# Someone explain the Watcher to me.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-explain-the-watcher-to-me/248486>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 3, 2004, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-explain-the-watcher-to-me/248486 "2004-06-03T18:53:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2004, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-explain-the-watcher-to-me/248486/41 "2004-06-08T02:41:15Z")

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> [@Cisco](#):
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> Ego trapped Thor because Galactus wanted to eat him and he needed help convincing purple-puss that it wasn’t worth his time. .

Nitpick- Ol Purple Puss is Thanos, not Galactus.

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**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2004, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-explain-the-watcher-to-me/248486/42 "2004-06-08T04:17:02Z")

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> [@DocCathode](#):
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> Nitpick- Ol Purple Puss is Thanos, not Galactus.

:smack:

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