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Here's the scenario...

1. We're assuming we all have god-like willpower (since most of us are probably lazy as hell, this might be a stretch, but stay with me).
2. OA has decommisioned every other GL in the galaxy and has made you the only one.
3. You have 10 GL rings, one for each finger (it should just be about willpower, but extra rings seemed to help Hal once in GL: Emerald Twilight). You never need to recharge, have the full power of OA backing you, and don't have a yellow weakness.
4. You have to fight Galactus! He's at 70%. But you have a month to prepare.

Month's prep...godlike willpower. One of the most powerful weapons in the universe at your disposal. How do you go about beating Big G???

...I'll post soon, since I've played through this scenario quite a few times in my mind, but want to see some other responses first.

-DM

If it was me, I'd try to catch Galactus off guard, like Krona did, and when he was not at full power, like Krona did.

I'd ambush him when he was weak, Or kill him as he's about to devour a planet.

I'll post more later.

i'd seriously consider running away....

one thing i'd like to try as a GL...... i figure GL's create things of around the size they know (or imagine) stuff to actually be.... so i figure i'd use a perspective shift...... what i mean by this is.... i'd fly pretty far away from Galactus (until he appeared only about an inch tall) then i'd create a golf club of a size where he would actually appear an inch tall next to it ..... then i'd take a full swing and knock his head off

lol...... yup.....the old gigantic golf club attack....... i've actually thought about this a few times when reading GL comics

Not bad.

I'd have a green jukebox playing music...something cool and inspiring to up my willpower and overall concentration. With my month I'd work on multi-tasking with lots of constructs, as well as simply mustering strong blasts and forcefields. I'd also see how big I could make something...I'd try to eventually create something as large as a planet (something like Ego). Just before the fight, I'd up the music to enormous levels (sonic boom level) to piss him off, but give myself green earplugs to make the music seem normal. It would continue to inspire me, but would annoy Big G.

I'd start by just insulting him...making him mad. I'd work up my most powerful shield to block the eventual cosmic blow, and while it's going on teleport away from him and behind him. A green megaphone would then amplify and change my voice and I would proclaim "You have angered the Living Tribunal! Prepare to face my wrath, Galen!" in a dark menacing voice. Big G might get a little tense then.

Multiple constructs of various types would then assualt him (2-3 at a time, since I was working on multitasking). Meanwhile, I'd stay hidden and work on deconstructing his armor at the molecular while he's concerned with the constructs. I doubt I'd make it through his armor, because eventually he'd notice.

I'd reappear and simply float there, impassive and menacing. Then I would work up all my remainging willpower (everything else has stopped by now) to blast Galactus with my entire spirit and power, hopefully knocking him out (Strange did it once, why not me??).

If that doesn't work I would say in a loud voice. "Though you have angered me, I do not wish to fight you. Leave now or face my true power." I've put up a decent fight, so either he buys that I'm a form of LT and leaves, or he figures I'm lying but I'm still quite powerful so leaving might be best anyway. So I either knock him out, or I convince him to retreat from me...a morale victory if not a physical one.

Option 3 is him getting pissed and whupping my ass to hell, but I think that's slightly less likely. 2/3 times I see me winning and/or getting him to leave.

-DM

i'd still go with the giant golf club decapitation attack

Ker-bump

Can I lose say 6 rings and take quantum bands as well

I would learn as much about physics and Galactus as possible. Scanning him if possible. I may capture one of his heralds and perform tests on them. Hopefully I'd either devise a way to use the power cosmic against him, like some kind of virus, or figure out a method of collapsing space on itself or something. Something fatally catastrophic.

So I'm up against Galactus? Well let's look at the options.

Option 1:
Run. If survival is a top priority this option would have to be heavily considered. But since, I'm suppose to be a hero and all that, I'll have to try something else.

Option 2:
Give Galactus one of my rings. Why? Well the main problem with Galactus is that he has the nasty habit of eating inhabited worlds full of innocent beings not out of malice but of hunger. The solution would be to eliminate his hunger. Since each ring as the full power of OA, never needs to be recharged, and with enough willpower it can do just about anything, it should make a perfect supply of energy (similar to the way Hyperstorm was used). I would hope that as a reward he would not kill me and might even give me a little of the power cosmic for my efforts.

Option 3:
The only way I can see being able to have a chance to defeat Galactus in battle is to go to New Genesis and beg/borrow/steal every single Motherbox I can possibly get my hands on. I would then merge the Motherboxes with my GL rings and pray that gives me enough power (Source + Oan) to either beat Galactus or convince him I'm just not worth the trouble.

