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History
Your falsehood ends now, Lord Apocalypse... And it'll end with your death!
- — Archangel
- — Archangel
Early Years
Warren Kenneth Worthington, Jr. (born early January 1942), more commonly known to the general public as Warren Worthington II, had grown up with his uncle in their family mansion after his both of his parents have died from natural causes. Many knew him as a really nice, humble and, a lovable person to his friends and family. Warren was so humble, he even treated his bullies and other enemies same as he treats his acquaintances and closest friends due to his irresistible charm and charisma onto others.
He first discovered his mutant abilities of having organic wings when he was still in college, when he was about to fall into a cliff during a summer vacation which caused for his mutation to trigger, saving him from death. After Warren manages to get back up to the cliff, he immediately went home and hesitantly told his uncle about having wings. Thankfully, his uncle wasn't so shocked, denouncing or even didn't become scared about his nephew after witnessing that he was a mutant, though he was worried that Warren might be rejected by the mutant-hating society. Ever since Warren chose to drop out from his college, his uncle called a man he knew who would seem to help his nephew in his current situation of discovering his mutant powers.
This man was simply known as "The Man in Black," who later sent another man and who was revealed to be Charles Xavier, a mutant around Warren's age who recruited him to a special C.I.A. team known as the Division X, a special mutant team. Revealing that witnesses during their party had led to the Xavier and the Man In Black tracking him down, Warren agreed to join so he could do some good even though his uncle declined it at first, thinking that his nephew might get in trouble. Xavier, despite being only two years older than Warren, promised his uncle that he would help and teach Warren control his powers by using them for hood, ensuring that his nephew would be safe before leaving his home.
Warren fully embracing his mutant status for the very first time, thanks to the X-Division's efforts
Warren was trained and was helped to control his powers until he successfully manages to master them. He was later been given the name by his teammates, Archangel, or simply the Angel. During their battle with the Hellfire Club, Warren even managed to defeat Riptide, a member of the supervillain team, whom he prevented from creating massive cyclones that could've destroy the villages on the island if he didn't stop him in time, though the result of their battle had damaged and broke both Warren's wings by the diabolical mutant.
Despite volunteering to join Charles in building the first incarnation of the X-Men starting around the late 1970s, Warren eventually retired from becoming an X-Man but still became one of the first and oldest students — an alumni — of Charles' newly-established academy, Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters where he finished his education before departing and starting a new life in the world as an inspired entrepreneur, eventually establishing the aviation and robotics-centered company Worthington Industries using a portion of his family's wealth. During his earliest years of his business trips, the determined Warren would meet a woman named Kathryn Gavin, whom the two became romantically involved since she still accepted him despite the fact that he is a mutant. Around the mid-1980s, they would later get married and it wasn't long until they conceived a child together in which they have also named Warren III, conveniently nicknamed as Ren, after Warren himself since Kathryn noticed that Warren and their son looked similarly alike the moment he was born.
Horseman of Death
Warren seemed to be living a normal and precious life when he successfully reached the financial status as a multi-millionaire after his company had reached its height in the market, only for tragedy to struck. His wife Kathryn had died after a five-year fight with ovarian cancer, a tragedy that sadly filled Warren along with their own son with guilt and sorrow as he and his company tried almost everything they could in order to save her, including the risky suggestion of offering his own blood of help her fight the rapidly spreading cancer cells in spite not being careful of its uncertain consequences. The only true family Warren had left was his, although he failed to realize that he also had Xavier and his former teammates which he could've confided in.
When the powerful mutant Apocalypse had reawakened from his burial in early 1999, to which he began searching for mutants that could become one of his Horsemen. Becoming Apocalypse's Angel of Death after swaying him in his most vulnerable state that his loved ones could be saved, Warren greatly helped him and his fellow horsemen in accomplishing his first goals during his reemergence to the world. However, during the final battle against Apocalypse, when Warren saw his master dishonor and oppress his fellow mutants no matter how innocent they were, Warren manages to snap out from Nur's manipulation and regain his own will as he, along with his fellow horsemen, finally realized he was on the wrong side to begin with and turned against him, defeating the unhinged mutant messiah in the very end thanks to the young X-Man Jean Grey and her inner Phoenix.
