The Marvel Cinematic Universe continues its expansion and at the core of the current Phase 4 is the multiverse, but the MCU has already seen other major events, such as those in Eternals – however, Phase 4 has already turned the ending of Eternals into a giant MCU plot hole. The original Avengers team is now over, but that doesn’t mean the MCU has been left without superhero teams, as there are the Guardians of the Galaxy, and Phase 4 introduced the Eternals, who turned out to be the oldest team in the MCU.
Directed by Chloé Zhao, Eternals introduced the title team, whose members were created by the Celestial Arishem and sent to Earth centuries ago to protect it from the Deviants, their evil counterparts. After getting rid of the Deviants, the Eternals stayed on Earth and helped humanity evolve, but they weren’t allowed to interfere in their conflicts. The real reason for that was revealed to the surviving team members centuries later: the Eternals went sent to Earth to prepare it for the birth of another Celestial, Tiamut, who would emerge from the center of the Earth. With the help of the “Uni-Mind”, Sersi (Gemma Chan) stopped Tiamut’s emergence and saved the world, but that’s not the only big event in Eternals.
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The presence of the Eternals in the MCU should change this universe’s history (past, present, and future), but Marvel has left them aside as well as the two biggest moments from their movie: the failed emergence of Tiamut, which left his head and part of his hand in the middle of the ocean, and the sudden arrival of Arishem to take Sersi, Kingo (Kumail Nanjiani), and Phastos (Brian Tyree Henry) with him, and so the MCU has turned
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