PLEASE let Galactus be a returning villain

Ralph Ineson killed it as Galactus and it was so unsettling seeing such a massive cosmic entity look over the planet.
He would make a great villain for a larger group in a future film. Perhaps he would be able to showcase his size scaling abilities where he can grow to hold earth in his palm.
Marvel has such a knack for casting amazing actors for these villain roles and writing the villains really well, but then we never see them again!
(Looking at you, Hela...)

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SirRichardLove2025-12-08 19:09

The ff4 couldn't defeat him. He's invincible, it's hard to write for an invincible character. I'm not sure they really can add him again unless he's less powerful, because as it stands, his surfer is more powerful than most if not all MCU characters by herself let alone Galactus who is insane.

JackDis232025-12-08 19:59

This is why the Gods made the Eternals.

leuno2025-12-08 20:32

They saved the ultimate nullifier though, so they could still make that a big plot point if he comes back for some avengers level movie

Dangerous_Donkey53532025-12-08 20:37

What would the next timeline for avengers movie after doomsday and secret wars? 2030 maybe? Oof thats a long time to wait for a next appearance.

leuno2025-12-08 20:42

Galactus is part of the original secret wars, so maybe we won’t be waiting that long at all

Dangerous_Donkey53532025-12-08 20:43

I guess we have a chance for 2027 then! Fingers crossed.

leuno2025-12-08 20:45

I sure hope so. He was cool af

Hufflepuffpassmethej2025-12-08 20:57

Disney's next biggest mistake would be waiting half a decade AGAIN in between Avengers films

dont make us wait another 5-7 years after Secret wars for another big Avengers film. Unless they do something like a teamup-versus movie like civil war was, they need to continue making avengers films basically forever. nothing makes them money like Avengers films

Dangerous_Donkey53532025-12-08 21:00

I agree. I'm still a big fan and have watched every piece of media they put out and enjoyed almost all of it (looking at you secret invasion) but I hope they look at the mistakes post end game and tighten it up moving forward.

ebietoo2025-12-09 02:37

They only did that gap because they had Jonathan Majors all cued up as Kang, and then he became box office poison.

Diablo_N_Doc2025-12-09 19:42

I never like the plan of Avengers movies being saga cappers.

LewisRyan2025-12-09 09:02

I mean…

There is one obvious answer as to who can essentially tell galactus to fuck off and not return

oorza2025-12-09 12:33

There isn’t, not unless they change the cosmology. Galactus is *almost* an Abstract and they consider him a peer. He has to feed the power cosmic, and if he doesn’t, the universe cannot function. He’s a step or two above Arishem in the cosmic hierarchy.

But he’s also an irrational fuckwit, so he gets himself spanked and sent away a lot, but he can never be truly defeated. He’s most often used as a prop to give a feat to somebody tbh

LewisRyan2025-12-09 13:05

Franklin has made galactus into his own herald before.

Picture it: fantastic four: final steps, the team has to work with galactus to take down a power hungry Franklin?

Sounds like it would sell to me

Meizas2025-12-10 07:35

I would love to see Galactus attacking earth when Arishem returns, but Arishem says something like "I have judged the people of this world... And find them worthy" - and then he holds off Galactus enough for the heroes to defeat him

oorza2025-12-10 07:55

eh, I think it's far more likely Galactus shows up to eat Earth, Arishem has beef with that, so there's a silly "court room" of the abstracts that ultimately decides they're too biased so they must appoint an impartial judge of some sort, who turns out to be Thanos because of course this is a Starlin story.

FreeStall422025-12-10 10:52

All it takes to beat him is for someone to write a comic where it happens.

CaptHayfever2025-12-09 17:13

We all know who you mean: Squirrel Girl.

RandAlThorOdinson2025-12-08 20:50

Fantastic fantastic 4

Fantastic four 4

ImpatientAndy2025-12-08 22:54

If you don't count the unreleased movie then Fantastic Four 4 kinda works.

