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The Destroyer is a fictional object that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics, usually as an opponent to Thor. It is a suit of Asgardian armor, animated by magic, which first appears in ''Journey into Mystery'' #118 (Jul. 1965) and was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Debuting in the Silver Age of Comic Books, the Destroyer is featured in over four decades of Marvel continuity and other Marvel-endorsed products such as , live-action films, video games, and merchandise such as action figures and trading cards. Due to trademark issues, at least one toy version of this character is marketed as Marvel's Destroyer.〔(Hasbro.com - Inferno Marvel's Destroyer )〕 ==Fictional history== 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. It is first seen residing in the Temple of Darkness in Asia. The Destroyer is used by Thor's arch-foe Loki on several occasions, and each time has actually come close to killing Thor. First, it was used by a hunter whom Loki had lured to the temple using his mental powers. At one point Thor was imprisoned in the ground, but Loki saved him by making him intangible briefly before the Destroyer could strike him with an elemental transmutation beam. Thor forced the hunter's consciousness to leave the armor by using the hunter's body as a shield before the Destroyer could fire at Thor, then burying the Destroyer under thousands of tons of rock when the hunter tried to return to it.〔''Journey into Mystery'' #118-119 (Jul. - Aug. 1965)〕〔''Thor'' Annual #2 (Sept. 1966)〕 It is next salvaged by Karnilla and animated by Sif, who attempted to use it to battle the Wrecker when Thor was temporarily deprived of his godhood and all his powers but his strength by Odin as a lesson, only for the Destroyer to proceed to attack Thor before Sif broke her connection with it.〔''Thor'' #150-152 (Mar. - May 1968)〕 At one stage Thor offers the armor to the World Devourer Galactus, in exchange for the release of Galactus's current Herald, Firelord.〔''Thor'' #224-225 (June - July 1974)〕〔''Thor'' #228 (Oct. 1974)〕 Galactus accepts, and the Destroyer acts as his Herald, detecting Counter-Earth for him and going on to battle the Fantastic Four〔''Fantastic Four'' #172-174 (Jul. - Sept. 1976)〕 until finally recaptured for reuse by Loki.〔''Thor'' #264-266 (Oct. - Dec. 1977)〕 Years later the menace from the stars is revealed to be the Celestials, with the Skyfather gods (Odin, Zeus, etc.) having pooled their resources a millennium before to create the Destroyer as 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 . The Destroyer then draws the Odinsword, and together with the Uni-Mind confronts the Fourth Host, who dissipate the Uni-Mind and melt the Destroyer armor into slag, scattering the life-forces of the Asgardians.〔''Thor'' #300 (Oct. 1980)〕 The Asgardians were later revived by Thor gathering power from the other Skyfathers.〔''Thor'' #301 (Nov. 1980)〕 The armor, however, is not completely ruined and several years later Loki reforms the armor in a bid to destroy a severely weakened Thor, who has been reduced to pulp after killing the Midgard Serpent due to a curse by Hela which made his bones brittle and made him incapable of healing or dying.〔''Thor'' #380 (Jun. 1987)〕 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. The Destroyer - depicted as ''thinking'' and ''speaking'' for the very first time - tries to take control of him but fails. Then the death goddess Hela is defeated by the Destroyer - attired in Thor's raiment and wielding his hammer - attacking her realm, forcing her to restore Thor to his true form and undo the curse that left him in such a dire condition.〔''Thor'' #381 (Jul. 1987)〕〔''Thor'' #382 (Aug. 1987)〕 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.〔''Thor'' #437-441 (Oct. - Dec. 1991)〕 The Destroyer is later deployed by trolls, who empower it with the spirit of the Maestro, an evil future version of the Hulk. Although the Hulk fails to defeat the Destroyer in combat, he is able to enter the Destroyer because he and the Maestro are the same spirit, allowing him to fight the Maestro for control and defeat it from within.〔''Incredible Hulk'' #461 (Feb. 1998)〕 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.〔''Thor'' vol. 2, #1-2 (Jul. - Aug. 1998)〕〔''Thor'' vol. 2, #36 (June 2001)〕 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.〔''Thor'' vol. 2, #79 (Jul. 2004)〕 The armor was later under the control of the god Balder when Thor was on a quest to locate his missing brethren, the Asgardians.〔''Thor'' vol. 3, #5 (Jan. 2008)〕 Doctor Doom takes possession of the Destroyer armor and uses a copy of the Destroyer armor to attack the Asgardians.〔''Thor'' #605 (Jan. 2010)〕 After Thor loses the ability to wield Mjolnir,〔''Original Sin'' #7〕 and the hammer is claimed by an unknown woman,〔''Thor'' vol. 4 #1〕 Odin, working with the restored Serpent, decides to dispatch the Destroyer to make her rescind Mjolnir, despite even Thor accepting his replacement as a worthy heir.〔''Thor'' vol. 4 #5〕 With Cul animating the Destroyer, Odin unleashes it on the new Thor,〔''Thor'' vol. 4 #6〕 but although she is unable to hold her own, she receives aid from Odinson, Frigga, and the various women that Odinson had identified as possible candidates for his successor's true identity,〔''Thor'' vol. 4 #8〕 Frigga forcing Odin to stand down as she confronts him with the knowledge that he has essentially become the villain with his unprovoked attack on the heroes.〔''Thor'' vol. 4 #9〕 Following the alternate worlds collapsing into Battleworld, the Maestro seeks the Destroyer armor so that he can use it against Doom, only to find that it is guarded by the 'Ancient One', an elderly version of Rick Jones.〔''Secret Wars: Future Imperfect'' 4〕 Although assigned as the Destroyer's Guardian, Rick allows the Maestro to take the Destroyer, but it is soon revealed that it has been enchanted so that anyone who attempts to take it will enter an illusionary world where they succeed, Rick stating that the Maestro will simply remain in front of the Destroyer until he dies.〔''Secret Wars: Future Imperfect'' 5〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Destroyer (Thor)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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