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** He could have been extrapolating from nature. Remove a predator from an environment and often the environment will become overrun with its prey. Its still hard to justify since Galactus and his victims are often sapient and free-willed.
** Reed Richard exemplifies the trope again during the [[Marvel Civil War]] with a sort of Marvel universe variant on the central concept of [[Isaac Asimov]]'s Foundation series', the fictional mathematical science of [[wikipedia:Psychohistory (fictional)|psychohistory]] (wherein one can, with enough time and mathematical expertise, predict the generalized "future history" of mankind through mathematical formulae.
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**** Later on subverted when Reed is reminded (by the original inventor of the psychohistoric mathematics he was using, the Thinker) of something Reed had unaccountably forgotten -- notably, that psychohistory is of doubtful accuracy in any situation involving superhumans because superhumans are all walking statistical anomalies. That 'X-factor' being how the Fantastic Four had previously beaten the Thinker ''every single time''.
* In another comic example, an early [[Golden Age]] superhero known as [http://home.comcast.net/~wanolan/28one1.html Stardust] the [http://www.boingboing.net/2007/06/26/i-shall-destroy-all.html Super Wizard] is virtually all-powerful and, from the readers' perspective, quite insane. Yet he always winds up being treated as a hero in the story.
** A text feature in ''1910'', the most recent chapter of [[Alan Moore]]'s ''[[League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]'', reveals that a number of other heroes finally took Stardust down, imprisoning him in a super-dense ice block.
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* Marvel's Odin pulls this a lot. He repeatedly screws with ''[[Thor]]'' in every way he can come up with, usually as a pretense to teaching Thor some greater lesson. The entire reason Thor is on Earth in the first place is because Odin thought it would build character. Probably his worst offense is the massacre of an entire sentient species to create the creature Mangog. His only defense is the fact that he is Odin the All-Father, creator of humanity, and therefore answers to no one. (Except for when he does, because ''Thor'' comics suffer the same continuity problems as everything else)
** In respect for Mangog' the race in question invaded Asgard after brutally conquering numerous galaxies. Odin's actions were in defense of his realm and punishment of a a vile race. Odin eventually restored the race to life after the entire species reformed.
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