Have the rings build a machine/AI capable of using the rings better than I could, but that is still slaved to me, with almost no survival instincts programmed into it (to keep the thing from rebelling against me). Give five fully charged rings to the machine with instructions to vent the full charge of each ring at Galactus in the form of a destructive energy type he can't digest immediately. The discharge would likely kill the machine too, but I doubt even Galactus can stand up to the full charge of five GL rings combined.

Why not Doomsday did that and more. Not to mention if beings like Genis are able to shunt energy away I don't see why galactus couldn't

Originally posted by soleran30
Why not Doomsday did that and more. Not to mention if beings like Genis are able to shunt energy away I don't see why galactus couldn't
Doomsday had developed a specific immunity to Oan energy, and had a GL ring at the time.

Genis knew he was about to get in a fight. GLdroid will be sneaking up cloaked.

I could just kick his ass outright. Even Parallax was able to kill the Sun Eater, reignite the Sun and restore the solar system to its proper condition with the last ounces of his energy. This was after Spectre had depowered him in Zero Hour no less. Sure my energy won't be internalized like his was but I still have the "mightiest willpower in the universe" and I'm at full power.

Originally posted by soleran30
Why not Doomsday did that and more. Not to mention if beings like Genis are able to shunt energy away I don't see why galactus couldn't
And likewise there's no reason I can't shunt Galactus' energy either. Plus Galactus gets hungry, my power rings don't.

Id scan Galactus with the rings, and over the month, set about creating a large "planet", which would appear to meet all of his needs, so much so that it would appear to be the ultimate meal for him. Id lure him to the planet, away from any other sources of sustenance, then, once Galactus leaves his ship to feed, or whatever it is he does exactly, Id keep up the pretence of defending the "planet", keeping only the bare physical form of the planet intact to conserve my ring power and willpower. Id then battle him, using up as much of his energy as possible in the battle. If he defeated me, Id empty all my power on him in my final moment, weakening him greatly, and, if I died, the planet would disappear and he'd be left with no food, and die, so that really a stalemate.
Otherwise, Id just use all my power against him, and eventually use the planet itself as a weapon against him, converting it into an energy form that is harmful to him., and hurtling it towards him.

Running would be the first option , but then Ganthet would kick my dumb cowardly ass and threaten to cut off my unlimited cheese burger supply if i did it again .

I would then quiz SS about how his master thinks,works ect ect .

After that I would use the rings to make 8 other constructs of me. These constructs all have a single ring each (keeping two for myself) i'd train with these guy's and burn 'Galactus is a pink sissie' on a few hundred planets to get Big g's attention.

Ok now he's coming for me , I train and put faith in my plan.

He arrives and declares i have 'angered him' . One of my identical constructs says he'll 'anger him some more' before letting off a full blast at big g's face.

We all then scatter , all of us doing various tasks.

Gl fox prime (aka me) is floating behind galactus , using my rings to drain his energy ( let us not forget that anything is possible with a gl ring)

The others are ether pissing Big G off or making other constructs to attack/draw his attention.

He'll be so pissed off that Galactus wont notice his energy draining quicker and quicker until he has 1% of his power remaining . I then merge back together with them (this would be a two page spread with a really cool background) before smiling and firing all ten rings at once.

LOL I would just sit around and feed the big man some of my energy from my rings anough so he wouldn't have to destroy plaents seeing as if he dies the universe gets to go through a big bang again and its all for naught.

Oh and then in return ask for powercosmic twice the amount SS ever got

Originally posted by DigiMark007
How do you go about beating Big G???


Really big hammer

Actually, assuming this is in Marvel U, I'd just use my rings to assemble the Infinity Gauntlet. I'd use that to create a massive energy source Galactus could feed off of from time to time. Then, I'd give it to him under the condition that he starts picking planets with life that isn't above a certain level developmentally now that his hunger won't ever drive him to picking any random planet in desperation.

My reason for this is that he's kinda necessary for the continued survival of the universe, so if I kill him, then I have to go around fixing whatever I just screwed up by doing so.

Yeah, there's some problems with actually killing Big G that would mean eventual trouble for the universe.

I liked the "give him a ring so he can use the never-ending power of OA to feed himself" tactic. Probably more viable than actually trying to take him out. I get the feeling most of us would be in for a shock when we went up against him, rehardless of how much we prepped.

I don' need the rings...I kick his ass without them...