10 Recent Movie Scenes Everyone Misunderstood
8. It Doesn't Prove Thanos Was Right - Eternals
Eternals is by far the most divisive MCU movie yet, and prompted many fans to note that it seemed to be tacitly supporting Thanos' (Josh Brolin) decision to wipe out half of all life in the universe in Avengers: Infinity War.
Mid-way through the movie, it's revealed that the Earth's population has now reached a large enough number to provide sufficient energy for the Celestial Tiamut to burst forth from the Earth's score, in turn destroying it.
The implication, then, is that by snapping half the universe for five years, Thanos inadvertently delayed Tiamut's emergence, halving the amount of energy on the planet and therefore keeping it at bay.
Many quickly jumped on this and began flying the "Thanos was right" banner, even if that's a rather superficial, if not outright disingenuous, reading of the movie.
First and foremost, of course, Thanos buying the world five years of time was an accidental by-product of his genocide, which any way you slice it doesn't make his actions inherently correct, certainly not from a moral perspective.
But even if Thanos' snap had never been undone, it would've been a mere matter of decades before humanity's population returned to the necessary levels to facilitate Tiamut's birth anyway.
And this is all without getting into the fact that while Arishem kills potentially billions of people with the birth of a new Celestial, on a cosmic scale this is nothing compared to instantly eradicating 50% of living things in the entire universe.
Thanos was never right, and the events of the Eternals change nothing about that.