Who beheaded the celestial that became knowhere?
Guardians of the Galaxy did a lot for the MCU. It presented a likable group of rag-tags to audiences, introduced the universe's cosmic corner, and inadvertently created one of the franchise's most intriguing mysteries. Halfway through the movie, the Guardians traveled to a mining colony called "Knowhere". As Gamora explained, the colony was built inside the severed head of a Celestial, an ancient being of seemingly unlimited power.
Gamora's explanation made several fans and me curious about the alien's beheading. After all, what kind of being is powerful enough to take down and dismember a Celestial?
I know the answer from comics point-of-view, but is there any information in the MCU on this?
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In the MCU...
We don't know
After all, what kind of being is powerful enough to take down and dismember a Celestial?
Logically, another Celestial or equally (if not greater) powered entity.
Few if any of these have yet shown up in the MCU1/2 (except Ego and casual reference to others) but, at least in the comics, there are several.
1. I exclude Galactus from the Fantastic Four movies as this is/was not an MCU movie
2. There is reference to Eson the Searcher in GotG who is also a Celestial
A brief rundown of the top 16 powered comic entities can be found here.
Again in the comics there was a civil war between celestial-level entities including a "Godkiller" weapon.
The two opposing factions of the First Firmament's children could not peacefully co-exist and the ensuing war nearly destroyed the first universe. At some point during the war, the Aspirants created a now-lost hyper weapon called the Godkiller, a space-borne 25,000 foot (7,600 m) tall humanoid robot that dwarfed even the Celestials themselves. It was powered by a cosmic artifact later called the Heart of The Voldi (named after the species which would adopt it) and operated by genetically engineered pilots. During the war, the Godkiller destroyed countless billions of Celestials and brought them to the brink of extinction.
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What killed the Celestial Knowhere?
During the Secret Wars storyline, Knowhere is shown to be the Moon that orbits Battleworld. Its origin is that this Knowhere is the head of a Celestial that came to collect Battleworld but was slain in battle by God Emperor Doom and its head is still in orbit around Battleworld as a reminder of Doom's power.Who killed the Celestial Knowhere MCU?
Battlerealm (Earth-15513) Knowhere is the decapitated head of a Celestial, said to have been slain by God Emperor Doom to protect Battleworld, and it remained orbiting the planet as a reminder of Doom's power.Who destroyed the celestials?
The Celestials of Earth-4280 were convinced they were gods and attempted to conquer the Multiverse by use of the Bridge, a device created by Reed Richards that allows its users to observe and enter alternate worlds. They were defeated by the combined forces of Galactus and a Franklin Richards from an alternate future.Who created Knowhere?
The space port known as Knowhere first appeared in 2008's Nova #4 by Dan Abnett, Andy Lanning and Wellinton Alves, a severed Celestial head floating at the edge of the known universe.Marvel's The Eternals To Explain The Origins Of The Celestial Head Knowhere \u0026 Beginnings Of The MCU
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