46 Fun Facts About Eternals (Marvel)

Which comedian voices Pip the Troll in the mid-credits scene of Eternals?

Patton Oswalt. In 2022 he announced an Eternals sequel was coming, then admitted he had been 'catfished by the internet'.

Eternals opens with its heroes landing in 5000 BC to defend people in which ancient region?

Mesopotamia. Later, in Babylon, the team's inventor builds humans a steam engine, but is told it's too soon and makes a plow instead.

What is the name of the Eternals' starship?

Domo. At the end, Thena, Druig and Makkari fly it off to warn Eternals on other planets about the Emergences.

In Eternals' 1521 flashback, the heroes fight Deviants during the Spanish conquest of which city?

Tenochtitlan. With the Deviants apparently wiped out, Ajak released the Eternals there to go their separate ways.

Which Eternals star had already played the Kree sniper Minn-Erva in Captain Marvel?

Gemma Chan. Minn-Erva dies in that film, so Chan assumed she was done with Marvel until Kevin Feige said he'd 'love to make better use' of her.

Which Game of Thrones star plays the flying Eternal who fires cosmic beams from his eyes?

Richard Madden. Zhao modelled Ikaris on Zack Snyder's Superman in Man of Steel, which struck her as 'authentic and very real'.

In Eternals, what career does Kingo pursue to blend in on Earth?

Bollywood film star. Kumail Nanjiani, who admits he is 'not a dancer', took months of classes for Kingo's big dance number.

Which Eternal is trapped in a permanent childlike state and can project illusions?

Sprite. At the end of the film Sersi turns her human, so after thousands of years she can finally grow up.

Which Eternal is the first superhero depicted as gay in an MCU film?

Phastos. Haaz Sleiman, who plays his husband Ben, said he wanted to show 'how loving and beautiful a queer family can be'.

Lauren Ridloff's Makkari is the MCU's first what?

Deaf superhero. Lauren Ridloff was a teacher who got her big break tutoring a Broadway director in sign language, and he cast her as his lead.

Which Korean actor plays Gilgamesh, the strongest Eternal?

He pursued the part to become the first Korean superhero and used his real boxing training in the fights.

Angelina Jolie's Thena suffers from a psychological condition called what?

Mahd Wy'ry. During its episodes Thena becomes disoriented and attacks those around her, even her fellow Eternals.

How did Eternals change Ajak from the original comics?

Originally male. It was Salma Hayek who suggested playing Ajak as the Eternals' mother figure, since a mother often leads a family.

Kit Harington plays Dane Whitman, who works where?

London's Natural History Museum. Dane is about to tell Sersi a secret about his family history when she is suddenly taken into space.

What is the name of the Celestial who created the Eternals and gives them their orders?

Arishem. At the end he spares humanity for now, vowing to return and judge it through the Eternals' memories.

What was the Eternals' true mission on Earth?

To prepare it for a Celestial's birth. By protecting humans, they let the population grow big enough to power a birth that would destroy Earth.

Which Celestial does Sersi turn to stone at the end of Eternals?

Tiamut. The Eternals' first plan was for Druig to put the Celestial to sleep with his mind control, but he was unable to.

In Eternals, which city's ruins does the team's inventor weep over, blaming himself?

Hiroshima. His gifts of technology had helped humans build the atomic bomb, and he vowed never to help them again.

What is the Uni-Mind?

A link that pools all the Eternals' power. It finally works when even Ikaris, unable to kill Sersi, joins in at the last moment.

Which Deviant, voiced by Bill Skarsgård, kills Gilgamesh and is later killed by Thena?

Kro. Killing Gilgamesh lets him absorb his power, gaining a more humanoid form and the ability to speak.

In Eternals, where is the site of the Emergence?

A volcano in the Indian Ocean. Makkari tracks it down by racing around the world at superhuman speed.

Which pop star appears in Eternals' mid-credits scene as Eros, brother of Thanos?

Harry Styles. Zhao said she had kept tabs on him since his film debut in Dunkirk, and felt he made her think of Eros.

Whose uncredited voice is heard in the post-credits scene of Eternals?

