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* Jean Grey's clone when she went insane and became Dark Phoenix in ''XMen'' proved even more dangerous than Galactus considering she got sustenance from stars, causing them to go nova, which destroyed one populated planet. The Shiar and their allies realize they while Galactus is bad enough, having a menace that destroys ''whole solar systems' is something they have to move against at any cost.

* In ''TheReturnOfHanuman'', a monster formed from a volcano named "Armageddon" is supposed to eat the contents of Earth entirely [[spoiler:if Hanuman didn't stop him]].

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* Some SpaceMonsters from ''MasterOfOrion 2'' will eat planets if you don't stop them. Leaving behind only "a barren, radioactive husk". Some, IIRC, even destroy them completely.

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[[caption-width-right:300: If I eat a moon, does it count as a midnight snack?]]

* Marvel also has Ego the Living Planet, who is himself [[spoiler:eaten by cosmically powered zombified superheroes]] in MarvelZombies.

* In a recent chapter, it has been revealed that the [[JerkassGods High Gods]] of the {{Kurohime}} universe get their power from draining the LifeEnergy of a planet and [[PlanetLooters taking the dead planet as their bodies.]] Yay, NightmareFuelUnleaded.

* The Original Insect from [[MichaelMoorcock ''Michael Moorcock's Multiverse'']].

* In {{IT}} by StephenKing, the titular monster claims that it is "the eater of worlds." We're only shown it eating children, but considering what almost happened in the end . . . [[spoiler: It is female and she lays eggs. Hundreds of them. We're lucky for Ben and his cowboy boots.]]

* The titular CoolShip from {{Lexx}} loves (and needs) to do this. The Lexx even took [[spoiler: a few bites out of Earth.]]

* The [[StargateSG1 Replicators]], after getting access to a time-dialation device, were able to entirely cover a planet with replicator blocks. Granted, the planet is still there, but it's less of a planet now than a planet-sized mass of replicator blocks.

* EightBitTheater gives us the '''[[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2010/03/02/episode-1222-one-of-the-better-singularities/ Cakelogical Singularity!]]''' [[spoiler:Too bad it didn't actually work out, but even just the idea is awesome.]]
* {{Wonderella}} has Ginormous, who travels the universe eating things that deserve to be eaten. She occasionally talks him out of eating the Earth.

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* In {{Psyren}} recent revelations have revealed that [[spoiler: the membrane that surrounds the planet is actually a CosmicHorror which reincarnates by eating planets.]]

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** The main universe Galactus, despite being pretty omnicidal, is vital to the survival of the universe. He's a living [[SealedEvilInACan seal]] keeping an EldritchAbomination locked up, and without him, it'd destroy the universe very, very quickly. Most of the energy from his meals go towards the seal rather than his own body, which is why he's always so ''hungry''.

*** There was also Hunger, who was sort of like Galactus, except it fed on ''universes''.
* Marvel also has Ego the Living Planet.
** Who is himself [[spoiler:eaten by cosmically powered zombified superheroes]] in MarvelZombies.

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* Black holes, if they get close enough.
* Near the end of some stars' life cycles, they will expand and envelop nearby bodies, including planets. This is the likely end of our solar system, considering what type of star we orbit.
** [[RememberWhenYouBlewUpASun Unless we blow it up first.]]
*** Wait. Either the sun won't get a chance to destroy us [[HumansAreBastards because we'll destroy ourselves]] [[EarthShatteringKaboom along with the Earth]] first, or it won't get a chance if ''we'' blow ''it'' up first?
**** Both. At once.

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** Thanks to a piss-poor translation, [[ItMakesSenseInContext it doesn't make sense in context.]]

* The Star Forge in ''KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' is a variant of this -- it feeds off a star to create vast swathes of technology for the Sith army.
** Debatable. The Star Forge certainly draws energy (and most likely matter as well) out of the star its orbiting, but seeing as how its been there for thousands upon thousands of years without any noticeable affect on the sun (the system's inhabitable planet is still inhabitable, which would not be the case if the Star Forge's influence altered the heat/ light output of its sun). So, its not really consuming the star, just using a bit of its photosphere as fuel every so often (more akin to drilling for oil on an epic scale than eating a planet).

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* Parodied in ''CaseyAndAndy'' with the Planet Devourer, which ''can'' eat planets... eventually. (It's about the size of a canary, with a similar rate of digestion.)
** It does eat Mars at one point... except it's only a model.

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* Unicron from ''{{Transformers}}'' is the other TropeMaker, starting with ''[[TransformersTheMovie Transformers: The Movie]]'' (1986).
** Where his first appearance doubles as his [[DoomedHometown first meal]] and the animated film's opening scene. ApocalypseWow!
** Depending on continuity, he's also worse than Galactus; as a [[GodOfEvil dark god]] in a [[OurGodsAreDifferent crunchy robot shell]], Unicron doesn't even ''need'' to eat anything. He just considers the mere existence of [[strike:life in]] the universe to be a personal affront against him.
*** Incidentally, he is ''[[CaptainErsatz most definitely]]'' [[CaptainErsatz not Galactus]]. [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial We really can't stress that enough.]] Marvel may have had a hand in ''The Transformers: The Movie'', and been publishing the ''Transformers'' comic at the time, but there is [[AlternateCompanyEquivalent no other correlation]].
* Galactus has been parodied on a fairly regular basis. ''[[DextersLaboratory Dial M for Monkey]]'' brought us Barbequor, who tried to turn the entire solar system into a shishkabob.

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* Averted in ''Eater'' by Gregory Benford. The villain is a sapient black hole, and is dubbed "The Eater of All Things" by humanity, but its intelligence is embedded in magnetic fields in its accretion disk, which would be destroyed if it were to plunge into a planet and swallow it up. It still has the capacity to ruin your whole day on a planetary scale.

* The [[StargateSG1 Replicators]], after getting access to a time-dialation device, were able to entirely cover a planet with replicator blocks. The planet is still there, but it is a planet-sized Replicator now.

* In JunjiIto's "Hellstar Remina", the titular Remina, being an EldritchAbomination, eats the planets of the Solar System on its way to Earth. Then, it eats the Earth. Bonus points for being a planet itself.

* The Beast Planet from ''ShadowRaiders'' gets along by eating planets. Oddly, it's also an ImplacableMan... [[TheJuggernaut err]], [[CosmicHorror planet]], as it [[strike:survives several]] is completely unfazed by [+ ALL+ ] [[HeroicSacrifice attempts at destruction]], even eating two of the heroes' planets. The Beast also produces a near-endless supply of drones who tend to kill off anyone escaping from the Beast's feeding.

* Planet Eater Byron from the DS Game ''[[{{Boktai}} Lunar Knights]]'' is heavily implied to be this.

* Do the [[{{MassEffect}} Reapers]] count here? They don't eat planets, but are interstellar civilizations close enough?