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Galactus is a world devourer and relatively neutral figure in Marvel comics.
I mean, he definitely has done a lot of bad but he's also stood up to big bads that were
worse than him.
And interestingly enough a lot of people feel bad for Galactus, stating that he's just hungry.
Throughout the various alternate earth's in the Marvelverse, there are alternates that
both paint the character as a villain and redeem him as a hero.
Myself personally I love that he is complex enough to be often considered as neither.
He's just a really hungry dude!
While I've never been hungry enough to eat a planet, I definitely understand his need
to feed.
And understand why Galactus sometimes can be callous or grumpy, he's just hangry, guys.
The character was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby and first appeared in Fantastic
Four volume 1 issue 48.
Today we're not going to be focusing on this version of the character however.
Instead we'll be looking at his top 10 alternate versions which show us various sides of this
cosmic character.
And be sure to stick around to the end of the video as well for some bonus content.
Alright, let's get counting.
10 2007 Fantastic Four film: Rise of the Silver
Surfer
This version of Galactus was just a huge tease.
The 2007 film told the story of Galactus as a devourer of worlds with Silver Surfer as
his standard herald but we never get to hear the story from Galactus himself.
The foes doesn't even really appear in the film, well not in the usual sense.
Apparently the filmmakers wanted to save his actual appearance for a potential later Silver
Surfer film which of course, never happened as this was the last Fantastic Four film within
the early 2000's franchise.
Instead Galactus is simply portrayed a giant cosmic storm or cloud.
Or fart.
Depending on what this looks like to you.
You could however sort of see the shape of a flaming helmet within it as Silver Surfer
seems to defeat Galactus at the end of the film, killing himself in the process.
Which is also a weird ending for Galan as Silver Surfer gets his power from him in typical
comic lore.
9 Franklin Richards
The series Earth X, sees our heroes battling against the Celestials.
The Celestials are a nigh undefeatable and untouchable groupe of beings with only the
One Above All well, above them, in terms of power level and invincibility.
It was discovered that Galactus was actually needed to help keep the Celestials in check
and help prevent overpopulation throughout the galaxy, in a world where we now had no
Galactus as Reed Richards had converted his energy into a star.
As such Franklin offers to step up and become the new Galactus.
He uses of the High Evolutionary's devices to evolve himself to the third tier or mutation,
which allows one to become what others imagine them to be.
Because people very much want Franklin to become the new Galactus, this is what he becomes.
8 Galactron
The book Marvel Universe Millennial Visions allowed different comicbook artists and writers
to share their own spin on some of the most famous Marvel characters.
Jorge Lucas described a version of the marvelverse where Galactus was gone and a new threat appeared
to devour worlds who was even stronger called the Unnamable.
Silver Surfer sees the great threat that this entity poses and attempts to reassemble and
resurrect Galactus with the addition of Ultron parts.
He succeeds.
This version of Galactus appears to be under the Silver Surfer's complete control due to
him being robotic.
The two heroes take on the Unnameable but are not strong enough to defeat him, the Silver
Surfer burns up so much energy that he begins to turn red, resembling a Red Dwarf star.
The two are not powerful enough to defeat Unnameable and are forced to retreat.
Silver Surfer recruits former enemies, Thanos and Annihilus, as new Heralds in preparation
for their next attempt at taking down Unnameable.
7 Full Galactus
In Guardians of the Galaxy volume 1, issues 24 and 25 we are reintroduced to the famous
Galactus herald of Silver Surfer as the Keeper.
An entity who works to be a giver and creator of life.
When tasked with finally defeating Galactus as he is finally strong enough to do so with
his Quantum Bands, Silver Surfer ultimately makes the decision to use his power to help
Galactus instead.
Feeding him a bunch of energy, Galactus is cured of his hunger, finally feeling full.
As a result this alternate version from the future of earth 691, joins with Silver Surfer
as his equal and the two decide to roam the galaxies together.
What they're planning on doing exactly, I'm not quite sure.
During the two's fight as well, Silver Surfer has his surfboard broken and is super upset
but then later seems to rebuild it with ease, no longer being called the Keeper by the end
of issue 25.
So many amazing moments in 90s comics.
6 The World Butcher
On alternate earth 14412, the earth is an empty barren wasteland when Galactus returns
to consume it.
King Thor is one of the few people left to visit the empty planet.
And he is there with his three granddaughters when the World Devourer returns.
He sends his his granddaughters away so that he might stop Galactus and fight him.
The two battle and King Thor gets blasted into space, presumably dead.
The three granddaughters return to put a stop to Galactus themselves and just as he was
about to defeat them, King Thor returns from outer space with All-Black the Necrosword
and defeats Galactus.
He allows Galactus to devour Mars.
The Necrosword although thought to be destroyed is not and the All-Black bonded with Galactus
transforming him into the Butcher of Worlds.
