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- "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 a super soldier by designing an individual capable of taking on the properties of any known material.
History
Daniel Whitehall's Work
Daniel Whitehall recruited Wolfgang von Strucker to lead the project after he graduated from the HYDRA Preparatory Academy. 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.[1]
Project Reactivated
Despite Daniel Whitehall's death, the project was resurrected by Hale herself when she intended to use it to back-stab the inter-galactic alliance known as the Confederacy.[1] To that end, Hale tasked Werner von Strucker, Wolfgang's son, to compile all the information he could find in his memories about the Particle Infusion Chamber designed for the project.[2]
Ruby expected to be empowered by the project, but her instability led Hale to select Quake as a more suitable candidate.[1] As a result, Ruby rebelled against her mother and left with Strucker to find the Particle Infusion Chamber by themselves, only to find out that the equipment required to make it work had been destroyed by Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons.[3]