The Marvel Cinematic Universe is all set to bring a slew of new live-action superheroes and villains to lay the road map to its future. They got none other than the likes of Angelina Jolie, Kit Harrington, Salma Hayek, Kumail Nanjiani, and Richard Madden to lead the new batch of A-list Hollywood stars to join phase four.

The Eternals will introduce a new race of mysterious heroes created by the legendary Jack Kirby to the Marvel cinematic universe. After a brief switch to DC, he made The Fourth World and New Gods, Jack Kirby returned to Marvel and invented The Eternals.

Introducing the Eternals

In the comic books, The Eternals are a race of subhumans created by the Celestials as part of their early human experiments. The experiments also ended up creating an unwanted genetic offshoot of creatures who became known as the Deviants.

The Deviants have been the titular antagonists of the Eternals and are largely considered in comic book history as a threat to humanity.

The Eternals lived in obscurity on Earth for centuries until one accident involving cosmic energies destroyed their city and rendered them immortal. Since they evolved as a powerful branch of life on Earth, the Eternals took up protecting humankind.

Movie adaptation

The movie will follow these lines and pitch them against the Deviants, but there are several changes to be seen in the cinematic retelling of this narrative. The Eternals were created close on the heels of Jack Kirby’s exit from DC and shared similarities with DC’s New Gods, so the two cosmic families have been compared to each other.

While The Eternals movie will hit theaters in 2021, a DC film centered around the New Gods is also in the works. So what are the Eternals all about, and how can they fit into the MCU?

While the movie is expected to be more or less align with the comic book storyline, the MCU is already making changes to the on-screen version.

Salma Hayek has been cast as the gender-swap version of Ajak, and Ajak will be seen as the Eternals leader instead of Zuras, who is associated with that role. Marvel has also been tight-lipped on how they will portray the Deviants. The comics have established them as humanity’s enemies, but the MCU may attempt to recalibrate this perception and give their narrative a new spin.

The Eternals also have the potential to revisit Thanos’ comic book origins as the son of Eternal parents who carries a Deviant gene.

The movie can usher in a wealth of new information about the Marvel Cinematic Universe as their connection to humanity almost goes back to its inception. There are four broad groups of these Celestial descendants: the Olympian, Polar, Uranian, and Titanian Eternals.

Fans are excited about how MCU can fit all of the storylines in the movie and its sequels to connect them to phase 1 to 3 of the Marvel movies starring other comic book superheroes.

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