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Illyria is a demon in the fifth season of Angel, the Buffy spinoff series; check wifi
She inhabits the body of Winifred "Fred" Burkle, portrayed by Amy Acker
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Oct 8, 2021 11:36 PM
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Illyria is a demon in the fifth season of Angel, the Buffy spinoff series; check wifi
She inhabits the body of Winifred "Fred" Burkle, portrayed by Amy Acker
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SkeletonsLoveBooty
I was always like "yea fred... Mm..." Then I got Illyria and oh man... I like demon girls
namtrohs
I wish that season wasn't so rushed.
sweateryams
the balls of the writers to take a beloved character kill them off then make it so we have to watch who killed her parade around in her body
ChocolateCookieAndFudge
Angel and Spike! 1997 me is swooning.
PeeterGrant
Dang, look how young Pete Campbell from Madmen was in this.
ZimKat
I had a hard time adapting seeing him in Madmen after Angel, but the Campbell character was superior.
thadickenz
#2 They almost touched tips?! Has the fandom caught this? They prolly has, and there's already a dozen fics...
NomDeImguerre
I mean, they canonically fucked, each of the entire foursome coven with any number of the others, so this is nothing new.
Bubbells
Confirmed
tibris
I was about to post that same thing...
VosperOfAntarctica
I started watching Angel in season 5 and liked this character. Then I started from the beginning and appreciated the tragedy in losing Fred
Chort26
Thankxforthehotandsweatynightsinperu5
5 by 5
Trentski
Pardon my surprise, but I hadn’t noticed how the Buffyverse weaves into Middle Earth. I’m going to need an explanation!
Ngugi
Uhm... well, Tolkien had demons, and demons taking vampire shape [bats], sorcery, werewolves, and warrior women
Trentski
Ngugi
I had to cover my back! ;D But I do quite often post other things; it don't catch as much attention or folks don't look at poster's name ^^
BeerFueledAdventurer
Thanks for reminding me that I never finished Angel... *sigh*
tygerpsimatrix
"Go ahead, little girl. Take your best shot!" *Illyria one-punches his skull into obliteration*
Idolwild
Would you like me to lie to you now?
NomDeImguerre
Illyria is pretty damn hot.
mattrixk
I didn't think it was possible for Amy Acker to get any more attractive, but here we are (I never made it passed a season or 2 of Angel)
cashea
Amy Acker was excellent in Person Of Interest.
WishOnAMonkeysPaw
I always enjoy Angel/Buffy content and you reminded me that my wifi was off! +1
ChickenChickenBurningBright
"Would you like me to lie to you now?"
ZimKat
Ugh. That was such a terrible good ending.
xizar
I did not need this shit right now. "Handsome man saves me" until a fucking hole in the world.
MacClay
"I wish to do more violence."
Novarra
Thanks for the sudden weeping in bed my husband is confused and afraid now.
ChickenChickenBurningBright
sorry, but you have to appreciate Amy's ability to instantly transition from Illyria to Fred was pretty impressive.
Novarra
Amy is a gift.
Kenkenny82
Wesley was my favorite character, his death was for me a shock. It was so hearth breaking.
BatLadyRielle
but what's a rogue demon?
horsetamer77
Thank you so much! My friend and I quote this for literally everything with "rogue" in it
cosonfused
i dont remember much from buffy or spike, nothing at all actually. but i do know i liked Spike.
Devolv3
Did she get those two manly men to touch sword tips?
BestUsernameICouldThinkOf
I'm finishing a Buffyverse rewatch, and just finished Smile Time. So Fred's death is the next episode.
TheBlueMuppet
Yeah, guess which is my favorite episode. We have a craft room called The Don't Room.
hullabanana
Rorysaurus
Self Esteem is for everybody..
ZimKat
Eee! Angel puppet! “My nose comes off.” Lol
Iloveanonymityandilovebeingnoticed
The made Angel puppets to sell. There are some on ebay.
Sepharii
Why is Malfoy helping reject-Lava Girl?
Ngugi
And here I thought she was a Smurf
qtRaven
Illyria wasn't just a demon. She was technically a Great Old One.
f3n1x187
yeah, a pretty powerful one before they used the weird weapon on her and also she kinda just joined after he cult self anihilated.
RedRaptor
Remember that episode when Spike and Angel flew to Europe because they heard Buffy was hooking up with Dracula? Good times.
Whackamoley
Dracula? She met Dracula when she was with Riley.
RedRaptor
Sorry. It was The Immortal. Angel and Spike look for Buffy because they thought she was with him https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3d11UUA-10
Whackamoley
There ya go. I couldn't remember the dudes title.
HcMac
Is that you Alissa White-gluz?
TheTeenageMutantNinjaTurtles
Fred was my favourite character and they fuckin killed her, not even just the body but her freakin soul was destroyed :(
LadyNetrex
Not a big fan of Buffy, did not expect to like Angel. But it was much better.
AxisBond
I felt like Buffy as a whole was better, but Angel had one or two seasons that reached a level higher than Buffy did.
Rorysaurus
*stares in Season Four*
LadyNetrex
I do like how the whole thing ended. The fight never ends.
