@Hohenheim_of_light: There are 3 main pieces of evidence that I can recall people using to argue for Galactus being a universal power. Not that I do not agree with any of them, and have actually argued against them in the past, they're just what I can recall.
1) The first that comes to mind is the Annihilation Saga. The reason this is used is because when Annihilus and Thanos turned Galactus into a weapon, Annihilus was supposedly going to use him to somehow destroy the entire universe as well as the negaverse. I'm still really not clear on how this was actually supposed to be accomplished (really seemed like a combination of technobabble and handwaving to me), but everyone seemed to take it pretty seriously.
2) The second is a line about the Ultimate Nullifier being a "part of" Galactus, and taking it as literally as possible. Since it has been pretty well established for a while that the Nullifier can destroy a universe, if it is part of Galactus, then by extension Galactus can destroy a universe.
3) The last is from the Black Celestial arc, where Galactus' hunger got kicked into overdrive by the Dreaming Celestial and he just started to consume everything. According to Richards, he apparently would have eventually destroyed the omniverse if left unchecked.
The second point I have no problems at all dismissing as hyperbole. The other 2 I view as essentially PIS. Galactus is treated as a plot device in both instances, rather than as a character (although he does get a tad bit of characterization at the end of BCA). Just how the Galactus bomb is supposed to work in Annihilation is really not at all clear to me, which makes it even more of a plot device. It's done purely to raise the stakes, not because it makes any kind of sense, especially when you consider part of the primary function of the device was to drain Galactus to the point he was only barely alive.
The Black Celestial Arc is partly PIS because it ignores all other cosmics, again, to raise the stakes, or just to keep Richards and co. the center of attention. Think of some of the other universal threats that have come up in Marvel, like Thanos or the Beyonder. What happens? We get a small army of Cosmic Beings assembled to stop them. So why not Galactus? Where was Eternity or the Living Tribunal? Where were all the Celestials? The Stranger? The Elders of the Universe (who want to kill him anyway)? All completely ignored. Plus, Reed might have just had a moment of stupidity; after all, his brilliant plan to save the universe from Galactus eating it was to give him the Ultimate Nullifier, which Galactus promptly used to kill himself and destroy the universe. Oops.
In the BCA Galactus had also been tampered with by the Dreaming Celestial, so it may have also done something to let him push beyond his normal limits anyway. Oh, and Galactus was also using a gigantic black hole to help him.
Anyway, like most have said, if this is Zero Hour Hal, them I'm pretty sure he takes this without much of a problem. If this is post-Zero Hour Hal, then Aegis might have a shot, provided she really is comparable to big G (given her very few appearances, it is kind of hard to say, although the fact remains she & Tenebrous together took him down, which still makes them heavy hitters; even being half as strong as Galactus is immensely powerful). Thanos is not a factor here on his own. If he has the IG then Galactus is not a factor and he could probably cream Hal with it too. HOTU would just be blatant spite. If he had the Cosmic Cube though, it could make things more balanced.
@Night_Rake said:
@Hohenheim_of_light: There is no proof because it's based on theory.Every scan of Galactus is usually him half fed or less.Fact-He is more powerful the more he is full,and we never seen him completely fed.
This isn't entirely true. I do not believe it is ever anywhere stated just "how fed" Galactus is at any given time. It's not like the comics ever say, "Hey guys, Galactus is only 22% fed right now, so we can probably take him!" Those kinds of percentages seem to be mostly made up here on the battle forum, and are pretty useless.
The way I see it, there is no such thing as a "fully fed" Galactus. There is "fed" Galactus, which would be his normal power, and then there's "hungry" Galactus, which varies in degrees of weakness. Eating more planets might give him a bit of an amp, but frankly, I think there must be a point of diminishing returns. When he was preparing for battle with Thanos in the IG as well as for his encounter with Tyrant, he prepared by devouring a world. A world. He didn't go on some giant planet binge, he just made sure to be fed before battle. This suggests to me that the extra time and effort that would have been needed to devour multiple planets wouldn't have been worth whatever extra gains in power he would have received. But ultimately, I just do not believe the concept of a "fully fed" Galactus exists in the comics the same way it does on these boards.
You can't prove a theory.
That would depend a lot on what you consider to be "proof."
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