Angel: Every Main Character Ranked Worst To Best

11. Connor

There were moments when Connor (Vincent Kartheiser) looked like he was going to be one of the show's best characters. Son of Angel (David Boreanaz) and Darla (Julie Benz), he was kidnapped by Angel's arch-nemesis Holtz (Keith Szarabajka), and raised in another dimension to despise his father and want him dead.

Though when he returns, intent on killing Angel, there are sparks of brilliance anchored by the pair's seriously fractured relationship, Connor gets tiresome very quick, and by Season 4 he's nothing but a frustratingly inconsistent, naive kid with no defining characteristics outside of his "I'm-good-I'm-evil" persona.

His ugly, ill-advised relationship with Cordelia (Charisma Carpenter) and makes the low point of the character (and the show), and his shifting allegiances makes for a painful series of episodes.

In the show's fifth season, he reappears as a guest star and proves more likeable and compelling than ever, forming a genuine bond with his father and allowing Kartheiser (a serious talent who would go on to star in Mad Men) something interesting to chew on. Unfortunately, it was all too little too late, and the damage had been done.