The Four Horsemen

Moving on, as far away as possible from this form of energy, we encounter the 4 Horsemen, the powerful beings imbued with even more power and who acted Apocalypse’s generals: War, Death, Famine, and Pestilence. And while Apoc himself is a terrible foe, he usually sends his generals to do all the heavy-lifting.

But wait – this is just in the comics, in which mutants with gifts of death, violence, hunger, and infection became the Horsemen. It isn’t so in the movie, where these generals have no special name. Magneto is still Magneto, Storm is still Storm, and so on. They just become superpowered when Apocalypse makes them his generals.

However, an interesting change is made, with Singer saying that the 4 Horsemen always need to be 2 males and 2 females. When doing his research for the movie, he said that he found out cult leaders (true cult leaders, the ones who develop god complexes), separate the cult into 4 factions: political, military, youth, and sexual.

Thus Magneto may be said to be the correspondent of the political faction, Archangel is the correspondent of the military one, Storm is in charge with seducing the minds of the young mutants and attracting them on Apocalypse’s side, while Psylocke is, obviously, the one who provides the sexual component of the cult. And this is very interesting, this compartmentalization of the attributes. Will it work on-screen? We don’t know just yet.