How many Destroyers are there?[]
Are Marlow and Falsworth the same person or not? The two pages (as well as Aubrey's) contradict each other. We need to fix them to whatever the real story is. Thanos6 10:58, June 15, 2011 (UTC)
- No, they are not. Keen and Brian were imprisoned together and both took a version of the Super-Soldier Serum and escaped, both becoming the Destroyer and operating in Europe behind enemy lines from 1939 to 1941. Angel (Halloway) claimed in The Marvels Project that Brian went to Europe as a spy using the Marlow name as an alias, was caught, and became the Destroyer after Steve Rogers became Captain America, but it seems Angel was either deliberately lying or else working from inaccurate second-hand accounts, as we have the first hand accounts of four people (Brian, his father, his sister, and his friend/lover Roger Aubrey), each given separately and without the opportunity to collude and jointly fabricate a story to people they had absolutely no reason to mislead, that Brian and Roger went to Germany under their own names prior to war breaking out because they were in favour of appeasement, and that Brian became the Destroyer within a few days of Britain declaring war on Germany. Brian stopped being the Destroyer early in 1942, when Roger took over from him. Roger continued to work behind enemy lines for the rest of the war. Since some of the Golden Age Destroyer stories saw the Destroyer having returned to the US, and neither Roger not Brian are known to have operated as the Destroyer outside of occupied Europe, that American-based Destroyer was presumably Marlow. The MAX Destroyer miniseries was not intended to be set in 616, though there's nothing that absolutely rules it out from fitting in there, bar the lack of recognisable 616 characters and agencies. Ignoring others who used the Destroyer name but not this specific version of it (e.g. the Asgardian animated armor), there have been three Destroyers in 616: Keen, Brian and Roger. If the MAX series ever gets brought into 616 (it wouldn't be the first series not intended to be 616 that became 616), then we can add a fourth, as Marlow's former sidekick, Turret, took the identity at the end of the miniseries. Lokiofmidgaard 12:37, July 9, 2011 (UTC)