Eternals: 24 WTF Moments

8. King Arthur Had A Crush On Thena

Eternals Thena Angelina Jolie
Marvel Studios

A throwaway line in the third act of the film might actually be saying more than it first appears. When Thena brandishes her large sword, a character asks her if it's the Ebony Blade, to which she amusingly replies, "No, it's just Excalibur."

Sprite then pipes up and mentions that King Arthur once had a crush on Thena, amusingly folding some popular human mythology into the Eternals' own origin story.

But the bigger detail here is that Thena implies that Exacalibur isn't much compared to the Ebony Blade, the very same blade we see shipped to Dane Whitman in the film's post-credits scene.

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