Rejoining the X-Men
Shortly after Apocalypse's defeat during his reawakening, he was given a chance by his closest friends and teammates, especially Professor Xavier himself, to rejoin the X-Men once again around the spring of 2000 and continued his new career as another professor at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, where he could make good use of his wisdom and education as a teacher after graduating from his alma mater, while his son was now its student, who incidentally possessed the same set of mutation as he had, only more organic. Despite this personal misfortune that Warren and his family had to go through, his beloved's last words and final requests had nevertheless motivated Warren to raise their adolescent son well under his wings, while still maintain his duties and responsibilities as a prominent X-Man and the CEO of Worthington Industries.
Fighting the Ultimate War
When the mysterious and diabolical Movement Alliance conducted a series of massive terrorist attacks all over the world destroying several famous and sacred landmarks. Consequently, all the Movement's opposing adversaries, the heroes, were united into creating their own Ultimate Alliance, in order to stop and prevent the Movement from commencing its schemes upon world domination and authoritarian rule, before its too late. As the attacks all over the world have continued for days and then weeks, more and more casualties are sadly, starting to increase in numbers, due to the extreme terrorism and serious devastation, continuously committed by the conflict between the Movement Alliance and its seemingly unstoppable forces against the combined forces heroes and anti-heroes of the world, the Ultimate Alliance, who are not stopping their fight against the villains until they find a way to make them pay for their irreversible actions and restore back peace in the entire world.
During the gruesome battle in Sokovia, Warren and his son, Ren alongside several mutants manages to corner and weakens Mister Sinister, until Sinister absorbed the numerous powers and abilities from several mutants, causing for Sinister to successfully kill most of them, including the Brotherhood member Pyro, leaving Warren and Ren. Warren and Ren tries to attack Sinister but they were easily defeated, leaving Warren into a critical condition for a moment. Sinister now has the upper hand on killing Ren, but Warren immediately charges onto Sinister and flies him away towards an abandoned city, crashing him towards several buildings, seemingly defeating the villain, until they accidentally crashes into an active thermal power station, causing for the whole building to collapse and explode, killing and injuring a few number of civilians.
Warren is mortally wounded, but he manages to survive and is started healing rapidly, until a disfigured Sinister suddenly lunges at Warren and absorbs all of his powers, draining him including his healing factor, causing for Warren to slowly die from his injuries, but not before he secretly puts a undetectable tracker onto Sinister, before he left him to die. Warren's lifeless body was eventually founded by the X-Men, including Ren, causing for him to mourn onto his father's lifeless body, blaming himself for his death. Warren, the son, then later eventually manages to finally avenge his father after he and the rest of the X-Men successfully finds and defeats his father's killer, Mister Sinister, in the final battle of Genosha where Sinister's headquarters was located.
Heroic Legacy
Because of his heroic sacrifice, Warren was buried along with Pyro and other fallen mutants at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, making them an inspiration to several mutants to join the X-Men to honor their memories as protectors of the mutant race. Warren was never forgotten by his beloved son, for he was the very one who kept on motivating him to become the hero, he had always wanted to be, his eventual successor, his Angel. Later on, it was revealed that the cremated remains of his wife Kathryn was moved next to Warren's tombstone out of their son's request, who wanted to have his father and mother rest right beside each other even in death.
Powers and Abilities
Powers
Homo Superior Physiology: Warren is a mutant who has the ability of winged flight but later, Apocalypse warped his body and mind into his own "Angel of Death" upon his Celestial Ship and placed him into his team of Horsemen as Death. Warren's skin turned blue and causing for him to grow a bio-metallic set of wings from his back that could retract and also fire dart blades with a neurotoxin. Warren's new wings could fly higher, faster, and were razor sharp.
- Techno-Organic Wings
- Flight
- Wing Blades
- Wing Shielding
- Poisonous Plumage
- Speed Boost
- Solid Flame
- Aerial Adaptation
- Peak Human Strength
- Superhuman Stamina
- Superhuman Durability
- Regenerative Healing Factor
- Organic Wings (formerly)
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Abilities
- Natural Pedagogy
- Expert Combatant
- Business Sense
- Weapons Proficiency
Strength level
- Class 13+
Weaknesses
None known.
Paraphernalia
Equipment:
- Archangel's X-Suit
Transportation:
- Flight
- X-Men Blackbird (formerly)
Weapons: None known.
Notes
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- ↑ Modern Comics: X-Men Vol 1 15
Trivia
- No trivia.
See Also
- Appearances of Warren Worthington, Jr. (Earth-61615)
- Character Gallery: Warren Worthington, Jr. (Earth-61615)
- Quotations by Warren Worthington, Jr. (Earth-61615)
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