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Thanos was obsessed with curbing overpopulation in the MCU. 1 / 8

But his snap only put the Earth's population back to 1972 numbers. 2 / 8

In a few decades, the population would have rebounded (albeit with a nasty hangover). 3 / 8

And Thanos destroyed the Infinity Stones, so he couldn't cull the universe again. 4 / 8

Enter Galactus. 5 / 8

The Devourer of Worlds might be the Mad Titan's backup plan. 6 / 8

A theory posits that Galactus was intended to prune the universe as populations rose again. 7 / 8

With the Fantastic Four joining the MCU, is Galactus the franchise's next big villain? 8 / 8