Strength 9d

Agility 8a

Intellect 6d

Willpower 8x

Hand Size: Edge:

4 (25) 2

Powers:

(none)

Hindrances:

(none)

Skills:

Acrobatics: part of Keen's transformation by the super-soldier serum involved a distinct enhancement of his natural nimbleness. When attempting actions to dodge attacks or reduce falling damage, Keen does so at one difficulty level lower than normal.

Boxing: Keen has grown quite good at the fine art of fisticuffs, and he can throw a furious bout of punches at a foe if necessary. You see, this skill allows Keen to divide his total action score between two unarmed melee attacks, the last of which will occur as a contingent action.

Demolitions: a skill Keen has sort of picked up through trial and error, this talent demonstrates his knowledge of destroying vehicles and structures with explosives. He knows where to plant bombs to best cause such things to explode spectacularly.

Journalism: his original call to fame, Keen began his adventurous career as an investigative journalist. When looking into some matter, Keen can pretty much uncover any knowledge of at least a semi-public nature if he passes a challenging difficulty Intellect action.

Marksmanship: though he'd never touched a gun before his adventuring career began, Keen has been forced to learn how to use them as a consequence of his mission. As such, when making attacks with any gun, he does so at one difficulty level lower than usual.

Martial Arts: his time as the Mighty Destroyer has taught him a thing or two about fighting, though he merely learned by doing. This skill allows Keen to use his Agility instead of Strength in combat, even for trumps, and reduces the difficulty of catching thrown weaponry by one difficulty level.

Calling:

Investigator: as a journalist, Keen is a prime example of this kind of person. In fact, his inquisitiveness is what got him captured by Nazis in the first place, and then transformed into the Mighty Destroyer! Even after this change, he roots out all manner of injustices done behind enemy lines...

Costume:

While in action, Keen wore a rather interesting 'union suit'. It consisted of a gray, long-sleeved shirt with a skull drawn on it, gray trunks, a blue belt, red boots and gloves, red and blue striped stretch pants, a red belt, and a full, red head-covering hood with a pale blue face mask.

Personality:

Keen Marlow is an adventurous, inquisitive soul, who'll go out of his way to uncover the truth or to learn something new. However, he's also a smarmy, smart-mouthed punk when it comes to his enemies, who he continually belittles and berates while he's pounding them into a pulp. He's funny that way.

Real Name: Keen Marlowe
Occupation: adventurer, former journalist
Legal Status: American citizen with no known criminal record
Marital Status: single
Alias(es), if any: golden age tales with him call him simply 'the Destroyer'
Group Affiliation: none

Height: 5' 10"
Hair: unknown
Eyes: unknown
Weight: 175 lbs
Other Distinguishing Characteristics: none

Story:

Keen Marlowe was originally nothing but an American journalist, one who thought that sneaking into Nazi Germany to get the real scoop on things happening there was a good idea. It wasn't, and he got himself caught by the Gestapo soon after he started his investigations. However, Keen wasn't alone in prison, as he shared a cell with one Professor Eric Schmitt.

It would appear that this scientist was one who had developed yet another German variant of the super-soldier serum, but wasn't participating with the Nazi regime, and as such found himself imprisoned for his conscience. Wishing to keep the serum from the Axis powers, Schmitt gave it to Keen, who (after injecting it into himself) changed... dramatically!

Growing in size, strength, and intelligence dramatically (as all recipients of the super-soldier serum tend to do), Keen was able to escape from his cell easily, though poor Professor Schmitt got killed in the jail break. Avenging him, Keen tore the place apart, and then decided that he had a mission - to destroy the Nazi regime from within its own borders!

To this end, Keen donned a flamboyant costume, and began to call himself the Mighty Destroyer! In this new identity, he did battle with all manner of Nazi foes, doing what he could to force the Axis thugs to pay more attention to their internal affairs than the world outside Germany. Usually he worked alone, but Keen would often ally with folks such as the French resistance and other such underground types.

In fact, on one such mission, he was given false battle plans for the strike of the so-called Second Front, and with these papers in hand, he promptly got himself caught by a Nazi patrol. Using these plans, the Nazis moved their troops to intercept the Allied forces where they were supposed to arrive, but when the Allies really landed, they hit a sparsely defended location - and the fight was on!

Using the Mighty Destroyer 1 in Other Stories:

Presumably, Keen helped out in several such missions during the second World War, but a lot of these tales have yet to be documented, or rather, have simply been forgotten by the vagaries of time. You see, in an odd twist of fate, Keen's ressurection in modern Marvel time saw him replaced by another man in the Destroyer suit, one Brian Falsworth.

The purposes for this bizarre retroactive continuity change are mysterious, to say the least. However, this alteration still leaves several possibilities for Keen Marlowe. Since he has been completely cleansed from modern Marvel time to date (save for a vague mention on an apparently erroneous F.B.I. file on the Destroyer), Keen could simply appear as a modern-day Destroyer!