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This theory solves a huge MCU plot hole created by the Eternals
Thanos, who? Snap, what?
02/06/2021
Eternals is not long away, and so Marvel fans have begun trying to piece together how the main characters factor into all of the events of the cinematic universe to date. Given how expansive the universe is so far, fitting in cosmic all-knowing beings is going to be tricky.
After the first trailer was released, fans began to vocalise the question on everyone's mind: if the Eternals are as powerful and prescient as the trailer (and comics history) makes them out to be, why wouldn't they have interfered in things like slavery, the holocaust, and – in a more Marvel-centric vein – Thanos literally wiping half of life out of existence.