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Clan Akkaba
A cult formed by the descendants of Apocalypse and his followers which is named after the birthplace of the mutant overlord. The cult is led by the descendants and chosen champions of Apocalypse, including his Four Horseman and advisor Ozymandias, and follow his theology of survival by the fittest to prepare humanity for the next stage of Celestial judgment. Clan Akkaba has hidden facilities around the world, including Alexandria House in London and a hidden metropolis beneath the North Pole where hundreds of thousands of followers of Apocalypse lived. Two members of the cult from the late 19th century, Jack Starsmore and Frederick Slade, are the respective ancestors of X-Men members Chamber and Blink.
Archangel briefly took control of Clan Akkaba after ascending to replace Apocalypse, but was defeated by X-Force and lost his memory. Clan Akkaba was almost entirely wiped out by his children Uriel and Eimen, the Apocalypse Twins, who massacred the North Pole metropolis and led the remainder of the Clan into defeat against the Avengers. The Clan is distinct from Coven Akkaba, who are human magic-practitioners descended from the human inhabitants of Apocalypse's homeland that despise mutants.
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- Alternate Company Equivalent: To DC Comics's League of Assassins/League of Shadows, as both groups follow an ancient megalomaniac, work to guide human civilization towards the ideals espoused by said ancient megalomaniac, and claim responsibility for several historical disasters and upheavals.
- Ancient Conspiracy: They are an ancient, secretive cult that has been around for millennia.
- Been There, Shaped History: Clan Akkaba was involved in many historical events: they are said to have lit the fire that burned Rome and sharpened the guillotines during The French Revolution, as well as traveled aboard the Mayflower to the New World. By the 18th century they have amassed wealth and infiltrated many influential positions of power.
- Cerebus Retcon: Established characters such as Blink from the Age of Apocalypse and Chamber from Generation X were retroactively made descendants of Apocalypse via the existence of Clan Akkaba. Bennet du Paris (the future Exodus) was also retroactively made an Unwitting Pawn of Clan Akkaba, as was Eobar Garrington, the leaders of the French Revolution and numerous other historical figures.
- Cyborg: Averted in fact if not in style — while several members of Clan Akkaba manifest weapons through their inherited Voluntary Shapeshifting ability that certainly make them look as if they are some mixture of man and machine like Apocalypse is, in truth they all ordinary, if powerful, mutants with no technological enhancements.
- De-power: The majority of Clan Akkaba's mutant members lost their powers on M-Day.
- Evil Redhead: Sahreed, a Clan Akkaba member from the 12th century, was one of these, despite being Egyptian.
- Evil Versus Evil: Despite being ardent worshippers of Apocalypse, the Clan fought against Dracula and his followers during the 19th century.
- False Friend: Sahreed was one to Eobar Garrington and Bennet du Paris, guiding the duo into a carefully-planned trap on the orders of Apocalypse.
- Fantastic Caste System: They have an internal caste system tiered by (perceived) fitness, with caste names such as "The Fittest", "The Lessers", and so on.
- Godzilla Threshold: The Clan can summon Apocalypse at any time, a measure which is treated as this since Apocalypse does not take kindly to being called for aid.
- Irony: During the 90's the self-styled heir to Apocalypse Genesis (not to be confused with Evan Sabahnur, the modern-day Genesis) attacked Akkaba and slaughtered all its inhabitants in an effort to change history by wiping out Clan Akkaba in his past. Unbeknownst to him, Clan Akkaba was not actually in Akkaba (and had in fact not inhabited the region for centuries), thus all he wiped out were innocent peasants of little if any connection to the Clan Akkabans or Apocalypse.
- Klingon Promotion: They have a custom of killing one another only so they can be deemed to be the one closest (genetically speaking) to Apocalypse.
- Mercy Kill: The Apocalypse Twins wiped out all the former mutant members of the Clan who lost their powers on M-Day, viewing it is a merciful death compared to what they had planned for the rest of humanity.
