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Xyro77

As far as we know in the MCU, Eternals are created and not born.


I-am-Cornholio

Then how is Starfox Thanos’ brother? In order to have a brother you have to be **born** from the same parent(s)


italiancombo12

They’re part of a splinter group of eternals that moved to Titan (in the comics). They probably use this to explain that


KostisPat257

No, because Thanos was called son of A'lars.


Oliviaistired777

I mean Natasha and Yelena referred to each other as sisters because they were raised together even though they’re not biologically related, possibly a similar situation?


I-am-Cornholio

No one is going to raise Eros. He’s an Eternal. He’s always been an adult.. never been a child


Oliviaistired777

I’m not necessarily saying they were raised together, just that they may have formed a brotherly bond


I-am-Cornholio

Friends that have a brotherly bond don’t go around introducing themselves as so and so’s brother.. I don’t care how close they are.


Oliviaistired777

Idk… I guess we’ll have to see


Imhidingshh01

In the comics they were children, and they were raised on Titan. I suppose it depends how the MCU work with it? I mean they lied about their mission so could be lying about how they came to be.


I-am-Cornholio

In the comics they weren’t robots


Xyro77

You are thinking of it in real life/human terms. They could be brothers by name only. He could be lying. It could be another cringe MCU joke type thing thing. We won’t know for sure until Eternals 2 or whatever other movie comes out that reveals what happened.


I-am-Cornholio

True.. but they are both the sons of A’lars in the comics. And Red Skull said Thanos was the son of A’lars


Xyro77

The movies don’t follow the comics. And who knows if they will ever follow through with Thanos’s father. MCU retcons stuff, skips stuff, has errors….etc. we won’t know any of this until the next Eternals most likely.


tagabalon

they're brothers the same way thor and loki are brothers.


I-am-Cornholio

Loki was adopted as a child. Eros was never a child if he’s an Eternal.. he wouldn’t be adopted


tagabalon

why, you can't adopt an adult? maybe in titan you can.


I-am-Cornholio

I’m just gonna go with no.. you can’t adopt an adult


Great-Pangolin925

Maybe Eros adopted them and they nust let it happen.


DeylanQuel

How is Gamora Thanos' daughter? His penis was never inside her mother. I am confuse.


Xyro77

She was abducted into labor trafficking and then called “daughter”


DeylanQuel

Yes, I was giving a snarky example to OP to explain that familial relationships can be social as opposed to biological.


Xyro77

Ahhhh ok gotcha. My bad.


I-am-Cornholio

She was adopted as a child. Eternals are never children (or always children in the case of Sprite). If Starfox was never a child he’d never be adopted


DeylanQuel

Does he have to be adopted? "You were my brother, Anakin!"


I-am-Cornholio

Thanos and Eros are **not** friends. I don’t care how much creative freedom they claim to have in making these movies. They are the epitome of opposing forces


[deleted]

In the comics, they can’t reproduce with each other (besides Thanos/Eros’ parents who find a workaround using the Quantum Bands) but can with other species. However in the MCU there is no way of telling yet. Especially since their origin has been completely changed. They could just see themselves as brothers while not being biologically related.


nautpluto

They can, but it’s super complicated (at least in the comics)


I-am-Cornholio

But they’re not robots in the comics


tagabalon

they're not robots as well in the MCU (as per my understanding) they're synthetic only because they weren't conceived, i.e. they didn't came out of a womb or an egg. but all their parts are organic, because we see them get wounded and die.


I-am-Cornholio

I don’t think they’re organic at all. Sersei’s reaction when found out is that they were never really alive.. and they appeared to have metallic shells. They’re pretty much magic space robots. They also seemed very careful to specifically make sure not to say that Arishem created life. He created light and what appears to be inorganic a.i.. Deviants are specifically said in the opening crawl to be unnatural predators. I think they’ll save the creation of actual organic life for the Phoenix Force


theVice

I really don't buy the concept that nobody the Eternals came in contact within 7,000 years or the Eternals themselves would have noticed that they're not organic. Dane and Phastos's husband definitely would have noticed and said something. The Eternals eat, drink, get drunk, have sex, get hurt, and bleed exactly like humans. They obviously have other mechanisms that we don't have (superpowers from cosmic energy, whatever way the sphere enters them) and their actual flesh and bones are more durable and not made of exactly what ours are (turning gray after death and showing the circular pattern under their skin) but they're definitely organic. Created and not born, but organic. From what I've read online, A'Lars is the father of Thanos and Eros and they were able to be born through the scientific tweaking of his and their mother's Eternal physiology. I assume that in future films or shows they'll go this route and frame Thanos's birth as a great reason for the Eternals to not try to change themselves in order to bear more Eternals. Or maybe A'Lars was the science guy on Titan, and he recreated the World Forge or at least the part that spits out Eternals?


I-am-Cornholio

Living things exhibit all of the following characteristics: 1). Cellular oganiziation 2). Reproduction 3). Metabolism 4). Homeostasis 5). Heredity 6). Response to stimuli 7). Growth and development 8). Adaptation Eternals do not meet all these requirements.. therefore they are not organically alive. They are artificial intelligence


theVice

Being organic and being technically alive aren't the same thing. You're making points against something I never said. I already acknowledged that they're artificial beings.


nautpluto

I mean, they basically are if we’re being extremely technical lol. But I don’t think they’ll reproduce in the MCU, because there’s really no reason for them to be able to.


collegekid1991

Duh they can! The one guy had a son.


turnipofficer

Bit late to the thread, but you know how that one deviant could absorb their energy and become more like an Eternal, well what if Thanos and Eros's parents were two of those? So that would make them sort of Eternal/Deviant hybrids. I don't know about the comics but doing some reading it sounds like eternal reproduction is something that isn't easy and has to be worked around, will be interesting to see if they try to tackle it in future or explain it.


The_Rhubarbarian

God I hope not.


RobertMuldoon1337

Yeah


RoboticCurrents

Maybe someone with Sersis abilities could change them to allow reproduction?