10 Shockingly Dark Origins Of Comic Villains

Galactus was Galan, a scientist on the idyllic planet Taa in the universe before the current 616 Universe. That universe was near its last end and was undergoing a “Big Crunch” where all the energy of the galaxy would be compressed until the next “Big Bang.” Galan and others traveled to the focal point of what was left, but only he survived.

The embodiment of that universe, the Sentience of the Cosmos, merged with Galan to create the being Galactus, Destroyer of Worlds. He and his ship exploded into the new universe along with the new embodiments, Eternity and Infinity. Drifting for eons as the new universe began to form itself, Galactus eventually used his power to create a suit of armor to house his energies and to reshape the ship into an incubator to evolve over thousands upon thousands of years.

Emerging from his metamorphosis, Galactus consumed the nearby planet of Archeopia, with only some of the population escaping in time. He reconfigured his ship into the solar system size Taa II. It was a century before he needed to feed again but that time period became lessened. Galactus would only feed on uninhabited worlds at first but eventually the Destroyer appointed heralds to find any world to satiate his hunger.