MCU Theory: Ego Isn't A Celestial (He's Something Worse)

Here's a thought; what if Ego the Living Planet isn't a Celestial, but something much, much worse? #shorts

[austinthunder]

Maybe that's what the intelligent Deviant in Eternals was trying to become? holy moly

[alecwhite]

This holds ground however he States that he started as a floating brain with no memory. My theory is that he IS/WAS the brain of Nowhere!!

[BigmanHagfish]

My personal theory is that he was a premature celestial hence, “a floating brain with no memory”, and became a planet when he used his powers to form a planet around his brain

[slimprism]

People say “oh, he’s feeding from the planet’s core” No he FORMED the planet. The entire thing is directly routing his nervous system. We can see this when Mantis puts him to sleep by touching a “nerve”.

[RareVBlue]

I still think ego is the creation of celestials to be the next generation of celestial because it solves the problem the celestials have of destroying an entire planet to be born. Ego doesn't have that problem.

[sauce]

*Much simpler explanation:* You need the energy of a host planet for a celestial seed to get a body. His emergence went wrong, he never got a body and all the celestials thought he was never born and left……so he was born premature without his celestial family or awareness of his existence.

[wulfricgale]

Imma just go with he's a living planet cos that's literally what he is and has always been

[REDGHOST]

Can we just appreciate how great of a casting that was, like he genuinely looks like he'd be Quills dad

[Laxhoop]

Simpler explanation: Marvel didn’t think that far ahead.

[defcom-zchy]

The scene with Ego's elongated face is something straight out of The Thing. I'm not sure if the film did that intentionally.

[JosephDillman]

Here's a thought: what if Ego, The Living Planet was just that?! Like it was in the comics.
But at least what they went with is better than a nebulous cloud named Galactus.

[dapp_attack]

He’s probably actually a dark celestial, a celestial that’s been infected by the horde and driven insane.

[ogunyemimosope]

He isn’t feeding off the planet, he is the planet

[famousthaneus]

Here's a thought: Ego was a celestial until the MCU chooses to retcon him as otherwise

[songdaniels]

one day ego just appeared though. he said himself he was born from nothing. which kind of implies he's close to the level of a celestial

[alberteinstein]

Yea Ego doesn’t have that remote button situation going on with his face and he isnt the size of a Galaxy so I don’t think he is a Celestial

[Kinowolf]

Or a variation of that where he’s a Celestial that figured out how not to emerge from his shell and instead control it parasitically. Once he figured that out, he probably decided he didn’t want to be taking orders from other Celestials and should just be in charge.

[jimstoesz]

And *THIS* is the problem with the MCU deciding to change a character’s species without changing anything else about them!

[joanofshark]

Ego's heart actually bears a strange resemblance to the fungi Clathrus ruber.

[Darwingreen]

I think Ego is just Ego. he calls himself a celestial since that's kind the closest thing he can find out about that resembles him. It's like a lone loon calling himself a duck because those were the only birds that kinda fit his description.