<![CDATA[Three of the Greediest Planet-Eating Bastards Ever Created - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Three of the Greediest Planet-Eating Bastards Ever Created - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Three of the Greediest Planet-Eating Bastards Ever Created]]> Well, if we're going with "SELECT TOP 10 'planet-%' FROM tbl_nerddom" then I would have to propose the planet-JACKERS from Zim. While marginally inept, much like our titular anti-hero there, they - being essentially brainless, intergalactic-Teamster-esque morons - seem worthy of a mention.

Also, Omnipotus for great lulz; GALACTUS, FTW.

zanbowser

]]> <![CDATA[Three of the Greediest Planet-Eating Bastards Ever Created]]> "Planet eater"? What about the Crystalline Entity from STTNG?

Kendra

]]> <![CDATA[Three of the Greediest Planet-Eating Bastards Ever Created]]> Pardon me for descending into nerddom, but that's the best picture of Unicron you could find? A picture of a poor toy prototype? Needless to say, I put Unicron at the top of the list. I really think it's too close to call, though, in regards to him and Galactus. Could go either way.

The Star Trek thingy can go to hell.

Sharpless

]]> <![CDATA[Three of the Greediest Planet-Eating Bastards Ever Created]]> I liked Ede the God in David Zindell's "The Wild". He started as a man who put his consciousness into a computer, that computer then got bigger and bigger until it propelled itself into space, where it started consuming asteroids and planets to make its ai-consciousness-circuitry bigger and bigger.

Then again, all the "god" entities in Neverness & the trilogy after are awesome.

Spiral

]]> <![CDATA[Three of the Greediest Planet-Eating Bastards Ever Created]]> Ah, Vendetta, I remember reading that book in middle school. Was actually a really good book, think I'll order it.

Chiper

]]> <![CDATA[Three of the Greediest Planet-Eating Bastards Ever Created]]> Galactus wins if only for his awesome Jack Kirby armor!
Funny how you all bring up Phoenix. I was just re-reading some old issues of "The Xmen" and right around the time Jean Gray first becomes the Phoenix there was this subplot about aliens coming to attack Earth. The best part was where the alien ship's science officer had an OMG moment when he scanned Earth "Captain, this planet has faced Galactus AND DEFEATED HIM!" If there was sound in space you'd hear the yipe, yipe, yipe that ship made as it hauled asteroids out of there! (heh, asteroids…)

Galactus has heralds? Nay, Galactus has a POSSE!

IchabodCrane

]]> <![CDATA[Three of the Greediest Planet-Eating Bastards Ever Created]]> @DAppammattoxx: Yeah, but the Langoliers not only ate the planet, but also the sky, stars, and reality itself.
Remember, they cleaned up the past once the present had moved through it and on into the future.

** Pardon me while I go shred a magazine and experience a near erotic moment **

steven522

]]> <![CDATA[Three of the Greediest Planet-Eating Bastards Ever Created]]> Isn't the doomsday machine from Trek made out of neutronium? As are the replicators in Stargate. Question: How much does a teaspoon of neutronium weigh, theoretically? How in the heck does something get made out of neutronium?

Jeff-Minor

]]> <![CDATA[Three of the Greediest Planet-Eating Bastards Ever Created]]> Galactus has heralds.

larry_y

]]> <![CDATA[Three of the Greediest Planet-Eating Bastards Ever Created]]> Good ol' Doomsday Machine.

Nothing can stop that!

strider_mt2k

]]> <![CDATA[Three of the Greediest Planet-Eating Bastards Ever Created]]> @jesusdesaad: His name was Gorrl I think. I'm not sure that he actually devoured anything though.

JohnnyZito

]]> <![CDATA[Three of the Greediest Planet-Eating Bastards Ever Created]]> from the doesn't-quite-hit-the-mark dept. the Planet Jackers from Invader Zim. *they* didn't consume it, but their star did. If you could conceptually join the race to their star as a single entity, they/it would definatly count. Might be able to include the replicators from Stargate in this too.

valarmorghulis

]]> <![CDATA[Three of the Greediest Planet-Eating Bastards Ever Created]]> wasn't there a Living Galaxy character in Supreme? Where you had to be some light years away just to see his actual humanoid shape and not just a mass of star systems?

