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Warlock II
Affiliation: None
Previous Affiliations: Excalibur, Phalanx,
New Mutants (his templates, Cypher
and Warlock)
Aliases: Douglock
Powers: Warlock II started off as Douglock, a techno-organic entity whose
templates were the deceased New Mutants Cypher (Doug
Ramsey) and Warlock, an alien of the race now known
as the Phalanx. His "powers" were the ability to manipulate his body's structure
on a very fine level, to interface directly with computers and to imitate voices.
He is not Doug Ramsey, and as such probably doesn't possess Cypher's translating
abilities per se, although he was used by the Phalanx as an encryption and decryption
unit. It is possible that the organic template of Cypher enhanced Douglock's own
translation ability in the specific area of computer codes and operating systems.
'Lock carries a possible cure for the Legacy Virus
that he obtained from Zero before the aforementioned android
was destroyed. He has also underwent a large personality modification when he
was captured and deconstructed by the British Intelligence agency known as Black
Air, leaving him more like a person and less like a machine. Also, in a fight
with some mutated Sidri, Douglock was finally severed from the Phalanx collective,
a process which Zero had begun months earlier when he called Douglock out of the
collective. As a result, Douglock was completely freed of Phalanx influence. He
also began to have strong feelings for Wolfsbane,
although they never really got together and their relationship was strained when
Douglock broke her out of he quaratine she had entered with her forster-mom Moira.
After Excalibur disbanded, Douglock was enslaved by the Red Skull and forced to
make implants that allowed the Skull to take control of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s
helicarrier. Desparing over what he was being forced to do, Douglock called to
Deathlok II to come and kill him. Luckily, Shadowcat
was able to distract him long enough for him to wait until the Skull's control
mechanism was destroyed. Although the heroes escaped, Douglock disappeared. When
he resurfaced, he had assimilated all of the information he had accessed on the
helicarrier and called himself Warlock, realizing that he was not really a derivative
of Cypher, but was instead an entity created by the Phalanx. As a result, he began
to shapeshift much more creatively, as the original Warlock used to, and has Warlock's
memories, although his speech patterns remain more like Doug's would have. He
embarked on a search to destroy all the Phalanx material still left on Earth,
in order to prevent any of it from growing too massive and signalling the deep-space
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and Psi-Mon, Warlock II managed to defeat the villainous Mainspring and his servant
Template (formerly Bastion). The new Babel Spire was
destroyed too late, though, and Warlock had to face the Magus,
who had come to comsume the techno-organic "abominations" on Earth. With his friends'
help, Warlock defeated his "father" by rewriting his code from the inside out.
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