Doug Ramsey was a friend of Kitty Pryde who didn't know that he was a mutant. The X-Men didn't to recruit him because they figured he could live a normal life with his power. That plan changed however, when the Massachusetts Academy invited Doug to join their school. Kitty couldn't tell him how that school was a front for evil mutants so she decided to go along to keep an eye on him. She was counting on the X-Men to back her up if she got into any trouble. Unfortunately for her this was at the same time that the Beyonder abducted Earths super heroes and villains to compete in the first Secret Wars. Kitty and Doug were both brainwashed by the newly returned Emma Frost. They were eventually rescued and Doug joined the New Mutants.

During his time on the New Mutants he always felt that he was a liability to the team because he felt that he had a worthless power. When the team discovered the techno-organic alien Warlock he had met his new best friend. Even though every thing Warlock touch would become infected with the transmode virus. Doug would risk his life to fuse with Warlock so he could help his teammates.

Doug was also romantically linked to Rahne Sinclair(Wolfsbane.) It was because of his strong feelings for her that cost Doug his life. The team was on a mission rescuing mutants that had been kidnapped and experimented on by the Ani-Mator. In the process the team was captured themselves. During their escape the Ani-Mator was going to shoot Wolfsbane in the back when Doug jumped in front of him and took the bullet to save her life.

Years later Doug returned to life when Warlock infected his body with the transmode virus and they were fused together as a new person called Douglock.