Thatonedudedude2025-12-09 18:13

You understand there is decades of source material available to write him…. You should check out the original secret wars, a lot happens with Galactus and he is a key part to the story

Supermite2025-12-08 19:11

Why? They just need to shove him through another portal. Once you’ve got the Thing, Sue, Thor, Hulk, Sentry, Captain Marvel, and Dr. Strange, what chance does Galactus have?

CharacterOld86912025-12-08 20:16

Easily defeated by a Portal gun, lol

Senshado2025-12-08 20:29

At the end of First Steps, Reed believed Galactus would need millions of years to return from deep space.

If the same Galactus character appeared in another movie, he will probably have memorized Reed's teleport machine and built one into his own armor helmet, so that same kind of trick will never threaten him again. That can explain how Galactus can return so fast for a sequel.

annoyingrelieve2025-12-08 20:51

Yea thats why they should of never let sue overpower him i know she technically didn’t but seeing all the mcu heavy hitters he wouldn’t have much a chance if the F4 beat him

Clamsadness2025-12-08 21:10

I mean, the F4 beat him in his first comic appearance and he’s still generally considered a big threat in Marvel.

annoyingrelieve2025-12-08 21:36

They didn’t overpower him though the watcher helped them and gave them a weapon to use

oorza2025-12-09 12:42

He gets staggered in the comics all the time. It’s still a pretty top tier feat though when someone does it solo, like Black Bolt has and got a whole ass page drawing to do it.

Supermite2025-12-09 13:15

But that shouldn’t be how they beat him. If he can’t overcome Sue, what happens when Thor and Captain Marvel are in the mix in future fights? God, Strange could probably solo Galactus with just his sling ring, because he can create massive portals anywhere. He isn’t limited to needing projectors.

oorza2025-12-09 21:47

Galactus can teleport around at will in the comics but his corporeal body and space ship exist as a convenience that saves him energy. Above all else, he wants to be less hungry, which is why he built the ship and hired a herald, so he burns less calories and needs to feed less often. He manifests as a star sometimes, sometimes he manifests in overspace… he is a fundamental universal force and killing him kills the universe.

He can be staggered, he can be knocked down, but he can’t ever be truly defeated except by extra-universal powers like The Beyonders or pre-retcon Gauntlet wielders.

If they kept with comic accurate cosmology, the only reason he didn’t teleport back to Earth and steal Franklin is a deal he cuts with The Silver Surfer to leave Earth alone and allow Franklin to grow into his free will in exchange for her continued service.

Realistic_Analyst_262025-12-08 21:14

He went small to get Franklin and hence he wad more vulnerable. If he goes planet sized then you have a real problem

Supermite2025-12-08 22:25

The power cosmic doesn’t diminish because he is smaller.

Realistic_Analyst_262025-12-08 22:53

Yeah but it allowed him to be attacked by the F4 which is what matters.

Supermite2025-12-08 23:01

You aren’t going to be able to convince me that was a satisfying ending. Sorry. I legit was excited to see how they would win after Reed declared “they weren’t punching their way out of this problem. And then they did punch their way out of the problem.

oorza2025-12-09 12:48

Their plan failed lol it was a perfectly satisfying end.

They tried the science way, it worked, but Galactus was going to come right back until SS showed up and punched him. The actual power that stopped him successfully wasn’t science or teleportation, it was the power cosmic.

Based on what Galactus and Norin get up to in the comics, off screen Shala and Galactus would have negotiated a continuation of her services in exchange for an end to genocide (and waiting for Franklin to grow up, which becomes a long list of interested parties). And that conversation is why he doesn’t just rematerialize himself on his ship and make a new suit of armor.

And then they’ll discover they can only eat life bearing planets so they wind up preventing intelligent life from evolving rather than genocide, making the ethics of Galactus even hairier.

