An ancient mutant awakens in X-Men: Apocalypse to unleash his power and horrific vision on the world. En Sabah Nur (translation: the First One) is one of the most relentless villains of the X-Men comics.
The immortal mutant possesses the powers of molecular manipulation, super strength, endurance, energy manipulation, DNA manipulation, transmutation and technopathy.
Oscar Isaac plays the super villain but what kind of abilities will he demonstrate in the next cinematic chapter. Director Bryan Singer reveals the canon-inspired and new abilities Apocalypse will unleash:
“He has a number of different powers that he’s acquired over the years as he’s moved from body to body, accumulating these various abilities. One of them is to imbue other mutants and to heighten their powers and abilities beyond anything they ever imagined. Secondly, he can shield from psychic powers, he can form shields so that it makes it harder for a psychic like Xavier to tap in and get to them.” Singer told Collider.
“He moves from body to body. Apocalypse himself is not a physical form, he’s an energy. What he does is he accumulates powers over the millennia by moving from body to body, and what’s wonderful is he thinks in the beginning of the film he’s found this great body. I don’t want to give away what the power of the body this mutant has but it’s a familiar one that you’ve seen a number of very famous mutants have. It kind of ends up being the wrong one because he gets stuck in it for a long time, but then suddenly he has this opportunity and that becomes his agenda. So it’s another interesting thing in the movie, the villain always has their agenda.”
One thing that will not change is En Sabah Nur always has Four Horsemen of Apocalypse enforcing his credo of “only the strong survive.” In the film Magneto, Psylocke, Storm and Archangel are his Horsemen.
X-Men: Apocalypse opens May 27th.
En Sabah Nur returns to all the X-books when The Apocalypse Wars start this March.
By Editor