Warlock

History

New Mutants

Warlock came to the Xavier Institute and he was mistaken for a threat. The New Mutants thought he was a demon or a monster, and attacked him at first. It wasn't until Karma used her power on Warlock to pull out an image of his greatest fear (his father) that they realized that Warlock was merely a frightened alien. In order to communicate with Warlock, the New Mutants had to get their friend Cypher  to talk to Warlock and convinced Xavier to keep him as a New Mutant. Warlock joined the New Mutants and made many friends, giving them weird tag names.

Warlock had a lot to learn about Earth, mainly through television. Warlock also shocked his teammates by showing how he "fed"- he would change an organic being into a techno-organic being and then absorb its life-force. After demonstrating this on a seagull, Warlock was scolded very harshly by Karma, and Warlock promised to never do that again without permission. 

When the sorcerer Kulan Gath turned New York into a medieval city-state under his rule, Warlock was one of a few people who wasn't affected by his spell. Whilst Warlock was still a coward and fled before Kulan's greater power, he helped stop him by finding Ororo Munroe, aka Storm. After the two were found by Selene and Storm was seriously injured, Warlock came up with a solution to save her life and at the same time stop Selene: he would transform her into a techno-organic being, thus allowing her to defeat Selene since she would be immune to her powers. Even though there was no way for Storm to turn back into a human afterwards, she agreed. With Storm a techno-organic being, she was able to transform Selene into a techno-organic being and drain her energies. This reversed Kulan's spell, returning New York to normal. Even better, with Doctor Strange and Illyana Rasputin's help, Storm was able to turn human once more.

Shortly after this, Magus returned, looking for Warlock. Rogue, Colossus and Nightcrawler managed to physically hurt him, which amused Magus. Magus gave the X-Men an ultimatum: Give up Warlock or he would destroy Earth. Warlock was too useful to the X-Men and New Mutants, often helping them defeat villains which he was immune to their powers. For example, when Amahl Farouk took over the mind of Karma and defeated the New Mutants, only Warlock was able to escape. Warlock found Storm, and together he, Storm, Danielle Moonstar and Magik (who also escaped) joined forces. During one of their trips to Limbo, Warlock found out about the dead X-Men from the future there. Believing that Illyana was a traitor to the X-Men, Warlock attacked her. He also broke his promise about not draining energy from anyone and used that on demons Illyana summoned. Realizing Warlock would do anything to stop her, Illyana surrendered, calming Warlock down. Warlock and Illyana then managed to save the rest of the New Mutants, driving Amahl Farouk to the astral plane. 

After this lengthy adventure, Storm and the New Mutants had a well deserved break on the Greek Island Kirinos. Unknown to the mutants, the Enchantress had made a deal with Loki that made them want to destroy the X-Men. Unfortunately they mistook the New Mutants for the X-Men, and brought the New Mutants to Asgard. Illyana Rasputin's attempt to get the New Mutants home resulted in them being scattered throughout Asgard. Warlock was sent to Hel, where people who die a cowardly death go. Fleeing, Warlock found Karma and Cypher, and shifted himself into a battle-armour form around Cypher, allowing Doug to help. With this done, the New Mutants were able to stop Loki, and go home.

However, upon returning home, the New Mutants found out that Magneto had taken over leadership of the X-Men, whilst Xavier was gone. Not only that, but the immensely powerful Beyonder appeared, and he showed off his powers by killing all of the New Mutants then resurrecting them. All of the New Mutants except Warlock and Mirage were turned into zombie-like creatures. With no idea of what he should do, Magneto transferred his team to Emma Frost's Massachusetts Academy. Only Warlock remained behind, not trusting Emma. Magneto suddenly realized that he had transferred the team because Emma Frost and the Hellion known as Empath had subliminally made him do so. Magneto and Warlock then went to go get the team back. Unfortunately, they were opposed by the Avengers, and during the fight Warlock was badly hurt. To save him, Magneto surrendered. The New Mutants realized that Magneto was a good leader so joined him, and went back to Xavier's school. 

