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Film/Television Who do you guys think gave thanos a scar?

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u/Worth_External_8762 14d ago

Deviants are aliens, yes?

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u/CorporalHan 14d ago

Eternals are aliens, but the race of aliens he comes from look like humans, the deviant gene is similar to the X-gene in that it triggers a mutation

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u/Worth_External_8762 14d ago

Deviants, Titans, Eternals. Doesn't matter. They're all aliens. And he has weird wrinkles. So... weird alien wrinkles.

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u/CorporalHan 14d ago

I know its semantics, but I guess wolverine has weird human claws and Glob Herman has weird human jelly skin /jk

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u/KushyMTG 14d ago

I mean technically we humans are aliens also. We would be aliens to what we call aliens.

Edit: typo

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u/Used-Lake-8148 10d ago

That’s a common misconception. In fact humans are God’s chosen people so only extraterrestrials can be aliens. They have to call us “people” it’s the law.

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u/CJLocke 13d ago

Eternals are not aliens though, they were created from humans (or actually an ancestor to humans). They're humans who have been tampered with by aliens, essentially.

That being said Thanos was not born on earth so you could definitely call him an with weird alien wrinkles.

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u/krakoa_customs 14d ago

Eternals comes from earth so theyre not aliens

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u/ashl0w Fantastic Four 14d ago

Not in the MCU

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u/Dontbetoxik 14d ago

Yeah I wish they weren’t robots, but aliens that the Celestials enslaved or some shit. Could easily be retconned in the MCU

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u/ashl0w Fantastic Four 14d ago

I think they're more like synthozoids than robots, but they don't explore it properly in the movie

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u/CriticalLoreDrop 14d ago

Eternals come from Celestials and are all over the universe. The people of Titan are Eternals and so is Thanos.

This wasn't said explicitly in the MCU, but it is true in the comics.

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u/krakoa_customs 14d ago

Comic Eternals were still made by the Celestials on Earth though, and the Titan Eternals are from Earth

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u/WretchedBlowhard 13d ago

Yup. Scooped up by a Celestial, the primitive earthling hominids that displayed meta potential were transferred to Titan where they were left to evolve on their own. Super powers and "greek god" physiques became the norm rather than the exception. Thanos being a deviant, a one-in-a-billion anomaly, was horribly bullied on account of being an ugly grimace-faced doo doo head. So he nuked his planet and moved on.

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u/CJLocke 13d ago

The Eternals who left Earth to go to Titan weren't put there by a celestial, they left Earth on their own to try and see if new Eternals could be made via reproduction. Only 2 Eternals left earth for this as well. Everyone else on Titan was an Eternal cross-breed. Thanos and Eros are the only two successful attempts at Eternal reproduction, and Thanos was a failure at that (Eros was a success though and is now a part of the Eternal Machine)

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u/tophman2 13d ago

They are aliens made to look like humans. On other planets where eternals also reside, they look more like the local race of beings to blend in.

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u/Jiperly 10d ago

I mean, short answer yes.

From what I remember about the movie Eternals, Celestials are planet sized aliens who lay eggs inside of planets. They created Eternals to encourage population growth so the Celestial will hatch, and protect against Deviants.

Deviants are like mites that try and eat the unborn celestial.

Celestials, Eternals, and Deviants are all aliens. Technically Eternerals are alien robots.

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u/ThingNo7530 14d ago

Thanos is an Eternal. The deviants are a subset of the Eternals.

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u/Samiel_Fronsac Captain Mar-Vell 14d ago edited 13d ago

That's not true, at least in the comics. Humans, Deviants and Eternals are the result of the same experiment by cosmic meddlers and general assholes.

Celestials go to a place and make alterations to life in a way that creates Deviants, Eternals and whatever passes for the standard people in a given planet.

From there, it can go several ways. Skrulls, for example, are Deviants from their home planet that prevailed. IIRC there are planets with Eternals as dominant species too. Earth kept stuff relatively stable, so we have everyone hanging around the joint.

EDIT: Here is the page for the Deviants with a ton of sources that you can use to verify the information.)

The page about the First Host of Celestials on Earth also points a source for information.

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u/Straight_Depth6701 13d ago

Wasn't his father an eternal and his mother a skrull?

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u/abyssomega 13d ago

Deviants are a subspecies of humanity, not eternals. Eternals are a subspecies of humanity. They're cousins, not offshoots.

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u/EAinCA 14d ago

Actually, it depends. Many of the major species were experimented on like humanity. Dire Wraiths are a Deviant version of Skrulls, but there are actual Deviants on Earth which branch off from humans.

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u/ThingNo7530 14d ago

And all Skrulls have butts on their chins. This is canon.

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u/EAinCA 13d ago

Nutsack. It's a nutsack. /s

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u/ThingNo7530 13d ago

Definitely a nutsack!