Angela (Marvel)
Angela is a female comic superhero who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Origin
Aldrif Odinsdottir was the daughter of All-Father Odin and his wife Freyja as a symbol of the unity between the tribes of Aesir and the Vanir as they became the Asgardians. (Angela: Asgard's Assassin v1 #6) At the time, Asgard came under attack from the Tenth Realm of Heven with the Angels invading the realm eternal. In the midst of the struggle, the newborn Aldrif was captured by the Queen of the Angels who in an act of spite seemingly killed the child. Unknown to anyone, Aldrif was alive and taken by the Angels to be raised by them but to the Asgardians she was believed to had been murdered. (Original Sin v1 #5.1)
After the Queen of Angels ordered the corpse of the baby to be disposed, the queen's handmaiden Loriel, who was tasked to do this, discovered it was still alive, and raised her as one of the Angels under the name of Angela. (Original Sin v1 #5.5) Growing up, she was often mocked by the Angels for being wingless and sought comfort from her 'mother' Loriel though she came to disappear under unknown circumstances where she left no trace of herself behind. By adulthood, Angela had become the Leader of the Hunt and was provided a manor of her own. (Angela: Queen of Hel v1 #1)
The monster came to attack the Temple of the Anchorites with Angela being tasked with killing the beast. During her mission, she was nearly killed but the Anchorite Sera saved her. (Angela: Asgard's Assassin v1 #3)
While hunting a fugitive in the Scintilant Sylvanias, Angela and Sera were confronted by a Hierophant of the Temple of the Anchorites. The Hierophant wanted to return Sera to her place as an Anchorite in the Temple, and even offered information about what became of Loriel, in exchange for Sera, but Angela refused the offer and attacked the deity instead. Defeated, the Hierophant vanished, vowing to take revenge on Angela for defying the Temple. Confused, Sera asked why Angela didn't take the deal and Angela swore she would never let her set foot in a Hell like that again. Afterward, Angela kissed Sera, finally recognizing her love for her. (Angela: Queen of Hel v1 #1)
After many adventures through the Endworlds, Angela saw Sera die at the hands of one of their enemies. Angela tried anything and everything to bring Sera back to life, but all was in vain. (Angela: Asgard's Assassin v1 #3)
Original Sin
Sometime later, Angela was pulled out from Heven into the realm of Midgard as a result of the fracturing of space and time derived from Wolverine's attempt to prevent Ultron's rise to power by traveling back in time. (Age of Ultron v1 #10) An angry and confused Angela made her way towards Earth to take revenge on whoever had brought her there, unaware as to why she had been pulled out of her home dimension. She appeared on the Guardians of the Galaxy's Earth signal. Gamora intercepted the call and attacked Angela. (Guardians of the Galaxy v3 #5) The rest of the Guardians managed to defeat her, and she was captured. After an interrogation, during which Angela spoke of her home and people, Angela claimed that she was only heading to Earth because she wanted to see it for herself. The Guardians realized they actually incited the fight leading to them freeing Angela and accompanied her to explore Earth. (Guardians of the Galaxy v3 #7)
The Guardians of the Galaxy and Angela are attacked in warp space by a band of pirates, called Warpjackers. During the battle, Angela abandoned the Guardians when the adult Loki telepathically told her that the portal to Heven was open and that she could return home. As Thor battled Heven's guards, Angela appeared having been guided to the doorway to Heven by Loki, and prepared to battle the Odinson. (Original Sin v1 #5.2) Angela fights an exhausted Thor who had just fought off the army of Heven, and is then told by the Queen of Angels to bring Thor to her. The now-female Loki hae aligned with the Angels, telling Thor that "being on the winning side seems just perfect". (Original Sin v1 #5.3) While Loki leads an Angel fleet to Asgard, under the false pretence to help them destroy it, Thor escapes captivity and engages Angela in combat once again. (Original Sin v1 #5.4) The fight between Thor and Angela was interrupted by the intervention of Odin who had been freed from his self-imposed exile by Loki. Arriving on the scene, he came to quickly realise that Angela was really his long lost daughter Aldrif. This revelation caused the Queen of the Angels to grant Angela her life where she was pardoned for her service to the Angels despite her Asgardian heritage but exiled her from Heven due to her lineage. This caused her to be abandoned by the only home she had ever known but Odin said that he loved all his children namely Angela, Loki and Thor. She though decided not to stay in Asgard but rather leave to explore the other realms. (Original Sin v1 #5.5)
Asgard's Assassin
