Several mystical beings such as Mephisto and Blackheart have made slight references over time to the leader of the Neyaphem being much more than he seemed and had a strange set of 'ties' to mortals. In ancient times he was sided with the Neyaphem, a horde of demonic humanoid mutants that went to battle against a rival group called the Cheyarafim, which were angelic yet xenophobic mutants.
Despite Azazel and the Neyaphem's best efforts, the Cheyarafim were victorious and banished his group to an alternate dimension for all eternity. Being the Neyaphem's leader, Azazel was the only one capable of breaching the dimensional void, if only briefly - this is due to his teleportation powers.
His only hope to make a return to Earth was by impregnating women, as his offspring are linked to the Neyaphem's dimension. However, because giving birth successfully to a Neyaphem requires great physical strain, he was required to only breed with women who possessed unusual characteristics such as mutant abilities.
When he met Mystique in Germany, she was married to a rich baron named Christian Wagner, who was sterile and unable to bear her children. Azazel was Baron Wagner's business partner at the time, and Mystique had an instant attraction to him upon meeting. Unfortunately for Mystique, she had fallen in love with Azazel but did not appear outwardly mutual. However, he had fallen for her too, making her the only woman he had ever truly loved.
Instead, he had left her shortly after his "mission" because the Cheyarafim had learned of his location in Germany and would thus attempt to assassinate not only him but Mystique and their unborn child. Though he knew Mystique would be safe and able to protect their son, he failed to inform her as to why he had left, leaving her to hate him for it. This includes teleportation, superhuman reflexes, agility, night vision, a flexible bone structure allowing Azazel to remain in a crouched position for a long time and perform contortionist type feats without causing any damage to his spine, micro suction discs that Azazel can stick to objects with the surface of his hands and feet due to the natural micro-suction discs over them that enables him to scale and climb the surfaces of walls, a prehensile tail that is strong enough to grab onto objects with relative ease and can even surpport his own weight, and limited camouflaging abilities in dark areas.
Azazel is able to psionically transport himself, his clothing, and any other additional mass across inter-dimensional distances by opening a portal into another dimension , traveling through it at high speed, and being able to return through another portal back to his originating dimension. While Nightcrawler has the ability to teleport by jumping into the Brimstone dimension, traveling through it at high speed, and hopping back out at a different location, Azazel has the inverse of these powers as he can jump into the real world for stints of time.
Azazel can hold this for much longer periods than Nightcrawler, staying in the real world for up to over a day at a time through intense concentration. Azazel generate and project streams or bolts of paralyzing energy from his hands towards others which can last for about 10 minutes at the most.
Azazel can also shot streams of destructive energy attacks as well which can also wound others and even cause a form of disintegration towards normal humans and has limited shape shifting abilities allowing Azazel to disguise his appearance through some unknown means and Azazel has shown to be able to gain the appearance of a normal human changing his eye pigmentation, skin colour, and body type allowing him to appear as a normal human, which he has generally used to seduce and impregnate women and Azazel can also disguise himself as other people as well.
Azazel possesses limited telepathic abilities and has a slight telepathic influence over those around him giving him h ypnosis and empathetic abilities. Azazel's bodily tissue is somewhat harder, tougher, and more resistant to all forms of physical injury than that of the bodily tissues of a normal human being able to withstand blunt force trauma with mild to moderate discomfort and much less physical injury to that of what a normal human would receive.
In the dimension where he was exiled, Azazel appears to be able to manipulate the Brimstone Dimension itself allowing him to open small viewing portals to Earth that can allow him to see what is happening in certain places on the Earth plane or generate devastating energy blasts and is a master of the Dark Arts and has a vast amount of knowledge over dark magic or black sorcery as some of his powers could be through magic. Azazel is a knowledgeable sorcerer taping into the power of blood sacrifice and energy from the Brimstone Dimension itself for spells involving portals, summoning, and scrying and has tutored Margali Szardos for some time in some of her magical studies.
Azazel possesses a gifted intellect as Azazel is a gifted leader, and master of manipulation. Azazel is also well aware of history and academic disciplines, and has managed to muster enough skill to build a tower in the strange Brimstone dimension. Azazel has shown that his swordsman skills are likely easily on par and maybe even greater than Nightcrawler's in his kick heavy fighting style.
It has been rumoured that Azazel could actually be demon, or is at least holds the blood of one as many mystical beings such as Mephisto , Blackheart , Hela , Satannish , and Dormammu have all made slight references that the leader of the Neyaphem is a being much more than he seems to be and has had a strange set of 'ties' to mortals.
Mephisto has openly stated that Azazel possesses a great strength and a power unattainable by some true demons and Azazel has even claimed that he once battled Mephisto and others for the title of "Satan". Azazel has display a number of superhuman powers during his appearances some of which could possibly be through dark magic or through his possible demon hierarchy including, but not limited to:.
Azazel was anchored to the Brimstone Dimension itself, and he can only stay in the real world for brief stints of time in order to perform acts such as seduction or manipulation. The longer Azazel stays in our world, the more time he must take to recover. Azazel can only manifest in the real world for more than a day if a mystical practitioner is willing to anchor him.
So Azazel can only spend a limited amount of time on the Earth without the assistance of his children. That however changed as Nightcrawler allowed him to stay on the Earth plane in order to trap him and keep him from trying to take over the after life.
Azazel along with all the other Neyaphem are negatively affected by the blood of mutants that are related to the angelic clan of Cheyarafim which is caustic to them and begins to cause their bodies to breakdown despite its regenerative properties in others. However Azazel appears to have knowledge of a way to reverse that curse. In this depiction, he is apparently Russian as evidenced by his voice and use of Russian words , and is a member of Sebastian Shaw 's Hellfire Club.
With Christian unable to give her children, Mystique was introduced to Azazel, whom Christian knew as a business partner. Mystique had an instant attraction to him, and although she was hesitant to betray Christian, she gave in to Azazel and they made love. Not much later, Mystique was pregnant with Nightcrawler. While Mystique had actually fallen in love with Azazel, he seemed only to be interested in impregnating her.
Soon afterwards, she killed Christian because he suspected her betrayal. Mystique killed him and buried the body. A few months later, Mystique gave birth to a child. Considered a demon, Mystique was chased away by an angry mob. Barely escaping, she tossed the baby down a ravine. Azazel had past relations with women before, resulting in the births of Abyss and Kiwi Black.
Azazel sired several dozen other children, who were all mysteriously called to gather and sacrifice themselves on the island known as the Isla Des Demonas to open a portal and bring his army to earth to destroy the Cheyarafim and find a way for the demonic looking mutants to live in the world and find their place in it.
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