighting Buffy, she ends up in a prolonged coma. After several months, she regains consciousness and makes her way to LA. Angel has always believed that she could be saved from herself and is proven right when she gives herself up to the police. She is currently serving a jail term for a number of crimes in LA.
 
Vanessa Brewer - An employee of Wolfram and Hart who blinded herself at the age of 21 and went on to study a number of different techniques in the far east, including the amazing degree of vision she has. Vanessa is a skilled assassin, using her amazing abilities and deadly white stick to quickly dispose of those who may pose a threat to Wolfram and Hart and their clients. She is contracted to kill three children who also share her abilities as "seers", after killing the sitter, she is faced with Angel, who uses weaknesses in her vision (by staying still) to defeat her before she kills the children.
 
Voka Demon - A rotting demon who takes his fashion sense from Phantom of the Opera. He is brought back to this dimension by Wolfram and Hart to complete the prophecies. He kills the Oracles and deprives Angel of his two closest friends. Cordelia is given the visions of all the people calling out in pain and asking for help at the same time so she is driven insane by the rush of voices and images. Wesley is rescued from the offices of Angel Investigations after the Voka leaves a bomb in the weapons cabinet. During the ceremony to resurrect Darla, Angel interrupts the rituals and the Voka Demon is killed by his own weapon.
 
Thesulac Demon - This Demon feeds on paranoia and whispers to it's victims convincing them that there greatest fears are actually true, he is the sole culprit for an entire hotel of guests going crazy and killing themselves. Angel killed this demon by electrocution.
 
David Nabbit - A billionaire from making a software program for people that are blind so that they can surf the internet, he first seeked the help of Angel and now gives advice but longs to get in on the action.
 
Deevak - A particularly nasty demon who has one mission, that is too kill Gunn, he can turn from looking human into his demon form whenever he wants to which makes it very hard to first now that it is in fact him. He fails to kill Gunn and is killed at the hands of Angel.
 
Bethany Chaulk - A young woman who has the power of telekinesis. Lilah from Wolfram and Hart took the young girl in with the intention of using her and her powers to help the firm. After Angel finds out the sole source of her powers and why they are so out of control he helps her and she eventually after facing her father who molested her as a child brings them under control.
 
The Demon Yeska - This Demon gets men and women to bring it sacrifices of virgins and eats them alive. The reward is great powers on their 50th birthday.
 
Drusilla - Turned by Angel himself after he sent her insane, Drusilla has been seen mostly in Sunnydale. But now she has returned to the city of Angels and has paired up with Angel's sire Darla.
 
The Master - Leader of the Order of Aurelius the master actually killed the Slayer, only after she was revived by Xander she slayed him, after his minions tried to raise him once again Buffy ground his bones to make sure that he would never return.
 
Anne Steele - After changing her name a few times this former Sunnydale resident now goes by the name of Anne adopting this name from Buffy herself. She currently runs a homeless shelter and accepted the help from Wolfram and hart until Angel convinced her that they here not out to help just steal the money that her event raised. She is still running the homeless shelter and has the money although Wolfram and Hart do not know this.
 
Lubber Demon   - a group of very pale and sad eyed fundamentalists who's only desire is to extinguish all human life. They can alter physical items using a ancient staff which houses a red jewel. There soul desire is to give Gene the formula to stop time and therefore ending all existence they where stopped by Angel and The Host.
 
Skilosh Demon - These demons are particularity violent and are a self replicating species, they inject a human by injecting them in their cranium, a full grown Skilosh will then irrupt from the host ultimately killing them in the process. Cordelia was unfortunately infected with one because she and the other killed one of their on kind they where eventually stopped by the crew.
 
Harmony Kendall - Once a good friend of Cordelia she was turned into a vampire on graduation day, she continues to be as dizzy as ever and visits Cordelia in LA, Cordelia however does not find out she is a vampire right away and once she does she gives her a chance to help them stop Doug Sanders but she failed betraying them all. She left LA and went where is not known.
 
Doug Sanders - He ran a sect in which vampires where awarded by getting colored robes as they helped him more and more. He was eventually stopped by Angel and lost his head!
 
Drokken Demon - This demon is from the dimension named Pylea the Hosts home, a particular nasty and very violent creature. If this demon bites a Anagogic demon he will die as the only cure is back in Pylea Landock finds this out but however does not die as he gets back to Pylea. These demons are not easy to kill the only sure way to kill it straight away is a weapon with Thromite on it. Angel kills the Drokken demon by impaling a sword through it's neck.
 
Landockmar of the Deathwok Clan (Landock) - He arrives from Pylea through a portal that opens up in the library when Cordelia reads from the book at first Angel starts to fight him but The Host recognizes him as his cousin and they continue on to fight and kill the Drokken demon. Landock is eventually sent back to Pylea but the other do see him again when they all visit the Hosts home dimension Pylea.
 
