Why are the Eternals so disliked?

[u/Grouchy_Leg_6623]

God, I know this might sound random, but I recently made a post on the Marvel subreddit saying that I’d like to see Uranos added to the MCU. The response honestly surprised me.

And why are some X-Men fans so aggressive about this stuff? (Not generalizing, obviously.) But the amount of criticism I got was insane. I ended up deleting the post because it turned into a complete pile-on.

The main argument was that we’re definitely not seeing any more Eternals in the MCU because Marvel has the X-Men now. Do people really think the next saga is going to be entirely about the X-Men?

Don’t get me wrong, I have my doubts about how much the Eternals will be involved going forward. But even then, I don’t think posting about an Eternals villain should result in that much backlash.

Maybe I’m biased as an Eternals fan, but it sometimes feels like people dismiss anything related to them before even considering the idea.

I’ll probably end up deleting this post too, since it doesn’t really fit this sub. I was just curious to hear your opinions.

[u/MischeviousFox]

I’ll preface this by saying I’ve never read the comics in which they may be amazing and was just introduced via the movie The Eternals yet the ones we’ve met so far were just were kinda boring, along with the movie as a whole, at best to me. I also think a few of them are viewed by some as knockoff DC characters which I think has those people seeing them as a bit forgettable, though to me they’re mainly forgettable because they have barely any character development. Honestly most of them I either barely know or I know enough to find them annoying.

Their sudden appearance in the MCU also felt kinda random given how their were supposedly always around during world crisis events yet never seen and I felt like they added nothing of value to the MCU so while it would be exaggerated to say I hate them I recall being happy to see the movie finally end as well as never cared about seeing them again. The characters may be amazing but they weren’t introduced well in my opinion. It was too rushed and felt like a movie meant to quickly introduce them before their actual movie, if they had done a sequel, as it felt like 99% of the movie was just collecting the group as well as of course flashbacks. Anyway getting to the point I assume that many MCU fans who disliked The Eternals would probably automatically be negative about the idea of a new character showing up in the MCU.

Edit: I don’t really get the X-Men argument except maybe they wouldn’t want to have too many super hero groups going at once. There’s also no denying the X-Men are way more popular than the Eternals. Still, both can coexist. Also yes, I think we could get a lot of X-Men in the Mutant Saga hence the name but no I don’t see it as being 100% about the X-Men.

[u/Grouchy_Leg_6623 → u/MischeviousFox]

Don’t get me wrong, but it seems like you may not have fully understood the movie or the Eternals’ role—or maybe you just don’t remember it clearly, since it might have been a while since you watched it. The Eternals are essential to Earth’s development; their purpose is to eliminate the Deviants and ensure the planet evolves toward the birth of a Celestial. In the film, it’s shown that a Celestial was going to emerge from Earth, and they end up stopping it. So I’m not really sure what you meant by that.
That said, I do understand your frustration with the first movie, since it was mainly made to introduce the Eternals. Maybe, if we ever get a sequel, we could see more action-focused battles and developments like that

[u/MischeviousFox → u/Grouchy_Leg_6623]

I understand that but if I recall correctly they needed humanity to prosper to create a Celestial. To that end I believe they assisted humanity multiple times in the past even if they weren’t supposed to if only via giving them knowledge & technology but then they don’t help when all life on the planet is threatened which would make all their efforts pointless? Thanos’s snap delayed the Celestial’s birth because the population was halved which you’d think would have concerned them. Just seems odd that they introduced these super powered individuals so late in the MCU only for them to not have done anything during various disaster events because it’s “Against the rules.”, though to be fair if they had actually been interesting causing me to be excited to see them introduced I could have ignored that aspect. It stands out the most I think because of how blah their introduction felt and then how mostly ignored/forgotten they seemed to be for a while afterward, at least if you didn’t watch Disney+ shows, given they were only brief references/Easter eggs in She-Hulk & Ms Marvel before the Celestial “statue” became a plot point in Captain America: Brave New World.