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==F==
* [[Face Full of Alien Wingwong]]: On three separate occasions, Cordelia's body has been used to grow demons, demon babies and demon messiahs.
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: {{spoiler|Skip}} and, later, {{spoiler|Knox}}.
* [[Facial Composite Failure]]: Just as Kate is briefing her men on Penn's composite sketch, Penn [[Walk in Chime In|waltzes through the door]] and starts complaining about the poor likeness.
** This is actually an averted trope since Kate was handed the sketch by Angel, who can [[Super Identikit|draw anyone from memory]].
* [[Failed a Spot Check]]: In "Sonmambulist", Wesley enters Angel Investigations' office with their
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'''Cordy:''' This isn't our mail. }}
* [[Failed Attempt At Drama]]: Illyria taunting Angel by asking if, since he values humans so much, he's willing to defend {{spoiler|Knox}}
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** Speaking of Wes, this trope would often befall him in his early Season 1 episodes (as he was still getting over his status as [[Butt Monkey]] on [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Buffy]]). This could prove [[Hilarious in Hindsight]] ([[Funny Aneurysm Moment|or Harsh]]), when one considers how, by the end of the show's run, he becomes one of the more [[Kick the Dog|tragic]], [[Character Development|developed members]] [[Ensemble Darkhorse|of the ensemble]] {{spoiler|culminating in his [[Heroic Sacrifice]] in the [[Grand Finale]]}}.
* [[Failure Is the Only Option]]: Angel's quest for redemption. As he tells Faith, "[[The Atoner|Our time is never up]]."
** Wolfram & Hart can't be defeated, because evil will always exist somewhere. Killing their employees is just as fruitless as they continue working for the firm in Hell, and are [[Replacement Mooks|easily replaced]] anyway.
** By the series finale, the Shanshu Prophecy remains unresolved.
** In ''After the Fall'', Angel is revealed to have {{spoiler|turned human through an act of spite by the Senior Partners, depriving him of his powers when he needs them most.}}. Worse yet, Angel receives a vision of the role he will play in the Apocalypse that earns him his Shanshu destiny: {{spoiler|It indicates that Angel will be fighting on the side of evil}}.
* [[Fainting Seer]]: Cordy and Doyle tend to suffer from this.
* [[Fake Memories]]: Given to [[Mass Hypnosis|everyone]] at the end of Season 4, regarding Connor.
* [[Fake
* [[Fake Static]]: Calling his old contacts in order to locate Angel ("In the Dark") has the added consequence of stirring up Doyle's creditors. Eventually, Doyle starts resorting to the 'wrong number' trick.
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* [[Fake Defector]]: Angel earns himself a spiffy S.S. unform by pretending to murder Doyle, thus allowing him to join the ranks of the Scourge.
** Wesley is confronted in a bar by his former colleagues from England, who approach him with an offer to rejoin the Watcher's
** Harmony going undercover to infiltrate a motivational seminar for vampires. Subverted when she promptly [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder|defects for real]].
* [[Fake Irish]]: Angelus. David Boreanaz [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping|never really got the hang of]] the Irish accent. Whedon states that they chose not to use the accent when Angel was reverted to a teenager in "Spin the Bottle" because there was no way that Boreanaz could do it for a full episode.
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** Note: Faith purposely overdoses to keep him out long enough (and she's most likely still a bit suicidal).
* [[Fantastic Fragility]]: The Mohra's regenerative blood ensures that he can never be permanently killed. Unless you smack the jewel in his forehead.
** The Beast is a particularly strong demon with a rock-like hide, able to shrug off even shotgun blasts (Angel tries [[Go for
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Examined with regard to demons throughout the show's run. Best embodied by Lorne, who is living proof that pacifist demons do exist.
** [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]] in Pylea.
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** Marcus Hamilton, most definitely.
* [[Figure It Out Yourself]]: Cordelia to Angel, when she wakes from her coma to help him get back on track.
