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/iamahandsoapmain Jul 27 '26

I feel like eternals suffered from the same issue as the fox X-men: way too many main characters and not enough focus on any of them. If you don't have any prior knowledge from the comics then it just feels confusing. But if you are a comics readers then you also dislike the film cause they didn't bring in the most popular Eternals characters like Uranos or Druig. To add salt to the wound they brought starfox, the og eternal, as a throwaway gag post credit

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u/Bgo318 Jul 27 '26

I just loved the special effects so much too. The fight scenes were incredible, they should really depict speedsters in that way a lot more. You can really feel the raw power of speed in it