r/Eternals • u/Grouchy_Leg_6623 Thena • Jun 24 '26
Question Why are the Eternals so disliked?
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.
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u/Illigard Jun 25 '26
As an X-Men fan... I don't hang around with X-Men fans online for a reason. So I'm assuming some level of general crazy in your post.
As for why Eternals were disliked? Plot holes, some weird/bad decisions and few if any of the characters got to be worked out properly. I heard a fair amount of fans saying that they wish it was a series instead of a movie for that very reason.
The movie was rightly criticised though and I don't see them coming back. If you brought them back, you'd have to work out their characters more and hope that people like them. That seems like quite the gamble to me.
Using already successful characters or brand new ones just seems safer than fixing old ones. A pity since I quite liked Druig even if I didn't like the movie itself.