Posted: 26 August 2014 at 9:54pm | IP Logged | 11
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In a "What If" reality in which there were no heroes to combat the threat of Galactus, would the Watcher have interceded on behalf of the Earth? Without the Watcher tipping us off as to the Ultimate Nullifier and sending someone to retrieve it, would Galactus have backed down that first time?
How has he been defeated or dissuaded on other occasions? He would not bargain with the villains, presumably, unless one wanted to write him as incredibly naive. Earth wasn't Galactus' first picnic with talking ants, after all. One would think he's been challenged before.
Reed's essential good character was a factor in Galactus "talking to his salad" in the first place. That was after he tried offing the FF with bug spray and siccing his cat on them. Okay, more a big, robot-y thing with really fast moving arms, but still, the same principle. So how does Doom get Galactus to talk with him and what does he threaten him with to make him go away? Does Doom come up with some means of defeating & presumably killing Galactus that Reed didn't? Is he the smarter one?
Well, no, it would inevitably turn out that killing Galactus was a mistake since he has a place in the cosmos and an ultimate purpose which he would no longer be able to fill. What became of all those continuums in which Abraxas killed the local Galactus in much the same way Magog went around killing all the Earth-2 Supermen he could reach by going back in time one minute sooner each time, killing him, then going back one minute earlier, killing that one, and so on?
Didn't Marvel establish that Galactus' purpose is simply to keep Abraxas at bay and prevent him from manifesting? One character is basically reduced to being the cork in the bottle of an even bigger, more menacing one the writer just thought up, ala' Darkseid and the Cosmic Odyssey take on the Anti-Life Equation? Yuck.
If that's all that happens when Galactus dies, I guess we could then have Doom take out Abraxas too. Hey, he did defeat the Beyonder after Galactus failed to... Taking down Abraxas would likely be a cakewalk for the guy.
Dr. Doom is kind of the Marvel Universe equivalent of fanboy Batman when you think about it... With sufficient preparation, he can beat anybody.
As for whether Galactus can eat Asgard, I'd vote No. Magic realms aren't exactly planets. Different energies would be involved, presumably greater ones, given the god-like nature of the inhabitants. Wouldn't Galactus have figured out long ago that eating planets was comparatively pathetic compared to eating the realm of each planet's gods? Would Galactus eating an alien God be cannibalism for him? In any case, the menace Galactus presents was fairly well defined early on. Changing the game to make him a magical character who eats other magical characters as well seems badly conceived...
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