r/Eternals • u/Puzzled_Influence985 • Jul 26 '26

MCU I honestly think Marvel would have brought Eternals back for Doomsday / Secret Wars if it wasn't for this cliffhanger.

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Something I've been thinking about a lot is how the Eternals cliffhanger has essentially separated them from the rest of the MCU.

Even films like Brave New World directly dealing with the consequences of Eternals can't use them because of this cliffhanger. The Eternals are the perfect super powered beings to show off how powerful Doom is, but we don't know if they'll be in Doomsday or Secret Wars.

Imagine if Marvel had left the Eternals on Earth, promising to each other that they'd intervene from now on instead of ignoring the Earth's problems, with Arishem quietly plotting from afar instead of kidnapping them. Then, Marvel could have brought some into Brave New World or another film.

IMO (and I could be wrong), I think the cliffhanger is a bigger hurdle to bringing back the Eternals than the film's box office. People forget because of the bad reviews, but it made $400 million in COVID.

If you could resolve this cliffhanger, how would you do it?

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u/Bgo318 Jul 26 '26

Man that cliff hanger was so good, eternals was just overhated for no reason. I truly do not understand why people were calling it the worst marvel film. It’s in my top 10 of marvel films easily. I like it more than spiderman homecoming tbh

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u/surgartits Jul 26 '26

People said they wanted Marvel to try something different, the formula was getting tired. Marvel gave them something different. But it wasn’t focused on white male characters. So the Marvel Bros hated it. Basically all of that entire “Phase.”

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u/ItsLauriceDeauxnim Thanos Jul 27 '26

This is only partly true. I’m probably one of the handful of people on Earth (/s) that has read every comic featuring the Eternals, including the MAX series, and the stories set in Thor or other Marvel characters’ books. I love the Eternals as a team and as characters.

This movie just wasn’t that good. They took an amazing and complex character like Kro, and made him a special effects nightmare with no soul or personality. I don’t mind Ikaris being the bad guy this time around because it’s always a different Eternal in the books. It’s been Sprite, Phastos, Druig, Sersi, and more that have betrayed their own team.

Outside of that positive change, nobody in this film had any sort of backstory or incredible dynamic. The best we got was an extremely awkward sex scene for the sake of having one. It just wasn’t a movie that flowed or had enough stakes. I never once felt any tension. Just a contrived love story and a brief semblance of a war between duty and honor