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History
You don't have to believe in yourself... Because, I believe in you!
- — Drax the Destroyer
- — Drax the Destroyer
Early Years
Drax of Kylos was a skilled blacksmith and warrior who comes from a race of Kylosians, primitives who are considered naïve, literal-minded, and hopelessly underdeveloped by the more advanced galactic groups, although they were a fierce and capable warrior race who follow a tribal-like culture. Despite living most of his young adult life as a blacksmith and warrior, Drax met a telepathic woman named Ovette at a war rally, falling in love with her due to her cold impression yet understated passion for astronomy as her latent career, and with their marriage, conceived a daughter named Kamaria.
At some point in his later years, however, his wife and daughter were unfortunately killed by Ronan the Accuser and his firing squad, who were also under the command of the Mad Titan Thanos, leading his forces to slaughter half of his race's population in their home planet. During the slaughter, the planet's population was randomly divided into two parts, and one of them was slaughtered. Drax, forcibly restrained by Ronan the due to his aggressive behavior against the forces of Ronan and Thanos, was put on the side which survived, but Ovette and Kamaria were murdered with the rest, much to Drax's great despair to watch his wife and daughter get mercilessly slaughtered. As a result, the heavily broken and devastated Drax set out on a rampage across the universe in search for vengeance against the Kree extremist and warlord, before he would continue his true mission against the true mastermind of his home's assault that was the malevolent and ambitious Thanos.
Shortly after his family's death and the overall slaughter to the half of his people, Drax was mercilessly driven into a path of vengeance and went on a bloody rampage across the galaxy in search of the murderous Kree, gaining a reputation as one of the most dangerous beings in the intergalactic community and earning the infamous nickname, "The Destroyer". Along with his murderous conquest, Drax temporarily went by the fabricated alias and identity of Art'r Dogl'Lass when he dedicated his whole life as an extreme zealot and terrorist against Ronan and his fellow comrades. After more than thirty counts of murder and several counts of bodily harm to those who opposed him, he was arrested by the Nova Corps and brought to the Kyln, seemingly for the rest of his life.
Guardians of the Galaxy
During his long-time stay at the Kyln, Drax eventually became uneasy allies with the half-human Star-Lord, the adoptive daughter of Thanos Gamora, the arrogant and aggressive Rocket Raccoon, and the hulking and giving tree Groot, forming the heroic outlaws known as the Guardians of the Galaxy. Along with their plane to escape the Kyln, they agreed to work together to escape and sell the Orb for a massive profit and supposedly move on with their lives if it happens.
However, when it was discovered that the Orb contained one of the Infinity Stones, the Power Stone, which was being sought out by Ronan the Accuser, his teammate Groot courageously convinced his friends to risk everything to stop Ronan's diabolical plans. After the great Battle of Xandar which ended with Ronan's defeat and Groot's temporary death, in which he finally exacted his vengeance on the Accuser, Drax left Xandar with the rest of his fellow Guardians, finally declaring that Thanos himself was his next target as an act of avenging not only his family, but also half his people who perished in the Titan's conquest.
Cosmic Missions
As a Guardian of the Galaxy, he continues to travel with his teammates on their adventures, such as them being hired by the Sovereign as mercenaries in exterminating the parasitic life-form Abilisk, their confrontation against the planetary Celestial Ego the Living Planet, followed by their secret investigation on Hala against the Kree black market, forcing them to join forces with the noble Kree Navy Major and future Guardian Mar-Vell in order to successfully defeat the real perpetrator responsible for running the illegal dealings.
Kree-Skrull War
Unfortunate to the Guardians themselves, their continued cosmic adventures with their newfound member Major Marvel went short-lived after finding out that the both races of the Skrulls and the Kree were once more have reignited their million-years war on each other. In response, the Guardians were immediately obligated in helping to end the war and restore peace between both races without siding with either two of them.
