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This page covers the Marvel comicbook hero Apocalypse also known as 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 . If this is not the page you were looking for check here.
Apocalypse is one of the most powerful mutants in the Marvel universe, possessing a multitude of superhuman abilities, including almost unsurpassed strength, invulnerability and the ability to both shift and alter his mass and form.
Origin
Apocalypse was born En Sabah Nur in the mid-3rd century B.C. in ancient Egypt. He is one of the first recorded mutants, however both Selene and Saul is older.
He was taught the survival of the fittest philosophy by Baal, who raised him as his own child. He traveled the world being worshiped as a god wherever he went. His worshipers called him Aten, Sauru, Set, Kali and Huitzilopochtli, who are all personalities of the Marvel Universe. Only through treachery was he tricked into a trap, rendering him unconscious for several millennia.
Horsemen of Apocalypse
He awoke by the help of Cable but remained hidden for many years. After seeing the world and how it changed, Apocalypse drew together his horsemen: War, Famine, Pestilence and Death. They were soon stopped by the X-Men, and Death was lost.
With the loss of Death, Apocalypse went after a weakened Angel. Apocalypse replaced his wings with metal, giving him not only flight, but the ability to fling metal feathers. After renaming himself Archangel, he took Death's place in the Horsemen.
In a fight with the X-Men, Iceman created an Ice-Dummy that Archangel "killed". Upon realizing what he could have done to a previous friend, Archangel then turned on Apocalypse, defeating him.
Powers
Power
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.
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)
Age of Apocalypse
When Legion went into the past to kill Magneto, his battle with the X-Men was spied in on by Apocalypse, still in hiding at that point in time. Seeing that there were very powerful mutants existing on the planet outside of himself, he decided to start his plans of domination 20 years earlier than he did in the regular Marvel 616 universe. Apocalypse gathered powerful mutants to fight for his cause, creating a group of Horsemen (Sabretooth, Candra, Gideon, War, Death) to take control of the government's nuclear weapons base at Cape Citadel. They were defeated by Magneto's X-Men and Sabretooth defected to the side of the heroes, but Apocalypse was still able to take America unaware, creating a place of fear and death for all humans and capture for those mutants who did not follow his lead.
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)
Lord Apocalypse
Apocalypse's first appearance in the Ultimate Universe was a vision or apparition seen only by the arguably insane Mr. Sinister. Referred to by Sinister as "Lord Apocalypse", Apocalypse made Sinister his herald. Sinister's mission was to take the lives of Ten innocent mutants in order to bring about Apocalypse's rise. After Sinister launched a failed attack on the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning, and was subsequently imprisoned by SHIELD, Apocalypse came to Sinister again and commanded him to choke himself. Because of this incident, Sinister was put on suicide watch, and monitored closely by S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. He would eventually turn up dead in his cell with his tee shirt lodged in his throat.
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. 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. X-Men attempted to stop him, but 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.
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
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).
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