History ComicBook / AngelaMarvelComics

[[redirect:Sandbox/GiganKillsTheMarvelUniverse]]

[[redirect:Characters/AngelaAsgardsAssassin]]

[[redirect:Characters/AngelaAsgardsAssassin

[[redirect:Characters/AngelaAsgardsAssassin]]

[[redirect:Characters/MarvelComicsAngela]]

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/angela.jpg]]

->''"I am an angel from the heavens and will not be disrespected."''
-->-- '''Angela''', ''ComicBook/AgeOfUltron'' #10

Angela (real name: Aldrif Odinsdottir) is a fictional comic book character created by Creator/NeilGaiman and Creator/ToddMcfarlane. While she was initially from Creator/ImageComics' ''ComicBook/{{Spawn}}'', this page will only be focused on her appearance in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse following [=McFarlane=] and Gaiman settling a dispute over rights to the character, with Gaiman gaining full ownership then selling those rights to Creator/MarvelComics.

Angela is a mysterious being and one of the Angels, a race of extremely materialist and selfish creatures hailing from Heven [''sic''], the Tenth Realm according to Marvel's version of the Norse cosmogony. They waged a war against Asgard until Odin severed Heven's connection to Yggdrasil, divorcing it from the other Nine Realms.

She is pulled from Heven as a result of the damage to the multiverse inflicted during ''Age of Ultron''. Confused and enraged, she charges toward Earth from outer space, only to be intercepted by Gamora, who, as is pretty much standard in superhero comics, attacks her. She is captured when the rest of the ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy arrive and manage to defeat her. After an interrogation, Angela claims she was only heading to Earth because she wanted to see it for herself. The Guardians realize they actually incited the fight, free Angela, and accompany her to Earth.

In the crossover with ''ComicBook/AllNewXMen'', ''the Trial of Jean Grey'', Angela is still with the Guardians, and works with both teams to rescue a time-displaced Jean Grey from captivity by the Shi'ar Empire.

During ''ComicBook/OriginalSin'', it is revealed that Angela is actually Aldrif, Odin and Frigga's long-lost daughter, making her the older half-sister to [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] and adoptive sister to Loki. She was supposedly killed when she was still an infant by the Queen of Angels during Asgard's war with the Angels. Her "death" was what caused Odin to sever the Tenth Realm from the other nine, as punishment for their attack. But she was not dead, and when the Queen of Angels ordered the corpse of the baby to be disposed, the Angel tasked to do so discovered it was still alive, and raised her as one of the Angels under the new name Angela.

Angela later abandons the Guardians of the Galaxy when [[ComicBook/LokiAgentOfAsgard Old Loki]] telepathically tells her that the portal to Heven is open and that she can return home. As Thor battles Heven's guards, Angela appears, having been guided to the doorway to Heven by Loki, and prepares to battle Thor. Angela defeats Thor, and is then told by the Queen of Angels to bring Thor to her.

While Loki leads an Angel fleet to Asgard, under the false pretense of helping them destroy it, Thor escapes captivity and engages Angela in combat once again. The fight is interrupted when Odin arrives and recognizes Angela as his daughter. He asks her to join him and the rest of the Asgardians, but Angela refuses, as she was raised to think Asgardians were her enemies. However, she is forced to leave Heven as well due to the Angels rejecting her for her lineage. With no place to go, Angela sets out to explore the other realms.

Her first ongoing series started in December 2014, titled as ''Angela: Asgard's Assassin'', written by Creator/KieronGillen and Creator/MargueriteBennett. During ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015'' the title was replaced by ''[[ComicBook/Marvel1602 1602: Witch Hunter Angela]]''. Post ''Secret Wars'', her story continued in ''ComicBook/AngelaQueenOfHel'', which concluded in April 2016.

Since then, she's mostly appeared in team books, like ComicBook/AsgardiansOfTheGalaxy and ComicBook/{{Strikeforce}}.

As her books tend to be part of the ''[[Comicbook/TheMightyThor Thor]]'' family, most characters from this series can be found [[Characters/TheMightyThor here]], or for her team [[Characters/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy here]].

