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Apocalypse

CHARACTER · X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST

Apocalypse

Appears in
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
Played by
Oscar Isaac

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Apocalypse is a character in the film X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), played by Oscar Isaac.

8 Interesting Facts About Apocalypse

Interesting Facts (6)

  1. #001

    Simon Kinberg calls Apocalypse the franchise's darkest villain: "He doesn't distinguish between mutants and humans like the other villains do, only between the weak and the strong. To him it's all just one giant screwed-up world that worships false idols and needs to be saved from itself. He is the God of the Old Testament: if there isn't the order and worship then I'll open up the Earth and swallow you whole!"

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  2. #002

    Bryan Singer picked Apocalypse as the antagonist in order to explore where mutants on Earth came from: "It deals with ancient mutantism, the origins of the mutant state; or the origin of gods and religion. There's a mixture of ancient religion and cultism in the character of Apocalypse."

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  3. #003
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    (around 43m) When Apocalypse reaches Storm's home, her television is showing the Star Trek (1966) episode "Who Mourns for Adonais?" (1967), a story that echoes Apocalypse's own conduct. In it, a powerful being once worshipped as a god on ancient Earth encounters modern humans and throws a tantrum on learning they have no further use for old gods.

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  4. #004
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    (around 2h 10m) In the post-credits scene that introduces Apocalypse, the crowd worshipping him chants something the subtitles label a foreign language. What they say is "En Sabah Nur," the name given to him as an infant when he was found and his potential recognized.

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  5. #005
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    Bryan Singer describes Apocalypse's voice as a blend of different sounds: "He's bearing the souls of many lives and many characters. He has contained within him many voices, all taken from various ranges and tones."

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  6. #006
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    (around 2h 5m) Apocalypse appears to have some link to the Phoenix Force, the cosmic entity inside Jean Grey, saying "All is revealed" just before he is disintegrated.

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Production Story (1)

  1. #007

    (around 1h 18m) Professor X tries Cerebro for the first time in years, and as he sifts through the "voices in his head", one of them does not merely speak or cry out but addresses him directly. The voice is presumably that of young Jean Grey, a fellow telepath who figures prominently in the comics and earlier films, and later in X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) and X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019).

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  1. #008

    Olivia Munn first auditioned for the part of Vanessa in Deadpool (2016), but the producers and casting director did not consider her right for it. They told her they would keep her in mind and hoped to work with her on a later X-Men film, and when casting got under way for X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) they remembered her and asked her back to audition for Psylocke.

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