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Adam Warlock

Adam Warlock (Earth-61615)
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Him, Warlock, Golden Gladiator, Master of all Souls, Stonekeeper of the Soul Stone, High Priest Adam, Jesus of the Universe, Golden God, Goldilocks, Savior of Worlds

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Infinity Watch (founder and leader), ally and honorary member of the Guardians of the Galaxy; former leader of the Sovereign and messianic figure of the Universal Church of Truth

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Enclave (creator; ancestors of race), Sovereign (creators and fellow race): Ayesha (genetic "twin" and mother figure), High Evolutionary (former caretaker); Splinters of Warlock (fragmented selves): Goddess (good self), Magus (evil self)

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Healer of Souls, Savior of Worlds, honorary Guardian of the Galaxy; former biological weapon of the Sovereign, supreme creation of the Enclave, and servant of High Priestess Ayesha

Origin
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Artificial being, created by researchers of his ancestor race, the Enclave; Cosmic Being

Place of Birth
The Sovereign, M49 5IOl339P21+H9LNI31

First appearance

Modern Comics: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 17


History

Quote1 Change and I are constant companions... It is why I believe that even this genocidal, this despot of a Titan can still have the chance to change, as well as this expanding universe is and will ever be... Quote2
Adam Warlock

Lost Years

Adam Warlock was created by a society of different extraterrestrial researchers and travelers known as the Enclave in the artificial planet known as Sovereign. The goal of the researchers was to create the perfect humanoid being, just as the pinnacle of future evolution of intelligence using the ancient relic known as Soul Stone, only naming their supreme creation as Him. Unfortunately for the denizens of the newly built planet, the new being was a creature beyond the control of his creators. The creature whom they had created, emerged from his cocoon and — upon his very first emergence — immediately sensed that his creators sought to use him for evil ends. He lashed out, damaging the complex and injuring his creators, and promptly escaped into the greater galaxy, wherein he would become invested and enamored with all of life itself.

Venturing across the galaxy in the next few decades, Him would earn the first name Adam (based on the Biblical character on Earth) from a traveler as he dwelled among people and other beings which his creators would deem as inferior due to their mortal state and some would even suffered from life-long illnesses, to which his activities of selfless charity as well as his powers have garnered the being that would eventually be known as the High Evolutionary, although the two had yet to meet face-to-face around the time. It was in these troubling times of suffering in the form of oppression and poverty fueled by wars and terrorism that Adam has found his purpose of becoming a healer of the innocent through his god-like powers, as some would describe him as the Warlock by summoning such immense magical power. Adam's altruistic activities have also piqued the interest of former Cardinal Arokine of the Dyatom Shrine, who joined Adam's calling and promised to initiate his cause in a greater scale in the following years, founding the Universal Church of Truth. However, in his time was a messianic figure, Adam felt doubtful and sorrowful being revered as a god by those who deemed themselves his followers before conclusively deeming himself unworthy of such praise and worship. Such times of contemplation would ignite a darker essence within him, something that Arokine would name the Magus as the latter whispered and claimed he is the source of Adam's untapped power which could even resurrect the dead and grant them everlasting immortality.

Giving in to deception, the deluded Arokine had restrained Adam with advanced technology which siphoned off his energy to unleash the Magus from Adam. In his state of captivity having his body under Magus' control, the Universal Church of Truth would generally arrive at planets offering true peace and harmony through their faith in the Magus, only to "purify" those who reject their faith into execution. Adam eventually broke out of his chains and battled his evil shadow, containing it with the Soul Stone before Adam reluctantly obliterates the Church's headquarters, the Dyatom Shrine, before their theocratic empire could rise and their holy war could spread beyond one galaxy. Out of guilt and sorrow, Adam withdrew from the cause of the church who grew unhinged due to desperation to reverse tragedies and the natural order of reality. Discovering the fact that he couldn't die by any hands, including his own, Adam willingly puts himself into a comatose-like state after burying himself within the mantle of the Sovereign's smallest planet, hoping to exile himself for eternity.

