Angel Investigations - Members

Members

In order of length of membership:

• Angel, the team's namesake and a member throughout. The exception to this being a period in Season 2, where technically he disbanded the team, but the other members simply continued without him. Originally he had been the team's leader and boss, when he returned after his absence from the team, he was de jure subordinate to Wesley. When Wesley left the team, Angel essentially became the de facto leader once again.
• Wesley Wyndam-Pryce, a member from mid-season 1 onwards and team leader for some period. His actions in Season 3 forced him to leave, though he was gradually accepted back into the group again. He died in the series finale.
• Charles Gunn, an ally from the end of Season 1 onwards, Gunn officially joins the group in Season 2, when he starts receiving a salary. He leaves the group between Angel Season 5 and After the Fall, because he was turned into a vampire. No longer a vampire, he takes a leave of absence with Illyria in Aftermath and returns in the ongoing IDW series.
• Cordelia Chase, a founding member until her disappearance at the end of Season 3. She returned in Season 4 but, possessed, was working against AI from within. She fell into a coma at the end of that season and died the following year. In Angel: After the Fall she is revealed to be a genuine Higher being for the Powers That Be.
• Winifred Burkle, introduced towards the end of Season 2, Fred becomes a member in Season 3 and is a core member of the group until her death in Season 5.
• Lorne, a long-time ally since his introduction in the first episode of Season 2, it is hard to pinpoint when he becomes a genuine member of the group, though most likely in Season 3 after the destruction of his karaoke club Caritas. Lorne leaves the group after Season 5, but returns as an ally in After the Fall.
• Spike, an old ally of Angel back in his soulless days, joins the team during the fifth season when he comes back alive after his death in the finale of Buffy.
• Allen Francis Doyle, a founding member. Doyle was a half-demon with precognitive abilities. He died in Season 1.
• Connor, Angel's son is introduced in Season 3 and has a complicated relationship with the group, more often than not he is working against them or is indifferent to them due to his belief that Angel is inherently evil. He finally accepts Angel as his father and joins the group in Angel: After the Fall, continuing as a current member of the team.
• Nina Ash, a werewolf who Angel dated in Season 5. Once LA got sucked into Hell after "Not Fade Away", she teams up with Connor and Gwen to help people stuck in the city. She joins Angel's team in Issue #5 of Angel: After the Fall.
• Illyria, a depowered Old One who was introduced in Season 5 after being revived in the shell of Fred's body. She joins Angel's team for a short period of time during Angel: After the Fall.
• Gwen Raiden, a professional thief and electrokinetic mutant introduced early on in Season 4. Initially an ally of the team, she becomes a part-time member of the group in Angel: After the Fall onwards.