History ComicBook / JudgmentDayMarvelComics

** ''Judgment Day'' #6 ends with [[spoiler:Ajak judging the Progenitor unworthy, passing its power to her.]]

** In ''Judgment Day'' itself, [[spoiler:Characters/DoctorDoom walks away laughing when the Progenitor offers to judge Doom favourably if he admits Reed Richards is smarter than he is. He passes himself, and the Progenitor agrees]].

* HumanityOnTrial: [[spoiler:Upon being reborn, the Celestial declares that the way all of Earth's people ---- humans, mutants, robots, all of them ---- have been treating one another is unacceptable and that it is going to judge the planet. Humanity lives or dies based on whether or not it finds that the good outweighs the bad.]] So far:

* MorphicResonance: No matter how the Progenitor appears to people as it judges them, it always has a glowing right eye.

** When Iron Man calls out Mister Sinister on helping cause this whole mess with what he did to the Dreaming Celestial, Sinister responds by cruelly needling Tony over his abusive deceased father Howard... as well as the fact that Howard was Tony's ''adoptive'' father, as revealed in Kieron Gillen's ''Iron Man'' run.

* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Things were so dire that the X-Men worked with their current ArchEnemy, Orchis to attack and distract the Progenitor. This battle was one of the reasons why Orchis got increased popularity.

* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: The Progenitor sometimes shows up to individuals as people they are connected to, often someone the individual in question wouldn't want to disappoint (such as Peter Parker for Miles Morales, Carol Danvers for Kamala Khan, or even Jesus for Matt Murdock). However, some forms are people they don't expect.

** In ''Judgment Day'' itself, [[spoiler:Characters/DoctorDoom walks away laughing when the Progenitor offers to judge Doom favourably if he admits Reed Richards is smarter than he is. He passes]].

* IDidWhatIHadToDo: [[spoiler: Deconstructed. When faced with judgement over their past actions, many characters try and justify themselves by making this claim. For its own, the Progenitor is not impressed by those kind of arguments, noting how easily people make that claim to justify all sorts of heinous, duplicitous acts. It seems especially ticked off by people, such as Destiny and Jean, for making that claim when they have something to personally gain from doing the act, and try color it as the "right thing to do", even if they do sincerely believe it.]]

** [[spoiler: Played straight at first, with X-Men try to enact the plan to attack the Progenitor's weak point (which they hear from Sinister), despite the Avengers' protests that this would create an explosion that could potentially kill millions. They rationalize this by saying that destroying the Celestial now could save billions, and they go forward anyway. It doesn't matter, anyway, because the Progenitor notices what they're doing, and induces a vision of the aftermath on them, basically forcing them to abandon the plan.]]

** [[spoiler: Both of these events lead into a deconstruction of this trope from both ends. After preventing Jean from attacking the Progenitor, Ajak angrily call her out for her and compatriots constant invocation of this, pointing out that anyone the mutants lose will just be revived, while the humans will be dead permanently, going so far as to accuse them of just using this as a weak justification to kill humans. The Progenitor seconds this notion, noting quick the mutants have been to try and kill it, despite knowing what could potentially happen, when they had less to lose and more to gain from doing so, claiming this shows the same lack of concern for others as groups like Orchis. It ultimately cites this as another reason for their failure.]]

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: [[spoiler:While the Progenitor is genuinely concerned only with justice, morality, and equality between all people, it's still a Celestial and thus has thought processes far beyond human understanding… such that even ''[[TheParagon Captain America]]'' can fall short of its standards, being deemed a failure because his status as a CaptainPatriotic means the Progenitor sees criticisms of the United States as reflecting on him personally. Conversely, ''Doctor Doom'' passes the Progenitor's standards simply by laughing off the Progenitor's attempts to make him admit Reed Richards is smarter than him (this and other judgements seem to suggest self-views play at least some part, but even that seems questionably consistent). As the event progresses, it becomes increasingly clear that this GodIsFlawed]].

* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: The Progenitor sometimes shows up to people as people they are connected to. However, some forms are people they don't expect.

* EntitledBastard: Destiny and Exodus, being sociopathic mutant-supremacists, naturally accuse the Avengers of abandoning Krakoa when they leave the fight with the Hex to stop a potentially world-ending tsunami.

