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| 11 | ->''"Creator/StanLee thinks big. He came up with [[Characters/MarvelComicsGalactus Galactus]], a massive purple guy who eats entire planets. That's menacing! To get any more epic in scope, you'd have to have Andromedax, The Galaxy Who Shoots Other Galaxies With A Big, Galaxy-Sized Bazooka. Even better, Galactus isn't some sort of hand-chafing nefarious schemer. He's just very large, very hungry, and loves the great taste of ecospheres."'' |
| 12 | -->-- '''Creator/LoreSjoberg''', ''[[http://www.bookofratings.com/ The Book of Ratings,]]'' [[https://web.archive.org/web/20100712023029/http://bookofratings.com/marvelvillainsrating.html "Marvel Supervillains (Part I)"]] |
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| 14 | This is [[ApocalypseHow the way the world ends]], not with a [[EarthShatteringKaboom bang]], but a ''nom'' ([[Literature/TheWasteLand all apologies]] to Creator/TSEliot). |
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| 16 | A character that not only destroys but ''eats'' planets for nourishment. They may suck the life-force from the biosphere, feed off its gravitic potential or magnetic field, or just start taking big bites out of the crust and mantle. |
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| 18 | PlanetLooters and [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Alien Locusts]] taken to the [=Nth=] degree. May overlap with GreyGoo. Taking ''this'' trope to the Nth degree, is SpacetimeEater. Compare OmnicidalManiac and PlanetaryParasite. This is an X-1 class threat in ApocalypseHow. When a character eats planet-sized portions (or eats so much they're the size of a planet) that's BigEater. |
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| 20 | Subtrope of PlanetDestroyer (because a being who eats planets for breakfast would also have the necessary strength to destroy it) and FantasticDietRequirement. |
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| 22 | [[JustForFun/LousyAlternateTitles This would have been called]] "[[{{Pun}} World Hunger]]", but [[DudeNotFunny that's a real life problem with real life consequences]]. [[EveryoneHasStandards We guess]]. |
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| 24 | !!Examples: |
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| 26 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 27 | |
| 28 | [[folder:Anime and Manga]] |
| 29 | * ''Anime/CatSoup'': The Magician (who may or may not be God) was trying to eat the Earth. |
| 30 | * ''Franchise/DragonBall'': |
| 31 | ** A variation is the tree in ''Anime/DragonBallZTheTreeOfMight'', which sucks all of the energy out of a planet, which can then be consumed by eating the fruit it produces. |
| 32 | ** The [[ThatsNoMoon Big Gete Star]] in ''Anime/DragonBallZTheReturnOfCooler''. |
| 33 | ** Moro from the Galatic Patrol arc of the ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' manga drains entire planets of their energy, which he then consumes. |
| 34 | * The Getter Emperor from ''Manga/GetterRobo'', before it upgraded to a ''galaxy'' eater. He's even called 'Planet Eater' Moro inuniverse. |
| 35 | * In Creator/JunjiIto's ''Manga/{{Remina}}'', the titular Remina, being an EldritchAbomination, eats the planets of the Solar System on its path. Bonus points for being a planet itself. |
| 36 | * The monstrous plant Kaiba from the anime series ''Anime/{{Kaiba}}'' consumes planets in addition to the memories of their inhabitants. At least two characters think this is a good thing, viewing it as a form of AssimilationPlot. |
| 37 | * The [[JerkassGods High Gods]] of the ''Manga/{{Kurohime}}'' universe get their power from draining the LifeEnergy of a planet and [[PlanetLooters taking the dead planet as their bodies.]] HumansAreBastards ''by their design'' because they need parasites to weaken the planet first. |
| 38 | * In ''Manga/{{Psyren}}'', [[spoiler:the membrane that surrounds the planet is actually a being which reincarnates by eating planets.]] |
| 39 | * The ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs The Movie Second''[='=]s version of the Darkness of the Book of Darkness, [[spoiler:[[ReptilesAreAbhorrent NachtWal]]]], which doesn't just destroy the planet its on but consumes it, piece by piece, growing larger the more it consumes, eventually swallowing the planet whole. |
| 40 | * [[spoiler:The Original Life Fiber]] from ''Anime/KillLaKill''. It technically doesn't eat the planet itself, merely draining energy from the living things instead, and once it's consumed its fill of the planet's energy, it spreads its children to other planets, destroying its host world in the process. |
| 41 | * Yamigedo of ''Anime/FutureCardBuddyfight'' is first seen eating a planet as the [[GuardianEntity Omni Lords]] start sealing it away. When it is unsealed on Earth, its much smaller sizes means it eats things like buildings and other targets of opportunity instead. It also acts as a Buddy monster for the second season's BigBad. |
| 42 | * The Demon King Neo from ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'' is implied to have first implanted the Earth with Gourmet Cells millions of years ago in order to prepare its flavor, and is now returning to eat it. |
| 43 | * The Chronophage in ''Manga/EdensZero'' is a combination of this and SpacetimeEater that specifically eats the ''time'' of planets, which "kills" them by rewinding them to an earlier state ranging from decades to millennia, creating a pocket AlternateTimeline that overwrites the present and [[RetGone anyone unfortunate enough to stay behind]]. |
| 44 | * In ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'', the Digital World is converted by the villains into data code region by region (explaining the mising "chunks" whenever a map of the Digital World is displayed), and then fed to Lucemon at its core until he is finally free. And Lucemon isn't planning on stopping there; for the brief moment he reached the human world, everything starts getting converted into data, meaning Lucemon plans to devour them as well. Fortunately the heroes drag him back to the Digital World to finish him off. Only when Lucemon is defeated did the Digital World return to its normal state. |
| 45 | [[/folder]] |
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| 47 | [[folder:Asian Animation]] |
| 48 | * In ''Animation/PlanetOf7Colors'', the Dark Planet survives by moving around and consuming other planets. |
| 49 | [[/folder]] |
| 50 | |
| 51 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 52 | * One of the two {{Trope Maker}}s is ComicBook/{{Galactus}}, from the Franchise/MarvelUniverse.[[note]][[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Unicron]] is the other.[[/note]] He is a "planetary energy"-type Planet Eater. His appearance has varied significantly. In the main universe, he's a [[WordOfGod non-abstract]] [[CosmicEntity universal function]] that [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm resembles a giant of the same species as any viewer]] but a hundred times bigger, while in ComicBook/UltimateMarvel he's a HiveMind swarm of robots that both needs to eat planets and hates organic life, and in the second ''Film/FantasticFour2005'' movie, he's a formless mass, [[spoiler:although if you look ''really'' closely, you can make out Galactus's helmet within the swirling clouds at its core]]. He's a necessary part of the cosmic balance, which is why he can't be killed off permanently. |
| 53 | -->"Of all the creatures in the vastness of the Universe, there is none like me. I was present at the birth of the Universe, and I shall be there at its end. Though I ravage worlds to live, I bear no malice toward any living thing. I simply do what I must to survive. And why must Galactus survive? For, no matter how many worlds I devour... How many civilizations I destroy... It is my destiny to one day give back to the Universe – Infinitely more than I have ever taken from it. So speaks Galactus!" |
