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* YouCanSeeMe: In ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar,'' he is convinced that he learned how to turn invisible. A shame the fellow Guardians don't share his conviction.
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* BackToBackBadasses: In ''Infinity War'', he and Doctor Strange team up to duel Thanos hand-to-hand during the fight on Titan. It’s a testament to the Mad Titan’s raw strength, even when blinded by Spider-Man’s webbing, that he is still more than a match for both of them.
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* TheBigGuy: Along with Groot in the first film, Drax does more of the straight-up fighting. [[spoiler:Doesn't help him against Ronan, though, who beat the hell out of him.]] He's become the only one to fit this role in ''Vol. 2'', as Groot is regrowing as a baby now.
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* TheBigGuy: Along with Groot in the first film, Drax does more of the straight-up fighting. [[spoiler:Doesn't help him against Ronan, though, who beat the hell out of him.]] He's become the only one to fit this role in ''Vol. 2'', as Groot is regrowing as a baby now. During the fight on Titan in ''Infinity War'', Drax is noticeably the only major combatant fighting without any technology or powers, and only uses his brute strength and swords. His main role in the fight is having the responsibility of holding down Thanos by one leg to get him to kneel, and he’s more than capable of the task.
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* MadeOfIron: He took an blast of engine exhaust to the chest without injury, and managed to survive being [[spoiler:rammed with the ''Milano'' (Rocket was trying to hit Ronan, who was choke-throttling Drax at the time)]], although the latter left him unconscious for a brief time, and he was clearly sore and limping afterwards.
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* MadeOfIron: MadeOfIron:
** He took an blast of engine exhaust to the chest without injury, and managed to survive being [[spoiler:rammed with the ''Milano'' (Rocket was trying to hit Ronan, who was choke-throttling Drax at the time)]], although the latter left him unconscious for a brief time, and he was clearly sore and limping afterwards.
** He took an blast of engine exhaust to the chest without injury, and managed to survive being [[spoiler:rammed with the ''Milano'' (Rocket was trying to hit Ronan, who was choke-throttling Drax at the time)]], although the latter left him unconscious for a brief time, and he was clearly sore and limping afterwards.
** Briefly PlayedForLaughs in ''Infinity War'', when he’s got Iron Man’s cannon to his face. Iron Man threatens to open fire on Drax point-blank if Quill shoots Spider-Man, and Drax is unfazed and insists Quill attack, as he claims he can take it. Both Mantis and Strange immediately call him on it, though. Later during the battle on Titan, he takes quite a bit of repeated punishment from Thanos and it’s only a direct blast from the Power Stone that takes him out of the fight.
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* NotSoStoic: He has a few moments of dropping his stoicism [[ComedicSociopathy to point and laugh at Peter]] in ''[[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2 Vol. 2]]'', including a moment where [[TheFreelanceShameSquad Mantis and Drax start pointing and laughing at Peter]] after she mentions that [[MySensorsIndicateYouWantToTapThat she can sense Peter's romantic feelings]] for Gamora, to Gamora's bemusement.
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* NotSoStoic: He has a few moments of dropping his stoicism [[ComedicSociopathy to point and laugh at Peter]] in ''[[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2 Vol. 2]]'', including a moment where [[TheFreelanceShameSquad Mantis and Drax start pointing and laughing at Peter]] after she mentions that [[MySensorsIndicateYouWantToTapThat she can sense Peter's romantic feelings]] for Gamora, to Gamora's bemusement. PlayedForDrama in ''Infinity War'', when despite his BoisterousBruiser nature, he very much takes the threat of Thanos seriously. He’s nearly in anguished tears when he curses Thanos as a monster, and later, when [[spoiler:he’s being disintegrated, he can only briefly question Quill in complete and utter fear as he dies.]]
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-->'''Drax:''' I thought Yondu was your father. You look exactly alike.\\
'''Rocket:''' ''(staring at him in horror)'' ONE'S ''BLUE''!\\
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'''Rocket:''' ''(staring at him in horror)'' ONE'S ''BLUE''!\\
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'''Rocket:''' ''(staring at him in horror)'' ONE'S ''BLUE''!\\
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-->'''Drax:''' I thought Yondu was your father. You look exactly alike.\\
'''Rocket:''' ''(staring at him in horror)'' ONE'S ''BLUE''!\\
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* BringIt: When the Avengers and Guardians' fight in ''Infinity War'' ends with a MexicanStandoff, Star-Lord has a gun to Spider-Man's head while Iron Man has a cannon to Drax's. Drax's response to the situation:
-->'''Drax:''' Do it, Quill! ''I can take it.''\\
'''Mantis:''' No, he can't take it!\\
'''Dr. Strange:''' ''(deadpan)'' She's right, you can't.
-->'''Drax:''' Do it, Quill! ''I can take it.''\\
'''Mantis:''' No, he can't take it!\\
'''Dr. Strange:''' ''(deadpan)'' She's right, you can't.
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-->'''Joe Russo''': [Drax's] planet was treated the same way as Gamora's planet. Drax was put on one side, his family was put on the other.
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A man who has been on a rampage ever since his family was killed by Ronan.Ronan under Thanos's orders, along with half the population of his home planet. Drax seeks vengeance against the Kree Accuser, and joins the team when they convince him to not make them his latest victims in exchange for them luring Ronan nearby for Drax to kill.
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* ArchEnemy: To Ronan the Accuser. Drax holds a bitter hatred towards Ronan for killing his family and has been hunting him for the majority of the first film. Ronan [[UnknownRival doesn't seem to care]] and fails to remember Drax's family, though he later mentions he does. [[spoiler:Drax gets his revenge by the end of the film. However, he transfers his grudge to Ronan's superior Thanos (mirroring their relationship in the comics)]].
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* ArchEnemy: ArchEnemy:
** To Ronan the Accuser. Drax holds a bitter hatred towards Ronan for killing his family and has been hunting him for the majority of the first film. Ronan [[UnknownRival doesn't seem to care]] and fails to remember Drax's family, though he later mentions he does. [[spoiler:Drax gets his revenge by the end of the film. However, he transfers his grudge to ]]
** To Ronan's superior Thanos who is ultimately responsible for the massacre on his home world (mirroring their relationship in thecomics)]].comics). According to commentary to ''Infinity War'':
-->'''Joe Russo''': [Drax's] planet was treated the same way as Gamora's planet. Drax was put on one side, his family was put on the other.
** To Ronan the Accuser. Drax holds a bitter hatred towards Ronan for killing his family and has been hunting him for the majority of the first film. Ronan [[UnknownRival doesn't seem to care]] and fails to remember Drax's family, though he later mentions he does. [[spoiler:Drax gets his revenge by the end of the film.
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-->'''Joe Russo''': [Drax's] planet was treated the same way as Gamora's planet. Drax was put on one side, his family was put on the other.
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* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Drax admits to Rocket that his thoughtless actions on Knowhere in which he sends Ronan to the planet, getting the Infinity Stone and getting everyone else killed and hurt along the process, was just to cover the loss of his family to the hands of Ronan. However, Rocket calls him out on the fact that even though he understands what he is going through, his endangerment of everyone else's lives was still inexcusable of itself, especially since everyone has had deceased family members at certain points in their lives.
