Marvel Comics/Angel

**Angel** (Warren Kenneth Worthington III), also known as ***Archangel***, is a mutant (possibly Cheyarafim) and mutate from *Marvel Comics*.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

Angel is a mutant and possibly a Cheyarafim who initially only had the ability of winged flight but later gained a healing factor, possibly coming from either his possible Cheyarafim legacy, a Secondary Mutation, or Apocalypse's manipulation. During his life, he has been transformed by both the Death Seed and the Life Seed, granting him various abilities.

**Wing Manifestation:** Angel possesses the superhuman ability to fly by means of his natural wings that span sixteen feet from wingtip to wingtip. He later lost these wings due to infection and amputation, but he has regrown identical techno-organic wings. Fully feathered like those of a bird, Angel's wings have a flexible skeletal structure, enabling him to press them to the back of his torso and legs with only the slightest bulge visible under his clothing. He flies by flapping his wings, and the strength of these wings can easily break a person's arm or leg or even put someone through a wall.

* **Flight:** Angel's normal flight speed averages around 70 miles per hour, though he is capable of diving swoops that can reach up to 180 miles per hour. He can fly at 150 miles per hour without the help of a tail wind for up to 30 minutes at a time before tiring to an appreciable degree. Though he generally flies beneath the height of the clouds, he can reach a height of 10,000 feet with little effort. With severe strain, he can attain the highest recorded altitude of a bird in flight but can only maintain that height for several minutes.

**Avian Physiology:** Angel's entire anatomy is naturally adapted to flying. His bones are hollow, and his body processes food more efficiently than a normal human body and does not store any excess fat, resulting in a greater proportionate muscle mass than normal. As a result, many of his physical attributes are at their peak of performance. Elements of his anatomy are comparable to those of a bird, especially birds of prey. His eyes can withstand high speed winds which would damage the average human eye, and he can breathe at high velocities or altitudes. He can cope with the reduced temperatures of high altitudes for prolonged periods of time, giving him a greater-than-normal capacity to endure temperatures in areas such as the Arctic.

* **Enhanced Strength:** Due to his body's natural mutation, Angel possesses greater physical strength than an ordinary human equal to him in body weight. He can lift about 500 pounds.
* **Enhanced Durability:** The tissues of Angel's body are somewhat harder and more durable than that of an ordinary human, though he is far from invulnerable. While he can be injured in ways comparable to an ordinary human, his body is structured to withstand the friction caused by flying at high speeds. He can also withstand impact forces that would severely injure or kill an ordinary human with only mild to moderate discomfort.
* **Enhanced Stamina:** Angel's musculature produces less fatigue toxins during physical activity than the musculature of an ordinary human. He can physically exert himself at peak capacity for several hours before the build up of fatigue toxins in his blood begins to impair him. His physical stamina while in flight is considerably greater. Angel can fly non-stop under his own power for a maximum of approximately 12 hours.
* **Enhanced Vision:** His eyesight is on par with that of an eagle, allowing him to spot movement and details even from high distances. His avian-like eyes allow him to see clearly in the dark.
* **Enhanced Speed**
* **Enhanced Agility**
* **Enhanced Flexibility**
* **Enhanced Reflexes**
* **Enhanced Hearing**

**Enhanced Regeneration:** Even before the lion-share of his powers were purged from him, Angel still had the ability to regrow damaged and destroyed tissue due in part to both his mutation and the techno-organic factor of his wings. Every time they have been removed from his body, new wings regrow in their place.

**Sonic Scream:** The Archangel entity (as well as his cloned Death-Flight legion) can emit intense acoustic shrieks which can cause disorientation and internal bleeding.

**Energy Constructs:** As a possible extension of his original power-set, Archangel is accompanies by a surrounding wreath of bright energy.

#### Former Powers

**Life Seed Empowerment:** After Psylocke stabbed Angel with a Celestial Life Seed, he returned to his normal form but with techno-organic wings instead of regular ones and gained several new abilities, including:

* **Enhanced Speed:** The Life Seed allowed Angel to ramp up his speed exponentially, allowing him to fly all the way from Brazil to the United States in mere hours.
* **Essence Sense:** After his metamorphosis, he appeared to have gained the ability to see the true essence of whomever he looked upon. He demonstrated this ability twice: first, while looking at himself he saw something more than a mutant, and second, while looking at Genesis, he saw the face of Apocalypse. He could also use this power to sense the life energy of another living being.
* **Resurrection:** He seemingly gained the ability to raise the dead.
* **Energy Blasts:** He was able to fire energy blasts.
* **Energy Weaponry:** He acquired the ability to create weapons out of pure and solid energy, such as a sword.

