The whole concept was what would happen if humanity discovered that gods walked amongst them, and that so did devils, and that the SUPER GODS were now returning to Earth? It was a popular concept in science fiction at the time, especially after Erich von DГ¤niken published his nominally NON-fiction book, Chariots of the Gods? Unsolved Mysteries of the Past, which was a clear influence on Jack Kirby, as it is about the theory that extraterrestrials visited Earth millennia ago and gave us technology and thus kickstarted the development of the human race. RELATED: How Avengers Gave Shang-Chi His Strongest Forgotten Power WHAT WAS THE STATUS QUO FOR THE ETERNALS BY THE LATE NINETIES?ДЄs I have discussed a few times recently, Jack Kirby's take on the Eternals was more or less predicated on the idea that the Eternals were in their own universe. A number of characters discovered that they were mutants and some, like Namor, had their mutant heritage highlighted after decades of it not really being a 'thing.' The late 1990s were still in that era of people tying to tie characters to the X-Men however they could and that gave us the wonderfully bizarre attempt at turning the Eternals into a more traditional superhero team via the famous X-Men villain, Apocalypse. This was interesting because it was something that so many Marvel readers had gotten used to for many years as the sort of thing that would happen with the X-Titles all of the time, where comics would constantly find ways to tie into the X-Men as a way of getting a character or concept to sell. Whether it specifically had to do with a desire to 'replace' the X-Men since Marvel did not have access to the X-Men at the time for the Marvel Cinematic Universe while they DID have access to the Inhumans is really not the point, the point is just it clearly WAS happening, that the Inhumans were getting a major push as characters. In every installment of вЂњIf I Pass This Way Again,вЂќ we look at comic book plot points that were rarely (sometimes NEVER!) mentioned again after they were first introduced.ДЇor a little while there about eight or so years ago, Marvel began to give the Inhumans a really hard push. Today, we look at the time that Apocalypse helped cause the creation of an incredibly short-lived Eternals superhero team.

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