Sprite (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

Do-Gooder

Full Name

Sprite

Alias(es)

Sandra

Tinker Bell
Friends From College (with Sersi and Ikaris)
Ajak
Conjurer of Illusions

Origin

Marvel Cinematic Universe

Occupation

Member of the Eternals (formerly)

Powers / Skills

Genius-level Intellect
Expert Combatant
Knife Mastery
Multilingualism
Eternal-Physiology: (formerly)
Immortality
Superhuman Strength
Superhuman Durability
Superhuman Speed
Superhuman Agility
Superhuman Stamina
Superhuman Reflexes
Regenerative Healing Factor
Cosmic Energy Manipulation: (formerly)
Illusion Manipulation
Shapeshifting
Duplication Casting
Presence Concealment
Sound Manipulation
Uni-Mind Energy Manipulation (formerly)

Hobby

Telling stories.

Goals

Protect mankind from Deviants (succeeded).
Help Ikaris ensure the success of Tiamut's emergence so that she can be reborn as a full-sized lifeform (formerly, abandoned).
Assist the Eternals in stopping Tiamut.
Become human to experience true love (both succeeded).

Family

Arishem (creator)

Enemies

Deviants

Kro †
Arishem the Judge
Tiamut †
Sersi (formerly)
Thena (formerly)
Makkari (formerly)
Phastos (formerly)
Druig (formerly)

Type of Hero

Tragic Humanoid

“	The reason humans are at the top of the food chain is because you believe in structures and principles that don't actually exist. Gods. Nations. Money. All concepts. Stories. Illusions.	„
	~ Sprite to Dane Whitman.

“	You know why I hated living with humans? Because they reminded me of things I didn't even know I wanted. Because of them, now I want to know what it feels like to grow up. To fall in love. To have a family. And to know in the end I've lived.	„
	~ Sprite to Sersi.

Sprite is one of the seven tritagonists of the 2021 Marvel Cinematic Universe film Eternals.

She is a former member of the community of genetically-engineered Eternals that is devoted to protecting mankind from the Deviants. Sprite couldn't age and, unlike the others, was trapped with the appearance of a twelve-year-old, causing her to feel envy towards humanity since she was in love with Ikaris. When the Deviants started to attack in 2023, Sprite joined the others in trying to stop them and later Tiamut from starting his emergence. When Ikaris betrayed the group, Sprite sided with him due to her love and believing that she could reborn as a grown adult, but would change sides to help Sersi stop Tiamut. Once Ikaris committed suicide by flying into the sun, Sprite decided to allow Sersi to turn her into a human so she could live a normal life.

She is portrayed by Lia McHugh.

Biography[]

Background[]

Sprite, along with the rest of the Eternals, was created by Arishem the Judge to get rid of the Deviants, but was actually created to kill Deviants so their energies could absorbed a new Celestial on a planet. She would eventually be sent to live on Earth in 5000 BC, where she would protect humanity from the Deviants. Unlike the others, she couldn't age and she would develop feelings for fellow Eternal Ikaris. She would also use her illusions tell of her friends' exploits, which garnered them to be written as historical or mythological figures. During her life on Earth, Sprite also came across historical figures such as King Arthur and Harry Houdini, whom she presumably taught illusions.

After the Eternals went their separate ways following the Deviants' defeat in the 1500s, she would live with Kingo until he left her in Macedonia since humans noticed she couldn't age. She would then come across J.M. Burrie, becoming the inspiration for the character of Tinker Bell from Peter Pan. Sprite then lived with Ajak at her homestead in South Dakota, but would spend years with Sersi in London after noticing how both were lonely when Ikaris disappeared.

Eternals[]

Around 2023, Sprite still lived with Sersi and became accustomed to her new boyfriend Dane Whitman, and would tell the latter of their exploits. When the Deviants attacked the three, they were saved by the arrival of Ikaris, leading to Sersi to explain the truth of their origin to Whitman. Seeing that they needed to speak with Ajak, Sprite, Sersi and Ikaris traveled to South Dakota and discovered that she was dead. Sprite mourned the loss of Ajak, and created an illusion to coup with the death, and witnessed Sersi succeed Ajak as leader when the communication sphere went to her. The group then decided to reunite the others so they could stop the Deviants from taking over the Earth, and encountered Kingo in Mumbai, and Thena and Gilgamesh in Australia.