- Mutants: All of them, as they are all descendants of Apocalypse (presumably any human-born members of Clan Akkaba are killed for being 'unfit'). Some of them have powers very similar to Big Blue's, while others have rather divergent abilities:
- Combat Tentacles: Sahreed's Voluntary Shapeshifting manifested exclusively in this way. Going up against the sword-wielding Eobar Garrington, it didn't go well for him.
- Playing with Fire: As an ancestor of Generation X's Chamber, Jack Starsmore's mutant ability is unsurprisingly this.
- Teleporters and Transporters: As the great-grandfather of the teleporter Blink, Frederick Slade's second mutant power is unsurprisingly this.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: Many of them have inherited Apocalypse's molecular shapeshifting powers, including Sahreed, Kabar Brashir, Frederick and Margaret Slade.
- Walking Wasteland: Sanjar Javeed, an ancient Persian who would become the Final Horseman of Death, had this mutant ability.
- Paper Tiger: Several of the Clan's members are not nearly as powerful as they look or act. Sahreed, for instance, was easily defeated by Eobar Garrington both times they fought, while Kabar Brashir from the Victorian England Akkabans was slain off-page without fanfare by his rival Hamilton Slade, despite appearing to be the closest of the Victorian Akkabans to Apocalypse himself in terms of power and stature. Sometimes this swings the other way; despite being born small and being crippled in adolescence by his brother Hamilton, Frederick Slade was probably the deadliest Akkaban of his generation. Not only did he have two mutant powers - Voluntary Shapeshifting and teleportation - being paralyzed made him no less dangerous, as Hamilton eventually found out the hard way.
- Religion of Evil: They are a cult worshipping a genocidal madman.
- Succession Crisis: After the clone of Apocalypse was killed, Archangel was deposed, and his children went missing, Clan Akkaba was left without a clear leader. Genocide attempted to gain Celestial favor to cement his claim, but his ascension was halted by Archangel's returning children who violently claimed leadership of the Clan.
- The Social Darwinist: They are devoted to Apocalypse's diktat of survival of the fittest. They even have a tradition that, should they awaken Apocalypse the current "Fittest" will be killed for being weak in requesting a boon from him.
Leadership
Apocalypse
Archangel
The Apocalypse Twins
Uriel and Eimin / The Apocalypse Twins
Nationality: Akkaba City
Species: Human mutant
First Appearance: Uncanny Avengers #5 (May, 2013)
Uriel and Eimin, the twin children of Archangel and Pestilence of the Final Horsemen. Conceived after Archangel had succeeded Apocalypse, they are the third generation of Apocalypses. The pair were kidnapped at birth by Kang the Conqueror and raised to adulthood by him in the future, before returning to the past with a vengeance to take their place at the head of Clan Akkaba.
- Abusive Parents: While the twins' birth parents Archangel and Pestilence avert this trope, their "adoptive father" Kang the Conqueror plays it straight by kidnapping the twins as soon as they were born and took them to a desolate future where the entire mutant species are placed into concentration camps by the Red Skull. He raised them as Tyke Bombs and beat his philosophy that Humans Are the Real Monsters into them so thoroughly that the twins applied it to their Well-Intentioned Extremist plans. He also had Uriel blind his sister Eimin with his wings as punishment for trying to escape the mutant concentration camps when they were children. Kang was such a douchebag to the twins that at one point, they lampshade on how their lives would be different if he hadn't kidnapped them at birth.
- Amazing Technicolor Population: Eimin has red skin while Uriel has purplish-grey skin.
- The Antichrist: The twin mutant heirs of Archangel and Pestilence, whose plans to bring forth the superiority of mutantkind a la Magneto resulted in the destruction of Earth in one timeline.
- Apocalypse Twins: Duh.
