Directed by Chloé Zhao, Eternals follows the title team, an alien race created by the Celestial Arishem the Judge with the purpose of getting rid of the Deviants (their evil counterparts) on Earth. The Eternals stayed on Earth for centuries after defeating all the Deviants and helped society evolve, but they weren’t allowed to interfere with their conflicts. The Eternals ended up parting ways but re-teamed many years later after the Deviants returned, their leader Ajak (Salma Hayek) was killed, and an apocalyptic event called “The Emergence” fast approached. Through their new leader, Sersi (Gemma Chan), the Eternals learned what their real origin and purpose were, and with that came some twists on who the real villains were, along with the betrayal of some team – though not the one everything expected at first.
The Eternals team is formed by Ajak, Sersi, Ikaris (Richard Madden), Sprite (Lia McHugh), Kingo (Kumail Nanjiani), Phastos (Brian Tyree Henry), Thena (Angelina Jolie), Gilgamesh (Don Lee), Makkari (Lauren Ridloff), and Druig (Barry Keoghan), but not all of them made it to the end of the movie. Following the now-famous Marvel secrecy, details about Eternals were kept under wraps and the trailers gave a different idea on some characters, especially Druig. It was heavily theorized before Eternals was released that Druig would be the villain of the movie, but as it turns out, the villain and traitor of the Eternals was Ikaris, and Druig ended up being a fan-favorite character who showed a lot of empathy and understanding of the human race, and through this, Eternals flipped a trend that had been following Barry Keoghan.
Barry Keoghan has become best known for playing weird characters, especially in the last five years. One of Keoghan’s most notable roles was in Yorgos Lanthimos’ psychological horror-thriller the Eternals’ traitor, but he ended up becoming one of the biggest and most comionate heroes in the story, flipping that perception of Keoghan’s characters in the process.
Before MCU fans can see Druig again, Barry Keoghan will appear in Eternals and who can have an interesting future in the MCU.
