Apocalypse
Apocalypse is a comic book character that first appeared in X-Factor #5
Apocalypse is one of the most powerful mutants in the Marvel universe, describing himself as a savior of his kind, his mission is to separate the strong mutants that will live and the weak ones that should perish
Origin
Rise of Apocalypse
Exodus
Mr. Sinister
Modern Era
The Four Horsemen
Evolutionary War
During the Evolutionary War, Apocalypse confronts the High Evolutionary who had embarked on a quest to rid the world of a lesser species that he felt were preventing evolution from moving forward. Believing that the Evolutionary was disrupting the natural order of things, Apocalypse commenced battle with Wyndham. In the end, because of the High Evolutionary's actions, it helped the species evolve and grow stronger which ironically helped Apocalypse's plan of weeding out the weak and forcing the strong to rise. Following the genetic manipulation of Caliban, Apocalypse is confronted by the Norse god Loki, who wants him to join his " Acts of Vengeance", but Apocalypse refuses and the two briefly fight.Cable and Stryfe
X-Cutioner's Song
In the present, Apocalypse is prematurely awoken from his regeneration chamber by his Riders (now calling themselves, The Dark Riders), who inform their master that his Horsemen has kidnapped Cyclops and Jean Grey, supposedly under his instructions but it was actually Mister Sinister, who was posing as Apocalypse. When attempting to rejuvenate himself again, Apocalypse is nearly killed by Stryfe who had arrived in the past to take revenge on Apocalypse. At the end of this conflict, Apocalypse is presumed deceased due to his two recent attempts at regeneration having been interrupted, and after a brief battle on the Moon with his former servants, the Dark Riders (who had joined Stryfe), Apocalypse is left for dead by Archangel.Genesis
Onslaught
After a long healing slumber, Apocalypse, fully restored, awakens with Ozymandias at his side and quickly learns of the present danger: Onslaught. He observes the conflict between the psionic entity and Earth's heroes with Uatu the Watcher, who suggests to Apocalypse a course of action; an alliance with the one who hated him the most, Cable. Apocalypse surmises that Onslaught would be most vulnerable through the astral plane, and that he needs Cable for actual physical transportation to this realm. Once on the astral plane, Apocalypse would remove the captive Franklin Richards, greatly weakening Onslaught. The plan succeeds, but is interrupted by the Invisible Woman, who had invisibly accompanied the pair, having suspected Apocalypse's motive in wanting to actually kill her son. However, the reprieve in battle gave Onslaught the time to escape, prolonging the conflict. Following the events of the Onslaught saga, the gamma-spawned powerhouse, the Hulk and his human alter ego, Banner, are split into two separate entities; Hulk now draws upon energy derived from Franklin Richards' pocket universe; Apocalypse recruits the Hulk to become his Horseman, War, with intentions of using the Hulk's nexus-energy to overcome the Celestials. To test this newest recruit, Apocalypse set War against the New World Order, a shadow cabinet organization that intends to conquer the world. The New World Order in turn set the Juggernaut and the Absorbing Man against War, but both are easily defeated. However, Hulk comes to his senses after injuring his friend, Rick Jones. Despite this apparent setback, the incident was still a victory for Apocalypse as it was a successful testing of newly understood Celestial technology. Apocalypse activates the self-destruct mechanism on the sword of War, which the New World Order had obtained, destroying their headquarters.The Hellfire Club later awakens Apocalypse's long-hidden Harbinger from its deep sleep; originally a normal man, whom Apocalypse in the 19th century once left to incubate for 100 years. Apocalypse releases his Horseman (Caliban) and his scribe Ozymandias from his possession, to fend for themselves, if they were to survive the coming events. Cable with the Avengers battles the Harbinger, but are unable to stop it. Apocalypse then appears, activating a bomb inside the Harbinger which would destroy all of New York, but Cable manages to prevent this disaster.
When Magneto, is disrupting Earth's magnetic field, Apocalypse sends a Skrull impersonating the mutant Astra (having dealt with the original Astra) to stop the Master of Magnetism.
Intending to start an all-out war between the humans and the subterranean-dwelling Deviants as part of his plan to test the strong, Apocalypse sets off nuclear warheads at Lemuria, causing the Deviants to further mutate (which also restores Ikaris's father Virako to life). Apocalypse launches an attack at San Francisco, using a mentally controlled Deviant, Karkas, now a gigantic monster, that the Eternals are forced to battle. Apocalypse is confronted by his centuries-old foe, Ikaris, who now is a Prime Eternal. Although, Apocalypse defeats Ikaris, the Eternal still succeeds in destroying his ship and thwarting his plan.
