History Main / CosmicEntity

* MarvelComics is the king of this trope, introducing dozens of entities over the years and then [[DeadPanSnarker settling]] their relationships with each other.
** [[HaveYouSeenMyGod "The One Above All"]]

** ** [[OrderVersusChaos The Lords of Chaos and Order]], including DoctorFate, [[LegionOfSuperHeroes Mordru]] and the wizard [[CaptainMarvel Shazam]].

** [[JLA-Avengers Kismet, the sentience of the universe]], [[DependingOnTheWriter or "simply" a Lord of Order]].

** [[MultiversalConqueror Krona, Imperiex, and the Anti-Monitor]].
** [[JLA-Avengers Kismet, the sentience of the universe]], [[DependingOnTheWriter or "simply" a Lord of Order]].

** [[JLAVersusAvengers Kismet, the sentience of the universe]], [[DependingOnTheWriter or "simply" a Lord of Order]].

** [[TheSandman The Endless]]: [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Destiny, Dream, Death, Desire, Destruction, Delirium and Despair]]; [[AnthropomorphicPersonification The White Light Entity, embodiment of Life]], and [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Necrom, embodiment of the unliving void and absence of sentience]].

** [[TheSandman The Endless]]: [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Destiny, Dream, Death, Desire, Destruction, Delirium and Despair]]; [[AnthropomorphicPersonification The White Light Entity, embodiment of Life]], and [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Necrom]], embodiment of the unliving void and absence of sentience]].

* MarvelComics is the king of this trope, introducing dozens of entities over the years and then figuring out their connections to each other.
** [[{{God}} "The One Above All"]]
** [[GuardianOfTheMultiverse The Living Tribunal]], who acts as the the enforcer of the One Above's rules;

** Master Order and Lord Chaos who, in an unusual variation of the OrderVersusChaos trope, usually work together; it's their balancing agent, The In-Betweener, who rebels and causes trouble.
** [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Mistress Love and Sir Hate]]
** The Celestials, a whole race of cosmic entities who guide evolution.
** The "Cosmic Cubes" (The [[IHaveManyNames Beyonder/Kosmos/The Maker]], Kubik, and The Shaper Of Worlds), who grew out of [[CosmicKeystone objects]] created by entities outside the normal universe (The Beyonders) as [[HumansThroughAlienEyes a way to understand our reality]].
** Galactus the PlanetEater, the balancing function between Eternity and Death
** The Stranger, a former aspect of the Tribunal, which it removed to be able to interact with existence, and has acted as an outsider and cosmic schemer ever since.
** The higher forms of [[EldritchAbomination extradimensional divinities]], such as Shuma-Gorath, [[MultiversalConqueror Dormammu]], or the [[GuardianOfTheMultiverse Vishanti]] may also count.
** [[TheWatcher The Watchers]], a race of SufficientlyAdvancedAliens can manipulate cosmic energies on a level with Galactus but have sworn never to interfere.

** The Presence who again, is supposed to be {{God}}.
** The Wrath of God, which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin; currently embodied by the hero called TheSpectre.
** The Source from the NewGods may be an aspect of God as well.
** The [[BlackestNight recently-introduced]] Light Entities that embody emotions/ motivations: White (Life), Red (Anger), Orange (Greed), Yellow (Fear), Green (Will), Blue (Hope), Indigo (Compassion) Violet (Love) and Black (Death.)
** DC also has The Endless (Destiny, Dream, Death, Desire, Destruction, Delirium and Despair) from their Vertigo line of comics which ([[{{Retcon}} might]]) exist in the main universe but rarely ever intervene, making their importance (despite their boasts) suspect.

** Galactus the PlanetEater, the [[SurvivalOfTheFittest balancing function]] between Eternity and Death

** [[TheWatcher The Watchers]], a race of SufficientlyAdvancedAiens can manipulate cosmic energies on a level with Galactus but have sworn never to interfere.

** [[TheWatcher The Watchers]], a race of SufficientlyAdvancedaAiens can manipulate cosmic energies on a level with Galactus but have sworn never to interfere.

A cosmic entity is any being who possesses powers so great he, she or it can affect entire worlds (or in some cases, ''entire universes''.) If there is more than one such entity in a setting, there will usually be different levels of power, and often specific responsibilities as well, forming a kind of FantasyPantheon.

