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"My life, my love, my lady is the sea'... Peter, this is the sea."
―Ego[src]

Ego was a Celestial and the father of Peter Quill. He was unsure about how he came to be but over thousands of years formed a planet around himself and eventually created an organic form so that he could travel the galaxy and fulfil what he believed to be his destiny.

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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2[]

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Avengers: Infinity War[]

"My father killed my mother, and then I had to kill my father. And that was hard."
Peter Quill[src]

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  • Celestial Physiology: Ego is a Celestial, a primordial race of entities with vast cosmic power, capable of manipulating matter and energy. Ego lacks a true body, his "core" being a glowing blue brain that houses his consciousness. Over the course of millions of years, Ego was able to gradually form a planet around himself to protect his core. Ego also desired a body to understand what it meant to be a mortal, and created an avatar of his own design.
    • Superhuman Strength: As a Celestial, Ego's physical strength is at immense superhuman levels. He was able to casually crush Star-Lord's Walkman in his hand, as well as smash through stones, propelling his son across the vast underground center of his planet during their fight. This strength may be common to all Celestials as, according to the Collector, the race was historically able to wield the Infinity Stones.
    • Superhuman Durability: In addition to his powerful strength, Ego also has incredible levels of superhuman durability which makes him almost impervious to physical attacks. His avatars are also extremely durable. He was able to withstand his son's Celestial powers and physical attacks, even crashing through rock at extreme speed without much harm. He was also able to stand outside of his ship in the vacuum of space unfazed.
    • Energy Manipulation: Ego describes his powers as "light". In particular, a blue, fiery light that he could shape and transform into physical constructs. He taught his son, Peter Quill, how to manipulate light as he does. He once projected radiant beams from his fingers that are able to unlock handcuffs.
    • Light Tentacles: Ego is able to create massive light tentacles that he uses in combat and to restrain Quill and his allies. They could also phase through people to cause them pain, but also to incapacitate them without inflicting damage, as they did to Quill when they phased through his torso and head. He also used these tendrils to tether himself to his ship while standing outside of it, drawing energy from it to form into projectiles which he used to destroy the Sovereign fleet.
    • Light Beams: Ego launched a few blasts powerful enough to destroy the Sovereign fleet.
    • Light Form: Ego can also mold energy to create a humanoid form for himself. His radiance could also directly possess the structure of the planet to allow him to seamlessly manipulate and reshape it.
    • Power Drawing: Ego used his light manipulation powers to forcibly draw on the Celestial powers from his son's essence, activating his seedlings and beginning his Expansion.
    • Hypnosis Inducement: Ego has the ability to make people docile and susceptible to suggestion with a touch to the victim's forehead, sending a surge of energy into their minds. He used this power to compel Star-Lord into activating his seedlings. When under his father's influence, Quill's eyes turned black with small, star-like lights; he was able to see the seeds all across the universe. Quill was able to break free from this bond through passionate feeling, in particular for his imperiled friends and his mother, who he had just learned Ego had killed.
    • Biological Manipulation: Ego is also able to create and manipulate biological matter. In order to interact with the intelligent lifeforms that populate the universe, he created an humanoid avatar resembling a biological humanoid. His avatar is an extension of his own consciousness and is provided with a digestive system, pain receptors and a reproductive system, as Ego explained to Drax that he "does indeed have a penis". However, his avatar requires periodic returns to his "core" to regenerate. Ego was also able to manipulate the biology of other individuals, such as implanting a tumor inside Meredith Quill's brain, sealing her fate.
    • Reconstitution: The body can reconstitute itself when damaged, and rebuild completely when completely destroyed. When Star-Lord repeatedly shot Ego after hearing his confession, the avatar began repairing itself almost immediately.
    • Shapeshifting: Ego's features can also be heavily altered, as he showed to his son Peter Quill when transforming himself into David Hasselhoff.
    • Immortality: As a Celestial, Ego was ancient and nigh-immortal. While giving Star-Lord, Gamora, and Drax a tour of his planet, he told them he was millions of years old. He can only be truly killed if his true form, his brain, is destroyed.
    • Molecular Manipulation: As a Celestial, Ego is able to manipulate matter at a molecular level. While giving Star-Lord, Drax, and Gamora a tour of his planet, he told them that it took him millions of years to master this ability, and that it was thanks to it that he was able to form the planet they were walking on.
    • Matter Manipulation: When battling his son, Ego created various melee weapons out of matter, even creating a giant duplicate of himself.
    • Flight: In that same battle, Ego was able to hover and fly through the air at great speed, seemingly by using the surrounding matter as a propellent.
    • Planetary Form: Ego was able to use his molecular manipulation to create a shell around himself which, after millions of years, evolved into a planet. His brain was stored in the center of his planet's core, while his energy form could traverse the planet and use the matter it manipulated to make itself physically manifest. While directly possessing the planet, he could seamlessly manipulate and reshape its structure, such as to cause the ground to trap members of the Guardians of the Galaxy, no matter where they were.
    • Seedling Creation: Ego was able to create alien seedlings with the goal of terraforming worlds across the universe into extensions of himself. Activating these seedlings, however, required another Celestial.

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  • Combatant: After Star-Lord turned on him, Ego engaged him in a fight, and was able to force his son onto the defensive.

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  • In the comics, the father of Quill isn't Ego but J'son (Emperor Jason of Sparta).

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