* [[Finger in
* [[Finish Him!]]: The audience in "The Ring" chants "KILLING BLOW" when a contestant is on the ropes.
* [[Five
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'''Angel:''' Police car. }}
* [[Five-Man Band]]: Lampshaded by Fred in "Fredless", right down to naming Wesley as "the brain", Gun as "the muscle", and Cordy as "the heart". Later [[Deconstructed Trope|deconstructed]] by an incresingly-embittered Gunn ("Guise Will Be Guise"), who resents being the dumb muscle of the group. This gets inverted in Season Five with Gunn's [[Neural Implanting|neural implant]], then [[Double Subversion|doubly subverted]] {{spoiler|in the series finale, when he rejects those abilities and returns to his old streetfighting persona}}.
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** [[The Heart]]: Cordelia, later Fred
*** Cordelia could also be construed as the Lancer. Her more down-to-earth perspective contrasts nicely to Angel's anguished ideals on several occasions.
* [[Fixing the Game]]: Angel loses his destiny to a rigged magic gambling thing. Cordy saves him by nudging a slot machine so he wins.
* [[Flash Back]]: Usually to the bad ol' days of Angelus.
** Done quite well in the episode "Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been", set in the early 1950s.
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** Kate Lockley is implied to have an attraction, as well.
** And then there was that time Angel and Eve had sex behind a couch.
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** Angelus and Faith. He's disappointed when the Slayer he hears about in LA is her, but he quickly gets over it.
* [[Foot
* [[For Halloween I Am Going
* [[For Inconvenience Press One]]: Angel's testing of the Wolfram & Hart phone directory.
* [[A Form You Are Comfortable With|A Form You Are (Un)comfortable With]]: The Conduit.
* [[Forced Prize Fight]]: "The Ring". The promoters keep their stable of demon fighters in line by fastening [[Explosive Leash|electrified bracelets]] to them. Anybody who steps outside the cordoned areas gets [[No Body Left Behind|turned to ash]].
* [[Freudian Slip]]: Still raw from Doyle's {{spoiler|death}}, Angel snaps at Cordelia and Wesley to stop
* [[Friendly Enemy]]: Boone in "Blood Money".
* [[Friendly Local Chinatown]]: The team pay a visit to Koreatown earlier in "[[Parting Gifts]]".
** Showcased in "That Vision Thing", though the locals are decidedly ''un''friendly this time around.
* [[Fur Against Fang]]: Averted. Angel has no problem dating a werewolf in Season 5 (well, no problems with her lycanthropy, at least). Connor lampshades the kinkiness of this arrangement.
* [[Gambit Roulette]]: Nearly everything that happened in seasons 2, 3, and 4 are [[Retcon|retconned]] to have been a ''massive'' [[Gambit Roulette]] all along.▼
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▲* [[Gambit Roulette]]: Nearly everything that happened in seasons 2, 3, and 4 are [[
** And then there was that time it snowed in Sunnydale. Hmmm...
** Don't forget that we never got a real answer as to why Angel was allowed to return from hell that one time (Also in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer
* [[Game Face]]: Vampires and other part-demon creatures tend to have one. {{spoiler|Even Puppet!Angel has one.}}
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Upon discovering that Cordelia has suddenly turned heavily pregnant, Angel instructs Wesley to take her for an ultrasound to see exactly what they're dealing with. Wes misunderstands this.
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'''Wesley:''' I BEG YOUR PARDON?" }}
** Cordalia toys with the idea of becoming David Nabbit's wealthy mistress for a while. "I like David. It's such a-- strong, masculine name. It just [[Freudian Slip|feels good in your mouth.]]"
** Wesley provides several synonyms for "private investigator," including dick. Gunn tells him to never use that term again.
** Season 4 also has Cordelia's quip in 'Spin the Bottle', upon hearing that teenage Wesley was "Head Boy" at academy.
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*** In the same episode, Fred shares her theory of aliens, and doing "whatever they wanted to [her] naked helpless body". Cue [[Something Else Also Rises|Wesley's wrist blade spontaneously extending]].
