Film guide · 2016
The whole film, start to finish, told scene by scene in words. Read this and you'll know everything that happens.
Contains every spoiler, up to the ending.
Egypt, 3600 BC. En Sabah Nur is worshipped as a god. By moving his mind into other mutants' bodies, he has lived for ages and collected many powers.
During the ritual to move into a new body, rebels bring the pyramid down. Some of his horsemen die shielding him, and he's sealed deep underground, asleep.
1983. CIA agent Moira MacTaggert is investigating a cult in Cairo. An underground ritual lets the light in, and Apocalypse awakens.
Charles is teaching young mutants at his school. Jean Grey is plagued by nightmares about the end of the world.
High schooler Scott Summers suddenly fires uncontrollable beams from his eyes. His brother Alex brings him to the school.
Erik lives quietly in Poland under a new name, working in a factory with a wife and daughter.
Ororo, Storm, a young thief on the streets of Cairo, meets Apocalypse. He amplifies her power, and she becomes his first horseman.
Erik uses his power to save a coworker. Police come for him, and in the struggle an arrow kills his wife and daughter. In fury, Erik kills the officers.
Apocalypse recruits Psylocke, who wields psychic blades, and Angel, a winged mutant forced to fight in a Berlin cage match. Angel's damaged wings are remade in metal.
Apocalypse finds the grieving Erik and amplifies his power at the site of Auschwitz. Erik becomes the fourth horseman.
Raven, Mystique, rescues Kurt, a blue teleporting boy, from the Berlin cage fights and brings him to Charles's school.
Scott, Jean, Kurt and Jubilee sneak off to the mall and the movies.
Charles uses Cerebro to find Erik, but Apocalypse hijacks the connection and uses Charles's power to launch the world's nuclear missiles into space.
Apocalypse and his horsemen appear at the school and take Charles away.
As Charles is taken, Alex's power goes off near Cerebro, and the school explodes.
Peter, who has come looking for Erik, races through the explosion carrying students to safety, but Alex can't be saved.
Colonel Stryker arrives by helicopter and takes Hank, Raven, Moira and Peter. Scott, Jean and Kurt secretly follow.
At the Alkali Lake base, the three find a captive man with a device on his head: Logan, stripped of his memories. He tears through the soldiers.
Jean reaches into Logan's mind, restores a piece of his memory and calms him. He disappears into the snowy woods.
The three free their captured friends and fly Hank's jet to Cairo.
Apocalypse has Erik tear at the world's metal, wrecking cities, and begins the ritual to move into Charles's body.
Raven, Hank, Peter, Scott, Jean and Kurt battle the horsemen. Angel falls fighting Kurt.
Charles fights Apocalypse in the mental plane. Outside, Peter is beaten by Apocalypse without ever telling Erik he's his son.
Moved by Raven and Charles, Erik and Storm turn against Apocalypse and join the X-Men.
Urged by Charles to let go, Jean unleashes a fiery power sleeping inside her. Apocalypse is consumed by it.
Charles gives back the memories he once erased from Moira.
Erik and Jean rebuild the school together. Erik then says goodbye to Charles and leaves.
Raven and Hank begin training Scott, Jean, Storm, Kurt and Peter as the new X-Men.
Men in suits arrive at the Alkali Lake base. They take a vial of blood labeled Weapon X and place it in a case marked Essex Corp.