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Eric J. Moreels
Feb 17, 2002, 10:32 am
Apocalypse II
Created by Bob Layton and Jackson Guice

<img src="http://x-mencomics.com/xfan/images/headshots/apocalypse.jpg" align=left hspace=10 alt="Apocalypse">Real Name: En Sabah Nur
Known Aliases: High Lord, Forever Walker, Son of the Morning Fire, "The First One", Set, Huitzilopochti, Sauru, Kali-Ma, Aten
First Appearance: X-Factor #5 (June 1986) (in shadow), X-Factor #6 (July 1986) (fully)
Known Relatives: Baal (adoptive father, deceased), Kabar Brashir (descendant, deceased), Frederick Slade (descendant), Hamilton Slade (descendant, deceased), Margaret Slade (descendant, deceased), Jack Starsmore (descendant, deceased), Jonothon Starsmore (Chamber, descendant), Clarice Ferguson (descendant, deceased)
Group Affiliation: Horsemen of Apocalypse (leader), formerly Dark Riders (leader), Clan Akkaba, Sandstormers, Alliance of Evil (employer)
Major Enemies: Cable, Archangel, X-Men, formerly X-Factor
Known Allies: Formerly Skrulls, Living Monolith, Ozymandias, Mr. Sinister
Not to be confused with: Apocalypse I (Kazarian), Apocalypse III (Spiral)

Apocalypse was born nearly five thousand years ago in Egypt as a member of the Akkaba clan. Even as an infant, he inspired fear. Ugly and malformed, he was abandoned by the tribe to die in the harsh desert sun. The baby was found by a roving band of desert nomads whose leader, Baal, recognized the potential power in the child. He named him En Sabah Nur, meaning "The First One", and raised him as his own son. Nur was raised by the nomads, who thought him strong to be able to survive the desert as an child, and enforced the idea that "the strong will survive" - an idea that would shape Apocalypse's actions throughout time.

However, the Pharaoh of that era was actually not Egyptian at all, but a time-traveller named Rama-Tut who hailed from the 30th Century. Baal and his people had found Rama-Tut when his timeship first crashed in Egypt and had nursed him back to health, only to be betrayed by him months later as Rama-Tut led the Egyptian army to slaughter Baal's tribe. On the day of Nur's rite of passage, he and Baal were trapped in a cave, which after a week of wandering led them to Rama-Tut's timeship. Baal told Nur that he believed him to be a conqueror whose coming was foretold in ancient prophecies, and that Nur was destined to overthrow Rama-Tut. While Baal died, Nur's genetic make-up allowed him to survive, and he emerged a month later, vowing vengeance on Rama-Tut.

Nur was then captured by the Grand Vizier Ozymandias and forced to serve as a slave to Tut, but during a vision of the god Seth he manifested his powers and was eventually brought to the Pharaoh. Rama-Tut offered to make Nur his heir in exchange for his loyalty, but Nur rejected him. Nur defeated Ozymandias, and when Rama-Tut was forced back to his time by 20th Century heroes who had time-travelled, Nur began a path of conquest across the globe, leading his army on vicious campaign after campaign until finally he came to China.

There he learned legends of a flying immortal and set out to investigate, theorizing that this legend "different" like himself. Nur ascended a mountain and found the External now known as Saul, but then known as Garbha-Hsien. Saul sat watch over a Celestial Ship that had crashed on the mountain long before, but he had never ventured inside. Nur thought Saul foolish for not accessing the power inherent in that ship, so he rendered Saul unconscious out and entered.

It was this event that marked Nur's "evolution" into Apocalypse. He stayed in the ship for thousands of years, learning the secrets of Celestial technology and devising a suit of bio-armor for himself. This bio-armor grants Apocalypse the ability to change form, add mass from an extra-dimensional source to increase in size, as well as allow his body to become extremely malleable. Some of Nur's original body still existed as a decrepid form inside the armor.

Apocalypse uses the Celestial technology to "regenerate" for long periods of time, becoming more powerful upon each awakening. Apocalypse has had profound influences on many cultures over the centuries, and was worshipped by many cultures as a god. Over the course of the centuries, Apocalypse has picked those individuals he deemed "strong" and has tested them and rewarded the survivors with power. One such example was the a knight during the Crusader, one Bennet du Paris, a companion of the original Black Knight whose latent mutant powers were activated by Apocalypse. Apocalypse renamed him Exodus and intended for du Paris to serve him, but after Exodus rebelled Apocalypse imprisoned him within a tomb where he lay for centuries.

