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Apocalypse Born into slavery at the dawn of civilization, the mutant warlord also known as En Sabah Nur lives by a merciless philosophy: Survival of the Fittest. Only through conflict and strife will the weak be culled from the strong, and only the strong deserve to survive. War. Plague. Pestilence. These are his tools. And with them, he means to rule the world! Real name: En Sabah Nur Occupation: Mutant warlord Group affiliation: None Base of operations: Mobile First appearance: X-Factor #5 (in shadow, 1986), X-Factor #6 (fully seen, 1986) Height: Variable Weight: Variable Eye color: Blue Hair color: Black Powers: A mutant, Apocalypse possesses extraordinary strength. Also, he can alter his body's atomic structure at will, levitate himself telekinetically, survive for weeks without food and water, and recover rapidly from injuries that would prove fatal to most mutants and humans. His physical form eventually grows too aged and enfeebled to contain his vast energies, requiring him to transfer his consciousness into a succession of host bodies. Weapons: None History: Apocalypse was born nearly 5,000 years ago, in ancient Egypt. Ugly and malformed, he was abandoned to the harsh desert. But Baal, leader of a roving band of Sandstormers, recognized the child's potential power. Baal raised the youngster as his own; he named him En Sabah Nur, "The First One." As Nur grew, he surpassed his fellow tribesmen in intelligence and strength. Hated and feared for his inhuman appearance and strange abilities, he hardened his heart. Nur held fast to the tribe's defining principle: Only the fittest, tested by hardship, would and should survive. Egypt was ruled by Pharaoh Rama-Tut -- not a god, as most believed, but a man, rescued by Baal's tribe from a crashed starship. A time traveler from the far future, he later would come to be known as Kang the Conqueror. After ascending to power in Egypt, Rama-Tut massacred Baal's tribe, and enslaved and tortured the survivors in an unsuccessful attempt to learn his ship's location. Knowing Apocalypse had been born in ancient Egypt, Kang had traveled back in time to become master of the most powerful being on the planet. Toward that end, he offered to make Nur his heir if the mutant would swear loyalty. But Nur defeated Rama-Tut, who escaped to the future. As Apocalypse, Nur has plotted ever since to conquer the planet through the instigation of war and conflict, whereby the strong would defeat and destroy the weak. Re-emerging in the present day, Apocalypse turned his attention to X-Factor -- a team consisting of the original X-Men, Professor Charles Xavier's inaugural class of mutant adventurers. Apocalypse rescued the high-flying, heroic Angel from suicide and manipulated the misguided mutant into serving as his Horseman of Death. Warren Worthington eventually broke free of Apocalypse's influence, recognizing the dark scar Nur had left on his soul. Apocalypse later unleashed a techno-organic virus on the infant son of Scott Summers -- a.k.a. Cyclops, cursed with uncontrollable optic blasts. Otherwise, Apocalypse knew, Nathan Summers would grow powerful enough to defeat him when he reached adulthood. Raised 2,000 years into an alternate future, Nathan matured into Apocalypse's mortal enemy: the telepathic, telekinetic freedom fighter called Cable. To secure a new host body, Apocalypse sought to siphon the awesome energies of "The Twelve" -- mutants of incredible power, destined to alter the course of human history. This time, it was Wolverine who fell into the warlord's grasp. The feral X-Man fought his teammates ferociously as the Horseman Death, but broke free from Apocalypse's control. However, Wolverine and his fellow Horsemen had served their purpose. Taking advantage of the distraction afforded by their actions, Apocalypse collected the mutants he required to carry out his plan: Cyclops, Phoenix, Cable, Professor X, Storm, Iceman, Magneto, Polaris, Bishop, Sunfire, the Living Monolith and Mikhail Rasputin. The Twelve were linked to a machine that would channel their awesome energies into Apocalypse, allowing him to absorb the body of X-Man -- a time-tossed teenager possessed of vast telepathic and telekinetic power. As his teammates fell around him, a powerless Cyclops shoved X-Man out of the draining circuit, merging with Apocalypse to create a new evil entity. But the telepathic Phoenix -- Summers' wife, Jean Grey -- detected her husband's psyche inside the composite being and prevented the X-Men from destroying it. Cyclops was presumed dead by most of his teammates; only Cable and Jean refused to believe he had perished. Investigating rumors and hearsay, they helped him reassert his mind over Apocalypse. With Jean's help, Cable exorcised the warlord and shattered his essence.

