{"id":192,"date":"2011-01-25T04:33:49","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T04:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/?page_id=192"},"modified":"2022-04-09T11:58:07","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T16:58:07","slug":"four-horsemen-of-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/?page_id=192","title":{"rendered":"Four Horsemen of Apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/4horsemen-color.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-193\" title=\"4horsemen color\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/4horsemen-color.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"577\" height=\"718\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/4horsemen-color.jpg 577w, https:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/4horsemen-color-241x300.jpg 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 577px) 100vw, 577px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This one requires a bit of explaining.\u00a0 For my &#8220;Uncannonical X-Pals&#8221; campaign, at one point I wanted to use an <em>X-Men<\/em> villain named Apocalypse, a powerful psionic mutant from Ancient Egypt revived in the Modern Era.\u00a0 Now, one of Apocalypse&#8217;s schticks was to recruit a team of four henchmen to be the &#8220;Four Horsemen of Apocalypse&#8221;.\u00a0 And naturally, these four would be named and modeled after the ones from the Book of Revelation.\u00a0 This bugged me, because Apocalypse was supposed to be an Ancient Egyptian, remember?\u00a0 From centuries before St. John ever heard of Patmos.\u00a0 But since my game was called &#8220;The <em>Uncannonical<\/em> X-Pals&#8221;, I felt no shame in altering continuity however I felt.\u00a0 I gave my version of the Four Horsemen all Egyptian motifs to their costumes; and the characters I chose for his roster were some of the most powerful mutants in existence:\u00a0 Magneto, Mystique, Juggernaut (not technically a mutant, I know, but work with me), and (heh heh!) the Phoenix!\u00a0 Yeah, I decided if I was going to use Apocalypse, I was going to make him freakin&#8217; scary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one requires a bit of explaining.\u00a0 For my &#8220;Uncannonical X-Pals&#8221; campaign, at one point I wanted to use an X-Men villain named Apocalypse, a powerful psionic mutant from Ancient Egypt revived in the Modern Era.\u00a0 Now, one of Apocalypse&#8217;s[&hellip;]<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/?page_id=192\">&darr; Read the rest of this entry&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":151,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-192","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","uentry","postonpage-1","odd","post-author-kurtwilcken"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/192\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}