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This page covers the Marvel comicbook hero Galactus also known as Devourer of Worlds , Ravager of Planets , Ashta , Gah Lak Tus . If this is not the page you were looking for check here.
Galactus is the famed "devourer of planets" in the Marvel Universe. His powers are nearly omnipotent. He has appointed a number of entities as his heralds, imbuing them with the Power Cosmic.
Origin
Galactus is the only survivor of the universe that existed before the Big Bang. He was actually born billions of years ago. When the Big Bang was approaching he was saved by the Phoenix Force and brought into the new universe in a cosmic egg. The egg exploded outward with the Big Bang eventually turning into stars and planets.
Galactus was created along with his starship and the embodiments of Death and Eternity. He stayed here, inert, for billions of years. His ship became an incubation chamber and Galactus stayed there for several hundreds of years. During a space war, his ship was fired upon and Galactus was awakened. This was the first time Galactus fed upon the energy of a planet.
At this time, he could go centuries before he needed to feed again. He started out feeding upon the energies of uninhabited worlds. Soon, his hunger grew more quickly and the time between feedings grew shorter. He stopped worrying about only feeding upon uninhabited worlds as he felt he was above other beings.
When he came across Death and Eternity, it was believed that Galactus served as the balance between the two forces.
Galactus soon decided it would be more efficient to have others search out the worlds with compatible energies rather than seek them out himself. This was the start of his heralds. His first herald, the Fallen One, didn't work out so well due to its corrupt nature.
When Galactus was about to feed upon the planet Zenn-La, it was Norrin Radd, a native of the planet, that persuaded Galactus to spare the planet. In return, he agreed to become his new herald. Galactus empowered Norin with the power cosmic and even went so far as to suppress his morals to prevent inhabited planets from being overlooked. Thus the Silver Surfer was born.
Coming upon planet Earth, Alicia Masters was able to reach the Silver Surfer's morality and compassion. He chose to stand up against Galactus along with the Fantastic Four. Standing defeated, Galactus decided to bind the Silver Surfer to Earth as punishment for his betrayal. No longer could he surf the vast reaches of space. He spent several years bound to Earth.
Galactus continued to feed upon worlds and created other heralds to assist him. It is Galactus' belief that he is beyond the scope of being good or evil. He truly believes that he serves a purpose in the universe and will eventually give more back than he has taken.
Annihilation
During Annihilation, the "positive zone" was growing and actually wound up crossing over into the Negative Zone, where Annihilus ruled. Annihilus went over to the positive zone with the rest of the Annihilation Wave and was taking over the positive zone to get the planets that he conquered back from the positive zone. This "conquering frenzy" was disturbing the balance that the mighty Galactus had fought so hard to maintain. The ex-heralds of Galactus (Firelord and Red Shift) were followed by Stardust to go find and inform Galactus' favored herald the Silver Surfer that he was summoned. The world devourer imbued his herald with more cosmic power and demanded him to fight off their attackers, which were beings known as hunters who were as powerful as the original Surfer. Galactus and Surfer fought them off, however in a deal with Thanos, Aegis and Tenebrous who were imprisoned by Galactus, attacked the Ravager of Worlds and his herald. Galactus was defeated, and given to Thanos along with the Silver Surfer and were converted into energy sources for the Wave. Drax The Destroyer, after slaying Thanos freed the two Cosmic entities and unleashed an enraged, hungering Galactus on the Univese. A weakened Galactus revived Silver Surfer by giving him more cosmic power. In a fit of rage, the mighty Galactus single handedly (in a weakened state) destroyed the Annihilation Wave. The event was known as the "Galactus Event".
Shortly afterwards, the ravager of worlds began his search for Aegis and Tenebrous by sending out the Surfer after them. The Surfer single handedly defeated Galactus' foes by tapping into the power source of the universe known as "the crush" and thus, Galactus' vengeance, fulfilled. Due to his imprisonment, the world devourer's insatiable hunger doubled, causing Galactus to have two heralds, Silver Surfer and Stardust.
Powers and Appearance
Galactus is empowered by the virtually limitless power of the Power Cosmic. As such, Galactus manifests a range of powers and abilities depending on his need and desire. Galactus also possesses technology that works with his biology, which is of a degree of complexity that even the greatest minds may not be capable of understanding.