Archangel Before the battle between good and evil mutants escalated to the brink of genetic war, carefree millionaire Warren Worthington III was the high-flying, heroic Angel. But Warren's world came crashing down when dark forces conspired to clip his wings. Recovered from his brush with evil, Archangel again soars the skies alongside the uncanny X-Men! Real name: Warren Kenneth Worthington III Occupation: Chairman of the board and principal stockholder of Worthington Industries, adventurer Group affiliation: X-Men; formerly X-Factor, the Defenders and the Champions of Los Angeles Base of operations: Xavier Institute for Higher Learning, Westchester County, New York First appearance: X-Men (Vol. 1) #1 (1963) Height: 6' Weight: 150 lbs. Eye color: Blue Hair color: Blond Powers: Warren Worthington is a mutant who can fly by means of natural wings, which span 16 feet from tip to tip. Archangel's entire anatomy is adapted for flight: His bones are hollow like a bird's, his body is virtually devoid of fat, he possesses greater proportionate muscle strength than a normal human, his eyes can withstand high-speed winds, and a special membrane in his respiratory system allows him to extract oxygen from the air at extreme velocities and altitudes. Weapons: None History: While attending a prestigious East Coast boarding school, Warren Worthington sprouted wings from his shoulder blades. At first easily concealed, the abnormal appendages reached full size within months. Initially alarmed, Warren soon grew to relish the freedom of flight. Still, he strapped the wings tightly to his back to avoid suspicion. Warren was forced into action when fire struck his dormitory. Donning a blond wig and long nightshirt to conceal his identity, he delivered the students inside from certain death -- appearing as an angel to eyewitnesses. Despite the obvious risks -- exposure, loss of standing, even death -- Warren would not be grounded. Shortly after saving his classmates, he took up life as a costumed crimefighter in New York City. The nocturnal activities of this so-called "Avenging Angel" drew the attention of Professor Charles Xavier -- the telepathic, telekinetic Mahatma Gandhi of the mutant cause. Warren became a founding member of the Professor's X-Men, a handful of troubled teenagers learning to control their strange powers...and fighting to preserve Xavier's dream of peaceful coexistence between humans and mutants. Hated and feared by humanity, Warren and the X-Men honed their amazing abilities while standing in defense of a world pushed to the brink of genetic war by a handful of mutant terrorists. When the island-being known as Krakoa took Angel and his teammates captive, Professor X assembled a second squad of X-Men. These new recruits rescued Xavier's original students, most of whom left the team soon after. Warren had inherited a vast fortune after his parents died, and he used a portion of the estate to fund a new team of costumed adventurers called the Champions of Los Angeles. When that super-hero startup split, Warren returned to the X-Men for a short time. Later, he signed on with another team of superhuman adventurers, the Defenders. But after several of his teammates seemingly perished in battle, Warren reunited with the original X-Men to found X-Factor. The latter team would seek out and aid other mutants under the pretense of hunting down menaces to society. When the master geneticist known as Mr. Sinister sicced his squad of superhuman assassins on New York's subterranean mutants, X-Factor and the X-Men intervened. Together, the heroes were able to help some of the Morlocks to safety, and a considerable number managed to escape the Marauders on their own -- but the majority perished. During the clash, the javelin-wielding villain called Harpoon impaled Angel's wings. Thor -- Norse God of Thunder and member of the Avengers, Earth's Mightiest Heroes -- rescued Warren, but his wings had been permanently crippled. When the wounds became infected, doctors were forced to amputate. Deeply depressed over the loss of his wings, Warren appeared to commit suicide in a small aircraft. Though the world believed him to be dead following a midair explosion, he had been teleported to safety by Apocalypse. The mutant warlord offered to return Warren's ability to fly, but for a lofty price. Desperate to once again soar the skies unfettered, Warren agreed. Through genetic manipulation, he regained what he had lost -- but in his new master's dark, metallic reflection. Embittered by recent events, Warren became the Fourth Horseman of Apocalypse: Death. Born on razor-sharp wings of steel, the fallen hero fought his former teammates. However, he came to his senses when tricked into believing he had killed his old friend Iceman. Warren struck off on his own, too ashamed to reconnect with X-Factor. Eventually, he rejoined the team as the grim Archangel. After returning to the X-Men, he underwent yet another transformation: Warren shed his metallic wings to reveal his natural, feathered appendages.

