Mean Machine Angel is a villain in the British comic book series Judge Dredd. He is one of the sons of Elmer "Pa" Angel, and as such, is/was a member of the Angel Gang. This article is about the comic-book character Judge Dredd. ... The Angel Gang is a group of villains in the Judge Dredd comic strip, published in 2000 AD magazine in the UK. They are portrayed as a futuristic version of rural criminals from the American Deep South, at least as such people are imagined by British writers. ...

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. The term cyborg, a portmanteau of cybernetic organism, is used to designate a creature which is a mixture of organic and mechanical parts. ...

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's surly and disagreeable, all the way up to 4, which is when he is fully berserk. His favorite attack is a head-butt with his steel skull.

He is not very bright, at best, and has often been outwitted. When Seven-Pound Sally Suggs (a competing Cursed Earth criminal, named after the 7lb hammer she used when commiting her crimes) married him, 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 then absconding with the loot the Angels had extorted from neighboring people as "wedding gifts". The Cursed Earth is a part of the fictional universe recounted in the Judge Dredd series that appears in the UK comic book 2000 AD. Following the Atomic Wars of 2070 most of the U.S.A. became a radioactive wasteland. ...

He died during the Judge Child saga, but was brought back later by the Judge Child to seek revenge on Judge Dredd. 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, he is currently incarcerated in Iso-Cube 666 (which holds the most dangerous foes Dredd has gone up against and subsequently captured, such as Stan Lee and the Dark Judges) in Mega-City One. The Judge Child was a long running storyline in Judge Dredd from issue 156 to 180. ... Mega-City One is a huge fictional city covering much of what is now the Eastern United States in the Judge Dredd comic book series. ... Judge is a title held by several significant characters in the Judge Dredd series, which appears in the British comic book 2000 AD. In the fictional future history of the series, the role of Judge combines those of judge and police officer, thus avoiding long legal wrangles by allowing for... The Dark Judges are recurring villains in the fictional Judge Dredd universe recounted in the UK comic 2000 AD. They are Judge Death, Judge Fire, Judge Fear and Judge Mortis. ...

Technically the only member of the Angel Gang left, in a recent break-out Mean Machine has discovered that he has a son from his brief relationship with Sally Suggs. His son is exactly like how Mean Machine was during his childhood; good, kind, gentle and sweet. As well as working on his own, Mean Machine occassionally teams up with other crooks, such as Judge Death (in Judgement on Gotham). He is also occasionally "loaned out" to the Judges for missions. One his most unusual missions was when he was part of "The Three Amigos"; Himself, Judge Dredd and Judge Death. Judge Death is a character from the fictional Judge Dredd universe recounted in the UK comic 2000 AD. He is the leader of the Dark Judges, a sinister group of undead law enforcers from the alternative dimension of Deadworld, where all life has been declared a crime. ... Published by DC Comics, Judgement on Gotham is the first of two Batman/Judge Dredd crossovers. ...

Mean Machine's dial settings are:

1- Surly

2- Mean

3- Vicious

4- Brutal

4 1/2- On rare occasions, an extremely hard headbutt causes Mean Machine's dial to get stuck on this number, which causes him to enter an Uncontrollable Butt Frenzy, where he can't stop headbutting.

In a parallel universe, ruled by Judge Dread (an insane version of Judge Dredd), Mean Machine is one of Dread's lieutenants and has a 5th setting- Book a Plot in the Cemetary. This article is about the comic-book character Judge Dredd. ...

In Judge Dredd Megazine #218, Mean Machine Angel Heart Part 1, Mean Machine received a cranial cybernetic implant called a Warden Device, which delivers extreme pain whenever he gets angry. His doctor, the creator of the device, released him on the grounds that the implant would make him a fit member of society. He has also married Porsha Wuss, an Iso-cube visitor with a history of getting attached to prisoners she works with.