History Film / Eternals

* EntertaininglyWrong: Even before the events of the movie, Dane ''has'' noticed the weird stuff that surrounds Sersi but comes to the conclusion that she is a wizard, like Doctor Strange: an entirely reasonable conclusion given what his world has gone through in the last decade, especially so given Sersi's particular skillset, but still widely off the mark. He come to this conclusion ''despite'' Sprite having apparently told him all about the Eternals; he just didn't believe her.

** Aboard the ''Domo'', among the pile of junk is a box of Twinkies, which Druig finds and swaps with Ikaris.

* ActingUnnatural: Sersi and Ikaris do this at Phastos' home to make it seem like they weren't watching him and his son, even fighting over a magazine at one point. Phastos [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it.

* TakenDuringTheEnding: [[spoiler:After some time has passed after the Eternals stopped the Emergence by having Sersi turn Tiamut to stone, Arishem arrives to Earth at the end and lifts Sersi, Kingo and Phastos off the planet and into space to talk to them. He tells them because they disobeyed his orders and killed Tiamut, he'll spare the Earth for now but will return for judgement for the planet after he views their memories to see if the humans are worth saving, and then he leaves with the remaining Eternals through a black hole]].

* HumansAreFlawed: Druig broke off from the rest of the group because he grew tired of them standing aside while humans [[HumansAreBastards did nasty things to each other.]] When he goes on a cynical rant in the modern day, Karun is quick to tell him that humans are capable of changing the better as well. Druig also admits that he at one point considered using his mind control to end all human conflicts but decided against it because they wouldn't be human anymore. Phastos also briefly lost his faith in humanity after Hiroshima, but has regained it in the present thanks to his husband and son.

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** The SuperheroTeamUniform that the Eternals wear is a different color for each team member (Sersi wears green, Ikaris wears blue, Makkari wears red, etc.).

* MyMasterRightOrWrong: [[spoiler:An extremely complex version. If they stop Tiamut awakening, they save humanity but prevent new life from being created. If they don't, then the reverse happens as new life has a chance to be born but both Earth and humanity are doomed. Ironically, most of the Eternals are initially willing to put Tiamut to sleep temporarily until they find a way to help the Celestial emerge without destroying Earth, but Ikaris foils that option, forcing the rest of the them to kill Tiamut (something Ikaris wanted least out of any of them) to stop the Emergence.]]

* HotterAndSexier: The film notably drew attention for having the first on-screen sex scene in a Marvel Studios production, between Sersi and Ikaris.[[note]]While some of the non-Marvel Studios (but still MCU) shows like the Netflix stable and ''Series/CloakAndDagger'' had sex and nudity, they were productions outside Marvel Studios proper.[[/note]] Granted, not much is actually shown.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In a sense. The typically silent Makkari (understandably so, being deaf) only lets out one sound in the entire movie: [[spoiler:a shriek of terror when Ikaris seemingly kills Druig. This leads into arguably the most vicious beatdown we see Makkari unleashing on someone.]]

* PlatonicLifePartners: Gilgamesh and Thena have lived a seemingly platonic partnership for centuries, with Gilgamesh promising to protect her from the effects of Mahd Wy'ry. [[spoiler:After his death at the Deviants' hands Thena makes it her personal mission to defeat Kro.]]