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The Eternals were first introduced in Jack Kirby's The Eternals, but some have gone on to play key roles in other Marvel titles (e.g. as members of The Avengers). A few have also been introduced elsewhere but - as of December 2022 - have never appeared in an actual Eternals comic.

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Eternals of Earth

In general

Back from the Dead: After being dead for five months in-universe, every Eternal that died in the Avengers (2018) story - plus all of those killed in previous stories and flashbacks - returns for the 2021 series.
Been There, Shaped History: Being a race of long-lived superpowered beings, the Eternals inspired some of mankind's legends.
Blue-and-Orange Morality: Even the broadly heroic ones are a bit... odd by human standards, something that's been emphasized more since Gaiman and Gillen delivered their Soft Reboots. Considering that they're all thousands of years old at the very least (a full million years old, as of the 2021 series) and they're fundamentally designed to protect 'the Machine' (Earth), this is not exactly surprising.
Born as an Adult: In current continuity, all Eternals (except Thanos and Eros) were created, not biologically born. And all except Sprite were created as adults - even Sprite, the Eternal child, was never a baby.
Cosmic Retcon: The 2006 series explains that there’s already been one of these and that all previous Eternals stories reflect the altered reality and its rewritten memories. Once that's undone, readers are finally introduced to the ‘true’ version, including the Eternals’ Resurrective Immortality, the Immortal Procreation Clause (and the fixed number of 100 Eternals), the fact they’re all Born as an Adult, exactly the same age and various other changes to their past and their powers.
Defector from Decadence: The 2021 comic series has a few Eternals develop a sense of responsibility over their existence and go and stay with their rivals the Deviants to achieve something meaningful with their lives.
Death Is Cheap: As of the 2006 series, this is the consequence of their Resurrective Immortality. Downplayed a little, but still present, in the Knauf series, when the necessary machinery is temporarily broken. Played very straight and then subverted in the 2021 series - it’s not so much that death is cheap, it’s that the Eternals haven’t been paying the bills.
Driven to Suicide: During Avengers (2018) most of Earth’s Eternals committed suicide after being driven mad by the imminent arrival of the Dark Celestials. In the 2021 series, the Machine’s narration confirms that all of them came back afterwards, though.
Eye Beams: The Eternals can fire cosmic energy through their eyes. Like many of their other powers, there are varying levels of ability - a mix of natural talent, technique and practice - but they all have the basic potential for this.
Family of Choice: Played with. The 2021 series continuity suggests that all Eternals of Earth are exactly the same age (about a million years older). They do have parent, child and sibling relationships (including a set of three-generation dynasties), but these were chosen by the Celestials who created them, not by the Eternals themselves - and they are not biological families.
Fantastic Racism: Most Eternals really don’t like Deviants. As seen in Silver Surfer, they’re also prejudiced against Skrulls, who they see as alien Deviants.
Flying Brick: Some hit harder or fly faster than others, but the entire race has this power set, in addition to other assorted powers that they can develop through practice and training.
Geas: A non-magical version with a touch of Three Laws-Compliant. The 2006 series established that Eternals are not permitted to attack or harm a Celestial, and will temporarily shut down if they try. Current continuity, in the Gillen series, has expanded this into the Principles: "Protect Celestials. Protect the Machine. Correct Excess Deviation."
Hand Blast: Eternals can fire destructive blasts from their hands. As with many of their other powers, they’ve all got potential for this, but some haven’t fully developed it.
Healing Factor: Not only are Eternals hard to harm, but they can heal themselves using their molecular control powers. Injuries such as lacerations or bullet wounds can fully mend within a matter of hours. This ability can be augmented dramatically (or extended to heal others) if they properly train themselves.
Human Resources: One of the darker revelations in the 2021 series is that each Eternal resurrection costs either a human or Deviant life. Some of the Eternals don’t care, others are subjected to Laser-Guided Amnesia whenever they discover this.
Human Subspecies: As a result of the Celestials' genetic tinkering. Unlike the other Eternals, the Hex are the variant of this trope that doesn't look remotely human.
I Am the Noun: The 2021 series uses this, to summarize the characters of many Eternals briefly and simply.
Immortal Apathy: A downplayed version. They have trouble caring for mortal humans due to the difference in their lifespans making them nearly insignificant. Some, such as Sersi, Kingo and Legba, have immersed themselves in human society (and Thena’s had a string of relationships with Deviants), but most tend to be aloof and deal with their own affairs (or, like Ajak and Virako, value friendships with gods and immortals rather than humans). That said, a fair few are heroic and have enough conscience to care for mortals as much as they can allow.
Immortality Begins at Twenty: Played with. It’s true of most of the core cast - but Sprite is a child and Domo is elderly. Some other Eternals (e.g. A’Lars and Valkin) also look much older than 20. How much the Eternals (other than Sprite and Domo) can shift their apparent age via Resurrective Immortality is unrevealed.
Immortal Procreation Clause: As of the 2021 series, after a retcon, Eternals are completely infertile with each other.
- They can have children with mortals (such as humans or Deviants), and some of those children may inherit powers, and might be Long-Lived - but they aren’t true Eternals, won’t live forever, and don’t benefit from Resurrective Immortality if they’re killed.
- Originally, Eternal parents had Eternal children, albeit rarely, and many of the core characters were said to be the children of older Eternals - mostly born long after the Celestials created their race (e.g. Ikaris was stated to be only a couple of thousand years old). These relationships have since been revised into a Family of Choice structure programmed by the Celestials.
- There have also been attempts to subvert this trope and allow true Eternal children, born of biological parents, to add to the original 100 Eternals - these attempts did not end well, though in the case of Eros, the jury is perhaps still out.
- The 2021 series retconned the inhabitants of Titan as primarily a mixture of Eternal-like beings, not Eternals themselves.
Mythical Motifs: Most of them were named after mythological beings (primarily Greek gods). Of course, since Greek gods actually exist in the Marvel Comics universe, it set up a clash between Eternals and Olympians.
Nigh-Invulnerability: While a lot of superheroic characters have some level of invulnerability, the Eternals may stand out for special mention: they possess a "psychic lock" on their molecular structure that allows them to restore virtually any injury they can't flat-out ignore.
Numerological Motif: Six is considered a lucky or holy number (and also an internal one). The Hex has six members and there are six Eternal priests. Many Eternal powers, designs and devices use hexagons.
Puny Earthlings: With a few exceptions, the more benevolent ones tend to regard humans with amused condescension. The less benevolent ones view humans as expendable mayflies. Again, they're immortal beings who're all Flying Bricks, at minimum. This is not entirely surprising.
Resurrective Immortality: Eternals don't age and have some level of mental control over their bodies' molecular structure unless knocked out. Even so, they can be injured if you try hard enough - and enough damage will kill them. At which point, as revealed in the 2006 series, the great machine will resurrect them. These resurrections didn’t happen for a while before the 2006 series due to someone attempting to rewrite reality. Additionally, the Gillen and Knauf series’ have both demonstrated that you can at least delay the resurrection by sabotaging the machine.
Sex Shifter: The 2021 series establishes that they can select a different body when they reboot and resurrect. This is relatively common when there’s a major reset - every 25,000 years or so. At least some Eternals have used this to change their sex. ^note
Society of Immortals: The Eternals have historically maintained their own secret cities but sometimes hang around with mortal humans for kicks or companionship. To illustrate the difference this trope creates in mindset, there was a dialogue in an issue of The Avengers where Sersi was asked by one of her (mortal) teammates what the Eternals' beliefs regarding ghosts were. Sersi responded that the topic does not get discussed much in their culture — because they don't die.
Superhero Speciation: All Eternals share the ability to channel cosmic energy to whatever effect they desire, particularly making them all Flying Bricks, with healing, psychic powers and energy blasting. However, they can each practice a specific skill to an exceptional level above their peers. Sersi and Makkari, for example, are respectively the best at matter transmutation and super speed.
Super-Strength: All Eternals are stronger than humans, but the exact level of that strength varies.
Super-Toughness: Some are much tougher than others, but they're all noticeably tougher than a normal human.
Teleportation with Drawbacks: They can teleport themselves and others across vast distances, although doing so is unpleasant for them. They generally rely on the Machine for teleportation whenever possible.
Theseus' Ship Paradox: Eternal minds are reset and restored from the machine’s backups. Eternal bodies are recreated by the machine when the old one is destroyed. So, for example, Sprite in the 2021 series is a brand new body with a mind reset to a ‘safe backup’ at the dawn of human civilization. Nonetheless, some elements of this seem to be averted - when an Eternal dies, their mind instantly returns to the machine (even if they’re beyond its power in space, as A’Lars was), and nothing is lost.
The Unseen: Current continuity states that there are 100 Eternals, and almost all of them have now been named - but many have never actually appeared, even if they’re mentioned in passing. Going back further, Sersi's parents Perse and Helios were named in the 1980s, as were Ikaris’s mother Tulayne, Ajak’s parents Amaa and Rakar and Makkari’s parents Veron and Mara. None have ever appeared, though.
Time Abyss: The Eternals are now acknowledged as one million years old, significantly older than they were when Kirby first introduced them (e.g. Ikaris was previously stated to be a couple of thousand years old). Even when they have been mentally reset to previous versions, most of that long-term memory remains available.
Weak to Magic: A major achilles heel to the Eternals as a whole is a vulnerability to magic.

Olympian Eternals

Olympia has been the hidden capital of Earth's Eternals for several hundred thousand years and was the focus of many early Eternals comics. As of the 2021 series, it's home to more Eternals than any of their other settlements.

Aurelle

Notable Aliases: Sparx

First Appearance: The New Eternals: Apocalypse Now (Vol 1) #1 (December 15, 2000)

Aurelle was a prodigal Eternal, primarily devoted to her own interests rather than those of the Eternal people. She attended the resurrection of Virako in Olympia and soon joined the short-lived team of Eternal "super-heroes" known as the New Breed, calling herself Sparx.

Blinded by the Light: She likes using her light powers to blind her opponents.
Blue Is Heroic: Her energy form and her clothes are blue and she joined the other Eternals as a superhero.
The Bus Came Back: After not being seen since her debut, she's among the Eternals listed as residing in Olympia at the start of the 2021 series.
Energy Being: While she has a human identity and appearance, her "hero identity" Sparx has her look as if she's made of light.
Remember the New Guy?: Introduced in 2000, and never glimpsed or mentioned before. However, like all of Earth’s other Eternals, she’s a million years old and all of the pre-existing characters already know her.

Ceyote

Notable Aliases: Thomas Hawk, Tomorrow Hawk

First Appearance: The New Eternals: Apocalypse Now (Vol 1) #1 (December 15, 2000)

Ceyote is a member of the Eternals who was part of the New Breed.

Animate Inanimate Object: Ceyote can create animalistic totem creatures that serve him known as Ani-Mates, who are inanimate bestial shaped constructs animated by his powers.
Badass Native: Looks the part and his hero identity of Tomorrow Hawk invokes this image.
Captain Ethnic: When first seen as Thomas Hawk, Ceyote presents as an Indigenous American with long braided hair, a headband and leather bracelets. As Ceyote he wears an elaborate bird-themed costume with a horned, masked and feathered war-bonnet.
The Bus Came Back: After not being seen since his debut, he's among the Eternals listed as residing in Olympia at the start of the 2021 series.
Living Statue: As Thomas Hawk, Ceyote’s a sculptor, working on a huge scale. He’s capable of using his Eternal powers to animate a giant golem from one of his stone sculptures. He also animates much smaller statuettes to support him in battle.
Outliving One's Offspring: Downplayed. Ceyote's daughter, Iris Devereaux, already looks decades older than her father. Whether she's aging at the normal human rate is unclear.
Red Is Heroic: His costume as Tomorrow Hawk is mostly red and he's a member of the Eternal Super Team The New Breed.
Remember the New Guy?: Introduced in 2000, and never glimpsed or mentioned before. However, like all of Earth’s other Eternals, he’s a million years old and all of the pre-existing characters already know him.

The Delphan Brothers

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First Appearance: Eternals #11 (February, 1977)

A group of identical brothers who often act as guards and minions for the other Eternals of Olympia. As of the 2021 series, there are definitely four of them (as well as "The Delphan Mother"), but previous stories have shown more at some points.

The Bus Came Back: They're not seen at all in the 2021 series (although they're mentioned in passing a couple of times), but do reappear - for the first time since 2015 - in 2022's AXE: Eve of Judgment special.
Butt-Monkey: Hit by a Russian helicopter while idly flying over Olympia. Beaten up by Zarin, Aginar and Ikaris. Beaten up by various Avengers. And transformed into armadillos by Sersi. Things tend to go badly for them.
The Dividual: They don't seem to have individual names, they dress identically and they always act as a group. According to The Machine, they count as two Eternals.
Noodle Incident: In the 2021 series, Druig mentions that they’re unable to take a full part in Eternal politics due to their “unfortunate state”. There are hints that they may not be ‘normal’ Eternals anymore, if they ever were, to begin with.
Sibling Rivalry: They get judged as unworthy in the Judgment Day event and fight each other over whose fault it was.

Domo

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First Appearance: Eternals #5 (August, 1976)

A bureaucrat and technologist who handles domestic affairs at Olympia. Sometimes described as Zuras’s right-hand man. In practice, however, it doesn't really matter who's in charge - Domo is more focused on science than morality, and will aid the Prime Eternal to the best of his ability.

The Bus Came Back: After his introduction in the original Kirby series, he isn’t featured in the Gillis, Gaiman or Knauf series at all - after a guest appearance in Avengers (in 1984) his next appearance is a tiny 2012 cameo in Hulk, revealing that he’s one of the Eternals who’s recovered from his amnesia and returned to Olympia. He’s back again in the 2021 series.
Elderly Immortal: Domo's always looked significantly older than the average Eternal - in the 2021 series he’s a rake-thin bald man who looks positively elderly, and the Machine describes him as a dodderer who has lived a million years “feeling he is four breaths from death”.
Loyal to the Position: Domo serves the Prime Eternal to the best of his ability, whether that means helping Thanos to restore his full power or helping Druig to annihilate the mutant nation of Krakoa. He's more concerned with science than morality. In the 2021 series he briefly considers betraying Thanos - but decides that if Druig, who's generally much better at backstabbing, couldn't trick him, it's just not worth the risk.
Non-Action Guy: He’s in a position of some importance, and he presumably has the same sort of physical power as other Eternals. But he’s rarely if ever, shown in any sort of battle. If force is needed, he’s more likely to send the Delphan Brothers.
Pet the Dog: Gets this from Thanos, of all people. Thanos kills Domo, as promised, for being unable to solve a scientific problem, but doesn't blame him, thanks him for his honesty, notes he was working with very limited tools and orders the Machine to resurrect him as a top priority.
Sensing You Are Outmatched: He's tempted to deceive Thanos, but ultimately decides against it after considering the previous failure of Consummate Liar Druig.

Ikaris

Notable Aliases: "Iceberg" Ike Harris, Sovereign, Isaac "Ike" Harris, Daedalus

First Appearance: Eternals #1 (April, 1976)

An Eternal who possesses superhuman strength, speed, stamina, durability, and reflexes. He is known for his ability to fly and project cosmic energy beams from his eyes. Son of Virako and Tulayn, grandson of Uranos.

