Apocalypse (En Sabah Nur)
Real Name: En Sabah Nur.
Other Aliases: Apocalypse Prime, The Eternal One, The Immortal, The First One, The High Lord, the Child of Destiny, The Forever Walker, The Beast Child, He Who Never Dies, the Undying, The Master of Lies, The Ancient Nemesis, The Ancient Egyptian, The Genetic Overlord, the Son of the Morning Fire, the Father of Pain, The Bringer of Chaos, The Eternal Pharaoh, Eight Apocalypse, the Hate Maker, the Alpha, the Master of Time, the Master of the Time Stream, The Dark Lord, The Big A, and various mythological deities including Set; the God of Death, Storm, and Famine (not to be confused with the primeval demon of that name or the Egyptian god Seth), Sauru; the Prince of Demons and the Lord of Anarchy and Tyranny, Kali-Ma; the Herald of Indian Death, Huitxilopochti; God of War and Bloody Sacrifice, Mah K’ina Tah Balam-Anau; Lord of the Maya Underworld, Aten, and many others. As each External was claimed to represent an intangible concept. Apocalypse appears to represent the concept of destruction.
Alignment: Bad.
Affiliation: The Clan of Akkaba (founder and leader), the founder and leader of The Horsemen of Apocalypse, and the founder and leader of the Dark Riders. Formerly the Alliance of Evil (founder and leader), 198, the Riders of the Storm, the Sandstormers, the Externals, and part of the first incarnation of S.H.I.E.L.D. Former partnerships with Mister Sinister and Ozymandias.
Known Relatives: The Tribe of Akkaba (ancestors), Baal of the Crimson Sands
(adoptive father, deceased), most of the members of the Clan of Akkaba (descendants) including Margaret Slade (descendant, deceased), Hamilton Slade (descendant, deceased), Kabar Brashir (descendant, deceased), Frederick Slade (descendant), and Jack Starsmore (descendant). Jono Starsmore (Chamber) (descendant), from Jack Starsmore’s blood line, Clarice Ferguson (Blink) (descendant) from Frederick Slade’s blood line along with many others descendants. Nathan Summers (Stryfe) (alternate reality adoptive son, deceased), Tyler Dayspring (Genesis) (alternate reality adopted grandson from Stryfe, deceased), Holocausts (alternate reality son with unknown mother), William Rolfson (Genocide) (son with Autumn Rolfson (Famine) as the mother); Evan Sabahnur (Genesis) (clone).
Status
Species: Mutated Human Mutant, Changeling, External Cyborg.
Citizenship: Egyptian.
Identity: Most of the general public or populace of Earth is unaware of Apocalypse's existence as either Apocalypse or as his dual identity “En Sabah Nur” and only multiple superhuman groups or various government organizations are aware of Apocalypse's existence on Earth and even less know of Apocalypse’s true name.
Marital Status: Unrevealed, presumed unmarried and Single at the present.
Occupation: Student since he was reborn. Would Be World Conqueror, Scientist, Terrorist, Mutant Kind Caretaker, Instigator of Warfare among mutants and normal human beings. Former rebel leader, Former slave, and nomad. Formerly worshipped as a God by multiple ancient civilizations.
Place of Birth: Akkaba region of Ancient Egypt; Africa on the planet Earth.
Base Of Operations: Mobile in the Celestial Ship (a sentient starship created by the Celestials), formerly a base on the Blue Area of the Moon, and a sphinx in Ancient Egypt on the planet Earth. Apocalypse also has many safehouses all over the planet Earth.
Characteristics
Gender: Male.
Height: 7'0" to 7’9” (Usually). Variable. Apocalypse can alter his size at will allowing him to reach more substantially greater heights if he wishes.
Weight: 300 lbs (136.078 kg) (Usually). Variable. Apocalypse can alter his weight at will allowing him weigh more substantially greater amounts if he wishes.
Eyes: Red sometimes pale White. Formerly Blue.
Hair: Bald, formerly Black.
Skin: Gray.
Unusual Features: Apocalypse appears metallic at times with extensive disheveled metallic blue lips, and blue markings on his head. Apocalypse’s body is also massive, muscled with proportions considerably well beyond that of normal humans in his natural form.
Apocalypse is easily one of the most powerful mutants who have ever lived in the Marvel Universe as well as one of the most powerful beings who have ever walked the face of the Earth. Apocalypse was originally an Alpha-Level External mutant, whose wide variety of superpowers, which already quite powerful were enhanced, modified, and amplified to be far beyond their original limits after exposure and merging with Celestial technology from the Celestial Ship which also allowed Apocalypse to gain new powers as well. Because of this, Apocalypse possesses several superhuman powers unlike most mutants who possesses only one or two main mutant superpowers. The Pharaoh of 3,000 BC during Apocalypse’s time, “King Rama-Tut” who would be later known as the being called “Kang the Conqueror” (from an alternate possible 30th to 40th century timeline) once said that within the fullness of time, Apocalypse was destined to become the most powerful being on the planet as an evolutionary jumpstart of near infinite potential. The full limits and capacities of Apocalypse’s powers are unknown and are difficult to say. However according to Apocalypse, his full power does exceeds that of his former minion, “the Harbinger of Apocalypse”, who was capable of holding his own against a team of Avengers made up of Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Vision, and Wonder Man along side Cable in a fight at the same time by himself. Even in a severely weakened, dying state, Apocalypse has shown being capable of fighting and defeating a group of X-Men made up of Ice Man, Beast, Colossus, Storm, Quicksilver, and Archangel in under a flat 60 seconds. When at full power, Apocalypse is in fact more powerful than even powerful mutants such as Exodus or Stryfe in terms of raw power. Cable has even said that Stryfe would never be able to defeat Apocalypse on his own. Apocalypse has also been able to defeat Ikaris when he was a Prime Eternal in battle and Apocalypse has even held his own against powerful foes such as Loki and even the High Evolutionary in battle. It has even been said that Apocalypse’s powers appear to be limitless as even Apocalypse himself has claimed that he is still not fully aware of the full powers he has been given from the Celestial starship and that it has even been stated that Apocalypse’s powers will continue to grow and evolve to higher and greater levels over time such as how Stryfe was able to defeat Apocalypse when severely weaken, while it took the combined full powers of Stryfe and Bishop to beat Apocalypse at his weakest in a possible future timeline in 2973.
