# Angel Salvadore
**Angel Salvadore** is a fictional mutant character in [Marvel Comics](https://www.edgepedia.org/marvel-comics), introduced in *New X-Men* vol. 1 #118 (November 2001) as a teenage student at the Xavier Institute whose powers mirror those of a housefly: insectoid wings, acidic saliva, and an insect-like reproductive system.[1](https://heykidscomics.fandom.com/wiki/Angel_Salvadore) • [2](https://comicvine.gamespot.com/angel-salvadore/4005-40593/forums/x-men-first-class-character-profile-angel-salvador-615596/) She was created by writer [Grant Morrison](https://www.edgepedia.org/grant-morrison) and artist Ethan Van Sciver during Morrison's *New X-Men* run.[2](https://comicvine.gamespot.com/angel-salvadore/4005-40593/forums/x-men-first-class-character-profile-angel-salvador-615596/) She shares her codename with the original Angel, Warren Worthington III, a founding member of the X-Men with feathered wings, and the two are entirely separate characters.[3](https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Angel)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| First appearance | *New X-Men* vol. 1 #118, November 2001, in the "Germ Free Generation" storyline[1](https://heykidscomics.fandom.com/wiki/Angel_Salvadore) • [4](https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/New_X-Men_Vol_1_118) |
| Creators | Grant Morrison and Ethan Van Sciver[2](https://comicvine.gamespot.com/angel-salvadore/4005-40593/forums/x-men-first-class-character-profile-angel-salvador-615596/) |
| Powers | Insectoid physiology: a single pair of wings, secretion of digestive acid, and a five-day gestation period with egg-laying rather than live birth[5](https://characters-and-their-super-powers.fandom.com/wiki/Tempest) |
| Key relationships | Partner of the X-Men student Beak, with whom she had multiple rapidly aging children[6](https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Angel_Salvadore_%28Earth-616%29) • [2](https://comicvine.gamespot.com/angel-salvadore/4005-40593/forums/x-men-first-class-character-profile-angel-salvador-615596/) |
| Later alias | Tempest, as a member of the New Warriors with technologically based fire, ice, and flight powers[5](https://characters-and-their-super-powers.fandom.com/wiki/Tempest) |
| Film portrayal | Zoë Kravitz in *X-Men: First Class* (2011)[7](https://autistscorner.blogspot.com/2011/06/this-is-not-review-of-x-men-first-class.html?m=0) |
## Introduction in New X-Men
Angel Salvadore was introduced as a new student at the Xavier Institute in "Germ Free Generation (Part 1)" (*New X-Men* #118), appearing unnamed in her first appearance alongside the [Stepford Cuckoos](https://www.edgepedia.org/stepford-cuckoos), another group of new students.[4](https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/New_X-Men_Vol_1_118) When she first appeared, Angel was fourteen and lived with her mother, her sister, and the man she believed to be her father in a trailer park.[8](https://uncannyxmen.net/characters/angel-salvadore) An annotation of the issue describes her as a key character of the first half of Morrison's run, introduced to give the book point-of-view characters for its teenage audience.[9](https://sites.google.com/deepspacetransmissions.com/deepspacetransmissions/annotations/new-x-men/new-x-men-118-annotations)
Her mutant nature made her a target of the U-Men, a transhumanist group hunting fresh mutant specimens; she was rescued by the X-Men, with [Wolverine](https://www.edgepedia.org/wolverine) among those involved.[8](https://uncannyxmen.net/characters/angel-salvadore) • [10](https://www.freewareideologico.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Retrospectiva-New-X-Men.pdf)
## Powers
Angel's mutation gave her an insectoid physiology modeled on the housefly. At the onset of her mutation she spun a cocoon around herself, and her body's physical makeup changed, producing a single pair of wings and a special gland for producing digestive acid, which she could expel as a weapon capable of melting most substances.[5](https://characters-and-their-super-powers.fandom.com/wiki/Tempest) • [6](https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Angel_Salvadore_%28Earth-616%29) Her body was capable of withstanding the rigors of flight.[5](https://characters-and-their-super-powers.fandom.com/wiki/Tempest)
Her reproductive system also changed to match that of most insects. She had a gestation period of five days and laid eggs, suspended upside down by an adhesive substance, rather than giving birth to live young.[5](https://characters-and-their-super-powers.fandom.com/wiki/Tempest) • [6](https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Angel_Salvadore_%28Earth-616%29)
## Beak, the Special Class, and Xorn
At the Institute Angel became involved with fellow student Beak, a bird-like mutant, and the two had a brood of children who combined both parents' features; the children aged rapidly and were assumed to have shortened life spans.[2](https://comicvine.gamespot.com/angel-salvadore/4005-40593/forums/x-men-first-class-character-profile-angel-salvador-615596/) Angel confided her pregnancy to Beak, and the pair hid their domestic life in the school's shed, where she placed pods on the ceiling to gestate her offspring.[6](https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Angel_Salvadore_%28Earth-616%29) Their clandestine existence was exposed when [Emma Frost](https://www.edgepedia.org/emma-frost) was murdered and Sage and Bishop investigated the crime scene; suspicion fell on Angel until the eggs hatched and the young parents were absolved of wrongdoing.[6](https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Angel_Salvadore_%28Earth-616%29)