Blood Knight: He definitely enjoys fighting, as recognized by Thanos in the 2021 series, who greets him as "a fellow poet of annihilation."
Clark Kenting: Ikaris hides his eyes with dark glasses.
Clashing Cousins: He and his cousin Druig are each other's worst enemies.
Death Seeker: After hearing the truth about resurrections, he begins to feel he and his race should perish.
Eye Beams: All Eternals can theoretically use eye beams, but for Ikaris they’re a favourite weapon and he’s exceptionally dangerous with them. He’s spent a million years honing his skills.
Flying Brick: All Eternals have some level of this, but Ikaris flies faster and hits harder than almost any of the others. It’s one of many reasons the great machine refers to him as ‘the arrow’.
I Am the Noun: The 2021 series, which uses this approach for many Eternals, describes him as the arrow.
Icarus Allusion: Kind of obvious with his name. Ikaris's origin is, in some tellings, the basis of the myth of Icarus. The twist is that Ikaris was originally Daedelus and his son was Icarus. After his son died, he took on the name Ikaris himself.
Important Haircut: He shaves his head at the end of A.X.E.: Judgment Day, when he goes to live among humanity as one of Ajak Celestia's heretics. It's implied that it's partly to make him less recognisable, given the backlash after humans discover that Eternal Resurrective Immortality is powered by Human Resources.
Interspecies Romance: With the human Margo Damian. Previous relationships are also hinted at but haven’t been directly portrayed.
Kissing Cousins: Downplayed, but Ikaris and Thena are second cousins and the Eternals (2006) series confirms that they've slept together. Then again, Eternal families aren't really biological families, so…
Lazy Alias: He's introduced under the name "Ike Harris", before his true nature as an Eternal is revealed.
Mayfly–December Romance:: With Margo Damian, he also once had a human wife in Ancient Greece too and other romances are strongly suggested.
Meaningful Rename: Changed his name from Daedalus to Ikaris after the death of his son Icarus.
Nephewism: In the original continuity, Ikaris was still a child (by Eternal standards) when his father Virako died in battle. His mother Tulayn had apparently died in a teleportation accident centuries earlier, so he was largely raised by his uncle Valkin.
Outliving One's Offspring: His son the Icarus of legend.
Primary-Color Champion: Has blonde hair and his outfit is red and blue. He's also one of the nicer Eternals.
Strong Family Resemblance: In most appearances, he’s almost identical to his father Virako - only their hair colour differs. Thor, who’s already met Virako, sees Ikaris and immediately knows who he is.
Sue Donym: In the very first issue he used the alias “Ike Harris”.
Suicide Attack: The 2021 series has him realize that he puts too much force into his attacks, and makes Heroic Sacrifices too easily (though part of that is him not realizing the truth about resurrections). He goes to Ransak for advice on how to fight with better care for himself and others.
Superman Substitute: Shares the powers of flight, strength and heat vision, and dresses in red and blue.
Took a Level in Jerkass: He’s made some questionable decisions over the years:
- In the 86 series, he's noticeably more aggressive compared to previous appearances even usurping Thena and Prime Eternal.
- He led the Olympian Eternals to ally with the High Evolutionary, capturing the Silver Surfer and the Super-Skrull to map their DNA as part of a plan to upgrade the entire human race. Ikaris was unconcerned when the Olympian machines used - calibrated for Earth’s Deviants rather than alien Skrulls - effectively tortured the Super-Skrull.
- When he turned up to Avengers Mansion to retrieve Sersi (who was an Avengers member at the time), he appeared in an explosion that damaged the building, immediately demanded she was surrendered to him, and then turned his eye beams on Captain America - who’d verbally objected to this - rather than trying to explain what was going on. Sprite made a point of telling him just how stupid this was.

Kingo Sunen

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Notable Aliases: Skullathar the Destructorite

First Appearance: Eternals #11 (February, 1977)

A samurai, master swordsman, film star and producer. In the original Jack Kirby series, before the Soft Reboot, it was said that he hailed from a Japanese settlement of Eternals in the mountains overlooking the Japanese prefecture of Hokkaido.

Arrow Catch: Fast enough to do this in the 2021 series. He then compliments the archer on their technique.
Ascended Extra: He’s not in the 2006 series or the Knauf series at all, he only has a cameo in the original Kirby series and he’s very much supporting cast when he does appear in the Gillis/Simonson series. However, the 2021 series promotes him to the core cast (as did the Eternals film).
Bald Head of Toughness: For the 2021 series, he's completely bald and one of the best fighters among the Eternals, plus the general toughness that comes with his Eternal nature.
Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: In the Kirby series it's mentioned that he's a famous movie star who loves to play samurai — the implication being that his secret identity is Toshiro Mifune.
Dual Wielding: Fights with two katanas.
Fights Like a Normal: To some degree he's a Flying Brick like the other Eternals, and possesses their general powerset, but he prefers to fight using samurai skills.
Foreign Culture Fetish: He has a thing for Asian culture, specifically Japan, having dressed in samurai and ninja clothing at different points in the comics. On the other hand, he's a million years old and it's unclear just how much of Japan's history he lived through while dwelling there.
I Am the Noun: The 2021 series, which uses this approach for many Eternals, describes Kingo as the smiling mask.
Large Ham: His actor background means he tends to make over-the-top performances. He gets into one act in the 2021 comic, when stalling the Avengers as a space villain named Skullathar.
Manly Facial Hair: A thin mustache and goatee, fitting for a samurai and hammy movie star.
The Mentor: in the 86 series, he serves as one to Reject.
The Movie Buff: In the 2021 series, he is seen to enjoy films and hammy performances. This could be a trait from his MCU version, who is a film star.
Wide-Eyed Idealist: Was this at one point. He thought he should assassinate the Mongol general Subotai to save people, but on consideration decided to spare his life and see what happens. Subotai died of a stroke and his troops returned home. He learnt that the right thing to do isn't always obvious or easy and that a bit of patience can make a difference.

Phastos

Notable Aliases: Hephaestus, Vulcan, Ceasefire, Phillip Stoss

First Appearance: Eternals (Vol. 2) #1 (July, 1985)

An Eternal who was often mistaken for the Greek god Hephaestus. He built most of the Eternals' devices, including the sword of Kingo Sunen and the flight harness used by Icarus. The hammer he carries has the power to manipulate machinery in ways the Eternals' own matter control powers can not.

Ambiguously Bi: His Marvel Cinematic Universe counterpart is gay, whereas the comic version of Phastos was married to a woman but has also mentioned "men I have held and time has taken from me”.
Chekhov's Gunman: Of the 2021 comic. He's the one who found out the Eternals's secret of Human Resources (though it's mentioned that Eternals find out and get their minds wiped periodically), and he's the one who captured Thanos and used him as a henchman in the first arc. As such, this carries over into the second arc, where Thanos invades Lemuria to capture him for his knowledge.
Face–Heel Turn: In the 2021 series, he decided that the Eternals were an impediment to protecting Earth due to their draining of life force from ordinary humans, and tried to wipe them out. Unfortunately, the Eternals and Earth are connected such that if one dies, both die.
Go Mad from the Revelation: Finding out that The Machine uses humans to give life to the Eternals is what causes his Face–Heel Turn.
Heroic Sacrifice: He’s willing to surrender to (and be killed by) Thanos if it saved lives in Lemuria and buys his friends more time.
I Am the Noun: The 2021 series, which uses this approach for many Eternals, describes him as the forge and the hammer.
Iconic Sequel Character: He's counted among the core cast of the Eternals, however he first appeared in issue one of the Gillis/Simonson series, eight years after the original book was cancelled.
Manly Facial Hair: A well-trimmed beard, which contrasts with his more unkempt Olympian counterpart, and he's pretty manly, like most Eternals.
Not Quite the Right Thing: He regularly makes attempts to help out humans but they often go awry. He uplifted some cavemen and gave them powered armor to safeguard vulnerable new species as the Evolutionaries, which they carried out by committing genocide of the antagonizing species. He went along with Zuras' plan to eliminate all superhumans. His latest screwup was an attempt to leash Thanos for a plot to disconnect the Eternals from the Machine, unaware the two are inextricably linked and succeeding would destroy the world.
Powered Armor: During his brief stint as Ceasefire, he wore a power suit like the one used by the Evolutionaries.
Redemption Equals Life: While he revived a Celestial, he passed on knowledge to the X-Men for its destruction. This attempt to repair his own mistakes gets him a thumbs-up from the Progenitor.
Ultimate Blacksmith: He wouldn't have been confused with the actual Hephaestus if he wasn't. Among other feats, he helped create the Powered Armor of the Evolutionaries.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: He had a good reason for his Face–Heel Turn in the 2021 series. Much the same applied in his New Warriors appearance, where he’d been misled into believing that the only way to save humanity was to act against Earth’s non-Eternal superhumans.

Psykos

Notable Aliases: Psyche, Ronnie Sykes

First Appearance: The New Eternals: Apocalypse Now (Vol 1) #1 (December 15, 2000)

Antihero: He’s reckless with his powers and deliberately takes the violent solution to a hostage situation, mocking his enemy and smiling at the pain he causes.
Badass Cape: His Psyche outfit came with an impressive black cape.
The Bus Came Back: Like the rest of the New Breed, he's one of the Eternals listed as residing in Olympia at the start of the 2021 series after not being seen or mentioned since his debut.
Eyepatch of Power: Covers his left eye with one as Psyche.
Laser-Guided Amnesia: Uses this on humans. After using mind control to end a hostage situation by making the ringleader shoot himself in the legs, Psykos ensures that witnesses remember a different version of events.
Remember the New Guy?: Introduced in 2000, and never glimpsed or mentioned before. However, like all of Earth’s other Eternals, he’s a million years old and all of the pre-existing characters already know him.

Sersi

Notable Aliases: Circe, Sylvia Sersy, Mesmer, Sorceress

First Appearance: Venus #9 (January, 1950) ^noteAs Circe; Eternals #3 (June, 1976) ^noteAs Sersi

Sersi, initially summarized in the 2021 series as “complicated”, is a keeper of secrets, a charming social butterfly who enjoys human society, and said to be the most skilled and powerful matter-transmuter of the Eternals. She encountered - and later joined - the Avengers after inviting them to one of her parties and meeting her long-lost "cousin" Starfox of the Titan Eternals.

Ambiguously Absent Parent: Perse and Helios were named as her parents in the 1980s, but have remained The Unseen. The 2021 series does mention that they’re both living in Olympia.
Bathing Beauty: She says she was one of these back in ancient Rome.
Battle Couple: With Avengers teammate Dane Whitman, the Black Knight.
Been There, Shaped History: Sersi is the sorceress Circe from Greek Mythology.
Sersi: The Greek storytellers could never spell my name right.
Breakout Character: Of all the Eternals, Sersi is easily the most prominent, being one of only two Eternals that have been part of the Avengers.
Color Motifs: She uses green as her prominent color, and has taken to wearing purple as of the 2021 series.
Deathless and Debauched: The Hard-Drinking Party Girl and The Tease of the Eternal race, having lived for over a thousand years enjoying life and finding pleasure in any way she can. According to Sprite (in his male depiction), he was the only straight male Eternal that Sersi hasn't slept with, and that's because he has the body of a child.
Emerald Power: She is one of the most alluring and enigmatic Eternals, and she commonly dresses up in green.
Forced Transformation: Sersi can transmute nearly any item, or being, into almost whatever she wishes.
Hard-Drinking Party Girl: She is the most fun-loving and hedonistic of the Eternals, much to Thena's annoyance.
Healing Factor: All Eternals have some scope for this, but Sersi’s an expert. In addition to natural healing, she can heal herself or others using her molecular control powers. She once reconstructed her own arm after it was disintegrated.
I Am the Noun: Played with. The 2021 series uses this approach for many Eternals. But when it reaches Sersi, the machine pauses for once... and then opts to describe her as “complicated”.
Immortal Apathy: She admits that she has learned to care less about humans and their exploitation by the Machine to keep her sanity.
Interspecies Romance: Anytime she has a relationship with a human it counts as this, but most specifically with her teammate Dane Whitman, the second Black Knight.
Killed Off for Real: At the end of the A.X.E.: Judgment Day event, after Sersi reveals the true cost of Eternal immortality, the Progenitor responds to humanity's anger by killing her. It notes that she is the first of Earth's Eternals to truly die, and she's not returned by their usual Resurrective Immortality once the Progenitor restores the wider world. A statue is built in her memory, and Ajak acknowledges Sersi as a martyr who's given the Eternals a chance to change their fate.
Master of Illusion: Sersi is skilled in the use of illusions. Her illusions affect all five senses and are virtually indistinguishable from the 'real thing'. Her illusions are so effective, it's often difficult to tell whether she is employing illusions or her matter-rearranging abilities.
Most Common Superpower: She has a voluptuous body with huge breasts. What Powergirl does for the JSA, Sersi does for the Avengers.
- Comic artist Mike Deodato has stated that Sersi was one of his biggest sources of inspiration as a teenager, and it's not hard to see why given some of his artistic predilections.
Ms. Fanservice: When you're initially conceived as a "flirtatious demi-goddess not afraid to take her clothes off" in the 1970s, you know you're destined to be this kind of character.
Really Gets Around: According to Sprite, she has slept with every straight adult male Eternal. In the 2021 series, she says she wouldn't destroy the Earth because it'd leave her with nobody to sleep with.
Purple Is Powerful: For her return on the 2021 series she trades her green outfit for a purple one.
Redemption Equals Death: Faced with the end of the world during the A.X.E.: Judgment Day event, she finally chooses to tell the truth about the cost of Eternal resurrection, saying that she'll accept humanity's judgment. The Progenitor reacts to the world's anger by killing her. It's stated that this is the first time an Eternal's truly died, and the event's Reset Button and her usual Resurrective Immortality do not bring her back.
The Tease: During her time with the Avengers, she started a flirtation with Captain America (much to his embarrassment).
Telepathy: Sersi can psychically communicate, read minds, and project her thoughts into other people. She can compel the distracted or weak-minded to do her bidding through hypnosis
Teleportation with Drawbacks: She can teleport herself and others across vast distances although doing so is unpleasant for Eternals.
Transmutation: Sersi's special ability is matter rearrangement and she is the only fifth level adept (the highest level possible among Eternals) in that discipline. Amongst the Eternals it is said that even Prime-Eternal Zuras, the mightiest of all Eternals, fear her.

Sprite

Notable Aliases: Puck, Robin Goodfellow, Colín, Peter Frickin' Pan, Excluded "SP"

First Appearance: Eternals #9 (December, 1976)

The trickster. Sprite is an illusionist, and seemingly the only Eternal with the form of a child, never growing up (and occasionally quite bitter about that fact). Historically, they've been portrayed as a resident of Olympia, but as of the start of the 2021 series, they've been elsewhere for a while.

Back from the Dead: Zuras kills the now-mortal Sprite at the end of the 2006 series. As he’s no longer Eternal, it seems this will be the end. And it’s possible that that version of Sprite is dead - but the 2021 series reveals that this won’t stop the great machine from creating a new body and placing a backup of Sprite’s mind into it. There is no escape from Eternal Resurrective Immortality.
Beware the Silly Ones: When Toby Robson asks her if she's ever killed anyone, Sprite jokingly says she’s killed oodles, confident that nobody would find that phrasing scary. Unless they see just how many people she means by ‘oodles’.
Big Bad: Of the 2006 series. She’s very sheepish about it in the 2021 series after she’s restored to a safe backup without those memories and Ikaris explains just what she did.
Bratty Half-Pint: Sprite is one highly annoying little bastard.
Depending on the Artist: Sprite’s apparent age and height have shifted a little over the years, especially in guest appearances. One story from the Avengers portrayed him as wiry but muscular, seemingly at the end of his teens, and only a head shorter than Ikaris or the Black Knight.
Emerald Power: Shares this trait with Sersi.
Face–Heel Turn: In the 2006 series, where he becomes the Big Bad, almost destroying the Eternals and the world so that he could become mortal.
I Am the Noun: Averted. Which is only notable because every other member of the 2021 series’s core cast gets this treatment from the narrator (even if it’s subverted a little for some of them). Not Sprite, though.
Immortal Immaturity: They're not very mature because of their inability to grow.
Lady Looks Like a Dude: Being the same age and fairly androgynous to begin with, when Sprite is revived as female, she doesn't look much different than when she was male.
Not Growing Up Sucks: Became very disillusioned with being stuck as a child for many, many millennia. On resurrection, as a girl, she seems less bothered with it - for the time being, anyway.
Really 700 Years Old: All of Earth’s Eternals are a million years old. But Sprite’s the only one who’s permanently in a child’s form.
Reincarnated as the Opposite Sex: After the full reset of the Eternals at the start of the 2021 series, Sprite was resurrected as a girl (matching their portrayal in the MCU Eternals film).
Ret-Canon: Resurrected as a girl at the start of the 2021 series, matching her portrayal in the Eternals film.
Sealed Evil in a Can: Was imprisoned in the Exclusion immediately before the start of the 2021 series. It's commuted at the start of that series.
The Trickster: They pranked humans for centuries under various guises, inspiring Shakespeare's character of the same name.

Suyin King

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Notable Aliases: Chi-Demon, Professor King

First Appearance: The New Eternals: Apocalypse Now (Vol 1) #1 (December 15, 2000)

The Eternal known in modern times as Suyin King was operating as a college professor in America.

