Galacta: Daughter of Galactus is a 2010 comic book by Marvel Comics, written by Adam Warren with art by Hector Sevilla Lujan.
An alternate universe story starring Galactus' daughter Gali. Refusing to eat whole planets, she instead targets dangerous organisms such as alien invaders. This diet keeps her weak and leaves her human-sized but allows her to live on Earth.
Originally released as a four issue webcomic, the series was eventually published as a one shot in 2010.
Galacta: Daughter of Galactus provides examples of:
- Alternate Character Interpretation: In-Universe, Gali views her "daddy" Galactus as a callous, world-eating monster. She desperately wishes to remove herself from her father's shadow and overcome her base urges to consume everything in her path, though the Tapeworm Cosmic makes this very challenging. However, Galactus's surprise appearance at the end of the comic seems to favourably change her opinion of him, as he informs her that the "Tapeworm Cosmic" is actually a foetal form of another nascent cosmic entity developing inside her; in other words, she's pregnant. She considers the possibility that Galactus does have some fatherly compassion after all.
- Badass Adorable: Galacta is an adorable Bespectacled Cutie who goes by "Gali", who also happens to be the daughter of Galactus, one of the most powerful beings in the Marvel Universe, and she is almost as powerful as him.
- Bespectacled Cutie: Galacta wears a cute pair of glasses as part of her "Gali" identity.
- Character Blog: Gali has her own Twitter account
, which is also incorporated into the story. - Cool Helmet: Gali has a helmet modeled after her dad's.
- Cute Monster Girl: Gali looks like a slim, attractive human woman, but she is secretly the spawn of a primordial, planet-devouring cosmic entity with a very different biological makeup to any earthling.
- Distaff Counterpart: Gali's basically a normal-sized girl with Galactus' costume and powers.
- Driven to Suicide: When a "Tapeworm Cosmic" increases Gali's appetite to unbearable levels, she tries to kill herself with the Ultimate Nullifier.
- Actually, it was more like she was trying to give herself a very risky abortion.
- Extreme Omnivore: Galacta; she lives on Earth, tries to leave the locals in peace, and eats alien invaders and bioweapons. It takes all her willpower to NOT eat the yummy Earth. And it has gotten even worse since she became pregnant.
- Gendered Outfit: Galacta wears a gendered version of Galactus' armor.
- Horror Hunger: Gali has this just like her father, though it grows uncontrollable when she contracts the so-called Tapeworm Cosmic. She tries to make concessions for it, such as by restricting herself to only eating aliens and monsters, but this doesn't help much in the long run as it only feeds her urges.
- Humanity Is Infectious: Galacta could be like her father and devour everything in sight, but she has too much compassion for the humans she lives alongside.
- Impossibly-Low Neckline: The Power Cosmic must be what keeps Gali from having a Wardrobe Malfunction.
- I Want Grandkids: This might be one of the reasons Galactus stops his estranged daughter Galacta's attempt to destroy the "Tapeworm Cosmic" (actually the larval form of Power Cosmic entities like Galactus and Galacta) near the end of her one-shot. He doesn't want her or his unborn grandkid to be destroyed.
- Kirby Dots: Galacta reveals offhandedly on her Twitter account that mere humans cannot perceive the Power Cosmic where it affects reality and blank it out in their minds. She further lampshades that some people call the visual result "Kirby Dots".
- Last of His Kind: Subverted, as Galactus is revealed to have a daughter, the titular Galacta, created via spontaneous generation, and she's pregnant — but this was later confirmed to be non-canonical.
- Left Hanging: We haven't heard a peep from Galacta and her baby since the end of the comic, and Galactus has certainly never mentioned having a pregnant daughter on Earth in any of his major appearances since. Justified, as the story takes place in another universe.
- Loose Canon: For a long time, it was left ambiguous as to whether this comic was "canon" to Marvel's mainline Earth-616 continuity, though the author was adamant that it was. Eventually, Marvel confirmed that the story takes place in another reality, Earth-610102.
- Meat-O-Vision: Galacta can't keep herself from calculating the caloric value of every living thing she sees when she's hungry.
- Mood Whiplash: The comic has a very light tone with vibrant, Animesque artwork, but things take a turn for the morbid when Galacta's Horror Hunger starts consuming her, almost driving her to suicide. Then Galactus appears to give his daughter a new lease on life.
- Most Common Superpower: Predictably, Galacta has a big bust on display to distinguish herself as Galactus's Distaff Counterpart.
- Mister Seahorse: Galactus specifies that he was pregnant with Gali.
- Physical God: Unlike Galactus, Galacta is closer to a typical Physical God in terms of power scale since she isn't quite as powerful as her father. Her unborn child the Tapeworm Cosmic (no, really, again) will probably fit the bill, too.
- Planet Eater: Gali 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. However, she's pregnant, and her baby has the same cravings even now, while still in her womb.
- Pregnant Badass: Galacta currently qualifies, technically, although she isn't pregnant in the same way humans are. (It's similar, however.) When her hunger for life energy was increasing to the point that the temptation to consume the Earth became harder than ever to resist, she thought some evil parasite had infected her, and tried to steal the Ultimate Nullifier from her father's ship in an effort to purge it from her (even though the risk of destroying herself in the process was great). When Galactus stopped her from doing so, she found out that the "parasite" was actually a child she had conceived in the same method that he had conceived her. (She was, in effect, pregnant; the reason for her incredible hunger was simply, she had to eat for two.)
- Purple Is Powerful: Like her father, Gali dresses in purple, and could grow to size and power comparable to her progenitor if she tried.
- Reality Warping Is Not a Toy: The comic posits that the X-Gene actually grants the same power to all mutants: reality warping. The problem is that most of them can't actually control it, so they unconsciously warp reality in different ways that manifest as their mutant powers.
- Stupid Sexy Flanders: Johnny Storm can't help commenting on Galacta's "hawt" body, despite her being the daughter of one of the Fantastic Four's deadliest enemies.
- Truly Single Parent: Both Galactus and Galacta are capable of reproducing asexually. It is revealed that Galacta's hunger isn't being worsened by a parasite. She's just pregnant!
- Warm Bloodbags Are Everywhere: Gali resists her urge to eat humans despite her mind subconsciously telling her how much energy she'd get from everyone she sees.