Banshee Once a foe of the heroic X-Men, Sean Cassidy now uses his sonic scream to fight alongside the Children of the Atom -- standing in defense of a planet pushing the envelope of evolution! Real name: Sean Cassidy Occupation: Adventurer; former co-headmaster at the Massachusetts Academy, mentor to Generation X, Interpol inspector and agent, freelance detective, professional criminal, and involuntary operative for Factor Three Group affiliation: None; formerly Generation X, Factor Three and the X-Men Base of operations: Unrevealed First appearance: X-Men (Vol. 1) #28 (1967) Height: 6' Weight: 170 lbs. Eye color: Blue-green Hair color: Reddish-blond Powers: Depending on the intensity of the sound, Banshee's sonic scream can shatter objects, enable him to fly or induce unconsciousness in others. Weapons: None History: Sean Cassidy -- born heir to the castle and estate of Cassidy Keep, Ireland -- manifested his mutant abilities as an adolescent, but kept them hidden. After graduating from Trinity College in Dublin, he went to work for the international law-enforcement agency known as Interpol. While Cassidy was out of touch on a top-secret assignment, his wife discovered that she was pregnant and gave birth to their daughter. Maeve Cassidy took the infant to visit relatives in Northern Ireland, where she was killed in a terrorist explosion. Authorities found no trace of baby Theresa, whom they assumed also had died. Cassidy was not told of his daughter's birth to spare him further heartache. Grief-stricken, he left Interpol to become a freelance operative, but eventually found himself engaged in criminal activities. Valuable for his mutant powers and insider's knowledge of the law-enforcement community, Cassidy was coerced to obey the subversive organization known as Factor Three with a headband containing explosives. During his time with Factor Three, Cassidy gained the codename Banshee and clashed with the X-Men, an outlaw band of heroic mutant adventurers. The telepathic, telekinetic Charles Xavier subsequently disabled the detonation mechanism in Cassidy's headband, freeing him from indentured servitude to Factor Three. Banshee returned to an honest life, fighting alongside the X-Men for a time before retiring. Subsequently, Xavier's charges battled Banshee's cousin, the mutant terrorist called Black Tom Cassidy. Joining the fray was Siryn -- Banshee's daughter, Theresa, rescued by Black Tom from the explosion that had killed her mother. After the X-Men defeated the duo, Banshee and Theresa came together at Xavier's mansion for a joyful reunion. Later, Banshee became co-headmaster at the Massachusetts Academy, teaching the young mutants of Generation X to control their strange powers ... and cope with their condition as mutant outcasts, hated and feared by humanity.

Bishop His life's ambition was to serve and protect. As a member of Xavier's Security Enforcers, a mutant police force, he patrolled the mean streets of a war-torn future to keep his own kind in check. Now, he finds himself stranded in our present...fighting alongside the X-Men, a team whose members he once revered as idols. Standing in defense of those who hate and fear him, he is Bishop, Soldier of the Atom! Real name: Lucas Bishop Occupation: Adventurer, former XSE agent Group affiliation: X-Men, formerly Xavier's Security Enforcers Base of operations: Mobile First appearance: Uncanny X-Men #282 (1991) Height: 6'6" Weight: 275 lbs. Eye color: Brown, sometimes red Hair color: Black Powers: A mutant, Bishop can absorb and rechannel various forms of energy. Weapons: Bishop wields a variety of energy-projecting firearms. History: The mutant soldier named Bishop grew to adulthood in a dark and desolate world roughly 70 years into Earth's future. Following the abolition of mutant slavery, the heirs to the legacy of the X-Men established the peacekeeping organization known as Xavier's Security Enforcers. Adherents to Professor Charles Xavier's dream for peaceful coexistence between Homo sapiens and Homo superior, the agency's founders believed mutants could police themselves. In pursuit of time-manipulating mutant criminal Trevor Fitzroy, Bishop and his XSE lieutenants traveled back to our present. Stranded in the past, they tracked their mark into the midst of a fray between the X-Men and the Sentinels -- government-created, mutant-hunting androids. Confronted with the legends of his youth, Bishop's first reaction was disbelief. He and his compatriots battled the X-Men ferociously, seeking to expose what they thought to be an uncanny deception. Bishop's troops were slain, and he was badly injured, during the deadly clash that ensued. Only through the X-Men's intervention did Bishop survive. Finally coming to terms with his time-tossed condition, Bishop was honored when Professor Xavier invited him to join the team whose members he had idolized since childhood. Bishop found new purpose with the X-Men, standing with the outlaw adventurers in defense of a world inching toward the brink of genetic war. Initially uneasy with Bishop's presence, the X-Men soon came to realize he was a devoted disciple of Xavier's philosophy. Although a zealous follower of the example set forth by Xavier, Bishop felt duty-bound to apprehend Fitzroy and the mutant criminals the convict had unleashed upon an unsuspecting world. Even the X-Men's interference proved insufficient to prevent him from executing the escapees. The only mutant to continuously elude Bishop was Fitzroy, whose temporal abilities enabled him to remain one step ahead of his dogged pursuer. Plagued by reoccurring nightmares of Fitzroy, Bishop resigned from the X-Men to dedicate himself once more to the pursuit of his arch-nemesis. Drawn by the villain into a possible apocalyptic future, Bishop learned Fitzroy had transformed the war-ravaged world to suit his own twisted ends, and that he planned to ascend to godhood by becoming one with the temporal energies that control all time. Bishop gathered a small mutant task force focused on a single goal: quashing Fitzroy's mad scheme. Bishop defeated Fitzroy before the criminal could complete his mad quest. However, the price of victory was great: Bishop's sister, Shard, sacrificed her life so that her brother finally could put an end to his hated foe. Moments after the sky-shearing battle had been won, Bishop -- filled to bursting with chronal energy -- was ripped from that reality. Spiraling through the timestream, he emerged in the present day and reunited with the X-Men. A short time later, Bishop and a small band of mutants led by the weather-manipulating Storm left the safety of their Westchester mansion in search of the diaries of the blind mutant seer known as Destiny.

