Destiny 1 (gh)

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• Strength: With the Crown, Destiny has Amazing Strength and Endurance, and his Health rises to 116.
• Domination: The wearer of the Serpent Crown can control another’s will at Monstrous level, or the wills of everyone watching, even over broadcast airwaves, at Remarkable intensity. As a power stunt, the wearer can conjure up Remarkable mental illusions.
• Telekinesis: The Crown can be used for Monstrous telekinesis. As a power stunt, Destiny once used this ability to trigger an earthquake, doing Typical damage to all property in a 25-area radius.

In the 1930’s and 40’s, Destiny had become a cruel and sadistic villain, enjoying his victims’ suffering. By more recent years, he had become a megalomaniacal paranoid, eager to enslave the Earth or, failing that, destroy it utterly, By the time of his death, he was completely insane.

Seeking to find the site of the Ancients’ civilization, Destine joined an expedition to Antarctica aboard the ice-breaker Oracle, commanded by Captain Leonard Mckenzie, in 1920. There, he and Mckenzie found a highly advanced form of dynamo, which had been built by the Ancients, and which was now entombed in ice. Destine broke through the ice, intending to use the dynamo to increase his mental powers. But by activating the device, Destine unintentionally triggered an avalanche. Gravely injured, Destine revived to see the so-called Helmet of Power, which had apparently been hurled near him by the avalanche, and which was actually the disguised mystical object of power called the Serpent Crown. Apparently the Ancients were actually a colony of water-breathing Lemurians and had buried the Crown there. The Helmet greatly increased Destine’s psionic abilities, as well as healing his injuries and transforming him into a larger, physically stronger man. Destine did not return to the expedition and eventually used one of the Ancients’ devices to place himself in suspended animation, during which his powers continued to increase.

Decades later, Destine emerged from suspended animation. He now called himself Destiny, for he believed it was his fate to rule the world. Through his telepathic abilities, Destiny learned of the existence of the civilization of water-breathing Atlanteans then living beneath the Antarctic ice. As a test of his immense powers, Destiny triggered a series of immense earthquakes that threatened to destroy the Atlanteans. Prince Namor the Sub-Mariner, who was the grandson of the Atlantean emperor Thakorr and the son of Leonard Mckenzie and the Atlantean princess Fen, went to the Antarctic surface to investigate. There, Namor confronted Destiny but was defeated by him. Destiny psionically held Namor helpless and then used his mental powers to destroy the Atlantean settlements. Cruelly, Destiny used his psionic powers to show Namor mental images of the catastrophe, including the deaths of Fen and Thakorr. (Most of the Atlantean population, however, survived.) Then Destiny used his mental powers to force Namor to fly to New York City, to give Namor amnesia, and to dull his ability to think. The result was that Namor spent years living in New York City as a derelict, unaware of his true identity, until his memory and full mental clarity were restored through the actions of the second Human Torch. As for Destiny, he himself returned to suspended animation to increase his powers further.

After emerging from suspended animation Destiny again clashed with the Sub-Mariner in Antarctica, but in the course of their battle, Namor unintentionally triggered an avalanche of ice. By the time Namor had freed himself from the ice, Destiny was gone.

Destiny made his way back to the United States, and, under his true name, became a third party presidential candidate. Using the Helmet’s powers, Destiny rendered virtually everyone who heard his speeches submissive to his will. Destiny intended by this means to win the next presidential election, and then use the United States’ military might to conquer the rest of the planet. Destiny planned to enslave a large portion of the American populace mentally through a live television address. But just before he began this speech on television, the Sub-Mariner burst into the studio; Destiny battled and overcame Namor, and hurled him from the roof of a building to the street below. But the Sub-Mariner’s tremendous superhuman strength enabled him to survive the fall. Unable to accept the fact of Namor’s survival, Destiny went wholly insane. Irrationally claiming he did not need the Helmet. Destiny said he would levitate himself down to the cheering masses of his followers through his own powers. Destiny then jumped off the roof and fell to his death.