Supermite2025-12-09 13:11

Oh. You just changed my mind. I love this movie to death now and it is above all criticisms. /s

Explaining the ending again isn’t going to change my mind. They made Galactus go out like a bigger chump than Kang in quantumania.

JarethCutestoryJuD2025-12-09 00:58

> Why? They just need to shove him through another portal.

Such a stupid resolution to the movie.

DemanoRock2025-12-08 19:15

I would hate to keep revisiting the same 2D Villian again. We don't get enough MCU anymore to require recycling

unreasonable-frog2025-12-08 19:15

Ok, I will let him.

AwarenessOk77482025-12-08 19:27

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AwarenessOk77482025-12-08 19:29

I feel like a lot of people will disagree with me for some reason and will dislike me.

ContentAssumption2042025-12-08 19:33

I’m pretty sure they only used him as the villain of this movie so they could have him on the board for Secret Wars/Doomsday.

TipAdditional46252025-12-11 11:33

I was really hoping for the fantastic four to fail to save their universe and just transferred to the main MCU one in the film, the trailer seem to hint at that

So we know theres no real reset All they are actually doing is merging the main mcu universe, with the X men universe and the fantastic four universe, ending the multiverse saga and moving onto the next saga, all events that happened are still part of the MCU history

But wouldn't it be cooler if the F4 and its main characters transported to the main MCU universe because they failed to stop galactus at destroying their planet ? Then we would get the fantastic four in the MCU sooner

It was a popular theory when the trailer came put and I think it would have worked out better, Reed no longer becoming a pure hero and choosing emotion and love of his new born son and wife over logic despite being the smartest man alive and escaping with the fantastic four to leave their universe to die, perhaps this could still be done in a future fantastic four film or an averages film, it would make a fantastic story with Galactus returning in their universe

AwarenessOk77482025-12-08 19:34

Well, unlike the others, I'm dissatisfied with Galactus here. Visually, yes, he looks great. But as a character, no. We're given a brief glimpse of his backstory, but it's never delved into, which makes it hard for me to connect with the drama of Galan, who's forced to eat planets because he's starving. The victory over him is ridiculous to me—I don't see a cosmic god here, but some kind of kaiju, foolishly defeated by Sue alone for some reason.

If they write Galactus properly in the future, I'll be thrilled.

AwarenessOk77482025-12-08 19:34

I feel like a lot of people will disagree with me for some reason and will dislike me.

ButWereFriends2025-12-08 19:55

I mean, you’re not wrong. We got very little time with him. He looked incredible but I for sure would have also liked to spend more time with the character. He suffers from the Superman problem. Very powerful, hard to write for a movie

Jtwil21912025-12-08 19:40

I liked where things started, where he talked about how Franklin would allow him to escape the curse of his hunger, but then they kind of went in a different direct, and I did not care for how vindictive and even cruel they made Galactus. He's supposed to be indifferent to regular beings, just as a human is to an ant. However, in First Steps, he threatens to punish the FF by destroying Earth for refusing to hand over Franklin, and when he's stretching Mr Fantastic beyond his limits and hurting him, he smirks as if he's enjoying it.

Jtwil21912025-12-08 19:47

The problem is Galactus is a bit of a one-trick pony. He shows up and he eats your planet. The MCU can't do that storyline again now that they've done it in First Steps.

Maybe if the MCU finally explores its cosmic side more they can use him, but as good a job as the actor did, I doubt we'll see him again in another Earth-based film.

Dangerous_Donkey53532025-12-08 20:39

Also theres not really a way to physically fight him. So really is a one trick pony

BarnOscarsson2025-12-09 00:18

There are multiple ways to “defeat” him, or at least make him go away.

Ultimate nullifier, offer him a better meal (bigger, or closer to him), set his spaceship to go somewhere else, get him a new herald, and… was it Twinkies, Ho-Hos, or Fruit Pies?

But not all resolutions are equal, and none should be repeated.

