The Marvel universe’s future is suddenly in the hands of Thanos’ kid brother

polygon.com:

Eros, aka Starfox, is played by Harry Styles in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but in Marvel Comics he’s currently being played by writer Kieron Gillen and artist Valerio Schiti. In the final page of last week’s AXE: Judgment Day #3, the team revealed that the alien superhero may be key to untangling the web of consequences the Avengers, X-Men, and Eternals have all gotten themselves into in Marvel Comics’ summer crossover.

This is a pretty typical final page reveal of an event comic. Oooooh, this obscure character might have the ultimate relevance! Turn in next month to find out what happens next! But here’s why I’m intrigued by it: The idea that Eros and Thanos (inspired by the Freudian concept of eros and thanatos) are truly counterparts in any way other than their shared parentage never really flew with me. Sure, Thanos’ presence in the Marvel Universe would be hard for any character to live up to, but Eros is practically a gag character. It has always seemed that “the power of love” is just less interesting and more difficult to conceptualize for comic book writers than “the power of death.”

But this isn’t any comic book writer’s idea of Eros. This is Kieron Gillen, who is all about inventive reinventions of godlike mortals, in a fast-paced story where the Avengers, X-Men, and Eternals seem to have less than 24 hours to make the good of humanity outweigh the bad before an unstoppable space god destroys the Earth.

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