The Twelve
Post-M-Day
The Messiah War
After the events of M-Day Apocalypse traveled into the distant future and is ambushed by Bishop and Stryfe. They attack him and injure him. Already severely weakened from his trip to the future he retreats and still lives. After the attack he somehow calls for Archangel and asks him to murder him. Archangel tell him no. And to the shock of Apocalypse hands over his (Apocalypse built) wings.
Powers
Apocalypses body is a mix of organics and celestial technology, augmenting and amplifying all of his abilities. Firstly, Apocalypse has complete control over his atomic structure. Harnessing ambient energies, he can augment his physical form in a variety of ways including manipulating his size, giving himself virtually unlimited strength, hardening portions of his body into armor, reshaping his arms into a variety of melee weapons, working wings and booster jets, and much much more. The limits of his transmutation abilities, like many of his other abilities, are unknown and seem to adapt depending on his need and imagination. He possesses the ability to heal himself from most injuries, but larger ones will take longer to heal from. More serious damage can still be healed, and if necessary, the celestial technology in his ship and many bases around the world will heal him from any state including bringing him back to life.
Apocalypse possesses above genius level intellect, as well as some telepathic, telekinetic, and psionic abilities. He is a skilled leader and tactician. Along with his own intellectual abilities, Apocalypse also has a great knowledge of celestial technology. Although his utilization of celestial technology is a part of most of his ventures, his understanding does have its limitations as his ship (comprised mainly of celestial technology) contains many secrets, technology, and even rooms that Apocalypse has yet to discover.
Apocalypse has also demonstrated teleportation abilities, but it is unknown if he actually possesses these abilities, or if they are simply an application of the technology which he possesses.
In several time lines, Apocalypse has also demonstrated the ability to transfer his consciousness into other bodies. In Cable's timeline, Apocalypse had become so powerful and advanced, that transferring his consciousness into new bodies periodically became a necessity as his immense power would cause him to exhaust host bodies quickly.
As demonstrated recently, Apocalypse's blood may have some healing properties when exposed to normal tissues. During his last failed conquest attempt, a serum created from his blood was designated to be given to those few that chose to follow him. Its purpose was to prevent infection from the variety of diseases and safeguard these mutants when Polaris was unleashed on the world. It is unknown what kinds of side-effects this exposure has, and the vat was destroyed before it was used on humans, several of the surviving mutants, however,took the vials of his blood that he offered when he attacked the Xavier Institute.
Characteristics
Real Name: En Sabah NurHeight: Variable (usually 7'9")
Weight: Variable (usually 300 lbs)
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Black
Costume Colors: Blue & Red
Main Enemy: X-Men
Four Horsemen of Apocalypse
One of the most prominent applications of Apocalypse's high level of intellect and the celestial technology which he employs is the creation of his Horsemen of Apocalypse. These are four mutants (or occasionally humans) that Apocalypse would choose to adapt to fill the four roles in his conquest: Famine, Pestilence, War, and Death. Those people acting as Famine were Ahab, Autumn Rolfson, and Sunfire. The people acting as Pestilence were Caliban, Plague, and Polaris. The people acting as War were Deathbird, Gazer, Hulk, and Abraham Kieros. Those people acting as Death were Archangel, Caliban, Gambit, and Wolverine.
Alternate Universes
Earth-295 ( Age of Apocalypse)
With the help of his new Horsemen -- Mr. Sinister, Abyss, Mikhail Rasputin, and Holocaust -- Apocalypse ruled America while trying to defeat his only real resistance, the X-Men. He eventually managed to capture Magneto, although the rest of the resistance was able to break into Apocalypse's Citadel in the ruins of Manhattan. With his last bit of strength, Magneto, furious at Apocalypse for terrorizing the world, magnetically tore his body in half, killing the tyrant.
Apocalypse had the same powers he had in the regular Marvel 616 universe.
