Arthur Douglas (Earth-2199)

While driving through a desert with his wife and daughter, Arthur Douglas' car is attacked by a spaceship piloted by Thanos, who thinks the humans have seen him. His daughter, Heather, survives the crash and is adopted by Thanos' father, Mentor, and raised on Titan. She later becomes Moondragon.

Needing a champion to combat the threat from Thanos, Mentor and the Titan god Kronos capture Douglas' spirit and placed it in a powerful new body. He is rechristened "Drax the Destroyer", and his sole purpose is to kill Thanos. With Iron Man, Drax battles Thanos and the Blood Brothers,but Thanos escapes. While trying to prevent Thanos from getting the Cosmic Cube,Drax's memories are restored to him.After seeing Captain Marvel defeat Thanos, Drax attacks Captain Marvel, for robbing him of his purpose. Drax wanders space in grim contemplation, searching for a resurrected Thanos. By the time he learns that Thanos had managed to rematerialize himself, Thanos has once again been destroyed in battle with Captain Marvel, the Avengers, and Adam Warlock. Alongside Captain Marvel, Drax battles ISAAC, Stellarax, Lord Gaea, Elysius, and Chaos.

Some time later, Drax, possessed by an alien entity, battles his daughter Moondragon and the superhero Thor. After Drax recovers, he and Moondragon journey through space in search of knowledge. Eventually, they come upon the planet Ba-Banis, a world of humanoid aliens caught in a vast civil war. Moondragon uses her mental powers to quell the conflict and then decides to set herself up as the world's goddess. Drax recognizes that her ambitions are ignoble and so sends their ship to Earth with a holographic distress message. The Avengers respond and discover Moondragon's world of mentally enforced tranquility. Freed by the Avengers from his daughter's mental domination, Drax advances toward her, seeking to end her menace. In order to stop him, Moondragon mentally forces Drax's life essence to vacate his artificial body.

Infinity Watch

When Thanos is resurrected by Mistress Death, Kronos reanimates the Destroyer and grants him even greater physical power. However, Kronos does not consider the effects of Drax's death, and the Destroyer's mind retains the damage done by Moondragon. Alongside a multitude of other heroes, Drax helps battle Thanos and Nebula for possession of the Infinity Gauntlet. Drax is chosen by Adam Warlock to safeguard the Power Gem as part of the Infinity Watch.

After the energy vampire Rune steals the gems, the Watch members go their separate ways. Drax returns to Titan with Moondragon, who successfully petitions Kronos to restore Drax's mind to its former acuity at the cost of some physical power. Thus, Drax is restored to his original condition. Drax is accused of the murder of Elysius and several others, but is cleared when it is discovered that the creature Syphon was manipulating him. While seeking out Moondragon, Drax enters into an altercation with Genis-Vell. In the course of this struggle, Drax is transported to the Microverse with Genis, where, for a time, he finds acceptance and happiness on the planet K'ai.

Reborn

Later, Drax is seen on a prison transport ship with Paibok, Lunatik, and the Blood Brothers. The ship crashes in Alaska, and Drax attacks the others to keep them from harming innocent lives. He mistakes a young girl named Cammi for his daughter, and tries to protect her from Paibok. Drax appears to be killed, but a even more stronger ,still more smarter Drax emerges from the of your dead body. When a second prison ship arrives to recapture the prisoners, both Drax and Cammi are arrested.

Surviving Annihilus' attack on the intergalactic prison known as the Kyln, Drax and Cammi team up with the last member of the Xandarian Nova Corps, Richard Rider. Together they fight against the advancing Annihilation Wave as Drax trains Nova to be a warrior.Drax learns that Thanos has taken Moondragon hostage, and that she will be killed if Drax pursues him.During a doomed battle between the Annihilation Wave and the United Front, Drax stays behind to fight off the invaders while Nova and the rest of the group (including Cammi) finish the evacuation.Drax fights his way to the Annihilation Wave's mother ship, where he finds Thanos and kills him. Drax helps to free a captive Galactus, who teleports Moondragon and Drax to a far-off planet to spare them from his wrath on the Annihilation Wave.Afterwards, Moondragon says Drax just "disappeared". Cammi is later seen, alive, allied with Skreet,one of Thanos' powerful, miniature assistants.