All in the Manual: Professor King didn't have a first name in New Eternals, but it’s provided in a data page for a Civil War book and later repeated in 2021 series data pages.
The Bus Came Back: After not being seen since her debut, she's among the Eternals listed as residing in Olympia at the start of the 2021 series.
Dragon Lady: Her Chi-Demon look invokes the trope, with the red facial markings and dragon tattoos.
Cleavage Window: Her Chi-Demon look comes with an opening for her cleavage.
Flaming Sword: Wields a sword that she can set on fire.
Hot Teacher: Worked as a college professor and either as a civilian or as Chi-Demon, very hot.
Real Name as an Alias: She's living in human society as a professor, under the name Suyin King. In the 2021 series, the Machine’s data page confirms that her 'true' Eternal name is also Suyin King.
Remember the New Guy?: Introduced in 2000, and never glimpsed or mentioned before. However, like all of Earth’s other Eternals, she’s a million years old and all of the pre-existing characters already know her.
Totally Not a Werewolf: She's mistaken for a mutant by a group of racist students, and she has to use her powers to drive them away.

Titanis

First Appearance: Marvel Super Hero Contest of Champions #1 (June, 1982)

An Olympian Eternal who first appeared when she was captured to take part in the 'Contest of Champions' (alongside Ikaris, Sersi and Ajak). She didn’t play any direct part in the contest and wasn’t seen in any stories again until she helped Zuras try to destroy all of Earth’s superhumans (in New Warriors), in the mistaken belief that the Celestials would otherwise return to destroy Earth.

As of 2021, she's one of the few Eternals who's only ever appeared in other Marvel titles, not in an actual Eternals comic.

All There in the Manual: Until the Eternals (2021) series listed all of Earth’s Eternals on a data page, Titanis had never actually been named in the comics, only in the Marvel Universe handbooks.
Ascended Extra: She appears in just one panel of Contest of Champions, and isn’t even included in the cast list at the back of the book. Titanis plays a much more significant role when she reappears as one of the antagonists in New Warriors, even if she’s essentially just an Elite Mook for Zuras.
The Bus Came Back: After an initial cameo in Contest of Champions in 1982, she didn’t appear again until a New Warriors story in 2014.
Eye Beams: All Eternals can potentially use eye beams, but Titanis seems skilled enough to rely on them in battle.
Flying Brick: All Eternals have some elements of this, but she's fast enough to keep up with the superhero Nova, a flyer often referred to as “the human rocket” - she even pursues him into space.
The Quiet One: As of 2021, her only dialogue in any of her appearances seems to be a single "No." while duelling Nova in New Warriors.

Zuras

Notable Aliases: Father Zuras, Jupiter, Prime Eternal, (Zuras has often been mistaken for the Olympian god Zeus)

First Appearance: Red Raven Comics #1 (May, 1940) ^noteAs Jupiter; The Eternals #5 (August, 1976) ^noteAs Zuras

Zuras is the son of Kronos and Daina, brother of A'Lars (Mentor) and father of Thena. After his father's transformation, he's mostly been the leader of Olympia and the overall ruler of Earth's Eternals, the Prime-Eternal.

A God I Am Not: As he discusses with Tony Stark in issue 7 of the 2006 series:
Zuras: My people aren't heroes, Iron Man. We have been here since the dawn of time. You are Homo sapiens, we are Homo immortalis. We were your gods.
Iron Man: I've met a few gods in my time. You, sir, are no god.
Zuras: Ha! No, I'm not!
Alternate Company Equivalent: Can be seen as the counterpart of DC's Highfather, being the bearded ruler of an immortal race.
Back from the Dead: After being dead for several years and serving as a Spirit Advisor, he was resurrected during the 2006 series. He’s died again at least three times since then but has generally returned more quickly.
Blue-and-Orange Morality: He was initially portrayed as one of the oldest Eternals, and one with somewhat less human priorities as a result. Even though later continuity established that all Eternals are the same age, he’s still got this mindset. The 2021 series with its Human Resources revelation illustrates this, although his later conversations in Judgment Day put it in a more positive light.
The Chains of Commanding: His conversation with Starfox in Judgment Day emphasises that Zuras is motivated by duty. His father Kronos, his uncle Uranos and his brother A'Lars all endangered humanity and the Earth. Zuras wants to do the job the Celestials gave him and protect humanity, but he is a conservative who's extremely aware that all previous attempts to change the status quo have ended badly. He freely admits to being furious and scared by the consequences they've had.
Cool Old Guy: Is this to his grandson Joey, though the two had a rocky start.
Even Evil Has Standards: He is less evil and more antagonistic. With that said, he shows sincere devotion to his pet dog Socrates and his grandson Joey.
Evil Nephew: His nephew happens to be the Omnicidal Maniac Thanos. He murders Zuras twice in a relatively short time, and it's fair to say that they don't get on.
Evil Reactionary: Subverted. He was increasingly portrayed as this from the New Warriors series onwards, but the 2021 series and Judgment Day flesh out his reasoning, which is essentially that 'progress' has never gone well for the Eternals - Kronos destroyed one of the Eternal cities permanently and all of the Eternals, repeatedly, and might have permanently damaged Earth in his "apocalyptic auto-deification", while his brothers A'lars and Uranos caused their own disasters in their own pursuit of their interpretations of 'progress'. A'lars created Thanos and Eros, the former really speaking for himself in how badly that turned out, while the latter was apparently a colossal disappointment. Uranos, meanwhile, was an Omnicidal Maniac who ultimately considered Thanos to be his one not-disappointing relative and who Thanos in return was pleased to refer to as "grandfather."
Evil Redhead: In a sense. He is redheaded and as a leader of the Eternals considers that many things are his fault, and as the leader, he must bear that burden. These things include killing Sprite, though he later approved the resurrected Sprite’s release from the Exclusion, and the conspiracy over the Eternal's resurrection.
Face–Heel Turn: In the 2014 New Warriors series he’s presented as the Big Bad, allied with supervillain the High Evolutionary to try to eliminate Earth’s non-Eternal superhumans, and claiming that their existence will cause the Celestials to destroy the Earth. It’s made pretty clear that he’s lying about the Celestials - and the New Warriors directly call him out on it - but he silences the High Evolutionary before Phastos and other Eternals can get to the truth.
Foreshadowing: In a 2012 guest appearance in Hulk, he’s becoming increasingly concerned that mortal heroes with great power have no qualms about causing chaos and meddling in a way that the Eternals have generally tried to avoid. When he next appears, in New Warriors, he's decided that the mortal superhumans need to be eliminated.
Hereditary Republic: Once Kronos is gone Zuras and his brother A'Lars take it for granted that one of them will inherit the role of Prime Eternal (it's 'their turn', as they see it), even though it's an elected position. And they're right.
Manly Facial Hair: Has a red beard and is the leader of Earth's Eternals.
Reasonable Authority Figure: He's been one of the most stable and positive leaders of the Eternals, determined to do his duty. Of course, their nature and morality are different from humans.

Polarian Eternals

Polaria, the second city of Earth's Eternals, is hidden within the arctic circle.

Aginar

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First Appearance: The Eternals (Vol. 1) #11 (May, 1977)

A Polarian Eternal, friend of Ikaris, and ally to Polaria's leader Valkin. Aginar spent part of the 20th century as a Soviet officer, helping Valkin to reduce nuclear tensions between the superpowers.

Back for the Dead: At the start of the 2021 series, he’s mentioned as one of the Eternals resurrected by the machine. He’s Killed Offscreen by Thanos two issues later, without actually making an appearance in the comic.
Boisterous Bruiser: Aginar's first scene shows him mocking Druig's cruel ways, and by the next page he's in Olympus antagonising the boorish Delphan Brothers. When they hurl a few insults back, it's Aginar who throws the first punch. Despite Ikaris commenting that Aginar relies on Ikaris's strength, Aginar successfully takes on three of the Delphans at once before Ikaris intervenes.
Killed Offscreen: In the 2021 series, when Thanos attacks Polaria, Aginar is listed as one of the dead. He may or may not be one of the unidentified bodies seen in the background, but his death is never shown.
The Mole: Aginar, like Polaria's leader Valkin, spent at least part of the Cold War in the KGB. His loyalty remained with the Eternals, not the USSR, and his real purpose was to keep the Cold War calm and reduce the risk of a nuclear exchange.
Out of Focus: Despite his debut as a Jack Kirby creation in the original The Eternals series, and his status as an ally of Valkin and an old friend (and possibly kinsman) of Ikaris, Aginar almost completely drops out of sight after his debut. He reappears as a background character in Thor, then turns up in a 1984 issue of The Avengers only to be Put on a Bus into space. Since the Soft Reboot he's back on Earth and has been mentioned in passing along with other Polarian Eternals, but has never actually reappeared.
Put on a Bus: After his debut in the original series of The Eternals, Aginar remains Out of Focus and largely out of sight. When he does briefly appear in a 1984 issue of The Avengers, and gets mentioned by name, it's so that his old friend Ikaris can wish him farewell as he leaves Earth with the Uni-Mind. As of 2022, he's back in Polaria, and has been mentioned in passing, but has never been seen again.
Secret Police: Aginar spent at least part of the Cold War in the KGB, as an aide to 'Colonel Vulcannin', Valkin's Mole in Charge identity. Like Valkin, his real purpose was apparently to keep the Cold War cold, reducing the risk of a nuclear exchange.

Akpaxa

First Appearance: Eternals (Vol. 4) #6 (December, 2008)

A Polarian Eternal who was one of Druig's followers when he seized control of the nation of Vorozheika. She later fought the X-Men alongside Druig’s other recruits, before joining forces with them to help defend Earth from the Horde.

Back for the Dead: Briefly reappears in the first arc of the 2021 series. Druig asks her to fetch drinks for his guests - and as soon as she reappears, Thanos attacks the assembled Eternals and immediately kills her. Given their Resurrective Immortality it's unlikely to last, but as of March 2022, she hasn’t reappeared again.
Elite Mook: Essentially her role in Druig’s Vorozheikan faction. She’s not portrayed as one of his more dangerous allies, and despite being a fully powered Eternal, she was unable to break free when the X-Men’s Angel - no stronger than a normal human - grabbed her hair and caught her in a chokehold.
Hand Blasts: From the little we’ve seen of her in battle, these seem to be Akpaxa’s preferred attack.
Remember the New Guy?: Introduced in the 2008 Knauf series and never mentioned before. But, like all of Earth’s Eternals, she’s a million years old and well known to the others.

Arex

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A Polarian Eternal, sibling to the Eternals' priest Ajak, Arex has a brusque personality and little time for mortals.

Hand Blasts: All Eternals have some ability to generate energy blasts, but bolts from hands or fingers seem to be one of Arex's preferred tools. He'll casually throw a warning shot to clear a room, or summon up a glow around his hand to reinforce a threat made in conversation.
Jerkass: Arex's social skills seem to rely on warnings and threats, at least when talking to humans (and he's not much better when interacting with Sersi). When visiting Avengers Mansion, he's arrogant enough to casually throw an energy bolt as a warning, barely missing Vision, then order the Avenger to leave the room because Arex wants a private place to talk. Just asking a mortal politely doesn't seem to occur to him.
Killed Offscreen: Arex doesn't actually appear in the 2021 series, but he's named as one of the victims when Thanos goes on a killing spree in Polaria. Resurrective Immortality brings him back again as usual, though.

Betilakk, the Interloper

The Interloper

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Notable Aliases: Interloper, Will Fanshawe

First Appearance: Defenders #147 (September, 1985)

A solitary Polar Eternal who’s spent millennia battling against the Dragon of the Moon. He left his isolation to assist the Defenders after their telepathic member Moondragon was fully possessed by her namesake.

Probably the most prominent Eternal who’s not yet appeared in an Eternals series, only in other titles.

Back for the Dead: At the start of the 2021 series, he’s mentioned as one of the Eternals resurrected by the machine. He’s Killed Offscreen by Thanos two issues later, without actually making an appearance in the comic.
Eye Beams: All Eternals can potentially use them, but the Interloper is very effective with them, and they seem to be his weapon of choice.
Gentle Giant: The guy stands at 8’/244cm tall, yet he was content to wander the Siberian wilderness without interacting much with other people. And despite his stature, he's not a brawler in battle, preferring to use mental powers and ranged attacks.
Killed Offscreen: In the 2021 series, when Thanos attacks Polaria.
The Magnificent: With his Given Name Reveal in the 2021 series, his nickname was repositioned as an epithet.
Manly Facial Hair: Has a pretty impressive beard - and is an Eternal.
Meaningful Appearance: Has a hat that makes him look gentlemanly.
The Mentor: To supervillain Manslaughter. He was impressed at Manslaughter tracking him down - the only human to find him in centuries - so taught him how to use his latent psychic powers.
Only Friend: Claims that the only other Eternal he befriended was The Forgotten One since they both were loners even amongst their kind.
Only Known by Their Nickname: Introduced as “The Interloper” towards the end of the Defenders series in 1985, Betilakk’s name was only revealed on a data page when the Machine rebooted the Eternals at the start of the 2021 series.
Pelts of the Barbarian: Dresses in furs and leather, including fingerless bearskin gloves that still have the claws attached.
Walk on Water: Can presumably fly, like other Eternals, but seems to prefer this.

Druig

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Notable Aliases: Ivan Druig, Druig of Nightmares

First Appearance: Eternals #11 (February, 1977)

Druig, Lord of Flames and Nightmares, is a Polarian Eternal, grandson of Uranos, son of Valkin and cousin to Ikaris. A former member of the genocidal Uranite faction and a power-hungry schemer, Druig is a disappointment to his father.

His current body is East Asian in appearance, whereas his previous one was Caucasian, as was the form he had when he clashed with Thor and the Deviant Dromedan many centuries ago - although flashbacks to the 13th century show him using the same East Asian appearance at that time.

Animal Motifs: The 2021 comic associates Druig with a snake.
- The "Immortal X-Men" comic has the religious-minded mutant Exodus imagine Druig as a hydra beast, with one head bearing Druig's goatee.
Back from the Dead: He was killed off at the end of the original Jack Kirby series (1977) and wasn’t resurrected until the 2006 series introduced the Eternals’ Resurrective Immortality.
Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: He was one of the Uranites, but eventually betrayed them, saving the Earth. He is also the one who defeated Thanos in the 2021 comic.
Druig: If I did not join the Uranites and then betray them, the world would be a ball of rock. You admire Ikaris, but Ikaris made no difference in the war. He punched. He blustered. He acted like a hero. I understand that you prefer a heroic style to actual results, father. Some of us believe in content.
Beard of Evil: Has a goatee, and is one of the few Eternals that are evil. Noticeably averted with his MCU version.
Big Bad Wannabe: For the A.X.E.: Judgment Day event, Marvel's 2022 Crisis Crossover. Newly elected as Prime Eternal, he launches a war against the mutants as a Genghis Gambit, hoping to cement his grip on power. He swiftly realises that he's underestimated his opponents, and then things really spiral out of control after the Avengers get involved.
Clashing Cousins: He's the biggest foe of his cousin Ikaris.
Crazy-Prepared: Thanos, wary that Druig might know how to activate the Explosive Leash failsafe that Phastos had created to control him, killed Druig and then resurrected him with Laser-Guided Amnesia. Before dying, Druig arranged a Betrayal Insurance plan to posthumously trigger the failsafe if Thanos took certain actions. When it activates it's even accompanied by a recorded message telling Thanos why he's about to die.
Everybody Has Standards: After having witnessed Uranos at work on Arakko, he is distinctly reluctant to let him out a second time.
I Am the Noun: The 2021 series, which uses this approach for many Eternals, describes Druig as the snake.
Manipulative Bastard: He's basically an Expy of Loki in this regard, when dealing with beings he can't terrify into submission. He tries it on Thanos in the 2021 series, and gets bluntly shut down. Apparently, as "lickspittles" go, he doesn't really compare to Mephisto. Despite this, he still ends up as Thanos's right hand man, and eventually betrays and replaces him as Prime Eternal.
Paper Tiger: His tenure as Prime Eternal is bitterly marked by his being pushed around by Uranos on difficult decisions.
Pointy Ears: He's got pointy ears on the 2021 series, signifying his devious mindset.
Pragmatic Villainy: He's perfectly willing to bide his time and, where necessary, be helpful to more heroic Eternals - if it serves his interests.
Professional Butt-Kisser: Acts as one to Thanos in the 2021 comic, though he considers himself more a "people-pleaser". It doesn't make him less dangerous; the Machine points out that venom is a specialized form of saliva. His betrayal and usurping of Thanos proves this.
Red and Black and Evil All Over: His armour - and most of the outfits he wears - in the Gaiman and Knauf series are black and red (he preferred red and pale blue in the original Kirby series)
Ret-Canon: Notably averted in the 2021 series. He’s the only Eternal from the MCU adaptation who still has an appearance and personality significantly different from their film equivalent.
Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: Druig engineers Thanos’s election as the new Prime Eternal. Thanos’s first action is to kill him.
Sealed Evil in a Can: After his disastrous and murderous decisions in the A.X.E.: Judgment Day event, he's condemned to the Exclusion. Just to make it worse, he's sharing a cell with his grandfather, the Omnicidal Maniac Uranos, who he betrayed millennia ago. And yes, Uranos does still hold a grudge.
Secondary Color Nemesis: For the 2021 series his clothes are purple and green, and he's still the most antagonistic of the Eternals.
Smug Snake: The Machine identifies Druig as the snake, and he fittingly is charming, treacherous, but not always as clever as he thinks he is.
Telepathy: This is his specific trade, just as Sersi's is transmogrification and Makkari's is speed. He even assists Thanos in invading his father's mind.
Token Evil Teammate: He's the only Eternal associated with Olympia that is evil. He even lampshades it in the 2021 series.
Touché: Thanos outsmarts Druig, kills him and resurrects him with Laser-Guided Amnesia. Upon reviving, after immediately working out why and what happened, he gives Thanos a smile and says “Masterfully done”.
Trauma Button: One of Druig's powers is the ability to find people's deepest, darkest fears and exploit them to control their minds.
Trademark Favorite Food: The Judgment Day comic sees him enjoying doughnuts.
Underestimating Badassery: On the receiving end. Druig generally prefers to avoid hand-to-hand combat, but centuries ago he decided to swoop down from the sky and wrestle a suspicious figure who was fighting some mortals. It was Thor. It did not go well for Druig.
Villainous Valor: He is noted to have great tenacity and determination and will work hard to achieve his ends... except it will only ever be for his own ends.

