The one who gave humanity its tools, and stopped the day he saw what they had built with them.
Phastos is an Eternal and an inventor who spent thousands of years pushing human technology forward from behind the scenes. He abandoned that after the bombing of Hiroshima, and by 2024 he lives under the human name Phil with his husband Ben and their ten year old son Jack.
He is the sharpest version of the film’s guilt. Every other Eternal is asking whether not interfering was right; Phastos is the one who did interfere, as helpfully as he knew how, and watched what it was used for.
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Phastos, played by Brian Tyree Henry, is the first superhero depicted as gay in these films. Haaz Sleiman plays Ben and Esai Daniel Cross plays Jack.