| 54 | ** Then Marvel introduced ComicBook/{{Galacta|DaughterOfGalactus}}, Galactus' estranged daughter. She has the same cravings her dad has, and is ''capable'' of devouring planets, but she keeps this urge in check by working as a superhero, feeding on malevolent forces of energy (which would be destructive if left unchecked). In between those feedings, she spends a lot of time trying to control her insatiable hunger by eating bacteria, mostly because anything more filling and she might go on a feeding frenzy that would destroy the world. [[spoiler:However, she's pregnant, and her baby has the same cravings even now, while still in her womb.]] |
| 55 | ** Spoofed as Balactus in ''Minoriteam''. |
| 56 | ** Revealed as the secret of the Celestials in the {{Elseworld}} ''ComicBook/EarthX''; they reproduce this way, by [[PlanetaryParasite parasitizing planets with their young]]. Galactus is their enemy. |
| 57 | *** Every time the Celestials succeed in this, it destroys the universe. Which doesn't bother the Celestials, since they can survive it, and this is the only way that they can make more of themselves. Galactus was revealed to have originally been a survivor of a previous universe that the Celestials destroyed, and dedicated his life to stopping them from ever succeeding again. |
| 58 | ** The main universe Galactus, despite being pretty omnicidal, is vital to the survival of the universe. He's a [[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan living seal]] keeping an EldritchAbomination locked up, and without him, it'd destroy the universe very, very quickly. Most of the energy from his meals go towards the seal rather than his own body, which is why he's always so ''hungry''. |
| 59 | ** There's also Hunger, who was sort of like Galactus, except [[SpaceTimeEater it fed on ''universes''.]] |
| 60 | ** DC has a largely-forgotten parody called Mr. Nebula, who doesn't eat planets, just re-decorates them by wiping out all life. He is placated by being given Las Vegas, which is about what he's going for. |
| 61 | ** An issue of ''ComicBook/TheSimpsons'' comic had Homer as a parody of Galactus who was hungry for planets. Marge was a ComicBook/{{Nova}} expy who wants him to eat a planet covered in healthy plants and Bart (who takes on the role of the ''ComicBook/SilverSurfer'') recommends [[UranusIsShowing Uranus]]. Homer ends up ordering planets from a pizza delivery-style service. |
| 62 | * Marvel also has Ego the Living Planet, who is himself [[spoiler:eaten by cosmically powered zombified superheroes]] in ''ComicBook/MarvelZombies''. |
| 63 | * One ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'' storyline featured Id, the selfish moon of Ego, which wasn't a planet eater, but rather a planet ''snorter''. It would crash into populated planets and then snort up the remains to get high. |
| 64 | * In the Marvel cosmic miniseries event ''ComicBook/{{Annihilation}}'', the extradimensional invaders fielded a gigantic, organic, ''living'' spaceborne weapon called the "Harvester of Sorrows" which destroyed entire worlds and consumed the remains. What was left of the organic life was separated out so the crew could enjoy it. |
| 65 | * The Avengers once confronted the Infinites - beings from beyond the universe who wanted to rearrange the galaxies to 'improve the energy flow of the Multiverse'. To this end, they demolished planets and re-shaped them into the means to move galaxies. The actual demolishing was done by human-sized drones which destroyed everything in sight and used the raw materials to replicate themselves until there was nothing left except the molten core and trillions of drones. The Infinites were pretty appalled when they discovered that planets - which to them are about the size of grains of sand - have tiny beings living on them which can't survive that sort of thing. |
| 66 | * ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'': |
| 67 | ** The Sun-Eater, which does ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. The first appearance of something called a Sun-eater in ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfLightningLad'' was very different from later interpretations, being a giant green-furred humanoid that new legionnaire of the month "Marvel Lad" [[spoiler: really Mon-el having fun]] took out in one page as part of his initiation test. The Sun-Eater gained its much more formidable cloud form later in ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfFerroLad''. |
| 68 | ** ''Legion Lost'' introduced the Omniphagos, which, as the name implies, ate ''everything'', and had to be kept imprisoned or it would eat the ''entire universe''. |
| 69 | * In ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' story arc ''ComicBook/{{Bizarrogirl}}'' a race of planet-eating, space-faring, giant life-forms called "Ash'ka'phageous" make their appearance. One of them -called "godship" by the denizens of Bizarro World because it's easier to pronounce- tries to devour Bizarro's planet. |
| 70 | -->'''Bizarro:''' Bugs came from godship and started eating. They ate Bizarros, buildings, even part of Bizarro World itself. Once they am full, they fly back into godship and more would come out.\ |
| 71 | '''Supergirl:''' Huh. Omniphagus supplicants to produce fuel. Interesting\ |
| 72 | '''Bizarro:''' Huh?\ |
| 73 | '''Supergirl:''' Those things go out and eat something, then they return to the ship and are processed. |
| 74 | * The World Devastators from the ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends: ComicBook/DarkEmpire'' series are a variation on the Planet Eater concept: [[NighInvulnerability nigh-invulnerable]] machines that tear planets apart with powerful tractor beams, thus mining raw materials to build huge automated fleets of starfighters and, potentially, more World Devastators. While it would take a very long time for a fleet of World Devastators to completely consume a planet, they don't have to eat the whole thing to depopulate it. |
| 75 | * The Original Insect from ''[[Creator/MichaelMoorcock Michael Moorcock's Multiverse]]''. |
| 76 | * Dark Phoenix in ''ComicBook/XMen'' proved even more dangerous than Galactus considering she got sustenance from stars, causing them to go nova, which destroyed one populated planet. The Shi'ar and their allies realize that while Galactus is bad enough, having a menace that destroys ''whole solar systems'' is something they have to move against at any cost. And eating stars is only the beginning; Dark Phoenix had the potential to destroy ''the entire universe'', and in some alternate continuities it ''did''. |
| 77 | * One early issue of ''[[ComicBook/RatMan1989 Rat-Man]]'' features Cosmicus, a parody of Galactus right down to the heralds. [[KarmicDeath Gets devoured by Earth]], or, rather, the EldritchAbomination living under the surface. [[spoiler: Cosmicus is later revealed to be one of the villains created by Mr. Mouse for a superhero to fight and sell more comic books with their fight]]. |
| 78 | * And then there's the Limbo Cell from DC's Elseworld ''[[ComicBook/TheNail Another Nail]]''; far from being a cheerful sort of dance-prison, this insanely huge being (roughly the size of Earth's orbit around the Sun ''at the narrowest point of its serpentine form'') was slowly but surely eating all of existence, starting with the more basic forms of energy, moving up to cosmic power, magic and the like and eventually proceeding to matter and ultimately spacetime itself. Adding insult to injury, far from being a villainous predator, the only sensation this practically mindless cosmic amoeba felt was the vaguest inkling of satisfaction at sating its hunger. |
