
He chooses this moment as the perfect time to begin his world conquest, which did not happen in the mainstream Marvel universe for another ten years. Apocalypse (En Sabah Nur), an immortal mutant villain, was monitoring the fight. The only person aware of how history has changed is Lucas Bishop, a time traveling mutant who followed Legion.īecause of Xavier's sacrifice, Magneto comes to believe in his late friend's dream of a peaceful coexistence between humans and mutants. As Xavier dies trying to protect Magneto, Legion vanishes, and a new timeline is created. However, Legion travels to a time when Magneto and Xavier are still friends while in Israel. Legion (David Haller), a psychotic mutant on Earth and son of Professor Charles Xavier, travels back in time with the intention of killing Magneto (Erik Lehnsherr). The world was also featured as part of Marvel's 2015 Secret Wars.
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The "Dark Angel Saga" in 2011 revisited the alternate reality once more, leading to an Age of Apocalypse ongoing series launched in 2012 that ran for 14 issues. The book looks at what happened after the end of the original story, revealing that the timeline became in fact an alternate earth, designated "Earth-295". In 2005, Marvel published an Age of Apocalypse one-shot and miniseries to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the fan favorite event. The group manages to send the mutant Bishop back in time to prevent the murder of Professor Xavier, undoing the entire timeline. Apocalypse is opposed by several factions of mutant resistance, including a group led by Magneto. The death of Professor Xavier leads Apocalypse to attack 10 years sooner than he did in the original timeline, taking control of Earth and altering everything that happened from that point forward. Legion accidentally kills Professor Charles Xavier, his father, leading to a major change in the timeline. The storyline starts with Legion (David Haller), a psychotic mutant who traveled back in time to kill Magneto before he can commit various crimes against humanity. The event was bookended by two one shots, X-Men Alpha and X-Men Omega.

It was later retconned as having occurred in the alternate universe of Earth-295.ĭuring the entirety of the Age of Apocalypse event the regularly published X-Men comics were replaced by new X-Men related mini series, focusing on various teams and individuals in the Age of Apocalypse world including X-Calibre, Gambit and the X-Ternals, Generation Next, Astonishing X-Men, Amazing X-Men, Weapon X, Factor X, X-Man and X-Universe. The Age of Apocalypse briefly replaced the universe of Earth-616 and had ramifications in the main Marvel Comics universe when the original timeline was restored. " Age of Apocalypse" is a 1995 comic book crossover storyline mostly published in the X-Men franchise of books by Marvel Comics. (plus assorted artists who did pin-ups).
