Mean Machine Angel

Mean "Mean Machine" Angel is a villain in the Judge Dredd stories of the British comic series 2000 AD. He is one of the sons of Elmer "Pa" Angel, and as such, is a member of the Angel Gang.

When he was young, he was gentle, nice and utterly unlike his viciously criminal family. Pa Angel was not pleased by this, and kidnapped a surgeon from nearby Texas City to operate on him, making him the crazed cyborg he is now. He has a mechanical right arm and a steel dome over his skull with a dial on the front. This dial has four settings; from 1, where he is surly and disagreeable, all the way up to 4, which is when he is fully berserk. His favourite attack is a head-butt with his steel skull. He is not very bright at best and has often been outwitted.

Mean Machine's dial settings are:

On occasion, an extremely hard headbutt causes Mean Machine's dial to get stuck on 4½, which causes him to go berserk, unable to stop headbutting anything he comes across.

He died during the Judge Child saga, but was brought back from the grave by the Judge Child to seek revenge on Judge Dredd. Due to his organic left arm having been shot off in a fight with Judge Dredd Mean Machine was left only with the brutal mechanical claw of his right arm. At the end of his return, he was captured by the Mega-City One judges and imprisoned. While there have been escapes and attempts to cure him, they always go wrong. He is usually incarcerated in Iso-Cube 666 (which holds the most dangerous foes Dredd has gone up against and subsequently captured) in Mega-City One. He is also occasionally "loaned out" to the Judges for missions, such as when he was part of "The Three Amigos" alongside Judge Dredd and Judge Death, and when he was used to find stolen Justice Department clones in the Cursed Earth badlands. Unknown to him, he was made the honorary president of the Cyborg Club.

He once married a competing Cursed Earth criminal named Seven-Pound Sadie Suggs (named after the 7 lb hammer she used when committing her crimes). This turned out to be a scam, as she easily tricked him into demonstrating his highest setting by ramming the side of the shack the Angels lived in, collapsing it on the rest of the Angels and allowing her to abscond with the loot the Angels had extorted from neighbouring people as "wedding gifts". Mean Machine later discovered that she had borne him a son, Junior, who is exactly as kind and gentle as Mean was during his childhood.

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