Apocalypse's Motivation?
Villains who have bad or little to no motivation for their grand schemes really piss me off. Apocalypse literally just watched TV for a minute or two and decided he was sick of the world
shareHe wants power. Absolute power. He believes to be a God. He wants to rule the world. He doesn't need any motivation in doing so.
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The X-Men timeline was altered 2 times, not just one (DOFP).
FIRST CLASS was already a "divergence".
Everything is explained here:
THE X-MEN CINEMATIC TIMELINES
http://x-continuity.blogspot.com
It was more they didn't give him a way of doing it. Everything just fell into his lap. If Xavier didn't contact Erik, what would Apocalypse have done?
"Truth sounds like hate to those who hate truth."
Precisely.
After learning about the current state of the world, he's particularly pissed off to learn that it's being ruled by physically weak elected officials without any special powers instead of the strongest of his children (mutants), and that rule is enforced by machines 'the weak have taken the Earth... no more!'.
He would have been less aggravated to find omega-level mutants like Charles and Erik ruling the world, but he still would have wanted them to hand it over to him after he woke up, because he's more powerful than both of them.
He is right. Apocalypse had the power to control the world easily.
He knows that this world is controlled by weak and corrupt politicians (for example see what's happening in Europe, with native europeans being wiped out because of their corrupt sionist leaders).
So he proceeded to destroy first the weak's machines that led the weak to overrun the strong ones. Then to assume control himself instead of the corrupt leaders the world has. He failed at that last one, first and foremost because he failed to plan better, but ultimately because Phoenix was stonger and was on the weak's side.
Shame Apoc didn't win. From the ashes of their world, we could have built a better one for everybody.