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And that could be because there would be a lot of complicated decisions involved in translating any of the character’s comics adventures into a blockbuster film, the way Marvel Studios typically does with its long-running legacy characters. Gunn and Marvel seem to be keeping those options entirely open.įor fans of the gold-skinned cosmic wanderer, a Silver Age Marvel character created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1967, it’s been intriguing to see how the MCU has set up elements that could potentially lead to an Adam Warlock-starring story down the line, without actually committing to anything concrete. Which leaves him in a place where Marvel Studios could continue to develop him into the kind of leading-man hero he became in the comics - or we could just never see him again. He gets the quickie shorthand equivalent of a standard traumatic superhero origin story, and then he’s done. The movie’s events start to move Adam away from that direction, but with so many other better-established, more central characters getting story arcs and payoffs to previous arcs, Vol. But in this first appearance, he’s a huffy, naive, easily led dope. Adam has nearly Superman-level power: He can fly, he doesn’t need any sort of special gear to survive comfortably in the vacuum of space, he’s incredibly strong and fast, and while he clearly isn’t invulnerable, he apparently heals very quickly. (Which doesn’t exactly make him stand out among the rest of the Guardians lineup.) He’s literally unfinished: We’re told that the movie’s villain, the High Evolutionary (Chukwudi Iwuji), popped Adam out of his creation cocoon “too early,” leaving him malleable and a bit child-like. The movie introduces Adam Warlock as young and hapless, mostly a comic-relief character.

3’s approach to the character seem like a smart, carefully calculated play on Marvel’s part. That means someone else is going to have to decide who to highlight in any future Marvel Cinematic Universe story featuring the Guardians, and it may be up to them whether Adam Warlock makes the cut.

With Gunn moving on to help run DC’s superhero-movie slate, leaving his Guardians series behind and wrapping up the story of the original team lineup, his entire slate of characters is now potentially up for grabs. While Guardians 3 finally brings Adam Warlock - the Savior, the Avatar of Life, the head of the Universal Church of Truth - to the screen after multiple teases (in the first and second Guardians movies), James Gunn is the only Marvel director who’s shown any interest in the character so far. 3? There haven’t been a whole lot of signs yet that they do - and it’s going to be an important question for the character’s future. Does anyone still working at Marvel Studios have any personal passion about Adam Warlock, the big golden guy played by Will Poulter in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.

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