Dangerous_Donkey53532025-12-09 00:25

But let's be honest. Majority of the movie goers wanna see some action in the avengers movie. I like the think the way thru problems which we say in F4 but thats not exactly what we are looking for in the final fight scene in avengers. Definitely have it but we need some punches thrown and some power sets used.

BarnOscarsson2025-12-09 01:46

Oh, easily done.

If you accept the premise that Galactus can be distracted or delayed, then you need one team to do the smart bit and another team to wale on him.

CaptHayfever2025-12-09 17:17

[Talk him down.](https://static0.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/squirrel-girl-and-galactus.jpg)

Realistic_Analyst_262025-12-08 21:15

Simple. Don’t make him the main villain. Loki appeared many times after the first Thor and he was bad in a lot of said appearances. However they made sure not to focus entirely on Loki to ensure that the movie doesn’t feel repetitive.

Jtwil21912025-12-08 21:31

But who is the "big bad" in a movie where Galactus serves as a secondary antagonist? Galactus's threat is far more direct than Loki's. Loki is here to play the game and see where the pieces fall. It makes sense that he might fall into the background as he comes up with his next scheme. Galactus is here to eat your planet. That's it.

The Lifebringer Galactus storyline from Ewing's Ultimates series was a really interesting exploration if the character, but I don't know if that's packable for the mainstream MCU audience.

I think it's unlikely we seem him show up in an antagonist role. Unfortunately, I think we'll just see Galactus and/or Sentry get warf-ed to establish the Beyonders as bigger threats in Secret Wars

Realistic_Analyst_262025-12-08 22:08

Celestials? Doom?

Jtwil21912025-12-08 23:59

We're gonna see Doom stomp someone power to establish him as a threat. Might be Galactus.

I'd love for them to get into the celestials and the cosmic side of marvel more, but so far they haven't showed much interest other than Guardians (and _little bit_ in the Thor movies). Be interesting to see what they do with it now that Gunn's trilogy is over. I would love to see an adaptation of the Annihilation era stories.

Realistic_Analyst_262025-12-09 00:12

Nova would be an interesting entry into the deep cosmic side.

Jtwil21912025-12-09 00:40

I'd love to see Dick Rider on the big screen.

CaptHayfever2025-12-09 17:15

Celestials. They should revisit the apex-predator theme from the Eternals movie, since Galactus *is* the apex predator of the Celestials.

Realistic_Analyst_262025-12-09 17:31

Back during the Eternals era my theory was they were gonna make Galactus the Celestials’ executioner. Arishem was gonna send Galactus to Earth following his judgement of the Eternals.

iwannalynch2025-12-09 00:21

I can actually see an unorthodox way to bring him back as a "secondary big bad", which is by decentering Galactus. Make him the "natural disaster"-style villain for street-level heroes, the kind you don't fight directly but just try to survive while the more powerful heroes try to stop him in the background.

FOTheDentist2025-12-09 03:12

Galactus returns but he's pregnant so the Fantastic Four steal his baby, and that's how Galacta gets introduced to the MCU.

It's like poetry, it rhymes.

Cultural_Comfort58942025-12-09 11:43

That was a different universe

Showing up in the main timeline will hit a little harder since we’ve seen how significant threat he is

Maybe that particular Galactus comes to the main universe too out of rage or desperation to pass his hunger on.

They have options.

What does a fighting Galactus look like? That would be wild.