Earth-1610 ( Ultimate Universe)
How Sinister was able to fool S.H.I.E.L.D. personnel is unknown (perhaps having to do with the chemical enhancements to his body), but Sinister's death was only a ruse. Apocalypse was pleased by Sinister's ability to get out of custody. Sinister was again set out to kill the remaining mutants in order to obtain ten for his master. They (Apocalypse still incorporeal at this point) came to one of the Morlocks within the sewer system, and Sinister forced him to lead the way to the Morlock's home. At the entrance Sinister was greeted by Nightcrawler, who quickly recognized him from the attack on the mansion. Sinister began killing the Morlocks when the X-Men arrived. As his final offering to Apocalypse Sinister killed Angel. Since Bishop had done nothing to stop this, Wolverine killed Bishop. While the X-Men and Morlocks were tending to their own, Sinister began to rise up out of the tunnels, straight through the ground and streets above him. On the way his physical form began to change. By the time he reached the surface Sinister was gone. Apocalypse stood tall in his new physical form. The police that were dispatched to stop him were able to do little. The X-Men and the Morlocks attempted to stop him, but Apocalypse managed to rip out one of Wolverine's arms and the team quickly learned that Apocalypse was able to exert some form of control over the bodies and powers of Mutants around him. The Fantastic Four arrived, but the X-Men were under the control of Apocalypse and attacked them. Apocalypse came under fire from the local authorities. As they fired upon him he apparently grew stronger, and his outfit changed into a larger, more armored form. In the end Jean Grey managed to defeat Apocalypse by calling on the Phoenix Force.
Earth-2182 (Exiles)
In Nocturne's home reality, Apocalypse had a son named Armageddon, who was created with the combined DNA of Apocalypse and Jean Grey. He rejected his father's ideal and philosophy and eventually defected to his father's enemy, the X-Men.Earth-691 ( Guardians Of The Galaxy)
In this reality, Apocalypse tried to enslave all of mutants. He went to duel against Magneto, but ended up killing each other. Earth-58163 ( House of M)
Magneto defeated Apocalypse, but instead of killing him, he gave him the opportunity to become his lieutenant and in return, Apocalypse will rule all of Africa. He was killed by Black Bolt during his mission to kill Black Panther. Earth-2301 (Marvel Mangaverse)
Apocalypse is the main enemy of the Avengers, and his horsemen are composed of Archangel, Mr. Sinister, Emma Frost and Juggernaut.Earth-1298 (Mutant X)
Apocalypse is an ally of the X-Men, he was later killed by an evil Professor X while protecting Havok.Earth-4935 (Earth-Askani)
This is the reality where Earth-616 Cable was sent to as an infant. Apocalypse was the ruler of the world here. Earth-5701
Also in this reality Apocalypse rules the world with his Horsemen; Blob (Famine), Spider-Man (Pestilence), Cable (War) and Archangel (Death).Earth-80521 (Age of Stryfe)
In this alternate future where Stryfe has ruled the world after Apocalypse's slumber is also the setting for the story arc Messiah War. Apocalypse is hibernating when he was attacked and defeated by the combined efforts of Stryfe and Bishop. In near of his death, he used his remaining powers to telepathically call on to his last Horseman, Angel, who is now a member of mutant black ops team, X-Force. He commanded Angel to kill as he is weak, but refuse to do so and only gave him pieces of his metallic wing. Apocalypse used the metal feathers to revitalize his powers and propose to Angel that they should kill Stryfe together. Both of them headed for Stryfe's citadel and defeated him, afterwards he protected the supposedly mutant messiah, Hope Summers from Bishop. Apocalypse took interest on the girl and said that one day, she will become a vessel for his soul, it was then that Cable and X-Force surrounds him and demanded the surrender of Hope. Angel spoke to his former master and told him that he owes his life to him because he spared him and that he request for the child as a sign of payback. Apocalypse agreed to this and warns Cable that he will be coming back for the child. Apocalypse is last seen dragging Stryfe to fulfill his destiny: to be the next vessel for his soul.
| Super Name: | Apocalypse |
| Real Name: | En Sabah Nur |
| Aliases: |
En Sabah Nur Huitzilopochtli Set Kali-Ma High Lord Forever Walker Son of the Morning Fire The First One Sauru Aten Eternal One He Who Never Dies Destroyer of World The Bringer of Chaos Tyler Dayspring |
| Publisher: | Marvel Publishing |
| Gender: | Male |
| Character Type: | Mutant |
| 1st Appearance: | X-Factor #5 |
| Appears in: | 245 issues |
| Birthday: | |
| Died: |
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