| Device or Vehicle | ![]() ![]() |
| Destroyer IV | |
| Nick Name | |
| The Indestructible Destroyer | |
| Creator or Inventor | |
| Odin | |
| Owner or Possessor | |
| Function or Uses | |
| Armored weapon programmed for destruction. | |
| Size | |
| 6'
6" Note: The Destroyer armor has been measured up to heights of 2000' when animated by the life-force of numerous Asgardian gods. |
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| Weight | |
| 850 lbs. | |
| Special Properties | |
| The Destroyer
armor is composed of an unknown element native to
Asgard
and enchanted by the king of the
Asgardians,
Odin, the king of the Olympians, Zeus, and a fraction of power from the
leaders of other pantheons of gods. The Destroyer is indestructible by all known terrestrial means and is animated by the spirit of sentient beings. The body of the animator or animators lay in a state of comma while their life-force is within the Destroyer. The Destroyer can only be used as a weapon, and when the life-force of a being attempts to use it for anything but, its primary programming overrides their wishes and they become trapped within the armor. The Destroyer is pre-programmed for battle, possesses the ability of flight via levitation, is immeasurably strong, can project blast of powerful disintegration beams, magnetic energy and super-heated flame; as well as rearrange matter at a molecular level. |
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| Regularly Appearing | |
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Journey into Mystery Vol. 1 Mighty Thor Vol. 1 & 2 |
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| First Appearance | |
| Journey into Mystery Vol. 1 #118 (July, 1965) | |
| Creator | |
| Stan Lee & Jack Kirby | |
| Origin | |
| The
Destroyer
was created by Odin over a thousand years ago, after the Third Host of
Celestials
visited Earth. The Celestials had genetically modified early humans, to create a future superhuman race, and were monitoring their progress. Fearing that the astrogods would judge their experiments a failure and eliminate mankind, the Destroyer was created to battle the Celestials and preserve humanity, whose collective faith the gods were dependent upon for their own existence. |
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