Eternals post-credits scenes — do you need to stick around?

Eternals post-credits scenes — do y'all need to stick around?

Kumail Nanjiani, Gemma Chan and Lia McHugh in Eternals

(Image credit: Marvel/Disney)

We accept more questions regarding Marvel'southward Eternals' post-credit scenes than we do answers — but the good news is that we do have some answers. Peculiarly for those who reach the stop of the epic film (reportedly more than than 2 and a one-half hours long) and need to make a determination. And those decisions begin today, as the film'southward got the same Thursday night screenings that big releases practice.

And nosotros're curious virtually all the hush-hush nature of this conversation, equally correct now the secrets of the Eternals' post-credits scenes seem to exist kept for a greater good. One website nosotros saw seemed to have posted a story about 2 actors in the movie's future in the MCU, so took the article downwardly. We're non naming names, but this is all very curious.

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If we're to have Curiosity Studios exec Kevin Feige at his give-and-take (something we rarely propose people practise when it comes to anyone promoting a movie), then the Eternals post-credits scenes and the moving-picture show itself will have world-breaking events.

Specifically, Feige (in a promotional featurette) said "the impact Eternals will have on the MCU will be nix less than redefining the cinematic universe entirely." That's quite a mode to hype the near imminent upcoming Marvel movie.

Are at that place Eternals post-credits scenes?

In a word? Aye. In iii words? In that location are two. Then aye, you should stick effectually in the theater.

In fact, director Chloé Zhao told Fandango "Don't just stay for the first ane — also stay for the second 1, too. They are as as important in weight, and both have big surprises for you."

And this is where we have to, once again, poke at how much of an bear on Eternals volition accept for the futurity of the MCU. The fact that both of these scenes are important and accept weight? Sounds pretty important, and then don't leave yourself needing a bathroom pause at the end of the movie.

What happens in the Eternals mail-credits scenes?

This is the much harder question to reply, considering almost of the events of these scenes haven't been revealed by apparent sources. And interestingly enough, that'south stayed true through the 24-hour interval earlier the picture show opened (Thursday, Nov. 4) — though nosotros await the flood gates to rush open up late tonight when the movie's offset public screenings exit.

We know of 1 thing that happens in one of the Eternals post-credits scenes. But since Walt Disney Studio's President of Marketing Asad Ayaz is so cloak-and-dagger about this news — he tweeted "To our colleagues & friends in the press & fan community who will be watching #Eternals in the days ahead, delight help preserve the experience of this incredible flick. Delight do not mail service spoilers and reveals that then many take worked and then hard to protect," — nosotros're not going to repeat the details here. Nosotros weren't asked to not share that particular hither, simply it only feels similar a good idea.

That said, it's not a real secret. The folks at CNN published a big particular from the mail service-credits scenes the day after Ayaz asked for silence. You can acquire more than over in that location if you want. But information technology seems similar the post-credits scenes will hold far more than that one piece of data.

In the aforementioned Fandango interview, Zhao reiterated what Feige said, noting "what happens in this film will accept huge implications on the future." Which, nosotros guess, is a great reason for everyone associated with Eternals to want to protect these secrets. Equally for her own reaction to Feige's comments near redefining everything, Zhao notes that audiences will be "discovering the origin of the MCU through the mythology of the Celestials," and proceeds "a new agreement of planet Earth'due south relationship with the cosmos, and also with her ain inhabitants."

A being similar to Eson the Searcher in the Eternals trailer — (Image credit: Curiosity/Disney via YouTube)

Among the previously-introduced characters that will necktie into Eternals is Eson the Searcher, a Angelic seen in the film Guardians of the Galaxy. He's that giant with half dozen bright lights for eyes and a giant glowing weapon. He previously owned the power stone, and the trailers for Eternals makes clear he's due for a return.

Celestials, if you lot haven't read, created both the Eternals and the Deviants — who have been locked in battle.

Equally for what we call back of that leaked news virtually the post-credits scene? Wow, it'southward certainly going to describe attending. But nosotros don't retrieve it makes a whole lot of sense. Nosotros don't even see a resemblance.

Further, this is the kind of odd reveal and news that makes us wonder if someone, somewhere is fooling all of u.s.. That headline is so out of left field that it seems like a different sport, to extend the metaphor.

Analysis: Eternals post-credits scene spoilers may seem more than important than the movie

Ever since Eternals was announced, nosotros've had questions. Specifically, why is Marvel making this giant, ballsy picture which looks nothing like what we're used to? The Eternals have the same problem that many Marvel characters that were eventually turned into comic volume characters have had: few people know who they are and fifty-fifty fewer seem to have a strong connection to them.

Aside from telling a specific story — of the people who are the original (they've been here for more than 7,000 years) super-powered beings in the Marvel Cinematic Universe — Eternals appears to be a motion picture with intent for the future behind it. Which is the primal issue many have with the MCU: these movies can often feel more like interlinking chains of a massive corporate cinematic project than stories of their own.

Venom in the poster for Venom 2: Let there be Carnage — (Epitome credit: Sony Pictures)

And this is role of the reason people may exist so ready for the spoilers. When we don't accept an attachment to these characters, and going to a movie theater (Eternals is non going to be on Disney Plus) isn't exactly the free-wheeling adventure it used to be, the risk of feeling bad about being spoiled feels minimized.

For case, when Venom ii's postal service-credits scene hype hitting, those who didn't feel a strong connection to Tom Hardy's take on the massively-tongued graphic symbol probably felt complimentary to just Google it. That said, we've got our eyes out for any reliable leaks regarding the other details of the Eternals mail-credits scenes. Feels like something big is afoot.

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