WhileApocalypsewas born with a mutant that made him a formidable military unit of nature that could n’t easy be shoot down , he did n’t become theX - Menvillain fans grew to know and love until after he received hisCelestialpower - up – and while the god - tier applied science was Apocalypse ’s greatest upgrade , one risible show that it was also his ultimate weakness .

En Sabah Nur aka Apocalypse was born during the time of Ancient Egypt and was raised by a kinship group of wandering warriors who instruct him that only the strong live in this world – a lesson that he would come to know well . Among the plethora ofmutant mightiness Apocalypse has exhibitedover the year , his most notable power is the power to control his molecular structure – something that come in handy when he come across a Celestial ship . Celestials are basically cosmic scientists who seed life on major planet across the universe just to see what will happen . When Apocalypse insert a ethereal ship that was left on Earth , he was offered the chance to unify his trunk with the Celestial tech – which was made possible by his power of molecular manipulation – with the mission of shaping this world into one of strength and superiority . Essentially , this Celestial tasked Book of Revelation with doing what he already wanted to do in the first place : create a world where only the potent survive – and the space god gave Apocalypse all the cock he needed to do just that .

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InGambit and the X - Ternals#1 by Fabian Nicieza and Tony Daniel , reader are thrown into a world where Apocalypse all but dispatch the task assigned to him by the Celestial – the world of the Age of Apocalypse . In this issue , the existence is viewed from the perspective of an offset X - Men team led by Gambit known as the X - Ternals . After Magneto – theleader of the main ten - Men teamin this realism – get a coup d’oeil at what realness was supposed to look like before the timeline - splitting decease of Charles Xavier , he tax the ex - Ternals with travel across the cosmos to obtain the M’Kraan Crystal as it is the only object in the world that could potentially restore the altered timeline . When the ecstasy - Ternals ask how they are supposed to leap across the cosmos in search of this artefact , Magneto answers by leading them to a secret chamber within Apocalypse ’s Citadel – a chamber that contain the very heavenly ship that give Apocalypse his upgrade so many years ago .

The X-Men Can Use Apocalypse’s Celestial Technology Against Him

While the supernal tech empowered Apocalypse to fundamentally conquer the planet in the Age of Apocalypse timeline , thisGambit and the X - Ternalsissue proves that this technology is also a vast liability . If the X - Ternals draw their mitt on the M’Kraan Crystal , everything Apocalypse worked so hard for would be lost in an instant – and it would all be because of the heavenly ship . The only path theX - man could find the M’Kraan Crystalis through the Celestial ship , and without it , the plan to obtain the crystal would n’t even be deserving thought process of . If the ship never made its means to Earth , it would n’t have eventually become a liability for Apocalypse . Sure , Apocalypse would n’t have gotten his god - level ascent , but his basis - tier mutation already made him one of the stiff mutants in world , so never induce access to the ethereal ship may really have been preferred to get it potentially be the ground for his ultimate demise .

Even though this particular event leaves the success or failure of the go - Ternals open - ended , the fact that they even have a shot at using Apocalypse ’s Celestial tech against him in such a definitively crushing way is proof enough thatApocalypse’sCelestialupgrade is also his greatest helplessness in the chronicle of hisX - Mencareer .

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