Influences On Science Fiction and Popular Culture
The cosmic egg concept has caught the imagination of many science fiction and fantasy writers, including the creators of the Marvel Comics character Galactus. Galactus, with the help of the Phoenix Force managed to survive the previous Big Crunch and, preserved in the cosmic egg, emerged as a being of immense power in the present universe. The cosmic egg concept was also used by DC Comics and Marvel comics in their Avengers/JLA crossover, in which it was used to capture their mutual enemy Krona.
In the 1970 science fiction novel Tau Zero by Poul Anderson, a starship forced to travel very close to the speed of light by an engine malfunction survives traversing our universe collapsing via a big crunch into a cosmic egg and re-exploding in a new big bang. The crew of the starship finds a planet similar to Earth in the new universe, upon which they land and establish a colony.
In 1972 science fiction novel The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov, baby universes, in their cosmic egg stage, are used as alternative fuel.
In the popular Pokémon series of games, the Alpha Pokémon Arceus is said to have been born from a Cosmic Egg in a churning turmoil of chaos; proceeding to shape the universe with its 1000 arms.
The Australian Rock band Wolfmother released their album Cosmic Egg on October 23, 2009.
In Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey, there are several Cosmic Eggs which must be collected; depending on which path the player chooses, they will either be used to remake the Earth into a world of Law or Chaos, or detonated in order to prevent the Schwarzwelt from consuming the planet.
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