- Badass Boast: Uriel and even Eimin are prone to these.Uriel: "We are the heirs of Archangel, rightful servants of this era! We've returned to reclaim our throne! Because unlike you... we do not bend our knees."
- Baldof Evil: Uriel.
- Blind Seer: Eimin. She has the ability to see possible futures by listening to music.
- Cleavage Window: Eimin's "hood" is connected to her kimono, which leaves a gap wide enough to expose part of her boobs.
- Co-Dragons: To Kang.
- The Starscream: Though they eventually turn against him and ruin his well-laid plans.
- Creepy Twins
- Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Uriel axes a Celestial to death.
- Disability Superpower: After she was blinded by her brother as a child, Eimin gained a type of precognitive power that only works when she listens to music.
- The Dog Bites Back: After spending a majority of their life being abused by Kang the Conqueror, Uriel and Eimin take their revenge as adults by destroying Kang's home dimension with a black hole, then later destroy the entire Earth as a big "Fuck you" to Kang's plans.
- Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Despite wanting to destroy humankind to protect mutants, they really do seem to have their mother's best interests in mind.
- Eviler than Thou: Pull this on Clan Akkaba, then get this pulled on them in turn by Kang, who was using them from the start.
- Eye Scream: This is what Uriel does to Eimin on Kang's orders as punishment for trying to escape the mutant concentration camps. Given the circumstances, Eimin doesn't blame Uriel for it, though she certainly blames Kang.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: How Uriel kills Havoc in an alternate universe.
- Handicapped Badass: Despite being blind, Eimin can fight toe-to-toe with superpowered beings like Thor with no problem at all.
- Humans Are the Real Monsters: Kang beat this philosophy into them for an as-yet-unknown but undoubtedly sinister purpose. As it turns out, he was goading them into killing a Celestial, placing him in a position to kill another himself and steal the vast raw power it had. He then gloated that they didn't pose much of a challenge.
- I Did What I Had to Do: Eimin had foreseen Uriel's death at the hands of Thor, but did nothing to try and change it, since it would still lead to the destruction of Earth. She later deems it "necessary" for their mission to succeed.
- In the Hood: Eimin, to cover the fact that she's blind.
- Kick the Dog: Uriel incinerates a large group of people (mutants whose powers were taken away by the Scarlet Witch during M-Day) who worshiped him and Eimin as the harbringers of evolution with his powers, telling them that evolution has no need for stragglers like depowered mutants.
- Killed Off for Real: Uriel is killed by Thor (though that timeline is later negated, so he's alive again).
- Manipulative Bastard: They not only predict the Scarlet Witch's attempt to subvert them, but they use it to their advantage and orchestrate Earth's destruction.
- Meaningful Name: Uriel means "God is my light" in Hebrew. Uriel is also known in the Bible as the archangel of wisdom, and his role is to enlighten humanity from the darkness of confusion with the truth of God.
- Mundane Utility: In one issue, Uriel uses his own wings as a reclining chair.
- Off Screen Moment Of Awesome: Like Uriel, Eimin also axed a Celestial to death by herself with Thor's axe Jarnbjorn, but it happened off-screen. The only way you can tell is that the ax is still dripping with the Celestial's life fluids when she arrives.
- Pet the Dog: Sparing their mother during their takeover of Clan Akkaba.
- Purple Is Powerful: Eimin and Uriel, whose costumes colored purple. It helps that their parents Archangel and Pestilence of the Four Horsemen are very powerful mutants, and that Eimin and Uriel are heirs to a royal dynasty. Uriel's skin is also purple.
- Time Master: Both are extremely deadly chronomancers, though their powers are applied in different ways:
- No-Sell: Uriel can void any attack sent his way by transporting it somewhere else in time.
- And I Must Scream: Eimin, meanwhile, can produce projectiles that trap whoever they strike in a neverending time loop of constant pain. This is how War and Famine bite it.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Uriel
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: After Uriel is killed by Thor, Eimin engages Thor to avenge the death of her twin brother.