| 79 | * Creator/IDWPublishing ended its long-running Transformers series with ''ComicBook/TheTransformersUnicron'', a GrandFinale driven by the arrival of Unicron. Unlike other incarnations of the Chaos-Bringer (see his entry in Western Animation), this version of Unicron didn't have any cosmic roots, instead being an automated DoomsdayDevice and MechanicalAbomination built to wipe out the Cybertronian species as revenge for the ancient Cybertronian empire doing the same to its builders millions of years ago. Shrugging off every attempt to destroy or control it, Unicron consumes thirteen planets over the course of the series (including Cybertron itself), [[TheAssimilator growing larger and stronger]] with each, and is only stopped at Earth when Optimus Prime performs a HeroicSacrifice to merge with its mind and convince its creator to make peace, causing Unicron to consume itself and implode into a black hole. |
| 80 | * ''ComicBook/DrBlinkSuperheroShrink'' has Ginormous, an {{Expy}} of Galactus. Dr. Blink diagnoses him as an obvious victim of an eating disorder. |
| 81 | * ''ComicBook/{{Shadowpact}}'': [[SinisterSentientSun The Sun King]] is the ultimate villain of the comic, [[GodOfLight a solar deity]] from another dimension who feeds on entire ''universes''. |
| 82 | [[/folder]] |
| 83 | |
| 84 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 85 | * In a May 1987 strip of ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'', Garfield has a dream while on a diet where he eats everything in sight and swallows the entire planet Earth before spotting other planets around him which he decides to also consume for dessert. |
| 86 | [[/folder]] |
| 87 | |
| 88 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 89 | * The main antagonist of ''Fanfic/SonicHolograph: Episode Shadow -Stardust Song-'' is literally ''called'' the "Planet-Eater", and it very much lives up to that name. It is the form that the Ancient Ones took after Sana scattered them throughout the universe to save them from [[spoiler:the Time Eater's own ravenous rampage]], which caused their survival instincts to kick into overdrive, eventually causing them to merge together into a planet-sized AlmightyIdiot that only knows to consume worlds and their power. |
| 90 | [[/folder]] |
| 91 | |
| 92 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 93 | * ''Anime/GodzillaThePlanetEater'' has King Ghidorah, Godzilla's famous arch-nemesis and the eponymous planet eater in the title. Ghidorah in this continuity is a massive, immortal, indestructible energy being from another dimension that uses gravitational powers to eat planets. Ghidorah devoured many planets over the expanse of time he's been around, and almost succeeds at eating Earth. |
| 94 | * In ''Animation/TheReturnOfHanuman'', [[spoiler:a monster formed from a volcano named "Armageddon" is supposed to eat the contents of Earth entirely if Hanuman didn't stop him]]. |
| 95 | [[/folder]] |
| 96 | |
| 97 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 98 | * ''Film/IndependenceDayResurgence'' reveals the alien PlanetLooters have this capacity, [[spoiler:with an extra-large ship that drills up to a planet's core, a process that effectively kills the magnetic fieldbiosphereetc., and then the ship absorbs the planetary energy to fuel the whole fleet. The opening sequence shows a charred husk that are the remains of this process, and the attempt to this on Earth is thankfully cut short.]] |
| 99 | * Depending on the incarnation, ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' ArchEnemy King Ghidorah's planet-scouring antics over the millennia are responsible for everything from [[PhlebotinumKilledTheDinosaurs the extinction of the dinosaurs]] to Mars's inability to support life anymore. |
| 100 | ** Taken to a new level by the Anime Ghidorah, who is a literal planet eater. See the anime folder. |
| 101 | * The AssimilationPlot of ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2's'' true villain involves him planting a piece of himself (looking like an alien seed or flower bulb) in each planet he wishes to conquer. When he's at full power, those seeds grow to immense size looking and acting like an AdvancingWallOfDoom until they completely consume the planets they're on. |
| 102 | * ''Film/MenInBlack3'' has a rogue alien race known as the Boglodites, parasitic aliens that consume all planets in their path. Thanks to the last surviving Arcainan, named Griffin, he gave the Arc Net defense system to Agent Kay on July 16, 1969, and Kay installed it on the Apollo 11 in Cape Canaveral Florida. The Arc Net activated outside of Earth's atmosphere, protecting the Earth from the Boglodite invasion, leading to the race's extinction. However, Kay made a mistake of arresting the last Boglodite, Boris the Animal, instead of killing him, [[GodwinsLawOfTimeTravel therefor he was able to escape from prison, time travel to the past, kill Agent Kay and fulfill the Boglodite invasion.]] But Kay's partner, Agent Jay, prevents the invasion by going back in time, help Kay install the Arc Net, and convince Kay to kill Boris, making the Boglodites extinct again, only this time, with Boris on that list. |
| 103 | * ''Film/TransformersRiseOfTheBeasts'' brings Unicron to the (rebooted) ''Transformers'' live action continuity. Instead of being a PerpetualMotionMonster like his other incarnations, here he ''needs'' to consume planets to fuel himself, and due to the vastness of space and his own size he's constantly on the edge of starvation. To find suitable planets, he sends his Terrorcons, a horde of robotic monsters led by a trio of Cybertronian hunters empowered/enslaved by his own dark energies. In particular, he's after the movie's {{MacGuffin}}, the Transwarp Key, because it will let him [[MobileMenace teleport anywhere, anywhen]], and make all space and time his feeding ground. |
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| 106 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 107 | * ''Literature/ChooseYourOwnAdventure'': The spinoff ''Space Hawks'' has multiple examples. One book has the Cephids, a literal HordeOfAlienLocusts who envelop and devour whole planets.%%Then there's Nemesis, a [[GenericDoomsdayVillain vaguely-developed ultimate evil]] who appears in the book actually called ''The Planet Eater''.%%And is an example how? |
| 108 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'': ''Sick Building'' features a Voracious Craw, a giant worm-like creature which devours everything it can on the planets it comes across, leaving behind only bare rock. |
| 109 | * ''Literature/TheHistoryOfTheGalaxy'': The Forerunners feed on ''all'' forms of matter from space dust to planets. They are not particularly large but are able to breed (through mitosis) at tremendous rate after eating. The Forerunner Crisis occurred 3 million years ago, when a swarm of these low-intelligence creatures was moving through systems attracted by starlight and leaving only stars with no planets in their wake. They were finally stopped by a species-wide HeroicSacrifice of a [[{{Precursors}} Precursor]] race. One of the novels reveals that the Forerunners are, in fact, [[spoiler:creations of an EnergyBeing, designed as its vessels. They were created with prototype [=DNA=] molecules. Some of them died on various planets, resulting in {{Panspermia}}. They weren't designed to go crazy, though]]. |
| 110 | * ''Literature/TheHouseOnTheBorderland'': It's not alive, but the gigantic Green Sun ''consumes'' every planet in the solar system, and the sun as well. |
| 111 | * ''Literature/{{IT}}'' by Creator/StephenKing: The titular monster claims that it is "the eater of worlds." We're only shown it eating children, but considering what almost happened in the end...[[spoiler: It is female and she lays eggs. Hundreds of them. We're lucky for Ben and his cowboy boots.]] |
| 112 | * ''Literature/MercyThompson'': The River Devil is a snake-like demon that plans to consume earth. The more it consumes, the bigger it gets, and it eventually plans on growing so large it can consume the world. |
| 113 | * ''Literature/{{Moonseed}}'': The organisms are a type of (probably) naturally-occurring GreyGoo that normally feeds on protoplanetary disks and eventually builds a huge "hive" to move on to the next young system, but if they're stuck in one system for whatever reason they're quite capable of eating a fully formed planet. |