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* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: A rare protagonist example, but Drax admits to Rocket that his thoughtless actions on Knowhere in which he sends Ronan to the planet, getting the Infinity Stone and getting everyone else killed and hurt along the process, was just to cover the loss of his family to the hands of Ronan. However, Rocket [[WhatTheHellHero calls him out out]] on the fact that that, even though he understands what he is going through, his endangerment of everyone else's lives was still inexcusable of itself, especially since everyone has had deceased family members at certain points in their lives.
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* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Drax admits to Rocket that his thoughtless actions on Knowhere in which he sends Ronan to the planet, getting the Infinity Stone and getting everyone else killed and hurt along the process, was just to cover the loss of his family to the hands of Ronan. However, Rocket calls him out on the fact that even though he understands what he is going through, his endangerment of everyone else's lives was still inexcusable of itself, especially since everyone has had deceased family members at certain points in their lives.
-->'''Rocket:''' [[JerkassHasAPoint EVERYBODY'S got dead people! It's no excuse to get everybody else dead along the way!]]
-->'''Rocket:''' [[JerkassHasAPoint EVERYBODY'S got dead people! It's no excuse to get everybody else dead along the way!]]
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* HypocriticalHeartwarming: When Nebula calls Gamora weak, stupid, and traitorous, Drax shoots her with a bazooka, claiming no one talks to his friends that way...even though just seconds ago, he referred to Gamora as a "green whore."
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** In his continuing [[LiteralMinded attempts to understand "metaphor"]] in ''Vol. 2'', Drax at one point screams "DIE, SPACESHIP!" while the ''Milano'' is being pursued by the Sovereign, despite the spaceship itself being an inanimate object that can in no way hear him.
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** In his continuing [[LiteralMinded attempts to understand "metaphor"]] in ''Vol. 2'', Drax at one point screams "DIE, SPACESHIP!" ("Screw you, spaceship!" in the first trailer) while the ''Milano'' is being pursued by the Sovereign, despite the spaceship itself being an inanimate object that can in no way hear him.
-->'''Drax:''' It was ''beautiful.'' You Earthers have hangups!
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* TheStoic: Drax is pretty [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} out there]] for this trope, but he's usually very serious. [[BloodKnight Unless violence ensues]] or [[ArchEnemy Ronan is involved]].
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** Interestingly, Drax appears to be the only Guardian with zero hangups regarding his own father. Every winter solstice, Mr. Destroyer would regale the tale of his and Mrs. Destroyer's [[{{Squick}} "conception"]] of their son, [[CrowningMomentOFHeartwarming which Drax found beautiful.]]
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** Interestingly, Drax appears to be the only Guardian with zero hangups regarding his own father. Every winter solstice, Mr. Destroyer would regale the tale of his and Mrs. Destroyer's [[{{Squick}} "conception"]] Destroyer's "conception" of their son, [[CrowningMomentOFHeartwarming [[SexIsGood which Drax found beautiful.]]
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* AdaptationalComicRelief: While starting at as TheComicallySerious his [[AmusingAlien goofier]] [[WackyGuy traits]] where played up more and more as the films went on.
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* NotSoDifferent: From [[ArchEnemy Ronan]], oddly enough -- both are driven by revenge for the deaths of loved ones. Drax doesn't take it to quite the genocidal extremes that Ronan does, though.
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!!''Drax the Destroyer''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''[[LiteralMinded "Nothing goes over my head! My reflexes are too fast. I would catch it."]]'']]
!!! '''Species:''' Unknown
!!! '''Portrayed by:''' [[Wrestling/{{Batista}} Dave Bautista]]
!!! '''Voiced by:''' Dan Osorio (Latin-American Spanish dub), Pedro Tena (European Spanish dub), Naomi Kusumi (Japanese dub), Serge Biavan (French dub), Blaise Tardif (Canadian French dub)
!!! '''Appearances:''' ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' | ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'' | ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' | ''[[Film/Avengers4 Untitled Avengers Sequel]]'' | ''Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3''
->''"Drax: AKA the Destroyer. Since his wife and family were killed, he's been on a rampage across the galaxy in a search for vengeance."''
-->-- '''Rhomann Dey'''
A man who has been on a rampage ever since his family was killed by Ronan. Drax seeks vengeance against the Kree Accuser, and joins the team when they convince him to not make them his latest victims in exchange for them luring Ronan nearby for Drax to kill.
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* ActionDad: One who is very hell-bent on {{Revenge}} for the death of his daughter (and wife).
* ActuallyPrettyFunny: In ''Vol. 2'', when Rocket threatens to conceal one of Drax's turds in Peter's pillow as part of an argument, Drax bursts out laughing, gleefully claiming his droppings are "famously huge".
* AdaptationalIntelligence: Zigzagged. Drax is closest to being the DumbMuscle of the team, being a socially inept, LiteralMinded BoisterousBruiser. However, he's not depicted in the same child-like, dull-witted simpleton manner as his comic book counterpart became after his resurrection in the ''Warlock and The Infinity Watch'' comics of the early 1990s.
* AdaptationDistillation: Drax's backstory from the comics has been greatly simplified for the films; in the comics, Drax was a normal man from Earth whose family was murdered by Thanos (except for his daughter, who survived the attack and became Moondragon), and was turned into a living weapon against the Mad Titan by Thanos's father, Mentor. In the film, he's just an alien warrior out for revenge against [[TheHeavy Ronan]] for the deaths of his family. By the end of the film [[spoiler:he shifts his vendetta to the Mad Titan, since Ronan was under Thanos' orders when his family was killed]].
* AdaptationDyeJob: A rare skin related one that has nothing to do with race. He's green in the comics but grey in the movies, most likely done so audiences don't confuse him with Gamora's species.
* AdaptationNameChange:
** In keeping with the aforementioned change to being an alien, Drax really is his name here, whereas in the comics, his real name was Arthur Douglas.
** His wife and daughter's names (Yvette and Heather) are also changed, to Ovette and Camaria, respectively. ([[SpellMyNameWithAnS Some sources write their names as Hovat and Kamaria]].)
* AdaptationSpeciesChange: As noted above, in the comics, Drax was originally a human named Arthur Douglas that was modified into a living weapon; here, he's an alien and Drax really is his name.
* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Drax shows why a revenge-bent BloodKnight should never get as drunk as he did on Knowhere. [[spoiler:He contacts Ronan and tells him that they have the orb there in order to get his revenge personally.]]
* AmbiguouslyBi: His fondness for his wife is obvious, but he also seems attracted to Thor, clearly in awe of him and calling him a "handsome, muscular man". Notably, when Gamora showed the exact same reaction, Quill got jealous. Then again, it ''is'' [[EvenTheGuysWantHim Thor]].
* ArchEnemy: To Ronan the Accuser. Drax holds a bitter hatred towards Ronan for killing his family and has been hunting him for the majority of the first film. Ronan [[UnknownRival doesn't seem to care]] and fails to remember Drax's family, though he later mentions he does. [[spoiler:Drax gets his revenge by the end of the film. However, he transfers his grudge to Ronan's superior Thanos (mirroring their relationship in the comics)]].