- Sadistic Choice: Kang and his enforcer Ahab invoke his trope on Uriel as punishment for trying to escape the concentration camps - either he blind his twin sister Eimin, or watch her be killed by Ahab and his hounds if he refuses. Uriel chooses the former as he couldn't bear to lose his sister; Eimin doesn't blame him for doing so, but she does blame Kang.
- Samurai: Uriel's costume and overall look is based on this.
- Secret-Keeper: Uriel and Eimin are one of the very few who know of their father Archangel's massacre of a small town populated entirely by humans during the war against humans and mutants.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: They want to save the mutant race and give them their own planet. They end up destroying Earth to make sure humans aren't a threat anymore, and to spite Kang.
- The Worf Effect: War and Famine meet a truly grisly end at their hands when they resist their takeover. They later suffer it themselves when it turns out that Kang was playing them all along, and was actually disappointed - they didn't pose enough of a challenge.
Horsemen
Lineage of Death
Archangel
Caliban
Wolverine
Gambit
Sanjar Javeed
Sanjar Javeed / Death / Life
Nationality: Persia
Species: Human mutant
First Appearance: Uncanny X-Force #2 (January, 2011)
- "Meddling fool. I am Sanjar Javeed, son of King Shapur II — Death, servant of Archangel! You pose no threat to me."
Born in the 4th century, Sanjar was the illegitimate son of King Shapur II of Persia. His mutant ability allowed him to inflict a variety of ailments and diseases upon people depending on the type of metal he touched. He was chosen by Apocalypse to be Death of the Final Horsemen, activated only when all of Apocalypse's other plans had failed.
- Bastard Angst: His father was a beloved ruler with a happy family, but never acknowledge Sanjar as his or showed him the love he gave to the rest of his kingdom. This led to Sanjar stealing valuables from the palace and gifting them to the populace to win their love as his own, but he inadvertently began spreading ailments through the precious metals he gave out.
- Bastard Bastard: Upon discovering his mutant abilities he embraced them and unleashed a plague of death and disease upon his father's kingdom.
- Heel–Face Turn: He rather inexplicably turns up as one of the leaders of the Pan-Asian School for the Unusually Gifted, working alongside Jimmy Woo to train superheroes in Mumbai. He then joined Krakoa and aided them in helping out the the town of Milford.
- Legacy Character: Comes with the territory of being a Horseman. But he’s the second Horseman of Death to later take the codename Life after Warren who was briefly went by Life as one of Nate Grey’s Horsemen of Salvation.
- Off with His Head!: He was killed by Deathlok Prime, who cut off his head with a sword.
- Self-Made Orphan: Among his many victims was his father, who finally acknowledge him as he died but declared him the Seraph of Death.
- Unexplained Recovery: Despite being decapitated, he shows up alive and well during a Infinity tie-in.
Psylocke
Lineage of War
Abraham Kieros
Abraham Lincoln Kieros / War
Nationality: American
Species: Human mutant
First Appearance: X-Factor #11 (December, 1986)
- "I couldn't walk, could hardly move! Apocalypse found me lying in a hospital... repaired my body! I'm his soldier now! I am War!"
A quadriplegic American soldier with the ability to generate explosions by clapping his hands together, Apocalypse offered to restore his mobility in exchange for becoming his Horseman of War.
- Big Eater: Developed a large apetite after being restored by Apocalypse, as he had been unable to eat regular food during his years in an iron lung.
- Deal with the Devil: Accepted Apocalypse's offer to become War in exchange for being able to move again.
- Fire-Forged Friends: With Autumn Rolfson / Famine. They initially fought and disliked each other, but their reappearance several years later had Kieros threatening to kill Iceman and Colossus if they hurt her.
- Heel Realization: Had one after being abandoned by Apocalypse and losing his suit that restored his ability to talk and walk. When Archangel visited him in the hospital and questioned if following a madman had been worth it, Abraham answered with tears.