By the time Warlock recovered, Mojo had kidnapped most of the New Mutants and gotten them to join his Brat Pack. He had also seduced Psylocke, and used her psychic powers to attack Warlock and Cypher, the only two New Mutants who had escaped. Since it looked like they had no chance of survival, Warlock suggested that he and Cypher merge, which would give Cypher enhanced senses. With this, his linguistic skills would be able to decode the "programming" that made the New Mutants and Psylocke so easy to control. Cypher accepted the risk of merging with Warlock. Unfortunately, the longer they stayed merge the more chance there was of Cypher getting the transmode virus. Luckily, when Cypher and Warlock finally defeated Mojo and Spiral and Warlock stopped the merge, Cypher was fine. Despite this, Mojo tried to defeat the X-Men again, but the New Mutants donned their graduation uniforms and beat Mojo in them

Shortly afterward, the Morlocks were attacked by the Marauders and nearly all of them were killed. During the chaos, Warlock was distant, with his sensors trying to find something. This proved fruitless, but nevertheless his father, Magus, found him once more. Knowing full well his father's powers, Warlock grabbed the rest of the New Mutants and attempted to flee. Magus managed to confront the New Mutants anyway, and so Magik teleported the New Mutants to Limbo. Even this was not enough to stop Magus, who easily crossed the dimensions after them. He easily bested Limbo's defenses, joined forces with S'ym (one of Magik's chief demons) and infected many residents of Limbo with the transmode virus. The New Mutants attempted to flee to the past, but even that was not enough to save them.

Overcoming his fears, Warlock went to Limbo to see if it was safe to teleport through. But during the teleport, something went wrong with Magik's spell and the team was scattered through time and space. Magik was with Professor X and the Starjammers, and with the Professor's help, managed to find and rescue her other teammates from the different realities they had gone to. When the Mutants were finally reunited and able to continue their battle against Magus, it seemed that Warlock's defeat was imminent. But Warlock managed to defeat Magus by combining his form with Cypher once more, and "re-code" Magus's DNA to reduce him to infancy. The threat of Magus was seemingly over at last.

With Magus gone, the team returned to Earth and attempted to continue life as the New Mutants once more. But soon after they returned, the Impossible Man came to Earth, seeking the X-Men. He had a score to settle with them, but instead found the New Mutants. When they refused to join him in his quest for fun, the Impossible Man accused them of being cowards. This triggered Warlock's sense of honour, who declared that anything the Impossible Man could do, he could do better. The two aliens chased each other all across Earth, matching their metamorphosing powers in all sorts of contests. Meanwhile, the New Mutants followed them all across Earth, trying to minimize the damage they caused. Eventually the New Mutants found a way to stop the contest: Warlock could change his colour, unlike the Impossible Man. Warlock won the contest and the Impossible Man agreed never to such a thing again.

Warlock & Cypher

When Sunspot left the school over a misunderstanding, he ventured to New York. Warlock went after him, concerned for his friend, but Sunspot refused to return to the school. Warlock stayed with Sunspot, where the two got caught up with the thieves gang known as the Fallen Angels. During the adventures of the Fallen Angels, Warlock showed Sunspot the true meaning of friendship, and how to control his temper. Sunspot finally agreed to go back to the New Mutants, and Warlock went with him.

Returning to the school, the New Mutants were surprised to find no one there. Magneto told the two mutants to stay at the school, but Warlock and Sunspot left when they found a map leading to the island home of the New Mutants' latest ally, Bird Brain. By the time they reached there, the rest of the Mutants were facing a mad scientist called Anti-Mator, who was working for an anti-mutant group called the right. With Warlock and Sunspot arrived, the battle quickly turned in favour of the New Mutants. However, during the chaos, no one noticed that Cypher was shot by a bullet in the chest until it was too late. Warlock became confused, as on his world it is normal to consume the body of a dead teammate. Also, he didn't understand the concept of Heaven and watching shows with zombies only confused him more. When no one was around, Warlock broke into the funeral home Cypher's body was in and stole Cypher's body. When nothing happened, Warlock thought that Cypher needed to be reminded of what it was like to be alive. He used his shape-shifting powers to "animate" Cypher's body and took him to see Wolfsbane. Rahne was horrified at what he had done, but realized that it was Warlock's way of getting his friend back. Eventually she managed to convince Warlock to put Cypher's body in its rightful place.

During the Inferno story line, demons from Limbo began invading Earth. During the various battles in the streets of New York, the New Mutants found out that Magneto was in league with the Hellfire Club and that he made a deal with the chief demon responsible for Inferno, N'Astirh. After Inferno was over, the New Mutants confronted their headmaster and then ran away to X-Factor's sentient base, Ship.  

