Buffy The Vampire Slayer: What Happened To Angel After The Series Ended – Screen Rant

Angel was such a success on Buffy the Vampire Slayer that he got his own spin-off series, Angel, which then continued on through the comics setafter the TV series. Angel returned for a fifth and final season after Buffy the Vampire Slayer came to an end, as he and the rest of the team (now including Spike) brought the battle against Wolfram &Hart to a close, but his storywasn't overthere.

Going for 11 years, the Buffy and Angel comics covered a lot of stories, including plenty of solo adventures for the vampire with a soul. Being such a prominent character on the TV side, Angel was a starring figure in the comics too, having a book with his name in the title for every season of the comics except the last.Angel remained recognizably himself through the series: Hedachieved something like redemption by the end of the series, though he was still the flawed protagonist that people fell in love with early on.

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Angel starts the comics in Angel: After the Fall, published by IDW instead of Dark Horse. This picks up immediately after the Angel series finale cliffhanger. Los Angeles gets pulled into hell and Angel is made human, taking away his invulnerability. Hes helped by the ghost of Wesley to fight against Gunn, whos been turned into a vampire. Realizing that the Senior Partners of the evil law firm Wolfram & Hart need him alive, Angel goads Gunn into trying to kill him. To prevent Angels death, the Senior Partners reset the timeline to just before LA was sent to hell.

Angel rejoins the Buffy comics in season 8, though his role is unclear at first. Hes the villain Twilight, fighting against Slayers across the world. When Twilight confronts Buffy, he reveals himself and explains his motives: the only way he and Buffy survived was by fighting each other. Angel is possessed again by Twilight, the higher power who gave himabilities beyond that of most vampires, and kills Giles before Buffy can stop him. He ends up catatonic and in Faiths care, who believes she can help him.

Angel takes the lead again in Angel and Faith for season 9. Angel spent this time trying to make up for what hed done as Twilight. Hes haunted by Giles memories and determined to make up for what hes done by bringing Giles back. With the help of unwilling demons and Giles eccentric aunts (from the canceled Ripper spinoff), Angel casts a spell that brings Giles back in a 12-year old body. Angel and his team then fight his former mentor Whistler, barely managing to stop a magical plague in London. With disaster averted, but some people still affected, Angel stays to help while Giles and Faith head off on their own.

In Angel season 10, while helping out in the newly dubbed Magic Town, Angel encounters Fred, who was killed by Illyria in season 5 of Angel but brought back under the new rules of magic. Angel gets caught up in Buffys fight against Archaeus, one of Angels vampiric ancestors. When Angel returns to London, Faith and Fred help against Archaeus return, locking him away hopefully for good this time.

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In season 11 Faith left, making the comic just Angel again. This time, he and Fred/Illyria drive the plot, taking them back in time. As they visit different time periods, Angel decides to stop himself from being turned into a vampire. He goes back to the right time and place, meeting his family again, but is stopped from changing the past by Illyria. When they get to the present, theres still a disaster of plants and bugs in the streets of Dublin, caused by Angel holding on to his sisters ring. When he lets go of that, and his past, the attacks stop.

Angel takes a secondary role in Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 12, serving mostly as support for Buffy in her big fight against the future. He ends the series, before the reboot of the Buffy continuity, as the supporting character he originally was to Buffy, coming full circle. This marked the end of Angels story, as the Buffy and Angel comics moved to Boom! Studios after season 12. Those comics are a reboot of the series set in the present day, not part of the TV show continuity.

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