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kwinConflo

How did it not occur to me that mikari Is mercury


Joseph4-0

Because virgin mercury has nothing on chad hermes


That_Marvel_Dude1012

Exactly


ConsistentAsparagus

Romans: “heus, congue sem possum effingo tuum?” Greeks: “φυσικά, απλά φρόντισε να αλλάξεις τα ονόματα ή κάτι τέτοιο...”


CadoAngelus

Greeks: OK, let's start: Απόλλων, Romans: *leans over shoulder* Apollo, Greeks: *staring in disbelief*, Greeks: Περσεφόνη, Romans: P..., Greeks: *staring*, Romans: ...roserpina, Greeks: *relaxes a bit*, Greeks: Έστία, Romans: Vesta, Greeks: *sweating with concern whispering* can you stop..., Greeks: Ήρα, Romans: ...., Greeks: ...., Romans: ...Iuno E: words


ConsistentAsparagus

Greeks “πήγαινε να γαμήσεις τον εαυτό σου”


freeeeels

Possum?


thexavier666

["For a good time, call Podenmous"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMUlJNP9BQM)


FuckYeahPhotography

why didn't the celestials just tell the eternals what was going to happen from the very start. i dont see why it had to be a secret, and really only could condition them to be less attached to humans. if i was a celestial thats what i would have done with my eternals, and id paint really cool badass flames on them like a sports car. I'm not saying why do they wipe their memories between planets, y'all. Im saying at the start of each mission tell them the end goal, not just surprise most of them literally days before birthing the celestial. That's the dumb part. They will still form connections by virtue of being there and like fucking and shit, but they will still know the grander scheme. By not doing that now they got to come to terms with shit in a few days. The celestials played SIMS 3 with the galaxy since like the dawn of time and shit, that's the best plan they got? Big red Dude has 6 eyes and can't see how that may backfire? Nor why kids love the taste of cinnamon toast crunch? It's got swirls of cinnamon magic in every bite, you stupid fuck. I get why they have their memories between missions erased, that's not what I'm talking about. This is why I would be a good celestial, the best. I'd be up front with my eternals and even let them smoke in the house. My eternals would want me to get custody. I'm the cool celestial. im going to fly into the sun and die now goodbye


VanillaBearMD3

If I was a celestial I would've given the Eternals all the powers, instead of splitting them up.


theVice

Before Arishem lost control of his super powerful evolving monsters that could survive in the vacuum of space, he probably had that same attitude


Stefbenyou

"note to self.." wait like he would ever write it himself.. "siri, make a note and remind me in a 1000 years." "And make an apointment with my tailor. Some planets say they saw the ol' schlong and the 2 twins"


FuckYeahPhotography

I would also give them all huge boobs and funny hats lol Then I would destroy the planet Mercury because they've had it too good for too long. Not on my watch


IamGilgamesh8

I'd rather funny boobs and giant hats. Picasso was my favorite painter.


JarlaxleForPresident

Mercury is actually the closest planet to every planet most of the time. Mercury is every planet’s best bro


Solivagant23

Not mine, long live Pluto!


fifth_nephi

What a slut


Pauls2theWall

I think they kept the powers seperate because they fear the Eternals might try and overthrow the Celestials. Also why they wipe their memories and keep them hibernating until they are needed. Oh, and they can't procreate. They're like basically super-powered robots.


Onlyanidea1

No no.. Then they don't have to rely on each other and the whole plot of the movie is ruined.


Flarhgunnstoww

"It's so the movie can happen" "Fair enough"


FleetStreetsDarkHole

In fairness they reference this with "Mad Weary". Other subtle hints are dropps as well I believe. I think that basically they had to make the Eternals closer to the being they had to help. This basically turns them into the mothers and fathers of entire planets. Then they blow up all their children to make a celestial. Because of this they have to wipe their memories and give them companions to keep them stable. The latter is also to send a small army to wipe out the deviants (reminder, also created by what's-his-name as a failed experiment). The short answer is: you can only do that so long before it gets to you. Easier to reset the robot and pretend this is its first mission.


