Editing Cordelia Chase (section)

===Television===
Cordelia Chase first appears in the premiere episode of ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'', titled "[[Welcome to the Hellmouth]]". Introduced as a potential friend for Sunnydale High's newest student, [[Buffy Summers]] ([[Sarah Michelle Gellar]]), Cordelia reveals her true colors by cruelly mocking [[Willow Rosenberg|Willow]] ([[Alyson Hannigan]]) whom Buffy befriends instead.<ref name="Welcome to the Hellmouth">{{cite episode|title=[[Welcome to the Hellmouth]]|series=[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]|credits=Joss Whedon (writer and executive producer), [[Charles Martin Smith]] (director)|network=[[The WB]]|airdate=1997-03-10|season=1|number=1}}</ref> Ignorant of the supernatural, Cordelia shows up regularly throughout the first season of ''Buffy'' to insult and ridicule the other characters. She plays a larger role in the episode "[[Out of Mind, Out of Sight (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|Out of Mind, Out of Sight]]", in which she falls victim to a social outcast who wants revenge on popular students for ignoring her so much that she turned invisible.<ref name="Out of Mind, Out of Sight">{{cite episode|title=[[Out of Mind, Out of Sight (Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode)|Out of Mind, Out of Sight]]|series=[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]|credits=Joss Whedon (story and executive producer), Ashley Gable and Thomas A. Swyden (teleplay), [[Reza Badiyi]] (director)|network=[[The WB]]|airdate=1997-05-19|season=1|number=11}}</ref> In the season finale, Cordelia helps Buffy and her friends battle [[Vampire (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|vampires]], finally coming to terms with the existence of supernatural forces.<ref>{{cite episode|title=[[Prophecy Girl]]|series=[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]|network=[[The WB]]|credits=Joss Whedon (writer, director, executive producer)|airdate=1997-06-02|season=1|number=12}}</ref> In season 2, Cordelia becomes a more active ally to the "Scooby Gang" and begins a romantic relationship with [[Xander Harris]] ([[Nicholas Brendon]]) in "[[What's My Line (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)#Part two|What’s My Line? Part 2]]." Dating someone of Xander's social status causes Cordelia's ostracism from her popular peers and she reluctantly breaks up with him. However, when Xander performs a love spell to pay her back for hurting him, Cordelia realises how much he cares about her and takes him back, rejecting her superficial friends in the process.<ref name="BBB">{{cite episode|title=[[Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered]]|series=[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]|credits=[[Marti Noxon]] (writer) [[James A. Contner]] (director) Joss Whedon|network=[[The WB]]|airdate=1998-02-10|season=2|number=16}}</ref> In season 3's "[[Lovers Walk]]", Cordelia is heartbroken to see Xander kissing Willow and ends their relationship.<ref name="Lovers Walk">{{cite episode|title=[[Lovers Walk]]|series=[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]|credits=[[Dan Vebber]] (writer), [[David Semel]] (director), Joss Whedon|network=[[The WB]]|airdate=1998-11-24|season=3|number=8}}</ref> By the season 3 episode "[[The Wish (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|The Wish]]", Cordelia slips back into her antagonistic persona from the first season, disassociating herself from the Scooby Gang altogether.