{"id":142239,"date":"2025-09-16T23:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T23:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/142239\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T23:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T23:38:09","slug":"apparently-we-may-not-have-seen-the-last-of-eternals-star-richard-madden-as-the-mcus-ikaris-geektyrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/142239\/","title":{"rendered":"Apparently We May Not Have Seen the Last of ETERNALS Star Richard Madden as the MCU\u2019s Ikaris \u2014 GeekTyrant"},"content":{"rendered":"

Say what you will about Eternals<\/a>, but Marvel Studios assembled one of the most stacked casts in the MCU for that film. Now it looks like we may not have seen the last of Richard Madden\u2019s Ikaris, despite his fiery exit in the movie\u2019s finale.<\/p>\n

Eternals split audiences right down the middle. Some loved its ambitious cosmic scope, others weren\u2019t impressed. But film film delivered a dramatic gut punch when Ikaris killed Ajak and worked in secret to ensure Arishem\u2019s emergence from Earth. <\/p>\n

In the end, when his fellow Eternals chose to protect humanity, Ikaris flew directly into the sun, seemingly ending both his life and Madden\u2019s MCU run.<\/p>\n

At this point, a direct Eternals sequel doesn\u2019t look very likely, but the film left things wide open. Fans have long speculated that Ikaris may not be gone for good. <\/p>\n

Considering Arishem\u2019s power and the Eternals\u2019 comic book history with resurrection, it\u2019s not hard to imagine Ikaris returning through a replica body or some other cosmic workaround. After all, being \u201ceternal\u201d usually means death isn\u2019t the final chapter.<\/p>\n

This month, a version of Ikaris will appear in Marvel Animation\u2019s Marvel Zombies, though Madden isn\u2019t expected to voice that undead variant. Still, scooper @MyTimeToShineH<\/a> has dropped a tease, claiming that \u201che\u2019s gonna be back for more.\u201d No details on when or where, but if true, Marvel clearly isn\u2019t done with Ikaris just yet.<\/p>\n

Madden himself once cast doubt on a return, joking, \u201cWell, he flew into the sun. That\u2019s kind of hard to come back from. Isn\u2019t it?\u201d <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Madden has kept busy with Prime Video\u2019s Citadel, and he continues to be a fan-favorite choice for the next James Bond. He\u2019s also often imagined in fan casts for DC characters like Batman.<\/p>\n

Whether or not Marvel revisits the Eternals in a major way, the door is clearly still cracked open for Ikaris. If Madden really is set to return, fans are going to be watching closely to see how Marvel pulls off his resurrection.<\/p>\n

What do you think? Should the MCU bring back Ikaris and the Eternals, or should Marvel move on?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Say what you will about Eternals, but Marvel Studios assembled one of the most stacked casts in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-142239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}