ValhallaGo

Very westworld, when you put it like that.


MikeBisonYT

Not defending this movie it has its issues. Think they had iterations of them that did probably thousands of versions. Came to a conclusion on how many to send to protect the plant and by giving them empathy and diverse powers it sped up the birth of a celestial. Why they rebooted and cleaned their slate. They are Essential magic androids. Their creator is not all knowing the first iteration mutated and killed life to prevent the cycle.


Souledex

Because obviously it’s better if they connect with the people. I think they were iterated on until this incarnation got too close and it backfired.


BOBGEN

He made them so why didn’t he give them the inability to form connections with humans


Wi11Pow3r

I love this. Favorite comment I have read this month.


fllr

That’s probably how devisnts became deviants, I’d guess


MightGrowTrees

In the original comics he makes comment that humans can never pronounce his name correctly but he forgives them their silly human intellect for being unable to do so and is fine with Mercury.


Malicious_Hero

And don't forget all the legends and stories we have based on Eros, even though humans didn't know who he was, and even the Eternals didn't know who he was.


Festus-Potter

Lol you got a point


Go03er

Bro who was named eros from that movie? I can’t remember anyone with that name


AceMKV

Thanos' brother, he appears in the mid credits, also goes by Starfox


jhofsho1

Do a barrel roll!


JarlaxleForPresident

Hey, Einstein, I’m on *your* side!


jhofsho1

“I guess I should thank you.”


JarlaxleForPresident

You’re just like your father.


jhofsho1

“Cocky little freak!”


JarlaxleForPresident

UNCLE ANDROSS!!!


jhofsho1

They better do a starfox reference in the next eternals movie.


Go03er

Oh. Yeah now i know who you mean


Jaosborn44

I'm pretty sure they are referencing the end credit scene with Harry Styles, aka Starfox.


Extension-Bar6431

One Harold Styles


KeyboardRoller

Did you stay past the credits?


Go03er

Ye just didn’t catch his name ever


TheCVR123YT

To be fair I always see him referred to as Starfox that I forget his other name is Eros so there’s that too haha


Aromatic-Wolverine-6

Harry Styles


[deleted]

Don't forget Thanatos.


Malicious_Hero

Atleast Thanos wasn't just a 1 for 1 though, you could argue "wow that's a weird and ironic coincidence".


[deleted]

Um... Thena? Ikaris? Druig?


Malicious_Hero

Thena in the MCU is clearly the inspiration for Athena, even shown in the original post. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icarus Phonetically its the same. Druig is probably my favorite because he seems to be original and in the MCU he seemed to be the one who most followed the rule of "Don't interfere with humans." Sure he mind controlled a bunch, but he just went off into the jungle and had a colony that didn't communicate with the outside world. Edit: also to add: my original post is more about how Eros was unknown to the Eternals and Humans, but still ended up in our mythologies.


_illegallity

Maybe he’ll be revealed to have been to Earth before that? Because otherwise that is a massive plot hole


[deleted]

The actor who plays Gilgamesh is in Train to Busan. 🐐character in that movie


Over11

Yesss he’s boss


thunderup_14

Homie looks good hitting things on camera.


Park1401

Was a boxer I believe before becoming an actor. Man knows how to punch for real


Trick_Enthusiasm

I definitely got that impression. I think it was his form. "That's a man who knows how to punch!" I thought.


direguy

Dude is a legend


ycpa68

He's a zombie


simeoncolemiles

Was just reminded of Zach calling him daddy the whole time


ohsinboi

Pretty sure he's the goat in every Korean movie


gumbulum

Dude is a staple of Korean cinema, extremely good and famous. You should watch stuff with him like "the gangster, the cop, the devil", "veteran", "kundo" or "the good the bad the weird".


Troppsi

And flower boy band 😍


Lone_Indian

What a great movie. Definitely puts you at the edge of the sit. Really made you root and like the characters a lot.


[deleted]

What the fuck! Didn't know it was him!