* BadLiar: When he [[SayingTooMuch accidentally lets slip]] that Rocket stole the Sovereign's batteries, we find out that he's just as bad at lying as metaphors.
-->'''Drax:''' Right... he didn't steal some of those. I don't know why they're after us, what a mystery this is.
* BadassBaritone: Bautista plays Drax with a low, guttural voice.
* BaldOfAwesome: He's bald, and he's a warrior who cuts through mooks like nobody's business.
* TheBigGuy: Along with Groot in the first film, Drax does more of the straight-up fighting. [[spoiler:Doesn't help him against Ronan, though, who beat the hell out of him.]] He's become the only one to fit this role in ''Vol. 2'', as Groot is regrowing as a baby now.
* BloodKnight: He revels in fighting and picks fights with very little provocation. When Peter's ship's guns rip through dozens of mooks, he's laughing like mad and making everyone else visibly disturbed. Prime example is him jumping into the jaws of a StarfishAlien with nothing but two knives while laughing.
* BluntMetaphorsTrauma: He's ''incredibly'' literal, which is explained as being [[PlanetOfHats a species-based failing]]. By the climax of the film, he's beginning to gain some grasp of the concept of figurative speech, but it's a slow process. In the second film, he seems to have made a fair bit of progress.
-->'''Rocket:''' His people are entirely literal. Metaphors are gonna go over his head.\\
'''Drax:''' Nothing goes over my head! My reflexes are too fast. I would catch it.
* BoisterousBruiser: Enjoys nothing more than a good fight alongside his comrades, when not angsting over the loss of his family. Even more so in ''Vol. 2'', where he's dropped some of the brooding in favor of breaking out into hearty laughter, and almost borders of PsychopathicManChild with how much earnest glee he takes in fighting and destruction.
* BrutalHonesty: Due to being LiteralMinded, he has no sense of how to talk about negative aspects of his friends without at some point sounding horrible. This is part of his banter with Mantis in particular. Although some of it was not all that honest, because Drax knew being blunt would generate a bigger response. He also has some brutal honest advice for Peter:
-->'''Drax:''' You just need to find a woman who is pathetic. Like you.
* CallingMeALogarithm: Along with the finger on throat gesture, he doesn't know what a thesaurus is, and is offended when Peter calls him one.
-->'''Drax:''' Do not ''ever'' call me a thesaurus.
* ChubbyChaser: Drax states in ''Volume 2'' he likes a woman with "meat on her bones" -- though given Drax's build, he may be an AmazonChaser and using "meat" to refer to muscles.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Aside from his rage, he comes across as just plain ''odd'', including his BluntMetaphorsTrauma and InnocentlyInsensitive nature. Its hinted in ''Vol. 2'' that Drax is a bit of a weirdo even among his own species.
-->'''Peter:''' We've already established that you destroying the ship I'm on is not saving me!\\
'''Drax:''' When did we establish that?\\
'''Peter:''' Like three seconds ago?\\
'''Drax:''' I wasn't listening. I was thinking of something else...
* ComedicSociopathy: Likes annoying Peter about his romance woes in ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'', like the moment Drax says Peter can't get with someone like Gamora, and to aim for "someone pathetic, like (him)".
* TheComicallySerious: The only reason half of his shtick works is because of how incredibly serious and earnest Dave Bautista plays him as being. Even in ''Vol. 2'', where he's more of an overt goofball, he still takes the same attitude of acting utterly convinced of the inherent sensibility of even the stupidest thing he does.
* CrusadingWidower: Out to get Ronan for killing his family. After his death, Drax transfers his revenge motivation to the Kree's master, Thanos.
* CuttingTheKnot: When Peter and Rocket are badly arguing over flying through an asteroid field despite a pursuer on their tail, Drax elects to ignore them, slap on a spacesuit and cable, and go outside the ship with a huge gun to just take out the threat himself.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: His wife and daughter were killed by Ronan.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Admittedly, he was drunk at the time, but did Drax really think that [[spoiler:he could take down Ronan and his ''entire army'' by himself?]]
* DitzyGenius: Thanks to being a Comically Serious Cloudcuckoolander, Drax comes off as this despite his extensive vocabulary.
* DanceOfRomance: Inverted. It was the fact that his wife ''never'' danced (and that they were the only two not dancing at the festival they met in) that made him fall in love with his deceased wife.
* TheDreaded: The other prisoners of the Kyln are scared witless by Drax.
* DualWielding: Wields two rather large daggers.
* EatTheDog: Drax has eaten a raccoon before (or at least an animal that looked like one) and based on how much he enjoyed it, he probably wouldn't mind doing it again with Rocket. [[RuleOfFunny Drax chooses to mention this midway though Rocket's]] WireDilemma [[RuleOfFunny with the prison computer.]]
-->'''Drax:''' I recognize this creature! We would roast them over a flame pit as children. Their flesh was quite delicious!\\
'''Rocket:''' NOT HELPING!
* EnmityWithAnObject:
** In his continuing [[LiteralMinded attempts to understand "metaphor"]] in ''Vol. 2'', Drax at one point screams "DIE, SPACESHIP!" while the ''Milano'' is being pursued by the Sovereign, despite the spaceship itself being an inanimate object that can in no way hear him.
** Continues in ''Infinity War''. When the Guardians fight Iron Man, Doctor Strange, and Spider-Man on Titan, Drax ends up fighting the Cloak of Levitation, even screaming "DIE, BLANKET OF DEATH!" at one point. Although unlike the spaceship example above, the Cloak of Levitation ''is'' alive.
* GentleGiant: He might want to seek revenge for his wife and daughter but to his teammates and everyone, he's kind and literally gentle even though he can unintentionally be rude to them. Exemplified through two instances in ''Vol. 2'', where he tells Mantis that being ugly doesn't mean you are horrible and that anyone will love you for who you are, and as he tenderly holds a tired Baby Groot.
* GoodParents:
** Drax loved and continues to love his deceased wife and daughter. So much that when Mantis uses her [[TheEmpath Empathy Touch]] on him when he's thinking of his family, she immediately starts crying. His paternal love is so strong it makes Mantis realize that Ego [[spoiler: has ''none''.]]
** Interestingly, Drax appears to be the only Guardian with zero hangups regarding his own father. Every winter solstice, Mr. Destroyer would regale the tale of his and Mrs. Destroyer's [[{{Squick}} "conception"]] of their son, [[CrowningMomentOFHeartwarming which Drax found beautiful.]]
* HasAType: Drax is a ChubbyChaser. He also likes ''very'' [[TheStoic stoic women]], if his description of what initially attracted him to his wife is any indication.
* HeartbrokenBadass: He lost his wife and daughter to Ronan years ago and now he wants the guy's head on a spike.
* TheHyena: He becomes this in ''Vol. 2,'' laughing hysterically at almost anything that is even mildly amusing.
* HypocriticalHumor: When he thinks Mantis is coming onto him in ''Vol. 2'' [[spoiler:she's actually trying to warn him about Ego]], he describes in extreme detail how utterly ''repulsive'' he finds her appearance and how physically ill the mere ''thought'' of them mating makes him. When she finally cuts him off by telling him she doesn't find him attractive either, he looks ''offended'' and complains that there's no need to get personal.
