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Why can't they be as powerful as true cosmic types like Galactus and his heralds? What was Marvel's motivation for making gods weaker than being able to rank on the cosmic scale? They're gods...they should be way up there.

Originally posted by UKR
Why can't they be as powerful as true cosmic types like Galactus and his heralds? What was Marvel's motivation for making gods weaker than being able to rank on the cosmic scale? They're gods...they should be way up there. They are Earth God's that why

Not universal Gods

Galactus and Cosmic usually are very important to the universe and even the Multiverse

should post this in Comic book questions not here

Originally posted by UKR
Why can't they be as powerful as true cosmic types like Galactus and his heralds? What was Marvel's motivation for making gods weaker than being able to rank on the cosmic scale? They're gods...they should be way up there.
Thor and company (Odin, etc) appeared in 1962, and the expectation was to introduce the most powerful Marvel characters at that time. However, owing to the Fantastic Four's popularity in the early 60s, and comics' unending tendency to one-up itself, when the Galactus trilogy was being compiled in '66, Kirby's thoughts were to have the FF fight a truly godlike being...which meant, of course, Galactus had to be more powerful than anything Marvel had created up to that point.

For what it's worth, back in the silver age, Odin, Galactus and the Watcher were roughly equals. It's been in the decades since, with backstories becoming more developed, that Galactus > Odin.

(Another explanation--IIRC, put forth in a later-day comic--is that the "gods" of Asgard are not really "gods" at all in the strict sense of the term, but very advanced ETs which would appear godlike to ordinary mortal men.)

Originally posted by Mindship


(Another explanation--IIRC, put forth in a later-day comic--is that the "gods" of Asgard are not really "gods" at all in the strict sense of the term, but very advanced ETs which would appear godlike to ordinary mortal men.)

Well in the strictest sense of the term, a 'god' simply refers to a mystical/supernatural being that is worshipped by mortals. They don't necessarily have to be 'all-knowing, all-powerful' etc.

Heck, just look at real Norse mythology. Balder was a god and he was killed by a sharpened piece of mistletoe.

Originally posted by chilled monkey
Well in the strictest sense of the term, a 'god' simply refers to a mystical/supernatural being that is worshipped by mortals. They don't necessarily have to be 'all-knowing, all-powerful' etc.
'Tis true.

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