Drax (Legion of Super Heroes)

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Drax was a Kryptonian Supervillain that featured in an episode of the cartoon series, Legion of Super Heroes.

1 Biography
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Biography

Drax was a young Kryptonian that was born within the Phantom Zone to serve as a way of freeing his creators and through which they would destroy Superman. He was freed by a young time travelling Kal-El in the future when the Phantom Zone projector was accidently activated freeing Drax along with his two super powered pets. Once freed, he left a trail of destruction before he focused on killing Superman along with the Legion of Super Heroes. However, while attempting to unleash Kryptonite on an unknowing Superman, Drax was thrown into a Phantom Zone portal thus trapping him within that realm once more.

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Overview

Drax appears as a young Kryptonian of the same age as Superman was when he was brought to the future. His costume is a deep shade of red with black mixed which was made more fearsome with the addition of spikes by the arms as well as the shoulders. Similar to Superman, he has a symbol on his chest, however, instead of an "S", Drax's costume contains the letter "Z".

Like Superman, Drax contains many Kryptonian based powers such as flight, enhanced strength, heat beams emitted from his eyes and the capacity to freeze objects with his breath. Unlike Superman, Drax possesses no weakness to Kryptonite which he is immune to when he was created thus providing him an advantage over the Man of Steel. It was stated that he was not only a Kryptonian but his DNA was identicle to that of Supermans.

His personality was much darker then Superman's as he held no compassion towards other beings which he cared little of. He was quite capable of using deception to appeal to his enemies kindness in order to gain an advantage over them. His one aim was the destruction of Superman and he possessed an air of superiority about him. He possessed a range of knowledge about Superman and his own creation stating that he hated Superman for not what he did but what he would do when he returned to his own timeline. He was bred to be a weapon of evil and was scolded by his "parents". He was in telepathic contact with his masters and sought to free them from their prison.

He possessed two large dog-like reptilian creatures that served as his pets which were left behind in the future when he was sent back to the Phantom Zone.

While it was not stated in the episode, it was heavily hinted that he was the son of General Zod. Infact, a cameo of Zod was seen in the Phantom Zone where the wraiths there attacked the Legion until they escaped. Furthermore, the mention of him possessing Superman's DNA suggests that he was infact cloned from Kal-El.

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