| 114 | * ''Literature/{{Retief}}'': In "The Garbage Invasion", the [[ExtremeOmnivore Basurans]] want to take over the paradise planet of Delicia so they can eat it, the way they did their home planet. |
| 115 | * ''Literature/TheSilverSequence'': The Roar is a member of a species that eats planets, or at least all the life on them. |
| 116 | %%* ''Literature/TheStainlessSteelRat'': This was the focus of one novel. |
| 117 | * ''Franchise/StarTrek'': |
| 118 | ** The new Borg Cube from Creator/PeterDavid's ExpandedUniverse novel ''Before Dishonor'' [[spoiler[[PlutoIsExpendable eats Pluto]]. (Just before it becomes moot, it was revealed that it had been re-planetized by the time of its destruction.)]] |
| 119 | ** The Black Mass from the ''Literature/StarTrekNewFrontier'' books, which eats planets and then has their suns for dessert. |
| 120 | ** In the ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' novel ''Vendetta'', the last survivor of an alien race assimilated by the Borg finds and activates a fully-powered final-design Planet Killer (the one from the Original Series episode "Doomsday Machine" is revealed to have been a prototype) that also holds many of the minds/souls of the race that built the Planet Killers to fight the Borg. They take it on a rampage of revenge against the Borg, destroying many Cubes while also devouring several worlds for fuel, including a planet in the Tholian home system. |
| 121 | * "Literature/{{Thang}}", by Creator/MartinGardner: The titular creature is large enough to grasp Earth between two fingers. It clears off all water and ice before chewing the planet, core and all. It, in turn, is also eaten by a planet-eater eater. |
| 122 | * ''Literature/WorldEater'' reveals black holes to be winged, intergalactic creatures which eat planets, stars and even light. |
| 123 | [[/folder]] |
| 124 | |
| 125 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 126 | * The Cetus from ''Series/{{Andromeda}}'' |
| 127 | * The eponymous menace of the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E6TheDoomsdayMachine The Doomsday Machine]]" breaks up planets and devours the chunks as fuel. |
| 128 | * ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' has the Great Crystalline Entity from "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E12Datalore Datalore]]" and "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E4SiliconAvatar Silicon Avatar]]", a giant space snowflake that wipes out the landscape and lifeforms of worlds. |
| 129 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'': |
| 130 | ** The creature from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E3TheClawsOfAxos The Claws of Axos]]" drained life-energy from whole planetary ecosystems to sustain itself. |
| 131 | ** The Great Vampires from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E4StateOfDecay State of Decay]]" supposedly devoured planets as well. |
| 132 | ** The Destroyer, the Lord of Darkness and Eater of Worlds, threatens to do ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E1Battlefield Battlefield]]". [[spoiler:So the Brigadier [[FiveRoundsRapid shoots it]].]] |
| 133 | ** And the Racnoss from "[[Recap/DoctorWho2006CSTheRunawayBride The Runaway Bride]]" (implied, at the very least): |
| 134 | --->'''Doctor:''' The Racnoss are carnivores -- omnivores. They devour whole planets. |
| 135 | ** The stingrays from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E15PlanetOfTheDead Planet of the Dead]]" devour a planet's whole ecosystem, leaving it a desert. Then the swarm flies around the planet faster and faster until their combined mass and velocity open a [[OurWormholesAreDifferent black hole]] through which they travel to their next home/meal. |
| 136 | ** The Moment, one of the "ultimate weapon[s] of mass destruction" and final work of the ancient inhabitants of Gallifrey, is specifically mentioned as "the galaxy eater" and is how The Doctor originally ended the Time War. [[spoiler:[[{{Retcon}} Until he changed his mind]], thanks mostly to Clara for knocking him out of his pity party, with some help from Ten and Eleven.]] |
| 137 | * The titular CoolShip from ''Series/{{Lexx}}'' loves (and needs) to do this. The Lexx even took [[spoiler: a few bites out of Earth.]] |
| 138 | ** In season two, Mantrid went one better by eating [[spoiler: the entire ''universe''. Technically, dismantling it and converting it into his drones, but they are arguably a part of his body.]] |
| 139 | ** In a twist, the Lexx actually receives ''less'' nourishment from doing exactly this, as it needs protein from organic material for sustenance; this is why the Lexx only eats [[spoiler: Holland]] instead of [[spoiler: the moon]], it's just that 'accidents' happen and the rocky ("not very tasty") remains of an exploded planet are all it has to make do with. |
| 140 | * ''Series/StargateSG1'' has the Replicators who, after getting access to a time-dilation device, were able to entirely cover a planet with replicator blocks. Granted, the planet is still there, but it's less of a planet now than a planet-sized mass of replicator blocks. |
| 141 | * From ''Series/DengekiSentaiChangeman'' [[spoiler:[[BigBad Star King Bazoo]] turned out to be this: he's in actually a living being the size of a planet known as the Gozma Star. riding in the coattails of the Halley Comet, he travels through the universe devouring all planets he encounters, growing stronger with each meal.]] |
| 142 | * One ''Series/SesameStreet'' skit had Cookie Monster eat the Moon. |
| 143 | * ''Series/KamenRiderBuild'' has [[spoiler:Evolt, the BigBad. He travels from planet to planet, consuming them with black holes and using the energy gained to make himself even more powerful. He's personally responsible for [[OnceGreenMars Mars being a lifeless ruin]], but in the process lost most of his power and was forced to hide out on Earth while he tried to regain it. His EvilPlan during the later quarter of the series is to unlock warp travel so that he can do so even faster.]] |
| 144 | * The ''Franchise/UltraSeries'' has a number of them, with a tendency to show up as the FinalBoss of a New Generation Series: |
| 145 | ** ''Series/ReturnOfUltraman'': One episode involves the invasion of Vacummon, a planet-eating space cloud the size of galaxies. [[spoiler: Ultraman Jack eventually defeats Vacummon by destroying its gut from the inside, forcing it to spit out every single planet it has devoured]]. |
| 146 | ** ''Series/UltramanOrb'': Maga-Orochi is said to have devoured many planets before being imprisoned on Earth. [[spoiler:It begins to consume Earth once it's revived in its adult form Magata-no-Orochi.]] |
| 147 | ** ''Series/UltramanRB'': Reugosite is a planet-devouring entity who tried to consume Earth 1,300 years ago, but was driven back by Ultraman Rosso and Blu; it returned in the present day to continue its attempt to devour Earth. [[spoiler:It was also part of a species of "space white-blood cells" that consumed any planet deemed a threat, before [[Characters/UltraSeriesUltramanTregear Ultraman Tregear]] corrupted it into indiscriminately devouring any planet in its way.]] |
| 148 | ** ''Series/UltramanTaiga'': Woola is a living heap of space trash with a black hole within its body, which drives it to consume any planet it comes across in a futile attempt to sate its endless hunger. It's said to first eat the crust of a planet and everything on it, before burrowing into the core of the planet to consume it, destroying the planet in the process. |
| 149 | [[/folder]] |
| 150 | |
| 151 | [[folder:Mythology and Religion]] |
| 152 | * In ''Myth/NorseMythology'', Fenrir's sons Hati and Skoll shall respectively eat the Moon and Sun when [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Ragnarok]] comes. |
| 153 | * A common image in many [[UsefulNotes/{{Alchemy}} Alchemical]] texts is that of a [[AmazingTechnicolorWildlife bright green lion]] eating the Sun. |
