Eternals<\/a> was seriously massive, with countless trailers, clips, images and cast interviews making the rounds in the weeks and months up to its November 5th release.<\/p>\nAlso like other MCU efforts, these teasers kept the lid on some of the biggest plot developments in the film \u2013 well, mostly. Because weirdly, when you actually sit down to watch Eternals in the cinema, one of its biggest twists is subtly spoiled in the opening seconds of one of the trailers.<\/p>\n
Warning \u2013 spoilers for Eternals from here on out. Look away now if you haven\u2019t seen the film\u2026<\/p>
The twist in question \u2013 and we really hope you clicked away if you haven\u2019t seen the film yet \u2013 is that the Eternals\u2019 powerhouse second-in-command Ikaris (Richard Madden) was actually working against his teammates for the entire film, hoping to distract them for long enough that the Emergence (aka the birth of a godlike Celestial from inside Earth, killing everyone on the planet) took place despite their misgivings.<\/p>\n
In the course of this campaign, it\u2019s revealed in flashbacks that he killed team leader Ajak (Salma Hayek) who had decided to try and save the planet, planting her body at her ranch and then \u201cdiscovering\u201d her alongside Sersi (Gemma Chan) and Sprite (Lia McHugh) when they went to find her.<\/p>\n
This interaction between Ikaris and Ajak is only revealed much later in the film, and informs the final clash between Ikaris and his Eternals family \u2013 but anyone who remembered the film\u2019s trailers (see below) might have got an inkling a little earlier that something was off. You see, the Eternals main trailer actually included the flashback scene between Ikaris and Ajak where they discussed the emergence, shortly before the scene where he kills her.<\/p>\n