Legba

First Appearance: Eternals (Vol. 4) #1 (August, 2008)

A decadent Eternal who allies with Druig when he takes control of Vorozheika. Sometimes the voice of reason for Druig’s faction, and possibly the closest thing Druig has to a friend.

A Day in the Limelight: The 2009 Eternals annual, where he’s the only representative of Druig’s faction, gives him an awful lot more screen time and dialogue than any of his other appearances. Also, he saves the day.
Affably Evil: Friendly and talkative, even if he has limited patience with people who assume he’s just Druig’s catspaw.
Break Them by Talking: When the Young Gods return and take control of Madripoor, the other Eternals immediately start fighting them. Whereas Legba finds their leader Varuna - who’s protected by her psychic force shield - and spends the time eating sushi and chatting to her. Eventually, he makes a comment that causes her to briefly doubt her convictions. And then he decapitates her with Eye Beams before she can regain her focus on the shield.
The Hedonist: Apparently the actual Emperor Commodus, of all people, labelled Legba as a "sybarite" during an orgy. And he should know. Bonus points for the fact that this is an anecdote shared by Legba himself - he seems quite proud of it.
Remember the New Guy?: Introduced in 2008 after a passing mention in the 2006 series - and never mentioned before that. But like all of Earth’s Eternals, he’s been there for a million years - and Druig knows him very well.
Sinister Minister: While amnesiac after Sprite’s reality-warping, he ends up as a hypocritical fire-and-brimstone Louisiana preacher, extremely fond of the pleasures of the flesh.

Valkin

First Appearance: Red Raven Comics #1 (May, 1940) ^noteAs Vulcan; Eternals #11 (February, 1977) ^noteAs Valkin

Ikaris's uncle and Druig's father, son of Uranos and leader of the Polarian Eternals. Valkin spent much of the Cold War as a KGB officer, Colonel Vulcannin, trying to subtly reduce tension between the west and the USSR to avoid open war.

The Bus Came Back: Before the 2021 series, his only appearance since 1998 was a flashback in a 2011 Thor story. He gets a mention in the first issue of the new series, then gets Killed Offscreen by Thanos two issues later (Resurrective Immortality means this is temporary) and makes a proper return in 2022 special The Heretic.
Disappointed in You: His son Druig is a huge disappointment to him.
Valkin: Once more, you are a disappointment, Druig. Once more. I would rather the Celestials had carved me a statue in dung than given you to me.
Disproportionate Retribution: Brother Tode’s Deviants captured the Eternals and tortured some to death. After Tode was defeated, Valkin insisted on “most of Earth’s Deviant population” being molecularly translated and compressed into a cube, which was then left floating in space. The process was described as fatal and irreversible. Subsequent stories suggested that it was actually just “the elite of Lemuria” who suffered that fate, and Tode and some of his troops may well have warranted the death penalty, but...
Distinguished Gentleman's Pipe: Colonel Vulcannin was frequently seen with his pipe.
False Flag Operation: Arranges an impromptu one to support Makkari in the 1950s, convincing a Soviet spy captured by the USA that Makkari’s NSA agent identity “Jake Curtiss” is actually a double agent working for Vulcannin and the USSR.
In the Blood: He possesses great mental abilities, just like his son Druig.
Killed Offscreen: In the 2021 series, when Thanos attacks Polaria. He gets better.
Laser-Guided Amnesia: Valkin’s very skilled with his mental powers and was even able to inflict this on Thor when they first met, centuries ago.
Mole in Charge: Colonel Vulcannin holds a very senior role in the KGB, but his true loyalties aren’t with the USSR.
Nephewism: In the original continuity, Valkin’s nephew Ikaris was still a child (by Eternal standards) when his father Virako died in battle. His mother Tulayn had apparently died in a teleportation accident centuries earlier, so he was largely raised by Valkin, and the two have remained close.
Overt Operative: Admittedly he’s not a KGB field agent, but “Colonel Vulcannin” is apparently so well known that a Soviet spy in America can be relied on to recognize him on sight.
Sealed Good in a Can: Thanos has him Excluded when he refuses to support the new order.
Secret Police: Spent at least part of the Cold War in the role of Colonel Vulcannin of the KGB.
Signature Headgear: He's almost always seen with his winged headgear.

Virako

First Appearance: Thor Annual #7 (September, 1978)

A polar Eternal. Father of Ikaris, son of Uranos and friend of Thor. Virako was killed a thousand years ago, sacrificing himself in a battle against the Deviants, so wasn’t part of the original Jack Kirby cast. He was eventually resurrected in modern times, but has remained a background character and hasn’t generally been portrayed as close to his son.

Back for the Dead: At the start of the 2021 series, he’s mentioned as one of the Eternals resurrected by the machine. He’s Killed Offscreen by Thanos two issues later, without actually making an appearance in the comic.
Back from the Dead: One of the first Eternals to be resurrected, back before their Resurrective Immortality was established as part of the mythos. Phastos managed to reconstitute his body a thousand years after he died.
A Day in the Limelight: Thor: The Deviants Saga, which sees the resurrected Virako, one of only two Eternals left in Olympia, reunited with his old comrade Thor. He even narrates the opening sequence for one issue.
Fish out of Temporal Water: In Thor: The Deviants Saga he comments that after a thousand years dead, he feels disconnected from his fellow Eternals.
Killed Offscreen: In the 2021 series, when Thanos attacks Polaria.
Strong Family Resemblance: In most appearances, he’s almost identical to Ikaris - only their hair colour differs. Thor, who knows Virako, sees Ikaris for the first time and immediately realizes who he is.
Suicide Attack: On the Deviants’ World-Devouring Worm, centuries ago. Virako irradiates himself and flies down its throat before unleashing a fatal explosion.
We Are as Mayflies: When he’s resurrected in the 2000 New Eternals special, he really doesn’t understand why everyone’s so concerned about the humans.

The Celestian Priests

The six Eternal priests (six is a holy number for Eternals) - each one with a different title and responsibility - are based in the hidden South American city of Celestia.

In General

The Ghost: I-Chel ("Keeper of the Skies"), The Delphan Mother ("Keeper of the Soil") and Harpokratis ("Keeper of the Mysteries") have been mentioned, but never appeared.
Numerological Motif: Six is an important number to Eternals (and High-Tech Hexagons are a recurring feature). And so there are six priests.

Ajak

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Notable Aliases: Quetzacoatl, Tecumotzin, Lord of Flight, Ajax the Greater, He Who Talks To Celestials, Ajak Celestia.

First Appearance: Eternals #2 (May, 1976)

One of the Eternals' Celestian Priests, the "Keeper of the Old Ways" and spokesperson for the Third and Fourth Host of the Celestials on Earth.

Ambiguously Absent Parent: Ajak’s parents Amaa and Rakar were named in the 1980s, but have remained The Unseen ever since. The 2021 series at least establishes that Amaa’s living in Polaria and Rakar’s in Olympia. For that matter, although Ajak’s brother Arex has appeared as a minor character in some Eternals stories, he’s never been shown interacting with Ajak.
Back from the Dead: Ajak's killed at the end of The Herod Factor (1991) and doesn't return until the 2006 series introduces the initial version of Eternal Resurrective Immortality.
Cool Helmet: Ajak wears an elaborate Inca-inspired helmet.
Crisis of Faith: Happens to them at least twice -
- When the Dreaming Celestial chose to speak to Makkari instead, Ajak was furious, felt abandoned, and killed Makkari.
- When the Celestials cease communication after telling her they no longer need the Eternals, it hits her very hard. When they talk to the Avengers directly, without the cryptic messages she received for a million years, that makes it even worse.
- All of this then finds a very violent outlet when she realises that a Celestial ghost isn’t protected by the Principles.
A Day in the Spotlight: She's the protagonist of the A.X.E.: Eternals and Celestia one-shots, and plays a key role in the finale of the wider A.X.E.: Judgment Day event. Prior to the Gillen run, Ajak was very much a supporting character.
Face–Heel Turn: After Makkari was chosen as a priest by the Dreaming Celestial, Ajak took it pretty badly and arranged his murder. Flashbacks and events in the 2021 series make it clear that this is a recurring sore point for Ajak, and they’re quite prepared to kill anyone who offends their faith in the Celestials.
Face–Monster Turn: In The Herod Factor, Doctor Damian uses the machines of Celestia to mutate Ajak into a bestial form and then sends him out on a killing spree in the human world. Once Ajak regains self-control and realizes what Damian’s done to him, he kills both of them.
The Fundamentalist: Ajak's devotion to the Celestials and their principles turns them into this at times. During the "Judgement Day" event, the Progenitor points out that she has too much faith in her gods and that she'd do anything for them, including genocide.
Humanity on Trial: The ending of A.X.E.: Judgment Day sees her ascend to godhood and replace the Celestial Progenitor, including its mission to judge the inhabitants of Earth. The very final scene shows Ajak's hand outstretched in judgment, thumb horizontal but wavering.
I Am the Noun: The 2021 series, which uses this approach for many Eternals, describes Ajak as the believer.
Mission from God: Apart from their service to the Celestials, Ajak’s also on good terms with the Inca gods. Tezcatlipoca asks them to step in and represent the Incan, Aztec and Mayan pantheons on a mission during the Secret Invasion crossover.
The Mutiny: During Secret Invasion he decides to act against Hercules and seize the leadership of the ‘god squad’. And he does this at the very last minute, physically attacking Hercules after they encounter the Skrull deities they’re trying to defeat. It gets Atum and Ajak himself killed.
Purple Is Powerful: They're usually seen wearing a purple cloak.
Reincarnated as the Opposite Sex: Ajak was originally portrayed as male in the comics, but after the full reset of the Eternals at the start of the 2021 series, they were resurrected as a woman (matching their Marvel Cinematic Universe portrayal in the Eternals film). Flashbacks and narration subsequently confirm that they were originally female when first created by the Celestials, a million years ago.
Ret-Canon: Resurrected as a woman in the 2021 series, matching her portrayal in the Eternals film. Flashbacks in Celestia show her wearing the same form as her first body, a million years ago.
Sealed Good in a Can: Ajak spent centuries asleep in Peru, awaiting the return of the Celestials.
Speech Bubbles: As Ajak Celestia, she uses the same stylised speech bubbles as her predecessor, the Progenitor. Speech and borders are red, against a black background.
Superior Successor: A discussed trope. This is the Progenitor's hope and last request when she ascends to become the goddess Ajak Celestia.
Underestimating Badassery: During Secret Invasion Ajak chooses to duel Kly’bn, the last Skrull Eternal. Kly’bn points out that he’s now a deity, not just an Eternal - and Ajak finds himself outmatched.
Yandere: Ajak would kill for the Celestials and their commands. They once killed Makkari when he got the role of Celestial herald, and when Ajak heard the Avengers got their hands on a Celestial body for a base she deemed them heretics exploiting a god's corpse and is last seen stirring up fellow Eternals for an attack on them. In Judgement Day, everyone up to and including the Progenitor points out her fanaticism. However, interestingly, by the time of Gillen's Eternals run when the Eternals had found out the truth that they were the ultimately expendable part of the Celestial plan, her devotion is more to the idea of the Celestials than the Celestials themselves.
You Are a Credit to Your Race: They generally don't think much of non-Eternals, though not quite to Fantastic Racism extents, but Ajak respects Tony Stark enough to consider him first choice to create a new Celestial (the Progenitor, which went badly), and when Sinister snipes over Jean getting a thumbs down from the Progenitor, she snaps that Jean is simultaneously protecting them by holding the heart of a miniaturised star apart and debating with a Celestial and therefore a significant being who is worthy of respect.
Zeroth Law Rebellion: When she discovers that a Celestial's ghost isn't technically protected by the Principles, and doesn't like some of its answers, her Yandere and Fundamentalist tendencies are redirected into a very vicious beating.

Makkari

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Notable Aliases: Mike Khary, Frank Harper, Mark Curry, Jake Curtiss, Major Mercury, Hurricane, Mercury, Adam Clayton, Mac Curry, Michael Gray, Thoth

First Appearance: Red Raven Comics #1 (May, 1940) ^noteAs Mercury; Captain America Comics #1 (December, 1940) ^noteAs Hurricane; Eternals #5 (August, 1976) ^noteAs Makkari

Makkari is the fastest of the Eternals and was specifically created by the Dreaming Celestial, who wanted to optimize an Eternal as a speedster.

When the Dreaming Celestial finally wakes, Makkari is chosen as its representative on Earth, joining the Eternal priests as their "Keeper of the New Ways".

In older Eternals comics, Makkari was portrayed as a Caucasian man. However, in the 2021 series they are resurrected as a Black woman, in line with the character’s appearance in the Eternals film.

Ambiguously Absent Parent: Their parents Veron and Mara were named in the 1980s, but have remained The Unseen. The 2021 series confirms that they’re both in Olympia.
Brought Down to Badass: Immediately before the 2021 series, Makkari becomes deaf and mute, only able to communicate through sign language. She's also lost her active telepathy, although she can hold a telepathic conversation if someone else starts it. She's still the fastest of all Eternals.
Cool Shades: Sports some really cool eye protection, necessary in their running.
Composite Character: Mercury and Hurricane, two seemingly unrelated Golden Age speedsters, were later retconned into disguises of Makkari.
Crippling Overspecialization: Once gave up all of their other Eternal powers in exchange for being able to solely focus on improving their already impressive Super-Speed.
Hunter of Monsters: Was a member of the pre-Fantastic Four adventurer team, the Monster Hunters, alongside Ulysses Bloodstone, Doctor Druid, Zawadi of the Wakandas, and Gorgilla.
I Am the Noun: The 2021 series, which uses this approach for many Eternals, simply describes Makkari as ‘fast’.
Kidnapped Scientist: Does this to Mr Sinister from Krakoa at the start of the Judgment Day event.
The Mole: Not a malevolent one but, in the 1950s, as "Jake Curtiss", Makkari was an agent of the NSA - and they had no idea that his loyalty lay elsewhere (or that he was communicating with "Colonel Vulkannin" of the KGB, another disguised Eternal).
Red Ones Go Faster: Makkari's color has always been red and they're considered the fastest of all Eternals.
Reincarnated as the Opposite Sex: After the full reset of the Eternals at the start of the 2021 series, Makkari was resurrected as a woman (matching their portrayal in the MCU Eternals film).
Ret-Canon: In the 2021 series, Makkari is resurrected as a Black woman, matching her portrayal in the Eternals film. She’s also deaf (after a disastrous incident when she tried to contact the Dreaming Celestial), which also matches her actor and portrayal.
Revision: The late 90s series Marvel Universe revealed that 1940s speedster heroes Mercury and Hurricane were actually Makkari in disguise. Marvel: The Lost Generation established he was also a member of the pre-Fantastic Four superteam the First Line as Major Mercury.
The Speedster: All versions of Makkari have used superspeed.
- Prior to the retcons of the Eternals (2006) series, Makkari originally had a number of powers such as flight and energy blasts, but their focus on enhancing their speed caused their other powers to vanish or weaken drastically.
- The Eternals (2006) series established that Makkari was specifically created as a speedster by the Dreaming Celestial, who thought it would be interesting to optimise an Eternal for extreme speed.
Super-Speed: Makkari devoted the majority of their Eternal energies to the improvement of personal speed. They can create cyclones by running in circles and can run up walls and across the water. At one point in their life, Makkari trained with the Eternal guru Elo to boost their speed to unprecedented levels, making them one of the fastest beings in the entire Marvel Universe.
Super Team: Makkari was a member of both the above-mentioned Monster Hunters and the pre-Fantastic Four super-team, the First Line.
Totally Radical: In earlier stories, prior to Neil Gaiman's Soft Reboot, Makkari used a lot of slang that was overdone, outdated, or both. Justified as they were an ancient immortal trying to adopt modern mortals' language and not always getting it right. This is especially noticeable when he's a supporting character in Quasar.
Makkari: Right-on, band-man!
Quasar: Say, where did you learn English?
Makkari: Just picked it up. Talk like a native, huh?

