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Originally Posted by Ultra Seven

Eternals teaser trailer:

I’m unenthusiastic, but your mileage may vary. Still really not feeling the costume design.

It looks interesting to me. There is a definite lack of "BANG! ZOW!" in the trailer and it does smack more of a cerebral jaunt than what might be normally expected of an MCU movie. However, the introduction of the Eternals is quite an ambitious undertaking. Their tale is one that harkens back to Earth's origins and the very development of life in the 616, while simultaneously stretching into the future in a thread that encompasses the majesty of the cosmos in the form of the Celestials. That's a whole lot of exposition to pack into one flick and the scope is one that is unfamiliar to even many an initiated Marvel Comics fan.

I can already see some familiar and clever nods that speak to the fact that the Eternals were often confused with various gods throughout antiquity. The potential for focusing on this element of their background is meaningful because it opens the tapestry up to multicultural representation, an aspect that was always a part of the mythos with characters like Ajax and Legba. For those not familiar with the Eternals, they have always been a pretty big deal in the 616 scheme of things, as are many of Kirby's contributions. Essentially he made a race of cosmic gods in a vein quite similar to his earlier Fourth World concept for DC. I was asked on the thread awhile back why I seemed to create such a distinction between even omega level mutants and the Eternals. I did so because Marvel itself established them as being elevated and a cut above. For perspective, Thanos is a Titan and the Titans were a community of Eternals that left Earth eons ago and moved to the moon orbiting Jupiter. The Eternals are essentially cousins to Thanos sharing the same baseline abilities of god-like powers and physiology.

There are many more meticulously woven threads that touch on disparate pockets of the cosmic 616. Threads such as the Eternal's antagonistic genetic-relatives, the Deviants, and their relations to the Skrull and Dire-Wraiths. Welcome to cosmic Marvel, it can be a fascinating place if you are willing to be open minded and do some digging in the crates to follow offshoots and ancillary connections.