The MCU's next world-threatening villain needs to ignore Marvel's formula for sympathetic villains to become the most memorable threat of all.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT If the Fantastic Four's belated arrival in the MCU finally brings arch-nemesis Galactus back to the big screen, the world-eating villain can break a Marvel villain trend that is threatening to get stale. Galactus would be the biggest threat to Earth since a Celestial tried to break through the crust, leaving the biggest elephant in the MCU room that nobody seems particularly interested in..
Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, Galactus debuted in 1966's The Fantastic Four #48, and was introduced by the creative duo as an unprecedented escalation of Marvel's supervillain trope. Lee and Kirby wanted to avoid another supervillain who simply wanted to conquer the Earth and their answer was to make him a God, dispensing with the idea of morality and simply making him hungry.
More recently, villains like the Flag Smashers, the Clandestines, and Secret Invasion's disappointing Skrulls all had a point: they were rebelling against the world order for their own preservation. And while that could have added depth to their stories, it's no accident that they are some of the most underwhelming villains in the entire MCU. Something different is needed, and Galactus' disrespect for any sort of conversation on morality is the answer Marvel need.
Galactus' MCU Difference Makes Him The Best New Threat When he inevitably arrives in the MCU, Galactus doesn’t need to be sympathetic or nuanced. He needs to be a force of nature who can't be reasoned with or understood - and without apparent weakness, making him a true threat. Any villain that is presented as perversely sympathetic inherently comes with room to negotiate with them, even if Marvel projects mostly have them crushed under the boot of justice anyway.
Galactus is not nuanced, or even remotely sympathetic and his singular focus of eating planets without an "excuse" makes him different to the ones who are apparently committed to a "Greater Good" of rebuilding or avenging something. He is terror incarnate, and the kind of world-leveling threat that would shake the MCU's villain formula to its very core.
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