Warning: accommodates spoilers for Darkish X-Males #2
In maybe probably the most horrific evolution in X-Males historical past, the founding member Angel has been remodeled right into a nightmarish omen of dying by a sadistic variant of Madelyne Pryor in Darkish X-Males #2. Warren Worthington III first debuted in 1963’s The X-Males #1 because the high-flying mutant hero Angel, however since his introduction, he has been subjected to years of torture and undesirable transformations, damaging his psyche completely.
Whereas Warren was first launched as a extremely impartial, rich inheritor, his life since then has been outlined by a lack of company and management, compelled into turning into a Horseman of Dying by Apocalypse earlier than adopting the violent Archangel persona. Darkish X-Males #2, from author Steve Foxe and artists Jonas Scharf and Frank Martin, sees the Goblin Queen from Earth-91240 working with Orchis and utilizing a deformed, skull-headed Archangel to slaughter a gaggle of Morlock mutants.
The Madelyne Pryor of Earth-91240 was first seen throughout Secret Wars, ruling a area of Limbo on Battleworld as its baroness, and when the Multiverse was restored, this Madelyne survived, by some means transported to Earth-616’s personal Limbo. Madelyne recruited Multiversal mutants to turn out to be her Hex-Males, together with the time-displayed Beast of Earth-616, however was ultimately betrayed by him and seemingly banished completely again to Limbo. Darkish X-Males #2 reveals that Orchis discovered her in Limbo, together with her Madelyne character fully erased, current solely because the demonic Goblin Queen alongside her pet Bamf Dragon.
The Goblin Queen, in Orchis custody, is proven to drink the blood of a human sacrifice. After, the Queen performs a ritual above the nearly-deceased Archangel’s physique, calling him her “fallen angel.“ Later, Callisto is main a gaggle of Morlock mutants on a ship in an ocean when a mysterious pressure assaults them, ruthlessly murdering a number of harmless mutants earlier than the attacker is revealed to be Warren. Carrying his Archangel costume, however with pitch-black metallic wings, Warren’s head has been totally changed with a bleeding cranium, as soon as once more turning into a horrific imaginative and prescient of Dying itself.
Angel was not too long ago remodeled right into a horrific beast in Legion of X by Nightcrawler’s magical mom Margali Szardos, and it looks like the “angelic” hero is solely unable to catch a break. No matter spell the Goblin Queen forged on Archangel entails, he seems to be totally beneath her management, making him a serious risk to Madelyne Pryor’s new Darkish X-Males. The mutant Maggott is livid that Madelyne and the Darkish X-Males left Archangel with Orchis, so Pryor might want to discover a method to save Warren with out killing him if she hopes to take care of any semblance of respect and belief together with her workforce.
Orchis has not revealed the true goal for capturing this Goblin Queen or Bamf Dragon, however it’s clear that Agent Krol and Agent Vallens have extremely sinister functions for the malicious witch. Poor Angel has an extended historical past of being manipulated and managed by powerfully darkish forces, compelled to assault his buddies time and again, and this newest transformation doesn’t bode properly for his future as a hero. Hopefully, Madelyne Pryor and her Darkish X-Males will discover a method to rescue Warren and break the Goblin Queen’s maintain over him, or else he is perhaps caught as a nightmarish specter of Dying as soon as once more.
Darkish X-Males #2 from Marvel Comics is offered now in shops.