Adam Warlock’s Long Road to Marvel’sGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

After what feels like geezerhood of expectation , one of the most of import heroes in Marvel ’s Infinity Saga is finally issue forth to the MCU : Adam Warlock . Midsommar ’s Will Poulter has been castas the cosmic hero forGuardians of the Galaxy Vol . 3 . Need to sweep up on just who he is ? Why is he coming to the MCU now ? We ’ve have you get across .

Who Is Adam Warlock?

First look as “ Him”—an artificially created “ perfect human ” who rebelled against his creators and fled into space to find his own course — in 1967’sFantastic Four#66 from Stan Lee and Jack Kirby , Adam Warlock would n’t really become the case most fans know him as until Roy Thomas and Gil Kane get under one’s skin their hired man on , well , Him , in 1972 ’s Marvel Premiere # 1 . There , Adam was , after an encounter with the High Evolutionary , transform into the hero sandwich Warlock ( he ’d get the name Adam during his first military mission ) and given the powerfulness of the first of the Infinity Stones , the Soul Stone , to help preserve the artifical satellite Counter - Earth from a baddie known as Man Beast .

From there , Adam ’s relationship with the Soul Stone and the rest of the Infinity Stones was inextricably linked . Over the year Adam teamed up with cosmic figures like Gamora , Pip the Troll , and even Thanos himself , and battled Magus , revealed to be a future version of himself drive mad by the Soul Stone ’s power to conquer multitude ’s souls within it . finally Adam himself found his soul captured in the Lucy Stone too , and was temporarily free from it to help the Avengers battle Thanos ’ first attempt to wield all six Infinity Stones . Adam returned once more for the iconic Infinity Saga , resurrecting himself alongside Gamoraand Pip to aid the heroes of Earth blockade Thanos ’ architectural plan of delete half the populationto impress his would - be muse , Death . At the climax of Infinity Saga Warlock contract the metal glove himself for secure keeping , but after the cosmic entity of the Living Tribunal declare that no one being should deal every Infinity Stone themselves , he keep back the Soul Stone and passed on the gems to what became the other extremity of the Infinity Watch , an endeavour to foreclose someone like Thanos ever pile up their powers ever again .

Since then , Adam ’s major appearance have mostly been connected to the re - emergence of the Infinity Stones , but he does have authoritative connections to the Guardians of the Galaxy beyond his anterior relationship with Gamora . After the events of Annihilation : Conquest in 2007 , Adam connect the new bring up Guardians of the Galaxy seriesby Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning , the squad that ultimately formed the basis for the version of the Guardians we now have in the MCU , where he once again was pressure to confront his saturnine alter ego , Magus , and entangled in further attempts to institute together the Soul Stone with its fellow Infinity Stones in serieslike Infinity Wars .

What will an Infinity Stone-less Adam Warlock look like? And… will he necessarily not be cut off from them after all?

What will an Infinity Stone-less Adam Warlock look like? And… will he necessarily not be cut off from them after all?Image: Ron Lim, Josef Rubinstein, Max Scheele, Evelyn Stein, and Jack Morelli/Marvel Comics

Why Has It Taken Adam So Long to Enter the MCU?

While the first three “ phase ” of the Marvel Cinematic Universe were all about place the groundwork for aloose adaptation of Infinity Sagain Avengers : Infinity War and Avengers : Endgame , plans to let in Adam within the world of the Marvel picture show were always being considered outside of his own connection to that Hellenic storyline . Guardians director James Gunn , who has long professed himself a sports fan of Warlock as a character , has previously enounce he had contemplated introducing the fibre in both the first and second Guardians moving-picture show . Butwe’ve lie with since 2017that Marvel and Gunn alike had ultimately adjudicate that Adam would be a part of mass 3 . “ [ Adam Warlock ’s reaching ] will not be until Guardians 3 , ” Marvel ’s Kevin Feige told io9 in 2017 , cite a desire for the then - upcoming Avengers : Infinity War to tell its own take on the Infinity Stone news report rather than skew nearer to the event of Infinity Saga . “ Adam is not a part of Infinity War , which of course he is in the funnies , but James [ Gunn ] did always really like Adam Warlock , and our adaptation of Infinity War is the culmination of all the storey we told up to this point . ”

Production was after pausedon the film . In 2019 , Marvel re - instated Gunn as Vol . 3 ’s director — but in the intervening months Gunn hadpublicly been revealedas the director of Warner Bros. ’ Suicide Squad follow - up , The Suicide Squad . Gunn confirmed that he would nail production on his DC project , which released in August , before returning to Vol . 3 , and the director also filmed HBO Max serial spinoff Peacemaker , asterisk John Cena ’s titular Squad character . yield begins on Guardians “ in a brace weeks , ” according to Gunn’sconfirmation of Poulter ’s casting on Twitter .

What Will Adam Warlock Do in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3?

Well , the honest solvent is that we do n’t eff — and we do n’t really know much about the film in the first home , for all that matters . Aside from Adam ’s status as a creation of the Sovereign — which means that , presumptively , he ’ll launch the film as an antagonist to the Guardians — the most interesting affair about his part in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol . 3 is that we do make love that one delineate ingredient of his comics ego ( belike , without some important weirdness ) wo n’t be in the movie : the Soul Stone .

The Soul Stone as the MCU knew it was destroy during the events of Avengers : Endgame , when Thanos used the gather Infinity Stones ’ corporate power to put down them and preclude anyone from unmake the cosmic walkover that he act out in Infinity War , cull one-half of all sentient beings across the galaxy . The Avengers undid it anyway , because that ’s what they do ( and because they figured becoming a riff on time change of location movies would be fun ) , gathering past versions of the Infinity Stones to undo Thanos ’ crimes before turn back them to their places in the past times . The Soul Stone , realize on the major planet Vormir through the forfeit of Natasha Romanoff , was return to the planet around 2014 .

But that ’s not to say it ’s completely off limits to allot Adam his comic playscript connection to the Soul Stone . Loki , and What If ? have since go on to not onlyestablish the Marvel Multiverse as a conceptin the MCU now , but that also different universe of discourse have unlike hardening of Infinity Stones . The TVA was seen conglomerate different timelines ’ versions of the gem and , well , lazily englut them in position drawers in their own little air pocket of time . Meanwhile theevolved Ultron of What If ’s finalehad procure a adaptation of the Infinity Stones for himself after breaking free of the confines of his own Earth and face Uatu the Watcher . Now that Guardians of the Galaxy Vol . 3 is coming into play in that post - Multiverse globe , there ’s still a chance Adam could be tied to a version of the Soul Stone — if not the one we would ’ve had in mind if he ’d joined the MCU when we first thought he might .

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