During one such awakening in the late 19th century, Apocalypse surfaced in London, England where he plotted to slay the royal family of the time. He found an assistant in the scientist Nathaniel Essex, whose own desire for scientific knowledge led him to foresee the mutants that would be abundant in these modern times. Apocalypse earned the allegiance of Essex, and turned him into the being now known as Mister Sinister. Fortunately, the Askani Sisterhood sent Cyclops and Phoenix back in time to prevent the assassination, but they could not stop Essex from becoming Sinister. Apocalypse then later used Sinister's expertise to re-engineer the genes of Ahmet Abdol to match those of Havok, enabling Abdol to become the Living Monolith.

Apocalypse is most noted for infecting the baby Nathan Christopher Summers with the techno-organic virus that caused him to be taken to the future to become Cable. Apocalypse's reasoning behind this most vicious scheme was that he knew of Sinister's bid to use the Summers' baby as a weapon to be used against his former master. Though Cable survived, the virus ensured that Summers would never be able to access his full power and thus be a threat to Apocalypse.

Apocalypse has added to his mutant powers by plundering technology throughout the ages. With superhuman strength, lightning speed, and his ability to teleport, he lives by only one rule: "survival of the fittest".

In an alternate timeline Apocalypse succeeded in taking over America in the twentieth century. In this timeline, Professor Xavier died at the hands of his 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 was the alternate time period known as the <i>Age of Apocalypse</i>. However, in this reality as well, Apocalypse was ultimately doomed to failure, and perished in combat with Magneto, who had become the founder of the X-Men in that timeline.

Apocalypse has used many teams of villainous mutants in the past, but by far the most successful have been his Horsemen - Famine, War, Pestilence, and Death. When he re-emerged in the present day, Apocalypse turned his attention to X-Factor - a team consisting of the original X-Men. Apocalypse rescued the Angel from a suicide attempt and manipulated the misguided mutant into serving as his Horseman of Death. The newly-christened Archangel eventually broke free of Apocalypse's influence and rejoined his teammates.

The Hulk served for a time as the Horseman of War, and Caliban succeeded Archangel as the Horseman of Death. Recently, another bearer of the name Death surfaced, and after seemingly killing Wolverine - later discovered to be a Skrull impostor - it was revealed that the new Death was Wolverine himself. Apocalypse also converted Deathbird into War, Caliban into Pestilence, and Rory Campbell - the man who is one day destined to become the mutant hunter Ahab - into Famine.

After centuries of plotting, planning, and waiting, Apocalypse finally put his master plan into action. He gathered the Twelve - Xavier, Magneto, Cyclops, Phoenix, Iceman, Sunfire, Polaris, Bishop, Mikhail Rasputin, Living Monolith, Storm, Cable - in Egypt, intending to use them to boost his powers to a level beyond the Celestials' and alter reality to his liking. It was revealed that he had manipulated events on Earth for centuries, making sure that the Twelve would be born for him to use in his grand designs.

When things went awry and the Twelve broke free, Apocalypse attempted to use X-Man as a new host body to replace the one he had all but burnt-out. Cyclops intervened and seemingly sacrificed himself, merging with Apocalypse in an attempt to defeat the ages-old mutant. However, thanks to the merger, Apocalypse had become even more powerful, and warped time and space to confuse the Twelve into empowering him with their energy. The Twelve saw through the various timelines that Apocalypse had created, and the villain used the Living Monolith's power to teleport away - but not before Professor X could detect no remnant of Cyclops' psyche within the creature.

Cyclops eventually managed to assume control of his physical form, but struggled to keep Apocalypse from dominating. Fleeing to Egypt, Cyclops found himself pursued by three parties: the mutant assassin Gauntlet, who had been hired by Blaquesmith to kill Cyclops, thus preventing the threat of Apocalypse from ever returning; by Anais, who sought the return of her dark lord and wished herself to be the vessel through which Apocalypse would be reborn; and finally Cable and Jean Grey, who hoped to free Cyclops from Apocalypse's possession. In a climactic encounter, Phoenix managed to tear Apocalypse's spirit from Cyclops' body, and Cable fulfilled his destiny at long last by destroying the eternal mutant.

When the deranged Scarlet Witch warped the reality to temporarily create the world ruled by the House of M, Apocalypse was seen alive and with an empire in North Africa. Apocalypse took Magneto's offer to spread his empire by killing the Black Panther of Wakanda. The human outsmarted Apocalypse and he was killed by Black Bolt.

