Angel Wings are the wings that extend from the back of an Angel. Angels can retract their wings into their back to make themselves appear human, as well as unfurl them back out at will. Since angels self actualize, the size, shape, and colors of their wings correspond to how they subconsciously see themselves.
Angels' wings are incredibly powerful, often razor-sharp, and indestructible. In addition to granting angels the power to fly, these wings are what give angels the power to travel between Heaven, Hell, and Earth. They can also be used to generate a powerful gust of wind.
It was implied that if an angels wings are severed, their wings can be reattached, as Amenadiel tried to convince Lucifer to do just that in "Wingman." The feathers can apparently be used to heal and cure any wound, injury, illness, disease, or sickness.
Angels[]
Amenadiel's regrown wings
- Amenadiel's wings: Amenadiel's Wings seem to be dark grey with a bright sheen. The wings are extraordinarily powerful, enormous, and have extremely sharp edges. After spending his time on Earth and Hell and committing what he saw as various sins, Amenadiel's wings began to stop functioning and decay. When Charlotte Richards was killed protecting Amenadiel, however, he then regained his wings and flew Charlotte's soul to Heaven.
Lucifer's wings are a heavenly white which differs from all the other angels
- Lucifer's wings: Lucifer's wings seem to be broader than Amenadiel's. They are white and glow with a divine light, having seen them only in a photo in "Wingman," Chloe called them "gorgeous." Lucifer has Maze cut them off after leaving Hell, and he would later destroy them by burning them on a beach. The wings were restored to him, however, at the end of "The Good, the Bad and the Crispy". Throughout 'They're Back Aren't They' whenever Lucifer cuts them off, they regrow, no matter what he does. While Lucifer initially thinks that God restored them and is manipulating him, he subsequently realizes that he self-actualized their return because he no longer saw himself as a monster. Throughout the fourth season, however, Lucifer's wings become bat-like and demonic in appearance due to Lucifer seeing himself as a monster once again, culminating in his King of Hell form. Once Chloe fully accepts him, however, and tells him she loves him, Lucifer's wings return to their original angelic form.
Uriel brings out his wings
- Uriel's wings: Uriel's wings are a grey-white and seem smaller than his sibling's wings. His appear to have many more and smaller feathers than either Amenadiel's or Lucifer's.
Azrael with her wings out
- Azrael's wings: Azrael's wings are similar to Amenadiel's but they are more lighter with golden reflections.
Remiel unveils her wings
- Remiel's wings: Remiel's wings are large for her size, and have a pattern similar to a hawk. This resemblance to the wings of a bird of prey is most likely the result of a Self-Actualization due to her being a hunter.
Michael has grey-black wings in stark contrast to Lucifer's white wings
- Michael's wings: Michael's Wings are the same as his twin, Lucifer's in form, but a dark gray in color. The right wing appears almost damaged, just as his right shoulder seems hunched, its feathers seem less than perfect, almost ragged. Lucifer pointed out there was nothing actually wrong with his brother, just that he had such a huge chip on his shoulder he self actualized it. After defeating Michael in battle and potentially becoming the new God, Lucifer cuts Michael's wings off with the Flaming Sword. This leaves two large scars on Michael's back just as Lucifer once had.
Ibriel's spreads his wings
- Ibriel's wings: Ibriel's wings are dark in color, much like a number of his other siblings. He also seem to have a wider wingspan than some of the other Angels.
Nephilim[]
Rory's red wings with blade feathers
- Aurora's wings: Rory possesses unique grayish purple wings, the feathers of which can double as blades which she has learnt to use as weapons. They can harm and even kill other Celestials. Her feathers seemingly display the same strength of the other angels' as she was able to free herself from chains by breaking them with her wings. It is unknown if they have the same curative properties as her father's. According to Rory herself, her bladed wings were inspired by her mother's lifelong fight for justice, not Rory's anger, causing her to self-actualize herself as a weapon.
Charlie's wings on the day they appeared
- Charlie's wings: They manifested when he was about 2 years old, proving to his father that he has indeed inherited his celestial abilities. His wings are grey and resemble his father's.
Powers and Abilities[]
The full extent of angel wings powers are unknown; here is a list of the powers of angel's wings seen thus far:
- Flight: Naturally, an angel's wings give them the power to fly. Evidently, they can fly very far distances and at high speeds, as Lucifer flew all over the United States check to find out if he really had a daughter.
- Dimensional Travel: Angel's use their wings to fly between heaven, hell, and earth.
- Shielding: Angels can use their wings to shield themselves and others from incoming damage, such as bullets, explosions, fire, etc.
- Weaponization: Angels wings are very strong and their wings are apparently razor-sharp, allowing them to be used as a weapon if the angel is proficient in using them that way.
- Wind Generation: Angels can use their extraordinarily powerful wings to create powerful gusts of wind, so powerful that it can cause countless people flying back dozens of feet with great force, and it could knock someone completely unconscious and even kill anyone with a flap of their wings.
- Offensive/Defensive Combat: Angels can use their wings for offensive and defensive means, such as hitting, suffocating, lifting, stabbing, and blowing, and with their wings they can lift someone up off of the ground and suffocate them by squeezing them together with both left and right side of wings, and can hit someone with enough force to either knock them unconscious or even kill them by decapitating them.
- Invulnerability: Angels wings are as impervious to harm as angels themselves are, and can withstand normal weapons without harm. However, they can be cut off with Demon Daggers Forged In Hell or with the Flaming Sword, after which they seem to become much more fragile as Lucifer was able to burn his cut off wings with normal fire.
- Healing: While in possession of their wings, angels are capable of healing others, a power that they lack without them.
- Photokinesis: An angels wing lights up whenever it heals someone like from Lucifer.
- Resurrection: Not really a power of the wings, but more like something an angel can achieve by using wings. By flying to one of the afterlife realms, and Angel can retrieve a soul and bring it back to the living world. The soul can then be inserted into a vacant corpse, either their back into their own body or someone else's, what matters is that the corpse is still fresh (the instant after death).
- Notably, if the soul is not inserted into a body, then that person would become a ghost, unable to be seen or heard by non-celestial beings and they would be unable to touch anything. Since even an Angel would not be able to grab hold of them, they could not take the ghost back to the afterlife. The ghost could possess the body of a living person, but would then be trapped in that body until they can forgive themselves of their guilt and go to Heaven.
Trivia[]
- The wings seem to act like a kind of "prayer antennae". When Amenadiel lost his wings, Lucifer couldn't contact him through praying to him anymore.
- The wings may be partly incorporeal, as angels can spread their wings freely regardless of their clothing.
