The Marvel Cinematic Universe has a long history of having every movie intertwined with each other. Either one comes after another or both are simultaneously happening, may it be a film or a series, it has a place on the timeline. As for Eternals, here is everything you need to know when the exact time it exactly happened, it is even confirmed by its writers.
The Eternals Timeline Explained
The arrival of the Eternals is surely something far from the timeline as they date back to 7,000 years in the past, even before the creation of various civilizations. They were there when Babylon was built, it was even their fortress where people seek refuge from the Deviants which, after 2000 years were finally eliminated, or so they thought.
As for the Eternals in the present, they surely survived the snap of Thanos and watched everyone get blipped. Present-day is the same as that of the one that we watched in the MCU. Ajak was even stunned as to how much the people on Earth care about each other which convinced her not to push through with the plan of Arishem for the emergence to happen and for Tiamut to rise at the cost of the people on Earth.
As revealed by the writers of Eternals, Kaz, and Ryan Firpo in an interview with ScreenRant, they revealed which show the movie is at par with when it comes to the timeline, “I think we're happening more or less concurrently with Falcon and Winter Soldier, so everyone's got their hands full and I think you're gonna start to see the groundwork has been laid for something that's gonna happen in a very big way soon.”
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The Falcon and The Winter Soldier happened almost five months after everyone was blipped back into existence but more likely, the show was ahead of the events of the Eternals because the series did not mention any catastrophe such as a huge earthquake and a tsunami featured in Eternals, also, with Tiamut crystallizing, it must have been a big breaking news.
It was also revealed in a chat with The Wrap that an Avenger could have been in the post-credits scene, Kaz Firpo said, “I think that once upon a time it may even been Sam [Wilson, played by Anthony Mackie], our new Cap.” That means Eternals happened after Sam Wilson finally embraced the title of being the new Captain America.
Eternals really set the stage for a lot of future MCU projects such as its sequel, Black Knight, Blade, possibly Black Panther 2 as a huge tidal wave was shown and Namor is expected to be the main villain in Wakanda Forever.
Eternals is now in theaters.