Thor: Ragnarok
Marvel’sThor : Ragnarokwas astonishingly full of frame-up for this year’sEternalsmovie . Marvel Studios has always had a reputation for playing the prospicient secret plan . eccentric and plot braid are fluff years in advance ; 2010’sIron Man 2 , for instance , includedEaster testis point the room to both Wakandaand Atlantis .
Marvel ’s actually been setting upEternalsfor quite a retentive time . In the comedian , the Eternals are an evolutionary offset of humanity create millennia ago by a muscular race be intimate as the Celestials . The Celestials have been featured conspicuously in theGuardians of the Galaxyfilms ; the Collector revealed that the Celestials once used the Power Stone to judge entire worlds and civilisation , Knowhere is the severed head of a Celestial , andGuardians of the Galaxy Vol . 2introduced Ego as the last of the Celestials .
link : Eternals Could Reveal the Origin Story of Knowhere
All that setup is pretty obvious to anyone who ’s familiar with the comics . But what ’s broadly been overlooked , however , is the fact thatThor : Ragnarokwas packed withEternalsEaster eggs as well . In visual damage , the located blueprint was a homage to fabled artist Jack Kirby , the human being responsible for creating the Eternals . And it featured a surprising bit of nods to the Celestials - so many that they just have to be intentional .
The Planet Sakaar Was Littered With Celestial Corpses
Thor : Ragnaroksaw the God of Thunder knocked off form while traveling through the Bifrost , and he scent up ground on the junkyard satellite of Sakaar . According to a Sakaar estimator , this human beings " lives on the border of the known and strange . It is the collection point for all confused and unloved thing . " It seems Sakaar is at the center of attention of a mesh of wormholes that crisscross the entire extragalactic nebula , some of which are actually found on Earth ; the Hulk had unwittingly flown an Avengers Quinjet through one . It ’s unclear whether Sakaar ’s wormhole connection was a raw phenomenon , or whether it was engineered . What is unclouded , though , is that Sakaar has been profoundly determine by the Celestials . accord to the Marvel Studios Visual Dictionary , the surface of Sakaar is littered with part of Celestial clay .
That immediately raises the hypothesis Sakaar was once a heavenly stronghold . InGuardians of the Galaxy , the Collector suggested the Infinity Stones were originally cosmic force out that survived from the previous population . They were " forge into concentrated ingots " by nameless beings , and many MCU viewer have speculated the Celestials were the 1 who did this . for certain the Celestials have been linked to two of the Infinity Stones , withVormirdescribed as " the center of heavenly existence " by Nebula inAvengers : Endgameand an ancient heavenly evince using the Power Stone inGuardians of the Galaxy . If they also possessed the Space Stone , then they ’d surely be able to use it to produce permanent and enduring wormhole across the cosmos , just asOdin used it to repair the Bifrost . It ’s therefore potential Sakaar serve as a base for the Celestials , who travel across the stars with ease thanks to the wormholes .
The Grandmaster’s Guards Look Like Celestials
Whatever the truth may be , the Marvel Studios Visual Dictionary distinctly establishes some variety of explicit nexus betweenThor : Ragnarok ’s Sakaar and the Celestials . That urinate some of the costume design particularly interesting , because they cite the Celestials . The most prominent exemplar are the Grandmaster ’s guard , whose armor is visibly Celestial in blueprint . The helmets in particular are reminiscent of a Celestial discover Ziran the Teser ; in the comic , he subject living being to a series of psychometric test so as to assess the constancy of their genetic sequences . Ziran was put in in 1977’sEternals#19 , where he was targeted by the mad Eternal Druig .
link : Guardians Of The Galaxy 2 provide Eternals To Make A heavenly Change From The Comics
But why did theGrandmaster ’s guard look like Celestials ? In the run - up toThor : Ragnarok ’s exit , there was hypothesis they could actuallybeCelestials . That seems unconvincing , however , given they did n’t manifest such cosmic power . A more sensible explanation would be that the Grandmaster had run across the organic structure of the Space Gods , and was impressed by them . Thus he dress his guards in Celestial dress in rescript to show himself as greater than even the gods . That would suit his self-importance .
Thor: Ragnarok Also Had An Eternals Spaceship
Thor : Ragnarokhadone more ethereal Easter egg . One key scene in Act 2 ascertain the God of Thunder pursued by the Grandmaster ’s forces . Valkyrie is forced to facilitate him scat by jump from ship to ship , sabotaging and destroy them . Although it ’s sluttish to miss , in the setting there ’s a Celestial spaceship lifted unbent fromEternals#2 . In the strip , this watercraft is piloted by Arishem , one of the most significant Celestials , who led several of their visits to Earth . He judged Earth millennia ago , and was personally responsible for for the Great Cataclysm that sank the continent of Lemuria - the basis for the legend of the Flood and Atlantis .
The scale seems to be very different , however ; in the comics , the ship was a massive vas , whereas in the movie it appear to be of normal size of it . But that should n’t come as much of a surprise;Guardians of the Galaxy Vol . 2revealed the MCU ’s Celestials are very different to the strip . lector will be conversant with the Celestials as mammoth " Space Gods " who loom over the globe like a colossus , but in the MCU the Celestials are DOE organism who miss a lasting physical figure . They can habituate sheer force of will to create bodies for themselves , which think they could be as large or as small as they care . That neatly explicate why a Celestial ship could be low , while the severed question of a Celestial could still be large enough to become the mining governing body of Knowhere .
There ’s a good sense in which Marvel ’s involvement in the Eternals is something of a surprisal ; the knock-down quasi - human beings have never exactly been an A - leaning enfranchisement . In fact , while they were created by the legendary Jack Kirby , the Eternals ' comic soon wound up close down due to want of sales . Still , a close examen ofThor : Ragnarokcertainly proves that Marvel Studios has been setting up the MCU ’s Eternals for a lot longer than anyone reckon . give that that ’s the case , it ’s good to assume the Eternals have n’t just been place up at a whim ; rather , they ’re a core part of Marvel ’s still - mysteriousPhase 4 design . It will be fascinating to see whether that plan includes a getting even to Sakaar , and an account of its mysterious tie-up to the Celestials .
More : The Origin Of The Celestials In The MCU
