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They've already introduced the Kree, so it would've made more sense for them to correct the disaster that the Inhumans show was instead of moving on to the Eternals, imo.
I had hoped/assumed that they were going to do something really major and different for the Eternals---make them sort of the progenitors of all the super powered beings on Earth or something...
I think it was always going to be a challenge to balance/differentiate some of these different groups--but I think the bigger challenge would be The Inhumans and the X-men.
As another thread has questioned, my bigger concern is the overlap with Galactus. Because of this movie, I don't see how you can do a movie with Galactus without him being a Celestial, or wildly different from what we know him as in the comics.
I honestly don't know how they're supposed to bring in the rest of the characters in to the MCU. Everyone jsut comes in through the multiverse? I thought the Eternals would have had SOME sort of role to play, but doesn't seem to be the case.
Just the mere fact that they let Thanos (who is an Eternal himself in comics) do what he did flies in the face of "Their Mission". I can assume why they might not have been snapped, but again, it doesn't fit the narrative.
If they had followed the original run in the comics, then bringing in the X-Men would be super easy............
"For Earth, the Celestials created the Eternals and Deviants, and inserted a latent gene into baseline humanity that causes mutations." Technically, all super powered humans on earth are already mutants. Since Fox owned the word Mutant at the time, that's how we got stuck with KMart Mutants in the form of the InHumans.

So this movie did something that altered the landscape of MCU Earth while doing absolutely nothing for the MCU's new phase.