10 Villains Who Became X-Men
8. Apocalypse (Sort Of)
Career prospects are limited for a young Apocalypse. You either become a murderous dictator in Egypt or you move to New York and become a murderous dictator there. The third and most uncommon path which happened to young Evan here, is that someone pretends to shoot you in the head as a baby then raises you to be a superhero in secret.
Rescued from assassination by Fantomex using his powers of misdirection, Evan was taken to The World, a pocket-environment where Fantomex was trained. He used the resources of The World to train Evan to be a superhero and instill in him a good sense of right and wrong.
Eventually Evan would learn about his potential to become Apocalypse and take on the name Genesis as a statement on how he would do everything in his power to avoid his fate. He became a student of the Jean Grey School set up by Wolverine and briefly joined the original four All-New X-men alongside X-23 and Idie Okonkwo.