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*** It's not an informed ability. Angel likes to emotionally torture people. He can get into their houses, he can murder their friends and family. He's fucking terrifying. The lack of sleep alone would have been torture enough. |
*** It's not an informed ability. Angel likes to emotionally torture people. He can get into their houses, he can murder their friends and family. He's fucking terrifying. The lack of sleep alone would have been torture enough. |
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**** It's entirely an informed ability. Angelus's power is clearly great PR. Look at his displayed history. He killed Jenny and I assume dozens of unnamed citizens. Big whoop, every vampire racks up an off screen kill or ten. The only truly impressive things he does is attempt to awaken Akathla, which is admitedly we need bigger scales on the one to ten scale of evil. He does all of nothing aside from try to eliminate direct threats when he comes back in Angel. Throughout the flash backs we find out that he wasn' even that terrible a vampire. Holts was hunting him, he eventually killed Holt' family. After that he doesn't do anything evil enough to warrent documentation. If the Gypsies weren't complete morons Darla would have ended up with a soul not Angel. Darla captured the girl, Darla delivered her to Angel. All he did was feed. It's not that Angel is blameless, he's about as blameless as a man sitting down to a steak dinner is of killing a cow. |
**** It's entirely an informed ability. Angelus's power is clearly great PR. Look at his displayed history. He killed Jenny and I assume dozens of unnamed citizens. Big whoop, every vampire racks up an off screen kill or ten. The only truly impressive things he does is attempt to awaken Akathla, which is admitedly we need bigger scales on the one to ten scale of evil. He does all of nothing aside from try to eliminate direct threats when he comes back in Angel. Throughout the flash backs we find out that he wasn' even that terrible a vampire. Holts was hunting him, he eventually killed Holt' family. After that he doesn't do anything evil enough to warrent documentation. If the Gypsies weren't complete morons Darla would have ended up with a soul not Angel. Darla captured the girl, Darla delivered her to Angel. All he did was feed. It's not that Angel is blameless, he's about as blameless as a man sitting down to a steak dinner is of killing a cow. |
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***** Close. Angelus' power is ''psychological warfare''. He's talented at killing, yes -- even by vampire standards he's still a skilled fighter, just like Spike is. But he's nowhere near as invincible as people think he is, ''and that is the point''. Angelus is good enough at the mind games that by this point he has an entirely deliberate and self-created legend built up around him as the hideous Scourge of Europe, the monster that even monsters fear, and he lets that reputation do most of the work for him. When he finally runs into somebody who simply has stopped ''giving a fuck'' about that reputation, he loses. So, in essence, you're correct -- his power is public relations. I'm just pointing out that 'being good enough at PR you win most fights before they even start on sheer psyche-out' is still a legitimate talent. |
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* Also, as is referred to many, many times throughout the season by Spike himself, Angelus is a [[Complete Monster]], but he's not a master strategist. He didn't even consider the possibility of Giles coming after him for killing Jenny and was caught completely off-guard. In fact, if Giles hadn't been too caught up in his [[Berserk Button]], given the weapons he had and how off-guard he caught Angelus (and how unwilling Spike was to lend a hand), odds are if he'd gone for a few arrows and a stake instead of a flaming baseball bat, that would have been the end for Angelus. |
* Also, as is referred to many, many times throughout the season by Spike himself, Angelus is a [[Complete Monster]], but he's not a master strategist. He didn't even consider the possibility of Giles coming after him for killing Jenny and was caught completely off-guard. In fact, if Giles hadn't been too caught up in his [[Berserk Button]], given the weapons he had and how off-guard he caught Angelus (and how unwilling Spike was to lend a hand), odds are if he'd gone for a few arrows and a stake instead of a flaming baseball bat, that would have been the end for Angelus. |
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