[FILM] Eternals

[Ihavewaffles]

It’s called a teaser.

to get us interested instead of saying meh?..

images might be a little big..but a glimpse of something like that would have given this a lot more hype

[Ophenia]

Why or how would they even be keeping tabs on them? They’ve been on Earth for thousands of years but a few of the stones never reached the planet till Thanos brought them. Thanos also had to have a custom built item created to even be able to harness the power of all the stones together and facilitate the snap, which is something else that wouldn’t be common knowledge. The Black Order was only on earth for minutes before apparently retreating and the whole battle of Wakanda took only a couple hours at most, so how would the Eternals have intervened?

Well first, half the stones were on Earth... For something that is universe-changing, that's definitely worth keeping an eye on.
Second, there has been an Earth invasion 8 years before Infinity War's events, including the active effects of two Stones. Then, the Reality Stone has had very very intense and visible effects during Thor : The Dark World.

We also had Dormammu who was on the verge of bringing the Void on Earth.

After that ? Ego tried to eat the Earth and most planets in the universe, that's probably something that the Eternals should have tried to stop. In fact it stopped thanks to some Earthling who was the child of a Celestial, and who was able to wield the Power Stone for some time, which is something that apparently all the universe knew at that point.

... And then, Asgard poof'ed out of existence, and a freaking spaceship arrives at New York. That's still nothing to be wary of ?

But no problem, Infinity War happened, quite fast indeed, half of the universe was snapped for 5 years. And then, Thanos is back, with this time the will to eradicate everything, still Eternals nowhere to be found

I honestly have no idea what kind of events would make the Eternals move, given that they have not cared about any single planet- or universe-ending events for the last few years.
Guess we'll see, but they will need a very strong explanation. Sometimes suspension of disbelief will not do all the job.

[Syegfryed]

one of the explanations i heard off is how one of then can manipulate their minds/erase minds, so they might now know they are eternals and are living like normal mortals

this time, something will happen and they will recover their memories.

Also, as side note, shouldn't half of the eternals be erased with the snap as well?

[SavoirFaire]

Also, as side note, shouldn't half of the eternals be erased with the snap as well?

Nothing like half of a race of centuries old? Millennia old immortals vanishing to make them start getting involved.

[Adamas102]

Well first, half the stones were on Earth... For something that is universe-changing, that's definitely worth keeping an eye on.
Second, there has been an Earth invasion 8 years before Infinity War's events, including the active effects of two Stones. Then, the Reality Stone has had very very intense and visible effects during Thor : The Dark World.

We also had Dormammu who was on the verge of bringing the Void on Earth.

After that ? Ego tried to eat the Earth and most planets in the universe, that's probably something that the Eternals should have tried to stop. In fact it stopped thanks to some Earthling who was the child of a Celestial, and who was able to wield the Power Stone for some time, which is something that apparently all the universe knew at that point.

... And then, Asgard poof'ed out of existence, and a freaking spaceship arrives at New York. That's still nothing to be wary of ?

But no problem, Infinity War happened, quite fast indeed, half of the universe was snapped for 5 years. And then, Thanos is back, with this time the will to eradicate everything, still Eternals nowhere to be found

I honestly have no idea what kind of events would make the Eternals move, given that they have not cared about any single planet- or universe-ending events for the last few years.
Guess we'll see, but they will need a very strong explanation. Sometimes suspension of disbelief will not do all the job.

Only the Tesseract (Space) and Eye of Agamotto (Time) were on Earth for extended periods of time (pre-MCU timeline). The Mind Stone was only brought to Earth when Loki was given it, and the Reality Stone was briefly active in Jane before being taken off world again. And of course the Power and Soul stones were never on Earth till Thanos ported in for a few minutes. So again, why would you assume the Eternals even COULD track all of them? We don't know the state the stones were in when the Eternals settled on Earth, so for all we know they were not something that needed to be kept track of thousands of years before they started popping up and Thanos started collecting them.

The events in all of these movies (from the Chituari, to Dormammu, to Ultron, etc) are very short bursts of action, and until the snap all of them are dealt with pretty effectively by the heroes that were immediately present at the time. So you're assuming that the Eternals are constantly tapped into news feeds from all around the world AND somehow always close enough to assist?

Perhaps they even were somehow involved (like how we saw with the Ancient One during the Chituari invasion of NY in Endgame), and it just happened off screen. Maybe they did move to intervene in these events but things were all over by the time they arrived. So who's to say they DIDN'T care?

[Kokolums]

Maybe they did move to intervene in these events but things were all over by the time they arrived. So who's to say they DIDN'T care?

Hahaha.

You make it sound like they didn't have enough bus fare, went home and rummaged through their drawers for a couple of quarters, went back to the bus stop, caught a bus, and finally arrived but oh sorry it was all over.