Realizing that they were miserably losing and were on the pinnacle of failing on their mission in ending the war by themselves, Mar-Vell then ultimately makes up his mind, and immediately rides his spacecraft to leave the planet Skrullos, seemingly leaving the entire warzone behind, though in actuality, he left so that he could go to his last resort, who was also the final key into ending the Kree-Skrull War once and for all, his old friend and ally back on Earth, Carol Danvers. During the arrival of Danvers and Mar-Vell on Skrullos, that was that very moment where Danvers' immeasurable powers that she never even knew had existed before, had consequently help the rest of the intergalactic heroes put an ultimatum, a final end towards the Kree-Skrull War for good.
Secret Invasion
Unluckily, however, the heroes themselves found out that the heads of the Skrull Empire secretly commanded the disguised Skrulls hiding on the planet Earth to begin the "next stage," to their mysterious plan known as the "Earth Protocol," to which they would later explain that despite their conflict with the Kree had already ended, their conflict on conquering Earth has only just begun, and decided to infiltrate and finally invade it after so long. The Guardians of the Galaxy, along with Ms. Marvel and Mar-Vell onboard their ship, immediately travel to Earth after the end of the Kree-Skrull War, warning the heroes of Earth of the threat that's about to occur on the planet, which were the Skrulls themselves who were all currently hiding on the planet at the moment, and were willing to help them fight them and prevent them from ever invading Earth.
When the stealthy invasion secretly planned by the ruthless Skrull race comes to fruition, the Earth's Ultimates (both the 50-State Initiative of Iron Man and the Anti-Registration Forces of Captain America), S.H.I.E.L.D., the Thunderbolts, the Dark Avengers, and most of the Earth's super-powered individuals must unite to stop the conquering villainous extraterrestrial race, aided by the cosmic heroes, the Guardians themselves and the Yondu Ravager Clan. During the end of the fighting, the Iron Patriot, killed the Skrull Queen Veranke, which ended the war and the attempted invasion, once and for all. In the wake of the averted invasion, the Guardians decided to stay on Earth for a while for "vacation". However, Drax's tour on Earth was proven to be short-lived when he would later tag along with Captain Marvel after attending and honoring Mar-Vell's Kree funeral in his homeworld of Kree-Lar after his sacrifice in the final hour of the invasion.
Drax the Mediator
Taking a break from as a Guardian of the Galaxy around mid-2017, Drax went to Contraxia to gamble and discreetly grieve in sorrow for not having yet to avenge his wife and daughter when he bumped into a confused a young delinquent girl named Camille "Cammi" Benally, who got in trouble when she was being hunted by an momentary alliance between three bounty hunters: an alien mutant named Lunatik, a Super-Skrull named Paibok, and a Rigellian assassin named Sacino, who held a grudge against Drax in her past. Cammi reminded Drax of his late young daughter, Kamaria, that he defended her from the hunters by instinct. By intuition, Drax also felt she wasn't entirely responsible for whatever acts of misdemeanors she had done at that moment.
Facing them, Drax learned that the three were hired by a crimelord named Skreet, who revealed that Cammi was raised as a space pirate who previously committed crimes against the Badoon, Kree, Shi'ar and escaped until Skreet's radar had caught her. Still pursing to rescue Cammi from facing execution by Skreet, Drax tracked down and infiltrated Skreet's mobile headquarters, killing hundreds of bloodthirsty henchmen, which included him decapitating Lunatik and tossing a relentless Sacino outside the vacuum of space to die before she could finish him off. After teaching Skreet a lesson about mercy and compassion, Drax and Cammi as well as the latter's fellow companions escaped through an escape pod when the damaged headquarters were destined to detonate, with Drax intending to give Cammi a second chance in her young life without getting herself killed or in constant danger by messing with any criminal syndicate or empires.
