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Savior... killer... harbinger of hope or destruction. I am unsure who-- or what-- I am. But I'd like to find out. - Archangel
ARCHANGEL
PL11
OPL: 11;
SPL: 5;
DPL: 11;
FWPL: 9;
HP: 1
Real Name: Warren Worthington III
Age: 26
Height: 6-0
Weight: 150
Eyes: Red
Hair: None
Skin: Blue
Race: Mutant (possibly Cherafyim)
Identity: Public
Alignment: Neutral
Status: Active
Occupation: Professor; Adventurer
Base of Operations: Westchester County, NY, USA
Team Affiliations: X-Men
ABILITIES: STRENGTH 4, STAMINA 6, AGILITY 6, DEXTERITY 3, FIGHTING 9, INTELLECT 2, AWARENESS 4, PRESENCE 5
SKILLS: Acrobatics 4 (+10/+16), Athletics 2 (+6/+10), Deception (+5), Expertise [Business] 6 (+8), Insight (+4), Intimidation 5 (+10) [
Startle], Perception 5 (+9), Persuasion 2 (+7), Stealth (+6), Vehicles 2 (+5)
ADVANTAGES: Agile Feint, All-Out Attack, Benefit (4) (Wealth 4 [Multimillionaire]), Close Attack (4),
Defensive Attack, Defensive Roll (1), Diehard, Equipment (1), Favored Environment (Flying),
Improved Defense, Improved Initiative (1), Move-by Action, Redirect, Set-Up (1),
Takedown (2), Startle, Teamwork
POWERS:
Aerial Mastery: Enhanced Dodge 5 (Flaw: Limited to when flying), Enhanced Parry 4 (Flaw: Limited to when flying), Enhanced Skills 5 (Acrobatics 6 ranks, Athletics 4 ranks, Flaw: Limited to when flying), Enhanced Advantages 10 (Agile Feint, Defensive Attack, Defensive Roll, Improved Defense, Improved Initiative, Move-by Action, Redirect, Takedown 2; Flaw: Limited to when flying); 12 pts
Archangel Physiology: Senses 1 (Normal Vision [Extended]), Immunity 1 (High Pressure), Movement 1 (Environmental Adaptation [High Altitude]), Regeneration 3 (1/every 3 rounds), Protection 1; 8 pts
Techno-Organic Wings: 19 pts
Winged Flight: Flight 9 (1,000 mph/2 mpr; Flaw: Winged); 9 pts
Wing Weapons: 9 pt Array; 10 pts
Wing Wind: Cone Area Affliction 9 (Air; Resisted and Overcome by Strength/Agility; 1st: Hindered, 2nd: Prone, Extra: Cone Area [60 ft cone], Flaw: Limted to two degrees); 9 pts
Wing Slash: Slashing Strength-based Damage 5 (Extra: Reach 2 [10 ft], Split); 1 pt
Razor Feathers: 26 pt Array; 27 pts
Razor Feather Blast: Ranged Multiattack Piercing Damage 7 (Extra: Accurate 5); 26 pts
Neurotoxic Feather Blast: Ranged Multiattack Affliction 7 (Resisted by Fortitude; 1st: Dazed, 2nd: Stunned, 3rd: Incapacitated, Extra: Accurate 5); 1 pt
EQUIPMENT:
(5 pts)
Krakoan Tech Costume: Feature 1 (Quick Change); 1 pt
OFFENSE:
Initiative +6 (+10 when Flying)
Close Attack +13 [Unarmed +4; Wing Slash +9, Critical 19-20]
Ranged Attack +3
Razor Feathers +13 [Razor Feather Blast +7,
Multiattack; Neurotoxic Feather Affliction +7,
Multiattack]
Special Attack [Wing Wind Affliction +9,
Cone Area]
DEFENSES:
Dodge +9 (+14 when Flying) [DC19/24] Parry +9 (+13 when Flying) [DC19/23]
Toughness +7 (+8 when Flying, +7 without Defensive Roll when flying), Fortitude +8, Will +9
COMPLICATIONS:
Enemy: Cameron Hodge, Apocalypse.
