Galactus

Kneel before Galactus!
Said before battle

Galactus, the Devourer of Worlds, a major antagonist in Marvel's Fantastic Four comics, is the final boss in Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds, due to him being lured in by the alliance between Doctor Doom and Albert Wesker. In Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Galactus becomes a playable character in Galactus Mode.

Origin

Galactus is the sole survivor of the universe that existed prior to the current universe. Originally Galactus was a humanoid named Galan, who was born on the planet Taa, a paradise-like world whose civilization is said to have been the most advanced of any of the known universe of that time.

At the moment Galan's universe met its end, the Phoenix Force amassed the positive emotions of all living beings in the cosmos to preserve them from eternal damnation, enabling the Sentience of the Universe — the previous universe's equivalent to Eternity — to meet with Galan. Within the "Cosmic Egg" the Sentience of the Universe revealed itself to Galan and informed him that though they both would die in the final moments of the universe, they would both survive through a joint heir born into the next universe. The Sentience of the Universe merged itself with the mortal Galan and thus Galactus, the devourer of worlds, was conceived.

Powers and Ablities

Powers

Galactus possesses the immeasurable Power Cosmic and is one of the most powerful beings in the Marvel Universe, he has even been referred to as "the most powerful creature in the universe." As such, Galactus is able to employ the limitless cosmic energy within him to produce virtually any effect he desires. Some of the abilities he has displayed are:

Immortality: Galactus is said to be the oldest living entity; therefore people consider him as an ageless being.

God-level Strength: Galactus possesses an astronomical amount of super strength.

God-level Stamina: Galactus can partake in physical strenuous action, like battles, for an undefined period of time, but absorbing the energy of a planet will only sustain him for a month, and using it will cause the time-span to lower dramatically, so he normally cannot fight for too long.

God-level Speed: Despite his size, Galactus can fly at speeds that greatly surpass the speed of light.

Invulnerability: Galactus is immune to all diseases, ailments, and toxins, and, he is nearly impenetrable towards almost every force, he was able to survive from a planetary impact and nuclear arsenal, but was severely injured in the process.
Size-Alteration: ability to alter the physical size of persons or objects.
Molecular Restructuring: ability to physically alter persons or objects through the manipulation of their comprising molecules.
Matter Transmutation: ability to directly convert one form of matter into another form of matter. e.g. turning lead into gold.
Cosmic Teleportation: ability to teleport beings and objects, even entire galaxies, across space and time.
Cosmic Force-Fields: ability to erect virtually impenetrable energy fields.
Cosmic Energy Projection: ability to project devastating energies powerful enough to destroy entire planets.
Energy Absorption: Arguably his most viable power, as his survival depends on absorbing the Life Force from planets or stars.
Interdimensional & Intradimensional Portals: ability to create wormholes between dimensions and within dimensions.
Cosmic Telepathy: ability to read or communicate with other minds across universal distances.
Cosmic Telekinesis: ability to move virtually unlimited amounts of mass through mental concentration.
Cosmic Awareness: ability to sense disturbances or changes within the cosmic ether on a universal scale.
Resurrection: ability to raise the dead.
Creation: ability to create complex, sentient, biological life-forms from nothing.
Soul Manipulation: ability to manipulate the souls of living beings.
Recreation: ability to remake an entire Solar System, including populations, the planets etc. in every detail.
Power Bestowal: Galactus' heralds, whom he has endowed with a minuscule fraction of his cosmic power, are able to manipulate matter and energy in ways far beyond human comprehension.
Vitakinesis: Galactus is able to heal himself and others from all physical wounds although this may simply be molecular reconstruction.

Abilities

Galactus, as the oldest known living entity in the universe, arguably possesses the universe's most advanced intellect. Reed Richards has admitted an inability to fully comprehend even the most rudimentary devices found within Galactus' Worldship Taa II. The Worldship itself is a solar system-sized construct that is said to surpass any natural world in beauty and splendor and yet within its computers is contained knowledge so unfathomable and far reaching it can grant awesome power to those who come into contact with it.

Story

In the Marvel Universe, Doctor Doom teamed up with Dormammu and reunited a large number of known villains.

Soon, they made contact with the Capcom Universe, and joined forces with Albert Wesker in order to unite both "Earths" into one. Galactus took notice and, in his mind, sees no other alternative but to destroy the world to prevent the catastrophe. The heroes and villains now must team up to defeat this new larger threat, or else lose everything.

Boss Fight

Galactus is the final boss in the game, occurring in Stage 7.

Should the player's team be defeated, the words "Earth K.O.,", in which the announcer would say "Global Destruction! K.O.!", followed by "You Lose," are shown, signifying that the player has doomed both the Marvel and Capcom worlds to destruction. After the player's team is defeated, an animation shows Galactus standing before a burning Earth, before making it explode. However, if the player's team triumphs over Galactus, the words "You Saved The Earth!", followed by "You Win", show up instead, with Galactus falling off the stage's crater and fleeing in defeat, thus saving both the Capcom and Marvel worlds, followed by a fighter's victory animation for delivering the final blow, along with the ending of that particular fighter. In both MVC3 and UMVC3, after losing to Galactus and choosing not to continue, his ending will play after the Game Over screen.

