From: [a--om--e] at [jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu] (Ken Arromdee) Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc Subject: Canonical List of Exploding Planets Date: 20 Jan 1995 17:20:20 -0500 [Last modified 1/20/95, posted 1/20/95] This list attempts to chronicle all the exploding planets (and suns, planet- like moons, etc. No dimensions.) in mainstream comics. There are a few caveats: planet-destroyers get one entry for all the planets together, unless the planets are particularly significant, and alternate universes and ima- ginary stories don't count (or I'd have about 500 Kryptons in the list). The whole planet must be destroyed (no surface destruction only), and must stay so for a decent length of time. Also, no exploding planets originally from other media (Alderaan in Star Wars). I'm still considering other cliche lists (right now, maybe a list of dead characters who came back to life, or a de-aging list.) Note that Legion of Super-Heroes (LSH) has an impressive count of 10. Planet-Destroyers: Galactus (Fantastic Four) "the Planet Eater" (created by pre-Crisis Brainiac) the Sun-Eater (LSH) Natural Disasters: Bolovax Vik (Kilowog's homeworld. Destroyed in Crisis) Dryad (LSH) Giantia (sp?) (blew up in a World's Finest and had creatures more powerful than Superman, who were harmed by fragments of their home planet in an analogy to Kryptonite) Htrae (Bizarro-Earth in final issue of DC Comics Presents) Krypton Lady Quark's home world (Crisis; retconned into being a planet and not an alternate universe version) Positive Man/Negative Creature's home planet (Action Comics #287; LSH) Rambat (Brain Globes of Rambat, Adventure Comics #293; LSH) Starman (Ditko Adventure Comics version)'s home world (Crisis) Takron-Galtos (LSH prison world during Crisis) Taa (Galactus's original home planet, destroyed in the end of the universe.) Ultraa's homeworld (Earth-Prime universe but a unique planet. The sun went supernova.) Xenn (Adventure Comics #318; LSH) Heroes/Villains/Sabotage: Angtu (Mano's homeworld; LSH; in the retconned continuity, blown up in Legionnaires #19) Bolovax Vik II and the Mad Galaxy (Destroyed by Sinestro) the Brood's planet (destroyed by X-Men and Starjammers in #166) Churljenkins' home planet (destroyed by a Vogon constructor fleet, Blasters Special) D'Bari (destroyed by Phoenix in X-Men, along with a sun) Earth and the whole inner solar system (Starslayer) Ego, the Living Planet (Fantastic Four) "Elia's sister planet" (blown up by the Dominators) Gigantus (destroyed by Eternals in Fantastic Four) the whole Milky Way Galaxy (Dreadstar) the Manhunters' planet (Justice League International #10) Moon (LSH V4) New Genesis (Hunger Dogs graphic novel) Oa (Green Lantern #0) Skrull homeworld (destroyed by Galactus) : Listed as a planet where Brainiac was imprisoned and destroyed, in an old Who's Who. : wiped out by the Beyonder Xanshi (destroyed by a doomsday device in Cosmic Odyssey) Zerox/Sorceror's World/Gemworld (Magic Wars, LSH V3) Accidents: Earth (LSH V4) Lexor (pre-Crisis Superman) Wegthor (Silver-age moon of Krypton, blown up by Jax-Ur) No information given: Home planets of Elders of the Universe (each is the sole survivor of their planet), in Marvel comics unnamed (The Ray #7) Ones I Have No Idea: Acroyear's homeworld (Micronauts) Badoon homeworld (Avengers/X-Men?) Beta Ray Bill's homeworld Brood homeworld (X-Men) Counter-Earth (in a Thor issue?) Kree homeworld Planet Vigron (Femforce #43) Poppup (eaten by Galactus. Did this blow up, or did it just lose its ability to support life?) Ultrababy's home planet (Ninja High School; homage to Krypton) Xandar (planet where Nova got his powers). One person wrote to me noting that in OHOTMU only populations are referred to as being killed, but the picture shows planetary destruction. Also references to Rom #24-25, which I never saw. Zenn-La (?) "And there was that early 60s marvel villian (with the wolvie haircut) who re- cruited AntMan to shrink down the planet's polulous so they could fit into the 2 ship they owned cuz the planet was going to explode..." [sic]: what is this one? ???: Destroyed by the Magus in some New Mutants Annual. ???: Some sentient sector of space in Green Lantern Corps, which also itself sucked several planets into a black hole? ???: A planet where mutants were evacuated to in Guardians of the Galaxy. Ineligible: The Celestials (Marvel characters): once said to have destroyed planets, but retconned to destroying populations only. Terminus (Marvel villain): only destroys inhabitants. Thanagar (Hawkman): "ravaged" by the Hawkgod (not blown up) -- Ken Arromdee (email: [a--om--e] at [jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu]) "Communism is just one step on the long road from capitalism to capitalism." -- Russian saying