It is at a point that as an MCU fan, you really can never take a death seriously. Why did Ikaris go to the sun?įirst of all, there may be a thousand ways to escape death and Marvel has come up with a thousand more with dead heroes coming back with a bang. Now you can definitely argue that if Superman could survive the power of the sun, why not Ikaris? But I think in the case of Superman, his power is fuelled by the Sun itself but the source of power for Ikaris is cosmic energy. Besides, he might be a superhero but the sun is literally the most powerful part of the universe. So Ikaris probably decided to fly into the sun knowing that this was his only sure shot wild card into death and there’s no escape from this method. He was devastated because he could neither successfully serve the cause of the Celestials, nor could he reunite with his love Sersi after all that has happened. Ikaris decided to commit suicide because he had lost everything according to him. Though Ikaris is the strongest Eternal and a fearsome warrior with superpowers, he probably chose to fly towards the sun because he knew the energy of the sun would overpower his own. It’s likely that Richard Madden’s Ikaris won’t be returning to the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s present storyline. Even with all his celestial powers, Ikaris was unable to power through Sun’s immense heat. Ikaris died at the end of Eternals by flying into the sun. And he decided to end his life in the most mythologically accurate way possible. So, our hero was depressed because he lost both sides: Sersi as well as the cause of the Celestials which he swore to serve. But unfortunately (and fortunately for us humans), Ikaris failed. He chose the cause of the Celestials even if it meant destroying his relationship with Sersi whom he had loved for the last 5000 years. It is a pretty old story: one half of our heroes want to protect the Earth and love humanity and the others want to destroy it. When the Eternals learnt of their true purpose and the intention of their creators aka the Celestials, many of them chose differently.

Ikaris’s alleged death in the end of Eternals raised a lot of questions in my mind and I’m sure that they occurred in yours too.

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