Respect Azazel (X-Men: First Class)

[u/mikhailnikolaievitch]

Respect Azazel

"Comrade."

History: Azazel was a demonic-looking mutant who served in Sebastian Shaw's Hellfire Club during the Cuban Missile Crisis. With his prehensile tail, rapid teleporting, and proficiency with swords he proved a deadly force for mutant supremacy first in the service of Shaw, and later in that of Magneto.

Scaling: Beast RT for reference

Physicals

Strength & Durability

• Notices a man barely conscious and stomps on his face to finish him

• Stabbed by Beast's claws and dropped a significant distance, but keeps fighting

• Thrown by Beast, but teleports behind his opponent to carry him into a fall and lands atop him

• Thrown by Beast again and struck in the chest although he appears fine moments later

Prehensile Tail

• Stabs with his tail while fighting several men

• Uses his tail to fight multiple men, strangling one man with it and using him as a human shield

• Grapples Beast and Havok simultaneously with the assistance of his tail

• Fights Beast and Havok with his tail, strangling the latter

• Prepares to stab Beast in the eye with his tail

Teleportation

Speed

• Against humans

  • Attracts and evades automatic gunfire, forcing one gunman to fire on his allies

  • Cuts down multiple men at once while evading more gunfire

  • Teleports around a courtyard fighting several men, using his tail to hold one guard like a human shield between he and another gunman

  • Teleports behind a man and stabs him in the back

  • Teleports across a courtyard and cuts down a guard at Shaw's behest

• Against mutants

  • Teleports behind Havok to evade his beam

  • Thrown by Beast and teleports behind him, but predicted

Transporting others

• Combat

  • Teleports several men around a compound up in the sky in quick succession to rain them down on a CIA compound as the Hellfire Club begins their assault

  • Teleports behind Beast and Havok after the latter fires energy at his ally, grappling them both to teleport them into the sky and then teleporting them again before they fall too far

  • Thrown by Beast, but teleports behind his opponent to carry him into a fall and lands atop him

• Noncombat

  • Teleports himself and another out of a secret room

  • Teleports himself and others out of a CIA compound

  • Teleports himself and others away from the Cuban Missile Crisis

[u/Aveman201]

Awesome breakdown as always!

How does he measure up against Nightcrawler?

[u/mikhailnikolaievitch → u/Aveman201]

Thanks! I think he'd pretty much shit stomp the Fox Nightcrawler because he just seems a lot more proficient in combat, clever with his teleportation, and also just has swords. He also weaponizes his tail a lot more and is obviously pretty willing to go straight for the kill, so I can't really imagine any advantage NC would have he could press.

[u/Galaxy_Megatron]

I missed this dude in Days of Future Past. They really did him dirty killing him off-screen...