How they Compare: Xaphrael (Misfile)

 

Spoilers for Misfile below.

At the beginning of time, God assigned angels to watch over the universe. The lowest-ranked angels, referred to as simply "angels" had difficulty in keeping up with the overseeing all the tiny mundane parts of the universe and keeping it orderly. So in order to keep it all organized, they created a celestial bureaucracy and a celestial filing system. The universe and the angels that ran it could be kept orderly and organized.

But with any bureaucracy comes inefficiencies, and the angel Xaphrael in frustration as God's commands were, not disobeyed, but delayed, put on hold, watered down as it made its way through a cosmic game of telephone. Xaphrael was an avenging angel and one day he and the angels he served with; Ramael and his captain Vashiel were given orders not to lay waste to a sinful city. In frustration at the endlessly delaying commands of the bureaucracy, the three angels destroyed the city regardless. 

For this their captain Vashiel was punished. Xaphrael could take himself being punished, but seeing his captain punished for them simply doing their divine duty, that only his captain was punished when all three partook in the destruction, drove him furious with resentment at the injustice. He began a plan to take control of the Celestial Bureaucracy over hundreds of years and gain control over the entire universe so he could re-order it into something more efficient, more just in his mind. 

Lower ranked Angels in Misfile are generally around the upper limits of humans physically or slightly superhuman. The Angel Rumisiel was able to lift a full filing cabinet in each hand and hurl them at Xaphrael. A full filing cabinet weight over 100 kilograms when full. In 2020 James Spurgin set the world record for one-handed lift, lifting over 300 kilograms. Rumisiel did 1/3rd that feat casually and was able to casually throw that weight. Rumisiel and Cassiel were both able to survive being flung "50 feet" (~15.25 meters hitting a wall or the floor across a room without significant injury and Rumisiel withstood without serious injury falling down a cliff a couple times his own height. These feats support them being on the upper end of human level. However, these two are considered significantly weaker than Xaphrael, with Cassiel saying they stood no chance against Xaphrael because they were "paper-pushers" while he was an avenging angel. Overall Xaphrael should be likely superhuman in physical power, consistent with some minor exaggerated human feats such as Tom comedically throwing Ash out of his room done by characters far weaker than Xaphrael. 

Speed's much clearer. Xaphrael easily scales to Rumisiel who seemed to keep pace with a car while flying and blitzed Ash across a room, putting him easily at superhuman speed. Technically there's a weird gag in one strip where Ash punches his reflection which would be FTL, but that's a vast outlier as well both a gag and probably meant to be in Ash's head. 

However far more notable than physical stats is Xaphrael's abilities. While Xaphrael doesn't demonstrate that many abilities himself, he should very easily scale to the abilities of most weaker angels. Xaphrael and other angels can warp reality. Xaphrael and two other angels in their backstory destroyed an entire city. This is consistent with Rumisiel believing a weaker angel, Cassiel, could create a storm with her power, though she couldn't because "weather isn't (her) thing." Almost all of Xaphrael's other abilities are a function of his reality-warping power. This is done purely through his own power. If he has access to the Celestial Filing System such as fighting there or traveling there mid-combat, he can hypothetically use it to reality-warp the universe, with it being implied that with control of it one would be a threat to the entire universe. 

Even outside the physical prowess gained from their lifespan over centuries or longer, Angels have supernatural physical abilities. They can both levitate themselves and others, as well as render themselves and others invisible or disguise themselves as normal humans when they are in the human realm. As an angel, Xaphrael is immortal and conventionally unkillable, though regenerating from a dramatic injury such as castration would take a long time and be very painful. Angels can and often have to in their line of business physically interact with incorporeal entities with Vashiel able to chain the dark spirit of Kate's deceased sister lingering in Kate's resentful hatred and Rumisiel able to physically grapple with Browwyn's spiritual darkness. Xaphrael also demonstrated the ability to create an omnidirectional wave of force that flung Cassiel and Rumisiel away from him. 

