History YMMV / AgeOfApocalypse

%%* TheWoobie: X-Man, aka Nate Grey.

* {{Squick}}: The Generation Next team member Vincent has the power to turn into a liquid or a gas. At one point, the GN kids are infiltrating a concentration camp. Husk gets inside by posing as a human prostitute hired by one of the camp bosses. She carries Vincent, in his liquid state, with her in a flask. After the camp boss blows her cover, he decides he wants a drink before he kills Husk, and drains the flask containing Vincent. HilarityEnsues.

* CrackPairing: Quicksilver & Storm, Gambit & Lila Cheney, Boliver Trask & Moira [=MacTaggart=], Exodus & Dazzler... they really go all over the place with this. However, the more official ships are acknowledged, even if they go a bit differently in this universe. For example, Jean ends up with Wolverine, since Cyclops was never an X-Man and they never met until after the cross-over begins.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Blink, though it still took her five years to cheat death and get a book.
** ComicBook/{{Sabretooth}} seems to fall into this as he was put into the main cast of the ComicBook/{{Exiles}} and has appeared in pretty much every story which involved Age of Apocalypse verse.
** Local version of Sunfire is also often preferred over the main one due to his cool design. They even turned him into a Horseman of Apocalypse in the main universe to make him look more like this version.
* OlderThanTheyThink: The comic book event was actually inspired by the ''WesternAnimation/XMen'' episode "One Man's Worth", not the other way round. The fact that animation has a much longer development time means that the comic event was published before its inspiration aired. (Incidentally, it also explains why the episode has both the [=AoA=] Morph '''and''' the animated Morph. The comic creators took designs from concept art for the episode, so the character who appeared in the comics as Morph was apparently designed as a separate character. Which makes sense, considering that [=AoA=]!Morph's powers are only marginally similar to the original's.)
* {{Squick}}: '''Lots''' of examples.
** One example stands out above all others. The Generation Next team member Vincent has the power to turn into a liquid or a gas (and maybe other things, the exact nature of his power is never explained). At one point, the GN kids are infiltrating a concentration camp. Husk gets inside by posing as a human prostitute hired by one of the camp bosses. She carries Vincent, in his liquid state, with her in a flask. After the camp boss blows her cover, he decides he wants a drink before he kills Husk, and drains the flask containing Vincent. HilarityEnsues.
* TheWoobie: X-Man, aka Nate Grey.
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: X-Men in the 2005 mini-series. Husk’s betrayal was a despicable act especially after she took a child as a hostage and tried to kill her former friends. But being left behind, witnessing all of her close friends die, including the man she loved, and being tortured for a long time in a CrapsackWorld makes her JerkassWoobie after all. So, maybe [[{{KillItWithFire}} burning her sister alive]] and [[{{CruelAndUnusualDeath}} crushing her brothers to death]] in front of her, getting a ReasonYouSuckSpeech from Rogue and being ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice by Kirika was a bit too harsh?

* CompleteMonster:
** ComicBook/{{Apocalypse}} himself, having destroyed most of Asia and Russia and committed mass genocide in North America. The point of the cross-over is what Apocalypse would be able to do unchecked by Xavier's X-Men.
** [[EvilutionaryBiologist Dark Beast]], the EvilCounterpart of the kind-hearted Hank (Beast) [=McCoy=], is a MadScientist. Initially the BastardUnderstudy of Mr. Sinister, Dark Beast earned a reputation as a {{sadist}}ic monster in Apocalypse's concentration camps for his cruel experiments which tortured and killed many, giving him the nickname of "Beast," which [[CardCarryingVillain he liked enough to mutate himself to better fit the moniker]]. When Dark Beast was brought to the X-Men's world he set about killing everyone the good Beast cared for that he could and continued his monstrous experiments on innocents. With his most heinous actions being to create a machine that fed off Hank's lifeforce while keeping him in unspeakable agony, in addition to [[WouldHurtAChild his experiments on children]], Dark Beast eventually attempted to foster a war between the X-Men and ComicBook/{{SHIELD}}. When exposed and dying from experimenting on himself, Dark Beast attempted to [[TakingYouWithMe initiate a bomb to take the X-Men with him]] simply out of spite.

** Local version of Sunfire is also prefered over the main one due to his cool design. They even turned him into a Horseman of Apocalypse in the main universe to make him look more like this version.

** ComicBook/{{Sabretooth}} seems to fall into this as was put into the main cast of the ComicBook/{{Exiles}} and has appeared in pretty much every story which involved Age of Apocalypse verse.

** Local version of Sunfire is also prefered over the main one due to his cool design. They even turned him into a Horsemen of Apocalypse in the main universe to make him look more like this version.

** ComicBook/{{Sabretooth}} seems to fall into this as was put into the main cast of ComicBook/{{Exiles}} and has appeared in pretty much every story which involved AoA! verse.

** ComicBook/{{Sabretooth}} seems to fall into this as was put into the main cast of ComicBook/{{''Exiles''}} and has appeared in pretty much every story which involved AoA! verse.

** AoA! version of ComicBook/Sabretooth seems to be this as he was returned in ''ComicBook/Exiles'' and has appeared in pretty much every story which involved AoA! verse.

* MagnificentBastard: Mister Sinister.