| 154 | * In ''Myth/AztecMythology'', the first earth, Jaguar Sun, was ended by Tezcatlipoca turning into [[PantheraAwesome the Jaguar God Tepeyollotl]] and devouring it. |
| 155 | * The ultimate goal of the [[TheGreatSerpent serpentine]] [[GodOfChaos chaos embodiment]] Apophis (Also spelled Apep) of ''Myth/EgyptianMythology'' was to swallow the sun, kept from doing so only by [[GodOfLight Ra]]'s constant battle with him every night. |
| 156 | [[/folder]] |
| 157 | |
| 158 | [[folder:Pinballs]] |
| 159 | * The Doomsday Machine from Creator/DataEast's ''[[Pinball/StarTrekDataEast Star Trek]]'' pinball. |
| 160 | [[/folder]] |
| 161 | |
| 162 | [[folder:Poetry]] |
| 163 | * Creator/ShelSilverstein's "Hungry Mungry" is about a boy whose ravenous appetite works up to and beyond this level. |
| 164 | -->''And when he'd eaten every state, each puppy, boy and girl\ |
| 165 | He wiped his mouth upon his sleeve and went to eat the world.'' |
| 166 | [[/folder]] |
| 167 | |
| 168 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 169 | * The indie RPG ''Belly of the Beast'' takes place in the digestive tract of one after it scrapes off the surface of a MedievalEuropeanFantasy. |
| 170 | * ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': |
| 171 | ** Draedens, multi-tentacled monsters from the ''[[http://index.rpg.net/display-entry.phtml?mainid=3119 Immortals]]'' boxed set, aren't able to literally devour planets whole, but they're entirely capable of munching a world down to bedrock. |
| 172 | ** Gammaroids, great turtle monsters from ''TabletopGame/{{Spelljammer}}'', tend to cause tectonic activity during hatching and then go away, but a big infestation can gradually (over centuries) destroy planets, as happened in Moragspace sphere featured in ''[[http://index.rpg.net/display-entry.phtml?mainid=3546 SJS1: Goblins' Return]]'' module. |
| 173 | ** Several of the Elder Evils consume planets. Atropus the World Born Dead is a undead moonlet said to be a leftover from the birth of the universe that crashes into populated planets and consumes all of their life energy. Shothotugg the Eater of Worlds is a mass of poison that also drains worlds of life and every time it does so the laws of the universe are changed a little more. Dendar the Night Serpent is a massive snake that feeds on nightmares and is destined to one day destroy the ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' by consuming its sun. Ragnorra the Mother of Monsters does not actually eat planets but envelopes them and leaves all life on them mutated beyond recognition. |
| 174 | * The Eldrazi in ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering''. Titanic cthonic entities from the [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace Blind Eternities between the planes]] that ate whole universes before a trio of Planeswalkers locked them away on Zendikar. The lock...didn't hold. |
| 175 | * ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': |
| 176 | ** The [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Tyranids]] are known as "The Great Devourer" for good reason. When a Hive Fleet descends upon a world, first the HiveMind sends vanguard organisms to infiltrate the planet and disrupt its defenders, while seeding the atmosphere with spores that mutate the native flora to create a HungryJungle. As the Tyranids swarm the world and eradicate the last of its defenders, swarms of Rippers consume every last bit of biomass, including other Tyranids, then jump into acidic digestion pools linked to capillary towers that the orbiting hive ships use to siphon up nutrients. Eventually even the oceans and atmosphere are sucked up and the Hive Fleet moves on, leaving behind a barren rock - and frequently, due to the Tyranids' method of interstellar travel, a star that goes nova. The optimistic take on the Tyranids is that they're attacking the Milky Way galaxy after scouring one or more others of life. Pessimistically, they're InvadingRefugees fleeing something even worse. |
| 177 | ** The World Eaters Traitor Legion invoke this trope with their name in heraldry, but don't really fit, they're more [[TheBerserker Berserkers]] than planet-eaters. |
| 178 | ** The C'tan used to eat stars. This was a fairly slow process so for the most part no-one even noticed they were there. When eventually contacted by the Necrontyr and given physical bodies, they were no longer able to do so and are instead forced to consume the life energy of living beings. This is the reason the enslaved Necrons have been asleep for millions of years -- the C'tan ate basically everyone in the galaxy, resorted to cannibalism, and the few survivors were eventually forced to hibernate since there was no food left. People just aren't as filling as stars. They are much tastier though. |
| 179 | * In the ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' game, there's a high-Level Synchro Monster called [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Star_Eater Star Eater]]; if its name is any indication, it takes this Trope up one notch further. (Given how powerful it is, it's possible; it could override the effect of Number 9: Dyson Sphere.) |
| 180 | [[/folder]] |
| 181 | |
| 182 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 183 | * Franchise/FinalFantasy |
| 184 | ** The title of the final chapter of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIVTheAfterYears''. The actual event taking place during it is less about eating planets and more about [[spoiler:[[ColonyDrop crashing meteors and the moon into them]]]], though. |
| 185 | ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'''s Jenova, who combined the mimetic/assimilation abilities of the creature from ''Film/TheThing1982'' with the retirement plans of [[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger Lavos]]. Much of Jenova's history is kept vague: it was discovered in a glacier near the ruins of the ancient Cetra civilization. It was frozen in the shape of a naked woman, except with missing limbs and numerous alien appendages jutting out from its shoulders and torso. According to lore a "calamity from the sky" came to the planet, imitated human form and nearly wiped us out until a few remaining Cetra buried it in ice. It would have remained dormant but for an excavation team in the present day, who were looking for remnants of the Cetra and assumed that Jenova was a mummy. Eventually, Shinra's scientists took possession of the body and began experimenting on injecting Jenova's undying cells into potential soldiers, which mistakingly allowed Jenova to work its will from inside them. Its ultimate goal is to destroy the planet, then use the hollow shell as a vehicle for preying on other worlds. |
| 186 | *** Jenova's motives and nature can actually be summed up pretty easily: It's an infectious agent, not really a life form, that lands on a host planet and subverts it in order to reproduce and spread. In the real world we've got something that behaves in almost the exact same manner: a ''Virus''. |
| 187 | ** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'', [[spoiler:Terra is a parasitic other planet gradually dining on the souls of Gaia, a planet it has been slowly trying to devour for a very long time]]. |
| 188 | * One of the entries in the ''VideoGame/{{Gradius}}'' series, ''Life Force/Salamander'', has one of these as the storyline: you have allowed yourself to be swallowed by Zelos, a creature so large it eats ''entire solar systems'', so that you can fly through his body and take down his organs one by one with your heavily armed spaceship. |
| 189 | * ''VideoGame/ChaosRings'': |
| 190 | ** The Qualia seeks to destroy [[SpacetimeEater spacetime itself]]. |
| 191 | ** The Entity in ''Chaos Rings III'' is a massive beast that drains entire worlds of their lifeforce. It is a predator and planets are its prey. [[spoiler:Even worse, it's not a unique creature -- its true reason for visiting Marble Blue was to lay its egg.]] |
