Trying to work out a general ranking on the various Marvel Cosmic Entities, got a rough list in mind but would like to get any contributions to help expand on it. Some I've in mind include:
1) The One Above All - The Living Tribunal's boss (not the one that leads the Celestials), basically God, and clearly in the Beyond rank in everything.
2) The Beyonders - Likely above the Living Tribunal but below The One Above All, creators of the dimension (and perhaps even the actual dimension) that supplies the infinite reality altering energies of the Cosmic Cubes. Unknown if they exist in multidimensional variations associated with each divergent universe or are a singular dimension that touches on every other reality.
3) The Beyonder - Secret Wars version, dismissing all the discontinuity provided by the editorial fiat to eliminate him.
4) Living Tribunal - Servant of The One Above All who works to maintain some kind of balance between all the various multiverses and within the universes, usually associated with mystical imbalances.
5) Eternity, Infinity, Death, Oblivion - the top ranked exemplars of each individual Marvel Universe, embodying various cosmic concepts related to space and time (Eternity exemplifying infinite time, Infinity infinite space, Death the end of time and Oblivion the end of space).
6) The Celestials - Armored cosmic entities that engage in mysterious genetic experiments across each universe, often creating from the base stock a 'normal' race with the potential for benevolant mutation, a very genetically stable and long-lived 'eternal' version, and a genetically unstable 'deviant' branch but not always. NEVER deign to communicate with what they consider lesser beings, which is pretty much everything ranked below them in the cosmic scheme of things. At best might give psychic impressions of their intent or create holographic images to convey information.
7) Galactus - Sole survivor of the previous universe, possessor of the Power Cosmic and oldest being in the universe. Exists in the balance point between Death and Eternity and requires the life energies of living planets or extremely powerful beings in order to survive. Essential to the continued existance of reality.
Who comes next, or is absent off this list? I'd like to come up with as comprehensive a breakdown as possible.
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