Angel
TV Show • 1999 • Drama
ReportThe vampire Angel, cursed with a soul, moves to Los Angeles and aids people with supernatural-related problems while questing for his own redemption. A spin-off from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
This tv show contains 72 potentially triggering events.
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Is there decapitation?
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Anonymous
Several times through out the series
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Abuse
Is someone stalked?
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Throughout the show, many characters (including the main characters) are stalked (followed, spied on with cameras, secretly watched from hiding spots) on multiple occasions.
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Mariapsaila
In season 3 episode 6 “Billy”, multiple characters are afflicted with a primal misogynistic rage that causes them to attack or kill women in their proximity. Verbal violence is inflicted alongside physical violence, affecting main characters such as Wesley and Gunn as well. Onscreen violence against women is shown, most particularly against Fred and Lilah Morgan.
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E4
It is strongly implied that a girl was sexually abused by her father as a child. We see flashbacks of a man taking a girl down from an attick, telling her not to make a fuss. Later it is said by another character that she was likely abused and that her father was the most likely person.
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Are there spiders?
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timetoerase
About halfway through the episode in 3x19
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Assault
Is someone drugged?
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Anonymous
S1
E17
Angel gets drugged by the actress after helping her with her stalker
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Is there pedophilia?
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echoevemorrow
S1
E3
Strongly alluded to
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mad_melody
Several episodes feature survivors of past sexual assault/abuse. Throughout the show, there are multiple flashbacks where Angelus is shown immediately before or after sexually assaulting restrained women.
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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Throughout the show, numerous characters are cut in combat and/or during spells on numerous occasions.
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Are any hands damaged?
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Pantalones
S5
E11
In the episode "Damage" a mentally disturbed Slayer cuts off Spike's hands.
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Is there throat mutilation?
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Anonymous
S3
Vampires so yes but also someone gets their throat slit in season 3 and you get to see the wound several times
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Is there cannibalism?
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Rock
There’s vampires that eat people, but no humans that eat other humans (unless I’m forgetting something, which is possible)
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Is someone burned alive?
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mad_melody
Throughout the show, vampires frequently catch fire (either by being intentionally set on fire, or by going into sunlight) and burst into dust. Several main characters also catch fire and survive.
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Is there a hanging?
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jg57
S1E5 ghost tries to hang Cordelia to make it look like a suicide. Does not complete.
S2E2 Angel is hung by a mob.
S2E2 Angel is hung by a mob.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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AnagnorisisM
Cordelia's visions can look a lot like seizures
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Is someone tortured?
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mad_melody
Season 5 Episode 11 centres around a woman who suffered prolonged abuse while held captive as a child. There are several flashbacks to the torture. Throughout the show, multiple characters (including main characters) torture and are tortured.
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Is someone stabbed?
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Anonymous
Stabbings are one of the types of injuries that happen frequently throughout the series.
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Is there excessive gore?
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Anonymous
There is blood and sometimes some slime and goo but most of the gruesome things are off screen and you see the splatter or you don’t see them getting impaled but it’s heavily implied based on the acting
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Children
Is an infant abducted?
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Rock
S3
E16
Holtz steals Angel’s baby from Wesley, after Wesley took him away from Angel due a prophecy (later revealed to be fake) that suggests Angel would kill his son. Holtz raises Angel’s son in a different dimension where time passes differently, and when he shows up in the next season he is an adult (or at least an older teenager)
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Does a kid die?
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mad_melody
Multiple teenagers and young children die on and off screen.
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Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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Rock
S1
E9
One of the main characters gives their life to save a bunch of people.
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Disability
Is the r-slur used?
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beetlebug89
Once by Cordelia a few episodes into series 1 and once by Angelus during his second appearance in season 4. Once in season 5, although I don't remember who by.
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
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echoevemorrow
S3
The young woman Connor was taken in by overdoses in the bathroom. The whole scene is kind of traumatic with how she's found.
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Family
Does a family member die?
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Anonymous
S1
E20
Gunns sister gets turned into a vampire and then he ends up killing her when she tries to turn him
Also In season 3 holtz collects a lot of people who has had family members die due to vampire attacks
Also In season 3 holtz collects a lot of people who has had family members die due to vampire attacks
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Is someone kidnapped?
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mad_melody
Season 5 Episode 11 centres around a woman who suffered prolonged abuse while held captive as a child. There are several flashbacks to the kidnapping and torture. Throughout the show, multiple characters (including main characters) are kidnapped and held captive on multiple occasions.
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Does someone cheat?
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mad_melody
Throughout the show, several characters cheat.
