Power Cosmic - Fictional Character Biography

Fictional Character Biography

Galactus was originally the explorer Galan from the planet Taa, which existed in the pre-Big Bang universe. When an impending cataclysm gradually kills all other life in his universe, he and other survivors leave Taa via a space vessel, eventually becoming engulfed in the Big Crunch. However, Galan does not die, but is transformed through a bonding with the Sentience of the Universe. He gestates for billions of years in the next universe that formed, emerging as Galactus. A Watcher ("Ecce") observes the birth of Galactus and realizes his fledging destructive nature, but chooses not to take the opportunity to kill him. Once fully aware, Galactus experiences hunger so strongly that he consumes the nearby planet of Archeopia. The planet ultimately becomes the first of many, as Galactus must consume their life energies for sustenance. In memory of both his dead homeworld of Taa and for the first planet to fall prey to his hunger, Galactus constructs his new "homeworld", Taa II.

Later on, Galactus becomes involved in a civil war amongst the "Proemial Gods", who came into being during the universe's infancy as caretakers of cosmic balance. After a faction of the gods led by Diableri of Chaos attempts to remake the universe in their image, Galactus slays Diableri and imprisons two other rebel gods, Tenebrous and Aegis, in the Kyln.

Galactus is later compelled to create a being in his own image, named Tyrant. Tyrant rebels, and after a terrible battle they part ways. Eventually, Galactus decides to empower others as a Herald to locate worlds for him. Galactus makes his first herald, the Fallen One, but is unhappy with him, and dismisses him. He later recruits Norrin Radd as the Silver Surfer.

An undetermined amount of time afterwards, Galactus makes his way to Earth, but is defeated by the efforts of the Fantastic Four, Uatu the Watcher, and a rebellious Silver Surfer. Galactus leaves Earth, vowing that he will never try to consume it again. As he leaves, he relegates the Silver Surfer to Earth for betraying him.

Galactus later returns seeking his former Herald, but the Surfer is unrepentant and chooses to remain on Earth. Thor encounters Galactus when the entity comes into conflict with Ego the Living Planet, and eventually discovers Galactus' origin.

Once more returning to Earth, Galactus again seeks to re-enlist the Silver Surfer. However, the Fantastic Four and the Surfer defeat Galactus' herald, Air-Walker, and Mr. Fantastic reprograms Galactus's ship to journey to the Negative Zone, stated to contain an abundance of uninhabited worlds to consume. Thor and Olympian ally Hercules encounter Galactus when his next herald, Firelord, travels to Earth seeking to be free of his master. Galactus frees Firelord when Thor presents Galactus with the Asgardian Destroyer to animate and use as a Herald.

Conflict with the High Evolutionary occurs when Galactus attempts to devour Counter-Earth. The encounter ends with Galactus being transformed into harmless energy after attempting to devour the planet Poppup. Galactus eventually reintegrates into his normal form, and is sought out by the Fantastic Four, who seek a way to stop a new cosmic threat, the Sphinx. Mister Fantastic offers to release Galactus from the latter's vow of avoiding Earth if he helps defeat the Sphinx. Galactus agrees, but under the condition the Fantastic Four recruit Terrax as a new Herald. The heroes are successful, and the newly empowered Terrax leads his new master to Earth. Galactus locates the Sphinx in Egypt and defeats the villain, then decides to retreat when Mister Fantastic threatens to use a fake Ultimate Nullifier.

Galactus is tricked by the Galadorian Spaceknight Rom into attempting to devour the "Black Nebula", the home of the Dire Wraiths. The devourer is repelled by the magic "Wraith Sun"; and although weakened, pursues a rebellious Terrax to Earth and strips his herald of all power. Drained of energy, Galactus is saved by the combined efforts of the Fantastic Four and Avengers, and acquires another herald, Nova.

Later, Galactus destroys the Skrull homeworld and discusses his role in the universe with fellow cosmic entity Death. When Mister Fantastic is captured due to his role in saving Galactus' life, he is placed on trial by a united group of aliens who are remnants of races which have been annihilated by Galactus' hunger. During the trial, the cosmic entity Eternity—the sentience of the Marvel Universe—intervenes, allowing all present to momentarily become one with the universe. This permits them to understand that Galactus is a vital part of cosmic order, despite the continued loss of entire races. Following the encounter, none present can remember exactly why Galactus is necessary, but the feeling of revelation remains.

During the Secret Wars, Galactus battles with Earth's superheroes and supervillains against the Beyonder. Afterwards, Galactus grants clemency to the Surfer, who aids his former master against the Elders of the Universe and the schemes of the In-Betweener. Galactus aids the cosmic hierarchy in a war against the mutant Eternal Thanos, who possessed the Infinity Gauntlet.