Apocalypse possesses vast physical superhuman strength the full limits of which are unknown and have never been measured. However, Apocalypse is strong enough to physical lift well over 100 tons of weight easily without a doubt and Apocalypse is physical one of the strongest beings to ever walk the face of the Earth. Apocalypse can easily overpower and kill normal humans in a number of physical ways such as physical lifting them up with one hand easily and send them flying or hurl them around, and he could easily decapitate a normal human being with his bare hands. The amount of physical force Apocalypse can strike with is so great that unless he pulls his punches or kicks back; physical blows from Apocalypse at full force would easily prove fatal to that of a normal human being and it would take nothing more than a simple tap on the head for Apocalypse to knock out or even kill a normal human being. Apocalypse can physical break steel chains and handcuffs, easily punch through brick walls with a single blow without gaining any kind of physical injury, physical crush metal locks with just one hand, and physical crush or break through wood panels and templates; all of which Apocalypse can do without any effort. Apocalypse can physical lift, move, throw, crush or even compress objects as big and as heavy as semi trucks, tanks, large yachts, or even large planes with ease as well as lift large boulders, and can even physical uproot objects like large trees and use them as weapons. Apocalypse is more than strong enough to physical go through most forms of reinforced man-made barriers such as glass, wood, most types of metal, brick or concrete walls with ease. This includes physical ripping through very thick steel that is far more than several inches thick as if it was made out of paper with his bare hands effortlessly or easily going through concrete walls that are far more than four feet thick with his physical might and Apocalypse is physical strong enough to climb the sheer surfaces of brick or concrete walls by digging his fingers into the walls allowing him to create his own handholds into them if he wishes and is also capable of physical bending or breaking most types of thick metal that are far more than several inches thick with ease. Not only can Apocalypse easily decimate full sized buildings and other large structures with his physical might and even crush entire mountain ranges with pure physical brute force, but Apocalypse is even strong enough to create strong and powerful shock waves that are equivalent to that of a small tornado that can shake entire city blocks by either clapping his hands together or by slamming his fists or feet into the ground and it has even been stated that Apocalypse’s blows can send shock waves for over a hundred of miles. One source has actually stated that Apocalypse possesses enough physical superhuman strength to lift almost 600 tons of weight which still might not be Apocalypse’s physical weight lifting limit. Apocalypse is also capable of breaking out of the ice constructs of Iceman through strength alone and Apocalypse is even physical stronger than superhumanly strong powerhouse like beings such as She-Hulk or Colossus and Apocalypse has even shown of being able to physically restrain the Hulk when enraged surpassing the Hulk in physical superhuman strength, as well as fight and hold his own against Namor after Namor was exposed and empowered by salt water. Apocalypse can increase his physical superhuman strength to even higher and greater superhuman levels which would make him physical stronger and more powerful by increasing the physical size and mass of his body when taking on more mass from a different dimensional source. Apocalypse’s superhuman strength can also increase to higher and greater superhuman levels when psionically drawing upon outside energy sources or by absorbing energy into his body giving him virtually almost unlimited superhuman strength that is potentially incalculable since Apocalypse can draw upon almost unlimited energy from an extra-dimensional source and Apocalypse has yet to depict his maximum physical strength, but it could be well over 1,000 tons of weight which still might not be Apocalypse’s physical weight lifting limit.
Superhuman Stamina: Apocalypse's highly advanced musculature are considerably and infinitely much more efficient than that of the musculature of normal humans as Apocalypse's body produces practically no fatigue toxins during physical activity granting him almost limitless superhuman endurance and stamina in all his physical activities. As a result of that; Apocalypse can fight, run, and perform other physical activities that will allow him to physically exert himself at peak capacity indefinitely without the build up of any fatigue toxins in his bloodstream that would begin to impair him and affect his overall capabilities as Apocalypse rarely tires.
Superhuman Reflexes: Apocalypse’s reflexes and reaction time are enhanced to a level that is far beyond and superior to that of the natural physical limits of even the finest human athlete. Apocalypse’s reaction time is so fast that he has physical caught a bullet with a gun barrel pointed directly to his face and he has been able to defend himself from getting hit by Archangel’s razor-sharp feathers with just one hand after being severely weakened by having been awaken from his rejuvenation chamber too early and having fought Stryfe, and Apocalypse has even shown of being capable of striking speedsters as fast as Quicksilver who are capable of moving beyond supersonic speeds. By infusing his own energy with his body, Apocalypse can increase his reflexes and reaction time to even higher and faster superhuman levels allowing him to react at a greater and faster speed.
Superhuman Agility: Despite his massive muscular size and build; Apocalypse’s agility, balance, and bodily coordination are enhanced to levels that are beyond that of the natural physical limits of even the finest human athlete. With Apocalypse’s polymorphing shape shifting powers, Apocalypse has shown of being capable of striking superhumans as agile as Beast and has even been able to dodge energy attacks from Ikaris at close range.
Superhuman Durability: In addition to his superhuman strength, Apocalypse’s bodily tissue is far harder, tougher and much more resistant to all forms of physical injury than that of the bodily tissues of a normal human being as his bones, muscles, and skin tissues are considerably much harder and denser in comparison with that of the bodies of normal humans. As a result of that, Apocalypse possesses a much higher degree of resistance to pain and physical injury than that of normal humans making him virtually impervious to physical harm, although it is now possible (after his original body was destroyed) to cause him a physical injury, however it is still very unlikely to happen. Apocalypse’s body is impervious to high caliber bullets and his body is also capable of withstanding powerful explosives, energy attacks, and falls from orbital heights while sustaining little to no pain or physical injury as well as also withstanding powerful impact forces and blunt force trauma from direct physical blows from superhumans as strong as Ikaris, Colossus, the Hulk, and Namor with far less physical injury than that of what would instantly kill normal humans or what lower level super humans would receive as all of whom are strong enough to easily kill a normal human being from the simple impact of their physical blows. Apocalypse is also capable of withstanding exposure from extreme pressures and extreme temperatures ranging between the extreme cold and pressure of being in the void and vacuum of outer space to the extreme heat from going through re-entry (3,000 degrees Fahrenheit or 1,648.889 degrees Celsius) without sustaining any kind of physical injury or being in any kind of severe discomforts such as severe blistering, freezing, or crushing conditions. Apocalypse has shown being able to withstand powerful energy attacks such as Cyclops's optic beams at full power multiple times which is said to be equivalent to that of an explosion of over 500 pounds of TNT or 500 pounds per square inch with little to no ill effect, full powered attacks from Iceman were not enough to stop him as Apocalypse has even stated before in the past that no mere ice or extreme cold could stop him. Apocalypse has been able to survive attacks of extreme heat and flame from Sunfire while having his powers weakened by Pulse, thunderbolts from Storm, kinetically charge cards from Gambit, a full telekinetic energy attack from Exodus with no sign of physical injury or harm to himself, and Apocalypse has even withstood energy attacks from the High Evolutionary while fighting in the void and vacuum of outer space. Like with his physical superhuman strength; Apocalypse can also increase his physical superhuman durability to even higher and greater superhuman levels which would make him physical tougher and more resistant to physical injury by increasing the physical size and mass of his body by taking on additional mass from a different dimensional source. Apocalypse’s superhuman durability will also increase to even higher and greater superhuman levels when he’s psionically drawing upon outside energy sources or by absorbing energy into his body. Apocalypse has even withstood the combined energy attacks from the Inhumans and the X-Factor at the same time. This includes a scream from Black Bolt’s voice which at the very least was more powerful than that of the detonation of a nuclear warhead explosion along side with Cyclops's optic beams at full power with little to no physical injury or physical harm to himself.
