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"I was there to spark and fan the flame of man's awakening. To spin the wheel of civilization. And when the forest would grow rank and needed clearing for new growth, i was there to set it ablaze."
―Apocalypse[src]

En Sabah Nur, also known as Apocalypse, was a class 5 mutant who possessed superhuman strength, durability, reflexes, an accelerated healing factor, immortality, longevity, telekinesis and flyrogenesis. He was also the world's first mutant in existence.

Throughout En Sabah Nur's life, he had been worshiped as a god by humans.

Biography[]

Early life[]

En Sabah Nur shared the history of his counterpart up until 1983.

X-Men: Apocalypse[]

In 1983, Moira MacTaggert discovers a hidden chamber underground in Cairo that leads to where En Sabah Nur is. Due to the events of ten years earlier, with Magneto attacking the peace summit in Paris and being stopped by Mystique, cults had formed around the world worshiping mutants as gods. The cult that worshiped En Sabah Nur was chanting in his chamber causing him to be revived. The followers are buried by the explosion his revival caused but Moira escapes in time.

Later, the newly revived En Sabah Nur saves Storm, a mutant pickpocket, from men who had caught her stealing. The men had threatened to cut off her hand. However, En Sabah Nur uses his powers to decapitate three men with sand and then traps the last man in a wall. Ororo invites him to her home, thanking him. He absorbs knowledge from the TV to catch himself up on the last few thousand years. Based on what he has seen, he declares that the world must be cleansed and that man has lost his way. He enhances Ororo's powers, making her stronger but also turning her hair white.

Later, En Sabah Nur and Ororo/Storm teleport to East Berlin, looking for more powerful mutants. They come across Caliban, the black marketeer. Caliban draws his gun, but his gun and bullets are turned into dust by En Sabah Nur. As he comes closer, Caliban is defended by Psylocke, his bodyguard. Impressed with her power, En Sabah Nur enhances Psylocke's powers - recruiting her to his cause.

Psylocke leads En Sabah Nur and Storm to the next recruit, Angel, a mutant ex cage fighter. His wings had been damaged in battle by Nightcrawler, so he couldn't fight anymore and resorted to alcoholism. They find Angel in an abandoned building drinking and blasting Metallica. En Sabah Nur enhances his powers, giving him techno organic wings with knives for feathers. Angel becomes one of his followers.

Erik Lehnsherr had lived under the alias of Henryk Gurzsky in Poland. After his co workers at the factory had discovered his powers, policemen had confronted him. In the confrontation, his wife, Magda Gurzsky and his daughter, Nina Gurzsky were accidentally killed. He had killed the policemen and was about to do the same to his co workers for betraying him. Suddenly, En Sabah Nur appears with Storm, Angel and Psylocke. After Erik says not to interfere with him killing the men, En Sabah Nur kills them for him. Telling Erik to come with him, he takes him to Auschwitz, where his powers first manifested. Erik's powers are amplified and he destroys Auschwitz. He is then given a new helmet and armor, becoming a follower.

When Charles Xavier uses Cerebro to look for Erik, En Sabah Nur interferes and hacks into Cerebro. He causes the world to disarm itself of all nukes and attempts to use it to find other mutants, but Alex destroys it before he does. En Sabah Nur appears in the mansion and abducts Xavier. Alex tries to stop him, firing a blast, but the blast misses and causes an explosion that destroys the mansion. But Peter Maximoff saved everyone in time.

Later, in Egypt, En Sabah Nur plots to transfer his consciousness into Xavier to use his superior telepathy and enslave the minds of everyone on earth. The ritual happens in a pyramid while Erik/Magneto produces a strong magnetic field. Mystique and Peter/Quicksilver try to reason with him, while Nightcrawler/Kurt goes to save Xavier. Nightcrawler has a rematch with Angel and manages to trap him, then saves Xavier and teleports him to William Stryker's stolen jet where Moira and Jean are. The jet is attacked by Angel, who carries Psylocke with him, when they try to escape. The roof is cut off by Psylocke and then Jean uses her powers to sabotage the controls. Nightcrawler teleports them to safety, while Psylocke escapes the plane and Angel was trapped inside. The plane crashes and Angel is killed, En Sabah Nur looking at his body and declaring that he is useless.

