ADAM WARLOCK (Him)
Created By: Stan Lee & Jack Kirby (Him), Roy Thomas & Gil Kane (Adam)
First Appearance: The Fantastic Four #66 (Sept. 1967- Him), Marvel Premiere #1 (April 1972- Adam)
Role: Alien Jesus, Smug Douchebag Supreme
PL 12 (226)
STRENGTH 5 STAMINA 5 AGILITY 3
FIGHTING 8 DEXTERITY 4
INTELLIGENCE 5 AWARENESS 5 PRESENCE 4
Skills:
Close Combat (Unarmed) 2 (+10)
Deception 4 (+8, +10 Attractive)
Expertise (Arcane Lore) 6 (+11)
Expertise (Current Events) 2 (+7)
Expertise (Space Traveller) 6 (+11)
Expertise (Science) 2 (+7)
Expertise (Theology & Philosophy) 6 (+11)
Insight 4 (+9)
Investigation 4 (+7)
Intimidation 4 (+7)
Perception 3 (+8)
Persuasion 4 (+8, +10 Attractive)
Technology 2 (+7)
Vehicles 1 (+5)
Advantages:
Attractive, Beginner's Luck, Fascinate (Deception), Jack-of-All-Trades, Luck 2, Power Attack, Ranged Attack 7, Taunt, Trance, Well-Informed
Powers:
Immunity 11 (Aging, Life Support) [11]
"Quantum Magic"
Cosmic Blast 13 (Feats: Dynamic) (Extras: Multiattack) (39) -- [46]
- Dynamic AE: "Cosmic Burst" Damage 12 (Feats: Dynamic) (Extras: Area- 30ft. Burst) (24)
Dynamic AE: "Cosmic Wave" Damage 12 (Feats: Dynamic) (Extras: Area- 60ft. Cone) (24)
Dynamic AE: Force Field 9 (Feats: Dynamic) (Extras: Affects Others) (18)
AE: Teleport 11 (Feats: Increased Mass 4) (Extras: Accurate) (37)
Flight 10 (2,000 mph) [20]
Movement 2 (Space Travel 2) [4]
"Cocoon Resurrection" Immortality 1 (1 month) [2]
Offense:
Unarmed +10 (+6 Damage, DC 21)
Cosmic Blast +11 (+13 Ranged Damage, DC 28)
Cosmic Area Attacks +12 (+12 Damage, DC 27)
Initiative +3
Defenses:
Dodge +10 (DC 20), Parry +10 (DC 20), Toughness +5 (+14 Force Field), Fortitude +6, Will +14
Complications:
Responsibility (The Guardians of the Galaxy)
Enemy (The Magus)
Secret (IS The Magus)- Warlock's arch-nemesis is actually himself, driven mad in the future by using the Soul Gem too often.
Relationship (Gamora)
Total: Abilities: 78 / Skills: 50--25 / Advantages: 17 / Powers: 94 / Defenses: 12 (226)
-Ya know what? Out of all the characters in comic books, or in just about any genre I've ever seen, there has never been a character I wanted to see just utterly DESTROYED in a fight as Adam Warlock. There are worse characters to be sure, and dumber ideas, and more over-powered guys. But NONE of them have possessed Warlock's smug sense of self-assurance and overally face-punchability. I would pay hundreds of dollars to see a comic entitled "The Wrecking Crew Relentlessly Kick Adam Warlock in the Testicles For Twenty Pages ". Or just to see one of his plans fall apart and have everyone point and laugh at him while he cries.
-So you might say Adam Warlock is... one of those guys I've never really 'gotten'. He says some cryptic stuff, flies around with his motley crew of goofy characters (Miss Absolute Cleavage-ingly Woman in the Universe, a drunken troll, a green retarded guy and Sinead O'Connor with mentalism), beats cosmic beings, and eats souls. He's very weird, very hard to figure out, and I've never really been that attached to him as a character. He was a one-shot Stan & Jack creation (your standard "No, I have developed morality, so I will reject my evil creators" synthetic creation) who was altered by Roy Thomas (who went with a Christ Parallel and a Captain Marvel... sorry, "Shazam"-inspired costume), at which point Jim Starlin went off on a roll with the guy in an epic (and well-thought-of series). Though as I've pointed out, the heavy subject matter (and unknown main hero/es) led to a short-lived series that didn't last more than a year.
-After that, Warlock was resurrected for Starlin's Mary-Sue-filled new epic, "The Infinity Gauntlet", as a smarmy cocky guy who knew all this junk about Thanos because he'd been inside the Soul Gem for years, and he handily solved everything while all the other heroes trusted him implicitly. He kinda-sorta vanished from comics for a while (he had some one-shot appearances and Limited Series stuff here and there) once the bubble burst on "Cosmic Scene" comics, and he re-debuted in the "Conquest" portion of Annihilation, doing a bunch of damage after rebooting himself with new powers ("Quantum Magic"- because when Cosmic stuff just isn't enough- add the "I have every power" nature of Comic Book Magic), teaming with the High Evolutionary, but eventually just teaming with the rest of the gang in the Guardians of the Galaxy. He did a bit there (mainly being the tracker/detector and Blaster guy), before converting to his Magus persona, and setting off a big storm in that series.
-Warlock is one of those classic pain in the ass guys. See, his OLD form had tons of power, including the obligatory "Cosmic Super-Strength" (about Strength & Stamina 8) guy on top of his Immunities & Cosmic Power. He also wielded the Soul Gem, capable of absorbing souls (essentially a Life Drain/Dimensional Travel Attack Device). But is the new guy really weaker? He doesn't punch anyone, but then, he rarely did anyways. So I stuck him with "Strong Human Guy" stats and used the powers I've noticed as regular-use things for his Quantum Magic (which is just Magic, obviously), as well as high levels of Super-Senses. His "Cocoon" thingie (whenever he dies, he wraps himself up in a cocoon to metamorphise or whatever) is there, as are his cosmically flying about (and related Immunities). He's smart, wise and charismatic, but arguably less so than his earlier, Thanos-fighting version. In any case, he's pricey as hell (for a non-Cosmic Entity) because of all his advantages.
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. Was the Infinity War the one where the heroes fought doppelgängers of themselves? I never managed to follow that one properly due to my lcs closing.