** Gunn shifting uncomfortably in his seat after a kiss with Fred. His face is ''priceless''.
** In ''Waiting in the Wings'', while Angel and Cordelia are trying to get out of a mystical room that's making them fool around:
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'''Angel:''' Kinda hard.
'''Cordelia:''' Kinda noticed. }}
** And then when they finally get out:
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'''Angel:''' Yeah. ''(Takes off jacket and folds it in front of his pants)'' }}
** Pretty much every other thing Angelus says is this.
* [[Getting Smilies Painted
* [[The Ghost]]: [[Powers That Be|TPTB]]
* [[Ghostapo]]: "Why We Fight" details the Nazis' foray into building a vampire army.
* [[Gigantic Gulp]]: Demon!Cordelia chugging Angel's fridge blood.
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** Another demon possessee, in the form of one Philip J. Spivey, attacking a slushee stand.
* [[Gladiator Revolt]]: The ending to "The Ring".
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* [[Good Is Dumb]]: Wesley. The craftiest member of the group also happens to be the most amoral and paranoid. Who would have thought?
** Gunn's neural implant in Season Five. As would be expected, he's rabidly protective of his new skill set, leading to his downfall.
* [[The Gods Must Be Lazy]]: The Powers That Screw You (™Fred). Or, alternatively, The Powers That Sit on Their Ass (™Gunn).
** Even Angel is at times unsure about whether the PTB care about his mission, though subtle hints are dropped that this isn't the case.
* [[Go-Go Enslavement]]: Cordelia, immediately upon landing in Pylea.
* [[The Good, the Bad,
* [[Good Guy Bar]] / [[Truce Zone]]: Caritas caters to good and neutral folks, as well as normal people. Popular for the drinks and the psychic karaoke. If only people would [[Loophole Abuse|stop finding loopholes]] to circumvent the wards protecting it.
* [[Good Is Not Nice]]: Every member of Team Angel proves this time and again.
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* [[Great Big Book of Everything]]: Wolfram & Hart's source books. Well, they ''seemed'' pretty nifty in 2004, before the Kindle.
** Wesley's library of tomes.
** Inverted in Season Four, when an exhaustive scan of his books fails to dredge up any mention of The Beast. Later, Lilah forks over a duplicate copy of one of Wesley's
* [[Grievous Harm
* [[Groin Kick]]: Cordelia momentarily staves off Barney by grabbing her head in pain, pretending to have a vision which involves him. Barney, now concerned, asks if she's envisioning him in great danger. "'''Pain.'''" she replies, before kneeing him square in the crotch.
* [[Grumpy Old Man]]: Trevor Lockley. "In my day we didn't need any damn sensitivity."
** Angel veers into this at times, which is understandable given the weird locale he's in.
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* [[The Guards Must Be Crazy]]: [[Exploited Trope|Exploited]] by Wesley in "The Ring". Wes dodges a security guard at XXI with the help of Cordy, who pretends to have gotten lost on the way to the Ladies Room.
* [[Guns Akimbo]]: Wesley, on occasion.
** Gunn used this on the Scourge during the "Only Human" Arc of ''After the Fall''. It's as awesome as it sounds.
** Wes has some seriously badarse guns-akimbo moments (maybe the best is when he decks {{spoiler|Skip the Unstoppable}} this way); by the end of Season 5, it's in the intro.
** Interestingly enough, this tactic [[Guns Are Useless|rarely works.]] Illyria drops the bullets Matrix-style, {{spoiler|Skip's}} carapace seems to be bullet proof, and the Beast seemed more amused than hurt.
* [[Guns Are Useless]]: Despite being incredibly badass, Wesley's [[John Woo]] routine rarely works.
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* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: A great number of demons (Doyle included) are some variation of this, causing no small consternation on the part of "purebloods" who wish to preserve the genetic line.
