Revelation of Saint John the Divine is weird . He ’s arguably the X - Men ’s most hefty foe , but he ’s not the most famous ; he has a generic name , tough - to - set might , and his motives alter a destiny . And now he ’s also going to be the big bad of the next X - Men picture show ! Here ’s a helpful primer before Apocalypse ( the picture and the lineament ) come this May .
1 ) He ’s erstwhile as heck .
The boy who would take the name Revelation was born 5,000 years ago in an area of the Middle East called Aqaba ( in modern Jordan ) . He was born his grey tegument and his weird blue sassing , which led the superstitious villagers to abandon the baby in the desert . He was found by a federation of tribes of pillager called the Sandstormers , who contribute him the name En Sabah Nur—“The First One . ” He may even be the Earth ’s first variation .
2 ) His main finish is making sure only the strong survive .
Although his name constitute him voice like he wants to end the humanity ( or at least kill everyone on it ) , Apocalypse is really much more concerned in evolution — specifically , making sure the strong survive and the debile dice . As a mutant himself , he consider mutants are superior to humans much like Magneto does , but Apocalypse also really want to make a world where everyone is fighting all the time so the strong are forced to get secure and the weak get killed off . As such , he ’s into putting world in death camps and forcing mutant to fight each other , and he figures he ’s doing everyone a really big favour by doing this . Of course , he also thinks his business would be easy if he had supreme power and/or rule the public , so he drop a clean bit of his sentence trying to reach that , too .
3 ) He ’s one of the most powerful mutants ever .
Besides have extra - tops super - intensity level , Apocalypse can neuter his body to beseem any need . He can change his mass , sizing and exercising weight , allow him to produce the size of the Statue of Liberty . He can turn his tree branch into weapons set out from brand to laser cannons , he can down out extra arms , he can sprout wing and grow gill … and he can mask himself as pretty much anyone . It ’s like he can develop himself to outlast any billet . ( Get it ? ) He has a crazy efficient healing force , which makes him almost invulnerable . He can fire energy blasts out of pretty much any part of his body . He can fly , he has tiptop - hurrying , he has both telepathy and psychokinesis . It should not be a surprise that he ’s held his own against an entire squad of tenner - Men on numerous occasions .
4 ) He ’s not just a mutant , though .
When Apocalypse was still a young En Sabah Nur , he was taken to a cave stop devices left by the Celestials , who are a slipstream of super - powerful beingness who are basically the gods of the Marvel world ( and not like Thor and Loki are “ gods”—these guys created life-time , dying , and the multiverse ) . Not only did the engineering science give him supernal armor , it cave in him new mutant powers while augmenting the balance . Not only does Book of Revelation get more powerful as he gets older , he ’s moderately sure he has plenty of powers he does n’t even have intercourse about yet . The only downside to his Celestial improvement is that his body can scantily handle it , forcing him to flip human hosts on a regular basis ( although his tech makes transferring his knowingness and powers pretty simple ) . Also , he needs to recharge his insane powers sporadically by taking long time - farsighted naps , which is pretty much the only respite the 10 - man get from him .
5 ) He has a fondness for select four minion and dubbing them Horsemen .
Hey , you have a go at it that whole “ Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ” part of the script of revealing in the Bible ? As the most late X - Men : Apocalypse moving picture drone pointed out , it was inspire by the scoundrel . He ’s been taking four powerful minion and knight them Death , War , Famine and Pestilence for his entire life history as a supervillain . He gives them special powers and , in the fortune they do n’t want to help him willingly anyway , enslave their intellect . Famous Marvel heroes who have become one of Apocalypse ’s Horsemen include the Hulk , Wolverine , Gambit , the Sentry , and more ( especially in substitute Marvel universes ) . In the forthcoming movie , it appear Apocalypse ’s riders will be Angel , Storm , Magneto and Psylocke .
6 ) He has a very vivid relationship with the Summers folk .
My apologies , because this is the point where the wrecking orchis that is 10 - Men comics continuity come in . In the modern Marvel universe , Apocalypse first awaken up — about a century in the first place than plan — when he felt the arrival of a strange DOE . That energy was the grinder Cable , who had traveled back in time to stop Revelation from conquering the planet and reign it for the next 19 centuries . Cable is the Nathan , the Word of the X - man Cyclops and Madeline Pryor , who was secretly a clone of Jean Grey ; Nathan was infected with a techno - computer virus as a baby — by Apocalypse — and sent to the futurity to cure him , where he ended up growing up under Apocalypse ’s nightmare authorities . Cable hates Apocalypse . In the future , someone cloned Cable and Apocalypse stole that baby , raise him , and he ended up the as the mad ten - Men baddie Stryfe , who hated both Cyclops and Apocalypse because dad issues . Whew ! And this is legitimately just the beginning of their disturbed , messed - up relationship .
7 ) He ’ll fight anybody , including other scoundrel .