Motivation: Protecting his mutant brothers, especially new mutants.
Power Loss: If his wings are removed, he loses his flying abilities as well as his Regeneration and Healing powers.
Prejudice: Mutant.
Relationships: He is close to his "First Class" teammates and he is usually involved with some woman.
Responsibility: He is very involved with, and responsible for his father's company, Worthington Enterprises as well as remaining dedicated to Xavier's Dream.
Temper: In his Archangel form, Warren has a quick temper and must fight against a bloodthirsty nature encoded in him by Apocalypse.
Abilities 78 + Skills 13 (26 ranks) + Advantages 15 + Powers 66 + Defenses 10 = 182 / 182
Build Comments: Angel has gone through a lot over the years to make him relevant, even though in my mind, he really didn’t need a lot. Despite the general one-note nature of his powers, his look and experience always made him a favorite of mine. However, his latest incarnation where he’s been reborn and is a goofy amnesiac who thinks he really is an angel might be my favorite. Although I’m not sold on his new energy powers, so I left them off.
But I loved the Archangel, too, so for my setting, he can still shift back in forth, but he has to either burn an HP or get stressed/hurt to turn into his Archangel form. I also gave him a sword. I know it was overkill in main continuity with Kurt’s swashbuckling, but he’s an Archangel; Archangels should have swords…
Secret Origins: Warren Worthington III was born in Centerport, New York, to Kathryn Worthington and Warren Worthington Jr. He attends Phillips Exeter Academy in his adolescence when white feathered wings begin to grow from his shoulder blades. At first, Warren feels he is a freak, but he soon learns that he can use his wings to fly and to help people. When there is a fire in his dormitory, he borrows some props from the school's drama department, dresses up as a heavenly angel, and rescues his friends. He soon learns that he is in fact a mutant. He dons a mask and costume, calls himself the Avenging Angel, and becomes a solo adventurer before being recruited by Professor Charles Xavier into joining the X-Men.
The Story so Far: Later, Angel publicly revealed himself as a mutant after discovering that not only has his uncle, Burt Worthington, murdered Warren's father, Warren Worthington, Jr., but also poisoned his mother in order to ensure his inheritance of the Worthington fortune.
When the original X-Men were captured by the mutant island Krakoa, Professor X creates a new team of X-Men to rescue them. When this new team of X-Men decided to stay, Angel and the rest of the original team, with the exception of Cyclops, leave the team. He and Iceman go to Los Angeles, where they found the Champions with Hercules, the Black Widow, and the original Ghost Rider. Following the apparent death of Jean Grey and Cyclops' subsequent exile from the team, Warren rejoined the X-Men to help pick up the slack. During this time, Angel unsuccessfully pursued pop star Alison Blaire, the mutant also known as Dazzler. He grew increasingly disturbed by the behavior and actions of Wolverine, and before long, quit the team in protest.
Shortly thereafter, Angel joined the Defenders, with his fellow former X-Men Beast and Iceman and girlfriend Candy Southern as members. Using Angel's Colorado penthouse as their base, the group has several adventures before most of the group are killed freeing fellow New Defender Moondragon from being possessed by a malevolent spirit
Angel pondered retirement following the collapse of the Defenders team, but the return of Jean Grey once again keeps him from stepping away from the limelight. Jean Grey is furious at the increase in anti-mutant hysteria in the two years she has been away, let alone the X-Men's decision to align themselves with the villain Magneto. To appease Jean's desire for action, Warren organizes X-Factor. He recruits his old prep school friend Cameron Hodge to run the team, unaware that Cameron hates mutants and, in particular, Warren.
