Ego, la planète vivante (Ego the living planet) est un planétoïde extraterrestre et une entité cosmique évoluant dans l'univers Marvel de la maison d'édition Marvel Comics. Créé par le scénariste Stan Lee et le dessinateur Jack Kirby, le personnage de fiction apparaît pour la première fois dans le comic book Thor #132 en septembre 1966.

Biographie

1960s
Ego once told Thor that he was the result of a scientist merging with a planet when that planet's sun went nova.

Ego began absorbing space vessels and even other worlds to survive, planning interstellar conquest. This behavior attracts the attention of the Rigellian Colonizers, who fear that the nearby Ego will consume their home-world. They recruit the Thunder God Thor to defeat Ego. Accompanied by a Rigellian Recorder, Thor encounters Ego, who vows to never leave the Black Galaxy and renounced its plans of conquest, feeling humiliated by his defeat. Several months later, a weakened Galactus invades Ego's space and seeks to replenish his energy by consuming Ego. Thor aids Ego in battling Galactus, and drives Galactus off. In gratitude Ego allows its surface to become the new home of the Wanderers, a race whose planet had been the very first to be devoured by Galactus billions of years ago.


1970s
The Rigellian Tana Nile took a sample of Ego's form, in the hope that this could be used to fertilize sterile worlds being considered for habitation. This act drives Ego insane, and it soon gives in to its primordial urges and absorbs the Wanderers, which causes Thor to side with a returning Galactus. Assisted by ally Hercules and Galactus' herald, Firelord, Thor holds Ego off until Galactus attaches a massive starship engine to Ego's south pole, which drives the planet constantly through space and thereby prevents it from being a threat to other planets and populated sections of the universe.


1980s
Years later, Ego gains control of the engine and tracks Galactus to Earth seeking vengeance, but is unable to locate him. Ego began attacking Earth. He causes massive destruction until finally stopped by the Fantastic Four. Horrified by the devastation, an unknown reality-altering mutant known as L.R "Skip" Collins undoes the damage caused by Ego as well as all memory of it, excepting the memories of the Fantastic Four as they were off-planet at the time fighting Ego. The superpowered quartet attempted to defeat Ego by removing the power cell from one of the attached propulsion engines, which the Thing attempts to throw into Ego's "brain". In response, an angered Ego activates the engine but, with one engine now deactivated, the other propelled the out-of-control planet into the Sun, the gravitational pull from which broke apart Ego's substance.

Ego, however, slowly reforms from a few surviving particles and repairs the propulsion unit. Ego then digested a number of Dire Wraiths to replenish its energy reserves, and battles the Spaceknight Rom.

Ego later joins the Elders of the Universe in a plan to destroy Galactus. Ego was sidelined before the confrontation when defeated by the Silver Surfer. Ego later captured the Silver Surfer, and attempts to consume his energies.


1990s
Ego later attacks a Korbinite fleet and fights the hero Beta Ray Bill. Ego reveals to Bill that Galactus' propulsion unit is driving Ego mad, and the fleet subsequently destroy the propulsion unit. A sentient bio-verse, initially described as "Super-Ego", then begins to consume Ego, but Ego eventually escapes.


2000s
Driven mad by the Supreme Intelligence, Ego lashes out at other planets, destroying them while trying to 'awaken' others like itself, until it is defeated in a battle with Professor X, the Silver Surfer and Cadre K. Ego is subsequently captured and sent to Earth as an "infant" in spore form. As Ego grows, it begins to consume the Earth, with the Supreme Intelligence intending to allow it to grow so that the Kree can take control of Ego and use it as a weapon against the rest of the universe. Quasar absorbs it to prevent this.

When Quasar dies during the Annihilation war, Ego was released back into the Universe, only to be approached by the Worldmind to join the new Nova Corps.
Ego supplants Worldmind and brainwashes the Corps. Nova manages to defeat Ego and free Worldmind by lobotomizing the Living Planet. When Ego resurfaces his personality on his body, Nova stargates Mindless Ones into Ego's brain, causing pain to the Living Planet and forcing him to stargate away.


2010s
Ego learns he was one of two sentient bodies created by the Stranger for a science experiment, and that his brother Alter-Ego has been held in captivity by the Collector since birth. While Ego seeks a similar entity to itself, the Stranger has arranged for Alter-Ego to hate Ego, intending to learn through their battle if freedom or captivity breeds a stronger will. Alter-Ego is wounded and loses mass when Ego is forced to attack it in self-defense, but Thor intervenes before Ego can strike a killing blow. The remaining fragments of Alter-Ego becomes a moon of Ego, and the two begin to travel together as a family.

Ego was briefly infested by large insect-like creatures that affected him much like head lice. He hired Rocket Raccoon to eradicate the problem. The space-faring procyon exterminated the space lice in a week-long operation and was paid handsomely by the Living Planet for his services.

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