DID ICARUS DIE ETERNALS MOVIE

Thena (Angelina Jolie) occasionally loses control and tries to kill allies because she's afflicted by Mahd Wy'ry (pronounced like 'mad weary'), an illness caused by wiped memories returning. Their memories are wiped after each Emergence, and they're sent off to a new planet to do it all again. The Eternals believe they're from the world of Olympia, but they're actually synthetic beings created by the Celestials at the World-Forge and sent to wipe out the Deviants (meaning one creation was sent to stop another). The concept was used in the 1999 comic book storyline Earth-X, which takes place in nasty dystopian version of the Marvel Universe.ĭeviants were originally sent to planets to kill predators and allow life to spread so there'd be sufficient energy for the Celestials to emerge, but they went out of control and slaughtered indiscriminately. That world is destroyed in the process, which seems a bit rude.Ĭelestials like Arishem aren't too bothered about the survival of the human race. The energy of living beings allows the Celestial to grow and ultimately break out of their planetary shells, a moment known as the Emergence. New Celestials - ancient, god-like entities with incredible matter and energy manipulation abilities - are created by seeding planets and allowing life to flourish on that world. If you just want to know what happens in the ending, scroll straight down to the 'Emergence averted' section.Īfter wise leader Ajak (Salma Hayek) is killed by the Deviants, Sersi (Gemma Chan) is elevated to the role of Prime Eternal and the Celestial Arishem reveals the real nature of the group's mission on Earth in one of the movie's slightly overwhelming plot dumps.

DID ICARUS DIE ETERNALS MOVIE

This is a complicated one, so let's take a look at the revelations earlier in the movie to make sense of it all. It's time to get into the cosmic ending, here come the SPOILERS.

We'll also have a separate article diving into the post-credits scenes, if you want to jump straight to those. The movie takes place after Avengers: Endgame, when billions of vanished people returned after a five-year absence and the world is suddenly feeling pretty crowded.

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