10 Weirdest Parts Of Cosmic Marvel Comics

3. That Three-Headed Golden Giant Who Controls Reality

The Living Tribunal doesn€™t show up much in Marvel Comics, but when it does, you know something big€™s happening. Usually, the most common cosmic €œobserver€ to the events of the larger, more iconic superhero battles is The Watcher, that egg-headed bloke with the cape who recently got his eyes pulled out in Original Sin. A few notches above Uatu is The Living Tribunal, a humongous golden man with three heads and a purple tea towel draped across all of his shiny skulls. He was established as the supreme power in the Marvel Universe during an early Stan Lee-penned Doctor Strange story, where the Sorcerer Supreme had to prove Earth was worth not destroying. Traditional, real-life deities such as those from Christianity, Islam and Judaism exist in Marvel Comics, but they€™re more just super-beings on the level of Odin. The Living Tribunal, meanwhile, is The God of the universe. All alternate universes, too. So if you pray in Marvel, it€™s too a giant naked gold man with three floating heads. And people make fun of Scientology.
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