History Characters / MarvelComicsApocalypse

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Him deciding to head home with Genesis after X of Swords causes a great deal of problems for Krakoa. Destiny takes his seat and without Apocalypse there to keep Krakoa focused on the big picture (alongside Magneto and Xavier), the council starts to become more and more obsessed with infighting.

%%** As of ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015'' and ''ComicBook/Xmen92'', his last known Horsemen were [[RoboticPsychopath Bastion]], [[KnightTemplar Exodus]], ComicBook/{{Mystique}} and Senator Kelly.

** [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] by a few [[AllThereInTheManual supplementary sources]] back in the 90s; they listed his mutant power as the ability to alter his own biology on a subatomic level. Since this would include being able to alter his own DNA at will and [[AllYourPowersCombined mutant powers are genetic]], [[SuperpowerLottery well]]...
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Whether by accident or design, a lot of his attempts to recruit new horsemen end with him helping the heroes in the end, such as him rebonding Wolverine's adamantium skeleton, regenerating Sunfire's legs and restoring ComicBook/{{Polaris}}'s sanity. Sometimes he at least has the sense to add in a touch of BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor, as was the case with the 'improved' wings he granted to Angel when remaking him as Archangel.

* {{Mutant|s}}: One of the first mutants born, though definitely not the first as he often claims his fellow Externals Selene, Krule, Nicodemus, Saul, White Sword --- as well as their fellow mutant Azazel (''Nightcrawler's biological father'', who while so far not yet confirmed to also be an External, is still physically immortal like them, such that he even managed to ascend to becoming an actual hell-lord through millennia of human fear from him pretending to be the Devil) --- are confirmed to indeed be much older, originating from the Hyborian Age, c. 15,000 BC or so. Apocalypse was born about 12,000 years later in Ancient Egypt. The combination of both his Celestial-gifted PoweredArmor and his Celestial techno-organic-viral augmentation makes it difficult to gauge which of his abilities derive from his own natural genetic mutation and which are artificial enhancements/additions.

%%** As of ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015'' and ''ComicBook/Xmen92'', his last known Horsemen were [[RoboticPsychopath Bastion]], [[KnightTemplar Exodus]], ComicBook/{{Mystique}} and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Senator Kelly]].

** Apocalypse is feared by even high-tier supernatural monsters like [[ComicBook/TheTombOfDracula Dracula]] - though Apocalypse has a certain wariness of Dracula in turn, since Dracula very nearly succeeded in killing him in the 1890s. ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'s wife Shiklah tried to attack Evan (En Sabah Nur's clone) when she thought she saw the real deal reborn.

** To Exodus, Mister Sinister, Bishop, Stryfe, ComicBook/{{Sabretooth}}, ''{{Dracula}}'' and even ''ComicBook/{{Loki}}'' at one point. He frequently pulls this, but puny lesser villains keep thinking they can take him and have to find out the hard way how wrong they are.

* HeelFaceTurn: Astonishingly pulls one off in ''ComicBook/XMen2019'', in which he willingly submits to Charles Xavier after Krakoa becomes a safe haven for all Mutants.

*** This comes back to bite him in the ass big-time when his own direct descendants (who by the late 19th Century have dwindled to just a dozen or so survivors in Victorian-era London after being massacred by THE Count Dracula himself) have finally gotten so sick and too tired and of his callous apathy to their plight, as well as the millenia of lifelong abuse from his own personal version of “Tiger Parenting” that they willingly defect to the other side by accepting Dracula’s offer for them to become vampires , and they then turn on their own actual ancestor, very nearly defeating him once and for all.

* SuperpowerfulGenetics: The Clan Akkaba, entirely composed of his genetic descendants, often have powers. Presumably, following their cult to his beliefs, they subjugate (if not cull outright) any muggles. Most of them inherit his VoluntaryShapeshifting ability, especially his descendant Hamilton Slade, whose younger brother Frederick Slade meanwhile had natural pink hair coloration and teleportation ability (with the same sound effect even) of his distant great-something grand-daughter, Blink. Three known direct descendants have PlayingWithFire powers; Chamber/Jonathan Starsmore is a paychic semi-{{Energy Being|s}} half-contained in a physical human shell, his own distant great-something grandfather Jack Starsmore (a first cousin of the Slade brothers) can breath fire, and Apocalypse himself has a bastard son with his teenage horseman Autumn Rolfson, his most decent offspring and youngest child , William Rolfson , whose bionuclear microwave powers turned him into effectively a flaming skeleton (requiring a lifesupport suit of armor) upon hitting puberty.

** Turns out he didn’t always believe this. When he started a family on Okkara thousands of years ago, he thought of a peaceful family life on the living island was his [[EarnYourHappyEnding was his happy ending after the hardships of his youth]] and wanted nothing to do with war. His wife however thought otherwise. Even now, he only thought of war as a nececarry means to make Mutantkind strong and reunite with his family.

* WhiteSheep: Yep. As bad as Apocalypse is, his wife, children, and sister in law are far more bloodthirsty, war hungry and Darwinist to the point that they consider him soft.

!!En Sabah Nur / Apocalypse