Thanos Accidentally Proved One of Marvel's Most Hated Villains is a Hero
Warning! This article contains spoilers for Eternals: The Heretic #1
Druig is one of the most hated villains in the Marvel Universe as he has shown time and again to be an untrustworthy snake who only cares about his own self-interest, however, Thanos just proved that Druig is actually a hero. Druig is an Eternal who, like all others, is nearly immortal and possesses complete control over his molecular structure, and is powered by cosmic energy. While many of the other Eternals have proven themselves to be selfless and heroic, Druig has time and again proven that he is not, though new information that Thanos brought to light would suggest otherwise.
In Eternals: The Heretic #1 by Kieron Gillen, Ryan Bodenheim, and Edgar Salazar, Thanos has become the Prime Eternal and therefore leader of the immortal race of superpowered beings. Now that he is in charge, Thanos was guided through his ancestral history by Druig who brought the Mad Titan to meet someone even more ruthless than Thanos himself. When Thanos was face-to-face with Uranos, the Eternal who once plotted the demise of the entire planet Earth and had since been imprisoned for his crimes, fans learn that Druig is actually the hero no one knew he could be.
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Six hundred thousand years ago, Uranos was just like any other Eternal on Earth, charged by their Celestial overlords to rid the world of excess deviants so that life on the planet could evolve into what it is today. Uranos grew weary of doing nothing with his life except eliminating evolutionary mistakes, so he decided that the only logical course of action would be to eliminate all life on the planet, thereby freeing the Eternals of
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