The Origin of Galactus

hey Heroes welcome to another Cosmic episode of history of the Marvel Universe this channel is sponsored in part by patreon supporters if you would like to contribute and vote in monthly polls that help decide what topics get covered on the channel then you can sign up for an amount of your choosing over at patreon.com Mar marvelite the link is in the description below along with other places you can find me of all the beings within the Marvel Universe few are more feared than the devour of Worlds known as galatis an entity of unfathomable power and a carnivore on a cosmic scale his arrival on a planet almost always Heralds the end of that world and all life on it as their energies are consumed to sustain him of course even a being such as he has a beginning but to explore this origin we must look back 14 billion years to the time before the big bangang you see just as universes are born and inevitably die the entire Cosmos itself exists in a Perpetual cycle of death and rebirth when a Multiverse dies a new one emerges in its place the Marvel universe as we know it began as part of the seventh iteration of the cosmos for a fuller explanation of this multiversal cycle and how it began please refer to my video on Captain Universe this week our story truly begins in the sixth incarnation of the cosmos where the concept of science was born nowhere was this more apparent than the planet t this was a world of technological Marvels a paradise of scientific and sociological Enlightenment it was also the home of the crusading technocrat and science Seer Supreme a humanoid woman named T using a womb tube of her own design T combined her own DNA with that of a chosen donor to create a son named gallan following his mother's example gallan grew up to become a science here a space Explorer and attained the rank of science Master however in his travels to the far reaches of the cosmos and back he discovered a terrifying unmistakable truth that everything he knew would soon come to an end as the universe approached its inevitable death as reality receded a sentient star plague called the black winter was spreading across the cosmos consuming all in its wake elsewhere and else when the mcon crystal an artifact containing a Nexus of all realities cracked and shattered this caused a fatal radiation sickness that swept across time and space these creeping plagues were discovered by gallon but no cure could be found eventually T was the only planet left in the last remaining universe of the sixth infinity and their population was dying however gallon decided that if he was going to die he would do so as he lived in the pursuit of Science and prepared for a final mission he convinced a handful of his fellow science seers to join him and as the Black Winter consumed everything else these explorers became the last living beings in the universe in this final Expedition they knew that they would either break through the ultra flow and discovered what awaited beyond space and time or perish gloriously they reached the center of the universe where all remaining matter was collapsing into a single point this big crun resulted in the creation of a blazing sphere of primordial energy called The Cosmic egg which resembled an enormous star According to some stories gallon and his men intentionally flew into the cosmic cauldron knowing that it would be their funeral P others suggest that they had every intention of surviving but were struck by a mega Cosmic raystorm before they could pierce the ultra flow in either case the the result was the same intense levels of radiation tore through their shielding killing everyone on board all except for gallon who had become the last living being in the entire Multiverse having taken notice of gallon the Black Winter chose to spare his life so that he could one day serve as a Herald of Destruction in the next Multiverse as his body was flooded with cosmic energy IES gallon could hear a voice reaching out to him one that claimed to belong to the sentient embodiment of the universe itself this voice urged him to survive it told him that while they would both soon die they could be reborn together as something new that while everything perished gallon of T need not in the next Universe he would be a be with the appetite of a galaxy but even more power he would be a ravager of galaxies he would be galatis the two merged together as gallen's Universe ended making way for what came next after the death of the sixth Cosmos was the birth of the seventh the cosmic egg exploded in a big bang that marked the beginning of the Marvel Universe from this eruption matter eventually coalesced into stars and planets Echoes of energy and Consciousness gave rise to new cosmic forces to embody the positive and negative extremes of time and space alongside his sister self Infinity eternity became the embodiment of this new reality himself a facet of a larger eternity that represented the Multiverse gallen's vessel was ejected out into this universe where it drifted for countless eons eventually it passed by an unnamed planet where a watcher named e was stationed the Watchers of course are one of the oldest and most powerful races in this new reality who earned