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Warlock (Technarch) (Earth-616)

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Real Name
Current Alias

Aliases
Douglock, Lock

Identity

Affiliation

Relatives
Magus ("siredam"/father), Tyro (adopted "son")

Universe

Base Of Operations

Characteristics
Gender

Height
Variable

Weight
Variable

Status
Citizenship

Marital Status

Occupation
Wanderer, adventurer

Origin
Origin
Warlock is a robot alien.

Place of Birth
Kvch (Technarchy Homeworld)


First appearance

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History

New Mutants

The alien being called Warlock came from an unidentified world in an unspecified location in outer space. His race was a sentient form of "techno-organic" life, which resembled circuitry and machinery in various ways. Members of this race gave birth to great numbers of offspring, who resided in a "creche," although the process of birth may have been very different for this race than it was for life forms native to Earth. Children of this race proved their right to exist by battling their parents to the death; either the child killed the parent, or the parent slayed the child.

Warlock was the son of the Magus, the ruler of his native world, and, apparently, its most powerful being. Fearful of being slain in combat by the Magus, Warlock fled his native planet, but was pursued through outer space by the Magus himself. Warlock found himself approaching Earth. Attracted by unusual energy sources, Warlock first crashed through Asteroid M, the base of the superhuman mutant Magneto, destroying it, and finally landed on Earth near Professor Charles Xavier's mansion, which held various alien Shi'ar technology. Warlock had sensed the artificial intelligence of the mansion's Shi'ar computers.

Xavier's mansion was the home and headquarters of two teams of superhuman mutants, the New Mutants and the X-Men. Disorientated by his new surroundings and terribly frightened, Warlock clashed with the New Mutants, who at first regarded him as a threat. But Warlock's life energies ebbed so much that the despairing young alien lay near death. The New Mutants summoned their friend Douglas Ramsey, who succeeded in initiating communication with Warlock, and the New Mutants befriended the alien. With Professor Xavier's permission, Warlock joined their group. Ramsey also became a member of the New Mutants as Cypher.

Warlock had a personality greatly resembling in part that of a young child, but nevertheless proved to be a valuable member of the New Mutants and a worthy ally of the X-Men. Warlock remained beside his friends throughout his time on Earth.

When appearing in public, Warlock used his powers to resemble a human appearance. He also found himself capable of merging physically and mentally with Doug Ramsey, so that they could operate as a gestalt and join the New Mutants on their adventures. Over time, Warlock's and Ramsey's consciousness rapidly began to resemble each other. The Ramsey-Warlock gestalt being could change its form so that Warlock's and Ramsey's bodies were separate but still linked at certain points. This developed a danger of permanently infecting Ramsey with the "transmode virus" and permanently merging the two so that they would not want to revert to normalcy.

When the Magus confronted the New Mutants, Magik teleported her team away to Limbo. The Magus followed to Limbo and allied himself with the demon S’ym and infected many of Limbo’s other denizens with the Transmode Virus. Limbo was no longer a safe passage for the team who were trapped in the past. Merging their forms once more, Cypher tapped into Warlock’s own DNA in order to learn how to "re-code" it. While the rest of the New Mutants distracted Magus, Cypher and Warlock re-wrote the Magus' DNA, effectively reducing him to infancy.

After Doug Ramsey was fatally shot while trying to protect his teammate Wolfsbane, Warlock was devastated. He was bewildered by the mixed messages he was getting from his friends about death. Warlock "animated" Doug’s corpse with his shape-shifting and took him to see his mother and then Wolfsbane, hoping to remind Doug what it was like to be alive and convince him to come back. Wolfsbane explained that they had to put Doug’s body back so it could be buried. Together, they said goodbye to their friend.

Warlock was among the New Mutants captured by the X-Men's enemy Cameron Hodge and taken to the island of Genosha, a mutant-repressive nation with advanced anti-mutant technology. Hodge had developed a cybernetic body and attempted to siphon off Warlock's shape-shifting power so he could change his robotic body at will. Hodge was confronted by the combined might of the X-Men and New Mutants, while Warlock was still imprisoned. Although Hodge's plan was thwarted by the New Mutant Wolfsbane, Warlock appeared to have died, his energies leeched from him, reducing him to ashes. Later, Warlock's ashes were scattered over the grave of Doug Ramsey.

