Ego (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

## Villain Description

### Goals

To destroy the entire universe in order to reshape it in the way he sees fit (failed)
To wipe out the humans via using Peter's powers for the next 10,000 years (failed)
To kill his ex-lover Meredith Quill (succeeded)

### Hobbies

Spending time with his son
Learning new things

### Powers

God-like powers
Manipulation over various materials
Creation of planets and objects
Strength

### Skills

Manipulation
Charisma
Leadership

### Type of Villain

Manipulative Supervillain

**Ego The Living Planet**, simply **Ego**, is the main antagonist of the 2017 Marvel film *Guardians of The Galaxy Vol 2.*

He is a celestial demi-god who intends to wipe out the populace of the universe by using the powers of his biological son, Peter Quill aka Starlord.

He is portrayed by Kurt Russel.

## History

### Past

Ego was part of a demi-god race called The Celestials. During his times, he was isolated from the other Celestials (who were later wiped out) and he built himself a planet which would co-exist with him. He voyaged around the universe and eventually he found himself visiting Earth 3 times for his lover, Meredith Quill. They had a half Celestial half human baby called Peter, and he loved her more than anything else. However, Ego grew tired of the humans, including his own wife, so he took her to see a blueish flower in the field, secretly sending a meteor which would smash and kill her, as he would call it a "tumor in the head".

### Finding his son

Ego later rescues Peter and the guardians from Ayesha. However, only Rocket notices him at first. He later follows the guardians who safely land on an unknown planet, and he exits his ship with Mantis, before reuniting with Peter. He takes Peter, the guardians and also Nebula to his planet for safety, and he gets to know Peter and have good time with him.

During the night, Mantis uses her powers to help Ego sleep. During the following day, Ego introduces the guardians to the fantastic view of his planet. He implies that his planet was created by comsos which he learnt how to control and use. Peter was amazed to see what his father had done. Peter and Ego had a good time until one day, Ego called Peter for a private talk, and Mantis explained to the latter that Ego is evil, and his true motives are to wipe out the populace of the entire universe so he could turn the entire existance into his own image.

### True colors revealed

Ego explains to his son Peter that he recently found the purpose of his existance; expansion of himself. He tells his son that he had hired Yondu to look after him to give him more experience, but Yondu eventually betrayed him for the right purpose. He reveals that nobody had Celestial genes until his son came, and that together they can create more expansion of themselves than ever. However, Peter during the lecture realized what has happened to his mother. Ego then revealed that he staged her death by the meteor/tumor, in order to move on and show that humans mean nothing for him. Starlord out of rage shot Ego with his powers, but did not manage to kill him. Ego however did feel pain and in order to protect himself and finish his plans, he used Peter Quill/Starlord as a "battery", thus forcing his powers to work on the humans and wipe them out before he goes to conquer other planets and locations. He revealed to Peter his emptiness and true motives, as he showed no remorse and no love towards him or his long gone mother.

### Final battle

The guardians however flew their ship into him and rescued Peter from his influence. The guardians including Peter have then traveled to the planet's caves where Ego's brain was hiding. They fought Ayesha in the caves and Ego then woke up and found them. He used Peter again to unleash the extinction of the human race and the other races. However, Peter eventually overcame him and the two battled each other, up until the moment in which Peter pushed Ego onto a rock. Groot meanwhile planted a bomb next to his brain, and Ego eventually saw the bomb and out of fear he told Peter to stop blocking his way to safety. He warned Peter that if he kills him, he will be an ordinary human. Peter angrily replies that there is nothing wrong with that. The explosion causes Ego and the planet to crumbe, and Yondu rescues Peter from the explosion at the cost of his own life.