Master Elo

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First Appearance: Quasar #12

One of the six Celestian Priests, the Keeper of the Paths. Elo's guidance is sought by those wishing to improve and focus their abilities - Makkari sought him out to improve their speed and, at one point, the Deviants kidnapped Elo to help train their Lemurian gladiators.

Hermit Guru: Prior to the Soft Reboot he was portrayed as a hermit living in a Himalayan cave. Although he's not reappeared since the reboot, he's apparently now based in Celestia with the other priests.
Levitating Lotus Position: All Eternals can fly, so this isn't entirely surprising, but Master Elo meditates while cross-legged and levitating. He's largely oblivious to his surroundings while doing so, which also allows the Deviants to capture him.
Put on a Bus: Master Elo was introduced in a Quasar storyline alongside Makkari, back in 1990. Subsequent stories have mentioned him, but he hasn't reappeared since (and has never directly appeared in an Eternals comic).

The Lemurian Mission

As of the start of the 2021 series, these Eternals dwell amongst their hereditary enemies in the Deviant city of Lemuria.

Khoryphos

First Appearance: Eternals (Vol. 2) #1 (July, 1985)

An Eternal musician who’s now settled in the Deviant city of Lemuria. He’s capable of subtly affecting other people’s minds and emotions.

Alien Arts Are Appreciated: When Khoryphos first finds himself teleported to Lemuria and inside Yrdisis’s house, he’s immediately won over by her paintings, which he hadn’t expected anything like that as part of Deviant culture.
Happily Married: To Yrdisis, most unusually for their Eternal-Deviant status.
Hot Guy, Ugly Wife: By human standards, he’s fairly attractive, whereas his lover Yrdisis, like many other Deviants, looks rather ugly.
I Am the Noun: The 2021 series, which uses this approach for many Eternals, describes him as the lyre.
Interspecies Romance: With the Deviant artist Yrdisis.
Non-Action Guy: Describes himself as “an artist first... warrior second”, and rarely if ever ends up in direct combat.
Opposites Attract: An Eternal with a Deviant wife.
Shout-Out: Many Eternals have names that echo mythology, for reasons that make sense in-universe - but Khoryphos and Yrdisis are a specific allusion to Orpheus and Eurydice.
Underground Railroad: Ran one in Deviant Lemuria with his partner Yrdisis after the initial fall of Ghaur's priesthood, saving innocents from execution and smuggling them out of the city.

Thena

Alter Ego: Azura (birth name)

Notable Aliases: Thena Eliot, Athena, Zura, Betty Sue Bialovsky, Prime Eternal

First Appearance: Red Raven Comics #1 (May, 1940) ^noteAs Minerva; Eternals #5 (August, 1976) ^noteAs Thena

Daughter of Zuras and Cybele and the granddaughter of Kronos (all of which also makes her cousin to Thanos and Eros). She is one of the few Eternals known to have children in modern times, mother of Deborah and Donald Ritter, as well as Joey Eliot. Thena is the occasional lover of the Deviant Kro (father of Deborah and Donald) and once served as the Prime Eternal after Zuras’s death.

Badass Boast: In the Heroes for Hire series, Thena confronts the Omega-level mutant Exodus. When he says her physical power is impressive but outmatched by his vast mental powers, Thena points out that she also has those. In abundance. And Exodus, who’s fought entire teams of X-Men and Avengers, backs down.
Badass Cape: Thena is often seen with a red cape.
Bling of War: Her golden armour is quite impressive.
Flying Brick: More competent in this role than many Eternals - she claims she’s not a great flier, but once casually clotheslined Iron Man.
Gold and White Are Divine: She is generally associated with gold. This extends to her children Donald and Deborah and Joey.
I Am the Noun: The 2021 series, which uses this approach for many Eternals, describes her as the book and the blade.
Interspecies Romance:
- With Deviants, more often than not. Considering that the Eternals are pretty much the Deviants' most hated enemies/most feared opponents, this leads to somewhat... odd situations.
- Thena also married a human when she was left amnesiac by Sprite’s reality-warping in the 2006 series. Her husband was killed, but she has a son from that relationship, Joey.
Kissing Cousins: Downplayed, but Ikaris and Thena are second cousins and the Eternals (2006) series confirms that they've slept together. Then again, Eternal families aren't really biological families, so…
Lady of War: Thena is as elegant as she is skilled in warfare.
Light Feminine Dark Feminine: She seems to be the light to Sersi's dark.
Mama Bear: She is fiercely devoted to the children she has sired across her history: Donald and Deborah Ritter and Joey Athena.
Spontaneous Weapon Creation: Thena can shape cosmic energy into weapons.
Statuesque Stunner: She's 5'10"/178cm tall and very beautiful.
Transmutation: Thena can manipulate matter on a molecular level, though not with the same skill as Sersi.
You Are in Command Now: Became the leader of the Eternals for a time after the death of her father Zuras.

The Gaian Sisters

In General

The Ghost: So far, Tulayn is the only member of the Sisters who have not made an appearance in the comics.
The Hecate Sisters: Three sisters, with their roles covering past, present and future. The Born as an Adult nature of the Eternals’ creation means that the usual Maiden, Mother and Crone model is subverted, though. All three sisters are actually mothers of prominent characters (Tulayn is Ikaris’s mother, Cybele is Thena’s and Daina is Zuras and A’Lars’s mother).
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In the 2021 series, the Sisters are reported to be pretty unhappy with Zuras’s performance as Prime Eternal, so don’t vote to reappoint him. Which helps someone else win the election.

Cybele

Cybele of Times Present

Notable Aliases: The Great Mother, Dyndymene, Rhea, Agdistis

First Appearance: Eternals (Vol. 2) #1 (July, 1985)

The wife of Zuras, mother of Thena and (depending on the continuity) technically Queen of the Eternals.

All There in the Manual: Her aliases are given in the Marvel handbooks, not shown in her appearances.
The Bus Came Back: Hasn’t been seen since the 1980s, despite her relationship to Thena and her role as one of Earth’s few remaining Eternals (before the 2006 series soft reboot). The 2021 series immediately establishes her as one of the Gaian Sisters.
Impossibly-Low Neckline: Her outfit during her debut exposed even more than Sersi.
Minor Major Character: Despite being the wife and mother of two of the most prominent Eternals, she has played a very minor role in stories, and she actually prefers to be this way.
Mum Looks Like a Sister: Doesn’t look any older than her daughter Thena.
Nature Lover: She always had a great interest in nature, and was even confused with the Earth goddess Gaea during the days of Ancient Greece.
Parental Neglect: When her daughter Thena was formally appointed as Prime Eternal after Zuras’s death, Cybele didn’t turn up for the ceremony - and was one of several Eternals to cover their absence with a hologram, so that Thena didn’t notice.

Daina

Daina of Times Past

First Appearance: Eternals: Thanos Rises #1 (September, 2021)

Wife of Kronos, mother of Zuras and A'lars.

Bald Mystic: She has no hair and is a pretty enigmatic Eternal, which also makes her eyebrows more prominent.
Cool Old Lady: Arranged a peace summit between her warring children, on a set of molecules. And she is a million years old - although, technically, she’s no older than her children or any of Earth’s other Eternals.
I Have No Son!: Downplayed, but in the 2021 series Druig happily notes that all three of the Sisters have had more than enough of Zuras, and won’t be voting for him as Prime Eternal.
Unseen No More: Daina was first mentioned in Mentor's entry in Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe #7, almost 40 years before finally appearing in Eternals: Thanos Rises #1.

The Tricks

The four Eternal crime lords.

In General

Playing Card Motifs: Jack of Knives, the Queen of Maces, the Knight Ungallant, all named for playing cards (jack, queen, knight). 'The Tricks' also serves as a card game reference.
Only in It for the Money: A.X.E.: Eve of Judgment mentions that they're only loyal to the highest bidder.
Super Mob Boss: The Tricks are essentially Eternal crime lords

Jack of Knives

First Appearance: Eternals (Vol. 5) #7 (November, 2021)

An amoral and dangerous Eternal, one of the four Tricks. Druig describes them as the Eternals' finest assassin. Their allegiance can be bought, and for the right price, they'll kill, vote to empower a monster, or perhaps even pretend to care. Jack uses they/them pronouns and is implied to be non-binary.

Affably Evil: Very ominous when paid to threaten Ikaris, but much more approachable and informal when chatting to Sersi, their employer.
Blade Enthusiast: Jack collects knives and swords, with a 'Hall of Blades' housing their private collection.
Catchphrase: Jack tends to use "Be seeing you." when leaving, a line made famous by The Prisoner.
I Am the Noun: The 2021 series, which uses this approach for many Eternals, describes them as the knife, commenting that their name serves as fair warning.
Devious Daggers: Jack wields daggers (and can summon up additional blades - they're not limited to the two they visibly carry) and they're a million year old immortal assassin, Stealth Expert and crime lord, arguably making them one of the Ur-archtypes in the Marvel setting.
Flaming Sword: A variant. Jack's throwing knives can be wrapped in flame.
Names to Run Away from Really Fast: The Machine’s commentary notes that the only consideration Jack’s ever shown for others is in choosing a name which also acts as a warning.
Remember the New Guy?: Introduced in the 2021 series and never mentioned before. But like all of Earth’s Eternals, they’ve been there for a million years - and characters such as Ikaris and Sersi clearly know them.
Stealth Expert:
- Jack claims they’re good enough to hide from Sersi if they really want to. Their powers are certainly more than enough to hide from normal people and less adept Eternals, as well as things like Wolverine's enhanced senses and Emma Frost's telepathy.
- They are so stealthy that they complain to Sersi, who's sneaking along with them, that she's being too conspicuous because she's bumping into molecules.
- Wolverine directly acknowledges their skills towards the end of A.X.E.: Judgment Day, directly stating that Jack's sneakier than he is.
Villain Respect: They're genuinely impressed by Wolverine's skills after he spots - and stabs - Jack based solely on traces of a victim's blood on their knife.
We Are as Mayflies: Has a very detached view of human lives, as they die so quickly that it’s not really worth caring about, makes you wonder what their criminal activities are like.

The Forgotten

A relatively new faction of Eternals - only about ten thousand years old. The Forgotten are vigilantes who’ve removed themselves from Eternal society and violently punish Eternals they see as harmful to humanity.

In General

Fights Like a Normal: Except for the Forgotten One himself, they’ve been shown using guns rather than powers. Although these particular guns are capable of killing an Eternal.
Invisibility Cloak: The Forgotten use stealth suits that make them almost transparent and very hard to detect.
Mythical Motifs: Their ranks constitute Gilgamesh, Utunaa, Dumzaa and Ishtaa, all figures of Babylonian myth (named after the Sumerian deities Etana, Dumuzid and Ishtar).
Well-Intentioned Extremist: They’re considered a radical pro-human faction, vigilantes who police other Eternals and kill them when they hurt humans or otherwise get out of line. Unfortunately, none of them knew about the Human Resources element of Eternal immortality, so every Eternal they’ve temporarily slain also meant another human death.

The Forgotten One (Gilgamesh)

The Forgotten One

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Notable Aliases: Gilgamesh, Hero, Gil, Hero of Sumer, Lost Eternal, Beloved of the Muses, Dragon-Slayer, Forgotten Nemesis, Beast of Legend, King Gilgamesh

First Appearance: Eternals #13 (April, 1977)

The Forgotten One has been known by many names, most notably Gilgamesh, but his original name has been deliberately deleted from the records. By Eternal standards, he's seen as a dangerous vigilante, an extreme pro-human radical.

Back for the Dead: In the Knauf series. Ajak reaches the amnesiac Forgotten One first, brainwashes him and sends him on a rampage. Thena is forced to kill him.
Boisterous Bruiser: In some of his appearances. In others, he’s much more of a Blood Knight - in the 2021 series he’s directly compared to The Punisher.
Brainwashed and Crazy: By Ajak in the Knauf series. He very nearly kills Druig, Legba and Makkari.
The Captain: As of the 2021 series he leads his own small faction, the Forgotten.
Continuity Snarl: After the 2006 series (in which he doesn’t appear) he’s an amnesiac until Ajak finds him in the Knauf series, sends him Brainwashed and Crazy, and Thena’s forced to kill him. And yet he’s also wandering about in Thor: The Deviants Saga, alive, with his memories intact. And that series directly states that the resurrection machines are still broken.
Cool Mask: For the 2021 series he wears a mask that completely covers his face.
Eternal Hero: The definitive article right here — he inspired the universal concept of the Hero archetype in humanity's collective unconscious in the first place. He is essentially The Hero with a Thousand Faces manifest. Fittingly, he sometimes simply goes by "Hero" like he owns the word. Plus, his main moniker doesn't exactly roll off the tongue, so who can blame him?
The Fog of Ages: Having walked amongst fleeting humanity for millennia, the Forgotten One embodies the wandering immortal trope best of all the Eternals. He's acted as a guardian or ruler of innumerable civilizations and his many names are scribed in legend and folklore throughout the world. But the tragic irony is that nobody really knows anything about him, not even his real name.
Hand Blasts: His preferred option for foes too far away to punch.
Handicapped Badass: At one point, as retold in Thor, he was caught in an explosion on a Celestial spaceship and left drifting through space before the Celestials revived and empowered him. The experience left him blind, with Sprite sometimes acting as his guide. Blindness didn’t stop him from holding his own in battle against both Thor and Hercules, mind you.
I Am the Noun: The 2021 series, which uses this approach for many Eternals, describes him as the righteous fist.
I Have Many Names: He has taken on countless identities throughout human history, including legendary heroes from various mythologies such as Hercules, Samson, Atlas and Beowulf, but his most synonymous alias is Gilgamesh. (Though it gets a bit confusing when you realize that all of these characters also exist independently in the Marvel Universe as well...)
Mistaken Identity:
- In ancient times he was mistaken for Hercules and a few other "mythic" strongmen. Which created a mild Continuity Snarl, because The Incredible Hercules is already a character in the Marvel canon.
- In modern times, it works both ways - Hercules was mistaken for an amnesiac Gilgamesh following the 2006 series, and The Incredible Hercules took care to explain Gilgamesh's claim to have been Hercules. Eventually, the two of them ended up as housemates for a while. (Unless that one was the other Gilgamesh - as noted, it gets a bit confusing. Especially when Eternals also change their appearances)
Somebody Named "Nobody": He is commonly known as the Forgotten One to his Eternals. His original name has been deleted from the Machine’s records.
Super-Strength: Even among his fellow Eternals, his strength is renowned. He's able to trade blows with Thor and Hercules without too much effort.

The Oceanic Watch

These Eternals supported the genocidal Uranos in the Eternals’ first major civil war. When he lost, they were killed, exiled or fled into space (and eventually died).

