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In Marvel’s Eternals, the sinister Arishem complicated the plan to use Earth as a Celestial battery when all he needed was one soldier for the job.
In Marvel’s Eternals, there were quite a few plot points that left fans a bit confused. Many didn’t understand why the super-beings didn’t intervene against Thanos in the Infinity Saga, especially since wiping out half the galaxy meant the Emergence across many planets would take longer to come to fruition. Some also were confused by Ikaris stringing the divided team back together when leaving everything as is would have allowed the Celestial known as Tiamut to be born.
Interestingly, Arishem, their creator, also made some weird decisions, such as showing Sersi the plan where these planets were sacrifices, which ultimately led to her rebelling. But most of all, upon dissecting what he really needed on these worlds, Arishem’s biggest flaw was building a team of soldiers when all he needed was one: Druig.
In the movie, Arishem initially deployed the Deviants to clear worlds of apex predators, but then they turned wild and started killing the citizens. The Eternals were then sent as warriors on a course-correction path, to take the Deviants out on these worlds and help the populations flourish. Once order was achieved and societies grew, they’d be fodder for the Celestial Seed to feed on.
However, upon looking back at the policy of non-interference, had Druig mind-controlled the people, he could have ushered in order, prosperity and essentially turned the world into a paradise. This would have made it a battery for the Seed in a much shorter time, so none of the others were really needed. It’s proven when they arrived on Earth and Druig had the humans lay their weapons down, which was something not even Ajak could do so easily. Granted, the other warriors were essential to kill any monsters Druig couldn’t tap into, but he should have been leading as the Prime Eternal, with these others as enforcers.
Druig would have then been able to control the rise of kingdoms, like he did when he stopped war in Tenochtitlan and built his Peruvian commune. Had he done this on a larger scale in many countries, the world would have become the utopia Arishem needed.
Druig would let the people advance, setting up their progress to turn the planet into a meal for the Seed to devour. Thus, the Emergence would have been expedited as smoothly as possible. Instead, with all these personalities in the mix and faulty programming when Arishem built the bots, he prolonged the Emergence and wasted the key to controlling it — Druig.
Arishem wouldn’t have even needed to tell Druig the truth about the planet being a battery because Druig’s nature was to create peace. Thus, the overlord’s vision would have easily occurred with Druig none the wiser over being a lone pawn in the game and the risk of betrayal not even existing.
To see how Arishem wasted Druid’s potential, Eternals is streaming now on Disney+.
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