Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Summary
Buffy the Vampire Slayerisn’t only one of the most popular television set shows of all time , but it ’s also responsible for for its extremely successful spinoff , Angel , which saw appearances by severalBuffycharacters . While manyTV spinoffs fail to know up to the original , Angelcertainly was n’t one of them , with the show enjoying five seasons on air between 1999 and 2004.The loaded continuity between the two appearance led to severalBuffyandAngelcrossovers , which saw many fictional character hop from one series to the other .
The first season ofAngelbegan publicize in parallel withBuffyseason 4 , and the two show remained on air together for the oddment ofBuffy ’s run . Manycharacters who started life onBuffywent on to have master , recurring , or client role onAngel , including the titular characters of both show . This is a list of every eccentric that made that leap fromBuffytoAngel .
All seasons of bothBuffy the Vampire SlayerandAngelare currently available to pour on Hulu .
13Angel/Angelus
Played By David Boreanaz
In Buffy : Angel features in the first three seasons ofBuffy the Vampire Slayeras Buffy ’s main love pursuit . He ’s enclose as a lamia with a soul who seek to do good to make up for all the life he ’s antecedently taken . Flashback episodes bring out thatbefore he was a lamia , Angel was an 18th - C Irishman name Liam . Prior to being cursed by Gypsy with a soul , Angel ( or Angelus ) was one of the most malefic and venerate vampires to have ever existed .
Angel ’s soulfulness can be taken away from him once he experiences a moment of consummate felicity . This happens in the show ’s 2d season , when Angel bring versed with Buffy . With his soul gone , Angel retrovert to Angelusand begins induce mayhem in Sunnydale , force Buffy to send him to a Hell dimension . In season 3 , he returns as Angel , before leaving Sunnydale for L.A. Angel reach a number of sporadic appearances throughout the rest of the show ’s streamlet .
Angel might be one of Buffy ’s expectant dear , but he never appear on one time of year of Buffy The Vampire Slayer thanks to literal - world legal drama .
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In Angel : As the title would entail , Angel is the show ’s main character , with the seriesrevolving around his attempts to facilitate the helpless of L.A. Chosen by the Power That Be to be a champion , Angel makes it his delegation to save those in need . For the show ’s first four seasons , he run Angel Investigation , a police detective office specializing in sheath of the supernatural . In season 5 , he becomes the chief operating officer of the once evil law firm , Wolfram & Hart . A vaticination say that Angel will one day be honour with the talent of human beings .
12Cordelia Chase
Played By Charisma Carpenter
Cordelia receives visions from the Powers That Be that help Angel and co to save people in need , which help her fiber to move further away from the ego - soak up cheerleader she once was .
In Angel : The very first episode ofAngelsees Angel bumping into Cordelia and economize her from a multi - millionaire businessman who take place to be a lamia . From there , Cordelia facilitate Angel to arrange up Angel Investigations . Cordelia receives visions from the Powers That Be that help Angel and co to save masses in need , which helps her character to move further away from the self - absorbed cheerleader she once was . In the show ’s fourth season , Cordelia becomes possessed by an malevolent goddess , before slide into a coma . She makes a final appearance in the season 5 instalment , " You ’re Welcome " .
11Wesley Wyndam-Pryce
Played By Alexis Denisof
In Buffy : Wesley Wyndam - Pryce is a supporting character reference in the third time of year ofBuffy . A member of the watcher ’s council , it is his job to train the new vampire slayer , Faith , whose powers were trigger off following Buffy ’s impermanent death at the end of time of year 1.Wesley is a classy , botch up , scaredy - catwho likes to think of himself as baffling , when , in reality , he is afraid of his own shadow . Wesley also mesh in an inappropriate romance with Cordelia .
In Angel : Wesley joins the main cast ofAngelpart - way through its first season . When he first make it in L.A. , he is the same irritating merry andrew who was last seen during the orgasm ofBuffyseason 3 . However , over time , Wesley moves forth from the comic - relief characterand towards a darker and more hag-ridden persona . Wesley appears in all five seasons of the show .
10Spike
Played By James Marsters
Spike makes a one - off appearance inBuffyseason 3 , before fall in the main hurl from the 4th time of year onward . When a microchip is put in Spike ’s wit that prevents him from being able to hurt man , he turns to kill fellow demons instead and slowly becomes an ally to the Scooby Gang . He finally develops feelings for Buffyand gets his soul back to prove his love for her . In the show ’s final installment , Spike saves the world by sacrifice himself , demonstrating that he ’s capable of being a hero .
Spike is the only character to share scenes with every other main character in the Buffyverse .
9Harmony Kendall
Played By Mercedes McNab
In Buffy : Harmony is a minor supporting character during the first three season ofBuffy . She ’s a friend of Cordelia ’s who is even more shallow and self - absorbed than Cordelia herself . At graduation , Harmony is one of several students who get turned into a vampire . In season 4 and 5 , she makes several effort to be Buffy ’s arch - nemesis , but is too clumsy and incompetent to pull it off . Harmony also engages in a sexual relationship with Spike , who can not stand to be around her .
