Angela Spica (Wildstorm Universe)

Dr. Angela "Angie" Spica
Earth-50
Real Name	Dr. Angela "Angie" Spica
Affiliation	The Authority
Base Of Operations	The Carrier
Status
Alignment	Good
Identity	Secret Identity
Citizenship	American
Marital Status	Single
Occupation	Authority Operative, former Physicist, Technologist
Characteristics
Gender	Female
Height	5' 6"
Weight	110Ibs
Eyes	Green
Hair	Black
Origin
Universe	Earth-50
Creators	Warren Ellis · Bryan Hitch
First Appearance	[[The Authority v.1 #1]]

History

Angie was born in Queens, the youngest child of seven. Her family wasn’t rich but they were happy, her father drove a bus and her mother worked in a laundrette.

From a young age Angie was obsessed with superheroes. Throughout school all she read were comics of Creeper, Green Lantern and Batman. While dreaming of becoming a superhero, Angie became the smartest child in her school, she was building circuit-boards while other children in her class were still playing with toys.

After the first Engineer was killed, Angela "Angie" Spica's home computer filled up with all his nanotechnology notes and started linking it to her work in human-machine fusion. Spica had known him in real life, but she didn't know he was the Engineer until then. She distilled an incalculable number of intelligent devices into nine pints of liquid machinery and replaced her blood with it. This nanotechnology gives her vast mechanical abilities: the liquid metal covers her body at will, allows her to fly and to create many things, such as radio-telepathy bugs, weaponry, rocket engines, replacement lungs to cope with unfamiliar atmospheres and even additional copies of herself.

Jenny Sparks recruited her as a founding member of The Authority.

In the "Transfer of Power" storyline, Spica was replaced by "Machine", a woman from Japan who received the nanotechnology extracted from the Engineer's body. Spica's blood was temporarily replaced with that of an HIV Positive heroin addict. She was given memory implants and forced into the life of a minimum wage worker in a Seven-Eleven, with an abusive husband and six children (all of them actors paid by the Powers-That-Be), until she was saved by Swift. Spica's deep desire for revenge on Machine was thwarted when it was learned she had been killed by fellow teammate Apollo.

Spica has an open on/off relationship with Jack Hawksmoor, but she also slept with The Doctor on one occasion. She also had a brief fling with a squat, hairy Mexican she picked up in a bar. It ended badly.

Spica was apparently sexually assaulted during her school-age years by a renegade Doctor who traveled back in time while they were fighting.

World's End

Do to the EM storms Angela lost all her superpowers, but she still is a technological genius and is highly persistent at making the situation their in work for better.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

Blood Nanites (Inert/Inactive): The Engineers blood has been replaced with 9 pints metallic liquid full of nanotech, tiny machines controlled by her will.

• Shape-Shifting: her liquid metal form provides her the ability to shift her shape and form as she sees fit, the fluid nature of her nanites.

• Plasticity: she can extend and stretch her metallic form with ease.

• Adaptive Durability: She usually coats her skin with a layer of metal to protect herself from harm and is able to modify her own body to survive in space unharmed. This ability makes her a being of complete liquid metal allowing her to morph at will. In battle and it's shown to be stronger then that of the first Engineers, allowing her to take direct hits from atomic bombs without sustaining damage.

• Nanite Fabricating: Visually, her most impressive power is the ability to create almost anything out of the trace elements that exist in the air and soil that surround her, from machine gun hands to literal clones of herself. There really is no limit to what her machines can do other than her imagination.

• Self-Duplication: ability to make an exact duplicate of herself which she is mental contact with. Each copy possesses the same abilities and knowledge as the original and each can act in conjunction with each other. The Engineer can create up to 82 of these duplicates before her mind starts to dissociate. Angela needs to maintain concentration to actively control the details of what her duplicates do.

• Radiotelepathy: These implants were designed and created by the Engineer. They initially resembled tiny flies which implanted themselves painlessly in the recipients temple. The implants allow all the users to use "radiotelepathy", a form of mechanically produced telepathy. The upper range of this communication is unknown, all that is known is that all the members of the Authority were capable of instantaneous communication world wide. The added ability to track and locate is also apart of the Radiotelepathy for those implanted.

• Nanite Infection: allows her to spread viruses (that can affect both machines and people). She can send it into the body of another to determine how they work physiologically or even to shut down their body or gain some measure of control.

• Nanite Sensors: has developed an invisible web of atom-sized machine sensors around her, it acts a security field, its highly sensitive to environmental changes.

• Telescopic Vision

• Environmental Adaptability: able to grow replacement lungs with her real ones, in environments not supportive of human compatibility. While in her metallic form adverse environments do not harm her.

• Nanite Disintegration: by extending the nanoload in a sphere from her body as far as it'll go without killing her, she can extrude the machinery out into a web of knives small enough to slip between atoms.

• Nanite Knowledge: for intensive purposes her nanites are a vast repository of information and she is capable of literally storing the knowledge of every book on earth in a drop of her blood.

• Technopathy: ability to interface directly with machines using her nanites as connection. It could manifest as a special form of electrical manipulation, a special form of shapeshifting which allows physical interaction with machines, or even a special form of interaction with interfacing with computer data.

• Flight: Angie can also fly without any visible form of propulsion, but needs to generate massive boosters to attain escape velocity.

Abilities

Genius-Level Intellect

• Scientist

• Inventive

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