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Apocalypse
The being who will be called Apocalypse was born 5000 years ago in Akkaba.
He is born with the mutant X-gene, possibly the first living being on Earth to possess the gene, and a side-effect of this gives him gray skin and blue lips.
Because of this, his people abandon him as an infant.
He is rescued by Baal of the Sandstormers who sees the child's potential power and will to survive.
Baal names him En Sabah Nur or "The First One."
The Sandstormers live by the credo of survival of the fittest, believing that only those who are strong enough to survive hardship and direct conflict are worthy of life.
He is born with the mutant X-gene, possibly the first living being on Earth to possess the gene, and a side-effect of this gives him gray skin and blue lips.
Because of this, his people abandon him as an infant.
He is rescued by Baal of the Sandstormers who sees the child's potential power and will to survive.
Baal names him En Sabah Nur or "The First One."
The Sandstormers live by the credo of survival of the fittest, believing that only those who are strong enough to survive hardship and direct conflict are worthy of life.
Around this time, the time-traveller Kang the Conqueror arrives in Egypt and assumes the identity of Pharaoh Rama-Tut.
Knowing who En Sabah Nur is fated to become and where he is, Rama-Tut sends his General Ozymandias and an army to destroy the Sandstormers and find the young Apocalypse.
En Sabah Nur and Baal are injured and seek refuge in a cave.
Before he dies, Baal reveals advanced alien technology hidden in the cave, left behind by the god-like aliens known as Celestials.
Vowing revenge on Rama-Tut, En Sabah Nur enters the Pharoah's city posing as a slave and draws the romantic attention of Ozymandias's sister, Nephri.
On seeing the mutant's true appearance, Nephri rejects him and turns to her brother for protection.
Heartbroken by this final rejection, En Sabah Nur's rage causes his mutant abilities to fully emerge.
Rampaging, he renames himself Apocalypse.
Rama-Tut flees and En Sabah Nur uses the Celestial technology to transform his former tormentor Ozymandias into a blind clairvoyant made of living stone, now enslaved to Apocalypse.
As the years go on, Apocalypse finds he no longer ages.
It is revealed in the series S.H.I.E.L.D. that Apocalypse at some point in the days of Ancient Egypt joins forces with the Brotherhood of the Shield to successfully fend off a Brood invasion.
Also present are Imhotep and a man who is either the moon god called Khonshu or his first Moon Knight avatar/champion.
As the millennia pass, Apocalypse travels around the world, convincing civilizations that he is a god (inspiring different myths as a result) and manipulating them into fighting wars.
He justifies that this encourages "growth, judgment, and destruction."
Apocalypse's progeny become the Clan Akkaba.
Apocalypse encounters the near-immortal human off-shoot race known as Eternals, primarily the members Ikaris and Sersi, who refer to him as their "Ancient Nemesis".
At different points, Apocalypse uses his Celestial technology to enter periods of suspended animation, leaving Clan Akkaba and Ozymandias to act in his stead.
In 1013 A.D., Apocalypse seeks to destroy the Asgardian Thor, whom he knows will cause him trouble in the future according to information obtained from Rama-Tut.
In the 12th century, Apocalypse encounters the Eternal Sersi again while awakening latent mutant powers in a crusader named Bennet du Paris AKA Exodus.
At some point, Apocalypse defeats Vlad Tepes (Vlad the Impaler), who later becomes the vampire more popularly known as Count Dracula.
In 1859, Apocalypse encounters British scientist Nathaniel Essex and learns more about the nature of mutants.
Apocalypse uses his Celestial technology to transform Essex into the superhuman being Mister Sinister.
He then coerces Sinister and the Hellfire Club into aiding his plans for global conquest.
But Sinister concludes that these plans are madness and betrays Apocalypse, forcing him back into hibernation.
In 1897, Count Dracula attacks the Clan Akkaba in revenge for his defeat at Apocalypse's hands, forcing the Clan to revive their master from suspended animation. Apocalypse defeats the vampire again, this time with help from Abraham Van Helsing.
Some time after this, Apocalypse enters hibernation again and expects to remain so for possibly two centuries, by which point mutants should be more common on Earth.
After many years of suspended animation, Apocalypse awakens nearly a century earlier than planned due to the arrival of the time-traveling mutant Cable (ironically, Cable had traveled to this point in time hoping to prevent the ancient mutant awakening).
Apocalypse decides the world is ready for further examination and testing.
He grants superhuman powers to the terrorist known as Moses Magnum, who then tests the X-Men and the Avengers.
Apocalypse later briefly employs the Alliance of Evil to capture the mutant Michael Nowlan, who can boost the power of other mutants.
This plan brings Apocalypse into direct conflict with the first incarnation of X-Factor, when the team was composed of the original X-Men.
Apocalypse then recruits mutants to serve as his personal guard, known as the Four Horsemen.