* IceCreamKoan: Drax attempts to explain to Peter why Gamora doesn't want to date him because there are "those who dance. And those who do not." He unfortunately means this entirely literally, as Peter dances, and Gamora does not.
* IcyBlueEyes: [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/guardians_galaxy_2_drax_4k_clip_5.jpg Fitting his big-and-scary appearance]].
* InformedFlaw: Despite Rocket describing his species as [[BluntMetaphorsTrauma "completely literal"]], after a bit of CharacterDevelopment he starts trying to do things like dimiss Ronan's Sakaaran soldiers as "paper people" and calling Ronan a "puppet" by the end of the film.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: He doesn't realize that he's insulting his friends when telling them that they are his friends such as Groot the "dumb tree" and Gamora the "green whore".
** PlayedForLaughs in ''Vol. 2'', when he tells Mantis that he finds her hideous. That may seem like a typical case of BrutalHonesty from him, but when he thinks she's coming onto him later he tells her quite earnestly that he was trying to let her down ''gently'' by telling her he found her repulsive.
* KnifeNut: He even takes a knife from another prisoner on the Kyln after deciding that he likes it.
* LargeHam: Occasionally, but especially when he's drunk, angry, or faced with Ronan.
-->'''Drax:''' RONAN THE ACCUSER! You killed my wife! You killed my ''daughter''!
* LeeroyJenkins: There's a reason why everyone thinks he's a maniac; drunk-dialing your arch-enemy with your location is stupid. Ditto jumping into a monster's mouth to try killing it from the inside.
* LightningBruiser: He's big, fast and strong. [[spoiler:Doesn't help him against [[TheJuggernaut Ronan]]]].
* LiteralMinded: According to Rocket, his entire species [[PlanetOfHats wears the hat]] of having no understanding of metaphor or simile. Drax tries to grow out of this after becoming friends with the other Guardians, using phrases like "I think of Sakaarans as paper people", "Finger on the throat means death", and "Ronan was only a puppet". Not that his attempts always work out.
-->'''Drax:''' [[EnmityWithAnObject DIE, SPACESHIP!]]
* LoveAtFirstSight: With his late wife. He saw her not dancing at a festival where everyone else was dancing and was smitten.
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* MadeOfIron: He took an blast of engine exhaust to the chest without injury, and managed to survive being [[spoiler:rammed with the ''Milano'' (Rocket was trying to hit Ronan, who was choke-throttling Drax at the time)]], although the latter left him unconscious for a brief time, and he was clearly sore and limping afterwards.
** In the sequel he is dangled out the back of the ''Milano'' on a cable during a crash landing through a forest, smashing into trees. He seems to have enjoyed the ride once we see him on the ground.
* {{Metaphorgotten}}: He begins attempting to engage in metaphorical language in the back half of the first film and ''Vol. 2'', but unfortunately doesn't quite have a grasp of it yet.
-->'''Drax:''' Finger on the throat means death. (crushes a man's skull)... METAPHOR.
* MomentKiller: He has a talent for this. Mantis declaring that Peter loves Gamora in ''Vol. 2'' could have been a touching moment had Drax not suddenly ''roared'' with laughter and even invited Mantis to read his feelings so she could laugh alongside him. Then in ''Infinity War'' we pull away from a passionate kiss between Peter and Gamora...to discover Drax awkwardly standing nearby eating what looks like alien potato sticks.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: To his credit, he quickly realizes his [[spoiler:contacting Ronan on Knowhere]] is a case of NiceJobBreakingItHero, and is filled with remorse over it.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Being called "Drax the Destroyer" discourages people from screwing with him.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
** He alerts [[spoiler:Ronan that the Orb is on Knowhere]] just so that he can have a shot at killing him. To say that this ends badly is a ''massive'' understatement. In his defense, he was quite drunk at the time.
** Subverted in ''Infinity War'' when he nearly ruins the Guardians' plan to sneak into Thanos on Knowhere, letting his hatred of him for his wife and daughter's deaths get into him. The subversion comes when Mantis is able to knock him out before he can charge and [[spoiler:its revealed that Thanos already knew they were there all along]].
* NoBodyLeftBehind: [[spoiler:Is disintegrated along with half the universe after Thanos completes the Infinity Gauntlet.]]
* NoodleIncident: We never find out exactly why Drax was incarcerated on the Kyln. Knowing him, it was likely to have been quite violent.
* NoSocialSkills: Some trappings of this due to his race's LiteralMinded tendencies, which often make him seem exceedingly tactless.
* NotSoDifferent: From [[ArchEnemy Ronan]], oddly enough -- both are driven by revenge for the deaths of loved ones. Drax doesn't take it to quite the genocidal extremes that Ronan does, though.
* NotSoStoic: He has a few moments of dropping his stoicism [[ComedicSociopathy to point and laugh at Peter]] in ''[[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2 Vol. 2]]'', including a moment where [[TheFreelanceShameSquad Mantis and Drax start pointing and laughing at Peter]] after she mentions that [[MySensorsIndicateYouWantToTapThat she can sense Peter's romantic feelings]] for Gamora, to Gamora's bemusement.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Inverted -- he's only with the Guardians ([[CharacterDevelopment initially]]) as a means to get revenge on Ronan. When Peter offers him a share of the money they plan to get from selling the artifact, he's actually offended, and goes out of his way to say that he doesn't care for it.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: He has a dead daughter. She, along with his dead wife, is the reason why Drax is out for Ronan's blood.
* ParentalSexualitySquick: He comes from a culture that finds parents telling their children about their conception to be a wonderful bonding experience. He finds Peter's disgust towards this to be bewildering.
* PlatonicLifePartners: Develops this relationship with Mantis in ''Vol. 2''. He makes it quite clear that, physically, he thinks she's hideous-looking to the point that imagining the two of them mating is enough to make him retch. However, he still values her as a friend and despite both of them being socially awkward, they get along pretty well.
* PreMortemOneLiner: Gets a rather... odd one as he kills [[spoiler:Korath.]]
-->'''Drax:''' [[ItMakesSenseInContext Finger on the throat means death!]]
* PsychopathicManChild: Occasionally. He often laughs mirthfully when he gets into fights, like a kid in a candy store.
* PutTheLaughterInSlaughter: Anytime he's either fighting or there's a lot of violence going on around him. What sets Drax's apart, however, is how he laughs. Instead of sounding like how most would while reveling in bloodshed, his laugh sounds more like he heard a really funny joke, or he was in an amusement park ride.
* RedBaron: "The Destroyer". He certainly lives up to his name.
* {{Revenge}}: His primary motivation throughout the first film. This is what initially pits him against the team, as Gamora being a former assassin to Ronan is good enough reason to him to kill her, even as she insists that she hates Ronan as much as he does.
* RevengeBeforeReason: Initially, Drax is willing to do a number of rather stupid things to face Ronan in combat. However, rather than learning that VengeanceFeelsEmpty, Drax instead decides that ''unreasonable'' revenge is stupid, and it works rather well for him.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: His wishes to gain vengeance for the death of his family. However it gets {{Deconstructed|Trope}} over the course of the first film by showing how someone who obsesses with vengeance can not only cause problems, but also make no friends at all. Eventually, Drax realizes this and starts to question his actions. [[spoiler:Though after Ronan's death, he still declares that he can't rest until he kills Thanos, the true mastermind of the events that caused his family's deaths.]]
