Magus (Adam Warlock) in comics, villains, history | Miracle (2024)

Emerging from a cocoon, the being known as Adam Warlock defies the intentions of his creators and emerges as a major cosmic entity.

Reimagined as the perfect being, the hero known as Adam Warlock uses his superhuman strength and cosmic powers to protect the universe from the darkest forces... including those within himself.

Born and reborn

Adam Warlock was created by a group of Earth scientists called the Enclave as part of their efforts to develop an army of perfect, invincible humans. While he was still forming, Warlock became aware that his creators planned to use this army to conquer the world. Warlock – then known only as 'Ham' – emerged from a great cocoon possessing immense cosmic powers and immediately rebelled against the scientists, whom he viewed as evil. He determined that Earth was not ready for his presence and left the planet - but not before wiping out the enclave and their laboratory complex.

After a brutal encounter with Thor, Ham encased himself in another cocoon and was eventually found by the human geneticist known as the High Evolutionary. At the time, the High Evolutionary was nearing completion of an artificial planet called Counter-Earth, located on the far side of the sun and intended to be an Earth-like world free of evil. However, one of his creations, the renegade known as the Man-Beast, deliberately introduced evil to Counter-Earth. The High Evolutionary decided that the planet must be destroyed. But Ham, emerging from his cocoon with a strong moral center, convinced the High Evolutionary to send him to Counter-Earth to confront the Man-Beast and save the planet's civilization. The High Evolutionary gave him the new name Warlock and gifted him the Soul Stone – one of the Infinity Gems – which he affixed to Warlock's forehead. After arriving on Counter-Earth, Warlock quickly befriended a group of young residents, one of whom gave the hero the first name "Adam".

Warlock then launched a protracted conflict with the Man-Beast, resulting in Adam's capture and crucifixion, after which he died. Adam Warlock's body was sealed in another cocoon and he was reborn several days later, even more powerful and cosmically aware than before. After defeating the Man-Beast, Warlock left Counter-Earth to become a force for good throughout the cosmos, experiencing several other deaths and resurrections along the way.

Cosmic crusader

Adam Warlock's artificial genetic makeup has given him bone and muscle tissue denser than that of a normal human, along with superhuman strength, endurance, durability, agility and reflexes. His multi-compartmental brain gives him cosmic consciousness. Since his birth, the Warlock has been able to create a cocoon around himself that protects and heals his body, even reviving him from apparent death.

In his original incarnation, when he was known as Ham, Warlock could project bursts of cosmic energy from his hands as concussions, fly at tremendous speeds, travel to different dimensions, create a solar vortex, molecular walls, and flame barriers. He could also neutralize machines, blind others with brilliant light, read minds, and communicate telepathically. He was even strong enough to withstand direct blows from Thor's hammer.

As the bearer of the Soul Stone, the Warlock can sense the souls of other beings, absorb them, and place them in the Soul World – a pocket dimension located within the gemstone, where the absorbed souls have a shared subjective experience of a peaceful, pastoral valley. . Adam can also temporarily restore a soul to his body to communicate with it, transform organisms into primitive states, and translate alien speech. The Soul Gem's own vampiric consciousness sometimes exerts influence over the Warlock, and when he uses the gem to absorb souls, his influence increases.

Warlock evolves through several rebirths. These evolutions mean he no longer needs the power of the soul stone, as he learns to control metaphysical quantum energy, also known as magic, which gives him the ability to manipulate and teleport matter, energy, and souls.

Bad opponents

As the self-proclaimed savior of worlds, Adam Warlock has been presented with a wide range of formidable, fearsome, and resilient opponents.

The Man-Beast, a wolf genetically altered into a humanoid form by the High Evolutionary, is among the most ruthless and has been responsible for Warlock's public execution on Counter-Earth. The resurrected Warlock uses the power of the soul gem to turn the human beast back into a wolf, but the return proves to be only temporary. The creature has returned over the years to once again challenge Spider-Man, Thor, and eventually Warlock.