After the destruction of Skreet's headquarters, Drax delivered Cammi and her fellow former pirates to his homeworld of Kylos when he recently heard that most of his remaining people were still thriving despite the past scars of Thanos' massacre, though he didn't stay on his planet for long due to the painful memories it brings him. Nevertheless, he entrusted Cammi to be live with an old relative and acquaintance and their family in the coming years, though Drax would often pay a visit from time to time in hopes of facing his trauma overtime while he spent some cherishable times with his foster daughter.
Threat of Thanos
Infinity Quest
In order to start his search for the Infinity Stones, the Mad Titan warlord Thanos and a portion of his starfleet mercilessly attacks Xandar as a part of his ultimate goal, almost decimating half of its population as he retrieves the Power Stone from the Nova Corps. The Guardians and the Yondu Ravager Clan then answered the repetitive Xandarian distress calls sent by Denarian Rhomann Dey, due to first attacks of Thanos across the capital city of Xandar, to which they immediately responded by going to planet and helping the Nova Corps combat the massive fleet of Thanos. Despite the hard efforts of the Guardians and the Yondu Clan to stop Thanos and his forces' assault on the planet, Thanos was still proven to be the victor, and was already on his way to the next stone, much to the Guardians' dismay and horror. In their desperate attempt to avenge the Xandarian people, the Guardians and the Ravagers decided to being a search operation across the galactic communities in search for Thanos himself and his fleet in order to put an end to whatever he may be planning by then.
Thanos had ultimately triumphed over his enemies once he completed the Infinity Gauntlet, using this to finally complete his goal and destroy half of the life within the universe at the snap of his fingers. When Thanos eventually wiped out half of the universal population after completing the Infinity Gauntlet, most of the Guardians amongst the trillions of victims of his conquest, which included Drax. This ultimate universal "decimation" has heavily devastated the remaining Guardians for losing a lot of their loved ones due to the heroes' ultimate defeat and failure.
Infinity War
However, the alliance of the surviving heroes, antiheroes, and several redeemed villains battled Thanos, aided by the Cosmic Entities, preventing his second universal goal of shredding all of cosmos to the smallest atom and rebuild it in his own image. In the process of the intense battle, he overlooked his adoptive daughter Nebula who was able to wrest the Infinity Gauntlet from Thanos' hand. Her first act was to undo all that has occurred, which inadvertently freed the heroes and the cosmic entities and resurrected most of those who have once withered away into ash by the Titan's snap of changing reality, including the rest of the Guardians themselves. The battle resumed, and in the end it was Adam Warlock who finally possessed the Gauntlet, ending the cosmic conflict for the Infinity Gauntlet, for now.
Infinity Crusade
When Adam Warlock's evil and notorious side, whom was dubbed by his followers as the "Magus," had unexpectedly separated from his own body thanks to the Universal Church of Truth, his oldest radical followers, and started his own personal crusade to reassemble the Infinity Stones. In his process, Magus created corrupted doppelgangers of various heroes, and even Thanos' own duplicate, as a part of his plan to recreate the universe into his own image, a universe of eternal and infinite wickedness fueled by all existing regret and sorrow within every living thing. Drax was one of the notable targets who fell into the whispers of the Magus, promising him that their reality-shifting cause would bring back his late wife and daughter, who were killed by Ronan under Thanos' forces.
However, Drax's teammate Gamora was able to tap within the spirit of the Matriarch, the Church's temporal leader who was brainwashed into harnessing her psionic powers to fulfil the Magus' cause with the Infinity Stones. An enraged Drax — who was momentarily enhanced by the Matriarch's power as the effects of the Faith Energy has worn out — beat the corrupted Thanos before punching a hole through his chest and removing his heart. With Drax's reluctant help, the true Thanos triumphed when he absorbed his dying doppelganger back to himself, making the Titan whole once again and strong enough to fight the Magus.