Bio-Molecular Alteration: Apocalypse has complete control and mastery over the entire molecular structure of his body and might possibly even have control over the entire atomic structure of his whole body. Because of this, Apocalypse is capable of altering his body at will in almost anyway that suits him. This means that matter manipulation has almost no effect on him, as Apocalypse can adapt his molecular structure to almost any adversity such as Apocalypse adapting his body to the Techno-Organic Virus greatly slowing it’s negative effects and has even adapt his body to a virus that was created by Sinister to affect only him. Apocalypse is able to assume almost any form, size, mass and appearance at will and unlike certain Shape Shifters, Apocalypse can also alter his mass by increasing it or decreasing it at will. Even Apocalypse's clothes are just his molecules or possibly even his atoms that have moved around and changed in a way that would suit him. Apocalypse can change his body in a number of ways including, but not limited to:
Malleable Form: Apocalypse's entire body can be reshaped at will as he can alter his physical appearance into a variety of human disguises, and also allow his body to become extremely malleable while maintaining his full dexterity. Apocalypse is able to stretch, contort, and elongate his limbs and body into a multitude of different shapes and sizes, with elasticity and flexibility far beyond the natural physical human limits with a virtually unlimited range in a similar manner to Mister Fantastic. Apocalypse is even able to open holes through his body to avoid attacks or enlarge his fist in order to increase it‘s physical effect.
Regenerative Healing Factor: Despite his extraordinary superhuman durability and his high resistance to physical injury, it is still possible to injure Apocalypse. However; if injured, Apocalypse’s metabolism allows him to rapidly regenerate from large amounts of damaged or even destroyed bodily tissue with much greater speed and efficiency than that of what normal humans are capable of regardless of the cause allowing Apocalypse to heal quickly from almost any injury including from devastating fatal injuries that would kill normal humans and most mutants at an amazing rate through his morphing powers. Apocalypse has shown being capable of regenerating from severe injuries such as large puncture wounds within matter of moments, a missing chink of his leg and missing most of his torso in a matter of seconds, and Apocalypse has even shown of being able to regenerate completely from nothing than a puddle of liquid by restructuring his whole body after blowing himself due to his morphing powers. As the Techno-Organic Virus is in Apocalypse’s bloodstream, the Techno-Organic Virus itself supplements his healing factor as Apocalypse could have vast regenerative potential as he has even shown at rare times of being able to regenerate from injures at a fast if not faster and more effective rate than even mutants such as Wolverine or Sabertooth and in some cases Apocalypse’s could even be on par with that of the Hulk’s and combined with the control he has over his entire molecular and possibly even his entire atomic structure, Apocalypse can rebound from almost any kind of physical attack, repairing himself from whatever kind of damage is done to his body within a matter of time. Apocalypse is even capable of regenerating his entire body by having his blood come in contact and rewriting whatever surrounding matter is near his own body. Apocalypse is capable of healing from any kind of physical injury that is short of a direct nuclear explosion.
Through his power to transform any part of his body, or his entire body, into almost any kind of physical form he can imagine. Apocalypse can give himself virtually almost any kind of physical superhuman power, as he is capable of transforming his arms and other limbs into a variety of various types of weapons and devices including melee type weapons such as blades, swords, axes, lances, hammers, shields, maces, saws, tentacles, machine drills as well as plasma cannons and guns with bullets, and with other parts of his body, this also includes forming working mechanical wings or rocket propelled booster jets in order for him to fly. Apocalypse can also form gills in order to breath while being underwater, form multiple limbs; such as one point having six arms, and Apocalypse is capable of much more. Apocalypse’s body is also able to mimic most types of metals allowing him to hardening portions of his body into armor as he is capable of literally making almost any part of his body into virtually almost anything. Apocalypse is also capable of adapting his body to apparently any disease or hostile environment.
Due to Apocalypse's molecular rearrangement powers which allows him to adapt his body to any disease or hostile environment. Apocalypse’s body has no need nor requires any kind of sustenance such as food, water or even air in order to survive, going without it for indefinite periods of time as Apocalypse is self sustained and has shown being able to survive going for almost five weeks straight without any kind of food or water while being trapped underground even before he encountered the Celestial ship that enhanced and modified his powers far beyond their original limits. Apocalypse is also capable of staying in and surviving unaided in the void and vacuum of outer space indefinitely without the use or presence of any type of equipment as well.
Due to Apocalypse having complete control over the entire molecular and possibly even the entire atomic structure of his body, Apocalypse is also able to adapt his body to apparently any disease or hostile environment rendering him immune to the effects of all known Earthly diseases and infections including from the effects of radiation or diseases like AIDS as well as any other type of poisonous or toxic substances and due to Apocalypse’s regenerative healing factor along with his large size. It would take much larger and massive doses of drugs to have it’s full effects work on Apocalypse than it would on the bodies of normal humans. Apocalypse is even capable of willing his own body to create antidotes for different types of poisons or toxics and by morphing his hands into needles; Apocalypse can inject the antidotes into others curing them as he had shown of being able to cure others from the effects of his horsemen “Pestilence”.
Apocalypse is able to change his physical size and mass at will as he can quickly increase or decrease the physical size of his body by taking on additional physical mass from a different dimensional source or by ridding his mass to the presumably extra dimensional source and Apocalypse has shown of being able to increase his physical size and height to roughly 40 to 50 feet tall (12.192 to 15.24 meters), and Apocalypse could probably increase his physical height and size to even higher heights as Apocalypse has even shown of being capable of attaining a height of over hundreds of feet and has even been seen on the X-Men TV show to become as large or larger than the Statue of Liberty (305 feet or 92.964 meters). By increasing the physical size and mass of his entire body, Apocalypse’s superhuman strength and durability could also increase to even higher and greater superhuman levels.