their name by vowing to observe other races but never interfere e however was so odd by the incredible power that he sensed inside this this craft that he violated his Oath by telekinetically forcing it down to investigate further he entered a trepidatiously looking for any sign of life but initially finding only corpses upon discovering the unconscious form of the ship's sole survivor he sensed a tremendous energy within and began to study it soon after the being who was once gallon of tah broke out emerging as a creature of of pure cosmic energy terrified by what he saw e realized that this being was feeding on its own energy and would soon be afflicted by a terrible hunger the likes of which only a planet could satisfy he considered killing it then and there but such a direct action would be a far more Grievous violation of his oath as a watcher instead he fled the ship moments before it Departed and was left to ponder the consequences of his actions and inaction back in Space the thing that was gallon placed the remains of his Fallen comrades into a cylindrical vessel and sent them out to endlessly float Among the Stars he then crafted an armored bodysuit of his own design that would help regulate his energy levels finally he reshaped his entire ship transforming it into a silent incubator so that he could continue to evolve he drifted through space for a number of centuries before settling into orbit around the verdant Planet arop it was detected by that world's technologically advanced inhabitants but after a cursory investigation they elected not to tamper with the mysterious craft it ominously orbited undisturbed for years but eventually arop was caught in an Interstellar space War a mighty Armada had spread from a neighboring star system conquering and enslaving all in their wake as they overtook arop they also detected the incuba cell orbiting the planet and suspected that it was some kind of weapon the archeops decided to open the craft just as the Invaders prepared to open fire upon it but neither side could have predicted did what would happen next just as the Invaders launched a fullscale assault on the vessel its occupant incubation period concluded completely unaffected by the alien assault the craft split open and from within emerged the being who declared himself galatis reborn as a cosmic entity Galactus already felt the pangs of centuries worth of hunger with a sing attack he completely crushed the invading Fleet and absorbed their living energy however this was not nearly enough to satiate his ravenous hunger he next turned his attention to the planet itself and consumed the life energies of uropia and all its inhabitants escaping total Extinction a small Fleet of surviving kopian launched into deep space they became a nomadic people with no real home and thus their race was eventually known as The Wanderers in the aftermath of his meal Galactus touched down on the planet that he had just ravaged a world that had midwifed his rebirth without him ever knowing it the first of many planets that would fall victim to his ceaseless hunger he surveyed the surface of the Dead world and beheld the destruction that he had wrought he grimly accepted his new role in The Cosmic hierarchy of an unfamiliar universe and discarded any concept of guilt however he also refused to believe that his new power could be used only for Devastation over the following Millennia he utilized the awesome energies deep within himself henceforth known as the power Cosmic to embark on a construction project the likes of which had never been seen every few centuries he was forced to his work and prow the stars for more worlds to feed on but when he was finished he had created a vessel so large that it engulfed the entire arop and star system one unlike any other in creation so massive that entire planets orbited around it this would be a vessel fit for a god a home for galatis named in honor of the planet on which gallon was born his world ship tat 2 during his subsequent travels Across the Universe he collected various artifacts weapons and rare animals which he kept on display within his worldship among the devices he obtained perhaps the most noteworthy was the ultimate nullifier a handheld weapon created by The Watcher M new deceptively small the ultimate nullifier possessed unfathomable destructive cap abilities while able to completely erase any Target from existence even one as powerful as Galactus it took extreme mental fortitude to properly wield in the wrong hands it could instantly eradicate the entire universe along with the wielder galatis of course was perfectly capable of firing this device without collateral damage but rarely resorted to doing so in addition to T 2 he also con constructed a much smaller spherical craft that he would often use for transport another device he designed and built was the elemental converter a massive machine that would drain a planet of all Life Energy and as the name suggests convert it into an elemental form that he could easily consume while none of these machines were strictly necessary for him to Traverse the universe and consume planets they served to make the process more efficient relatively early in his new life Galactus Came Upon A