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[[File:AoATrope.gif|frame|What happens when [[The Chosen One|One man]] dies? [[The Bad Guy Wins|THIS!]]]]
In 1995, this crossover from [[Marvel Comics]] among the [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Titles]] began when Legion, son of Professor Xavier, travelled back in time to kill [[Magneto]], but ended up killing his own father instead. This story, itself a minor crossover called ''Legion Quest,'' led to the main Age of Apocalypse crossover.
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* ''Cable'' - ''X-Man''
[[The Constant]] was Bishop. Hailing from an alternate future, he was already a chronal anomaly and thus unaffected by the change. He was the only one who remembered the world 'as it should be' and convinced the heroes to [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]], even though it would mean that their own timeline would cease to exist. It turned out that the world was doomed anyway, as both hemispheres would have been leveled by nuclear attacks. Some characters managed to escape the closing of the temporal singularity and entered normal [[Continuity]]. One who failed to make it back was the remarkably popular Blink, the second of her lamented deaths. [[Death Is Cheap|Death may be cheap]], but she did not return until five years later in ''[[
On the tenth anniversary a sequel miniseries was produced, which isn't very popular among fans; among other things, it shows little evidence of the devastation evident in the original series. There was also a "What If" story pitting the survivors of the original series against Galactus. A recent arc in Uncanny X-Force seems to have paved the way for a new ongoing series in 2012 for the survivors.
A shining example of the [[Darker and Edgier]] comics of [[The Nineties]]: a ''literal'' post-Apocalyptic warzone.
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* [[Alternate Universe]]
* [[And This Is For]]:
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'''X-Man''': Four, in fact. '''THIS ONE'S FOR FORGE!''' *kick to the face* }}
* [[Anyone Can Die]]: It's an [[Alternate Universe]], and a particularly [[Grimdark]] one at that, so this trope is in full effect. Longtime but not actually iconic characters in main continuity are [[Red Shirt|Red Shirts]] here.
* [[Apocalypse Not]]: The ten-year revival series makes the world look much less nasty in comparison to the original run.
* [[A Real Man Is a Killer]]: Colossus expects the younger mutants to kill one another during training to ensure survival of the fittest.
* [[Badass Normal]]: Gwen Stacy stands out the most, compared to her counterpart in the normal continuity, but many other other non-mutant Marvel heroes (who managed to escape Apocalypse's human cullings...Peter Parker and half of the [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Fantastic Four]] did not) qualify as well.
* [[Black and Gray Morality]]: Forget about Magneto. In a setting where the [[Fantastic Racism|mutant Nazis]] have already conquered or wiped out half the world and the remaining humans are willing to nuke them in self-defense, Sabertooth and the Sentinels are good guys.
* [[Blessed
* [[Canon Foreigner]]: Among others, Charles Lehnsherr, Dead-Eye, and Switchback. The only thing the AoA Arclight, Bastion, and Wolverine share with their classic Marvel Universe namesakes are the names. The classic Arclight is a woman ([[Ao A]] Arclight's a man), the normal MU Bastion appeared as a mutant-hater ''after'' [[Ao A]], and the AoA version of the classic [[Wolverine]] goes by the name Weapon X. Sugar Man had no known counterpart in the classic Marvel Universe, but as noted below he, plus Dark Beast, X-Man, and Holocaust (whose respective counterparts are Beast, Cable, and the recently-revealed Genocide), did literally immigrate from the AoA reality to the classic universe in the finale.
* [[Canon Immigrant]]:
** A version of Abyss--one of Apocalypse's horsemen--later appeared in the normal [[Marvel Universe]], but due to Apocalypse not ruling the world, he was a hero and Damask's 616 counterpart is [[Excalibur (Comic Book)|Excalibur]] villain Emma Steed. Oh, and thanks to recent events in ''Uncanny X-Force'', there's now a 616 version of Holocaust, calling himself Genocide.
** Holocaust, Sugar Man, Dark Beast, X-Man, AoA Sabretooth and AoA Blink are literal examples of this; the former four found their way into the classic MU during the finale (X-Man interacted with his counterpart, Cable, a few times and Dark Beast once impersonated his counterpart, the classic Beast) and the latter two, via ''[[
* [[Catch Phrase]]: Apocalypse's constant referrals to the "chosen" and the "forgotten".