Later, Hodge's attempted assimilation of the techno-organic virus allowed him to create the composite being/race known as the Phalanx, and the Phalanx grew as it absorbed both technological and human sources. The Phalanx also absorbed the remnants of Warlock and Ramsey, incorporating the gestalt being that Warlock and Ramsey originally developed. This separate consciousness could not exist within the Phalanx mind, presumably because the Phalanx could not absorb mutant physiology, and this consciousness soon separated itself from the Phalanx.

Warlock

Douglock

This being sensed the call of the android Zero, who saw in the being a kindred spirit. Zero was on the run from droids that were programmed to kill him by his former master, the villain Stryfe. Zero helped the being access memories of Doug Ramsey, and the being finally shook off any remaining link to the Phalanx, referring to himself as Douglock. At the same time, the hero team Excalibur was drawn to the area, and they helped robots escape Stryfe's droids. Ultimately, Zero was forced to sacrifice himself to destroy Stryfe's base, and Douglock and Excalibur escaped.

Douglock joined Excalibur at its base on the mutant research facility on Muir Island. Douglock went on adventures alongside his teammates while trying to assimilate into life once more. Later, he came to regard himself as a distinct being, telling his friends that he took on Ramsey's appearance as a mark of respect for his fallen friend.

Once, Douglock was captured by the secret organization Black Air, who hoped to use him to harness the power of an ancient demon living beneath London. Rescued by Excalibur, Warlock resumed his quest to become more human, and eventually grew attracted to Wolfsbane.

M-Tech

After many months, Excalibur disbanded, and its members scattered, although Douglock remained on Muir Island. Later still, Douglock was captured by the villain, the Red Skull. The Skull used Douglock to attack and take over the powerful Helicarrier from the espionage agency SHIELD, and the Skull hoped to use the Phalanx/techno-organic technology to control the world. The Red Skull was confronted by the X-Men, Deathlok, and Machine Man, and Douglock was freed from the Red Skull's thrall. Returning to his previous name of Warlock, as his memories were restored, he dedicated himself to rid the world of all techno-organic technology.

One result of his quest was the discovery of the government's Project Mainspring, who turned out to be a young girl named Hope. Warlock freed Hope, finding out that she was a carrier of the techno-organic virus without being infected herself. Warlock continued his travels, taking Hope with him, determined to find a cure for her and to put an end to techno-organic technology.

The Magus returned, still intent on destroying Warlock. Hope’s Transmode power was used to rewrite the Magus' DNA into a replica of Warlock’s. By doing so, they made the Magus part human as well. The Magus was overwhelmed by the experience, and fled.

Annihilation: Conquest

Warlock eventually left Hope to journey back to his homeworld of Kvch. Finding only one Technarch remaining, the young Tyro, Warlock infected him with his non-aggressive form of the techno-organic virus, stemming Tyro's normal aggressiveness (though not completely ridding him of it). Warlock then began raising the young Tyro to value life and fight his inner need to destroy life.

When the last remaining Nova, Richard Rider, infected with the transmode virus, came to Kvch seeking a cure, Warlock helped halt the infection, but was reluctant to help Nova in his quest to rid the Kree galaxy of the Phalanx, preferring to continue his raising of Tyro.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

  • Warlock is a techno-organic being, without true form but constantly changing shape. He can also approximate any organic form as well-- appearing human when necessary. Warlock's physiology is also able to survive within the vacuum of space. When "feeding," he injects a techno-organic virus into an object, converting it into a techno-organic form like himself, and absorbing its energy into himself. Alternatively, he can absorb pure energy, like electricity from an outlet. Warlock's "mutation" is actually his passivity, unlike the war-like tendencies of the rest of his race.
  • Currently infused with nano-technology, Warlock can repair his body as it is damaged. The technology allows his body to "upgrade," adapting to any given situation similar to the Sentinels' ability to adapt on the fly to a variety of mutant powers. The nanotechnology also enhanced Warlock's shape-shifting abilities to allow him to mimic forms as well as weapons. Warlock also possess various energy weapons, a force field, and more advanced versions of the abilities that he had before Bastion infected him with nanotechnology.

Paraphernalia

Equipment

Force field

Weapons

Energy weapons

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