Who is Drax the Destroyer? What is its main purpose?

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

So it happens that you live for yourself, do not disturb anyone, and suddenly everything is taken away: family, car, work and life. Even the soul is not left alone. They settle it in a new body, set a certain task and send it to perform. Few would agree to this. However, no one asked him. Such a fate was awarded to one of the members of the Guardians of the Galaxy team - Drax the Destroyer, after a misfortune happened to him.

New life

Before this happened, Arthur Sampson Douglas lived with his wife Yvvet and daughter Heather in California. One day, while driving through the Mojave Desert, they notice a spaceship in the sky. The ship was then ruled by a wandering titan named Thanos. And since it was not his plan to be noticed by a simple American family, he decided to attack her.

Only Heather survived the attack. She was lucky, because she liked the mentor of Thanos - Mentor, who trained her, after which shebecame a hero with mental powers. She later earned the nickname Moon Dragon for trying to destroy the Moon Dragon.

A completely different story happened to Arthur. His body was destroyed, but his consciousness still lived. And very soon he found a use.

The fact is that Thanos' aggressive methods eventually got tired of even Mentor, so they, together with Kronos, a representative of the Eternal race and a space master of time, decided to stop him. To do this, they created a body endowed with certain abilities, and placed the spirit of Douglas in it. And so Drax the Destroyer appeared, having absolutely no idea about his past life and programmed solely to destroy his only enemy - Thanos.

First fight

So, feeding on rage towards Thanos, Drax pursued him for many years. And at some point he got a chance to fight him. This happened during the search for part of Odin's sacred collection - the "Cosmic Cube". Drax the Destroyer (photo below) in the company of the Avengers, Moondragon and Captain Marvel defeats Thanos after a hard battle.

But the victory was not final, so Drax again goes in search of him until he finds out that the villain was killed by the Avengers team and Adam Warlock (Golden Surfer).

Unexpected union

Now he has a lot of free time, because the goal of his life has been achieved. Therefore, he begins to wander around the galaxies, until he falls under the influence of an evil entity,which causes him to attack Thor and Moondragon. Heather, with the right powers, forces the creature to let Drax go. And he, in gratitude, offers her to travel together.

In one of their wanderings, they stumbled upon the planet Ba-Banis, inhabited by humanoid creatures that have long been on the verge of civil war. Heather, thanks to her skills, helps them avoid bloodshed, and then decides to remain on the planet as their deity. Drax the Destroyer ("Marvel") understands that this is wrong, so he sends a signal to the Avengers for help.

Upon learning of this, Heather takes control of her ex-father, but the Avengers are already in place. They free Drax from under the influence of others, and he is going to kill his daughter, but loses. The Moon Dragon separates his mind from his body, thus destroying him. The Avengers stop her, and Drax's body is placed in a capsule and sent into space, where it explodes.

Resurrection

How calm everything was in the universe until Death decided to resurrect Thanos! In response, Kronos returns Drax the Destroyer. Only now he creates an even more powerful body for him. True, Heather last time damaged his mind, so Krosnos infused what was left of him into a new body, and in this state sent Drax to Earth.

By the way, the strong man really liked it there. Moreover, on Earth, he began to remember some details of his past. He againmet Moondragon and they even developed a friendship again. Although Heather was afraid that he would remember what she had done to him. But, as it turned out, the fears were in vain, because Drax the Destroyer did not remember anything about those events.

One more battle

After some time, Drax decided to leave the planet, as he had a strong hatred for Thanos. He went to look for him. Titan, meanwhile, had already managed to get all the Infinity Stones and created the Infinity Gauntlet from them. With such strength, he was invincible.

In his search, Drax met the Silver Surfer, who became his ally. Together they were able to find Thanos, but the villain, in order to get rid of them, imprisoned the heroes in the Stone of Souls. Inside, they meet other prisoners who work together to help them free. Drax is furious, he attacks the titan again, but the owner of the Infinity Gauntlet cannot be defeated, so he loses. In that battle, many died at the hands of Thanos, but Drax fought until the moment when the space pirate and mercenary Nebula, having taken away the glove from the titan, defeated him.

Guardians of Infinity

After Thanos' defeat, Adam Warlock decided that the Infinity Stones should be kept separate from each other. Therefore, for each of them, he chooses a Guardian. Drax also gets his stone, but due to his stupidity, he swallows it, mistaking it for a treat. It's good that he didn't digest it, but just kept it in his stomach all this time.

True, the Guardian team will not exist for longI had to, especially since the Moon Dragon was mortally wounded in one of the missions. Drax courted her for a long time, and then asked Kronos to cure her. The Time Lord agreed to help, but in exchange he took some of Drax's physical strength.

Another death

After some time, Drax the Destroyer gets on board a prison ship in which several hundred prisoners were transported to an intergalactic prison. But they do not reach their destination, but crash on Earth. Many dangerous prisoners were immediately out of their cells, and Drax had to restrain them from harming civilian passengers.

And a little later, when he made his way to the place where the ship crashed, one of the prisoners, Peybak, blocked his way. In a fight with him, Drax was killed, but this did not mean his end. After some time, he received a new body with improved intelligence, but a smaller set of abilities. Though that didn't stop him from fighting Thanos again.

Thanos Again

During the Annihilation period, when Annihilus, the ruler of the Negative Zone, tried to capture the Positive Zone with the help of his army, the titan Thanos was on board one of the ships. As soon as Drax sensed this, he was seized with a mad rage. Without thinking about anything else, he decided to get on the ship alone and finish off his worst enemy.

Thanos himself did not yet know that Annihilus had deceived everyone. After all, he said that he was going to simply subjugate the "Positive Zone" in order to become its ruler, but he himself conceivedcapture Galactus, the creator and devourer of worlds, in order to destroy all life with his help.

When Thanos realized this, it was already too late. He wanted to free the Silver Surfer, but Drax was already there. From wild anger, a luminous aura surrounded his body. And he struck a blow that not only broke through the shield of Thanos, but also tore out his heart. After that, the Silver Surfer freed Galactus, who destroyed the Annihilation Army with a powerful explosion.

Powers and abilities

Drax the Destroyer (Guardians of the Galaxy movie), or rather his body, represents a combination of several abilities at once:

• Strength. Possesses superhuman strength and is able to lift a weight of about 100 tons.
• Invulnerability. His body is able to withstand almost any physical and energy attacks. In addition, he is not afraid of the heat of the sun and the cold of space.
• Regeneration. Even if someone manages to hurt Drax, his wounds will heal very quickly. True, it is not known whether he could grow a limb.
• Flair. Drax is not a bloodhound, but he is able to locate Thanos' Titan from any distance.
• Mysterious aura. At the peak of his rage, Drax can create an aura around him, after which his strength increases so much that he is capable of much. For example, break through Thanos' strong shield, and then rip out his heart.
• Flight. Drax the Destroyer can fly at very high speeds, slightly less than the speed of light.
• Explosive energy. This jock can fire energy beams from his hands.

True, it must be taken into account that he had all these powers and abilities in full force only at the beginning. After several respawns (or deaths), he had to sacrifice flight, energy beams, and some of his physical strength.

By the way, it is still unknown where Drax the Destroyer wandered after the events that occurred during the first Annihilia. Yes, it doesn’t matter, because if someday somewhere in the vastness of the Galaxies the heart of the villain Thanos beats again, he will definitely appear.