Apocalypse appears inX-Men: The Animated Series, voiced byJohn Colicos in the first two seasons andJames Blendick for the remainder of the series.[1] This version is an immortal and invincible megalomaniac who seeks to purge the world of humanity and mutants before remaking it in his image and possesses the additional ability to enlarge himself. Throughout the series, he makes several attempts to instigate a war between humanity and mutants while his subordinateMystique brainwashes select mutants to become hisHorsemen, only to be foiled by the X-Men,Archangel, and the time-travellersBishop andCable throughout the first three seasons. In the four-part fourth season finale "Beyond Good and Evil", Cable destroys Apocalypse's Lazarus Chamber, the source of his immortality, but Apocalypse ends up in the Axis of Time and sets out to achieve godhood and destroy time. Despite being foiled byProfessor X and the universe's most powerful psychics, Apocalypse ends up in the astral plane and eventually reincarnates himself inFabian Cortez's body in the fifth season.
Apocalypse appears inX-Men: Evolution, voiced byDavid Kaye.[1] This version was abandoned as a baby before he was found byBaal's tribe of bandits, named "En Sabah Nur", and grew up to become a powerful warrior. After the PharaohRama-Tut learned of Nur's power and slaughtered the bandits, Nur's full powers manifested, leading to him killing Rama-Tut's forces, renaming himself "Apocalypse", and taking the pharaoh's pyramid-like vessel and a device within it called the Eye of Ages. Using it to empower himself further, he intended to use it turn all humans on Earth into mutants, but was sealed in the vessel by his high priests for fear of his power. In the present, Apocalypse makes telepathic contact withMesmero and tasks the latter with freeing him. Eventually, Mesmero succeeds in freeing Apocalypse, who fuses with the vessel's futuristic technology, convertsMagneto, Professor X,Storm, and Mystique into his Horsemen, and re-sets about fulfilling his plan. Ultimately, theX-Men, theBrotherhood of Bayville, andS.H.I.E.L.D. join forces to stop him, free his thralls, and send him far from Earth.
En Sabah Nur / Apocalypse appears inX-Men: Apocalypse, portrayed byOscar Isaac via a combination of extensive makeup and costuming coupled with practical and visual effects.[4][5][2][3][6][7][8] This version emerged in Egypt during theStone Age and developed technology that allow him to live forever by transferring his essence into the bodies of others, especially mutants, whose abilities he amassed with each transference. Throughout history, he has been worshiped as various gods such asRa,Krishna, andYahweh despite earning a reputation for destruction following in his wake. After transferring himself to a mutant with a healing factor during theBronze Age, Apocalypse was sealed by rebels. AfterMoira MacTaggert accidentally awakens him in the 1980s, he recruitsStorm,Psylocke,Archangel, andMagneto to serve as hisHorsemen before setting out to create a world where only the strong survive, only to be foiled byCharles Xavier and hisX-Men and killed byJean Grey via thePhoenix Force.[9]
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