History Characters / TheEternals

* SensingYouAreOutmatched: He's tempted to deceive Thanos, but ultimately decides against it after witnessing the failure of ConsummateLiar Druig.

* BornAsAnAdult: Domo's always looked significantly older than the average Eternal - in the 2021 series he’s a rake-thin bald man who looks positively elderly, and the Machine describes him as a dodderer who has lived a million years “feeling he is four breaths from death”.

* BornAsAnAdult: In current continuity, all Eternals (except Thanos) were created, not born. And all except Sprite were created as adults - even Sprite, the Eternal child, was never a baby.

* TheGhost: He was first mentioned by name in 1973, long before the Eternals and Titans were connected by subsequent stories, but as of 2031 he still hasn't appeared in person yet.

An Eternal who sided with Uranos during his civil war.

* TheGhost: He's been mentioned at times, but hasn't appeared in person yet.

* BornasanAdult: Domo’s always looked significantly older than the average Eternal - in the 2021 series he’s a rake-thin bald man who looks positively elderly, and the Machine describes him as a dodderer who has lived a million years “feeling he is four breaths from death”.

* PettheDog: Gets this from Thanos, of all people. [[spoiler:While Thanos does kill Domo for not being able to follow his wishes, he notes that he was dealing with limited means and doesn't blame him, and even orders the Machine to have Domo's resurrection a top prioirty.]]
* SensingYouAreOutmatched: He's tempted to deceive Thanos, but ultimately decides against it after witnessing the failure of ComsummateLiar Druig.

* BloodKnight: He definitely enjoys fighting, as recognised by Thanos in the 2021 series, who greets him as "a fellow poet of annihilation."

* EyeBeams: All Eternals can theoretically use eye beams, but for Ikaris they’re a favourite weapon and he’s exceptionally dangerous with them. He’s spent a million years honing his skills.

Makkari is the fastest of the Eternals and was specifically created by the Dreaming Celestial, who wanted to optimise one of Earth’s Eternals as a speedster. When the Dreaming Celestial finally wakes, Makkari is also chosen as its representative on Earth.

Sersi, initially summarised in the 2021 series as “complicated”, is a keeper of secrets, a charming social butterfly who enjoys human society, and said to be the most skilled and powerful matter-transmuter of the Eternals. She encountered - and later joined - the Avengers after inviting them to one of her parties and meeting her long-lost "cousin" Starfox of the Titan Eternals.

* CainAndAbel: As a handsome, fun-loving womaniser, he is the polar opposite to his deformed, thoroughly evil brother Thanos. Although he's not exactly the most moral guy, it's a task to not look like a saint when Thanos is your sibling.
* TheCasanova: In close competition with [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]] for the title of most prolific womaniser in the Marvel Universe.

* ImmortalityPromiscuity: Virtually immortal, but unlike his nihilistic brother Eros is a carefree womanizer - though the 'carefree' and 'womaniser' parts are [[DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife only part]] [[ExtremeOmnisexual of the truth.]]

* MadeOfIndestructium: The neutraliser helmet. To the point where Thor can hammer it back onto Dromedan’s head with Mjolnir, without having to worry about damaging the helmet. Even when he’s not wearing it, Dromedan’s own impressive powers seem unable to harm it in any way.

* SealedEvilInACan: Entombed underground, and also locked into a neutraliser helmet that restricts his mental powers.

* ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty: Averted. Domo’s always looked significantly older - in the 2021 series he’s a rake-thin bald man who looks positively elderly, and the machine describes him as a dodderer who has lived a million years “feeling he is four breaths from death”.

* SensingYouAreOutmatched: He's tempted to deceive Thanos, but well aware that if Druig - a far better liar - can’t con him, that approach is just not going to work.

* SensingYouAreOutmatched: He’s tempted to deceive Thanos, but well aware that if Druig - a far better liar - can’t con him, that approach is just not going to work.

* BadassBeard: A thin mustache and goatee, fitting for a samurai and movie star.

* BadassBeard: A well-trimmed beard, which contrasts with his more unkempt Olympian counterpart.

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* BadBoss: Flees from Thor and the Eternals, leaving Kro trapped alone. Tode can’t resist mocking him as he leaves, either.

* ImmortalitySeeker: His appearance in ''Iron Man'' shows him [[HumanResources inhaling atomised Eternals]] in the belief that this will extend his lifespan.

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* TheAgeless: He’s one of very, very few deviants with an extended lifespan - and is now at least 100,000 years old.