In Angel : Harmony makes her first appearance inAngelduring the season 2 sequence , " Disharmony " . At first , she does n’t reveal to Cordelia that she is now a vampire , before later deceive her and the rest of the pack by leading them to a cult of vampires . By season 5 , Harmony has changed her way and acts as Angel ’s personal secretary at Wolfram & Hart . Harmony is the last character to joinAngel ’s principal form , appearing in the opening move credits from the season 5 episode , " Underneath " .
Forever grappling with his dark past and tormented individual , Angel from Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a complex character who is not without defect .
8Buffy Summers
Played By Sarah Michelle Gellar
In Buffy : A vampire slayer gifted with tycoon to fight demons and other force out of evil , Buffy Summers is , unsurprisingly , the main character ofBuffy the Vampire Slayer . At the start of the show , Buffy is a adolescent little girl who has recently displace from L.A. to Sunnydalewith her mom , Joyce . Having recently learned that she is a killer , Buffy soon becomes acquainted with her Watcher , Giles , who teaches her everything she needs to know about her newfangled responsibility . She also meets Xander and Willow , who become her best friends , and aid her in the scrap against iniquity .
By the show ’s net episode , she has amassed a whole army of allies uncoerced to help her , and she learns that she does n’t necessitate to confront her duty alone .
Across the seven seasons ofBuffy the Vampire Slayer , Buffy ’s main emotional bow is that she feel alone . For the most part , she is the only slayer and no one else understands what carrying such a burden is like . She wants urgently to have a normal life , but her responsibility as a slayer foreclose it . By the show ’s last episode , she has amassed a whole ground forces of ally willing to help her , and she hear that she does n’t demand to face her province alone .
In Angel : Buffy makes two one - off appearance in the first time of year ofAngel . In the instalment " I Will recollect You",Angel is temporarily made human again , signify he and Buffy can resume their relationship , only for Angel to realize how useless he is in human form . Meanwhile , " Sanctuary " revolves around Buffy look for payback against the rogue slayer , Faith . Sarah Michelle Gellar was meant to pass inAngelseason 5 , but this never materialize .
7Daniel “Oz” Osbourne
Played By Seth Green
In Buffy : Oz appear as a recurring character throughout Buffy ’s 2d season , before joining the principal cast in season 3 . A musician , Oz is the independent love interest of Willow in the early seasons of the show . He is quiet , ironic , and very laid - back . owe to a bite from his cousin , Jordy , Oz also happens to be a wolfman . Because of this , every full moon Oz poses a threat to himself and everyone else . Nevertheless , he is a valuable plus to the squad . Oz leaves Sunnydale during season 4 after he and Willow fail up .
6Willow Rosenberg
Played By Alyson Hannigan
In Buffy : One of Buffy ’s best friends , Willow starts off as a dorky and socially awkward high school nerdwith an above - average intelligence . She shortly becomes a key member of the Scooby Gang and a secret artillery in Buffy ’s fight against evil . As the serial progresses , Willow gets increasingly involved with magic , eventually becoming a potent witch .
Another one of Willow ’s master storyline sees her entering into a romantic kinship with another woman , Tara . At the time of the show ’s initial broadcast , Willow was one of the few sapphic part on TV . In the sixth season of Buffy , Willow becomes consumed by magicfollowing the death of Tara and goes on a profligate - fill up rampage . Fortunately , time of year 7 sees her returning to her normal goofy self .
willow tree is the only other character besides Buffy to appear in all 144 episodes ofBuffy the Vampire Slayer .
In Angel : Willow shows up a few times across Angel ’s five time of year . She appears on the speech sound in the episode " Disharmony " , and in person in " There ’s No Place Like Plrtz Glrb" . Her final appearance in the show is in the season 4 episode , " Orpheus",where she is once again tasked with furbish up Angel ’s person .
5Darla
Played By Julie Benz
In Buffy : Darla is notable for being the first character to be seen onscreen inBuffy the Vampire Slayer . In the opening scene of the very first episode , Darla is show breaking into a shoal with an unidentified guy rope . The scene sets the guy up to be a terror , but in a clever twist , Darla is reveal to be a lamia . Her backstory is expanded on in the episode , " Angel " , whereshe is shown to be Angel ’s sire and his former beloved interest . In the same installment , she is killed by Angel . She makes two further Edgar Albert Guest appearances inBuffyduring flashback episode .
Buffy the Vampire Slayer ’s reboot could gain from focalize not on the show ’s existing heroes , but on one of its most underrated villains or else .
4Drusilla
Played By Juliet Landau
In Angel : After Darla is resurrect , Drusilla is bring in by Wolfram & Hartto wrench her back into a lamia . TheAngelseason 2 episodes , " reunification " and " Redefinition " , therefore , depict Drusilla and Darla causing pandemonium around Los Angeles . As well as this , Drusilla shows up in a handful of flashback episodes in both season 2 and season 5 .