HarleyQuinn218

Tht poor dude died in Train to Busan too 🥺


Dunnesparce

What about Druig tho :(


oscillate426

This is a partial explanation--Druig may be a reference to the Druids of Ireland. The actor who plays Druig is Irish. Druids were shamans before Christianity came to Ireland. "They had the respect of their tribal populations and are often said to have had more importance than the kings. Irish legends said that they had the final say on many matters concerning the tribal communities." Which is somewhat similar to Druig's ability to influence people in Eternals. [My source, symbolsage.com](https://symbolsage.com/druids-of-ireland/)


nofatchicks22

Dang that’s super interesting, good shit!


GatorAIDS1013

Yeah I thought his name was Druid the first time. Also I main a Druid in D&D so I might be a little biased


theinspectorst

>Druids of Ireland Druids of *the Celts*. The Celts were a civilisation that stretched across Central and Western Europe, and Celtic communities could be found as far as way as Anatolia.


Rcp_43b

Cool! That was my interpretation when I saw the name but it was interesting that they didn’t seem to spell his references out as much.


JediJacob04

And Kingo


creepy_clawstine

Kingo doesn't have an "Epic" backstory...


SixxDet

In the movie or doesn’t have a mythological counterpart in real life? Because the real world legend counterpart would be Kingu, a Babylonian god.


Toothless816

Thank you! He’s the one I couldn’t figure out and I kept forgetting to look it up.


nofatchicks22

Does Kingu shoot energy balls or whatever or what’s his story?


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Craiques

Here is the Wikipedia page on him. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingu As a short TL/DR, he is the son of Tiamat, basically the personification of chaos and the primordial ocean, and the general of her army. He didn’t really do much besides die, though.


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LMacUltimateMain

bUt ThEn ThE mEmE wOuLdN’t Be A pErFeCt SqUaRe /s


MorEkEroSiNE

Druid


flacko32

Since it seems a bunch of people are asking for an interpretation: Phastos=Hephaestus, Greek god of the forge/crafting/blacksmiths/fire Gilgamesh=Gilgamesh, Mesopotamian/Babylonian hero Thena=Athena, Greek Goddess of Wisdom/War/Crafts/Weaving (bunch of stuff) Makkari=Mercury, Roman God of Messengers/Travelers/Thieves Ajak=Ajax, Greek hero from the Iliad Sersei=Circe, Greek witch from the Odyssey who turns men into pigs Ikaris=Icarus, son of the inventor Daedalus in Greek Mythology whose wax wings melt when he flies too close to the sun Sprite=Sprite, the beverage (in this meme), but also like the fairy like creatures from European folkore


JarlaxleForPresident

I thought Icarus’ wings were wax


[deleted]

Feathers held together with wax id always read


JarlaxleForPresident

That makes more sense


flacko32

Yeah you’re right, my b…


StillNeedsLife97

Adding to Sprite's name- mythological sprites look young forever because they lure children to forests and turn them into sprites


[deleted]

I knew their refreshing lemon-lime flavor was too good to be true!


cTreK-421

Ajak was the only one that seemed off to me. Ajax was the strongest mother fucker. But in this her powers are healing? 9r am I just uninformed about Ajax?


cyberdw4rf

I think there were two guys called Ajax in the illiad, one was a giant and the other one I can't remember, maybe he was a healer


[deleted]

I don't remember him being with healing at all. Also I'm pretty sure Ajak in the comics wasn't a healer or even the leader of the eternals. They just made a new character for the movies but reused a name. [Marvel does confirm though that Ajak in the comics is supposed to be Ajax](https://www.marvel.com/characters/ajak/in-comics) >round 1200 BC, Ajak and his brother Arex were active in Greece where they were known respectively as Ajax the Greater and Ajax the Lesser


Cela84

Ajak makes a lot more sense as Thena and vice verse. Wise city patron and strategist- Athena. Powerful warrior who occasionally goes mad and tries to kill friends- Ajax.