This version of Galan was later devoured himself by Ego the Living Planet.
Showing us that on earth 14412 sometimes the planets eat you.
5 Galactiac
Amalgam comics reimagined Galactus for their purposes.
In Challengers of the Fantastic we follow Sue "Ace" Storm, Reed "Prof" Richards, Johnny
"Red" Storm, and Ben "Rocky" Grimm as they go up against Galactiac.
Yeah, he's just what he sounds like.
A villain who imagines what you would get if you mashed up DC's Braniac and Marvel's
Galactus.
In other words, he does not completely devour worlds, he shrinks a portion of them down
to miniature size for study and devours the rest.
He still has his famous herald as well, though this version is called the Silver Racer and
has a really swanky cape.
4 Gah Lak Tus
In the Ultimate universe, Galactus is called Gah Lak Tus and is a city of robotic drones
who share a hive mind approximately 100,000 miles long.
Before Gah Lak Tus arrives to devour planets, they send their own version of heralds whose
job it is to introduce a flesh eating virus before their arrival.
Gah Lak Tus also works towards exterminating planets using psychic fear broadcasts.
This version is an entity that finds organic life offensive and thus eradicates it and
then cracks open a planet and sucks out its energy, akin to someone shucking and then
devouring an oyster.
Fortunately earth does get warned of Gah Lak Tus' arrival by a Kree android named Vision,
designed to warn planets of the World Devourer's impending arrival.
3 Galactus Engine
The Thanos Imperative series explores a world under attack where the Galactus Engine is
an entity that came from the Cancerverse, a world that is basically like a living corpse,
where Death has been defeated.
The Cancerverse, earth 100011 decided to invade earth 616 and liberate it of it's concept
of Death by defeating them.
The Galactus Engine is one of the greatest weapons to come from the Cancerverse and basically
looks like a disembodied skeletal Galactus head.
This is a being powerful enough to destroy and terrify even the abstract representatives
of earth 616.
Galactus of earth 616 and the heroes of earth 616 end up taking on the Galactus Engine and
the rest of the Cancerverse.
Fortunately they win the day and in this case Death prevails in a good way.
Still, impressive given how large and seemingly undefeatable the Galactus Engine looks.
Just look at the scale of it when compared to earth 616 Galactus.
2 Silver Galactus
Earth 982 Galactus was your typical hungry world devourer when he tried satiate his hunger
with Captain America in the form of a star.
Yeah, when he died, Captain America became a star on this alternate earth.
Don't ask me, Thor is the one responsible for this dramatic preservation of Steve Rogers.
Anyways, Galactus felt that star Captain America was the key to him finally satiating his hunger,
an ingredient in a particular recipe that would allow him to create a new universe which
would somehow cure him of his eternal hunger.
Alas he was defeated by the heroes of earth 982.
However this resulted in him merging with the Silver Surfer which transformed Galactus.
No longer was a destroyer of worlds or life but a creator and protector of them.
1 Mangaverse
The Mangaverse has maybe the weirdest and coolest version of Galactus.
This version from earth 2301 is a anti-life virus used and created by the Skrulls.
It is a giant red eyeball with tentacles that flies through space using it's galactus spores
to help it digest life and suck planets dry of all their life and energy.
Leave it to the Mangaverse to turn Galactus into a tentacle monster.
The Fantastic Four and Marvin Ellwood, son of this earth's Captain Marvel and Ms Marvel
and heir to the Captain Marvel name, team up to defeat Galactus.
This ends with a journey inside the monster, where they venture to find it's heart.
However it's heart is guarded by Skrulls gods.
Truly one of the most anime of the mangaverse stories.
The mangaverse should be transforming into its own anime-style animated series.
Thank you so much for watching, nerd squad.
I hope you enjoyed exploring some of the alternate versions of Galactus with me.
A lot of good ones that combine him with other characters and where he is a completely different
character entirely.
Like when Franklin becomes Galactus.
Those two are such bffs for life.
What are some of your favourite Galactus moments and stories?
Are there any alternates that you feel we missed?
Let us know in the comments below.
And speaking of comments, I have some bonus content for you in the form of comment responses
from my last video, Top 10 2099 Alternate Versions that are better than the original.
B Black says, "Top 10 Amanda McKnight shirts and hoodies!"
Hahaha, thank you for the suggestion.
Perhaps I will have to do a countdown of those on my instagram or twitter.
I feel like my shark hoodie has to be in the top 3.
I'm jawsome!
Glad you enjoy my insanely large sweater collection.
Zorastorm 32 says, "you're walking through a neighbourhood at 2am and you see this,"
referring to 2099 Daredevil.
I'm with you!
I think 2099 Daredevil is the freakiest version.
I love that costume and those glowing red eyes.
So intimidating!
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