Apocalypse, looking the worse for wear, was somehow awakened yet again as a result of the Scarlet Witch drastically reducing the number of mutants in House of M. He chose X-Men to be three of his new Horsemen: Gambit (Death), Polaris (Pestilence), and Sunfire (Famine). Apocalypse found himself reluctant to unleash Pestilence on the world to fulfill his plan to reduce the population of normal humans by 90%. He wanted more the tent-dwelling mutants at Xavier's to take his blood serum first. His scribe, Ozymandias, suspected him of altruism, kindness, and craving the adulation of those mutants. Apocalypse wondered if he had been infected by some weakness or illness. Ozymandias attacked his master and was injured. He betrayed Apocalypse to the X-Men. When Havok's X-Men team destroyed most of the blood serum antidote, Apocalypse appeared before the U.N. with an offer: if the humans killed 90% of their own kind within a week, he would not unleash Pestilence. He would even destroy his meta-plague that could destroy ALL humans.

His plans were thwarted by a combined attack on his Sphinx by the Avengers, the Office of National Security (O*N*E*), and Havok's X-Men team (with Cyclops). Apocalypse was going to use what he called "the Infernal Machine" to make his Sphinx self-destruct, but Iceman broke the machine. It tore the membrane of space long enough for Apocalypse to escape through it.

However, the Celestials had originally given him his scientific riches in exchange for a payment to be named later -- centuries or millennia later.
Apocalypse discovered that "later" had become "now".

Apocalypse is not without family. His descendants are known as Clan Akkaba. Whenever Apocalypse's aid was requested by the clan, he would kill one of their members as a punishment for their weakness in needing him. He tended to sacrifice a member who had inherited his gray skin because he didn't care for them. Apocalypse and his minions killed many warlords during the Crusades. One of them was the warlord who became the vampire known as Dracula. Dracula, whom Apocalypse had not bothered to face personally back then, wanted vengeance. In 1897 he turned Hamilton Slade of Clan Akkaba into a vampire. Before the fighting was over, every member of the clan had been slain (most had been turned into vampires), except for Jack Starsmore and Hamilton's brother, Frederick. The rejuvination chamber that Apocalypse used back then was also destroyed. Dracula was temporarily destroyed.

Jack Starsmore was the great-grandfather of the X-Man known as Chamber. Frederick Slade, and some of his descendants, are still living.

Note: The Apocalypse who appeared in "New Excalibur" #9 was Ozymandias in disguise.

<font size=1>Some bio text reprinted from <a href="http://www.marvel.com/comics/bios/bio_apocalypse.html" target="_blank"><i>Marvel.com</i></a>.</font>

Height: Variable (usually 7')
Weight: Variable
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Unrevealed

APPEARANCES:
Adventures of Cyclops & Phoenix #1-4 (alternate future version)
Black Knight: Exodus #1
Black Panther (4th series) #7
Cable #-1, 19, 34-35, 50, 53, 64, 67-68, 74-76
Cable '99 Annual
Classic X-Men #25
Fantastic Four (1st series) #335, 415
Further Adventures Of Cyclops And Phoenix #1-4
Hulk #8
Incredible Hulk (2nd series) #455-457
Magneto Rex #3
New Eternals: Apocalypse Now #1
New Excalibur #15
Onslaught: Marvel Universe
Rise Of Apocalypse #1-4
Uncanny X-Men #295-296, 335-336, 374, 376-378
Wolverine (2nd series) #145-148
Wolverine: The Jungle Adventure
X-Factor (1st series) #5-6, 10-12, 15, 17-19, 21-28, 49-51, 65-68, 85-86
X-Factor Annual #3
X-Force (1st series) #17-18, 37
X-Man #59-60
X-Men (2nd series) #14-16, 96-98, 181-4
X-Men: Apocalypse/Dracula # 2-4
X-Men: Books of Askani #1 (alternate future version, profile only)
X-Men: Colossus Bloodline #3
X-Men: Phoenix #1 (alternate future version)
X-Men: The Search For Cyclops #1-4

rico-shay
Mar 16, 2002, 01:03 pm
good profile

En Sabah Nur
Mar 16, 2002, 10:36 pm
I agree

Dust
Mar 31, 2002, 02:45 am
Just a note for whoever cares...I speak Arabic and En Sabah Nur does not mean "the first one". En means "that", Sabah means "a morning" (and cannot be used alone, must have something describing it), Nur means light. As my father tells me, there is no such phrase as "En Sabah Nur" (he knows actual grammar, I just speak it :)), but if there was, it would be "that morning light". Just felt like putting in my 2 cents about that. :)

Edit: Actually, my mistake "En" means "That" as in the preposition like "I am seeing that this is...." Not the that as in "Look at that.
So, that's probably why it cannot be "En Sabah Nur".

