Shadow Destroyer overpowered the fallen angel, Therakiel, during the Vibora Bay apocalypse; destroyed all superheroes and created his own dystopian empire in Resistance and held the original Dr. Destroyer captive; is an incredibly powerful boss in Nemcon, so on and so forth.
He seems like an incredibly powerful being overall, which I'm tempted to say that he's perhaps the most powerful villain in the Champions Universe?
What does the PnP lore say about Shadow Destroyer?
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While extremely powerful compared to Earthly supervillains -- essentially a match for Dr. Destroyer -- there are "cosmic" villains written up for the PnP game who could twist Shadow Destroyer like a pretzel. However,
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In his previous incarnation for an earlier edition of the Champions Universe, Dr. Destroyer had a disfigured face like Dr. Doom, making him a more obvious Doom surrogate; but Steve Long eliminated that from his background for this iteration of DD.
In short, foiling Shadow D is essentially just stopping him, there is no worry of a planned contingency that even if he loses he wins scenario where Doctor Destroyer and Doctor Doom would both plan for. At best, Shadow D would use the Thanatos Gambit, IE if you kill him then everyone is going to die in the process, but beyond that he doesn't have a web of intrigue that can span multiple threads of plot that end up revealing some grand diabolical scheme.
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However, I know that their egos would eventually sabotage themselves in some way or another. Even clichéd. I think if I was to place my money on who would be the one to really muck up their plans; it would be Shadow Destroyer.
I think if Dr. Destroyer actually gave his word to cooperate he would hold himself to it even if he started to regret it. Though that probably wouldn't extend very far before Dr. D just straight up disintegrate a ****. lol.
I don't completely agree with CSW that Shadow Destroyer doesn't plan long-term or make contingencies. His history in Champions Villains Vol. 1 reveals that when Luther Black, founder of DEMON, unintentionally accessed Multifarian Earth, it was SD who guided him to the Liber Terribilis, the lore in which enabled him to enact his apotheosis scheme. SD anticipated that Black would fail, but that Black's preparations could be turned to his masters' purposes. It was to take advantage of DEMON's activities that SD followed Black to Champions Earth.
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Shadow on the other hand wants to feed Dr. Destroyer to his masters, and probably isn't too happy about losing control over New Harmon thanks to him.
But hypothetically, even if they could put aside their differences and work together, it would only be because both Destroyers felt they could use each other to further their own respective plans. More than likely they both would have thought of ways to betray each other as soon as they shook hands.
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