As Warren notes, Apocalypse's willingness to sacrifice anything or commit any heinous action will lead his children to turn against him as the ultimate end of his sins.
As a father, it is clear that Apocalypse cares about the mutants under his care, as his recent mentorship of Rictor suggests. However, as one who has lived for thousands of years, he is also consumed with his long-term plans for the future that motivate all of his actions.
After raising Rictor up, he then used him as a pivotal piece in his betrayal of the Externals. By giving all of his power and wisdom to his children, Apocalypse also sets the path for his downfall, when his actions inevitably come to catch up with him.
Ultimately, this warped devotion to his children makes Apocalypse all the more sympathetic and even more terrifying. In the past, he has worked as an English tutor and as a staff member for a literary journal. He has also been consulted as a "Marvel Expert" for local television on multiple occasions. We've got a new baddy for the good guys to take down in this upcoming X-Men film, but what do you know of him? I go over not only his awesome powers and near indestructibility, but also ways in the comics this main man was beaten or killed.
I guess you could say there are potential spoilers in the case that I am right, so bear that in mind. I have in no way seen this film before May 27th. Without fully explaining his origins as Ancient Egypt's first mutant who became combined with alien tech, Apocalypse is a staunch believer of Survival of the Fittest.
He sees mutant-kind as the next evolutionary step for mankind but makes little distinction in his potential world-ending schemes and plot to wipe out the weak. Actually, he's far more interested in killing the weak rather than promoting the strong. Apocalypse's powers range greatly. Largely, he can control every cell in his body down to a molecular level, allowing himself to grow and shrink to whatever size, as well as change his body into various weapons from blades to laser weaponry, to creating jet engines to fly with or resemble another human.
In a way for those unfamiliar with the comics, Apocalypse is like the futuristic Sentinels from Days of Future Past. With this control, he can even outmatch the Hulk in physical strength. He's proven to manipulate and absorb different kinds of energy projections, can teleport, has some sort of psionic ability, and is literally ageless.
He can also bolster and improve other mutant abilities. He suffers from a condition that he shares with the character Cable that destroys his body, forcing him to find new host bodies.
A lot of his powers are derived from alien technology, making him otherworldly even among mutants. As with most popular comic villains, Apocalypse gets beaten miraculously and comes back to menace again and again. It should be noted that Apocalypse was seen alive before this. After a long healing slumber, Apocalypse, fully restored, awakens with Ozymandias at his side and quickly learns of the present danger: Onslaught.
He observes the conflict between the psionic entity and Earth's heroes with Uatu the Watcher, who suggests to Apocalypse a course of action; an alliance with the one who hated him the most, Cable. Apocalypse surmises that Onslaught would be most vulnerable through the astral plane, and that he needs Cable for actual physical transportation to this realm.
Once on the astral plane, Apocalypse would remove the captive Franklin Richards, greatly weakening Onslaught. The plan succeeds, but is interrupted by the Invisible Woman, who had invisibly accompanied the pair, having suspected Apocalypse's motive in wanting to actually kill her son. However, the reprieve in battle gave Onslaught the time to escape, prolonging the conflict. Following the events of the Onslaught saga, the gamma-spawned powerhouse, the Hulk and his human alter ego, Banner, are split into two separate entities; Hulk now draws upon energy derived from Franklin Richards' pocket universe; Apocalypse recruits the Hulk to become his Horseman, War, with intentions of using the Hulk's nexus-energy to overcome the Celestials.
To test this newest recruit, Apocalypse set War against the New World Order, a shadow cabinet organization that intends to conquer the world. However, Hulk comes to his senses after injuring his friend, Rick Jones. Despite this apparent setback, the incident was still a victory for Apocalypse as it was a successful testing of newly understood Celestial technology. Apocalypse activates the self-destruct mechanism on the sword of War, which the New World Order had obtained, destroying their headquarters.
The Hellfire Club later awakens Apocalypse's long-hidden Harbinger from its deep sleep; originally a normal man, whom Apocalypse in the 19th century once left to incubate for years.