During his cosmic travels, Adam comes into conflict with the oppressive Universal Church of Truth and their god Magus. Warlock is shocked to discover that the Magus was none other than himself: a twisted, corrupted version from the future. While Warlock managed to alter his own timeline to avoid becoming the Magician, the evil personality has returned repeatedly and served as a chilling foreshadowing of Adam's possible fate.

The goddess is also one of Warlock's greatest enemies. She is the living embodiment of Adam's good side, an extremist intention to eradicate all sin from the universe – by destroying everything capable of sin. Like Magus, the goddess proves to be such a serious threat that Adam and Thanos have teamed up to stop her.

Comrades in battle

Between his many deaths and rebirths, Adam Warlock has teamed up with an impressive number of super-powered heroes from Earth and beyond. He joins the likes of the Hulk, Spider-Man, Mar-Vell, Doctor Strange, the Silver Surfer and the Avengers.

Warlock's longest and closest connections are with Pip the Troll, Gamora, Moondragon, and Drax the Destroyer, with whom he formed the group known as the Infinity Watch, responsible for protecting the Infinity Gems. Adam kept the Soul Gem and distributed the others to his teammates. He secretly gave the Reality Gem to Thanos, who knew he couldn't risk using it without the other gems present to balance its power. And because Thanos is kept separate from the rest of the Infinity Watch, the gems remain separated from each other. The team uses Monster Island as a home base in exchange for an alliance with the island's ruler, the Mole Man.

When the Infinity Watch loses possession of the Infinity Gems and disbands, Warlock then joins a new team – the Guardians of the Galaxy – formed by Star-Lord (Peter Quill), which includes Drax, Gamora, Rocket Raccoon, Groot and Quasar (Phyla) belong. ). -Good).

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The Warlock Chronicles

Adam Warlock's adventures and exploits demonstrate his strength, nobility, and morality, but also show that even a figure with near-godlike abilities is not necessarily immune to human weakness.

Like Him, he felt great loneliness in the early days of his existence. After meeting the Asgardian warrior woman Sif, he desired her as his mate and kidnapped her, transporting her to another dimension and incurring Thor's wrath. Later, on Counter-Earth, facing death by crucifixion and a bombardment of subsonic vibrations, Warlock revealed his grief and despair for all to see when he was summoned before the High Evolutionary and demanded to know why his benefactor had abandoned him.

Since discovering that he and the Magus are one and the same, many of Warlock's actions and decisions have been motivated by fear of what he might become and a desperation to avoid that dark fate. Mortally wounded by Thanos shortly after the Mad Titan killed Gamora and lobotomized Pip, Adam welcomed the end.

Just before he met what he thought would be his final death, he turned Thanos into stone. Warlock then joined his dear friends Gamora and Pip in the paradise Soulworld, where they would reside for several years. Thanos' return to life and his acquisition of the Infinity Gauntlet caused Adam, Pip, and Gamora to be reincarnated on Earth and join the fight against the new, all-powerful Mad Titan.

Soon after, Warlock and the Infinity Watch teamed up with the Silver Surfer, Doctor Strange, and even Thanos to stop a temporarily insane Thor and bring him to Asgard, where the God of Thunder's father Odin could take him cured. Warlock and Thanos would continue to cross paths, both as adversaries and allies.

After another of his rebirths, Adam possessed new metaphysical energy manipulation powers and became a quantum magician, after which he was recruited by Moondragon and Phyla-Vell to help free the alien Kree from the invading techno-organic species Phalanx.

Most recently, in an unspecified future time period, a newly resurrected Adam Warlock forged an uneasy alliance with Kang the Conqueror to prevent a universal cataclysm caused by the reunion of all six Infinity Gems. As part of their agreement, Adam was sent back in time thousands of years on a quest for the Soul Stone and the Time Stone. Ever the hero, Warlock was determined to do everything he could to prevent the Infinity Gauntlet's recreation, no matter what it cost him.