Book of Revelation is not much for a squad - up , and since other villains plans to down so - and - so or destroy such - and - such would constantly get in the way of his plans to do the same , he ’s taken on more than a few bad Guy , too . He agitate Kang the Conqueror back in ancient Egypt . He kicked Dracula ’s ass a metre or two . He ’s combat both Thor and Loki to standstills . He helped stop Onslaught , although he was mainly doing it to kill Franklin Richards . He held his own against the High Evolutionary , a supervillain with the power to rearrange sub - atomic particles . And the Eternals , who were created by the Celestials and are basically demigods , simply call Revelation their “ Ancient Nemesis . ”
- He conquered the populace for a while .
When Professor X ’s disruptive son Legion — yes , the guy who ’s about to have his own show on Fox — decided to travel back in time to assassinate Magneto , he unintentionally shoots and kills his pappa before he can organise the tenner - Men . As a resultant role , Book of Revelation wakes up ahead of time and there ’s no one to stop him , even though Magneto creates and result the ten - man in Xavier ’s space . The end answer was 1995 ’s Age of Apocalypse storyline , in which Apocalypse has killed most of human race , enslaved the rest , and only a few groups of mutants resist him . AoA is most famed for some fairly insane change to the X - Men , including Rogue becoming Magneto ’s wife , Colossus killing a lot of X - Men including his dear Kitty Pride , and the existence of Nate Grey , who was created with the DNA of Cyclops and Jean Grey ( making him Cable ’s half - brother double removed , or something ) . in any case , another person from the future has to travel back in time to wipe out this lot , but this time is happens to be Bishop .
11 ) He produce Mr. Sinister , and it was a vast mistake .
In 1859 , Apocalypse used his supernal tech to turn Victorian scientist Nathanial Essex into the supervillain Mr. Sinister , and has basically regret it ever since . Sinister was suppose to help oneself the ancient mutant stamp out all humans , but Sinister thought this plan was dumb and manage to put Apocalypse back into hibernation . Since that point , Sinister has struggle Apocalypse many time , impersonated him a few more , and is the hombre who clone Jean Grey and ship her to Cyclops for the express intent of them get sexuality and her reach birth to Cable , the biggest thorn in Apocalypse ’s side . Mr. Sinister happens the next biggest ten - Men foe that has n’t appeared in a movie yet , so if there happen to be another movie in the current continuity , he ’s probably a ringlet .
12 ) He is not celibate .
Also , he ’s apparently not a crowing devotee of giving birth control , because he ’s spent 5,000 years sleeping his way around the human beings , and he has grand of descendants , most of whom have no idea they ’re related to the genocidal maniac . He has an entire kindred that has done his bid over the centuries , and they ’re all related to him .
13 ) Sometimes he can actually be helpful …
In his desire to produce his perfect minions , he ’s by chance superintend to aid the X - work force on several occasion . When Angel had his wing rive off , Apocalypse gave him his lustrous alloy unity ; after Wolverine had his adamantium ripped off his bone , Apocalypse put it back . He even grew Sunfire ’s leg back . apparently , these gifts all came with a price , but the heroes also managed to get out of their deals eventually . I have no approximation how healing X - Men jibes with Apocalypse ’s mantra of “ only the strong should survive , ” and I doubt he ’s thought much about it .
14 ) … and sometimes he is petty as hell .
When Apocalypse was a youthful gent in ancient Egypt , he fall for a little girl who reject him on report of his greyish skin and weird blue lips . En Sabah Nur patiently waited until the girl get into an old woman , and , once she was in her death bed , visit her specifically to diss her as she set dying .
15 ) He was very upset about “ House of M. ”
So remember in “ House of M ” when Scarlet Witch went demented , gnarl “ No more mutation , ” and then all but 190 or so mutants were depowered ? It was a big deal , and Book of Revelation did not care for it one chip , because he felt it tipped the scale too far in humanity ’s favour over mutants , survival - wise . So Apocalypse hold up to the United Nations and politely request that they toss off 90 % of the earthly concern ’s normal human population to even the grievance . If they did n’t , he would release a pest that would vote down all of humanity . Apocalypse did n’t manage to pull this off , but it ’s still impressive that he was polite enough to ask first .
16 ) He was recently a chill small Kyd .
Actually , he was a few children . He was recently reincarnated as a child , at which point the ostensibly heroic ex - Man identify Fantomex murdered him . Revelation of Saint John the Divine had another Word that was hidden from him . And then Fantomex also raised a clone of Apocalypse into a rather pleasant teenager named Evan Sabahnur who he enrol in the Jean Grey School for Hire Learning , where he used his powers for good . Evan was kidnapped , tortured , given his own pile of Celestial armor , grow into an adult , and play with evil a few time , but he ’s broadly speaking stayed good , calling himself Genesis instead , and is currently dwell in Deadpool ’s apartment in Queens .
17 ) He ’s being played by Poe Dameron .
In case you did n’t recognize who Oscar Isaac was before he stole your heart in The Force Awakens , that is indeed the same dashing Resistance pilot program playing the ancient X - Men antagonist in X - Men : Apocalypse ( or possibly he ’s simply cosplaying as Ivan Ooze ) . Isaac is very excited about playing the villain , but if you ’ve see the beloved X - Men cartoon of the ’ 90s and remember Apocalypse ’s appearances on it , you have a go at it Isaac has a flock to experience up to :
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