When she's left alone with him, the Master revealed himself, telling her that she'll be reborn and he'll be her savior. In the first part of the season 2 finale, it's revealed that in in Galway, Ireland, Angel then known as Liam was sired by Darla. Angel became enthralled by her beauty when he first set eyes on the vampire, and foolishly decided to follow her. He offered himself as an escort to protect her from harm, unaware that she would be the one to harm him.
After flirting with him, Darla asked him to close his eyes. But instead of the expected kiss, she dug her fangs into his neck, turning him into the fearful former villain Angelus. In the season 2 episode "Lie to Me," it's explained that when Angel was the evil Angelus in , he became obsessed with Drusilla, after Darla introduced her as the perfect new victim.
Circling the globe with the Master she worked for his cause while hunting her favored prey. Angelus having no love of the Order pulled Darla away from the Master and into his arms. It was in that Darla found a handsome and useless young Irishman named Liam, flaunting his wealth through drink and women Darla lured him to an alleyway and turned him. Liam would soon be named Angelus the most evil and violent vampire ever created. Darla had finally found the one she was looking for, a partner who shared in her love of death and mayhem, Angelus and Darla swathed across the British isles they began to torture a man named Holtz.
A man who hunted vampires for a living. Taunting the man the two of them killed and mutilated his family Angelus raping and torturing his wife while Darla sired his youngest daughter and killed his infant son.
Leaving a note behind that simply said "how can you save others when you can not even save your own". Holtz in his mayhem hunted the two with renewed vigor, finally trapping them in a barn in France, setting fire to the barn to hunt them out, Darla abandoning Angelus for safety was tracked down by him later and the pair reunited, later Angelus would betray Darla by letting the hunter know her whereabouts.
Chased through out the world by Holtz Angelus was finally captured by Holtz and a catholic group, tortured by the group Angeuls laughed through every minute, infuriating Holtz until Darla rescued her lover and took them away from Holtz, letting him know they would pay him back for it all one day.
Back in the world the pair would now collect the new members of their family, Drusilla and then William spike would join them both and help to hunt humans across the globe. A happy family they would all share the love and welcome each other into their murderous rampages. It all shattered for Darla in Angelus after torturing a Romanian gyspy princess was punished by the tribe, his soul was placed back in his body. Darla at first left Angelus to his own disgusting soul but soon came back to try to beg the King of the tribe to take his soul away, however after Spike and Drusilla destroyed the village he refused, Drusilla taking his life with a snap of the neck.
Abandoning Angel she took of with Spike and Drusilla but soon ditched the lovers to return to her beloved Master. His new mission to take over the world and destroy the slayer would take them to Sunnydale. Following him to Sunnydale she was once again faced with Angel, disgusted at his love for Buffy she attempted to kill him and the girl.
Put down by Buffy she fled, attacking Buffys mother and dropping her in Angels arms to try to destroy the lovers, but it turned against her when Angel staked her. Resurrected by Wolfram and Hart to help deal with Angel, Darla was once again human and possessing a soul. She taunted Angel in an attempt to break his spirit and trick him into siring her because she was unable to cope with all the evil that she did as a soulless vampire.
Unbeknownst to Angel and even to Darla for a short period of time, Darla was resurrected exactly as she was as a human: suffering from a fatal syphilitic heart condition.
Angel tried to help Darla through the transition to possessing a soul, but when they discovered her fatal condition he began to look for ways to cure her. Just as improbably, she finds herself feeling love for her future child, which she credits to the influence of its human soul growing inside her. Finally, afraid she won't be able to love the baby once it's born, Darla stakes herself in labor, dissolving to ashes and leaving her infant son, Connor played as an adult by Vincent Kartheiser , lying on the pavement.
Julie Benz said in that she found the exit of her character profound, a final selfless deed by someone whose character had primarily been defined by self-preservation.
Unfortunately, Darla was only the first of three Angel characters to die in childbirth. With each of the next two, her death looked less like a tragic sacrifice and more like the beginning of a disheartening pattern. The last of the three was Fred Burkle Amy Acker , whose body was hijacked and used as an incubator to bring the ancient god Illyria back to life. Fred doesn't literally give birth to Illyria, but the parallel is obvious.
A foreign life form is placed inside her body by a man with whom she was briefly romantically involved. And when Illyria comes forth into the world, Fred is obliterated.
It's a crushing, painful, ugly death. It's not the resolution of a character arc or even particularly relevant to the season's main plotline. Mostly, it gives the primary male characters an extra helping of grief, rage, and guilt to carry into the season's final battle. And yet, as unjust and infuriating as Fred's death was, it wasn't as upsetting as the death I skipped over, the second and by far the most offensive of the show's three maternal mortalities.
I'm still trying to find the words for what happened to Cordelia Chase. She was a teen drama archetype: the hot, rich, mean girl with a slew of sycophantic followers.
But instead of stagnating at 17 like so many pop culture high school queen bees before and after, Cordelia blossomed into someone dynamic and fascinating. She was self-centered, with a mean streak that never entirely went away, but she was also brave, generous, and surprisingly tender. She wasn't always likable, but she was wholly her own person. Cordy's growth over three seasons of Buffy and three seasons of Angel is one of the most engaging character arcs on either show and in the whole of the Whedonverse.
She begins as a reluctant ally against evil, bemoaning the stains left on her clothes when she's held hostage by vampires, and develops into a daring, capable fighter. What tethers Cordy to the fight on Angel are the visions of people in trouble. They plague her. They're overwhelming and physically painful, and at first she tries to get rid of them, to return to normal.
But as she realizes how important helping the helpless is to her, she becomes willing to make sacrifices in order to keep her visions. By the end of Angel 's third season, Cordelia proves herself worthy of ascending to a higher plane, becoming more than human. I'll never forget how Cordelia Chase, the beauty queen with the backbone, the most independent, ambitious woman in the entire run of Angel , was destroyed.
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