![]() ![]() After much ethical wrestling, Sersi’s faction was able to halt Tiamut’s ascension and save life on Earth - and Arishem was not too happy about it, promising to return to Earth later to judge forever whether humanity’s potential was really more valuable than one galaxy-building Celestial’s. The characters of Eternals, Sersi, Ikaris, Kingo, and the rest, were assigned to help humanity grow on Earth, though most of them were unaware that it was really to prepare for the birth of the Celestial Tiamut. Then an older Celestial returns, collects that planet’s Eternals, wipes their memories, and ships them to a new assignment. Once an Eternal-guarded planet boasts enough sentient lifeforms on it, those lifeforms fuel the birth of a new Celestial from the planet’s core, and die. Sometime long ago, the Celestials created the Eternals as tools to manage the growth of sentient life on individual planets while the Celestials were away doing Celestial stuff. The Celestials of the MCU are creator beings, capable of building entire galaxies from scratch, and they are sized to match, measuring their height in miles. He’s big, he’s powerful on a scale heretofore unseen in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and he created the Eternals and the Deviants. ![]() Image: Marvel Studios Eternals’ Celestial is Arishem the JudgeĪrishem, the Prime Celestial, looms large in Eternals as the movie’s primary antagonist - or at least the being to whom the main cast is subject to. But Eternals has its own take on Celestials, the ineffable cosmic creators of the Marvel Comics universe. Like most of the stylish but truly inexplicable things in American comics, it can be traced back to the work of Jack Kirby. ![]() But who is this big, big, big, big robot space god? What’s his plan for Earth? And why the hell does Marvel Comics have robot space gods anyway? Chloé Zhao’s Eternals has done something no other Marvel Cinematic Movie can boast: It put a true Celestial on the screen.Īrishem the Celestial looms large in Eternals in more ways than one. ![]()
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