<ref name="The Wish">{{cite episode|title=[[The Wish (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|The Wish]]|series=[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]|credits=Marti Noxon (writer), David Greenwalt (director), Joss Whedon|network=[[The WB]]|airdate=1998-12-08|season=3|number=9}}</ref> In the episode "The Prom", she reveals that her house and her family's entire wealth has just been seized for tax fraud and both of her parents (never named or seen on-camera) are now in prison. Cordelia later attempts an unsuccessful relationship with [[Wesley Wyndam-Pryce|Wesley]] ([[Alexis Denisof]]) and makes peace with Xander at the [[prom]].<ref name="The Prom">{{cite episode|title=The Prom|series=[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]|credits=Marti Noxon (writer), [[David Solomon (producer)|David Solomon]] (director), Joss Whedon|network=[[The WB]]|airdate=1999-05-11|season=3|number=20}}</ref> In the season 3 finale, she rallies alongside Buffy and her friends at graduation against the demonic [[Richard Wilkins (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|Mayor of Sunnydale]] ([[Harry Groener]]), where Cordelia slays her first vampire.<ref name="Graduation Day">{{cite episode|title=[[Graduation Day (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|Graduation Day, Parts One and Two]]|series=[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]|credits=Joss Whedon (writer and director)|network=[[The WB]]|date=18 May – 13 July 1999|season=3|number=21 and 22}}</ref>

After three seasons on ''Buffy'', Cordelia left the series to move over to star in ''Angel'', a spin-off series focusing on the reformed vampire [[Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|Angel]] ([[David Boreanaz]]). The first season sees Cordelia move to [[Los Angeles]], in the hopes of escaping her new-found poverty by becoming an actress. After Angel saves her life in the series pilot, Cordelia helps him found the supernatural detective agency [[Angel Investigations]], working in an administrative position.<ref name="City of">{{cite episode|title=[[City of]]|series=[[Angel (1999 TV series)|Angel]]|network=[[The WB]]|credits=Joss Whedon & [[David Greenwalt]] (writers), Joss Whedon (director)|airdate=1999-08-05|season=1|number=1}}</ref> She also becomes close to half-demon co-worker [[Allen Francis Doyle|Doyle]] ([[Glenn Quinn]]), but their budding romance is ended by his death nine episodes into the series. Before dying in the episode "[[Hero (Angel)|Hero]]",<ref name="Hero">{{cite episode|title=[[Hero (Angel)|Hero]]|series=[[Angel (1999 TV series)|Angel]]|network=[[The WB]]|credits=[[Tim Minear]] & [[Howard Gordon]] (writers), [[Tucker Gates]] (director)|airdate=1999-11-30|season=1|number=10}}</ref> Doyle passes his ability [[Precognition|to see people in distress]] over to Cordelia when he kisses her.<ref name="Parting Gifts">{{cite episode|title=Parting Gifts|series=[[Angel (1999 TV series)|Angel]]|network=[[The WB]]|credits=[[David Fury]] & Jeannine Renshaw (writers), James A. Contner (director)|airdate=1999-12-14|season=1|number=11}}</ref> Although she initially views the visions as a curse, in the season 1 finale, a demon causes Cordelia's visions to overwhelm her – causing her to experience worldwide pain – and upon her recovery she vows to help those in need.<ref name="Shanshu in LA">{{cite episode|title=[[To Shanshu in L.A.]]|series=[[Angel (1999 TV series)|Angel]]|network=[[The WB]]|credits=David Greenwalt (writer and director)|airdate=2000-05-23|season=1|number=22}}</ref> In season 2's "[[Reunion (Angel)|Reunion]]", Cordelia and the other staff at Angel Investigations are fired by Angel, who is becoming increasingly obsessed with bringing down the evil law firm Wolfram & Hart.<ref name="Reunion">{{cite episode|title=[[Reunion (Angel)|Reunion]]|series=[[Angel (1999 TV series)|Angel]]|network=[[The WB]]|credits=Tim Minear & [[Shawn Ryan]] (writers), James A. Contner (director)|airdate=2000-12-19|season=2|number=10}}</ref> Cordelia joins Wesley and [[Charles Gunn (Angel)|Charles Gunn]] ([[J. August Richards]]) in re-forming the agency on their own.