Grand Rebirth

A century later, following the battle on Ego the Living Planet in 2014, Ayesha eventually desired to plan her ultimate retaliation against the Guardians of the Galaxy for their theft of the Anulax Batteries and destroying several of her race's Omnicrafts during their attempted escape from the Sovereign. Using an advanced Birth Pod, Ayesha and her selected researchers had discovered the catatonic body of the being in the smallest and outermost planet of the Sovereign, someone Ayesha deemed would be capable of defeating the Guardians. During the process of making the being come to life, Ayesha had her scientists and the direct consultation of the High Evolutionary to use the Soul Stone, a cosmic relic that was formerly in the possession of the Sovereign's ancestors, the Enclave. Using the mysterious relic did, in fact, bring the being to life, much to Ayesha's delight. While showing the reactivated Birth Pod to her loyal servants thanks to the significant assistance of the genius geneticist yet discreetly mad scientist High Evolutionary who was also the modern creator of the Sovereign, Ayesha decided to completely revived the once fallen Him, Adam Warlock, as her biological weapon and strongest servant.

Guiding the Guardians

Powered by the knowledge of the Soul Stone which gave him his truest and purest essence in the first place, Adam would support the existence of the Guardians of the Galaxy as a necessity in the universe for the next several years to come. Adam explained that the universe had been severely damaged since the Reign of Darkness and Damnation which occurred during the early stages of the universe, and soon it would go into a chaotic state due to a series of interconnected events, which not even the Guardians, nor most of the universe's heroic protectors and defenders, could prevent from happening. If another event of that magnitude occurred, it could tear the universe apart and cause the premature tearing of all of reality itself. They needed not only to prevent such a thing from occurring, but also to plug the fissures and help heal the universe, slowly but surely. As a result, instead of following his people's orders, Warlock instead went on his own path and decided it would be best for him to leave his people and their extremist ideologies for more than a million years, and his own creator for a while, much to Ayesha's dismay.

The Great Prophecy

However, despite his altruistic intentions to escape his abusive creators and to ally with and guide the Guardians into truly guarding the galaxy, Ayesha didn't give up on her greatest creation, claiming that if she couldn't control him, then no one else could, not even Adam himself. Responding to Warlock's rebellion, an enraged Ayesha ordered the Sovereign forces to fire against him until he was weakened enough to be put into captivity. Adam unleashed only a few of his newly-discovered powers, which proved enough to take down most of the fleet who fired at him. Unfortunately, the chaos caused by both Adam's fathomless power and the continuous firepower of the Sovereign forces only led to the Sovereign planet's main foundation being severely damaged, causing the planet's core to collapse.

In the end, Adam sacrificed himself to keep the core stable with his internal energy. Before sacrificing himself, he told the Guardians that their "adventures" would have to wait. He needed to spin the cocoon in order to adapt to the trauma and try to aid the souls. Unfortunately, Adam's awakening was too early (again) and he was followed by seizures if he used his telepathic powers too often, having seen two series of visions: souls screaming out of fear and loss of calamitous casualties, and on the other, valiant self-sacrificing heroes whom he has yet to meet that are determined preventing more deaths. Remembering his past, he also learned that he was the prophesied Savior of Worlds across the universe ever since his long disappearance from the face of the galaxy centuries in the past.

When Adam awakened from his short-lived slumber to investigate the visions he had seen, he was astonished to find out that the rest of the Sovereign would eventually see him as their rightful leader, having exiled Ayesha in the Sovereign's prison planet instead of executing her, out of Adam's philosophy not to spare an enemy when they are still capable of turning a new leaf. As he would start to have more self-esteem and confidence thanks to the faith of his people as well as his recent encounter with the Guardians of the Galaxy, which Adam had classified as the modern epitome of heroism. Hence, Adam embraced the very role he once abandoned in the past, taking it in a new light as the Healer of Souls and helped out planets which have suffered from tyranny and violence.

The Threat of Thanos

Deeping dive into the roots of his negative visions, Adam has learned of the genocidal Mad Titan Thanos after exploring the corners of the universe who died and suffered from his twisted and deathly quest to eliminate half of all life in order to save it from eventual collapse. Despite his people's concerns, Adam was adamant to leave the planet to confront the Mad Titan and his Starfleet, only for his rapidness to prove them right when exposure outside the Sovereign weakens him from his highest state every minute unless he recovers in his cocoon and continue powering up. Realizing that it couldn't be help, Adam tried to contact the Guardians of the Galaxy to seek after the stones, before realizing that it was too late. Thanos was already on the move and it wasn't long until he and his Black Order had ransacked the planet and acquired the Power Stone, sparking the beginning of the Titan's Infinity Quest.

