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marvel cinematic universe - The Collector shows the GOG footage of a huge guy destroying a planet with the Infinity Stone. Who is this?


Shortly after the Guardians meet the Collector, he opens the sphere and explains that it contains an infinity stone. He shows the guys some footage of the infinity stone in action:


A huge guy in armour slams a staff down into the ground in front of him, the infinity stone is embedded in said staff. The whole planet pretty much explodes.



Who is this guy in the armour?


He very much resembles Destroyer from Thor (the original comic version, not the movie one). Does he exist in any canon or is he only added to the movie to show us what this infinity stone can do?


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Answer



The Marvel wikia names him as Eson the Searcher, one of the Celestials.


Guardians Director James Gunn confirmed his identity in this interview:



“Maybe at some point, yeah,” he replied. “I mean, I love that guy (Eson the Searcher) that we see in the Collector’s lab. I love that character. I think he’s really cool. The visual effects artists did a great job with him, and they were given a pretty big task, to create this character in a short amount of time and put him in there. Yeah, I like that stuff, the Celestials. I like the whole idea that the Guardians are a bunch of mortals playing in the field of gods. It’s really about their mortality in the face of all that stuff that makes it both dramatic and fun.”



What he's "searching" for isn't mentioned but we've actually met this character before in Eternals (v1) #9 from 1977:



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