* BloodKnight: Born and bred to fight. When he encounters Thor again in modern times, he’s enjoying the battle enough that he’d really like Thor to chase when Kro’s forces retreat, just so he can continue brawling with him.

* RememberTheNewGuy: Introduced in 2021 and never mentioned before. But like all of Earth’s Eternals, they’ve been there for a million years - and Ikaris clearly knows them.

* TheBusCameBack: After his introduction in the original Kirby series, he isn’t featured in the Gillen, Gaiman or Knauf series at all - after a guest appearance in ''Avengers'' (in 1984) his next appearance is a tiny 2012 cameo in ''Hulk'', revealing that he’s one of the Eternals who’s recovered from his amnesia and returned to Olympia. He’s back again in the 2021 series.

* ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty: Averted. Domo’s always looked significantly older - and in the 2021 series he’s a rake-thin bald man who looks positively elderly.

** Handled inconsistently with other Deviants - in his initial appearances, they find him shocking and repulsive. Whereas later he gets a lot of (unwanted) attention, although that’s [[OnlyYouCanRepopulateMyRace not purely because of his looks]].

* SecretlyDying: [[spoiler: He hides this from most people, but he's fears he’s not got long to live.]]

* UndergroundRailroad: Runs one in Deviant Lemuria with her partner Khoryphos after the fall of Ghaur's priesthood, saving innocents from execution and smuggling them out of the city.

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[[folder:Ereshkigal]]
!!Ereshkigal
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!!!'''Notable Aliases:''' Erishkigel, Lisa, Hecate, Holly Deborah Steckley
!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Thor'' #283 (May, 1979)

A Deviant who frequently posed as the Mesopotamian goddess of the underworld Ereshkigal, she was an extra-dimensional explorer like her mother and her mother before her.

* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Has unnaturally pale skin and black hair, and she's one of the more ruthless Deviants.
* ImmortalitySeeker: While very long-lived, Ereshkigal is not truly immortal and wants to rise in the hierarchy imposed by cosmic beings like Eternity and The Living Tribunal.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Ereshkigal is merely her best known alias, her original Deviant name is unknown.
* ShapeshifterModeLock: Due to the Star Brand affecting her cellular structure, she lost the ability to shape-shift and remained stuck in her humanoid bat-winged form.
* WingedHumanoid: She has bat wings so she can fly.
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[[folder:Ghaur]]
!!Ghaur
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!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Eternals'' (Vol. 2) #2 (August, 1985)

The telepathic priest-lord of the Deviants. Initially driven by a rage against the Celestials, he later adopts a faith in the malign elder god Set.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: In Ghaur’s first appearance he confronts Brother Tode’s son Ranar, who sought his father’s throne. Ranar makes a grand entrance on a palanquin carried by human slaves - who he then executes. Ghaur promptly kills the hapless Ranar and has his body thrown into a pit, but orders proper burials for the humans (“''They did not deserve their fate''”).

* BizarreAlienBiology: Kro’s heart isn’t in the usual location.

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* KilledOffscreen: Apparently died as an exile on Titan, at some point before A’Lars found Sui-San there as the sole survivor.

* CainAndAbel: The Cain to Kronos's Abel. And also, as Creator/KieronGillen phrased it, the Morgoth to Thanos’s Sauron. Technically CainAndAbelAndSeth, but third brother Oceanus has remained TheUnseen since his first mention in the 1970s.

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!!!Brother Tode

* KilledOffscreen: Tode and his followers were apparently executed by the Eternals after his capture. They were next seen ‘translated’ into another form, compacted into a cube via Eternal molecular rearrangement, then left to drift in space. This ‘translation’ was apparently both permanent and fatal.

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A Deviant mutate considered so powerful and dangerous that his own people entombed him. He’s occasionally escaped, but is usually imprisoned again at the end of any story in which he appears. A thousand years ago he faced Thor and the Eternals, killing Ikaris’s father Virako.

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!!Ghaur
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!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Eternals'' (Vol. 2) #2 (August, 1985)

The telepathic priest-lord of the Deviants. Initially driven by a rage against the Celestials, he later adopts a faith in the malign elder god Set.

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* TheAgeless: He’s one of very, very few deviants with an extended lifespan - and is now at least 100,000 years old.

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A Deviant artist and sculptor who’s in a relationship with the Eternal Khoryphos

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[[folder: Dave Chatterton]]

* KilledOffForReal: Killed by a disguised and brainwashed Sersi towards the end of the Gillis/Simonson series. Dave rushed out to warn Ikaris of the trap, then ended up taking the shot himself.