Angelus (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Angelus is a fictional character in the television shows, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel played by David Boreanaz. He is the evil alter-ego of Angel, and emerges if Angel loses his soul.

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Fictional character - Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Angel - David Boreanaz - Angel

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Born in coastal town, Galway, Ireland in mid-1720s, Liam was the son of a moderately wealthy merchant. Twenty-eight years into an unremarkable life of drinking and whoring left him with little more than his father?s contempt.

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Galway - Ireland - 1720s

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During one particularly eventful night in 1753, after being kicked out of his father?s home, Liam?s good looks and talent for violence was noticed by a young woman calling herself Darla. She led Liam into a back ally and proceeded to murder and sire him.

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1753 - Darla

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Liam soon awoke as a vampire and immediately began an unholy campaign on his village. Included in the massacre was Liam?s family.

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Now going by Angelus (a name likely given to him by his sire, Darla), the duo of vampire spent a century and a half cutting a bloody swath through Europe.

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Angelus was responsible for most of Angel's more reprehensible crimes including the killing of his family and of his village, the deaths of Holtz's family, and the turning of Holtz's daughter into a vampire who Holtz himself had to kill. Angelus himself was known for siring the vampires Penn, who indulged in his blood lust by being a serial killer, and Drusilla who Angelus drove insane before making her a vampire. He was also responsible for training William the Bloody who attributed Angelus as his "Yoda".

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Holtz - Vampire - Serial killer - Drusilla - William the Bloody - Yoda

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After Angelus tormented and killed a "beloved daughter" of a tribe of Gypsies, the Gypsies had their revenge by cursing him with a soul. Angelus became a prisoner in his own body and Angel re-emerged, wracked with guilt at the horrors he had committed. Angelus was forced to watch as Angel tried to achieve redemption, a unique form of torture for both Angelus and Angel.

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Gypsies - Soul

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Angelus' first appearance in the show's present-day was in Buffy's second season episode "Innocence". If Angel experiences one true moment of happiness, the Gypsy curse is lifted, he loses his soul, and Angelus re-emerges. After Angel and Buffy's passionate night, Angel's soul was taken from him.

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Innocence - Buffy

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After Angel became Angelus, he joined Spike and Drusilla. Angelus delighted in tormenting Buffy and her friends. His first main kill was Jenny Calendar, whose neck Angelus broke after she got too close to deciphering the Gypsy curse which would restore Angelus' soul. He then devoted his attention to destroying the world by attempting to awaken the demon Acathla.

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Spike - Drusilla - Jenny Calendar

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Magic can be used to return Angelus' soul. In Part II of the Season 2 finale "Becoming", Willow returned Angelus' soul with the use of an Orb of Thesulah, but Buffy was forced to send Angel to hell anyway, as it was the only way to prevent Acathla from sucking the world into a demon dimension. After a time in hell, Angel was eventually returned to the world by the Powers That Be.

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Magic - Willow - Hell

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Angel had his soul removed by an actress that he was protecting in Season 1 of Angel. She slipped him a drug that produced artificial bliss, or perfect happiness. Once the effects of the drug wore off, however, Angel's soul returned. Angel's soul was removed yet again, this time in Season 4 of Angel. A shaman put Angel into a dream world which culminated in a moment of true happiness: This time, he made love with Cordelia. Angel agreed to have his soul taken, because it was thought that only Angelus knew how to destroy The Beast, a fearsome demon who was terrorizing Los Angeles by blocking out the sun. Angelus ended up escaping, and his own ego drove him to kill The Beast. As Angelus, he fed off of, but did not kill, Lilah Morgan. He was captured with help from Faith, the "other" Slayer. His soul was again returned by Willow, and Angelus has not been seen since then.

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Angel - Cordelia - The Beast - Los Angeles - Lilah Morgan - Faith - Slayer - Willow

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It has twice been assumed that Angel had reverted to Angelus, once in the Buffy Season 3 episode "Enemies" and again in the Angel Season 5 episode "Power Play". Both times, Angel had been merely duping his enemies into believing he had lost his soul, in order to gain their confidence and obtain vital information. Angelus appeared briefly on Angel, in the Season 1 episode "Eternity", in which he was drugged with a substance which temporarily introduced happiness; however, after the drug wore off, Angelus was again imprisoned.

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Enemies - Power Play

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In Season 4 while battling The Beast. Believing that their only hope was in Angel's evil alter ego Angelus, who had known The Beast in the past, the heroes turned Angel into Angelus. This was accomplished by a shaman, who gave Angel the illusion of a perfect day in which he and his son were reunited and defeated the Beast with a sacred weapon, and he and Cordelia were allowed to be together.

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Once freed, Angelus refused to help, broke free and for a time joined forces with The Beast. Wesley broke Faith out of jail to assist the heroes. She was beaten badly in battle with The Beast. In the end it was Angelus who, in an act of betrayal, stabbed The Beast with a knife made from its own bones, as he had correctly surmised that the only thing that could kill the Beast was the Beast itself. The sun returned after The Beast's death, leaving Faith in the sunlight and Angelus confined to the shadows.

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Although momentarily freed to wreak a little havoc of his own, Angelus was recaptured with help from Faith and Willow.

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