The true form of Galactus is not known. He is perceived as the species of whoever is looking at him. To a human, he appears human. To an alien, he'd appear the same as them. The power cosmic allows him to manipulate creation, matter, energy, and universal sources. Galactus can erect 'nearly' impenetrable fields, project devastating energies powerful enough to blow up planets and split them apart, shoot lasers or give off radiation,open wormholes or portals to other dimensions and time, transport beings across the universe and again even time, teleport, read minds across the universe, levitate matter via telekinesis, reconstruct matter or transmute it like turning water into ice, turn matter into enrgy or vise versa, manipulate elements and elements of the Periodic Table, blast meteors or comets, erase memories through manipulating souls, bestow power, repair or heal living tissue, or even resurrect the dead.
The Hunger of Galactus
Galactus possesses an insatiable hunger for energy that is satisfied by energies derived from energy and life rich planets. Galactus' great hunger is the greatest motivating force in his life, consuming his complete attention and motivating his every action. He uses energy from the core of planets and universal sources to sustain the energy and biology of his body.
Alternate Universes
Earth-1610 - Ultimate Galactus
In the Ultimate Marvel Universe, Gah Lak Tus is a fleet of sentient ships capable of collective thought coordinating their actions. Ultimate Gah LaK Tus has a profound hatred of organic life, and seeks to destroy sentient beings thought the universe. It does so by destroying planets one-by-one, by first eliminating all life on the planet and finally draining all energy from the planet itself. Every known species that has tried to stand up to the threat of Gah Lak Tus has failed with the exception of the inhabitants of Earth, who were willing to repel the attack using a massive psychic attack against the fleet.
Earth-552 - Galactus the Healer
In one of the universes that the Exiles had visited there was a plight that ravaged planets, destroying all life on them. In this universe, Galactus did not destroy worlds by consuming them, but instead healed broken worlds, nurturing them back to health. In this universe Norin Radd had destroyed his home planet, and became Galactus' herald the Silver Surfer in hopes that he could convince Galactus to heal his home world Zenn-La. Since Zenn-La's destruction was artificial, Galactus refused to heal the planet sending the Surfer into a rage against his master, destroying anything that came in his way. With the help of the Exiles, the Imperial Guard was able to defeat the Surfer, and Galactus was able to continue healing worlds (this time including Zenn-La).
Earth-982
In the MC2 reality the Silver Surfer merged with Galactus to create a new being.
Earth-9997 - Earth X
In this universe Mr. Fantastic's son, Franklin Richards became Galactus. He had been transformed into Galactus by his father after he realized who and what Galactus really was. The previous Galactus had been destroyed.
Earth-8436
Reality 100 million years from now. Galactus battles Ecce the Watcher for thousands of years until the universe dies, after which only Galactus and Nova (Frankie Raye) remains. Galactus releases his energies, creating a new Big Bang and Nova becomes the Galactus of the newly formed universe.
Earth-2149
In the Marvel Zombie universe, every super human, heroes and villains alike, become zombies after an infection brought by the Sentry. During this time, Galactus comes to Earth to feed on it. He comes down to see the zombie heroes all together. Galactus asks them where the Silver Surfer was and they reply this question by telling Galactus that they ate the Silver Surfer. Galactus gets shocked by this information and the zombies attack him, for they wanted to eat more food. They attack Galactus, but Galactus simply fends them off with the Power Cosmic. The zombie heroes retreat to think of a plan to defeat Galactus and Iron Man, Hulk as Bruce Banner, and Spider-Man all build on a machine that would defeat Galactus while the others attack Galactus to buy them some time. While the zombies attack Galactus the three zombie heroes Iron Man, Hulk, and Spider-Man finish the machine and all the heroes that had obtained Silver Surfer's power combined their powers into the machine and shoot beams of the Power Cosmic at Galactus. Galactus is weakened by this and they shoot a couple more shots, ultimately subduing Galactus to the ground. The heroes then fight with the villains to determine who would eat Galactus and they fight continuously. After the fight, the heroes are victorious because of the Power Cosmic, but soon Galactus awakens and slowly struggles to get up. The zombie heroes subdue Galactus once again and they feed on Galactus alive, and they all ultimately receive Galactus's power after Galactus is completely consumed.
Earth-2301
In the Marvel Mangaverse, Galactus is a planet-size, octopus-like life form with a single eye. Its tentacles are used for eating the planet, and it also has lifeforms within the tentacle called "Galactus Spores" that aids the creature in feeding.
Earth-1298
In the Mutant X reality, Galactus was to be imprisoned by the Celestials, but was killed by the Goblin Queen, Madelyne Pryor.
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