| 192 | * ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'': The franchise's GreaterScopeVillain, THE END, is described as a consumer of worlds. This is the entire reason it was made a SealedEvilInACan in the first place by the Ancients, who lost their own world to it and barely managed to stop its attempt to do this to Sonic's world, and what it intends to resume being once freed, starting with the very planet it was denied last time. |
| 193 | * ''VideoGame/StarControl'': |
| 194 | ** In ''Star Control 2'', one of the Umgah's pranks is to convince the Spathi of the existence of a "Grand Master Planet Eater". |
| 195 | ** In ''Star Control Origins'', the Ancient One is a moon-sized lifeform that devours planets... well, sort of. As one Menkmack puts it: "Technically, it only eats the atmosphere... but, technically, we need that to breathe." |
| 196 | %%* Byron, and by extension Polidori, from ''[[VideoGame/{{Boktai}} Lunar Knights]]''. |
| 197 | * Parasitis, from ''VideoGame/{{Abadox}}'', digested the titular planet and assumed its shape. Parasitis obviously takes the maxim "you are what you eat" too seriously. |
| 198 | * Pyron from the Capcom game ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'' is similar to this in most regards, although he usually prefers wiping all life off the face of the planet and letting a new race come into power before starting it over again. |
| 199 | * In ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' and ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'', Lavos is gradually eating the planet's energy from the inside, having first attached itself in 65,000,000 B.C. What makes it particularly nasty is that Lavos is heavily implied to alter evolution on the planets it lands on, so that local sentients become more intelligent and advanced. Why? ''[[ForTheEvulz That makes the meal more filling]].'' |
| 200 | ** ''Cross'' expounds on this to make matters more complex: Lavos enhances the DNA of the planet's native life, creating sentience, then incorporates that DNA into its offspring, killing the planet so that its evolved young can move on to other worlds, continuing the life-cycle. This is a very literal take on the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia Panspermia]] theory of life propagation, with Lavos as the sperm that penetrates and fertilizes the egg, Earth. This kind of sucks for the Earthlings in the long run, but after all you can't hatch an egg without breaking it. |
| 201 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Wild ARMs 2}}'', [[spoiler:the Encroaching Parallel Universe, Kuiper Belt, is gradually devouring not only the planet Filgaia, but Filgaia's entire universe, in what is termed the "Stain Paradigm".]] |
| 202 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'', [[spoiler:the removal of the Limiters from the planet's population causes most of them to suddenly transform en masse into Wels, and it is revealed that all humanity on the planet was allowed to grow and thrive so that they could be consumed as raw materials for Deus.]] |
| 203 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}} Episode II'', [[spoiler:the activation of Proto Ω on Miltia causes it to instantly devour the planet from the inside out for raw materials, and then literally hatches out of the planet like an egg, throwing off pieces of its crust like egg shells]]. |
| 204 | * The Old Gods from ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'' are planetary parasites that merge themselves to a planet and slowly corrupt it. Whether this would eventually destroy the planet is unknown, as the Old Gods on Azeroth were sealed away by the Titans (they could not be killed, having already corrupted the planet to such a degree that removing them would've required the destruction of Azeroth). |
| 205 | ** The canon lore anthology ''Chronicles'' solidifies their story as well as the Titans. Titans began life as planets which eventually hatch into new Titans, making them basically [[PlanetaryParasite Planet Parasites]] themselves. The Old Gods were created by the Void Lords and hurled randomly into space hoping at least one set of them would impact on a Titan Embryo, allowing them to corrupt a Titan into their ultimate warrior of destruction (full grown Titans were too strong with The Light to be corrupted). Meaning they don't consume the planet in a traditional sense, but just consume it with corruption for when it hatches on its own.[[note]]Turns out Azeroth is the most powerful Titan embryo ever discovered. The Arcane Energies of the Well of Eternity are its blood poring from a gaping wound where the Titans ripped an Old God from the surface. An act that made them fear removing the rest would kill the unborn Titan. Thus making them seal them instead and hope for the best. Sargeras is so fixed on destroying Azeroth (and the rest of the universe) because he fears what a corrupted Void Titan would be capable of and believes [[WellIntentionedExtremist wiping out all life and resetting the universe to be preferable]].[[/note]] |
| 206 | * ''Franchise/StarWars'': |
| 207 | ** The Star Forge in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' is a variant of this - it feeds off a star and the DarkSide to create vast swathes of technology for the Sith army. Whether it would eventually destroy the star it's using for energy and raw material is unknown (the star it's found orbiting seemed undamaged, and the math at least suggests that it's unlikely). |
| 208 | ** Darth Nihilus in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'' is [[HumanoidAbomination (or was)]] a ''person'' who [[VampiricDraining consumes the life-force of planets through the Force]], leaving them barren rocks in space. It turns out this is pretty much all he does, [[EmptyShell since his hunger is all-consuming and all that motivates him]]. |
| 209 | ** The Sith Emperor in ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'' is essentially a stronger version of Darth Nihilus who was said to be capable of doing this to multiple planets at once at his peak. |
| 210 | * Some Space Monsters from the first and second ''VideoGame/MasterOfOrion'' games will eat planets if you don't stop them, leaving behind only "a barren, radioactive husk". |
| 211 | * USG Ishimura in ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'' is a humongous scraper capable of gutting a whole planet and collecting its mineral resources. So basically it's a human-made planet eater/coal miner. Repeat that to yourself and realize the awesome. |
| 212 | ** ''VideoGame/DeadSpace3'' has [[spoiler:the Brethren Moons, Necromorphs the size of '''moons''' that reproduce by consuming all biomass on a given planet's surface.]] |
| 213 | * Guhnash from ''VideoGame/FossilFighters'', a gigantic space-fish-Pac-Man creature, presumably of the physical-devouring variety of planet eaters. [[spoiler: Around 600 million years ago, it ate the dinaurians' home planet. Thanks to their subsequent attempts to 'correct' the evolutionary path of Earth, it starts making its way there.]] |
| 214 | %%* The Grey Goo of ''VideoGame/TastyPlanet'' eventually becomes one. |
| 215 | * The Toronto of ''VideoGame/{{Albion}}'' is another example of man-made Planet Eater. It's basically a giant metal colossus that settles on the planet and digs up the surface, while slowly expanding. Eventually it could reduce the entire planet into raw materials. |
| 216 | %%* The planet Fusion is this in Cartoon Network's ''VideoGame/FusionFall''. |
| 217 | * ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption'': Phaaze, by itself, is [[ThatsNoMoon a living planet]]. However, in a loose reenactment of an Franchise/{{Alien}}'s ''modus operandi'' on a planetary scale, it sends out its offspring [[ColonyDrop in meteorite form]] to corrupt and devour other planets as a means of reproducing. |
| 218 | * The entire game ''[[VideoGame/{{Salamander}} Life Force]]'' takes place inside one of these. Half the levels are organic themed, while the other half are apparently the surface of the actual planets that were consumed. |