* SadClown: In ''Vol. 2'', though Drax is more overtly happy and fun-loving, it's made clear during the scene when he reminisces about his dead family with Mantis that he's still deeply traumatized by their loss.
* ScreamingWarrior: Drax roars and laughs his way through combat.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Drax has quite the vocabulary. [[{{Irony}} "Thesaurus" isn't part of it]]; [[CallingMeALogarithm he's offended when Peter calls him one]].
* ShippingTorpedo: He thinks that Peter and Gamora are not good for each others and tells Peter to stop being interrested in her because "She isn't a dancer" like Peter is. He also torpedoes the idea of himself with Mantis -- the very idea of them having sex makes him retch.
* StepfordSmiler: Although he's the comic relief, Drax is still deeply haunted by the death of his whole family. When Mantis touches him as he reminisces about his family, she immediately weeps. It may be that Drax simply lacks the ability to cry, but he is actually very sad under his jovial demeanour.
* TheStoic: Drax is pretty [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} out there]] for this trope, but he's usually very serious. [[BloodKnight Unless violence ensues]] or [[ArchEnemy Ronan is involved]].
* StoryboardBody: According to a DeletedScene, the elaborate tattooing and scarification that covers at least half of Drax's body tells his life story.
* SuperStrength: He's able to match Groot, and even go a round with Thanos. He also ripped out Korath's cybernetic implant with his bare hands.
* ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld: Those who dance and those who don't dance, [[LiteralMetaphor literally]], according to him.
* TookALevelInCheerfulness: In ''Vol. 2'', Drax is much more lively, laughing a lot, pulling practical jokes, and revelling in action even more than he already did. Seeing as how he's already helped kill Ronan, the man who actually slew his family, he has technically avenged them directly already, which would explain why he's more carefree -- Thanos is still his ultimate goal, but Thanos is a bonus and he's already completed his primary quest.
* UnknownRival: Considers Ronan as his ArchEnemy. [[ButForMeItWasTuesday Ronan has no time for him]], beats Drax half to death without breaking a sweat, and takes quite a while to remember exactly ''why'' Drax hates him.
* VitriolicBestBuds:
** He doesn't really understand the Vitriolic part and blithely muses that the Guardians are now his friends even as he continues to bluntly insult them. He follows up the below by [[spoiler:blowing Nebula away when she starts insulting Gamora]].
-->'''Drax:''' You, Quill, are my friend.\\
'''Peter:''' Thanks.\\
'''Drax:''' This dumb tree, he is my friend. ''[Groot grunts]'' And this green whore, she too--\\
'''Gamora:''' Oh, you must stop!
** Continues in ''Vol. 2'', telling Peter that he and Gamora are just too different, and that Peter needs to find a woman who is like him--pathetic. Later, while he freely admits that he finds Mantis physically repulsive, he does form a good friendship with her. Again, he isn't being mean, he's just incredibly blunt.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Much like in the comic, Drax is never once seen wearing a shirt. He's even seen during the group's LockAndLoadMontage outright throwing his team jacket away, choosing to wear only the pants. James Gunn reportedly wrote that Drax never wears a top because he has sensitive nipples... and ''that'' became the excuse for why he hates to wear the jetpacks in ''Vol. 2''. In a BrickJoke, when he's forced to use a jetpack, he screams in pain from it chafing his nipples as it launches him skywards.
* WasntThatFun:
** After he, Peter, and Gamora make a fiery crash of an entrance onto the ''Dark Aster'', he treats the whole thing like he's on a roller-coaster ride.
** In ''Vol. 2'', he has a similar response to being dangled out of the back of a space ship while it goes through re-entry, and being crashed violently through several trees.
* WhenHeSmiles: He's usually pretty stoic, but when something ''really'' makes him happy or laugh his whole face lights up like a Christmas tree. This is ''much'' more prevalent in ''Vol. 2.''
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: The murder of Drax's family drives him to hunt Ronan and destroy anything that gets in his way. After being [[spoiler:defeated and nearly killed by Ronan]], Drax even admits that his rage only exists to cover the pain of his loss.
* TheWorfEffect: After Drax has been established as a huge badass, [[spoiler:Ronan throws him around like a ragdoll]].
* WouldHitAGirl: He's ready to take out Gamora had Peter not intervened, and later [[spoiler:blew Nebula away with a bazooka]].
* WrestlerInAllOfUs: He is commonly seen fighting like a wrestler when he uses hand-to-hand combat, particularly during the prison break. Being played by a real life wrestler probably has something to do with it.
* YouKilledMyFather: His motivation for wanting revenge against Ronan, who killed his wife and daughter.
* YourNormalIsOurTaboo: Probably as a byproduct of their BrutalHonesty and inability to understand metaphors, his culture doesn't seem to have sexual taboos. When he tells Peter how he met his wife it swiftly goes into TooMuchInformation territory, and his father told him how he was conceived every winter solstice, which Drax remembers fondly and thinks Peter is prudish for [[ParentalSexualitySquick being squicked by it]].
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!!''Drax the Destroyer''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''[[LiteralMinded "Nothing goes over my head! My reflexes are too fast. I would catch it."]]'']]
!!! '''Species:''' Unknown
!!! '''Portrayed by:''' [[Wrestling/{{Batista}} Dave Bautista]]
!!! '''Voiced by:''' Dan Osorio (Latin-American Spanish dub), Pedro Tena (European Spanish dub), Naomi Kusumi (Japanese dub), Serge Biavan (French dub), Blaise Tardif (Canadian French dub)
!!! '''Appearances:''' ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' | ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'' | ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' | ''[[Film/Avengers4 Untitled Avengers Sequel]]'' | ''Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3''
->''"Drax: AKA the Destroyer. Since his wife and family were killed, he's been on a rampage across the galaxy in a search for vengeance."''
-->-- '''Rhomann Dey'''
A man who has been on a rampage ever since his family was killed by Ronan. Drax seeks vengeance against the Kree Accuser, and joins the team when they convince him to not make them his latest victims in exchange for them luring Ronan nearby for Drax to kill.
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* ActionDad: One who is very hell-bent on {{Revenge}} for the death of his daughter (and wife).
* ActuallyPrettyFunny: In ''Vol. 2'', when Rocket threatens to conceal one of Drax's turds in Peter's pillow as part of an argument, Drax bursts out laughing, gleefully claiming his droppings are "famously huge".
* AdaptationalIntelligence: Zigzagged. Drax is closest to being the DumbMuscle of the team, being a socially inept, LiteralMinded BoisterousBruiser. However, he's not depicted in the same child-like, dull-witted simpleton manner as his comic book counterpart became after his resurrection in the ''Warlock and The Infinity Watch'' comics of the early 1990s.
