Who Is Commissioner Angotti? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Commissioner Angotti is a Creator-Owned comic book character, the alter ego of Amy Angotti, with over 25 comic issue appearances. The police commissioner of New York City, she used to treat The Great Machine as a dangerous threat, but supports Mitchell Hundred in his tenure as mayor, for the most part.

Who is Commissioner Angotti?

Pre-Machine Amy Angotti grew up in the Midwest playing cops and robbers with local boys, but ironically didn't know what a 'commissioner' was. Angotti eventually became a very by the book patrolman, handing out tickets for jaywalking, including one to her future husband Jason. She and Jason dated and eventually became married, but her long hours and dedication to her work led Jason to cheat on her. Angotti quickly rose through the ranks of the NYPD through extraordinary skill, including an incident where she took down a group of bank robbers single handedly while supposedly off duty. This event may have been a factor in her becoming Commissioner. Commissioner of the NYPD and the War on the Machine As her first act as commissioner was to declare war on New York's only vigilante The Great Machine , she told officers to shoot on sight and would even stand lookout for him on her apartment building in her off-hours. Angotti never let up on him, not even when he wound up saving her and her husband from Jack Pherson . One day the Machine abducted her off the street to a rooftop to suggest a truce and a partner ship , this didn't go well as Angotti struck him with a nightstick and called h.

Key facts

Commissioner Angotti is of human origin and first appeared in "State of Emergency, Chapter One". The character is published by Creator-Owned. With 25 recorded issue appearances, Commissioner Angotti ranks among the most featured characters in comics.