X-Factor's formation signaled a brutal period of upheaval in Warren's life. Cameron Hodge used Warren's trust in running X-Factor to further fuel anti-mutant sentiment by portraying X-Factor as "Mutant Hunters" for hire. A run-in with the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants results in the group's leader, Mystique, exposing the fact that Warren is financially backing X-Factor, which creates a public relations nightmare for Warren, due to his outed status as a mutant. Worse yet, Warren's wings are mutilated during the Mutant Massacre by the Marauder Harpoon, although Thor's intervention saves his life. When the wings develop gangrene, Cameron Hodge willfully signs the paperwork, against Angel's wishes, to have Warren's crippled wings amputated. Despondent over the loss of his wings, Warren escaped the hospital and commandeered his private jet, which explodes in the air as the rest of X-Factor watch helplessly from below. It is ultimately revealed that Hodge has sabotaged Warren's ultra-light airplane in order to finish off his nemesis, under the cover of an apparent suicide.
Seconds before the explosion, Warren was spirited away by the ancient mutant Apocalypse. Apocalypse offered the despondent Angel a deal: serve him as his Horseman Death and get his wings back. Apocalypse subjects Angel to extensive genetic alterations, giving him blue skin and organic metal wings, which can cut through almost anything and fire his metal feathers as projectiles. He also gives him the title of Death, the leader of his Horsemen after he beats the others in a fight, complete with extensive mental conditioning to make him obey Apocalypse's dark plans. Death is unveiled to X-Factor during their second meeting with the Horsemen, with Warren sadistically exploiting his friends' shock at seeing him alive to defeat them in combat. As he leads the Horsemen of Apocalypse to attack Manhattan, it is Iceman who helps Warren break free of Apocalypse's control by making Warren think he has murdered him using a humanoid ice block which Warren shatters in battle.
Free, Warren refuses to rejoin his teammates, as the effects of his metamorphosis have left Angel changed to the core. No longer is he the handsome playboy billionaire, but an emotionally damaged individual whose wings reflect his newfound bloodlust. The bloodlust is ultimately fueled when he tries to seek out Candy Southern, only to find out that she has gone missing. Warren learned that Candy has discovered all of Hodge's secrets only to be abducted and lobotomized to keep her silent. In the confrontation that followed, Hodge murdered the brain-dead Candy in front of Warren. Warren responded by decapitating Cameron Hodge (who ultimately survives due to a deal with demons, granting him immortality). Warren (going by both "Death" and "Dark Angel" at this point in time) ultimately settles on "Archangel" as his new codename as he finally rejoins X-Factor during the events of Inferno.
After the Inferno, Warren being alive is made public knowledge, allowing him to regain control over the surviving business holdings held by his family, regaining his wealth as a result. Soon afterwards, X-Factor rejoined the X-Men following the defeat of the Shadow King on Muir Island.
After rejoining the X-Men, Archangel's brooding behavior lessens, after Jean reveals to Warren that his wings have actually been operating off Warren's own subconscious desires for violence. This, combined with Warren's accidental decapitation of Mutant Liberation Front member Kamikaze, leads Warren to try to reject the dark cloud that has hung over his head ever since gaining his new wings. He begins dating fellow X-Men member Psylocke and in an attempt to put his dark days behind him, Warren retires his "Death" uniform in favor of the blue/white costume Magneto made for him.
After Psylocke is eviscerated by X-Men prisoner Sabretooth during an escape attempt, Warren and the X-Men track him down and capture him, but not before he is able to badly damage Warren's metal wings. Over time, the damage to his wings spreads. Eventually, the metal wings shatter completely, revealing that his feathered wings have been growing back within them and have broken them apart from the inside. This follows a visit from Ozymandias, who tells him that he is indeed one of Apocalypse's chosen ones. Reclaiming his original Angel powers, Warren still retains his blue skin color.
