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X-Men: Apocalypse. Movie review by S. Jhoanna Robledo , Common Sense Media. Popular with kids Parents recommend. Superhero-size violence, fab effects in '80s-set threequel. PG minutes. Rate movie. Watch or buy. Based on 17 reviews. Based on 56 reviews. Get it now Searching for streaming and purchasing options Common Sense is a nonprofit organization. Your purchase helps us remain independent and ad-free.

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Continue reading Show less. Stay up to date on new reviews. Get full reviews, ratings, and advice delivered weekly to your inbox. User Reviews Parents say Kids say. 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. Ultimately, it is discovered that the Celestials lent their technology to Apocalypse, requiring as payment greater sufferings later.

He attempts to embrace death as an escape from his lifelong pact, only to find himself instantly resurrected and hearing a voice: " We cannot let you die. Not yet. It is time Apocalypse… it is time ". In the future of Messiah War, a heavily weakened Apocalypse is attacked and thought to be killed by the combined power of Stryfe and Bishop.

It is worthy to note that Stryfe and Bishop were more powerful than they have ever been. Although they inflicted much damage upon him, he apparently survives the attack. Afterward, he somehow contacts Archangel in the future and begs him to kill him. Archangel refuses and instead hands over some of his techno organic wing blades to him, telling Apocalypse he no longer holds any control over him.

Somehow, contact with the wing blades rejuvenate Apocalypse and he offers to join forces with Archangel to kill Stryfe who is on the verge of killing X-Force, Cable, Bishop and Hope Summers. Archangel takes Apocalypse to a Celestial ship, where Apocalypse is then fully restored and wants to avenge what Stryfe did to him. Just as Stryfe is on the verge of taking Hope for himself, Apocalypse and Archangel arrive.

Despite all his power, Stryfe is no match for the now fully-restored Apocalypse and is easily defeated. He turns his attention to Hope, but Archangel demands that he release her back into Cable's care as payment for saving him. Apocalypse does so, but remarks to Cable that he will return for her eventually. As the team departs, Apocalypse takes Stryfe as his new host, effectively killing him.

In the present, Apocalypse is reborn as a child and raised and conditioned by Clan Akkaba. The newly re-formed X-Force locate him in order to finally end his threat forever. Most of the members however - including Archangel - find themselves unable to kill the child and argue that with the right training he might become a great hero. The argument is rendered moot however when X-Force member Fantomex shoots the child Apocalypse in the head and kills him.

In order to determine whether nature or nurture would win out in Apocalypse however, Fantomex clones him and raises the boy in a telepathic environment with a good family and teaches him the values of heroism.

Fantomex is forced to pre-maturely release Evan to fight Archangel who after the real Apocalypse's death ascended and became the new Apocalypse. Archangel is defeated and Evan is sent by Fantomex to Wolverine's newly re-opened school for mutants. Here, Evan tries to become a hero but is bullied by other children who note his resemblance to Apocalypse and begin calling him "Kid Apocalypse".

Evan is confused by this and begins to research Apocalypse. He notes their resemblance but declares that he would never use his powers for evil like Apocalypse. Evan strikes up a friendship with the reborn Angel who has lost all of his memories and has gained new powers. Apocalypse rejected Tut's offer to become his successor and challenged him to a battle.

Tut attacked Apocalypse with the weapon he previously used against the Fantastic Four and left him for dead. However, Apocalypse survived and rechallenged Tut, but the Pharaoh preferred to escape to the future. At one point, Apocalypse joined forces with priest and architect Imhotep to create the Brotherhood of the Shield, an organization destined to protect the Earth from alien invaders. In fact, in BC, the Brotherhood prevented an invasion from the Brood.

Apocalypse's involvement with the Brotherhood is a matter of controversy; some claim that while he did indeed help Imhotep fight the Brood, he didn't join the Brotherhood at all.

The group kept going, evolving along with the times. Several historical figures were members, including Archimedes, Michelangelo, and Galileo. En Sabah Nur began hearing a voice in his head while building a Sphynx-shaped ship.

The voice belonged to one of the Celestials, Eson the Searcher, who guided Apocalypse in using the technology available in the ship. Comic book fans know the Celestials never do anything for free. Indeed, Eso warned Apocalypse that he would one day return to claim payment for the gifts bestowed upon him. He agreed to the partnership and began his plan to take over and create a world where only the strong survived. Throughout the years, Apocalypse had multiple children who served as his enforcers.

They made up his personal army, Clan Akkaba, an organization that survived all the way to modern times, acting as a cult to Apocalypse. At some point, Apocalypse met the almighty mutant Genesis, a woman so powerful that he considered her an equal. Together, they had four children, who became the first Horsemen.

They, along with their mother, perished defending their land, Okkara, from an invasion. Apocalypse built a pyramid to honor them and continued to visit it over his long history. Thor has had his fair share of powerful enemies in the comics. As one of the mightiest beings in Marvel, the God of Thunder constantly battles dangerous threats, proving his worth time and again. However, he isn't invincible, and Apocalypse bested him more than once.