group of beings known as the proemial gods these entities were among the first to emerge in this reality and served to balance Order and Chaos in the universe's early days as life spread and the status quo settled into place the age of the proemial Gods came to an end however one of their number diabl of chaos resisted the notion of becoming obsolete and sought to remake the universe he corrupted the purpose of the proemial Gods and convinced others such as tenebrous the darkness and ages of all Sorrows to join him this resulted in a war that claimed the lives of a number of these Gods before dibler encountered Galactus that marked the end of the war as Galactus killed diablerie and defeated his two greatest supporters tenebrous and AIS were then imprisoned by Galactus who sealed them inside a structure on the edge of the universe called the kill while its Origins are unknown this prison was actually a massive set of generators that Drew power from the crunch a cascading energy surge generated by the expansion of the universe Galactus continued to wander the universe initially sustaining himself on uninhabited worlds during this time he could go centuries between meals But as time passed his hunger grew more frequent and more ravenous he began consuming populated planets justifying this by considering himself a higher being he succeeded in discarding any sympathy he had for his victims and accepted his role as a ravager of Worlds he also came to believe that he would one day compensate for all the destruction he caused as indicated in Prophecy his purpose in the cosmic hierarchy was further cemented after meeting with two of the universe's four most fundamental abstract entities eternity and death in the cosmology of this reality these two represented the positive and negative sides of the temporal axis eternity was the embodiment of time and has been described as the sum total of all life in the universe whereas death served as his net natural opposite these two concluded that galatis represented a balance between their two extremes and allowed him to continue serving this purpose of course it should be noted that Galactus is not considered an abstract entity as he still physically exists within the material Universe although his position in the cosmic hierarchy does afford him the ability to inhabit an mbody from the dimension of manifestations this is something that abstract entities with no real physical form generally do when communicating with corporeal beings but certain other powerful entities are also able to do so despite this delineation between the material and the abstract there's still quite literally more than meets the eye when it comes to galactus's physical form as he is somewhat beyond what one might consider a living being in the traditional sense and some have even described him as a force of nature while Gallen and the people of T were indeed humanlike in appearance the same strictly speaking is not true for Galactus in fact whether appearing in person or manifesting as an mbody he will generally look different to every species that sees him as their minds attempt to comprehend his form this most commonly results in individuals perceiving him as having features that resemble their own specific race however this is not exclusively the case as he has also taken on other alien forms on occasion his size is similarly variable sometimes reflecting his level of power but he most often appears to be just under 29 ft tall early on in his journeys Across the Universe Galactus decided to forge a companion for himself he created this being in his own image and gave it life however this creation was dissatisfied with its Master whereas Galactus was perfectly content to wander the stars and simply consume enough to survive his new companion sought to conquer and Rule with an iron fist becoming known throughout the universe as Tyrant he was eventually opposed by Galactus himself who reduced his creation's size and power considerably this allowed the spin Hood an urch Sisterhood of warrior women who opposed tyrant's rule to banish the wouldbe Conqueror to an unknown corner of the universe after that Galactus employed a number of mindlessly loyal servants the most notable of which being a merciless Warrior called The Punisher while its exact Origins are unconfirmed this enigmatic entity has been described as an alien cyborg from the outer rim of the known universe that was collected by Galactus composed of metallized living tissue it's unclear whether or not the Punisher was originally a single being or part of a larger race but it has demonstrated the ability to duplicate itself to create more on occasion Galactus has deployed his punishers in greater numbers but in these cases the duplicates seem to be notably less durable than the original another servant he once created was an adaptable program called the cosmos automaton this entity was made to streamline the process of consuming populated Worlds by traveling there ahead of Galactus and breaking down its targets defenses he utilized this program for approximately 30,000 years but there were a number of instances in which his Target's population successfully reprogrammed the cosmos automaton and sent it back to