The Eternals (2021) teaser trailer

Finally.

As much as I love Eternals, I suspect they will go the way of the Inhumans.

You can tell by the sorts of suppositions and questions coming from MCU fans that they don't know what to make of this property. Why didn't the Eternals help out with catastrophe X or participate in event Y?

The answer is simple, but it's also very complicated.

It all boils down to the Eternals not being traditional superheroes. Kirby was using the comic book medium to explore enormous ideas in speculative fiction with Eternals. Some of these ideas are provocative and polarising.

I can already see some fans not taking to the idea that "gods" lived among us or were instrumental in our development. The relationships between humanity, the deviants, the Eternals, and the celestials are complex. Accurately portraying them is beyond the scope of the MCU. What we're likely to get in place of the rich lineages portrayed in the comic books is some overly simplified fairytale.

Even if this movie is spectacular, it's likely to curry favor only with purists and diehards. General audiences that are now conditioned by the MCU smack-down paradigm are likely to leave theaters feeling disappointed or indifferent.

In a way, that is fine by me as I selfishly never wanted a property like Eternals to become a household name.

Seeing the trailer again this morning has me a bit more excited for this. It’s actually pretty great to see something so different in the MCU. No one can say this is a “cookie cutter” comic movie. The problem may be that it’s too conservative of a trailer and needed more “important” moments to sell the property to unsure fans.

I think what I really need to see is what the Celestials look like on screen. That’s the exciting part of this mythology to me. And the spoilers, if true, suggest this movie has some really fantastic Celestial scenes in it.

I couldn't agree with you more.

Much like the Celestial experiments with humanity, I don't think Marvel Studios' experiment with Eternals will work out the way they planned.

I do hope they preserve the connections between the Eternals and Thanos. Thanos' arc becomes so much more satisfying when you know he is a second-generation Eternal born with the Deviant gene. If not for a bad roll of the genetic dice, he would have been an Eternal and perhaps the greatest among them. His depravity stems from his treatment as "less-than" by perfect beings who surrounded him, including his brother Eros.

It would make sense if the Eternals choose to surface now because they feel culpability in the blip. Thanos' involvement would make them indirectly responsible for the universe's fate.

I don't mind this story not involving other superheroes because this story's events is clearly outside of the scope of the jobber superhero who's trapped himself in a tin can or uses a garbage can lid to protect himself. Eternals is about the unknowable machinations of gods.

But let's look at the issues of non-involvement for a second. The trailer states that the Eternals have never intervened in the affairs of man. As long-lived and ageless beings, they've contented themselves to guide humanity from the comfortable distance of anonymity and objectivity. This makes perfect sense given their mandate from their masters, the Celestials.

The Celestials created the Eternals from proto-human beings to act as sentries meant to guard the Earth and not necessarily its current inhabitants. Eternals could conceivably live to see humanity fall and be replaced by another species altogether. Celestials only care about preserving the integrity of their ongoing experimentation on humanity. The Eternals were literally created to do just that.

The real question for all those wondering where the Eternals were during Thanos' reign of terror is where were the Celestials.

Maybe, hard to say. Kinda too early to tell. There are still more trailers after all

It will probably still make a lot of money. Say close to a billion

Looks spectacular.

I'm... actually surprised at how much love this trailer is getting in this forum. I thought it was bland as f#ck and did very little to make me interested in the movie.

The impression I got when I was reading about the characters was that he would turn in his own people.

Me too.  To me a teaser should be about 30 seconds long.  This is a full initial trailer in my book.