Here is an archive of all the past top five lists I've one over the years.
One of Apocalypse's neatest tricks over the years has been turning established characters into his Horseman, most famously his Horseman of Death. So here are the top five characters who Apocalypse has turned into his Horseman of Death...
DISHONORABLE MENTION
Gambit
Gambit's tenure as Apocalypse's Death was one of his most embarrassing moments in comics.
His look by Salvador Larroca was also pretty embarrassing...
Plus his new "make noxious gas" power...
HONORABLE MENTIONS
The Apocalypse Twins put together FOUR Horsemen of Death in the pages of Uncanny Avengers. I don't think that really counts for this, as they're not really "the" Apocalypse, so they don't count...
Similarly, when Archangel sort of took over for Apocalypse, he made Psylocke his Horseman of Death. Same concept - it really doesn't seem to count to me if it is not Apocalypse directly behind it...
During the Age of Apocalypse, Apocalypse still had his Four Horseman, but by the time that the Age of Apocalypse crossover began (which was twenty years after Apocalypse had declared war on humanity), he had stopped differentiating between the Horsemen. My guess would be that Holocaust was the Horseman of Death, but it is unclear.
5. Maximus
In Tales from the Age of Apocalypse #1, Scott Lobdell, Ralph Macchio, Joe Bennett and Joe Pimentel delivered a tale showing how Blink and Sunfire came to be with the X-Men and how Maximus' tenure as Death came to an end...
4. Sanjar Javeed
In Uncanny X-Force #3 by Rick Remender, Jerome Opena and Dean White, we meet the "Final Horsemen," people Apocalypse and his servant Ozymandias have been collecting from around the globe for centuries and then keeping in reserve. They are now activated. Sanjar Javeed was one of them...
He is later killed by Deathlok. Archangel elevated Psylocke to take his place.
Go to the next page for the top three!
3. Caliban
I liked Caliban as a servant of Apocalypse because his problems actually made sense. He saw his fellow Morlocks get wiped out during the Mutant Massacre and he was not strong enough to stop him. Plus, Caliban was always a bit simple-minded, so it made sense to me that he would be willing to serve Apocalypse in exchange for being made strong, like the decision he made in X-Factor #23 (by Louise and Walter Simonson)...
He served as Apocalypse's "Hellhound" for a few years before becoming the new Death in Uncanny X-Men #294 (by Scott Lobdell, Brandon Peterson and Terry Austin)...
2. Wolverine
I was not much of a fan of The Twelve storyline, but I have to admit, while the whole "Wolverine is a Skrull! Apocalypse had secretly switched Wolverine with a Skrull months earlier and then brainwashed the real Wolverine and gave him his adamantium back and made him his new Horseman of Death" plot is kind of silly if you put any thought into it, on the surface, it still led to some awesome moments, like when "Death" kills "Wolverine" in Astonishing X-Men #3 by Howard Mackie, Brandon Peterson and Tim Townsend...
and when "Death" is revealed in X-Men #95 by Alan Davis, Tom Raney and Scott Hanna...
At the very least, it got Wolverine his adamantium back!
1. Archangel
You really can't beat the original version of this theme, as Louise Simonson put in a lot of work to set up Warren Worthington's downfall to the point where you really could believe that he would willingly throw in with Apocalypse. And what a design by Walter Simonson. There's a reason people keep coming back to it...
That's the top five! Agree? Disagree? Let me know! Unless you think Gambit as Death was cool. Keep that nonsense to yourself. ;)