attack its creator while this did not ultimately save any of the targeted worlds it did slow galactus's feeding process enough times for him to discontinue its use sometime later he decided to instead enlist a sentient being to endow with a portion of the power Cosmic and serve as his Herald the true name of his first Herald has been lost to time but he eventually became known as the Fallen one after being cast out for his corrupt and violent nature Galactus defeated and imprisoned the Fallen one and while he escaped a number of times over the following centuries he was always returned to captivity by his former Master it's possible that there are other undocumented Heralds like the being that was briefly seen forging ahead when Galactus visited the Earth in 1582 in that particular instance Galactus was repelled by the Brotherhood of The Shield who sacrificed many of their members to power a device capable of forcing him back however he was without any such Herald when he later came to the peaceful scientifically Advanced planet of Zen La as he made his preparations to consume this world he was approached by the Zen laavian scholar norin rad who beseeched him to find another suitable Planet Galactus remarked that had he a Herald to find one such a thing might be possible and so norin rad made him an offer in exchange for sparing and law he would be the next Herald of Galactus endowed with the power Cosmic and coated in a metallic life-preserving substance norin rad was reborn as the Silver Surfer over the following centuries the surfer served Galactus initially leading him to suitable worlds without sentient life but over time Galactus slowly suppressed his Herald's emotions robbing him of his previous identity and making him more willing to sacrifice populated planets this included worlds like Jud a planet that had been overrun by alien symbiotes lofam the original home world of the lupoid race that nebula is allegedly a member of and tus a cre planet on the outer rim of the greater melanic Cloud Galaxy still clinging to some semblance of morality the surfer attempted to choose worlds whose population were primitive or warlike eventually leading him to the planet Earth The Watcher who lived on Earth's Moon uatu detected the surfer's approach and attempted to conceal the planet from him when this failed he warned his superhuman allies the Fantastic Four of the threat that was approaching their world but they were powerless to stop it breaking his Oath by interfering directly uatu attempt to reason with Galactus meeting him at top of the backer building home of the Fantastic 4 but neither argument nor Armament could deter Galactus from his Grim task as he began assembling his Elemental converter the heroes bought what little time they could as Ben Grim the thing interrupted the converter's construction not bothering to Sully his own hands Galactus dispatched his loyal servant The Punisher to battle these three pests meanwhile the Silver Surfer met the Fantastic Forest Ally Alicia Masters whose kindness and spirit awakened his long dormant emotions turning on his master he sided with the Earthly Heroes against galatis in the midst of this you may have noticed that one member of the Fantastic Four has not been present that's because uatu the Watcher sent Johnny Storm the Human Torch on a secret mission to T 2 to retrieve the one weapon that could threaten the world eater returning to Earth mesmerized by what he saw he placed the ultimate nullifier in the hands of his teammate Mr Fantastic looking down Galactus beheld a human wielding a device that could eradicate the universe and everything in it the cosmic equivalent of a child holding the Detonator to an atom bomb he knew that only The Watcher could have possibly orchestrated this but by this point it was too late with the risk far out weighing the reward Galactus renounced his claim over the Earth in exchange for the weapon return the surfer however would not be spared his master's wrath and while he was released from Duty he was also confined to the planet he'd helped save as Galactus departed in a flash of light he erected a Cosmic barrier around the earth that was specifically attuned to the silver surfer's energy and prevented him from leaving returning to the Stars Galactus went out in search of his next meal over the following years he would take on more Heralds and consume more worlds he would continue to be feared across the cosmos as the universe's greatest Destroyer the ravager of Realms the e leader of planets galatis the Devourer but that is all I have for you this week so thank you so much for watching this video If you enjoyed it be sure to leave a like subscribe to the channel and share it on your favorite social media as always the issues referenced in this video are listed in the description below if you would like to read them for yourself as well as links to other places you can find me let me give a special shout out to all of my supporters on patreon or Kofi uh my twitch subscri subcribers and my YouTube members who help make the channel possible by signing up for any ongoing amount on any of these platforms you'll get your 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Published: Sat Jun 22 2024