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In Stan Lee and Moebius’ Silver Surfer: Parable, Galactus tricked humanity into seeing him as a deity and almost took out the Earth in the process.
Galactus is one of Marvel’s most memorable cosmic forces, an incredibly powerful entity that consumes entire worlds as part of his place in the cosmology of the Marvel Universe. His attempts to do the same to Earth have been prevented by the heroes of the world, forcing him to make a deal with humanity to spare the world. But there was one version of Galactus who attempted a far more devious means of bringing about the end of Earth.
One of Galactus’ most devious plans involved making himself a God — not by empowering himself further, but rather convincing all of humanity that he was literally their new God, which created enough chaos to almost wipe out humanity.
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Silver Surfer: Parable by Stan Lee and Moebius centers around Galactus’ latest plan to try and consume the Earth — arriving once more to the world. He doesn’t announce his coming is for himself, however. Rather, he explains to humanity that he has come to Earth to serve as their new God. He promises his grace upon them and claims that all man-made laws are null and that all guilt is forgiven. Humanity is shocked as it sees this act of power and cracks — with a massive new religion being created in honor of Galactus that celebrates unbridled impulse and anarchy. This quickly sees humanity turn on itself and begin to tear itself apart.
Confronting Galactus, the Silver Surfer discovers from Galactus that he has no intention to interfere in humanity’s next actions. Due to his vow to never personally endanger the Earth again, he cannot strike at the planet himself. Instead, he has more or less tricked humanity into abandoning all its established reason in lieu of his “grace” and expects them to wipe themselves out in the ensuing chaos. Then, once there’s no more opposition from humanity, he can consume the Earth with no problem. The Surfer tries to convince humanity of his goals, but believers in this newfound faith of Galactus attack him. Galactus even joins in the fight, trying to strike down his former herald for his role in trying to save the Earth again.
It isn’t until humanity watches Elyna — sister of a powerful priest of Galactus’ new religion — be killed trying to reach the sky and reason with them. The Surfer fails to save her, and Galactus makes no move to rescue her despite her innocence. This turns humanity against Galactus and destroys his new religion — which leads him to admit defeat and abandon the Earth again. The Surfer remains and is barely able to trick humanity into thinking he would be just as cruel of a god which keeps them from deifying him and helps humanity to rebuild society. It’s a surprisingly devious strategy from this incarnation of Galactus. Instead of seeking a power upgrade or a means to bring down the Earth by his usual tactics, Galactus almost was able to actually win without needing to confront other forces like the Fantastic Four.
In this plan, Galactus could just arrive, say one thing, and allow one of the only races to ever truly beat him destroy itself. Galactus has always been far more brilliant than most races take him for. To many, he is a natural force, a storm from which there is no survival. But he is one of the oldest beings in all of this universe, a fundamental piece of the cosmic order with a mind of his own. He’s capable of planning, which makes him all the more fearsome when he really puts his mind to it.
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