Released in 2021, The Eternals divided opinions. Some fans really liked Chloé Zhao's film while others largely criticized it. One thing is certain, it is that the Marvel film ends on a cliffhanger which has not yet been exploited. For what ? To what extent will it be exploited? And especially when? We answer all your questions:
The Eternals : a rather successful opus
The Eternalsit was a pretty amazing project. Already, because Marvel Studios chose Chloe Zhao to realization. This 41-year-old Chinese director has distinguished herself through brilliant feature films, but more geared towards a more demanding audience. She particularly became known to the general public in 2020, when her excellent Nomadland is thrown into the spotlight. Afterwards, The Eternalsit's a Marvel film that breaks out of the box since it presents a whole new team of superheroes. New characters, whose trajectories are, for some, totally unexpected.
The Eternals was overall a brave movieat least on the scale of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). On the box office side, the feature film grossed more than $402 million recipe. A somewhat disappointing score for Marvel Studios, which has still not made official immediately. However, Chloé Zhao left us with a major cliffhanger. A cliffhanger which has never been exploited since, and whose outcome remains uncertain.
A cliffhanger that will remain without outcome?
The plot of The Eternals concluded with a pretty crazy cliffhanger. After saving the Earth from then another Celestial came to Earth to punish the Eternals. Indeed, the latter prevented an emergence by rebelling against the power in place. Unfortunately, at the end of Chloé Zhao's film, Arishem the Judge arrives on our planet, and kidnaps certain Eternals. The Celestial threatens the safety of the planet and promises to return to repair the failure of He keeps
However, since this cliffhanger, no consequences occurred. An immense Celestial came out of the Pacific Ocean, another appeared in the sky, but no one talks about it, as if these events had never happened. As of 2021, virtually no mention of this emergence has been referenced. And we wonder when Marvel Studios will exploit this plot.
Captain America : Brave New World should address the Tiamut subject. It is even rumored that Sam Wilson could go to the corpse of the Celestial. The series What If… ? also addresses this question through two episodes. Firstly in episode 2 of season 3in which Agatha Harkness prevents the emergence and confronts Arishem. Then, in episode 5 of season 3 where, in an alternate reality, Tiamut successfully completed his mission and destroyed Earth. But apart from these two references, the events of The Eternals had no impact on the Marvel Universe.
At present, we do not yet know when Arishem will return to Earth to carry out his punishment. But perhaps the coming of the Celestial could be the starting point of Avengers : Secret Wars. After all, in the comics Jonathan Hickmana collision of two universes causes the modification of reality, and creates a single world composed of these two universes. In the MCU, maybe Arishem could be responsible for this collision. To be continued!
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