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Legion (David Haller), an extremely powerful psionic mutant and the son of Professor Charles Xavier and Israeli diplomat Gabrielle Haller, traveled back in time with the intention of killing Magneto, who was once Xavier’s best friend but had become the greatest nemesis of the X-Men. However, when Legion was on the point of killing Magneto, Xavier interspaced himself between the two of them, and Legion killed Xavier instead. Consequently, Legion ceased to exist, since his father, Xavier, died before Legion was fathered. Because of Xavier’s sacrifice, Magneto came to believe in his dead friend’s dream of peaceful co-existence between humans and mutants. However, Apocalypse, a mutant alive for centuries who believed in “survival of the fittest,” monitored the fight between Legion, Magneto, and Xavier and began his genetic war ten years before he did so in the real timeline. Thus, by the time that Magneto founded the X-Men in this timeline, Apocalypse had already established himself as a major power. Apocalypse would come to rule all of North America; New York City was renamed Apocalypse Island and the Statue of Liberty was replaced by a statue of Apocalypse. He also initiated a worldwide genocidal campaign of “cullings” in which millions of humans died; the surviving humans lived on in the parts of Europe and Africa which weren’t devastated by nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, the disturbance of the timeline has led to a crystallization wave of the M’Kraan Crystal that is heading toward Earth...
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The only major mutant character missing in the Age of Apocalypse is Psylocke. She was likely either killed in one of Apocalypse’s cullings or one of the members of the Brain Trust keeping control over the pensExternal links