| 219 | * The final boss from ''VideoGame/SuperchargedRobotVulkaiser'', Gogoh the Space Devil, literally swallows Earth whole. The last level is set in its stomach. |
| 220 | * Tuska, a nearly mindless beast goddess, from the MMORPG ''VideoGame/RuneScape'', came to the planet of Gielinor in an attempt to devour it after [[spoiler: Guthix's assassination and death]]. But Gielinor was defended by four different rival factions (three controlled by gods Armadyl, Saradomin, and Zamorak; and one godless faction under Vorago's worship). She was ultimately stopped by [[spoiler: Vorago, an embodiment of the GeniusLoci of Gielinor]]. |
| 221 | * In ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series, [[EvilGod Alduin]] is the [[DragonsAreDemonic draconic]] BeastOfTheApocalypse and has the title of "World-Eater". It is his divinely mandated duty to "[[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt eat the world]]" at the end of every "kalpa" ([[EternalRecurrence cycle of time]]) so that it can be remade anew. In ''The Seven Fights of the Aldudagga'', he is described as a [[EldritchAbomination titanic monster]] with divine power even beyond that of the [[OurGodsAreDifferent Daedric Princes]]. He is also described as exhaling entire farms out of his nose and dwarfing even the Throat of the World itself. So it's a bit disappointing when you [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim finally face him]] and he's just a slightly bigger than normal dragon with not many special powers who just wants to TakeOverTheWorld. |
| 222 | * [[spoiler:Ouroboros]], TheManBehindTheMan and FinalBoss of ''VideoGame/BravelyDefault''. [[YouCantThwartStageOne Phase one]] of his evil plan is to physically link every AlternateUniverse. Then he can [[ExaggeratedTrope eat them all at once]], giving him enough energy to invade the Celestial Realm. One of his attacks, the aptly-named Armageddon, consumes just one of these universes (visually represented as a single planet) as fuel to attack the party and fully heal himself. |
| 223 | * The Leviathan from ''VideoGame/Destiny2'' is a monolithic starship that overshadows the dwarf planet of Nessus, and is actively consuming it -- to mix with "royal nectar" and be formed into [[EatDirtCheap wine]] for the Cabal Emperor's refined palate. |
| 224 | * In ''VisualNovel/MarcoAndTheGalaxyDragon'', Nudos are gigantic {{Space Whale}}s that can swallow an entire planet in one gulp. Marco and Arco have to stop one from devouring the Earth at one point. |
| 225 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'', [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Devouring Swarms]] composed of [[SiliconBasedLife Lithoids]] are known as Terravores and can slowly consume planets, gaining minerals and alloys, but making them gradually smaller and less hospitable. If left unchecked they can ultimately break the planet into pieces, rendering it permanently useless. |
| 226 | * ''VideoGame/MarvelSnap'': ComicBook/{{Galactus}} is a playable card and his ability to consume planets is represented by ''outright destroying'' two of the three locations that players can put their cards on, removing all cards on them and rendering those locations permanently unusable. |
| 227 | * The biggest threat to your civilization in ''VideoGame/BeforeWeLeave'' is giant {{Space Whale}}s occasionally drifting by and swallowing chunks of planets you've settled, removing tiles from the map and damaging nearby structures. Smaller ones can be placated with offerings of food delivered via SpaceElevator, while larger ones need to be repelled with [[DeflectorShields Aegis shields]]. |
| 228 | [[/folder]] |
| 229 | |
| 230 | [[folder:Web Comics]] |
| 231 | * Played with in ''Webcomic/AkumasComics'': Sprite Eaters are the SpriteComic versions of planet eaters, who normally devour dead sprite comics. The one that attacked the comic was more ambitious than its kind and began eating sprite worlds earlier for their power. |
| 232 | * Parodied in ''Webcomic/CaseyAndAndy'' with the Planet Devourer, which ''can'' eat planets... eventually. (It's about the size of a canary, with a similar rate of digestion.) It does eat Mars at one point... except it's OnlyAModel. |
| 233 | ** At one point Casey puts together a computer simulation between planet eaters and -destroyers, which in addition to the Planet Devourer includes ComicBook/{{Galactus}}, a [[Series/BabylonFive Vorlon planet killer]], [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Unicron]], and the [[Franchise/StarWars Death Star]]. |
| 234 | * One in the ''Star Trek'' parody arc of ''Webcomic/QuentynQuinnSpaceRanger''. |
| 235 | * ''WebComic/EightBitTheater'' gives us the '''[[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2010/03/02/episode-1222-one-of-the-better-singularities/ Cakelogical Singularity!]]''' [[spoiler:Too bad it didn't actually work out, but even just the idea is awesome.]] |
| 236 | * ''Webcomic/TheNonAdventuresOfWonderella'' has Ginormous, who travels the universe eating things that deserve to be eaten. She occasionally talks him out of eating the Earth. |
| 237 | * In [[http://www.lilformers.com/blog/2006/09/01/09012006/ one strip]] of ''Webcomic/LilFormers,'' Unicron and Galactus debate over whether they, as planet eaters, should eat Pluto. |
| 238 | * [[HarmlessVillain Jupiter]] from ''Webcomic/{{Nebula}}'' is a downplayed one- he eats ''moons''. |
| 239 | ** More threateningly, [[HorrorHunger Sun]] is shaping to ''actually'' be one. |
| 240 | * In ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' while [[spoiler: no planets get eaten quite a few planet-sized dark matter [[EldritchAbomination Pa'anuri]] get eaten by Umbral!Schlock.]] |
| 241 | -->[[spoiler: '''Pa'anuri''']]: It is not a monster. "Monster" is not enough of a word.\ |
| 242 | [[spoiler: '''[[ExtremeOmnivore Schlock]]''']]: The word you want is "mundivore." It means world-eater. Or maybe unverse-eater. I won't know which until I'm done eating. |
| 243 | [[/folder]] |
| 244 | |
| 245 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 246 | * The [[spoiler:power granting Entities]] of ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' don't literally eat planets. Instead after completing their evolution phase they consume all available forms of nutrition in the parallel versions of the world before destroying it to launch their spawn into space. |
| 247 | * In [[https://sites.google.com/site/terrenwiki/home Terren]] the goddesses Pura Velpormia and Hellmasin Miastrius swallow heavens and hells, respectively, whole. Unless they decide to wear them as jewelry instead. The [[http://yumi-akiyama.tumblr.com/ creator]] also draws some [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever macros]] that grow big enough to eat planets in a more conventional sense, but one of them was still [[https://www.dropbox.com/s/xl4in9zndnrtl04/vore%20chain5.png nothing more than a snack]] for Velpormia. |
| 248 | * ''Website/SCPFoundation'': There is an SCP capable of this, but most scientists aren't even aware of it. [[spoiler:It's [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2317 SCP-2317]], and only O5 personnel are fully aware of it. Why? ''There is no way to stop 2317 once it awakens'', with the "containment procedures" being just an EmptyPromise to keep from a widespread panic.]] |
| 249 | [[/folder]] |
| 250 | |
| 251 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 252 | * ''[[WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory Dial M for Monkey]]'' brought us the Galactus parody Barbequor, who tried to turn the entire solar system into a shishkabob. |
| 253 | * Coop battles one of these in ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR'', after it has the gall to disrupt his wrestling show. He destroys it by feeding it a missile packed with soda and Pop Rocks. And that's by accident. His first attempt -- a MacrossMissileMassacre -- is incredibly effective at devastating an area the size of New York City, on a creature the size of Earth. So then he tries smashing it... |
