Thor: Ragnarok had an aswesome Easter egg teasing Marvel’s Eternals. The Eternals were created by Jack Kirby back in 1976, and they provided the legendary creator with an opportunity to introduce a whole new cosmic mythology into the Marvel Universe. They also gave Kirby a chance to show off his stunning artwork.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe is increasingly celebrating its debt to Kirby, with Taika Waititi’s Thor: Ragnarok essentially serving as a love-letter to his cosmic art. Costume and set designers were visibly influenced by Kirby’s designs, with the Grandmaster’s costumes recognizable to any comic book reader. More to the point, though, some of this seems to have served as effective foreshadowing, with Marvel liberally using designs taken from the Eternals and their godlike creators, the Celestials.

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Now another Celestial Easter egg has been spotted in Thor: Ragnarok. Reddit user Initial_XD noticed a telltale spaceship in the background in Act 2, in a scene where Tessa Thompson’s Valkyrie hops from ship to ship in order to deal with the Grandmaster’s pursuit. Behind her, if you zoom in it’s possible to spot a spaceship lifted straight from Eternals #2, a vessel that was piloted by the Celestial named Arishem.

In the MCU, the Celestials have been reinvented as a cosmic race who used the Power Stone to judge entire worlds and civilizations, but were mysteriously rendered extinct. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 introduced Ego, last of the Celestials, who possessed the power to manipulate matter on a fundamental level. Given that’s the case, Celestials could manifest on a gigantic size – explaining Knowhere, the severed head of a Celestial that was turned into a space station – or as conventionally-sized humanoids.

This may just be a cool Easter egg, but more likely it is some sort of foreshadowing. According to the Marvel Studios Visual Dictionary, the planet Sakaar – site of this scene in Thor: Ragnarok – is littered with the corpses of Celestials. Presumably the Grandmaster’s agents were inspired by the Celestials when they designed their uniforms, explaining why they wore outfits of Celestial design. And now we also have a vessel that’s traditionally associated with the Celestials in the comics. There’s been some speculation that Eternals will serve as a back-door prequel to the entire MCU, explaining why the Celestials went extinct. If so, it will presumably also explain how these Celestial corpses wound up on Sakaar, and even why Arishem’s spaceship got there as well.

Source: Reddit

Key Release Dates
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  • Black Widow (2021)Release date: Jul 09, 2021
  • Eternals (2021)Release date: Nov 05, 2021
  • Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)Release date: Sep 03, 2021
  • Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)Release date: May 06, 2022
  • Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)Release date: Jul 08, 2022
  • Black Panther: Wakanda Forever/Black Panther 2 (2022)Release date: Nov 11, 2022
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