Phase 1 Before fighting Galactus, you must fight the cosmic avatar versions of either Doctor Doom, Dormammu, Albert Wesker, or Akuma. During the start of this match, you will fight one of them for now. There is no statistical differences between the cosmic avatars versus their regular forms, minus a separate health bar and the cosmic character cannot summon other characters.

After 10 seconds of the fight, another of those random 4 fighters will jump in, causing you to face them both at the same time; your character will always face the first avatar if both avatars are shown in different sides. Fortunately, the avatars share the same health bar, so if you have a multiple-hitting move that does not target 1 character, you will drain the life bar twice as fast. Once it empties, both avatars are defeated. Even though some say it would be ideal to just wait for the second avatar to come in, it may also not be recommended because of back attacks. Note that until the second fighter jumps in, you cannot defeat the first; even if you completely drain the health bar, the first fighter will not be K.O.ed and will continue to fight you. If you manage to do this, however, both fighters will instantly be K.O.ed as soon as the second one jumps in.

Phase 2 After besting the 2 avatars, Galactus appears, after watching the battle from a distance, and his health bar has shown to be the size of three health bars (the same as the sub bosses). Also, the timer does not reset, making this battle rather difficult when it comes to having enough time.

Here is Galactus's Movesets for the first half:

Backhand Swat: Galactus sweeps the ground in front of him. Can be blocked, or avoided by being far from him.
Left Hand Smash: Galactus punches the ground close to him. Can be blocked, or avoided by being far from him.
Right Hand Smash: Galactus punches the ground far from him. Can be blocked, or avoided by being close to him.
Haymaker Punch: Galactus pulls back and swings his fist across the stage. Can be blocked or jumped over. He can pull this move twice even if the character is lying on the ground.
Throw: Galactus shift his position to the background and swings both his hands inwards to grab you. This move is unblockable. You can avoid it by hi-jumping. If you are grabbed, you can mash the buttons real fast to get out of his grab before he slams you to the ground, or use an assist.
Snap Back Flick: Galactus will use his finger to flick you out, temporarily disabling that character and forcing you to switch to a different character randomly.
Hyper Smash: Rarely performed, Galactus will charge a little bit of energy, and then do a ground pound, similar to the stronger version. Can be blocked.
He will move forward to give you less room space to fight. You can do a ton of damage when he walks forward. While he does no damage in this phase, keep in mind that he will give you less room to walk if too many spaces have been walked.

Around draining half his health, he will be stunned for a short period of time. Now is your chance to do massive damage before he recovers, especially with using X-Factor (if unused) + Team Crossover Hyper Combos. After the short stun, Galactus is back in the fight. This time, he has an additional new set of moves:

Finger Laser: A simple laser that goes around the screen. Probably the only new move in his moveset that does not nearly instant kill, but still best to Advancing Guard.
Eye Laser: Laser shoots in a small downwards, hiting the farthest part of the screen, tilting at an upwards angle. This can be dodged by getting up close. Unblocked damage depends on location and character.
Hyper Laser: Shoots out lasers from all of his fingers. You must hi-jump this whenever possible. You will still receive a lot of damage when blocking, even with Advancing Guard.
Full-Screen Hyper Laser: Galactus shift his position to the background and uses both the Hyper Laser and Eye Laser in a full sweep. Sadly, you have no choice but to block this as this move fills the entire screen and can instantly kill if unblocked. To reduce as much damage possible, a Hi-Jump + Blocking and Advancing Guard is the best thing to do.
Final Smash: Though this move is rarely performed, this move is unavoidable and will instanly K.O. a character, even with Sentinel (pre-patch) and Thor (post patch) in full health (Phoenix lvl 5 can still trigger). In order to prevent this move from succeeding, you must inflict as much damage and hits to Galactus as possible to stun him out of it. This can also K.O. an assist if there is one out. Therefore, it would be incredibly unwise to use a Cross-Over Combination to try to stun him out of it, as it will decimate your entire team if it hits while the attack is used.

Playing as Galactus

In Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Galactus can be unlocked as a playable character through the secret unlockable mode known as Galactus Mode, which is unlocked by either accumulating 30,000 PP or by having saved data from the original Marvel vs. Capcom 3 game on the same console. Unlike the boss fight, you will simply control Galactus from the get go instead of using his Heralds first. As you are playing as Galactus, the "Save the Earth" prompt is aptly replaced by "Attack the Earth". There is still a time limit set to 99, although you will win by automatic if it runs out, regardless of HP left. All of his attacks from his phases are available at the get-go and they can be canceled into each other, making him especially more dangerous in a player's hand as he can fake out his incoming normal attacks with his more devastating Hypers and because he himself has no Hyper Gauge, he can use his more lethal attacks indefinitely. As with the normal Arcade Mode, you will play as Galactus through many matches (however, while playing with Galactus the number of matches will be six instead, because of the seventh fight in the normal arcade mode being Galactus' boss fight). Unlike the normal arcade mode, if Galactus' health reaches zero, the player will not be allowed to continue, resulting in an automatic Game Over. Clearing the last match will result in Earth's destruction as normal and his ending will play.