JesusDeSaad

]]> <![CDATA[Three of the Greediest Planet-Eating Bastards Ever Created]]> @iJake: I second the Langoliers...if only because the crazy man ripping paper freaked me out as a kid

D Appammottoxx

]]> <![CDATA[Three of the Greediest Planet-Eating Bastards Ever Created]]> How could you forget the Doctor Who episode written by Douglas Adams, "Pirate Planet?"

awelfle

]]> <![CDATA[Three of the Greediest Planet-Eating Bastards Ever Created]]> Omnipotus is depressed that no one is his friend, nor considers him a worthy planet-eater of mention.

7Zark7 Iz In Ur Internetz

]]> <![CDATA[Three of the Greediest Planet-Eating Bastards Ever Created]]> @mumblingmynah: Actually, it was the 'good guys' in Forge of God who ate one of the moons of Jupiter (IIRC). The bad guys just blew up the Earth. :)

Qev

]]> <![CDATA[Three of the Greediest Planet-Eating Bastards Ever Created]]> Vger wasnt a eater either, more like a destroyer, it just digitized the worlds away to its memory banks.

Falconfire

]]> <![CDATA[Three of the Greediest Planet-Eating Bastards Ever Created]]> "They say there's no devil Jim, but I saw it.... it came at us...right out of hell I SAW IT!"

Szin

]]> <![CDATA[Three of the Greediest Planet-Eating Bastards Ever Created]]> There were the villain aliens in in Greg Bear's Forge of God. I think they ate the planet from the inside out, or something.

mumblingmynah

]]> <![CDATA[Three of the Greediest Planet-Eating Bastards Ever Created]]> Also Sprach Galactus

zenpoet

]]> <![CDATA[Three of the Greediest Planet-Eating Bastards Ever Created]]> Ummmmm, does anyone remember The Langoliers? Hahaha.

iJake

]]> <![CDATA[Three of the Greediest Planet-Eating Bastards Ever Created]]> The best thing about eating planets are the class M's. You get a little water to help the silica go down. The big planets give me gas.

Dug

]]> <![CDATA[Three of the Greediest Planet-Eating Bastards Ever Created]]> @Taed: Movie Galactus (big cloud) < Movie Phoenix (Famke Janssen). Famke FTW!

CapnCalamity

]]> <![CDATA[Three of the Greediest Planet-Eating Bastards Ever Created]]> Are we talking planet busters, or planet eaters? Because planet busters are a dime a dozen in scifi. Just because I'm not big on comics, I'd have to go for the Doomsday machine in terms of things that actually eat their kill. Although someday, I'd love to see it done to proper scale - with a maw that really can "swallow a thousand starships".

Chris Wren

]]> <![CDATA[Three of the Greediest Planet-Eating Bastards Ever Created]]> @NefariousNewt: Yeah, I wasn't thinking "eater" i was just thinking destroyer.

I guess the World Devastators from the Star Wars Dark Empire series would count, then. They slowly demolished a planet from beneath themselves and used the resources to create more weapons, ships, and even another world devastator.

steven522

]]> <![CDATA[Three of the Greediest Planet-Eating Bastards Ever Created]]> Nothing about Omnipotus, Devourer of Worlds, from the old Tick cartoon? After the Tick got blown off the moon, they met in space. The Tick did some weird personal hygene stuff for him, so Omnipotus brought him back to earth. After the Tick talked him out of eating the earth "because that's where I keep all my stuff", he took a chunk out of the moon instead and left.
Not super greedy, but he did ruin the moon for the rest of the series.

greetings

]]> <![CDATA[Three of the Greediest Planet-Eating Bastards Ever Created]]> @Taed: That was in a "what-if" story, I believe. And Dark Phoenix won, or at least chased Galactus off.

mumblingmynah

]]> <![CDATA[Three of the Greediest Planet-Eating Bastards Ever Created]]> Also, V'Ger was a much more impressive Trek planet eater than the giant corn-chip Bugle from TOS

choinski

]]> <![CDATA[Three of the Greediest Planet-Eating Bastards Ever Created]]> Well star Trek has had two Planet Eaters... the other Just strips off everything organic on the surface though...

So add it if you guys want: The Crystaline Entity

dOk

]]> <![CDATA[Three of the Greediest Planet-Eating Bastards Ever Created]]> But who would win "Galactus versus Dark Phoenix"? That's a toughie.

Taed

]]> <![CDATA[Three of the Greediest Planet-Eating Bastards Ever Created]]> Personally, Dark Phoenix would be at the top for me. She/it devoured at least one star system, killing 8 billion people, if I remember correctly.

Taed

]]> <![CDATA[Three of the Greediest Planet-Eating Bastards Ever Created]]> Anyone who uses the closing "So Speaks..." wins in my book.

