As the main villain of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Chukwudi Iwuji's High Evolutionary has been p🍰raised as one of Marvel's best movie villains in recent memory.

And from the moment Iwuji dramatically appeared in costume at Comic-Con International: San Diego to help reveal his rol༺e, fans have been eagerly awaiting more of the sinister super-scientist.

Now, with Guardians 3 officially in theaters, the High Evolutionary and his creations 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Adam Warlock and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Counter-Earth takജe center stage in the plot, which takes inspiration directly from the High Evolutionary's comic book history.

That said, the MCU High Evolutionary isn't quite the same as his comic counterpart. So as we break down the character's Marvel Comics history, we'll also give some insight into how he f✨its into the world of the film.

Who is the High Evolutionary?

The comic book origins of the mysterious High Evolutionary are complex to say the least, involving the Inhumans, the X-Men villain Mister Sinister, and even Mount Wundagore, the birthplace of Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver and the home of the Darkhold as seen in Doctor Strange in the Multiverಞse of Madness.

To boil it down, he started life in the '30s as human 𝓀geneticist Herbert Wyndham, a scientist looking to continue the work of 1800's geneticist Nathaniel Essex, a secret mutant who went on to become the villainous Mister Sinister (and yes, the pair have worked together and also quarreled over the years).

When Wyndham was reaching a dire roadblock in his genetic research, an♍ Inhuman scientist named Phaeder visited him in secret, providing him the key to unlocking the hidden mysteries of the human genome. Phaeder would continue to influence Wyndham and provide him with secret knowledge for years to come. 

However, when Wyndham's experiments resulted in him evolving his pet dalmatian into a humanoid dog, he was fired from his university job. This led him to join up with fellow geneticist🥀 Jonathan Drew (whose own genetic experiments would later lead to his daughter Jessica Drew gain🍸ing her Spider-Woman powers) and set up shop on Mount Wundagore, the magical mountain haunted by the demon Chthon.

If the name W💫undagore rings a bell, that's because it's the mystical mountain that was home to the spells of the Darkhold in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness - and is the place where the Scarlet Witch seemingly died after bringing down the walls of the evil temple there.

Soon, Wyndham was alone in his research on 🎀Wundagore, surrounding himself only with his animal/human hybrid c🃏reations he called the 'New Men,' and wearing a suit of advanced armor to protect him from the magical horrors of the mountain. 

There, his secret experimentation on the population of the surrounding villages led to the birth of Pietro and Wanda Maximoff, whose inborn powers were believed to be th🐼e product of a mutant X-gene from their real Marvel Comics debut in 1963 till the High🍬 Evolutionary revealed the secret in 2015's title.

After leaving Wundagore, the High Evolutionary took to space to continue his experi🐭ments unhindered, first taking over an existing planet he called 'Wundagore II,' before eventually creating his own planet known as 'Counter-Earth' which shares Earth's orbit, but on the opposite side of the sun.

The High Evolutionary in the Marvel Universe

To say the High ✱Evolutionary's years in 🌳the Marvel Universe have been eventful is an understatement - but there are some specific stories that connect the dots to his involvement in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.

High Evolutionary's ow🌸n super-evolution resulted from an experiment he actually planned to conduct on the Hulk, who he captured with the intent of evolving him to a perfect lifeform one million years more advanced than modern humans (or, ya know, Hulks).

The villain's own New-Men henchman betrayed him, forcing him to use the machine he built to evolve the Hulk on himself, becoming a being far beyond the intelligence and physical capabilities of 🗹baseline humans. 

Though the newly ꦐsuper-evolved High Evolutionary first willed his own existence to end to join the infinite reaches of the cosmos, he did eventually return to﷽ humanoid form, and what he did next changed the destiny of the Marvel Universe.

After returning to his humanoid form following his ascent to becomin🦩g super-evolved, the High Evolutionary found the being known as 'Him' floating in space after a battle with Thor.

The High Evolutionary dubbed him Adam Warlock (as in Will Poulter's long-awaited Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.🧸 3 character), and granted Adam Warlock the fabled Soul Stone of the Infin𝓰ity Stones, enlisting him as the protector of Counter-Earth.

It's in this era that the High Evolutionary first encountered Galactus, who wished to devour Counter-Earth, and in turn in which he first met the Fantastic Four. He also ran afoul of the Beyonders, the beings responsible for creating the Multiverse and for destroying it in 2015's 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Secret Wars (which is of course about to be an Avengers moviꦛe).

Adam Warlock finally turned fully against the High Evolu♈tionary in the story The Evolutionary War, in which the High Evolutionary attempts to destroy all life on Earth and replace it with beings of his ow🏅n creations.

And this is where the High Evolutionary's actions wound up having a massive, unforꦏeseen toll on the Marvel Universe, as his former protégé Adam Warloc🌺k and his Soul Stone, given to him by the High Evolutionary, became central figures in the comic book event Infinity Gauntlet, in which Thanos performed the comic version of his fateful 'snap'.

The High Evolutionary himself later appeare𝕴d again in the limited series , in which High Evolutionary implants Ultron's consciousn🃏ess into Adam Warlock's body.

Warlock's return at the end of the story led in part to the founding of the comic incarnatio♍n of the Guardians of the Galaxy t🐎hat were later adapted to film, including Rocket, Groot, Drax, Gamora, and Star-Lord.

The High Evolutionary in the MCU

As we stated, in the MCU, the High Evolutionary has some different origins than the comic book version. In Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, the High Evolutionary is not a human from Earth at all, ꦬbut an alien being using the trappings of Earth for his experiments in creating the perfect lifeform.

Though we won't spoil everything about how that works, the MCU High Evolutionary's experiments on Counter-Earth are much like the ones he performs in comic books, involving genetic engineering, forced evolution,🐓 and culling of the specimens he deems too weak.

This includes creating a race of anthropomorphic animals much like Rocket, as well a🍸s the creation of the Sovereign as one of his experim🌱ents with creating a race of perfect beings.

That of course leads to the creation of Adam Warlock, and even 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Phyla-Vell as seen in the film's post-credits scene.

What other mysteries d♍oes the High Evolutionary hold in ꧙the MCU? And how does his involvement affect the Guardians? You'll have to watch Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 for the full scoop.

Will Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 elevate the High Evolutionary to the status of one of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Marvel supervillains ever?