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Apocalypse

En Sabah Nur (Earth-61615)
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Real Name
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En Sabah Nur
Current Alias
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Aliases
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The Seven Lights, Eternal One, High Lord, Eternal Pharaoh, Huitzilopochtli, Sauru, Kali-Ma, Elohim, God, Shem, Ra, Krishna, Yahweh, Apocalypse Prime, The Savior, Eighth Apocalypse, Conquest, First Mutant, Death, Beast Child, David Moreau, Dr. Moreau, Two-Faced Messiah, Mutant Messiah

Identity
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Alignment
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Affiliation
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Horsemen of Apocalypse; formerly Clan Akkaba, Sandstormers, Dark Riders (all defunct)

Relatives
Tribe Akkaba (first children to latest descendants; mostly deceased or estranged);
Selene Gallio (former lover)

Universe
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Base Of Operations
Mobile across Egypt, Abandoned Celestial "Ship" beneath Cairo; formerly Genosha

Characteristics
Gender
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Height
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7' 8" Variable

Weight
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Eyes
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Hair
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Bald, (formerly Black)

Skin

Unusual Features
Appears metallic at times, extensive disheveled metallic blue lips, blue markings on head, originally massive in natural form

Status
Citizenship
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Occupation
Mutant warlord, conqueror

Education
Trained and educated by Baal and the Sandstormers; self-educated regarding the origins of the Celestial technology, through extensive research, and enhanced intellect, thanks to a mutation-inducing techno-organic virus released inside an abandoned Celestial facility

Origin
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Mutant cyborg (Mutant External)

Place of Birth
Akkaba, Egypt

Place of Death
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Cairo, Egypt

First appearance
Last appearance

Modern Comics:
X-Men
Vol 1 5
Modern Comics:
X-t(In)ction
Vol 1 6


History

Quote1 Everything they've built, will fall! And from the ashes of their world, we'll build a better one! Quote2
Apocalypse

Early Years

En Sabah Nur, also known by his intriguing and controversial yet menacing title of Apocalypse, was born approximately in the late 8000 B.C. (claiming to have been worshiped by several ancient civilizations over his many lives, being called the titles of Elohim, Shem, and Ra, among other names), and was one of the firstborn members of the mutant subspecies of humanity, the Homo sapiens superior, as he ruled the world in his birthplace of Akkaba, ancient Egypt.

According to both mythological and historical texts, wherever Apocalypse was, he had grown to gain four primary followers that he would bestow powers to, the Four Horsemen, and wherever he ruled, it would eventually end in a cataclysm or an apocalypse of some sort. Throughout his reign, he had helped grow and eventually destroy many cities and civilizations who would deflect his tyrannical rulership all over Egypt, before the known recorded history. Due to this, even he was amused by the mere thought of believing himself to be a god, thinking that he was untouchable, and able to kill at a sudden impulse to any who desires or dared to stand in his way.

Even his mere youth had consequentially threatened the heir of the next following potential rulers of the Egyptian society, including the likes of Pharaoh Rama-Tut, a powerful tyrannical ruler with a mysterious past and future. A younger Nur discovered his mutant abilities and people started worship him as a god, a Messiah due to his powerful abilities. Along with it, Rama-Tut's throne was eventually overthrown by Nur and his forces after a supposed "miracle" had arrived to start his bidding of crumbling Rama-Tut's reign, leading to the massacre and enslavement of his loyal servants at the hands of the mutant and his Four horsemen, while Tut suddenly disappears from the face of the earth, leaving an impostor (an Life-Model Decoy of Tut's design) to take his place for the next few years attempting to retake his position back as pharaoh, before dying from eventual defeat at the hands of Nur himself who tore the android into pieces.

Throughout his as the unrecorded historical ruler of Egypt, Nur believed and would always believe in the high standard doctrines and other philosophies his great late mentors, Baal and the Sandstormers, have once taught him and has always reminded him, that everyone in this world lives and dies through the primitive concept of the survival of the fittest, no matter what race you might belong to, either you may be a human, a mutant, or any other kind of being. This personal philosophy of his was able to be come in handy whenever Nur, his Horsemen, and his entire kingdom was threatened by other conquerors and invaders, which also included fellow mutants, superhumans, and even ancient vampires, and sometimes most of them has even challenged the Eternal Pharaoh himself, only to humiliatingly face themselves both in defeat, and in death, with only few of his foes were able to retreat and come out of his kingdom of terror alive.