- Powered Armor: He was provided a suit by Apocalypse that restored his mobility, but if it was damaged enough he would lose it.
- Revenge: One of his goals as War is to gain revenge on the United States government, who he feels abandoned soldiers like him once they had been used to fight the government's war.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: He initially didn't get along at all with Autumn, who mocked his eating, while he viewed her as an ungrateful brat who hadn't even been born yet while he fought in war.
- Throwing Off the Disability: Archangel used the power of Apocalypse that remained inside him to heal Abraham and enable to him to move and talk again.
- Undying Loyalty: To Apocalypse, who saved him from more than a decade of being a forgotten soldier stuck in an iron lung. Despite this loyalty, Apocalypse eventually abandoned him as well and left him stuck once more in a hospital unable to talk or move.
- The Vietnam Vet: He fought in and was paralyzed from the neck down during the Vietnam War and spent at least a decade in an iron lung before Apocalypse recruited him. During the Horsemen's first fight against the X-Men his ire is directed towards a news chopper covering the battle and he blasts it down while declaring the media was trying to turn the battle into a spectacle just like they had the Vietnam War.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: He hasn't been seen since being healed by Archangel in a issue of Wolverine from 2000. His mutant powers should have been restored along with his mobility, since he had them before even meeting Apocalypse.
The Hulk
Deathbird
Gazer
Gazer / War
Nationality: American
Species: Human mutant
First Appearance: X-Men Vol 2 #169 (June, 2005)
A mutant astronaut stationed on NASA Space Station Eight due to being able to survive the intense radiation, Gazer aided the X-Men in halting an invasion of Golgotha. However, upon losing his powers on M-Day, Gazer nearly died until being saved by Apocalypse and transformed into his newest Horseman of War.
- De-power: Lost his abilities on M-Day, which led to him contracting a lethal dose of radiation.
- Driven to Suicide: Attempted to kill himself by taking a walk in space after M-Day, but was saved by Apocalypse to be a candidate for War.
- Duel to the Death: Was pitted against another candidate for War in one, and would have lost if not for Ozymandias helping him in exchange for repayment.
- Energy Absorption: His mutant power allows him to absorb radiation and processes it with a form of photosynthesis.
- Face–Heel Turn: Goes from aiding the X-Men to serving one of their most hated foes, although it was not entirely of his own free will.
- In the Back: Impaled from behind with a spear by Ozymandias for failing to aid him as agreed in overthrowing Apocalypse.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: His actual name is never revealed, only his mutant name of Gazer.
Decimus Furius
Decimus Furius / War
Nationality: Roman Empire
Species: Human Mutant
First Appearance: Uncanny X-Force #1 (December, 2010)
A fearsome gladiator from the ancient Roman Empire whose mutation turned him into a fearsome minotaur-like monstrosity, Decimus Furius was selected to be War of the Final Horsemen.
- Allergic to Love: Fantomex used his powers to make Decimus feel like he was in love with Psylocke. Those feelings conflicted so much with his gruesome thoughts of war that he exploded. Although he regenerated from that, the feelings Fantomex infected him with stuck and caused him to spare her in battle and confess his feelings to her, allowing Psylocke to manipulate and read Decimus' mind.
- God Guise: After gaining his freedom and achieving fame in Rome's arenas he came to be worshiped as a dark minotaur god.
- Healing Factor: Has one, and a particularly powerful one at that seeing as he was able to come back together after literally exploding into pieces.
- Make Way for the New Villains: He is killed by the Apocalypse Twins alongside Jeb Lee for supporting Genocide as the next heir to Apocalypse over them.
- Nobody Here but Us Statues: When he is first encountered by X-Force, Decimus is pretending to be a statue, allowing him to get the drop on Deadpool and capture him. When the rest of the team shows up, Wolverine's senses alert him to the ruse and he attacks Decimus first.