Among them is Angel AKA Warren Worthington III, whom Apocalypse has corrupted and turned into a cyborg called Death.
Warren Worthington regains his identity and helps his friends defeat Apocalypse, adopting the new codename Archangel.
Apocalypse escapes with his new recruit, the Morlock called Caliban, while X-Factor then takes his Celestial spaceship as a base.
During The Evolutionary War, the High Evolutionary plans to rid the world of those he feels are preventing evolution.
Believing this disrupts the natural order and his own plans, Apocalypse battles the High Evolutionary.
Following the genetic manipulation of Caliban, Apocalypse declines an alliance with the Asgardian villain Loki and other villains conspiring to unleash "Acts of Vengeance."
This results in a brief fight between Apocalypse and Loki.
Apocalypse learns of Sinister's intention to create an adversary powerful enough to destroy him: Nathan Christopher Charles Summers, the son of Scott Summers and Madelyne Pryor.
Apocalypse, viewing him as a threat and realizing that Nathan's energy is the very energy that awoke him all those months earlier, sends his newly formed group, the Riders of the Storm, to abduct the Summers child.
Apocalypse at this time had conquered the city of Attilan, home of the Inhumans, and enslaved part of its population.
X-Factor, alongside the Inhuman Royal Family, attacks Apocalypse's lunar stronghold.
Although Apocalypse is severely defeated, the young Nathan is infected with a techno-organic virus, and is sent to the future with a woman named Askani to be cured.
In the future, Apocalypse has conquered the world and ruled until the 39th century.
By this time, Apocalypse's body had grown feeble; he becomes aware of the young Nathan's presence in this time, but only succeeds in kidnapping a clone of the child which Askani created.
Apocalypse plans to transfer his consciousness and power into the clone's stronger body, but perishes in combat with the (real) teenage Nathan.
Nathan grows up to become the warrior Cable (while his clone grows up to become the mutant terrorist known as Stryfe) and travels back to the past to prevent Apocalypse's future domination of the planet.
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 have kidnapped Cyclops and Jean Grey, supposedly under his instructions (in actuality, 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.
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.
The Dark Rider's new leader, Genesis - the adopted son of Cable, who had traveled to the present to ensure Apocalypse's rise and exact revenge on his father - plans to resurrect Apocalypse by sacrificing the lives of the people in villages neighboring Akkaba.
During this time, Wolverine is held captive by Genesis, who attempts to restore Wolverine's lost adamantium skeleton and turn him into a Horseman as a gift for Apocalypse.
Wolverine breaks free and mutates into a feral state, and then kills Genesis along with nearly all of the Dark Riders (Apocalypse himself would later repeat Genesis' scheme of reinforcing Wolverine's skeleton with adamantium again and brainwashing him into servitude, succeeding where Genesis had failed).
During the fight, Cannonball opens the sarcophagus containing Apocalypse's body, but finds it empty, and wonders if Genesis was either lying about Apocalypse, or was delusional, or maybe Apocalypse had gotten up and left by himself.
(Apocalypse was shown to be alive before this.)
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Knowing who En Sabah Nur is fated to become and where he is, Rama-Tut sends his General Ozymandias and an army to destroy the Sandstormers and find the young Apocalypse.
En Sabah Nur and Baal are injured and seek refuge in a cave.
Before he dies, Baal reveals advanced alien technology hidden in the cave, left behind by the god-like aliens known as Celestials.
Vowing revenge on Rama-Tut, En Sabah Nur enters the Pharoah's city posing as a slave and draws the romantic attention of Ozymandias's sister, Nephri.
On seeing the mutant's true appearance, Nephri rejects him and turns to her brother for protection.
Heartbroken by this final rejection, En Sabah Nur's rage causes his mutant abilities to fully emerge.
Rampaging, he renames himself Apocalypse.
Rama-Tut flees and En Sabah Nur uses the Celestial technology to transform his former tormentor Ozymandias into a blind clairvoyant made of living stone, now enslaved to Apocalypse.
As the years go on, Apocalypse finds he no longer ages.
It is revealed in the series S.H.I.E.L.D. that Apocalypse at some point in the days of Ancient Egypt joins forces with the Brotherhood of the Shield to successfully fend off a Brood invasion.
Also present are Imhotep and a man who is either the moon god called Khonshu or his first Moon Knight avatar/champion.
As the millennia pass, Apocalypse travels around the world, convincing civilizations that he is a god (inspiring different myths as a result) and manipulating them into fighting wars.
He justifies that this encourages "growth, judgment, and destruction."
Apocalypse's progeny become the Clan Akkaba.
Apocalypse encounters the near-immortal human off-shoot race known as Eternals, primarily the members Ikaris and Sersi, who refer to him as their "Ancient Nemesis".
At different points, Apocalypse uses his Celestial technology to enter periods of suspended animation, leaving Clan Akkaba and Ozymandias to act in his stead.
