This post contains SPOILERS for A.X.E: Judgment Day #4Following the devastating events of the latest issue of A.X.E: Judgment Day, it's inevitable that the Eternals to ignore.
In Marvel's Judgment Day from writer Kieron Gillen and Valerio Schiti, the Prime Eternal Druig and the majority of the Eternal race chose to go to war with the X-Men, having discovered that mutants share DNA with the Deviants. As such, the Avengers and a handful of Eternal defectors have ed mutantkind in their fight. While they were hoping to revive the Progenitor Celestial to force the Eternals to stop fighting, the plan massively backfired with the reawakened Progenitor choosing to judge the world both individually and collectively, promising to destroy the world should they fail.
Now, the new Judgment Day #4 features the Progenitor's many interactions with the Marvel Universe's heroes and villains, judging by its own cosmic standards and metrics of morality. Beginning with Captain America who didn't measure up based on the state of the nation he symbolizes, the Progenitor appears before heroes such as Thor must be worthy and is judged as such. While there are many more who were judged all over the globe, the Progenitor ultimately fails the entire world and begins dishing out its sentence, killings countless despite the heroes' attempts to persuade the Celestial otherwise. While the world will naturally have to pick up the pieces after the planet is somehow saved, things can't just go back to how they were considering all the judgments that were laid out.
Assuming that the Earth survives (Marvel needs to keep publishing comics after all), the typical status quo will still have been destroyed. Firstly, relations between humans, mutants, and eternals are either going to be stronger or even more strained than they already were in the aftermath. Going further, one would expect that certain heroes would try and be different in the face of their individual judgments. Captain America being judged as a failure due to the state of his nation needs to sit with him for the long term. It should prompt him to do things differently. The same goes for any of the other heroes and citizens of Earth were didn't receive a thumbs up from the Progenitor.
Things can't just go back to normal once Judgment Day ends. To do so would be a massive failure on the part of the publisher. Marvel Comics needs to make sure an impact is felt for years to come, just like some of the biggest events such as Civil War, Avengers vs X-Men, M-Day, and more. The stakes are so high for this Avengers, X-Men, and Eternals event. It wouldn't make much sense if there weren't any long-term consequences or ramifications once it ends.
