Talk:Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer/@comment-5536445-20160225222038/@comment-5536445-20190301011843

Yeah, I know. Don't get me wrong, I actually love OG Galactus as well, but that's not what this version was trying to be. This version was evoking Ultimate Galactus, a version of the big purple dude that, while his design remains controversial, is arguably one of the most TERRIFYING versions of the character to date.

The standard Gah Lak Tus invasion starts off with a super-weird version of the Vision that sends a psionic frequency across the world detailing what will happen to the planet, causing mass suicides and panic. No one is able to figure out what it means, so they still remain doomed. Then, a psychic frequency is sent across the globe, which would be so painful that it would essentially cause mass panic and reduces any defense plans. Then, one of Galactus's bugs would shoot down and raze the world with a flesh-eating virus that would kill of the population completely. Then, Galactus would suck the energy of the planet's core dry to prevent life from ever evolving again.

Even worse, in the second Ultimate Galactus book, they talk about this theory of why alien life seems to never contact Earth, or why Earth never gets a call back. They find out why in this book: because Gah Lak Tus has been exterminating several different alien species to the point where there's just not enough life in the universe to answer back.

So...yeah, a bit avant garde, and while the movie tried to fuse together Galactus and Gah Lak Tus in an impractical way, I did feel a sense of dread from this version of the character. Furthermore, should the Silver Surfer movie had been made, Galactus would have been revealed to be looking like his 616 self, and that the Cloud thing was his ship.