When the Phalanx invade the Kree home-world, Drax is assimilated as a "select" of the Phalanx hive mind. They dispatch him, along with Gamora, to apprehend Nova, who had fled the planet.Following Nova to Kvch, the home planet the Technarchy (parental race of the Phalanx), Drax and Gamora are freed from the Phalanx by the Technarch Tyro. Together they return to Hala where they help in the defeat of Ultron.

Guardians of the Galaxy

Star-Lord recruits Drax for to be the strongman "army of a single man" of the new Guardians of the Galaxy. The Guardians are forced to ally themselves with a resurrected Thanos and travel into an alternate reality known as the "Cancerverse".While experiencing a bout of madness, Drax attacks Thanos and both have a colossus duel in which he ends up being defeated by the Titan.Drax later reappears with the Guardians on Earth after being resurrected by Adam Warlock who enclosed him in one of his evolutionary cocoons to restore his life. As a result Drax has been reborn even stronger and smartest than before.

Powers and abilities

Drax's initial incarnation's powers included superhuman strength, stamina and resistance to physical injury as well the ability to project concussive blasts of cosmic energy from his hands. He could also travel at high speeds in outer space and hyperspace without air, food, or water. Drax also had telepathy,having used it to engage Thanos in a psychic battle and stalemating him mind to mind.

After his resurrection, his physical capabilities are greatly enhanced beyond their original levels but he suffered severe mental disability in his new incarnation.Instead of his telepathy which enabled him to track Thanos across vast distances, he now possessed the ability to sense either him or other beings who have been in recent contact with Thanos, alongside a precognitive ability to sense when beings will be in contact with Thanos in the near future. For a time, Drax possessed the Power Gem that had the potential to grant him superhuman physical and energy manipulation powers with no feasible limit. However, because of his severely-reduced intellect, he lacked the mental capacity and imagination to use the gem for anything other than bolstering his physical strength. While possessing the gem, Drax's strength has been compared with that of the merged incarnation of the Hulk, but lacking the latter's rage-fueled potential.

Just prior to the 2006 "Annihilation" mini-series and continuing through the present, Drax undergoes a physical change, resulting in a form even bigger and even more stronger than its previous form and having its privileged intellect restored to the highest levels, transforming itself into a dangerous and powerful combination of muscles and brain of unbeatable pure strength and unattainable intelligence, able to easily rival that of the Hulk Green Scar in power, he also had his powers of generating, controlling and projecting bursts of cosmic energy restored able to match and even surpass Silver Surfer in the handling of cosmic power. Although he no longer possessed his telepathic powers, Drax now possessed Cosmic Awareness at a level comparable to that of Captain Mar-Vell as well as atomic restructuring power of organic and inorganic matter ,flight and most of your original capabilities; using two daggers as big as swords in battle. He became immense in size measuring over 3 feet tall with massively muscular body. He has gained the ability to match power and intelligence even to Thanos and can temporarily ignore the force field surrounding Mad Titan's body and pierce it with his giant daggers thanks to his prodigious force but Thanos has proved to have sufficient regenerative power to survive even a direct blow from Drax's giant daggers to your heart. His power levels seem to increase to closer of Thanos powers. He also demonstrated to have a cell regeneration factor at the same level as the Hulk Green Scar and your cosmic awareness allows he to do things like detect and differentiate Skrulls at their current extreme level of shapeshifiting powers in whatever disguise they use and detect when energy weapons were about to go off and he can find a single individual on any planet he finds in the same universe separated from him for billions of light years in different galaxies.