Adam Warlock

Origin

Adam Warlock

Originally Adam Warlock was simply known as Him. He is an artificial being created by the hand of mad scientists, The Enclave, in a scientific complex called The Beehive, who was born from a cocoon. The Goal of his creators was to create the perfect human for their own gain. After the fantastic four would eventually investigate the creation of Him, they escaped because the complex was set under self destruct. After Him was born and seeing how corrupt his creators were, he abandoned them and left for space to gather his thoughts. However he doesn’t come far, hence he is caught in an asteroid shower and being saved the being known as Uatu, The Watcher, who sends him back to earth. On his trials through earth Him discovers the Asgardian goddess Sif and wants her to be his mate, which awakens the wrath of the God of Thunder, Thor whom he passively escapes by creating a cocoon around himself. Him later meets a person that would change his life, The High Evolutionary, and gives him his now known name: Adam – for being the first of his kind, Warlock – because men would fear his power, and give him the Soul gem that would apparently change his life. After clearing Adam up on what’s happened on Counter-Earth (The High Evolutionary’s creation), Adam departs to go there and stop the Man-Beast, a wolf that the High Evolutionary had genetically modified into a humanoid form. After fighting the Man-Beast several times, he is ultimately defeated, crucified and left to die by the Man-Beast and his minions. However, death is not final for Adam and he once again creates his cocoon to shelter himself from outer harm, and finally manages to defeat the Man-Beast with the Hulk taking care of his minions.

The Soul Gem/World

After several months, Adam finds himself on a desolate planet and figures that he failed to accomplish what the High Evolutionary begged him for. It is then, that he learns about his counterpart, an intergalactic menace known as the Magus, a being who rules a religious empire called “The Universal Church of Truth”, whose goal is to conquer worlds and offer only two options, convert, or die. Warlock ends up battling the Church with his companions Pip the Troll and Gamora the deadliest woman in the Universe. The Magus manipulates Warlock into a series of actions that will make him become the Magus. Thanos however thought otherwise, and helped Warlock regain his former selves consciousness. The Magus is thwarted by Adam and Thanos and suddenly just ceases to exist. After realizing that this was not a random doing and that a being called the Star Thief was behind this, Warlock begins to enter battle with someone that threatens to undo reality.

The High Evolutionary

After a time being, Thanos enters Adam’s life once again as an ally to Warlock, who’s intentions are to steal the soul gem’s power from Adam. After doing so, Thanos combines the Soul Gem with the other Infinity Gems to create a cosmic weapon known to destroy stars. Thanos, deeply aligned with death, plans on smiting out every star in the universe as a gift for Mistress Death. After discovering Thanos’ intentions, Gamora is deeply wounded by him, and Pip is killed as he tries to enter Thanos’ vessel.

Before dieing, Gamora warns Warlock about Thanos’ intentions, who travels to earth to gather the help of heroes such as Captain Marvel, Moondragon etc. The Avengers and Moondragon attack Thanos’ fleet so they can enter Sanctuary I, Thanos’ vessel. Mar-Vell and Adam engage in battle with Thanos followed by Thor and Iron Man. Mar-Vell is able to destroy the weapons launcher but Warlock eventually dies at Thanos’ hands. Thor is able to hold off Thanos long enough so that Iron Man can destroy the main weaponry itself. Thanos now aggravated about the miserable circumstances, defeats the remaining heroes. The Scenery is being intervened by Lord Chaos and Master Order, who telepathically send a message to Spider-Man and Ben Grimm to draw them to them. After Spider-Man and Ben Grimm arrive, Spider-Man accidentally makes contact with the Soul Gem, which releases the spirit of Adam Warlock, who turns Thanos into stone with his powers.

