Warlock had a distinctive way of talking during his stint in the New Mutants comics, frequently referring to himself with the personal pronoun "self". Though he initially refers to teammates with their first names or normal pronouns, he later begins referring to them as "friends", and eventually as "selffriends". An exception is Danielle Moonstar who, likely due to leadership of the New Mutants, he calls "chiefriend". Doug, after offering his own life energy to keep Warlock alive during a mission in Asgard, earned the unique honorific title of "selfsoulfriend".