* AdaptationDistillation: Drax's backstory from the comics has been greatly simplified for the films; in the comics, Drax was a normal man from Earth whose family was murdered by Thanos (except for his daughter, who survived the attack and became Moondragon), and was turned into a living weapon against the Mad Titan by Thanos's father, Mentor. In the film, he's just an alien warrior out for revenge against [[TheHeavy Ronan]] for the deaths of his family. By the end of the film [[spoiler:he shifts his vendetta to the Mad Titan, since Ronan was under Thanos' orders when his family was killed]].
* AdaptationDyeJob: A rare skin related one that has nothing to do with race. He's green in the comics but grey in the movies, most likely done so audiences don't confuse him with Gamora's species.
* AdaptationNameChange:
** In keeping with the aforementioned change to being an alien, Drax really is his name here, whereas in the comics, his real name was Arthur Douglas.
** His wife and daughter's names (Yvette and Heather) are also changed, to Ovette and Camaria, respectively. ([[SpellMyNameWithAnS Some sources write their names as Hovat and Kamaria]].)
* AdaptationSpeciesChange: As noted above, in the comics, Drax was originally a human named Arthur Douglas that was modified into a living weapon; here, he's an alien and Drax really is his name.
* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Drax shows why a revenge-bent BloodKnight should never get as drunk as he did on Knowhere. [[spoiler:He contacts Ronan and tells him that they have the orb there in order to get his revenge personally.]]
* AmbiguouslyBi: His fondness for his wife is obvious, but he also seems attracted to Thor, clearly in awe of him and calling him a "handsome, muscular man". Notably, when Gamora showed the exact same reaction, Quill got jealous. Then again, it ''is'' [[EvenTheGuysWantHim Thor]].
* ArchEnemy: To Ronan the Accuser. Drax holds a bitter hatred towards Ronan for killing his family and has been hunting him for the majority of the first film. Ronan [[UnknownRival doesn't seem to care]] and fails to remember Drax's family, though he later mentions he does. [[spoiler:Drax gets his revenge by the end of the film. However, he transfers his grudge to Ronan's superior Thanos (mirroring their relationship in the comics)]].
* BadLiar: When he [[SayingTooMuch accidentally lets slip]] that Rocket stole the Sovereign's batteries, we find out that he's just as bad at lying as metaphors.
-->'''Drax:''' Right... he didn't steal some of those. I don't know why they're after us, what a mystery this is.
* BadassBaritone: Bautista plays Drax with a low, guttural voice.
* BaldOfAwesome: He's bald, and he's a warrior who cuts through mooks like nobody's business.
* TheBigGuy: Along with Groot in the first film, Drax does more of the straight-up fighting. [[spoiler:Doesn't help him against Ronan, though, who beat the hell out of him.]] He's become the only one to fit this role in ''Vol. 2'', as Groot is regrowing as a baby now.
* BloodKnight: He revels in fighting and picks fights with very little provocation. When Peter's ship's guns rip through dozens of mooks, he's laughing like mad and making everyone else visibly disturbed. Prime example is him jumping into the jaws of a StarfishAlien with nothing but two knives while laughing.
* BluntMetaphorsTrauma: He's ''incredibly'' literal, which is explained as being [[PlanetOfHats a species-based failing]]. By the climax of the film, he's beginning to gain some grasp of the concept of figurative speech, but it's a slow process. In the second film, he seems to have made a fair bit of progress.
-->'''Rocket:''' His people are entirely literal. Metaphors are gonna go over his head.\\
'''Drax:''' Nothing goes over my head! My reflexes are too fast. I would catch it.
* BoisterousBruiser: Enjoys nothing more than a good fight alongside his comrades, when not angsting over the loss of his family. Even more so in ''Vol. 2'', where he's dropped some of the brooding in favor of breaking out into hearty laughter, and almost borders of PsychopathicManChild with how much earnest glee he takes in fighting and destruction.
* BrutalHonesty: Due to being LiteralMinded, he has no sense of how to talk about negative aspects of his friends without at some point sounding horrible. This is part of his banter with Mantis in particular. Although some of it was not all that honest, because Drax knew being blunt would generate a bigger response. He also has some brutal honest advice for Peter:
-->'''Drax:''' You just need to find a woman who is pathetic. Like you.
* CallingMeALogarithm: Along with the finger on throat gesture, he doesn't know what a thesaurus is, and is offended when Peter calls him one.
-->'''Drax:''' Do not ''ever'' call me a thesaurus.
* ChubbyChaser: Drax states in ''Volume 2'' he likes a woman with "meat on her bones" -- though given Drax's build, he may be an AmazonChaser and using "meat" to refer to muscles.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Aside from his rage, he comes across as just plain ''odd'', including his BluntMetaphorsTrauma and InnocentlyInsensitive nature. Its hinted in ''Vol. 2'' that Drax is a bit of a weirdo even among his own species.
-->'''Peter:''' We've already established that you destroying the ship I'm on is not saving me!\\
'''Drax:''' When did we establish that?\\
'''Peter:''' Like three seconds ago?\\
'''Drax:''' I wasn't listening. I was thinking of something else...
* ComedicSociopathy: Likes annoying Peter about his romance woes in ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'', like the moment Drax says Peter can't get with someone like Gamora, and to aim for "someone pathetic, like (him)".
* TheComicallySerious: The only reason half of his shtick works is because of how incredibly serious and earnest Dave Bautista plays him as being. Even in ''Vol. 2'', where he's more of an overt goofball, he still takes the same attitude of acting utterly convinced of the inherent sensibility of even the stupidest thing he does.
* CrusadingWidower: Out to get Ronan for killing his family. After his death, Drax transfers his revenge motivation to the Kree's master, Thanos.
* CuttingTheKnot: When Peter and Rocket are badly arguing over flying through an asteroid field despite a pursuer on their tail, Drax elects to ignore them, slap on a spacesuit and cable, and go outside the ship with a huge gun to just take out the threat himself.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: His wife and daughter were killed by Ronan.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Admittedly, he was drunk at the time, but did Drax really think that [[spoiler:he could take down Ronan and his ''entire army'' by himself?]]
* DitzyGenius: Thanks to being a Comically Serious Cloudcuckoolander, Drax comes off as this despite his extensive vocabulary.
* DanceOfRomance: Inverted. It was the fact that his wife ''never'' danced (and that they were the only two not dancing at the festival they met in) that made him fall in love with his deceased wife.
* TheDreaded: The other prisoners of the Kyln are scared witless by Drax.
* DualWielding: Wields two rather large daggers.
* EatTheDog: Drax has eaten a raccoon before (or at least an animal that looked like one) and based on how much he enjoyed it, he probably wouldn't mind doing it again with Rocket. [[RuleOfFunny Drax chooses to mention this midway though Rocket's]] WireDilemma [[RuleOfFunny with the prison computer.]]
-->'''Drax:''' I recognize this creature! We would roast them over a flame pit as children. Their flesh was quite delicious!\\
'''Rocket:''' NOT HELPING!
* EnmityWithAnObject:
** In his continuing [[LiteralMinded attempts to understand "metaphor"]] in ''Vol. 2'', Drax at one point screams "DIE, SPACESHIP!" while the ''Milano'' is being pursued by the Sovereign, despite the spaceship itself being an inanimate object that can in no way hear him.