In the very end of the conflict, Warlock and the rest of the Infinity Watch (including the Mad Titan Thanos), joined by the members of the Guardians had successfully defeated the Magus through the help of their extensive ally, the Goddess (who also happens to be Warlock's good and noble portion) who freed the Matriarch, revealing her identity to be Kamaria, Drax's daughter whom he thought he lost. Magus was defeated into a catatonic state, finally imprisoned inside the Soul Stone's realm, the Soulworld, before parting ways as Warlock disbands the Infinity Watch in the meantime and the Guardians welcoming Kamaria to join them. With Drax's unexpected blessing of a family reunion, Drax would travel with Kamaria as they reconciled with their few thriving relatives in Kylos, wherein the Kamaria would meet her younger sister Camille Benally, now a resident of Kylos, for the very first time.
The Destroyer, Unfolded
Continuing his adventures with the Guardians, they would cross paths with an occasional ally and a good friend of Drax's daughter (now operating by the heroic moniker of Moondragon) by the name of Mar-Tyr, whose true origins and real identity were revealed to be Phyla-Vell, the artificial daughter of the Guardians' late teammate, Major Mar-Vell. When they tried to find and help out the lone Phyla-Vell, most the Guardians were abducted by the A.I. supercomputer I.S.A.A.C. programmed by the Titanian-born Kree scientist Elysius, Phyla-Vell's obsessive "mother" & creator.
When I.S.A.A.C. was programmed to abduct and experiment on the Guardians whilst tracking down Phyla-Vell, the nature of Drax's physique and powers were studied by the supercomputer which revealed his untapped powers, describing them as godlike that explained Drax's superhuman ability of killing the doppelganger of Thanos, someone who was considered to be more powerful (in close combat) than the real Thanos due to Magus' magical bestowal. Some of the Drax's Kylosian ancestors were revealed to be embodiments of the Avatar of Life, when the Celestials altered their physiology with the task of preserving their home planet, while harnessing enough power to destroy those who threaten them.
Through I.S.A.A.C.'s experiment, it unlocked Drax's ancestral-based powers, but Elysius' desperate attempt to thwart her supercomputer's activity only accelerated the process beyond the rate which Drax could still endure and tolerate. Entering a fit of nigh-unstoppable rage, Drax smashed through most of Elysius' lab, effectively eradicating years worth of her unethical research, which persisted until the Guardians finally battled Elysius and her henchmen before subsequently confronting I.S.A.A.C., whose sentience revealed its intentions of experimenting on the Guardians were all in the name of enlightenment. As the Guardians left Elysius' demolished facility, Drax's unconscious body was recovered as his unstable mind was alleviated by his daughter Kamaria back to his normal state, making him and his teammates learn about each other's powers which were unveiled to them during the temporary experiment.
In the following days, Drax and Kamaria would have a heart-to-heart talk to each other, with the latter opening up about her feelings for Phyla-Vell as while they do share mutual attraction for each other, Phyla was experiencing an inner conflict with herself, something that Kamaria was asking her father for advice on what she should do with it. Drax was somewhat honored that his own daughter would ask her on love, which being the honest and compassionate father that he was, he told her that everything would work out if she gave Phyla the time that she needed to embrace her true feelings, since she knew that they have feelings for each other after all. A month later, Drax couldn't be more proud for Kamaria after he found out that she and Phyla-Vell have finally officiated their relationship as couple, while Kamaria couldn't be more thankful for her father's reassuring words of wisdom.
The Fault that Plagued the Stars
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Helping save the universe from the corruption of the Great Old Ones, Drax is reborn as the Avatar of Death
Around the late 2020s (approx. mid-2026), Drax and the Guardians would collaborate with the Infinity Watch with assistance from the Ravagers, Nova Corps, and Skreell Empyre (Kree-Skrull Alliance) along with the Accusers to close the second Fault, the largest rift in the space-time continuum of the universe opened by Magus and the Universal Church of Truth during the Infinity Crusade, exposing this reality itself to darker alternate universes. The Fault expanded at a rapid rate, threatening to engulf all of reality, something that did not seem to bother the Great Old Ones, a group of extra-dimensional tentacled creatures of arcane and divine origin where life has defeated death, in which the Watch had to stop before these beings could metastasize reality itself over theirs.