While she was hunting riches at night in the ruins of a palace, Angela was approached by what seemed to be her lost lover Sera. Confused, Angela tried to kill her thinking it was some kind of creature wanting to play with her mind, but she was convinced by her that it was indeed Sera who was thereby making Angela ask three questions only she was able to answer and answering them correctly. When Angela asked Sera how she came back to life, she was not able to answer. (Angela: Asgard's Assassin v1 #4) After the birth of her younger sister, Angela went to Asgardia and kidnapped her, escaping through teleportation to Limbo. (Angela: Asgard's Assassin v1 #2) However, Angela was followed by a group of Asgardians, led by her now unworthy brother, Odinson. (Angela: Asgard's Assassin v1 #1) While she kept them at bay, Sera cast a spell that allowed them to escape to Midgard, and then to Vanaheim when the Asgardians discovered their whereabouts thanks to Heimdall. (Angela: Asgard's Assassin v1 #2) After dealing with a group of Dark Elves, Angela was guided by Sera to the ruins of the Temple of Union, which symbolized the end of the Aesir/Vanir War, so she could get Siri's wedding dress, the one thing Heimdall couldn't see through. With it, Angela took Sera and her sister to the Moon, where the Guardians of the Galaxy were waiting for them. (Angela: Asgard's Assassin v1 #3)
While playing cards with her friends, Angela heard something and repeated it, inadvertently calling the Dísir to the Guardians' ship. A fierce battle ensued between the Guardians and the former Valkyries of Bor. The battle ended with all the Dísir left in pieces and with Brün revealing to the Guardians that Angela had kidnapped the baby Sera was carrying. With the Guardians demanding answers, Angela explained that Odin and Freyja laid together in the realm between realms, where Odin imprisoned Surtur when he threatened to burn everything. The child had three parents, Surtur being the third. Angela needed to take the child to Heven so they would save all reality from burning again. The Guardians did not believe her, until the baby transformed herself into a fire demon and burned Groot down. (Angela: Asgard's Assassin v1 #4) The Guardians took them to Heven, where they were attacked by Angels and Asgardians, who had discovered what Angela was up to through the Dísir and went to wage war on Heven again. An enraged Odinson battled Angela over the fate of their sister and they battled. The battle only ended when a pillar almost fell on the baby and Angela protected her with her own body. Seeing she didn't want to hurt her own sister, Odinson helped Angela to get above the city's furnace, and then she threw her sister into it. (Angela: Asgard's Assassin v1 #5)
Furious by what Angela had just done, Odinson punched her on the face, but she quickly recovered from it and, claiming she was paying the debt of her existence to Heven by reigniting its engine with Surtur's fire, leaped into the furnace to rescue her sister. With Surtur's power siphoned from her, Angela's sister was starting to get her skin burned when Angela came to save her. She used the metal from her dress' wings to envelope and protect the girl, and, as she couldn't fly anymore, she walked through the furnace's fire to get through its door, located on its base, which was opened by her allies. Heavily burned, Angela, along with Sera, was taken prisoner by Freyja, who commanded the Asgardian army to retreat and took them back to Asgardia. After the All-Mother told her her sister's name Laussa and the All-Father released her, Angela, who had received a mark on the palm of her hand which meant 'traitor', prepared to leave Asgardia with Sera, but realized that Sera was not Sera at all and threatened her with her iron sword. It was then revealed that 'Sera' was actually the Dark Elf Malekith the Accursed in disguise. Angela demanded answers so Malekith suggested a deal: if she promised she wouldn't tell anyone about his involvements on this event, he would tell her how he knew everything about Sera; Angela accepted. Malekith then told her that he found Sera imprisoned in Hel after he discovered about the Tenth Realm and the curse Freyja cast upon the Angels, a curse that sent the Angels' souls to Hel after their death to suffer eternally. Sera told her history to him and he took advantage of it to impersonate her and make Angela aid him on his quest to conquer all the Ten Realms, which got threatened by the existence of Laussa. With his problem solved, Malekith vanished with a grin, leaving Angela thinking about her next quest which was to rescue Sera from Hel. (Angela: Asgard's Assassin v1 #6)
Queen of Hel
Angela fought her way through Hel to find her lover. Upon reaching the North Wing of Hel, Angela was attacked by an unknown individual who cast a spell on her that forced her to relive the memory of the day a Hierophant tried to take Sera back to the Temple of the Anchorites. Angela soon broke free of the spell and proceeded to search for Sera. Suddenly, Angela heard someone singing and followed the familiar voice until she found its owner: Sera. Desperate to finally reunite with Sera, Angela broke her cell's lock and kissed her passionately, but to her surprise, Sera fiercely attacked her for breaking her vow. (Angela: Queen of Hel v1 #1) Angela apologized for it and said she would do anything to take Sera out of Hel, but her soul already belonged there, making it impossible for her to be alive again, no matter where she went to. The only way to save Sera would be changing the rules of Hel, but to change them, Angela had to overthrow Hela. However, if Angela wanted to succeed, she had to pass through three trials to acquire enough power to beat Hela in her own domain. Angela was helped by Sera in defeating the hordes of the dead and get to the first trial, which was fear. With the assistance of the person who cast a spell on her earlier, Angela was able to overcome her fear and defeat the Fear Avatar, becoming a Corival, an official challenger for Hel's throne, and gaining control over fear. Afterward, Angela was introduced by Sera to the person who helped her on the first trial, Leah of Hel. (Angela: Queen of Hel v1 #2)
