Warren Worthington III

Angel is a mutant whose wings give him the ability to fly.

X-Men: The Last Stand
As a child Warren Worthington III grew a pair of wings, ashamed of this mutation he attempted to cut them from his back only to be found in the process by his father. This provoked his father, Warren Worthington II, into developing a "cure" for the mutant gene. Many years later his father tried to cure his son only for Angel to spread his wings and fly away. He then arrives to the X-Mansion asking for being accepted as a student.

When the X-Men were fighting Magneto's Brotherhood of Mutants in Alcatraz, Warren arrives to save his father from Quill, Psylocke and Arclight and takes him, safe, on the Golden Bridge. After the battle, he joins the other student at the Institute, now run by Storm.

Appearances/Actors

 * Canon (1 film)
 * X-Men: The Last Stand (First appearance) - Ben Foster

Character traits
Warren is a mutant who has always been scared by his nature, due to his father's hatred towards mutants. He was so feared of telling his father the truth that, as a child, he tried repetedly to cut off his wings with snips. When grown up, Warren learnt to accept his nature to the point of refusing Dr. Rao's cure, escaping and searching for a place in which mutants are accepted just as they are.

His power doesn't just make him have a pair of huge wings, it also modifies his body to allow the flight. Angels has very strong muscles, so they can substain all the body, and has cave bones, so he's very light.

Relationships

 * Warren Worthington II - Father.

Behind the scenes

 * The first pair of wings built for Angel were actually too heavy for Ben Foster to wear and were changed for a pair made of foam.
 * Ben Foster is afraid of heights, but wanted anyway to shoot the scene in which Warren escapes from his father lab throwing himself out of the window. Foster jumped down the building, but it was a stunt who finished the scene with wires.

Trivia

 * In a deleted scene, Angel comes back to Alcatraz after saving his father and joins the other X-Men in the fight. He lifts and lets fall from hair some of the mutants from the Brotherhood, but Magneto throws a piece of a car to him and makes him fall to the ground, fainted.
 * Although Angel appears in the promotional posters wearing the X-Men uniform, he never does during the movie.
 * Angel was supposed to appear in X2: X-Men United as a prisoner of William Stryker. In the early script of the movie, he was transformed in Archangel during an experiment of the Weapon X programm.