how the fuck are BABIES a threat

So Marvel comics recently redid one of their Eternals characters to pretty much be Thanos^Thanos, this being Uranos the Undying. Uranos is considered one of the three Patriarchs of Eternals society which means several things.

1. He's one of the most powerful Eternals there is, since only his two "brothers" Kronos and Oceanus might be considered on par with him to stand a chance against him, and even then it would be scorched Earth no matter who won. Literally, there was a war where this almost happened called The Uranite Schism that only ended because Druig betrayed his own grandfather, Uranos, and helped Kronos and Oceanus capture Uranos.

2. He's one of the most powerful beings on Earth there is. In the AXE event he basically went through every big name mutant there was, literally tearing out Magneto's heart, stomping various other powerful Omega mutants, and in general proving how much of a threat he was. Think any of the evil Superman stories because power wise that's more or less what Uranos does before even getting onto the tools he has at his disposal. The only mutant who could stand toe to toe with him was Legion, a mutant whose power is "make up any power", and Legion still lost after 8 seconds.

3. He's one of the most powerful beings in the galaxy. Considering the previous two points and bringing up the fact he's the grand-uncle of Thanos, there's very little out there that can actually stop him except everyone else grouping up together, and this still leads to massive casualties every time it's been needed.

Now you might be wondering what the point of this all is. Well, the recent Eternals comic retconned the origin and purpose of the Eternals to come down to "The Three Principles".

These are;

1. Protect Celestials - the ones who created the Eternals

2. Protect the Machine - which is the planet Earth

3. Correct excess deviation - a consequence of Deviant biology that occasionally gives rise to kaiju sized monsters, world ending threats, and so on

Eternals are literally programmed to follow these principles and if confronted by a situation where a principle arises will basically become forced/mindcontrolled into dealing with it. If a threat to the Celestials and/or Machine arises they must intervene. If excess deviation happens they must correct it.

The problem is that the above is the whole description of the principles. "Protect Celestials", "Protect the Machine", "Correct excess deviation" are literally all they were given. Nobody is told how to protect the Celestials and Machine, nor how to correct excess deviation. Which is what led to Uranos coming up with a literal Final Solution that would omnicide the entire galaxy.

1. Protect Celestials - by imprisoning them forever and preventing any threat from reaching them

2. Protect the Machine - by turning it into a craftworld that would travel the galaxy and wipe out all other life to prevent any threat from arising and reaching it

3. Correct excess deviation - by omniciding all other life to prevent deviation from even occurring

So that's how someone takes the concept of a threat and applies it to anything and everything including babies, by hyperbolically applying the potential threat to anything and everything, despite the fact such actions lead to the threats arising in the first place.

That last point is particularly important since IRL wise many have pointed out that repeatedly causing problems inevitably leads to repercussions, and even individuals like Kissinger brought up the question of how and why does this keep happening to the same group over and over if not because said group repeatedly antagonises those around them.

Just remember doing so in return is "problematic" 🙄