344 - Adam Warlock
Posted: Thu May 31, 2018 3:48 am
The builds in our Cosmic Thorpocaverse line just keep coming as we drop this new item for Aisle 2!
None of that Bitten-by-a-Radioactive-Spider Claptrap here. - Adam Warlock
ADAM WARLOCK
PL15
OPL: 15; SPL: 10; DPL: 13; FWPL: 11; HP: 1
Real Name: Adam Warlock
Age: 10
Height: 6-2
Weight: 240
Eyes: White
Hair: Gold
Skin: Gold
Race: Human Mutate
Identity: Public
Alignment: Hero
Status: Active
Occupation: Adventurer
Base of Operations: Mobile
Team Affiliations: The Infinity Watch; The Guardians of the Galaxy
ABILITIES: STRENGTH 11 [15], STAMINA 10 [12], AGILITY 5, DEXTERITY 5, FIGHTING 11, INTELLECT 5, AWARENESS 7, PRESENCE 4
SKILLS: Acrobatics (+5), Athletics (+11), Deception 3 (+7/+9) [Attractive], Expertise [Cosmic Lore] 10 (+15), Expertise [Theology and Philosophy] 8 (+13), Insight 6 (+13), Intimidation (+4), Investigation (+5), Perception 3 (+10), Persuasion 5 (+9/+11) [Attractive], Ranged Combat [Cosmic Energy Control] 5 (+10), Sleight of Hand (+5), Stealth (+5), Technology 2 (+7), Treatment (+5), Vehicles (+5)
ADVANTAGES: Attractive (1), Beginner's Luck, Defensive Roll (2), Favored Foe (The Magus), Favored Foe (Thanos), Jack-of-all-Trades, Luck (Edit Scene) (1), Luck (Improve Roll) (1), Luck (Inspiration) (1), Ranged Attack (6), Trance, Ultimate Effort (1) (Ultimate Will Check)
POWERS:
Cosmic Being: Immunity 11 (Aging, Life Support), Feature 1 (Temporal Inertia); 12 pts
Space Traveler: Flight 10 (2000 mph/4 mpr), Movement 2 (Space Travel 2 [Other star systems]); 24 pts
Cosmic Cocoons: Immortality 1 (1 month); 2 pts
Cosmic Awareness: Senses 10 (Cosmic Awareness [Mental; Extended 2], Detect Spatial Anomalies [Mental; Extended 6, Ranged], Detect Soul Gem [Mental; Extended 10, Ranged]); 20 pts
Cosmic Energy Control: 30 pt Array; 32 pts
Cosmic Energy Blast: Ranged Cosmic Energy Damage 15; 30 pts
Cosmic Energy Boost: Enhanced Strength 4 (Flaw: Sustained), Enhanced Constitution 2 (Flaw: Sustained); 1 pt
Cosmic Energy Constructs: Create 15; 1 pt
Karmic Staff: 17 pts Traits, Easily Removable (-4 pts); 13 pts
Cosmic Control Channel: Add Accurate Extra to Cosmic Energy Control; 1 pt
Staff Mastery: 15 pt Array; 16 pts
Staff Deflection: Deflect 15; 15 pts
Staff Strike: Bludgeoning Strength-based Damage 2 (Extra: Reach); 1 pt
The Soul Gem: 72 pts Traits, Removable (-14 pts); 58 pts
Universal Translator: Comprehend 4 (Speak, Read, Understand, Understood in all Languages); 8 pts
Soul Control Array: 60 pt Array; 66 pts
Soul Control: Perception Ranged Cumulative Affliction 15 (Soul Energy; Resisted/Overcome by Will; 1st: Dazed, 2nd: Compelled, 3rd: Transformed [Soul/Personality]); 60 pts
Send to Soulworld: Perception Ranged Movement 1 (Dimensional Movement [Soul World]; Extra: Affects Others, Attack, Increased Mass 6 [3200 lbs.], Flaw: Tiring); 1 pt
Soul Blast: Ranged Spirtual Damage 17 (Extra: Alternative Resistance [Will]); 1 pt
Soul Stun: Ranged Cumulative Affliction 17 (Soul Energy; Resisted by Will; 1st: Dazed, 2nd: Stunned, 3rd: Incapacitated); 1 pt
Soul Reading: Mind Reading 15 (Extra: Effortless, Flaw: Limited to emotions/soul); 1 pt
EQUIPMENT:
NONE
OFFENSE:
Initiative +5
Close Attack +11 [Unarmed +11; Cosmic Boost Unarmed +15; Karmic Staff Strike +15; Cosmic Boosted Karmic Staff Strike +17]
Ranged Attack +11 [Cosmic Energy Blast +15; Cosmic Energy Constructs Create +15; Soul Blast +17; Soul Stun Affliction +17]
Special Attack [Soul Control Affliction +15, Perception]
DEFENSES:
Dodge +12 [DC22] Parry +12 [DC22]
