Apocalypse’s Surprising Powers Revealed in X-Men: Apocalypse Featurette

Twentieth Century Fox has released a new featurette revealing the history and powers of X-Men: Apocalypse villain En Sabah Nur.

The movie Apocalypse is a being that possesses other mutants in order to extend his life across generations. In doing so, he gains the powers of whatever mutant he possesses and then carries those powers with him when he transfers into his next host.

This is a departure from the Apocalypse of the Marvel Comics, who is a single, ancient mutant. While he doesn’t absorb mutant powers, he does have a variety of abilities, all explained by his base power of cellular awareness. He also contingency plans in place involving clones that would take his place if the original were to die, plans that were foiled by Wolverine’s team in the pages of Uncanny X-Force.

Since the dawn of civilization, he was worshiped as a god. Apocalypse, the first and most powerful mutant from Marvel’s X-Men universe, amassed the powers of many other mutants, becoming immortal and invincible. Upon awakening after thousands of years, he is disillusioned with the world as he finds it and recruits a team of powerful mutants, including a disheartened Magneto (Michael Fassbender), to cleanse mankind and create a new world order, over which he will reign. As the fate of the Earth hangs in the balance, Raven (Jennifer Lawrence) with the help of Professor X (James McAvoy) must lead a team of young X-Men to stop their greatest nemesis and save mankind from complete destruction.

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