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Magneto

Founder of the AoA X-Men, Magneto's life was changed in a pivotal moment when his dear friend Xavier was murdered by an insane and incredibly powerful mutant. Swearing to uphold Xavier's dreams of human/mutant peace, Magneto finds himself the founder of the X-men and one of the few remaining in opposition to Apocalypse and his Horsemen.

Adaptational Heroism: Even post Heel–Face Turn, 616 Magneto was never as kind as this version. Xavier's death before he could turn to villainy went a long way towards humbling him.
Big Good: He takes over Xavier’s role as this for the X-men. Although he’s much tougher on his students.
Happily Married: To Rogue, despite some occasional strain.
May–December Romance: He's a couple decades older than Rogue.
Outliving One's Offspring: Poor guy managed to outlive all four of his kids. Anya presumably shared her mainstream counterpart's fate, Wanda was killed by Nemesis, Pietro sacrificed himself protecting Magneto from Sauron, and Charles was killed by Demon Ock.
Your Head Asplode: Weapon X kills him by vaporizing his head from behind.

Rogue

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A mutant with the power to absorb the memories and genetic abilities of anyone she touches, she accidentally absorbed too much power from a woman named Lorna, permanently acquiring her electromagnetic manipulating abilities — in contrast to her mainstream counterpart, who acquired Flying Brick status by absorbing the powers of Ms. Marvel.

Blessed with Suck: Somewhat less so than her mainstream counterpart, because here she falls in love with a man who can shield himself with a forcefield and so he is capable of touching her. She's still unable to touch her son, though.
Can't Have Sex, Ever: Averted. Magneto's abilities allow him and Rogue to touch and they have a son together.
Flight: Much like Magneto, Rogue is able to fly by riding the Earth's magnetic field.
Flying Brick: Rogue is still a flying brick in this continuity, though as a result of her absorbed magnetic abilities rather than Ms. Marvel's powers.
Funetik Aksent: Rogue's Southern accent is as prominent as ever in her speech bubbles.
Happily Married: Rogue's relationship with Magneto was strained at times by both his cold demeanor and her attraction to Gambit. Still, their unwavering loyalty and love for one another make her this.
Hot for Teacher: Magneto helped her get through dealing with her powers. She ended up falling for him, marrying him and having his son.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Rogue suffered this at the hands of Weapon X, who became the new Apocalypse, after she attempted to weaken him by draining his powers.
Love Triangle: Rogue's was originally in one with Magneto and Gambit. Gambit wanted Rogue and she seemed to recipocrate, but she became more and more drawn to Magneto with time. Then Gambit (not knowing about her strong feelings for their leader) asked Magneto to help Rogue out with her powers. Not the smartest move.
Mama Bear: Rogue reacts very violently to Holocaust threatening her son, Charles.
May–December Romance: Rogue is married to and has a child with the much older Magneto.
Mega Manning: As per her usual power set.
Selective Magnetism: Like Magneto, because she stole the powers of Polaris in this continuity. However, the times that she actually used this ability for something other than making herself a flying brick could be counted on one hand.
Super-Strength: By manipulating the magnetic fields of her body, Rogue is able to greatly increase her physical strength.
Super-Toughness: Another power acquired by manipulating magnetism, Rogue can take some serious hits, including physical blows and powerful energy blasts from Holocaust.

Quicksilver

Magneto's son, who is driven to avenge his slain sister. Storm's lover in this continuity.

Battle Couple: Him and Storm.
Heroic Sacrifice: Took a hit from Sauron meant for his father at the cost of his own life.
Killed Off for Real: Not in the original story arc, but in a 2005 expansion he met his end battling Sauron.
My Greatest Failure: Is haunted by his failure to save his sister Wanda from her death.
Super-Speed: He has the power to run at incredible speeds.
Supporting Leader: He is the field leader of the X-Men, serving under his father Magneto.

Storm

A member of the X-Men although more street tough and wise. She is also the lover of Quicksilver.

And I Must Scream: She was captured by a brainwashed weapon X and turned into blind seer made of living stone.
Battle Couple: With Quicksilver.

Banshee

Banshee was older than most members of the X-Men and had actually retired. However, Magneto later asked him to come out of retirement to fight against Apocalypse.

Super-Scream: Just like his mainstream counterpart.
Flight: Also like his mainstream counterpart, Banshee is able to fly by riding sound waves.
Heroic Sacrifice: Gave his life to destroy Abyss from the inside with his sonic power.
Retired Badass: Was this until he rejoined the X-Men at the behest of Magneto.

Exodus

A mysterious mutant prisoner of Apocalypse's Madri priests, Exodus was found and rescued by Magneto, becoming intensely devoted to him as a result. After being trained in the use of his powers, he joined Magneto's X-Men and quickly proved his worth as a teammate during the ensuing battles.

Adaptational Heroism: Unlike the 616 Exodus who is radicalized into extremism by Magneto, the mentorship of this world's Mags produces an Exodus who is an unequivocal hero.
Adaptational Nice Guy: Not nearly as much of a Knight Templar as his 616 incarnation.
Battle Couple: Him and Dazzler.
Combo Platter Powers: Per Cypher's description of him: "Exodus is a telekinetic, telepath, teleporter... I don't know what else."
Does This Remind You of Anything?: In The Salvation of Exodus, a panel that shows Exodus, as a captive of the Madri being saved by Magneto, he is notably drawn with a skeletal, emaciated appearance uncomfortably reminiscent of Holocaust victims. See for yourself◊.
Godzilla Threshold: Circumstances force Magneto to reveal to Exodus his powers of teleportation.
Irony: He is very respectful of Quicksilver and even refers to him as "sir". In the main timeline, they are bitter enemies.
No Smoking: He disapproves of his lover Dazzler's smoking habit and tries to keep her from doing it when he can.
Power Limiter: Wears a pair of mechanical devices on his face that most likely serve as these.
Put on a Bus: In his last appearance Magneto sent him on a secret mission. He hasn't been seen since.
Sixth Ranger: Mentioned at one point as being the team's newest member.
Superpower Lottery: Not quite as crazy powerful as his mainstream incarnation, but still probably the most powerful of the AoA X-Men.
With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Inverted. Fearing that Exodus might become corrupted by the full scope of his powers, Magneto deliberately limited his knowledge of them.
What Happened to the Mouse?: Didn't take part in the last battle with Apocalypse due to being on a secret mission, hasn’t made an appearance since the 90s, and is currently listed as MIA.

Sabretooth

Originally one of Apocalypse's lapdogs, Sabretooth found even he had his limits when a mission turned out to be far darker in nature than he had initially believed. Deemed unfit to survive by Apocalypse, Sabretooth was left behind after a battle with Magneto and his X-Men, and threw his loyalty in with them to survive.

Adaptational Heroism: Lacks the sadist tendencies and bloodthirsty nature of the original.
The Atoner: Not at first, but eventually grew into one of these.
Badass in Distress: At one point he is captured and beaten very nearly to death by Holocaust. Blink has to come and save him.
Big Brother Mentor: Becomes one to Blink.
Even Evil Has Standards: Sabertooth thought that Apocalypse just wanted to intimidate humanity by seizing Cape Citadel; he immediately protested that this wasn't what he signed on for when it was made clear that Apocalypse intended the missiles to be used.
Healing Factor: Much like Weapon X and his mainstream counterpart, Sabretooth heals much more quickly and extensively than an ordinary person.
Heel–Face Turn: Despite everything, he became a sincere believer in Magneto's creed and tried to atone for the evil he had committed.
Morality Pet: Joining Magneto gets him started on the path to being a hero, but mentoring Blink gives him a reason to be one.
Not in This for Your Revolution: Initially, just wanted to survive and get revenge on Apocalypse after he defected.
Those Two Guys: Usually goes into battle with the feral Wild Child at his side.
Wolverine Publicity: One of the more popular AoA characters, so much so that he was brought back years later to be a main character in Exiles.

Blink

A young mutant teleporter and Sabretooth's loyal student.

See Exiles

Wild Child

A feral, nearly mindless mutant that sees Sabretooth as his master after being beaten by him in a fight for dominance.

Adaptational Dumbass: At least in the original timeline he could talk.
Killed Off for Real: By Weapon Omega.

Iceman

Iceman was one of the first X-Men in this continuity as well, though it seems that the crapsack world he lives in has made him master his powers much more quickly. He almost always appears in his ice form, but his personality seems to be largely the same as his mainstream counterpart's.

Adaptational Jerkass: Original Bobby is a kind-hearted and loyal person who would normally kill his enemies, nor would ever betray his friends.
Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome: The Crapsack World he lived in forced Bobby to tap into his true potential and thus, he is far more powerful than his mainstream counterpart. Which becomes a real problem for the heroes after he betrays them.
Ain't Too Proud to Beg: When he was defeated by Nightcrawler in a furnace room, he pleaded for his life. It didn’t save him.
An Ice Person: Of course. Still, even this darker version of Bobby isn't cold or aloof. He still cracks jokes like his mainstream counterpart does.
Dirty Coward: Left behind his friends to save his life during the battle with Weapon Omega’s forces.
Face–Heel Turn: Betrayed his team to save his life and assisted 616 Archangel in the battle with 616 X-Force and his former teammates.
It's All About Me: He eventually decides he doesn't care what happens to the world as long as he gets a comfortable life.
Killed Off for Real: For his betrayal by Nightcrawler.
The Mentally Disturbed: Notably more unstable that the regular timeline's Iceman, though not so unstable as to reach Ax-Crazy levels.

Sunfire

A mutant with a fire-based atomic powers who survived the genocide of Japan and Death’s experiments. Joined the X-Men to have revenge on Apocalypse and Holocaust who destroyed his homeland.

