In Guardians of the Galaxy #13, there's a point where Adam Warlock poofs inside a Shi'ar warship. He's unaware that the rest of the team - who tried entering through their usual teleport method - were bounced off the shields and are adrift in space*. He's abruptly ambushed by Vulcan, who somehow was in precisely the right spot to do so. My first thought when reading it was "Good". My second was "Wait, what?"
I'm sure I've expressed my dislike for Vulcan at some point previously, so the idea I might actually be rooting for him was a bit surprising. I guess I just don't like Adam Warlock, and the issue up to that point hadn't been helping. His attitude towards Star-Lord, looking down his nose at the team getting invovled in a bar fight, making it seem as though the Guardians should be counting their blessings Adam Warlock will work with them. He's just so full of himself.
The funny thing is, when I thought about it a little, I realized he was right to still have issues with Star-Lord. Peter Quill did, after all, have Mantis mentally nudge people so they would join the team. People should have misgivings about that. They have the right to be sore about that, and if it had been anyone else busting Quill's chops about it, I'd have been nodding my head in agreement**.
However, we were never told which people, specifically, Mantis did that to***. Adam Warlock was the one making a big deal about how the fabric of the universe was falling apart, and it was terribly vital that not happen, so I don't see him as having needed much convincing. Star-Lord was aiming to stop the next Annihilation Wave before it started. That wouldn't necessarily come from the decay of space-time. Still, he throws in with Adam, providing a source of assistance to Adam Warlock.
I think it's just Warlock's attitude in general. The arrogance that he seems to carry, his air of never having made a mistake, and you should be damned grateful he's deigned to ignore your past foul-ups enough to tolerate your presence. Just a complete stick in the mud. This is the guy who split off the evil of his soul, and whoops! it become the Magus, who inflicted Infinity War (and by extension the Spider-Doppelganger) on us. Then the good of his soul became Goddess and she hit us with Infinity Crusade. He has much to answer for.
In seriousness, he did tell us in issue #1 that he 'went to great lengths to rewrite that particular timeline', in reference to Gamora's question about whether the Universal Church of Light and Truth used to worship him. Well who gave him the right to go around rewriting timelines? I'm sure he had a good reason, but all kinds of terrible things are done with good intentions. Like, having your telepath friend mentally manipulate people so they'll join your super-teams. But once you make those screw-ups, you ought to be a bit less condescending towards others' foibles.
* Adam used a magic spell, and apparently the shields don't protect against that.
** Which is a bit surprising. People were sore at the moment it was revealed, hence all the folks walking out, but the Guardians still went hunting for Star-Lord, charging into the Negative Zone. And Drax and Phyla don't seem to have problems with him now that they've returned. For the record, I infer that from the fact Drax hasn't stabbed Quill repeatedly.
*** Personally, my money's on Drax. Maybe Gamora.
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From my limited reading of the Cosmic stuff (I just started up Guardians with War of Kings, plus reading whatever's available on Digital Comics), my guess would be Gamora and Drax as well, plus possibly Groot and Phylla. Gamora and Drax seem to generally be loners. Groot seems like he'd need the nudge to understand what joining the team meant. And Phylla seems like she'd need a nudge to join the team, rather than going it alone as the second Quasar.
And as a followup to the Mastermind post from Saturday. During the Dark Phoenix arc Mastermind was given a device by the White Queen that let him project his illusions into specific minds (hence how he seduced and turned Jean).
Presumably when he came out of his Phoenix-induced coma he grabbed the device again. Then the reason he broke up Wolverine's marriage in part was so he could then set up Cyclops a little later to fight the entire team (when they thought Madeline Pryor was actually Phoenix reborn).
Also, this was still before Wolverine had become the most dangerous being alive. So he was just one more part of the team for Mastermind to try and destroy.
seangreyson: I hadn't considered that Mastermind would want all the X-Men around so they could destroy Cyclops, but that makes a lot of sense. The more of them there are, the better their chances.
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