| 254 | * The Beast Planet from ''WesternAnimation/ShadowRaiders'' gets along by eating planets. Oddly, it's also an ImplacableMan... [[TheJuggernaut err]], [[GeniusLoci planet]], as it [[strike:survives several]] is completely unfazed by [+ALL+] [[HeroicSacrifice attempts at destruction]], even eating [[spoiler:two]] of the heroes' planets. The Beast also produces a near-endless supply of drones who tend to kill off anyone escaping from the Beast's feeding. [[spoiler: Even in the end, they were unable to completely stop it; they had to sacrifice yet another planet to use its teleport world engine to send the Beast planet far away. [[{{Cliffhanger}} However, the series ended up closing on Planet Reptizar's doomsday]]...]] |
| 255 | * Spoofed as Omnipotus in ''WesternAnimation/TheTick''. |
| 256 | -->'''Omnipotus:''' Okay, I won't eat Earth now, but may I [[DefaceOfTheMoon take a bite out of the moon]] as I go?\ |
| 257 | '''Tick:''' Sure. Go ahead. |
| 258 | * In the '90s ''[[WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries Spider-Man]]'' animated series, ''Doctor Strange'' villain Dormammu could devour ''entire dimensions.'' |
| 259 | * Hungorto, in ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers'' is Galactus, right down to having a cosmic-powered Herald. He is defeated when the combined forces of Earth and Mars throw all their food at him. |
| 260 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': |
| 261 | ** Seemingly played straight but ultimately averted with The Darkness in the three-part special. It eats planets, but it's just defending itself because the denizens of the planets he's passing by freak out and attack it for looking menacing, when it's all sorted out, it spits out everything/everyone it and its termi-errr, eliminators ate. |
| 262 | ** In one episode, Timmy turns his parents into superheroes. When he inevitably [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor experiences the downsides of having superhero parents]], he finds that magic immunity is one of the powers they have, so instead of just having Cosmo and Wanda change them back, he has to become [[LargeHam GALACTIMUS! EATER OF ALL PLANETS!]] and blackmail them into willingly giving up their powers |
| 263 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFstPS3-CzY&list=PL76DAF0EBB15A9A5F A]] ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' MusicalEpisode ended with ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} becoming this - in a possible reference to [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1987/05/17 this strip.]] |
| 264 | * This theme was revisited in the ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' episode [[Recap/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeriesS1E3OneOfOurPlanetsIsMissing "One of Our Planets Is Missing"]] where a gaseous antimatter entity the size of a small nebula which arrived from outside the galaxy and began digesting planets. [[spoiler: In a twist on the theme, the entity proved to be sentient, though not particularly bright, and once the ship's crew managed to establish communication and explain that its next intended meal was inhabited by living things, the entity decided that eating inhabited worlds was murder and set out for uninhabited regions.]] |
| 265 | * The reboot of ''[[WesternAnimation/MaxSteel2013 Max Steel]]'' has this in Makino who combines it with TheAssimilator as the reason for his actions. One of the [[BattleCry battle cries]] of his troops sums it up: |
| 266 | --> ''Absorb and expand!'' |
| 267 | * Cosma from ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes''. Being a self proclaimed [[BigEater foodie]] as a size changing LizardFolk woman means feasting on entire planets when the mood strikes her, which becomes an issue in one episode. |
| 268 | * ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' |
| 269 | ** Unicron is one of {{Trope Maker}}s[[note]]ComicBook/{{Galactus}} is the other[[/note]], starting with ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie'' (1986), where his first appearance doubles as his [[DoomedHometown first meal]] and the animated film's opening scene. He goes on to devour two of Cybertron's moons containing the hidden Autobot bases as well (well, one and a half, technically, since they [[DetonationMoon desperately blew up the second one]] while he was still eating it to try and stop him. [[NoSell It didn't even scratch him]]). He is a "eats the whole planet outright"-style Planet Eater. ApocalypseWow! Notably, however, he declines to eat Cybertron itself once Galvatron [[TheStarscream tries to betray him]], instead choosing to assume his [[HumongousMecha robot mode]] and tear apart the planet with his bare hands just to prove a point. |
| 270 | ** Depending on continuity, he's also more evil than Galactus: as a [[GodOfEvil dark god]] in a [[OurGodsAreDifferent crunchy robot shell]], Unicron doesn't actually ''need'' to eat anything. He just considers the mere existence of [[strike:life in]] the universe to be a personal affront against him, and some continuities make it clear that he personally devoured ''[[SpacetimeEater all of reality and creation]]'' at least once. Then the Big Bang happened while he was sleeping and he woke up annoyed [[HereWeGoAgain he'd have to do it all over again]]. It's even more disturbing because Unicron ''[[MonstrousCannibalism is a mechanical planet himself]]''. Incidentally, he is [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial most definitely not]] to be [[CaptainErsatz confused with Galactus]] (although Marvel may have had a hand in ''The Transformers: The Movie'', and was publishing the ''Transformers'' comic at the time). |
| 271 | %%* ''WesternAnimation/SilverHawks'' had an episode actually called "The Planet Eater".%%And? |
| 272 | * Gourmand aliens in ''Franchise/Ben10'' take the meaning behind their name literally, as {{Extreme Omnivore}}s. In ''[[WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse Omniverse]]'' their last-ditch resort in order to repel a hostile AlienInvasion is to eat their entire planet. And Ben (as his Gourmand form Upchuck) even decides to join in... |
| 273 | ** One episode also featured a giant tick-like alien known as The Great One by its worships that travelled between planets to suck all of the life out of them and then cause them to explode. |
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| 276 | [[folder:Real Life]] |
| 277 | * Black holes, if they get close enough. These are cores of dead stars that have high enough gravitational pull to absorb even light. And they cause spaghettification of everything (including planets) that gets close enough. |
| 278 | * Near the end of some stars' life cycles, they will expand and envelop nearby bodies, including planets. This is the likely end of Mercury and Venus, considering the type of star we orbit. Earth is an open question; some astronomers suggest that the sun won't quite reach earth's orbit of the time (somewhat farther out than now, as the sun's loss of mass as it transitions to a red giant will cause Earth to drift away from it). |
| 279 | * Here on Earth, it's become memetic to create an "Earth Sandwich": Finding someone on the exact opposite side of the globe and putting a piece of bread on the ground at the same time, then taking a picture to share on social media. Yummy. |
| 280 | * On June 2022, [[https://www.timeout.com/news/bizarre-news-story-of-the-day-jupiter-apparently-eats-other-planets-062222 a picture from one of NASA's satellites was revealed]] after the planet’s infamous gases temporarily parted and the chemical make-up of the planet’s core indicates that Jupiter likely swallowed up lots of small planets (called planetesimals) and space rocks to boost its own growth. [[CosmicHorrorStory Which is somewhat horrifying]]. |
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