So is the Destoyer Armor really a huge deal for Thor fans?
What are storylines you would recommend featuring the Destroyer Armor?
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So is the Destoyer Armor really a huge deal for Thor fans?
What are storylines you would recommend featuring the Destroyer Armor?
The Packaging King
Dr. Doom is currently using the Destroyer armor in "Thor"....other than that, off the top of my head, the arc around issue #300 or so pops to mind.
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From what I remember, the Destroyer is an enchanted suit of armor forged by Odin, and when it first appeared it was hinted that the Destroyer had been created as a weapon to face some dark menace from the stars.
The Destroyer is used by Thor's arch-foe Loki on several occasions, and each time has actually come close to killing Thor. It is next salvaged by Karnilla and animated by Sif, who uses it to battle the Wrecker and Thor. At one stage Thor offers the armor to the World Devourer Galactus, in exchange for the release of Galactus' current Herald, Firelord. Galactus accepts, and the Destroyer acts as his Herald, detecting Counter-Earth for him and going on to battle the Fantastic Four until finally recaptured for reuse by Loki.
Years later the menace from the stars is revealed to be the Celestials, with the Skyfather gods (e.g., Odin; Zeus etc.) having pooled their resources a millennium before to create a weapon to stop the arrival of the so-called Fourth Host of Celestials. At the penultimate moment, Odin enters the Destroyer armor and then absorbs the life essences of all present in Asgard (with the exception of absent Thor), growing to a height of 2,000 feet (610 m).
The Destroyer then draws the Odinsword, and with the Uni-Mind confronts the Fourth Host, who dissipate the Uni-Mind and melt the Destroyer armor into slag. The armor, however, is not completely ruined and several years later Loki reforms the armor in a bid to destroy a severely weakened Thor.
Thor, however, wrests control of the armor from the host - an enthralled Frost Giant named Siggorth - through sheer force of will and goes on to defeat Loki and then the death goddess Hela, who is forced to restore Thor to his true form. The Destroyer is left in a crystal in Hela's realm, and is eventually animated by the goddess Lorelei. Lorelei battles several Asgardians and becomes trapped in the dimension of the Great Beasts.
The Destroyer is later deployed by trolls, who empower it with the spirit of the Maestro, an evil version of the Hulk. Although the Hulk fails to defeat the Destroyer in combat, he is able to enter the Destroyer and fight the Maestro for control and defeat it from within. Thor has two more encounters with the Destroyer, with the armor almost killing him on the first occasion and breaking his jaw on the second. The armor is eventually retrieved by Loki and occupied by the entity Desak, although Thor - equipped with the Odinpower - decapitates it with one throw of Mjolnir.
The armor was later under the control of the god Balder when Thor was on a quest to locate his missing brethren, the Asgardians. Doctor Doom has taken possession of the Destroyer armor and is using it to attack the Asgardians.
The Destroyer is lifeless on its own - although it can act independently for short periods until animated by the life-force of a sapient living being. Even when so animated, the Destroyer retains a rudimentary base personality that will eventually subvert the host unless a strong-willed individual is in control, such as Thor or Loki. Odin is also able to cast a spell that can force the animating persona from the armor and deactivate it. Once animated, the Destroyer possesses the strength to exceed beings such as Thor and is almost totally invulnerable. The armor also has the ability to project blasts of energy/heat/concussive force, emit a disintegration beam activated via its visor, manipulate electro-magnetism and molecules and achieve flight.
Good reference books...
^ Thor #118 - 119 (Jul. - Aug. 1965) + Thor Annual #2 (1966)
^ Thor #150 - 152 (Mar. - May 1968)
^ Thor #224 - 225 (Jul. - Aug. 1974) + 228 (Oct. 1974)
^ Fantastic Four #172 - 174 (Jul. - Sep. 1976)
^ Thor #264 - 266 (Oct. - Dec. 1977)
^ Thor #300 (Oct. 1980)
^ Reduced to pulp after killing the Midgard Serpent in Thor #380 (Jun. 1987)
^ Thor #381 - 382 (Jul. - Aug. 1987)
^ Thor #437 - 441 (Oct. - late Dec. 1991)
^ Hulk #461 (Feb. 1998)
^ Thor vol. 2, #1 - 2, 36 (Jul. - Aug. 1998 + Jun. 2001)
^ Thor vol. 2, #79 (Jul. 2004)
^ Thor vol. 3, #5 (Jan. 2008)
^ Thor vol. 1, #605 (Jan. 2010)
^ Thor #381 (Aug. 1987)
^ Thor #381 (Aug. 1987) and Thor Annual #2 (1966)
^ Thor Annual #2 (1966)
Last edited by Cosmicman; Jan 10, '10 at 6:29 PM.
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From what YOU remember, or from what you cribbed from Wikipedia?Originally Posted by Wrathdemon
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Where else would I have gotten that information?From what YOU remember, or from what you cribbed from Wikipedia?
They just made it easy for me.
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Well, you could at least credit your source for the copy/paste.
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Doom is running around Asgard as well then? Is it a Seige tie-in?
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I love the Destroyer armor, would love to see it featured in the upcoming Thor movie, if they used the original Kirby design of course (no clouds please)
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Asgard was in Oklahoma but it was recently given haven by Doom in Latveria. Loki manipulated the move (Thor is exiled from Asgard, Balder is ruler). Doom has been experimenting on the Asgardians, turning them into cyborgs that serve only Doom.
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And it's pre-Siege....
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