Asgardians of the Galaxy
Desperate to find Sera's whereabouts, Angela went on a rampage across the universe looking for answers. When she entered a mysterious and forbidden place in the void of space, she encountered Kid Loki, a past incarnation of Loki that was not supposed to exist anymore. Kid Loki offered Angela help in locating Sera in exchange for her assistance in finding the Naglfar Beacon, a powerful weapon that he intended to use in the War of the Realms. (Asgardians of the Galaxy v1 #5)
Stikeforce
Overview
Personality and attributes
Among the angels, she came to be known as the Wingless One. (Original Sin v1 #5.2)
As a child among the Angels, she was noted for being lonely though she was never alone. (Angela: Queen of Hel v1 #3)
Her adoptive mother among the Angels was Loriel who had been a handmaiden of the Queen of Heven. (Angela: Queen of Hel v1 #1)
Powers and abilities
Angela was born as an Asgardian goddess and had all the strengths of that pantheon of gods. (Original Sin #5.1)
It was noted that her half-brother Thor had a slight edge in terms of raw strength. (Original Sin v1 #5.3) Her senses were fine to the point that she could track certain prey through their scent. (Avengers NOW! v1 #1) It was said that she was faster than the Dísir, who themselves were faster than the speed of lightning. (Angela: Asgard's Assassin v1 #4)
She wore the standard suit of armor worn by the Angels of Heven. (Original Sin v1 #5.1)
An enchanted dress that became a winged suit of armor for Angela due to its magical nature. It prevented Heimdall from observing her and enabled her to fly at high speeds in a matter of seconds. (Angela: Asgard's Assassin v1 #3)
In terms of weapons, she wielded the legendary sword Xiphos that was also known as the Sword of the Stars. (Angela: Queen of Hel v1 #3) Another weapon she wielded was the Blades of Ichor. (Avengers NOW! v1 #1)
Notes
- Angela was created by Neil Gaiman and Todd McFarlane.
- She was adapted from the character Angela from Image Comics Spawn but an agreement between her co-creators allowed her to be adapted to the Marvel Comics universe where she made her first appearance in Age of Ultron v1 #10 (August, 2013).
Alternate Versions
- In M.O.D.O.K. Assassin v1 #1 (2015), an alternate version of Angela was an inhabitant of an unknown reality until she was displaced to Battleworld. She came to be a member of the Thor Corps who served as God-Emperor Doom's enforcers of justice. As a Thor, she wielded a version of Mjolnir that was known as the Devilslayer.
In other media
Television
- In Guardians of the Galaxy, Angela appeared in the animated television series in the episode "We Are the World Tree" where she was voiced by actress Nika Futterman. She accompanies Thor into attending a statue unveiling on Spartax that depicted the years of peace Spartax had with Asgard. Angela gets into a brief sword fight with Gamora. Later on, she faces Gamora again when the Guardians of the Galaxy end up in Asgard. In the episode "Asgard War Part One: Lightning Strikes", Angela accompanies Thor in the war against Spartax. In the episode "Asgard War Part Two: Rescue Me", Angela accompanies Thor and the Destroyer Armor into assisting the Guardians of the Galaxy into rescuing Star-Lord from Thanos.
Video games
- In Marvel: Future Fight, Angela appeared as a playable character in the setting of the mobile video game.
- In Marvel: Contest of Champions, Angela appeared as a playable character in the setting of the mobile video game.
- In Marvel Heroes, Angela appeared as a playable character in the setting of the MMORPG video game where she was voiced by actress Laura Bailey.
- In Marvel Future Revolution, Angela appeared as an NPC in the setting of the mobile video game in its Dark Domain expansion. Angela was the daughter of Odin where she had been raised by the Angels of Heven. She had been part of Star-Lord's Guardians of the Galaxy until she left them to go after her love Sera who had been captured in Niffleheim. At Nastrond, she was fighting some Disir and explained that Hela was likely holding Sera captive in the Hall of Nastrond where they were headed as well. Angela reluctantly agreed to team up and together they were able to locate Sera, who had a tender reunion with her beloved. However, as Angela prepared to get them out, Sera revealed that Hela cast a spell on her that would trap her soul in Helheim for eternity should she tried to escape. This left confronting Hela directly as the only option. The four engaged the Queen of the Dead directly and Scarlet Witch was able to restrain her, allowing Angela to hold her at swordpoint. Hela was forced to release Sera and her other prisoner Valkyrie, after which Angela bid the rest farewell and announced that she and Sera would rejoin Quill's Guardians.
Appearances
- Age of Ultron v1: (2013)
- Guardians of the Galaxy:
- Original Sin v1:
- Angela: Asgard's Assassin v1:
- Angela: Queen of Hel v1:
- Thor:
- Strikeforce v1:
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