Thor: How Eternity Was Changed From The Comics
This article features spoilers for Thor: Love and Thunder.Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe has delved deeper than ever before into the cosmic side of the setting. While plenty of past movies like Guardians of the Galaxy, Thor: Ragnarok, and Captain Marvel have explored alien worlds, more recent entries have gone even deeper than that, putting the spotlight on some of Marvel’s most powerful otherworldly entities.
The Celestials, while first introduced in the Guardians of the Galaxy films, play a crucial role in the story of Eternals. Meanwhile, What If…? focuses on Uatu the Watcher, one of the most important beings in the entire multiverse. And most recently, Thor: Love and Thunder serves as the big-screen debut of a key figure in the cosmology of the Marvel Universe — though he’s very different from the version comic fans know.
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Created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, the character of Eternity first appeared in Strange Tales #138, originally published in August 1965. In that issue’s Doctor Strange story, fittingly titled “If Eternity Should Fail!”, Eternity is introduced as a mysterious and powerful entity residing in another dimension. Doctor Strange is sent to Eternity by the Ancient One, and asks him for greater power to help defeat Dormammu and Baron Mordo.
Though the exact nature of Eternity is not explained in his debut appearance, later stories would establish that he is the living embodiment of Earth-616 itself — the metaphysical personification of the universe and all life within it. As such, he wields unfathomable cosmic power, matched only by a small handful of entities across the Marvel multiverse. But because Eternity’s involvement
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