Silas - The high priest of the Covenant of the Tromboli in Pylea. He rules in Pylea which has racial and also religious persecution humans are the demons slaves and called cows and have a band around their necks to make sure they do what they are told. Silas however was defeated after almost blowing the heads up of all the cows in Pylea, Cordelia in her rein as princess beheaded him.
 
Constable Narwek - The head of the "police" in Pylea he is an Anagogic demon who enforces the rules of Pylea often condemning human cows who disobey orders, he captures Angel, Gunn and Lorne and takes them for sentencing but they are surprised to see Cordelia on the throne and are therefore pardoned. He is still in his dimension.
 
Groosalugg - A very handsome half human half demon who is sent to the princess to perform the ComShuk, this mating ritual will in fact absorb Cordelia's vision passing them onto him so that he may rule Pylea. Cordelia falls for Groo but ultimately tells him that the vision are part of who she is and that he cannot have them. After Silas is defeated and all rules abolished Cordelia leave Groo as ruler as Pylea hopefully to do some good.
 
James a vampire who has been around since Angelus rein of terror along with his sweetheart Elizabeth. After Angel kills Elizabeth in L.A he seeks vengeance for her death and has his heart removed by a demon surgeon to make himself unkillable. This however only last for a few hours and he fights Angel on a subway train and just before he turns to dust he utters that he lived Angel has just existed.
  
Elizabeth Jame's sweetheart she wore a locket around her neck that James stole from Marseilles. Angel kills her after Cordy has a vision and James seeks justice.
 
Dr. Gregson a Slod demon surgeon that collects rare organs and helps vampires and demons a like. He is the one that removes Jame's heart after he goes to him for help.
 
Holtz the vampire hunter that has chased Angelus and Darla throughout the 1700's, he was approached by Sahjhan after Angel and Darla kill his family, he offered him the chance to face them once again if he was turned to stone for 200 years. He accepted this and is now pursuing Angel again in present day.
 
Sahjan a demon who is capable of inter-dimensional travel. He convinced Holtz to be turned to stone for 200 years so that he could in the future get his revenge on Angel and Darla. He is currently working with Holtz to kill of which is reason for wanting Angel dead have not yet been revealed.
 
Fez-toting Moroccan brain demon, hired by Lilah to psychically harm Cordelia through her visions to get Angel to free Billy from a fiery hell. After freeing Billy and stopping Cordelia's harmful visions he warned Lilah to never go through Cordy to get to him, the demon who was sitting in the car waiting for Lilah was killed when Angel threw a bar through his brain.
 
Gavin from the special projects division at Wolfram and Hart. He was transferred from the Real Estate vision and put onto Angel much to Lilah's disgust he plans to bury Angel in red tape he has the hotel bugged and plans to buy it once the lease is up. Lilah comes of worse when Billy touched Gavin and he attacks her, leaving her bruised and battered!
 
Skip a demon working for TPTB who looks over Billy in his cage of flames while robbing him of his ability to scream. Angel fights skip to release Billy after Lilah tortures her through a Moroccan Demon. He releases Billy but saves Skip after Billy tries to kill him and then leaves him in his hell dimension.
 
Billy the nephew of Congressman Nathan Blim is a demon with the ability to bring out the worst in men. He touches them and it brings out their misogynistic feelings attacking and killing women. He takes great pleasure in doing this and enjoys watching women being hurt. Lilah is hurt by Gavin as a direct touch of Billy, he cause Wesley and Gunn to both nearly kill Fred and unsuccessfully tries on Angel as well. Lilah shoots him dead at the airport before he can flee to Santa Monica.
 
Rondell, played by Jarrod Crawford who visits the forum here on C.O.A occasionally :) played the leader of Gunn's old gang, he loses the sight of what they are in fact fighting for when they go after all demons not just the ones that are dangerous to people. Gunn finds out and doesn't tell Wes and there is a show down in the Hosts bar when they attack it. They all escape and Rondell goes back to base.
 
Transuding Furies, three sisters hired by Lorne to place a spell on the Caritas to prevent Demon violence, they are very spacey and dreamy and love Angel, every time they see him they say "Mmmm... Angel" it was suggested that they know Angel a little more than most people!
 
Marcus the old man that lived in the Retirement home he used a conjuring stone and a body switching spell to swap bodes with young men. After borrowing the bodies they melted down. Marcus borrowed Angel's body for a short period of time and got up to all types of mischief. After losing Angels body he has a fatal heart attack!
 
Roger and Trish Burkle, Fred's parents who hired a private investigator to locate Fred. They track Fred down to the hotel but Angel has doubts about what they are really here for, after they turn out to be great parents they ask Fred to return home with them. Fred however decides to stay at the hotel and carry on helping Angel and the others fight the forces of evil.
 

 

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