- Our Minotaurs Are Different: His mutation transformed him from a normal looking man into essentially a massive golden-skinned minotaur.
- Parental Abandonment: His father was a Roman philosopher whose ideas were considered corrupting to the Roman Empire and was thus forced to commit suicide, with Decimus' mother following suit soon after.
- Riches to Rags: The suicide of his parents left Decimus destitute and living on the streets of Rome.
- Tragic Monster: He has the most sympathetic backstory of the Final Horsemen, and he only turned to violence when a mob attempted to slay him upon his mutation manifesting. Decimus was then forced into more violence by being offered freedom only through combat in the arena, forcing him to embrace war as his nature.
Lineage of Famine
Autumn Rolfson
Autumn Rolfson / Famine
Nationality: American
Species: Human mutant
First Appearance: X-Factor #12 (January, 1987)
A young girl from Cleveland who developed anorexia. She was recruited by Apocalypse as his Horseman of Famine due to her ability to disintegrate organic matter and induce emaciation and hunger in people. Unbeknownst to most, she also became pregnant with Apocalypse's heir, whom she named William and went into hiding. They were eventually found by Apocalypse's successor Archangel and Clan Akkaba and joined his plans to continue their master's mission.
- The Baby of the Bunch: The youngest member in the 1980s incarnation of the Horsemen. Everyone else was an adult (including a senior citizen) and Autumn was barely a teenager. War noted that she had not even been born during his war service, and he was otherwise among the youngest Horsemen.
- De-power: It's never confirmed but heavily suggested that she lost her powers on M-Day, as she never uses them once after her reappearance. She uses a gun to try to kill Archangel instead of her abilities.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She feared that Apocalypse would view their son William as a threat and eliminate him, which overrode all her loyalty to him and sent her and William into hiding.
- Evil Parents Want Good Kids: Upon realizing that Archangel wished to use William to commit genocide against all of humanity, she attempted to stop him as she did not want her son to commit such an evil dead, convinced that he was too young to understand what he was doing and was being manipulated.
- Half the Woman She Used to Be: She was cut in half by Archangel's razor wings when she attempted to stop him from using Genocide to wipe out all human life on Earth.
- Mama Bear: Grabbed a gun and tried to kill Archangel with it to stop his manipulation of William, but it didn't go very well for her.
- Nothing but Skin and Bones: Unsurprisingly for the Famine Horseman, the woman is practically skeletal.
- Put on a Bus: She disappeared after being beaten in Uncanny X-Men #295 in 1992, and did not reappear in any series until 2011. This was explained by her secret child with Apocalypse and her desire to protect him.
- Secret Relationship: With Apocalypse, which resulted in William.
Rory Campbell
Doctor Roderick "Rory" Campbell / Famine
Nationality: American
Species: Human mutate
First Appearance: Excalibur #72 (December, 1993)
A psychologist and associate of Moria MacTaggert, Dr. Campbell was horrified upon discovering that he had an alternate self from the future who hunted down mutants. He was desperate to avoid such a fate. However, he ended up becoming the Horseman of Famine for Apocalypse under unknown circumstances.///For his Age of Apocalypse counterpart, see the entry for Ahab on X-Men: Rogues Gallery A to I.
- He Who Fights Monsters: At least in the main reality, we see that Rory Campbell starts off with somewhat positive intentions. Unfortunately, being a monster himself underneath meant that he was always doomed to fall into this.
- Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: When he was introduced into the pages of Excalibur as Moira MacTaggert's assistant/sidekick it was teased that he might be able to escape his fate of becoming Ahab. But despite warnings and even seeing what he would become, Campbell's Jerkass tendencies made his turn to the dark side inevitable.
- Kick the Dog: His Jerkass tendencies are shown in Excalibur through his treatment of Spoor, an Acolyte of Magneto being held captive on Muir Island. Tasked with rehabilitating Spoor, Campbell quickly degenerates into ritualistic verbal abuse of the self-loathing mutant.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: After he fought as Apocalypse's horseman of Famine in The Twelve story arc, he just kind of vanished.