* [[Halfway Plot Switch]]: The first half of season 2 was about Angel trying to stop Wolfram & Hart's plan with Darla. He succeeds but he fires his team in the process and he tries to win them back for the rest of the season.
* [[Half Truth]]: Wesley's myriad of excuses for why he can't return to England.
** Angel and Wesley grasping for positive things to say about Cordy's acting debut.
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'''Angel:''' Yeah. I could hear every word and we were way in the back.
'''Cordy:''' Okay, so I was ''loud''. But was I any good?
'''Wesley:''' You -- took the role and made it your own!
'''Cordy:''' Really? Thanks! Angel, was I good?
'''Angel:''' I wouldn’t say it if I didn’t think so.
'''Cordy:''' Thanks! [beat] You ''didn’t'' say it. }}
** Cordelia getting caught out in trying to dupe Angel & Wesley into taking on a divorce case. "According to the husband, the wife's a ''real witch''!"
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* [[Happy Fun Ball]]: The "Nest Egg", a giant smiling egg containing the souls of ''Smile Time'''s young viewers. Angel is transformed into a puppet by the Egg's energy discharge.
* [[Haunted House|Haunted Apartment]]: Cordelia rents one.
* [[Haunted Headquarters]]: Cordelia's apartment, the Hyperion Hotel, and (of course) Wolfram & Hart.
** That last one had an episode dedicated to all of the lost souls in the building. "High-risk employment", indeed.
* [[Happy Dance]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycFqzNxiTwY Numfar! Do the Dance of Joy!]
* [[Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?]]: Lorne. The character encompasses many aspects of a [[Camp Gay|stereotypically gay]] man; and he smirks upon mentioning Angel in leather pants. However he later says that the reason he never lived up to the expectations of his [[Proud Warrior Race]] is because he was "hanging by the well and chatting up the senoritas". Andy Hallet explained Lorne's sexuality as being closer to omnisexual (figuratively speaking), since he "loves ''all'' humans."
* [[Have You Tried Not Being a Monster?]]: Zig-zagged with Doyle, who claims that the awakening of his demonic side caused the collapse of his marriage. In actual fact, his wife Harrie came to accept his demon heritage, even becoming an ethnodemonologist, someone who studies demonic cultures. When Doyle withdrew from their relationship, Harrie became engaged to Richard, another demon-human hybrid.
* [[Hawaiian
* [[He Knows Too Much]]: Trevor Lockley's fate, after he starts asking a few too many questions about his associates.
* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]: Holtz became as dangerous and as likely to cross the [[Moral Event Horizon]] as vampires.
* [[He's Back]]: "Epiphany" and "You're Welcome".
* [[Head-Tiltingly Kinky]]: Wesley's reaction to some blackmail photos of his client's antics at a demon brothel. When Angel points out that he's looking at the picture upside-down, Wes almost faints.
* [[
** Arguably not even a villain per se, but rather simply obedient to whomever had any degree of real power. When {{spoiler|Angel is given control of the L.A. branch of W&H, her post-death}} reaction to "what might have been" is practically face-painted.
** {{spoiler|Lindsey}}, to his chagrin. Mostly a case of Angel invoking this before he can [[Heel Face Revolving Door|switch sides again]].
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* [[Heroic Team Revolt]]: Self-inflicted in the second season. Angel kicks the team out and when he changes his mind has to go to lengths to get them back on his side.
* [[Herr Doktor]]: Dr. Fetvanovich, from Wolfram & Hart's satellite office in the Balkans.
* [[Hidden Depths]]: Watch the first few episodes of ''Buffy'', then watch "You're Welcome"
** The same goes for Wesley, who [[Take a Level In Badass|took a serious level in badarse]].
** Anne Steele, the clueless vampire groupie from ''Buffy'', turns up in ''Angel'' as an idealistic social worker.
* [[Hiroshima
* [[Hit Me Dammit]]: In the episode "Billy", a [[Hate Plague]]-infected Gunn orders Fred to knock him unconscious with a broken chair leg. It takes a couple of tries.