Quicksilver uses his speed to fight En Sabah Nur, but his leg is broken. En Sabah Nur is about to kill him when his throat is suddenly cut by Psylocke, who is really Mystique in disguise. He strangles Mystique, threatening to kill her if Xavier doesn't show himself. Xavier battles En Sabah Nur telepathically and seems to have the advantage until he is overpowered. Magneto and Storm turned on En Sabah Nur, fighting him. En Sabah Nur is kept occupied telepathically fighting Xavier while Storm, Magneto, and Cyclops fight him physically. Jean overpowers En Sabah Nur telepathically, saving Xavier, and then uses her full power. She manifests a Phoenix like state and attacks En Sabah Nur until he deteriorates and his body is disintegrated.

Character traits[]

Because of En Sabah Nur's "godly" status in the world, he had developed a god-complex, having been worshiped as a deity over the years in several places. En Sabah Nur was born with numerous superhuman abilities, so much so that he proclaims himself as not only a god, but a "savior" of sorts in order to establish a new world in the wake of the previous one.

En Sabah Nur was a ruthless and manipulative mutant, as such he uses his manipulative streak to recruit many followers, including new ones. Apocalypse has also been shown to be very callous, shown when he looks down at a defeated Angel and only says that Angel was "useless". While he is tremendously powerful, he is also shown to be psychopathic, having no care for the consequences of his actions, and exposes one's weakness on a psychological level for his own personal gains. Apocalypse even has no qualms about killing other mutants who would dare defy him.

Also, En Sabah Nur was a pure megalomaniac as he was proving to be relentless about his goal to take over the world and to restore the mutants to rule the world as they did on his times, as well as he is immensely loved the fanning of his people as they saw him as sort of a god - incidentally confusing himself with God itself.

Powers and Abilities[]

Powers[]

