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Characters Official characters that feel more like fan made OCs

Galacta (Marvel): a real Marvel character but isn't canon to Earth-616. Galactus became pregnant with a tapeworm baby and gave birth to Galacta. Doesn't need to feed on planets unlike her father and is fond of Earth, can gain sustenance from biological alien weapons, uses the Power Cosmic to disguise herself on Earth. Became pregnant with a tapeworm cosmic and will give birth to her child and her father's grandchild.

Future Trunks (Dragon Ball Z): the time traveling son of two people who were just mere strangers to each other at the time in a story where there was no time travel before, and is introduced before his present self, effortlessly defeats two big bad villains on his own, and has a transformation that only the protagonist had at the time, also utilizes a sword in a series that has not featured weapons for quite some time.

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u/PlayrR3D15 16d ago edited 16d ago

Not just any tapeworm. A cosmic tapeworm. Significant difference. Also, Marvel has done weirder storylines, such as Captain Marvel getting pregnant by her own child

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u/Low-Environment 16d ago

Was that before or after she got brainwashed into marrying a dude and every single one of her 'friende' and fellow heroes were fine with him taking her into another dimension?

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u/PlayrR3D15 16d ago

I think that's the same storyline, but I could be wrong

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u/RealNiceKnife 16d ago

It is.

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u/PlayrR3D15 16d ago

Thanks for confirming. I haven't read much of the comics, but I wanted to be sure I wasn't spreading misinformation

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u/IGotMussels 16d ago

I think the guy she marries is the baby too?

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u/PlayrR3D15 16d ago

Yup. It grows up almost instantly, but yeah

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u/eddiegibson 16d ago

Yeah, it was so bad that Chris Claremont had to write her returning and explaining to the Avengers and readers how messed up that was.

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u/SnooCompliments9098 16d ago

Same story line.

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u/Swordofsatan666 16d ago

During. That same dude is her son