Monolith
Mar 31, 2002, 03:10 am
What about spelling it "Nuhr", as it sometimes is? Does that mean anything different?

mikey g
Mar 31, 2002, 03:16 am
I love Apocalypse he is suck a diverse character. But looking at all the issues he was in i am surprises he has hardly been in Uncanny at all. One would think he was in Uncanny a lot but looking at the facts he wasnt. Very Interesting. Oh yeah and he aint dead he never is.

:cyke: :wolvie: :bamf: :storm: :kitty: :rogue: :magneto:
BEST TEAM EVER

Monolith
Mar 31, 2002, 03:26 am
I suppose its because he was mainly an X-Factor enemy, and "died" just before they rejoined the X-Men. He arose and died again during the X-Cutioner's Song, and didn't return until Onslaught, and didn't really get a story again until the 12.

Icemanfan21
Mar 31, 2002, 07:49 am
It's funny, that possibly the most powerful, most formidable X enemies, who gets mentioned so often, doesn't actually do that much. He appears and gets a story, what, once every five years? I guess that's why he's still so cool. Would a similar theory work for Sinister? That'd explain why we haven't seen him in forever.

Tom 2TUM Toner
Apr 1, 2002, 12:49 am
naw see, the thing about Apoc an Sinny is they don't HAVE to get their hands dirty. They have minions to do their work (maraduers, pale riders, horsemen, etc)

En Sabah Nur
Apr 1, 2002, 03:14 am
Originally posted by Sailor Rogue
Just a note for whoever cares...I speak Arabic and En Sabah Nur does not mean "the first one". En means "that", Sabah means "a morning" (and cannot be used alone, must have something describing it), Nur means light. As my father tells me, there is no such phrase as "En Sabah Nur" (he knows actual grammar, I just speak it :)), but if there was, it would be "that morning light". Just felt like putting in my 2 cents about that. :)
From now on, I shall be known as That Morning Light...

I think it's safe to say that whatever writer came up with "En Sabah Nur" as a name did his research and knew what it meant. What you need to take into consideration it that this was supposedly a name in Arabic given to him about 5,000 years ago. A language and it's meanings and phrases can change a lot in that amount of time. I'm sure that English, as we know it today, is nothing like it was 5,000 years ago.

Also, "That Morning Light" does kind of make sense due to the fact that Apocalypse sort of represents the "dawn", or first light, of a new race.

And if all other explanation fails, it is just a comic book character...

Storm_1118
Apr 1, 2002, 03:40 am
Let's not forget that Storm was a member of the Twelve too!! She wasn't included. :(

Monolith
Apr 1, 2002, 03:43 am
Originally posted by Storm_1118
Let's not forget that Storm was a member of the Twelve too!! She wasn't included. :(

Included in what?

stormwatch
Apr 1, 2002, 04:14 am
Originally posted by Monolith


Included in what?

Storm is not included in the Twelve part of the bio, it lists the others but not Storm.

Storm_1118
Apr 1, 2002, 04:15 am
She wasn't included in his bio as being a part of the Twelve.

Tom 2TUM Toner
Apr 1, 2002, 06:54 am
updated that. Looks like someone over looked that. Simple mistake, not like someone doesn't like Storm and purposly forgot her ;) j/k

Monolith
Apr 1, 2002, 01:50 pm
Originally posted by 2TUM
updated that. Looks like someone over looked that. Simple mistake, not like someone doesn't like Storm and purposly forgot her ;) j/k

That must have been part of the bio copied over from Marvel.com, eh Tom?

Merlin
Apr 3, 2002, 02:19 am
That was a great bio. I hope Apocalpse died die. Hes my favorite villian.

Dust
Apr 4, 2002, 03:19 pm
Originally posted by En Sabah Nur


I think it's safe to say that whatever writer came up with "En Sabah Nur" as a name did his research and knew what it meant. What you need to take into consideration it that this was supposedly a name in Arabic given to him about 5,000 years ago. A language and it's meanings and phrases can change a lot in that amount of time. I'm sure that English, as we know it today, is nothing like it was 5,000 years ago.



