10 Horror TV Shows That Wasted Incredible Characters
1. Doyle - Angel
David Boreanaz absconded from Sunnydale and hit the mean streets of LA as broody vampire turned supernatural detective Angel in the early 2000s, spinning off from the wildly popular Buffy The Vampire Slayer series at the height of its success. Along for the ride were aspiring actress and Sunnydale High alumnus Cordelia Chase (Charisma Carpenter) and a fresh (and spiky) new face in the half-demon Allen Francis Doyle (Glenn Quinn).
Granted visions of future demonic derring-do by the mysterious Powers That Be, Doyle is Angel's right hand man and direct connection to the forces of good, guiding him towards mysteries and getting the gang into all sorts of trouble. Doyle is a fast-talker with a strong Irish brogue, a leather jacket and a heart of gold, providing comic relief and an upbeat counterpoint to Angel's long-suffering, sulking and skulking approach to (the after-) life, all the while forming a budding romance with Cordelia.
Pity, then, that series creator Joss Whedon killed him off midway through the show's first season.
Whedon maintains that he had planned to kill the character in the first couple of episodes, but stories of on-set tensions, made all the worse by Glenn Quinn's tumultuous relationship with a variety of substances and lackadaisical approach to on-set punctuality, suggest otherwise.
Whatever the reason, Doyle was a rich addition to the Whedonverse and a fan favourite, whose surface we barely got the chance to scratch, a fact sorrowfully cemented by Glenn Quinn's own death in 2002.