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Warlock (New Mutants)
Warlock is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, primarily in association with the X-Men. Created by Chris Claremont and Bill Sienkiewicz, he first appeared in The New Mutants #18 (August 1984).
A young techno-organic extraterrestrial mutant with a body that can assume any shape and the ability to turn organic matter into techno-organic matter, Warlock originally appeared as a member of the New Mutants in the team's original comic run and has since been featured in its subsequent incarnations and other groups affiliated with the X-Men.
Warlock was introduced in The New Mutants #18 (August 1984) and joined the titular team in issue #21 (November 1984). He remained a part of the cast until his death in issue #95 (November 1990). With his extraterrestrial origins and shapeshifting powers, he was commonly used for visual gags and fish-out-of-water humor. Pop culture historian James Van Hise described Warlock's visual impact in a 1987 article: "He looks somewhat like an explosion in the shape of a human body and only a couple artists, such as Art Adams, have been able to capture his essence as well as Sienkiewicz does. His unveiling on page 16 of [The New Mutants] issue 21 is pretty startling and it takes a few issues for the eye to get used to scanning his image just because it's so - alien. Truly alien."
After his resurrection, Warlock joined the cast of Excalibur in issue #78 (June 1994) and then briefly starred in a self-titled nine-issue solo series from 1999 to 2000, written by Louise Simonson. After sparse appearances throughout the early 2000s, he returned to regular publication as a main cast member in New Mutants (vol. 3) (2009–2012), All-New X-Factor (2014–2015), and later New Mutants (vol. 4) (2020–2023).
Warlock is a Technarch, a race of shapeshifting "techno-organic" organisms that survive by infecting living creatures with the transmode virus before draining their life energy ("lifeglow"). His father, the Magus, is the ruler of the Technarchy. Technarch children customarily battle their parents to the death in order to prove their right to exist. Warlock, however, does not wish to fight his father and, knowing that Magus will fight and likely slay him regardless, flees his home planet of Kvch.
Fleeing from his home planet and pursued by his father, Warlock crash-lands on Earth near Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, so drained of energy that he is near death. He soon comes into contact with the New Mutants. Confused by his new surroundings, he does not understand them or recognize them as sentient lifeforms and instead tries to communicate with the Danger Room's computers, mistaking them for beings like himself. After initially misunderstanding his actions and briefly fighting the young alien, the New Mutants contact Doug Ramsey, a mutant with linguistic powers, to establish communication. Once Warlock realizes his error and explains himself, he joins the team alongside Doug, who takes the code name Cypher.
Learning to speak English, Warlock serves as a member of the original New Mutants for much of their eponymous series and soon becomes best friends with Cypher.[volume and issue needed] His compassion, unusual for his species, leads to him being labeled a mutant in spirit. As a result of his compassionate nature, Warlock refuses to drain other sentient creatures of their lifeglow, though he initially has difficulty determining whether or not a creature is sentient. Team leader Mirage orders him not to drain any large creatures without permission; however, Warlock often drains such creatures at his discretion when she is not present. He also has a distinctive speech pattern common to Technarchs, frequently referring to himself with the personal pronoun "self". Though he initially refers to his teammates with their first names or pronouns, he later begins referring to them as "friends", and eventually as "selffriends". An exception is Mirage who, likely due to her status as team leader, he calls "chiefriend". Cypher, after offering his own life energy to keep Warlock alive during a mission in Asgard, earns the unique honorific title of "selfsoulfriend".
During the team's adventures, Warlock often encapsulates Cypher as a suit of armor, keeping him safe and compensating for Cypher's lack of offensive abilities. Though the two often work together to confront enemies, Warlock's constant protection also erodes Cypher's self-esteem. They later discover they can merge physically and mentally, operating as one entity, though this risks Cypher being infected with Warlock's transmode virus and permanently merging the two.
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Warlock (New Mutants)
Warlock is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, primarily in association with the X-Men. Created by Chris Claremont and Bill Sienkiewicz, he first appeared in The New Mutants #18 (August 1984).
A young techno-organic extraterrestrial mutant with a body that can assume any shape and the ability to turn organic matter into techno-organic matter, Warlock originally appeared as a member of the New Mutants in the team's original comic run and has since been featured in its subsequent incarnations and other groups affiliated with the X-Men.
Warlock was introduced in The New Mutants #18 (August 1984) and joined the titular team in issue #21 (November 1984). He remained a part of the cast until his death in issue #95 (November 1990). With his extraterrestrial origins and shapeshifting powers, he was commonly used for visual gags and fish-out-of-water humor. Pop culture historian James Van Hise described Warlock's visual impact in a 1987 article: "He looks somewhat like an explosion in the shape of a human body and only a couple artists, such as Art Adams, have been able to capture his essence as well as Sienkiewicz does. His unveiling on page 16 of [The New Mutants] issue 21 is pretty startling and it takes a few issues for the eye to get used to scanning his image just because it's so - alien. Truly alien."
After his resurrection, Warlock joined the cast of Excalibur in issue #78 (June 1994) and then briefly starred in a self-titled nine-issue solo series from 1999 to 2000, written by Louise Simonson. After sparse appearances throughout the early 2000s, he returned to regular publication as a main cast member in New Mutants (vol. 3) (2009–2012), All-New X-Factor (2014–2015), and later New Mutants (vol. 4) (2020–2023).
Warlock is a Technarch, a race of shapeshifting "techno-organic" organisms that survive by infecting living creatures with the transmode virus before draining their life energy ("lifeglow"). His father, the Magus, is the ruler of the Technarchy. Technarch children customarily battle their parents to the death in order to prove their right to exist. Warlock, however, does not wish to fight his father and, knowing that Magus will fight and likely slay him regardless, flees his home planet of Kvch.
Fleeing from his home planet and pursued by his father, Warlock crash-lands on Earth near Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, so drained of energy that he is near death. He soon comes into contact with the New Mutants. Confused by his new surroundings, he does not understand them or recognize them as sentient lifeforms and instead tries to communicate with the Danger Room's computers, mistaking them for beings like himself. After initially misunderstanding his actions and briefly fighting the young alien, the New Mutants contact Doug Ramsey, a mutant with linguistic powers, to establish communication. Once Warlock realizes his error and explains himself, he joins the team alongside Doug, who takes the code name Cypher.
Learning to speak English, Warlock serves as a member of the original New Mutants for much of their eponymous series and soon becomes best friends with Cypher.[volume and issue needed] His compassion, unusual for his species, leads to him being labeled a mutant in spirit. As a result of his compassionate nature, Warlock refuses to drain other sentient creatures of their lifeglow, though he initially has difficulty determining whether or not a creature is sentient. Team leader Mirage orders him not to drain any large creatures without permission; however, Warlock often drains such creatures at his discretion when she is not present. He also has a distinctive speech pattern common to Technarchs, frequently referring to himself with the personal pronoun "self". Though he initially refers to his teammates with their first names or pronouns, he later begins referring to them as "friends", and eventually as "selffriends". An exception is Mirage who, likely due to her status as team leader, he calls "chiefriend". Cypher, after offering his own life energy to keep Warlock alive during a mission in Asgard, earns the unique honorific title of "selfsoulfriend".
During the team's adventures, Warlock often encapsulates Cypher as a suit of armor, keeping him safe and compensating for Cypher's lack of offensive abilities. Though the two often work together to confront enemies, Warlock's constant protection also erodes Cypher's self-esteem. They later discover they can merge physically and mentally, operating as one entity, though this risks Cypher being infected with Warlock's transmode virus and permanently merging the two.