Apocalypse: The Powers

Things get weird in here. And in here you will understand why we don't have so high expectations for this movie any longer. In the comics, Apocalypse can do just about everything, from changing size and shape, to teleporting and time-jumping. He is very exotic from this point of view "“ so, obviously, he needed to be played down a bit for the big screens.

In what sense? In a sense that won't appeal to the fans.

Here's how Singer explains his immortality and the way in which he has amassed so much power: "He moves from body to body. Apocalypse himself is not a physical form, he's an energy. I don't know what he is. What he does is he accumulates powers over the millenia by moving from body to body, and what's wonderful is he thinks in the beginning of the film he's found this great body. I don't want to give away what the power of the body this mutant has but it's a familiar one that you've seen a number of very famous mutants have. It kind of ends up being the wrong one because he gets stuck in it for a long time, but then suddenly he has this opportunity and that becomes his agenda."

So this Apoc is not Apoc at all, right? Because he seems more and more like a combination between this one character and some others, such as Shadow King. This wouldn't be such a biggie "“ but why do you say he is one character, when he is in fact a multitude of many others?

Apocalypse as a form of energy?!? We get it "“ he can change bodies in the comics as well. But saying that he is a form of energy is just too much for us.

Leaving this aside, another mystery arises. As we see, Apoc has changed a few bodies over the course of years. The last one, however, gave him the most trouble "“ the body he possessed did have a unique ability which he wanted, but it proved to be more than he could handle. Hence the burying. But what power was that? Who did he possess? Did he possess, by any chance, the true Apocalypse?!?