Eternals' Sprite Transformation Is So Much More Disturbing in Comics
Like other Eternals, Sprite is immortal and as such has the ability to regenerate and transform. The recent MCU film has her change into a human, but the comics offer a much more twisted fate for the character. Despite being a million years old, Sprite is stuck as a child, and because of this the other Eternals can't help but treat them as such. Sprite wants nothing more than to be able to grow up.
At the end of the movie, Sersi grants Sprite her wish and transforms her into a human, allowing her to mature and live as an adult. This comes after the Eternals form the Uni-Mind, deactivate the Celestial Tiamut and prevent the Celestial Emergence. This transformation was done a lot easier in the movie than it would have been in the comics. She didn't have to die, and she didn't have her memory altered. Unfortunately for her comic book counterpart, things aren't that simple.
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Sprite starts out as a male in the comics, and he has the same dream of growing up but is much more deceiving in how he goes about it. In the Eternals series by Neil Gaiman and Jogn Romita Jr., Sprite uses the power of the Dreaming Celestial to wipe the memories of the other Eternals, making them think that they are humans, and thus he would be free to live and grow as one. This backfired when they all died and were reborn. Sprite was resurrected as a female, her memories were wiped, and she was imprisoned by the Celestials. After being freed in Eternals: Thanos Rises #1 by Kieron Gillen and Dustin Weaver, Sprite reflects on what she can remember of her past lives, saying «I’m glad for the reset. I suspect I was turning a teensy bit bitter.»
It seems that Sprite is getting more
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