Archangel

Archangel is a character

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Aliases: Angel, Archangel, Death
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Affiliation: X-Men, Champions
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Born: August 2, 1947
Died: Still living

Origin

Warren Worthington III was born into an extremely rich family, but his comfortable life changed in his late teens when his mutant powers developed and he began to grow wings. Warren kept them hidden under his clothes and even wore a special harness that bound them down to his back to make them harder to notice.

Warren began to fight crime as the Avenging Angel and was brought to the attention of Professor Charles Xavier. Xavier ran a school for mutants where he secretly trained his mutant superhero team, the X-Men. Angel became one of the founding members of the X-Men. (UXM 10) At first Warren disguised his face with a mask, but later discarded it because he felt that his handsome, telegenic features would gain his team public support.

During his first years as a hero, Angel still showed a touch of the vanity and flippancy from his privileged childhood.

He was always loyal to Professor X's ideals, but he drifted between various superhero groups, including the Champions of Los Angeles, the Defenders, and X-Factor, always backing his current team with his vast fortune.

Archangel

When the Marauders began to massacre the Morlocks, hideous mutants living underground, Angel was caught in the crossfire and crucified with spikes through his wings. After he was rescued, his damaged wings were needlessly amputated. His former friend Cameron Hodge attempted to murder him, in the guise of a suicide attempt, but Warren was saved by the age-old evil mutant Apocalypse.

Apocalypse offered to restore Angel's wings, but used the opportunity to transform Warren into one of his Four Horsemen, Death. In this form, Warren's skin turned blue and he was given razor-sharp metal wings. Later, he was able to overcome Apocalypse's programming and returned to his superhero ways under the name Archangel. Archangel made his print debut in X-Factor #24.

Slowly Warren began to regain his humanity, and his metallic wings molted as his feathers began to grow back in. Later, when evil mutant Black Tom Cassidy drained some of Warren's life-force, his skin lost most of its blue color.

During the Decimation, Warren's wings seemed to shrivel up into useless appendages, but that turned out to be only a ruse to help hunt down The Ghoul, a mutant who retained his powers and believed himself as a pure mutant and those who lost their powers as tainted beings. Warren's powers were actually undamaged. He also joined the reunion of the original X-Men (except for the dead Jean Grey). This reunited team chased down Bishop, who was hunting down the escaped 198, but they later helped Bishop track down the remaining mutants.

World War Hulk & Messiah Complex

During World War Hulk, Angel joins the Renegades, a faction who goal is to help the Hulk. The other members are fellow Champions member Hercules; Namor's cousin Namora; the SHIELD agent Carmilla Black (Scorpion); and Amadeus Cho, the seventh smartest human in the world.

Warren was also involved in the Messiah CompleX. He was part of the team that found the first mutant born after the Decimation. Later, he helped track down former Acolytes, and then the Marauders. He also joined with all the other members of the X-Men, past and present, in the climatic battle for the fate of the mutant baby.

X-Force

X-Force recently reformed, and the team are now using Angel's Aerie as their base of operations. During their first mission, Rahne is captured by the Purifiers. X-Force rescues her, but the apparent rescue turns out to have been a ruse; Rahne attacks her healer Elixir and surgically removes Warren's wings, which she takes back to the Purifiers.
Adam Harkins experiments on the wings to locate the Apocalypse strain, which they use to create similar beings they call "The Choir." Archangel's actual wings are grafted onto the first member of the Choir.

Back at Angel's Aerie, the healer Elixir is unable to regrow Warren's wings because they are not actually organic, and Warren finds out that the metal wings which replaced his feathered wings were not his own but another of Apocalypse's creations. Soon, Warren has a massive seizure and his body reverts to its Horseman form, with its blue skin and razor-sharp steel wings.

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Superhuman Powers

When Angel's powers first emerged, his body developed a higher metabolism, lost all body fat and became more muscular, and his bones became hollow, allowing him to run faster and jump higher. He now has peak human strength and can lift almost 400 pounds.

Angel's natural wings give him the ability to fly. They are superhumanly strong, easily capable of breaking a man's bones and tossing someone through a wall, and allow him to lift an additional 200 pounds. He has superhumanly sharp vision and hearing, and his eyes can withstand high-speed winds. His body is accustomed to low temperatures at high altitudes, and his lungs can breath easily even at full flight speed.

Warren prefers to fly under the clouds, and can normally fly nonstop for half a day. However, he can reach the highest recorded altitude of a bird (equivalent to the height of Mount Everest), which quickly tires him out.

With Apocalypse's modifications, he was given razor-sharp metal wings which could be retracted mechanically. With these wings he could also shoot poison-tipped steel feathers. The wings were sometimes hard to control, especially when Warren felt strong emotions.

Abilities

Archangel is a skilled combatant, especially in aerial hand-to-hand combat, trained by Professor X, Black Widow and Hercules. He is considered one of the best aerial fighter, outsmarting and defeating much faster opponents such as the Human Torch, Quicksilver and Iron Man. He is also a talented businessman whose wealth ranks him in the lower part of the Fortune 500 list.

Paraphernalia

When Archangel had his natural wings, he often wore a harness to help conceal his wings underneath his clothes. Once Apocalypse turned his skin blue, Archagel used a holographic image inucer to grant him a normal appearance.


Boffin's Round Table

Jaybeans The transformation of Angel is two-fold; the first is the changing of Warren Worthington III from a spoiled rich kid to a young man with a noble calling. This is the transformation that the X-Men bring about in him. The second change in Angel, is his downfall and his attempt to pull himself back from the darkness. It's only fitting that a man who goes by the nom de guerre of Angel would fall from grace, but what would really interests me is what the fallen angel decides to do. With no friends, no family, no patriarch, what does an angel do? I think the man that Warren Worthington III had become would try to do right once again, that he would need to be a hero.
Citizen I always took the switch from Angel into Archangel to be a big sign of the move from light-hearted storytelling to something more darker, more mature. Sort of a stand-in for the moral: super-powered people beating up on one another is all fun and games until someone loses an eye... or a pair of wings.