The issue of the second Fault involved series of struggles and eventual success from the Watch to fend off the Great Old Ones (also known as Many-Angled Ones) from entering the Fault, until they were able to partially seal the rift enough that they could no longer enter and conquer their reality. When Nova and some other heroes were trapped in the Negative Zone's Cancerverse, Drax heroically volunteered to be given cosmic yet life-threatening powers by a weakened Adam Warlock, becoming embodiment of the Avatar of Death (in contrast to his ancestors as the Avatar of Life) to enter the Fault into the Cancerverse to rescue the stranded heroes and fight the swarms of corrupted beings that intends to plague the main reality the moment the crossed the Fault. While Thanos, working with the Infinity Watch, also protested that he should be granted the powers instead, Adam that Drax had the essential vengeful spirit within him that rendered him more capable of destroying than the Mad Titan, sensing Thanos' intentions were merely his growing desperation to be with Death. While most beings would falter and collapse handling such cosmic power, Drax's physique as a descendant of the Kylosian Avatar of Life only enhanced his powers to the cosmic level. While rescuing the heroes inside the Cancerverse, Drax was fearless to fight the corrupted versions of heroes and villains alongside two of his longtime enemies turned situational allies: Thanos and Ronan the Accuser, giving Kamaria and rest of the heroes enough time to stop and seal the Fault from spreading the Cancerverse into their universe.
When Ronan was starting to succumb to the festering beings of the Cancerverse, Drax stood his ground and channeled his fist with cosmic energy to put his archnemesis out of his misery, leaving Thanos in awe as he witnessed his higher level of power. Growing into a state more powerful than he has ever been, Drax used his powers to unleash a non-deadly blast at the remaining survivors to cross the Fault into the safety of the main reality. Despite knowing that he was no match for the multiversal threat which he faced with Thanos, Drax fought the Many-Angled Ones mindlessly and savagely alongside Thanos who still stood with him until the Mad Titan was dragged by Tsathoggua among other beings into the void of the Negative Zone, leaving his whereabouts unknown. While both Drax's greatest attained level of power and Thanos' raw cosmic rage — which combined both their restless violence — had eradicated majority of the corrupted heroes, villains, and other servants of the Old Ones, Drax was able to kill only a few out of the countless eldritch beings. Nevertheless, the trails of death and destruction each of them had caused conclusively gave the heroes from the other side to completely seal the Fault.
Before meeting his death at the tentacles of the Great Shuma-Gorath, Drax's mind, heart, and, soul still lingered for the greatest memories in his life, including but not limited to falling in love with Ovette, conceiving and reuniting with Kamaria, saving and taking in Cammi under his wing, and meeting and joining the Guardians of the Galaxy throughout his years of adventure and misadventure. In his final seconds well as using his telepathic vision to see the foreseeable future, events such as Kamaria and Phyla-Vell's wedding and each of he Guardians getting to live the peaceful lives they never knew would come true. With tears in his eyes, Drax would make his final act of sending a heartfelt, disheartening yet also hopeful telepathic message to Kamaria from the other side of reality, reassuring her that everything would be alright by the end of the day in spite of his demise.
Indestructible Legacy
A week after the Second Fault was closed, Drax's funeral was held on Drax's hometown in Kylos by his daughters Kamaria and Cammi Benally, relatives, and was attended by the Guardians, Nova, among other familiar faces who paid their respects to honor the memory of their late ally, father, and friend. Later that night, the Guardians and other heroes besides the Infinity Watch, notably those who participated during the closing of the Second Fault such as Nova, Phyla-Vell, Dorrek VIII, and Pip the Troll went to a bar to have drinks, wallowing in tears as just they would counter their mourning with humorous bantering and drunken moments of celebrating their victory, something that they knew Drax would enjoy on doing if he were still with them. In the following month, Drax's relatives and acquaintances began their construction of a simple yet a diverse school living up to his and his wife Ovette's name. The Guardians helped and accelerated the process as they finished building the place within the span of seven months, especially since the technology of Kylos were already starting to advance and catch up with other nearby progressive planets in the past decade. In the final days of construction, a statue of Drax and Ovette were sculpted and erected in a garden, located at the very heart of the school.