Toughness +12 (+10 without Defensive Roll, +14 with Cosmic Boost, +12 without Defensive Roll with Cosmic Boost), Fortitude +10 (+12 with Cosmic Boost), Will +9
COMPLICATIONS:
Aloof: Because of his convoluted history, usage of the Soul Gem and such, he tends to speak cryptically and tries not to get too close to his teammates.
Dark Side: Warlock fights to avoid becoming The Magus, a version of himself driven mad by the usage of the Soul Gem. This makes him hesitant to use the powers of the Soul Gem unless absolutely necessary, although the Gem constantly calls to be used.
Enemy: The Magus and Thanos (most of the time).
Pawn of the Cosmos: Sometimes Adam is put in situations not of his choosing because of the role he is meant to play in the cosmos (and even he doesn't know at times).
Responsibility: To protect the universe.
Abilities 116 + Skills 23 (45 ranks) + Advantages 18 + Powers 151 + Defenses 10 = 318 / 318
Build Comments: I always liked Adam Warlock, even back in the 70’s when his story was a bit convoluted, at least for a 10-12 year old like me at the time when I started reading comics. Still, the art, the Soul Gem, the cosmic hotties he always seemed to across, and Pip’s sophomoric comedy relief made it a fun read for me.
Now he’s been brought back again as a key player in the upcoming Infinity Wars event so I suspect he will be back to using the Soul Gem again soon so I did a take on it. I’m still not sold on it, but it will do for now.
As for the quote, I am pretty sure I have the Marvel Team Up where he said that to Spider-Man, so I had to use it.
Secret Origins: Adam Warlock is an artificially created human who was born in a cocoon at a scientific complex called The Beehive. The goal of his creators, the Enclave, was to create and subsequently exploit the perfect human. While in the cocoon, he became aware of his creators' plans for him. He awoke from the cocoon and rebelled. Having not had a childhood or parents, Warlock was lacking in maturity and restraint. He first met Alicia Masters, who was brought to the Beehive to sculpt his face, as he initially radiated so much light that a sighted person could not see through. She found him encased in a cocoon, from which he shortly emerged, destroying his creators that he hated so much, and teleported away.
The Story so Far: Warlock later came into conflict with the Fantastic Four and Thor; during his encounter with Odinson, he was killed when he attempted to force Thor's sometime paramour Sif to become his mate.
Adam was revived and his behavior improved when he met the being known as the High Evolutionary. Under his guidance, Warlock's life was given direction and purpose. Warlock also came into possession of the Soul Gem. The Soul Gem, one of the Infinity Gems, allowed Warlock to sense the souls of others and draw them into a dimension contained within the gem. Warlock was then transported to Counter-Earth, an attempt by the High Evolutionary to create a Utopian society out of the framework of the original Earth. Unfortunately, it had fallen under the influence of the Man-Beast, a wolf that had been genetically modified into humanoid form by the High Evolutionary. In the process of ending the Man-Beast's regime, Warlock's narcissism led him to another death, this time by crucifixion. Warlock used his powers to resurrect himself. Warlock, in recreating the resurrection of Christ on Counter earth, lead to the creation of an organized religion planet wide; this also was the first step toward Warlock’s "God Complex".
