Angel

Born into an extremely wealthy family in Centerport, Long Island, New York, young Warren Worthington III often concerns his parents, Wallace and Kathryn, when he climbs high up into trees and onto their mansion’s roof, seemingly unafraid of heights. When his parents send him to a prestigious East Coast boarding school, he rooms with Cameron Hodge, who soon becomes his best friend. While there, Warren’s life changes forever the day he begins sprouting wings from his shoulder blades. Initially alarmed, Warren grows to relish the freedom of flight. Still, he straps the wings tightly to his back to avoid attracting attention as a mutant.

Later, when there is a fire in his dormitory, Warren dons a blond wig and long nightshirt to disguise himself as an anonymous “angel” and saves the other students. Subsequently, Warren becomes a costumed crimefighter as the Avenging Angel. Word of his heroics attract the attention of Professor Charles Xavier, AKA Professor X, who recruits Warren as a founding member of his mutant X-Men team. He eventually drops the “Avenging” in his name and goes by Angel, training with the heroes to protect mutants and humans alike. While attending Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters, Warren graduates and receives a college degree.

Emerging 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. It was later revealed that Warren is at peak human levels which include his senses, strength, speed and reflexes. It was revealed that Angel is either a descendant of the Cheyarafim mutant race or his mutation resembles the mutations specific to this race.

Fully-Developed Powers No Caption Provided Angel then sprouted and grew white, feathery wings. Angel's natural wings give him the ability to fly. They are super-humanly 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 super-humanly 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.

It has been argued that Angel possess some kind of internal flight organ, but more likely several small ones throughout his body and that his wings offer the additional thrust and stability for actual flight. This would explain how Angel manages to hover for long periods of time and how he experienced little exhaustion in his arms and legs whilst flying. It has also been suggested, but never proved, that Angel's feathers are some kind of silicon or substance which act like solar panels providing him with the massive amounts of energy he would need for sustained flight.

Later, he developed a secondary mutation: a blood-borne regenerative healing factor that enabled him to heal at an extraordinary rate. Superficial lacerations and punctures heal almost immediately and more severe injuries, such as broken bones or internal organ damage, heal within days. This healing factor can also be transferred to others via blood transfusion. Once transferred to an injured/ill individual (especially if they share his blood type), their tissues regenerate or can even be resuscitated if recently dead, but this ability is limited by the amount of blood Angel can transfer or survive losing. As a result of his Cheyarafim nature, Angel's blood is toxic/caustic to the Neyaphem mutant race, including Nightcrawler.

Abilities Expert Combatant Angel is a skilled combatant, especially in aerial hand-to-hand combat, trained by Professor Xavier, Black Widow, and Hercules. He is considered to be the best aerial fighter in the world, capable of outsmarting and defeating much faster opponents such as the Human Torch, Quicksilver, and Iron Man.

Business Sense Warren is a talented businessman whose wealth ranks him in the lower part of the Fortune 500 list.