Apocalypse releases his Horseman Caliban and his scribe Ozymandias from his possession, to fend for themselves, if they were to survive the coming events. Cable with the Avengers battles the Harbinger, but are unable to stop it. Apocalypse then appears, activating a bomb inside the Harbinger which would destroy all of New York, but Cable manages to prevent this disaster. When Magneto is disrupting Earth's magnetic field, Apocalypse sends a Skrull impersonating the mutant Astra having dealt with the original Astra to stop the Master of Magnetism.
Intending to start an all-out war between the humans and the subterranean-dwelling Deviants as part of his plan to test the strong, Apocalypse sets off nuclear warheads at Lemuria, causing the Deviants to further mutate which also restores Ikaris's father Virako to life. Apocalypse launches an attack at San Francisco, using a mentally controlled Deviant, Karkas, now a gigantic monster, that the Eternals are forced to battle. Apocalypse is confronted by his centuries-old foe, Ikaris, who now is a Prime Eternal.
Although, Apocalypse defeats Ikaris, the Eternal still succeeds in destroying his ship and thwarting his plan. Supposedly lost diaries of the mutant seer Destiny surfaced, telling of twelve beings that could defeat Apocalypse once and for all.
Various mutants, all listed in the prophecy, are abducted by Apocalypse's Horsemen including a faction of the Skrulls. The Twelve legend was in fact a ruse, orchestrated by Apocalypse himself; once the Twelve are assembled, Apocalypse intended to use them to transform himself into a godlike entity beyond the Celestials.
It is revealed at the end of this story arc, that Apocalypse's physical form has been burned out due to the vast amount of energies he has under his control, forcing him to wear a bio-armor like his future counterpart , and now plans to use Nate Grey as a host body for him to move his energy and consciousness into. The X-Men confront Apocalypse as he is close to merging with Nate, but are unable to stop him.
Cyclops however, pushes Nate Grey out of the way, merging with Apocalypse instead. While the merge is successful, Apocalypse's aim for unlimited power is not, and he attempts to complete the transformation by warping reality into various scenarios see Ages of Apocalypse. Apocalypse hoped to lull the Twelve into empowering him with their energy, but eventually, the mutants realize their true predicament and Apocalypse teleports away. An amnesiac and powerless Cyclops regains control of the merged form, but Apocalypse begins to re-emerge.
Jean and Cable are alerted to his location in Egypt, where Jean in the end manages to free Cyclops by telepathically tearing out Apocalypse's essence from her husband's body, rendering Apocalypse in an incorporeal astral form, which Cable apparently destroys using his Psimitar.
Due to the events of M-Day, in which most of the mutants lost their powers, Apocalypse was revealed to be alive and well. The techno-organic virus, with which he long ago infected Cable, was revealed to be the means by which Apocalypse's spirit reconstituted itself. With only a drop of his blood into a vat of organs and blood, the virus would rewrite the genetic code of the material within to form a body for Apocalypse. Apocalypse awakes from a slumber in a tomb in Akkaba.
Apocalypse finds himself in a world with its mutant population reduced to a fraction of what it had been, only a few hundred remaining out of the millions who populated earth prior to his demise at Cable's hands.
Reappearing inside a Sphinx-shaped ship, Apocalypse confronts the X-Men with his newly assembled cadre of Horsemen on the front lawn of the X-Mansion. The Horseman Famine uses his powers to cause an intense feeling of hunger and weakness in the mutants and humans on the institute grounds. Apocalypse offers the mutants an elixir; his own blood, provided they join his side.
Bent on becoming the new messiah for mutant-kind, Apocalypse approaches the world leaders at the United Nations in New York and issues an ultimatum: humanity would destroy ninety percent of its own population, putting man and mutant on level ground in anticipation of the final conflict when the worthy alone would survive - or Apocalypse would unleash his meta-plague on the world and obliterate all humanity.
In the end, Apocalypse's horsemen are lost, Ozymandias betrays him, and he is forced to retreat by combined assault of the X-Men and the Avengers. How do you defeat Apocalypse? How do you kill him? Neither is very easy. It is actually not entirely clear if he can be completely killed as in typical comicbook fashion he tends to come back to life.
Apocalypse has been shown going toe to toe with all of the X-Men and X-Force combined.
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