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Real Name: Arther Douglas
Occupation: Former real estate agent, later agent of Chronos
Legal Status: Citizen of the United States with no criminal record, legally
deceased
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Burbank, California
Marital Status: Widowed
Known Relatives: Yvette (wife, deceased), Heather (daughter)
Base of Operations: Monster Island
Past Group Affiliations: Member of the Infinity Watch
Known Powers:
Immortality: Drax cannot be slain by physical means. In addition to Immortality, Drax has Unearthly Life Support, Regeneration, and Recovery powers, and is invulnerable to heat, cold, electricity, radiation, toxins, and disease. However, Drax can be Slammed or Stunned by physical attacks. Drax can only be killed by a mental attack.
Force Beams: Drax can fire beams of Amazing Force and range from his hands.
Flight: Drax can fly at CL1000 speeds in space, but is reduced to Monstrous speeds in a planetary atmosphere.
Equipment:
Power Gem: The power gem boosts Drax’s statistics to the level listed above. His original physical statistics were:
| F | A | S | E |
| Gd | Ex | In | Am |
Talents:
Drax has the Resist Domination talent.
Contacts:
Drax has contacts with Adam Warlock, and the Silver Surfer.
Role-Playing Notes:
Drax is no longer obsessed, as he once was, with Thanos. In fact, Drax’s current mental faculties are all but gone. Drax still has a hair-trigger temper and some times makes the old green Hulk seem mild by comparison. In the company of friends, Drax is a powerful weapon of the forces of good. He can be calmed down if made to watch “Alf” reruns.
History:
Real estate agent Arthur Douglas, his wife, Yvette, and his daughter, Heather, were driving across the Mojave Desert from Las Vegas to Los Angeles when a spaceship carrying the mad Titan named Thanos passed overhead on a surveillance mission of Earth. Wishing to keep his existence secret, Thanos destroyed the car in case its passengers had seen his craft, then landed to make certain they were dead. Satisfied that they were dead, Thanos left. Unbeknownst to him, Thanos’s father Mentor had been monitoring his son’s activities on Earth. Mentor discovered that Heather Douglas was still alive, and took her back to Titan to be raised and trained in using her latent mental abilities. She later returned to Earth as Moondragon.
Mentor sadly determined that the threat of Thanos could no longer be ignored. He enlisted the aid of the cosmic entity Chronos to seize the astral form of Arthur Douglas before it had completely left its body. Chronos and Mentor then fashioned a superhuman body from the Earth and placed Douglas’s spirit into it. Thus, Drax the Destroyer was born.
Mentor blocked all memories of Drax’s old life, instilling in him a monomaniacal hatred of Thanos. For years, Drax served as Thanos’s nemesis, thwarting certain of Thanos’s plans, but never crushing Thanos himself. Thanos hired legions of alien mercenaries just to keep Drax away from him. Finally, in Thanos’s campaign to possess the Cosmic Cube, Drax, in the company of the Avengers, Captain Mar-Vell, and Moondragon, saw Thanos turned to stone. Drax now lacked a purpose in life. For awhile he used Captain Mar-Vell as an outlet for his frustrations, then he fell silent.
Sometime later, Drax was contacted by his daughter, Moondragon, and was invited to join her in her journey through space in search of knowledge. The two came to the world of Ba-Banis, a world of humanoids, caught in the middle of a civil war. Moondragon used her mental powers to stop the civil war and set herself up as the planet’s goddess. Drax recognized that her ambitions were ignoble and contacted the Avengers. Freed by the Avengers from his daughter’s mental domination, Drax attacked her. Moondragon was “forced” to kill Drax.
Drax remained dead, until Thanos was resurrected by Death, when Chronos resurrected Drax in response to the menace of Thanos. Drax joined in the fight against Thanos and was later given the power gem by Warlock and made a member of the Infinity Watch.