First Appearance: Thor
#132Origin Issue: (alleged) Fantastic Four #235
EGO
First Appearance: Thor
#132
Origin Issue: (alleged) Fantastic Four #235
Real Name: Ego
Aliases: none
Diameter: 4165 miles
Mass: Unrevealed
Eyes: none
Hair: none
Distinguishing Features: Ego is a
planet-sized entity
Occupation: Inapplicable
Citizenship: Inapplicable
Place of Creation/Birth: The Black Galaxy
Known Relatives: Ego-Prime
(clonal scion)
Known Allies: The Elders of the Universe
Known Enemies:
Thor, the Silver Surfer, the Fantastic
Four, Galactus
Intelligence: Immeasurable
(10/10)
Strength: Incalculable (12/12)
Flight Speed: Warp speed (12/12)
Stamina: Godlike (9/10)
Durability: Godlike (13/14)
Agility: Inapplicable
Reflexes: Metahuman (7/7)
Fighting Skills: none
Special Skills/Abilities: Knowledge of sophisticated
alien technology far in advance of present-day Earth
Superhuman physical powers: Ego is a "living
planet" with total control over its entire mass down to the molecular level. It
is able to use its own substance to extrude tentacles, organic sensors, plant-like growth
and to create humanoid vessels for its consciousness. It can shape its surface into
the appearance of a gigantic face, to appear as a dead inhospitable world, or into an
idyllic paradise to lure unwary space travelers to it surface, which it then absorbs.
Ego possesses various internal features analogous to a living organism, such as
gigantic tunnels which have been compared to arteries, and a gigantic brain-like organ
deep below its surface, Ego possess both digestive organs which it uses when absorbing
living beings, and an immune system which creates powerful antibodies to destroy beings
which resist absorption.
Superhuman Mental Powers: Ego possesses vast psionic
powers, which enable it tap energy sources such as stars or to absorb the life energies of
living beings, and channel that energy for its own uses. Ego has vast telepathic
powers, which appear to be effective over interstellar distances.
Source of Superhuman Powers: Unrevealed
Personal Weaponry: none
Other Accessories: none
History: When the universe first came into existence, one planet developed differently from all others, gradually evolving over millions of years to possess intelligence and consciousness. This planet became known as Ego, the Living Planet (an account that Ego was once a mortal whose essence was bonded with an entire planet has been proven false). The entire sector of space within which Ego dwelt was a "bio-verse," teeming with life, but Ego was the only sentient creature known to exist. This area was dubbed the "Black Galaxy" by the Colonizers of Rigel, who lost several ships in attempts to explore the region.
Fearful that Ego would emerge from the Black Galaxy and devour their nearby planet, the Rigellians attempted to colonize Earth. They were opposed by Thor, and explained their dilemma to him. Thor journeyed into the Black Galaxy to meet Ego, who was fascinated to meet a being from outside his space, and engaged Thor in battle so that it could test itself against other powers with its "anti-body" creations. Ego intended to send its anti-bodies out to conquer other worlds, but Thor summoned power from his father Odin and generated a powerful storm that stunned Ego. Forced to surrender to Thor, Ego vowed it would not leave the Black Galaxy.
Months later, the planet-devouring cosmic being Galactus invaded Ego's space, seeking to replenish his own energy by consuming Ego, who drove Galactus off with the aid of Thor. In gratitude toward Thor, Ego allowed its surface to become the new home of the Wanderers, surviving members of the Archeopian extraterrestrial race whose planet had been the first devoured by Galactus billions of years ago.
The Rigellian colonizer Tana Nile took a sample of Ego and bonded it to the planet "Blackworld", hoping that it might aid the Rigellians in terraforming new worlds. Instead, Blackworld spawned Ego-Prime, who bore some of the power of Ego itself, and could dramatically accelerate evolution. Ego-Prime sought to transform Earth to resemble Ego so that it could become a part of the bio-verse, but its energies were stolen by Jason Kimball, Carter Dyam, and Chi Lo, three of the mortals chosen to serve in the Young Gods. Ego-Prime's energy allowed their latent abilities to manifest, and the weakened Ego-Prime was taken prisoner by the Stranger, who stored it within his laboratory world.
