X-Men: Apocalypse - 15 Questions Left By The Stupidest X-Movie Ever

OK, I've put it off long enough - what exactly was Apocalypse's plan?

When he wakes up in Egypt, he's just ambling about, but after getting all of human knowledge from eighties TV (poor guy) he vows to cleanse the world and sets about assembling his horsemen. But for what exactly?

He's only able to remove nuclear weapons from the equation when Charles conveniently jumps into Erik's head, and up until that point he's been completely unaware a telepath even exists. After that he starts his plan to get rid of humans by crumbling the world by meddling with the Earth's poles, something that would kill mutant and human alike and could have been achieved much easier with those nukes he just Superman IV'd (it's not like either world-ending method is going to be markedly more or less destructive than the other).

Further than that, because of Charles there's another variable; why does the villain choose to try and take over Professor X's body during the Earth-shattering plan? The pyramid is presumably safe, (that's why he built it), but it still takes up one of your very limited number of henchmen when you could have just waited five minutes.

All of this avoids a bigger problem though; the entire plan hinges on Magneto, the final horseman added who. Before he found him, was the plan to have Psylocke cut the world in two with a giant sword? To destroy the planet is one of the simplest villain schemes you can write, yet this film can't go one scene without Apocalypse appearing like an opportunistic moron.