Powers and Abilities
Powers
Cosmically Enhanced Kylosian Physiology: According to I.S.A.A.C.'s data gathered from experiments, the A.I. stated the natural power of Drax the Destroyer is an epitome of the supreme Kylosian physique, embodying much more physical prowess than most species across the galaxy, being able to lift bulk weight and breaking through solid stone and metal. Drax's enhanced musculature grants him immense physical strength and stamina, along with his skin being impact resistant the granted him enhanced resilience and durability. Furthermore, it was discovered by I.S.A.A.C. that some of Drax's ancestors were once Avatars of Life (also known as Champions of Life), having their physique and abilities get permanently altered by Celestial Travelers hundreds of thousands years ago with the task of spreading and preserving life on the planet they thrived in, but also granted godly strength and durability to destroy almost any threat that endangers their home.
- Superhuman Durability
- Enhanced Musculature
- Impact Resistant Skin
- Environmental Adaptation
- Superhuman Senses
- Augmented Cellular Regeneration
- Superhuman Strength
- Superhuman Agility
- Superhuman Reflexes
- Avatar of Death: During the battle against the Second Fault, Drax was chosen as the Avatar of Death in the place of an overwhelmed Adam Warlock to uphold a cosmic balance between life (whose embodied by Warlock) and death, with Drax representing the "death" portion to put the heroes at an advantage against the Cancerverse, a region in the Negative Zone that has finally "killed" death with festering and corruptible immortality. In the final hours of his life, Drax was imbued with the Power Cosmic, granting him nigh-limitless cosmic energy-based powers to fend off and annihilate the wave of beings from Cancerverse and help seal the Fault from the inside until the moment of his heroic death.
- Flight
- Energy Blasts
- Energy Manipulation
- Energy Absorption
- Self-Sustenance
- Godlike Stamina
- Telepathy
- Telekinesis
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Abilities
- Skilled Blacksmith
- Master Brawler
- Expert Marksman
- Expert Combatant
- Skilled Martial Artist
- Master of Dwi Theet
- Master of Dwi Theet
Strength level
- Class 15+ (Normal Level Strength)
- Class 350+ (as the Avatar of Death)
Weaknesses
- Literal-Minded
- Bloodlust
Paraphernalia
Equipment:
- Aero-Rigs
- Holographic Space Suits
Transportation:
- Eclector
- Third Quadrant
- Milano (formerly; destroyed)
Weapons:
- Dual Knives
- Hadron Enforcer
Notes
- No special notes.
- ↑ Modern Comics: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 1 5
Trivia
- Drax's year of birth on Kylos is equivalent to Earth's year of 1969.
- Moments before the climactic battle of the Infinity Crusade, Drax's fight against the Thanos doppelganger summoned by the Magus, which resulted the former impaling the Titan duplicate and brutally removing his heart is an allusion to the fourth issue of the mainstream comic Annihilation.
- Five years later, during his final stand to close the Second Fault, Drax, Thanos, and Ronan fought and killed hundreds of thousands of corrupted versions of heroes and villains from the Negative Zone's Cancerverse to their last breath. In this bloody battle, Thanos also punched a hole through the chest of his Cancerverse version, subconsciously imitating what Drax had done to the Titan's doppelganger years ago.
See Also
- Appearances of Drax (Earth-61615)
- Character Gallery: Drax (Earth-61615)
- Quotations by Drax (Earth-61615)
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