Marvel Phase 4 Could Restart The MCUs Civil War (Because Of Eternals)

Marvel Phase 4 Could Restart The MCU’s Civil War (Because Of Eternals)

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With disasters from the awakening of a Celestial within the core of the Earth, and a tell-all documentary, the Eternals could spark another Civil War.

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The climax to The Eternals involved a major world event for Earth that may have re-ignited the divisions seen in Captain America: Civil War. While the full emergence of Tiamat, a massive celestial miles tall from the Earth’s core would have wiped out all life on the planet, even partial emergence sparked seismic events. The independent action of a handful of Avengers going poorly, attempting to thwart a terrorist bomb was spark enough to serve as the impetus for the introduction of the Sokovia Accords in Captain America: Civil War. The devastating earthquakes and possibly tsunamis that, to an uninformed observer, seemed to be the result of the Eternals’ actions could easily cause a similar, if not greater response.

Following the events of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, the Sokovia Accords, legislation designed to police superheroes, has not been a prominent plot point. Although the precise Sokovia Accords rules have been only partly explained, their structure is built around returning responsibility and authority over world events to elected or appointed world leaders. Even if their enforcement has waned in the face of threats to humankind that those world leaders were not capable of independently facing, the motive behind creating the Accords has not vanished, and there has been no mention that they have been officially repealed. It appears that independent nations have merely enforced them to the extent that they deem fit within their borders.

While the Eternals are not human, and could leave the planet if the Accords were enforced upon them, many of them do have residency and apparently citizenship in nations on Earth. This could be disrupted, interfering with their attempts to live among humanity. Their policy of non-intervention, while keeping them insulated from scrutiny, may make them subject to what replaces the Accords in MCU Phase 4. Without a heroic track record, and ambiguous involvement with the global disasters following Tiamat’s emergence, they do not have the public or governmental support that the Avengers had following the conflict with Thanos.

Tiamut Emerging In Eternals Did Massive Damage To The MCU’s Earth

While no specific measurements for Tiamut’s body is detailed in the course of the film, the VFX designer for the film, Matt Aiken, estimates the total height of Tiamut to be around 300 miles. Those portions of Tiamut that are seen turned to stone after emerging from the sea are above the level of cloud cover, placing them at least a mile and change in the air. An object that size emerging from the Earth’s crust would disrupt plate tectonics, and doing so in the ocean would send enormous tidal waves or tsunamis across the Earth. The Eternals may be more powerful even than the Avengers, but there’s no indication that they could stop seismic events on that scale.

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Most mountains take years to form; Tiamut’s hand and head reach over a mile in height in the course of under an hour. While it may be possible to manage the debris and detritus spewed into the air by this massive emergence, doing so would take time and effort. 2010 eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull, a volcano in Iceland, created massive clouds of ash and debris that disrupted world air travel. Similarly, 1816 was known as “The Year Without a Summer” because of climate changes caused by the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia. While it is unlikely that this particular aspect of Tiamut’s emergence will be explored, even the partial emergence would have caused chaos and death on a wide scale. In the film, it is treated as a near-miss — in truth, it was at least a glancing blow.

The Sokovia Accords Were Never Repealed After Civil War

With the Sokovia Accords spotted in a history museum in The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, it was implied that the Accords were a historical relic — but references to Accords violations were also made in WandaVision that suggest that they are still the law of the land. Whether or not they are actively being enforced, the Sokovia Accords appear to still exist, and the documents that comprise them are certainly available if someone wished to use them as a basis for a new law. Pushed through after the Avengers made a deadly mistake when attempting to foil a terrorist plot in Captain America: Civil War, it would not be hard to imagine someone hawkish about this legislation using the devastation of Tiamut’s emergence as a flashpoint to introduce or enforce the Accords.

There might be some difficulty in enforcing the Sokovia Accords — or any similar legislation — on the Eternals, but that would do little for the people who did not share their advantages. The Sokovia Accords apply to the superpowered, but with an Asgardian enclave on Earth following Infinity War, as well as multiple and repeated attempts to create super soldiers worldwide, the exact definition of “superpowered” is a bit ambiguous, and the Accords are vague. The Eternals have millennia of practice evading scrutiny, and the end of The Eternals has several of them leaving the planet, but the Accords remain as a looming threat to everyone else who falls into the legal grey area that the Accords create.

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The Documentary About The Eternals Tells The World Who Did It

All other things being equal, it might have been fair to assume that humanity would assume the emergence of Tiamut to be similar to the attack by Thanos; the actions of an alien being, and not the direct responsibility of any person living on Earth. This would be true, were it not for the documentary footage being shot by Karun, Kingo’s valet. Karun and Kingo may be missing from the Eternals finale, but the footage of the Eternals that Karun was constantly shooting details their travels and discoveries. While the last footage shot of the Eternals as a group shows some of them choosing to stop Tiamut, it also shows some of them choosing not to, including Kingo.

Under the circumstances, and particularly in the wake of global devastation, it would make sense for Kingo and Karun to not release an entirely honest version of the documentary. If any of it is leaked, however, it is likely that some may connect the new, secretive supergroup and the events in the Indian Ocean. Kingo, portrayed as vain and glory-seeking, may or may not release the documentary — but if he does, it would serve as an inflection point for a new round of Sokovia Accords. WandaVision made the threat of the Scarlet Witch a possible Accords inflection point; a documentary showing a secretive supergroup being responsible for an international cataclysm would light a fire to that dry tinder.

All told, the Sokovia Accords — and the threat of a second Civil War — will only become relevant plot points if Marvel decides to explore these themes. The Falcon and The Winter Soldier showed that Marvel is willing to explore real-world consequences for superhero storylines, so it is not beyond the realm of possibility that there will be humanitarian and political crises following the events in the Indian Ocean. Whatever the case, The Eternals has pulled a great many threads, and a new civil war storyline may just be the start of things.

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