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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
And here are the other known powers.
Ikaris: One of the most powerful Eternals, with the ability to fly and shoot beams of light from his eyes.
Kingo: Bollywood star and also has the power to manipulate energy with his hands. "To capture Kingo's joyful, effortless fight style, he went back and watched old Errol Flynn movies and some of the original Zorro films — "just a lot of old school Hollywood stars whose characters really enjoyed fighting.""
Sprite: No mention of her abilities.
Phastos: A brilliant inventor with a mind for creating weapons and technology.
Makkari: Super-fast, doesn't skip leg day.
Druig: The ability to manipulate other people's thoughts. Yeah that sounds kinda evil.
Gilgamesh: Extremely powerful and the strongest warrior of Eternals. Prefers to use his fists in battle, often taking out enemies with a single punch.
Ajak: Stoic and powerful leader, who also has the ability to heal.
Thena: "The acrobatic Thena is one of the group's elite warriors, and she can manifest weapons out of thin air.
Edited by slimcoder on Aug 18th 2021 at 10:32:10 AM
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."I don't why but I feel Phastos being the mechanic might means he die first.
Generally how thse stories begin is the with the death of the one of the "unkillable Gods" kickstarting a murder mystery that leads to more death.
Edited by slimcoder on Aug 18th 2021 at 10:45:14 AM
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."I guess several of them will die and Ikaris is the secret Big Bad. Druig is way too obvious for a villain.
Edited by Asherinka on Aug 18th 2021 at 8:58:44 PM
Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous.I dunno, has Disney really been doing Bury Your Gays? A lot of Word of Gay, yes, but they're always heroic and live to the end because Disney is performatively woke enough not to toe over that particular line. They'd rather minimize them than remove them.
My money's on Druig being a Red Herring, or at least not the Big Bad of this film. I think this film's main villain is going to be Sprite.
Not only because of (spoilers for a comic run from a decade and a half ago) Neil Gaiman's Eternals miniseries, but because Sprite's whole schtick is that they are eternally a child. Which is hard to do when you have a real-life actor playing them who is inevitably going to age up. Obviously digital deaging is a thing, but... dunno.
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Right, Ikaris just really feels like your standard white leader guy. I keep thinking hes gonna bite it early.
Actually the Eternals do have a resurrective immortality thing going on. Wonder how thats gonna play into this. Maybe the bad guy somehow shuts it off putting the Eternals at risk of Final Death.
Edited by slimcoder on Aug 18th 2021 at 11:14:00 AM
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There really is no Ikaris/Sersei in the comics.
Sersei and Whitman however have a classic comics convoluted love story: he's interested in her and another woman, Sersei looks like she's going crazy but this is an elaborate plan by a villain, said villain is an alternate self version of Whitman himself. That sort of thing.
I expect this to be a little neater. I actually wonder how much, if any, action Whitman will see here.
The recent Eternals series might have some clues, as it also does a murder mystery
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"Non-sentient matter" is a weird way of putting it. So she can manipulate anything non-living, and also plants, too?