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{{Short description|1996 comic book miniseries}}
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|title               = The Rise of Apocalypse
|image               = RiseOfApocalypse3.png
|caption             = Apocalypse as featured in #3
|schedule            = Monthly
|limited             = y
|Superhero           = y
|publisher           = [[Marvel Comics]]
|startmo             = October 
|startyr             = 1996 
|endmo               = January 
|endyr               = 1997
|issues              = 4
|main_char_team      = [[Apocalypse (comics)|Apocalypse]]
|writers             = 
|artists             = [[Terry Kavanagh]]<br />James Felder (#3-4)
|pencillers          = [[Adam Pollina]]<br />[[Anthony Williams (comics)|Anthony Williams]] (#4)
|inkers              = [[Mark Morales (comics)|Mark Morales]]<br />[[Harry Candelario]] (#1)<br />[[Al Milgrom]] (#4)
|letterers           = [[Comicraft]]<br />[[Richard Starkings]] (#4)
|colorists           = [[Christian Lichtner]]
|editors             = [[Mark Powers]]
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|creators            = 
|TPB                 = The Rise of Apocalypse
|ISBN                = 0-7851-0586-7
|TPB#                = 
|ISBN#               = 
|subcat              = Marvel Comics
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|sort                = Rise of Apocalypse
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The '''''Rise of Apocalypse''''' is a four-issue [[Limited series (comics)|limited series]] published in 1996 by [[Marvel Comics]].  The series was written by [[Terry Kavanagh]], and drawn by [[Adam Pollina]].

==Plot summary==
5,000 years ago, a baby is found in the [[Egypt]]ian desert by a band of nomad raiders. The child is raised and named En Sabah Nur by the tribe's leader, [[Baal (comics)|Baal]], who teaches the boy [[survival of the fittest]]. During the same time, Egypt is ruled by the [[Rama-Tut|Pharaoh Rama-Tut]] who, in actuality, is the time traveller [[Kang the Conqueror]], who arrived from the future to claim En Sabah Nur as his heir, because the boy will grow up to become one of the most powerful [[Mutant (Marvel Comics)|mutants]] and notorious villains in history; [[Apocalypse (comics)|Apocalypse]]. Nur's tribe is destroyed by Tut's armies. Before Baal dies as well, he tells Nur that he is destined for greater things. Seeking revenge, En Sabah Nur travels to Rama-Tut's city where he hides as a slave and falls in love with Nephri, the sister of [[Ozymandias (Marvel comics)|Ozymandias]], Tut's general. But Nur is eventually rejected by Nephri, upon seeing his disfigured visage. His mutant powers awaken, and he enslaves Ozymandias while Rama-Tut flees. Having renamed himself Apocalypse, he now sets out to destroy the weak. <ref>''Rise of Apocalypse'' #1-4 {{Specify|date=May 2012}}</ref>

==Collected editions==
The series has been collected into a [[trade paperback (comics)|trade paperback]]:

*''The Rise of Apocalypse'' (collects ''Rise of Apocalypse'' and ''[[X-Factor (comics)|X-Factor]]'' #5-6, 160 pages, March 1998, {{ISBN|0-7851-0586-7}})

==In other media==
*Apocalypse's origin, similar to the ''Rise of Apocalypse'', appeared in the ''[[X-Men: Evolution]]'' episode, "Dark Horizon, Part II". This version was abandoned as a baby before he was found by [[Baal (comics)|Baal]]'s tribe of bandits, named "En Sabah Nur", and grew up to become a powerful warrior. After the Pharaoh [[Rama-Tut]] learned of Nur's power and slaughtered the bandits, the latter's full powers manifested, leading to him killing Rama-Tut's forces, renaming himself "Apocalypse", and taking the pharaoh's pyramid-like vessel and a device within it called the Eye of Ages. Using it to empower himself further, he intended to use it turn all humans on Earth into mutants, but was sealed in the vessel by his high priests for fear of his power.
*The ''Rise of Apocalypse'' was referenced in the final episode of the first season of ''[[X-Men '97]]'', "Tolerance is Extinction – Part 3", and it will play a major role in the second season.

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[[Category:Comics set in ancient Egypt]]
[[Category:Comics about revenge]]
[[Category:Comics about time travel]]
[[Category:Fiction about eugenics]]