
As Moira investigated them in 1983, she saw En Sabah Nur awaken at the ruins, killing the cultists.Įn Sabah Nur decided to explore the modern day world, and while roaming Cairo, he sees street thief Ororo Munroe use her weather control powers to steal food. No more!įollowing the 1973 incidents that revealed mutantkind to the world, a group of Egyptians whom are the modern day remnants of the cult Ashir En Sabah Nur discovered his resting place in Cairo. These false gods, systems of the weak, they've ruined my world. You are all my children, and you're lost because you follow blind leaders. The Four Horsemen ensured Apocalypse survived the ordeal even after the monument collapsed, killing the four Horsemen while keeping En Sabah Nur entombed for millennia.

Moira MacTaggert's research puts it as if he lived some millennia before the incident where he went missing: while performing a transferal of his mind and soul to the body of a mutant with a healing factor, a few of his worshipers betrayed him and set for the destruction of his pyramid.

He was also believed to have aided in the creation or the destruction of various early human civilizations.Īfter becoming a godlike figure, he founded a group of his own four henchmen, in ancient times he led a first group of his four minions and called it the "Four Horsemen", as was named from the Bible. Apocalypse, in the modern world claimed to have been worshipped by several ancient civilizations over his many lives, being called Elohim, Shen, and Ra among other names. Due to his great power, many established secret societies following his existence. Then, he assumed the alias "Apocalypse", because he was considered by many to be the world's most powerful mutant and was unable to be defeated or kill. In his youth, he created the great Pyramids of Giza. Later, he was described as a god because of his various superhuman abilities and powers he observed from other mutants after killing them throughout the millennium. He was born as En Sabah Nur in Akaba, ancient Egypt prior to 3,600 B.C (and possibly tens of thousands of years earlier according to the beliefs of a cult known as Ashir En Sabah Nur that worshipped him). ~ Moira McTaggert to Charles Xavier and Havok about Apocalypse. Or the Bible got it from him? And wherever he ruled, eventually, it would end in disaster, cataclysm, some kind of.

(Alex: "Like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. And wherever this being was, he always had four principle followers, disciples, protectors he would imbue with powers. (Alex: "An all-powerful mutant?")Įxactly. Some of these made with the bodies of mutants, enabling him to take their powers amassing various abilities over the years. They believe that he had the ability to transfer his consciousness from body to body and whenever he was close to death, he would just take on a new body. These hieroglyphs describe the specific set of powers greater than any man can possess. They've been searching ancient sites all around the world for clues. That's the common theory, yes, but these guys believe that the first mutant was born thousands of years ago and they believe he will rise again. They're calling themselves " Ashir En Sabah Nur", named after an ancient being they believe to be the world's first mutant. Brendan Pedder played the character younger in Days of Future Past.Įver since the world found out about mutants in '73, there have been cults who see them as some kind of second coming or sign of God.

He was portrayed by Oscar Isaac, who also played Blue Jones in Sucker Punch and Nathan Bateman in Ex Machina. His plot was ultimately foiled during the Battle in Cairo and he was killed by Jean. Apocalypse recruited Storm, Psylocke, Archangel, and Magneto to serve as his Horsemen. Upon awakening in the modern world in 1983, Apocalypse lived under the belief that mankind needed to be eradicated. Apocalypse would always select four powerful mutants to serve him as his Four Horsemen. He possessed various mutant abilities that made him seemingly invincible. in Ancient Egypt, where he was worshipped as a god. He is the world's first and most powerful mutant who was born prior to 3,600 B.C. ~ Apocalypse while launching the world's nuclear arsenal into space.Įn Sabah Nur, otherwise known as Apocalypse, is one of the two overarching antagonists (alongside Sebastian Shaw) of the X-Men film series, serving as the overaching antagonist of the 2014 superhero film X-Men: Days of Future Past and the titular main antagonist of the 2016 superhero film X-Men: Apocalypse. You can fire your arrows from the Tower of Babel, but you can NEVER. So much faith in their tools, in their machines.