Traveling in the Hercules Cluster, Adam learned of the oppressive Universal Church of Truth that worshiped the Magus. Appearing to Adam, Magus revealed that they were the same being. In one alternate future, the Magus used the soul gem to saturate Adam’s body with a beacon radiation that summoned the In-Betweener, inhabitant of the realm between fact and fantasy who took Adam to his domain, where he was driven mad. Emerging as the Magus, this Warlock discovered he had returned five thousand years into the past and began building his church. Aware of his history and fearing the Magus’ existence would deprive him of someday owning Adam’s soul gem, the mad god Thanos of Titan attempted to prevent the occurrence by plucking a young child, Gamora, from an alternate future and raising her to be Magus’ assassin. En-route to his destiny, Adam was imprisoned on the Church star ship, “the Great Divide” where he teamed with his fellow prisoner Pip the Troll and absorbed the soul of Captain Autolycus into his gem against his will. Later on trial on Sirius X the Church’s Homeworld, Adam absorbed Judge Kray-Tor’s soul. Thus unleashing of his soul gems vampire-like appetites was possibly caused by Spinxor of the Ringshippers (a.k.a Prime Movers) of Tarkus in his first bid to prevent Warlock from interfering in his theft of Counter-Earth for mysterious Beyonders. Realizing that the gem was sentient, thirsted for souls and could not be removed, Adam sank into despair. Gamora joined Warlock and Pip on Homeworld, but Magus easily thwarted Gamora’s assassination attempt, then doused Adam with the beacon radiation. Gamora’s ineffectiveness forced Thanos to intervene, and the primal battle between Magus’ life-force and Thanos’ death-force allowed Adam to enter the Titan’s time portal and follow his kismet trail. Choosing the shortest path, Adam saw himself dying only months later and absorbed his future self’s soul into the gem. The two timelines thus diverged and the Magus seemingly ceased to exist.
Soon after, Adam witnessed the rapid extinction of the stars and used his soul gem to track the culprit, the Star Thief, back to Earth; the star thief's body was slain while his mind was occupied in battling Warlock. Arriving home, Warlock perceived himself as wraith-like and larger than the solar system, an illusion generated through Adam's soul gem by the Sphinxor to keep him at bay. Later while gaining his perceptions, Warlock encountered Spider-Man on the Moon and helped thwart the Stranger's bid to steal the Gardener's Infinity Gems. Believing Counter-Earth destroyed due to another Sphinxor illusion, an enraged Adam attacked the High Evolutionary with his soul gem and forced him to escape death by becoming a disembodied intelligence, leaving Counter-Earth ripe for the taking. Meanwhile, Thanos procured five Infinity Gems, combining them and the power he had siphoned from Adam's gem in the Magus battle into a single large synthetic gem that he planned to use to extinguish the stars as a present to Mistress Death. When they interfered, Thanos killed Gamora and lobotomized Pip; Adam absorbed their souls into his gem. Thanos' attempt to destroy the Earth's sun was opposed by Warlock, Captain Mar-Vell, and the Avengers. In battle, Thanos mortally wounded Adam. As Warlock lay dying, his past self arrived from Thanos' time portal and absorbed his soul; weary of his many losses and struggles, Adam actually welcomed death. He found himself with the soul gem's other victims in Soulworld, a paradise of understanding and contentment. Thanos claimed Adam's gem but the newly arrived Spider-Man temporarily freed Warlock's spirit. As the Ultimate Avenger, Warlock turned Thanos to granite with a touch. Warlock’s body was buried on Counter-Earth.
When Thanos once again gains the gems and steals the soul of the Silver Surfer, Surfer convinces Warlock, Pip, and Gamora to leave Soul World and help defeat Thanos. Thanos had assembled the six gems into the Infinity Gauntlet, and Warlock leads a group of Earth's superheroes against him. Warlock obtains the Gauntlet, but in a subsequent hearing attended by the various cosmic beings of the universe such as Eternity and Galactus, is deemed unworthy of it by the Living Tribunal, in part because of the threat of him eventually becoming the Magus. He keeps the soul gem for himself and gives one gem each to Pip, Gamora, Drax the Destroyer, Moondragon, and a reformed Thanos — the group being called the Infinity Watch.
