Apocalypse, like Amazo, has extreme control over his body and can demonstrate almost any super-power, and he doesn't need to use Amazo's monkey-see monkey-do trick first: telepathy, telekinesis, shape-shifting, technopathy-- seriously, pick one, he's probably done it. He may be one of the first mutants, but his basic motivation is refreshingly different from Xavier's or Magneto's: "survival of the fittest." The weak, mutant or non-mutant, will be destroyed. He's just here to help natural selection along a bit.