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{{quote| '''Wesley:''' Where'd you get the police radio?<br />
'''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}}.
** [[The Hero]]: Angel
*** During the last third of season two, Wesley and Angel tag-team as Hero and Lancer, trading off levels of importance from episode to episode. Wes holds the role throughout the three-part season finale, though.
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* [[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 And The Evil]]: Lilah ends up joining Angel Investigations (sort of) after the rest of the firm is slaughtered by The Beast. Subverted when {{spoiler|Cordy stabs her in the neck}}. So much for that.
* [[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.
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** It's very telling that the rest of the group are stunned and jealous when it turns out normal parents (AKA Fred's) do exist.
** The Burkles' sheer niceness comes back to bite Wesley in the ass later, when he finds himself unable to tell them that {{spoiler|Fred's been killed and re-inhabited by a demon queen}}.
* [[Good Smoking, Evil Smoking]]: Collins, one of the Watcher's Council operatives sent in to extract to Faith, looks downright sinister as he's puffing on a cig.
* [[Good Thing You Can Heal]]
* [[Grand Finale]]: The series finale is arguably a cross between [[Animal House]] and [[Inglourious Basterds]], where instead of finding some [[MacGuffin]] to stop the Senior Partners and the unstoppable apocalypse, Team Angel decides to {{spoiler|piss them off so royally and offering one last really audacious and futile gesture of defiance by assassinating every member of the Circle of the Black Thorn.}}
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** 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.
* [[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.
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** 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 Shirted Tourist]]: One of Angel's less-inspired disguises ("Sense & Sensitivity").
* [[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.
* [[Heel Face Door Slam]]: {{spoiler|Lilah.}} Arguably.
** 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]].
* [[Hell -Bent for Leather]]: Evil Faith looks delicious in her black leather pants ("Five By Five").
** The trio of evil Watchers (Collins, Weatherby, and Smith) are each wearing matching leather jackets.
* [[Hell Hotel]]: The Hyperion from the 1950s until Team Angel moves in.
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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 JohnsJohn's Dealership]]: The only way to contain an Ethros demon is to trap it in a rare [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|Ethros Box]]. Angel gives Cordelia the address of a shop he knows downtown, Rick's Magick & Stuff; Rick, however, does not have a box carved by "blind Tibetan monks," so Cordy instead buys a discounted one made by "mute Chinese nuns." Rick warns her it might be a little "tight across the shoulders" for the Ethros ([[This Is Gonna Suck|oh boy, this'll be fun]]). Predictably, the box is reduced to splinters when Angel and Wesley exorcise the demon into it.
* [[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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* [[I Don't Like You and You Don't Like Me|I Don't Like You And You Don't Like Me]]: At the conclusion of "Shells", Spike admits to Angel that he doesn't really like him. And another two hundred years probably isn't going to change that. Nevertheless, Spike decides to honor Fred by staying on with the crew.
* [[I Don't Like the Sound of That Place|I Don't Like The Sound Of That Place]]: Point Dume (pronounced '''''DOOM'''''), a real-life promontory on the coast of Malibu. In the Season 3 finale, Angel and Cordelia agree to rendezvous here to confess their feelings for each other, unaware that Connor has some nasty vengeance planned indeed.
* [[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|Nerdy]] software giant David Nabbit is stuck supporting the wall at his own party. He becomes clingy after Angel and his associates render a service, showing up at their offices with a cape and sword.
* [[I Let Gwen Stacy Die]]: Angel's [[Establishing Series Moment|very first client]].
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** 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.
{{quote| '''Spike:''' Caught me fair and square, white hat! Guess there's nothin' to do now but go along quietly and pay my debt to society.}}
* [[I Was Beaten By a Girl]]: As Wesley and Cordelia compare bruises from the previous night's tangle with Faith, Cordy says, "If it's any consolation, it really does look like you were tortured by a ''much larger'' woman."
* [[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 vampire -- by recoiling in fear and trying to kill him.
** 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")
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* [[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".
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* [[It Meant Something to Me]]
* [[It Works Better With Bullets]]: As a sporting chance, Faith jokingly tosses Angel a revolver, but it shoots blanks. Subverted when Faith reclaims the gun and shoots Angel point-blank; looks like there ''was'' a bullet in the chamber.
* [[ItsIt'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.
* [[ItsIt's Been Done]]: In "Soulless", Angelus finds more humor in his son's dalliances with Cordelia than his alter-ego did.
{{quote| '''Angelus:''' Doing your mom, and trying to kill your Dad. There should be [[Oedipus Rex|a play]].}}
* [[ItsIt's a Long Story]]: Subverted in "I Will Remember You" as Buffy is busy taking the piss out of Angel.
{{quote| '''Angel:''' It's complicated how this all happened, Buffy, you know? It's kind of a long story.<br />
'''Buffy:''' Your new sidekick had a vision, I was in it, you came to Sunnydale?<br />
'''Angel:''' [beat] Okay. Maybe not that long. }}
* [[ItsIt's Personal]]: After Angel telephones Giles to learn what horrors Faith inflicted on Buffy, Wesley notices that Angel is absolutely fuming ("Five By Five").
* [[ItsIt'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:
{{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?"}}
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