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   https://screenrant.com/angel-best-recurring-villains/   
      
   Angel: 10 Best Recurring Villains   
       
   Though Angel didn't always succeed with its story arcs, the villains that   
   drove them were always memorable. Here are Angel's 10 best recurring foes.   
      
   BY CONNOR SHELTON   
      
   Having first aired on October 5, 1999, Angel was an attempt to tell a more   
   mature story than its parent show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. While its   
   ambitions meant that it never quite gained the popularity of Buffy, it did   
   manage to evolve some of the    
   central storytelling techniques that Buffy had pioneered.   
      
   Instead of having one big bad who moved the plot forward each season, Angel   
   did something different. The show had an overarching entity face off against   
   Angel Investigations throughout the show's run, with other villains coming in   
   and out to cause    
   complications for both parties. This juggling of story lines didn't always   
   succeed, but it did manage to produce several iconic villains.   
       
      
   10   
   Angelus   
      
   Originally the big bad of Buffy season 2, the sadistic and soulless version of   
   Angel returned during Angel’s 4th season when the group needed his expertise   
   to take down The Beast. While Angel Investigations succeeded in their efforts,   
   Angelus went on    
   to hunt everyone in the Hyperion, only to be taken out by Faith and her slayer   
   blood.   
       
   Angelus was a truly menacing presence not just because of his cruelty but due   
   to the audience's familiarity with him as the otherwise kind protagonist   
   Angel. It's because of this duality that he was such a threat on the show,   
   despite only starring in 3    
   episodes of Angel (not counting flashbacks).   
      
      
   9   
   Marcus Hamilton   
       
   Introduced during the show’s 5th season, Marcus Hamilton acted as the   
   half-demon enforcer of the Wolfram & Hart law firm. In this capacity, he kept   
   an eye on Angel’s shenanigans and eventually caught wind of his plan to take   
   out the Circle of the    
   Black Thorn.   
      
   Though he was largely ineffective in stopping Angel from toppling Wolfram &   
   Hart's Los Angeles division, Marcus Hamilton still proved to be a thorn in   
   Angel’s side. He was the final opponent Angel had to fight on screen, and   
   kept the vampire on his    
   toes thanks to the power of Wolfram & Hart flowing through his veins.   
      
   8   
   The Beast   
       
   The most physically imposing villain Angel Investigations fought, The Beast   
   acted as an agent for Jasmine and carried out her plans to bring about the   
   apocalypse. Though this essentially meant he was a lackey, this didn’t make   
   him any less threatening,    
   however, as he was able to black out the sun and take out all of Wolfram &   
   Hart on his own.   
      
   Because of the Beast’s raw power, Angel Investigations had to bring in the   
   slayer Faith to help defeat the demon. She was little match for the Beast, but   
   was able to distract the demon long enough for Angelus to stab him with a   
   magical dagger. An    
   abrupt farewell, but one that was fitting for the character.   
      
      
   7   
   Sahjan   
      
   A non-corporeal demon with the power to travel through time, Sahjan first made   
   himself known in the show's third season when he brought Holtz to the 21st   
   century to kill Angel. Unbeknownst to Holtz and everyone else, however,   
   Sahjan's true goal was to    
   eliminate Angel's son, Connor, who was prophesized to kill Sahjan.   
       
   Though Sahjan's plans don't exactly hold up under close investigation, the   
   demon still makes for a menacing shadow figure, willing to alter prophecies   
   and work with Wolfram & Hart to get his way. Perhaps the best aspect of   
   Sahjan, however, is his dry and    
   sarcastic sense of humor, something many Angel villains lacked.   
      
      
   6   
   Jasmine    
      
   The mysterious entity possessing Cordelia and controlling the Beast, Jasmine   
   was a rogue member of the Powers That Be who planned to bring about world   
   peace by eliminating free will. To do this, she played the long game by   
   manipulating events from her    
   own dimension until the time came for her to be born on Earth.   
      
   Though the decision to make Jasmine the force behind Angel’s previous   
   storylines was unpopular, her overall goal was unique for the series. She saw   
   herself as the hero of her story, more than any other villain.   
      
      
   5   
   Lindsey McDonald   
      
   Perhaps the most complex character in the entire Buffyverse, Lindsey McDonald   
   is a lawyer for Wolfram & Hart who develops a vendetta against Angel and hires   
   several demons and assassins to kill the vampire, including the rogue slayer   
   Faith. This hasn't    
   stopped Lindsey from working with his nemesis on several occasions though,   
   such as when Wolfram & Hart were set to assassinate three children.   
      
   What makes Lindsey such a complicated person is that he has rigid moral   
   convictions despite working for Wolfram & Hart. It ultimately led to his   
   departure from the show as a seemingly changed man, yet his disdain for Angel   
   brought him back to L.A. for    
   the show's final season. His return showed that not all redemptive arcs stick,   
   something which is true of real life.   
      
      
   4   
   Daniel Holtz   
       
   The Big Bad of Angel’s third season, Holtz was a vampire hunter from the   
   1700s whose family had been murdered by Angelus and Darla. Brought to the 21st   
   century by Sahjan, he jumped back into hunting Angel without hesitation, going   
   so far as to steal    
   his child just to hurt the vampire.   
      
   Equal parts sympathetic and menacing, Holtz worked as a villain because he was   
   able to change his plans to meet his overall goal. His mission to kill Angel   
   quickly became one of enacting justice through torment, and he succeeded in   
   the end given that his    
   death resulted in Connor dumping Angel into the ocean.   
      
   	[I never could understand how Holtz, from the 1700s, was able to outsmart and   
   thwart the high tech (and EVIL) Wolfram and Hart at every turn.]   
      
   3   
   Darla   
      
   The vampire who sired Angel, Darla was originally a minor character killed off   
   in Buffy's first season before being brought back by Wolfram & Hart to torment   
   her former lover. It was in this role that she truly began to shine as a   
   character.   
       
      
   During Angel's second season, she appeared in his dreams and sapped his   
   strength before making him question reality when she met him in person. Though   
   her sway wasn't enough to turn Angel evil, she did manage to break his faith   
   in humanity, something no    
   other villain could pull off.   
      
      
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