ETERNALS 2: KING IN BLACK - Teaser Trailer | Kit Harington's BLACK KNIGHT | Marvel Studios

The future of the Eternals continues to be a mystery, and even though Marvel has teased their return, the studio can do a lot more than that. With the original Avengers no longer active and the Guardians of the Galaxy exploring, well, space, it seemed like the Marvel Cinematic Universe had been left without a superhero team operating on Earth, but Marvel quickly addressed this in its Phase 4 and introduced the Eternals in Chloé Zhao’s movie of the same name. The Eternals are a group of synthetic beings created by the Celestial Arishem the Judge with the purpose of preparing planets for the birth of new Celestials, so the Eternals constantly had to go through memory wipes in order for them to be ready for new missions.

Arishem’s plans to prepare Earth for the Emergence of the Celestial Tiamut didn’t go as he hoped as after the death of their leader, Ajak (Salma Hayek), Sersi (Gemma Chan) took her place as the leader of the Eternals and learned the truth about their mission on Earth. With the help of most of the surviving team, the Eternals stopped Tiamut’s emergence and saved Earth, but that wasn’t the end of their problems. At the end of Eternals, the team was divided into two, with some staying on Earth and others leaving on the Domo, and those who stayed on Earth – Sersi, Phastos (Brian Tyree Henry), and Kingo (Kumail Nanjiani) – were abducted by Arishem to judge their actions and decide if humans were worth saving. This left the door open for the return of the Eternals, but a sequel hasn’t been officially announced, and while their return has been teased, Marvel can do a lot more than that.