can increase by drawing on
outside sources. Can alter
his atomic structure to alter
his form and size. He can
levitate. Can survive weeks
without food and water, has
lived for thousands of years.
Can recover from wounds very
fast
| Birth Name: | En Sabah Nur | |
| Aliases: | Set, Huitxilopochti, Sauru | |
| Height: | Variable, usually 7'0" | |
| Weight: | Variable | |
| Hair: | Black | |
| Eyes: | Blue or Red | |
| Powers: | Superhuman strength which he can increase by drawing on outside sources. Can alter his atomic structure to alter his form and size. He can levitate. Can survive weeks without food and water, has lived for thousands of years. Can recover from wounds very fast |
Apocalypse was born nearly five thousand years ago in Egypt as a member of the Akkaba clan. Due to his appearance he was abandoned in the desert by the tribe and left to die. He was found by a band of raiders and while most believed he should be left to perish, their leader saw great power within Apocalypse and took him, naming him En Sabah Nur ("The First One") and raised him as his own son.
As En Sabah Nur grew, he surpassed the other tribesmen in intelligence and strength. Everyone in the tribe except for Baal hated and feared him for his inhuman looks and great abilities. Apocalypse did not understand their fear, but it made him put up his defenses. He believed in the principle that Baal and the tribe lived by, that only the fittest, tested by hardship, would, and should, survive. On the day of his tribal rite of passage into manhood, the seventeen-year-old Apocalypse killed three armed warriors of the tribe using only his bare hands.
Rama-Tut, the ruler of Egypt at the time, was a time traveler from the far future who would later become known as Kang the Conqueror. Kang knew that Apocalypse, one of the most powerful mutants who ever lived, and the one who was destined to rule the world, had been born in ancient Egypt. Hence, Rama-Tut had gone back in time to find Apocalypse as a child, raise him, and thereby become the master of the most powerful being on the planet.
Apocalypse became a slave, but eventually he had a vision of the Egyptian death god Seth, who urged him to become a conqueror. It was at this moment that Apocalypse first manifested his superhuman powers.
When Apocalypse and Rama-Tut offered to make him his heir if he would swear his loyalty, and then tried to kill him when Apocalypse refused. Apocalypse defeated Rama-Tut's warlord Ozymandias and Rama-Tut, who finally escaped back into the future, eventually to take on the identity of Kang.
From then on Apocalypse plotted the conquest of the planet through bringing about wars and conflict, in which the strong would defeat and destroy the weak. Over the centuries he was worshipped by many civilizations under a variety of names. He was certain that mutants would one day rule the world, with him as their leader, and so he waited. Most of what Apocalypse did during these centuries is as yet unknown.
In 1859, Apocalypse awoke from centuries of hibernation in an underground chamber in London. It was then that he first met Dr. Nathaniel Essex, who believed that through selective breeding of humans, he could bring about the rapid evolution of superhuman mutants. Apocalypse offered to transform Essex into a long-lived superhuman being himself to give him the time to further his research, but at a cost: his servitude. Essex accepted, and Apocalypse transformed him into Mister Sinister. However, the Askani, a clan of rebels against Apocalypse two thousand years in the future, transported Scott Summers and Jean Grey-Summers, also known as Cyclops and Phoenix, to 1859. There they prevented Apocalypse from assassinating Britain's Queen and Prime Minister.
In an alternate timeline Apocalypse succeeded in taking over America in the twentieth century. In this alternate timeline Professor Charles Xavier died at the hands of his own son, Legion, long before he would have formed the X-Men. As a result, Apocalypse led mutantkind in conquering North America, reducing its human population to slaves. This is the alternate time period known as "The Age of Apocalypse." However, in this reality as well, Apocalypse was doomed to failure, and perished in combat with Magneto, who had become the founder of the X-Men in that timeline.
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