- "Imagine a man with the density of lead, with the volatility of caesium. The possibilities are endless."
- ―Daniel Whitehall[src]
Project Destroyer of Worlds was a HYDRA project with which Daniel Whitehall intended to recreate the super soldier by making the most powerful man on Earth. Whitehall recruited Wolfgang von Strucker to lead the project. Another HYDRA member, Hale, was selected to be artificially inseminated and gave birth to Ruby, who was expected to become the future Destroyer of Worlds.
Strucker used Carl Creel as a test subject, giving the latter the ability to absorb the properties of any material he came in contact with. However, Whitehall's death at the hands of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s director Phil Coulson led to the early end of the project.
Nevertheless, the project was resurrected by Hale herself when she intended to use it to back-stab the inter-galactic alliance known as the Confederacy. Ruby expected to be empowered by the project, but her instability led Hale to select Quake as a more suitable candidate.