Besides Sunfire as Famine, that one’s obvious.
Hes practically built a cottage industry around powering up random mutants with themed powers.
But like most small business owners, stick around long enough, youll get some turnover.
Apocalypse has had just abouteveryonepass through the ranks of his Horsepeople.
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-Parallel universes count!
Except when they dont.
But I feel like Im hitting most of the big ones.
-This isnt really definitive.
With that out of the way, lets get to the rankings before this take burns your hand!
WAR
1.
But Thunderbird was the heart of those early issues.
But unlike his 616 counterpart, the Thunderbird of the Exiles was actually pretty sensitive guy.
Magneto (X-Men: Apocalypse)
I did not expect him to work this well!
Kieros was kind of a dick.
However, in the Age of Apocalypse, he wasawesome.
He turned himself into a cascade of metal, like if Angel Falls was infected with the T-O virus.
Despite that, he carried a pimpin-ass cane and counted among his minions theAoAversions of Daredevil and Hulk.
Age of Apocalypsewas so great.
First, he had absolutely no personality.
That was the extent of his character development.
The other strike is that hes a Minotaur who makes people angry.
A guy with a bulls head cant really hang.
Deathbird (The Twelve)
Pissed-off bird people are usually pretty awesome.
(tie) 7.
Anything that comes out of those is automatically discounted.
FAMINE
1.
Autumn Rolfson also ended up being really important to the larger Apocalypse meta story, too.
A trick she tried in the plains states and had to be stopped by Captain America, btw.
She also had an affair with En Sabah Nur and was mother to one of his many children.
The Storm in this movie was smart and passionate and competent and…maybe mind controlled?
whispered a tiny voice in the back of my head).
Hes got Cables glowy eye and white hair.
(tie) 5.
Other jokes available there were: Wasnt Bio-Auditory Cancer the title of Pearl Jams fifth album?
and Thank god it wasnt bio-oral cancer.
Feel free to pick the one that suits you the best.
I cant even get to the end, and I wrote 10,000 words on Multiversity.
PESTILENCE
1.
And that giant honeycomb club hand he had was doodled countless times by young Jim.
Ichisumi (Uncanny X-Force)
SPIDER LADY SPIDER LADY EEW SPIDER LADY EEW.
Ok so theyre actually beetles, but still EEW EEW EEW.
Thats a pretty good Pestilence.
Just dont think too hard about why she was Pestilence and Lee was Famine.
Plague seems like she was created specifically to become a Horsewoman, though.
Apocalypse didnt even have to do anything to her when he claimed her.
JOIN ME AS MY HORSEMAN PESTILENCE, PLAGUE!
APOCALYPSES CHANGES TO YOU WILL BEMOSTLY COSMETIC.
No, I shouldnt, its crass).
So he was brought back into Apocalypse and reaugmented as Pestilence, which makes total sense!
Polaris (X-Men: The Blood of Apocalypse)
It was Polaris in an iron maiden filled with diseases.
She used to have magnet powers.
Then she had a disease cloud.
THIS STORY WAS SO DUMB.
DEATH
1.
Mister Sinister (Age of Apocalypse)
Somehow all my complaints about other Horsemen dont apply to Sinister.
Nathaniel Essex was a great geneticist and evolutionary biologist when those specialties were only just being invented.
So it makes sense professionally that hes Death, even if his power set/M.O.
doesnt make a shred of sense there.
And his costume is just ridiculous: hes wearing a one-piece bathing suit with shoulder pads and…streamers?
Its sure as shit not a cape.
But at the same time,AoASinister is GREAT.
Hes also ranked highly because he was actually successful!
Wolverine couldnt kill him, and he only lost to X-Force because Fantomex tricked him into leaving.
Wolverine/Death isnt Wolverine, hes Senyaka with a scimitar (Scimyaka?
Yes, that is what well call him from now on).
They even half-assed their way through Angel losing his wings.
He was given enhanced strength and speed and kept his ability as a Hound.
APOCALPYSES
1.
Apocalypse (X-Men Apocalypse)
I CANNOT BELIEVE this worked.
I need a second to compose myself.
And his whole shtick worked!
And they had Akkaba!
AAAAH I CANT BELIEVE THIS MOVIE WORKED!
Archangel (Uncanny X-Force)
3.
Apocalypse (like, all the rest of these comics)
So.
-SimonsonsX-Factorrun, and she was his creator.
-AndMessia War, which was so underrated, you guys.
Thats four stories, and in two of them he was scenery.
(t) 162.
Thats exactly what I think of when I hear timeless, ancient evil.
