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Marvel’s Eternals — Throwing Weight Behind the “Thanos Was Right” Debate
Which existential crisis would you choose if you knew the fate of the universe?
With a snap of his fingers, Thanos wiped out half of every planet and species in the universe.
Do you remember sitting in the theater watching Avengers: Infinity War for the first time? I do, and I’ll admit that in that moment I honestly thought the Avengers would win. I hadn’t read the comics and I couldn’t comprehend the ethical can of chitauri leviathans that a single finger snap would open.
Marvel wouldn’t do that… right?
Wrong.
They did it. They opened that can of literally giant space worms and threw the previously incomprehensible concept of universal genocide in our faces. We all left the theater feeling like we’d just experienced another reality. Were we really still in our own timeline?
But Marvel didn’t stop there. They had to rectify this somehow, they had to bring us some hope.
Enter Avengers: End Game.
A year later theaters erupted in cheers as Iron Man donned the Infinity Gauntlet and reversed the terrible finger snap, bringing back every soul that had vanished during The Blip.
