Age of Apocalypse

The Age of Apocalypse is an event that features in Marvel Comics.

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'd 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.

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

The Brain Trust, an assembly of artificially-grown disembodied telepathic brains, is kept in vitro to act as gatekeepers for the Breeding Pens. The Trust now physically anesthetizes the Pen prisioners, 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)
• 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).

Appearances

• X-Men v2: (1994)

External Links

• Wikipedia Entry

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