Arthur Douglas (Earth-1010)

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 * Image                  = Drax the Destroyer.png
 * RealName               = Arthur Sampson Douglas
 * CurrentAlias           = Drax the Destroyer
 * Aliases                = Art Douglas
 * Identity               = Secret
 * Alignment              = Good
 * Affiliation            = Guardians of the Galaxy
 * Relatives              = Yvette Steckley Douglas (wife, deceased), Heather Douglas (aka Moondragon, daughter)
 * Universe               = Earth-1010
 * BaseOfOperations       = Knowhere


 * Gender                 = Male
 * Height                 = 6'4"
 * Height2                = 7'4" (Most powerful form); 5'9" (as Arthur Douglas)
 * Weight                 = 680 lbs
 * Weight2                = 1,050 lbs (Most powerful form); 161 lbs. (as Arthur Douglas)
 * Eyes                   = Red
 * Eyes2                  = (Blue as Arthur Douglas)
 * Hair                   = None
 * Hair2                  = (Brown as Arthur Douglas)
 * UnusualSkinColour      = Green
 * UnusualFeatures        = Red tattoos
 * CharRef                =


 * Citizenship            = American
 * MaritalStatus          = Widowed
 * Occupation             = Bounty Hunter; Agent of Kronos; Former real estate agent
 * Education              =


 * Origin                 = artificial body created by Mentor
 * PlaceOfBirth           = Burbank, California
 * Creators               = Jim Starlin; Mike Friedrich
 * First                  = TBA
 * Death                  =


 * HistoryText            =

Early Life
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 mad Titan named 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 Titan, his father Mentor had been monitoring his activities on Earth to examine his son's latest handiwork. Mentor discovered that Heather Douglas was still alive, and took her back to Titan to be raised. She later returned to Earth as Moondragon.

Destroy Thanos
Mentor determined that the threat of his son Thanos could no longer be ignored and wanted to create a being of sufficient power to defeat Thanos. Enlisting the aid of his father Kronos, who millennia before had become a discorporate wraith, Mentor had Kronos seize the astral form (living consciousness) of Arthur Douglas before it had completely fled from Douglas's body. Kronos and Mentor then fashioned a humanoid body from the Earth's soil, granted it superhuman powers, and cast Douglas' spirit inside it. Thus they created 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' nemesis, thwarting certain of the Titanian's plans, but never crushing Thanos himself. One particular battle between them led Drax to befriend Iron Man of Earth. An ally that he would come into contact with various times over the next few years.

Once again on a campaign to destroy Thanos, Drax attacked Gamora, an assistant of Thanos at the time, by destroying her spaceship. However, Gamora escaped.

Guardians of the Galaxy
Drax became a member of the newly formed Guardians of the Galaxy, led by Star-Lord and served alongside such characters as Groot, Rocket Raccoon, and Gamora. He was one of the team's more grim and solitary figures, but was a force of destruction which bailed them out of many predicaments in the team's first few missions.


 * Powers                 = Drax possesses a number of superhuman attributes that have varied over the years.


 * Superhuman Strength: Drax is superhumanly strong, though his strength is currently only a fraction of what it once was in his most powerful form. At his peak, Drax can currently lift around 50 tons.


 * Superhuman Stamina: Drax superhuman musculature produces less fatigue toxins during physical activity than the musculature of a normal human. As with his strength, his stamina is currently considerably lower than it once was. He can exert himself physical for at least several hours before the build up of fatigue toxins in his blood begins to impair him.


 * Superhuman Durability: Drax's body is harder and much more resistant to physical injury than a normal human body, though his physical resistance is much lower than before. He can still withstand powerful energy blasts, exposure to temperature extremes, and great impact forces without being injured. Drax can withstand the rigors of surviving in a vacuum practically indefinitely and requires practically no food, water, or oxygen in order to survive.


 * Accelerated Healing Factor: In spite of his great physical resilience, it is possible for Drax to be injured. However, his physiology possesses the ability to heal injuries that would otherwise be fatal with superhuman levels of speed and efficiency. The limits of his accelerated healing is unknown. For instance, it isn't known if he can regrow limbs or regenerate missing organs, or regenerate tissue that's been completely destroyed.


 * Superhuman Senses: Drax has proven to have a superhuman olfactory senses. During the Annihilation event he is able to determine that Nova is a human like Cammi by sheer smell alone. Drax has also used this ability to recognize when weapons are about to be discharged in his area. He is asked if this acute sense has picked up any of the cloaked Skrulls.


 * Aura: During the "Annihilation" event, Drax displayed the ability to generate a type of form fitting "aura" around his body. The precise nature of this aura, or whatever it actually is, is unknown.


 * Cosmic Awareness: He possesses a low-level form of cosmic awareness that allows him to track Thanos.


 * Superhuman Strength: Drax possesses superhuman strength sufficient to lift at least 100 tons.


 * Superhuman Speed: In spite of his great muscular bulk, Drax could run and move at speeds that were beyond the natural physical limits of the finest human athlete.


 * Superhuman Stamina: Since the Power Gem increased Drax's strength, the overall efficiency of his musculature was increased as well. As a result, his body produced vastly less fatigue toxins than that of a human. He could exert himself at peak capacity for several days before fatigue began to impair him.


 * Superhuman Durability: Drax's body was highly resistant to all forms of physical injury. He could withstand all the same physical rigors as his current form, though to a far greater degree. He could also survive indefinitely within outer space unprotected.


 * Abilities              = Drax is a more than proficient combatant, this was especially true in his original and more powerful incarnation. Drax is said to have mastered the alien martial art form called "Dwi Theet". He uses this to defeat Impact, a master in six different martial arts, with ease. In his normal life Arthur Douglas was skilled in playing the saxophone.


 * Strength               = Can lift/press at least 100 tons.


 * Weaknesses             =


 * Equipment              =
 * Knives: Drax currently carries a pair of knives made from unknown materials.
 * Transportation         =
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