Infinity Quest

Seeking the fourth stone, the Black Order were ordered by their adoptive father and master Thanos to raid the main planet of the Sovereign, where they almost slaughtered a large portion of its population and tried to take the Soul Stone from Adam, but they failed to do so since they were all outmatched and overpowered by him during the battle; little realizing that he has powered up nigh-unlimited energy to last against them after finishing his rest inside the cocoon. Proving that Adam Warlock was a lot more powerful than they had expected, the Order had to wait and let Thanos arrive while they tried to distract him. Thanos managed to combat Warlock all by himself having three Infinity Stones on his Gauntlet, with the battle ending in his victory, and he successfully obtained the Soul Stone from the Sovereign defender, which gave Thanos the power to render Warlock in a near-death state, since that latter was proven as "unkillable."

The weakened but still determined Warlock quickly traveled across the stars in a small starship to find the people he had foreseen in his vision and consequently formed the Infinity Watch, a secret cosmic league assembled by Adam to safeguard the six Infinity Stones once they retrieved them from Thanos, in order to prevent the Mad Titan and any other powerful tyrants from ever using such weapons of universal destruction. Meeting the Guardians of the Galaxy, Warlock would tag along with what remained of the team, most notably Thanos' vengeful daughter Nebula, as they ventured to Earth to meet with its heroes, the Avengers, as the supergroup it had formed — the Ultimates — were mostly wiped out with the rest of half the universe by Thanos' Snap.

Infinity War

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Warlock takes possession of the Infinity Gauntlet to end the conflict against Thanos, finally defeating the latter

However, even after more than a year has passed, the remaining alliance of the surviving heroes, antiheroes, and redeemed villains never gave up on saving the universe, still believing that hope is and will always be there, a vision that was supported by Warlock's spirit and foresight that victory is not impossible for them to attain. The remaining sorcerers on Earth, led by Brother Voodoo, had conjured their magic to help the heroes' technology locate the whereabouts of Thanos across the universe, who was about to reuse the Infinity Stones due to falling into Death's temptations that the universe shall be drastically warped in a sense that all life would only feel grateful and reflourish by starting over with what was left, rather than continue remembering and dwelling on what was lost.

Once they successfully tracked down the Mad Titan in his cosmic Sanctuary, Adam was among the small alliance of thirty enhanced individuals who teamed up to battle Thanos himself and his forces known as the Starfleet during the finale of the so-called Infinity War, aided by the Cosmic Entities: Love, Hate, the Stranger, Epoch, Chaos, Order, and even Galactus himself, who summoned the entities. But despite the assembled forces, Thanos was able to defeat them all and imprison them until he could execute most of them in a fashionable order.

Although most heroes were seemingly defeated, he overlooked Nebula, who was able to wrestle the Infinity Gauntlet from Thanos' hand. Her first act was to undo all that had occurred, which inadvertently freed the heroes and the cosmic entities and resurrected those who had withered into ash after the Titan's snap. The battle resumed, and in the end it was Warlock himself who finally possessed the Gauntlet. Everyone was surprised that he could withstand the immense power of the Infinity Stones in his grasp unharmed, proving that the prophecy of Him saving the universe from destruction was indeed true. Now holding the Gauntlet, Adam ended the great pangalactic, universal conflict for the Infinity Stones, at least for now.

Defeated after losing the Infinity Gauntlet to the heroes, Adam used the stones to seemingly incinerate Thanos, although Adam had only faked his death in front of his allies, teleporting and secluding the Titan to his place of exile on a distant planet far across the galaxy, away from everything he had accomplished, from his allies to everyone who was against him. Despite all of this, Thanos briefly continued to serve Death, although he could never please her, leading him to a long period of introspection. Believing that the Titan was still capable of changing his unethical and unrighteous ways, Warlock made Thanos a member of the Infinity Watch, giving him the Reality Stone, one of the Infinity Stones which Adam Warlock and the Watch guarded in the meantime.