  • Mutant Physiology: Apocalypse was an extremely powerful mutant who possessed superhuman strength, durability, reflexes, an accelerated healing factor, immortality, longevity, telekinesis, flyrogenesis, etc. As the first mutant in existence; Apocalypse was also one of the most powerful beings on the entire planet.
    • Superhuman Strength: Apocalypse was much stronger than normal humans and most other mutants. He was able to break Quicksilver's leg with a single kick relatively easily. Apocalypse could also lift and strangle Mystique with one hand with little to no effort at all.
    • Superhuman Durability: Apocalypse was far more durable than normal humans and most other mutants. He able to withstand several supersonic strikes from Quicksilver and resist for a short period blasts from Phoenix. Moira MacTaggert even stated that he was almost completely unstoppable.
    • Superhuman Reflexes: Apocalypse's reflexes were much faster than normal humans and most other mutants. He was able to react to Quicksilver's movements.
    • Accelerated Perception: Apocalypse could process information, and think much faster than normal humans and most other mutants. He was able see Quicksilver moving in slow motion; despite the latter moving at supersonic speeds; but it took a matter of seconds to activate.
    • Accelerated Healing Factor: Apocalypse's metabolism allowed him to heal much faster, more extensively, and efficiently than normal humans and most other mutants. When Mystique slashed his throat with Psylocke's katana; he was able to instantly heal and was completely unfazed by the injury. Even with Apocalypse's armor ripped off, he was still healing from the disintegration caused by Phoenix.
    • Immortality: Due to Apocalypse's accelerated healing factor; he was immortal; as he could not be killed by natural means or most other supernatural means.
    • Superhuman Longevity: Due to Apocalypse's accelerated healing factor; he did not visibly age. Despite being over 5,000 years old, he still maintained the physical appearance of a man in his prime.
    • Essence Transference: With this ritual, Apocalypse could transfer his life essence from one body to the other, though he requires an ancient Egyptian altar for this ritual. Apocalypse was a being who has accumulated power over the centuries by possessing bodies via an Essence Transference Ritual. Doing so involved a technologically advanced pyramid that when exposed to sunlight, filled with golden liquid that made bluish energy radiate from Apocalypses old body and was then transferred into a new one, which caused the new body to be morphed into a younger version of himself.
    • Power Absorption: Every time Apocalypse's essence enters a new host body, not only did he retain all of his previous powers, but also gains new powers as well; which he assimilates into his life essence. As a result; he had the capabilities which make him appear to be a Dark Messiah.
    • Power Augmentation: Apocalypse could amplify the powers of other mutants. He was able to amplify Magneto's magnetic-based powers, to the point that he could directly manipulate metal within the earth itself, amplify Storm's weather-based powers, Psylocke's psionic energy-based powers and Professor X's telepathic-based powers, to the point that he could connect with every mind on the entire planet without the aid of Cerebro.
    • Power Bestowal: Apocalypse was able to bestow other mutants with other unique powers, he give Archangel regeneration and techno-organic wings.
    • Telekinesis: Apocalypse could telekinetically move objects or other individuals without physically touching them. He was able to construct a massive pyramid with minor hand gestures. His telekinetic powers were so advanced, that it borders on "matter manipulation". He was able to liquefy the ground in a Polish factory, by which the workers were instantly trapped. He was able to disintegrate objects into dust. He was able to use the entire city of Cairo in order to create a new pyramid for his "Essence Transference Ritual".
    • Mind Control: Apocalypse could manipulate the minds of other individuals; to get them to do what he wants them to do.
      • Psionic Knowledge Absorption: Apocalypse was able to learn all the history of the world through an old television set.
    • Flyrogenesis: Apocalypse could generate, create and project force fields around himself. His force fields were able to withstand Magneto's tremendous torrent of high-speed metal projectiles, Cyclops' optic blasts and Storm's lightning blasts.
    • Portal Generation: Apocalypse could generate, create and project a bright violet sphere; to teleport herself or other individuals over vast distances.

Abilities[]

  • Genius-Level Intellect: Due to En Sabah Nur's extended life-span and having over 5,000 years of experience; he was a highly intelligent individual. En Sabah Nur was also the most intelligent individual on the entire planet.
  • Master Tactician: En Sabah Nur was a highly skilled tactician; as he was able to successfully taken advantage of Cerebro and quickly ridding Earth of it's nuclear weapons.
  • Master Manipulator: Apocalypse was highly skilled in the art of manipulation; as he was able to successfully manipulate the horseman into joining him.
  • Master Leader: En Sabah Nur was a very capable leader; as he had led his original horseman throughout several battles. En Sabah Nur even led his new horseman against the X-Men.

Weaknesses[]

  • Limited Flyrogenesis: Although Apocalypse's force fields were incredibly powerful, they did have there limits; his force fields could not protect him from Phoenix's disintegration powers for very long.
  • Limited Durability: Although Apocalypse was incredibly durable, he did have his limits, as objects, weapons or other mutants with enough force can injure him, for example, Mystique was able to slit his throat with a katana. It also took the combined assault of Magneto, Storm, Phoenix and Cyclops simultaneously to permanently destroy him.
  • Limited Healing Factor: Although Apocalypse could heal incredibly fast, he did have his limits; he was vulnerable to Storm's lightning blasts and Phoenix's disintegration powers; after the latter unleashed the full power of the Phoenix Force; it ultimately resulted in his entire body being completely destroyed.

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Trivia[]

  • En Sabah Nur claims that during his lifetime he has been known by the names of many well known deities, including Ra the Egyptian Sun God, Krishna (the Hindu Avatar of Lord Vishnu), and Yahweh (the Supreme God of the Hebrews).

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X-Men: Apocalypse[]

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