Mahershala Ali. As Blade, he asks 'Sure you're ready for that, Mr. Whitman?' just as Dane reaches for the cursed Ebony Blade.

In Eternals, where has Druig been living, with a small community under his mind control?

The Amazon rainforest. He had broken away from the others to build a commune of his own, a kind of family he could protect.

Which director's films did Chloé Zhao cite as a key inspiration for Eternals?

Terrence Malick. Zhao even pitched Marvel on the visual kinship between The Tree of Life and the Final Fantasy video games.

Who wrote the 2006 Eternals miniseries drawn by John Romita Jr.?

Neil Gaiman. Planned as six issues, his run grew to seven because, his editor said, there was 'too much story to fit'.

Which non-fiction book by Yuval Noah Harari did Zhao name among her inspirations?

Sapiens. Zhao wove its story of human evolution into Marvel's mythology to imagine how alien beings would have lived alongside us for millennia.

Which comics legend created the Eternals for Marvel in 1976?

Jack Kirby. He had just come back from DC, where his similar New Gods saga was cancelled before he could finish it.

In Eternals, what were the Deviants originally created to hunt?

Apex predators. Clearing them let intelligent life develop, until the Deviants evolved and started hunting people instead.

Which film did Chloé Zhao call her primary influence for Eternals' action sequences?

The Revenant. Zhao said her team watched it at every meeting on the action sequences, since most of them were shot on location.

Which Game of Thrones composer scored Eternals?

He had scored the very first MCU film, Iron Man, in 2008.

Why did Kumail Nanjiani bulk up for Eternals?

To give a South Asian hero a Thor-like body. He had signed on for six films, a video game and a theme park ride, expecting a decade as Kingo.

In Eternals, Kingo's valet Karun is likened to which famous fictional butler?

Alfred, Batman's butler. Zhao said she took responsibility for the film's DC nods, which treat those heroes as fictional characters in the MCU.

Which carmaker built ten concept cars based on the ten Eternals to promote the film?

Lexus. The tie-in grew from an alliance Marvel and Lexus formed when several Lexus cars appeared in Black Panther.

Producer Nate Moore said Eternals takes place at the same time as which MCU film?

Spider-Man: Far From Home. Both follow the Blip's reversal, which restored enough people on Earth to set off the Emergence.

What unwelcome distinction did Eternals earn on the review aggregators?

First MCU film rated 'rotten'. Yet in 2022 it became the most-streamed Marvel film on Nielsen's chart, 13th among all movies.

Before Eternals, Chloé Zhao had been in the running to direct which other Marvel film?

Black Widow. Feige said she took herself off that list, then later approached Marvel herself as a fan to pitch Eternals.

About how much did Eternals gross at the worldwide box office?

About $400 million. It topped the US box office on its opening weekend, yet still fell short of industry projections.

Which country was Eternals' largest market outside North America?

South Korea. It opened just as the country began easing its pandemic curbs, with cinemas launching screens for the fully vaccinated.

Why didn't the Eternals step in when Thanos attacked Earth?

They could only fight Deviants. Their orders kept them out of every other conflict so humans could evolve on their own.

What happened to Eternals in China after Chloé Zhao's old criticism of the country resurfaced?

It was never released. A backlash over the remarks had already wiped references to her work from much of the Chinese internet.

Before the film, 12 Years a Slave writer John Ridley was developing the Eternals as a series for which network?

ABC. Marvel kept the property secret when the deal broke in 2015, and only years later was it revealed to be the Eternals.

How did Chloé Zhao describe the Earth's role in Eternals?

An eleventh character. To capture it, Zhao pushed Marvel to leave the blue screens behind and film on location as much as possible.

Which Chloé Zhao film was she finishing in postproduction at the same time as Eternals?

Nomadland. She landed both it and Eternals on the strength of The Rider, her acclaimed film about a real-life rodeo cowboy.

Which Stranger Things actress denied a 2019 Variety report that she had joined the Eternals cast?

Millie Bobby Brown. When Marvel formally unveiled the Eternals cast at Comic-Con later that month, she was not on it.

In Eternals, what happens to the Eternals' memories after they finish a planet's mission?

They are wiped. The Eternals are then sent to another planet to start the cycle again, unaware they have done it all before.