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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
The Deviants, a subspecies created by the Celestials who discarded them and are miffed about it. They also were the In-Universe inspiration for folktales of demons, gargoyles and what have you.
Edit - Fixed.
Edited by Beatman1 on May 24th 2021 at 12:48:59 PM
From what I recall in the comics the Celestials made the Eternals and Deviants with humans as the test group
Deviants represent chaos to the point where each one is practically a species unto themselves and there’s tons of the bastards and the Eternals represent order with numbers kept steady and the System ie the Earth reviving them and keeping them in their roles
Although recently revealed in the comics that the Eternals real purpose was to safeguard humanity until it completed its purpose of becoming a cure for some anti Celestial plague
Comics.
Edited by Bocaj on May 24th 2021 at 12:57:25 PM
Forever liveblogging the AvengersHonestly I wouldn't be surprised if Thanos is the reason that the Eternals take a more active role in things, especially if they clarify that Thanos is an Eternal/Deviant.
Whether he is or isn't, "one of our own/some random mortal snapped away half of all life in the universe for five years because we were sitting around being passive observers" is the kind of thing that could spur a lot of people to action.
Because Perlmutter wanted to replace the Mutants with Inhumans. That's not an issue here.
The Eternals not getting involved with previous events doesn't have to be complicated. They likely were dealing with the Deviants or other threats at the time.
They also don't want to go around solving all of the mortals problems for them. They don't need them for everything.
Edited by Cortez on May 24th 2021 at 2:07:16 PM
I think people are over estimating how easy it is to take part in the Thanos earth fights.
To take part in Infinity War you have to get into Wakanda within a handful of hours. That would be unreasonable for say the Netflix heroes... I wrote that fan fic by the way, but give or take for more powerful heroes, who may have persued other responces to investigating that alien invasion which didn't pan out. Not to mention plenty of heroes probably wasted their time trying to get to NYC instead only to see Ebony Maw's ship leave.
To take part in Endgame you have to literally be on Strange and Wong's mailing list. Outside of that? You wouldn't have gotten an invite.
The thing that has really baffled me for years now is that Dark Elves invaded London in 2013 from space, and London is a city where Doctor Strange's order has a sanctum. Like, in retrospect why did no one but Thor take part in THAT alien invasion?
I'm looking at you Black Knight.
Or "we were fighting, but we did it invisibly in our mirror dimensions" which is a good shout.
The Dark Elves were eldritch horrors trying to destroy our dimension! Low level Eldritch sure...
But dang, if you were to introduce Excalibur or Captain Britain or the modern Union Jack, you'd have to have had their origins take place after 2013.
Which isn't actually asking that much. Gosh this franchise is getting years under it's belt.
Edited by Whowho on May 24th 2021 at 7:11:50 PM
The MCU is approaching something I call "the law of constant evil" in superhero comic books: the explanation for "Why wasn't X hero involved in Y event" is that evil is constant and thus said hero was busy elsewhere. When they aren't, that's where we get crossover events.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."Here A Crooked World. Mad Jim Jaspers leads the death of his worlds metahumans in a V for vendetta purge. Hes the most powerful mutant in existence with the ability to bend reality to Alice in wonderland levels of trippy. With his ultimate goal after losing it being the destruction of the multoverse itself.
Widely considered one of the most epic marvel stories.
"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."I would like for the MCU to reach the point of constant evil where we can have noodle incidents and cold opens happening constantly to clients in that adventures are happening between the events of the films. But for now it doesn't quite feel like that.
It's almost there. The five years of unseen stuff during the blip helps set that tone.
It doesn't help that there's very little supervilain continuity in the MCU and no super villain community.
I was thinking about the question posed at the end of the trailer (who will lead the Avengers?), and I think I have an answer.
It's not actually an urgent issue since it can probably stay unresolved until Avengers 5, which won't be for some time. That means newer characters should be considered since they could be ready for the position by the time they are needed.
Such as a particular character who once lead the team in the comics: Monica Rambeau
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Yeah, imo a feeling that the world is still happening when the cameras aren't rolling and the heroes are still doing things offscreen - to the point where Noodle Incident isn't even strictly needed for the audience to think about it - is a big thing they're only now just starting to work towards in the MCU.
They probably could've gotten there earlier, but imo they did a lot less branching out in Phase 2 than they should have.
@Gaon: I mean the MCU is kinda already there: Black Panther never got involved until Civil War between Wakandan isolationism and T'Challa only becoming Black Panther on T'Chaka's death, The Ancient One was helping with the Battle of New York but only to the extent of protecting the Sanctum, Captain Marvel pulls off two Big Damn Heroes entrances because she was elsewhere when the action started, and Spidey's plucked to help stop "the Elementals" because he's the only one active then and there (discounting any strings pulled from Beck's side).
For the Eternals if the series really is inspired by Gaiman's mini as rumored/theorized then it'd most likely pull said mini's Identity Amnesia as a wave to Hand Wave their lack of presence so far. If not that I think the earlier mentioned idea of Blue-and-Orange Morality where they essentially regard humans like Sapient Pets until Thanos happened could work as well.

Beautifully shot trailer. Hard to say what the movie is actually about precisely, but that's not too uncommon for the initial teaser.
I do suspect that the reason the Eternals have remained illusive, and why they have stopped doing so, will be a major point of conflict.
Also I the vibe I get from the trailer is less "aliens built the pyramids" and more "aliens subtlety helped humanity to realize the pyramids could be built". Which I think is an important distinction.