ETERNALS: Thanos Was an Eternal, Trying to Stop The Celestials | Marvel Theory Explained

After watching Marvel's The Eternals post-credits scene with Starfox, you might be wondering if Thanos is an Eternal. In fact, when you look at the whole of the MCU and Thanos's plan to snap away half of all life, you start to see that he was actually trying to stop the celestials from emerging from across the universe.

Edited by Harriet Lengel-Enright

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[Moncriefs]

Its so weird seeing/hearing people say they didn't really like the Eternals, because I was into the movie last night lmao! I loved all of it and wished it was longer. But, Im no comic reader either, so maybe that's why

[andrewbeecroft]

I love fan theories, but Thanos was very vocal about his reasons. If he was doing it to stop the emergences, I'm sure he'd have mentioned it.

[FunkNatives]

No need to bring back Thanos, his arc and the infinity saga was good enough for him. It’s time for new characters and new arcs.

[chadcognac]

I think after phases 4 and 5 have rolled out, people will look back at Eternals more fondly.

[geniejunkie]

It does raise questions, but a retcon of the Thanos plan undercuts the performance and character of Thanos significantly. He believes what he is saying. Take that away and you damage a character that probably won't be back to repair it

[EsotericSanity]

I thought it was stated/implied that Celestials aren't born that often, like within Thanos' 1000 years of living, 2 Celestials being born seems weird, especially considering how advanced his people were and how Titan's downfall was probably like 30-50 years ago, would put both their projected births very close to each other.

Also T'chala Star Lord's Earth is about to get fucked up as no snap means no "Inspiring Miracle" means no Ajak betraying the Celestials... means Tiamut should be hatching soon.

[yoyomayne]

It doesn't make sense that Thanos knew about the emergence and didn't say it, I mean he spends a good amount of time telling certain people like Strange why he's doing what he did, that's a big ass point for him to leave out

[JGurra]

A simple thing, when Thanos was trying to retrieve the Soul Stone, Red Skull always announces the father/mother of the character in a truthfully mystical manner. Can’t exactly remember what Thanos’ parent was called but nonetheless the fact that there was someone that Red Skull said that wasn’t the Celestial surely implies that he isn’t an Eternal like all the other bred ones

[collinhawkins]

This ignores his exposition to Stark/Thor/Cap in Endgame, when upon realizing that people weren't grateful, he'd just destroy the entire universe and create a new one.

[BrokenSoulConfession]

Agreed.
I came to that realization too, after knowing the Eternals' true mission. Without Thanos' snap, not just earth, other planets would've been doomed 5 years earlier.

[dengjiaming]

this makes me think that the earthquake under the ocean in endgame was actually the cestial getting close to birth.

[ScreenCrush]

Who was the first hero to kill Thanos?

[RajBauer]

Thanos destroying the stones makes perfect sense as explained in endgame. They could retcon it but to say it didn’t sit right with you makes no sense because we knew thanos plan in the context of the story told in infinity war and endgame. I enjoy a good theory but don’t retcon the stories we have experienced to try and make your theory work lol

[Ericlfimate]

Thanos being Eternal makes sense because normal living beings can't handle even one stone while Thanos can handle 6 without any problem. How can he handled the stone without dying was my continuous question. Thanks for the video

[russrichardson]

Ryan! How was Ajak killed as an immortal? Will the ship regenerate her? The comics come down very decisively that individual Eternals never die.

[pokefan]

Question- Would the Celestials be immune to the Snap.


Specifically this way- the Snap erased half of ALL LIFE in the universe do Celestials count as Life, and if so would the snap have counted them in the Snap at random?

Or did the Celestials come FIRST and the Infinity Stones came AFTER THEM and thus they are immune?

[Son_of_a_Biscuit]

Another question I have, why is the celestial egg not tracked down by any technology on earth? this thing should've caused many earth quakes by growing all the time

[msizimchunu]

Just came from the cinema watching this movie I new I will get a great breakdown from Screen Crush

[Cwn]

I love the addition of the trivia question! Thanks for making this fun

[valentai_]

My simple guess for the Titans is that they’re simply a population of Eternals that rebelled from the Celestials and collected themselves on Titan. And from there they discovered they could breed and their population went up (this is a bit of a hole in the theory since Eternals can’t breed that much so I’m not sure how population growth would be a rising problem)

It’s possible that they refrained from traveling too much so as to stay out of the notice of the Celestials too much, which is why they didn’t notify other Eternals of their haven. That is until their planet collapsed anyways, maybe bc of some civil war, maybe a Celestial finally found them, maybe Thanos attacked.

Even though he is no liar, end of the day, dudes a straight up villain and he maybe refrained from telling the Avengers and his order everything so as to serve his one goals.

Admittedly something like that would be a bit of a cop out, but it really isn’t unrealistic to assume.