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Respect Dormlactus (Herald Supreme Variation) (Complete Respect Thread)

By ProfessorRespect April 4, 2022 15 Comments

He be burning tho

Introduction

During the arc of Herald Supreme, Galactus sets out to eat a alien planet, and some alien mystic of his race, in a frenzy, randomly shows up and steals all of Doctor Strange's magical artefacts and books, combining the energies into himself. This allowed him, in turn, to banish Galactus to the mystic dimensions, which while solving the problem, did also result in Galactus basically tearing the realms down with his very essence. The story goes on to detail his growing power, as well as the eventual ending: which has Galactus, fully empowered from the mystic realms, destroying all of reality itself. Despite his strength, there's not a lot of coverage on the character himself, despite issues with the status of the story and whatnot in terms of how canon it actually is.

Dimension Merging

Scan 1/2/3/4/5- Starts to mix both the mystic and scientific realms together with his immense power. This included converting Mindless Ones with technology, guns with magic, stripping Nightmare of his entire realm, destabilising matter throughout planets and solar systems, etc. So much so that the peak of the chaos causes even the Living Tribunal to know fear. (Doctor Strange #15/6)

Durability

Scan 1/2/3- Marches through numerous mystical dimensions, as well as multiple ambushes and armies of creatures, which only make him hunger more. Through a (weakened) Strange and Clea assist in the matter, Galactus does have to still tank a lot of different offence. (Doctor Strange #14)

Scan 1/2- Runs through the Imperial Guard's combined offence and others (Super Skrull, Captain Marvel, Scarlet Witch) with ease, draining their energies into himself and amping the guy up. (Doctor Strange #16)

Scan 1/2/3/4- Tanks a huge army of heroes attacking him at once, easily stomping them. Even a mystically amped Black Bolt screaming his head off and a wank-empowered Gladiator can't get the job done. (Doctor Strange #16)

Scan 5- When he does eventually burst due to Strange attacking him with specific gear at just the right moment, the combined energies that he had were enough to not just destroy the universe, but "all of reality" as a result, leaving nothingness. (Doctor Strange #16)

Magic Absorbing

Scan 1/2/3/4- Drains and no sells a army of mystical beings, including Clea, Umar, Sleepwalker, D'Spayre, etc etc. Satannish does manage to power struggle for a small bit before being absorbed as well (Doctor Strange #16)

Scan 1/2- Casually eats up Misan-Ha-Gorath after no selling his offence. The best part is that Misan-Ha has NEVER appeared in stories until this point, so Strange's statements about him being able to fight Living Tribunal and other abstracts, as well as himself admitting that he doesn't even have even a quarter of his power are 100% consistent. (Doctor Strange #13)

Scan 1/2- Causes millions of mystic beings to run out of the realms after Galan starts absorbing parts of their dimension (Doctor Strange #12)

No diffs Magik and co with ease, draining their essences (this is despite Magik's Soulsword typically being a counter itself to mystic energies) (Doctor Strange #16)

Scan 1/2/3- It would be also best to go over the origins of whom Galactus was facing in the first place. Zoloz was a mystic composite of thousands of his own kind, able to casually overpower Doctor Strange in combat and drain virtually all of his artefacts in a single sweep. (Doctor Strange #12)

Scan 4/5- When Strange tries using the same spells that Zoloz used, he can't maintain them for very long and requires outside support in order to keep his containment stable. Zoloz would also, if you notice, die during the big battle at the end, so even all of that amp couldn't help him.

Scan 1/2/3/4- Ok, so this one requires a bit more explanation. Basically this was Mephisto and Dormammu's scheme to use Galactus as a puppet by corrupting his energies with their own, making him essentially their puppet by principle after messing around with a energy source he was supposed to just absorb harmlessly (Doctor Strange #14/15)

Scan 5/6/7- However, this backfires, namely because Dormammu overestimates how much control he has over the newly amped Galan: when he tries to take back control, resulting in him being no sold and drained into his so-called servant. This allows him to "master" magic completely, and his entrance into the regular 616 verse causes the collapse of essentially everything as detailed above. (Doctor Strange #15)

Opposes all versions of Doctor Strange, with none being able to stop him (Doctor Strange #14)

Conclusion

All in all, this version of Galactus is awesomely amped up, and a pretty big deal, even if eyebrows have to be raised at some of the feats here. His already great energy absorbing goes to another level with the element of magic being thrown in, making him a tremendously big deal.

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