9. What Can He Do? What Cant He Do
No one really knows what his mutant powers might have been as a young man. Certainly hes capable of great telepathic and telekinetic feats, as well as the projection and manipulation of energy fields. If youre wondering what that means in English, it means he was probably born with similar abilities to Professor X, Jean Grey
and Magneto, and on a similar scale. But thats not all. Apocalypse comics origin has him utilising abandoned alien technology left on Earth by the Celestials to augment his already enormous mutant powers to staggering levels. Who are the Celestials? Essentially, theyre the real gods of the Marvel Universe - because they may or may not have created it at The Big Bang. En Sabah Nur found a way to merge with Celestial technology, giving him the ability to completely control every molecule of his body, and so change shape, size and mass at will, regenerate from almost any injury, adapt to any environment and adopt pretty much any superhuman power that you could possibly think of. It also allowed him to communicate with, merge with and control technology with his thoughts. Apocalypse has been perfecting those abilities for 5,000 years, reaching unprecedented levels of power. Now, the movie version of the character may not incorporate the Celestial technology of the comic book character. It may not mention alien technology at all (although we think that would be a terrible mistake - the X-Men franchise needs to move beyond little spats about mutant politics and prejudice and into being a proper superhero franchise). Regardless, the character of Apocalypse was created as being able to take on the entirety of the X-Men roster on his own: a one-man army capable of being anything and doing anything.