Due to his malleable body, the size and physical strength of Apocalypse’s lung capacity is far greater than that of what normal humans are capable of allowing him to hold his breath for extremely long periods of time and still function normally at a far longer amount of time than that of what normal humans are capable of, as the maximum peak human limit of holding ones breath for without being consider superhuman is a measured time of 6 minutes. Apocalypse could even use his superhuman lung capacity as an offensive weapon as well by absorbing bullets shot at him through his mouth and shooting them back with equal or greater force or by using his greater lung capacity to achieve a super breath by inhaling large amounts of air and then blowing it back out at incredible high speeds with tremendous efficiency allowing him to produce powerful hurricane force winds with enough force to knock back multiple fully grown humans. The range and potential is still unknown.
Apocalypse has access to a seemingly almost unlimited amount of extra-dimensional energy allowing him to be capable of generating massive amounts of raw concentrated ambient plasma like energy and channelling that energy through either his eyes or hands or expelling the energy from his body for a number of different effects, including, but not limited to:
Energy Projection: Apocalypse is able to project and expel large and vast amounts of concentrated plasma energy from his body and channel that energy through either his hands or eyes into massive and powerful energy attacks of destructive force that are capable of easily disintegrating normal humans. Apocalypse is able to mentally control his energy attacks allowing him to change the directions of where his energy attacks will go and Apocalypse has even shown being capable of destroying Invisible Woman's force fields with a single attack. The amount of concentrated energy Apocalypse can project and how powerful it is, is unknown, but it has taken the combined full powered attacks of Cyclops's optic beams, Jean Grey’s telekinesis, Gambit’s kinetically charge playing cards, and Storm’s thunderbolts, to barley overpower his energy attacks and it is possible that the amount of energy Apocalypse can release as a concussive force is almost unlimited due to Apocalypse’s connection to a different dimensional source.
Apocalypse is able to create, generate, and project powerful and nearly impenetrable protective force fields that will allow him to defend himself and others while repelling against incoming attacks. Apocalypse has also shown of being able to create force fields in order to engulf and trap individuals inside while at the same time protect the individual inside and he can mentally levitate them in a telekinetic manner. Apocalypse’s force fields have even shown of being capable of containing beings as powerful as Exodus.
Apocalypse does possesses the ability to manipulate energy to some unknown degree most likely through his telekinesis. Apocalypse has shown of being able to mentally control the directions of where his energy attacks will go when leaving his body and when creating a force field to engulf an individual, Apocalypse can also mentally levitate it in a telekinetic manner. Apocalypse has shown of being able to manipulate energy in a number of other different ways such as causing energy explosions by snapping his fingers, knocking out Iceman by channelling the energy generated by his own body up Iceman’s ice constructs, making his own body turn into a living explosion of energy powerful enough to knock out beings as durable and as powerful as Colossus, and Apocalypse has even shown being able to channel energy attacks shot at him back to where they came from by making his own body act like a conductor which he has done before with plasma energy and thunder bolts against Strom and Havok at the same time.
By infusing his body with energy, Apocalypse is able to speed up his reflexes and reaction time to higher superhuman levels in which he seemingly moves at super speeds. It is this ability that allows him to counteract speedsters with superhuman speed powers themselves.
Apocalypse has shown of being capable of dimensionally phase shifting his entire hand through another object or person at will.
Apocalypse is capable of absorbing massive amounts of various
forms of outside energy and mass into his body with almost no upper limit in order to augment the levels of both his physical superhuman strength and durability as well as his other superhuman powers to even higher superhuman levels giving him almost unlimited potential. Apocalypse has been able to absorb energy from station reactors and has even shown of being capable of absorbing all the practically near infinite supply of energy from Cyclops’ optic beams leaving him temporarily depleted for at least two months. By doing so, Apocalypse has proved that his power to absorb energy is greater than that of Bishop’s as Cyclops using his powers at his fullest managed to overload Bishop in matter of seconds during which, Iron Man measured Cyclops's power output and found that the energy output was well over 2 gigwatts (2 billion watts) of energy, which is greater than that of a large nuclear reactor and is about half the peak power output of the Doel Nuclear Power Plant.
Although rarely used, Apocalypse is a telepath of the first order showing potential to be a powerful telepath with vast psionic powers the extent of which has remained unrevealed. Apocalypse is capable of displaying various psionic feats with the minds of others including reading the minds of others as long as they don’t possess any kind of telepathic or psychic defenses, and Apocalypse is also capable of communicating with the thoughts of others over vast distances thou this power is greater with beings that serve him such as his Horsemen as well as different effects including but not limited to:
Apocalypse is able to quickly process and store information, through a mental transference with others, which he has done before with Ozymandias learning everything that had happened in months within seconds.
Apocalypse is able to mask his presence from being detected by other telepaths. Apocalypse’s abilities can at times go undetected or be counteracted by other more powerful telepaths depending on their power or the level of skill in using their own psionic abilities. Apocalypse can extend these defences to other beings around him as well.
Apocalypse can sense the presence of another superhuman mutant within a small, but as yet undefined radius of himself by perceiving the distinctive mental radiations emitted by such a being.
Apocalypse is capable of developing a mental link with any person which will remain as a telepathic connection between Apocalypse and that said individual.
Apocalypse is capable of projecting psionic force bolts which although have no physical effects, will affect an individual’s mind in order to cause it’s victim intense pain, unconsciousness and can even kill an adversary. Apocalypse’s psionic attacks have even hurt Professor Charles Xavier, possibly to unconsciousness, although it was possible that Xavier was in a weaken state.
Apocalypse is able to erect powerful psychic shields for the protection of himself and the minds of others from any attempts that would mentally affect his mind or the minds of others including from such attempts as mentally reading, altering, controlling, or mentally harming his mind or others. Apocalypse’s telepathic shields combined with his strong force of will makes his own mind highly resistant to telepathy and Apocalypse has shown of being capable of protecting himself sufficiently from other powerful telepaths due to the centuries of training and experience he has had of learning how to strengthen his own mind from telepaths. Apocalypse is capable of shutting out high level telepaths from entering and affecting his own mind and even causing them a great deal of pain upon any attempts to do so blocking telepaths with substantial power such as, Jean Grey, Cable, and even Professor Charles Xavier.
