2 scenes: mid-credits, after the credits. worth the wait
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Quick recap
The Eternals are ten immortals sent to Earth 7,000 years ago by the Celestial Arishem to protect humanity from the Deviants. After the Blip, the Deviants return, and Sersi, living in London, gathers the scattered team. Their leader, Ajak, is killed, and Sersi learns the truth: their real mission is to let a new Celestial, Tiamut, be born from inside Earth, destroying it. Ikaris knew all along and betrays them, with Sprite's help. Sersi channels the others' power and turns Tiamut to stone mid-emergence in the Indian Ocean. Ikaris flies into the Sun and Sprite becomes human. In the end, Arishem takes Sersi, Kingo and Phastos to judge humanity. Left open: Sersi's boyfriend, Dane Whitman, reaches for a mysterious sword.
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What happens
Post-credits scenes
Mid-credits Thena, Makkari and Druig are visited by Eros, Thanos's brother, and Pip the Troll, who offer to help rescue their friends.
After the credits Dane Whitman opens a family chest and finds the Ebony Blade. An offscreen voice, Blade's, asks if he's ready.
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5 easter eggs
Hidden details
ReferenceThe ship that mimics 2001
Right at the start, in Mesopotamia, the Eternals' ship hovers over the tribe like a dark, silent block. The shot copies the monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey, another movie about an outside push in human evolution.
Phastos's son calls Ikaris Superman, a sign that DC comics exist in this universe. And Ikaris's fate, flying into the sun, is the Greek myth of Icarus, where his name comes from.
Look for the old ring with the Whitman family crest. It's the first hint of Dane Whitman's Black Knight legacy, which the final credits scene ties to the Ebony Blade.
In the mid-credits scene, the one who shows up to help Thena and Druig is Eros, aka Starfox, played by Harry Styles. In the comics he's Thanos's brother, and the movie confirms it when he introduces himself.
Mesopotamia, Babylon and even the Australian outback were shot on Fuerteventura and Lanzarote. Chloé Zhao preferred real locations to soundstages and worked the islands' wind and natural light into the scenes.
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