Adaptational Badass: This version of Sunfire was capable of fighting with Apocalypse and his son Holocaust, both of whom are extremely powerful mutants well beyond 616 Shiro's martial abilities. And while he couldn't beat them, he did unleash a Limit Break attack that might well have killed Apocalypse if Holocaust hadn't been on hand to absorb it.
Adaptational Nice Guy: This version of Shiro must be a hot-head, but he’s not as much of a Jerkass as his 616 counterpart.
Flight: Can fly like his mainstream counterpart.
Flying Firepower: Like his original counterpart, Shiro is able to fly in his fire form.
Heroic Sacrifice: Gave his life to save the 616 X-Force and the world that not even his.
Kill It with Fire: His foes, including Amazon and Iceman (however, the latter survived the attack) found out about this the hard way.
Leeroy Jenkins: Has a general tendency to go into a fight without any plan.
Limit Break: His last-ditch Nova Blast-esque attack, which was powerful enough to scorch a huge area of Japan even with Holocaust absorbing enough of it to protect himself and his father.
My Greatest Failure: Is haunted by his failure to save Japan from Apocalypse’s attack.
Patriotic Fervor: Like 616 Sunfire, he's a devout Japanese patriot. Unfortunately, most of Japan was destroyed by Apocalypse and he was unable to stop it, which on top of his PTSD has left him a psychological mess.
Playing with Fire: His fire abilities are strong enough to destroy hordes of enemies.
The Power of the Sun: As expected from someone who goes by Sunfire.
Shell-Shocked Veteran: Like AoA Exodus, his time as a captive of Apocalypse has left him with some serious PTSD issues.
Ret-Canon: His outfit is a case of this, as it is by far the most popular of Sunfire's costumes across his various adaptations. It's so popular, in fact, that Marvel brought it into the main timeline during the 2005 "Blood of Apocalypse" storyline, in which 616 Sunfire was transformed into the Horseman of Famine and given an identical costume which he then kept.
Wreathed in Flames: He is fully covered by flames when using his powers.

Morph

Morph is the wise-cracking jokester of the X-Men, who was formerly known as Changeling. He often gets on his teammate's nerves, particularly Sabretooth and Sunfire.

Adaptational Comic Relief: Original Changeling wasn’t known for Slapstick Looney Tunes kind of humour.
Ascended Extra: Was a rather minor X-Men character that got killed after a very few appearances. Here he is a prominent member of the team.
Voluntary Shapeshifting: Morph's main power is this, to an incredible degree. He can disguise himself as people, animals, objects, etc.
Ret-Canon: Both ways.
- The decision to have him go by "Morph" instead of "Changeling" and his more jokey personality came from the X-Men: The Animated Series incarnation.
- On the flip side, both the Exiles incarnation and later on, the animated incarnation in the Sequel Series, X-Men '97' adopted his look of being bald and noseless, and off-white skin, with the Exiles version going as far as to sport a cape as well.
What Happened to the Mouse?: Survived the main event and then disappeared completely in the sequel stories.

Wolfsbane

A mutant who is able to transform into a werewolf, who was once imprisoned as a slave.

Sixth Ranger: She was one of the latest additions to the team in the 2005 mini-series.
Super-Senses: She has some due to her werewolf nature.
Wolf Man: Wolf woman.
What Happened to the Mouse?: Disappeared completely after the 2005 mini-series.

Nightcrawler

A cold hearted executioner who works as a sort of protector for Avalon.

Adaptational Jerkass: Original Kurt is a kind person with cute tendencies. This Kurt is ruthless to his enemies and really rude.
Adaptation Name Change: This Nightcrawler's civilian name is Kurt Darkholme instead of Kurt Wagner, reflecting his closer relationship to Mystique than the main version.
Anti-Hero: He will murder anyone including former friends if it means keeping the job done. He’s noticeably less social and more violent than before. Still, he fights to protect mutants, and he will not betray his principles doing it.
Dark and Troubled Past: Like the original Kurt, he had a terrible childhood, but this extended to the point of hating the church.
Heroic Sacrifice: Ultimately gives his life to stop a multi-dimensional threat by trapping the monsters in his home reality, even knowing that the strain of what he was about to do would kill him.
Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Accompanies X-Force back to the 616 universe to hunt down villains who escaped from his own world.
We Used to Be Friends: Thinks about their time as friends during the battle with Iceman.

Dazzler

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Formerly a mutant singer, Dazzler's dreams of becoming a pop sensation were shattered when Apocalypse launched his strike against America. Though embittered by this loss, she joined Magneto's X-Men to do some good in the world.

Adaptational Badass: Unlike her lover Exodus, she is arguably stronger than her 616 counterpart, owing to her much more martial lifestyle.
Battle Couple: Her and Exodus.
Couldn't Find a Lighter: Often uses her lasers to light up her cigarettes.
Energy Weapon: Her primary method of attack, though she doesn't hold back nearly as much as her 616 counterpart.
Light 'em Up: Her mutant power, which allows her to convert sound into light.
The Mourning After: In her last appearance her lover Exodus is missing in action and she is stated to be trying to move on but secretly waiting for his return and hoping that he is still alive.
The Rock Star: She was all set to become one, until Apocalypse's war destroyed that dream forever.
Smoking Is Not Cool: She is explicitly noted to have become a heavy smoker as a means of coping with the loss of her music career, and further, has ruined her voice after years of chain smoking.
Smoky Voice: Said to have one, as she no longer cared about preserving her voice after Apocalypse's war.
Status Quo Is God: An interesting visual case: in the original 1995 series she was drawn with an appearance very distinct from the 616 Dazzler, with longer hair, a darker uniform, and a harder face. Fast forward ten years to the After the End miniseries, and suddenly she looks a lot more like her 616 counterpart. Compare the original◊ to the update◊ and see for yourself.

Generation Next

Colossus

Brutal and merciless, Colossus is the reluctantly appointed teacher for Generation Next, but cares only for one person: his lover, Kitty Pryde, aka Shadowcat.

Adaptational Jerkass: Original Colossus is a friendly and humble man. This Piotr is unnecessarily cruel to his own students and outright mean.
Anti-Hero: Even more so than Nightcrawler. He’s violent, vicious, cruel, and vindictive. Who on the battlefield doesn’t care who gets hurt as long as he wins. On the other hand, he loves his sister, his wife, served Magneto faithfully, and never gives up His fight against Apocalypse.
Bad Boss: He’s not very caring nor sympathetic to his subordinates, and he will kill any who questions him.
Battle Couple: With Shadowcat.
Big Brother Instinct: Would choose to rescue his little sister over saving his students.
The Brute: He served this as one of Weapon Omegas strongest brainwashed servants.
Dirty Coward: Played with. He’s hardly a coward, but he left behind his own students during the battle because he didn’t want to lose his sister again.
The Dragon: He was one of Magneto's original recruits, so he played this part as a field commander.
Sadist Teacher: Openly tried to get his students to kill each other during training to ensure that only the strongest ones would be left to fight, and regarded even them as expendable tools in his crusade against Apocalypse.

Shadowcat

A mutant who can phase through solid objects, Kitty Pryde helps her husband Colossus to lead a new generation of mutants.

Adaptational Skimpiness: Wears a far more revealing outfit than her rather modest original counterpart has ever had.
Battle Couple: With Colossus.
Killed Off for Real: Accidentally crushed to death while trying to stop her unstable husband.
Wolverine Claws

Chamber

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A member of the next generation of X-Men, who could blast energy beams through his chest.

Adaptational Attractiveness: This version of Jono has his face wholly intact, while his original counterpart lost his lower jaw because of his powers.
Killed Off for Real: Died during the battle with Sugar Man’s mooks along with his teammates after being left behind by his mentor Colossus.

Husk

The only female member of the next generation of X-Men, who is able to change the shape of her skin by shedding the upper layer of it.

Adaptational Dye-Job: Blonde in the main universe, brown-haired here.
Adaptational Villainy: Being left behind to die made her Sinister’s ally. After taking the identity of Xorn she became a member of X-Men only to betray and try to kill them.
Dirty Harriet: Went undercover as a human prostitute to get into the slave camp Illyana was kept in.
Face–Heel Turn: Was an ally of X-Men, but being left behind by her mentor and witnessing all of her close friends horribly die made her evil.
Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: She didn't take being left for dead well.
Would Hurt a Child: Was ready to kill Magneto’s and Rogue’s child to have her revenge.

Vincente

A member of the next generation of X-Men, who is able to shift his state of matter from solid to liquid to gaseous.

Canon Immigrant: First appeared in the Age of Apocalypse universe. Then he was adapted into the main Marvel Universe, albeit as a villain.
Killed Off for Real: Fatally wounded by Sugar Man (somehow despite being in a gas form) and then left behind along with his teammates by his mentor Colossus.

Mondo

A member of the next generation of X-Men, who is able to change his form by absorbing organic and inorganic material.

Combo Platter Powers: His powers depend on what he absorbs.
Friend to All Children: Has a soft spot for children judging on his dynamic with Illyana and human girl Ace.
Killed Off for Real: The first to be killed during Generation Next last mission.
Wild Samoan: Samoan and very loud.

Skin

A member of the next generation of X-Men, who can control his skin.

Killed Off for Real: Died during the battle with Sugar Man’s mooks along with his teammates after being left behind by his mentor Colossus.
Rubber Man: Can stretch his skin like his original counterpart.

Know-It-All

A member of the next generation of X-Men, she acts as mission control.

Hyper-Awareness: Monitors everything through the computers.
Mission Control: Her main role as a member of Generation Next.
What Happened to the Mouse?: The only surviving member of the Generation Next, but she hasn’t made a single appearance since the mini-series ending.

X-ternals

Gambit

A Cajun mutant who is Magneto’s close friend, Rogue’s ex-boyfriend, and the leader of X-Ternals. His power is to force objects to explode by "charging" them, converting their potential energy into kinetic energy. He’s also a great acrobat and a bo-staff fighter.

Adaptational Jerkass: His original counterpart is also known for being HotBlooded, but this Gambit is even more rude and ready to attack his best friend out of poor jealousy.
Adaptational Heroism: On the other side, he had never been associated with Mr. Sinister, to begin with, and hadn’t had Heel–Face Revolving Door tendencies like 616 Gambit. He even sacrificed his life for his friends.
Amicable Exes: Despite taking the break-up with Rogue rather bad, they’d been on good terms.
Anti-Hero: He’s definitely a hero, but his morality is not perfectly heroic. He kills his enemies and once even attacked Magneto out of jealousy when Rogue chose Eric instead of him.
Bad Powers, Good People: His power to create “bombs” out of anything doesn’t sound exactly nice, but he’s a hero and a loyal ally.
Deadpan Snarker: Pretty much like his original counterpart. Almost everything he says is snarky, even when speaking to Magneto.
Having a Blast: He has the power to turn any object he touches into a bomb, usually a playing card.
Heroic Sacrifice: Gave his life to save 616 X-Force and his X-Men friends.
Killed Off for Real: Died in Uncanny X-Force saving his friends from Weapon Omega’s forces.
The Leader: To X-Ternals.
The Lancer: To Magneto whenever he’s an X-Man.
The Magic Touch: He has the ability to turn anything he touches into an explosive.
Playing Card Motifs: He has a playing card theme as it is his main weapon.
Pre-Mortem One-Liner: A strange example. Said particularly nasty one to Colossus after the latter went mad and accidentally killed Shadowcat. Yeah, the guy was a dick in this universe, but it is a phrase a villain could say:
Colossus: Katya, NO! DON’T LEAVE MEEEE!
Gambit: Don’ worry, hommes. Where she’s gone, I make sure… you be right behind her! [Throws a card on his back]
Ragin' Cajun: He’s from Louisiana and he’s also pretty badass.
Stuff Blowing Up: Like his original counterpart. His main power is the ability to charge objects, manipulating them into spontaneously releasing all their kinetic energy potential at once. In essence, they explode, with force depending mostly on how big they were.
Technicolor Eyes: He has red irises with black sclera.
Vitriolic Best Buds: With Magneto of all people!