[Svifnymr]

Hahaha.

You make it sound like they didn't have enough bus fare, went home and rummaged through their drawers for a couple of quarters, went back to the bus stop, caught a bus, and finally arrived but oh sorry it was all over.

"We were going to save the Earth, but Fred's alarm clock didn't go off, and Jim forgot to charge his phone last night. But next time, we will be there!"

[Adamas102]

Hahaha.

You make it sound like they didn't have enough bus fare, went home and rummaged through their drawers for a couple of quarters, went back to the bus stop, caught a bus, and finally arrived but oh sorry it was all over.

Well, yeah kinda lol. Do all of them have the ability to fly or teleport to the opposite side of the planet within an hour? Most of the Avengers wouldn’t be able to do so without knowing what was going down ahead of time. Most of these big movie moments would give someone 15-120 minutes to learn about what was going on and get to the right place to do something.

[Shadowferal]

Before everybody gets an upgrade...

[Ophenia]

Well, yeah kinda lol. Do all of them have the ability to fly or teleport to the opposite side of the planet within an hour? Most of the Avengers wouldn’t be able to do so without knowing what was going down ahead of time. Most of these big movie moments would give someone 15-120 minutes to learn about what was going on and get to the right place to do something.

Well, these events happened in New York, London, Sokovia, Wakanda, and ... Hong-Kong (? little doubt here). None of them lived somewhere around these places ?

As you said we'll see in November. There can be a very logical explanation, I only hope they won't go the route of just not mentioning anything.

[Adamas102]

Well, these events happened in New York, London, Sokovia, Wakanda, and ... Hong-Kong (? little doubt here). None of them lived somewhere around these places ?

As you said we'll see in November. There can be a very logical explanation, I only hope they won't go the route of just not mentioning anything.

Yeah, if there is zero explanation that would be a pretty big (and pretty uncharacteristic) failure on the part of the MCU. It's not like there haven't been plot holes and inconsistencies before, but they're always fairly small. Plus they do really like keeping everything connected.

[Biomega]

There can be a very logical explanation, I only hope they won't go the route of just not mentioning anything.

Seems unlikely they wouldn't mention it, given the direct references to events like Tony Stark's death and Captain America's disappearance. We'll see what they come up with, but from the teaser it seems virtually certain there will be SOME explanation.

[PACOX]

After reading up on the Externals, I less on the "well where the hell were they when Thanos attacked" train, but their story is kind of boring. I don't think the MCU will do too much backstory on them. They could serve as the catalyst for more 'extraordinary' Marvel characters. Not sure if they need their own movie because the MCU short of gives us condensed versions of comic stories, so you could in theory introduce them in another characters story. I'm more open to the movie though.

[Daronokk]

Marvel is dead. They're too busy with tokenism to actually focus on making a good movie.

[Ophenia]

Latest trailer, with a freaking Celestial (I don't know if they all look the same, but it resembles the one we see in GotG)
You can say I'm hyped now

At least it also replies to the "Where the fuck were they during Thanos' shenanigans" question, even though that answer was expected

[PACOX]

Glad they stayed closed to the 616 version. Hoping this is just sort of a side movie, The Eternals: A MCU Story or something. A gap closer or non-reoccurring characters. It looks like it was shot a little different.

Now that its too big of a reveal. The Celestials run experiments on planets, they seed life. The Eternals and Deviants are charged with watching over a planet but never interfering until the Celestials return. The Celestials return under to 'cleanse' planets, 'checkup/judge' planets, and sometimes they are just tired of the experiment. Earth's heroes killing Thanos would trigger a return of the Celestials, so also the reveal of the Eternals. It would also mean that the Deviants will see it as an opportunity to show - the Deviants have their own thing. Another thing to note is that Thanos is an Eternal and a Deviant. The Eternals of the comics sort fear Thanos so maybe that translates to the MCU. Either way just killing Thanos regardless of the Infinity War is a big deal. Ultimately the event is sort of the point in Earth's timeline where Earth becomes more important on the cosmic scale. Where Earth's heros and the kind of heroes that come of out of Earth are boosted, as when the Earth attracts a lot more cosmic attention.

[Shadowferal]

Expectations ticked a bit higher.

[cocomen2]

D:"Main character is sexy guy from GoT, ye"
P:"But we spend all money on him, who gonna play other characters?"
D:"Jim, its 2021 we can put so many ugly and fat actors in superhero movie as we can"
P:"But people expect to see X-men level of cast"
D:"Nah, we just need one sexy dude to jbait them spend money on cinema"

[Shadowferal]

[Ihavewaffles]

Eternals had their world premiere so spoilers are being shared. Beware if you don’t want to be spoiled.

I doubt anyone would mind, dude.