<ref name="Redefinition">{{cite episode|title=[[Redefinition]]|series=[[Angel (1999 TV series)|Angel]]|network=[[The WB]]|credits=[[Mere Smith]] (writer), [[Michael Grossman]] (director)|airdate=2001-01-16|season=2|number=11}}</ref> Angel and Cordelia eventually reconcile in the episode "[[Epiphany (Angel)|Epiphany]]".<ref name="Epiphany">{{cite episode|title=[[Epiphany (Angel)|Epiphany]]|series=[[Angel (1999 TV series)|Angel]]|network=[[The WB]]|credits=Tim Minear (writer), [[Thomas J. Wright]] (director)|airdate=2001-02-27|season=2|number=16}}</ref><ref name="Disharmony">{{cite episode|title=[[Disharmony (Angel)|Disharmony]]|series=[[Angel (1999 TV series)|Angel]]|network=[[The WB]]|credits=David Fury (writer), [[Frederick King Keller|Fred Keller]] (director)|airdate=2001-04-17|season=2|number=17}}</ref> As her acting career continues to flounder, Cordelia is sucked into and made princess of a medieval hell dimension called Pylea in the episode "[[Over the Rainbow (Angel)|Over the Rainbow]]".<ref name="Over the Rainbow">{{cite episode|title=[[Over the Rainbow (Angel)|Over the Rainbow]]|series=[[Angel (1999 TV series)|Angel]]|network=[[The WB]]|credits=Mere Smith (writer), Fred Keller (director)|airdate=2001-05-08|season=2|number=20}}</ref> When presented with the opportunity to pass her visions over to a champion named the [[Groosalugg]] ([[Mark Lutz (actor)|Mark Lutz]]), Cordelia refuses and returns to L.A. with her friends in the season 2 finale.<ref name="Through the Looking Glass">{{cite episode|title=[[Through the Looking Glass (Angel)|Through the Looking Glass]]|series=[[Angel (1999 TV series)|Angel]]|network=[[The WB]]|credits=Tim Minear (writer and director)|airdate=2001-05-15|season=2|number=21}}</ref><ref name="There's No Place Like Plrtz Glrb">{{cite episode|title=[[There's No Place Like Plrtz Glrb]]|series=[[Angel (1999 TV series)|Angel]]|network=[[The WB]]|credits=David Greenwalt (writer and director)|airdate=2001-05-22|season=2|number=22}}</ref>

In season 3's "[[Birthday (Angel)|Birthday]]", Cordelia learns from the demon [[Skip (Angel)|Skip]] ([[David Denman]]) that her visions are slowly killing her because human beings are not strong enough to control them. To save her life, Cordelia accepts Skip's offer to alter history so that she never met Angel in L.A., instead landing her big break as an actress. However, even in this alternate timeline, Cordelia feels compelled to help others and eventually crosses paths with Angel again, who received the visions in her place and is now insane. Unable to let her friend suffer, Cordelia has Skip return the timeline to normal, and agrees to become half-demon, with new powers, in order to harbor the visions safely.<ref name=Birthday>{{cite episode|title=[[Birthday (Angel episode)|Birthday]]|series=Angel|series-link=Angel (1999 TV series)|credits=[[Mere Smith]] (writer), [[Michael Grossman]] (director), Joss Whedon|airdate=2002-01-14}}</ref> Season 3 also sees Angel become a father,<ref name="Lullaby">{{cite episode|title=[[Lullaby (Angel)|Lullaby]]|series=[[Angel (1999 TV series)|Angel]] |network=[[The WB]]|credits=Tim Minear (writer and director)|airdate=2001-11-19|season=3|number=9}}</ref> with Cordelia stepping in to mother [[Connor (Angel)|Connor]] until the infant is kidnapped into a hell dimension in the episode "[[Sleep Tight (Angel)|Sleep Tight]]",<ref name="Sleep Tight">{{cite episode|title=[[Sleep Tight (Angel)|Sleep Tight]]|series=[[Angel (1999 TV series)|Angel]]|network=[[The WB]]|credits=David Greenwalt (writer), [[Terrence O'Hara]] (director)|airdate=2002-03-04|season=3|number=16}}</ref> only to emerge as a disturbed teenager ([[Vincent Kartheiser]]) in "[[The Price (Angel)|The Price]]".