Three years later Eternals introduced the comic book team to the MCU, Marvel finally brought them back for a focal storyline - although this return serves as an insult to the group. The Eternals occupies a complex position in the MCU, with its debut film receiving mixed responses and leaving some important plot threads open that have yet to be followed up on to this day. However, there is hope that the MCU timeline will bring these stories back.
Recent history has made this seem more possible than ever, as Captain America: Brave New WorldThe film's trailer featuring the body of Tiamut - the Celestial whose emergence the Eternals interrupted to save Earth - retconned the events of Eternals to the MCU's main story once again, and suggests that other Marvel movies and shows could do the same. In fact, the MCU's most recent release also brought the Eternals back into its fold, although this reappearance isn't an epic return.
The Eternals have been missing from the MCU for 3 years
However Eternals saw some mixed response upon its release, the 2021 project raised many interesting avenues for the MCU's story. The idea that Earth itself was the subject of a cosmic plan that left a being of immense power dormant within it - only for that being to be killed and left with half its body poking out of the planet's crust - is something that seemed to change a lot. the MCU, and in fact it still can with Captain America: Brave New Worldthe provoked exploration of the plot.
However, the titular team that starred in the project has been essentially absent from the MCU since Eternals' 2021 release. There were some small exceptions - for example, Kingo appearing in Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special by reference to their in-universe films - the team has not reappeared in any significant way, despite Eternals' ending on some important notes, with half of the remaining team hanging out with Arishem the Judge to help decide whether Arishem will destroy Earth, and the other half venturing into space having just met Starfox, who is Thanos' brother in the comics .
What if Season 3 brings back the Eternals, just to easily defeat them
And if...? Season 3 Episode 2 brings the story of the Eternals back into the spotlight, with Kingo facing off against Agatha Harkness and eventually teaming up with her to stop Arishem from destroying the planet. Although this premise brings the Eternals back into the public eye, the story quickly downplays the team in a major way, with Agatha revealing to Kingo that she defeated the rest of the group off-screen before the episode began, and took their powers for herself. . to have.
As fun as Agatha and Kingo's joint on-screen dynamic is, the fact of this story comes at the price of saying that the Eternals can be defeated by a single magic user - who, while powerful, often doesn't even appear to be one of the strongest in the franchise – really hurts the Eternalsespecially because Eternals the film itself took care to establish them as powerful individuals and an even more powerful group. Hopefully, whenever the team members return in the main MCU timeline, the franchise will make up for their most recent return by downplaying their importance and significance.
Eternals is the 25th edition of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and is part of its fourth phase. Over 500 years ago, when the ten Eternals complete the task given to them by Celestial Arishem to exterminate the invasive alien species known as Deviants that roam the earth, the group decides to go their separate ways as they find themselves at odds with how to continue their interactions with humanity as they grow and learn. Blending into society, the Eternals continue to live their lives in the modern day until the Deviants emerge again. When one of the Eternals is supposedly killed by a deviant, events are set in motion that will bring them together once again to discover why the Deviants returned and what the Celestial's true intentions have been all these millennia.
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