Name: Warren Kenneth Worthington III

Other Aliases: Archangel, Death, The Avenging Angel

Place of Birth: Centerport, New York

Team Affiliations: X-Men (current), X-Factor (former), Horsemen of the Apocalypse (former), Defenders (former), Champions (former)

Powers: Angel possesses large wings with a sixteen foot wingspan from wing tip to wing tip, pessembeling those of a bird. Due to Apocalypse's genetic engineering he has blue skin. During his time under Apocalypse influence, and some time after as well, he had metallic wing insteed of his natural wings. Angel's wings has a very 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.

Angel's anatomy is naturally adopted to flying. His bones are hollow, like a bird's, making him far less heavy than what is usual for a man of his build. His eyes are specially adopted to withstand high-speed winds which would hurt the average human eye. He also possesses a special membrane in his respiratory system, enabling him to extract oxygen form air at high velocities or altitudes.

Angel generally flies below the clouds (about 6,500 feet), he can reach 10,000 feet with little effort. And with severe strain he can reach the highest recorded altitude for a bird in flight (29,000 feet above sea level), but can only remain there for a few minutes.

History: Warren Kenneth Worthington III was atending to a private school in his young years when wings began to grow from his shoulder blades. Warrens wings reached full size within a few months, but Warren kept them a secret by strapping them to his back and hide them under his clothes. At first he thought of himself as a freak, but he soon learned that he could use his wings to fly and came to enjoy his newfound ability.

One night there was a fire in his dormitory, nad Warren decided to use his ability to fly to try to rescue the ones trapped inside. Warren wore a long blonde wig and a long nightshirt, so that he looked like an angel. The rescue was successfull and Warren's identity remained a secret.
Shortly thereafter, Warren became a custumed crime fighter in New York City under the name the Avenging Angel. He was contacted by the Professor Charles Xavier and became a part of the original X-Men.

Years later, shortly after Professor Xavier, the founder of the X-Men, had recruited some new members to the group, Angel decided to leave. After his parent's death Warren had inherited a vast fortune, and he used a part of it to found the Los Angeles-based group of superhumans called the Champions. Warren also revealed puplicly that he was the Angel, although he and Xavier managed to keep is connections with Xavier's school, the cover and home base of the X-Men, a secret. When the Champions failed as an organisation Warren devoted his time to his business duties and to his girlfriend Candance "Candy" Southern. He also briefly returned to the X-Men.

Warren later joined another team of superhumans, the Defenders. The Defenders used the manison and estate that Warren and Candy Southern jointly owned in the Colorado Rocky Mountains as their base of operations. After a battle against Moondragon and Dragon of the Moon Angel left the Defenders and joined the other four original X-Men in founding X-Factor. The X-Factor was supossed to be an organisation that would seek out and aid mutants under the pretence of hunting down "mutant menaces" Cameron Hodge, an old friend to Warren, was the X-Factor's public relations director. Unknown to Warren and the other members of the X-Factor was that Hodge was the leader of and organisation called The Right and intended to use X-Factor to spread anti-mutant sentiments to the general public. Mystique, the leader of Freedom Force, discovered that Warren, a known mutant, was the secretly the financial banker of the X-Factor, which publicly was believed to be a mutant-hunting organisation. Mystique leaked the infromation to the media, generating great controversy.

Subsequently, in a battle with the Marauders during their massacre of the mutant Morlocks, the Angel was caught by Blockbuster. Another Marauder, Harpoon, then impaled the Angel's wings with his weapons. The thunder god Thor rescued the Angel, but the bones of the Angel's wings had been permanently crippled, and his wounds became infected. As a result, surgeons amputated Warren's wings. Shortly afterwards, in despair over the loss of his wings, his breakup with Candy Southern, and the controversy plaguing X-Factor, Warren apparently committed suicide in a small aircraft that exploded. In fact, however, Warren was teleported to safety by the mutant Apocalypse who, through genetic manipulation, caused the Angel's wings to grow back in a new form. Warren became one of Apocalypse's warriors, the so-called Four Horsemen of Apocalypse, and took the name Death. As Death, he battled the other four founding members of X-Factor, but he was shocked into ending his attack when one of the X-Factor members, Iceman, faked his own demise. Abandoning both Apocalypse and X-Factor, Warren flew off to live a solitary life. Later rejoined X-Factor and adopted the new name of Archangel.

Later on, Archangel and the four other original X-Men returned to the X-Men at Xavier's request. Since then, Warren's fallen in love with his fellow X-Man Psylocke, and underwent another transformation; he "shed" his metallic wings which gave way to his older, more familiar feathered wings. Warren retook the name Angel, and left the X-Men along with Psylocke, dealing with her new Crimson Dawn manifestations. After a while away from the X-Men, Angel and Psylocke returned when Wolverine was seemingly killed by Apocalypse's Horseman, Death. After it was revealed that Wolverine was in fact Death, Angel went after him alongside Shadowcat, Nightcrawler, and Jubilee to help purge him of Apocalypse's influence. Having succeeded in freeing Wolverine of Apocalypse's control, Angel himself underwent yet another transformation; his wings became made of light, being able to shoot out energy darts similar to the metallic blades his old metal wings shot out. However the new transformation wore off, and Angel rejoined the X-Men.