Jubilee

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A Chinese-American teenager mutant who is able to charge matter to explode at various degrees.

Deadpan Snarker: Like her original counterpart, this Jubilee is also can make some snarky comments.
Heart Is an Awesome Power: Her ability "to create fireworks" seems to be useless, but it’s actually really dangerous and useful in battles.
What Happened to the Mouse?: Survived the main event, but hasn’t made a single appearance since the 90s.

Sunspot

A Brazilian mutant with the power of absorbing and channeling solar energy.

Flying Firepower: Like his original counterpart, Roberto is able to fly in his solar form.
Heroic Sacrifice: Died absorbing fatal amount of energy while saving his friends.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Hot-Blooded, but very loyal and ready to die for his friends.
The Power of the Sun: His powers are solar-based.
Super-Strength: Like his original counterpart, Sunspot has the ability to absorb solar energy and convert it for use as physical strength.

Lila Cheney

Gambit’s girlfriend who is able to teleport.

Battle Couple: With Gambit.
Teleportation: Like her original counterpart Lila has the ability to teleport across great interstellar distances.
What Happened to the Mouse?: Survived the main event, but hasn’t made a single appearance since the 90s.

Strong Guy

Guido Carosella

An Italian mutant who is very tough and strong.

Adaptational Villainy: Original Guido never served Apocalypse.
The Big Guy: Guido is huge, powerful, and the muscle of the team.
Double Agent: Secretly spied on team for Apocalypse.
Face–Heel Turn: Betrayed X-Ternals for Apocalypse to save his life.
Killed Off for Real: By Rogue using his own powers against him.
Super-Strength: Guido is enormously strong, can destroy walls with a single punch, and lift huge objects.
Super-Toughness: Thanks to his kinetic absorption ability, Strong Guy can take an enormous amount of physical damage.
Would Hurt a Child: Kidnapped Magneto’s and Rogue’s son Charles.

Outcasts

Forge

A mutant cyborg who worked with Magneto in the past. In the present day, he leads the Outcasts, a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits traveling the Midwest as stage actors while making secret strikes at Apocalypse's regime when they can.

Cyborg: Like the 616 Forge, though he has replaced much more of his body with machinery over the years.
Eye Scream: Suffered one in the past that cost him his left eye. He has since replaced it with a mechanical eye of his own creation.
Killed Off for Real: Beaten to death by Mr. Sinister for getting between him and Nate.
Mentor Occupational Hazard: Dies in the pages of X-Man four issues after becoming Nate's mentor.
Only Sane Man: He is the only member of the Outcasts who suspects that the hulking, red-eyed "Essex" might be trouble.
Parental Substitute: For Nate Grey.
Rebel Leader: A smaller scale version compared to Magneto, but he and his Outcasts still make strikes against Apocalypse under their cover as stage actors.
Shakespearian Actors: What he and his Outcasts masquerade as.
Stern Teacher: He's not above beating Nate bloody to teach him the dangers of showing off, though in this reality such lessons are necessary.
Zen Survivor: Thanks to fighting against Apocalypse for about as long as Magneto has.

X-Man

Nate Grey

Genetic offspring of Scott Summers and Jean Grey created by Sinister.

See Marvel Comics: X-Man

Sonique

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The daughter of Banshee and a mutant who has sonic screams.

Adaptational Villainy: After getting brainwashed.
Adaptational Name Change: Goes by Siryn in the original universe.
Brainwashed and Crazy: Gets brainwashed by Mr. Sinister into attacking X-Men.
Distaff Counterpart: Of her father, Banshee.
Super-Scream: Uses her voice as a main weapon.
What Happened to the Mouse?: The last time she was seen was in the 2005 mini-series when Psylocke told it's doubtful she could reverse her brainwashed state.

Mastermind

A mutant who can create illusions.

Adaptational Heroism: Original Wyngarde was a villain, this one is a loyal friend of Forge and X-Man.
Killed Off for Real: By Domino while defending his friends.
Master of Illusion: Can create very realistic Illusions.

Toad

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A mutant who has abilities of superhuman agility and leaping.

Adaptational Heroism: Original Toad is not the worst guy ever, but this one was heroic from the beginning.
Adaptational Ugliness: Not to say that the original Toad is really attractive, this one however looks like Deadpool without a mask.
Killed Off for Real: By Grizzly.
Master Swordsman: He’s good with swords in this universe and had a duel with Caliban.
Worthy Opponent: He finds Caliban a very skilled swordsman and compliments him.

Soaron

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A mutant who looks like a pterodactyl.

Adaptational Heroism: Is a bad guy in the main universe, a friend of Forge and X-Man in this one.
Adaptation Name Change: Called "Soaron" as opposed to the main univere's "Sauron".
Adaptation Species Change: Is a mutated human in the main universe, a mutant in this.
Brainwashed and Crazy: Gets brainwashed by Mr. Sinister into attacking X-Men.
Killed Off for Real: By Magneto in 2005 mini-series for killing Quicksilver.

Brute

A super strong mutant who was tortured by Mr. Sinister and has reduced intelligence because of this.

Canon Foreigner: Has no known counterpart in the main universe.
Killed Off for Real: The first one from Outcasts to bite a dust, when he was killed by Mr. Sinister because he could compromise his disguise.
Smarter Than You Look: He may be stupid, but not so stupid not to recognize his torturer in disguise. Too bad he was stupid enough to tell about it to villain himself and not to his friends firstly.
Super-Strength: His main power is being incredibly strong.

Apocalypse's regime

Apocalypse

Adaptational Jerkass: While the original Apocalypse has had rare moments of moral ambiguity this Apocalypse has all the depth and complexity of a cartoon villain.
Adaptational Wimp: He talks a big game, but when push comes to shove this Apocalypse can't hold a candle to the real deal. This probably has a lot to do with the fact that thanks to the differences in the timeline, he's never really had a fight against an equal, unlike canon Apocalypse, who went twelve rounds with the X-Men every other week.
Ax-Crazy: Cranks the original Apoc's Darwinian screed up and completely discards any notion of morality or even logic to get there.
Big Bad: What would you expect from the Apocalypse of his own titular Age?
Cartoonish Supervillainy: Imagine the most grimdark cartoon villain you can think of and you've basically got this guy. His whole story would be perfect Saturday morning cartoon filler if it weren't for the brutal, horrific and very real consequences of his rule.
Dystopia Justifies the Means: Unlike the regular Apocalypse there is no upside to his goals at all and the world he creates is nothing more than a horrific, dystopic wasteland.
Evil Overlord: Courtesy of a Timey-Wimey Ball.
Evilutionary Biologist: 99% Evilutionary and 1% Biologist, if even that.
The Emperor: Rules over what is left of North America with an iron fist.
God-Emperor: All set up to be one, but in the end, his powers prove to be no match for Nate Grey, who kicks seven kinds of crap out of him. And once he's on the ropes, Nate leaves him for Magneto who... well. See below.
Half the Man He Used to Be: Magneto tears him in half to provide his first death...
Killed Off for Real: ...and even when he tries reviving as a kid, Weapon X kills that.
Nuke 'em: Kicks off his reign by reducing America to a bombed-out wasteland.
Orcus on His Throne: Part of the reason why he's such a wimp compared to the normal Apocalypse. He doesn't get off his butt until the very end, to beat on a Magneto that's already been beaten half to death. And he still loses (though a lot of this has to do with the fact that Nate Grey had beaten him half to death).
The Social Darwinist: As per regular Apocalypse, although this incarnation cares nothing for science or logic, only for the end result. Thanks to nuclear strikes and an evil army, he achieves his aim of a world where only the strongest have survived.

The Four (actually many) Horsemen of Apocalypse

Holocaust

Holocaust (Nemesis)