Cosmic Beings tend to not care much about "lesser beings" (anybody who isn't cosmic) and any harm (or good) they cause is often unintentional. Because of their level of power, when they cause trouble heroes are often forced to [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath try to reason with them]], use a CosmicKeystone, or [[SummonBiggerFish ask another Cosmic Entity for help]].

A Cosmic Entity could be any (or none) of the following:

* FlyingSpaghettiMonster

* MarvelComics is the king of this trope, introducing dozens of entities over the years and then [[DeadPanSnarker settling]] their relationships with each other.
** [[HaveYouSeenMyGod "The One Above All"]]
** [[GodIsEvil The Living Tribunal]], who acts as the entity's enforcer, but generally stands by even in times of multiversal genocide, is gladly willing to wipe out entire universes in favour of ones it simply likes better, and enforces that [[HandWave picky]] [[DisproportionateRetribution "I'll torture most of you forever and ever"]] afterlife system; and the Infinites, which are higher-dimensional entities far beyond Eternity, who don't really notice anything that goes on in the lower multiverse except through accident, but aren't malevolent as such.
** [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Eternity and his female counterpart Infinity; and their opposites, Death and Oblivion.]]
** [[OrderVersusChaos Master Order and Lord Chaos]]
** [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Love and Hate]]
** The Celestials, a whole race of trans-universal scale entities [[DependingOnTheWriter who guide evolution, alternately use it as a means to produce more Celestials]].
** The Cosmic Cubes (The Beyonder/Kosmos/The Maker, Kubik, The Shaper Of Worlds) who are created by entities outside the normal universe (The Beyonders) as a way to understand our reality.
** [[PlanetEater Galactus]], [[TrueArtIsOffensive the]] [[WordOfGod non-abstract]] [[BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil balancing]] [[DependingOnTheWriter function]] [[RunningTheAsylum between Eternity and Death]], [[HandWave which somehow involves a regular high-proteine diet of sentient civilisations]], [[KudzuPlot and who almost never considers that non-sentient stars and cosmic power sources have a much higher and lasting energy/joule content]]; the [[StupidNeutral In-Betweener]], rebellious balancer between Order and Chaos; and [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the Stranger]], a former aspect of the Tribunal, which it removed to be able to interact with existence, and has acted as an outsider and cosmic schemer ever since.
** The higher forms of EldritchAbomination, such as [[CthulhuMythos Shuma-Gorath]], [[MultiversalConqueror Dormammu]], or [[TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness the]] [[GuardianOfTheMultiverse Vishanti]].
** [[TheWatcher The Watchers]]

** The [[BlackestNight recently-introduced]] Light Entities that embody emotions/ motivations: White (Life), Red (Hate), Orange (Greed), Yellow (Fear), Green (Will), Blue (Hope), Indigo (Compassion) Violet (Love) and Black (Death.)

** The NewGods.

* MarvelComics is the king of this trope, introducing dozens of entities over the years and then settling their relationships with each other.

** The higher forms of EldritchAbomination, such as [[CthulhuMythos Shuma-Gorath]], [[MultiversalConqueror Dormammu]], or [[TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness the Vishanti]].

** [[PlanetEater Galactus]], [[TrueArtIsOffensive the]] [[WordOfGod non-abstract]] [[BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil balancing]] [[DependingOnTheWriter function]] [[RunningTheAsylum between Eternity and Death]], [[HandWave which somehow involves a regular high-fibre diet of sentient civilisations]], [[KudzuPlot and who almost never considers that non-sentient stars and cosmic power sources have a much higher and lasting energy/joule content]]; the [[StupidNeutral In-Betweener]], rebellious balancer between Order and Chaos; and [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the Stranger]], a former aspect of the Tribunal, which it removed to be able to interact with existence, and has acted as an outsider and cosmic schemer ever since.

** [[PlanetEater Galactus]], [[TrueArtIsOffensive the]] [[WordOfGod non-abstract]] [[BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil balancing]] [[HandWave function]] [[DependingOnTheWriter between]] [[RunningTheAsylum Eternity and Death]], which somehow involves a regular diet of sentient civilisations, [[KudzuPlot and who almost never considers that non-sentient stars and cosmic power sources have a much higher and lasting energy/joule content]]; the [[StupidNeutral In-Betweener]], rebellious balancer between Order and Chaos; and [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the Stranger]], a former aspect of the Tribunal, which it removed to be able to interact with existence, and has acted as an outsider and cosmic schemer ever since.