When Rogue leaves the X-Men to join Storm's splinter group (X-Treme X-Men), Angel is promoted to head of the X-Men's field team. Angel also becomes entangled in a love triangle with rookie X-Men member Paige Guthrie and the mutant prostitute Stacy X. Furthermore, during a battle with Black Tom Cassidy, Angel's regression to his pre-"Death" state is complete when he reverts to his normal Caucasian skin color when Cassidy (turned into a plant-type vampire) attempts to drain Angel's life force from him. His healing powers manifest themselves in the form of the revelation that Angel's blood has miracle healing properties.
After stepping away from the X-Men for a bit, Angel joins with fellow former Champions member Hercules, Namora, and Amadeus Cho in order to calm down the rampaging Hulk during the World War Hulk event. Afterward, Angel discovers that Amadeus Cho has hacked into Warren's bank accounts and stolen several million dollars from him, to help him further aid the Hulk.
Angel is part of the team that investigates the new mutant birth in Alaska and is present with the X-teams for the final battle over the fate of the baby. He also helped resettle the X-Men in San Francisco. Later, he was brutally attacked by a mind-controlled Wolfsbane. During the attack, Wolfsbane savagely rips Warren's wings from his back and runs away, taking the wings with her. It is revealed by Elixir that Warren's wings are still techno-organic constructs that he is unable to heal. Wolfsbane later delivers them to the Purifiers, who are seeking the Apocalypse Strain, the techno-organics, which comprise Warren's wings. The Purifiers use the Apocalypse Strain to modify an army of Purifier agents, giving them the same metallic wings that Archangel once had. Meanwhile, although Elixir is able to heal all of Warren's injuries, he cannot regrow his wings due to interference from the Apocalypse Strain. Later in the story, Warren is gripped by a series of excruciating seizures that not only mysteriously regenerate his techno-organic wings, but also transform him back into Apocalypse's version of Death/Archangel, complete with blue skin and a techno-organic version of his uniform.
X-Force attacks Archangel, who eventually asks for relief from the pain of losing his wings and transforming into Archangel. Archangel escapes to take revenge on the Purifiers, and at their headquarters he slaughters most of them in a blood-maddened rage. Once the battle is over, he reverts to his normal Caucasian, feather-winged appearance. He comments to Logan that he can still feel the metal wings inside him, and that they want to come out again. According to Elixir, Warren's transformation is permanent, implying that he is fully capable of transforming back into Archangel again at any time.
From then on, Angel takes dual membership with both the X-Men and X-Force, though Cyclops forbids Angel from telling the rest of the team about the return of his Archangel powers. While recruiting a scientist for Beast's "Science Squad", the X-Club, Angel is forced to transform into Archangel in order to destroy a giant rampaging monster. Beast reacts in anger that Angel has not told him that his "Death" powers have returned, creating tension between the two friends. Angel knows telling Beast would expose the latest incarnation of X-Force and effectively end Cyclops' latest tenure as leader if the truth about his personal black ops squad became public knowledge.
In the Dark Angel Saga, the Archangel persona of Warren has finally taken over and he plans to be the heir to Apocalypse, bringing Ozymandias, Dark Beast, the Final Horsemen, Autumn Rolfson, and her son Genocide as his army to destroy humanity. At the conclusion of the story arc Betsy stabs Archangel in the chest with the Life Seed, seemingly killing him. In the aftermath of the explosion of Apocalypse's citadel, Warren is seen by the members of X-Force walking in the snow. Psylocke, shocked that he is alive and apparently free of Apocalypse, runs up and embraces him. This Warren then reveals he had no idea who Psylocke is and appears to have amnesia. Warren has his normal white skin but seems to have metallic wings.
Characterization: Warren was initially a bit of a spoiled playboy when he first became a hero but over time he has matured to become one of the emotional leaders of the X-teams. Currently, though, he is struggling with coming to grips in all the changes in his life, but is rededicated to helping his mutant brethren.
Friends and Foes: Warren is close to his First Class teammates, particularly Iceman and Jean Grey.
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