Marvel dropped the final trailer for āThe Eternalsā on Thursday and it finally answers the āeternalā question fans have been asking: Why wasnāt this team of advanced beings in any of the previous Marvel Cinematic Universe films?
It starts off with Salma Hayekās character, Ajak, riding a horse to a country home to speak with Ikaris, played by Richard Madden.
It is there she explains how āthe blipā featured in the Avengers films āInfinity Warā and āEndgameā caused the Eternals to be in their current, surely-to-be-explained-in-more-detail-in-the-actual-film situation.
āFive years ago, Thanos erased half of the population of the universe,ā she says. āBut the people of this planet brought everyone back with the snap of a finger. The sudden return of the population provided the necessary energy for the Emergence to begin.ā
āHow long do we have?ā Maddenās character asks.
āSeven days,ā Hayekās character responds, setting off a quest to find all the Eternals still on Earth, including Angelina Jolieās Thena.
A voice-over by Gemma Chan, who plays Sersi, then offers details about the supergroup to Kit Haringtonās character, Black Knight.
āWeāre Eternals. We came here 7,000 years ago to protect humans from the Deviants,ā she says.
Harington then asks the obvious question: āWhy didnāt you guys help fight Thanos? Or any war or all the other terrible things throughout history?ā
Chanās response: āWe were instructed not to interfere in any human conflict unless Deviants were involved.ā
Of course, Harington asks another question that is not answered in the trailer: āBy who?ā
The trailer also shows Madden rounding up the other Eternals, including Jolie in a blond wig, getting ready to go into a battle that one character describes as āthe end of the world.ā
Of course, Twitter users had strong reactions to the trailer, which you can view up above.
āThe Eternals,ā which is directed by Chloe Zhao, the Oscar-winning director of āNomadland,ā is set to hit theaters Nov. 5.