An Extraterrestrial Encounter

Later on during his early days as the powerful mutant and Egyptian ruler, Nur saw what looked like a mysterious mirage several hundred meters away across the Egyptian desert. Nur and his Horsemen traveled to the source of the mirage and discovered an advanced hatch, looking like it was made out of metal that not of this world, upon which it was proven to be true. After opening the hatch, Nur and his Horsemen discovered the inner workings of a ruins of a Celestial facility that crash landed on Earth hundreds of thousands of years ago during the first arrival of the Eternals, revealing for the facility to be abandoned by the Celestial Gardeners after a battle with Pharaoh Rama-Tut. During those times, Nur's travels then became fueled by a single-minded purpose, to find the key that would unlock the secrets to this alien technology. Nur tried to learn more about the possible origins and how he could eventually control it from time to time using his super-genius intellect, only to learn half of what he wanted to know about it, much to his disappointment.

However, Apocalypse’s blood had suddenly became infected with techno-organic virus released by one of the lab's uncontrollably-leaking engine, and after it accidentally spilled into his left arm's regenerating open-wound, the infection allowed Apocalypse to not only transform into an even more powerful being, but to also interface with the Celestial facility, which they dubbed "The Ship" due to its striking resemblance with a watercraft, gradually gaining him more intellect about the Celestial race than he used to know before in mere tales, with Nur eventually claiming the ship as his own possession, although he saw it more as a massive trophy later on, rather than, implying that he was able to learn every single detail he needed to know from it in only a matter of several weeks, before abandoning the laboratory to rust in the coarse of sand once again to return with his rule as Pharaoh, with no other witness who saw the remnants of the facility and knew what Nur and his Horsemen was previously up to.

The End of First Reign

In 3600 B.C., En Sabah Nur was growing old in his current form, not even his powers could defeat the inevitability of time over his body. Aided by his Horsemen, he performed a ceremony that would allow him to transfer his consciousness and previously acquired abilities into a new host, a mutant who had enhanced healing and longevity. His priestess began the transfer through an Celestial-based technology Nur has previously designed and created in the past several years. However, Nur would come to face the threat of a secretly-formed coup, led by the allied forces of the righteous Egyptian lord and selfless warrior Khonshu, whom his closest associates had known his secret as being one of the two Egyptian gods who were banished from their corporal realm of Heliopolis onto the Earthy realm. The secret alliance was solidified with the help of Khonshu's allies, known as the nigh-immortal Eternals, who came to confront Nur due to his Celestial-based powers and technology, deeming him a potentially worse threat than the Deviants, whose eradication was their primary mission in the name of the last Celestial Gardeners.

During the day of their ambush against Apocalypse, Khonshu and his super-powered team were able to defeat most of his undefeatable Horsemen and begin the destruction of the pyramid wherein they were performing the transference. However, one of Apocalypse's Horsemen was able to remain alive until the transfer was complete, resorting to activating the trap door beneath them that ultimately prevented them from ever interfering with En Sabah Nur's transferal of essence. The Horseman Death, made sure the transfer was complete and En Sabah Nur was safe within a stasis bubble before allowing herself to die at the reward of saving her master. The Eternals ensured that the supposed corpse of Apocalypse under his pyramid would remain buried there, although various attacks of the Deviants from the rest of the world had eventually render them to believe that the Celestial technology were finally out of the mutant tyrant's hands, contented of his defeat.

The Ruler's Reawakening

During his longest slumber, some of Nur's mutant children would succeed his legacy by starting a secret fellowship known as Clan Akkaba, who possessed a portion of his powers through their heritage and surviving through their descendants, the Clan would dedicate their servitude to watch over the site of where they believed he was last buried and guide the first expanding civilizations across the world using his philosophy. Throughout the millennia, almost a hundred of his descendance would compete with each other and the strongest victor would end up leading Clan Akkaba as they bore the mantle of Apocalypse, in honor of their deity figure and spiritual founder.

While Clan Akkaba was able to endure and live on throughout history to preserve the glory of En Sabah Nur amidst the rapid expansion of humanity, they and their respective era's incarnations of Apocalypse would be constantly challenged by various threats — both from the heroic sides and faces of evil who rivaled his ideals — which only Nur himself could've handled in his prime until the clan was forced to splinter into various factions and abandon their watch over the burial site of Apocalypse, appearing as if they have faded into obscurity in order to continue serving in their fallen master's name and finding more ways to bring him back from the rubble.

After approximately 4000 years of hibernation, Nur was awakened by his followers in the summer of 1999 by a cult a descending offshoot of the ancient Clan Akkaba, who would later reveal to have connections with an enigmatic and morbid scientist named Dr. Nathaniel Essex along with his team of Marauders, who were among other individuals across the world who greatly preserved and still believed in the glorious tale of Apocalypse, as they were mutually willing to bring his vision and mission back into the modern world as the prophesied messiah originating from the mutantkind.