** [[PlanetEater Galactus]], the [[WordOfGod non-abstract]] [[BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil balancing]] [[HandWave function]] [[DependingOnTheWriter between]] [[RunningTheAsylum Eternity and Death]], which somehow involves a regular diet of sentient civilisations, [[KudzuPlot and who almost never considers that non-sentient stars and cosmic power sources have a much higher and lasting energy/joule content]]; the [[StupidNeutral In-Betweener]], rebellious balancer between Order and Chaos; and [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the Stranger]], a former aspect of the Tribunal, which it removed to be able to interact with existence, and has acted as an outsider and cosmic schemer ever since.

** [[GodIsEvil The Living Tribunal]], who acts as the entity's enforcer, but generally stands by even in times of multiversal genocide, is gladly willing to wipe out entire universes in favour of ones it simply likes better, and enforces that [[HandWave picky]] [[DisproportionateRetribution "I'll torture most of you forever and ever"]] system; and the Infinites, which are higher-dimensional entities far beyond Eternity.

** [[BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil Galactus]], the [[WordOfGod non-abstract]] [[DependingOnTheWriter balancing]] [[HandWave function]] [[RunningTheAsylum between]] Eternity and Death, which somehow involves a regular diet of sentient civilisations, [[KudzuPlot and who somehow almost never considering that non-sentient stars and cosmic objects have a much higher energy/joule content]]; the [[StupidNeutral In-Betweener]], the balancer between Order and Chaos; and [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the Stranger]], a former aspect of the Tribunal, which it removed to be able to interact with existence, and has acted as an outsider and cosmic schemer ever since.

** The higher forms of EldritchAbomination, such as [[CthulhuMythos Shuma-Gorath]], [[MultiversalConqueror Dormammu]], or the Vishanti.

** The Watchers

** The higher forms of EldritchAbomination, such as [[CthulhuMythos Shuma-Gorath]], [[DimensionLord Dormammu]], or the Vishanti.

** The Celestials, a whole race of cosmic entities [[DependingOnTheWriter who guide evolution, alternately use it as a means to produce more Celestials]].

** The One Above All, aka {{God}}.
** The Living Tribunal, who makes sure The One Above All's rules are obeyed in all universes.
** Eternity and his female counterpart Infinity, representing infinite time and endless space. (Every universe has their own pair of these), and their opposites, Death and Oblivion.

** The Celestials, a whole race of cosmic entities who guide evolution.

** Love and Hate (yes, Marvel seems to be big on duality.)
*** Galactus the Planet-Eater, the non-abstract [[DependingOnTheWriter balancing]] [[HandWave function]] [[RunningTheAsylum between]] Eternity and Death; the In-Betweener, the balancer between Order and Chaos; and the Stranger, a former aspect of the Tribunal, which it removed to be able to interact with existence.

* MarvelComics is the king of this trope, introducing dozens of entities over the years and then settling their relationships with each other. Going from mightiest/most important down, they go like this:

** Eternity and his female counterpart Infinity, representing infinite time and endless space. Every universe has their own pair of these.
*** Their opposites, Death and Oblivion.
*** Galactus the Planet-Eater, the balance between Eternity and Death.
** [[OrderVersusChaos Lord Order and Master Chaos]]
*** The In-Betweener, their balancer.
** Love and Hate (yes, Marvel seems to be big on duality.)

** The Stranger is a curious case, as even he doesn't know what his own origin is.

** DC also has The Endless (Destiny, Dream, Death, Desire, Destruction, Delirium and Despair) from their Vertigo line of comics which exist in the main universe but rarely ever intervene, making their importance (despite their boasts) suspect.

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* Some of the "Outer Gods" from HPLovecraft's CthulhuMythos qualify. Most notably Azathoth, the Blind Idiot God, who is mindless but said to rule over all time and space.
** Actually he's the living center of the universe.
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* The Primordials and older gods in DungeonsAndDragons, who literally created their {{multiverse}} out of chaos.
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** Love and Hate (yes, Marvel seems to like to be big on duality.)

Cosmic Beings tend to not care much about "lesser beings" (anybody who isn't cosmic) and any harm (or good) they cause is often unintentional. Because of their level of power, when they cause trouble heroes are often forced to [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath try to reason with them]], use a CosmicKeystone, or ask another Cosmic Entity for help.

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