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  • In the HBO miniseries Angels in America, an angel visits Prior to herald him as the Prophet, complete with fluffy white wings and Holy Backlight. Then she strips him naked and copulates with him before telling him that humans must "stop moving" so that God will lose interest in Earth and return to Heaven. Prior dazzled at first, comes to realize that this is not a feasible solution and wrestles with the angel until she allows him to climb up to Heaven to make his case for humanity in front of a Council of Angels. The angels are also hermaphrodites and are apparently oversexed because they're made of the very fires of creation. Prior ends up getting a "barometer" for whenever the Angel is going to make an appearance.
  • The Vorlons in Babylon 5 pretend to be angels of the big fluffy wings variety, but they are really just Sufficiently Advanced Aliens.They have the neat trick of appearing to "less advanced" species as their archetypal holy messenger, thanks to a few tens of thousands of years grooming (read, genetically manipulating) new species. So to humans at least, they look like fluffy-winged angels. Londo Mollari, however, saw nothing. Though never outright stated, it's implied that he didn't see anything because he's been touched by the Shadows (other theories like the Centauri weren't groomed by the Vorlons have also been put forward).
  • Battlestar Galactica: Old Seriesalien beings of light that travel in a ship of lights and oppose Count Iblis. New SeriesBaltar's vision of Six and Six's vision of Baltar are angels. And also demons. According to Ron Moore, they're the same thing. Kara's vision of Leoben that guides her to take her life and enter the maelstrom is implied to be one as well. Kara herself after her resurrection may be an angel of another sort altogether, in human form to lead them all to their end. They also show up in the prequel series Caprica. When she's fighting Tamara's minions in the New Cap City Arena, Zoe-A is mentored by another angelic being, which uses the same form as her.
  • The angels in Brimstone look like ordinary humans. The twist is that once a person has seen an angel, any other angel they see will look identical. As a result, Zeke Stone is initially skeptical of an angel who approaches him because he thinks it's just Satan messing with him.
  • In Charmed there are Whitelighters, essentially guardian angels - good people who were rewarded for their good deeds in death - who help and advise witches. Their wings are strictly metaphorical: although they never manifest any actual wings, having their powers revoked by the Council of Elders is referred to as having their "wings clipped." Normal Whitelighters are always shown to be dedicated servants of good, but their bosses, the Elders, are generally distant at best, and at least one becomes a Well-Intentioned Extremist and the Big Bad of the sixth season. They are also near invincible as they can be blown to pieces, only to quickly reform. However, they can die when shot by an arrow from their Evil Counterpart, Darklighters. Paige, the youngest sister is actually technically an angel as well. Her mother had an affair with her Whitelighter and got pregnant with her as a result. She has Whitelighter powers in addition to her Charmed ones, but she can also be killed by mortal causes and it's likely she won't live forever.
  • Doctor Who:
    • The Weeping Angels. These are explicitly aliens, "creatures of the abstract," and "as old as the Universe itself or very nearly." An Always Chaotic Evil race of sadistic, murderous psychopathic ideas (really, memes are the best way to describe them), they normally kill someone by sending them back in time and space to a point from where they will live a good, fulfilling alternate life, but that is just part of the complex way they feed- if they can afford it, they will kill you, brutally and painfully, For the Evulz, probably after playing cruel mind games about your impending death for the hell of it. They look like statues of Winged Humanoids, but only when they're being observed. When there's no sentient observer, they can move freely about, and do so at incredible speed. In addition, they have powerful telekinetic abilities and can kill you with a single touch. They reproduce according to the saying "whatever holds the image of an Angel becomes itself an angel," which means that new ones can emerge from photographs, videos or recordings of them, and even from the mental image you have in your head once you've seen one. So, essentially, if you're not looking at them, they'll kill you horribly, and if you are looking at them, you'll end up turning into one. It's implied in the episode "The End of Time" that the first Weeping Angels were actually Time Lords.
    • There's also The Host in "Voyage of the Damned" — angel-themed robot servants on the starship Titanic (not that Starship Titanic). When they're sent into Kill mode by the Big Bad, they pluck off their halos to use as weapons, leaving the two posts that held the halos on sticking up like horns.
  • In Dominion angels seem to be arranged in a hierarchy similar to tradition but with the lowest rank, referred to colloquially as "Eight Balls" indistinguishable from demons who lack a physical form and need to possess a human to manifest. The angels at the top are the Archangels with Gabriel waging war on humanity, thinking that destroying them will cause God (whom the Archangels all refer to as their father) to reappear and Michael taking their side. Most Eight Balls are servants of Gabriel and he has recently been joined by some of the Powers. Uriel meanwhile, who's a woman, seems to be playing both sides and there are angels of undisclosed rank hiding among humans. Oddly, all of them have black wings, even the good ones.