TinyOctopus
Wesley's death scene is one of three times that the buffyverse made tiny octopus cry into his apple Jack's.
tpanyS
He's resurrected in the extended comics. And they also fought aliens and predators, cause they're all the same universe. lol
SkeletonsLoveBooty
It still hurts...
stulfer
I love how 2004 this comment is
SimonTheGodOfHairdoos
Some of us never left. That's our happy place.
hullabanana
For me it was Fred. And that song… a place called home :(
tenaciousjeebs
“Well, personally, I kinda wanna slay the dragon.”
couch11
When Tara died? And…dark willow changing back after the Zeppo talks her down? Those are my two guesses.
thescarby
I love crayon-breaky Willow and I love angry, veiny Willow.
f3n1x187
"mommy?"
iGotFOLDERS
ZTLoki
When Buffy came back from the dead and described where she was, my mom said she died and when to Valhalla/hero's death.. seemed so sad
qtRaven
ibrokemyselflmao
Just walked in on that scene being watched by my wife the other day. Wasn't laughter that broke me that day
Idolwild
Oh jeez. Been there.
TimTheEnchanter01
Seriously, was in the room with my mom when she went. Can’t watch scenes like this anymore.
meganical
I must’ve repressed his death because I don’t remember his
Cilvaa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuP3KXHMhA0
TinyOctopus
Yeah. It's the series finale for Angel
qtRaven
Final episode of Angel.
laurenfirefairy
Its ok he kind of comes back in the comics
Rorysaurus
Before being sent into oblivion
Vanamonde
So The Body and what was the 3rd?
TinyOctopus
The Body didn't really make tiny octopus cry. It was tense, and painful, but the whole way it was shot was so...true to life that it didn't
TinyOctopus
really bring tears, just that disjointed feeling of what is like when someone close to you dies and it's still brand new. The pain is so raw
TinyOctopus
that you can't cry. Don't know if that makes sense. But the other two? The final episode when Buffy dies, the speech to Dawn and Spike's
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reaction were just amazing. And the finale with Xander's speech to Willow when she goes bad. Another carpenter willing to die to save us all
qtRaven
Tara. That death scene had me cry.
AfterTheRainComesTheRainbow
I've lost count of how many times I've watched the series and I still cry
tyrunn
I'm still angry.
Cilvaa
Your shirt
yifin
I was so pissed at that. Just so very pissed at the fridging of Tara.
meganical
I’m glad Joss Whedon came out with graphic novel books for what happens after the finale episode of the Buffy TV show. Expensive though
couch11
Hell yeah! I’m collecting the library editions. Ouch.
qtRaven
I'm not. They were shit. You had Mecha-Dawn for fuck's sake.
tpanyS
There was a comic series post-Angel as well to continue that storyline, and good lord does it have some insane shit in it lol.
TheJackKetch
damn, I wondered what happened next. Didn't realise the storyline was continued.
tpanyS
Yeah, they pretty quickly started working on one, but it didn't get a lot of attention/public advertising, but it still went on a good bit.
DanFendi
The senior partners of Wolfram & Hart, angered by the events of Season 4, dropped all of LA into Hell. Like fucking yeeted it into Tartarus.
tooomanystevesgotbanned
She didn't "inhabit" Fred's body, she murdered Fred and stole her body.
Cortezdelanoche
Technically, SHE didn't murder fred. She was summoned using Fred's soul (unless i remembered wrong). Still sad AF, though. Cried so hard
meganical
Orcus424
It was much worse than that. She destroyed Fred's soul. Wesley couldn't even bring her back through magic.
NaranciasFancyShoes
It still makes me cry when I think about it. I loved Fred. She was so sweet. After everything, she didn't deserve that.
Ngugi
That it does not tell how it came to be does not change that it's accurate she inhabits Fred's body. And I did not want to tell that spoiler
tooomanystevesgotbanned
Well ok, but it's been 17 years, I think the spoiler ban has been lifted. Also I was very disappointed by the last season.
tpanyS
Well possibly happy spoiler for you and @ngugi ;
tpanyS
in the extended comics post-Angel, it's shown fred is actually still alive and exists within Illyria, and starts to come back at will (1/?)
tpanyS
sort of when Illyria sleeps. Extended comics have some absolute batshit crazy stuff. Including fighting aliens and predators lol. (2/2)
InfinitusEquitas
Well that's the thing, it was never meant to be the last season. Networks killed so many great shows back then, and now because of Netflix..
marsilies
They found out it was being cancelled halfway through making the final season, so wrote the second half to wrap things up.
marsilies
“It’s very important... that something goes out as strong as can be, & there was enough time for us to take it where we thought it should go
InfinitusEquitas
It's highly unlikely that a show gets past two seasons, which is a shame because most sagas have multiple volumes to adapt. Can you...
InfinitusEquitas
Imagine a proper wheel of time or Harry Dresden adaptation. Or even Codex Alera which could look incredible with modern cgi effects and is..
soulestialmoon
Was looking for this particular comment. I watched the episode(s) Fred was inhabited, when Illiria fully awakened and informed Gunn that her
soulestialmoon
…soul would essentially cease to exist. And I remember that dreaded feeling caused me an emotional trauma that etched into me forever…0_0
SisyphusLivinLife
The episode when Wesley shoots the Wolfram and Hart employee for bringing him something other than working on her case...
LupusLilium
Well because lets be honest, they were working at Wolfram Hart at the time, and Spike's soul allowed him to live on. If they could have,
LupusLilium
they could have just pulled Fred's soul out (because she was the weaker of the two) and done some magic or something. But being told that
LupusLilium
Illyria coming into power was going to end with Fred's soul being shredded? That's. . . just not something you come back from.
ScarlettNape
I was in bed with pneumonia watching that scene... I cursed at the TV in an impotent rage, with a pitiful squeaky croak of a voice.
ScarlettNape
Husband came running back just in time to see me hurl the remote at the TV with all my strength... didn't even clear the foot of the bed.
ScarlettNape
So yeah, I know exactly what you mean. That scene is pretty much burned into the back of my brain.