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** And who could forget "GALACTAMUS! EATER OF ALL PLANETS!"

* Byron, and by extension Polidori, from ''LunarKnights''.

* In ''{{Xenosaga}} Episode II'', [[spoiler:the activation of Proto Ω on Miltia causes it to instantly devour the planet from the inside out for raw materials, and then literally hatches out of the planet like an egg, throwing off pieces of its crust like egg shells]].

* 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.

->-- Lore Sjöberg, ''[[http://www.bookofratings.com/ The Book of Ratings]]'', "[[http://www.bookofratings.com/marvelvillainsrating.html Marvel Supervillains (Part I)]]"

* 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.

* The Beast Planet from ''ShadowRaiders'' gets along by eating planets. Oddly, it's also an ImplacableMan... [[TheJuggernaut err]], [[GenusLoci 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.

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

* The [[CosmicHorror Eldrazi]] in ''MagicTheGathering''. Titanic cthonic entities from the [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace Blind Eternities between the planes]] that ate whole universes before a trio of Planeswalkers locked them away on Zendikar. The lock...didn't hold.

* 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.

* The Tyranids of ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'' intend to do this to every planet in the entire ''galaxy''. It's hinted that they're only now encroaching on our galaxy after eating the one they came from.

->'''Doctor:''' The Racnoss are carnivores - omnivores. They devour whole planets.

* Some Space Monsters 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.

PlanetLooters and [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Alien Locusts]] taken to the [=Nth=] degree. Compare OmnicidalManiac. This is an X-1 class threat in ApocalypseHow. Not to be confused with BigEater.

PlanetLooters and [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Alien Locusts]] taken to the [=Nth=] degree. Compare OmnicidalManiac. This is an X-1 class threat in ApocalypseHow.

* {{Lunar Knights}} has [[spoiler: Planet Eater Byron]], it even has the trope title as it's prefix [[spoiler: and it has eaten many other planets before, as the many of the {{petting zoo people}} in the game are survivors who fled to Earth when Byron devoured their homeplanets]]

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* The Tyranids of ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'' intend to do this to every planet in the entire ''galaxy''. It's hinted that they're only now encroaching on our galaxy after eating the one they came from.
-->[[MemeticMutation Tyranids! OM NOM NOM NOM!]]
* The [[CosmicHorror Eldrazi]] in ''MagicTheGathering''. Titanic cthonic entities from the [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace Blind Eternities between the planes]] that ate whole universes before a trio of Planeswalkers locked them away on Zendikar. The lock...didn't hold.
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* One of the two {{Trope Maker}}s is {{Galactus}}, from the MarvelUniverse. His appearance has varied significantly. In main universe, he's a [[WordOfGod non-abstract]] [[CosmicEntity universal function]], in UltimateMarvel he's a robot swarm, and in the ''Film/FantasticFour'' movie he's a formless mass [[spoiler:although if you look ''really'' closely, you can make out Galactus's helmet within the swirling clouds at its core]].

* Pyron from the Capcom game ''{{Darkstalkers}}'' is similar to this in most regards, although he usually prefers wiping all life off the face of the planet and letting a new race come into power before starting it over again.

* The [[CosmicHorror Eldrazi]] in ''MagicTheGathering''. Titanic cthonic entities from the [[HyperspaceIsADangerousPlace Blind Eternities between the planes]] that ate whole universes before a trio of Planeswalkers locked them away on Zendikar. The lock...didn't hold.

* The Destroyer, the Lord of Darkness and Eater of Worlds threatened to do ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin in the episode "Battlefield" of ''DoctorWho''. [[spoiler: So the Brigadier [[FiveRoundsRapid shot it]].]]

* 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.

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

*** It should be mentioned that every time the Celestials succeed in this, it destroys the universe. Which doesn't bother the Celestials, since they can survive it, and this is the only way that they can make more of themselves. Galactus was revealed to have originally been a survivor of a previous universe that the Celestials destroyed, and dedicated his life to stopping them from ever succeeding again.

* Averted in ''Eater'' by GregoryBenford. 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.

* Averted by Great A'Tuin of {{Discworld}}, who only eats ''comets'' that threaten to smash into the Disc.

* Beware, I live! Run, Coward! I am ''Sinistar''.

* One of the two {{Trope Maker}}s is Galactus, from the MarvelUniverse. His appearance has varied significantly. In main universe, he's a [[WordOfGod non-abstract]] [[CosmicEntity universal function]], in UltimateMarvel he's a robot swarm, and in the ''Film/FantasticFour'' movie he's a formless mass [[spoiler:although if you look ''really'' closely, you can make out Galactus's helmet within the swirling clouds at its core]].