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The Eternals is a fictional race of superhumans in the Marvel Comics universe. They are an offshot of humanity created on Earth by the alien Celestials, and wage war against their counterparts, the Deviants. The Eternals were created by Jack Kirby in The Eternals #1 (July 1976).
The Eternals are an ancient godlike race who have in the past been worshipped as gods by unsuspecting humans. This worship led to a short-lived war between the Eternals and the various pantheons of gods, which ended when the Eternals terminated their relations with mortal humans.
Most Eternals possess superhuman physical attributes and the powers of flight and energy projection and manipulation. A number of Eternals have honed their abilities to develop different powers; for example, Sersi has the ability to transmute physical objects and organisms, and Makkari can attain superhuman levels of speed.
After a civil war millennia ago, a small faction of the Eternals were exiled from Earth to the planet Uranus. Many of these Uranian Eternals, after constructing a spaceship using alien Kree technology found in an abandoned supply depot, tried to return to Earth to renew the civil war. They were however attacked by the Kree, for stealing their technology, before reaching Earth. The survivors built a civilization on Saturn's moon Titan. The rest of the Uranian Eternals were later wiped out, as they had grown weary of life and allowed the entity called Deathurge to kill them.
The Earth-based Eternals have for the most part departed Earth, preferring instead to dwell in the extra-dimensional city of Olympia. A few of them remain in their city on the top of Mount Olympus in Greece.
Thanos, a mutant Titanian Eternal, is by far the most powerful of his race. Other notable Eternals include Ikaris, Makkari, Sersi and The Forgotten One. Hyperion may be a member of his world's version of the Eternals.
Bibliography of Eternals titles
First appearances
- Aginar in Eternals (1976 series) #11
- Ajak in Eternals (1976 series) #2
- Arlok in What If #27
- Astron in What If #27
- Cybele in Eternals (1985 series) #1
- Delphan Brothers in Eternals (1976 series) #11
- Domo in Eternals (1976 series) #5
- Druig in Eternals (1976 series) #11
- Eternals in (1976 series) #1
- The Forgotten One in Eternals (1976 series) #13
- Ikaris in Eternals (1976 series) #1
- Interloper in Defenders #147
- Khoryphos in Eternals (1985 series) #1
- Kingo Sunen in Eternals (1976 series) #11
- Kronos (Chronos) in Iron Man #55s
- Makkari in Eternals (1976 series) #5
- Mentor I (Alars) in Iron Man #55
- Phastos in Eternals (1985 series) #1
- Sersi in Eternals (1976 series) #3
- Sigmar in Eternals (1976 series) #17
- Sprite in Eternals (1976 series) #9
- Starfox (Eros) in Iron Man #55
- Sui-San in Captain Marvel (1976 series) #29
- Thanos in Iron Man #55
- Thena in Eternals (1976 series) #5
- Uni-Mind in Eternals (1976 series) #12
- Uranos in Captain Marvel (1976 series) #29
- Valkin in Eternals (1976 series) #11
- Vampiro in Thor #290
- Virako in Thor Annual #7
- Zarin in Eternals (1976 series) #11
- Zuras in Eternals (1976 series) #5
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