** Continues in ''Infinity War''. When the Guardians fight Iron Man, Doctor Strange, and Spider-Man on Titan, Drax ends up fighting the Cloak of Levitation, even screaming "DIE, BLANKET OF DEATH!" at one point. Although unlike the spaceship example above, the Cloak of Levitation ''is'' alive.
* GentleGiant: He might want to seek revenge for his wife and daughter but to his teammates and everyone, he's kind and literally gentle even though he can unintentionally be rude to them. Exemplified through two instances in ''Vol. 2'', where he tells Mantis that being ugly doesn't mean you are horrible and that anyone will love you for who you are, and as he tenderly holds a tired Baby Groot.
* GoodParents:
** Drax loved and continues to love his deceased wife and daughter. So much that when Mantis uses her [[TheEmpath Empathy Touch]] on him when he's thinking of his family, she immediately starts crying. His paternal love is so strong it makes Mantis realize that Ego [[spoiler: has ''none''.]]
** Interestingly, Drax appears to be the only Guardian with zero hangups regarding his own father. Every winter solstice, Mr. Destroyer would regale the tale of his and Mrs. Destroyer's [[{{Squick}} "conception"]] of their son, [[CrowningMomentOFHeartwarming which Drax found beautiful.]]
* HasAType: Drax is a ChubbyChaser. He also likes ''very'' [[TheStoic stoic women]], if his description of what initially attracted him to his wife is any indication.
* HeartbrokenBadass: He lost his wife and daughter to Ronan years ago and now he wants the guy's head on a spike.
* TheHyena: He becomes this in ''Vol. 2,'' laughing hysterically at almost anything that is even mildly amusing.
* HypocriticalHumor: When he thinks Mantis is coming onto him in ''Vol. 2'' [[spoiler:she's actually trying to warn him about Ego]], he describes in extreme detail how utterly ''repulsive'' he finds her appearance and how physically ill the mere ''thought'' of them mating makes him. When she finally cuts him off by telling him she doesn't find him attractive either, he looks ''offended'' and complains that there's no need to get personal.
* IceCreamKoan: Drax attempts to explain to Peter why Gamora doesn't want to date him because there are "those who dance. And those who do not." He unfortunately means this entirely literally, as Peter dances, and Gamora does not.
* IcyBlueEyes: [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/guardians_galaxy_2_drax_4k_clip_5.jpg Fitting his big-and-scary appearance]].
* InformedFlaw: Despite Rocket describing his species as [[BluntMetaphorsTrauma "completely literal"]], after a bit of CharacterDevelopment he starts trying to do things like dimiss Ronan's Sakaaran soldiers as "paper people" and calling Ronan a "puppet" by the end of the film.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: He doesn't realize that he's insulting his friends when telling them that they are his friends such as Groot the "dumb tree" and Gamora the "green whore".
** PlayedForLaughs in ''Vol. 2'', when he tells Mantis that he finds her hideous. That may seem like a typical case of BrutalHonesty from him, but when he thinks she's coming onto him later he tells her quite earnestly that he was trying to let her down ''gently'' by telling her he found her repulsive.
* KnifeNut: He even takes a knife from another prisoner on the Kyln after deciding that he likes it.
* LargeHam: Occasionally, but especially when he's drunk, angry, or faced with Ronan.
-->'''Drax:''' RONAN THE ACCUSER! You killed my wife! You killed my ''daughter''!
* LeeroyJenkins: There's a reason why everyone thinks he's a maniac; drunk-dialing your arch-enemy with your location is stupid. Ditto jumping into a monster's mouth to try killing it from the inside.
* LightningBruiser: He's big, fast and strong. [[spoiler:Doesn't help him against [[TheJuggernaut Ronan]]]].
* LiteralMinded: According to Rocket, his entire species [[PlanetOfHats wears the hat]] of having no understanding of metaphor or simile. Drax tries to grow out of this after becoming friends with the other Guardians, using phrases like "I think of Sakaarans as paper people", "Finger on the throat means death", and "Ronan was only a puppet". Not that his attempts always work out.
-->'''Drax:''' [[EnmityWithAnObject DIE, SPACESHIP!]]
* LoveAtFirstSight: With his late wife. He saw her not dancing at a festival where everyone else was dancing and was smitten.
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* MadeOfIron: He took an blast of engine exhaust to the chest without injury, and managed to survive being [[spoiler:rammed with the ''Milano'' (Rocket was trying to hit Ronan, who was choke-throttling Drax at the time)]], although the latter left him unconscious for a brief time, and he was clearly sore and limping afterwards.
** In the sequel he is dangled out the back of the ''Milano'' on a cable during a crash landing through a forest, smashing into trees. He seems to have enjoyed the ride once we see him on the ground.
* {{Metaphorgotten}}: He begins attempting to engage in metaphorical language in the back half of the first film and ''Vol. 2'', but unfortunately doesn't quite have a grasp of it yet.
-->'''Drax:''' Finger on the throat means death. (crushes a man's skull)... METAPHOR.
* MomentKiller: He has a talent for this. Mantis declaring that Peter loves Gamora in ''Vol. 2'' could have been a touching moment had Drax not suddenly ''roared'' with laughter and even invited Mantis to read his feelings so she could laugh alongside him. Then in ''Infinity War'' we pull away from a passionate kiss between Peter and Gamora...to discover Drax awkwardly standing nearby eating what looks like alien potato sticks.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: To his credit, he quickly realizes his [[spoiler:contacting Ronan on Knowhere]] is a case of NiceJobBreakingItHero, and is filled with remorse over it.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Being called "Drax the Destroyer" discourages people from screwing with him.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
** He alerts [[spoiler:Ronan that the Orb is on Knowhere]] just so that he can have a shot at killing him. To say that this ends badly is a ''massive'' understatement. In his defense, he was quite drunk at the time.
** Subverted in ''Infinity War'' when he nearly ruins the Guardians' plan to sneak into Thanos on Knowhere, letting his hatred of him for his wife and daughter's deaths get into him. The subversion comes when Mantis is able to knock him out before he can charge and [[spoiler:its revealed that Thanos already knew they were there all along]].
* NoBodyLeftBehind: [[spoiler:Is disintegrated along with half the universe after Thanos completes the Infinity Gauntlet.]]
* NoodleIncident: We never find out exactly why Drax was incarcerated on the Kyln. Knowing him, it was likely to have been quite violent.
* NoSocialSkills: Some trappings of this due to his race's LiteralMinded tendencies, which often make him seem exceedingly tactless.
* NotSoDifferent: From [[ArchEnemy Ronan]], oddly enough -- both are driven by revenge for the deaths of loved ones. Drax doesn't take it to quite the genocidal extremes that Ronan does, though.
* NotSoStoic: He has a few moments of dropping his stoicism [[ComedicSociopathy to point and laugh at Peter]] in ''[[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2 Vol. 2]]'', including a moment where [[TheFreelanceShameSquad Mantis and Drax start pointing and laughing at Peter]] after she mentions that [[MySensorsIndicateYouWantToTapThat she can sense Peter's romantic feelings]] for Gamora, to Gamora's bemusement.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Inverted -- he's only with the Guardians ([[CharacterDevelopment initially]]) as a means to get revenge on Ronan. When Peter offers him a share of the money they plan to get from selling the artifact, he's actually offended, and goes out of his way to say that he doesn't care for it.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: He has a dead daughter. She, along with his dead wife, is the reason why Drax is out for Ronan's blood.
