the Era of Apocalypse ( Old off Apocalypse in the original version) is a Crossover being held in the universe of Marvel Comics. Published between 1995 and 1996, it implied the series related to the X-Men, renamed for the occasion.

History

Legion, extremely powerful mutant and wire of Charles Xavier and Gabrielle To haul, makes a jump in the past to remove Magnéto. But it is Charles Xavier who is killed in his place. The present was some changed: his/her future died father, Légion ceases existing. And Jean Grey was never had by the Phoenix.

Apocalypse began its war of survival of most extremely the ten years front, and it succeeded in seizing the United States, dominating the human ones using an army the Infinite ones, soldiers clones and of its Four Riders, with the number of which, his/her son, Holocauste, a genuine machine of war. New York City became the island of Apocalypse and its statue replaced the Statue of freedom.

Its principal enemies were the resistant ones, the X-Men, carried out by a Tape recorder quite different from that of the traditional Univers Marvel.

Alternate teams

As in the world " réel" , various teams were created to fight against Apocalypse, acting according to the liability and the ambitions of their members. Apocalypse developped at the point also of the " équipes" to counter these rebels

Rebels

X-Men

At the beginning, the team includes/understands:

• Magneto
• Quicksilver
• the Red Witch
• Jean Grey
• Colossus
• Weapon X
• Iceberg
• Tornado
• Malicia

Then are recruited, after the first confrontation:

• Gambit
• Teeth of Saber

Lastly, on arrival of Bishop, the two hanging teams of that of the real-world are trained:

X-gauge

Following the demand for Magneto to find his/her mother, Diablo leaves in Avalon. There they gather new allies:

• Mystical
• Switchback
• Damask, defector of Apocalypse
• Intended
• Douglas Ramsey
• Cain Marko

Force-X

Left X-Men where it did not feel any more at his place, Gambit founds a team which deals with the daily problems of the survivors: they steal that which they need.

• Lila Cheney
• Solar
• Jubilee
• Hefty fellow

X-generation

Colossus and Étincelle direct the school of the X-Men futures, with the row of which one counts:

• Husk
• Skin
• Chamber
• Mondo
• Vincente

The resistance of Forging mill

Forging mill, following deep wounds, moves away from X-Men, and directs a group of mutants which cannot hide their characteristics in normal weather:

• the Clamping plate
• Sauron
• X-Man
• the Brain
• Cyrène

Human resistance

Directed from London, humanity tries to fight against Apocalypse, with the assistance of certain mutants. The Council:

• Bolivar Trask
• Moired McTaggert
• Brian Braddock
• Emma Frost
• Mariko Yashida

Teams of Apocalypse

All are subjected directly to Apocalypse, but some are joined together only the time of a mission.

Riders of the Apocalypse

Equip which fought against first X-Men, counting in particular:

• Gidéon
• Candra
• Teeth of Saber
• War
• Plague

Then following this first shock, Apocalypse will change gradually its riders, the last being:

• Abyss
• Holocaust, the son of Sinister Apocalypse
• Mister
• Mikhail Raspoutine, brother of Colossus

X-factor

Mr. Sinistre organized a team made up of phratries, in order to keep the concentration camps of the mutants whose capacities were too weak. He made use of this team like prisoners to make his experiments:

• Cyclops
• Havok
• Véga
• Aurora
• the brothers Bedlam
• Sam Guthrie
• Elizabeth Guthrie, his/her sister
• the Deer (Dark Beast), geneticist

Dark Raiders

In order to discover Avalon, a group is sent to follow Diablo.

• Damask
• Dead Man Wade
• Moonstar
• the King of shade

Domino

To put the hand on X-Man, Apocalypse gives the responsability Domino to find it.

• Domino
• Yeti
• Caliban

Outcome

At the end of the war, the hook Me Kraan, which maintained this reality in existence, was destroyed, and the Era of Apocalypse ceased existing, with all that it contained. Only some individuals survived, aspired by the reality of the Universe Marvel " standard".

Among them, one finds:

• Bishop, which finds reality " then; normale"
• Holocaust
• Nate Grey, the clone created by Sinister Mister
• Dark Beast, landing 20 years before the others, and creating the community of the Morlocks.
• the Confectioner, who takes the control of Genosha.
• Blink and Teeth of Saber, which actually pass from reality, with the Exilés and Weapon X

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