Thanos

Months pass after Thanos’ defeat, Ben Grimm meats a woman called Her, who was also made by The Enclave to be the equivalent of Him. (It was later revealed that Him and Her are one and the same Entities with just different aspects, and that they have been living for over centuries, which leaves to follow that Adams so-called creation was just another state of cocoon, and that he had been found by the enclave, not created by them.) Her is in search of him companioned by Ben Grimm and the High Evolutionary, who leads her to Adam’s grave, where his body resides, yet his spirit is gone. Several years pass, the Silver Surfer is witness to the resurrection of Thanos by Mistress Death, who felt she needed a champion once again. Thanos then makes it to his duty to collect the Infinity gems, which are being taken by the Elders of the Universe and the In-Betweener. With the Infinity gems collected, Thanos forges them into a glove, and bestows it with the name, The Infinity Gauntlet. This Gauntlet allows Thanos to exceed the power he once wielded with the Cosmic Cube.

Through Thanos’ resurrection, Adam felt an anomaly and had to return to the physical plane we call earth with Pip am Gamora at his side. Thanos, now wielder of the Comsos’ mightiest weapon, erases half the population of the Universe, simply to honor Death, and goes on a crusade battling the Cosmos’ mightiest (Galactus, Living Tribunal, Eternity etc) with Mistress Death as his witness. Adam leads a group of Earth’s Superheroes who almost were able to defeat the overconfident Thanos, but stay at par as the Infinity Gauntlet switches its owners to a space pirate known as Nebula who claims to be Thanos’ granddaughter. After reversing the mistake Thanos had done, Nebula loses the wondrous Gauntlet to Adam Warlock who, with the Infinity Gauntlets power, became God. But his Godhood isn’t for long, the entity known as the Living Tribunal declares Adam as unworthy for he is only artificial. (Which in the following events was shown that he is not) In his misguided fortune, he divides the gems between his closest companions (Pip, Gamora, Drax the Destroyer, Moondragon and Thanos), who together with Adam build the line-up of the Infinity Watch.

The Infinity Gauntlet

The temporary possession of the Infinity Gauntlet (Or more the Gems just being in his hands) brought forth a partial mental instability in Warlock. To clear his mind from all these countering thoughts between good and evil, he had to free himself from all things good and bad and became a being of pure logic. The mere thoughts of Adam became reality, and his evil half became a reincarnation of the Magus, while his good half became the Goddess. The two of them both try to control the universe, but Adam and his army of Earth’s mightiest are able to defeat them, and absorb them into the soul gem.

Warlocks next appearance once again follows in a self made cocoon, and is reborn with a slightly other look than before, hence Thanos’ Doppelganger (his clone) forced Moondragon to revive him. Adam is briefly found stopping another crisis started by several of Thanos’ Doppelgangers, a romantic relationship with Gamora and an encounter with She-Hulk.

Reborn Adam Warlock

The possessor of the Soul Gem is now Doctor Strange, who is a member of a group called the Illuminati, although Adam Warlock cannot be located.

During the slaughtering of the events in Annihilation, Adam once more finds himself in a cocoon to heal. After several months, he is awakened by Quasar and Moondragon who are in align with the Supreme Intelligence. Adam’s awakening was to early and he is followed by seizures if you uses his powers to often. He also learns that he is the prophesied Savior of the Kree. His costume somewhat resembles Magus’.

In the events of Annihilation: Conquest, Adam confronted Ultron who was forged with the mighty Phalanx, but with Quasar’s, Starlord’s, Nova’s and Warlock’s help, was able to unlock his full potential and defeat the massive Ultron. After these events, him and his fellow companions now are The Guardians Of the Galaxy.

New Powers

Adams powers are a summary of his events in his past history, the Soul gem for example, acted on its own sometimes, in manners Adam was to hesitate. It was capable of stripping enemies of their souls and passing judgment upon them. Passively Adam was able to enhance his own powers and astral projection.

The New Adam Warlock

Warlock's early awakening from his cocoon has meant a loss of control of his abilities, and he now appear to have spasms when concentrating on using them. Warlock can, however, now travel faster than light and detect wormholes and other irregularities in space. After regaining his powers through Phyla-Vell, he is able to manipulate souls as if he would still be in the possession of the Soul Gem.