A Million Is a Statistic: Perhaps the single most drastic example in the X-universe. He boasts of a body count in the millions (only Cassandra Nova and Bolivar Trask vie for competition at those numbers), but unlike those two, his millions all die off-panel and are only invoked by Holocaust in his various twisted attempts at a Badass Boast.
All There in the Manual: His original name was unknown from his first appearance to his last, and was only revealed when a version of him was born in the regular timeline.
Always Someone Better: Constantly on the receiving end of this from Nate Grey who, at full power, doesn't even consider him to be a threat, brushing him off to take on Apocalypse. Even in one of his partially depowered stages (he only had his telekinesis) during their time on Earth-616, Nate still thrashed him.
Arch-Enemy: Sees himself as this to Nate Grey. Nate, being a Living Weapon with raw power on par with Franklin Richards and the Dark Phoenix at the age of 17 (when his powers aren't killing him) usually swats him aside with limited difficulty - and that was back when he could barely control his powers. While he is aware of Nemesis' threat, in one exchange in his final battle with AoA!Apocalypse, Nate tellingly refers to him as 'small fry', as he swats him aside to go after Apocalypse. He also became this to Exodus after their hellish battle on Avalon.
Ax-Crazy: As is repeatedly demonstrated, Holocaust is - in his own way - every bit as nuts as his father.
Bad Powers, Bad People: At one point he describes himself as "a walking H-Bomb". He's not joking. And his personality is just as bad.
Blood Knight: While not shown, it's a safe bet he was raised under Apocalypse's 'survival of the fittest' doctrine. During the flashback of his time as Nemesis, he was shown to be positively delighted when Rogue blindsided him out of nowhere.
Nemesis: So, there is one who wants to survive! Tell me, girl, do you think you're fit to live amongst the select few?
Canon Immigrant: Slightly averted because he had already been mentioned in the Stryfe's Strike File handbook. And his Earth-616 counterpart has been revealed.
Cartoonish Supervillainy: Like his alternate-reality father, his villainy is so utterly over-the-top that, combined with his track record of defeats, he can sometimes come off this way.
Character Development: A subdued case, but the two issues he appeared in Exiles depicted him as a more developed character than just about any other appearance he had. Usually, just a bloodthirsty brute for writers to throw at heroes (usually Nate Grey), the Holocaust of Exiles was logical enough to form an alliance with his fellow Exiles, ambitious enough to try and seize his father's throne (he wanted it before too, but only for the freedom to kill them), and most notably, rational enough to let himself be talked out of killing the Age of Apocalypse Magneto (the guy who reduced him to his flaming skeleton state) by his teammates. This late development was very deliberate, as the writers were faking readers into thinking he would become a permanent member of the team.
Co-Dragons: With the rest of the Horseman to Apocalypse.
Combo Platter Powers: Being the son of Apocalypse, he has a big ol' plate of 'em just like his dad. His powers include the following:
- Energy Absorption: A case of Informed Ability, as it is established in his backstory that he once absorbed one of Sunfire's atomic nova bursts (saving both himself and his father) but he is never shown using this ability in the present day. It is possible that he lost it after his body was destroyed.
- Energy Being: Even after his body was destroyed, he was powerful enough that his essence was able to survive in this state.
- Energy Weapon: One of his Power Armor's arms is a BFG, allowing him to weaponize his mutation in the form of 'bio-nuclear blasts'.
- Life Drinker: Like Apocalypse himself, he can absorb the life force of others, and unlike many X-examples of this, he does not require touch to do it.
- Walking Wasteland: His Energy Being form exudes microwave energy, and when not safely contained in his Power Armor he poisons everything around him.
Deadpan Snarker: Appropriately for the Character Development described above, he gets in a few good lines in Exiles.
The Disembodied: Forced into a suit that contains his non-solid body.
The Dragon: He was his father's most trusted horseman in the Age of Apocalypse, though oddly he never got to meet regular flavor Apoc. He also played this to Sebastian Shaw for a time and even slid into this role during his Token Evil Teammate stint with the Exiles.
Dragon with an Agenda: He's got his own plans, different from those of Apocalypse.
Early-Installment Weirdness: A mutant called Holocaust and exhibiting a similar appearance appeared as a data file in Stryfe's Strike Files, but that character was very different from the Holocaust we ultimately saw — the data file described him as something of a Wild Card rather than the Card-Carrying Villain he ended up being, he was described as never speaking (the actual character ended being pretty chatty) and he was described as having an Adaptive Ability the final Holocaust never had.
Enemy to All Living Things: He's both a Walking Wasteland and an Omnicidal Maniac. It's pretty safe to say he qualifies as this.
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: When he fights AoA Sabretooth he rants about how AoA Magneto ruined him for "some imagined slight", which an incredulous Sabretooth counters by reminding him that he killed Magneto's daughter. Holocaust's response is to claim Magneto should have considered that an honor, because she was the first to die by his hand. Very few readers disagree with Sabes when he calls Holocaust "one sick puppy".
Evil Sounds Deep: For his appearance in X-Men Legends II he was given a very deep and booming voice.
Eviler than Thou: Subjected to this by King Hyperion, who cracked open his armor and then simply absorbed his Energy Being form into himself.
Evil Is Bigger: His listed height of 7'5" is tall enough, but he was often drawn much larger than that.
Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: In his original human form he was described as having a 'strikingly handsome' appearance, yet even back then he was a merciless Blood Knight.
Flaming Skulls: His head is one, and yes, he does get compared to Ghost Rider for it at least once.
For the Evulz: Unlike his father, he has no goal driving his slaughter, not even a delusional one. He just likes killing people.
Genocide from the Inside: Not only does he not distinguish between mutant and human victims, most of his victims have been mutants. Further, he's fond of playing the Trojan horse and destroying mutant sanctuaries from within; both AoA Magneto's original haven of Wundagore and the Acolytes' Space Base Avalon were destroyed by his hand, with dozens of mutant lives lost.
Hero Killer: Prides himself on being this. Confirmed kills include his world's Scarlet Witch, his world's Destiny, Milan, Javitz, and Rusty Collins. He also killed his world's Destiny and roughly half the AoA Savage Land in Secret Wars (2015).
Killed Off for Real:
- Inhaled by King Hyperion in Exiles.
- Another version of him is killed when Magneto crushes him inside his own armor.
Klingon Promotion: He got his post as Horseman by killing Candra.
Light Is Not Good: Glowing orange, to be exact
Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Even in the Darker and Edgier '90s he was this. None of his merchandise dared to use the Holocaust name, and he was even briefly renamed Nemesis in-story too, although he reverted back to Holocaust in time for his (currently) final appearance in Exiles.
Nice Job Breaking It Anti-Villain: Believing the frozen Holocaust to be a "sign from the stars", Exodus makes the call to bring him aboard Avalon and thaw him out. The results are fairly predictable.
Omnicidal Maniac: During his time in the Age of Apocalypse. He didn't exactly get better after his transfer to the regular timeline, but numerous other concerns took priority. By the time he joined the Exiles, he seemed to be angling to remake himself into a Conqueror from the Future. This quote from his "glory days" sums up his attitude best:
Holocaust: There are none who are fit to survive in the landscape I will create!
Personality Powers: Discounting his appearance in Exiles he's been a one-note kill everyone kind of villain, and his powers reflect that. Even his father Apocalypse has powers that can be beneficial to others, such as Super-Empowering, but ol' Holly is about one thing and one thing only when it comes to others: killing them.
Power Armor: Wears a suit of one specifically built to hold his Energy Being form together.
- Arm Cannon: The left arm of his Power Armor is one.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: Late in X-Man it was revealed that the armor had limited shapeshifting capabilities, allowing Nemesis to briefly impersonate Nate Grey.
- Weaksauce Weakness: The armor is also his greatest vulnerability, being relatively fragile and broken either partly or fully on a near-constant basis. X-Man, Exodus, and King Hyperion have all managed to break the protective headpiece (though it's worth noting that they're three of the most individually powerful characters in the Marvel Universe), and in an issue of Secret Wars (2015) the Age of Apocalypse X-Men team were able to destroy the armor completely by working together.
Psycho Supporter: Served this role to Onslaught as one of his 'Dark Descendants'.
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gives a short but sweet one in Blink's first mini when an army from the Negative Zone shows up on his doorstep.
Minion: But, sir— they're getting away!
Holocaust: Let them! The last thing we need to do is divide our forces in battle with these — these interdimensional morons!
Sealed Evil in a Can: When he first arrived in the regular timeline. The M'Krann crystal transported Holocaust to the normal Marvel U Earth... stripped of his life-support Power Armor, twenty years into its past, and sealed inside a block of ice suspended in Earth's orbit. Ouch!
The Sociopath: He brags about the millions of people he's killed and makes it flagrantly clear he believes the lives of everyone that isn't him exist to be taken or spared (usually taken) at his discretion. It's safe to say he counts.
Smug Snake: He's actually a genuine powerhouse, being able to contend with the likes of Magneto (if not for long), King Hyperion, and Exodus, destroying Asteroid M in a brutal fight with the latter that reduces Exodus to psychic vampirism for a while. However, he thinks he's on the same level as the likes of Nate Grey... who promptly flattens him, dismissing him as a distraction, with Apocalypse being 'the main event'. To add insult to injury, Nate did so while only semi-trained with constant Power Creep, Power Seep and only being able to use his telekinesis. None of their rematches in the 616 universe really go well for him, either.
Status Quo Is God: It is established in Holocaust's backstory that he is not naturally a flaming Energy Being skeleton, and the reason why he became one was that his original human body was destroyed in battle with Magneto. We are even shown what he looked like as a human pre-Magneto◊. But when a version of him was introduced into the regular 616 timeline (under the name of 'Genocide' for some reason), that version is also a flaming skeleton in Power Armor, despite being much younger and never losing his body in battle (it's given a Hand Wave in-story that his powers reduced him to the flaming skeleton state... somehow).
The Sociopath: He has no empathy not even his father, treats people as tools, constantly needs stimulation, manipulates people on the fly, and has poor impulse control.
The Starscream: During his time in the Exiles he aspired to be one, convincing the other Exiles to join him in rebelling against the Timebroker. Unfortunately for him, the 'Timebroker' was just a front for a much more deadly enemy...
Superpowerful Genetics: As the son of Apocalypse, he naturally inherited a heaping helping of his father's uber-genes.
Those Two Guys: He and Post usually worked together during the Onslaught Saga. They also got their butts kicked together trying to fight The Avengers.
Token Evil Teammate: When he joined up with the Exiles.
Undignified Death: The dude was literally snorted to death like a mutant pixie stick.
Vampiric Draining: One of his armor's abilities is to drain the life force of other beings to feed its phasing and shapeshifting powers.
Villain Team-Up: His favorite team-up partner is the Dark Beast, but he's also worked with Post and Sebastian Shaw.
Weaksauce Weakness: Because telepaths were mostly killed off in his timeline, he's apparently quite vulnerable to telepathic control. Low-level Hellfire Club telepath Tessa keeps him on a leash during his time in the Club by giving him mental nudges whenever he looks like he's threatening Shaw.
The Worf Effect: He inflicted it on Exodus upon his arrival in the 616 universe to establish his high power level. Bizarrely, the storyline immediately following this made a plot point out of him having a Weaksauce Weakness to telepathy, making readers wonder why on earth Exodus didn't just control him the way the much less powerful telepath Tessa does.
Worthy Opponent: By the end of the Age of Apocalypse he had grown to regard Blink as one.

