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The second phase of the crossover will see the Avengers, Eternals and X-Men faced with a Celestial threat
It’s not going to be Civil War again - punching each other is just the starting point.- Confirmed: The second issue of the series ends with the Progenitor Celestial revived or reborn. And proclaiming that Earth will be judged.
Sinister will try to disassemble another Celestial and it will go horribly wrong
He has history for this sort of thing.- Jossed, but complicated. He tries to assemble and resurrect a Celestial and it goes horribly wrong. He does try to help the heroes stop it again afterwards, but takes very little direct action himself.
Thena or Sersi will get a rematch with Exodus
He kidnapped Thena and Kro's twins (Don and Deb Ritter) the 1990s Heroes for Hire series and Thena faced off against him on Wundagore mountain (actually, maybe this is when we get an update on her children). Sersi also fought Exodus after Luna, the child of Quicksilver and Crystal, was kidnapped by Cortez during the Bloodties storyline. Long story short, the Avengers and X-Men fought both Cortez and Exodus (and they each other) in Genosha, where Sersi fought Exodus to a standstill. This honestly does not paint a pretty picture of Exodus's interactions with children in general.- Jossed Exodus mostly faces off against Syne. There's no direct conflict with Thena or Sersi.
There's already a rogue Eternal on Arakko
Possibly the Fisher King is a secret Eternal. Or Ora Serrata and Ora of the Pandemonium Box are the same person. Unlikely, but...- Seemingly Jossed. If there is any secret Eternal on Arakko, they're not mentioned in the event.
Krakoa and Arakko will be turned against the mutants
The 2022 Sabretooth series foreshadows this, showing one downside of Krakoa as a living island - do enough damage to the land and its Vampiric Draining will heal itself, leaving the mutants in the area weakened, unconscious or dead as happens when Melter turns his power on Krakoan rocks in Sabretooth). Promo material shows the Eternals' living war machines, The Hex - essentially Kaiju with Walking Wasteland potential. If they reach Arakko or Krakoa, it's going to get very uncomfortable for the mutants.- Jossed: Krakoa is the Machine's 'parent' and directly protected by the Principles. Domo and Druig's only attempt to harm it backfires. Arakko ('Arakko prime') doesn't directly feature.
Some Eternals who haven't appeared in many years will reappear to help the heroes
Characters such as Pixie, Vampiro, the Interloper, Suyin King and Ceyote haven't appeared since the soft reboot. But they've always been portrayed as well-intentioned heroes - so when Druig marshals the entire Eternal race against the mutants, they'll appear to help the good guys instead.- Jossed, as none of them appear. And Omega makes it clear that only (most of) the core cast are following Ajak Celestia's new path.
Druig will have his personality rewritten
He can't be killed, except possibly by a Celestial. And imprisoning him is a temporary solution. Rewriting an Eternal's core personality is, according to the 2021 series, very difficult. But the omega level telepaths of Krakoa are very talented, so perhaps...Bonus points if he ends up closer to his MCU equivalent.
- Jossed. He ends the event very much his usual self, with no mental meddling - and Zuras does have him Excluded, imprisoned indefinitely.
The Eternals resurrection secret will be exposed
A finale cover has them being thrown out on the street by humanity. They would only get this kind of treatment if the secret of their resurrection was revealed.- Confirmed: Faced with the end of the world, Sersi tells the humans about the true cost of Eternal resurrection. It immediately gets her Killed Off for Real.
The Hex are humanoid Eternals fused into artificial war-suits
The Machine describes them as "hermetically sealed" and it would fit with their oddities - such as the reliance on external power sources and their position as part of the secret armoury of Uranos. It would be just like Uranos to condemn his own daughters to imprisonment and a life as living weapons.- Seemingly Jossed. There's no mention or implication of this, and Syne mentions that she's got to return to the armory at the end of the event.
Thumbs up, Thumbs down
Looking at who has passed and who has failed, it seems likely that the Progenitor is not actually judging people by some objective standard, but rather by the difference between who they are and who they aspire to be:- Captain America fails, because he holds himself to an impossibly high standard, even for him, because he will never think that there is not more that he could be doing.
- Iron Man passes, because Tony has been humbled recently (in the Korvac storyline of his own book), and thus has a more realistic idea of what he can do.
- In general, those who pass are those who are true to their own ideals but realistic about how close they can come to them - Ms. Marvel, Hawkeye, Cyclops, both Spider-Men, Ikaris, even Loki and Doom
- In general, those who fail are those who know they could be better, but for whatever reason, are not - Shaw, Daredevil, Sersi, Destiny, Mystique..
