BIOGRAPHY - Page 5
X-Factor survived through various battles with the likes of Tower, Apocalypse and Freedom Force. When Jean found out about Cyclops's wife, she turned to Angel for comfort, straining his friendship with Scott. When Candy Southern came looking for her lover, concerned with affairs at Worthington Enterprises, which she was governing in his absence, she caught Warren and Jean in an intimating pose. Angrily, Candy walked away. Jean told Warren to go after her but, since the team was busy with rescuing the Morlocks from getting slaughtered in the tunnels below New York, he refused. Hodge, meanwhile, had secretly become a rabid mutant hater over the years and was using X-Factor as part of a plot to destroy Angel and all other mutants. Since X-Factor's stated public goal was to track down and capture mutants, Hodge used them to fuel the public's hatred of Homo Superior. [X-Factor (1st series) #10]
During the Mutant Massacre, little Artie Maddicks became lost in the tunnels and, while the rest of X-Factor was tending to some wounded Morlocks, Angel alone searched for the little boy. He found him, but they were attacked by a trio of Marauders. Although he knew that in the tunnels he had no real chance to fight, as the limited space hindered his wings, Angel told the boy to run while he kept the villains busy. He lost the fight and the Marauder known as Harpoon pinned Angel to a wall by his wings, severely damaging them. Blockbuster continued the job by ripping out many feathers and giving Warren a heavy beating. More dead than alive, Angel was found by Thor, who drove off the Marauders and returned Warren to his teammates. [Thor (1st series) #373-374, X-Factor (1st series) #]
When Angel was brought to the hospital, Hodge planted false evidence that showed that amputation was the only way to save him. With Warren having no living relatives, the matter was brought to court and it was decided that the wings had to come off, despite the objections of his teammates. 
Also, since Angel's injuries were so public, it blew their cover as mutant hunters. Hodge convinced Angel to turn over all of his assets to X-Factor in case he died, with Cameron as the beneficiary. Cameron thought Warren would try suicide after the loss of his wings and he had control over X-Factor's assets, which he used to fund his own agency, the Right, a group of fanatic mutant haters. Distraught after the amputation, Angel escaped from the hospital and went to his private jet to "fly one last time!" In midair, his jet exploded, apparently completing his suicide mission. [X-Factor (1st series) #14-15]
While Hodge was taking over X-Factor, Warren was, in fact, still alive. At the moment of the plane's explosion, he was teleported away by the immortal mutant known as Apocalypse. Using Celestial technology
, Apocalypse turned Warren's skin blue and caused him to grow a new, bio-metallic set of wings from his back. These new wings could retract into his shoulders, as well as fire "feather fletchettes," wing darts that paralyzed the nervous system of whoever they hit. Due to brainwashing and his own distraught feelings, Warren was convinced by Apocalypse to become his winged Angel of Death. Along with the anorexic child Famine, the former Morlock called Pestilence and an ex-soldier now called War, they were the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Just as X-Factor finally defeated Hodge's Right organization, Apocalypse struck. Death willingly fought his former friends until he was tricked into believing he had killed Iceman. This shocked him back to his senses and he turned against Apocalypse. While most of X-Factor escaped after defeating the Horsemen, their new member, Caliban, took Warren's place in Apocalypse’s group. [X-Factor (1st series) #18-19, 21-25]
Death wouldn't retake his place in X-Factor, however, as he wanted to hunt down and kill Cameron Hodge, who was still on the loose, for all he had done to his family. On his quest to find Hodge, Death found that Hodge had kidnapped Candy Southern. In the final battle between the two, Hodge killed Candy and, in retaliation, Death sliced Hodge's head off with his wings. [X-Factor (1st series) #34]
Days later, when the Inferno struck, Death returned to fight alongside X-Factor. After helping to win the battles against S'ym, Nastir'h, the Goblin Queen, Sinister and the Marauders, Warren came back to the team and, after finding the new alias Dark Angel not very fitting, he adopted Archangel as his moniker. [X-Factor (1st series) #36, Uncanny X-Men (1st series) #243]
After a long adventure in outer space, X-Factor’s return to Earth caused quite a commotion. In the confusion, policewoman Charlotte Jones fell out of a helicopter and was saved by Archangel. [X-Factor (1st series) #51] Warren soon learned that his new wings reacted to his emotions, lashing out whenever he became angry. He was able to control them with a large amount of concentration.
Later, Archangel was psionically attacked by the Ravens, a group of semi-immortal superbeings with violent empathic abilities. Since he had killed one of the group, Warren had to take the dead Raven's place to complete their circle again. The psychic vampires performed the introduction ritual and the effect would have become permanent after Archangel killed his first victim. Crimson, the Ravens’ leader, had chosen Charlotte for his first kill. 
However, when Warren started absorbing her life-memories, he learned of the death of Charlotte’s husband, who died as a cop in the line of duty, and also of her son, Timmy, whom she was raising with the boy’s grandma. Charlotte’s courage provided Archangel with the strength to break free from the Ravens’ control and, by killing Crimson, he weakened the circle to the point that all of the Ravens perished. Shortly afterwards, Warren and Charlotte started dating each other. [X-Factor (1st series) #57-59]