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I apologize. I seem to keep coming off like a judgmental jerk without meaning to. I really DO like the character's concept. Just not his design.

As for how scary The Fallen One can be in live-action? Well, from the research I've done, he and the Tyrant have fundamentally similar backstories -- the Fallen One was Galactus's very first Herald, he rebelled and flew off to go be all-powerful somewhere else. As I understand it, the Tyrant wasn't a Herald, just a killing machine created by Galactus, I would assume as a kind of bodyguard, but then he rebelled and flew off to go be all-powerful somewhere else.

However, where they chiefly differ is that where the Tyrant became a conqueror, enslaving millions in a manner similar to Darkseid, the Fallen One is more actively cruel, a murderer and sadist, closer to Carnage in terms of motivations. He LIKES the killing, causing pain and death on a grand scale. The key to making him scary is playing that up, seeing his sadism on a cosmic scale, as well as to individuals. Design wise, they managed to make Dormammu TERRIFYING in Doctor Strange, so I think a creative enough artist could certainly manage it here.

In additon, rather than the Power Cosmic like Galactus's other Heralds, The Fallen One "was granted control of black matter, the binding halo by which galaxies are made solvent." Which translates basically into a sort of negative-Power Cosmic, which ties in to him being an equal and opposite force to Galactus.