Dark Angel (Marvel Comics)
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- This article is about the Marvel Comics character, Dark Angel. For the article on the television series, see Dark Angel (TV series).
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Dark Angel (Shevaun Haldane), originally Hell's Angel, is a fictional superheroine from the Marvel Comics imprint Marvel UK. She first appeared in Hell's Angel #1 (July 1992); the character and the comic book were both renamed to Dark Angel with issue #6, apparently[citation needed] to avoid confusion with the Hells Angels biker club.
[edit] Publication history
Shevaun was the lead protagonist in the Marvel UK series, Hell's Angel and later, after the series was renamed Dark Angel.
[edit] Fictional character biography
In the Middle Ages, the sorcerers who would become the Mys-Tech Board of Directors were granted immortality by the demon Mephisto in exchange for the continued sacrifice of mortal souls. One of these men, Ranaulph Haldane, had a daughter named Shevaun in the modern period. When Shevaun was 21 years old, Mephisto killed her father for betraying him. Shevaun then saw the Angel of Death arrive for her father. The angel placed a fragment of the universe itself within Shevaun, and gave her a suit of high-tech body armor to control her new power. She fought Mys-Tech's agents and other techno-magical monsters across the Earth, in other dimensions, and in the afterlife.
She teamed up with numerous other American heroes and anti-heroes in the process, including the X-Men (particularly Wolverine and Psylocke), Hercules, Sabretooth, Doctor Strange, the Fantastic Four and the Avengers, as well as the "soul fragments" of the deceased Nuke and Nighthawk of the Squadron Supreme. She also teamed up with and/or fought fellow Marvel UK characters Death's Head II, the Knights of Pendragon, the Warheads, Genetix, Wild Thing, and Motormouth and Killpower, and joined several of these heroes in the short-lived team called the Dark Guard.
[edit] Alternate versions
- A future timeline's counterpart of Dark Angel was the herald of Galactus in the Marvel UK series Cyberspace 3000.
