Stan Lee and artist Joe Maneely created Percy in 1955, when Marvel Comics was still known as Atlas Comics, and superhero comics were in their post-war slump, allowing for adventure books like The Black Knight #1 to muscle their way into newsstands. Long before Dane Whitman took the helm of the Black Knight, the title was first held by Sir Percy of Scandia, a beloved member of King Arthur’s court. Exactly how he and Harington will factor into the next phase of Marvel remains to be determined.) Who is the Black Knight? (The voice, if you’re interested, belongs to one Mahershala Ali, taking up the gauntlet of Blade for the MCU.

He says “I’m sorry, I have to try,” as he reaches for it.īut before he can touch it, an offscreen voice asks, “Sure you’re ready for that, Mr. He reads the Latin words carved in the box: “Mors mihi lucrum,” meaning “Death is my reward.” In the box is a long, black sword, with a blade writhing with a kind of living darkness that gravitates toward his outreached hand, like iron filings attracted to a magnet. When he finally makes up his mind to open it, a whoosh of roaring air and whispering voices emerges. In the post-credits scene, Dane is agitated as he steels himself to open a long, ornate wooden box. After Dane starts to tell Sersi about his complicated family legacy, she’s snatched away by the big red robot Arishem. The Ebony Blade itself appears in the post-credits scene. When the Eternals return to their buried spaceship and start pawing through a millennia’s worth of trophies and keepsakes, Thena (Angelina Jolie) picks up a sword, and is asked whether it’s the Ebony Blade. What does Eternals’ post-credits scene mean?Īn earlier scene in the movie gives the slightest tease about where the post-credits scene is heading. Eternals doesn’t go all the way to superhero status with Dane, but the film’s post-credits scene points directly to Dane having a later reveal as the Black Knight. Still, Sersi encourages him to reach out to his estranged uncle when she realizes the world might be ending, and in the film’s final scenes, Dane hints to her that he’s recently discovered an old family secret. In fact, they spend most of the movie apart, as she jets around the world putting the Eternals team back together, while he stays in England. Harington’s Whitman doesn’t have the most screentime in Eternals, as the Nice Human Museum Guy the millennia-old Sersi is dating. And let’s talk about that second post-credits scene.

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