Indestructible Man

*"The love you feel for your family, makes you weak."*

―Indestructible Man to Blue Beetle[src]
**Conrad Carapax**, also known as the **Indestructible Man**, was a Guatemalan war veteran who became a cyborg capable of unleashing virtually indestructible weaponry at will after being experimented on by Kord Industries. Serving as Victoria Kord's right-hand, he helped her to find biotechnological alien Khaji-Da, coming into conflict with Jaime Reyes to get the relic, gaining new powers until Reyes spared his life, causing Carapax to redeem himself, sacrificing himself to kill Kord after realizing Victoria is responsible for his mother's death.

## Biography

### Early life

Conrad Carapax was born in Guatemala, where he helped out his mother by retrieving buckets of water.

#### Mother's Death

One day as the young Ignacio returned from grabbing water, he greeted his mother. However, as Carapax walked, the two saw as an airplane bombed their house, killing Ignacio's mother, to his sorrow. After the attack Carapax stole a locket with his and his mother's picture which survived the raid and ran and hid in the jungle.

Eventually, Carapax was found by Victoria Kord, who saw the potential for him to be manipulated into what she wanted, decided to send Carapax to a military group, who forced the boy to shave his head and fight in the army, with him later being given the rank of Lieutenant.

#### Cybernetically Enhanced

As a young man later in life, while on patrol, Carapax accidently stepped on a hidden land mine, heavily injuring and massively damaging one of his arm and leg. Upon being found, Carapax was taken to a hospital, where Victoria Kord ordered that Carapax's damaged limbs be replaced with cybernetic limbs, with him barely overhearing as when someone asked what if the procedure failed, with Kord stating that they would make more like him. Luckily, the procedure was successful and Carapax decided to operate as Victoria's bodyguard, with her reminding him of their encounter to keep him on her side. With Carapax agreeing to take part in Victoria's Indestructible project, and had the prototype Indestructible device implanted onto his back to create a battle suit to help him in fights.

### Serving Victoria Kord

#### Finding Khaji-Da

Sometime after, her brother, Ted Kord disappeared, Victoria had Carapax look for an alien device, the Scarab, which was used by Ted. Eventually in 2023, Carapax located it in an bunker in Antarctica. Carapax assisted with Victoria and her henchmen as they broke down the bunker to steal the scarab. During this, Victoria introduced Carapax to their head scientist, José Morales, with Carapax ignoring him, with the bunker finally being destroyed, allowing them to take the Scarab.

After obtaining the scarab, Carapax and Victoria returned to Palmera City, keeping an eye for her as she went to her mansion, where he opted to attack one of her employees, Jaime Reyes after he tried to greet her and continued to look over as Victoria talked to her niece Jenny as they fought over the direction of the company, which caused Reyes to be fired when he tried to stick up for Jenny. However, on the following day, the Scarab was mysteriously taken.

Despite that, Victoria and Carapax hosted a party that night for their work on the Indestructible, with Kord personally introducing the generals to Carapax and his achievements. However, Carapax feeling misplaced walked out with Kord meeting up with him in the kitchen to remind him how she found and fixed him to encourage him to continue on. However, Victoria and Carapax were alerted to someone infiltrating Kord Industries, with Carapax personally going to confront the intruders.

#### Skirmish at Kord Plaza

Upon Carapax arriving to the Kord Plaza, he saw that the intruders were Jaime Reyes and Jenny Kord. Despite them wanting to get away from him, Carapax ran to fight Reyes and Kord, however Reyes, who had bonded with the Scarab, began to fight him, with Khaji-Da wanting to continue.

Knowing that the fight would be hard, Carapax activated the Indestructible device, causing the Indestructible armor to materialize around him. Now prepped, Carapax began to unload all of his weapons on Reyes, causing Khaji to take over and fight Carapax. During the fight though, Carapax was able to use his foot to begin to crush Reyes, however, before that Carapax was hit by a machine made by Jaime's uncle Rudy, briefly knocking him out.

## Personality

*"Sacrifices must be made for the greater good."*
―Indestructible Man to Victoria Kord[src]
Carapax was hardened by his 50 years and his military demeanor who struggled to mask the scars of past battles. He originally thought family was a "weakness".

Carapax had suffered an immense tragedy when he lost his mother by bomb strike. After his defeat by Blue Beetle, he found out the truth that his mother was killed by Victoria Kord when she ordered the bomb strike and lied to Conrad. To atone for his crimes, he choose to sacrifice himself to kill Victoria in a massive explosion in order to avenge his mother. He told to Jaime before he died to take care of his family.

## Powers and abilities

### Powers

* **OMAC armor capabilities**: Through the use of the Indestructible Man armor and his natural skills, Carapax was able to utilize powers similar and surpassing to Blue Beetle.
	+ **Superhuman strength**: Through the use of his prosthetic arm, and later Indestructible armor, Carapax was able to lift, carry, and exert immense tons of force. He was able to pin and crush Jaime Reyes in the Blue Beetle armor with his foot alone.
	+ **Superhuman durability**: Between his already peak human durability, and later paired with the Indestructible armor, Carapax was able to take many attacks before going down or knocked out. Carapax was able to take many of Blue Bettle's attacks before being knocked out by Rudy's machine.
	+ **Superhuman speed**: Through the use of the Indestructible armor's thrusters, alongside his peak human speed, was able to outpace many humans.
	+ **Superhuman stamina**: *To be added*
	+ **Superhuman reflexes**: *To be added*
	+ **Construct creation**: *To be added*
	+ **Flight**: After being given the upgraded Indestructible armor, Carapax was able to use the armor's thrusters to hover and fly after his targets.

## Equipment

* **Indestructible Man armor**: *To be added*

## Relationships

Allies* Kord Industries
* Crane
* Jaime Reyes/Blue Beetle - former enemy
* Khaji-Da - former enemy and savior
* Jenny Kord - former enemy
* Rudy Reyes - attempted victim
* Victoria Kord † - former employer and victim

## Trivia

* In the comics, Conrad Carapax is an archeologist whose mind melds with the body of a robot.

## Behind the scenes

* During production, **Conrad Carapax** and his alter-ego's name was **Indestructible Man**. The productional names were ultimately discarded and changed in the released product, therefore they were never used.

## References

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1. ↑ Jump up to:1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 Dunnet-Alcoce, Gareth (writer) & Manuel Soto, Angel (director) (August 18, 2023). *Blue Beetle*.
2. ↑ CARAPAX (BLUE BEETLE MOVIE)

## External links

* Carapax on DC Database
* OMAC on DC Database