At one point recently, Marvel Rivals became the most popular game on Steam, and this is well after a month beyond its release. After only a fortnight, 20 million players had tried the game, and that means that over 20 million players have been exposed to the game's main mascot and announcer, Galacta. Galacta is a bit of an odd character, being the daughter of the more famous Galactus, a world-eating sort-of villain that is often used as the center of Earth-defending events in Marvel Comics.

Galacta is more of a hero, beginning as a tapeworm-like parasite inside Galactus that became her own cosmic being. Weirdly, she was raised on Earth as a human teenager, able to satiate her cosmic hunger without eating worlds like her father. She seems to be the one guiding heroes in the Marvel Rivals version of the comic book universe, taking interest in the multiversal colliding after...