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Warlock is a fictional character, a cybernetic alien superhero affiliated with Marvel Comics' mutant superhero team The New Mutants. He was created by Chris Claremont and Bill Sienkewicz.
Warlock is a member of the alien Technarchy, a race of mechanical organisms that survive by draining the life energy ("lifeglow") of living creatures by infecting them with the techno-organic "transmode virus". Warlock, unlike others of his race, possesses a distinctive degree of compassion, and as a result has been described as a mutant himself. He is the son of the Technarch ruler, Magus, who has battled the New Mutants and the X-Men. Warlock served as a member of the original New Mutants for most of that group's existence, and become a close friend of his teammate Doug Ramsey, alias Cypher, until Doug's death at the hands of the Ani-Mator. Warlock was subsequently killed on the island nation of Genosha during the "X-Tinction Agenda" crossover.
Later, a group of humans called the Phalanx appeared. This group had been mutated into techno-organic forms via the transmode virus, which had been extracted from Warlock's corpse. One of the Phalanx was "Douglock", a lookalike of Doug Ramsey who possessed all of Doug's memories and believed himself to actually be Doug Ramsey. Douglock joined the European mutant team Excalibur. It was later revealed that Douglock was a reanimated Warlock who had been given Doug's memories; he then reverted to the name of Warlock and began a brief career as a solo adventurer.
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