Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) Angel is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon and David Greenwalt for the American television programs "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and its spin-off series "Angel". The character is portrayed by actor David Boreanaz. As introduced in "Buffy" in 1997, Angel is a love interest for heroine Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar), a young woman whose destiny as "the Slayer" is to fight the forces of evil, such as vampires and demons. However, their relationship is complicated by the fact that Angel is himself a vampire cursed with remorse and a human soul, which motivates
Vampire (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) Vampire (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) In the fictional world of the television series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and its spin-off series "Angel", a vampire is a unique variety of demon that can only exist on the earthly plane by inhabiting and animating a human corpse. In "Fray", a "Buffy" comic book spin-off set about a century in the future, vampires are also called lurks. The vampires in the canonical Buffyverse differ greatly from those that appear in the 1992 "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" movie. The movie's vampires are able to fly, look pale but relatively human, and do not crumble