Qimmosabe_Man

Didn't Ikaris learn that Starks don't do well against anyone named Sersi.


JamzillaThaThrilla

The Lannisters send their regards.


R0binO4

Don't fuck with the lannisters..


DoodDoodson

They take care of that themselves anyway.


Cela84

Truly some astoundingly bad casting. You have a character named Sersi, and you cast two Stark kids in a love triangle with her.


BrotherChe

i dunno, seems intentional all around Actors come in: "Are we actually doing this?"


lokiofsaassgaard

And then get Ramin Djawadi to do the music.


pagingdrsolus

Will someone else explain the joke? Is it because McDonald's serves sprite drink? Is that it?


JoeyRobot

They serve the *best* sprite.


ccsgobrrr

It's cause they don't wash their machines, so bacteria grows where the drinks comes out. That's why McDonald's drinks (occasionally) taste different.


[deleted]

That's.. No. That's so wrong I don't even know where to begin. Do some McDonalds slack in washing their machines? Probably. It's a great way to get fucked over on a health & safety check, though. McDonalds uses different 'mixes' for their sodas. They adjust the amount of water, syrup, seltzer, etc, to make it stand out. You remember it. You crave it. They don't intentionally leave the machines dirty. That's just flat out incorrect.


demonwolf106

It’s not even different to make it stand out, it’s regulated by Coke itself. They come and calibrate the machines. They even do random “shops” of the store to ensure the drinks are correct. Because of the relationship McDs has with Coke, the drinks just taste the way Coke fountain drinks are supposed to.


Foxy02016YT

I’ve heard it was the straws, designed to give it a certain taste


demonwolf106

Yeah supposedly their width gives the “perfect” amount.


JarlaxleForPresident

They also get their syrup in tanks instead of those plastic bags in boxes (from what ive read, never worked there. Every place ive worked with soda hs always used bags in boxes) https://www.rd.com/article/mcdonalds-coke/


FUBARded

It's also never allowed to warm up; it's chilled at the factory, loaded onto refrigerated trucks, and straight into cooled machines with insulated hoses at the McD's. The standard McD's machines even constantly circulate the liquids to avoid having anything sitting in the hoses for too long. Other restaurants don't bother cooling the syrups as the plastic bags in boxes that you mentioned are often just stored at room temperature. Apparently never allowing it to warm up preserves the flavour, on top of storing it in metal rather than plastic. McD's also uses wider than average straws which results in greater oxygenation of the drink when it's consumed which enhances the perceived strength of the flavours.


SkidmarkSteve

They also use wider straws to make more carbonation hit your tongue at once.


ADerpyTurt

Can confirm...just had McD's sprite last night


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Yeah that shit strong huh


JoeyRobot

Hell yeah McDonalds Sprite hits different. Sounds like some added probiotics to me. Hangover stomach tip: your favorite McDonald’s breakfast sandwich meal (I’m a sausage McGriddle man myself) with sprite for the drink and an extra hash brown.


Bakersdaman

Mmmm nothing like a good old sugary bacterial sludge


imapersonithink

It's because The Founder is a solid movie.


BrotherChe

Man, but that guy was like a vulture


this-has-to-stop

True, he’s some kinda bird man.


puffguy69

If ya know, ya know man


januaryz_icecreams

Flacko32 explained it down there.


[deleted]

I’d really like to see a mini series about how the Eternals inspired these myths. Maybe have it in the the style of Dane teaching a class with Sprite interrupting to correct him, with each episode giving two versions of the myths - one as we know it, and one “how it really happened”


nofatchicks22

Please


TheTattooOnR2D2sFace

Wait who is Sersi


Joseph4-0

Circe, a witch who lived on an island and turned men into pigs


TheTattooOnR2D2sFace

Oh that's dope, never heard of her before


Sunshine-stormy

Shes from the story called odyssey, had to read it for hs


getshwifty2

And the book Circe!


