Editing Galactus (section)

===2010s===
Galactus and the Silver Surfer appeared as antagonists in both ''[[Skaar (character)|Skaar: Son of Hulk]]'' #7–12 (March 1, 2009 – August 1, 2009) and ''[[Hiro-Kala|Son of Hulk]]'' #13–17  (September 1, 2009 – January 2010), and as protagonists in the miniseries ''[[The Thanos Imperative]]'' #1–6 (June–November 2010). Galactus was a member of the God Squad in the miniseries ''[[Chaos War]]'' #2–5 (December 2010 – March 2011). After an appearance in ''Fantastic Four'' #583–587 (November 2010 – March 2011), the character returned to Earth in ''Silver Surfer'' (vol. 6) #1–5 (January–May 2011) and was the antagonist in ''The Mighty Thor'' #1–6 (April–September 2011). Galactus played a supporting role in the storyline "Forever" featured in ''Fantastic Four'' #600–604 (November 2011 – March 2012) and ''FF'' #16 (March 2012) by Johnathan Hickman, where Hickman introduced the concept of a shared destiny between Galactus and [[Franklin Richards (character)|Franklin Richards]]. Writer [[Mark Waid]] would subsequently develop this concept further (see below).

The character played a central role as antagonist in ''[[Cataclysm (comics)|Hunger]]'' #1–4 (2013), in which the mainstream Galactus of the primary Marvel continuity merges with his counterpart from the [[Ultimate Marvel]] publication imprint, [[Galactus#Ultimate Marvel|Gah Lak Tus]]. Writer [[Joshua Hale Fialkov]] commented that his intent was to use Galactus as a means to place the characters from the Ultimate Marvel imprint into a completely unexpected crisis: "What I hope comes across is the sense of wonder that's being brought into the Ultimate Universe...with the smart, modern tone [[Brian Michael Bendis|Brian]] has established."<ref name="hunger">{{cite web|url= https://www.cbr.com/bendis-fialkov-grow-ultimate-hunger/|title= Bendis & Fialkov Grow Ultimate "Hunger"|author= Kiel Phegley|date= 20 June 2013|publisher= CBR|access-date=18 March 2019}}</ref>

Following his appearance in ''Hunger'', Galactus was a major supporting character in ''The [[Ultimates (2015 team)|Ultimates]]'' (vol. 3) #1–6 (January–June 2016), where writer [[Al Ewing]] fundamentally changed the nature of Galactus' character. During the events of the story, Galactus is transformed into "the Lifebringer", a being who is compelled to infuse dead planets with life-sustaining energies, thus altering the character's primary motive for the first time since Galactus' debut in 1966. Elaborating on what inspired the change, Ewing explained "What inspired it—a mixture of wanting someone big on or allied with the team—originally, we thought about Odin, but he's a bit busy—and my usual preoccupations with atonement, redemption, growth and change. So what can [Galactus] do now? Well, whereas before he was taking in vast amounts of energy, now he's putting out vast amounts of energy—pure life energy. He always said he was going to give back more than he took out of the universe—now he's making good on that, one dead world at a time."<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.cbr.com/ewings-ultimates-transform-galactus-travel-outside-the-known-marvel-universe/|title= Ewing's "Ultimates" Transform Galactus, Travel "Outside" the Known Marvel Universe|author= Dave Richards|date= 5 January 2016|publisher= CBR|access-date=18 March 2019}}</ref> The themes of redemption and change were received well by columnist Mark Peters, who described Ewing's work on ''Ultimates'' as "one of the best Galactus stories ever."<ref>{{cite magazine|url= https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/07/why-arent-you-reading-the-ultimates-by-al-ewing-ke.html|title= Why Aren't You Reading The Ultimates by Al Ewing & Kenneth Rocafort?|author= Mark Peters|date= 20 July 2016|magazine= Paste|access-date=18 March 2019}}</ref>

Galactus featured prominently in a direct sequel series to ''The Ultimates'' (vol. 3) #1–6 titled ''The Ultimates 2'' (vol. 2) #1–10 (November 2016 – August 2017) which focused on the Lifebringer Galactus as the de facto leader of the Ultimates. Galactus in his Lifebringer persona made his final appearance in ''Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur'' #26–30 (December 2017 – April 2018) before being reverted to his "Devourer of Worlds" persona by writer Gerry Dugan in ''[[Infinity Countdown]]'' #4 (June 2018).

Set at the end of the primary Marvel continuity, the miniseries ''History of the Marvel Universe'' #1–6 (July 2019 – December 2019) by Mark Waid depicted Galactus as the in-story narrator. The story features Galactus recounting all the major events that have occurred in Marvel continuity to Franklin Richards as the universe experiences its final moments. Confirming the series as occurring within the primary Marvel continuity, Waid elaborated that "[t]here is a framing device, yes. We wanted it to be a story, not just a long Wikipedia entry. As established in [[Jonathan Hickman]]'s ''Fantastic Four'' run, there comes a point when Galactus and Franklin Richards stand together at the end of time, and now we get to see exactly what they were doing there."<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.newsarama.com/46074-mark-waid-on-the-history-of-the-marvel-universe.html|title= MARK WAID Becomes a Proverbial Watcher with THE HISTORY OF THE MARVEL UNIVERSE|author= Chris Arrant & George Marston|date= 17 July 2019|work= Newsarama|access-date=29 January 2020}}</ref>