On his wake, Apocalypse became hellbent on destroying the world and reshape society in his own image, after perceiving that his fellow mutantkind have grown weaker in his absence, which paved for the fateful rise of human civilization. He coerced and gathered mutants — young and old — Archangel, Storm, Psylocke and Magneto as his new Four Horsemen, and kidnapped Professor X in order to transfer his consciousness to his body to have the ability and power to control the mind of every living mind on Earth, specifically to those who would oppress mutantkind into extremity.

As a result, the X-Men has assembled once more tried to stop him and his catastrophic schemes to end humanity and build his own "mutant paradise," at the heart of his former childhood neighborhood, the city of Cairo. His horsemen eventually turned on him, after the X-Men effectively convinced and made them realized that he is not what he seems he claimed himself to be. Altogether, they finally attacked Apocalypse, along with Xavier and the other mutants in order to subdue him, but it wasn't enough, right until Jean has fully unleashed the symbiotic cosmic entity known as the Phoenix Force, for the very first time in her life, resulting in his second defeat. Weakened, Apocalypse was incinerated by Jean through the Phoenix Force, apparently killing him.

Secretive Survival

Despite Apocalypse's second demise already coming to pass at the hands of the X-Men, it was eventually revealed that Apocalypse has survived his untimely death, with him with that he was able to be successful in secretly replicate a sufficient degree of Xavier's telepathy into his own, showing that he had the chance to survive the disintegration caused by the Phoenix, by using his newly-absorbed powers to permanently transfer his essence into a random civilian's body, who has already died during Cairo's partial destruction, by the very second his previous body was disintegrated by the Phoenix Force.

Before the heroic mutants have finally left the aftermath of the battleground, one slightly injured civilian has tearfully thanked the X-Men for saving their town from ultimate destruction, and their lives in the process. As they left the town enlightened by the man's heart-felt gratitude, it was then revealed that was En Sabah Nur himself in a new body, with him secretly taunting the X-Men that they were nothing, but weak, inexperienced amateurs, who were easy to be manipulated by their "deluded" master Charles Xavier as Apocalypse consistently kept his eyes at the heroic mutants and their adventurous journey to establish peace living among humankind though the news and any other form of technology which he could access with assistance from the nigh-limitless archives of Clan Akkaba.

In the next several years, Apocalypse continued to live in his new body, hiding with the remainder of his modern Clan whom he would reunited with as they traveled across the world to restore his knowledge of the lost years during his slumber, while he currently awaits for the exact time he would be able to grab his next great opportunity, to be reborn as another newer, more powerful, and higher form of mutant once again.

A Sinister Betrayal

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Apocalypse meets one of his oldest and most loyal acolyte, the sinister mutate Nathaniel Essex, who would end up betraying him to fuel his own personal mission

The next following years until reaching the modern days of the 21st century, Nur has persistently traveled all across the globe, where he eventually met one of his known secret admirers, the former living scientific legend who was Doctor Nathaniel Essex, whom he unexpectedly met inside a famous museum, the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, located in his former neighborhood, the once historical ancient city of Cairo. After a quite while conversing their deepest interests about Egyptian culture, Nur and Essex eventually changed the subject unknowingly until they started talking more and more about the mythology and folklore many of Egyptian historians and natives haves known as the title of Apocalypse.

After revealing his true form to Essex, Nur then offered to give Essex most of the hidden ideologies and teachings that he once learned about the Celestial race, to learn how to create, manipulate, and control an advance technology same to theirs', and along with it, helping him more in order to become a more powerful superhuman being himself than he already was, to give him the time to further his research, but at a cost: his loyal servitude to him, in secret, and also by using his scientific aptitude into helping him slowly transform into a higher form of a being, specifically the example of having the next step towards the evolution of mutantkind.

Only a year before the events of Ultimate War, it was revealed that the seemingly loyal Sinister had betrayed Apocalypse, seeing his vision of the future as nothing but chaotic without having any strict order and rule it humanely, and had instead created a counteractive techno-virus that attacked only Apocalypse's psionic field inside his current body's mind, forcing the ancient mutant to slowly faint, having no other choice but to enter his newly-located hibernation sanctuary that he purposely and confidentially reconstructed below the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, since it was the only in order to keep himself mentally awake and miraculously alive from the deadly neuron-degenerating techno-virus of Sinister.

