Three years after Eternals introduced the comic team to the MCU, Marvel has finally brought them back for a focal storyline - though this return arguably serves as an insult to the group. The Eternals hold a complex spot in the MCU, with their debut movie receiving mixed responses, and leaving some major open plot threads that have yet to be followed up on to this day. However, there is hope that the MCU timeline will bring these storylines back into the fold.
Recent history has made this seem more possible than ever, as Captain America: Brave New World"s trailer featuring the body of Tiamut - the Celestial whose emergence the Eternals stopped in order to save the Earth - has reconnected the events of Eternals to the main MCU story once more, and suggests that other upcoming Marvel movies and shows could do the same. Indeed, the MCU"s most recent release also brought the Eternals back in its plot, though this reappearance isn"t quite an epic return.
The Eternals Have Been Missing From The MCU For 3 Years Close Though Eternals saw some mixed response upon its release, the 2021 project raised a lot of interesting story avenues for the MCU. The idea that the Earth itself had been the subject of a cosmic plan that left a being of immense power lying dormant inside it - only for said being to then be killed and left with half of its body poking out of the planet"s crust - is something that seemed to change the MCU in a big way, and indeed still may with Captain America: Brave New World"s teased exploration of the storyline.
However, the titular team who starred in the project have been essentially absent from the MCU since Eternals" 2021 release. There have been some small exceptions - for example, Kingo cropping up in The Guardians Of The Galaxy Holiday Special via reference to his in-universe movies - the team hasn"t reappeared in any meaningful way, despite Eternals" ending closing on some huge notes, with half of the remaining team going off with Arishem the Judge to help decide if Arishem will destroy Earth, and the other half adventuring through space having just met Starfox, who is Thanos" brother in the comics.
What If Season 3 Brings Back The Eternals, Only To Defeat Them Easily Close What If...? season 3, episode 2 brings the Eternals" story back into the limelight, with Kingo facing off against Agatha Harkness and eventually teaming up with her in order to prevent Arishem from destroying the planet. While this premise brings the Eternals back into the public eye, the story quickly downplays the team in a major way, with Agatha revealing to Kingo that she defeated the rest of the group off-screen before the episode began, and took their powers for her own.
What If...? season 3 debuted on December 22, 2024, with episodes set to release daily until December 29, 2024.
As much as Agatha and Kingo"s dynamic on-screen together is a fun one, the fact this story comes at the price of saying the Eternals can be defeated by a single magic-user - who, while powerful, generally doesn"t appear to even be one of the franchise"s strongest - really undermines the Eternals, especially since the Eternals movie itself took care to establish them as powerful individuals and an even more powerful group. Hopefully, whenever the team"s members come back in the main MCU timeline, the franchise makes up for their most recent return being one that minimizes their importance and significance.
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8/10 10 7.1/10 Eternals Eternals is the 25th installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and is part of its fourth phase. Over 500 years ago, when the ten Eternals complete the task given to them by the Celestial Arishem to wipe out the invasive alien species known as Deviants that roam the earth, the group decides to go their separate ways as they find themselves at odds with how to continue their interactions with humanity as they grow and learn. Blending into society, the Eternals continue to live their lives in the modern day until the Deviants emerge again. When one of the Eternals is supposedly slain by a deviant, events are set in motion that will reunite them once again to discover why the Deviants have returned and what the true intentions of the Celestial have been for all these millennia. 
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