----
!!Angela appears in the following works:

[[index]]
[[AC:Notable Comic Books]]
* ''[[ComicBook/{{Marvel1602}} 1602: Witch Hunter Angela]]'' (tie-in to ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015'')
* ''ComicBook/AllNewXMen''
* ''Angela: Asgard's Assassin''
* ''ComicBook/AngelaQueenOfHel''
* ''ComicBook/AgeOfUltron''
* ''ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' vol. 3
* ''ComicBook/OriginalSin'' 5.1-5.5 also known as ''[[ComicBook/LokiAgentOfAsgard Thor & Loki: The Tenth Realm]]''
* ''ComicBook/VoteLoki''
* ''ComicBook/AsgardiansOfTheGalaxy''
* ''ComicBook/{{Strikeforce}}''

[[AC:Western Animation]]
* Angela has her first Marvel Animated appearance in the WesternAnimation/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2015 episode "We Are the World Tree".

[[AC:Video Games]]
* ''Guardians of the Galaxy: Universal Weapons'' (2014): A non-canon mobile game loosely based on ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' movie.
* ''VideoGame/MarvelAvengersAlliance'' (2012-2016): Appears as unlockable playable heroine since [=PvP=] Season 19.
* ''VideoGame/MarvelHeroes'': Available as playable character, voiced by [[Creator/LauraBailey Laura Bailey]].
* ''VideoGame/MarvelContestOfChampions'': Angela is a playable character.
* ''VideoGame/MarvelAvengersAlliance'': She appears in the Facebook game.
* ''VideoGame/MarvelFutureFight'': She is a playable character in the mobile game Marvel: Future Fight.
* ''VideoGame/AvengersAcademy'' Angela was a recruitable character in Marvel Avengers Academy during its A-Force event, voiced by Natalie Van Sistine.
[[/index]]

----
!! Angela provides examples of the following tropes:

* ActionGirl: She's an Asgardian and raised as a warrior of Angels. She's skilled with many weapons, especially axe and sword.
* AnAxeToGrind: What Angela sometimes holds.
* AnachronicOrder: Angela's solo books tend to use a sort of disjointed flashback and/or story within story heavy style of storytelling.
* [[BatmanCanBreatheInSpace Angela Can Breathe In Space]]: She is capable of surviving in the vacuum of space unaided. This weirds Starlord out a bit.
* BattleBallgown: The new costume she gets in her solo series. It was literally a wedding dress originally. Though on Angela it looks like fully functional armor, because it adapts to its wearer's idea of beauty, and Angela is, as Sera says, "very stabby."
* BlackSheep: Not that her family doesn't love her, all Asgardians adore her, but her upbringing by the enemy (especially that by Angel standards their affection [[DebtDetester put her in a debt she didn't want]]) caused her to rebel and deny them. [[TheUnfavourite Loki]] declared her ''their side of the family'' repeatedly thanks to this.
* BloodKnight: Angela is always up for a good fight.
* BizarreSexualDimorphism: Female Angels tend to be WingedHumanoid mercenaries (there are some born wingless; they are treated as disabled and second class citizens if not outright slaves). Male Angels are not only rare (one in a hundred births), but also physically weaker and wingless. Culturally they are treated as a different [[FantasticCasteSystem caste]] serving in the lowest ranks of the church.
* BodyguardingABadass: She is Loki's chief of security in his presidential campaign.
* CanonImmigrant:
** It was initially ambiguous as to whether the Angela that debuted in Marvel Comics is the same one in Spawn, as she says she was involuntarily pulled into the Marvel Universe from her own and very few details of her home dimension were given. It's ultimately revealed that Marvel's incarnation of Angela is not only Asgardian but Thor's long-lost older half-sister, making her a completely different character from Image's incarnation. Also, she wasn't actually pulled from out of Marvel Universe, but instead she's pulled from Heven (a.k.a. the Tenth Realm) into realm of mortals, not too far from Midgard (Earth), and she had no knowledge about Midgard at the time.
* ChainmailBikini: A metal bra and panties are all the armor she needs to fight. This is pretty much an Angel thing. She gets a [[BattleBallgown Battle Ballgown]] later on in her solo series.
* ConceptsAreCheap: Angela fully believes this, and [[DefiedTrope refuses to fight for honor]] (or freedom, or justice, or any ideal), and can't conceive that her long lost family would love her just because [[ThickerThanWater she is family]]. Yes, this is an Angel thing.
* CoolSword: Angela’s weapons in general.
* DeadpanSnarker: In contrast to Angela, Sera is a lot snarkier and frequent remarks on the current situation.
* {{Demonization}}: Another Angel thing is spreading outrageous slander about their (Asgardian) enemies, for example that Volstagg EatsBabies, Heimdall [[PowerPerversionPotential uses his omniscience]] for being ThePeepingTom, and Bor [[Comicbook/JourneyIntoMystery turned his shieldmaidens into soul-eating monstrosities]].
* {{Dystopia}}: If the other tropes haven't clued you in, Heven is ''not'' a good place to live unless you fall into the very narrow demographic of "perfectly healthy, rich, female angel from good background and/or with considerable fighting skills, and no morals to speak of".
* EquivalentExchange: As an Angel she believes in fair trade, so yes, if she does ''anything'' for anybody that will come with a ''monetary'' price-tag of equivalent size (or a life for a life and such). She also deeply [[DebtDetester detests feeling/being in debt]].
* FieryRedhead: She is redheaded and is fiery and boisterous as most Angels/Asgardians warrior alike.
* FireForgedFriends: With Gamora during her time with Guardians of the Galaxy. It was Gamora who jumped and fought her for the first time. Eventually as teammates, they are qualified enough to be SmashSisters.
* FlatEarthAtheist: As Angels in general she only believes in material things (Angels apparently have goddesses but those are generally restricted to aspects of fighting, survival or money), so concepts like an afterlife and coming back from the dead are foreign to her. Unfortunately for them Angels do belong to Marvel's Norse World Tree [[spoiler:meaning they go to Hel after death, because no Valkyrie would choose an Angel for Valhalla, and Hela was explicitly instructed to create the worst hell for them, because of ''Aldrif's fate''.]]
* {{Flight}}: She's apparently capable to fly in the vacuum of space. Her BattleBallgown costume comes with a pair of wings and this power.
* HealingFactor: She's not invulnerable to all harm and it is possible sufficient blunt physical force can injure her. But due to her unique physiology she is able to heal from most injuries much faster than a human being could.
* LampshadeHanging:
-->'''Sera:''' Hey, you know what would be fun right now, [[InfoDump blatant exposition]].
* LongLived: It is a common misconception that Angela and the other Gods of Asgard are truly immortal. Angela and the other members of her race do age but at a rate so slow that to other beings they give the appearance of immortality.
* LongLostRelative: A tie-in to ''ComicBook/OriginalSin'' and ''Comicbook/LokiAgentOfAsgard'' reveals that Angela is Odin's daughter, and thus [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]]'s half-sister and Loki's adopted sister.
* MeaningfulRename: She's renamed as Angela when she's raised by Angels.
* MercurysWings: She wears a winged circlet on her head.
* MissingMom: Apparently her surrogate mother, one of the Queen's servants, disappeared mysteriously. When the representative of the church of the tenth realm tried to bribe her with information about her... she didn't take it kindly.
* MonochromaticEyes: Her eyes colour is white.
* MostCommonSuperpower: Angela natch.
* MsFanservice: MostCommonSuperpower? Check. {{Stripperiffic}} with ChainmailBikini? Check.
* MultiMeleeMaster: Uses a variety of weapons, including a CoolSword, an axe, her ribbons, and some kind of [[BladeOnAStick polearm-looking-like-thing.]]
* [[NinetiesAntiHero Nineties Anti-Heroine]]: MostCommonSuperpower? Check. {{Stripperiffic}} with ChainmailBikini? Check. ''Really'' [[BloodKnight likes killing things]] with an arsenal of [[CoolSword extremely]] [[AnAxeToGrind varied]] [[WhipItGood weapons?]] Check. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Belt big enough to cover her entire pelvis?]] Check.
* {{Omniglot}}: Thanks to the Allspeak she can communicate in all of the languages of the Nine Realms, Earth's dialects, and various alien languages.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: Or rather, she isn't an Angel, but Asgardian. But she's raised by Angel and thus once believed that she was an Angel. But also Angels here are a race of ruthless and ruthlessly effective ''mercenaries'', with philosophies centred around materialism.
** The more traditional image of angels as winged servants of {{God}} have showed up a couple of times in ''ComicBook/GhostRider'' comics, but are completely separate from the Tenth Realm versions associated with Asgard.
* RaisedByOrcs: She's an Asgardian, but she's raised by Angels who are at war with Asgardians.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: When she is accidentally dragged from the Tenth Realm, she swears vengeance on [[ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} the one who caused it to happen]].
* SmashSisters: Angela and Gamora in ''ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy''.
* StatuesqueStunner: Stands tall at 6'2" and is the tallest woman in ''ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy''.
* TheStoic: As Sera lampshaded Angela is [[UpToEleven too stoic to even have an expository inner monologue]].
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Even her creator Neil Gaiman himself has questioned the practicality of Angela's dress code. Lampshaded by Leah as apparently Sera described her in a [[ChainmailBikini space bikini]] to her... and in [[AllWomenAreLustful vivid detail]]. Leah sounds a tad disappointed that Angela is in a new (and much less revealing) costume when they meet.
* StylishProtectionGear: In her second solo series her armour is more modest but still stylish.
* SuperHeroGods: She's Asgardian, biological daughter of All-Father Odin and All-Mother Frigga, sister to ComicBook/TheMightyThor, the God of Thunder. Angela herself once joined the superhero team, Guardians of the Galaxy, and fought alongside them.
* SuperStrength: Considering her ability to match an admittedly weary and wounded Thor blow for blow, noting that he had 'a slight edge in raw strength', she should also possess Class 100 strength. At the same time, she noted that she was far faster than he was, though this, again, should be taken in the context of his weakened state.
* {{Transgender}}: Sera (male-to-female) has gotten substantial attention from the press for being the first transgender leading character in a comic book.
* UnderwearOfPower: Which is covered by oversized belt.
* WarriorPrincess: While she initially didn't know this, she's a daughter of Odin and Frigga, King and Queen of Asgard. Everybody kicks ass in this royal family.
* WeaponOfChoice: She wields [[AnAxeToGrind axe]] and [[CoolSword sword]] into battle.
* WhipItGood: Has a pair of "ribbons" that are either a part of her armor or a part of her, that function halfway between this and WhipSword.
----