Whilst in his state of paralysis due to Sinister's psionic virus, Nur reflected and contemplated on his many lifetimes, to which he surprisingly began to be more open to the idea of Charles Xavier's pacifist yet defensive philosophy that mutants and humans can still harmoniously live together in one world, slowly convinced at Professor X's notion over his own false follower that was Sinister who was nothing more than a wicked charlatan, an overpowered mutate who abuses his mind and power to experiment on his people as his subjects. Little by little, Nur realized how wrong he was and how miserably dated his radical and extremist ideals are, proving Xavier and Magneto's beliefs to be more idealistic yet realistic in the modern times.

Mutant Ultimatum

God's Last Rebirth

A mysterious group of rebel fighters known as the Clan Askani had arrived in the modern day from a distant alternate future reality, a dystopian future wherein both Sinister and Apocalypse had both taken over the planet in a lasting rivalry, and with them, carries the urgent message that the present reality itself is on the brink of catastrophe due to the supposed rebirth of En Sabah Nur. Shortly before their arrival also came the prodigal son of Cyclops and Jean Grey, Nathan Summers, who was now going by his notorious moniker, Cable, who was also on the mission to track down the future successor of Apocalypse, Stryfe and foil his scheme on reawakening the present day Apocalypse, his future fallen master in his timeline. With the defeat and death of Stryfe at the hands of Cable and the X-Force, their success had seemingly vanquished his reality-altering plan to converge his with the modern reality by reawakening this reality's Apocalypse.

X-t(In)ction Event

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A dying Apocalypse in his final body, offering his help to the heroes against Mister Sinister

However, little did the heroic mutants were aware of at first, another global threat was also emerging from the darkness, in the form of a reborn Mister Sinister, with his new scheme to "balance all life" on the planet with his full-scale "experiment of survival," subjugating millions of Mutants, Inhumans, Atlanteans, Mutates and any other sentient species on Earth through his new series of protocols of causing a global extinction event such as releasing a deadly artificial plague called the Legacy Virus. The virus was only one of the few fatal procedures which Sinister and his forces had enacted, although the latter was eventually stopped by the heroic forces composing of the X-Men, Brotherhood, S.H.I.E.L.D., and several more mutant-supporting groups across the globe.

During the ensuing chaos across the United States, a giant-sized Apocalypse was encountered by the heroes rampaging across different cities, which caused several prison breakouts, most notably the Raft, releasing hundreds of super-powered criminals to do the villain's bidding of causing more destruction. Thankfully, both the heroes and Mister Sinister inadvertently banded together to defeat Apocalypse. However, it didn't last long until they discovered that the giant mutant they cooperatively brought down was merely another clone made by Sinister himself that was created as a way of fooling and distracting the heroes in believing they're battling a bigger threat than Essex, realizing that the latter was already steps ahead of them since the Apocalypse Stryfe had "reawakened," was actually just another one of Essex's creation, leading the heroes to assume that the real En Sabah Nur was probably still somewhere inside his eternal slumber, still asleep.

A portion of the X-Men, the X-Force, as well as the guidance and assistance of Moon Knight (whose powers were from the late Egyptian deity and warrior, Khonshu) flew all the way to Cairo where they interrogated the last living members of Clan Akkaba, ones who survived Essex's massacre, into finding Apocalypse in the flesh after successfully locating him beneath the Cairo museum, proving their hunches and hypotheses to be true but in the worst way unimaginable.

In reality, the real Apocalypse also got the chance to break from the clutches of Sinister's techno-organic virus after his clone was freed by Stryfe instead of him, but the process unfortunately drained his biological immortality and psionic abilities, which progressively rendered Nur's body a slender, malnourished, and decaying state. As a result, Apocalypse didn't waste any time to build a ventilator machine from the last of his Celestial Gardener technology to keep himself alive long enough and think of a way out of the museum's underground and confront Sinister, only to be answered with the arrival of the X-Men and X-Force.

Furthermore, he revealed the painful truth that almost everything that he once perceived about their peaceful ideals were wrong, and that while he was initially reluctant, he was now offering his help in his nigh-cosmic power by joining forces with the heroes, mostly with the X-Men, since he believed that this battle would determine the fate of mutantkind, and the rest of life which Sinister deems to either exterminate into extinction or endlessly experiment into abomination with any other mutates.

Thus, one last time, En Sabah Nur gave all of his remaining powers to form his final Horsemen out of his situational allies: Grim Reaper (Death), Wolverine (War), Rogue (Famine), and Polaris (Conquest), to which these final four would also be serving as the succeeding powerhouses of his Celestial powers which they could share not only to themselves, but to their mutant teammates. Sur inevitably succumbed to his failing body, beyond healing or resuscitation.