* [[Hobos]]: The Kwaini are a (supposedly) peaceful species of demons who dress up in wool clothes and hats, causing several passerby to mistake them for hobos ("The Prodigal").
** Boretz demons are a species known for their bad odor and poisonous mandibles. They have a habit of dressing up like transients to prey on homeless people ("Power Play").
* [[Hoist
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* [[Hollywood Exorcism]]: The episodes "Rm w/a View" and "I've Got You Under My Skin" are centered around exorcisms targeted at a ghost and [[Demonic Possession|possessed child]], respectively.
** The latter episode turns out to be a subversion, as the demon in question wasn't responsible for the boy's crimes and in fact held no control at all; the kid was already a psycho from the start.
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* [[Honest Advisor]]: Cordelia is a no-holds barred example. Wesley fills this role in Seasons 4-5 following her departure.
** Gunn's sister, Alonna, doesn't mince words when she thinks he's being stupid. ("War Zone")
* [[Honest John's Dealership]]: The only way to contain an Ethros demon is to trap it in a rare [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Hope Spot]]: If people are ever smiling on this show, brace yourself.
* [[Hopeless Auditionees]]: In the wake of {{spoiler|Doyle}}'s death, Cordy auditions for a laundry detergent commercial, investing her lines with way more pathos than is called for.
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* [[Horny Devils]]: When females of the Vigorie come of age, they goes through a period where their "ko" supercharges their sexual urges, which manifests as [[Playing
** The demon hookers in "War Zone" come with fuzzy tails.
* [[Horrible Hollywood]]: Often lampooned.
** Wesley laments that Illyria still thinks she's the god-king of the universe. Gunn, searching for an analogy, ends up on "TV star." Wesley replies, "No, nothing ''that'' bad." Zing!
** Angel very nearly decapitates a director who is verbally abusing Cordelia during a commercial shoot.
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* [[House of Broken Mirrors]]: One of the first signs that Darla's soul is beginning to destabilise her mental state is when Lindsay returns home and finds she's smashed up his entire apartment. When Angel's team later investigate the place, Angel immediately realises that what she was doing was destroying all the reflective surfaces in the apartment to try and avoid catching a glimpse of her own reflection.
* [[How We Got Here]]: "Why We Fight" begins with Angel's friends being picked off one-by-one by a well-groomed vampire. The rest of the episode consists of flashbacks to a World War II submarine, where the mystery man (Jack Lawson) first crossed paths with Angel.
* [[Hufflepuff House]]: Gunn's street gang. Lily's teen shelter can be considered an adjunct.
* [[Human Sacrifice]]: A common practice at Wolfram & Heart, at least until {{spoiler|Team Angel moves in.}} Minor examples are found everywhere else in this show, from the standard "evil cult" variety to the apocalyptic "oh God the Beast just killed Hollywood" kind.
* [[Humanity Ensues]]: "I Will Remember You".
* [[Humans Are
** Actually, Angel says that the reason he isn't affected is because he's let go of the rage and hate that Billy brought out. A normal vampire probably would be affected because they wouldn't be as evolved as Angel.
** Also the reason why Wolfram & Hart can't be stopped.
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** Gunn and Angel bond over their mutually-grim existence at the end of "War Zone", standing side-by-side on a roof overlooking the city.
* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: Cordelia quite often, especially in season one.
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** Doyle himself often said one thing and a moment later did the opposite.
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*** In the pilot he tells Angel that the world needs men like them to show that there's still love and compassion left then he tells off a homeless person asking for change.
** In "Eternity", Angel plays down the news article reporting on his rescue of Rebecca Lowell. "We ran into an actor. It's Hollywood. It happens." When Wesley remarks that there's no mention of Angel, however, the high-minded vampire suddenly does a double-take. "''What?!''"