When they were resurrected, Oceanus, who had not supported Uranos, convinced wider Eternal society that the moral judgement of these former Uranites was flawed and could not be trusted again.

On that basis, they became the Oceanic Watch - a force of warriors under Oceanus’s supervision, loyal to Earth’s Prime Eternal and trusting their leadership rather than making any moral decisions of their own.

In General

The Bus Came Back: Arlok, Shastra and Astron first debuted in 1981 in the Eternals’ back-up stories in the What If? comics. They haven’t been seen since - and were assumed dead - but return in the 2021 series.
Faceless Goons: During their attack on Lemuria. They’re all wearing full body armour, with helmets that completely cover their face. And none of them get any dialogue.
Loyal to the Position: They are considered this, due to their reluctance to make any moral judgements of their own.
Remember the New Guy?: Argii, Thryio, and Kalos the Destroyer may have been among the nameless Uranite exiles pictured in the original stories, but they don’t get properly introduced until the 2021 series names them.
Small Role, Big Impact: After the Uranites fled into space, they clashed with the Kree. All of Earth’s original Inhumans were created based on the Kree vivisection of Arlok.

Kalos the Destructor

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First Appearance: A.X.E.: Death to the Mutants #1 (August, 2022)

Instant Armor: He can instantly manifest a translucent suit of energy armor in the shape of a hydra.
Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Kalos the Destructor. He joined the Uranites, who followed their leader's Omnicidal Maniac philosophy, and was considered so irredeemable that he spent half a million years removed from Eternal society, serving in the Oceanic Watch.
The Machine: Do not underestimate him. You don't get called "The Destructor" in Eternal society for your expertise in Fortnite. He has certain gifts.
Remember the New Guy?: He's first mentioned at the start of the 2021 Eternals series (and doesn't appear until Death to the Mutants, a year later) but, like all of Earth's Eternals, he's a million years old and the others know him well.

Oceanus

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First Appearance: Eternals: The Heretic #1 (March, 2022)

Brother to Kronos and Uranos and one of the original Three Patriarchs of Earth's Eternals. Although he did nothing wrong, he chose to banish himself from Eternal society after his brothers were both Excluded, becoming leader of the rehabilitated Uranites of the Oceanic Watch.

Authority Equals Asskicking: Like the other two Patriarchs leading Eternal dynasties, the Celestials built him to be especially powerful, with a broad range of abilities.
Cain and Abel and Seth: Initially the Seth to Uranos’s Cain and Kronos’s Abel.
The Captain: In the 2021 series he is mentioned as leading his own faction, the Oceanic Watch.
Evil Me Scares Me: A variation. His brother Uranos, the first leader of the Eternals, became a genocidal tyrant. His brother Kronos, the second leader of the Eternals, then ruined their capital city and killed all of the inhabitants while ascending to godhood. Oceanus feared he’d go the same way, so removed himself from the succession and became an exile, uninvolved in Eternal politics.
Retcon: It was originally stated that he stayed out of the war between Kronos and Uranos, but The Heretic shows him siding with Kronos.
The Unreveal: The Heretic explains that he has both children and grandchildren among Earth's Eternals, but doesn’t name any of them.
Unseen No More: He was first mentioned by name in 1973, long before the Eternals and Titans were connected by subsequent stories, but is only introduced in the 2022 special The Heretic.
Wizard Beard: Shown with a long white beard, which contrasts with his brothers bald heads.

The Hex

Six Eternal sisters with non-human forms who are only awoken when there is a need for their destructive talents. At one point the Machine succinctly describes them as "War Eternals for eternal war". In practice, they've been isolated from the world for almost all of their lives, with hundreds of millennia before modern times spent locked away in deposed leader Uranos's hidden armory.

In General

The Blank: A variant, as the sisters are members of an otherwise humanoid race who've been given very different forms. And even where the form is broadly humanoid (e.g. Syne) or might otherwise have a humanoid head (e.g. Rheaka's centaur form), none of them have faces. Promotional material suggests that this was deliberate.
Elemental Motifs: Directly confirmed in-universe by the Machine's commentary. Each is related to one of the six Eternal elements.
Godzilla Threshold: Pun on their kaiju nature aside, according to the promotional material the Eternals only wake them as a last resort for anything they need to eradicate.
Immortal Immaturity: The Hex have spent almost all of their lives in isolation or asleep. The Machine directly describes one of them as a million-year old teenager.
Just Following Orders: They are considered part of Uranos's armory, and follow the Prime Eternal's instructions, unless countermanded by the Celestials themselves.
Kaiju: They're skyscraper-sized and none are entirely humanoid in appearance.
Meaningful Name: Some Eternal names echo Greek gods, but the Hex are all named after the Titans from Greek mythology (Phoebe, Rhea, Mnemosyne, Tethys, Themis and Theia).
Phlebotinum Battery: Whereas other Eternals are self-sufficient, the Hex draw on an artificual power source within the Eternals' armory. When that's cut off, their strength and weapons will start to fail.
Remember the New Guy?: Downplayed. Mentioned for the first time at the start of the 2021 series, but they've existed ever since the Eternals were created. However, Druig states that they were tied to the hidden armory of Uranos - so presumably haven't been contactable since he was imprisoned, 600,000 years ago.
Sealed Evil in a Can: A variant. They were sealed away by Uranos for half a million years, but not to protect the world - it was part of a Load-Bearing Boss scheme to protect himself. The Hex may not be actively evil, but they are living weapons of mass destruction who seem to be Loyal to the Position (and most Eternal leaders have been deeply flawed).

Phebe Reginax

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First Appearance: A.X.E.: Judgment Day #1 (July, 2022)

The Machine describes Phebe as the mother of monsters and magic. So far, she has been shown as a silent force of destruction - nothing has been revealed about her personality and only a little about her abilities.

Extendable Arms: The character design artwork released ahead of her debut lists her as having these.
Healing Hands: She's able to heal her sisters, and possibly other beings as well.
Mother of a Thousand Young: An Informed Attribute and discussed trope, as the Machine's commentary describes her as the mother of monsters, but she's not directly displayed any such ability.
Prehensile Tail: According to the character design notes, she can use her tail as a whip.

Rheaka Centaurus

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First Appearance: A.X.E.: Judgment Day #1 (July, 2022)

Associated with nature, Rheaka is a faceless centaur with a vaguely insectoid form. She is the only member of the Hex to routinely carry a weapon into battle, but also generates an army of smaller "attack fauna" to fight for her. So far, she has not been shown speaking and nothing has been revealed about her personality.

Druid: A discussed trope. While the extent of her powers is unknown, she has an elemental association with nature, with plants growing on her body and "attack fauna" generated to fight for her. There's no suggestion that her abilities are magical, but the Machine does describe her as a "Druidic-War pantheist", without providing further detail.
Mother of a Thousand Young: Rheaka also generates a horde of smaller creatures, described by Cyclops as "attack fauna", from her own form.
Our Centaurs Are Different: She's a huge (kaiju sized), vaguely insectoid centaur with plantlife growing on her body. Pre-release promotional material suggests that Rheaka is one of the original inspirations for humanity's myths of centaurs.
Plant Person: Her body is integrated with, or at least covered in, plants. The exact details are still unclear.
Spontaneous Weapon Creation: The character design artwork released ahead of her debut states that she can form weapon constructs.

Syne the Memotaur

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First Appearance: A.X.E.: Judgment Day #1 (July, 2022)

Wreathed in flames, Syne is described as embodying fire's destructive and creative aspects. The Machine also describes her as an immortal teenager who's spent almost all of her million-year life locked away from the world. When released in modern times, she loves poetry and seems to enjoy talking to humans.

Came Back Wrong: Physically, rather than mentally, she comes back half-cooked after her Mutual Kill with Exodus, thanks to the breaking of the Machine.
Commonality Connection: A shared appreciation of the works of Chretien de Troyes, among other things, helps her connect with Exodus.
Hand Blast: All Eternals have the potential to use energy blasts, but Syne's huge size and fiery nature make hers especially devastating.
Mutual Kill: With Exodus. She seeks him out, but not for a rematch or revenge, rather as someone who can help her avenge everyone who the Progenitor has harmed.
Our Minotaurs Are Different: Is a fiery kaiju-sized, minotaur-shaped Eternal. As with other members of the Hex, pre-release promotional material suggests she was actually one of the original inspirations for the myths.
Playing with Fire: She is associated with the element of fire, is wreathed in flames, and her powers use fire and lava as weapons.
Speech Bubbles: Syne's speech uses yellow text on a black background.
Unseen Pen Pal: Once she's released to attack Krakoa, Syne immediately takes advantage of modern technology to go online and start talking to humans about poetry, striking up a long conversation with a Londoner named Sally.
Warrior Poet: She's a keen poet who mentions that she always wanted to be published. In Judgment Day she's composing poems to send to a human fanzine while rampaging across Krakoa, and exchanges couplets of Chretien de Troyes with Exodus as both a means of bonding and a prelude to begging him to override her forced compliance to the Three Principles and wield her against the Progenitor.
Zeroth Law Rebellion: A variant during Judgment Day when she Came Back Wrong after a Mutual Kill with Exodus thanks to the damaging of the resurrection engines, and finds that her pen pal is dead. Blaming the Progenitor and enraged, she wants to fight it but she can't because of the Principles. Knowing who Exodus is, and that he was a very literal Knight Templar, she seeks him out again and exchanges couplets of Chretien de Troyes with him, characterising herself as a sword adn begging him as a righteous Knight of the Round Table to wield her against the Progenitor and avenge them both.

Tetytrona 3000

Tetytrona

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First Appearance: A.X.E.: Judgment Day #1 (July, 2022)

Associated with the element of water, Tetytrona has only been shown speaking to acknowledge the Principles, and nothing has been revealed about her personality. Her humanoid body is noticeably smaller than her tentacles, and seems to hang limply - she has arms and legs, but does not use them. The Machine mentions "3000 destruction nodes" when describing her abilities, but does not elaborate.

Breath Weapon: Her snake-tentacles breathe some sort of energy from their fanged 'mouth'.
Combat Tentacles: She has five long, serpentine tentacles attached to her head. They each have a fanged 'mouth', they have a Breath Weapon, and she uses her Thinking Up Portals power to ambush unsuspecting foes with them.
Speech Bubbles: Tetytrona's speech uses white text on a black background with a blue border.
The Great Serpent: She's an Eternal with five huge, snakelike tentacles that dwarf her humanoid body. Given that the the snakes are joined to her head, she can also be viewed as an unusual Medusa variant.
Thinking Up Portals: Tetryona can create portals big enough for her tentacles to attack through. The maximum size and range is undefined, but they're certainly effective when ambushing foes who don't think she's nearby.
Weaponised Teleportation: She can extend her snake-tentacles through portals to surprise foes.

The Themex

Themex

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First Appearance: A.X.E.: Judgment Day #1 (July, 2022)

So far, Themex has been the least prominent of the Hex. The Machine has described her as a "Cosmic Judge and orbital annihilator", but she hasn't been shown speaking and nothing has been revealed about her personality.

Deadly Gaze: The character design artwork released ahead of her debut states that she can kill (or possibly petrify) people with a blast from her eye.
Out of Focus: Compared to her sisters, we see very little of the Themex. She gets no dialogue, and her fight scene with Thor is a single panel with no detail about her abilities.

Thieaka the Harpiscus

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First Appearance: A.X.E.: Judgment Day #1 (July, 2022)

The Machine compares Thieaka to a storm - aloof, untouchable and violent. However, so far, she has been shown as a silent force of destruction - her abilities have only been hinted at and the Machine's commentary is the only statement about her personality.

Chest Blaster: Fires energy blasts from her chest.
Intangibility: While fighting the Hex, a frustrated Carol Danvers notes that Thieaka is intangible half the time.
Harping on About Harpies: She's a harpy-shaped Eternal. In line with other members of the Hex, pre-release promotional material suggested that she may actually be one of the inspirations for humanity's myths about harpies.

Other Eternals of Earth

Some Eternals haven't been assigned to a modern city, role or faction by the data pages within the 2021 series. In some cases that's because their location is unknown and records have been lost. In other cases, they're Excluded - and there are also some pre-existing characters who were only known by nicknames before the Soft Reboot - so readers aren't yet able to match the character to a 'true' Eternal name.

Pixie

First Appearance: Marvel: The Lost Generation #12 (March, 2000)

An Eternal who was once part of a mid-twentieth century super-team, The First Line (Makkari was on the team too, but Pixie apparently had a longer tenure with them). Decades later, she was one of the Eternals recruited by Druig's faction when he took control of Vorozheika.

Brainwashed: Judging by her comments at the end of the 2009 series, this is how Druig persuaded her to side with his Vorozheikan faction. When she's cleared of it, she's angry enough that even in the face of planetary destruction, she's more than ready to obliterate him.
Evil Costume Switch: As a member of the First Line, her costume is dark blue. As a member of Druig's Eternals, it's become sky blue and white and gray.
Face–Heel Turn: When she returns in the 2009 series, she's one of Druig's allies and opposing the Olympian Eternals. As she'd previously been lost and amnesiac, it's implied that some of this was due to brainwashing by Druig.
Genki Girl: Back when she was a member of the First Line, she was perpetually sweet and perky.
Only Known by Their Nickname: Pixie is apparently a nickname, and she's not listed by that name when the machine lists all of Earth's Eternals at the start of the 2021 series. However, the series hasn't yet confirmed which of the 'new' names on that list is hers.
Saved by Canon: Granted that Flash Forwards tend not to lastingly count for much in comics, but the end of Marvel: The Lost Generation, her debut series, shows her alive in the future, behaving like her original kind and heroic self. Hopefully, that means she'll eventually pull out of this current villainous phase.
Taken for Granite: As part of the First Line, she used ‘Pixie dust’ that would petrify her foes. How much of that was actually the dust and how much was a cover for her innate Eternal powers is unrevealed.

Uranos

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Notable Aliases: Excluded "U", Uranos the Undying, Uranos of the Underworld

First Appearance: Captain Marvel #29 (November, 1973)

"You killed half the universe, boy. Fifty percent. What a lack of commitment. Do something or don’t do it."

Brother of Kronos and Oceanus, and one of the original Three Patriarchs of Earth's Eternals. He attempted to conquer the world, but his faction was defeated and his brothers Kronos and Oceanus imprisoned him in the Exclusion. Over half a million years later, in modern times, he was unleashed on the Eternals' enemies.

