Age of Apocalypse
The Age of Apocalypse is an event that features in Marvel Comics.
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History
The Age of Apocalypse was an alternate timeline that diverted into a world in the Multiverse that was designated as Earth-295. It was created by mutant when one of their number named Legion traveled into the past of Earth-616 and accidentally slew his own father, Professor Charles Xavier. With the power of mutants revealed prematurely, Apocalypse chose to strike early, raising a mutant army and eventually conquering North America. The X-Men were led by Magneto in memory of his murdered friend, and acted as a resistance group against Apocalypse's rule; other mutants, mutant groups, and superheroes all took on radically different roles in this universe. Eventually, the timeline was undone thanks to Bishop, one of the few who had travelled back to try to stop Legion in his first attempt; after surviving to the present day, Bishop travelled back in time again and stabbed Legion with the mutant's own psychic knife. Legion died, seeing what his actions would have caused, and the Age of Apocalypse was undone.
The worlds X-Men came to rescue a ragged and mentally fractured Lucas Bishop, the sole individual whose unique chronal nature allowed him to retain memories of the true timeline. Bishop ranted about the timeline being 'wrong', which prompted Magneto and his wife Rogue to probe his fractured mind. Through this, they learned the truth about their reality and the possibility of restoring the original timeline by sending Bishop back in time to prevent Xavier's death. As a result, Magneto assigned his X-Men teams to various missions to gather the forces needed to fix history in the hope of saving both human and mutantkind from Apocalypse's tyrannical reign and an approaching M'Kraan Crystal wave. (X-Men: Alpha v1 #1)
When Jean Grey returned to the Breeding Pens to emancipate the prisoners before the High Council's nuclear strike, the Brain Trust detected her presence and attempted to shut her down. However, she opened the floodgates of her mind, overpowering them and freeing the prisoners from their mental haze in one decisive telepathic stroke. (Factor-X v1 #1)
When Weapon X and Jean Grey assaulted the Section Five Sensor Control Center, deep underwater off the Eastern seaboard, they encountered a Balrog-Class Meta-Cyborg in the bowels of the facility. The vat-spawn had a tentacle up on Weapon X until Jean smacked it with a psionic blast, causing it to recoil back into the crevices from which it came. (Weapon X v1 #1)
Only a few survived that universe's end, including the evil Holocaust, Dark Beast and Sugar Man, as well as the heroic X-Man (who meshed with the M'Kraan Crystal) and Blink.
Overview
On this world, a member of the Human High Council named Bolivar Trask constructed the Sentinels to defend humanity from the threat of Apocalypse. Early prototypes were manufactured in Africa and were sent to defend Wakanda from Apocalypse's genetic culling, leading to a clash with the X-Men in the process. (X-Men: Age of Apocalypse One Shot v1 #1)
The Brain Trust were an assembly of artificially-grown disembodied telepathic brains, was kept in vitro to act as gatekeepers for the Breeding Pens. The Trust now physically anesthetizes the Pen prisoners, suppressing any thoughts of escape or insurrection. (Factor-X v1 #1)
One creation of Mister Sinister in this reality were the Balrog-class Meta-Cyborgs. They were grown in the artificial womb of Mister Sinister's largest processing tanks, the Balrog-Class Meta-Cyborgs lurk in the deepest levels of Apocalypse's sea wall defense facilities. These genetic abominations were dozens of feet tall and teem with even more deadly tentacles. (Weapon X v1 #1)
Participants
- Apocalypse :
- Mister Sinister : Because Apocalypse's provocation of nuclear war directly jeopardized Sinister's ambitions of furthering mutant evolution, Sinister plotted to dethrone him. To that end he created Nate Grey, by splicing DNA from Scott Summers and Jean Grey in a secret lab -- a telepath powerful enough to rival Apocalypse himself. Sinister continued to monitor Nate's progress, even after he escaped the lab...waiting for the right moment to enact his coup. (X-Men: Alpha v1 #1)
- Cyclops : Scott Summers and his brother Alex were separated from their parents as children when their plane crashed and they jettisoned to safety. Mister Sinister found the orphaned alpha-level mutants and raised them to become prelates. A fearless leader with the power to direct concussive energy blasts from his eyes, Scott is now the EMF Commander -- much to his jealous brother's displeasure. After losing an eye battling Weapon X over the fate of his prisoner Jean Grey, Scott began to question Apocalypse's extreme mandates. Scarred by the encounter in more ways than one, the prelate decided to help prisoners escape. In the final days of Apocalypse's reign, he sprung Jean from the Beast's clutches, and the two emancipated the Breeding Pen prisoners. (X-Men: Alpha v1 #1)
- Havok :
- Colossus :
- Magneto :
- Weapon X :
- Sabretooth :
- Holocaust :
- Dark Beast :
- Sugar Man :
- Quietus : the head of security at the Core -- a power plant and internment camp for human slaves -- Quietus possesses an imposing stature and a predilection for depravities. Pitiless and lethal, he serves as Sugar Man's chief administrator. When Generation Next infiltrated the Core, Quietus caught Husk posing as a prostitute by exposing her to a chemical that makes mutants violently ill. Proud of himself for foiling the assassination attempt, he celebrated with a drink -- unaware that the liquor he consumed was actually Vincente Cimetta in liquid form. (Generation Next v1 #2)
- Blink :
- X-Man :
- Prophet :
Notes
- The Age of Apocalypse was created by Fabian Nicieza, Andy Kubert and Ron Garney where it made its first appearance in X-Men v2 #40 (November, 1994).
Alternate Versions
- In Giant-Size Little Marvel: AVX v1 #1 (2015), an alternate version of the Age of Apocalypse appeared in the Batteworld realm of the Domain of Apocalypse that existed in the reality designated Earth-15513 in the Multiverse.
In other media
Television
Films
- In Deadpool & Wolverine, the Age of Apocalypse made a cameo appearance in the setting of the live-action film. With his world facing elimination, Deadpool had to find a Wolverine to help him to stop the Time Variance Authority from pruning his reality. To that end, he travelled the Multiverse to find a living version of Logan for the task with one seemingly being the Age of Apocalypse. Its Wolverine though came to attack Deadpool and he was forced to look elsewhere for another candidate.
Video games
Appearances
- X-Men v2: (1994)
- X-Men: Alpha v1:
External Links
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