Adam Warlock

Him is an artificial human created in a facility called the Beehive by scientists calling themselves the Enclave.

He is birthed in a cocoon-like structure, created to be the perfect human with enhanced abilities, as part of a scheme for the Enclave to rule the Earth.

After meeting Alicia Masters, Him rebels against the Enclave and escapes.

Later, the newborn Him decides to take Sif of Asgard as his mate, leading to a battle with her comrade Thor.

Following this encounter, Him journeys into outer space, cocooning his form again.

Him's cocoon is recovered by the High Evolutionary, who befriends him and gives him the name "Warlock."

The High Evolutionary reveals that he created a version of Earth without evil, calling it Counter-Earth.

But another of his creations called the Man Beast introduced corruption into this world and now the Evolutionary wants Warlock's help to save Counter-Earth from the villain's evil.

The High Evolutionary gives Warlock the green Soul Gem (also referred to as the "Soul Jewel") to help him in this fight.

When he arrives on Counter-Earth, Warlock suffers amnesia and only recalls his name.

Four teenagers find him and befriend him. Thinking "Warlock" sounds like a surname, they give him the first name of "Adam."

Adam Warlock faces the Man Beast and dies in the process, but then resurrects thanks to forming another regeneration cocoon around himself.

After the Man Beast's defeat, Warlock leaves Counter-Earth to find a new purpose.

In his travels through space, Warlock encounters the Universal Church of Truth, an intergalactic religious organization that is building into an empire by controlling different worlds and indoctrinating the populations to their religion.

The church is led by a man called the Magus.

Warlock opposes the Magus and he soon recruits allies in his fight against the Universal Church of Truth: Pip the Troll, the assassin Gamora, and Gamora's employer and adoptive father, Thanos of Titan.

Eventually, Warlock discovers that the Magus is a future version of himself who traveled back in time after being driven insane by the use of his Soul Gem and imprisonment by the cosmic being known as the In-Betweener.

Warlock chooses to alter his timeline by visiting himself a few months into the future and stealing his own soul before he is imprisoned, essentially committing suicide to prevent the Magus from ever existing (later stories showed that the Universal Church of Truth still came into being, but less powerful).

Warlock then continues his journeys, knowing he has seen his own death but not knowing exactly when it will happen.

While fighting off the Stranger's attempt to steal the Soul Gem, Warlock discovers the existence of five other related gems.

Thanos gains possession of these gems (later known as the Infinity Gems) and plans to use them to blow up Earth's sun.

Warlock finds that Thanos has destroyed Pip's mind and left Gamora mortally wounded.

To end their suffering and give them a chance at continued existence, Warlock takes Pip and Gamora's souls into the world within his Soul Gem.

Warlock then enlists the aid of the Avengers, Captain Marvel, and Moondragon to battle Thanos.

When Thanos mortally wounds Warlock and leaves him for dead, Warlock's younger self appears and takes the dying version's soul at last.

In the Soul World of the gem, Adam is reunited with Pip, Gamora and others.

The other gathered heroes continue their fight against Thanos but are losing.

The cosmic entities Lord Chaos and Master Order intervene, influencing Spider-Man to temporarily release Warlock's soul from the Soul Gem.

Warlock, now a spiritual being of new power, ends the battle by turning Thanos to stone, returning to the Soul Gem immediately afterward.

For a while, Warlock finds a peaceful life in the Soul World with Pip, Gamora, and others.

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