"Celestials" is a very important presence in the 26th film work "Eternals" of the "Marvel Cinematic Universe", and the Eternals are mentioned at the beginning:
"In the beginning, before the six singularities and the dawn of creation, the Celestial Supreme beings have appeared, created the first sun, brought light into the universe, life began to flourish, and everything was in equilibrium..."
However, after everyone watches the movie, they will know that the "Celestial God Clan", as the creator of the universe, is not a particularly good existence... So what kind of concept does this seemingly supreme and powerful "Celestial God Clan" exist in the movie or outside the movie?
1. What is the "Celestial Clan" like in the Eternals movie?
The Eternals begin with the setting that in 5,000 B.C. on Earth, the Supreme Celestial Race "Alithom" selected 10 Super-Powered Eternals from Olympia Star, and he sent them to Earth to defend against the invasion of the Mutants. For thousands of years, the Eternals have helped humanity defend against mutant invasions, but not in the development of humanity or in their wars. It wasn't until the last mutants were wiped out in 1521 that the Eternals disagreed over whether to continue to protect humanity, and finally decided not to interact with humans anymore and waited for Arisom to bring them back to their home planet...
Time comes to "modern times" (the point in time after Avengers 4: Endgame), and the mutants who thought they were annihilated reappeared and killed the leader of the Eternal Clan squad who came to Earth, "Ajak", after the death of Ajak, he passed on the ability to communicate with Alitham to Cersei, making Cersei the new captain, but this allowed Cersei to discover the "true face" of the so-called Celestial Clan!
In fact, the so-called "Celestial Race" is just another powerful "creature" race in the alien planet, they created the universe and created the planet with life, but also just for their own "reproduction"! It's a cosmic cycle of problems, and the birth of each Celestial Being is actually a "Big Bang" (called "The Emergence" in the Eternals movie), which will lead to the birth of a new universe. However, when a Celestial Clan is born, he will put his "seed" into a planet with life in his universe, that planet is actually the "cultivation tank" of the next generation of The Celestial Clan, and the intelligent life forms on the planet are only the "nutrients" that provide the next generation of the Celestial Clan, as long as the population on the planet is sufficient and the nutrients are sufficient, the new generation of the Celestial Clan will "break out of the shell", that is, "Divine Appearance"; but once the "Divine Appearance" occurs, the planet will be completely destroyed, but at the same time it will also cause the formation of a new universe...
In order to ensure that each "culture tank planet" can smoothly give birth to the next generation of tenjin clan (that is, the occurrence of "god appear"), the earliest tenjin clan "created" a "mutant family" to fight against the original "top predators" on the "culture tank planet" (in terms of the earth setting, it is like a dinosaur, or a dragon, or all the monsters that have appeared in legend) to protect the intelligent life forms on the "culture tank planet" (in terms of the earth setting, it is "human"); however, due to design errors, the mutants eliminated the top predators on the earth However, he became a top predator himself, so the Celestial Clan created another "Eternal Clan" to eliminate the Mutant Clan. Therefore, strictly speaking, the "Eternal Clan" and the "Mutant Clan" are all top "robots" created by the "Celestial God Clan" to protect their next generation!
And some of the "unexpected circumstances" in the "Eternals" movie, such as the first Thanos snap in "Avengers 3: Infinite War", caused the disappearance of half of the life in the universe, which delayed the occurrence of the "god appearance" of the whole universe; however, after the population of the earth returned to normal in "Avengers 4: Endgame", the god "Tiamut" who was brewing in the center of the earth was about to be born, but after thousands of years of getting along with humans, the Eternals have developed deep feelings for human beings. They decided to disobey Alitham's wishes and prevent Tiamut from appearing...
2. The "Tenjin Clan" in the original manga is actually related to the "Mutants"
The "Tenjin Clan" first appeared in the Marvel comics in July 1976, and their existence is not too different from the setting of the above "Eternals" movie, and more precisely, the "Tenjin Clan" is "a group of unknown non-material forms of energy consciousness lifeforms in the universe, one of the earliest birth races in the universe", the appearance of the Tenjin Clan is fully armored, but no one has ever seen what they look like under their armor. Or do you know their origins?
At present, the only speculation is that in the armor of the Celestial Clan is a group of "energies", more specifically they are a collision set of dark matter, dark energy, positive and negative energies, simply put, "cosmic energy with higher intelligence"! The body of the Tenjin Clan is 2,000 feet tall (about 609.6 meters; compared to the height of the Taipei 101 Building is only 509 meters, or 1,670 feet), but despite the main body, the manga also sets the Tenjin Clan to change its size on its own, and the minimum can be reduced to the height of ordinary humans. (The Eternals movie, however, is set in a way that exceeds the size of several planets.) ）
As mentioned earlier, the Celestial Clan is the most advanced organism in the universe (the entire universe is their breeding incubator), and the birth of each universe also means that there is a Tenjin Clan, and in the current progress of marvel comics serialization, there are more than 1,200 Tenjin Clans with "appearance names"! (And the theoretical setting will be that there will be an infinite number of celestial beings, because the universe has an infinite number of more...) But although there are thousands of Celestial Beings who mention their names, in important plots, the only ones that often appear in important plots are "Tenjin Leader One Above All", "Arishem the Judge", "Searcher Eson", "Eradicator Exitar", "Collector Gammenon", "Surveyor Hargen", "Analyst Jemiah", "Calculator Nezar", "Explorer Oneg", "Examiner Tefral", and "Tester" Ziran" and 11 others; that is to say, the "Arishem Arishem" mentioned in the "Eternals" movie is only the "Judge" of the Celestial Clan, not the "Supreme", and there is a more powerful Celestial Clan above the "Alisem"! And Tiamut never appeared (but not surprisingly, after all, his appearance meant the complete destruction of the earth...). ）
There is also a special setting in the manga, that is, in fact, the Tenjin Clan pays special attention to the earth, which is not mentioned in the "Eternals" movie. It is that when the Celestial Beings created the earth, unlike other breeding planets, they specially put other substances on the earth in order to carry out some kind of "experiment", and this material is the main reason for the creation of many superpowers on the earth (especially mutants)!
3. Is the biological father of the Star Lord in Guardians of the Galaxy 2 the "Celestial Clan"?
You should be impressed by the 15th installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe series, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 It is mentioned that "Star-Lord" Peter and others were brought to form this planet by his biological father "Igo Ego" (after bringing the red asteroid of Igo, he manipulated the surrounding material to form the planet, he traveled the universe in search of other life, fell in love with Quill's mother and conceived Quill when he came to Earth, and also taught Quill to use the power of the gods he had inherited...
But in fact, in the original manga, "Igo" is not a Celestial Being, but a "sentient planet" belonging to the "living planet". Igo first appeared in the September 1966 comic strip of Thor, about the origin of Igo, Igo told Thor that he was created by the cosmic scientist "Inker The Stranger" through a combination of scientific experiments and planets!
Although the setting of "born from the planet" is indeed quite a god clan, but about the destruction of his own planet caused by his birth of the "god appear", there should be other mutants and eternal clans stationed in the early stage of birth, and the appearance after the birth of the "god appear", and many other convenient conditions are different from the "tenjin clan" setting in the manga or the movie "Eternal Clan"...
However, since the "Marvel Cinematic Universe" directly changed the setting of "Igo" to also be a member of the "Celestial Clan", and there will be more follow-up film works about "Eternity", "Thor" and "Guardians of the Galaxy" in the future, perhaps the Marvel Cinematic Universe will give us a different "Celestial Clan" setting from the original, which will also affect the cosmological development of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the future.