Dying around his former mortal enemies inside very his birthplace, some of the heroes instinctively felt the feeling of sorrow and dejection within themselves, because after all, this shade of En Sabah Nur which they last met was and will always be one of them: a mutant fighting for their future in a modern world full of prejudice and persecution from those who fear and segregate their kind for millennia. With Nur's death in the present, the darker future where he grew and evolved as a tyrant ruler and conqueror of half the world, alongside his archenemy Sinister, will never come.

Redeemed Legacy

The heroes were victorious in the end, although the destruction and devastation of the skirmish brought by Sinister costed them a few yet significant casualties among their closest allies in exchange of saving more innocent lives from the brink of death, which included Apocalypse's sacrifice, redeeming himself from his tyrannical impression in the beginning by proving that he only thought he was doing what was best for the future of his fellow mutantkind. While Apocalypse was mostly perceived by the authorities and some of the public eye as a heartless extremist and a would-be-conqueror mutant, many mutants around the world began to see him as a true "Mutant Messiah" due to his selflessness at the face of death, acknowledging him as a redeemed villainous mutant figure by students of the X-Mansion, besides his long-time mortal enemy Professor Charles Xavier, who would also sacrificed his life to prevent the Phoenix Force from ravaging the Earth. In honor to his memory, a statue of Apocalypse was also erected by his former Horseman and enemy Magneto in the memorial cemetery of Genosha along with a few other great mutant heroes and anti-heroes that were considered to be beneficial in helping mutants move forward into a far more peaceful future.


Powers and Abilities

Powers

Cosmokinetic Homo Superior Physiology: Apocalypse has constantly evolved to survive, increasing his powers over the centuries. His original ability to control his molecular structure was augmented by Celestial armor once he entered the ruins of a Celestial Gardener's terraforming machine, simply dubbed "The Ship," and unexpectedly (and unwittingly) became the Evolutionary Caretaker. He was also exposed to at least two different techno-organic viruses over the years, which he assimilated and made his own after he gained various power-enhancing mutations from it.

  • Nigh-Immortality
  • Superhuman Strength
  • Superhuman Speed
  • Superhuman Durability
  • Teleportation
  • Psionic Manipulation
    • Telekinesis
      • Flight
    • Telepathy
      • Telepathic Control & Manipulation
      • Cyberpathy
  • Self-Molecular Manipulation
    • Biomorphing
    • Regenerative Healing Factor
  • Duplication
    • Self-Sustenance
    • Size Alteration
    • Self-Power Bestowal
  • Host Power Absorption
  • Matter Disintegration
  • Matter Transmutation
  • Energy Manipulation
    • Energy Blasts
    • Energy Absorption
Power Grid [1]
Intelligence*
Strength
Speed*
Durability*
Energy Projection*
 3
Fighting Skills*
 3
* Heightened stats when empowered


Abilities

  • Super-Genius Intelligence
  • Omnilingual

Strength level

Class 75+ (Variable)

Weaknesses

  • Phoenix Force
  • Arrogance
  • Weakened Aging Body


Paraphernalia

Equipment:

  • Apocalypse's Armor
    • Apocalypse's Celestial Armor
  • Countless Celestial Technology
  • Countless Celestial Technologically-Based Inventions
    • Essence Transference Ritual (formerly)

Transportation:

  • Teleportation
  • Various Celestial Tech-based Ships

Weapons: None known.


Notes

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  1. Modern Comics: X-Men Vol 1 5


Trivia

  • Despite sincerely asking for forgiveness to his enemies before his death, Apocalypse still supports the belief that mutantkind is the leading subspecies of humans that will inherit the fruitful future of Earth, believing that humanity will end up destroying itself due to its undying selfish quest for power through centuries of conflict. In his last moments, he simply thought of both Professor X and Magneto as the leaders that will both lead mutants into the very fruitful future he had envisioned.
  • Ever since his body got vaporized by Jean Grey's Phoenix Force, Apocalypse momentarily got intrigued by the external cosmic power that resides within her. As he began studying its unusual yet fascinating nature, Nur is one of the only beings on Earth who was aware that the Phoenix cannot die forever, as "killing" it would simply render the to be reborn somewhere across the universe, where it would end up finding and possessing another suitable host.



See Also

  • Appearances of En Sabah Nur (Earth-61615)
  • Character Gallery: En Sabah Nur (Earth-61615)
  • Quotations by En Sabah Nur (Earth-61615)


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