Ángel/Trivia

Trivia

Some of her moves and mannerisms pay homage to entertainer, actor and WWE former wrestler Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. Most notably, her "Winds Fairground", "Blue Monday Parade" and "Survivor's Banquet" mimic his "Laying the Smacketh Down", "Rock Bottom", and "People's Elbow", respectively. Her 2002/UM, Neowave intro, and "Survivor's Banquet" quote roughly translates to "If/Do you taste The Ángel's extraordinary skill!?", a play on The Rock's famous "If/Do you smell what The Rock is cookin'!?" catchphrase.
- This would end up coming full circle, as both Ángel and The Rock would both eventually appear in the same game, it being The King of Fighters All Star.
- Coincidentally, Skullgirls' creator and main game illustrator Alex Ahad created a fan-art where Ángel and The Rock are in the same ring together.

Ángel's move names are all named after songs by the band Soul Flower Union and their predecessor Newest Model. Many of these references were removed starting with her appearance in KOF XIV, opting for a more conventional series of names.

Both Ángel and Shermie are tied for have the largest bust measurement out of all the KOF female characters (92 cm).

Because of the controversy surrounding K9999, starting with KOF XIV, Ángel's backstory was heavily edited, with only having betraying NESTS, and never mentions K9999 at all (despite Team NESTS ending in KOF 2001 implying that K9999 left the destroyed NESTS base on a helicopter).
- It is currently unknown as of now, if Ángel has any relationship with K9999's replacement Nameless, or if she is aware of his existence. However, she is all but familiar to Krohnen McDougall, who is actually K9999 in a new identity.

In a 2005 poll made by SNK Playmore USA, she was voted as the third fan favorite character with a total of 2498 votes.

Prior to The King of Fighters XV, her name was rendered as "Angel" in English. Starting with KOF XV, her name was rendered as "Ángel", possibly done to be more in-line with the Spanish spelling and pronunciation of the name.
- The same thing occurs with Ramón, her former teammate in the previous game (and current friend).
- Most players pronounce Ángel’s name the way how it is said in English. In English, her name is pronounced as "ayn-juhl". This is technically not incorrect since SNK uses the Spanish pronunciation for her name.

She is often considered the most difficult character to play in the series and is the only character in the launch roster of KOF XV to have a for beginners score of 1/5.

Due to her design, Ángel is currently one of the most popular and loved fighting game gals, alongside Juri Han (a character from Capcom's Street Fighter series) and Baiken (a character from Arc System Works Guilty Gear series). Coincidentally, the three of them has a significant learning curve and are generally considered difficult characters to play.