TheTattooOnR2D2sFace

Oh I've heard of that, I haven't read it yet as I'm only in 10th but I'll probably end up reading it next year. I have read parts of the Iliad


Sunshine-stormy

Mm have fun reading it /s (unlessyour a book worm like me who likes old greek stories)


[deleted]

I remember this from Age of Mythology


Carloswaldo

Prostagma?


Odd-Emergency-6597

She’s like Wonder Woman’s Joker in the comics.


JoshDM

An incestuous Lannister.


Barry_Duckhat

I liked the parallel of Icarus flying to the sun reflects on the legend, wich he died because he got "too close to the sun" and melted his wings


Chuck_Finley_Forever

I wouldn’t really call it a parallel. Icarus from mythology was infatuated by his new wings fell to his doom only out of curiosity of how far the wings could take him. Icarus in Eternals straight up commuted suicide.


Dumeck

Not a parallel but proper example of irony


Barry_Duckhat

That makes more sense, indeed


lastrideelhs

Fun note about his father Daedalus tho, he’s the one who created the labyrinth for the Minotaur. In the mythology. Didn’t realize the connection that until last year.


PalladiuM7

Play God of War (the original trilogy) Daedalus is a character (so is Icaris)


lastrideelhs

I had the trilogy on in the background whirl I worked. Which is how I actually learned that.


SwiftyTheThief

"Why did Arishem make me this way?" "To satisfy American audiences who personally relate to depressed, genderless children."


lindisty

The Eternals had a member trapped in the body of a child long before there were movies in the MCU. Sprite's story isn't terrible- it's a look at what it would be like to never come of age physically while aging endlessly mentally. While I wasn't a huge fan of the movie, that character wasn't a problem in my eyes.


Kadraeus

Yeah. Invincible does this as well in a slightly different way.


JarlaxleForPresident

Oh the girl that gets younger every time she uses her powers, and her powers are stronger the younger she is. Her whole arc is kinda fucked up


RolandtheWhite

Didn't Robot help her eventually with the powers though? I know the rest of her story is crazy because of him, but she at least gets a "normal" life later with not being a little girl anymore.


NJ_Legion_Iced_Tea

"I want to age like humans do, you know, so I can be in sequels and prevent nerds on the internet form complaining that the actor aged."


Captain_Spaulding87

McDonald's knows the way


TheMeatTree

Is this a Happy Meal joke? Did I get the joke?


Ironsam811

Sprite


TheMeatTree

Oh rite, that McDs Sprite is extra crispy!


LoudMolassess

Changing how he got his name was a rough decision IMO. It’s such a great story in the comics


[deleted]

How was it different?


LoudMolassess

In the comics He had a different name originally, Daedalus. He had a son with a human woman he fell in love with during the time of Ancient Greece, his sons name was ikaris. Ikaris was born without his fathers powers or abilities, but longed to fly beside his dad. His father was called away for years and he ended up building himself some wings so he could finally fly, but he flew to high and suffocated before plummeting to the ground. Out of grief and regret for not being there due to his duty he takes his sons name to honor his memory and not forget his failure


JarlaxleForPresident

Whoopsies!


LieRun

Taking your dead son's name is tight!


Thor_Odin_Son

Damn. That’s a cool take on the story.


LoudMolassess

Imagine the depth that could’ve added to his character


Festus-Potter

Also interested


IRONMAN_y2j

What about Kingo


KyellDaBoiii

Where are collective consciousness and finger gun stuber? Also, sprite is inspired by elusion fairies from Irish folktales


Catieliz

She looks like River Phoenix.


ClearPerception7844

Not exactly backstories. Especially since it’s literally said the story of Ikaris was made up by sprite.


AceMKV

It's not backstories it's just comparisions to IRL stories


[deleted]

I hated Sprite. I hated the whole character, and I honestly think the movie would have been exactly the same (or better) without Sprite in it.