During Warlock's temporary possession of the Gauntlet, he purges all good and evil from his being, leaving him entirely a creature of logic. The "moral" aspects of his persona in turn take on physical forms — the evil half becomes a new incarnation of the Magus, while the good half becomes the self-styled Goddess. Warlock, aided by an army of superheroes, eventually defeats each in turn, and absorbs them into the Soul Gem. The Watch then battles to protect the soul gem from Count Abyss, a powerful entity who has no soul of his own. After finally defeating him, the infinity gems are stolen by Rune, an extradimensional vampire. The Infinity Watch disbands and Warlock goes to track down Rune. Following the discovery of a seventh gem, Warlock and the gems are returned to the main universe.
Warlock is reborn in a new body to aid a multitude of superheroes that team with Thanos to defeat several rogue clones of the Mad Titan. Warlock reappears in time to convince Thanos to give up the power of the Heart of the Universe. Warlock later assists in Thanos' attempt at redeeming himself.
Warlock is incapacitated by the backlash of souls killed during the "Annihilation" war, and re-enters hibernation in a cocoon. The superheroines Quasar and Moondragon awaken Warlock hoping he will help the Kree fight off the Phalanx. Once the Phalanx is defeated, Warlock agrees to join the hero Star-Lord in a new version of the Guardians of the Galaxy. After several adventurers, Adam withdrew from full time work with the Guardians but continued to assist them from time to time.
Warlock ended up perishing again after doing battle with his alternative evil self The Magus and was brought back by Thanos as he knew Adam played in a role in an upcoming cosmic event. Adam has reacruired the Soul Gem as Thanos had planned and he is biding his time in attempting to wrest it from Warlock’s control again.
Characterization: Adam Warlock is an enigmatic being and has been through many changes but in most incarnations has been a force of good in the universe, albeit one with many flaws.
Friends and Foes: He remains close to Gamora and his former Guardians of the Galaxy teammates. His greatest rivals are Thanos and his evil future self, The Magus.
None of that Bitten-by-a-Radioactive-Spider Claptrap here. - Adam Warlock
ADAM WARLOCK
PL15
OPL: 15; SPL: 10; DPL: 13; FWPL: 11; HP: 1
Real Name: Adam Warlock
Age: 10
Height: 6-2
Weight: 240
Eyes: White
Hair: Gold
Skin: Gold
Race: Human Mutate
Identity: Public
Alignment: Hero
Status: Active
Occupation: Adventurer
Base of Operations: Mobile
Team Affiliations: The Infinity Watch; The Guardians of the Galaxy
ABILITIES: STRENGTH 11 [15], STAMINA 10 [12], AGILITY 5, DEXTERITY 5, FIGHTING 11, INTELLECT 5, AWARENESS 7, PRESENCE 4
SKILLS: Acrobatics (+5), Athletics (+11), Deception 3 (+7/+9) [Attractive], Expertise [Cosmic Lore] 10 (+15), Expertise [Theology and Philosophy] 8 (+13), Insight 6 (+13), Intimidation (+4), Investigation (+5), Perception 3 (+10), Persuasion 5 (+9/+11) [Attractive], Ranged Combat [Cosmic Energy Control] 5 (+10), Sleight of Hand (+5), Stealth (+5), Technology 2 (+7), Treatment (+5), Vehicles (+5)
ADVANTAGES: Attractive (1), Beginner's Luck, Defensive Roll (2), Favored Foe (The Magus), Favored Foe (Thanos), Jack-of-all-Trades, Luck (Edit Scene) (1), Luck (Improve Roll) (1), Luck (Inspiration) (1), Ranged Attack (6), Trance, Ultimate Effort (1) (Ultimate Will Check)
