Thread:Edkaufman/@comment-1820614-20140609025441

Looking over the history of the Galactus Earth-616 page his official alignment has flipped back and form from neutral to bad with the brief discussion on the talk page disagreeing on which it should be.. In the stories I've read about Galactus he tends to flip flop from being a survivor doing only what is necessary, a true neutral force, to being a whiny malevolent entity depending heavily on the writer. The official Marvel stance seems to be that he is "neutral" due to being a natural force of the universe and in some way necessary for various reasons depending on the story. But from a strictly human perspective he would be considered "bad" due to eating inhabited worlds.

In the case of alignment and to try and avoid edit wars on the Galactus and other pages. How is alignment decided between controversial cases of neutral and good? Another case might be Odin who would be considered "good" from Asgardian standards and if one takes into account that sometimes Odin's ruthless and manipulative actions are necessary for the good of Asgard and Earth. Others would rank him neutral due to the ruthlessness of his actions or how he favors Asgard over Earth. In another case, Zeus might be ranked "good" by some standards since he is not a sterotypical evil god trying to force humanity to worship him yet some consider him evil due to different values and certain actions of his like torturing the Hulk.

Also, FF #257 had Death appear to Galactus and refer to him to his relationship to Eternity as Father/Brother/Son and Death as Mother/Sister/Daughter. For this wiki, would they be considered actual family relationships or only metaphorical.

Thank you. 