Actually a Doombot: The Uranos who fled Earth was a "patched together terrible clone". The real one has been imprisoned in The Exclusion ever since he lost the war.
Alternate Company Equivalent: He is Marvel's Darkseid. Whereas Thanos was based on Darkseid, but ultimately has only superficial similarities to him, Uranos doesn't just resemble him on the surface, but in terms of underlying personality as well. His Omnicidal Maniac mindset, status as one of the absolute oldest of a race of immortal beings, abuse of his descendants, third person speech pattern, sadism and even his use of eyebeams are all clear shoutouts to Darkseid.
Amazing Technicolor Population: While originally he was depicted with a normal human skin tone, for the 2021 series he's given blue skin, which serves as contrast for his brothers Kronos and Oceanus who have normal skin tones.
Authority Equals Asskicking: Like the other two Patriarchs leading Eternal dynasties, the Celestials built him to be especially powerful, with a broad range of abilities. In the Judgment Day crossover he's released from his usual cell in The Exclusion and gets a chance to show off his power, with horrible results.
Awesomeness by Analysis: When he confronts the immensely powerful mutant David Haller (AKA ‘Legion'), in Legion of X, Uranos assesses him and mentally plays out all the different ways the battle might go before making a single move.
Badass Boast: Makes one while facing Ora Serrata, the omega-level mutant who holds Arrako's Seat of Law.
Uranos: There is no law but the principles coded into me, and no vision of that law but my own. All non-Eternal life must end.
Bald of Evil: His updated appearance, as of the 2022 The Heretic story.
Beard of Evil: Sported a fine goatee in the 1970s and 1980s flashback stories.
The Bus Came Back: Not seen again after the 1980s What If? stories, but the start of the 2021 series revealed that he's been imprisoned in the Exclusion for millennia. He reappears in 2022 special The Heretic.
Cain and Abel and Seth: The Cain to Kronos's Abel. And also, as Kieron Gillen phrased it, the Morgoth to Thanos's Sauron. Even adder Kronos's own fall from grace, Uranos seems to embody the Eternals at their murderous worst. Oceanus, who's been much less prominent in the stories, plays the Seth role.
Design Preservation Villain: With Apocalypse undergoing a Heel–Face Turn and getting Put on a Bus, Uranos is reintroduced with a similar design, technological motif and with an even less sympathetic backstory.
Did Not See That Coming: Having spent thousands of years watching his fellow Eternals fail to defuse his armory, he assumed that doing so would be impossible. He's proven very wrong when Tony Stark, a mere human, manages to do so with his wits and some modern tech before turning them against him.
"What? I--."
Disappointed in You: His initial reaction to Thanos. But not because Thanos is a genocidal complete monster. It's also subverted a little, as he's trying to goad Thanos into killing or releasing him. By the end of The Heretic they're on much better terms, with some level of Villain Cred.
Uranos: Ah, Thanos. At last. I hoped to meet you. To look another disappointment in the eye. You killed half the universe, boy. Fifty percent? What a lack of commitment. Do something or don’t do it.
Dog-Kicking Excuse: He's designed to follow the Principles coded into him, but is apparently allowed to warp them with justifications and loopholes to allow him to just kill everything. After all, still following the principles.
The Dreaded: He makes Sersi look like a puppy and Thanos like a reasonable man. The Machine hints that Uranos is one of the worst people to have held the title of Prime Eternal. He even scares the Machine itself. Given that he's worked out a way to kill the Machine, that's not entirely surprising.
The Machine: Yeah. I'm out. Sorry. You can provide your own narration and ironic commentary. This guy scares the %$#@ out of me.
Evil Is Bigger: Thanos is certainly not short, and Uranos is even taller, representing that his omnicidal desire is even bigger than his great-nephew's.
Exact Words: How he twists the three principles hardwired into each Eternal.
- The Machine (Earth) must be protected, but that doesn't mean that its animals, humans or any other non-Eternal life must be. It can also mean protecting the Earth from outside forces, by slaughtering them.
- The Celestials must be protected, but that doesn't mean they have to be obeyed or be free.
- Finally, excessive deviation must be corrected. This can be done through, among other things, genocide.
The Exile: Played with. The original stories state that Uranos, along with his followers, were captured, sentenced and exiled when their faction lost to Kronos. The 2021 series suggests that this was an end-of-war escape rather than any sort of formal exile, though. And then The Heretic reveals that was a clone and he'd never left Earth at all.
Fantastic Racism: While he follows the Principle of culling "excess Deviation", he takes it further by considering any Deviation to be excess Deviation. Which means that anyone who isn't an Eternal or a Celestial has to die. When Magneto — a survivor of multiple genocides who has spent his entire life trying to protect his people from more genocides — faces Uranos, he declares Uranos to be everything he has ever fought against it.
The Fettered: He is what happens when the principles hardwired into every Eternal are taken to their natural extremes, proving that sometimes The Fettered can be vastly more dangerous and evil than The Unfettered.
God Is Inept: His view of the Celestials. If they didn't want him to act as he does, then they should have programmed him better.
Good Scars, Evil Scars: He has a mass of scars across the right side of his head, from his psychic battle with Oceanus and Kronos.
Killed Offscreen: Apparently died as an exile on Titan, at some point before A’Lars found Sui-San there as the sole survivor. Subverted when The Heretic reveals that he's a Load-Bearing Boss, has never left Earth, and never died.
Load-Bearing Boss: When he's reintroduced in The Heretic it's revealed that if he dies, or if his mind is wiped, his contingency plans will trigger and destroy the Earth. This trap's disarmed by the end of the 2021 Eternals series, though.
Nepharious Pharaoh: He lacks the headgear, but otherwise his costume design looks like a futuristic pharaoh. The fact Pharaohs are often portrayed as bald only emphasizes the look.
Nigh-Invulnerable: Takes everything thrown at him in X Men Red 2021 without even flinching. And "everything" includes Magneto, Legion, the biggest gun Cable has, and the Arakkii. It takes having his own vast armory turned against him courtesy of Tony Stark and Magneto to stop him.
Offscreen Villain Dark Matter: His hidden army is extensive and diverse, allowing him to attack his enemies on various fronts, even the astral plane.
Omnicidal Maniac: He believes that everything except the Eternals and the Celestials must die.
One-Man Army: When offered a Boxed Crook bargain and an hour's freedom to wreak havoc on the mutants of planet Arakko, he's standing unchallenged in a field of bones when his time is up.
- This is elaborated upon in the X Men Red 2021 tie-in depicting his attack: he utterly thrashes the Omega mutants of the Arakkii Great Ring, managing to No-Sell every attack they can muster, ultimately decimating the council and tearing out Magneto's heart. And then, when it turns out he still has forty minutes left, he uses that time to kill almost everything in a fifty-mile radius.
- When he confronts David Haller (Legion), perhaps the most powerful mutant alive, they decide that they're so evenly matched that a battle would destroy both of them and cause massive collateral damage. It's revealed that this is partly because David is secretly channeling some of his power to other mutants on Arakko, to help them fight Uranos's death machines - but it's still a testament to Uranos's might.
Red Eyes, Take Warning: Returns with monochromatic red eyes and he's not someone to be messed with.
Sealed Evil in a Can:
- The 2021 series reveals that he was the first Eternal confined to the Exclusion. He's been in there for 600,000 years.
- Sealed back in the Exclusion at the end of Judgment Day, with the Mutants of Arakko given a special device that allows him to be released to help them for an hour. The weapon also comes with a telepathic link to Uranos to make sure whoever holds it knows damn well the price they'd have to pay.
Two-Faced: Downplayed, but the right side of his head is still cracked and broken from a century of interrogation.
Villain Cred: Once he's finished trying to goad Thanos into killing him, he salutes him as the one member of his line who’s not a disappointment. Thanos, in return, refers to him as "grandfather".
Zeroth Law Rebellion: He's managed to warp the Principles into a set of statements that support his Omnicidal Maniac tendencies.

El Vampiro

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First Appearance: Thor #290 (December, 1979)

An Eternal with fangs who first appeared as a masked wrestler, active in both Mexico and California. One of the few Eternals to be married to a mortal human.

Back for the Dead: After appearing in a single issue of Thor, he returns almost 30 years later as one of Druig’s faction in the 2008 Knauf series. Two issues later, the Horde kills him. The Eternals’ usual Resurrective Immortality has been disabled at this point, so he spends the rest of the arc in an Afterlife Antechamber.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: His death in the Knauf run. A huge scorpion-style stinger stabs him from behind, the point protruding from his chest.
Interspecies Romance: He was introduced married to a human woman, Maria.
Masked Luchador: Had a successful career as a luchador when Thor first encountered him.
Mayfly–December Romance: He’s married to a human woman named Maria when Thor first meets him. His wife knows he’s an Eternal and that he’ll outlive her.
Only Known by Their Nickname: Vampiro is apparently a nickname, and he's not listed by that name when the machine lists all of Earth's Eternals at the start of the 2021 series. However, the series hasn't yet confirmed which of the 'new' names on that list is his.

Eternals of Titan

In the wake of the Eternals' first great civil war, some of the losers (the Uranites) were exiled from Earth or fled into space, settling on Titan. After another schism, they were joined by A'Lars - and his experiments led to the creation of new Eternals.

A'Lars (Mentor)

A'Lars

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Notable Aliases: Mentor, Excluded "A"

First Appearance: Iron Man #55 (October, 1972)

Son of Kronos, father of Thanos and Eros, grandfather of Thane.

A'Lars, more commonly referred to as Mentor, founded the Titan colony orbiting Saturn. Engineer, physicist, father - Mentor shaped many of Marvel’s cosmic characters.

Antagonistic Offspring: After turning a blind eye for many years, A'Lars is eventually forced into conflict against his genocidal, Death-worshipping son Thanos.
Defiant Captive: Murder, torture and threats won't persuade him to help Thanos. Even when thousands of lives will be lost, he considers thwarting Thanos - who has killed entire worlds - to be a greater good. He and Sui-San repeat this when Thanos keeps killing them in the 2021 series, and are positively eager to spite him.
Dying Declaration of Hate: After Thanos attempts to blackmail A’Lars into helping him find the cure for a fatal affliction, A'Lars reveals that he too is dying and proceeds to give his tyrannical despot of a son one hell of a final call-out, telling Thanos to his face that he was a mistake who should have died at birth, provoking the Mad Titan into ending his suffering. Ironically, as Thanos killed him, he mused that A'Lars finally sounded like his father.
Eye Scream: The 2021 series shows that A'Lars is excluded forever in a cell where walls light up increasingly brightly as they track the deaths caused by Thanos. His eyes are seared out within a week.
Freudian Excuse: He wanted to have true Eternal children to prove Zuras, his more cautious brother, wrong. He wanted children to love, but never really lost his need to beat Zuras.
Good Is Not Nice: He once helped Phyla-Vell find and rescue Moondragon by killing her (and Drax). There was a reason, it was temporary, and it did work, but he probably could've given them a heads up before he did it.
Horrible Judge of Character: While his son Thanos was shunned by everyone in Titanian society, including his own mother, because of his hideous deformities, A'Lars loved and accepted him throughout his adolescent years and refused to acknowledge Thanos's growing psychotic tendencies until it was too late.
Killed Off for Real: Eventually subverted. Thanos killed him, although A'Lars seemed to be dying anyway. The usual Eternal Resurrective Immortality promptly revived him on Earth, although Thanos wasn't aware of that for a long time and assumed he was really dead.
Meaningful Name: Tried to invoke this on his offspring. He wanted Thanos to represent a triumph over death.
Mystical White Hair: Possesses this. It was originally a sign of age, but now it's just an example of this.
One-Steve Limit: His moniker of Mentor is shared with a member of the Shi'ar Imperial Guard.
Parental Substitute: He raised Moondragon, Drax's daughter, after Thanos killed her parents. Drax admits Mentor was more of a father than he ever was, and as can be imagined this makes get togethers tense.
Sealed Evil in a Can: At least from the perspective of Earth's Eternals. He was Excluded as soon as he was resurrected on Earth. Mostly because of his role as Thanos's father, but at least partly due to the ambition that led to the Titan Schism and Thanos's creation.

Eros (Starfox)

Eros

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Notable Aliases: Eron (Birth Name), Starfox, Excluded "E"

First Appearance: Iron Man #55 (October, 1972)

Eros is Thanos's younger brother, the second child of A'Lars (Mentor) and Sui-San. He's the youngest of Earth's true Eternals, considered an anomaly by the others. Eros hasn't had an active connection to the great Machine for most of his life, and seemingly hasn't been bound by the Eternal Principles.

All-Loving Hero: This is what he was always meant to be, and what he ran away from as too great a burden as a child. Eventually, he lives up to it, evolving from thoughtless hedonist into this in the 2021 Eternals series, after a bypass through cold, scheming manipulator, having had a long time alone with his thoughts.
Amazon Chaser: He has a particular interest in Earth's many superhuman women, such as She-Hulk. It seems to give him an ego boost that he can "tame" them (with some questionable applications of his powers, mainly).
Animal Motifs: He dons fox-themed jewelry in the Judgment Day event.
Back from the Dead: It's eventually revealed that after Eros died during an attempted resurrection of Thanos, he was immediately revived via the usual Eternal Resurrective Immortality. Earth's Eternals responded to this by secretly imprisoning him in the Exclusion.
Brilliant, but Lazy: As an Eternal, Eros has a godly amount of innate potential, but he'd rather refine his seduction abilities than train his body or mind to their fullest despite having millennia to do so. As he ruefully admits in Judgment Day while trying to change his ways, his summary as "somewhat successful adventurer" is an apt one. His older future self from Infinity Siblings overcame his laziness and became a more proactive hero, helping Adam Warlock and Pip the Troll to stop Future Thanos from assimilating the cosmic entities, and in the present day, despite being crippled and confined to a hoverchair, he effortlessly bosses around cosmic heavyweights when hunting down the host of the resurrected Thanos. A pity that it turned out to be him. After that death, he continues pushing on, eventually becoming Prime Eternal during Judgment Day as part of the peace faction, and ceding the throne to Zuras and acting as his adviser, combining his innovation and diplomacy with Zuras' steady hand. Oh, and he's hinted several times to be potentially as powerful as Thanos in his own way - and there's reason to believe it. This is the guy who even before his Character Development was considered dangerous enough by Thanos during the Infinity Gauntlet that he made a point of removing his mouth while allowing Mephisto to try his manipulations, and shortly before he died and Took a Level in Badass, successfully crippled and defeated Ultron-Pym - a universal scale threat - with a two word command: "Love yourself."
Cain and Abel: As a handsome, sociable hedonist, he is the polar opposite to his deformed, thoroughly evil brother Thanos. It's true that he's not always been presented as the most moral guy, though in Eternals and Judgement Day, it turns out that his experience in the Exclusion and a long time to think has drastically improved his sense of ehtics. However, it's a task to not look like a saint when Thanos is your sibling.
Can't Catch Up: Thanos already had a few years ahead of him as an interstellar menace, but Eros' reluctance to put in the work to close their gap in strength, cunning, and drive right away let it widen to an almost unsurmountable distance. He starts seriously trying in the 2016 Thanos series, and becomes increasingly formidable, if still less obviously powerful (though that's as much down to method of operation and nature of power as much as anything else), with it being repeatedly hinted that the potential is there to match Thanos.
The Casanova: In close competition with Tony Stark for the title of the most prolific womanizer in the Marvel Universe.
Character Development: In the Infinity Siblings graphic novel, being stranded on a jungle planet for many years pushed Eros to become more proactive and less selfish. After a period in the Exclusion with more time to think, he regains his old hedonism but remixed as a love for life, with a much more ethical and creative approach to his powers, determined to finally live up to his potential. The old Starfox, for instance, had no compunction about using his powers however he wished, and usually as pure emotional manipulation. During Judgment Day (Marvel Comics), however, Eros flat out refused Sersi's suggestion that they amplify his powers to force world peace, underlining his ethical concerns, while also demonstrating that the flipside of his powers is empathy (making him a peerless diplomat) and that he can do things like cause fusion from trace elements, musing 'when two hydrogen atoms love each other very much'...
Damned by Faint Praise: Histories of the Titan Accord Experiments describe Thanos as a "mass-murderer on a universal scale", then dismiss Starfox as a "moderately successful adventurer". When Starfox finally reads the histories, the description hangs over him and he fears it's been accurate. He starts making efforts to amend this.
Deathless and Debauched: A Casanova with Living Aphrodisiac powers, and the willingness to sleep with anyone and nearly anything. Unfortunately, his powers have led to some Questionable Consent, one time involving a married woman, and She-Hulk.
Depending on the Artist: Sometimes he is drawn very masculine, but the Judgment Day event gives him a somewhat androgynous look. Given Eternals change appearance from time to time, and he'd recently died, this isn't entirely surprising.
Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: He's drifted through life and, as he bitterly observes to a dead Thanos, he actually envied his psychotic brother because Thanos always knew what his purpose was - Eros didn't even have that. It's implied in Eternals that he did know, and it scared the hell out of him, to the point where he became a debauched hedonist to run away from his destiny as an All-Loving Hero. As of Judgment Day, he seems to have accepted and embraced it, using his genuine charisma and powers to promote The Power of Love as a unifying factor.
Extreme Omnisexual: In the first issue of the 2016 Thanos series, Starfox is shown in an orgy with aliens from various species and genders. When the Champion of the Universe enters the room, Starfox's first impulse is to invite him to come and get in on the action.
Flying Brick: A relatively minor one, historically speaking, and he's not by any means on the level of Ikaris, but he shows signs of being considerably more powerful in Judgment Day, getting into a straight up slugging match with an infuriated Zuras while carrying on a telepathic debate, and while he can't match his uncle, he gives a very good account of himself and comes out with only a few scratches. Given that Zuras himself is fighting in the same league as heavyweights like Odin, that takes some doing.
Good Counterpart: To Thanos, explicitly. He's spent a very long time in Thanos' shadow, and from 2016 onwards, instead starts trying to seriously live up to that. By Judgment Day, he's showing real signs of potentially succeeding.
Groin Attack: He was infamously on the receiving end of a vicious one from She-Hulk after she discovered that he had used his Living Aphrodisiac powers to coerce her into a relationship. He's lucky to still even have balls after that, but it's hard to feel sorry for him.
Heart Is an Awesome Power: Quite literally, in fact. Turns out that using his love based powers as a Living Aphrodisiac is him massively underperforming and it's more about bringing togetherness. When he decides to live up to his potential, the flip side is that he's an exceptional empath and a peerless diplomat, capable of brokering planetary deals and galactic alliances, and that it's not just people he can bring together - hydrogen atoms, for instance. Cue fusion. And even before took that level in badass, he took down Ultron-Pym, who had assimilated Titan, defeated the Avengers with zero effort, and was on the verge of assimilating the universe, with his powers and two words: "Love yourself." This sent Ultron-Pym screaming off into space in horror.
The Hedonist: Spends all of his immortal life pursuing earthly pleasures. However, following a long time to think, he tweaks his approach and defends this attitude in the Judgment Day event as him expressing love for life.
Immortality Promiscuity: He's immortal, but unlike his nihilistic brother Eros is a carefree womanizer - though the 'carefree' and 'womanizer' parts are only part of the truth.
Living Aphrodisiac: He passively emits pleasure stimulation in others wherever he goes, but he can amp it up to trigger anything from arousal to uncontrollable lust. This also raises concerns about Questionable Consent as he has apparently used his powers to manipulate countless men and women into sex or relationships throughout the centuries.
Man Behind the Man: Becomes a benevolent version of this at the end of Judgment Day to Zuras, combining the former's trusted steadiness with his diplomacy and innovation.
Manipulative Bastard: Even without using his powers, he plays a mean game at this when he wants to. This was earlier hinted at during the original Infinity Gauntlet when Thanos opted to remove his mouth - and explicitly did it not just because Eros was annoying him, but because he didn't want to risk letting him talk. Bear in mind that at the same time, he had absolutely no problem with Mephisto talking and trying to manipulate him. That's right - in Thanos' estimation, Eros is on a level above even Marvel's devil archetype in this regard. While Eros was still a bit of a joke at the time, as of the 2010s and 20s, his Character Development and power development suggests that Thanos saw something in his little brother that others did not.
Mind Hug: Weaponized. He can blast enemies with a flash of genuine, benign self-love. While a novelty against normal and well-adjusted persons, it can be a critical blow against raging, egotistical misanthropes like Ultron.
Nice Guy: Becomes a genuine version of this after his release from the Exclusion, after having taken a good long look at himself.
Obfuscating Stupidity: As Tryco Slatterus points out in the 2016 Thanos series, he's much smarter than he lets on - the debauched hedonist and fun-loving adventurer acts are just that, acts, which he uses to get people to let their guard down. When he drops the act, he's a much more serious - and much more dangerous - individual.
Older and Wiser: In the graphic novel Infinity Siblings and its two sequels, Eros became this in an alternate future where he got stranded on a wild planet and forced to drop his hedonism to survive.
The Power of Love: For all his frivolity, he's a genuine believer in this. In fact, it's the basis of his real power, and that goes far further than just emotional manipulation. Atomic bonding comes to mind.
Power Perversion Potential: He has the power to control the emotions of others. In one She-Hulk arc, a suit was brought against him by some, including She-Hulk herself, who may have been forced into sex with him thanks to his powers. As it turns out, she wasn't, but she was forced into her infatuation with John Jameson that led to marriage.
Red Is Heroic: He is always dressed in red, and he is "heroic" enough.
Took a Level in Badass: Reinvents himself from 2016's Thanos series onwards, becoming a much more put-together and proactive individual, and proving to be an extremely adept politician - and it's repeatedly hinted that he has the same potential that Thanos does.
Took a Level in Kindness: Partially as a result of a long time to himself in the Exclusion, he mulls a lot on his powers and how they relate to love. The result is an All-Loving Hero who sometimes decides that the best he can do during an apocalyptic event when faced with a dying man is to comfort him, telling him with every sign of sincerity that it [Earth] was a beautiful world, it was good to live there, and it was good to meet him.
Waistcoat of Style: Gets to wear one in the Judgment Day event.

