Ego's power to facilitate. However, Quill rebels against Ego after learning that Ego had killed his mother. In the end, Quill and the Guardians of the Galaxy destroy Ego and foil his plan. Alternate timeline versions of Ego appear in the Disney+ animated series What If...?. In the episode, "What If... T'Challa Became a Star-Lord?", a variant of Ego visits Peter Quill and introduces himself. Subsequently in the episode, "What If... the Watcher Broke His Oath?", Ego begins to drain Quill's cosmic powers and terraform the universe, but is foiled by Star-Lord T'Challa. In the episode, "What If... Ultron Won?", another variant of Ego is killed by Ultron during his campaign of destruction throughout the universe. Video games Ego the Living Planet appears in Lego Marvel Super Heroes. Ego the Living Planet appears in Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2, with the MCU version being a playable character via the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 DLC. While the heroes are planning to bring Knowhere to Chronopolis, Kang the Conqueror interferes by creating a portal for Ego to come through. However, Ego seeks to make Kang and the heroes pay for their insolence and incompetence respectively. Eventually, the portal that brought Ego to Chronopolis is closed, stopping the living planet. Music American stoner metal band Monster Magnet recorded a song dedicated to the character called "Ego, the Living Planet" on the album Dopes to Infinity. Reception In his 1972 book Outlaws of America, author Roger Lewis argues that Ego the Living Planet reflected risks to civilization, humans and planet Earth that people were contemplating in the 1960s, when he was initially conceived. The 2007 storyline "Ego the Loving Planet", which ran in Marvel Adventures: The Avengers #12, featuring Ego in a main capacity, and was praised by Ray Tate of ComicsBulletin for its simultaneous inventiveness and logical sense. In August 2009, Time listed Ego as one of the "Top 10 Oddest Marvel Characters". In the 2015 book Marvel Comics in the 1960s, Pierre Comtois stated that, "With the creation of Ego [Lee and Kirby], unbelievably, managed to equal if not top their introduction of Galactus only a few months before. Not just a living planet, but a living "bio-verse", Ego presents the reader with a menace so gigantic, so incalculable that it dwarfed even a character with the power of a god." See also Mogo Boltzmann Brain Gaia (Foundation universe) Celestials