12 Marvel Cinematic Universe moments that made no sense

6. The Eternals should’ve stopped Thanos for their true mission to succeed

Before The Eternals premiered, there was a question on everyone’s mind: Why didn’t the group of super-powered heroes aid in the fight against Thanos, even when they’ve been living on Earth for thousands of years? Well, fear not since Marvel thought about that problem and they came up with a definite and compelling explanation for the Eternals’ lack of involvement…

Except their explanation doesn’t make any sense at all when you think about it.

See, the Eternals should only interfere in problems where Deviants are directly involved. Since Thanos wasn’t a Deviant, they couldn’t stop his plans from wiping out half of the life in the universe. On paper, that seems to check out just fine, but let’s remember the true purpose of the Eternals was to prepare everything for the Emergence.

The Emergence is an event where a Celestial is born out of the intelligent life of a planet and destroys said planet in the process. So the greater the population on a planet, the better for the Emergence. That’s why the Eternals had to protect as many lives as possible from Deviants.

But what about all the life-ending events such as wars or pandemics? They can result in many casualties, going directly against the Celestial’s plans. Shouldn’t the Eternals aid in those situations too? Well, the movie goes on to explain that all “natural” events such as those help humanity evolve by pushing technological and medical breakthroughs, which will result in greater population growth in the long run. Deviants, on the other side, aren’t a “natural” part of evolution and that’s why they have to be stopped.

The problem is that Thanos destroying half of the life in the universe isn’t a natural event either. Worse of all, his succeeding would result in a massive setback to the Celestial’s plan not only on Earth but on every planet where they hoped to birth a new being. Of course, the snap only halted their plan for five years until Earth’s Mightiest Heroes brought everyone back. But neither the Eternals nor the Celestials had a way of knowing life would be restored in such a short amount of time.

For all they knew, it could’ve taken centuries or even millenniums for life to thrive up until a point similar to when Thanos snapped his fingers. With that in mind, it would’ve been simpler to just stop the Mad Titan.

Maybe Marvel didn’t think this one out very thoroughly.