Sersi would learn the truth of their purpose when she communicated with Arishem, and explained to the others that she wanted to oppose the Celestials and prevent the emergence. Believing that Druig could somehow put Tiamut into a sedative state, the Eternals traveled to the Amazon Rainforest to meet him at his compound. Druig initially refused since he dedicated his time helping mankind, but the compound was attacked by the Deviants, with their leader Kro successfully killing Gilgamesh and taking his powers. After Gilgamesh's funeral, Druig explained that he wasn't powerful enough to affect a Celestial, and the Eternals decided to find Phastos so he could build a device from the sphere. Going to Chicago, the Eternals reunited with Phastos, whom had started a family of his own despite abandoning humanity following the bombing of Hiroshima.

Phastos was convinced to join them by his husband, and the Eternals traveled to Iraq to find the Domo, where they reunited with Makkari. The Eternals decided to delay the emergence by forming the Uni-Mind, but Ikaris revealed that he knew of the emergence and that he indirectly caused Ajak's plans when he decided to oppose the Celestials. Sprite sided with Ikaris to her feelings towards him, but with the possibility of being rebirthed as a life-sized Eternal. Sprite and Ikaris battled their former allies until Ikaris surrendered, allowing the others to form the Uni-Mind to kill Tiamut. Ikaris would apologize for his actions and fly into the sun, and Sprite decided to allow Sersi to turn her into a human so she could experience real love. Afterward, Sprite joined Kingo and Karun Patel, but it's unknown if she was taken like Sersi, Kingo and Phastos by Arishem.

Personality[]

"The reason humans are at the top of the food chain is because you believe in structures and principles that don't actually exist. Gods. Nations. Money. All concepts. Stories. Illusions."

―Sprite to Dane Whitman^[src]

At a first glance, Sprite comes off as distant, apathetic, cynical, sarcastic, brash, and slightly misanthropic, but behind her prickly exterior she hides a world-weary sadness because of how society has treated her due to her childlike appearance which did nothing to betray or even expose her long-lived existence. Despite her dissatisfaction with humanity, she found herself longing for the experience of growing up and falling in love. She is also somewhat antisocial, not interacting with many people outside of the Eternals since they were the only ones who took her seriously and treated her as an equal. Sprite has a love of storytelling, using her powers to inspire many myths and legends throughout history.

Sprite was motivated by her hidden love for Ikaris, and was even willing to turn on the group for him, fighting against them in an attempt to ensure the Emergence takes place, not sharing Ikaris' devotion to the Celestial plan, her devotion to him alone. After his death, she moved past him and wanted to live a human life, in order to experience real reciprocated love.

Powers and Abilities[]

Former Powers[]

"What's your power, then?"

"I make illusions."

―Dane Whitman and Sprite^[src]