* ParentalSexualitySquick: He comes from a culture that finds parents telling their children about their conception to be a wonderful bonding experience. He finds Peter's disgust towards this to be bewildering.
* PlatonicLifePartners: Develops this relationship with Mantis in ''Vol. 2''. He makes it quite clear that, physically, he thinks she's hideous-looking to the point that imagining the two of them mating is enough to make him retch. However, he still values her as a friend and despite both of them being socially awkward, they get along pretty well.
* PreMortemOneLiner: Gets a rather... odd one as he kills [[spoiler:Korath.]]
-->'''Drax:''' [[ItMakesSenseInContext Finger on the throat means death!]]
* PsychopathicManChild: Occasionally. He often laughs mirthfully when he gets into fights, like a kid in a candy store.
* PutTheLaughterInSlaughter: Anytime he's either fighting or there's a lot of violence going on around him. What sets Drax's apart, however, is how he laughs. Instead of sounding like how most would while reveling in bloodshed, his laugh sounds more like he heard a really funny joke, or he was in an amusement park ride.
* RedBaron: "The Destroyer". He certainly lives up to his name.
* {{Revenge}}: His primary motivation throughout the first film. This is what initially pits him against the team, as Gamora being a former assassin to Ronan is good enough reason to him to kill her, even as she insists that she hates Ronan as much as he does.
* RevengeBeforeReason: Initially, Drax is willing to do a number of rather stupid things to face Ronan in combat. However, rather than learning that VengeanceFeelsEmpty, Drax instead decides that ''unreasonable'' revenge is stupid, and it works rather well for him.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: His wishes to gain vengeance for the death of his family. However it gets {{Deconstructed|Trope}} over the course of the first film by showing how someone who obsesses with vengeance can not only cause problems, but also make no friends at all. Eventually, Drax realizes this and starts to question his actions. [[spoiler:Though after Ronan's death, he still declares that he can't rest until he kills Thanos, the true mastermind of the events that caused his family's deaths.]]
* SadClown: In ''Vol. 2'', though Drax is more overtly happy and fun-loving, it's made clear during the scene when he reminisces about his dead family with Mantis that he's still deeply traumatized by their loss.
* ScreamingWarrior: Drax roars and laughs his way through combat.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Drax has quite the vocabulary. [[{{Irony}} "Thesaurus" isn't part of it]]; [[CallingMeALogarithm he's offended when Peter calls him one]].
* ShippingTorpedo: He thinks that Peter and Gamora are not good for each others and tells Peter to stop being interrested in her because "She isn't a dancer" like Peter is. He also torpedoes the idea of himself with Mantis -- the very idea of them having sex makes him retch.
* StepfordSmiler: Although he's the comic relief, Drax is still deeply haunted by the death of his whole family. When Mantis touches him as he reminisces about his family, she immediately weeps. It may be that Drax simply lacks the ability to cry, but he is actually very sad under his jovial demeanour.
* TheStoic: Drax is pretty [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} out there]] for this trope, but he's usually very serious. [[BloodKnight Unless violence ensues]] or [[ArchEnemy Ronan is involved]].
* StoryboardBody: According to a DeletedScene, the elaborate tattooing and scarification that covers at least half of Drax's body tells his life story.
* SuperStrength: He's able to match Groot, and even go a round with Thanos. He also ripped out Korath's cybernetic implant with his bare hands.
* ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld: Those who dance and those who don't dance, [[LiteralMetaphor literally]], according to him.
* TookALevelInCheerfulness: In ''Vol. 2'', Drax is much more lively, laughing a lot, pulling practical jokes, and revelling in action even more than he already did. Seeing as how he's already helped kill Ronan, the man who actually slew his family, he has technically avenged them directly already, which would explain why he's more carefree -- Thanos is still his ultimate goal, but Thanos is a bonus and he's already completed his primary quest.
* UnknownRival: Considers Ronan as his ArchEnemy. [[ButForMeItWasTuesday Ronan has no time for him]], beats Drax half to death without breaking a sweat, and takes quite a while to remember exactly ''why'' Drax hates him.
* VitriolicBestBuds:
** He doesn't really understand the Vitriolic part and blithely muses that the Guardians are now his friends even as he continues to bluntly insult them. He follows up the below by [[spoiler:blowing Nebula away when she starts insulting Gamora]].
-->'''Drax:''' You, Quill, are my friend.\\
'''Peter:''' Thanks.\\
'''Drax:''' This dumb tree, he is my friend. ''[Groot grunts]'' And this green whore, she too--\\
'''Gamora:''' Oh, you must stop!
** Continues in ''Vol. 2'', telling Peter that he and Gamora are just too different, and that Peter needs to find a woman who is like him--pathetic. Later, while he freely admits that he finds Mantis physically repulsive, he does form a good friendship with her. Again, he isn't being mean, he's just incredibly blunt.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Much like in the comic, Drax is never once seen wearing a shirt. He's even seen during the group's LockAndLoadMontage outright throwing his team jacket away, choosing to wear only the pants. James Gunn reportedly wrote that Drax never wears a top because he has sensitive nipples... and ''that'' became the excuse for why he hates to wear the jetpacks in ''Vol. 2''. In a BrickJoke, when he's forced to use a jetpack, he screams in pain from it chafing his nipples as it launches him skywards.
* WasntThatFun:
** After he, Peter, and Gamora make a fiery crash of an entrance onto the ''Dark Aster'', he treats the whole thing like he's on a roller-coaster ride.
** In ''Vol. 2'', he has a similar response to being dangled out of the back of a space ship while it goes through re-entry, and being crashed violently through several trees.
* WhenHeSmiles: He's usually pretty stoic, but when something ''really'' makes him happy or laugh his whole face lights up like a Christmas tree. This is ''much'' more prevalent in ''Vol. 2.''
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: The murder of Drax's family drives him to hunt Ronan and destroy anything that gets in his way. After being [[spoiler:defeated and nearly killed by Ronan]], Drax even admits that his rage only exists to cover the pain of his loss.
* TheWorfEffect: After Drax has been established as a huge badass, [[spoiler:Ronan throws him around like a ragdoll]].
* WouldHitAGirl: He's ready to take out Gamora had Peter not intervened, and later [[spoiler:blew Nebula away with a bazooka]].
* WrestlerInAllOfUs: He is commonly seen fighting like a wrestler when he uses hand-to-hand combat, particularly during the prison break. Being played by a real life wrestler probably has something to do with it.
* YouKilledMyFather: His motivation for wanting revenge against Ronan, who killed his wife and daughter.
* YourNormalIsOurTaboo: Probably as a byproduct of their BrutalHonesty and inability to understand metaphors, his culture doesn't seem to have sexual taboos. When he tells Peter how he met his wife it swiftly goes into TooMuchInformation territory, and his father told him how he was conceived every winter solstice, which Drax remembers fondly and thinks Peter is prudish for [[ParentalSexualitySquick being squicked by it]].
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