* [[Co
** The Elite Mutant Force serve as Co-Dragons for Sinister (Cyclops, Havok, Cannonball, Amazon, Northstar, Aurora, the Bedlam Brothers, Marrow, the M Twins)
*** Cyclops becomes the [[Token Good Teammate]].
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** The Infinites are genetically engineered [[Mooks]]
** The Madri also count. They are also a [[Religion of Evil]] that worships Apocalypse
* [[Death World]]: Several continents have been wiped out by nuclear weapons, most of the rest of the planet is an irradiated wasteland, genocidal death squads hunt down and wage war on the surviving human race and "race-traitors", dissenters and opponents of the tyrannical regime can expect to be thrown into concentration camps to try and survive sadistic experiments, and North America is divided between the [[Evil Overlord]] and his [[Co
* [[Did They or Didn't They?]]: Fans were convinced that Rogue and Magneto hooked up in a previous storyline (despite [[Word of God]]), perhaps the reason why they were a genuine couple in this series.
* [[The Disembodied]]: The villain Holocaust.
* [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!]]: [[Quicksilver]] learned that his father had been kidnapped by his worst enemy, his half brother had vanished, and a virtual stranger had also been captured. He had to decide to rescue the stranger. When his girlfriend Storm tried to sympathize, he refused to talk with her because if he thought of what he was doing, he would not be able to do it.
* [[Dragon
* [[The Empire]]
* [[The End of the World
* [[Evil Overlord]]: Apocalypse himself is one of these in this story.
* [[Face Heel Turn]] and [[Heel Face Turn]]:
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** In universe examples include Cyclops and Strong Guy among others.
** {{spoiler|Wolverine as of the Dark Angel Saga in Uncanny having become the heir to Apocalypse and Bobby Drake.}}
* [[Flip
** It was explained that the real reason for the main [[Marvel Universe]] being destroyed (temporarily) is the M'Kraan Crystal being breached; since there is a single M'Kraan Crystal that exists simultaneously in all realities, breaching it in one reality creates a cascade effect that will wipe out the entire multiverse. When this was averted, things went back to normal.
* [[Future Badass]]: Almost everyone in the series is a future badass version of themselves; the one glaring exception is Illyana Rasputin, who never went to hell in this continuity and is therefore a little girl rather than a teenaged demon-sorceress.
* [[Go Through Me]]: During a massive battle, Colossus sees that his little sister is in trouble and rushes to save her, with gusto. Iceman steps up and says something along the lines of "No can do pal, if you want to get out of here you'll have to go through m-"... and the next panel shows Colossus smashing Iceman into a million pieces. {{spoiler|Though that wouldn't actually kill him now after some power [[Retcon|Ret Cons]].}}
* [[Kill
* [[Marked Bullet]]: Mystique, also the source of the title 'X-Calibre'.
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Quite a few, including Mr. Sinister and Holocaust. And of course the titular Apocalypse.
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* [[Remember That You Trust Me]]
* [[Ret Canon]]: The classic Sunfire later sported his AoA counterpart's look, ironically as a horseman of Apocalypse while Shadowcat briefly employed a claw device similar to the one used by her AoA self.
* [[Ripple
* [[The Spartan Way]]: Colossus' method of training young mutants.
* [[The Starscream]]:
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** Holocaust is also implied to have more extreme plans.
* [[Superpower Meltdown]]: X-Man was engineered by Sinister to eventually (and literally) burn out from the strength of his psionic power.
* [[The Time
* [[Unexplained Recovery]]: Even though the usual "This is a 'What If' so let's kill everyone we can' rules apply, one character actually enjoyed a normal [[Death Is Cheap|comic book resurrection]], albeit as an after the fact [[Retcon]] brought about by editorial bungling. {{spoiler|Cyclops was intended to die in the end, but as many fans pointed out, the depiction of his death makes no sense; Havok's power shouldn't be able to even hurt him, much less kill him. So in the epilogue miniseries, he was established to be alive again (though he never appears).}}
* [[What Happened to
** Not counting the ten-year revival ([[Fanon Discontinuity|many fans don't]]), Psylocke is the most notable no-show, though [[Wild Mass Guessing]] suggests that she was lobotomized as part of Apocalypse's Brain Trust (a collection of disembodied telepathic brains that serve as Big Blue's primary psychic defense), thus explaining her brother Brian's almost manic dedication to bringing Apocalypse down.
*** The Psylocke in the ten-year revival is most likely Kwannon, the Chinese telepathic assassin who body-switched with Betsy Braddock in the main universe, who remained in possession of her original body in this reality.
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