  • In Highway to Heaven, angels look just like humans. They do have supernatural knowledge and are implied to be able to teleport and use telekinesis (in the first episode, an Angel uses this to cause a car to break down to give him a lift; how very angelic). They wander the Earth or at least middle America, doing good deeds. This is carried over to Touched by an Angel, though the titular angels do get an inner light when they're being particularly inspirational, which isn't always a good thing. One episode of Touched by an Angel, set on October 30, 1938, had then-rookie angel Monica turning on her angel glow to calm down a crowd that was panicked by reports of a Martian Invasion (they were listening to Orson Welles' radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds). It didn't quite work.
  • The Lords in Kamen Rider Agito give of a somewhat angelic vibe. They look like humanoid animals, dressed in clothing normally associated with angels. When summoning their weapons, or are at the point of dying, a halo appears above their head. They actually are angels. In this series, the equivalent of God is revealed to be evil. Or at least a control freak that wants to lord over his creation, namely humanity, with an iron fist. On the other hand, the equivalent of Satan spread his essence among humanity, which will help them evolve to Agitos, superhuman beings capable of breaking free from "God's" control. "God", of course, is unhappy with this, and sends his angelic Lords to earth to kill off every human showing the tendency to evolve into an Agito.
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Tolkien created loose equivalents of archangels and angels in his universe as the Valar and Maiar. In the show, the Valar are mentioned and there is a brief flashback of Morgoth, an evil Valar and the loose equivalent of Lucifer. However, two Maiar are major characters. Sauron, the dark lord and main antagonist of the series is a Maiar. During the series, Sauron can take "fair form" and appears in the handsome human form of Lovable Rogue Halbrand. It is also revealed that The Stranger is an Istari, which is a kind of Maiar, and he is heavily implied to be the most famous Istari, Gandalf. All the Istari take human form, but in the form of old men.
  • Lucifer (2016):
    • Only three angels are shown: Lucifer himself (power of getting humans to reveal their deepest desires), his oldest brother Amenadiel (loyal servant of their father), and the middle brother Uriel (ability to see and affect patterns). All three have wings, although each has different wings, depending on his personality: Lucifer's are the standard "angelic white" and fluffy, indicating that he's a better person than he claims to be, Amenadiel's are metallic black and sharp, indicating his status as God's warrior and enforcer (they later turn gray and soft, symbolizing his change in character), and Uriel's are similar to Lucifer's but dirty-gray, showcasing his calculating mind and willingness to bend the rules. There is also mention of their sister Azrael, the Angel of Death. It's not clear how many angels there are total or if there are any other female angels besides Azrael. All angels are referred to as children of God and the Goddess, so their relationship is frequently portrayed as that of a typical family with a distant father.
    • By the end of Season 4, two more angels appeared: Azrael and Remiel. Both are portrayed as female. While Azrael's wings are of a relatively light shade, but not as bright as Lucifer's, Remiel's wings resemble a bird of prey. Among the family members mentioned up to this point are Gabriel, Michael, and Castiel. In Season 4, the first half-angel appears with Linda's and Amenadiel's son, Charlie. Linda is worried that he might be born with wings and they try to make her apartment baby Angel proof with padding at the ceiling..
  • In the Masters of Horror episode "Cigarette Burns", angels are corporeal creatures and can be tortured, and the one seen in the episode is quite uglier than one would expect at first. It's heavily implied that the evil of La Fin Absolue du Monde is the result of documenting the desecration of said angel.
  • In the Portuguese series 'Ninguém Tá Olhando' (Nobody's Looking) angeli appear to function as divine case-workers, protecting and observing designated humans over 24 hours, and then writing a report on them for mysterious purposes. As opposed to a suit or trenchcoat, all wear a uniform of white shirt, red tie, black pants, and black boots with red laces. All of them are redheaded, too, to the extent that a new angelus is surprised when a redheaded human is not another angelus like himself.
  • Preacher (2016): They look human; in fact, they're indistinguishable from them aside from the fact that they're immortal. If killed, they reappear at once from the nearest door. The only way to stop them is thus incapacitation. So far the only exception is the Saint of Killers, whose gun kills an angel (at his request). Most are middle management types, but one seraph shows up as well, a sort of warrior angel apparently.
  • Supernatural:
    • The series got into the game by introducing Castiel (an angel of Thursday apparently) who dragged Dean out of Hell and gave us the page quote. Design choices were clearly made with inspiration from Wings of Desire, The Prophecy, Good Omens, and probably a little bit from Dogma.
    • The angels of this setting give every indication of being fundamentally beings of light (Castiel calls it a "multidimensional wavelength of celestial intent"), though Zachariah says "in Heaven I have six wings and four faces, one of which is a lion," and in the next season Castiel refers to his own true form as being "roughly the size of your Chrysler Building," after which Dean tells him "All right, all right, quit bragging."
    • As they are unable to safely or effectively interact with matter in these forms, they must, with explicit permission, occupy human hosts to do anything in the world (demons in the setting do the same thing, but without asking permission). The collateral damage from their forms is also apparently the preferred form for combat since an otherwise-improbable percentage of the dead angel count are killed by stabbing while in vessels.
