Current Events > Can someone please explain this Eternals plot hole to me? (Spoilers 4 Sure)

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The mission of The Eternals was really to grow the population. Why? What did the population do that helped grow the celestial in the planet? I get that Earth is an egg, but how does having people or even just living beings on it help grow the being inside of it?

Also, they say they didn't help stop Thanos because he wasn't a threat, but the guy wiped out half the population, which seems to be a detriment to their main goal. Even if only the two Eternals knew the truth about their mission at the time, you would think they would get the OK to help out because he is removing half the population of the galaxy, not just earth. It affected EVERY PLANET, EVERY 'EGG' with a celestial in it.

Last thing, so like how does the celestial know when to hatch? Is that one last baby born so the population hits 8 billion or something and then he is full and ready to be born? Also, that massive hand and head coming out of the earth would have caused catastrophic activities on the planet. So many earthquakes alone, shifting the plates would have caused tsunamis and tectonic shifts that would have devastated the planet. That too made no sense.

Wasn't the Celestial absorbing energy from the people? There needed to be enough people to fuel its birth. Once the population reaches a certain point, like you assume, the Celestial starts being born.

Mech_Battalion posted...

but the guy wiped out half the population, which seems to be a detriment to their main goal.

Their "main goal" was to kill the Deviants. If they tried to stop him, Ajak and Ikarus would've had to reveal their true goals, and the others wouldn't have gone along with it -- as we saw.

What Thanos did only delayed the Celestial births, not outright stopped them. And since Celestials live for so long, I doubt they would've minded waiting another couple hundred or so years.

And yeah, the Celestial being born should've destroyed the planet right away if it was truly burrowing its way out from the core. Everyone should've been dead long before the fingertips pierced through the waves. So I'm assuming the body just starts to manifest on the surface or something, and it's not tunneling out like that visual aid from earlier in the movie showed.

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