Actually, Standard Arabic is (I believe) the same as it was 5,00 years ago, but then again, Arabic may or may not have been around 5,000 years ago. The ancient Egyptians didn't speak Arabic, as can be seen by their writing (and the movie "The Mummy" :)) There are many different dialects of Arabic though, all of which are pretty different from each other and from the standard. i don't understand the standard very well, but I do understand/speak a dialect of Arabic. My father however, does understand standard and would definitely know more than I. But anyway, it is just a comic book character and I don't know who researched his name or how they found it, but it would be interesting to find out.

omegastorm
Apr 4, 2002, 10:31 pm
He had the potential to be a great enemy. But after his initial appearances I was not really impressed. He never once fought the Avengers or anything on that scale and yet he is so dangerous. :rolleyes: whatever

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Tom 2TUM Toner
Apr 9, 2002, 06:39 am
not many X villains fight Avengers, and vice versa. Its just the way of life.

Monolith
Jul 6, 2002, 04:38 am
Originally posted by X-Fan
It was this event that marked Nur's &quot;evolution&quot; into Apocalypse. He stayed in the ship for thousands of years, learning the secrets of Celestial technology and devising a suit of bio-armor for himself. This bio-armor grants Apocalypse the ability to change form, add mass from an extra-dimensional source to increase in size, as well as allow his body to become extremely malleable. Some of Nur's original body still existed as a decrepid form inside the armor.

Apocalypse already had the power to alter his mass before entering the Celestial Ship, as he demonstrated in Rise of Apocalypse #4.

tyran80
Jul 7, 2002, 07:30 pm
Dang, beat me to it!!

At any rate, X-Man should be mentioned as Apocalypse's enemy, as should Stryfe.

I guess Caliban and Anais would count as allies.

Jim Learning
Jul 7, 2002, 07:35 pm
Caliban for former ally.

Tom 2TUM Toner
Jul 7, 2002, 08:37 pm
Originally posted by tyran80
Dang, beat me to it!!

At any rate, X-Man should be mentioned as Apocalypse's enemy, as should Stryfe.

yeah, i would list them both as enemies. Stryfe almost killed Apoc :)

Monolith
Jul 8, 2002, 01:21 am
I'm not sure about including Anais. She was part of some cult who worshipped him, but they didn't appear to have had contact before the 12, and during the Search for Cyclops he wasn't exactly pleasant to her, IIRC.

Dominatrixx007
Jul 9, 2002, 04:08 am
What was Nur's "powers"--the bio said his powers "first manifested blahblahblah....", but gives no mention as to what they were and me being one sad Dominatrixx who did not buy the limited series at the time (damn!) I'm at a loss heer.

Monolith
Jul 9, 2002, 04:26 am
Before joining with the Celestial technology, En Sabah Nur demonstrated great strength, speed, endurance, reflexes, and resilience, immortality, energy discharging powers, and mass-shifting abilities that could increase his size and strength.

Mesran
Jul 9, 2002, 04:38 am
That Rise of Apocalypse mini was great. Right up to issue 4... :(

Mesran
Jul 16, 2002, 01:36 am
In regards to the Rise of Apocalypse mini...

Should Baal III be placed in relatives under adoptive father?

Should his first appearances list as so: First Appearance: Rise of Apocalypse #1 as Nur, etc etc.

ApocalypseNow
Jul 26, 2002, 12:46 pm
Since Stryfe is on there as his adopted son (as it should be) Baal should be noted as well since he was En Sabah Nur's adopted father

Mesran
Jul 26, 2002, 01:05 pm
Set, Sauru, Huitzilopochtli, Kali-Ma

I know he's used these aliases in ancient times, though could someone point out to me in which issues, thanks.

Also it should be Set II. Chronologically and First appearance wise.

Monolith
Jul 26, 2002, 02:35 pm
He mentioned them in passing during the Fall of the Mutants. X-Factor #24, I believe.

adolfo
Mar 28, 2003, 08:00 am
I read that Busiej had plans to confront him with the Avengers, the seed of this story is the fight with Moses Magnum, but after his departure I don't think we will see it.

Jim Learning
Apr 2, 2003, 06:22 pm
I was wondering, would this be Apocalypse I, with II being the robot duplicate from Wolverine: The Jungle Adventure?

atxbomber
Apr 2, 2003, 06:28 pm
Originally posted by Nemesis
I was wondering, would this be Apocalypse I, with II being the robot duplicate from Wolverine: The Jungle Adventure?

IMO, no.

jimcomics
Dec 1, 2003, 01:03 am
what about the Apocalypse and Horsemen that were villains of the Fantastic Four?

Wouldn't this entry make him Apocalypse I?