When Nova is plagued by conscience at causing the deaths of billions of alien beings, Galactus takes on a new Herald, the bloodthirsty Morg. Tyrant returns, and despite capturing the Surfer, Morg and several other cosmic-powered aliens, is thwarted by Thanos, and finally destroyed when Morg uses the Ultimate Nullifier.

Galactus eventually decides, with the aid of new Herald Red Shift, to only devour the energies of living beings. This brings him into conflict with Earth's heroes and other united alien races. During a final confrontation near the homeworld of the Shi'ar, the Silver Surfer turns Galactus' own siphoning-machines on him. A starving Galactus dies, with his remains taking the form of a star.

The death of Galactus allows the entity Abraxas – a metaphysical embodiment of destruction and antithesis of cosmic entity Eternity – to emerge from his imprisonment. Abraxas wreaks havoc across thousands of alternate universes, killing every incarnation of Galactus that he encounters. Abraxas is thwarted when the children of Reed Richards, Franklin Richards and Valeria Von Doom, exhaust their powers to restore Galactus, and Mister Fantastic uses the Ultimate Nullifier to reset reality, preventing Abraxas' initial escape and mass destruction.

Plagued by his conscience, Galactus attempts to rid himself of his hunger by feeding on the power from the Infinity Gems, but is tricked into releasing a greater predator called the "Hunger", that feeds on entire universes. The creature's access is sealed with the aid of Thanos.

When an alien race develops a technology that renders planets invisible to Galactus, he empowers the Human Torch (who has temporarily traded powers with the Invisible Woman) as an unwilling herald to locate these planets. The Fantastic Four and Quasar are able to free the Torch by temporarily transforming Galactus back into Galan.

Galactus consumes the Korbinite home world of the hero Beta Ray Bill and reveals a new herald: Stardust.

When the Negative Zone villain Annihilus launches a war on the universe, one of his first attacks destroys the Kyln and frees Tenebrous and Aegis. Sensing their release, Galactus temporarily releases Stardust from service, and reemploys the Silver Surfer as his herald. Intent on vengeance, Aegis and Tenebrous find and defeat the Silver Surfer and Galactus, delivering them to Annihilus.

Annihilus binds Galactus, and plans to use the latter's energies to destroy all life in the universe. Drax the Destroyer ultimately frees Galactus, and after Galactus teleports Drax to safety, he unleashes a blast that destroys the majority of Annihilus' forces. Galactus accepts Stardust as his herald once again, now alongside Silver Surfer. Seeking a final confrontation with Aegis and Tenebrous, Galactus sends out the Silver Surfer to locate them. The Surfer finds them and engages them in battle, drawing Aegis and Tenebrous into the barrier between the universe and the Negative Zone, which destroys them.

After an encounter with Epoch, Galactus consumes the planet Orbucen. Afterwards, Galactus and Stardust once again come into conflict with Beta Ray Bill when a distraught Bill seeks vengeance against Galactus for the destruction of the Korbinite homeworld. Feeling empathy for being the only survivor of a destroyed planet, Galactus creates a female Korbinite for Bill.

Galactus is eventually drawn to the planet Sakaar and devours it, earning the enmity of Skaar and Hiro-Kala. Hiro-Kala manages to temporarily poison Galactus with the Old Power, a synthesized form of the Power Cosmic.

The Silver Surfer finds the dead body of a future Galactus underneath New York City, and summons the present Galactus to Earth, who confronts Mister Fantastic. Mister Fantastic explains that in the future, the heroes living on a dying Earth had killed Galactus in order to perform time travel and escape to the present. Discovering that those same heroes live on a planet called "Nu-Earth" in the present timeline, Galactus destroys the planet and its inhabitants as retribution.

As a result of the Annihilation Wave and other interstellar conflicts, a tear in the fabric of space allows the extra-universal forces of the Cancerverse—a universe where Death does not exist—to invade. Galactus, along with the Celestials and the resurrected Tenebrous and Aegis, combats the powerful Cancerverse weapon, the Galactus Engine.

During the "Chaos War" storyline, Galactus is teleported to Earth by Hercules to help fight the Chaos King, a metaphysical embodiment of oblivion and another antithesis of Eternity. While Hulk and his allies, the God Squad, Alpha Flight, and the surviving Dead Avengers fight Amatsu-Mikaboshi's forces, Amadaeus Cho and Galactus work on a machine that will transfer Earth to the sealed-off continuum.

After an encounter with the High Evolutionary, Galactus attacks Asgard. The Silver Surfer states Galactus seeks an Asgardian artifact that would sate his hunger and spare future civilizations, while Odin contends that Galactus wishes to ensure that a new Galactus does not replace him in the next universe. Galactus and Odin engage in battle that is ended when the Silver Surfer offers to remain on Earth to guard the artifact, with the agreement that Galactus can have it after Asgard passes away. To replace the Surfer, Galactus takes a preacher as his new herald, dubbed "Praeter".