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** 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 ''[[Exiles (Comic Book)|Exiles]].'' Given Holocaust died, he's unlikely to meet his newly-revealed 616 counterpart, Genocide, unless he's resurrected.
* [[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.
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* [[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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* [[The Time Travellers 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).}}
* [[What Happened to The Mouse?]]:
** 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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