    • Without using traditional wings, they've raised Offscreen Teleportation to an art form, using it in place of traditional flight powers, though they can manifest echoes of wings (Castiel with shadows, Raphael with lightning, and so on) and they sometimes get a feather-ruffle sound effect when teleporting. Their death throes result in a burned imprint of wings on whatever surface(s) they were on, as seen from above, as well as a little falling ash for visual effect.
    • In keeping with the Crapsack World they were introduced to, these angels are mostly quite unhappy and in many cases even outright villainous. God has been AWOL for ages, but since no one ever really had contact with him, most of them don't know. Heaven is attempting to start the Apocalypse while pretending to stop it because a) the prophecy is the closest thing they've got to divine will b) something needs to change. Zachariah likes the power grab, Michael really wants to settle things with his brother, Raphael is disillusioned by God's absence, Gabriel is off impersonating Loki, and Lucifer wants to punish Daddy for abandoning them by breaking His favorite toy, the human race. There are mind games and betrayals and quite a lot of blood since apparently most angel magic is blood-based and it must be smeared on things.
    • Heaven is an extremely strict military organization, with Michael as the first general of the whole lot, and handing orders down through the ranks to the soldiers on the ground. Obedience is absolute, and torture to keep the angels in line is quite common. From lowest to highest, the Angel ranks are roughly Nephilim (considered abominations) -> Cherubim (Cupids) -> Angels (regular angels) -> Seraphim (higher-tier angels) -> Archangels (first tier angels).
    • There's a wide variety of angel personalities, even as it broke up in interesting ways. Uriel is a coldblooded bastard, Zachariah is a heartless creep, Anna and Balthazar are two very different flavors of hedonist, while Gabriel's a bit like Balthazar only all sense of humor and phenomenal cosmic archangel powers... Michael is a "Well Done, Son" Guy to the illogical extreme, and Lucifer is mild-mannered, casually cruel, and quite terrifying. Castiel, who gets the most screentime of all the angels, is morally complex - being earnest, socially awkward, loyal and well-intentioned but has been a Knight Templar.
    • Angels can be turned into humans by having their celestial essence, called "Grace" removed. Most angels cut off from Heaven will slowly lose their powers, although the higher tiers are more immune to these effects.
    • But angels do not become demons; if they undergo a Face–Heel Turn, they stay angels, just bad ones. Demons are former humans, essentially superpowered ghosts.
    • Angels do not have genders and use their hosts' pronouns for convenience. Some prefer vessels of a specific sex (Michael, for example, prefers male vessels) and some (such as Raphael) have no preference. Others, like Cas and Anna, only feel comfortable in a specific vessel, and use replicas of that vessel after the original body is destroyed (since vessels usually become useless once the owner's soul departs, this takes either "calling in some favors" or direct divine intervention).
  • Super Sentai seems to invoke a lot of angelic motifs into many of its shows:
    • An episode of Dengeki Sentai Changeman involving an angelic woman who turned out to be an alien from a world where people are winged, can do things like making flowers grow, and a smile or a song by one of its inhabitants can instantly drain the will to do violence or evil. She comes Back for the Finale to help the Changemen find their way to the Big Bad's lair. Any connection between her and the Goseigers (see below) lies in the realm of Fan Wank, though.
    • The Ohranger Robo from Chouriki Sentai Ohranger (the Zeo Megazord in Power Rangers Zeo), is inspired by Ezekiel's descriptions of both the Cherubim (the red, green and blue zords are a bird, bull, and lion respectively) and Thrones (the other two are chariots pulled by the bull and lion).
    • Mahou Sentai Magiranger features the Heavenly Saints from the heavenly world Magitopia, with names like Sungel, Raigel, and Magiel, and while they may lack wings, they otherwise fit the bill quite well.
    • Tensou Sentai Goseiger features the Gosei Angels, a race of humans born with mysterious powers (ability to control the elements and giant robots) who fled to another world 10,000 years ago so that they wouldn't disturb normal humans. Also, for some reason, they have feathery wing motifs during their transformations despite not having actual wings. At least, not until the series finale.
  • Ultraman Gaia's Big Bad (or possibly Dragon-in-Chief; it's complicated) Zogu takes on the form of a 127-meter tall angel-like being when she first appears, showing herself off as one of the few examples of Light Is Not Good in the Ultraman franchise and completely pummeling Gaia and Agul. However, she's actually an evil alien entity from another galaxy whose angelic form is meant to signify her self-righteousness; her real form is a 666 meter tall centaur-demon monster.
  • Wizards of Waverly Place: A story arc features angels that look human, except for the wings. Some of the angels are evil, and can be identified by black wings (which can be hidden). The Big Bad and The Dragon are dark angels.
  • The X-Files: In "All Souls", handicapped girls are turning up burnt to death in a small town; it turns out the girls are actually Nephilim, and a seraph's revealing his true form to them so that they can get whisked off to Heaven before the Devil comes calling.

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