<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite episode|title=[[The Price (Angel)|The Price]]|series=[[Angel (1999 TV series)|Angel]]|network=[[The WB]]|credits=David Fury (writer), [[Marita Grabiak]] (director)|airdate=2002-04-29|season=3|number=19}}</ref> In the episode "[[Waiting in the Wings (Angel)|Waiting in the Wings]]", Angel realizes he has romantic feelings for Cordelia, but is prevented from voicing them by the return of Groosalugg.<ref name="Waiting in the Wings">{{cite episode|title=[[Waiting in the Wings (Angel)|Waiting in the Wings]]|series=[[Angel (1999 TV series)|Angel]]|network=[[The WB]]|credits=Joss Whedon (writer and director)|airdate=2002-04-29|season=3|number=13}}</ref> Cordelia dates Groosalugg for season 3's remainder, but Groo notices she loves Angel instead and decides to leave. In the season 3 finale, Cordelia arranges to meet Angel to confess her feelings, but is prevented from doing so by Skip, who informs her that she has become a higher being. Cordelia accepts her duty, and leaves Earth for another dimension.<ref name="Tomorrow">{{cite episode|title=[[Tomorrow (Angel)|Tomorrow]]|series=[[Angel (1999 TV series)|Angel]]|network=[[The WB]]|credits=David Greenwalt (writer and director)|airdate=2002-05-20|season=3|number=22}}</ref> In season 4, Cordelia feels trapped in her position as a higher being,<ref name="Deep Down">{{cite episode|title=Deep Down|series=[[Angel (1999 TV series)|Angel]]|network=[[The WB]]|credits=[[Steven S. DeKnight]] (writer), Terrence O'Hara (director)|airdate=2002-08-06|season=4|number=1}}</ref><ref name="Ground State">{{cite episode|title=[[Ground State (Angel)|Ground State]]|series=[[Angel (1999 TV series)|Angel]]|network=[[The WB]]|credits=Mere Smith (writer), Michael Grossman (director)|airdate=2002-08-13|season=4|number=2}}</ref> and so in the episode "[[The House Always Wins (Angel)|The House Always Wins]]" she returns to Earth in an amnesiac state.<ref name="The House Always Wins">{{cite episode|title=[[The House Always Wins (Angel)|The House Always Wins]]|series=[[Angel (1999 TV series)|Angel]]|network=[[The WB]]|credits=David Fury (writer), Marita Grabiak (director)|airdate=2002-08-20|season=4|number=3}}</ref> In "[[Spin the Bottle (Angel)|Spin the Bottle]]", her memories are returned via a spell, along with a vision of a mysterious [[Beast (Angel)|Beast]] ([[Vladimir Kulich]]). Afterward, she admits to Angel the feelings she once had for him.<ref name="Spin the Bottle">{{cite episode|title=[[Spin the Bottle (Angel)|Spin the Bottle]]|series=[[Angel (1999 TV series)|Angel]]|network=[[The WB]]|credits=Joss Whedon (writer and director)|airdate=2002-11-10|season=4|number=6}}</ref> As L.A. succumbs to the apocalypse in the episode "[[Apocalypse, Nowish]]", Cordelia begins to behave out-of-character; she seduces Connor,<ref name="Apocalypse, Nowish">{{cite episode|title=[[Apocalypse, Nowish]]|series=[[Angel (1999 TV series)|Angel]]|network=[[The WB]]|credits=Steven S. DeKnight (writer), [[Vern Gillum]] (director)|airdate=2002-11-17|season=4|number=7}}</ref> murders [[Lilah Morgan|Lilah]] ([[Stephanie Romanov]]) in the episode "[[Calvary (Angel)|Calvary]]",<ref name="Calvary">{{cite episode|title=[[Calvary (Angel)|Calvary]]|series=[[Angel (1999 TV series)|Angel]]|network=[[The WB]]|credits=Mere Smith, Steven S. DeKnight, [[Jeffrey Bell]] (writers), [[Bill L. Norton]] (director)|airdate=2003-02-12|season=4|number=12}}</ref> commands the Beast in "[[Salvage (Angel)|Salvage]]",<ref name="Salvage">{{cite episode|title=[[Salvage (Angel)|Salvage]]|series=[[Angel (1999 TV series)|Angel]]|network=[[The WB]]|credits=David Fury (writer), Jefferson Kibbee (director)|airdate=2003-03-05|season=4|number=13}}</ref> and magically battles former friend Willow to keep Angel from his soul in the episode "[[Orpheus (Angel)|Orpheus]]".