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* [[Hypothetical Casting]]: Cordy's pitch for an Angel Investigations TV spot. "Maybe [[Patrick Stewart|that bald Star Trek guy]], or one of the cheaper Baldwins."
** A few weeks into running the firm's Entertainment Division, Lorne finds himself doing this constantly. He suggests selling a script based on the Buffy/Angel/Spike love triangle.
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** How does ''[[
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==I==
* [[I Always Wanted to Say That]]: Cordelia, while queen of Pylea, says "Off with their heads!" when asked what to do about her captured friends. She quickly says "Just kidding" and sheepishly admits she's always wanted to say that.
* [[I Can't See Myself]]: Marcus Roscoe's reaction upon [[Body Surf|bodysurfing]] into Angel.
* [[I Did What I Had to Do]]: Invoked '''a lot'''.
* [[I Don't Like You and
* [[I Don't Like the Sound of
* [[I Hate You, Vampire Dad]]: Angel once sired a vampire after he had a soul - a mortally wounded submarine captain who had to be kept alive to bring his ship back to the surface to save his crew. This apparently left him with just enough of a conscience to take not the slightest pleasure in his slaughter - but not enough to keep him from butchering people just like every other vampire out there. Sixty years later, he showed up and forced Angel to kill him. The trope name itself also sums up Connor and Angel's relationship, though it's not actually an example.
* [[I Just Want to Have Friends]]: [[Nerd
* [[I Let Gwen Stacy Die]]: Angel's [[Establishing Series Moment|very first client]].
** Gunn fails to stop a gang of vampires from driving away with his sister. By the time Gunn meets her again, she's already been vamp'ed.
** Not only does Angel fail to cure Darla's illness, but he's foiled in preventing Drusilla from re-siring Darla as a vampire.
** Angel fails to save {{spoiler|Cordy}} in Season Four, partly due to errors stretching all the way back to the previous year.
** In the fifth season when Angel learns that the ritual to save {{spoiler|Fred}} will kill thousands, he declares his intention perform the ritual, but can't go through with it.
* [[I Lied]]: Griff, after promising Doyle another day to cough up the money.
* [[I Surrender, Suckers]]: Angel chases and corners Spike in an alley blocked by a [[Chain Link Fence]]. Spike doesn't even attempt to leap the fence, instead turning around and surrendering with an air of smugness. Angel takes the bait, and is garroted by Spike's henchman, Marcus. Whoops.
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* [[I Was Beaten
* [[I'll Kill You!]]: In the Victorian-era flashbacks of "Five By Five", Darla reacts to Angel's newfound soul the same way a human would to a
** After Wesley conspires with Holtz to steal Angel's son (and gets a slit throat for his trouble) Angel pays him a visit in the hospital. At first it seems like Angel is prepared to reconcile, but then he suddenly grabs a pillow and tries to smother Wesley with it. Angel continues to hurl curses and threats at Wesley as he is dragged away by Gunn and some orderlies.
* [[I'm Cold... So Cold...]]: A somewhat dumbfounded Wesley asks, "Is anyone else cold?" after getting shot in the gut. ("The Thin Dead Line")
* [[I'm Not Afraid of
* [[I'm Standing Right Here]]:
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** When Cordelia starts fretting over Angel possibly having sex with superstar Rebecca Lowell (and losing his soul), Wesley reminds her that Angel's curse hinges on him experiencing true happiness. Besides," Wes says, "What are the odds he'll find that with an ''actress''? -- before realizing his mistake.
** Groo's compliment to Cordelia that she is "a goddess":
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'''Lorne''': ''(offended)'' Hey! I'm standing right here. }}
** "Bachelor Party":
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'''Angel and Doyle:''' ''Hey!'' }}
* [[If I Wanted You Dead...]]: Angel often has to remind others of this, particularly when they accuse him of being Angelus in disguise.
