Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-3048593-20160419182203/@comment-61022-20160426195506

Undoniel wrote: He is a gestalt character of Galan, Infinity ("Earth-0") and another cosmic entity (the Phoenix ?). Consider him closer to Brother Mutant (Earth-127) (or M-Plate) than to Spider-Man (Peter Parker), if you're in the mood for comparison. presents the situation as Galactus being the gestated form of the offspring of Galan and Eternity (Eternity presents it that way in-comics). He also have its own birthplace.

But there have been multiple instances where Galactus has been reverted back to his Galan form. - and -. If he was a gestalt being (and therefor a new entity) a reversion to his Galan form would have resulted all those merged entities being separated.

In FFWGCM Doctor Doom stole the power of Galactus causing the reversion. In the FF #522-523 the F4 and Quasar temporarily strip Galactus of the Power Cosmic. In both cases Galactus' powers are an energy source that has no sentience so far as can be told. Since the nature of the Phoenix is all about death and rebirth, and Infinity is, well, infinite... the idea that they were merged with Galan doesn't stand up because both Infinity and the Phoenix Force and Eternity all continue to exist following the collapse of Galan's universe.

Eternity and Infinity are easy enough to explain: They are personifications of concepts. Their "physical forms" are merely M-Bodies from the Realm of Manifestation. You can't kill a concept. The Phoenix Force on the other hand is the concept of resurrection. It's also a multiversal being as evident in Alan Davis's run on Excalibur Vol 1 (Issue #49 & 50 being the seminal stories to be precise)

I think the evidence stands that Galan and Galactus are the same being and not a gestalt of multiple beings reborn into a new singular entity.