Angels also have a number of psychic abilities, especially sensing. Angels can sense the presences of others within "a few miles" and Rumisiel was able to sense a storm was unnatural in origin. As an Angel of the Second Circle, Xaphrael may have Vashiel's ability to sense the truth. When Cassiel was disguising Ash and Emily as Angels to infiltrate Heaven, she had to give them layers of scents and auras imperceptible to humans suggesting that Angels have enhanced smell and aura-sensing, consistent with spiritually sensitive humans being able to see auras. Xaphrael's sensory abilities are particularly good, being able to sense Cassiel, an angel who is a master of disguise and stealth, though she does decieve him on another instance. Angels also regularly demonstrate telekinesis strong enough to lift cars or knock over trees but precise enough that Cassiel was able to pop Heather's top with her telekinesis and Rumisiel was able to use it to make himself look good at volleyball with no one there noticing. They also have several lesser-used psychic abilities. Cassiel was able to show a level of mild suggestion to convince Eponine she never left when she actually had (which Ash explicitly says is because of Cassiel's angel powers), was able to give Ash particular types of dreams, and threatened to erase Ash's memories, though Ash was unsure whether she could really do that.

Angels are also proficient at spatial manipulation which they use to get around. Rumisiel was able to teleport himself and a car he was in to a distant house and Cassiel was able to send Ash and Emily to Heaven past the dimensional gap. Because dimensions move at different time rates this can be used as a form of pseudo-temporal bfr. Most Angels, Xaphrael included, can travel the dimensional gap themselves in their role of going between Heaven and Earth. 

Angels have numerous feats of weather manipulation, with it being stated that Angels "nudge" the weather into being a certain kind, though lack the ability to make subtler changes. Vashiel of the same circle as Xaphrael was able to create hail but not a subtle temperature change. Rumisiel was able to create a clearing in the rain and a cold breeze. He also could make it VERY cold in the garage if he wanted and lower the temperature in 10-15 feet bubble through concentration but when he let go of his concentration it snapped back into being much hotter as the universe corrected itself. 

Angels have numerous times shown control over matter in general. Angels can heal the sick or give leprosy, with Rumisiel worried about accidentally doing the latter in an attempt towards the former due to his lack of practice. Cassiel forced a plant to reproduce through several generations in an instant. This is biological manipulation and potentially time manipulation though I would think not as time is explicitly one of the things the higher ranked angels are in charge of controlling. They also have physical erasure, being able to "un-make things" with Cassiel threatening to unmake some mosquitos and Rumisiel disintegrating the body of a dead Angel. 

Finally there are some feats where it's not really clear what ability is being used. Rumisiel was able to snap his fingers and cause a car to crash into a telephone pole. It's possible this is telekinesis though it didn't look like other instances of Angelic telekinesis, and is possibly probability manipulation. Cassiel used her powers to seal off the glass walkway between two parts of a school and fill it with water and fish which may be either creation or a bigger teleportation feat than seen elsewhere. The fish it is known she got from somewhere else. Rumisiel claimed he could make Ash very fast in a street race and Cassiel thought she could have fixed Ash and James' street race, though the method by which they would do this is unclear. 

Outside of his magic, Xaphrael like all Avenging Angels has a flaming sword, which can negate the immortality of angels, permanently killing them. Xaphrael can manifest his sword at any time he needs to or make it seemingly disappear. 

Mentally just as Angels can reach inhuman levels of physical prowess over the centuries, so too can they gain inhuman levels of mental capability. Xaphrael has explicitly been combat training for centuries, and while he commanded his skills as a commander, dismissed Vashiel's skill in combat, Vashiel being another Avenging Angel. Mentally Xaphrael is a master planner who masterminded a plan to gain control over the entire universe, hiding his tracks after assassinating the Archons, the leaders of the lower-ranked Angels, and keeping himself from being found out. 

In terms of weaknesses, Xaphrael's biggest in universe and part of the source of his resentment is that he is a lower ranged angel, a relatively small cog in the machine. He doesn't understand the deeper universe and in a fight against the real metahumans of the verse, the higher-ranked angels he'd get absolutely stomped. The difference in power between a normal angel and a Cherubim is such that a fight between them would be like a fight between "a snowball and a Hot Summer's day" let alone a Seraphim, the supreme overseers of universal stability. Xaphrael is physically a peak human supervillain in a world with powerful superhumans and his arrogance and lack of understanding is seen in his attempt to control all and presumption to know all. Normal angels also can't create life and without the Celestial Filing System can't transmute people from one state to another.

