Eternals #12 - "Hail Thanos, Finale"

[laughing_tree]

"Eternal" doesn't mean immortal. "Eternal" means unchanging. That's a different thing. Gaiman and Romita Jr. very much brought this aspect out, and we're pushing it even further. There can be something comforting about the Eternals, but there's also something fundamentally disturbing to it. The old superhero cliché of "The Never-ending battle against crime" is one of those lines which, if you take it out of context for a second and think about it, seems absolutely Sisyphean in its hopelessness. Yet, to lift a line from Camus, we must imagine Sisyphus happy – the Eternals have been doing this for so long, they must be accepting of it? Right? -- Kieron Gillen

Comments

[akodo_rokku]

I believe this was specifically about wanting to wipe out the source of his origins, since he can't make use of it as a weapon against everything else.

[cainofdreaming]

And more specifically wanting to wipe out his parents, after he found out they would always just be resurrected by the Machine.