POWERS:
Cosmic Being: Immunity 11 (Aging, Life Support), Feature 1 (Temporal Inertia); 12 pts
Space Traveler: Flight 10 (2000 mph/4 mpr), Movement 2 (Space Travel 2 [Other star systems]); 24 pts
Cosmic Cocoons: Immortality 1 (1 month); 2 pts
Cosmic Awareness: Senses 10 (Cosmic Awareness [Mental; Extended 2], Detect Spatial Anomalies [Mental; Extended 6, Ranged], Detect Soul Gem [Mental; Extended 10, Ranged]); 20 pts
Cosmic Energy Control: 30 pt Array; 32 pts
Cosmic Energy Blast: Ranged Cosmic Energy Damage 15; 30 pts
Cosmic Energy Boost: Enhanced Strength 4 (Flaw: Sustained), Enhanced Constitution 2 (Flaw: Sustained); 1 pt
Cosmic Energy Constructs: Create 15; 1 pt
Karmic Staff: 17 pts Traits, Easily Removable (-4 pts); 13 pts
Cosmic Control Channel: Add Accurate Extra to Cosmic Energy Control; 1 pt
Staff Mastery: 15 pt Array; 16 pts
Staff Deflection: Deflect 15; 15 pts
Staff Strike: Bludgeoning Strength-based Damage 2 (Extra: Reach); 1 pt
The Soul Gem: 72 pts Traits, Removable (-14 pts); 58 pts
Universal Translator: Comprehend 4 (Speak, Read, Understand, Understood in all Languages); 8 pts
Soul Control Array: 60 pt Array; 66 pts
Soul Control: Perception Ranged Cumulative Affliction 15 (Soul Energy; Resisted/Overcome by Will; 1st: Dazed, 2nd: Compelled, 3rd: Transformed [Soul/Personality]); 60 pts
Send to Soulworld: Perception Ranged Movement 1 (Dimensional Movement [Soul World]; Extra: Affects Others, Attack, Increased Mass 6 [3200 lbs.], Flaw: Tiring); 1 pt
Soul Blast: Ranged Spirtual Damage 17 (Extra: Alternative Resistance [Will]); 1 pt
Soul Stun: Ranged Cumulative Affliction 17 (Soul Energy; Resisted by Will; 1st: Dazed, 2nd: Stunned, 3rd: Incapacitated); 1 pt
Soul Reading: Mind Reading 15 (Extra: Effortless, Flaw: Limited to emotions/soul); 1 pt
EQUIPMENT:
NONE
OFFENSE:
Initiative +5
Close Attack +11 [Unarmed +11; Cosmic Boost Unarmed +15; Karmic Staff Strike +15; Cosmic Boosted Karmic Staff Strike +17]
Ranged Attack +11 [Cosmic Energy Blast +15; Cosmic Energy Constructs Create +15; Soul Blast +17; Soul Stun Affliction +17]
Special Attack [Soul Control Affliction +15, Perception]
DEFENSES:
Dodge +12 [DC22] Parry +12 [DC22]
Toughness +12 (+10 without Defensive Roll, +14 with Cosmic Boost, +12 without Defensive Roll with Cosmic Boost), Fortitude +10 (+12 with Cosmic Boost), Will +9
COMPLICATIONS:
Aloof: Because of his convoluted history, usage of the Soul Gem and such, he tends to speak cryptically and tries not to get too close to his teammates.
Dark Side: Warlock fights to avoid becoming The Magus, a version of himself driven mad by the usage of the Soul Gem. This makes him hesitant to use the powers of the Soul Gem unless absolutely necessary, although the Gem constantly calls to be used.
Enemy: The Magus and Thanos (most of the time).
Pawn of the Cosmos: Sometimes Adam is put in situations not of his choosing because of the role he is meant to play in the cosmos (and even he doesn't know at times).
Responsibility: To protect the universe.
Abilities 116 + Skills 23 (45 ranks) + Advantages 18 + Powers 151 + Defenses 10 = 318 / 318
Build Comments: I always liked Adam Warlock, even back in the 70’s when his story was a bit convoluted, at least for a 10-12 year old like me at the time when I started reading comics. Still, the art, the Soul Gem, the cosmic hotties he always seemed to across, and Pip’s sophomoric comedy relief made it a fun read for me.