Apocalypse is capable of traveling through an astral form of which he does not need to eat, drink, breathe, or sleep, due to being unrestricted by physical laws which also makes him invisible, intangible, and makes him incapable of being harmed by anything less than very powerful psionic or telepathic attacks. Although as a astral form he can’t be heard or seen, Apocalypse can communicate with others as a astral form if he wishes through his own will, or through contact with the thoughts and memories of others. In the astral realm, Apocalypse can use his powers to create "ectoplasmic" objects. While most telepaths are capable of staying in their astral form for up to 24 hours max before their physical body start to deteriorate. Apocalypse is capable of staying in his astral form for a longer amount of time due to his superhuman durability and regenerative healing factor and if aided by his technology which could be used to preserve his body, Apocalypse might not have a time limit for his astral form. However, there are limits to Apocalypse’s astral projection as he cannot engage in long range astral projection on the earthly plane.
Apocalypse is capable of possessing the minds of another, and using that beings body as his own.
Apocalypse is capable of transferring both his mind and powers into other host bodies at will should his own physical body be somehow destroyed. In Cable's timeline, Apocalypse had become so powerful and advanced, that transferring his mind and powers into new bodies periodically became a necessity as his immense power would cause him to exhaust his host bodies. When Apocalypse is transferring his mind and powers into a host’s body the DNA of the host is rewritten in order to strengthen and later gain complete control of the host’s body.
Apocalypse possesses strong and powerful telekinetic abilities that he can use to enable himself to fly through telekinetic use, which he can also use to telekinetic carry others through the air with him as well through the use of his own sheer force of will. Apocalypse is able to manipulate living beings, inanimate objects and even energy to some extent telekinetic. Apocalypse is capable of mentally lifting well over 100 tons of weight and he is able to telekinetic will himself to fly at great speeds. Apocalypse has shown of being able to easily rip a person’s skeleton out of their body through telekinetic use and Apocalypse has even lifted his entire palace from under the ground. The extent of Apocalypse’s telekinetic powers has remained unrevealed.
Through telekinesis, Apocalypse possesses the ability to telekinetically levitate himself and others in mid air through the sheer force of his own force of will.
Apocalypse can enable himself to fly, through either the use of his shape shifting and technopathy powers combined in order to form working mechanical wings or rocket propelled booster jets or by willing himself to fly through the air through the use of his telekinetic powers. Although, Apocalypse’s top flight speed is unknown and has never been measured or timed, Apocalypse is capable of flying anywhere between supersonic speeds or mach speeds of over Mach 2 which is over 1,540 miles per hour (2,478.39 kilometres per hour) to over 4,000 miles per hour (6,437.376 kilometres per hour). Apocalypse is also capable of flying and traveling through the void and vacuum of outer space under his own powers while being unaided by any type of equipment as well and while flying and traveling through the void and vacuum of outer space, Apocalypse could possibly fly even faster.
Apocalypse is capable of and has teleported himself and others on occasion in order to travel and cover over vast distances across the entire planet within much less time which seems to be done without the aid of any kind of device and just by his own free will as Apocalypse has teleported himself and the High Evolutionary from the void and vacuum of outer space to the subterraneans of Earth, has been able to cover an entire continent of distance and Apocalypse has even shown of being able to teleport an entire fortress along with him while leaving those within it behind.
Apocalypse's original body was immortal, even before being enhanced and modified by the Celestial ship that amplified his powers far beyond their original limits, as he had lived for thousands of years even before he ever encountered it as Apocalypse is one of the first and oldest known mutants who have ever been born as he is older than 5,000 years old. Apocalypse's molecular rearrangement powers allowed him to constantly renew his cells. Because of this, Apocalypse is literally immortal for all intents and purposes in the sense that he is completely immune to the effects of aging and would never die by old age while remaining in his physical prime. Apocalypse can enter a state of suspended animation during which he may recover from any wounds with the assistance of his Celestial technology. Apocalypse belongs to a sub-species of immortal mutants known as the Externals and Apocalypse has been referred as an Externals on many occasions. This does not mean, however, that Apocalypse can't be killed although with his powers it would be very difficult to do so.
Apocalypse's techno-organic blood has many unique properties including healing and even empowering properties. Apocalypse's blood can heal other mutants, but it is fatal for humans. During one failed conquest attempt, a serum created from Apocalypse's blood was designated to be given to those few that chose to follow him. Its purpose was to prevent infection from the variety of diseases and safeguard those mutants when Polaris was unleashed on the world. It is unknown what kinds of side effects this exposure had. Apocalypse's blood can also restore his de-powered mutant descendants as it was shown when a large dose of Apocalypse's blood was pumped into Chamber’s body which not only regenerated the lost body parts of Chamber’s body, but gave him an appearance similar to Apocalypse‘s. It is hinted that this evolved Chamber's power to that of a an Omega Level mutant and Dracula even has said that his powers grew upon drinking Apocalypse's blood. As recently revealed, the techno-organic cells within Apocalypse's own blood will rewrite almost anything that comes in contact with it, including any of the surrounding matter near that of his body. With only one single drop of Apocalypse's blood into a vat of organs, blood, bones, etc. the virus will also rewrite the genetic code of the material within to form a new body for Apocalypse. Ozymandias has even stated that as long as one drop of Apocalypse’s blood remains. Apocalypse will never truly be dead and can always be resurrected.
Due to the Techno-Organic Virus; Apocalypse is very capable of technopathy, as he is able to directly interface, communicate, control, and even merge with the various technologies he has at his disposal including the Celestial technology from the alien Celestial ship he discovered in the ancient past. Apocalypse once was able to reconfigure the mechanisms inside his Harbinger turning him into a walking bomb and Apocalypse is capable of morphing his limbs in order to directly interact with the various Celestial technology he has at his disposal.
Education: Trained by Baal and the Sandstormers, Centuries of study and experience, and being tutored by the Celestial Ship. Tutored by Ozymandias when reborn.
