Angel Salvadore, also known as Tempest, is a mutant with insectoid physiology. She is portrayed by Zoë Kravitz in X-Men: First Class.
In 1962, Angel was working as a stripper when she was approached by Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr, who persuade her to join the X-Men. Angel later meets her other teammates at the Division X facility and get to know them. They give themselves codenames and display their powers. The Hellfire Club attacked the Division X facility where they were staying. Sebastian Shaw explained that he did not want to hurt the X-Men, but is thinking about recuiting them. She was the only one to join, although her former teammates Havok and Darwin tried to stop her - Darwin was killed by Shaw in the process. Salvadore joined the battle against her former teammates during the Cuban Missile Crisis. She fights Banshee in the air, but is subsequently beaten by Havok, who destroys half of her wings with an energy blast.
After Lehnsherr kills Shaw, he recuits the remaining Hellfire Club members and Mystique into his new Brotherhood. They leave to free Emma Frost, who had been captured by the CIA.
Powers and Abilities
Angel possessed several superhuman abilities akin to those of the common housefly. She had a pair of veined wings growing from her back that allowed her to fly and which she could vibrate at high speed to create a deafening ultrasonic sound. She is capable of aerial deceleration to the point where she can hover in place, mostly stationary aside from the rapid beating of her insectoid wings. She usually hides her wings by having them fuse with her skin, in which they take the form of tattoos.
Oral Projectiles - Salvadore can launch gobs of corrosive or explosive saliva to ranges that she might otherwise be able to throw small hand-held objects. The corrosive properties been been demonstrated to be sufficient to eat through stone and as a concussive blast, the spitting attack produces a small concussive blast and gout of flame.