Now he’s been brought back again as a key player in the upcoming Infinity Wars event so I suspect he will be back to using the Soul Gem again soon so I did a take on it. I’m still not sold on it, but it will do for now.
As for the quote, I am pretty sure I have the Marvel Team Up where he said that to Spider-Man, so I had to use it.
Secret Origins: Adam Warlock is an artificially created human who was born in a cocoon at a scientific complex called The Beehive. The goal of his creators, the Enclave, was to create and subsequently exploit the perfect human. While in the cocoon, he became aware of his creators' plans for him. He awoke from the cocoon and rebelled. Having not had a childhood or parents, Warlock was lacking in maturity and restraint. He first met Alicia Masters, who was brought to the Beehive to sculpt his face, as he initially radiated so much light that a sighted person could not see through. She found him encased in a cocoon, from which he shortly emerged, destroying his creators that he hated so much, and teleported away.
The Story so Far: Warlock later came into conflict with the Fantastic Four and Thor; during his encounter with Odinson, he was killed when he attempted to force Thor's sometime paramour Sif to become his mate.
Adam was revived and his behavior improved when he met the being known as the High Evolutionary. Under his guidance, Warlock's life was given direction and purpose. Warlock also came into possession of the Soul Gem. The Soul Gem, one of the Infinity Gems, allowed Warlock to sense the souls of others and draw them into a dimension contained within the gem. Warlock was then transported to Counter-Earth, an attempt by the High Evolutionary to create a Utopian society out of the framework of the original Earth. Unfortunately, it had fallen under the influence of the Man-Beast, a wolf that had been genetically modified into humanoid form by the High Evolutionary. In the process of ending the Man-Beast's regime, Warlock's narcissism led him to another death, this time by crucifixion. Warlock used his powers to resurrect himself. Warlock, in recreating the resurrection of Christ on Counter earth, lead to the creation of an organized religion planet wide; this also was the first step toward Warlock’s "God Complex".
Traveling in the Hercules Cluster, Adam learned of the oppressive Universal Church of Truth that worshiped the Magus. Appearing to Adam, Magus revealed that they were the same being. In one alternate future, the Magus used the soul gem to saturate Adam’s body with a beacon radiation that summoned the In-Betweener, inhabitant of the realm between fact and fantasy who took Adam to his domain, where he was driven mad. Emerging as the Magus, this Warlock discovered he had returned five thousand years into the past and began building his church. Aware of his history and fearing the Magus’ existence would deprive him of someday owning Adam’s soul gem, the mad god Thanos of Titan attempted to prevent the occurrence by plucking a young child, Gamora, from an alternate future and raising her to be Magus’ assassin. En-route to his destiny, Adam was imprisoned on the Church star ship, “the Great Divide” where he teamed with his fellow prisoner Pip the Troll and absorbed the soul of Captain Autolycus into his gem against his will. Later on trial on Sirius X the Church’s Homeworld, Adam absorbed Judge Kray-Tor’s soul. Thus unleashing of his soul gems vampire-like appetites was possibly caused by Spinxor of the Ringshippers (a.k.a Prime Movers) of Tarkus in his first bid to prevent Warlock from interfering in his theft of Counter-Earth for mysterious Beyonders. Realizing that the gem was sentient, thirsted for souls and could not be removed, Adam sank into despair. Gamora joined Warlock and Pip on Homeworld, but Magus easily thwarted Gamora’s assassination attempt, then doused Adam with the beacon radiation. Gamora’s ineffectiveness forced Thanos to intervene, and the primal battle between Magus’ life-force and Thanos’ death-force allowed Adam to enter the Titan’s time portal and follow his kismet trail. Choosing the shortest path, Adam saw himself dying only months later and absorbed his future self’s soul into the gem. The two timelines thus diverged and the Magus seemingly ceased to exist.
