Marvel’s Eternals Ending Explained – Den of Geek

Where Are Makkari, Druig, and Thena Going?

Eternals’ large cast provides for some interesting interpersonal dynamics. As is befitting a family of 10, each Eternal has a differing opinion on whether or not to fulfill their role in the universe. By the end of the movie, however, pretty much only “Team Anti-Emergence” is left. Ikaris is toasted and Sprite is a human being. With Ajak and Gilgamesh (Don Lee) dead, that leaves Sersi, Phastos, Kingo, Makkari, Druig, and Thena as the surviving members of Arishem’s original team.

Within that remaining six, the Eternals split off into two groups. Sersi, Phastos, and Kingo will remain behind to keep an eye on Earth (not successfully as it turns out, but more on them in a bit) while Makkari, Druig, and Thena take off to the stars. What exactly is the latter team’s mission though? Essentially it is to find more Eternals and teach them their new enlightened ways of thinking.

Just like Arishem had his 10 Eternals, so too must every other Celestial, especially since Eternals are a crucial part of the Emergence process. Makkari, Druig, and Thena want to evangelize to these other Eternals about the destruction that Emergence brings. And based on the film’s first post-credit scene, it seems like they’ve already found at least one interested party.

How Will Arishem Judge Earth?

Here’s a not-so-fun fact: Arishem’s full name in Marvel Comics continuity is “Arishem the Judge.” As that name suggests, he is one of two Celestials (alongside Ziran) who is charged with judging the worthiness of civilizations. This aspect of Arishem is not apparent in Eternals until the very last scene of the film (before the post-credit sequences).

As Dane Whitman (Kit Harrington) prepares to tell Sersi about his family secret, the enormous, terrifying specter of Arishem appears in the sky and scoops Sersi into outer space. There he tells her and Kingo that since they’ve deemed Earth worthy of saving, he will access their memories and then return to make that judgment himself.

This is obviously ominous on several fronts. For starters, Sersi and Kingo’s memories contain over 7,000 years of human history. And while the MCU frequently likes to depict human beings as harmless nerds in a cosmic sense, there is some really dark stuff within that 7,000 years. Perhaps Sersi and Kingo’s memories convince Arishem that humanity must be wiped out? And none of this Thanos half-measure nonsense.