Sunfire
Jeb Lee
Jeb Lee / Famine
Nationality: American
Species: Human mutant
First Appearance: Uncanny X-Force #1 (December, 2010)
A spy for the Confederate States of America who posed as a drummer boy in the Union Army. By making a tapping noise he emits a bio-auditory cancer, and was thus chosen by Apocalypse to be Famine of the Final Horsemen.
- Despair Event Horizon: The death of his family sent him wandering across battlefields, playing his drum and killing all who could hear it, regardless of their allegiance. This made him a prime target for recruitment by Apocalypse.
- Logical Weakness: His ability requires his targets to be able to hear, so psychics can just shut down the hearing of themselves and their allies, leaving Jeb a skinny man with no additional combat ability to defend himself.
- Make Way for the New Villains: He is killed by the Apocalypse Twins alongside Decimus Furius for supporting Genocide as the next heir to Apocalypse over them.
- The Mole: For the Confederacy, spying on the Union as a drummer boy and using his abilities to kill their soldiers in secret.
- Poor Communication Kills: While visiting his family, Lee's neighbors discovered his Union uniform and assumed he had betrayed the Confederacy. Before he could explain, they attacked him and burned down his house, killing his family in the process.
Lineage of Pestilence
Plague
Plague / Pestilence
Nationality: American
Species: Human mutant
First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men #169 (May, 1983)
A member of the Morlocks whose touch could magnify and spread disease. During the Morlock Massacre by the Marauders, Plague nearly killed Sabertooth, drawing the attention of Apocalypse who recruited her to be his newest Horseman of Pestilence.
- Disney Villain Death: Perished in a battle between the Horsemen and the combined forces of X-Factor and the Power Pack when Lightspeed knocked her off her mechanical flying horse, sending Plague plummeting to the ground below.
- Plague Master: Her abilities are so powerful that they could affect Kitty Pryde even when she was intangible and nearly killed Sabertooth despite his healing factor.
Caliban
Polaris
Ichisumi
Ichisumi / Pestilence
Nationality: Japanese
Species: Human mutant
First Appearance: Uncanny X-Force #2 (January, 2011)
A young Japanese woman from the mid 19th century who could control insects. Within herself she kept a swarm of omnivorous Yume beetles which devoured her foes. Apocalypse selected her to be Pestilence of the Final Horsemen.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Loves her children with Archangel, Uriel and Eimin. They love her as well and spare her when they kill the other two remaining Final Horsemen.
- Fairest of Them All: Jealous that the other geisha in her village were always picked over her, Ichisumi used her mutant powers to maim hundreds of other women so that she would be the most beautiful.
- The Swarm: On command, she could release an infestation of near omnivorous Yume beetles stored within her own body by dislodging her jaw, spawning from her mouth in massive swarms either devouring or disfiguring her intended mark.
- Hoist by Her Own Petard: Her plan to disfigure all the women who she believed were more beautiful than her succeeded. What Ichisumi didn't expect was when all the beetles returned they would transfer the memories of those disfigurements to her and drive her to madness.
- The Infested: Ichisumi is a Japanese woman whose mutant power is to house countless Yume beetles inside her body. Envious of her fellow geisha, who all manage to marry wealthy men, Ichisumi regurgitates the insects and orders them to disfigure her rivals, but the telepathic link she shares with the beetles drives her completely insane in the process. She is later chosen by Apocalypse to be his final Horseman of Pestilence.
- Missing Child: Her children were kidnapped by Kang the Conqueror on the night of their birth to be used by him as part of a plot to conquer Earth and gain the power of the Celestials.
- Sole Survivor: She was the only Final Horseman who survived fighting X-Force and the Apocalypse Twins.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: After last being seen assisting her children's plans, Ichisumi disappeared from the Apocalypse Twins story and her ultimate fate is unknown.
