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Real Name: Arthur Douglas Class: Altered human Affiliations: Father of Moondragon; former member of the Infinity Watch; ally to the Avengers, Captain Mar-Vell Scale of Operations: Universe-wide Occupation: Wanderer, former guardian of the power gem, former real estate agent Powers: Drax the Destroyer possesses a variety of super-human powers that utilize the cosmic energy bestowed upon his artificially created form by Chronos and Mentor. His body has proven to be invulnerable to most means of physical injury that are directed against him. It can also could exist indefinitely in the vacuum of outer space, and he could survive for an unknown length without air, food, or water. Drax is most noted for his superhuman strength, which was boosted after his second resurrection to even further cosmic levels. Since the restoration of his intelligence, Drax's strength seems to have decreased to its original level.

History: Real estate agent Arthur Douglas, his wife Yvette, and daughter Heather, were driving across the Mojave Desert from Las Vegas to Los Angeles when a spaceship carrying the evil Titanian, Thanos, passed overhead on a surveillance mission to Earth. Wishing to keep his existence a secret, Thanos destroyed the automobile in case its passengers had seen his ship, and then landed to make certain they were dead. Satisfied that they were, Thanos left. Unknown to the Titanian, his father Mentor had been monitoring, his activities on Earth. Discovering that Heather Douglas was still alive, he took her to his home world on Saturn's moon of Titan to be raised. She later returned to Earth as the hero Moondragon.

Mentor later determined that the threat of his son could no longer be ignored and wanted to create a being of sufficient power to defeat him. Mentor and his Chronos, who millennia before had become a discorporate wraith, returned the living consciousness of Arthur Douglas to a humanoid body fashioned from the Earth's soil. Granting it superhuman powers, they cast Douglas' spirit inside it, creating the being who would become known as Drax the Destroyer. Mentor blocked all of Drax's memories of his old life, instilling in him monomaniacal hate for Thanos.

For years, Drax served as Thanos's nemesis, thwarting certain of the Titanian's plans, but never crushing Thanos himself. Thanos hired legions of alien mercenaries to keep Drax away from him. Eventually, however, in Thanos's campaign to possess the Cosmic Cube, Drax confronted Thanos with the company of the Avengers, Captain Mar-Vell, and Moondragon. Thanos appeared to have been destroyed in the final battle. Suddenly lacking a reason for existence, Drax wandered space in grim contemplation.

By the time he learned that Thanos had managed to rematerialize himself, Thanos had once again been killed this time by being permanently turned to stone. Drax, purposeless again, used Captain Mar-Vell as a scapegoat upon whom to vent his frustrations.
 

Sometime later, Drax accepted an invitation from his daughter Moondragon to join her in a journey through space in search of knowledge. The two rode aboard Moondragon's personal starship, Sensia, and came upon the planet Ba Banis, a world of humanoid aliens caught in a vast civil war. Moondragon decided to use her mental powers to quell the conflict and set herself up as the world's goddess. Drax, recognizing that her ambitions were ignoble, sent their ship to Earth with a holographic distress message before he, too, was dominated by Moondragon's will. The Avengers responded and confronted Moondragon. Freed by the Avengers, Drax also advanced toward her, seeking to end her menace. In order to stop him, Moondragon mentally forced Drax's life essence to vacate his artificial body. Later, after subduing Moondragon and

returning to Earth, the Avengers placed Drax's body inside Sensia and sent it into space programmed to self destruct. Drax's body was destroyed when the Sensia exploded.

Several years later, when Thanos was resurrected by Mistress Death, Chronos chose to re-animate Drax the Destroyer with even greater physical power in order to combat Thanos once more. However, Chronos failed to take the means of Drax's death into account, and Drax's mind retained the damage done by Moondragon. Drax was reunited with Mentor and found allies in his son Starfox and the alien Silver Surfer. Alongside these and other heroes, Drax helped fight Thanos, who eventually gathered the various Infinity Gems into the omnipotent Infinity Gauntlet.

When Thanos was finally defeated, Drax was chosen by Adam Warlock to safeguard the Infinity Gem of power, and he joined Warlock and the other guardians, which included his daughter Moondragon, in forming the Infinity Watch. Drax served with the Watch throughout its tenure, often clashing with Thanos and other cosmic menaces. Eventually, however, the Watch disbanded due to irreconcilable differences among the members. Each member when their separate way, and eventually, the Infinity Gem that each held would be transported to another dimension by the enigmatic Seventh Gem. The full fate of Drax's power gem remains unrevealed, as Warlock was able to retrieve his characteristic soul gem.

Drax returned to Titan with Moondragon, who would successfully petition Chronos to restore Drax's mind to its former acuity. Drax was restored to his original condition, at the cost of some physical power.

A short time later, Drax was accused of the murder of the Titanian Elysius and several other individuals. Elysius' son Genis (now the hero Captain Marvel), joined former Infinity Watch members Warlock, Gamora, and Pip, to confront Drax. Although they managed to subdue Drax, they discovered the real culprit to be the re-animated corpse of the original Captain Marvel, Mar-Vell. Using his soul gem, Warlock traced the being controlling the corpse to a creature known as Syphon, operating within the extradimensional Negative Zone.

Syphon was using Mar-Vell's weapons, the nega-bands, as a conduit for his control, and once Mar-Vell was defeated, Syphon transferred the nega-bands to the unconscious Drax, who recovered and escaped. Syphon used Drax and the bands to rip a portal into the Negative Zone, an act which threatened the structure of the universe. Genis and his allies confronted Drax once more, and Warlock was able to free Drax from the nega-bands. Before the portal could completely close, Syphon pulled Warlock into the Negative Zone, and took Warlock's gem in order to re-open the portal. Genis, who now possessed the nega-bands, brought Drax and his allies into the Negative Zone to defeat Syphon and his allies, Blastarr and Annihilus, and rescue Warlock. Warlock reclaimed his gem and, along with Drax and his other companions, returned to his home universe.

Drax's subsequent activities remain unrevealed.