Publisher: Marvel Comics
Created by: Jason Aaron and Juan Frigeri
1st appearance: Avengers (Vol. 8) #50, 2021
Real name: N’Jadaka, legally changed to Erik Killmonger
Alias: Erik Killmonger
Nationality: Wakanda
Team Affiliations: Masters of Evil
Legal Status: Wanted criminal in Wakanda
Weight: 225 lbs Height: 6’6
Eyes: Brown Hair: Black
Relatives: All deceased.
Skills and abilities: Killmonger holds a Ph.D. in engineering and is a world-class fighter comparable to T’challa/Black Panther and Steve Rogers/Captain America.
Powers: Thanks to the Destroyer Armor:
The Destroyer armor possesses numerous capabilities which are only active if the armor is inhabited or remotely piloted by the spirit of a sentient being. While some of the powers might vary, depending upon the spirit inhabiting the armor, they are primarily the same for any user.
Superhuman Strength: The Destroyer armor possesses vast superhuman strength of unknown limits. While inhabited by the lifeforce of a sentient being, its strength is immeasurable. Odin, the creator of the Destroyer armor, once placed all of the combined life forces of the Asgardians, with the exception of Thor, into the armor, further enhancing the armor’s strength to levels that make its normal strength which is already incredible seem insignificant.
Superhuman Speed: The Destroyer armor, despite its physical mass, can run and move at speeds far greater than that of the finest human athlete.
Superhuman Stamina: The Destroyer armor is maintained by the lifeforce of a sentient being and is not subject to physical fatigue. While inhabited, the Destroyer possesses virtually limitless superhuman stamina in all activities.
Invulnerability: The Destroyer armor is practically impervious to all forms of physical damage. The armor can withstand high caliber bullets, tremendously powerful impact forces, falls from tremendous heights, exposure to absolute extremes of both temperature and pressure, and powerful energy blasts from the likes of Thor and Odin without sustaining damage. While possessed of the lifeforce of all the Asgardians, the Destroyer was melted into slag by powerful blasts of energy from the Celestials.
Superhuman Agility: The Destroyer armor’s natural agility, balance, and bodily coordination are enhanced to levels that are far beyond the natural physical limits of the finest human athlete despite its great weight.
Superhuman Reflexes: The armor’s reflexes are similarly heightened and are far superior to those possessed by the finest human athlete.
Flight: Through self-levitation, the Destroyer armor is capable of flying through the air at tremendous speeds, the full limits of which aren’t known. However, the armor can easily attain speeds many times faster than the speed of sound, which is roughly 770 miles per hour.
Omni-Atomic Manipulation: The Destroyer armor is capable of firing extremely powerful bolts of energy, primarily for destructive purposes. It has such power that the energy it crackles within can shatter planets. The armor can project beams of intense heat, electricity, plasma, anti-matter, and magnetic force. The armor is also capable of manipulating the molecular structure of most materials and matter itself for a variety of purposes including but not limited to, transmutation. Its most devastating weapon, however, is a beam fired from the armor’s helmet, where a person’s face would be in an ordinary suit of armor, that is capable of disintegrating practically any known substance in existence. The Destroyer must keep its visor open in order to build up the energies to use in this attack. The beam is even capable of destroying material as durable as Uru.
Biography
In another place and time, Erik Killmonger bonded with the armor of the Asgardian god Odin, known as the destroyer. With this armor, he laid waste to Wakanda and Asgard itself. Driven completely mad by his new power he is the self-claimed king of the one-man nation of Wakanda [Avengers (Vol. 8) #50, 2021]. He joined Doom’s multi-dimensional Masters of Evil under the promise that he would be allowed to kill and destroy Wakanda and Wakanda in multiple worlds. While fighting 616 Thor he claims that he has chopped the God of Thunder up in his own dimension [Avengers (Vol. 8) #51, 2021].