HISTORY: WARREN WORTHINTON'S MUTATION -- WINGS WHICH GREW FROM HIS SHOULDER BLADES -- FIRST APPEARED DURING HIS ADOLESCENCE, AND SOON HE DISCOVERED THAT HE COULD USE THOSE WINGS TO FLY. CALLING HIMSELF "THE AVENGING ANGEL," HE CAME TO NEW YORK CITY, WHERE FOR A SHORT PERIOD HE WAS A CRIMEFIGHTER. IT WAS AT THIS TIME THAT PROFESSOR XAVIOR CONTACTED WORTHINGTON, INVITING HIM TO JOIN HIS TEAM OF X-MEN. SHORTENING HIS NAME TO "THE ANGEL," WORTHINGTON, ALONG WITH HAVOK, ARIEL, THE BEAST AND ICE-MAN, LIVED A LIFE OF HIGH ADVENTURE WHILE STRUGGLING TO MAINTAIN PEACE BETWEEN THE HUMAN AND MUTANT POPULACE.
         WHEN HIS PARENTS DIED, WARREN INHERITED THEIR FORTUNE, USED SOME OF IT TO FINANCE HIS OWN SHORT-LIVED SUPER-TEAM, THE CHAMPIONS, AND PUBLICLY REVEALED HIS IDENTITY AND MUTANT ABILITY. HE THEN MARRIED HIS LONG-TIME GIRLFRIEND, CANDY SOUTHERN.
         WITH THE FORMATION OF X-FACTOR, THE ANGEL WAS REUNITED WITH HIS TEAMMATES, BECOMING ONE OF THE TEAM'S FOUNDING MEMBERS, BUT AN ENCOUNTER WITH APOCALYPSE SHATTERED HIS NEWFOUND HAPPINESS. APOLCALYPSE ABDUCTED WORTHINGTON, ALTERING HIS DNA AND MUTATING HIM INTO WHAT HE DEEMED HIS "HORSEMAN OF DEATH." THIS WAS THE BEGINNING OF THE END FOR THE CAREFREE ANGEL. HIS FEATHERY WINGS HAD BEEN TRANSFORMED INTO LEATHERY "BAT-WING," HIS FINGERS ENDED IN RAZOR-LIKE CLAWS, AND HE FOUND HIMSELF WITH THE ABILITY TO BREATHE FIRE. WORSE, HIS DEMEANOR HAD CHANGED. NOW HE WAS COLDER, MORE AGGRESSIVE. IT WAS ALMOST AS IF HIS SOUL HAD BEEN TAKEN FROM HIM ALONG WITH HIS WINGS. THE BREAKING POINT FOR WORTHINGTON COINCIDED WITH THE DEATH OF CANDY -- A DEATH WHICH HE FELT ULTIMATELY RESPONSIBLE FOR. WHILE THIS TRAMA SERVED TO BREAK THE ANGEL FROM APOCALYPSE'S HOLD, THAT FREEDOM CAME FAR TOO LATE. WITH HIS WIFE DEAD, AND HIS HUMANITY GONE, WORTHINGTON ADOPTED THE NAME "THE FALLEN," AND VANISHED.
         WHEN THE SIX BEGAN TO FORM, THE FALLEN RETURNED, MUCH LIKE BLOODSTORM, HIS RECENT WHEREABOUTS REMAIN A MYSTERY. IT SEEMS AS THOUGH HE HAS REJOINEDHIS TEAMMATES IN AN EFFORT TO FIND SELF-REDEMPTION, ALTHOUGH HIS VIOLENT ACTIONS SOMETIMES SEEM TO CONTRADICT THIS.

POWERS:
THE FALLEN RETAINS THE ABILITY OF FLIGHT THAT HE HAD AS THE ANGEL. IN ADDITION, HE CAN BREATHE FIRE AND POSSESSES SHARP CLAWS AT THE END OF HIS FINGERTIPS. AS A RESULT OF APOCALYPSE'S GENETIC TAMPERING, HE HAS ENHANCED STRENGTH.