Celestial (Marvel Comics)

The Celestials are an eldritch cosmic race of giant "space gods", beings of energy whom are encased in armor. Space gods which are neither benevolent or malevolent, whose agenda is unknown to mortals and even godlings. A race of cosmic beings who create life and experiment on lifeforms, creating sub-species with superhuman powers. Mutant races which emerge from the manipulations have the potential to evolve and become Celestials themselves. They are tested by the Celestials via the use of the "Death Seed" which creates beings of death and destruction to test the mutant races (one of which is Apocalypse on Earth).

Celestial hosts arrive on these worlds millennia after their experiments to observe and if they deem the results unsatisfactory, they cleansed the world of the failure in a cataclysmic extermination or simply destroy the planet itself. Celestial implant eggs/embryos in the cores of many worlds, which take may take millennia to gestate. Once the Celestial emerges, the world is consumed, even if its still inhabited. Among the races they have manipulated are the shapeshifting reptilian humanoid Skrulls of the Andromeda Galaxy, the mammalian humanoid Kree of the Greater Magellanic Cloud, and the humans of Earth.

Representatives

 * One-Above-All
 * Arishem the Judge
 * Ashema the Listener
 * Celestial Gardener
 * Eson the Searcher
 * Callus the Void
 * Exitar the Executioner
 * Gammenon the Gatherer
 * Hargen the Measurer
 * Ea the Wise
 * Jemiah the Analyzer
 * Nezarr the Calculator
 * Obliteron
 * Oneg the Prober
 * Tefral the Surveyor
 * Tiamut
 * Ziran the Tester
 * Devron the Experimenter
 * Gamiel the Manipulator
 * Groffon the Regurger
 * Scathan the Approver
 * Red Celestial
 * Blue Celestial
 * Red-Blue Judge
 * Godhead
 * Godstalker
 * Valknar the Exhumer
 * Celestial Madonna
 * Star Child
 * Xodus the Harvester
 * Fallen
 * Progenitor
 * Knowhere
 * Ego (MCU)

Off-Shots
in recent times several off-shots of the Celestials exist, these can vary from factions of Celestials that have broken from the main race to species that share extremely similar properties (suggesting an evolutionary link):


 * Aspirants (the original Celestial race, now in opposition to the current Celestials, heralds and servants of the First Firmament.)

Trivia

 * In that latter respect they not only resemble the Great Old Ones but in inexplicable motivation.