Mister Sinister

Mister Sinister (Nathaniel Essex)

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Beard of Evil: The traditional goatee variant.
Co-Dragons: With the rest of the Horsemen
- Dragon with an Agenda: He fully pans to use Apocalypse to fuel his research, before realizing how insane his boss was.
- The Starscream: Wants to destroy Apocalypse because he considers him an Omnicidal Maniac
Even Evil Has Standards: His reason for rebelling against Apocalypse and creating Nate Grey. He also finds Dark Beast's experiments to be unnecessarily cruel.
Evil Brit: Like the 616 Sinister he originally hails from Victorian England.
Evil Genius: He is without a doubt the preeminent mind responsible for the rise of Apocalypse's empire.
Evil Mentor: To Dark Beast. Also to Cyclops and Havok.
Evilutionary Biologist: The archetypal example, running the Breeding Pits.
Faux Affably Evil: He can put on a good show, and it might be genuine, but he's still capable of stone-cold evil acts in the pursuit of his goals.
For Science!: In a twist, this actually makes him less evil, since he is able to see that Apocalypse's doctrine has no basis in science and no room for logic and, furthermore, is going to destroy all life on Earth.
From a Single Cell: Has the Healing Factor form of this, though it doesn't seem to be as efficacious as his mainstream counterpart's version of the ability. When he is confronted by Nate Grey, he is initially able to regenerate the damage Nate inflicts on him, but Nate just keeps pouring it on, eventually doing more damage than Sinister can recover from (though it would later be retconned that he did in fact survive this incident).
He Who Fights Monsters: Played with. He eventually realizes that Apocalypse is a threat that must be stopped, and creates Nate Grey to this end, but he's still an evil bastard who has no compunctions about beating an old man to death for getting in his way.
Hoist by His Own Petard: Detailed in the Kick the Dog example directly below.
Kick the Dog: He beats Nate's mentor Forge to death more or less for getting between him and Nate (he'd infiltrated the group Nate was currently with in disguise, hoping to guide Nate towards his own goals, but Forge kept shutting him down). Nate did not take this well.
Killed Off for Real: Originally beaten to death by Nate, he was later retconned into surviving, only to be killed off again anyway, this time by Weapon X and Jean Grey
Mad Scientist: Though not quite as mad as his regular incarnation.
Parental Substitute: To Cyclops and Havok, as well as Nate Grey (the latter especially does not appreciate it, much preferring Forge).
Pet the Dog: When Nate first appears from his nutrient bath, looking about 6, he goes to the trouble of giving him a set of adorable pajamas and using one of his machines to generate a copy of a stuffed bear he noticed that Nate liked before putting him back under.
Psychotic Smirk: Wears one while killing Forge.
Red Eyes, Take Warning: Has these both in his normal form and in his disguise as "Essex". Despite this rather obvious visual cue, Forge is the only member of the Outcasts to distrust him.
Team Dad: To the Elite Mutant Force.
Voluntary Shapeshifter: A power he shares with his 616 counterpart. He puts it to work by infiltrating Forge's Outcasts as the seemingly benign traveler "Essex".
Well-Intentioned Extremist: He does some nasty things, but his ultimate goal is the same as that of the heroes — to see Apocalypse overthrown.
Wicked Cultured: Not to the same degree as 616 Sinister, but he carries himself with the same aloof and aristocratic air, a trait which is completely absent from all of Apocalypse's other servants.

Prelate Rasputin

Prelate Rasputin, the Forgotten Horseman (Mikhail Rasputin)

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Brainwashed and Crazy: Apocalypse was impressed when Mikhail defeated his Horseman of War, so he brainwashed Mikhail into his servant.
Chrome Champion: Used his Reality Warper powers to transform his body into a form somewhat similar to that of his brother Colossus.
Co-Dragons
- Dragon with an Agenda: Wants to seize Eurasia for himself.
Killed Off for Real: By Donald Blake in a case of Taking You with Me.
Faux Affably Evil: He acts polite, but behind that lay a sociopath who would hurt his own brother.
Reforged into a Minion: Apocalypse turned him into a minion.

Abyss

Abyss (Nils Styger)

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Ax-Crazy: He’s completely lacking in sanity.
Being Tortured Makes You Evil: He was experimented on by Sinister and Beast. He joined the Horsemen after escaping from their Breeding Pens.
Canon Immigrant: He was created for the Age of Apocalypse, but was later adapted into the Marvel Universe, albeit as a hero.
Co-Dragons: And the only one who is actually loyal.
Dark Is Evil: His whole body is jet black and he's about as Ax-Crazy as they come.
The Fundamentalist: He has no desire to change Apocalypse reality.
Klingon Promotion: He earned it by defeating and destroying the horseman Bastion.
Killed Off for Real/Taking You with Me: By Banshee
Pocket Dimension: His mutant ability makes him a living gateway to one of these. Per a later Retcon, it's the same dimension Nightcrawler uses as an Extradimensional Shortcut.
The Sociopath: Gleefully revels in the torture of those he considers beneath him, up to and including...
Would Hurt a Child: Sucked a human boy into himself and happily fed off his terror.

Bastion

Co-Dragons: As one of Apocalypse's Horsemen.
The Ghost: He never actually appears, having been destroyed years earlier in the backstory, and until the above reveal the only information we had about him was that Abyss had defeated him.
Killed Off for Real: By Abyss, earning the latter a Klingon Promotion.

Death

Death (Maximus)

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Co-Dragons: One of Apoclapyse Horsemen.
Dark Is Evil: His armor.
Evilutionary Biologist: He experimented on his fellow Inhumans.
Hoist by His Own Petard: He plans to use Sunfire as his instrument of betrayal, only to be...
Killed Off for Real: Burned to death by said instrument.
Mad Scientist: Killed the Inhuman Royal Family and created twisted clones of them to serve as his servants.
Psychic Powers: Per his 616 incarnation, he has these.
The Quisling: Not a mutant, but by collaborating with Apocalypse he's the ruler of the Inhumans.
The Starscream: He also plans to overthrow Apocalypse.

War

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Canon Foreigner: It is not known if he's the AoA counterpart of Adam Kieros(War) or a different character altogether.
Co-Dragons: With the rest of the Horseman.
Killed Off for Real: By Mikhail Rasputin.
Shock and Awe: High levels of electricity at his disposal.

Death

Co-Dragons: With the rest of the Horseman
Canon Foreigner: It is not known if she's the AoA counterpart of Selene or Autumn Rolfson (Famine), or a different character altogether.
Dark Is Evil: Whatever her identity, she has darkened skin and has chosen "Death" for her title.
Killed Off for Real: Offscreen.
Vampiric Draining: She has life-draining powers similar to Rogue's
We Hardly Knew Ye: She only appears in one issue.

Candra

The Baroness: To Apocalypse.
Co-Dragons: With the rest of the first-gen Horsemen. Notably, she and Gideon seem to be the most authoritative.
Killed Off for Real: By Holocaust
Mouth of Sauron: Announces Apocalypse's war against humanity.
Mind over Matter: She has telekinetic powers.
Number Two: To Apocalypse.
We Hardly Knew Ye: She only appears in two issues.

Gideon

Co-Dragons: With the rest of the first-gen Horsemen. Notably, he and Candra seem to be the most authoritative.
Corrupt Corporate Executive: Starts out as this like his 616 incarnation.
Killed Off for Real: By Magneto during the Cape Citadel battle.
Power Copying: His power is to mimic those of others.
Smug Snake: Smug enough to gloat to Magneto during their battle at Cape Citadel.
We Hardly Knew Ye: He only appears once, in the first issue of the prequel series X-Men: Chronicles.

Elite Mutant Force

Cyclops

Cyclops (Scott Summers)

Eye Scream: Weapon X made Cyclops's codename literal when he gouged out one of Scott's eyes in the same battle that cost Logan his left hand.
Eyepatch of Power: Sort of. One of his eyes was gouged by Weapon X, so his visor only has one lens for his surviving eye.
Disabled in the Adaptation: This Scott only has one eye thanks to Weapon X.
Dating Catwoman: Attracted to Jean when she's captured by Sinister.
The Dragon: To Sinister.
Even Evil Has Standards: Unlike his cruel brother Havok.
Handicapped Badass: As mentioned, he has only one eye, but he is still perfectly capable to kick ass.
Heel–Face Turn: Not that he was particularly evil to begin with. Though in the recent Age of Apocalypse series he changes his mind...
Mad Scientist's Beautiful Adopted Son: The handsome son of Mr. Sinister's mad scientist.
The Paragon Always Rebels: Easily one of the greatest of Mr. Sinister's soldiers, rebels out of wanting to stop the killing.
Self-Made Orphan: He was forced to kill his father because he had been infected with a Brood Queen.
Token Good Teammate: In the Elite Mutant Force.
Underground Railroad: Secretly smuggles prisoners out of the Breeding Pens.
You Are in Command Now: When Sinister leaves to seek Nate Grey as part of his plan to assassinate Apocalypse he puts Cyclops in command of the Breeding Pens.

Havok

Havok (Alex Summers)

The Brute: To Cyclops's The Dragon.
Cain and Abel: The Cain to Cyclops' Abel.
Driven by Envy: Towards his brother.
Interspecies Romance: With Scarlett McKenzie.
Killed Off for Real: Killed off by Weapon X.
- AndResurrected in the latest Age of Apocalypse series.
Number Two: To Cyclops, part of the reasons why he's:
- The Resenter: He hates being subordinate to Cyclops and being seen as the lesser of the two.
Revenge Before Reason: Hates Cyclops and pursues vengeance, despite everything around screaming that that’s a bad idea.
Tattooed Crook: Several Sinister tattoos on his back.
The Un-Favourite: Compared to Cycops he might at well not have been a soldier at all.