**Life Force Empowerment:** Angel temporarily had his wings and hair empowered with life force energy due to Apocalypse's modifications. This resulted in him being able to control life force energies and mid to high grade mental powers. After he healed War of his quadriplegia, he lost all of these powers along with his life force-empowered wings.

* **Healing:** Because of this, he had the power to heal all kinds of injuries both physical and mental in nature.
* **Energy Weaponry:** Angel could elongate the tips of his fingers into claws of psionic energy to "rip through the fabric of one's psyche".
* **Psychic Shields:** Angel's psychic powers allowed him to partially shield his mind from telepathic intrusion from Psylocke, whose weakened psionic powers were enhanced with Cerebro at the time.
* **Mental Link:** Through the psychic link Angel shared with Psylocke, he could speak with and interact with her mind both ways.

**Avian Physiology:** After coming into contact with an extraterrestrial entity, Angel underwent a physiological structure change that altered his avian physiology. His wings molted away to nothing and returned larger and stronger than ever before.

* **Enhanced Strength:** His peak human abilities were also enhanced to match his new wingspan. His new strength allowed him to hold up a falling plane for a brief time.

**Symbiote Empowerment:** While on Ulgriath, Angel bonded to a symbiote that escaped from Haze Mancer's collection which adapted to their unique powers. The symbiote transformed his wings into bat-like appendages that allowed him to grab opponents. He later immolated the symbiote using his cosmic wings in order to save himself from being consumed by a Poison that latched onto it.

**Black Vortex Empowerment:** As a result of being under the cosmic power of the corrupting Black Vortex, Angel gained a whole new set of powers of a similar, yet radicalized, variation of his future self's celestial technology powers, growing powerful enough to shatter the Kree homeworld's defenses with ease.

* **Interstellar Flight:** Having been altered by the vortex, Angel's wingspan was infused with celestial energies that enabled him to travel faster than light through space.
* **Energy Blasts:** He could discharge enough cosmic energy from his wings to eviscerate planetary fleets.
* **Energy Weaponry:** His new powers allowed him to conjure a pair of energized blades with which he could apparently cleave through anything.
* **Anaerobic Respiration:** He did not need to breathe while flying through the cosmos in this empowered form.

### Abilities

* **Hand-to-Hand Combat:** Angel is a skilled combatant, particularly in aerial hand-to-hand combat.
* **Business:** He is a talented businessman whose wealth ranks him in the lower part of the Fortune 500 list.
* **Swordsmanship:** He aced his fencing class without ever picking up a sword; instead, he only used his wings. However, he is perfectly capable of using a real sword as well.

## Equipment

* **Techno-Organic Wings:** Angel was given techno-organic wings by Apocalypse as part of his conversion to the Horseman Death. The feathers of the wings can be launched as flechettes which hit like bullets and are able to pierce steel due in part to their incredibl endurance and composition. Additionally, due to their metallic nature, these wings make decent shields to protect his body by covering himself up with them. They have been able to resist an arrow barrage, bullet fire, flash flames, a missile strike, and a bio-nuclear microwave blast from Holocaust. Eventually, these wings molted to reveal feathered wings underneath, although it was later revealed that those wings simply appeared organis. Later, his apparent organic wings were lost for a second time and the techno-organic wings regrew (along with his blue skin color). After killing those who took his organic wings, he reverted back to his Angel form. It has since been revealed that, under stress, his Archangel abilities can return, though he lacks complete control over this more aggressive form. During his time with X-Force, he demonstrated the ability to become Archangel but still lacked control.
	+ **Flight:** The techno-organic wings enable him to fly at approximately Mach 1, possibly even faster considering he had little trouble out-flying a fighter jet which can travel at a speed of Mach 2.35 and later was shown out-flying the Blackbird while above sea level at Mach 4.2.
	+ **Poison Generation:** Angel's techno-organic wings came with dischargeable flechettes which carry a potent neurotoxin that paralyzes their mark on contact.