Her first ongoing series started in December 2014, titled as ''Angela: Asgard's Assassin'', written by Creator/KieronGillen and Creator/MargueriteBennett. During ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015'' the title was replaced by ''[[ComicBook/Marvel1602 1602: Witch Hunter Angela]]''. Post ''Secret Wars'', her story continued in ''Angela: Queen of Hel'', which concluded in April 2016.

* ''Angela: Queen of Hel''

* BreakingTheFourthWall: The #6 issue of Queen of Hel references the writer, its own comic and other comics directly.

** It happens again in ''Queen of Hel'', twice. [[spoiler: The Leah who is now living with Angela and Sera turns out to be the Leah from the ''Secret Wars: Siege'' miniseries]], and issue 6 brings Angela up against the Faustian Queen, who is really [[spoiler: Angela from ''[[ComicBook/Marvel1602 1602: Witch Hunter Angela]]'', who was brought into the main Marvel universe due to the cursed play written by Lady Serah somehow falling through the cracks when the Multiverse was reborn. Said play is now believed to be a lost Shakespearean play that is common knowledge, and even Thor recalls reading it in high school.]]

* RescuedFromTheUnderworld: The basic premise of the ''Queen of Hel'' series. [[spoiler:Which means Sera is dead, and the "Sera" we meet outside of flashbacks in ''Asgards's Assassin'' is Malekith impersonating her.]]

* ShoutOut:
** ''Queen of Hell'' #5 is titled "[[Music/{{Beyonce}} Watch the Queen Conquer]]."
** Sera compares Angela and herself to "[[Series/{{XenaWarriorPrincess}} Xena and Gabrielle]]"
** Sera mentions waiting for the next "[[Main/{{ContemporaryRAndB}} Frank Ocean]]" Album.
** Sera tells Angela that the story makes perfectly sense, she just need to read more [[Creator/KieronGillen Gillen]]. The writer of the last Angela comic. At the end of the scene she also mentions the [[Franchise/{{FinalFantasy}} Final Fantasy Victory Theme]].
** One of the guards in Hel says that Angela and her family reminds him of [[Series/{{GameOfThrones}} Game Of Thrones]].

!!Angela appears in:

[[AC:Notable Comic Books appearance]]

[[AC:Television]]

!!Tropes