Aside from his vast superhuman powers, Apocalypse possesses an above genius level intellect with intellectual capabilities far beyond the scope of almost any other human being, as he is a genius at a level of which humanity cannot comprehend. Apocalypse possesses a vast amount of knowledge and expertise in many various branches and areas of science and technology including from the areas of biology (mostly that of Humans, and Mutants. However, Apocalypse does possesses knowledge in the biology of multiple kinds of different species including sub-human species such as the Atlanteans, the Deviants and possibly the Eternals and even alien species such as the Skrulls), primarily genetics, physics, biochemistry, genetic engineering, mutations as Apocalypse is a Master of Mutagenics evident in his creation of augmented mutants like the Four Horsemen, engineering and technology all of which is far more advanced than that of conventional science and technology from the Earth itself. Apocalypse has also even shown that he is capable of the Adamantium bone bonding process when he took the Adamantium from Sabertooth and bonded it to Wolverine and it has even been hinted that he was connected to the Weapon X Project. Even Henry McCoy also known as Beast of the X-Men (who is not only a world renowned biochemist, but has even been stated by the super villain group known as the Intelligencia and by Mister Fantastic himself to be one of the eight top mortal minds on the planet) using Shi‘ar medical equipment needed Apocalypse's expertise in biology to help cure Charles Xavier of a Techno-Organic Virus in order to save his life. This was not merely a result of his exposure to the Celestial ship and merging with it’s technology, as Apocalypse was not only able to master and control the technology, but even make significant new advances beyond the technology he was exposed to, which he does use for his own applications, such as altering mutants, humans, mutated humans, and has even altered a Deviant and Apocalypse has also built devices, and aircrafts that have been pieced together from other forms of alien technology aside from the Celestial’s including from the Skrulls and the Badoon as well as other various alien sources with unearthly materials he has built along side his Celestial technology. Apocalypse's mind is also frighteningly sharp and powerful. At one point, Apocalypse found a supposedly safe house of Cable and saw Cable's guns, which he immediately realized were based on his work and his technology. It only took him but a few seconds to come to the correct conclusion that Cable was a time traveler from the future and that Apocalypse ruled at least parts of this future. Apocalypse even possesses some degree of knowledge of magic from the time of the Old Kingdom which pre-dates the fall of Atlantis as Apocalypse has once increased the Hulk’s powers with Celestial technology involving mysticism, use the Celestial technology he possession in an attempt to drain Loki’s magical energy and Apocalypse has also even been able to get to Olympus, the home of the Greek gods, something few beings on Earth have achieved on their own.
Apocalypse is intelligent and wise; being a master of manipulation, intimidation and strategy, and is able to turn former adversaries and even some of the greatest X-Men (Angel, Gambit, Sunfire, and Polaris) to his side. Apocalypse is also a master strategist as he has learned from his more than 5,000 years of lifespan when to be very patience as Apocalypse revealed to his Skrull allies during “the Twelve” that he had been precisely preparing his plans for centuries, using hundreds of generations of pawns and peons, both human and mutant alike, all to reach the specific end goal of evolving to a level of omnipotence beyond that of even the Celestials, the Dark Phoenix or Onslaught and that even a loss is a victory in a way for him.
Apocalypse’s force of will is practically indomitable with his own personal belief that he himself is strong. That combined with his own psionic powers and the fact that he has learned how to strengthen his mind's defenses through centuries of training and experience, Apocalypse possesses almost complete immunity to telepathic attacks even from telepaths as powerful as Jean Grey, Cable, and even Professor Charles Xavier. Apocalypse is capable of shutting out high level telepaths from entering his mind and even causing them a great deal of pain upon any attempts to do so. Because of this, Apocalypse’s mind is almost indomitable to other psionic powers as he has even shown of being capable of shutting out Jean Grey from his mind when his mind was exposed and vulnerable proving his mind or will was stronger. Apocalypse while weaken was also able to break out of Dracula’s control (who’s powers were amplified from drinking blood from Apocalypse and his descendants)
Due to his very long lifespan and his lengthy travels across the globe; Apocalypse has also amassed a large amount of intimate knowledge in many different foreign customs and cultures across the planet as he has been worshiped as several various mythological deities including Set, Sauru, Kali-Ma, Huitxilopochti, Mah K’ina Tah Balam-Anau, Aten, and many others over the five thousands of years of his life. Apocalypse has even claimed that he is capable of speaking fluently in every human language on the Earth and he has shown of being capable of speaking fluently in English, ancient Egyptian, and French.
Although, he does not engage himself in direct physical combat often preferring to use his servants or other beings who serve him to fight his enemies on his behalf, Apocalypse was trained in various multiple forms of armed (most notably swords and daggers) and unarmed combat by his step-father Baal and he had shown to possess enough skill to fight and kill three armed Sandstormer warriors from his tribe using only his bare hands even before gaining control of his powers. It can be surmised that during En Sabah Nur's campaign across the globe, he presumably learned and incorporated many forms of hand-to-hand and weapon combat as Apocalypse was able to fight, hold his own and even gain the advantage in a weapons fight against Cable before exposure and merging with Celestial technology. Once En Sabah Nur found the Celestial Starship, he solely relied on his own powers and whatever other means that he thought was necessary as the last time he was depicted with a sword was the moments before entering the Spaceship, however Apocalypse has shown his skilled in swordsmanship when morphing his own limbs into weapons. Apocalypse is also a master strategist in combat who has had over five thousands of years of experience in using his powers and skills in combat situations, making full use of his shape-changing abilities, his great size, physical strength, and his resistance to physical injury along with his powerful energy manipulative abilities allowing him to single handily hold his own and even defeat entire groups of powerful superhumans such as the X-Men in combat.
Equipment
Cybernetic Armor: Apocalypse's armor is cybernetically grafted and bonded to his body and can be physically altered at will as the armor itself is a physical part of Apocalypse's body. Apocalypse's armor contains different types of devices including a teleportation device in cause Apocalypse is unable to teleport under his own power, psychic damping arrays’, and sensors so beings who are capable of invisibility won’t be able to evade detection as Apocalypse’s sensors are powerful enough to allow Apocalypse to see even the High Evolutionary while he was invisible and can even see past Uatu the Watcher's cloaking field and can also withstand the godly might of Thor.
Several of Apocalypse's bases have a rejuvenation chamber called the Lazarus Chamber
which will strengthen and revive his ever-growing powers if weakened and Apocalypse will also have his physical body cloned in case his body is ever destroyed beyond repair. Apparently Apocalypse's Celestial technology (which is said to be far more advance than the bits of Shi‘ar equipment belonging to the X-Men) is capable of manipulating the genes of mutants giving them altogether new abilities or augmenting the powers they already possess (The process does have the effect of warping the minds of the subjects to more of Apocalypse's way of thinking) Apocalypse has used this method on many of his Horsemen and on Exodus. If necessary, the Celestial technology in his ship and many bases around the world will heal Apocalypse from any state including from death itself, by bringing him back to life. Apocalypse also has access to other forms of alien technology including from the Skrulls and the Badoon as well as other various alien sources as well. Apocalypse's technology is so advanced that one of his robots has shown being able to teleported into the Fantastic Four's headquarters undetected, hack into their computer, steal information and leave without being detected and Apocalypse has used his technology in attempt to drain Loki’s magical energy. Apocalypse even possesses technology that can not only allow time travel, but can even open rifts in reality itself.