Driven insane by the removal of Tana Nile's sample, Ego devoured the Wanderers. Desperate for energy, Galactus again tried to devour Ego, but was outmatched and forced to flee. Recognizing that Ego had gone insane, Galactus dispatched his herald Firelord, Thor, and Hercules against Ego. While those three battled Ego, Galactus constructed a thruster and attached it to Ego's south pole, forcing the planet to be constantly driven through space, unable to threaten inhabited worlds.
As Ego was propelled through space, it began to decay from lack of sunlight, but gained control over the thruster. Seeking revenge on Galactus, Ego headed for Earth, which Galactus had recently visited. Ego's arrival in the Solar system caused massive upheaval on Earth as tremors shook the world, but a man possessing the near-infinite reality-altering power named L.R. "Skip" Collins exhausted his abilities to repair the damage Ego had done. The Fantastic Four confronted Ego in space, and Mr Fantastic had the Thing remove an engine from Ego's thruster. The Thing descended within Ego and hurled the engine into Ego's brain, but it had little effect. Angered, Ego tried to fire the thruster again in an attempt to destroy Earth. Ego was thrown off course by the missing engine, caught in the sun's gravitation pull, and torn apart.
However, Ego's consciousness still existed in every remaining portion of itself, and exposure to the sun's energy helped revive it. Ego gradually rebuilt itself and reclaimed and repaired the thruster. Seeking new energy for itself, Ego would disguise itself as an idyllic paradise-like sphere to lure space travelers into landing upon it. A party of Dire Wraiths fell for Ego's trap and set up a base on its surface. When they fought the Spaceknights Seeker and Scanner, Ego pulled them all beneath its surface to being digestion. however, Rom the Spaceknight came to his comrades' rescue and force Ego to release them by threatening to fire his Neutralizer into Ego's brain. The Dire Wraiths were sent to Limbo by Rom before Ego could consume them.
Ego became an ally of the Elders of the Universe, who accepted Ego into their ranks because it was the only creature of its kind, just as the Elders were each the last survivor of their species. Ego served as the Elders' mobile base of operations, and fought the Silver Surfer on their behalf, attempting to consume the Surfer's energies, but the Surfer seized control of Ego's thruster and threatened to steer it into a sun, forcing Ego to release him. Ego later encountered the Korbinite fleet, led by Beta Ray Bill, and attacked them, destroying several ships. When Ego revealed to Bill that it was being driven mad by Galactus' thruster, Bill had the fleet destroyer the thruster. In gratitude, Ego offered to make itself the Korbinites' new home, but Bill refused, suspicious of Ego and knowing that the Korbinite would resent Ego for having killed some of them. Bill left Ego deserted.
The enigmatic Celestials had transformed the Black Galaxy into a new member of their race, and this Celestial made contact with Ego. The High Evolutionary investigated this, and as Ego was being consumed by an immense "Super-Ego," speculated that Ego might actually be a single manifestation of a larger being, and that more than one Ego may exist. More Celestials came to examine Ego's dilemma, but how Ego escaped the Super-Ego is unknown.
As part of a complicated ploy to reestablish the Kree Empire, the Supreme Intelligence took control of Ego and sent it out to assault other worlds, attempting to "awaken" them with its energies so that those worlds would become sentient. Ego destroyed the homeworld of the Krylorains in its rampage, and the incident heightened tensions among the extraterrestrial races making up the Intergalactic Council. The Silver Surfer, Professor X, and Cadre K prevented it from destroying the Shi'ar throneworld, but the Supreme Intelligence arranged Ego's seeming destruction before they could discern its purpose.
The Supreme Intelligence had his agents compact Ego's essence and send it to Earth, as the Intergalactic Council determined to make Earth a penal colony, and were in the process of sending many of their worst offenders there. Ego's essence was found within a crashed rocket by a pair of senile farmers from Nebraska who thought they had saved a "space baby." Ego began to spread itself across Earth, and manifestations of it engaged many of Earth's heroes. As Ego began to consume the planet, the Supreme Intelligence tapped into Ego's power with conduits, and siphoned it to the Kree so that they could use Ego's power. The Silver Surfer attempted to halt Ego's infestation, but could not meet the challenge fully. Quasar (Wendell Vaughn) finally halted Ego by absorbing it into the Quantum Zone from which he drew his power. Ego was contained, but was in danger of escaping containment at any time. Quasar exiled himself into space to prevent Ego from infecting Earth again.
Recently, Ego was among the beings who assaulted Thanos while he possessed the Heart of the Infinite. How Ego escaped the Quantum Zone has not been chronicled.
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