I'd be shocked if they ever do an Eternals 2 or follow up on these characters.
I think we'll see some of them again, but not necessarily in a sequel. If they follow the comics, Sersi will end up in the Avengers along with her boyfriend, who I assume we'll see get "introduced" properly in Blade.
The first post-credits scene also gave me a Guardians Of The Galaxy vibe. Them being in Volume 3 might be too much, though.
I also don't understand why people give such a shit about why didn't they fight Thanos.
Because these are characters introduced after that movie
Like it's just that simple. Why the fuck do you need an explanation for "MCU lore" that satisfies you? Are they not allowed to ever introduce any more heroes into the MCU because it will always come down to why weren't they in Endgame? That just seems utterly ridiculous to me. It really doesn't fucking matter.
It's just a feel like the fanbase is hating the movie because they didn't show up and fight Thanos. Which is where I think it's stupid.
I don't think people are going full nerd-rage over this because of the latter. It's because Thanos is an Eternal and they even
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introduced his brother
in the post-credits scene. I can understand if say, Daredevil wasn't involved in the Thanos battles, but these characters definitely seem like they should have been connected and something more than "we aren't supposed to interfere with humans" (even though they did stuff anyway) would have been better.
It's all starting to unravel now and is collapsing under the weight of its own absurdity.
They need to do a massive timeskip and let go of some of the legacy characters. They also need to stop it with power creep that is happening with every new character being more powerful than the last. Captain Marvel was the source of this shit.
My guess is that they use the whole multiverse thing as a way to re-introduce newer/younger versions of some of these characters, like Iron Man. Why they don't just get new actors to take over roles is beyond me, but at the same time, coming up with storylines to explain all this shit would be very comic book like, lol.
I get that pre-production is a thing and stuff gets rolling at least a few years in advance, but when Disney got back their movie rights to the characters Fox had, they should have just scrapped Shang-Chi and Eternals and got right into X-Men, Fantastic Four, and the like.
Eternals in particular was an odd choice for a movie. They were never particularly-popular and there haven't even been that many comics made with them as the leads. IIRC, Eternals was Jack Kirby basically wanting to keep doing New Gods after he left DC, right? Well, in that case, 1987's Masters Of The Universe was a much better "New Gods"/"Eternals" movie than this one was.