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Eternals: Thanos Rises #1 reveals the horrific final fates of the two Eternals who gave birth to one of the Marvel Universe’s greatest villains.
WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Eternals: Thanos Rises #1, on sale now from Marvel Comics.
Thanos is one of the most vile supervillains in the entire Marvel Universe and he also happens to be directly related to one the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s most anticipated films of the year, Eternals. As the Mad Titan continues to target the Eternals in the latest volume of their main comic book series, the special Eternals: Thanos Rises #1 (by Kieron Gillen, Dustin Weaver, Matthew Wilson and VC’s Clayton Cowles) provides a glimpse at Thanos’ parentage, including the tragic fate that befell Thanos’ Eternal parents A’Lars and Sui-San. And while what Thanos did to both of his parents was terrifying enough, the two lovers faced even crueler repercussions from their fellow Eternals in the eventual aftermath.
While the Eternals have certainly formed romances between themselves in the millions of years they have existed since being created by the Celestials to combat the Deviants, they are expressly forbidden to reproduce amongst themselves. A’Lars and Sui-San were from rival families, with familial roles being prescribed rather than biological due to the strict ban on procreation. Unwilling to lead his clan to war, A’Lars left his family and the throne to take up residence on Titan where he fell in love with Sui-San. The two eventually had two sons in secret, the cosmic antihero Eros — also known as Starfox — and his brother Thanos. Upon first seeing the future Mad Titan, Sui-San was driven to madness and attempted to murder her newborn son, sensing the deep-seated evil within him. Eternals: Thanos Rising #1 reveals that this illicit family comes with even more dark consequences.
As chronicled and expanded upon in Jason Aaron and Simone Bianchi’s acclaimed 2013 comic book miniseries Thanos Rising, the Mad Titan was manipulated by the Marvel Universe’s personification of death to track down and murder his entire family, including the numerous offspring he fathered across the cosmos with different species. Among Thanos’ earliest victims was his mother, with the aspiring supervillain dissecting Sui-San alive as he began to cut a bloody path across the universe. Years later, Thanos would catch up to a paranoid A’Lars, cornering him alone in his own spaceship and brutally murdering him as well. And even though death is never truly the end for the Eternals, Sui-San and A’Lars found grim fates awaiting them on the other side of mortality.
As part of their Celestial design, the Eternals are in a constant cycle of death and rebirth, revived with the full memories of what occurred in their past life. Given that A’Lars was murdered by his own son sometime after Sui-San, A’Lars is similarly resurrected in the company of his fellow Eternals only to find an ominous punishment awaiting him as he begins his new life. As A’Lars and Sui-San both violated the Celestials’ irrevocable rule regarding the Eternals procreating amongst themselves and given the severity of villainy that Thanos has unleashed on the universe, A’Lars and Sui-San are confined in complete isolation apart from one another to ensure that they never breed again.
With Thanos continuing to haunt the mightiest heroes of the Marvel Universe, including the Eternals, the precautions the Eternals have since taken are cold and calculating, but also understandable. Thanos has preyed on the Eternals actively before, even beyond his parents, and his very existence is one of the Eternals’ gravest mistakes.
In failing to heed the Celestials’ decree regarding reproduction, A’Lars and Sui-San are both paying an extraordinarily steep price for unleashing Thanos on the Marvel Universe.
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