Eternal Physiology: By design from the Celestials, Sprite is an Eternal possessing superhuman strength, durability, speed, agility, stamina, reflexes, and healing, numerous times superior than any normal human being, as well as immortality and being able to manipulate cosmic energy to a certain degree. However, after Sersi transformed her into a human, Sprite no longer possesses her powers anymore.
- Superhuman Strength: Like all Eternals, Sprite possesses great superhuman strength, numerous times stronger than any normal human being.
- Superhuman Durability: Sprite's body is numerous times more resistant to physical and energy damage than any normal human being. Sprite was able to withstand a hit over the head with a large rock by Druig with considerable force, and while it was enough to render her unconscious, she suffered almost no repercussions and had no visible injuries from it. Further to this, during the emergence, Sprite followed Sersi into the scorched earth surrounding the volcano. The immense heat generated by the lava appeared to have no effect on her.
- Superhuman Speed: Sprite can run and move at great superhuman speed, much faster than any normal human being.
- Superhuman Agility: Sprite naturally possesses far greater agility, equilibrium, flexibility, dexterity, balance, and body coordination than any normal human being. During the attack in London, Sprite was able to scale a large wall with minimal effort, jumping a great height to climb the bridge. During the attack in the Amazon forest, Sprite has shown to be considerably agile during her battle against a Deviant. In an attempt to assist Kingo in fighting a Deviant, she leaps through the air towards the Deviant, successfully stabbing it in the neck and holding on to it while Kingo was charging his cosmic energy blasts. She also was able to swiftly get past many copies of Kumiho until she took the power source from the Deviant.
- Superhuman Stamina: Sprite's advanced musculature is considerably more efficient than any normal human being. As a result, her muscles virtually do not produce fatigue toxins during physical activity. Her endurance allows her to exercise her maximum capacity for an extremely long period of time without tiring at all.
- Superhuman Reflexes: Sprite can react and dodge objects traveling at high speeds, much quicker than any normal human being.
- Regenerative Healing Factor: Sprite's metabolism enables her to rapidly regenerate damaged bodily tissue with far greater speed and efficiency than any normal human being.
- Immortality: As an Eternal, Sprite is genetically able to live forever, without dying due to old age or illnesses. In her case, this permanently arrested her into the likeness of a teenager which made the perpetuity of her own existence even more apparent compared to her fellow Eternals, potentially exposing her true nature to anyone who would observe her long enough.
- Cosmic Energy Manipulation: By design of the Celestials, all Eternals are genetically capable of using cosmic energy. Each Eternal possesses a unique ability, all derived from the same cosmic power source. Sprite uses her cosmic energy to cast lifelike illusions.
- Illusion Manipulation: Sprite has the ability to cast lifelike illusions. Though convincing and virtually indistinguishable from the real thing, Sprite's projected illusions are clearly limited to the sound and visual-based, making it possible for means other than sight and hearing to discern through these insubstantial artifices born from the source-Eternal's imagination. She can also shapeshift through illusions, appearing as an adult at Dane Whitman's birthday party and as Ajak. To stop the Mahd Wy'ry from effecting Thena, Sprite conjured an illusion to help Thena remember her past and her battles with the Eternals.
- Decoy Manipulation: As part of her illusions, Sprite can create identical duplicates of herself and selectively others around her.
- Presence Manipulation: Sprite could use her abilities to turn herself, and selectively those around her, invisible.
- Sound Manipulation: Sprite can induce aligning "sound effects" to her generated illusions to render them audible; she, on occasion, implements this to disguise her own voice when talking to strangers.

Uni-Mind Energy Manipulation: The Eternals can harness their cosmic powers together to create the Uni-Mind, which amplifies their powers.
- Levitation: During the Uni-Mind, Sprite was able to float a few feet above the ground.

Abilities[]

Genius-level Intellect: ???
Expert Combatant: ???
Knife Mastery: Sprite carried around a knife just in case. During the Ambush at Druig's Compound, she had to help Kingo distract a Deviant long enough for him to sneak under it. Sprite used her knife to stab it repeatedly before disappearing. While trying to help Tiamut the Communicator emerge, Sprite used the knife to stab Sersi.
Multilingualism: Having lived through all of recorded human history and being a storyteller by nature, Sprite is fluent in multiple languages: from the ancient tribal ones spoken 7,000 years ago, to Akkadian and Sumer, to modern Spanish, English, and sign language, using the latter to communicate with the deaf-mute Makkari.

Gallery[]

Trivia[]

In the comics, Sprite is a member of the Eternals. Unlike the more stoic and noble members of the Eternals, Sprite is considered a trickster, often taunting his fellow Eternals with his illusions.
Sprite is the twelfth character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to be depicted as a different gender from their counterpart in the comics, following Jeri Hogarth, the Ancient One, Fenris, Ghost, Mar-Vell, Morgan Stark, Gabriella Rosetti, Flag Smasher, Taskmaster, Ajak, and Makkari.
- However, during the wide rebirth of all the Eternals (following their descend into madness and mass suicidal event), Sprite was reborn as a female. According to Ikaris, Eternals commonly take advantage of the rebirth process to change appearance (and potentially gender) every 20 or 25,000 years or so.