Soon after, Adam witnessed the rapid extinction of the stars and used his soul gem to track the culprit, the Star Thief, back to Earth; the star thief's body was slain while his mind was occupied in battling Warlock. Arriving home, Warlock perceived himself as wraith-like and larger than the solar system, an illusion generated through Adam's soul gem by the Sphinxor to keep him at bay. Later while gaining his perceptions, Warlock encountered Spider-Man on the Moon and helped thwart the Stranger's bid to steal the Gardener's Infinity Gems. Believing Counter-Earth destroyed due to another Sphinxor illusion, an enraged Adam attacked the High Evolutionary with his soul gem and forced him to escape death by becoming a disembodied intelligence, leaving Counter-Earth ripe for the taking. Meanwhile, Thanos procured five Infinity Gems, combining them and the power he had siphoned from Adam's gem in the Magus battle into a single large synthetic gem that he planned to use to extinguish the stars as a present to Mistress Death. When they interfered, Thanos killed Gamora and lobotomized Pip; Adam absorbed their souls into his gem. Thanos' attempt to destroy the Earth's sun was opposed by Warlock, Captain Mar-Vell, and the Avengers. In battle, Thanos mortally wounded Adam. As Warlock lay dying, his past self arrived from Thanos' time portal and absorbed his soul; weary of his many losses and struggles, Adam actually welcomed death. He found himself with the soul gem's other victims in Soulworld, a paradise of understanding and contentment. Thanos claimed Adam's gem but the newly arrived Spider-Man temporarily freed Warlock's spirit. As the Ultimate Avenger, Warlock turned Thanos to granite with a touch. Warlock’s body was buried on Counter-Earth.
When Thanos once again gains the gems and steals the soul of the Silver Surfer, Surfer convinces Warlock, Pip, and Gamora to leave Soul World and help defeat Thanos. Thanos had assembled the six gems into the Infinity Gauntlet, and Warlock leads a group of Earth's superheroes against him. Warlock obtains the Gauntlet, but in a subsequent hearing attended by the various cosmic beings of the universe such as Eternity and Galactus, is deemed unworthy of it by the Living Tribunal, in part because of the threat of him eventually becoming the Magus. He keeps the soul gem for himself and gives one gem each to Pip, Gamora, Drax the Destroyer, Moondragon, and a reformed Thanos — the group being called the Infinity Watch.
During Warlock's temporary possession of the Gauntlet, he purges all good and evil from his being, leaving him entirely a creature of logic. The "moral" aspects of his persona in turn take on physical forms — the evil half becomes a new incarnation of the Magus, while the good half becomes the self-styled Goddess. Warlock, aided by an army of superheroes, eventually defeats each in turn, and absorbs them into the Soul Gem. The Watch then battles to protect the soul gem from Count Abyss, a powerful entity who has no soul of his own. After finally defeating him, the infinity gems are stolen by Rune, an extradimensional vampire. The Infinity Watch disbands and Warlock goes to track down Rune. Following the discovery of a seventh gem, Warlock and the gems are returned to the main universe.
Warlock is reborn in a new body to aid a multitude of superheroes that team with Thanos to defeat several rogue clones of the Mad Titan. Warlock reappears in time to convince Thanos to give up the power of the Heart of the Universe. Warlock later assists in Thanos' attempt at redeeming himself.
Warlock is incapacitated by the backlash of souls killed during the "Annihilation" war, and re-enters hibernation in a cocoon. The superheroines Quasar and Moondragon awaken Warlock hoping he will help the Kree fight off the Phalanx. Once the Phalanx is defeated, Warlock agrees to join the hero Star-Lord in a new version of the Guardians of the Galaxy. After several adventurers, Adam withdrew from full time work with the Guardians but continued to assist them from time to time.
Warlock ended up perishing again after doing battle with his alternative evil self The Magus and was brought back by Thanos as he knew Adam played in a role in an upcoming cosmic event. Adam has reacruired the Soul Gem as Thanos had planned and he is biding his time in attempting to wrest it from Warlock’s control again.
Characterization: Adam Warlock is an enigmatic being and has been through many changes but in most incarnations has been a force of good in the universe, albeit one with many flaws.
Friends and Foes: He remains close to Gamora and his former Guardians of the Galaxy teammates. His greatest rivals are Thanos and his evil future self, The Magus.