Angel belonged to the school's Special Class, a group of students overseen by Emma Frost, who took her on as a mentee.[11](https://comic-watch.com/news/examining-new-x-men-pt-12-out-and-proud/amp) When Xorn declared himself to be Magneto and coerced the Special Class into the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, Angel and Beak instead sparked a rebellion within the class against Xorn's ideology and helped the X-Men in their counteroffensive against his stronghold in New York City.[6](https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Angel_Salvadore_%28Earth-616%29) After the school was rebuilt, Angel, Beak, and their children were allowed to live in the shed in the woods.[6](https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Angel_Salvadore_%28Earth-616%29)
## Tempest and M-Day
Before the [Scarlet Witch](https://www.edgepedia.org/scarlet-witch)'s M-Day, the event that depowered most of the world's mutants, Angel was a mutant; she lost her powers in that event.[5](https://characters-and-their-super-powers.fandom.com/wiki/Tempest) As Tempest, she later joined the [New Warriors](https://www.edgepedia.org/new-warriors), where her costume gave her technologically based fire, ice, and flight powers in place of her lost mutation.[5](https://characters-and-their-super-powers.fandom.com/wiki/Tempest)
## Film portrayal
Angel Salvadore appeared as a supporting character in the 2011 film *X-Men: First Class*, played by [Zoë Kravitz](https://www.edgepedia.org/zoe-kravitz), as a mutant who works as an exotic dancer and is recruited by a young Charles Xavier and [Erik Lehnsherr](https://www.edgepedia.org/magneto-marvel-comics) for their team.[7](https://autistscorner.blogspot.com/2011/06/this-is-not-review-of-x-men-first-class.html?m=0) • [12](https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/64255/1/M_Kent_thesis_final.pdf) The film version differs from the comics: the cinematic Angel is depicted as a victim defined by exploitation, while the comics character shows more confident agency, and her comic storylines with Beak and the Special Class do not appear in the film.[7](https://autistscorner.blogspot.com/2011/06/this-is-not-review-of-x-men-first-class.html?m=0)
## Name confusion with Warren Worthington III
Because both characters use the codename Angel, Angel Salvadore is frequently confused with [Warren Worthington III](https://www.edgepedia.org/warren-worthington-iii), the founding X-Man with feathered wings. Marvel's own character material notes the irony of a Xavier Institute student named Angel having repulsive insect-like abilities in contrast to the original.[3](https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Angel) The two differ in background and role: Salvadore is a younger mutant who joined later teams, while Worthington is one of the original five X-Men.[13](https://old.fasciaguide.com/expl/zoe-kravitzs-x-men-role-angel-salvadore-explained-the-complete-story-of-the-blue-goddess) Commentators have also noted that Morrison's introduction of a new Angel gave the X-Men a character free from the continuity that had accumulated around Worthington over the preceding decades.[9](https://sites.google.com/deepspacetransmissions.com/deepspacetransmissions/annotations/new-x-men/new-x-men-118-annotations)
## Reception
In a ComicsAlliance retrospective rating X-Men characters, Angel Salvadore was praised for retaining her short-fused dynamism and stubborn charm throughout her time in the X-books, a tenure one panelist described as shamefully short, and for being a precursor to the character [Miss America](https://www.edgepedia.org/miss-america).[14](https://comicsalliance.com/100-x-men-day-nine/) A Comic Watch retrospective argued that, despite her crudeness and flaws, she was a better student than [Quentin Quire](https://www.edgepedia.org/quentin-quire) and a fundamentally decent person whose mentorship with Emma Frost taught her pride and confidence.[11](https://comic-watch.com/news/examining-new-x-men-pt-12-out-and-proud/amp)
## References
1. [Angel Salvadore, Hey Kids Comics Wiki](https://heykidscomics.fandom.com/wiki/Angel_Salvadore)
2. [X-Men: First Class Character Profile: Angel Salvadore, Comic Vine](https://comicvine.gamespot.com/angel-salvadore/4005-40593/forums/x-men-first-class-character-profile-angel-salvador-615596/)
3. [Angel, Marvel Database](https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Angel)
4. [New X-Men Vol 1 118, Marvel Database](https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/New_X-Men_Vol_1_118)
5. [Tempest, Characters and their Super Powers Wiki](https://characters-and-their-super-powers.fandom.com/wiki/Tempest)
6. [Angel Salvadore (Earth-616), Marvel Database](https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Angel_Salvadore_%28Earth-616%29)
7. [This Is Not a Review of "X-Men: First Class", Autist's Corner](https://autistscorner.blogspot.com/2011/06/this-is-not-review-of-x-men-first-class.html?m=0)
8. [Angel Salvadore, uncannyxmen.net](https://uncannyxmen.net/characters/angel-salvadore)
9. [New X-Men #118 Annotations, Deep Space Transmissions](https://sites.google.com/deepspacetransmissions.com/deepspacetransmissions/annotations/new-x-men/new-x-men-118-annotations)
10. [Retrospectiva New X-Men](https://www.freewareideologico.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Retrospectiva-New-X-Men.pdf)
11. [Examining New X-Men Pt. 12: Out and Proud, Comic Watch](https://comic-watch.com/news/examining-new-x-men-pt-12-out-and-proud/amp)
12. [M. Kent thesis, University of East Anglia](https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/64255/1/M_Kent_thesis_final.pdf)
13. [Zoë Kravitz's X-Men Role: Angel Salvadore Explained, Fascaguide](https://old.fasciaguide.com/expl/zoe-kravitzs-x-men-role-angel-salvadore-explained-the-complete-story-of-the-blue-goddess)
14. [100 X-Men: Rating Lockheed, Angel S., Beast, Magik & Artie, ComicsAlliance](https://comicsalliance.com/100-x-men-day-nine/)
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