X-Men: Apocalypse - 7 Spoilers Learned From The New Images

6. The Identity Of Apocalypse's Four Horsemen

The Four Horsemen in X-Men: Apocalypse will be Angel, Psylocke, Storm, and Magneto. There's no word on whether they will be referred to as Death, Famine, Pestilence, and War, or who would be who in this universe, but it wouldn't be too surprising if Singer were to drop that aspect of the villain's followers as it does sound a tad silly and none of them appear to have been "transformed" in any way by joining this group. Regardless, the magazine sheds some light on the circumstances which leads to them joining him. Apocalypse will apparently be the one to find Storm as a starving orphan on the streets of Cairo, a radical departure from the comic books which saw Charles Xavier rescue the youngster. Angel meanwhile, sounds a lot less clean cut than his comic book counterpart; he'll be a member of a Berlin fight club when the villain decides to bring him on board. As for Psylocke, she has apparently been working in Europe behind the Iron Curtain for the mutant-broker Caliban. It's a diverse group of mutants with very different abilities, and of the three listed above, only Storm hasn't been one of Apocalypse's Horsemen at one time or another in the source material. Neither has Magneto, but what on Earth could lead the man who has always led his own Brotherhood to suddenly decide to be an underling for Apocalypse? Well...