Name: Xaphrael

Origin: Misfile

Powers and Abilities: Immortality, Reality-Warping, Flight/Levitation, Invisibility, Illusions (Disguises), Anti-Intangibility (Spiritual), Force Projection, Supernatural Sensing, Telekinesis, Mild Mental Manipulation, Dream Manipulation, Dimensional Teleportation/BFR, Limited Temporal BFR, Weather/Temperature Manipulation, Biological Manipulation, Existence Erasure, Summoning (Flaming Sword), and Anti-Immortality. (Flaming Sword can kill other Angels) Potentially Memory Erasure, Time Manipulation, Probability Manipulation, Creation, and Kinetic Energy Manipulation. (Rumisiel could make cars go faster through an unknown method)

Weaknesses: Physically only somewhat stronger than humans, Pride, Can't create life or transmute matter without the Celestial Filing System.

Destructive Capacity: Likely Superhuman physically, City Level with his powers normally, up to Universal with Celestial Filing System

Range: City-wide scale normally, Universal with Celestial Filing System. Can travel between dimensions.

Speed: Superhuman

Durability: Likely Superhuman

Stamina: Unknown

Standard Equipment: Flaming Sword

Intelligence: Likely Peak Human or Superhuman. Has hundreds of years of experience in combat training and planning. Deceived many angels searching for him and nearly overthrew the Celestial Bureaucracy. 

In both the Marvel and DC Universes, Xaphrael would do very poorly. He's horribly outgunned with not only normal humans having better feats than Misfile-verse Angels, but arguably having better feats than Misfile-verse Cherubim. And while that's basically the norm for Xaphrael and he could still potentially fight with his reality-warping the bigger problem is that both universes have a ton of hypergeniuses characters who can mentally compete with and create technology on the range of Type 4 to Type 5 civilizations. 

In Marvel he'd at least do slightly better because there are fewer mystical type characters that can travel to other planes of reality, though there are still plenty, and angels are less prevalent on Earth but even street tier heroes and villains would probably just physically beat him up normally. In DC where Heaven is directly and often interfering with normal Earths with normal angels having sensory powers on a cosmic scale Xaphrael would be found out pretty much instantly. This isn't really much of a surprise, Marvel/DC are just really strong verses in general.

In the Kampfer-verse, Xaphrael would probably solo the verse, though it's a bit more complicated. Kampferinnin are stronger and have better reaction times than normal Misfile-verse Angels being able to punch people into the horizon comedically and being able to bullet-time. That said in combat they don't move faster than Xaphrael does and two of the three weapon types Kampferinnin use; swords and bullets probably wouldn't be very effective against an immortal regenerating angel, with the one able to really encompass his entire body at once being flame users. Xaphrael should be able to match the low level superhuman skill seen in the verse like blocking bullets with his centuries of experience and should be easily able to outmatch the teenager warriors with his extreme intelligence.

The Kampferinnen do have abilities but most of them are fairly low key like superleaping and aren't likely to do anything to Xaphrael while he could easily mess with them just with simpler abilities like invisibility. The only Kampferinnin with an ability that might work on Xaphrael would be Kaede's brainwashing however not only is she unlikely to use it on Xaphrael for in-character reasons but Natsuru was able to resist Kade's brainwashing via willpower and through love. Xaphrael is an extremely willful character to the point of wanting to change the laws of the universe and while it was platonic and not romantic, part of his motivation was love for his captain Vashiel. Kaede's mental manipulation doesn't seem that much stronger than Cassiel and Cassiel thought she and Rumisiel stood no chance against Xaphrael.

Kampfer technically also has the Moderators, the super advanced civilization that created the Kampferinnin and while they might be able to beat Xaphrael in a direct fight being a massively advanced civilization vs a single person, overtime Xaphrael would probably be able to undermine and defeat them as they haven't shown anything through technology that the Angels couldn't do with their powers and Xaphrael's plan would probably work.