Infinity Crusade

It had only been a few weeks since the end of Infinity War when Adam Warlock's evil and notorious side, whom was dubbed by his followers as the Magus, had unexpectedly separated from his own body thanks to the Universal Church of Truth, his oldest radical followers that has been operating in the shadows for the past centuries ever since Adam had almost dismantled them. Located at the planetary-wide mobile station known as Sacrosanct, Magus and the Church reembarked the former's crusade to reassemble some of the Infinity Stones.

In this process, Magus created doppelgangers of different heroes (including Earth's), and even Thanos' own duplicate, as a part of his plan to recreate the universe into his own image, a universe of eternal and infinite wickedness fueled by every being's fear, sorrow, and regret. In the very end of the conflict, Gamora and the rest of the Infinity Watch would successfully defeat the Magus and dismantle the Church through the help of their internal ally, the Goddess (Warlock's good and noble portion) who momentarily bonded with the Church's Matriarch, freeing her from their coercive clutches. Magus was defeated as he entered a catatonic state, finally imprisoned inside the Soul Stone's realm, the Soulworld, before parting ways with Warlock disbanding the Infinity Watch for now.


Powers and Abilities

Powers

Symbiotic Bond with the Soul Stone: From his experience with the Soul Stone, the Infinity Stone formed a willing, symbiotic bond with Adam, giving him the ability to sense its whereabouts at will. Out of all the hosts the Soul Stone has bonded with, it has stated that Adam was the most powerful of all his hosts, having retained his will under its control. Because of this bond, Adam can render himself immune and even counter the likes of the Soul Stone being used by others.

  • Summoning

Superhuman Physiology: Adam Warlock possesses a number of superhuman properties and powers derived from his artificially determined genetic structure. This is owed to his possessing a perfect, genetic template. This perfection was noted by Ultron and the High Evolutionary, who even cited his being was something he could not quite replicate easily.

  • Energy Consumption
  • Superhuman Strength
  • Superhuman Speed
  • Superhuman Stamina
  • Superhuman Durability
  • Superhuman Agility
  • Superhuman Reflexes
  • Evolutionary Cocoon
  • Flight
  • Immortality
  • Cellular Regeneration

Ultra Senses: After taking the memories of the Magus from his soul during the events of Infinity Crusade and some of his own abilities as a result, he gained superior senses which allowed him to locate spacial anomalies such as black holes. Adam was later gifted with enhanced perception from his rebirths, allowing him to see the auras, souls and states of others as well as examine others' genetic structure.

  • Cosmic Awareness & Mystic Senses
    • Time Freeze Resistance
    • Reality Warp Resistance
  • Telepathy
    • Telepathic Defenses
  • Clairvoyance
  • Energy Manipulation
  • Matter Manipulation
  • Energy Constructs
  • Magic
    • Resurrection
    • Time Travel
    • Soul Anchoring
    • Mystic Portals
  • Quantum Magic
    • Soul Manipulation
      • Empathy
  • Spell Casting
    • Chronokinesis
    • Illusions
  • Cosmic Power
  • Pyrokinesis
Power Grid [1]
Intelligence*
 3
Strength*
Speed*
 3
Durability*
Energy Projection*
Fighting Skills
 3
* Teleporter, heightened stats when empowered


Abilities

  • Genius-Level Intelligence
    • Mystical Knowledge & Occult Expert
    • Navigation Skills
    • Master Tactician and Strategist
    • Master Manipulator
    • Omnilingualism
  • Accomplishments In Philosophy

Strength level

Class 150+

Weaknesses

  • Inner Darkness
  • Magical Weaponry Vulnerability
  • Construct Limitations
  • Recovery inside Birthing Cocoon (formerly)
    • Limited Life Force (formerly)


Paraphernalia

Equipment:

  • Soul Stone

Transportation:

  • Teleportation

Weapons:

  • Karmic Staff


Notes

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  1. Modern Comics: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 1 20


Trivia

  • Adam Warlock was created and first born to the Enclave around when the Earth was still in the late 1700s. However, since his exile and apparent death (stasis) in the late 1980s, he was reborn under High Priestess Ayesha's rule at some point in late 2014.



See Also

  • Appearances of Adam Warlock (Earth-61615)
  • Character Gallery: Adam Warlock (Earth-61615)
  • Quotations by Adam Warlock (Earth-61615)


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