Captain America: Brave New World could provide closure to major events left open in Eternals.
The Captain America: Brave New World trailer has raised a lot of new questions after its release. In addition to the relatively new Captain America Sam Wilson, there will be a new Falcon, a new Hulk, a new Black Widow, and all sorts of super spies and former SHIELD agents making their MCU debut. The fourth Captain America movie could also bring closure to a major event in Marvel’s Eternals that led to a massive Celestial crashing into the Indian Ocean in 2021.
The Fate of Tiamut in Captain America: Brave New World
The fact that this Celestial, Tiamut the Communicator, emerged from the depths of the ocean and was turned to stone by Sersi has barely been revealed in subsequent Marvel movies and TV shows, except for the Disney Plus series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, which made the giant marble hand and head emerging from the ocean seem like something the people of Earth would care about.
The celestial body appears to be at the center of one of the conflicts in Captain America. In the first trailer for the film, which is set to be released in 2025, we see Japanese and US warships fighting alongside the giant hand. Captain America, using his new supersonic flight suit, battles fighter jets alongside the new Falcon Joaquín Torres, who appear to be fighting over the remains of the Celestial.
The trailer shows Sam Wilson, Joaquín Torres, and Isaiah Bradley (the Captain America introduced in The Falcon and The Winter Soldier) attending a global unity summit at the White House alongside representatives from the US and Japan, whose logo features a stylized version of Tiamut’s hand, suggesting some sort of conflict.
New Land or Valuable Resource?
What is this conflict about? Tiamut’s body is unquestionably new land, so nearby nations could be claiming it as part of their own nations. Or maybe Tiamut’s body isn’t just marble and stone. Maybe as an alien creature, his body is filled with valuable extraterrestrial elements. We saw another Celestial corpse in Guardians of the Galaxy , a severed Celestial head harvested for bones, brain tissue, and spinal fluid in the mining colony known as Knowhere. Maybe Tiamut has a ton of vibranium or some other magical element that’s key to the next phase of the MCU.
Whatever the case, it’s nice to see the Marvel Cinematic Universe tackle the giant alien claw emerging from the ocean. How subtly this plot element involving a giant alien corpse will be woven into Captain America: Brave New World’s overstuffed story remains to be seen. But it looks like we’ll be getting a big reminder of one of the many unresolved plot points from Eternals when Brave New World hits theaters next year.