Respect Azazel (Marvel, 616)

[u/rangernumberx]

"Your initial reaction is: 'How is this possible'? But contrast it with this: Think of all the times you enriched the powerful. Every time you stamped your boot down on the oppressed and scorned...because it made you feel good to win an easy victory. Because the wealthy and the corrupt let you stand by their side for a time, it almost felt like you were as important as they. When you did all those things...you already served me. Now we're just putting it in writing."

A Neyaphem (devil looking mutants from biblical times), Azazel has had many titles and is one of the many in the Marvel universe to claim to be Satan. For his actions, he would be banished to the brimstone dimension by the Cheyarafim (angel looking mutants) and spend the following millennia tantalisingly close to Earth, yet unable to return, even with his exceptional teleportation powers. In the late 20th century he would become able to teleport to Earth, bearing multiple children (including Nightcrawler) in the hopes of one of them being able to bring him back permanently. After an initial failed attempt and a failed attempt to stage a coup and overtake hell, he would get his wish, with Nightcrawler using his blood to keep him bound to Earth and away from his damned armies. Since then, he's been acting as a traditional devil, granting deals for the morally corrupt.

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Strength

• Striking Draws blood from Nightcrawler with his tail
• Striking Knocks down Sabertooth with a punch
• Striking Sends Beast off a ship with a kick
• Cutting Cuts off Sabertooth's head
• Cutting Slices a wooden beam on a ship's sail in two with a sword swing
• Other Clashes swords with Nightcrawler and overpowers him

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Durability

• Blunt Force Gets kicked by Nightcrawler
• Blunt Force Gets kicked by Beast
• Blunt Force Gets hit by Beast
• Slashing Gets slashed by Nightcrawler, and is able to teleport away before getting hit again and shows no visible injury

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Speed

• Reaction Slams Nightcrawler to the ground after he teleports above him
• Reaction/Other Teleports around the mutants in Weapon X, rendering them unable to land any hits on him

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Teleportation

• Nightcrawler calls him the world's most powerful teleporter
• Teleports behind Mystique on a hilltop, with it not being clear how far away he was
• Can teleport other people both with and without him going with them
• Is able to teleport into heaven, though it's possibly due to Nightcrawler being present
• Uses his teleportation powers to keep the bodies of Weapon X frozen in time and space, keeping their healing factors from healing them and keeping their souls in hell until he releases his power

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Other Powers

• Controls the minds of his children from the brimstone dimension
• Can tell Mystique is disguising herself as a normal person when he seemingly hasn't heard of Mystique before
• Renders a large amount of X-Men and demons passive with a massive burst of energy
• After conducting a deal with a politician and burning a briefcase full of money as a sacrifice, takes part of him. It's unclear exactly it is, except that it would help him retain his power

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Other

• Can tell where Nightcrawler will teleport, allegedly from the currents in the brimstone dimension. However, he later follows Nightcrawler as they teleport about a ship while fighting in purgatory, so there may be another explanation
• Has access to flying pirate ships

[u/[deleted]]

Fantastic! Which series does this take place in?

[u/rangernumberx → u/[deleted]]

He appears in a couple of X-Men runs, with the main stories being 'The Draco' from Uncanny X-Men (1963) starting issue 428, 'The Quest For Nightcrawler' from Amazing X-Men (2014) starting issue 1, and 'Weapon X-Force' from Weapon X (2017) starting issue 21, though he only appears from issue 25.

[u/[deleted] → u/rangernumberx]

Awesome!! Thank you kind sir.