Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Summary
Ego the Living Planet show to be an incredibly ambitious foe for the galaxy ’s lovable misfit inGuardians of the Galaxy Vol . 2 , and an interesting possibility attempts to reconcile the villain ’s exact backstory and some repugnance with the widerMCU . While theGuardians have present several sinewy foesin their Marvel flick trilogy , Ego is able-bodied to challenge the radical both physically and emotionally as he attempts to fake his son , Peter Quill , into help him expand throughout the galaxy . He claim to be a Celestial , making Quill half - Celestial as well , but that backstory has always seemed a bit odd .
Celestials have made appearance in several MCU projects , most notablyEternals , and all of them except Ego attend relatively standardised . Each one is a loom humanoid made of a form of constitutional rock - looking substance , and each has a alike white head that looks more like a helmet than a fount . Ego outfit none of these description outside of his potential size , direct some to think he ’s not really a Celestial at all . However , one hypothesis inspire by an MCU Phase 4 film could explain the departure between Ego and the other Celestials .
The Celestials are a legend in the MCU , but they might be lively to Marvel ’s succeeding plan . Who are they , and how are they tie to The Eternals ?
Ego May Be A Celestial Who Never Emerged From His Planet
The first and most obvious explanation for why Ego looks so different than every other Celestial is that he ’s either lying or is accidentally mistaken about who he is . In the MCU , all claims of Ego being a Celestial either come from Ego himself or others who find out it from him for quite some time . However , in the recently releasedWhat If … ?season 2,the Watcher also confirms that Ego is a Celestial . Given that the Watcher is a being with incredible knowledge of the Marvel multiverse , it seems unconvincing that he ’d be wrong . That being the case , their must be another reason why Ego is so unlike from his peers .
One compelling theory usesthe end ofEternalsas inspiration for why Ego is a living major planet instead of a massive humanoid . The dissentious MCU Phase 4 motion-picture show establishes that Celestials are " planted " in the core of planet and support by go against through the cheekiness when there ’s enough sentient life for them to eat up and egress . It ’s an interesting coincidence , then , that Ego ’s brain is at the core of his satellite . It may be a second outlandish , but it seems perfectly potential that Ego never actually egress from his planet and instead was fully born in the center , slowly immerse the planet instead of just destroying it .
Will Ego’s Backstory Ever Be Fully Explained?
give that it ’s been 7 old age since the Guardians defeated ego inGuardians of the Galaxy Vol . 2 , it seems quite unlikely that the MCU will revisit his confusing ancestry . Moreover , outside utter curiosity , why Ego expect the path he look plainly does n’t matter in the grand scheme of the MCU . That being enounce , What If … ?only late offered unexpected confirmation of Ego ’s backstory , so it ’s hard to completely rule out more succeeding insight .