Transportation
Various Celestial-technology based ships that are also composed of other unearthly materials that Apocalypse used to build his ships such as alien technology from the Skrulls and the Badoon as well as other various alien sources along with the Celestial technology. Apocalypse’s ships contain camouflaging systems to avoid detection and will also react instantly upon attack. Apocalypse once employed the spaceship now known as Prosh.
Apocalypse is capable of flying and traveling under the use of his own powers, by either using his shape shifting and technopathy powers combined in order to form working mechanical wings or rocket propelled booster jets, or by willing himself to fly through the use of his telekinetic powers. Apocalypse can also teleport himself in order to travel and cover over vast distances across the entire planet within much less time. Even though he can teleport himself, Apocalypse has used a teleportation device such as the time when he was almost killed by Stryfe after being awakened too early from his regeneration process.
Weapons
No known weapons. Assuming various Celestial-technology based weaponry. Apocalypse can also shape his limbs into various weapons.
Personality And Origins
Characterizations of Apocalypse’s personality have varied throughout the years as his personality has changed in small subtle ways from story to story and depending on the writers. However, Apocalypse is almost always universally portrayed as a being of almost limitless malice who sees the weak simply deserving death and contempt while viewing those of strength and aggression as those who should survive. In his initial appearances, Apocalypse was depicted as a mutant supremacist, however over time Apocalypse slowly became more of a character with concerns of the continuing evolution of humankind and Mutantkind and how it must progress over time. Apocalypse has tested mankind over the thousands of years of his life to provide his own form of natural selection, culling the weak from the strong in order for humanity to grow stronger. Apocalypse is sometimes portrayed as a malevolent and megalomaniacal despot, bent on conquering the world as the self-considered fittest. Apocalypse has often been seen as a cruel, vicious, ruthless, sadistic, and masochistic monster appearing to be emotionless and extremely cruel as he is among the most brutal of the X-Men‘s enemies to the point where Apocalypse would kill members of the Clan Akkaba for even asking for help while each member were blood related descendants of himself. It has even been stated that Apocalypse is history’s most notorious villain as even the High Evolutionary has said that Apocalypse is a villain of the first order.
Before he started calling himself Apocalypse. En Sabah Nur was born sometime in the mid-30th century BC Egypt during the First Dynasty. Due to being born with gray skin and a somewhat disfigured face. His original parents along with the rest of the settlement of Akkaba believed that his face was a sign of doom and that he was a demon. Leaving him to die in the harsh desert sun. When the Sandstormers slaughtered the settlement of Akkaba and found him. The leader Baal took him in believe the child had the potential to be a god naming the child “En Sabah Nur”; Apocalypse’s real name. As En Sabah Nur grew it became clear that in terms of intelligence and physical strength he surpassed the other tribesmen. Because of this and his inhuman appearance every member of his trible aside from his step-father both hated and feared which was something En Sabah Nur did not understand. Never the less hardened his heart against it as En Sabah Nur along with everyone else in his tribe believed and lived by the principle that only the fittest, toughest, most ruthless and pitiless, tested by hardship, would and should, survive. After the day of his tribal rite of passage into manhood, the seventeen-year-old En Sabah Nur killed three armed warriors of the tribe using only his bare hands, his step father died due to the indirect actions of Ozymandias the Pharaoh’s warlord. He clamed on his dying breathe that he believed that En Sabah Nur was a destined to over throw the Pharaoh “King Rama-Tut“ who was really a time traveler from between 30th to the 40th century. En Sabah Nur was determine to kill both Rama-Tut and his warlord, Ozymandias, for their part in Baal death.
While acting as a slave, En Sabah Nur kept his disfigured lips constantly covered and Nephri, sister of Ozymandias, became attracted to the mysterious slave and became En Sabah Nur first love. However after being caught by King Rama-Tut’s men. Rama-Tut forced En Sabah Nur to take off his covers and show his face to Nephri who rejected him. Even after saving her. Nephri still rejected him many times over for her superstitious beliefs that he was a demon from the underworld due to his inhuman appearance and powers and even asking the guards to kill him for his appearance. despite the fact that he had saved her life. En Sabah Nur rejected her too and took on the name Apocalypse. He later saw Nephri again after fifty years, at her deathbed, as he came back to mock her for losing her beauty and that her end come closer every moment while Apocalypse remained unchanged.
Over thousands of years, Apocalypse has traveled the planet starting countless wars and conflicts in his quest of winnowing out the weak from the strong in which the strong would defeat and destroy the weak in his belief that only the strong should survive and rule while believing that he was the strongest as Apocalypse has even stated that “Peace does nothing to test -- to INCREASE -- mutants' strength. To force them to evolve into the strong”. Apocalypse has also been worshiped by many civilizations, under a variety of names and he even created his own cult known as the Clan Akkaba that was made up of his many blood related descendants who lived by the creed “survival of the fittest” whose members would deceive, betray and even kill their own relations merely to be deemed closest to Apocalypse giving he or she control of leadership of the clan in Apocalypse‘s place when absence or in hibernation. Apocalypse also found group of fanatics devoted to the Darwinian ideals that the strong should inherit the Earth while the weak should be culled forming them to be his own private army known as the Riders of the Dark.
Due to his long life lifespan, his travels across the planet, and his access to his vast technologies including the Celestial technology he possesses. Apocalypse seems to possesses a large degree of knowledge over other aspects of the planet’s history that most of the general public or populace of Earth are unaware of as Apocalypse has some history of having fought the race of godlike immortals known as the Eternals, primarily Ikaris and Sersi as he as been referred by them as their "Ancient Nemesis". Apocalypse also fought against Thor on two different occasions during 1013 AD; the last of which was when he tried to kill Wolverine’s ancestor “Folkbern Logan” In 1861 Apocalypse single-handedly killed an entire tribe of N’Garai demons before the members of the Clan of Akkaba. In 1459; Apocalypse and his forces once battled against Vlad Tepes (Vlad the Impaler) and would later battle against him again in 1897 along side with Abraham Van Helsing, when Vlad would be known as Dracula, who was seeking revenge against Apocalypse and his clan. In 2620BC. Apocalypse along with the original Moon Knight and Imhotep joined forces in order to form the first incarnation of S.H.I.E.L.D. in order to successfully fend off a alien, Brood invasion, it is hinted that Apocalypse has some connection to the Weapon X Project and Department H as he may have had his hand in the creation/desimination of the formula to create Adamantium and/or the bonding to bone process and he even has some knowledge of Wolverine’s life, and Apocalypse even has a history with Uatu the Watcher whom he has known of for over two thousand years.