Dark Beast

Dark Beast (Henry "Hank" McCoy)

A Million Is a Statistic: Invokes this, along with Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor, in when talking to his main timeline (Earth-616) counterpart:
Beast: Six thousand people died here.
Dark Beast: Six thousand? Six-oughty-oughty-ought? Well, Weapon X has always been sort of a cottage industry. You can't expect to get the big, eye-catching numbers.
Aborted Arc: The Storm miniseries teased that Dark Beast was behind Mikhail Rasputin and the new generation of Morlocks. While the Mikhail connection was dropped, the Morlock connection stuck around, to the point where he was heavily hinted at being the original creator of the Morlocks, and that Sinister slaughtered them because of that - or rather, because he got suspicious of someone using genetic manipulation very much like his own.
Bastard Understudy: To the Mister Sinister of his reality.
A Beast in Name and Nature: He’s a sadistic monster, with a beastly appearance and he carries the name of Dark Beast.
Beast Man: More bestial in appearance than mainstream Hank (at the time - this was before Hank turned into a cat person). And he did it to himself on purpose.
Blasphemous Boast: Delivers one of these to the main timeline's McCoy's childhood priest during his killing spree in X-Men Unlimited #10 (see Serial Killer below for more info on that):
Dark Beast: So long as there is no empirical evidence of a higher power, I'm not subscribing to it. But I'll tell you what, if I'm wrong and God does exist... tell him I said hello.
Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Anytime he's found himself in an Enemy Mine situation, it ends with him sticking a knife in someone's back. His alliance with the Uncanny X-Force ended with him stranding the team in the Age of Apocalypse, and despite enthusiastically proclaiming himself to be an X-Man when he was captured and put to work by the team, he was ultimately executed by Magik when it was discovered that his anti-anti-mutant vaccine was just a front for yet another of his Social Darwinist plots.
Combat Pragmatist: He can fight, though he prefers doing so against those at a disadvantage, such as a young Nate Grey, whose powers were malfunctioning. When Nate had grown up a bit, but was functionally limited to Telepathy and a taser glove, he still managed to bully Dark Beast, and when the full-grown version, in full control of all his many abilities and out for Dark Beast's blood, turned up, Dark Beast's immediate plan of action was to run for the hills - which, in fairness, is probably a wise proposition, since at that point Nate regarded things like physical death as minor inconveniences, the Multiverse as his personal step-ladder, and entire teams of high-end X-Men as passing irritations. Plus, like his genetic sibling, Cable, he was definitely not an adherent to the X-Men's philosophy of Thou Shalt Not Kill.
Complexity Addiction: Though ruthless and pragmatic when he absolutely has to be, the Dark Beast is often given to indulging in fits of dramatic and even petty villainy, which often comes back to bite him. For example, when he captured his good counterpart he chose to chain him in a dank sewer and then wall him up inside with a literal wall of bricks, medieval torture style. When called on this by Hank, he admits the impracticality but adds that it's just more "fun" that way.
Costume Copycat: Perhaps inevitably for an Evil Twin, he kidnapped the regular Beast at one point and impersonated him for a bit.
Crippling Overspecialisation: Unlike his main timeline counterpart, who is an Omnidisciplinary Scientist, Dark Beast's field of knowledge barely extends past biology (at least initially). While posing as his good counterpart, he was often annoyed by all the fields of science the X-Men expected him to know. Later on, he proved to have a very competent grasp of robotics, enough to master the nano-sentinels which impeded the powers of the former Phoenix Five, minus Magik and plus Magneto.
Dark Is Evil: His fur is a darker shade of blue than the regular Hank's, the result of the Dark Beast playing Professor Guinea Pig (something, ironically, which ends up killing him).
Dark Lord on Life Support: He's not a Lord, but in the final days of his life the Dark Beast was forced to wear a life-support suit of Powered Armor due to his body's heavy physical degeneration.
The Dragon: To Mister Sinister in the universe he comes from, and then later to Havok when the latter suffered from a temporary Face–Heel Turn. While not a Dragon to them, he also cozied up to Onslaught and Norman Osborn in later appearances - though in the latter case, that was mostly because Osborn gave him a license to do more or less whatever he wanted.
Early-Installment Weirdness: Early on he kept switching between being referred to as Dark Beast and Black Beast, and one 1996 trading card referred to him as Alter Beast.
Enemy Mine: He briefly teamed up with the White Queen at one point.
Even Evil Has Standards: Possibly. During one of their many tussles Dark Beast harangues his better half for "deserting your species", arguing that extreme measures are necessary to preserve mutantkind's future. He also showed himself to be unable to kill his counterpart's parents (who are technically his parents) when he was killing the rest of McCoy's old friends and family, although he did decapitate a random civilian while walking away from them.
Evil Doppelgänger: Of the Hank McCoy from Earth-616, dubbed the Beast because of the sadistic nature of his experiments. At one point he also joined Osborn's Dark X-Men, which were deliberately modelled to mirror the real X-Men.
Evil Genius: He's undeniably a brilliant biochemist and geneticist - though he's not an Omnidisciplinary Scientist the way the main timeline's Hank is, leading to a great deal of irritation on his part when he pretended to be Hank and the X-Men expected him to know practically everything.
Evil Mentor: Tries to play this to Nate Grey. It doesn't work.
Evil Twin: A literal evil twin of X-Men's Beast, justified by his hailing from an alternate reality.
Evilutionary Biologist: A student of his reality's Mister Sinister, and arguably surpassing his mentor in the evil quotient.
Fake Identity Baggage: Dark Beast abducts and impersonates his heroic counterpart Henry McCoy. However, this task is made much more difficult due to his lacking Henry's vast scientific expertise, requiring him to bluff his way through some of the questions he was asked.
Faux Affably Evil: He's got all the charm and wit of 616 Hank, but none of the genuine kindness. When he impersonated his 616 counterpart, he managed to adopt his Nice Guy facade before betraying them.
Foreshadowing: A whole character example. While he horrifies 616 Hank, after M-Day, a combination of desperation, bitterness, and hubris mean that Hank's Character Development takes him down a path where he ends up increasingly resembling his Evil Counterpart, with the only differences being that he's self-righteous and increasingly stoic. And if anything, he's arguably even worse.
For Science!: Claims this, though as even Sinister notes, he's pretty much doing it...
For the Evulz: His experiments are particularly nasty for no reason whatsoever other than his own enjoyment.
Genius Bruiser: Though not quite as much as regular Hank, not being an Omnidisciplinary Scientist (though he's very good with biochemistry, genetics, and, to an extent, machinery, to build gizmos).
Hate Sink: All the arrogance and Insufferable Genius qualities of his 616 counterpart, but with the courage and charm replaced by cowardice and sadism.
Hoist by His Own Petard: The experiments he performed on himself over the years wound up killing him.
Joker Immunity: After dying a prolonged, extremely painful death of physical degeneration due to his own self-experimentation, he came back as Half the Man He Used to Be. Then he got decapitated again by Magik, but eventually reappeared as a very angry severed head, kept alive in Sinister's Krakoan laboratory.
Karma Houdini: For a very long time he escapes punishment, despite Nate's best attempts to kill him on multiple occasions. Then he winds up being Hoist by His Own Petard - the many experiments he did on himself wound up killing him.
Mad Scientist: One of the purest examples of this type of character to be found in the Marvel Universe.
The Man Behind the Man: It is implied that he is responsible for creating the Morlocks.
Manipulative Bastard: As with most things he does the Dark Beast is a pale shade of his mentor Mister Sinister in this regard, but from time to time he's shown signs of this, the most ambitious of them being the time he attempted to ignite a war between the X-Men and S.H.I.E.L.D.
Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: The Dark Beast is one doctor you definitely don't want to trust with a check-up.
Oh, Crap!: Has two during Dark X-Men, first when he recognizes just who the mysterious energy being possessing the townspeople is: Nate Grey, his old nemesis who hates his guts, then later has a second one when he realizes that Nate faked his death and is now possessing Norman Osborn.
Personality Powers: His powers reflect his personality as a "darker Beast", both literally (the color of his fur) and figuratively (he's got longer fangs and sharper claws). Both are the results of self-experimentation on his part, ever the hobby of Mad Scientists like him.
Pet the Dog: In his sole moment of humanity, he found himself unable to go through with killing Beast's parents after spending time with them while impersonating Beast, becoming conflicted and ultimately just silently running away (admittedly while killing a random dogwalker) after his heart to heart talk with an oblivious Norton McCoy ended with Norton telling him, "Your parents will always love you."
Dark Beast: I couldn't do it. I couldn't kill them.
Professor Guinea Pig: His darker fur and longer claws compared to his 616 counterpart are the results of experiments he conducted on himself to accelerate his own mutation.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: This self-experimentation ultimately led to his death, his body simply unable to function anymore.
Right-Wing Militia Fanatic: During Messiah Complex he has a conversation with Hank that evokes shades of this, mocking his counterpart for his "cute little liberal conscience waving in the wind like a pair of frilly lace panties".
Sadist: The most jarring difference between him and the regular Hank. While regular Hank is a Gentle Giant and Friend to All Living Things, the Dark Beast is a Smug Snake Evilutionary Biologist with particular emphasis on the 'evil' over the 'biologist' - though both of them share an ego, with regular Hank demonstrating more of Dark Beast's habit of playing god (sometimes with notably petty intentions, such as when he brought the O5 X-Men to the present, regardless of the consequences) in recent years. Notably, even the Mister Sinister of his reality held him in contempt, feeling that the Dark Beast's sadistic streak got in the way of his work and made for bad science.
Serial Killer: When he finds out about the real Henry McCoy he immediately sets out on a killing spree, taking out Hank's friends, teachers, and colleagues from elementary school all the way up to his graduate days. He finally stops at Hank's parents, parricide being the one line he can't bring himself to cross.
Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Not to the degree of ordinary flavor Hank, but he slips into this from time to time. That stint where he abducted and impersonated Hank for a few months probably necessitated adopting a certain degree of this into his vocabulary.
Smug Snake: Just try to find a panel of this guy where he's not grinning, smirking, leering, or otherwise showing off his canines.
Taking You with Me: When exposed and dying from experimenting on himself, Dark Beast attempted to initiate a bomb to take the X-Men with him simply out of spite.
Villain Forgot to Level Grind: In the late nineties, he was a legitimate threat to the teenage Nate Grey, whose powers were killing him and were in a constant in-universe state of Power Creep, Power Seep. By the time Nate had some combat experience under his belt, however, he could intimidate Dark Beast when limited to just his Telepathy and a taser glove. By Nate's return in Dark X-Men, when his powers were fully realized, stabilized, and mastered, it was only the intervention of Mystique (conveniently disguised as Jean Grey) that saved Dark Beast from being instantly immolated.
Villain Team-Up: Seeing as how he's not much of a threat to the X-Men on his own, he usually teams up with other, stronger villains, ranging from Apocalypse and Holocaust to Onslaught and Norman Osborn.
Wicked Cultured: He's got all the eloquence and cultured nature of 616 Beast, and absolutely no soul whatsoever.
Would Hurt a Child: And women, and animals, and... look, he's basically The Unfettered Mad Scientist taken to its (not so) logical extreme.

Beaubier Twins

Northstar and Aurora (Jean-Paul and Jeanne-Marie Beaubier)

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Aristocrats Are Evil: Their demeanor is reminiscent of this. Justified in that the most powerful mutants are aristocrats in Apocalypse's regime.
Expy: Fair-haired mutants with Wonder Twin Flying Firepower that have an Incest Subtext in a totalitarian fascist regime; might as well be the Fenris Twins.
Flight/Super-Speed: When holding hands.
Incest Subtext: They are constantly depicted close to each other and once even hugging, even though Jean-Paul's Earth-616 counterpart is homosexual.
Killed Off for Real: By Weapon X and his daughter, Kirika.