In the Good Omens-verse, Xaphrael's would fit in rather normally. His reality-warping is not as strong normally as most of the Angels in the verse who can do things like create nebula, but his reality-warping with the Celestial Filing System is much higher, on par with the top tiers of the series who can reality-warp the universe, plus Xaphrael's physical abilities are much higher as physically Angels and Demons are basically normal humans. 

Xaphrael would also have a mental advantage against any angel or demon but Aziraphale and Crowley not through intelligence but in creativity and skill having been actively combat training for centuries which there's no evidence Good Omens-verse Angels do and having the ability to be creative that most Angels and Demons don't. Combined with him having generally similar powers as Good Omens-verse Angels and Demons, if not quite as potent, means he'd probably be able to beat any normal angel or demon in a direct fight.

Against higher tier characters or against Aziraphale or Crowley themselves, he'd have a much harder time since they could think similarly to him and have their own power advantages, with Crowley having a pretty easy way to get around Xaphrael's immortality through sealing him in technology the way he did to Hastur. Xaphrael would still be able to threaten them through planning and if he does his usual MO would probably be quite successful though the top tiers like Death or Satan could stop him at anytime.

In xxxHolic, Xaphrael would fit in quite well powerwise, even if aesthetically and thematically he'd stick out like a sore thumb. Most characters in xxxHolic scale off feats of exaggerated human capability like surviving long falls or moving at blurry speed as a joke, a level of stats that Xaphrael can more than keep up with if not surpass. He'd also have an unparalleled level of combat skill and a high degree of intelligence. Against most common spirits, Xaphrael would feel right at home punishing and exorcising them just as angels do in Misfile, and while more characters than normal would be able to see him via their spiritual senses, Xaphrael's versatile reality-warping powers would allow him to easily beat even most characters with supernatural powers like Doumeki or Kudagitsu just because they have far more specific and limited arsenals of abilities. 

Against some of the bigger powerhouses of the verse like Ame-Warashi or Jorogumo, Xaphrael has the raw power to compete, with similar scale feats such as storm creation on both sides. The bigger threat to him is their speed advantage scaling to lightning timing and arguably light-timing feats. That said these characters in particular are prone to prideful thinking and underestimating their opponents and especially without knowledge of Angelic immorality or the threat level of angels through things like existence erasure and dimensional BFR, Xaphrael could potentially beat them, especially overtime. It would be somewhat like Xaphrael vs a Cherubim-tier opponent...technically possible depending on mindsight but a major struggle.

However, Xaphrael would obviously be beaten by top tiers like Yuuko herself. Yuuko has reality-warping resistance strong enough to resist the power of the collector ghost who had an entire universe in one of his rooms, meaning even the Celestial Filing System would do nothing and is smart enough to mentally battle Fei Wong Reed over the multiverse, being dramatically smarter than even Xaphrael. Yuuko would in Misfile being consider a Seraph Tier opponent and Xaphrael would have literally nothing he could do against her.

Xaphrael in Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan would be both hilarious and cool to see. Angels in Dokuro-chan are superhuman clearly in excess of Xaphrael with feats like turning people to red mist with one strike, running fast enough to run on water, and getting into splash fights intense enough to create sonic booms. However they, or at least Dokuro-chan especially, are violent impulsive children that are insane and fight without much tactics. Xaphrael's stats are higher than most humans and with his extreme competence for the verse along with his versatile arsenal he would be able to fight Dokuro-chan angels directly with high difficulty. I could only describe it as a soldier with a gun in an enclose with a bunch of silverback gorillas. 

In terms of abilities, Dokuro-chan verse Angels have some of the same powers as Xaphrael like immorality, bfr, and existence erasure, and can freely transmute people without a Celestial Filing System, that said they lack the more subtle powers of Misfile-verse angels like invisibility, supernatural sensing, and subtle suggestion.

Xaphrael could potentially die any moment from the crazy shockwaves of Dokuro-chan-verse angels' attacks or could potentially take over the entire verse as the shadowy relative supergenius running everything behind the scenes unless God sends Angel Assassins like Dokuro-chan after Xaphrael until ones get a hit in. That said he would definitely have his own funny niche of the relatively weak but smart Angel who's the overtime threat compared to the most immediate threat of the other angels.