Apocalypse VS Black Adam

*Two terrifying titans collide in an epic battle to prove whose destructive reign will withstand the sands of time.*
—Tagline
**Apocalypse VS Black Adam** is the 91st episode of DBX, featuring Apocalypse from *Marvel Comics* and Black Adam from *DC Comics* in a battle between Ancient Egyptian supervillains.

## Interlude

**Ringmaster**: Welcome one and all to MY arena where you decide the outcome! No rules, only bloodshed! I am Ringmaster and this is the exhibitiooon!

**Ringmaster**: And this week we got my “great pal” Wiz.. back for more fun! Isn’t that right, Wizard?”

*The camera zooms out showing Wiz.*

**Wiz**: You wouldn’t know what happened to MY flying custom podium would you?

**Ringmaster**: Hey! Don’t ask me! I can search up here if you want. You can come to the ground game. Pzzt! Camera Guy, follow me.

*Wiz pulls out a device from his coat.*

**Wiz**: Oh, no problem. I'll just take yours.

*Wiz uses the device to steal Marshall’s podium, switching places with Ringmaster.*

*Now the camera focuses on Wizard giving him a majority amount of attention.*

**Wiz**: Sound good to you? Marshall?

**Ringmaster**: Noooo!!!!!!

## Apocalypse

**Wiz**: Anyway, Hailing from ancient Egypt this X-Men supervillain isn't just powerful, he's the worlds first mutant

**Ringmaster**: Which is what the other drama kids said about...me

**Wiz**: Some may say first is the worst but Apocalypse possess a host of supernatural abilities. Like unbelievable physical strength and speed, energy blasts, telekinesis, telepathy, and teleportation

**Ringmaster**: All at the cost of being born an outcast with grey skin and big ol' blue apocly-lips

*A chibi Ringmaster is seen as a red dot appears on his face and he avoids getting shot*

**Wiz**: Soul vaporizing puns aside Apocalypse's most fearsome power is perhaps his ability to manipulate his own molecular structure to do...basically anything

*A chibi Ringmaster is seen growing in size and changing his Right arm into a weapon*

**Wiz**: He can stretch his limbs, grow in size, and mold his body into deadly weapons, he can even grow his whole body back if even a single drop of his blood remains

**Ringmaster**: And he's grey, Uh with his insane celestial battle armor the man once known as En Sabah Nur is a force to be reckoned with, you have to be to have a fricken' age named after you

**Wiz**: Well i've been workshopping the age of Wiz for when I inevitably conquer the world

*Ringmaster pulls out a device with a red button and after pressing it the screens read Boo Wiz and the audience does just that.*

## Trivia

### Production

* The connections between Black Adam and Apocalypse are that they are both ancient comic book supervillains who come from Ancient Egypt and managed to survive to the present day, where they became some of the most powerful foes for teams of superheroes (the Justice Society of America and Justice League, and the X-Men and Avengers, respectively), though they would side more and more with the side of good over time. Both are/were rulers of civilizations (Adam being the king of Kahndaq, while Apocalypse ruled several civilizations as a god throughout millennia) and are corrupted progenitors to modern-day heroes (Adam being the fallen champion of the Wizard, as Shazam currently is, while Apocalypse was among the first mutants, as are the members of the X-Men). Both are depicted as slaves in some versions of their backstories, who once expressed a genuine desire to use their abilities for good before an intervention by a villain (Blaze and Kang, respectively) led to their falls to evil. Both also draw power from godlike entities (Adam draws power from Egyptian deities, while Apocalypse was enhanced by the Celestials).
	+ Both also have histories with reimagined versions of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, albeit in opposing ways; Black Adam fought against a group of bio-engineered villains named after them, whilst Apocalypse's most notable minions are themed after the group.

### Other

* This is the sixth episode to be shared with Death Battle, after Sasuke VS Hiei, Goomba VS Koopa 2, Batman VS Iron Man, Alucard VS Dio Brando, and Vegeta VS Thor, and with the next one being Vegito VS Gogeta.
	+ This is the second episode in which the DBX loser wins their Death Battle, after Alucard VS Dio Brando, and with the next one being Vegito VS Gogeta.
	+ Coincidentally, both the DBX and the Death Battle end with the winner frying the loser with the Living Lightning and stomping on their head, though the Death Battle does it in the reverse order compared to the DBX.
* This is the fourth *Marvel* VS *DC* themed episode, after Harley Quinn VS Domino, Catwoman VS Black Cat and Batman VS Iron Man.
	+ This is the second time *DC* wins, after Harley Quinn VS Domino.