NicholasRogue
Dec 1, 2003, 01:10 am
Like Magneto I was hoping Apocalypse would stay dead. I mean Scott was free from his control in the Search for Cyclops limited series because Jean broke his control by separating their entities and Cable launched his primspear into Apocalypse's spirit destroying it. Now I hear they want to have him return, I don't know it takes so much just to kill the guy, don't get me wrong he was a massive cool villain, but I'd prefer him to stay dead, more of a symbol like Magneto USED TO BE, before he was apparently declared Undead. oh well, he'll probably come out of the peanut gallery and end up being used by Austen. Oy Vey! :p

Gonzalo84
Dec 4, 2004, 11:24 pm
That was a great bio. I hope Apocalpse died die. Hes my favorite villian.

I think he appears again in X-Men: The End.

what about the Apocalypse and Horsemen that were villains of the Fantastic Four?

There was no "Apocalypse" leading those alien Four Horsemen. BTW, they were Death II, War I, Famine I and Pestilence I.

BTW, Hellfire Club London, Diamanda Nero and Ch'vayre should count as allies.

Mesran
Dec 5, 2004, 01:02 am
I think he appears again in X-Men: The End.



There was no "Apocalypse" leading those alien Four Horsemen. BTW, they were Death II, War I, Famine I and Pestilence I.

BTW, Hellfire Club London, Diamanda Nero and Ch'vayre should count as allies.

Both the End and Cable's future are out of 616 continuity.

Ftrooper
May 30, 2005, 10:01 pm
Just a note for whoever cares...I speak Arabic and En Sabah Nur does not mean "the first one". En means "that", Sabah means "a morning" (and cannot be used alone, must have something describing it), Nur means light. As my father tells me, there is no such phrase as "En Sabah Nur" (he knows actual grammar, I just speak it :)), but if there was, it would be "that morning light". Just felt like putting in my 2 cents about that. :)

Edit: Actually, my mistake "En" means "That" as in the preposition like "I am seeing that this is...." Not the that as in "Look at that.
So, that's probably why it cannot be "En Sabah Nur".


Actually, in Cable #7, Apocalypse is referred to as "Son of the Morning Fire," by a member of the Askani. However, he does say "El Habin Sur," but that may just be a typo, and that's what I always thought his name ment.

Also, at the time Apocalypse was born, did the Egyptians speak Arabic, or did they speak an Egyptian dialect?

Eric J. Moreels
Jun 28, 2005, 01:17 am
Is it possible that En Sabah Nur could mean "The First One" in ancient Egyptian (or whatever language it was the Sandstormer clan spoke)?

The Ageless Conqueror
Dec 9, 2005, 06:49 pm
I just found out en sabah nur means in old egyption ''The Ageless Conqueror'' and not ''that morning light'' in arabic or ''the first one''

Chris Day
Dec 9, 2005, 07:29 pm
I just found out en sabah nur means in old egyption ''The Ageless Conqueror'' and not ''that morning light'' in arabic or ''the first one''

can that info be found online?

Jonah Hex
Dec 9, 2005, 09:36 pm
Either way,both exeplenations fit Apocalypse and what he does perfectly.

Ann Nichols
Jan 25, 2006, 03:57 am
He's baaaack...

Ann Nichols
Mar 28, 2006, 06:42 pm
Apocalypse's bio has been updated to include what he's currently doing over in X-Men (2nd series).

Ann Nichols
Jul 16, 2006, 02:17 pm
Apocalypse's bio has been updated again to include information about his descendants. I have heard that Blink and Penance are/were his descendants, too, but I'm waiting for that to appear in a comic before adding them.

Jim Learning
Jul 16, 2006, 08:05 pm
So who be Apocalypse I?

Janne Pietikainen
Jul 17, 2006, 01:15 pm
So who be Apocalypse I?
There was a Apocalypse in Vampire Tales #7 (1974). He was a foe of Morbius.

Then there were Horsemen of Apocalypse in Giant-Size Fantastic Four #3. They were members of an alien race named Axi-Tun. There were no Apocalypse among them though. Only Death, Famine, Pestilence and War. They were later seen in the pages of Quasar. This group isn't so well-known, which creates confusion with the numberings of the Horsemen of this well-known Apocalypse.

Robbert Graner
Apr 5, 2008, 08:09 pm
Updated the profile into the new format and added some aliases and relatives. By the way, Styfe isn't his adoptive son. It was Apocalypse's counterpart in the Askani timeline that adopted Stryfe, not Apocalypse of Earth-616.