Gali (Earth-610102)

Galacta
Name	Gali
Current Alias	Galacta
Aliases	Editorial Names: Galacta: Daughter of Galactus Other Aliases: Gali_girl
Affiliation and Relationships
Relatives	Parents: Galan ("father") Children: Unnamed "child" Other Relatives: Eternity (figurative relative) Death (figurative relative)
Marital Status	Single
Physical Characteristics
Gender	Female
Height	Variable
Weight	Variable
Eyes	Irises: Purple
Hair	Black
Unusual Features	Rectangular Pupils
Origin and Living Status
Origin	A "Tapeworm Cosmic" that grew inside Galactus, which developed to become a similar Cosmic Being
Living Status	Alive
Reality	Earth-610102
Personal Information
Identity	Secret
Occupation	Adventurer
Base of Operations	Earth
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Adam Warren, Hector Sevilla Lujan
First	Marvel Assistant-Sized Spectacular #2 (April, 2009)
First	Marvel Assistant-Sized Spectacular #2 (April, 2009)

 Unlike you, I choose to remain cloaked by the Power Cosmic when mealtime is imminent. Why unnecessarily alarm and terrorize the poor, ignorant, uncomprehending biomass around you? Not that you would even notice the bleating of the fearful livestock underfoot, of course. Yet another sign of how much I am totally unlike you, Daddy. Um, except for the whole thing about being a godlike cosmic omnivore and all that stuff. 

—Galacta

Gali, better known as Galacta, is the "daughter" of Galactus. She began as a parasitic entity, similar to a tapeworm, that had spontaneously generated within Galactus and grew to be a cosmic being that was similar to him. However, Galacta avoids consuming worlds and instead consumes the non-native organisms on Earth, protecting the planet's native lifeforms from alien invaders while disguising herself as a human teenager. Eventually, she unknowingly develops a "tapeworm" of her own.

History

Originally a parasitic entity that emerged from Galactus' Power Cosmic field, Galacta became Galactus' "daughter" and lived on Earth as a human teenager, trying to control her cosmic hunger. Like her father, she had an insatiable appetite for life force energies, but unlike him, Gali found other ways to sate her appetite without having to destroy worlds. Using the Power Cosmic and her highly advanced technology, Gali helped people across Earth by consuming extraterrestrial viruses, such as a flesh-devouring Skrull Prion, and ancient biosphere-killing bioweapons, such as the genetically re-engineered Thermophile Litometallovores that had been left to breed in Earth's core by the Kree countless centuries ago. Gali had also been known to help occasionally against non-edible dangers, such as using her powers to divert a cosmic ray burst that was similar to the one that created the Fantastic Four, redirecting a large asteroid that was heading for a one-way collision with Earth and preventing alternate reality beings from reshaping Earth in order to reflect their desires.

Recently, however, her attempts to keep her cosmic hunger under control have turned into a struggle that she is slowly losing. The first signs of this problem began when her mind literally started analyzing anything that she would see on television and try to deduce how much it would satisfy her cosmic hunger by consuming it. As time passed, her cosmic hunger began to grow worse and she began suffering from severe stomach pains. This led Gali to perform an examination on herself using her technology to discover the source of the problem. Her examination reveals that she has been infected with an extradimensional endosymbiotic energy parasite which she believed to have originated from the previous universe like her father named the "Tapeworm Cosmic."

Galacta's "tapeworm"/"baby" in a parasitic state similar to her own origin

Unable to keep the ancient and voracious parasite from intensifying her cosmic hunger, amplifying her metabolism and accelerating the burn rate of her Power Cosmic reserves by herself, Gali opened a Quantum Entanglement Commline to the only being in the universe who was capable of dealing with the insidious parasite: her father, Galactus.

When Galactus did not answer her call, Galacta desperately searched for ways to sate herself without harming Earth or its native inhabitants. After encountering the Fantastic Four, she was able to locate the Ultimate Nullifier within Galactus' Worldship, Taa II, and attempted to use it to kill the parasite, despite knowing that she would unlikely not survive because she refused to be a slave to her cosmic hunger. She was stopped by her father who revealed that Galacta had herself began as a "parasite" within him; thus, Galacta realized that she was "pregnant."

Later, her reality was visited by Singularity in order to place the Shard of Ire into the local Sun. However, Galacta quickly showed up to devour it, unknowingly, along with the shard.

When a clash between one reality's Doctor Doom and a 2099 counterpart from another reality had forced countless universes to collide in the Timestream Entanglement, Galacta took interest in it and guided various heroes as they navigated the new worlds and crises unknown.

Attributes

Powers

Galacta possesses the Power Cosmic, but she admits she is not as powerful as Galactus.

• Cloaking: The ability to hide herself or just her equipment from the senses of others.
• Cosmic Awareness: The ability to sense disturbances or changes within the cosmic ether on a universal scale.
• Cosmic Teleportation: The ability to teleport beings and objects across space and time. This ability also allows her to teleport herself.
• Energy Control and Manipulation: The ability to control, manipulate, and channel pure energy of a wide variety of forms, such as diverting a cosmic ray burst that was similar to the one that created the Fantastic Four and using her powers to redirect a large asteroid that was on course for a collision with Earth.
• Hyper-Acceleration: The ability to speed up her perception, effectively making normal-speed events appear dramatically slower to her and allowing her to act at a similarly rapid rate.
• Levitation: The ability to make herself float and move through the air.
• Molecular Restructuring: The ability to physically alter persons or objects through the manipulation of their comprising molecules.

Weaknesses

Cosmic Hunger: Galacta requires unknown energies obtainable only from living biomass in order to sustain her life.

Paraphernalia

Equipment

Like her father, Galactus, Galacta has access to advanced technology such as:

• Blog: She regularly updates her blog-page/diary, where she uses the alias "Gali_girl"; however, it has not been updated since 2009.
• Feeding Beams: Part of her suit of armor's array includes beam emitters that Gali refers to as her "utensils", which allow her to feed on biomass with a great deal of precision and from a distance.
• Sensor Array: A highly advanced sensor array, claimed to be the most advanced in existence, is used by Galacta to find suitable biomass for her consumption. Galacta prefers to use these sensors instead of her own cosmic awareness because it uses less energy and does not fuel her cosmic hunger.
• Special Glasses: Galacta uses a wide range of special glasses to hide her unique eyes.

Notes

• According to Galactus, the parasitic entity that became Galacta had spontaneously generated itself, meaning Galacta has no mother and Galactus did not intentionally create her. Likewise, Galacta's own "parasite" just suddenly appeared on its own and Galacta had no idea what it was.

Trivia

• Whether Galacta's father, Galactus, gave her the nickname "Gali" or not is unknown.
• Galacta's blog exists on X: https://x.com/Gali_girl
• Jordan D. White intended Galacta to be part of the mainstream Marvel Universe of Earth-616 when he edited the story in which Warren and Lujan created her, but as Marvel's Executive Editor, Tom Brevoort overruled him.
• Galacta is voiced by Cassandra Lee Morris in Marvel Rivals.

See Also

• 4 appearance(s) of Gali (Earth-610102)
• 1 minor appearance(s) of Gali (Earth-610102)
• 15 image(s) of Gali (Earth-610102)
• 22 quotation(s) by or about Gali (Earth-610102)