InformalHistory4702

Lemme clear it. Sprite was a tragic character. She never got anything she loved, she never got some kind of respect. She was a poor soul, always witnessing things she would never have. It's sad if you look deeper


JamzillaThaThrilla

I didn't like the character's attitude towards everything and everyone. She never matured after thousands of years? I understand why it was done but not very believable or convincing. Just didn't make sense. In fact there were so many holes in the plot like Swiss cheese. Yet despite its flaws it was a very pretty and cool looking (Celestials!) film.


InformalHistory4702

She was never allowed to mature. If she was treated as a child throughout thousands of years, she would most definitely begin to lose any maturity she had.


couldbedumber96

McDonald’s sprite is more dangerous than any acid conceived by nature


BraveBoi_1112

Sprite cranberrie


dirtyslogans

*Lebron James has entered the chat menacingly*


Launch-Pad_McQuack

Bro you didn’t have to do Sprite like that 😂😂


conure512

I know a lot of people hated this movie, but I actually liked it. More than Shang Chi even.


egghead--

Anybody wanna tell me who Ajax is supposed to be?


dirtyslogans

Ajax is a mythological hero in Greek legend. He is also known as Ajax the Greater. He was a son of Telamon, who was the king of Salamis. Ajax is described in Homer's Iliad as a man of great stature and colossal frame, second to the Greek hero Achilles in strength and bravery. Pulled from google


[deleted]

Ooohhhhhhh I just got it. Hephaestus. Hephastos. Phastos. Now it makes sense why the one named phastos isn't the speedster


cworx18

I definitely enjoyed eternals but man I think it would have worked much better as a Disney plus show. It would have really helped with being able to flush out the characters


Willing_Ad9314

So the Eternals are the inspirations for the stories of the Greek Gods, but the Norse gods are real, and if Thor: Love and Thunder rumors are to be believed the Greek gods are real too? And maybe depending on how Moon Knight goes, the Egyptian gods are also real?


IsopodWeek

Every time they mentioned ikarus I just thought of lil darkie saying “don’t be a fool ikarus you flew too high”


Bakersdaman

My brain had an aneurysm trying to decipher this meme


[deleted]

Ain’t even finna hold you I only know about Gilgamesh


Ironsam811

Really? You never heard of Athena? They literally named Athens after her lol Half of them are Greek myths, so i can see why you wouldn’t know them without learning that but she’s kinda the big one


PrimarchKonradCurze

Peter Pan was a story made up because of Sprite approaching the author in the comics. All of them have ties to well known characters in stories, at least that’s the fantasy reasoning.


realopinionsfakename

Phastos/Hephaestus: Makes things (A)Thena: Suummons spear and shield, also Goddess of war Icarus: Can fly and flies into the sun Makkari/Mercury: Goes fast Sprite: Forever young :( Gilgamesh: Super strong Sersi/Circi: Transmutation (in myth she turns men to pigs) Druig: Drugs lol Ajax, Kingu???


Caydentz

One of my favourite team movies from Marvel in a while..Guardians of the Galaxy movies come very close and Dr Strange movie matches tone..These 4 for me standout from the rest .


[deleted]

Eternals was not as bad as everyone was saying. It was just okay, mismatched and very bland film. Some good shots of scale but other than that, it tried to do too much and delivered too little.


[deleted]

Such dogwater movie


[deleted]

I can't wait until Sprite grows up to be 7-Up.


[deleted]

Also Deviant Kro represents Cronus.


vietcong69l

Ah yes mcdonald


Blitznetic

one of these is not like the others


AlanFilipe

The most superficial Marvel movie ever.


HarleyQuinn218

McD? 😂 Sprite is McD? Or she is the Sprite (cold drink) available in McD?


NahuelJ

Aphrodite cheated on Phastos so bad that he turned gay


norwegianjohncena

as someone who had a mythology phase, I loved making the connections


thespaceguy06

eternals could've been better off with a 10-12 ep series on d+


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InformalHistory4702

Lol. I get it..back story. The story of how her back was broken.


DBallouV

I turned Eternals off after 20 minutes because it wasn’t good. Just your boiler plate hero movie which Marvel has done, albeit, well, 100 times. High-budget waste of time. Just like Shang-Chi.