Warlock was among the New Mutants captured by the X-Men's enemy Hodge and taken to the island of Genosha, a mutant-repressive nation with advanced anti-mutant technology. Hodge had developed a cybernetic body and attempted to siphon off Warlock's shape-shifting power so he could change his robotic body at will.

Hodge had developed a cybernetic body and attempted to siphon off Warlock's shape-shifting power so he could change his robotic body at will. Hodge was confronted by the combined might of the X-Men and New Mutants, while Warlock was still imprisoned.

During Second Coming, Hodge and his soldiers battled the former New Mutants. Hodge had his head placed on a powerful robotic body, and severed one of Karma's legs. He was killed by Warlock,...

During these events, Warlock, the alien member of the New Mutants, is killed in the course of Hodge's experiments upon him. His captives free themselves and defeat Hodge, whose still-surviving head is buried beneath a collapsed building.

In X-Men: Legacy # 237, Cameron Hodge and his whole army of "Smileys" are killed by Warlock of the New Mutants at the behest of Cypher when his lifeforce and the lifeforces of the Smileys are forcibly absorbed by Warlock via their shared connection of …

Hodge now possessed powers similar to Warlock's "techno-organic" physiology, which allowed him to absorb other people and technology into himself. Eventually, he and the mutant haters he absorbed evolved and joined into the collective race known as the Phalanx (an offshoot of the alien Technarchy race of which Warlock was a part).

Warlock was kidnapped from the grounds of the X-Mansion, along with his friends Rictor, Boom Boom and Wolfsbane, and ended up on the island nation of Genosha, which was ruled by Cameron Hodge. Warlock was killed in an attempt by Hodge to steal his powers.

Years ago, in a failed effort to contract the Transmode virus, Hodge had killed Warlock. In an attempt to destroy Archangel, Hodge used a Phalanx construct of Candy Southern. [10] Phalanx' initial attempt to assimilate mutants into its collective was thwarted by the natural resistance of mutants to the Transmode virus.

Among his first captives was the alien Warlock, and Hodge attempted to siphon off his shape-shifting power so he could change his spider-form at will. His plan seemed to be thwarted by Warlock's friend Wolfsbane, but Warlock died anyway. It became apparent to the government of Genosha as well as to the mutants that Hodge was planning to take ...

When Hodge and a couple of other Phalanx go to check the crash-site for any survivors, they run into Psylocke. At first he believes she has escaped, but soon finds that she has willingly submerged her consciousness to a Phalanx override command. To Hodge's surprise, Psylocke informs him that Lang is keeping secrets from the collective.