I often go around work shouting commands and ending them with "So Speaks 92BuickLeSabre!"

Or at least I used to, before they sent me to Bellevue.

92BuickLeSabre

]]> <![CDATA[Three of the Greediest Planet-Eating Bastards Ever Created]]> planet-destroyer != planet-eater.

planet-eaters are far more absurd and wonderful.
I mean, if you're getting into Lexx robotic hands and Babylon 5 Vorlons
you might as well talk about the Death Star and other big-ass lasers.
Hell, then we'd be talking about Vogon Construction Fleets and Honored Matres and we'd be here all goddamn week.

"Best Big Ass Lasers of Sci-Fi" wouldn't be a bad list, come to think of it.

Billy Goto

]]> <![CDATA[Three of the Greediest Planet-Eating Bastards Ever Created]]> @steven522: Not really an "eater", just a "demolisher", in the same class as the Death Star.

NefariousNewt

]]> <![CDATA[Three of the Greediest Planet-Eating Bastards Ever Created]]> What about Phoenix? Well she ate sun's not planets different category I guess.

stripe7

]]> <![CDATA[Three of the Greediest Planet-Eating Bastards Ever Created]]> How about the big yellow Vogon ship that cleared away earth for the hyperspace bypass?

steven522

]]> <![CDATA[Three of the Greediest Planet-Eating Bastards Ever Created]]> What about the swarm of flying robotic hands that took apart the entire "Light" Universe in Lexx?

Cuprohastes

]]> <![CDATA[Three of the Greediest Planet-Eating Bastards Ever Created]]> My vote goes to the two disfuctional races on Babylon 5, the Vorlons and the Shadows. Answer a question wrong and bye bye Planet!

AlfaCharger

]]> <![CDATA[Three of the Greediest Planet-Eating Bastards Ever Created]]> How about the Lexx for spot #4? It's pretty much the same as the Doomsday Machine, but in the service of an evil insectoid empire. And it's got more style.

femto

]]> <![CDATA[Three of the Greediest Planet-Eating Bastards Ever Created]]> @extracrispy: It was a giant fire ball skull from space.

Duh.

@zerofritz: Correct. Also, Galactus serves the cosmic consonance; Galactus is because Galactus must be.

braak

]]> <![CDATA[Three of the Greediest Planet-Eating Bastards Ever Created]]> Galactus wins, hands down. to coin a phrase, "The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the Power Cosmic", which only Galactus fully wields.

zerofritz

]]> <![CDATA[Three of the Greediest Planet-Eating Bastards Ever Created]]> Was the ultimate evil in The Fifth Element some sort of planet eater? Now that I think about it, what the fuck was that thing?

extracrispy

]]> <![CDATA[Three of the Greediest Planet-Eating Bastards Ever Created]]> Also, what about Nyarlathotep in his incarnation as the Crawling Chaos? Doesn't that destroy planets?

braak

]]> <![CDATA[Three of the Greediest Planet-Eating Bastards Ever Created]]> Both the Fendahl (creepy as hell) and the Nimon (stupid as hell) feasted on entire planets in classic "Doctor Who."

SeeingI

]]> <![CDATA[Three of the Greediest Planet-Eating Bastards Ever Created]]> @NefariousNewt: You know I'm one of those people that believes anything capable of blowing up a planet would easily destroy a tiny little USS Star ship.
Seems like where on the same page.

Marcus117

]]> <![CDATA[Three of the Greediest Planet-Eating Bastards Ever Created]]> I've always been creeped out by the great nothing that devours the world in "The Neverending Story".

don't forget those people writing down all the 9 billion names of god!

Lotusmonger

]]> <![CDATA[Three of the Greediest Planet-Eating Bastards Ever Created]]> I always liked the Universe X description of what Galactus was for.

braak

]]> <![CDATA[Three of the Greediest Planet-Eating Bastards Ever Created]]> OK, Galactus was the first, but the Doomsday Machine is the best. No offense to Unicron, but you're just a big robot and all -- the Doomsday Machine is an engine of destruction, and the fact is, I still don't see how any starship could have survived the kind of firepower used to chop up a planet for consumption. Kind of like the Enterprise vs. Death Star argument.

NefariousNewt

]]> <![CDATA[Three of the Greediest Planet-Eating Bastards Ever Created]]> Unicron is so far above Galactus it's unreal, what kind of operation are you people running here?

Marcus117

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