Guthrie Clan

Amazon and Cannonball (Elisabeth and Samuel Guthrie)

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Canon Foreigner/Canon Immigrant: The Earth-616 version of Amazon only appeared once, in a few panels, in the mainstream universe, during another crossover half a year before the Age of Apocalypse, and confusingly enough, she is implied to be actually younger than her siblings (but in the AOA, she’s implied to be the oldest of the AoA counterparts of the Guthrie siblings).
Brawn Hilda: Amazon's power.
The Brute: To Havok when Cyclops defects.
Killed Off for Real
Tattooed Crook: Lots of them.

Bedlam Brothers

Bedlam Brothers (Terrence and Jesse Aaronson)

Canon Immigrant: Their counterparts later appeared on Earth-616, except Jesse was a wimpy coward, who was ironically an undercover spy for Charles Xavier, while Terence was named Christopher instead and was an amoral bastard who was a mutant-supremacist terrorist/career criminal who caused the deaths of his parents in a car crash, using his mutant powers
Even Evil Has Standards: They were disgusted by the Sinister pens.
Punch-Clock Villain: At worst.
Scary Black Man: Thoroughly averted.
Those Two Guys: Never seen apart.
What Happened to the Mouse?: After they helped out Cyclops they are never seen again.

Emplate

Emplate (Marius St. Croix)

Scary Black Man: He was already frightening when he died the first time, the second time he was downright terrifying.

The Church of the Madri

The Brotherhood of Chaos

Arclight

Canon Foreigner: He's not the 616 Arclight, who is, first of all, female.

The Pale Riders

Damask

Damask (Emma Steed)

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Canon Immigrant: She was later adapted for use as a foe for Excalibur, as Black Queen of the Hellfire Club's London branch.
Heel–Face Turn: In Avalon, she defects to the "good side" and helps fight the Shadow King.

Dani Moonstar

Danielle Moonstar

Teens Are Monsters: She's a cruel teenage Psycho for Hire.
The Mole: In the Ghost Dance.
Psycho for Hire: She's one of Apocalypse's assassins.

Dead Man Wade

Dead Man Wade (Wade Wilson)

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Adaptation Name Change: He's the AoA counterpart to Deadpool.
Adaptational Villainy: Compared to his lighter 616 self, he very much falls into this.
Psycho for Hire: He's one of Apocalypse's assassins.
The Quisling: Much like the original Deadpool, he's a mutate, not a true mutant, and yet, he's working for Apocalypse.

The Bounty Hunters

Domino

Laser-Guided Karma: On the receiving end of this from Nate Grey, who rearranges her mind so that she relives all her horrible deeds, but instead of enjoying them, she realizes the horror of what she did.
Psycho for Hire: She absolutely loves what she does, as one of Apocalypse's chief assassins.
Smug Snake: She's a badass, to be sure... but a person with low-level luck powers versus a Hot-Blooded borderline Physical God with Psychic Powers and potential as a fully-fledged Reality Warper? How is this possibly going to end well?
Villainous Breakdown: After pissing off Nate Grey, due to her Laser-Guided Karma. Her last word is a drawn out Big "NO!", after which she appears more or less catatonic.

Caliban

A henchman and bounty hunter of Domino.

Dirty Coward: Unlike canon, he’s an egotistical coward who pleads for his life.
Killed Off for Real: By Toad Of all people.
Psycho for Hire: Under Domino, he loves to show off his power.

Grizzly

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A bestial mass murderer and one of Domino's henchmen.

The Brute: A sociopath who's used for his brawn.
Killed Off for Real: By Forge and Sonique.
Psycho for Hire: Mass-Murders by the thousands and surely enjoys it.

Infinites

Prelate Unus

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A prelate in Apocalypses Infinites.

We Hardly Knew Ye: He was killed by Ice Man before he could be fleshed out at all.

Delgado

Prelate Delgado

He was one of the thousands that joined Apocalypses armies eventually becoming Prelate.

Adaptational Attractiveness: Downplayed, but his skin is covered in rock.
Curb-Stomp Battle: Delivered this to both Blink and Sunfire.
Heroic Sacrifice: More like Villain Sacrifice. But his death leads to Apocalypse minion Rex to find the X-Men’s base.

Reavers

Donald Pierce

Ax-Crazy: He tried to kill get away, and successfully killed Brian Braddock viciously.
Mook Lieutenant: With the techno-organic virus he is a regenerator with the capacity to assimilate both non-organics and organics. Without the techno-organic virus, he is nothing.
The Mole: In the Hellfire Club.
Heel–Face Turn: Now a member of the X-terminated.
The Quisling: Quickly joins whatever side lets him live.

Other Servants of Apocalypse

Sugar Man

Arch-Nemesis: To Nate Grey, whom he's quite sensibly afraid of (because Nate is a Physical God and has frequently tried to kill him), taking a certain glee in having the upper hand in Unfinished Business. This was unwise, as come Uncanny X-Men (2018), Nate tracked him down and ripped him in half.
The Apprentice: He used to be this to Mister Sinister.
Ax-Crazy: A literal example, as he is often depicted in merchandise wielding an axe.
Bad Boss: He ran the work camps which housed thousands of humans and regularly tormented his slaves.
Beware the Silly Ones: He looks, and often acts, quite ridiculous, but he's deceptively dangerous in a physical brawl, he's much smarter than he seems, and he's extremely hard to kill.
The Brute: Despite having fairly advanced scientific knowledge, his very physical mutation makes him favor shaking it up with the heroes as one of these.
Canon Foreigner/Canon Immigrant: Literally immigrated to the 616 reality. Unlike other immigrants to 616, he hasn't shown any sign of a counterpart to date (Dark Beast and Nate had counterparts in Beast and Cable, respectively, while Holocaust developed one in Genocide).
Cephalothorax: His face and by extension head are in his thorax.
Character Death:
- He was temporarily killed by Magneto just prior to Secret Wars (2015), with his own lab equipment. He was revealed in Apocalypse Wars to have survived this too.
- As of 2018 he's dead again, courtesy of X-Man ripping him in two shortly before the Age of X-Man, though given his track record of Staying Alive mutants might want to hold off on the confetti and streamers for a few years... or a nice solid decade, just to be on the safe side.
- Sure enough, two years later Sugar Man turned up alive and well on the pages of The Amazing Spider-Man (2018), having a Villains Out Shopping day for himself at the Foreigner's casino.
Cephalothorax: Sugarman appears as a rotund torso dominated by a huge, ugly face, with four arms and a single pair of legs.
Combo Platter Powers: Has Super-Strength; a multipurpose, needle-tipped tongue of intestinal length; More Teeth than the Osmond Family, Super-Senses that allow him to smell fear and size-shifting.
Diabolus ex Nihilo: While literally every other inhabitant of the Age of Apocalypse has (eventually) been linked to a counterpart in the regular 616 reality, the Sugar Man has not and no mutant has ever been seen that even remotely resembles him.
Dirty Coward: He's more than willing to run for the hills the moment the tide looks to be turned against him.
Even Evil Has Standards: Depraved as he is, even he was surprised by the things the Dark Beast created to serve him when the two villains reunited in the 616 universe.
Evil Is Bigger: Might seem stocky due to lacking ahead, but is 6' 9" (2.05m).
Fangs Are Evil: Razor-sharp teeth across that really wide mouth.
Fluffy the Terrible: Let's be honest; "Sugar Man" doesn't make you think "sadistic plague-engineering cannibal mutant", now does it?
For the Evulz: He has no goal beyond just seeing those weaker than him suffer for the pleasure of it.
Gonk: One of the weirdest and most disgusting-looking villains the X-Men ever faced.
Hero Killer: Killed several members of Generation Next, the Age of Apocalypse analogue to Generation X.
Horns of Villainy: Two over his eyebrows, usually small but Depending on the Artist sometimes they can vary wildly in size.
Hypercompetent Sidekick: A very unusual example, but the Sugar Man has proved himself to be this over the years, particularly where Genosha is concerned. He allied himself with Cameron Hodge and the Genegineer in secret and ultimately succeeded where they failed by engineering a stable Genoshan regime (well, as stable as things ever get on Genosha) that supplied him with a regular feed of mutant slaves. Later, when he joined up with Holocaust and the Dark Beast and the Shi'ar came for all of them, he was the only one of the three with the sense to play ball with the Sh'iar, resulting in a cocky (and free) Sugar Man glibly taunting his betters while they lay helpless in Shi'ar custody.
I'm a Humanitarian: Sugar Man is in fact an Extreme Omnivore who can digest virtually anything as sustenance... but as he's fond of reminding his victims, he has his preferences in food. He revealed to Dark Beast that he eat his enemies alive after defeating them in battle, as he fought and ate all of DB’s security guards in Earth-616, and later tried to eat alive both Callisto and Karima Shapandar/Omega Sentinel when they were on Genosha he actually managed to consume all of Callisto’s tentacles on one side of her body, during that stretch of time before the Decimation when her arms and hands had been transformed into tentacles by her rival Morlock leader Masque
Karma Houdini: Instead of being punished for what he did in the Age of Apocalypse, teleported himself to the 616 reality. However, just before Secret Wars (2015), he seemed to get his comeuppance when Magneto impaled him on his own lab equipment after getting what he needed he survived and continued to cause trouble, but was permanently executed in 2018 by a Celestial Life Seed-empowered Nate Grey
Mad Scientist: With expertise in genetics and, to an extent, cybernetics, having invented the Genoshan mutate bonding process and being able to whip up mutating tech on the spot from apparent junk (admittedly, that junk was from a HAMMER facility, but still). Though not the foremost example of this trope, as he bluntly admits to Magneto when the latter comes to him for a better dose of MGH, he's not of the same caliber as Sinister or Dark Beast. On the other hand, he is probably the best at "quick and dirty" jobs that get results, as Magneto points out.
The Man Behind the Man: Retconned into being the mastermind behind Genosha's various anti-mutant tech, as he arrived twenty years in 616's past.
Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Four arms, which he exploits by carrying a hammer and an axe, and sometimes guns.
Multi-Melee Master: Master is definitely pushing it, but as a four-armed mutant the Sugar Man is known to carry multiple types of weapons in battle, including:
- Carry a Big Stick: Carries a hammer with SUGAR on it. He's a weird guy, okay?
- Good Guns, Bad Guns: When edged weapons aren't enough, he's also known to carry TMPs and other machine guns.
Multipurpose Tongue: Sugar Man uses his long razor-sharp tongue as his weapon.
Out-Gambitted: Magneto tricked him into providing him a 'quick and dirty' boost to his failing mutant powers, using Briar Raleigh as a go-between to make Sugar Man think he had given up his mission of being a mutant Vigilante Man. Unfortunately for Sugar Man, Magneto had done no such thing, and the moment Sugar Man had given him what he wanted Magneto pulped him.
Outside-Context Problem: According to his creator Scott Lobdell, Sugar Man was created specifically to be this, providing a villain for the Age of Apocalypse who wasn't just a new take on an old character. And to this very day, well over 25 years later, no 616 counterpart of him has ever appeared.
Overly-Long Tongue: Has a prehensile tongue which he can shoot up to ten feet, and he understandably employs as a weapon.
Plague Master: His primary contributions to Apocalypse's regime were the nightmarish biological weapons he invented.
Psycho for Hire: Degenerated into a Mad Scientist variant of this after he was run out of Genosha. When Magneto went to him for an extra strength dose of MGH to power him up, he even bluntly pointed this out, noting that Magneto could have gone to any one of a number of geneticists higher up on the scale than him (the answer was that Magneto wanted quick and dirty).
Psychopathic Man Child: The Man-Child part is indicated by his drawings, which look like childish scribbles. The psycho part goes without saying.
Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Revealed to have regularly sexually abused a number of his prisoners, including, chillingly, a young Illyana Rasputin and Clarice Ferguson.
Red Eyes, Take Warning: Occasionally drawn with them.
The Renfield: An odd example in that he is perfectly capable of operating on his own, but the minute a stronger leader emerges he starts kissing up, particularly if that leader is Apocalypse or someone connected to him somehow.
Retcon: Despite being the writer who decided to bring Sugar Man over to the mainstream Marvel Universe, Sugar Man's creator Scott Lobdell never intended to make him The Man Behind the Man to the mutant-enslaving regime on Genosha. That was done by Warren Ellis and Jeph Loeb in the pages of Cable's title.
Sadist: He takes pleasure in experimenting, torturing, and raping his victims that he can overpower.
Sizeshifter: He is also able to control his own mass. If he loses mass, the lost mass is shunted off to some unknown location, presumably an extra-dimensional space and he shrinks in size. It's unknown how long it takes him to regain his normal size.
Spikes of Villainy: Often, though not always, depicted with spiked shoulder pads.
Staying Alive: The most complex yet useful perk of his mutation: whenever Sugar Man is killed, a smaller Sugar Man (a fourth the size of the original's body) emerges from the corpse. He survived a pipe through the head courtesy of Callisto and Omega Sentinel this way.
Verbal Tic: In early appearances, he had a habit of running words together. It was either quietly dropped or quietly forgotten.
Villain Team-Up: Fairly fond of teaming up with his fellow Age of Apocalypse expatriates Holocaust and the Dark Beast. He inevitably betrays them just like he betrays everyone else, but hey, it's the thought that counts.
Would Hurta Child: Revealed to be a child molester to the young female prisoners.

