Originally posted by gauntlet o doom
And if Galactus doesn't eat planets, he dies. His hunger is never ending so once he consumes one he goes searching for the next. He can't consume just any planet so if he happens to find a bunch of them in a row, you can be sure he'll eat them. My point is - we usually see Galactus in two states, when he's hungry as hell; and when he's operating normally. The former is when he hasn't eaten in a while; the latter, how many planets do you think consists of his normal diet? For instance, during the Infinity Gauntlet how many planets would he have just consumed? It could be 1 or 20 or more. It's not specifically stated so we don't know where on the scale that 4 planets sits on. To Galactus is 4 planets a meal, a snack, a buffet? For all we know, when Galactus munches on a planet, after being near-death-starving, it could just be equal to having a Mars bar.
So by extension do you believe the 4 planets he ate in preparation made not much difference to him then? I wouldn't think Galactus would make a a point of mentioning he consumed 4 worlds in preparation if it wasn't out of the ordinary. Before he consumed the 4 worlds maybe he was content but he knew he had to be supercharged to start to challenge and kill some celestials. In the end it gets down to semantics that wll rarely ever get explained.
What level was he during the Infinity Gauntlet, before he fought Odin, before this fight, what's clear is that he had to consume 4 planets in preparation for a fight.
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And to add to that the thing is comics of course aren't created for battleboard discussions in any way. So there may be discrepancies here and there that you can't always reconcile.