In 1013 A.D., Apocalypse seeks to destroy the Asgardian Thor, whom he knows will cause him trouble in the future according to information obtained from Rama-Tut.
In the 12th century, Apocalypse encounters the Eternal Sersi again while awakening latent mutant powers in a crusader named Bennet du Paris AKA Exodus.
At some point, Apocalypse defeats Vlad Tepes (Vlad the Impaler), who later becomes the vampire more popularly known as Count Dracula.
In 1859, Apocalypse encounters British scientist Nathaniel Essex and learns more about the nature of mutants.
Apocalypse uses his Celestial technology to transform Essex into the superhuman being Mister Sinister.
He then coerces Sinister and the Hellfire Club into aiding his plans for global conquest.
But Sinister concludes that these plans are madness and betrays Apocalypse, forcing him back into hibernation.
In 1897, Count Dracula attacks the Clan Akkaba in revenge for his defeat at Apocalypse's hands, forcing the Clan to revive their master from suspended animation. Apocalypse defeats the vampire again, this time with help from Abraham Van Helsing.
Some time after this, Apocalypse enters hibernation again and expects to remain so for possibly two centuries, by which point mutants should be more common on Earth.
After many years of suspended animation, Apocalypse awakens nearly a century earlier than planned due to the arrival of the time-traveling mutant Cable (ironically, Cable had traveled to this point in time hoping to prevent the ancient mutant awakening).
Apocalypse decides the world is ready for further examination and testing.
He grants superhuman powers to the terrorist known as Moses Magnum, who then tests the X-Men and the Avengers.
Apocalypse later briefly employs the Alliance of Evil to capture the mutant Michael Nowlan, who can boost the power of other mutants.
This plan brings Apocalypse into direct conflict with the first incarnation of X-Factor, when the team was composed of the original X-Men.
Apocalypse then recruits mutants to serve as his personal guard, known as the Four Horsemen.
Among them is Angel AKA Warren Worthington III, whom Apocalypse has corrupted and turned into a cyborg called Death.
Warren Worthington regains his identity and helps his friends defeat Apocalypse, adopting the new codename Archangel.
Apocalypse escapes with his new recruit, the Morlock called Caliban, while X-Factor then takes his Celestial spaceship as a base.
During The Evolutionary War, the High Evolutionary plans to rid the world of those he feels are preventing evolution.
Believing this disrupts the natural order and his own plans, Apocalypse battles the High Evolutionary.
Following the genetic manipulation of Caliban, Apocalypse declines an alliance with the Asgardian villain Loki and other villains conspiring to unleash "Acts of Vengeance."
This results in a brief fight between Apocalypse and Loki.
Apocalypse learns of Sinister's intention to create an adversary powerful enough to destroy him: Nathan Christopher Charles Summers, the son of Scott Summers and Madelyne Pryor.
Apocalypse, viewing him as a threat and realizing that Nathan's energy is the very energy that awoke him all those months earlier, sends his newly formed group, the Riders of the Storm, to abduct the Summers child.
Apocalypse at this time had conquered the city of Attilan, home of the Inhumans, and enslaved part of its population.
X-Factor, alongside the Inhuman Royal Family, attacks Apocalypse's lunar stronghold.
Although Apocalypse is severely defeated, the young Nathan is infected with a techno-organic virus, and is sent to the future with a woman named Askani to be cured.
In the future, Apocalypse has conquered the world and ruled until the 39th century.
By this time, Apocalypse's body had grown feeble; he becomes aware of the young Nathan's presence in this time, but only succeeds in kidnapping a clone of the child which Askani created.
Apocalypse plans to transfer his consciousness and power into the clone's stronger body, but perishes in combat with the (real) teenage Nathan.
Nathan grows up to become the warrior Cable (while his clone grows up to become the mutant terrorist known as Stryfe) and travels back to the past to prevent Apocalypse's future domination of the planet.
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 have kidnapped Cyclops and Jean Grey, supposedly under his instructions (in actuality, 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.
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.
The Dark Rider's new leader, Genesis - the adopted son of Cable, who had traveled to the present to ensure Apocalypse's rise and exact revenge on his father - plans to resurrect Apocalypse by sacrificing the lives of the people in villages neighboring Akkaba.
During this time, Wolverine is held captive by Genesis, who attempts to restore Wolverine's lost adamantium skeleton and turn him into a Horseman as a gift for Apocalypse.
Wolverine breaks free and mutates into a feral state, and then kills Genesis along with nearly all of the Dark Riders (Apocalypse himself would later repeat Genesis' scheme of reinforcing Wolverine's skeleton with adamantium again and brainwashing him into servitude, succeeding where Genesis had failed).
During the fight, Cannonball opens the sarcophagus containing Apocalypse's body, but finds it empty, and wonders if Genesis was either lying about Apocalypse, or was delusional, or maybe Apocalypse had gotten up and left by himself.
(Apocalypse was shown to be alive before this.)
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