10 Characters Who Have Defeated Apocalypse

Born under the name of En Sabah Nur, Apocalypse is the first mutant to have ever existed. He was born in ancient Egypt and he's a mutant blessed with immortality among many other gifts.

A believer in "survival of the fittest", whenever Apocalypse appears it is not so much about ending the world as it is about testing it to see if both mankind and mutant-kind are fit to exist.

If the world fails to stop him it'll perish as he puts it through the harshest conditions and trials, but if it manages to rise against him, not only has its inhabitants proven their worth in his eyes, but they've also "evolved" in doing so. Satisfied, he'll vanish away, just until the next time he desires to test the world again.

To this end, Apocalypse is a recurrent and natural enemy of the X-Men. Across his appearances in the comics he has gone against a number of opponents, sometimes coming out victorious, other times getting bested, and, on occasions, even fleeing combat. Apocalypse is that baddie that just won't die. Whenever he appears, though, like his name would suggest, the stakes are always high.

Considered to be Apocalypse's nemesis, Cable is the antihero who often clashes against The First Mutant and so it's no surprise he's bested him once before.

When he was a child, Cable was kidnapped by Apocalypse because the mutant sensed him as a potential future threat and decided instead that the boy would make a suitable host body at a given time.

However, Cyclops and Jean Grey thwarted Apocalypse and rescued Cable, but not in time to stop the mutant villain from infecting the boy with a virus. In order to survive, the boy was sent to the future where he would be raised to become a time-traveling badass.

In this storyline, Cable is tracking down Cyclops with Jean Grey's assistance after the X-Men leader saved Nate Grey from becoming a host to Apocalypse by taking Nate's place.

The roaming leader is eventually tracked and a final confrontation takes place between the three where Cyclops is trying to subdue Apocalypse's influence while Cable tries to take advantage of the window and finish off Apocalypse.

Despite Cyclops's best efforts to sacrifice himself, Jean Grey manages to use her power to split apart Apocalypse and Cyclops, allowing Cable to finish off the weakened original mutant without having to do in his father as well.