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+ | * Another mutant with superhuman strength that allowed him to smash through and hold up giant stones. |
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Revision as of 14:59, 31 May 2016
- "Wherever this being was, he always had four followers he would imbue with power."
- ―Moira MacTaggert to Charles Xavier and Alex Summers
The Horsemen of Apocalypse are a team of four elite followers of En Sabah Nur.
Origin
The Four Horsemen are Apocalypse's personal warriors and always play a key role in his plans for mutant conquest and domination.
Biography
X-Men: Days of Future Past
The first known incarnation of the Four Horsemen are seen in Ancient Egypt watching as their master uses his powers to construct the pyramids while a vast crowd of people bow before him, chanting his name.
X-Men: Apocalypse
Ancient Times
Around 3,000 BC, Apocalypse was ready to transfer himself into another body; this time being a mutant with a healing factor like that of Wolverine, allowing Apocalypse to heal from any wound and granting him greater power including immortality. The four horseman of that time accompany him inside the pyramid, where mercenary's destroy the pyramid, killing three of them. As the final living Horseman falls into a deep chasm along with Apocalypse' new body, protecting him from the rubble as she also died, entombing Apocalypse for thousands of years.
Modern times
Apocalypse awakens in 1983, and immediately recruits his new Horsemen. He first recruits Storm, turning her hair white, granting her even greater power over nature. He travels to east Berlin along with Storm to find more mutants with the help of Caliban. There he meets Caliban's enforcer Psylocke, who he then entices by strengthening her power, recruiting his second horseman. Psyloche leads him to Angel. Apocalypse turns Angel's wings into metal, and recruits him too.
For his final horseman, he and the others travel to Poland, where they find a vengeful Erik Lehnsherr about to kill a room full of men who had reported him to the authorities, resulting in his wife and daughter being killed. Apocalypse quickly disposes of them, and takes Erik to Auschwitz. Erik destroys Auschwitz, and joins Apocalypse as his fourth and final horseman.
Members
These are four mutants that Apocalypse would choose to adapt to fill the four roles in his conquest: Famine, Pestilence, War, and Death.
Previous Horseman
- One mutant with the ability to create and project white force field aura over Apocalypse's new body and telekinetically piece together his armor onto him. She was the last remaining Horseman when Apocalypse' pyramid was destroyed and protected his new body from the falling rubble She was crushed underneath it.
- Another mutant with pyrokinetic and telekinetic abilities, who helped protect Apocalypse' new body, allowing her to fatally contort humans with hand gestures.
- Another mutant with superhuman strength that allowed him to smash through and hold up giant stones.
- Another mutant is seen being able partially disintegrate others, killing the first two mercenary's who tried to attack Apocalypse.
New Horseman
- Ororo Munroe/Storm (Famine)
- Erik Lenhsherr/Magneto (War)
- Warren Worthington III/Archangel (Death)
- Elizabeth Braddock/Psylocke (Pestilence)
Trivia
- In the comic books, Apocalypse has often manipulated different mutants into being his Horsemen. Examples include Angel, Wolverine, Gambit, Psylocke, Banshee and Polaris.
- Each Horseman embodies a different horror that humanity has constantly been faced with: War, Famine, Pestilence and Death.
- Bryan Singer stated the Four Horsemen chosen for X-Men: Apocalypse reflect real-world cults and how they tend to have factions associated with politics, military, sex or youth.[1]
- Magneto and Storm's roles as the Horsemen is similar to their X-Men Evolution counterparts, War and Famine, respectively.
- The Horsemen of Apocalypse were originally created by Louise Jones Simonson and Walter Simonson.
