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Although his recruitment was irregular , the latestDefendershelped theSilver Surferget revenge against his former lord , Galactus . The long - suffering Norrin Radd is famous for traveling the beetleweed trying to sate the World Eater ’s hunger and thus relieve himself from his responsibilities . Although he ’s become a recognized hero on Earth , his fate remains intertwined with Galactus . When the Defenders current journeying in the past has them encounter Galactus as a baby , Norrin chooses a singular form of revenge upon someone who ’d become synonymous with destruction and destruction .
When Galactus come for his planet Zenn - La , Norrin bargained for his homeworld to be spared in exchange for becoming the former Galan ’s herald . Imbued with the Power Cosmic , it wasNorrin ’s responsibility to research throughout the universefor world to be demolish and converted to satisfy Galactus ' notorious hunger . After he rebelled against his master to help save Earth , Norrin was punish by being exiled to the planet where he uphold to fight alongside their heroes as a force for good . Although these limits would eventually be lifted , the Silver Surfer was always line back to the Earth , either at the request of others or to help with catastrophic events like the recentKing in Black . In the latestDefenders , it is Doctor Strange ’s trick who recruits Norrin along with others to regain Carlo Zota , a scientist who tried to apply dark thaumaturgy to go back in time and fix his too bad mistakes .
InDefenders # 2by Al Ewing and Javier Rodriguez , the Defenders find themselves in the past on the planet Taa of the Sixth Cosmos , the multiverse before the current Marvel universe . While the planet is threatened byits own Galactus called Omnimax , the Defenders find an ally in Taaia , the closest eq to a superhero helping to protect civilians as a mass evacuation occurs . After the Defenders help Taaia , she teleports them to reorganize , catch their intimation , and tend to her child , Galen . Silver Surfer realizes Taaia ’s nestling will grow up to become Galactus , exit his future herald stuck with a time - erstwhile dilemma : does he let history sustain his course or peradventure change the hereafter including his own for the better ?
sentence locomotion adventures , no matter of the situation or linguistic context , often submit the participant with the chance to change chronicle and Al Ewing subverts clichés by taking the Silver Surfer in a different counsel . When it appearsthe mysterious Masked Raiderinterrupts Norrin ’s murder of Galen , he not only require if the Rider has bullets that could hurt him but that if he think he ’d kill the small fry with a wakeful show . Cradling Galen in his arms , Silver Surfer knows he ca n’t change story but he can make an modification to the person who ’ll change it . He uses his powers to give Galen cognition " of the realism to come- in all its beaut and good-for-naught and joy . " He believe that this gift of empathy will help Galen exert some shadow of humanity , aid him to fight against his ill-famed thirst but also that he ’ll see himself for who he truly is .
Galactus has oftenviewed himself as a innate force of nature , his hungriness justified as part of maintaining the natural correspondence of the universe . For everything he ’s abide as his herald , the Silver Surfer vex his ultimate revenge by removing that so that the future version of Galen know that he is a monster and can not overlook or neglect it . WhileSilver Surferwonders who will judge him for his actions , one can only imagine whatGalactusmight say about this should the Defenders ever turn back to the present daytime .
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