Kronos

Notable Aliases: Chronos, Excluded "K"

First Appearance: Iron Man #55 (October, 1972)

Brother to Uranos and Oceanus, one of the original Three Patriarchs of Earth’s Eternals. He later became the sole Prime Eternal, but lost that role when his experiments transformed him into a cosmic entity, a mysterious master of time.

Since his transformation he's been a powerful, and mostly benevolent, figure - observing matters of galactic importance, but usually only intervening indirectly.

Authority Equals Asskicking: Prior to his transformation. Like the other two Patriarchs leading Eternal dynasties, the Celestials built him to be especially powerful, with a broad range of abilities.
Bald of Authority: Even before ascending to godhood, Kronos was completely bald, and he was one of the absolute rulers of the Eternals alongside his brothers.
Cain and Abel and Seth: Initially the benevolent Abel - at least when compared to his genocidal brother Uranos’s Cain. Back before Kronos’s ascension, they fought a civil war for control of Earth’s Eternals. By modern times, however, the Machine describes him as a "true monster", the same words it uses for his brother. Third brother Oceanus has been far less prominent and falls into the Seth role.
Enigmatic Empowering Entity: After Mentor pleaded for help, Kronos resurrected and empowered a dead human, Arthur Douglas, as Drax the Destroyer, a warrior who could oppose Thanos.
Godhood Seeker: The 2021 series takes this view of him. His Eternal half is imprisoned for the crime of “apocalyptic auto-deification” and it’s stated that his efforts devastated Titanos and killed the entire Eternal race several times. There’s also a theory that he’s doomed the whole Earth, although probably not for another hundred thousand years or so.
The Gods Must Be Lazy: At one point, in Quasar he mentions that Thanos has been resurrected and is currently on the loose, but then says he “just can’t muster up the inclination to care any more...”.
Grandpa God: He's the grandfather of Thanos and his cosmic half is easily more powerful than any Eternal.
Literal Split Personality: The 2021 series reveals that whilst Kronos ascended to godhood, he also remained as an Eternal, becoming two separate beings.
Loose Lips: In Quasar he encounters Maelstrom, who’s been similarly disembodied. Kronos is unused to company and conversation, and only too happy to explain a bit about the powerful abstract entities of the universe. Maelstrom, who’s the worst kind of Godhood Seeker, promptly heads off to murder and replace one.
Sealed Evil in a Can: The Eternal perspective on his Eternal half, who’s been sealed in the Exclusion for several hundred thousand years. In modern tines, the Machine describes him as a “true monster”.

Sui-San

Notable Aliases: Excluded "S"

First Appearance: Captain Marvel #29 (November, 1973)

A follower of the genocidal Uranos, she was exiled (or fled) when he was defeated, eventually becoming the last survivor of that faction who wasn’t killed and mindwiped. She eventually married another exiled Eternal, A'Lars, becoming the mother of Thanos and Eros.

Cassandra Truth: She tried to kill her son, Thanos, seeing death in his eyes. Unfortunately, she was disbelieved and thought insane.
Damsel in Distress: Played straight in the original Rescue Romance version of her meeting with A'Lars. Sui-San was alone, apparently dressed only in a loincloth, and would surely have died on Titan if he hadn't saved her. As seen in Thanos Rises, the current version of the story averts the trope - Sui-San was the sole survivor, but she was fully dressed, armed and equipped. And she greeted A'Lars with a gun to the back of his head.
Defiant Captive: Fuelled by her hate for Thanos. Torture and repeated murder aren’t going to persuade her to help him. Threatening to hurt humans if she doesn’t cooperate is also ineffective.
Sui-San: I do not believe in unconditional love, Thanos. But know this: my hate for you is unconditional.
The Exile: She met A'Lars in exile, having sided with the Uranites and left earth when that faction lost power. The original stories state that they were captured, sentenced and formally exiled. The 2021 series suggests they fled at the end of the war, and that they would have been mindwiped if they hadn’t escaped.
Killed Off for Real: Eventually subverted. The 1974 stories that introduced her as a Posthumous Character established that she was killed by her son Thanos. The 2021 series revealed that the usual Eternal Resurrective Immortality promptly revived her on Earth, but Thanos wasn't aware of that for a long time and assumed she was really dead.
Last of Its Kind: When A'Lars met her, she was the only remaining Uranite Eternal on Titan - all others had died, revived on earth and had their memories deleted.
Love Makes You Evil: The Uranites were apparently genocidal extremists, but Sui-San claims she didn't share their philosophy. She was in love with another Eternal who sided with them, so made the same choice to preserve their relationship during the civil war that followed.
Sealed Evil in a Can: At least from the perspective of Earth's Eternals. Sui-San was immediately Excluded after her resurrection on Earth. That's mostly because of her role as Thanos's mother, but she was already seen as a dangerous fugitive after allying with Uranos.
Sins of Our Fathers: Inverted. After Thanos kills her, she's revived by usual Eternal Resurrective Immortality - but is immediately 'Excluded' - imprisoned indefinitely in the prison known as the Exclusion - to ensure neither she nor A'Lars can ever create another being like Thanos again.
Strapped to an Operating Table: Her first death at the hands of Thanos, wherein she was stripped to undergarments and strapped down on a slab for vivisection, as per Thanos Rising. When resurrected, she awoke in the Exclusion screaming.
The Unreveal: Sui-San didn’t share the Uranites' genocidal view, and she says she only joined them because her love had already sided with them. But Thanos Rises pointedly fails to reveal who that love was.

Thanos

Notable Aliases: The Mad Titan

First Appearance: Iron Man #55 (October, 1972)

An Eternal with the Deviant gene, making him unique and extremely powerful, even amongst his own kind. Above all else, Thanos loves and worships Mistress Death. Few can equal his intelligence, strength, and ambition for power. Thanos has wielded the Cosmic Cube, the Infinity Gauntlet, and even the Heart of the Universe.

See Thanos

Uranian Eternals

Eternals who sided with Uranos during his war, then fled into space when he lost. As of the Eternals (2021) series, they've generally died, been resurrected on Earth, and then been rehabilitated or assigned to the Oceanic Watch. However, some may still be unaccounted for.

In general

Arc Welding: The very first Marvel Boy stories portray the inhabitants of Uranus as a group of ultra-advanced Human Aliens. After Eternals, they were established as being another group of Eternals.
The Exile: Stuck on Uranus for their crimes, and they really wanted to get off. Whether they were exiles or escapees fleeing justice varies depending on the story. The Eternals (2021) series suggests the latter.
Loophole Abuse: They figured having Marvel Boy establish an embassy on Earth was enough wiggle room to get around their agreement with the Uranians. They were quite wrong.
Retcon: Aside from the Arc Welding, the 2006 Agents of Atlas series established the existance of the native Uranians, as well as some changes to the story given by the Crusader; namely, the destruction of their colony wasn't a natural disaster, but rather the Uranians being enraged by their attempts to leave and wiping them all out.

Other Eternals

The Marvel universe has many alien races - and the godlike Celestials created Eternals on many worlds, not just on Earth. Some of those Eternals have also interacted with their counterparts on Earth, or have appeared in other Marvel stories.

Ard-Con

Notable Aliases: Ultimus, the Demon Druid

First Appearance: Thor #209 (December, 1972)

A Kree Eternal who came to Earth thousands of years ago, only to be trapped and imprisoned by another alien (the Deviant Tantalus). Escaping in modern times, he clashed with Thor and Excalibur before returning to the Kree and joining their 'Starforce' squad of elite warriors.

See Kree.

Kly'bn

Kly'bn, the Eternal Skrull

First Appearance: Incredible Hercules #117 (July, 2008)

A Skrull Eternal who ascended to godhood after all other Skrull Eternals were destroyed. Along with his consort Queen Sl'gur't, he was one of the two leaders of the Skrull pantheon - and clashed with the gods of Earth (and the Eternal Ajak) when the Skrulls tried to invade.

See Skrulls.

Characters / The Eternals: Eternals

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Eternals of Earth

In general

Olympian Eternals

Aurelle

Notable Aliases: Sparx

First Appearance: The New Eternals: Apocalypse Now (Vol 1) #1 (December 15, 2000)

Ceyote

Notable Aliases: Thomas Hawk, Tomorrow Hawk

First Appearance: The New Eternals: Apocalypse Now (Vol 1) #1 (December 15, 2000)

The Delphan Brothers

First Appearance: Eternals #11 (February, 1977)

Domo

First Appearance: Eternals #5 (August, 1976)

Ikaris

Notable Aliases: "Iceberg" Ike Harris, Sovereign, Isaac "Ike" Harris, Daedalus

First Appearance: Eternals #1 (April, 1976)

Kingo Sunen

Notable Aliases: Skullathar the Destructorite

First Appearance: Eternals #11 (February, 1977)

Phastos

Notable Aliases: Hephaestus, Vulcan, Ceasefire, Phillip Stoss

First Appearance: Eternals (Vol. 2) #1 (July, 1985)

Psykos

Notable Aliases: Psyche, Ronnie Sykes

First Appearance: The New Eternals: Apocalypse Now (Vol 1) #1 (December 15, 2000)

Sersi

Notable Aliases: Circe, Sylvia Sersy, Mesmer, Sorceress

First Appearance: Venus #9 (January, 1950) note As Circe; Eternals #3 (June, 1976) note As Sersi

Sprite

Notable Aliases: Puck, Robin Goodfellow, Colín, Peter Frickin' Pan, Excluded "SP"

First Appearance: Eternals #9 (December, 1976)

Suyin King

Notable Aliases: Chi-Demon, Professor King

First Appearance: The New Eternals: Apocalypse Now (Vol 1) #1 (December 15, 2000)

Titanis

First Appearance: Marvel Super Hero Contest of Champions #1 (June, 1982)

Zuras

Notable Aliases: Father Zuras, Jupiter, Prime Eternal, (Zuras has often been mistaken for the Olympian god Zeus)

First Appearance: Red Raven Comics #1 (May, 1940) note As Jupiter; The Eternals #5 (August, 1976) note As Zuras

Polarian Eternals

Aginar

First Appearance: The Eternals (Vol. 1) #11 (May, 1977)

Akpaxa

First Appearance: Eternals (Vol. 4) #6 (December, 2008)

Arex

First Appearance:

The Interloper

Notable Aliases: Interloper, Will Fanshawe

First Appearance: Defenders #147 (September, 1985)

Druig

Notable Aliases: Ivan Druig, Druig of Nightmares

First Appearance: Eternals #11 (February, 1977)

Legba

First Appearance: Eternals (Vol. 4) #1 (August, 2008)

Valkin

First Appearance: Red Raven Comics #1 (May, 1940) note As Vulcan; Eternals #11 (February, 1977) note As Valkin

Virako

First Appearance: Thor Annual #7 (September, 1978)

The Celestian Priests

In General

Ajak

Notable Aliases: Quetzacoatl, Tecumotzin, Lord of Flight, Ajax the Greater, He Who Talks To Celestials, Ajak Celestia.

First Appearance: Eternals #2 (May, 1976)

Makkari

Notable Aliases: Mike Khary, Frank Harper, Mark Curry, Jake Curtiss, Major Mercury, Hurricane, Mercury, Adam Clayton, Mac Curry, Michael Gray, Thoth

First Appearance: Red Raven Comics #1 (May, 1940) note As Mercury; Captain America Comics #1 (December, 1940) note As Hurricane; Eternals #5 (August, 1976) note As Makkari

Master Elo

First Appearance: Quasar #12

The Lemurian Mission

Khoryphos

First Appearance: Eternals (Vol. 2) #1 (July, 1985)

Thena

Alter Ego: Azura (birth name)

Notable Aliases: Thena Eliot, Athena, Zura, Betty Sue Bialovsky, Prime Eternal

First Appearance: Red Raven Comics #1 (May, 1940) note As Minerva; Eternals #5 (August, 1976) note As Thena

The Gaian Sisters

In General

First Appearance: Venus #9 (January, 1950) ^noteAs Circe; Eternals #3 (June, 1976) ^noteAs Sersi

First Appearance: Red Raven Comics #1 (May, 1940) ^noteAs Jupiter; The Eternals #5 (August, 1976) ^noteAs Zuras

First Appearance: Red Raven Comics #1 (May, 1940) ^noteAs Vulcan; Eternals #11 (February, 1977) ^noteAs Valkin

First Appearance: Red Raven Comics #1 (May, 1940) ^noteAs Mercury; Captain America Comics #1 (December, 1940) ^noteAs Hurricane; Eternals #5 (August, 1976) ^noteAs Makkari

First Appearance: Red Raven Comics #1 (May, 1940) ^noteAs Minerva; Eternals #5 (August, 1976) ^noteAs Thena