** Conversely, Holland Manners spells this out for Angel in "Reunion".
** In "Underneath", Angel is forced to to free Lindsey from Wolfram & Hart's prison dimension. Lindsey notices Angel's sword and, assuming they've come to kill him, snarls, "Make it quick." Exasperated, Angel replies, "If I was gonna kill you, it wouldn't be quick."
* [[If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him]]: Gunn is compelled to twist Professor Seidel's neck before tossing his limp corpse down a portal, ostensibly so Fred wouldn't have to do it ("Supersymmetry").
* [[If You're So Evil Eat This Kitten|If You're So Evil, Eat This Kitten]]: Darla once tested Angel by offering him a baby to eat.
* [[Ignored Epiphany]]: A couple of cases can be argued, but Lindsey helping Angel save the kids but going back to Wolfram and Heart for a promotion, raise and "[[Signed Up for
** The entirety of season 5 consists of Angel rejecting his own from the episode ''Epiphany'' in season 2. In the end he {{spoiler|essentially retries his suicide mission against the Senior Partners from the second season, he just has better information and the rest of the team with him this time.}}
* [[Imagine the Audience Naked]]: Angel's advice to Kate before taking the mic at her father's retirement bash.
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* [[Imagine Spot]]: Angel being asked if he wants to [[I Can't Dance|dance]]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCYlsFagq_k Ho boy].
** "Sanctuary" picks up where the previous story left off, with Angel tucking Faith into bed in his apartment. Faith imagines herself springing up and slashing Angel's face with a knife.
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** Holtz drives a nail through Justine's hand to test her loyalty.
** Wesley also has this done to him by a booby trap in Season 4, Episode 10.
* [[Impaled
** When Penn puts Angel [[Human Shield|in a headlock]], Angel signals Kate to impale him with an oversized piece of wood. She jabs it though both of them, missing Angel's heart but killing Penn.
* [[Impersonating an Officer]]: Wesley and Cordelia make a bumbling effort to pass as detectives in "The Ring". Wes rapidly waves his wallet around to imitate a flashed badge.
** Angel's masterful performance as a lead detective at a crime
* [[Implacable Man]]: This is Hamilton and Illyria's baseline combat strategy.
* [[Inherent in
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'''Gunn:''' You know, when you say it out loud, it sounds really naive. }}
* [[Internal Reformist]]: The main cast's plan for season 5.
* [[In the Past Everyone Will Be Famous]]: Angel likes to name drop. In addition to hanging out with Charles Baudelaire and the Rat Pack, Angel was also (somehow) at the first taping of ''[[The Carol Burnett Show]].''
* [[Indy Ploy]]: Angel's preferred strategy. And Gunn's. And Groosalugg's. And Spike's. In fact it's probably safe to say that the only member of the team to ever think a plan through was Wesley, and he still came up with plenty of horrible plans.
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* [[The Informant]]: Merl.
* [[Informed Attribute]] : Angel is told that he's quite attractive. Since he can't actually look in the mirror, he takes their word for it. Also, in the episode 'In The Dark', while wearing The Gem of Amarra and walking around in the daylight, Oz claims Angel is paler than most people. This time it's the audience that takes his word for it.
* [[Insistent Terminology]]: Spike insists on being called "Captain" while aboard a submarine in 1943. "After all, [[Klingon Promotion|I did eat him]]."
* [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja]]: The ones in "Lineage" are of the [[Cyborg]] variety.
* [[Instant Sedation]]: The Watcher's Council operatives give Wesley a syringe containing a sedative "powerful enough to bring down a man twice your size - or a Slayer." (i.e. Faith) What's more, all it requires is "a little pressure on the flesh" to work.
* [[Intergenerational Friendship]]: Angel and Cordelia. Shipping aside, in Spin the Bottle he calls her "his dearest friend".
* [[Interrogation
* [[Interrupted Suicide]]: Played for laughs in "I Will Remember You", the episode following Angel's visit to see Buffy. When Cordelia and Doyle arrive for work, they immediately panic when they spout Angel examining a stake. "Don't do it, Angel!" (Angel's using it to prop up his desk.)