Blob Formerly the star attraction of a carnival freak show, Fred J. Dukes is one massive mutant -- a man-mountain whose immense girth is as formidable a weapon as Adamantium claws, optic blasts or biokinetic time bombs. Once his feet are planted, few forces on Earth can uproot the Blob! Real name: Fred J. Dukes Occupation: Professional criminal; former circus performer and government operative Group affiliation: Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, formerly Freedom Force Base of operations: Mobile First appearance: X-Men (Vol. 1) #3 (1964) Height: 8' Weight: 976 lbs. Eye color: Brown Hair color: Brown Powers: Besides superhuman mass, durability and strength, the Blob can create a mono-directional gravity field that renders him virtually immovable as long as he remains in contact with the ground. Weapons: None History: Fred J. Dukes is a mutant whose latent superhuman abilities manifested when he reached puberty. Already obese, he saw himself as an exceptionally strong freak -- no more, no less. Earning the nicknamme "Blob," he put his powers to the test as a carnival performer. It was at this time that the original X-Men -- masked, mutant adventurers gifted with strange abilities -- attempted to recruit Dukes. Attracted to the beautiful young telepath Jean Grey, the Blob at first accepted their invitation. But upon arriving at the Westchester mansion of the X-Men's mentor -- telepathic, telekinetic Charles Xavier -- Dukes arrogantly refused to join the team. Professor Xavier was prepared to erase the Blob's knowledge of the X-Men's true identities, but Dukes fought his way through the troubled teens and escaped. From Xavier, the Blob had learned he was a superhumanly powerful mutant. Believing himself superior to ordinary humans, Dukes returned to the carnival intent on a hostile takeover. Knowing the X-Men considered him a threat because he had breached their inner circle, Dukes led his fellow performers on an attack of Xavier's mansion. The Blob hoped to turn the X-Men's advanced technology and sophisticated weaponry on an unsuspecting populace. But the young mutants defeated Dukes and his allies, and Xavier wiped their memories of the incident. Magneto, the mutant Master of Magnetism, restored Dukes' knowledge of the X-Men. Alongside the genetic terrorist's Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, the Blob clashed with Xavier's students once again. In the midst of a pitched battle, Magneto launched a powerful torpedo at the X-Men. That the slow-moving Blob stood in the projectile's path in no way concerned him. The shell struck Dukes, though it inflicted no serious damage. The Brotherhood escaped, but the Blob had begun to question Magneto's leadership. Feeling betrayed, Dukes returned to the carnival. Later, the sinister shapeshifter known as Mystique recruited Dukes for another incarnation of the Brotherhood. Capitalizing on Washington's increasing anti-mutant bent, Mystique offered the squad's services to the government. Rechristened "Freedom Force," the team's first official mission was to capture Magneto. Future ops brought the Blob and his teammates into conflict with the planet's foremost superhuman protectors -- most notably the X-Men, X-Factor and the Avengers. For the duration of the team's existence, the Blob was bemused by the fact that he could indulge his violent tendencies and fight old foes while drawing a government paycheck. In the wake of a disastrous mission to the Middle East, the government disbanded Freedom Force. The Blob once again found himself a free agent. For a time, Dukes allied himself with the power-emulating mutant known as Mimic. The pair battled X-Force, a splinter group with ties to the X-Men, under the orders of the sentient psionic being called Onslaught. Actually an amalgamation of the psyches of Magneto and Xavier, Onslaught used his vast psionic powers to augment the Blob's mutation, greatly increasing his strength and size. During a subsequent attack on anti-mutant presidential candidate Robert Kelly, Dukes appeared to have slimmed down. However, he remains far larger and stronger than before he encountered Onslaught.

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