TipAdditional46252025-12-11 11:33

I as really hoping for the fantastic four to fail to save their universe and just transferred to the main MCU one in the film, the trailer seem to hint at that

So we know theres no real reset All they are actually doing is merging the main mcu universe, with the X men universe and the fantastic four universe, ending the multiverse saga and moving onto the next saga, all events that happened are still part of the MCU history

But wouldn't it be cooler if the F4 and its main characters transported to the main MCU universe because they failed to stop galactus at destroying their planet ? Then we would get the fantastic four in the MCU sooner

It was a popular theory when the trailer came put and I think it would have worked out better, Reed no longer becoming a pure hero and choosing emotion and love of his new born son and wife over logic despite being the smartest man alive and escaping with the fantastic four to leave their universe to die, perhaps this could still be done in a future fantastic four film or an averages film, it would make a fantastic story with Galactus returning in their universe

Jtwil21912025-12-11 13:25

>So we know theres no real reset All they are actually doing is merging the main mcu universe, with the X men universe and the fantastic four universe,

How do we know that? And they're definitely not just merging the MCU and the X-Men universe. Marvel doesn't want to be saddled with all that continuity and baggage. They're not going to use the Fox X-Men beyond Doomsday and Secret Wars (except for maybe a handful, e.g. Reynolds's Deadpool, Jackman's Wolverine (I hope not), and Keen's X23. They're going to introduce mutants in their own way, as they started to do with Ms. Marvel.

>But wouldn't it be cooler if the F4 and its main characters transported to the main MCU universe because they failed to stop galactus at destroying their planet ?

They're not going to undo the conclusion of the first movie off screen. If they were going to do that, they would have done that as the conclusion of the first movie. They might be fleeing the destruction of their universe due to incursions, however.

TipAdditional46252025-12-11 20:56

I didn't mean the fox xmen, a new xmen universe merging with the MCU.

Jtwil21912025-12-12 00:56

I don't know... They've teased mutants in the main MCU in Ms. Marvel. So they might have a plan that doesn't involve just merging a universe full of mutants with the main MCU

RedditAPIBlackout242025-12-08 19:47

Why?

theknyte2025-12-08 19:49

To this day, I blame Batman 89.

Before then, the few Comic Book movies we got, stayed true to the comics. Lex Luther was in Superman I, II, and IV. Because, he was caught by Superman and sent to jail. Just like in the comics. He returned to cause trouble another day.

Then, Batman comes out, and kills Joker in the first movie, and then Max Shreck and The Penguin in the second.

After that, every studio decided that the villains always had to die to create real stakes or some nonsense. Even with the birth of the MCU, Stane dies in the first movie, preventing him from becoming a fleshed out villain who can grow an antagonistic relationship with Ironman over time.

I mean Obadiah Stane knew Tony his entire life. He was Howard's right hand man, and was practically part of the family. I mean, we should have got a lot more character development. Like, a better motivator than simple "jealously" that would cause a loyal friend of 20+ years to suddenly want to kill Tony.

Modern Comic Movies biggest weakness is their villains, and not fleshing them out properly, and not allowing them to live, so they can develop and grow, and become more than a "one note" obstacle for the heroes over time.

Hela, Gorr, Ultron, and on and on.

I mean Ultron alone has been a compelling character in the comics for almost 60 years! But, the movies just decided that he just worth a "One and Done."

And, they really need to stop doing that.

JackDis232025-12-08 20:00

Except Spader is going to be playing Ultron some more, very soon.

Gorr could easily come back in an official Venom/Spiderman project, we just don't know yet. We do know that Venom and Spidey will likely meet in the MCU though, so there's a chance.

Arbok97822025-12-09 03:39

> After that, every studio decided that the villains always had to die to create real stakes or some nonsense.

My take was that they did this more so that each film stands out. Like here is the movie with the Joker, here is the movie with Penguin and Catwoman, here is the movie with Riddler and Two Face, etc. Reoccurring villains make it harder to have a project stand out for casual audiences, although I agree as big fans it's disappointing to see villains just killed off and cast aside after one appearance.

That said, it has been done. I mean Magento was basically all over the X-Men films from the start to the end.

Hydramy2025-12-08 19:50

He's in both the original Secret Wars, and the 2015 Secret Wars, so he could pop up again

Championship20422025-12-08 21:03

My thoughts as well

MayweatherSr2025-12-09 09:19

whats his role it both stories?

