Age of Apocalypse: Difference between revisions

* [[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]] 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.

* [[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]]:

* [[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.

* [[The Empire]]

* [[Evil Overlord]]: Apocalypse himself is one of these in this story.

* [[Face Heel Turn]] and [[Heel Face Turn]]:

* [[The Time Traveller's Dilemma]]: Fixing things to how they should be means the end of the line for everyone in this dimension, which gives Magneto pause when he considers the son he has with Rogue.

* [[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).}}

** 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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