Keeper Murdock

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Adaptation Name Change: He's Daredevil's AoA counterpart.
The Quisling: A human who joined the sides of genocidal mutants.
Heel–Face Turn: Teased with his Villainous BSoD, but ultimately averted. When Logan becomes the new Big Bad, Murdock joins him.
Villainous BSoD: After finding out his powers didn't come from Mikhail's implants but from the accident that blinded him as a child.

Absorbing Man

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In Spite of a Nail: Absorbing Man exists, even though he was given his powers by Loki to fight Thor, who does not exist in the Age of Apocalypse.

Marauders

Dirigible

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Adaptation Name Change: He's The Kingpin's AoA counterpart.
The Quisling: As a human working for Apocalypse.

Red

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Adaptation Name Change: He's the AoA counterpart to the Green Goblin.
Corrupt Corporate Executive: Used his fortune to buy a place in Apocalypse's regime
Evil Red Head: Like his mainstream self, he is both red-headed and evil.
The Quisling: He's a human ally of Apocalypse.

Arcade

The Quisling: He's a human allied with the genocidal Apocalypse to help wipe out his own kind.

Owl

The Owl

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The Quisling: Like the other Marauders, he's a human helping to wipe out his own kind.

Human High Council

Council

Boliver Trask

Bolivar Trask

Adaptation Heroism: While Trask was always a Well-Intentioned Extremist, in this universe mutants are as much of a threat as he believed in canon, causing his creation of the Sentinels to be very much justified.
Related in the Adaptation: In the original universe, there's no sign he knew Moira MacTaggert personally. Here, he's her husband.

Moira Trask

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"Groundhog Day" Loop: Much like her 616 counterpart, Moira has her time loop abilities. She keeps failing to stop Apocalypse from taking over the world.
Related in the Adaptation: In the original universe, there's no sign she knew Bolivar Trask personally. Here, she's his wife.

Brian Braddock

Adaptational Wimp: He's not Captain Britain here and has no powers whatsoever.
Arms Dealer: His corporation produces Sentinels. He isn't in it for money though.
Nuke 'em: Hates Apocalypse with a passion and advocates just nuking his territories (that include the entire North America) into oblivion.

Emma

Emma Frost

Brought Down to Normal: Had herself partially lobotomized to remove her psychic abilities so that she could join the Human High Council.

Mariko Yashida

Asian Babymama: Turns out she had a daughter by Logan, Kirika, that she never got around to telling him about.

Agents

Donald Blake

Disney Death: He's last seen tackling Mikhail Rasputin out of Big Ben.
Handicapped Badass: He still has a crippled leg, but managed to take out Mikhail Rasputin
God in Human Form: He's unknowingly The Mighty Thor in human guise.
What Happened to the Mouse?: Considering his true nature as Thor, the series never touches on Odin's response to his son

Gwen Stacy

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Spared by the Adaptation: Survives the series while her boyfriend Peter Parker was killed in Apocalypse's invasion.

Tony Stark

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In Spite of a Nail: He still winds up with an artificial heart after being injured by his own weapons and works with Clint Barton.

Victor Von Doom

Adaptational Heroism: Considerably more heroic than his mainstream self, being devoted to the protection of humanity.
In Spite of a Nail: He still has a facial scar and is the ruler of Latveria.

Bruce Banner

Adaptational Name Change: His alter ego is known as the Thing rather than Hulk.
Adaptational Villainy: Compared to his canon counterpart, Banner is willing to work with Mikhail Rasputin to experiment on people.
Heroic Sacrifice: Subverted. He throws himself out to intercept a missile but survives while mutating into a more familiar green form.
Killed Off for Real: By Weapon Omega in the follow-up series.
Mad Scientist: Turned himself into a hulking gray monster and experiments on people to create super-soldiers.

Others

Weapon X / Weapon Omega

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Adaptation Name Change: Instead of Wolverine. And the Weapon X project doesn't exist in that reality, as Magneto grafts the adamantium on him.
An Arm and a Leg: During a battle with Cyclops, Scott blasted off Logan's left hand. The very same battle saw Logan gouge out one of Scott's eyes.
Beard of Evil: That he already had.
Disabled in the Adaptation: While he still retains his claws in his left arm, he's missing his hand thanks to Cyclops.
Face–Heel Turn: Turned evil after being infected by the Death Seed.
Handicapped Badass: Lost his left hand in a fight with Cyclops. That doesn't make him any less capable.
Happily Married: To Jean Grey, until he turned into Weapon Omega.
Hero Killer: After becoming the new Apocalypse, Logan becomes a nightmare to his friends. He personally kills Magneto, Rogue, Storm and X-23 while also forcing Gambit's death when he sacrifices to cover the 295 X-Men and 616 X-Force's retreat.
Offing the Offspring: Kills his own daughter after inheriting the Death Seed and becoming the new Apocalypse.
You Kill It, You Bought It: Killing a reborn Apocalypse ended up infecting Logan and turning him into the next incarnation of the bad guy.

Jean Grey

Adrenaline Makeover: A combination of her timelines and lover lead to her embodying this trope in comparison to her 616 version.
Back from the Dead: In X-Men: Age of Apocalypse miniseries, courtesy of Phoenix Force.
Happily Married: To Weapon X, until he turned into Weapon Omega.

Neutrals

Warren Worthington III

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Heroic Sacrifice: Straps explosives to himself and dives into the force field generator destroying the defences of Apocalypse's base and allowing the heroes to get inside.
Neutral No Longer: After Apocalypse's forces shut down his club and capture Karma.

Characters / Age of Apocalypse

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X-Men

Magneto

Rogue

Quicksilver

Storm

Banshee

Exodus

Sabretooth

Blink

Wild Child

Iceman

Sunfire

Morph

Wolfsbane

Nightcrawler

Dazzler

Generation Next

Colossus

Shadowcat

Chamber

Husk

Vincente

Mondo

Skin

Know-It-All

X-ternals

Gambit

Jubilee

Sunspot

Lila Cheney

Guido Carosella

Outcasts

Forge

Nate Grey

Sonique

Mastermind

Toad

Soaron

Brute

Apocalypse's regime

Apocalypse

The Four (actually many) Horsemen of Apocalypse

Holocaust (Nemesis)

Mister Sinister (Nathaniel Essex)

Prelate Rasputin, the Forgotten Horseman (Mikhail Rasputin)

Abyss (Nils Styger)

Bastion

Death (Maximus)

War

Death

Candra

Gideon

Elite Mutant Force

Cyclops (Scott Summers)

Havok (Alex Summers)

Dark Beast (Henry "Hank" McCoy)

Northstar and Aurora (Jean-Paul and Jeanne-Marie Beaubier)

Amazon and Cannonball (Elisabeth and Samuel Guthrie)

Bedlam Brothers (Terrence and Jesse Aaronson)

Emplate (Marius St. Croix)

The Church of the Madri

The Brotherhood of Chaos

Arclight

The Pale Riders

Damask (Emma Steed)

Danielle Moonstar

Dead Man Wade (Wade Wilson)

The Bounty Hunters

Domino

Caliban

Grizzly

Infinites

Prelate Unus

Prelate Delgado

Reavers

Donald Pierce

Other Servants of Apocalypse

Sugar Man