How fast is galactus

Speed? No feats needed.

Eh. I don't think time or space is relevant to him so traversing is up to speculation even though he does have/had the Galactus Engine I think.. I donno

What does he need to move for?

To get around?

@willpayton: He has that chair thing.

He can probably teleport himself anywhere in space. On Earth he can only fly i belive

I'm sure sometimes he has to walk around or fly or whatever.

Travel speeds? Surfer himself can fly at massive warp speeds, to the point where he can cross one end of the universe and reach the other in a moment, and his Power Cosmic is infinitesimal and insignificant compared to Galactus. That should say something.

However...

I have to agree with this.

He's a cosmic entity beyond comprehension, and a vital necessity and force of the universe.

Yes, he walks as well.

I dont see how time and space are not relevant to him. Galactus is a physical being that still needs to move around and experiences change due to time passing just like most beings in the Marvel universe. He's very powerful, yes, but still a physical being.

Faster than the Flash

Not fast enough to avoid getting hit by Thor and Thor is has trouble with guys like Wolverine so according to feats/lack of and logic Galactus is snail level speed. Except when it comes to travels speed which is something very different. Always remember this true fact.

@sc: didn't Thor hit him while speed blitzing sorta tho?

@iragexcudder: Yeah he was bullrushing. He still was moving much faster than Wolverine though that's for sure.

@spiderman1997: haha very true. Thors legs are the equivalent to Ricky Bobby interviews "I don't know what to do with my hands" but legs. Cuz Thor is a slouch.

@iragexcudder: Depends what comic you are referring to and what you mean by speedblitz. My comment is mostly tongue in cheek though, because comic books are fictional medium, not a science, most writers don't consider things such as "feats" important the way some internet comic forum fans do, characters are perceived a certain way and writers tend to play at those perceptions rather than try and work out character confrontations like its maths or that characters need to prove themselves.

@sc: yeas I know. Story is much more important to writers and to me especially but what I meant by speed blitz was merely Thor flying at high speeds and cracking Galacti in the dome (if that's where he hit him, I don't remember)

But yeah I agree with you

He was certainly walking in Lee's/Moebius's Silver Surfer.

Not very fast though.

Galactus might have good travel speed ( but when he is travelling he is in his space station/chair/whatever thing...so i don't know does that count for HIS travel speed ). He is rather really slow when it comes to reaction and as we see in the picture above in walking travel speed ( he is trying to catch SS in there ). Also, Galactus is being tagged by people like Thor and various other earth's superheroes ( and as we know...in Marvel most even top tier characters aren't really super fast ) so he certainly doesn't have very good reaction speed.

Galactus might be fast when he is using his space chair thing but without it he is not really fast.

@iragexcudder: Oh I think you are referring to either the Bendis Avengers arc where Thor flies into his head… or the Fraction Galactus Seed arc where Thor also flies into his head? There have been other times when Thor has encountered Galactus too, in those ones he doesn't fly into his head, he does other stuff.

Most plots tend to only consider the characters that are relevant at that time. They don't try to consider every possibility, can lead to some odd situations if we try and be too literal with what happens, feats included heh heh. Like when you think about Galactus too much to behind with… his dependence on planets… a guy from a former universe brought into a new one and reborn into a cosmic entity… and if he starves then some other cosmic entity is unleashed for some reason… and then he has some Heralds for decades but then gets through half a dozen others in a few months… then again most of that isn't meant to make sense heh heh just sound cool and Galactus is definitely cool.

@sc: aye, very understandable. It's one of the times Thor flies into his head and does some damage but I'm surprised Galactus didn't just have Meowmeow bounce right off him lol but Galactus definitely is a cool concept, character-wise he's a bit odd to me but overall is extremely cool

I don't know, ask your mom...

@iragexcudder: Oh and yeah plus technically Galactus isn't even suppose to have a head, well at least not one you can hit, since to every sentient individual who perceives Galactus, Galactus is suppose to appear differently. Some that perceive Galactus, perceive him without a head, or a humanoid appearance. So does that mean Galactus head is hurt because Galactus understands that to say Thor's perception he thinks he has hurt Galactus head and so Galactus reacts accordingly through some meta pain factor? Back to the inconsistency again, some writers will write Galactus as some lumbering giant humanoid in armor like above with Surfer, others get more high concept. 0_0.

Fast enough

If Galactus were to reach for his coffee, I would venture to guess his hand hits 715 miles an hour. In theory, it would obliterate everyone in Starbucks. Now apply that to power walking and throwing a boomerang.

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@batmanvsall3312: @willpayton: @iragexcudder: @sc:

Galactus dodged the devolution beam from High Evolutionary when they fought on counter earth. The beam was able to travel at the speed of light.

He fires the same beam from his ship and this is how it's described:

"But, Next Instant, A Ray of Shummering Light--Stimulated By Tachyons, Which Cannot Movie More Slowly Than The Speed of Light--Flashes Out Across The Emptiness of Space--"

This happened in FF #175 & the cover artist was Jack Kirby. The writer was Roy Thomas who was Marvel's Editor in Chief at one time.

He's as fast as he feels he needs to be at the time. He can travel faster than light, but usually takes his time.

As for reflexes, he has dodged energy and grabbed the Silver Surfer in flight. But he usually doesn't feel the need to dodge attacks.

Speed is not a factor regarding entities of Galactus' level; he goes where he pleases and travels at a speed that is incomprehensible in real life (the guy travels between galaxies and from different ends of the universe with ease). It ceases to be a factor once you get to around Skyfather level and beyond.

In regards to travel speed, he should be very fast. In regards to natural reaction speed, there isn't much evidence for it.

@jacthripper: lol

Top notch on a coopers test, given his physique.

If he loses that damned armor during it.

Faster than a speeding bullet