Theme Song

Galactus_Theme_Marvel_vs._Capcom_3 — Galactus Theme Marvel vs. Capcom 3

Trailer

File:Marvel vs Capcom 3 - Galactus

Special Quotes

UMVC3_Galactus_Quotes — UMVC3 Galactus Quotes

Galactus' Pre-Fight Dialogues

"All must submit to the rule of Galactus."
"Behold, The Power Cosmic itself!"
"Kneel before Galactus."
"Only the Ultimate Nullifier would give me pause."
"You are like an amoeba to me."
"You are not unlike an ant fighting the Sun."
(vs. Amaterasu, Thor or Shuma-Gorath) "If you can be a god... then what shall we call Galactus?"
(vs. any Avenger except Thor) "Much like the Fantastic Four, you are nothing to me."
(vs. Dante, Deadpool, Viewtiful Joe or Spider-Man) "Why do you laugh in the face of your own destruction?"
(vs. Ryu or Akuma) "No amount of training can prepare you for Galactus."
(vs. Super-Skrull) "I remember your homeworld. It was delicious."
(vs. Doctor Strange) "The ancient forces you draw upon mean nothing to one as old as the universe."

Galactus' Win Quotes

"A foolish way to end one's life."
"I am Galactus, and my power is absolute."
"I will begin consumption of this world immediately."
"Your planet will provide me with some much-needed nourishment."
(vs. Amaterasu, Thor or Shuma-Gorath) "I am not without mercy. You may serve as my herald."
(vs. any Avenger except Thor) "What does Earth's Mightiest Heroes mean to one who rules the universe?"
(vs. Dante, Deadpool, Viewtiful Joe or Spider-Man) "Where is your laughter now?"
(vs. Ryu or Akuma) "Congratulations. You have doomed your world."
(vs. Super-Skrull) "You and your race... are a dying breed."
(vs. Doctor Strange) "You dare pit your mystic arts against the Power Cosmic? Arrogant fool!"

Galactus' Defeat Quotes

(Any attack) "How dare you... I now must squash you like the bug that you are!"
(Time over) "Galactus does not abide by these rules."

Galactus' Victory Quotes

"There does not exist a mortal who can stand before Galactus."
"The loss of life when I feed is regrettable... But unavoidable."
"I have existed longer than the universe itself. And will continue to exist long after it's gone."
"I am Galactus, and I'm not bound by any laws."
"My journey is ended! This planet shall sustain me until it has been drained of all elemental life!"
"Galactus is, and forever will be."
"You puny human gnats are more annoying than I had suspected."
"I am omnipotent and infinite. I am a force of nature. I am Galactus."
(vs. Deadpool) "In all my countless lifetimes of existence, you are by far the being most deserving of having your life extinguished."
(vs. Thor) "And you call yourself a god? Laughable."

Trivia

Galactus' voice actor, Jonathan Adams, also voiced numerous characters in Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes! Television Series.
Galactus makes his entrance by "ripping out" the screen as though it were a comic book page.
In both Marvel vs Capcom 3 and Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3, to obtain his ending, you must lose the boss fight and not continue after the timer reaches 0. In Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3, clearing Galactus Mode is another way to unlock his ending showing the destruction of both Marvel and Capcom worlds. Galactus is the only non-unlockable end boss in the series who has his own ending.
Galactus fills a similar role in Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 as Apocalypse did in X-Men vs. Street Fighter and Onslaught in Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes. Both are difficult, but slow bosses and both grow to a giant size when battling.
If one looks closely, Galactus can be spotted toward the end of the opening 04, silhouetted against the massive, oncoming clouds.
The above-listed victory quotes do not appear normally in the game, since Galactus does not have a victory screen like the other characters; they can, however, be found in the game's disc as leftovers.
- One of them (the fifth one) is lifted straight from Galactus' first appearance, when he is revealed in the final panel of Fantastic Four #48.
Seth Killian stated in an interview that Galactus Mode was inspired by the various hack-based videos of Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter which showed Apocalypse as a playable character.
- Prior to the implementation of Galactus Mode, hacks involving altering game save states allowed for a quicksave roster to pick Galactus as a normal fighter with two other characters. This resulted in lopsided online matches resulting in matches with Galactus as a character and not a boss, while retaining all boss moves.
  - The savestate glitch also revealed that the characters has voice samples for tagging themselves in and out, which is a feature that is normally not possible. The reason why voiced samples were recorded for such unused feature is unknown.
In the extended version of the diorama cinematic created for Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Galactus is paired against Magneto.
Galactus' quote "If you can be a god... then what shall we call Galactus?" is based on a similar phrase he said while fighting Thor in the comic books.
Datamining of the game reveals several unused voice samples of Galactus, including a proper K.O. defeat voice of him.

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