After a second lengthy adventure in Asgard, Warlock and the New Mutants met their new leader, a mysterious man named Cable. They came to his aid whilst he was fighting Freedom Force, a government sponsored team. This made put the team in hot water with the US Government, so Cyclops suggested Cable and the New Mutants take up residence in the basement levels beneath the ruins of Xavier's mansion (which had been destroyed during Inferno). The team spent the next few weeks battling foes such as the Morlocks who had survived the Mutant Massacre, and the Mutant Liberation Front. Eventually the X-Men joined the New Mutants in Xavier's mansion, after using an abandoned ghost town in Australia as a base. 

Soon afterward, the Genoshan government targeted the X-Men and New Mutants, since they had allied themselves with Cameron Hodge, an enemy of X-Factor. Since the attack was without warning, Warlock, Boom Boom, Wolfsbane, Rictor and Storm were all successfully captured. The prisoners were "digitally transferred" to Genosha, and the transfer severely weakened Warlock. Still, he valiantly attempted to save his fellow prisoners after he learned that the Genoshan council planned to turn them into mindless mutant slaves. He knew that his friends would have no chance if they brought him along in his weakened state, Warlock insisted that they left him were he was. They did as he wished, but Warlock was easily defeated and recaptured by the Genoshans once more. Warlock was killed by Cameron Hodge who was trying to steal Warlock's powers. When trying to do so, Warlock's body was reduced to ashes. The world thought that Warlock was a normal mutant from earth. His ashes were put on top of Doug Ramsey's grave.

Douglock

"Douglock"

When the Phalanx came, they absorbed the remains of Warlock and Cypher. This created the being known as Douglock. Douglock had all the memories of Doug Ramsey. Douglock then joined Excalibur at Muir Island for a period of time. At that time the team was based on Muir Island, which was owned and run by Moira MacTaggert. While his team-mates were unnerved by his similarity to Doug, Douglock was eventually accepted as his own person. He acted as a tutor to Meggan and enjoyed a brief romance with fellow teammate Wolfsbane, foster daughter to Moira. This romance would cause him to react irrationally and dangerously at times, mainly destroying valuable scientific research because he did not understand it was more important than his budding relationship with Wolfsbane.

In a bid to seize control of the UK, the covert intelligence operation, Black Air allied themselves with the London Branch of the Hellfire Club in order to raise an ancient demon from its crypt below London and use the ensuing chaos to their advantage. Black Air kidnapped Douglock to be used as the conduit to the crypt. However, after being lost in the time stream Captain Britain spent some time in an alternate timeline where Black Air was successful in its plans, leading to a dystopic future. Using this knowledge he and Excalibur were able to defuse the Hellfire Club, enter Black Air's HQ, rescue Douglock and stop the demon's resurrection.

Douglock would continue to mishandle other aspects of Earthly life. Despite his beliefs he could handle it, Douglock became inebriated during Captain Britain's bachelor party and passed out, and later experienced temporary memory problems as a result of the episode.

Return as Warlock

Warlock later heads back to his old home on Muir Island where he becomes re-acquainted with his old flame Wolfsbane and her adoptive mother, Moira MacTaggert.

An altered form of Bastion attacks the island. Hope, Psimon and Wolfsbane join Warlock's efforts to defeat this new threat. Later, all would travel to New York and assist the Avengers in defeating Warlock's father, the Magus.

He later return to his home world and found it totally empty aside from Tyro, Warlock tried a new strategy and gave some of his alter virus to Tryo. This slowly changed him into a more peaceful version of his former self. 

Nova & Annihilation Conquest

Return to New Mutants

Powers & Abilities

As a member of the Technarchy, Warlock is a techno-organic being, without true form but constantly changing shape.   His techno-organic body can be reconstructed into any organically or technologically appearing shape he can imagine.  In the past, he has constructed out of himself energy projectors, sensory equipment, an increase in his physical size and strength, merge with computer systems to download information and schematics, deciphering protocols that allow him to intuit spoken, written and binary languages, and a natural adaptability which helps his systems reconfigure to deal with new threats or opponents. When "feeding," he injects a techno-organic virus, the transmode virus, into an object (organic or mechanical), converting it into a techno-organic form like himself, and absorbing its energy, or "lifeglow," into himself. Alternatively, he can absorb pure energy, like electricity from an outlet. 

His strain, a non-aggressive version, of the virus also is anathema to Phalanx and other techno-organic creatures because it removes their inherent need to assimilate others.  According to Ship, Warlock is a "mutant" of his species, in that he lacks the instinctive drive to conquer and assimilate that is common to all other Technarchs.

Other Media
Warlock appeared in his original incarnation on the Xmen animated series episode Phalanx Covenant . Unlike his comic counterpart he came to Earth in order to escape his destiny of merging with the Phalanx.