As stated Apocalypse has a strong belief in survival of the fittest that has made him a very complex foe. Although Apocalypse was born over 5,000 years ago he waited till the mid 20th century to attempt to conquer the world as he viewed the world as being weak and not worthy to be ruled by him and so waited till there would be more mutants on the planet. Even when seemingly defeated, his plans have meant that even a loss is a victory; as in his first encounter with the X-Men, when the mutant team had defeated his Alliance of Evil, Apocalypse, much to Cyclops' confusion, displayed satisfaction, stating that they had done well and that their "assistance" has been invaluable and he will find them again when he needs their help in winnowing out the weak as the conflict was really just a test to see how powerful they were and if they were worthy to someday be ruled by him. Due to believing in strength. Apocalypse has shown to admire his servants when they are standing up to him; as his former Horseman Archangel had come to his senses, refusing to serve Apocalypse any longer and attacking him, Apocalypse only responded saying "Excellent! Strong in mind, as well as body!" As well as Apocalypse did not kill Sinister upon learning of his treachery, but forgave him, seeing Sinister's defiance as a act of strength, although Apocalypse did worn him that it would not be tolerated again.
Apocalypse does not engage in physical confrontation often preferring to manipulate beings to fight on his behalf in order to prove themselves through by their loyalty or their strength, and as well as manipulate the events behind-the-scenes as he has even said that he prefers to play the role of the grand manipulator and hates being played as a pawn. Apocalypse regularly cultivates religious awe, devotion, and loyalty in followers who he uses to carry out his will. He has established followers, worshipers, high priests and descendants in groups such as Clan Akkaba. His servants, often named the "Four Horsemen of Apocalypse" (after a passage from the Book of Revelation from the New Testament) typically serve Apocalypse with religious fervour.
Apocalypse has little to no respect for humans as their only important role in life was to create mutants to replace them and Apocalypse has even said that humans are the natural enemies of mutants and that it is his duty as one of the first to save mutant kind. Although their his enemies, Apocalypse does have a high degree of respect for the X-Men and the X-Factor for their strength, skill, power and their loyalty towards Charles Xavier and his belief that humans and mutants could live together in peace as Apocalypse has offered them the chance for them to join him many times. However Apocalypse has no respect for their belief that humans and mutants could live to together in peace as Apocalypse believes that mutants could never achieve true peace with humans as they would send mutants to camps, exterminate mutants, or force mutants to become living weapons for humans in wars against each other and even if there could be true peace between mutants and humans. Apocalypse believes that peace with humans would only slow mutant kind’s growth and make them weak as Apocalypse deems humans no longer fit to survive.
Out of all the X-Men; most of Apocalypse’s respect goes towards Warren Worthington III also known as Angel or Archangel; his former horsemen due to the strength of mind or will it took for him to break out of Apocalypse’s control and the strength of will at times when Warren Worthington III wanted nothing more but to kill Apocalypse yet at very few times he could have he didn‘t cause he either needed his help for his friends or in order to keep his humanity. Apocalypse has even clamed multiple times that Angel or Archangel was his greatest or favourite horsemen going far enough to call Warren his son and has stated to have such pride in Warren that after Apocalypse died at one point Warren became Apocalypse’s heir.
As Apocalypse's goal and motivations have been depicted differently throughout the years from writer to writer. Most incarnations simply depict him as a malovent and power-hungry tyrant, bent on enslaving the world. However in his first appearances, Apocalypse was written as a Messiah-like character, with no desire of simply ruling the world, but of making it a stronger place; wanting what he considered the best for humanity and mutant-kind, achieved through brutal and barbaric ways and believe he was strong enough to lead. It has even been stated that although Apocalypse would like to rule the world it was never his true intent and was just determined to assume the role of caretaker to his fellow mutants and apparently has little to no object to dying as long as he dies by an honourable battle. Apocalypse also has a large degree of patience as he has said that some of his plans he has spent hundreds of years planning. This is mostly due to not only Apocalypse being immortal, but also knowing that there are many alternate realities and possible future time lines where he has won at the end. It is because of this that the X-Men and their allies are to him pawns in a game that he will ultimately win.
Apocalypse does seem to have his own form of honour of which he would keep his word and repay others for helping him such as when he kept his word to cure Charles Xavier of a Techno-Organic Virus in order to save his life. When Apocalypse beat 6 of the X-Men, he didn’t kill them as believed that to kill a enemy while being unconscious is unseemly and unhonourable.
Apocalypse seem to enjoy whatever form of pain he feels as of one time Apocalypse awoke from his rejuvenation chamber way too early and what Apocalypse felt was described as “Every step was pain, the slightest gesture was agony, muscles were rended and bones were breaking, only to be reset and broken again, and having withered lungs strive unsuccessfully to separate the air from the blood and bile”. Because Apocalypse was feeling all that, Apocalypse described himself of being happier than he had been in over a 1,000 years. The reason why Apocalypse felt this way is because Apocalypse believes that the secret to life is not living, but surviving which he has spent his whole lifetime believing. That conflict strengthens and is always eager to prove that he is strong.
Apocalypse could be classified as a Transhumanist, but he should not be classified as only or principally a Transhumanist. "Transhumanism is an emergent philosophy analyzing or favouring the use of science and technology, especially neurotechnology, biotechnology, and nanotechnology, to overcome human limitations and improve the human condition."
Apocalypse is also an extreme Social Darwinist whose belief in "survival of the fittest" is central to his worldview and goals. Apocalypse desires to use eugenics to cull and thus "improve" the human race. Apocalypse has clearly practiced Transhumanist principles to improve himself, but he seems less keen on using Transhumanist ideas to transform humanity. He seems to favour radical eugenics as a means of reshaping all of humanity.
Perhaps one could say that Apocalypse passed through a strongly Transhumanist phase himself by which he achieved immense power and a sort of "perfection." Having done this, he desires to impose his Darwinist ideal of human perfection or greatness on all of humanity, through whatever means are necessary. Social Darwinism may now be his principle motivational philosophy (i.e., his "religion"😉. In saying this, one should keep in mind that the Social Darwinian beliefs of Apocalypse were certainly never taught by Charles Darwin himself and are no more "scientific" or "rational" than were the eugenics programs of the Nazis.
In his latest appearances sometime after M Day, Apocalypse's personality did changed a little as Apocalypse saw a need to act as the saviour of the mutant race for once rather than just claim it and he displayed some benevolence, feeling too many mutants have needlessly died, and hesitating to unleash his Horseman Pestilence to wipe out all of humanity.
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