Film guide · 2021
The whole film, start to finish, told scene by scene in words. Read this and you'll know everything that happens.
Contains every spoiler, up to the ending.
Mesopotamia, 5000 BC. The ship Domo lands, and ten Eternals emerge. Their leader, Ajak, takes orders from the Celestial Arishem to protect humanity from the Deviants.
They fight the Deviants and watch history unfold, but they're forbidden to interfere in human conflicts.
Five hundred years ago, believing the Deviants gone, the Eternals go their separate ways.
Present-day London. Sersi works at a museum and is dating Dane Whitman. She lives with Sprite, who looks like a girl and never ages.
A Deviant named Kro attacks the city at night. Ikaris, Sersi's old love, flies in, and the three drive it off.
They go to Ajak in America, only to find her dead. Ajak's power passes to Sersi.
As the new leader, Sersi connects with Arishem and learns the truth. A new Celestial is growing inside Earth, and when it's born, Earth will be destroyed. The Eternals were sent to help humanity grow until then.
Kingo, now a Bollywood star, joins them. His valet, Karun, films the journey.
In Australia, Gilgamesh cares for Thena, who suffers from a condition that clouds her mind.
Kro attacks, and Gilgamesh dies protecting the others.
In Chicago, the inventor Phastos lives with his husband and son. He still grieves that humanity used his inventions for war.
In the Amazon, they find Druig, who controls minds. Makkari, the speedster, has been living aboard the Domo.
Phastos realizes that if all their powers are channeled through Sersi, they could stop the Celestial's birth.
Ikaris reveals he killed Ajak. Loyal to Arishem, he's willing to sacrifice Earth.
Sprite sides with Ikaris. Kingo refuses to fight either way and leaves.
In the Indian Ocean, the hand of the Celestial Tiamut begins to break through the Earth.
The Eternals fight Ikaris, Sprite and Kro. Thena kills Kro.
Channeling everyone's power, Sersi turns Tiamut to marble.
Unable to harm Sersi, Ikaris flies into the sun.
Sersi turns Sprite human, so she can finally grow up.
While Thena, Makkari and Druig travel into space, Arishem appears before Sersi, Kingo and Phastos on Earth and takes them, saying he'll judge whether humanity deserves to live.
Thanos's brother Eros and his companion Pip appear before the three in space.
Dane reaches for the black sword he's inherited, and a mysterious voice speaks to him.