<ref name="Orpheus">{{cite episode|title=[[Orpheus (Angel)|Orpheus]]|series=[[Angel (1999 TV series)|Angel]]|network=[[The WB]]|credits=Mere Smith (writer), Terrence O'Hara (director)|airdate=2003-03-19|season=4|number=15}}</ref> In the episode "[[Players (Angel)|Players]]", the team realize that the now pregnant Cordelia is possessed,<ref name="Players">{{cite episode|title=[[Players (Angel)|Players]]|series=[[Angel (1999 TV series)|Angel]]|network=[[The WB]]|credits=[[Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain]], Jeffrey Bell (writers), Michael Grossman (director)|airdate=2003-03-26|season=4|number=16}}</ref> so Cordelia takes the unstable Connor on the run with her so they may give birth to their supernatural 'offspring' [[Jasmine (Angel)|Jasmine]] ([[Gina Torres]]). In "[[Inside Out (Angel)|Inside Out]]"; Jasmine is a higher being who possessed Cordelia before her returning to Earth, manipulating events to be born in a new body of her own.<ref name="Inside Out">{{cite episode|title=[[Inside Out (Angel)|Inside Out]]|series=[[Angel (1999 TV series)|Angel]]|network=[[The WB]]|credits=Steven S. DeKnight (writer and director)|airdate=2003-04-02|season=4|number=17}}</ref> Cordelia falls into a post-natal [[coma]] for season 4's remainder. 

Following an eleven-episode absence, Cordelia returns in season 5, in the 100th episode "[[You're Welcome (Angel)|You're Welcome]]". Having (apparently) awoken from her coma, Cordelia reunites with Angel Investigations, who she discovers have taken over Wolfram & Hart since their defeat of Jasmine. She chastises Angel for accepting W&H's "[[Deal with the Devil|deal with the devil]]" and reminds him of his true mission and higher calling. Together, they face and defeat their old enemy [[Lindsey McDonald]] ([[Christian Kane]]) who had been impersonating Doyle in an attempt to destroy Angel. In the episode's closing moments, Cordelia reiterates to Angel that she loves him and kisses him, shortly before he receives a phone call reporting that Cordelia died that morning in the hospital. When Angel turns around, Cordelia is gone. It is later revealed that this encounter - [[The Powers That Be (Angel)|the Powers That Be]] repaying their debt to Cordelia - allowed Cordelia to pass one last vision over to Angel, giving him the knowledge he needs to bring down the Circle of the Black Thorn.<ref name="You're Welcome">{{cite episode|title=[[You're Welcome (Angel)|You're Welcome]]|series=[[Angel (1999 TV series)|Angel]]|credits=[[David Fury]] (writer and director), Joss Whedon|airdate=2004-02-04}}</ref>

Between 2001 and 2004, Joss Whedon and [[Jeph Loeb]] developed a 4-minute pilot episode for ''[[Buffy the Animated Series]]'', which was set during the show's first season. Had the series been picked up by a network, it would have featured Cordelia (voiced by Charisma Carpenter) in more high-school adventures. Following a 2008 [[internet leak|leak]] of the pilot to [[YouTube]], Loeb expressed some hope that the series may be resurrected in some form.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2008/08/26/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-animated-series-to-be-resurrected/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080828141315/http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2008/08/26/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-animated-series-to-be-resurrected/|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 28, 2008|title='Buffy The Vampire Slayer' Animated Series To Be Resurrected?|access-date=2008-09-05|last=Vineyard|first=Jennifer|date=2008-08-26|work=[[MTV|MTV Movies Blog]]|publisher=MTV.com}}</ref>