Fantastic Four: 10 Villains Who Would Have Been Better Than Dr Doom

2. Galactus

Oh boy. Ok, here we go. To be honest, Galactus in the comic books isn't exactly a credible threat. He's a thousand-foot high giant man in purple armour. His motivation is his hunger... for worlds. It's kind of difficult for something like that to be a credible threat in a live-action film. To get around this, the Galactus in Rise of the Silver Surfer appeared as a swirling cloud of space dust with a human face. And yes, he pretty much sucked, largely because the character was far too nebulous to be a credible threat. Galactus only reached the Earth in the final five minutes of the film, and never actually faced off against the Fantastic Four. Instead, the Fantastic Four persuaded his herald, the Silver Surfer, to fight him off instead. So Silver Surfer effectively became the gun that the Fantastic Four used to shoot a giant space cloud monster in the face. Far more exciting either the comic book or the film version of the character is the Ultimate Galactus. An endless, nigh-unstoppable swarm of city-sized insects that hate all biological life and seek to consume everything in their path. Instead of the Silver Surfer, the Gah Lak Tus swarm uses a group of shapeshifting, silver-coloured robots that introduce a flesh-eating virus to the world. Oh, and they braodcast a set of signals on tv that drive people to suicide. Yeah. Ultimate Galactus was pretty much the eighth plague of Egypt but IN SPACE.