** Apocalypse himself, having destroyed most of Asia and Russia and committed mass genocide in North America. The point of the cross-over is what Apocalypse would be able to do unchecked by Xavier's X-Men.

* CrackPairing: Quicksilver & Storm, Gambit & Lila Cheney, Boliver Trask & Moira [=MacTaggart=], Exodus & Dazzler... they really go all over the place with this. However, the more official ships are acknowledged, even if they go a bit differently in this universe. For example, Jean ends up with Wolverine, since Cyclops was never an X-Man and they never met until after the cross-over begins; however [[spoiler: when Scott, who was an agent of Mr. Sinister, makes a HeelFaceTurn in part because of meeting Jean after she was captured by Sinister, the two end up back together.]]

* CrackPairing: Quicksilver & Storm, Gambit & Lila Cheney, Boliver Trask & Moira [=MacTaggart=], Exodus & Dazzler...they really go all over the place with this. However, the more official ships are acknowledged, even if they go a bit differently in this universe. For example, Jean ends up with Wolverine, since Cyclops was never an X-Man and they never met until after the cross-over begins; however [[spoiler: when Scott, who was an agent of Mr. Sinister, makes a HeelFaceTurn in part because of meeting Jean after she was captured by Sinister, the two end up back together.]]

* TrueNeutral: Angel does his best to stay this. [[spoiler: Until Apocalypse's soldiers pull the plug on his club. Oh, and take Karma to pens. After this he is NeutralNoLonger.]]

* CompleteMonster: Apocalypse himself, having destroyed most of Asia and Russia and committed mass genocide in North America. The point of the cross-over is what Apocalypse would be able to do unchecked by Xavier's X-Men.

* TheWoobie: X-Man, aka Nate Grey.

* CompleteMonster: Apocalypse himself is one of these in this story, having destroyed most of Asia and Russia and committed mass genocide in North America. Though Holocaust (as the name would suggest) is hinted at being even worse.
** Apocalypse is a CompleteMonster in normal continuity; the point of the cross-over is what Apocalypse would be able to do unchecked by Xavier's X-Men (it's strongly implied that Magneto's X-Men were never as effective under his leadership and this in turn paved the way for Apocalypse's rise). However, Dark Beast is a good example of a character who is a hero in normal continuity who is an absolute CompleteMonster in [=AoA=]. It's shown that even other villains are creeped out by the sheer joy the Dark Beast takes in conducting experiments on live subjects, including both humans and mutants.
*** Point of order: The only reason Apocalypse rules in this reality is because the psychic backlash from Xavier's death awakened him 20 years early. He "realized" Mutants were coming along faster than expected (he didn't know the mutant battle was conducted by people from the future), so he made his move long before the world was ready for him.

** Apocalypse is of course a CompleteMonster in normal continuity; the point of the cross-over is what Apocalypse would be able to do unchecked by Xavier's X-Men (it's strongly implied that Magneto's X-Men were never as effective under his leadership and this in turn paved the way for Apocalypse's rise). However, Dark Beast is a good example of a character who is a hero in normal continuity who is an absolute CompleteMonster in [=AoA=]. It's shown that even other villains are creeped out by the sheer joy the Dark Beast takes in conducting experiments on live subjects, including both humans and mutants.

* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: X-Man [[spoiler:beats seven kinds of hell out of Apocalypse. When he's yanked into the "regular" timeline, Magneto finishes the job. By ripping Apocalypse in half.]]
* NightmareFuel: A ''lot'' of the imagery is truly horrific.
** The original comics contained a map of what Earth in the Age of Apocalypse looked like. Large swaths of the planet were irradiated waste lands.
** The entire ''Generation Next'' series sits at the top of the whole cross-over in this regard. From Colossus' sadistic teaching methods, to graphic depictions of an extermination camp where {{Muggles}} are worked to death, to a number of [[{{Squick}} gruesome deaths befallen by both heroes and villains alike]], this was extremely disturbing stuff for Marvel Comics of that era.
** Made especially jarring since the regular ''GenerationX'' was one of the more lighthearted X-Men titles.
** The sea full of rotting corpses where culled humans had been dumped.
** One comics opening scene is Bishop literally climbing hills of corpses...

* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: X-Man [[spoiler:beats seven kinds of hell out of Apocalypse. When he's yanked into the "regular" timeline, Magneto finishes the job. By ripping Apocalypse in half.]]* NightmareFuel: A ''lot'' of the imagery is truly horrific.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: X-Man [[spoiler:beats seven kinds of hell out of Apocalypse. When he's yanked into the "regular" timeline, Magneto finishes the job. By ripping Apocalypse in half.]]

* NightmareFuel: A ''lot'' of the imagery is truly horrific.

*** Made especially jarring since the regular ''GenerationX'' was one of the more lighthearted X-Men titles.
** The Breeding Pens

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: A ''lot'' of the imagery is truly horrific.

* TrueNeutral: Warren Worthington III/Angel, who operates the [[CoolestClubEver nightclub Heaven]], a neutral spot for mutants and humans
** [[spoiler:Until Omega, when the death of his assistant Karma makes him swear revenge against Apocalypse, and he makes a HeroicSacrifice to buy the X-Men time to mount their offensive]].