** [[spoiler: Both of these events lead into a deconstruction of this trope from both ends with Ajak angrily calling out Jean for the X-Men's invocation of this, pointing out that anyone the mutants lose will just be revived, while the humans will be dead permanently, going so far as to accuse them of just using this as a weak justification to kill humans. The Progenitor seconds this notion, noting how quick the mutant have been to try and kill it, when they weren't the ones who would ultimately suffer for it, claiming this shows the same lack of concern for others as groups like Orchis, citing this as another reason for their failure.]]

** [[spoiler: Played straight at first, with X-Men try to enact the plan to attack the Progenitor's weak point (which they hear from Sinister), despite the Avengers' protests that this would create an explosion that could potentially kill millions. They rationalize this by saying that destroying the Celestial now could save billions, and they go forward anyway. It doesn't matter, anyway, because the Progenitor notices what they're doing, and inflicts a vision of the aftermath on them, basically forcing them to]]

** [[spoiler: Both of these events lead into a deconstruction of this trope from both ends with Ajak angrily calling out Jean for the X-Men's invocation of this, pointing out that anyone the mutants lose will just be revived, while the humans will be dead permanently, going so far as to accuse them of just using this as a weak justification to kill humans. The Progenitor seconds this notion, noting how the mutants have less stakes in this than humans do, claiming this shows the same lack of concern as groups like Orchis, citing this as another reason for their failure.]]

* TheNeedsOfTheMany: [[spoiler: Inverted, with Jean using the rationale that it's better to just destroy the Progenitor once they reach its core, and save the few remaining people, despite Tony insisting on them trying to persuade the Progenitor to undo its actions, and restore all the people who've died. At any rate, it's rendered moot by the fact that Jean still can't do anything against the Celestial, who calls her out on this, noting how it's easy for her to say that as a mutant, because they can all be revived, while regular humans can't; indeed it cites this as another reason for her failure.]]

* NeedsOfTheMany: [[spoiler: Inverted, with Jean using the rationale that it's better to just destroy the Progenitor once they reach its core, and save the few remaining people, despite Tony insisting on them trying to persuade the Progenitor to undo its actions, and restore all the people who've died. At any rate, it's rendered moot by the fact that Jean still can't do anything against the Celestial, who calls her out on this, noting how it's easy for her to say that as a mutant, because they can all be revived, while humans can't; indeed it cites this as another reason for her failure.]]

* AGodAmI: The Progenitor spends the whole of its presence styling itself as a god, and lording that position over the entirety of Earth; it certainly fits the bill in certain respects, being borderline, if not fully omniscient, omnipotent, and virtually omnipresent. [[spoiler: However its final moments, it ultimately decides that it's [[AGodIAmNot not truly a god]], because while it certainly has all the powers of a god, a true god would be truly infallible in its decisions and actions, which it realizes it certainly isn't.]]

* InvincibleVillain: Being a Celestial, the Progenitor is an entity with power ''vastly'' superior anything on Earth, with even the most powerful Earth heroes being utterly helpless against it. [[spoiler: Indeed, when all of them simply charge the Progenitor in a last ditch attempt, it just effortlessly wipes them all out in varying ways. Even when they manage to get inside of its head, and Jean tries to attack its smaller form, it just swats her away with little effort.]]

* InvincibleVillain: Being a Celestial, the Progenitor is an entity with power leagues beyond anything on Earth, with even the most powerful Earth heroes being utterly helpless against it. Indeed, when all of them simply charge the Progenitor in a last ditch attempt, it just effortlessly wipes them all out. Even when they manage to get inside of its head, and Jean tries to attack its smaller form, it just swats her away with little effort.

* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: [[spoiler: Ultimately how the Progenitor was defeated. It is so monumentally more powerful than any of the heroes, that force simply isn't an option, but Jean Grey, Tony Stark and Ajak were able to convince the Progenitor to stop and reverse what it had done - an effort that the Progenitor explained would be lethal to it.]]

** Exodus argues that them risking Reykjavik to shut down the Celestial is no different from [[Comicbook/AvengersVsXMen when Scott Summers risked the Earth to revive the mutant race with the Phoenix.]]

* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: [[spoiler: Ultimately how the Progenitor was defeated. Force didn't work but Jean Grey, Tony Stark and Ajak were able to convince the Progenitor to stop and reverse what it had done - an effort that the Progenitor explained would be lethal to it.]]

For the ComicBook/{{Youngblood}} comic of the same name, see ''ComicBook/YoungbloodJudgmentDay''