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Is someone possessed?
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mad_melody
Throughout the show, numerous characters (including main characters) are possessed either against their will or with consent in order to gain power.
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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naokiie
Ssn2:E19- 4:06 Cordelia throws up food, audio, no visuals, skip to 4:25; same episode 20:15 she leans over and groans, it scared me but dw she doesnt vomit; Ssn3:E16- 4:20 not really vomit but a girl is kind of foaming at the mouth, skip to the intro; Ssn3:E18- no vomit but there's a demon that spits phlegm which was kind of gross, when gunn visits the clients lair, ends at like 11:19; Ssn4:E3- Fred mimics vomiting wasnt really triggering for me but still, 27:14 just mute for like three secs; Ssn4:E11 - 36:10 when Connor storms out audio, no visual; Ssn4:E14 - 18:20 no graphics no visual, only mentioned and you hear the toilet flushing
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Law Enforcement
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Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
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All the time in so many episode some sort of artifact get destroyed either bc it’s dropped or burned or ‘changed’
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Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
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para_seren
electric shock collars used to enslave humans in hell dimension
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Are needles/syringes used?
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odd_drawn
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E22
There are multiple hospital scenes, but no needles are shown.
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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mad_melody
In Season 5 Episode 11, a survivor of past severe child abuse is shown in a mental institution, and breaks out. There might be other instances that I unfortunately cannot remember.
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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The r-slur is used fairly often throughout the seasons.
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Anonymous
S1
E9
SPOILER FOR THE END OF THE EPISODE:
Doyle sacrifices himself by jumping onto the platform holding the human-bomb to save the others from harm by shutting off its energy. Wich is essentially suicide
Doyle sacrifices himself by jumping onto the platform holding the human-bomb to save the others from harm by shutting off its energy. Wich is essentially suicide
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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S3
E22
Season 3 episode 22 near the end of the episode angel gets locked in a steel box, he's tied down and can't move. Not the worst but still can be triggering
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S2E2 lots of suicides in flashbacks of a haunted hotel.
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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Anonymous
They do get to say bitch but else not really a lot of swear words or obscene things in general
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Anonymous
Yes especially early on they would have this flash effect reshowing the scene in still images
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Paranoia
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Pregnancy
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Is there childbirth?
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mad_melody
In Season 3 Episode 9, a major character is killed while pregnant, and the baby is magically born and survives. In Season 4 Episode 17, a pregnant main character magically expedites the birth of her baby; the child magically leaves the mother without any actual childbirth.
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Are there abortions?
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mad_melody
In Season 1 Episode 12, a main character and a few nameless characters are magically pregnant. The demon causing the magical pregnancies is killed so that the demon spawn in the women leave.
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Does a pregnant person die?
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mad_melody
In Season 3 Episode 9, a major character is killed while pregnant; the baby magically survives. In Season 1 Episode 12, and for much of Season 4, a main character (and a few nameless characters in S1Ep13) magically becomes highly pregnant very quickly, and her life is threatened multiple times while pregnant.
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Prejudice
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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The r-slur is used fairly often throughout the seasons.
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Does the black guy die first?
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mad_melody
Many named and unnamed black characters are, however, killed on-screen throughout the show.
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
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silencesilence
Angel is an immortal being. At some points, he has relationships with younger women.
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Sex
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fivebyfive
A character has a sexual and romantic relationship with his pseudo-mother figure. They are not biologically related, and the relationship is seen as disgusting and toxic by the other characters, but it is still difficult to watch.
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Sexism
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Sickness
Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
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Anonymous
S3
Lilahs mom is said to no longer recognise her as well as forgetting Lilah no longer lives close by wich makes her mom cry
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Social
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Spoiler
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Does it have a sad ending?
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mad_melody
The Season 5 finale is sad, and the last scene ends on a massive and hopeless cliffhanger, as the show was cancelled before the next season could be made and resolve everything.
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Is someone hit by a car?
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mad_melody
Throughout the show, multiple characters are hit by cars on multiple occasions. A truck with stakes attached to the front is frequently used to drive into and kill vampires.
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Violence
Does someone drown?
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AnagnorisisM
But Angel spends a lot of time trapped under water.
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Is there blood/gore?
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mad_melody
Blood and gore is frequent throughout the show, as the characters often fight, get tortured, get injured, etc. Injuries are more frequent, graphic, and gruesome than in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer show.
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Is there gun violence?
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mad_melody
Throughout the show, numerous characters (including main characters) wield, shoot, and/or are shot at by guns on numerous occasions.
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