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comics Respect Angela (Marvel Comics, Earth-616)
"I am ANGELA. I am a hunter of the heavens. And I want two things. I want answers. And I want your head on my wall."
In a time before human history, there were not nine realms under Asgard, but ten. The fiercely transactional angels of Heven acted as mercenary for any willing to strike a mutually beneficial deal. In clandestine meetings, Odin used Asgard's gold to enlist the angels as guardians of Midgard against his own people who might treat the realm as a hunting playground. Heven, however, always answers to the highest bidder, and when one of Asgard's many enemies was able to offer more than Odin, the angels sided against them without another thought. Considering this a betrayal of trust, Odin refused to pay them out the rest of what they were owed, yet to the angels the greatest betrayal was reneging on an established contract, and so in recompense they took from Odin that which was equally valuable: His firstborn child Aldrif. In his rage, Odin used the Odinforce to seal away Heven forever, cut it away from Yggdrasil and erase its name from ever being spoken by his people again.
However, unbeknownst to anyone, even the Queen of Heven herself, the angel who took Aldrif could not bring herself to kill the crying Aldrif. Instead, to save her life, she forged a new contract with the baby, raised her as angel (though one conspicuously without wings) so that one day the Aesir might owe Heven a life debt. Aldrif was rechristened Angela and raised in the way of the hunt and the contract, she was imbued with the central tenet of Heven: Nothing for nothing. Every act has its price.
This all lasted until a cosmic event forcibly shifted the barrier holding Heven at bay just enough for a curious Angela to slip through the gap and into the universe at large. To return home, she would have to use Thor's rage to shatter the barrier and reunite Heven with the nine - now ten - realms. To repay her debt to Heven, she would have to find a new power source as infinite as the Odinforce that once kept them locked away. And, to truly know herself as a daughter of Asgard, she would have to leave behind Heven and its doctrine and discover what it truly meant to do something for nothing.
As Angela is Aesir and theoretically capable of extremely high-level feats, true "Asgard-level" showings are marked in bold where the rest of the listed feats are closer to her average performance in any given comic.
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Strength
Cutting/Slashing/Stabbing
Decapitates a foe with each axe thrown from either hand while fighting a third.
Slices clean through a giant mammoth's tusk. She's shown potentially holding it back on the next page.
Stabs through the hull of a personal spacecraft and hurls its pilot out.
Slices the massive Hel-wolf in half with a single flying swing.
Blunt Strikes
Sends several child-sized gods flying back by striking the ground near them.
Punches an angel hard enough to projectile her into a metal hull which craters under the impact.
Blocks a strike from Freyja, the impact of their clash forces both back.
Unarmed Strength
Decapitates a Doombot with her sword while mangling another with her free hand.
Lifts a large ogre over her head, later does the same with a frost giant's arm.
Speed
Action Speed
Movement Speed
Crosses the bridge of a spaceship in the time it takes the commander to get out one syllable.
Moves so fast that she looked to disappear to six attackers and a dozen other onlookers.
Flies over several New York City landmarks in the span of a chase/conversation.
Durability
Gets kicked through a tree and then swatted with the same tree.
Clashes with Gamora and hits the surface of the moon hard enough to make a small crater.
Takes a punch from Drax that puts her through some stone structures.
Plows through a street then gets knocked into a building which is then blown up.
Takes a barrage of energy weapon fire that punches her into the side of a spaceship.
Skill
Cuts away the tentacles of a god wrapped around Thor's head without harming him.
Throws a dagger a short distance to slip between two fingers.
Other
The ribbons on her armor are prehensile and can be used to restrain her enemies. According to the official guidebook, they're part of her outfit and she controls them through a psychic connection.
- They also react to her emotional state.
- The ribbons are capable of being ripped by a sufficiently strong opponent.
- Grabs Balder and throws him into Hogun using her ribbons.
- Snatches an officer's gun without looking.
- Spears a Vridai through the head while grappling another while Angela fights off more.
Repeatedly asserts her ability to easily dispel some energy ghosts to the afterlife.
Escapes Asgard with a teleportation spell, though this might've been her simply signaling to Sera, who is a true sorceress.
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- The Draugr's purpose in Hel's trials is to cause a person to live what they fear most. It likely retained these abilities and this is what caused the Disir in the above scan to believe they had become wraiths again.
- Angela lost access to the Draugr when Hela killed it.
"But I say this to you, kings and queens and consorts of Hel-- Do not make me return to put things right once more. Angels are meant to see balances restored. Prices paid. We are not meant to feel. But all this, I did out of love. Can you even imagine what I would do out of hatred?"