Some passages from the Revelation are well known: God as the Alpha and Omega; the apocalyptic beasts surrounding the throne of heaven, resembling a lion, a calf, a man and a flying eagle, which were adopted as the attributes of the Evangelists; and the visions of God, of the Lamb and of the Seven Seals. Each seal opened to reveal a vision. The first four seals disclosed the four horsemen of the apocalypse: a conquerer with bow and crown, on a white horse; War, the destroyer with the sword, on a red horse; Hunger, with a pair of scales, on a black horse; and Death, the pale horseman, with Hell on his heels.
The fifth seal revealed the souls of those slain for preaching the word of God, who were given white robes. The sixth seal brought a great earthquake, when the sun blackened, the moon became blood red, the stars fell, heaven departed and men hid in the mountains from this day of wrath. An angel anointed the "seal of the living God" on the foreheads of his servants, while four angels held back the four winds of the earth. Silence filled heaven when the seventh seal was opened, until an angel threw a censer to earth and caused thunder, lightning and earthquakes. The call of seven trumpets released further revelations, of the wonders of heaven, of the Devil and his angels cast out of Heaven, and of the `whore of Babylon', the scarlet woman, mother of harlots and of the earth's abominations. The last decisive battle was fought at Armageddon before the Day of Judgment.
One of the most vile, powerful, and long lasting villains in the Marvel Universe. Of all the enemies that the Marvel heroes have faced, no one has caused more peril, more destruction, more time lines to form, than the mighty Apocalypse. Likewise, no other mutant in the Marvel Universe has created, spawned, trained, or manipulated more mutants than any other. Mr. Sinister, Professor X, Archangel, along with half the known mutants in the world can trace themselves back to good old Apocalypse.
When Apocalypse first appeared he was just another X-Villain, with some crazy plan to conquer Earth and a group of evil mutants that served him. In that time, he was X-Factor's enemy, but slowly he turned into one of Marvel's most fearsome villain. His first big action was the change of Angel to the Angel of Death (Archangel), one of his Horsemen. Since then, En Sabah Nur has proved that he will do anything to assure his survival of the fittest dogma, which he gained from his childhood in Egypt. Apocalypse was born on a nomad tribe in the middle of the desert, and was later kidnapped by another tribe, a vicious one, called the Sandstormers. After finding the chamber of the Pharaoh Rama Tut, that contained time traveling equipment, Apocalypse was kidnapped by the Pharaoh and almost killed. However, by using his powers he escaped, and began to put in action his plan.
It has been revealed that Mr. Sinister was transformed into what he is by Apocalypse and that Nathan Summers, a.k.a. Cable was "built" by Mr. Sinister to kill his master. Another being that calls Apocalypse master is Ozymandias, an ex-vizier of the Pharaoh Rama-Tut. He is now a being of stone that marks all of humanity's history to Apocalypse.
Also, it is known that in the future, Apocalypse ruled with iron hand, and that is the reason that Cable is on our era: to stop his dark future from coming. Redd and Slym, a.k.a. Jean Grey and Scott Summers, with young Cable, have killed Apocalypse in the future, but everyone knows that he keeps returning, to cause havoc and pillage the world as he sees fit.
In fact, he did return during the Onslaught Saga and is probably planning something against the unfit mutants in the world. His last appearance took place in Egypt, when he sent Ozymandias and Caliban, his servants, to warn the world of his return.
A side note of a personal nature, Apocalypse was always my favorite villian in the X-Men Universe. He was always coming back for more, always trying another plan for world domination, and if carried out, his plan for the world would make for an interesting spinoff comic series. Also, my favorite verbatim is taken from one of Apocalypse's wise wise dialogue with Mr. Sinister; "I am the rock of the eternal shore. Crash against me . . . and be broken."
In Final Fantasy VII, the Apocalypse sword is a weapon for Cloud. It has three single materia slots which have triple growth (a must-have for materia like Knights of the Round). Attacks with this sword are successful 110% of the time, with an attack power of 88 (max of 100, logarithmic effect scale).
The Apocalypse sword is significant because, unlike all but one other weapon in the game (a two-slotted 'scimitar' for Cid Highwind, thanks to Eidolos for the info), it has triple growth. And unlike every other weapon its growth total exceeds 8x, i.e., 3 slots with triple growth is 9x AP. The next best for total AP earning is actually a four-slotted double growth weapon, or an eight-slotted single growth weapon.
The Apocalypse sword waits at the very end of Frog Forest. Frog Forest is a special area, containing fairly simple puzzles, in the mountains southeast of Cosmo Canyon. To get there, you either must have a green Chocobo or have defeated the Ultima weapon.
A number of play mechanics from Invasion and Planeshift were continued in Apocalypse. "Kicker", the ability that lets you pay additional mana when casting a spell to increase its effect, was common in the set - including a set of creatures known as "Volvers", which each had kicker from both of the enemy colors of that card. In fact, a lot of the set was oriented around enemy colors teaming up, as there were both enemy color split cards, and enemy color "pain lands", lands that produced mana of two enemy colors while doing 1 damage when used.
An interesting note is that the card "Spiritmonger" in this set was created by a fan, having won the Create a Creature contest that Wizards of the Coast ran in 1999. Eleven cards were chosen as finalists, and the selection of the winning card was done via voting on the WotC web site. The Spiritmonger (originally "Spirit Monger") was the winner of the vote.
Note that in the card list, the "split" cards (two small cards on one large card) are listed with a slash ('/') in the middle, with the name of the card of that specific color listed afterwards in parenthesis.
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A Magic: The Gathering card.
Card Title: Apocalypse Card Type: Sorcery Color: Red Edition(s): Tempest Artist(s): L. A. Williams Casting Cost: 2RRR Rarity: Rare
Card Text: Remove all permanents from the game. Discard your hand.
Card Rulings dated April 24, 2002
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