- The Worm That Walks: The swarm of beetles are stored within her own body.
Other member of Clan Akkaba
Ozymandias
Ozymandias
Nationality: Egyptian
Species: Human mutate
First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men #332 (May, 1996)
A warlord in service of Pharaoh Rama-Tut, Ozymandias was transformed by Apocalypse to be his servant and the historian of Clan Akkaba. Throughout the centuries he has influenced Clan Akkaba to advance both Apocalypse's and his own interests.
- The Man Behind the Man: He intended to be this to the young clone of Apocalypse he was raising, but the clone was killed by X-Force before Ozymandias' plans could come to fruition.
- Seers: Exposure to the Eye of Ages gave him the ability to see possible futures which he depicts through sculptures.
- The Starscream: He was this to both Rama-Tut and Apocalypse. Rama-Tut had denied him his own chance to be Pharaoh, while Apocalypse had interrupted his plot against Rama-Tut to turn him into a slave.
William Rolfson / Genocide
William "Billy" Rolfson / Genocide
Nationality: American
Species: Human mutant
First Appearance: Uncanny X-Force #13 (October, 2011)
- "Like the refuse who once lived on this ground — all will burn at the touch of Genocide!"
The son of Apocalypse and Autumn Rolfson, William was hidden away by his mother who feared that Apocalypse would view him as a threat and kill him. When Archangel ascended to become the new Apocalypse, he recruited Genocide as a key figure in his plan to burn and forcefully evolve the world. When Archangel was defeated Genocide was left as the heir to Apocalypse, only to be thwarted repeatedly in his bids for power.
For his Age of Apocalypse counterpart, see the entry for Holocaust on Age of Apocalypse.
- A God Am I: Views Apocalypse as a god, so therefore he is one as well.
- Big Bad Wannabe: Both of his attempts to ascend to his father's station end quickly and with his defeat, with the second time ending in his death at the hands of Magneto.
- Omnicidal Maniac: He wants to wipe the Earth clean of humanity and unworthy mutants and replace it with a society dominated by the survival of the fittest.
- Person of Mass Destruction: Fully unleashed, his bio-furnace energies can be as hot as the surface of the sun.
- Powered Armor: In order to keep his radioactive plasma powers contained, he wears a specially designed suit at all times which is near impregnable and has an arm canon from which he can release concentrated blasts of plasma.
- Walking Wasteland: He emits radioactive plasma, and while his suit keeps most of it from leaking out spending much time around him will cause radiation sickness, with many of his Clan Akkaba followers having boils and other disfigurements.
- We Can Rule Together: When fighting Magneto he tries to convince him to join him in wiping out humanity, and is honestly confused as to why Magneto is opposing him.
Anais
Anais
Nationality: Egyptian
Species: Human mutant
First Appearance: X-Men: The Search for Cyclops #1 (October, 2000)
A worshipper of Apocalypse sent by Ozymandias to locate him after Apocalypse's spirit merged with Cyclops.
- Amazing Technicolor Population: Her skin appears to be greenish gray.
- Animal Eyes: She has slit pupils, just like a cat.
- Animorphism: Her mutant ability is to turn herself into a feline form at will.
- Beast Man: Mid-transformation, she develops feline features.
- Cute Little Fangs: In feline form.
- Evil Redhead: Her dreadlocks are red.
- Ms. Fanservice: She wears an outfit that shows off a lot of cleavage and midriff.
- Mysterious Past: Nothing is known about her before she became a worshiper of Apocalypse.
- Only One Name: Anais is the only name she's known by.
- Secondary Color Nemesis: Green skin and her outfit is orange.
- Voluntary Transformation: She can switch between human and felinoid form at will.
- Wolverine Claws/Femme Fatalons: Mid-transformation, she can extend her claws like Lady Deathstrike.
