new rockstars or just click the link below code automatically applied at checkout for NUMBER_TOKEN off and thanks again to blue blocks for sponsoring this episode it's also been implied that the canonicity of the world of the mcu and its history as far as what the general public of that world knows to be true really followed our history in pop culture right up until NUMBER_TOKEN when iron man went public now since then the mcu has had different political leaders different technology different pop culture they don't really reference the more modern stuff but they do reference things like beyonce adele ben and jerry's ice cream the war on terror but you could say all of those things weren't known before NUMBER_TOKEN and of course superman existed long before NUMBER_TOKEN as well but for this kid to know of superman as a reference that he would make in the year when eternals is set either NUMBER_TOKEN or NUMBER_TOKEN this world must have continued producing superman comics and tv shows and films for years and years even after the idea of flying alien superheroes and patriotic garb wasn't really escapist fantasy anymore it was just their day-to-day life that they were living or maybe the kid just says really retro taste in comics either way i think it is fascinating that superman now exists in the mcu and i think it tells us two things about the way eternals is warping the cinematic universe first the mcu of course is approaching a multiverse where the rules of canonicity for everything are mattering less and less like star wars ships are showing up in the collector's garage and what if evan peters is cameoing as a wink to himself zombies can catch characters completely off guard despite zombie fiction like night of living dead being a halloween classic screened in this world somehow this is happening and of course deadpool is on his way and this guy is an equal opportunity satirist who references marvel and dc and everything in between but second takeaway and this interests me even more is that the eternals is suggesting that all forms of media all parts of our culture has their roots in the gifts given to mankind by the eternals and by extension by the celestials like another detail we found in an earlier trailer months ago the holy grail the same cup design from indiana jones of the last crusade is among makari's hoarded artifacts now makari could have moved real fast to steal this holy grail movie prop from some hollywood warehouse but with the other real-life historical artifacts among makari's collection i think this is implied to be the actual cup of christ and that the idea is the eternals could have been moving these legendary artifacts around the world throughout history which resulted in them being depicted this way in popular media i mean kingo is the guy who ends up working in the filmmaking industry and the same could be said for dc comics and the superman character superman was created by jerry siegel and joe shuster as an american response to the way nazi propaganda exploited the nietzschean ubermensch philosophy uber wrench translates directly to superman and now i think the idea is that this type of media superman comics was an outgrowth of union archetypes rooted in mythologies that were all sparked by these eternals for better
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