Hydramy2025-12-09 10:42

Pretty much to job and show how strong Doom is.

EveryAccount77292025-12-08 20:01

the fact he seems to just sit in a room catatonic w/ tubes going into him and that's basically his entire character development ?

or that he doesn't have a conversation with Reed Richards about what his actual plans are w/ Franklin and maybe look for input into how it could go different, or study the cosmic power together, share your crazy advanced crap reed could never think of himself, look for a solution.

he's a moron imo.

and one of the worst written characters i've ever seen in a movie. I Get it, maybe he's just so cosmic we can't or don't understand, but he's just stupid in how he communicates with others, top to bottom.

SeymourStabfellow2025-12-08 20:04

I think they were hinting at him returning because of how he got teleported away. Maybe the conflict in space hinted at in Thunderbolts involved him.

RandAlThorOdinson2025-12-08 20:52

Man I need to rewatch thunderbolts I feel like I missed so much lol

Dell0c02025-12-08 20:05

Galactus vs the Celestials, is needed.

CharacterOld86912025-12-08 20:15

I’d say they likely want to set up Galactus vs Celestials at some point.

MattthewMosley2025-12-08 20:40

AVENGERS: DAY OF GALACTUS and I'm back in!

Riley__642025-12-08 22:57

I think an issue with galactus is he’s kind of one note his main threat is eating the planet, you can only tell that story so many times before it gets stale. After a while it stops being oh no the planets going to be eaten and more so right how do we stop him this time.

A reason villains are usually used once is because a lot of the time it backs you into a corner when writing a cinematic universe, this isn’t like comics where a character can be around forever because they don’t age actors age so they have a limit to how long they can be around and you want to explore as many characters as possible.

If you keep villains around your two options are they’re in jail and will maybe eventually be freed or they’re a recurring villain who will pop up many times in sequels but that doesn’t work for every character so it’s easier to just kill them rather than being like they’re alive but off somewhere else. Sure you could keep Hela alive but what’re you doing with her after ragnarok, imprisoned, off somewhere unseen, being the main or secondary villain of subsequent movies.

WildFire2552025-12-08 23:10

Use him as an Inevitability for Overpopulation. Bring Thanos’s ideology into focus but not Thanos himself. Have him be the Cosmic Villain.

jddev_2025-12-09 00:01

Galactus vs Arishem in the incursions. Doom kills both.

BarnOscarsson2025-12-09 00:26

Maintain the threat of Galactus by introducing more Heralds. If they stay at your planet too long, Galactus can still use them to find his way there, and any of them is powerful enough to conquer or destroy a planet on their own.

AsterArtworks2025-12-09 00:31

Since his appearance matches the comics so closely we can guess he will return

mjolnirstrike2025-12-09 00:44

Unfortunately, they will probably use him once or twice in alternate universes so he can be killed by the main villain so you know how much of a threat they are

Grayx_28872025-12-09 03:22

It depends if they want Galactus to be like an actual universal threat for another Avengers movie.

igby12025-12-09 06:21

Galactus was cool but there are so many cool villains from the comics.

Soulwarfare422025-12-09 12:23

I rather Fantastic Four sequels explore different, more obscured villains that aren't Silver Surfer, Doom or Galactus

I do like what Ralph did with Galactus and wouldn't mind if he returned but not in a Fantastic Four film TBH. Avengers maybe or Annihilation or even Eternals sequel of sort. Galactus vs Arishem would be awesome

Abides19482025-12-09 18:49

I see a suit of armour around the world, and in its helmet is Ralph Ineson's face.

Futuremeissuperior2025-12-10 06:46

So he can be beaten by Sue Storm again?

Meizas2025-12-10 07:33

I hope we get Herald Thor, and Beta Ray Bill's quest for vengeance against Galactus.

TipAdditional46252025-12-11 11:31

Kaiser_Allen2025-12-16 06:53

He could be the next big bad! But then we would have two cosmic beings as big bads.