* [[Ironic Echo]]: "I just can't seem to care." And let's not forget "Is that it? Am I done?" or even (arguably) "I get that now".
** Attorney Lee Mercer makes the mistake of getting in Faith's face, warning her not to make him "look bad". Faith immediately starts hammering his head into a table while parroting his line (The next time we see Mercer, he's wearing a neck brace).
** "Survival of the fittest, bro. And right now you're not lookin' too fit."
* [[Is There a Doctor In
* [[Ironic Nursery Tune]]: "All Through the Night".
* [[It Got Worse]]: Connor is seduced by {{spoiler|Jasmine-posessed Cordelia}} during what looks like the end of the world and brainwashed into believing she loves him and that he must protect their love child {{spoiler|which is actually Jasmine}}.
** He spends a great deal of time believing [[The Dragon|The Beast]]'s emergence and the mayhem and slaughter which ensues is his fault because The Beast rose on the exact spot he was born. {{spoiler|Jasmine}} planned it that way, but it wasn't his fault. ** Also at the end of "The Magic Bullet" it is revealed that {{spoiler|he was never brain-washed by Jasmine and was following her of his own volition.}}
** In "Home" he holds a store full of people hostage with a bunch of explosive devices, likely in an attempt to [[Suicide
* [[It Makes Sense in Context]]: Many things, but an example from this show is the demonstration article of that page.
* [[It Meant Something to Me]]
* [[It Works Better
* [[It's All My Fault]]: In exchange for being given legal knowledge, Gunn signs off on a document allowing Illyria's sarcophagus to pass through customs, {{spoiler|which eventually leads to the death of Fred}}. Naturally he is devastated and reluctant to tell anyone about it, and is even stabbed by Wesley after he finds out.
* [[It's Been Done]]: In "Soulless", Angelus finds more humor in his son's dalliances with Cordelia than his alter-ego did.
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* [[It's a Long Story]]: Subverted in "I Will Remember You" as Buffy is busy taking the piss out of Angel.
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'''Buffy:''' Your new sidekick had a vision, I was in it, you came to Sunnydale?
'''Angel:''' [beat] Okay. Maybe not that long. }}
* [[It's Personal]]: After Angel telephones Giles to learn what horrors Faith inflicted on Buffy, Wesley notices that Angel is absolutely fuming ("Five By Five").
* [[It's a Wonderful Plot]]: "Birthday", in which Cordelia witnesses a vision of her life had she never crossed paths with Angel during the pilot episode.
* [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique]]: Wesley has no qualms about sticking a few blades in people for information. Or if he's pissed off. And this is ''before'' his [[Darker and Edgier|gritty makeover]] -- he's torturing people as early as Season One, which gives us this gem not long after Wesley's dorky, incompetent arrival on the show:▼
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{{quote| "You should understand that the man I work for [[Ho Yay|means a great deal to me]]. And I will not give you a single red cent. What I will do, sir, is beat it out of you if I have to." {{[[[Impaled Palm]] pins informant's hand}} to a wall with a small, rather painful-looking crossbow bolt, and proceeds to twist it slowly] "Where is my employer?"}}▼
▲* [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique]]: Wesley has no qualms about sticking a few blades in people for information. Or if he's pissed off. And this is ''before'' his [[Darker and Edgier|gritty makeover]]
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* [[The Juggernaut]]: Illyria, The Beast, Hamilton and Jasmine, to name a few.
* [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope]]: Angel knows the evil things Faith had done, perhaps even more than Buffy as he had witnessed at least Faith's attempted rape and murder and it's never shown he shares this. Despite this he offers Faith sanctuary when she is so disgusted at how evil she had become she wants Angel to kill her. Buffy on the other hand is more than happy to honor that request, enraged at what Faith had done and enraged that Angel wants to reform her.
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