Eternals director Chloe Zhao explains why in the Marvel Cinematic Universe Thanos is Eros’ brother without being an Eternal
With the arrival of the Eternals in the Marvel Cinematic Universe we also saw the debut of Eros, who will be known as Starfox, who is the brother of Thanos, but what strikes us is that Eros is an Eternal, but Thanos apparently it is not.
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The readers of the House of Ideas know that the crazy Titan is an Eternal, being the son of two beings of this species, but in the Marvel Cinematic Universe the origin of the alien is unknown.
Thanos is the son of A’Lars, parent of the second colony of this group on Titan, and Sui-San, both Eternals, who, like the team we saw in Chloe Zhao’s tape, were on Titan to save their inhabitants of the Deviants and help them evolve.
As punishment for conceiving a child among Eternals, something that was forbidden by the Celestials, the unborn child had the Deviant gene, which gives it that grotesque appearance. Sui-San wanted to kill Thanos, arguing that she saw death in his eyes, but years later he killed her mother.
Why is Thanos not an Eternal in Marvel Studios?
Although in the post-credits scene of Eternals Pip the Troll introduces Eros as Thanos’s brother, the Mad Titan would not have blood ties to Starfox, who was on Titan to fight the Deviants, which would have made them rulers of the planet.
Chloe Zhao, director of Eternals, explained in an interview with the British magazine Empire that similar to the Eternals of Earth, there were other aliens on Titan performing the same tasks.
“Eros was stationed on Titan; 10 of them were, as were the 10 Eternals on Earth, assuming Titan is also a host planet at some point”.
Thanos would not be the son of two Eternals, he would have earned their trust to the point of including him in the royal family, where Eros was the prince, and the two developed a sibling relationship.
Thanos grows and forges a goal
However, Thanos realized the great problem that Titan was going through, with a population that was ending its resources, so he proposed the extermination of half the planet, which started a conflict with the royal family, which caused the Eternals on Titan migrated, before Eros explained to Thanos his true purpose.
“There’s a pretty beautiful and heartbreaking influence that Eros has had on Thanos. And how much does Thanos know?”, says Chloe Zhao.
In this way, Eros, like Ayak, would know that the emergence would end a race that I love, and for this reason he joins Thena, Makkari and Druig to face Arishem.
Eternals introduces an exciting new team of superheroes to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, ancient aliens who have been living on Earth in secret for thousands of years.
Following the events of Avengers: Endgame, an unexpected tragedy forces them to leave the shadows to rally against humanity’s oldest enemy, The Deviants.
The Eternals features a cast that includes Richard Madden as Ikaris, Angelina Jolie as Thena, Kumail Nanjiani as Kingo, Lauren Ridloff as Makkari. Brian Tyree Henry as Phastos, Salma Hayek as Ajak, Lia McHugh as Sprite, Kit Harrington as Black Knight, and Don Lee as Gilgamesh.
Directed by Oscar winner Chloe Zhao, Eternals is available now on Marvel digital platforms.
Source: Empire
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