WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Eternals, in theaters now.

One of Eternals' strengths is its characters, and one of the greatest characters in the film is Sersi (Gemma Chan). In addition to being the film's protagonist, she's the heart of the story and the group of Eternals. As such, she's integral to bringing her old friends back together, shaping their decisions and solving their problems. She's also emotionally connected to everyone and able to appeal to them (and to the audience) on that level. She's also very similar to another cinema superheroine: DC's Wonder Woman, aka Diana Prince (Gal Gadot).

The similarities begin with their professions and how they've chosen to spend their immortal lives: residing in major metropolitan cities and working at, or at least with, notable museums. Present-day Diana is the curator for the Department of Antiquities at the Louvre in Paris. Before that, in Wonder Woman 1984, she was one of the senior anthropologists at the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. Present-day Sersi is employed as a history professor at London's Natural History Museum. Their jobs aren't identical, but it makes perfect sense that they've found themselves in similar fields.

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Gal Gadot As Diana Prince In Zack Snyder's Justice League

Both Diana and Sersi are enamored of Earth's people. Therefore, it makes sense that they would pair their love for humans with the practical knowledge they have of history when seeking a human cover and profession. They use their skills and passions to educate people, make sure important bits of history don't get forgotten and uplift humankind's creativity. They may not be working in professions with obvious world-saving impact, but they're influencing people and placing value on culture.

The characters have similar temperaments, too. Both are absolutely enthralled by simple human things, the sort that actual humans take for granted. For example, Diana is overjoyed when she first tastes ice cream, while Sersi loves to learn humans' dances. They feel genuine, pure love for the people around them and are determined to protect them even when they're shown the darker side of human nature. They also both have moments of naivete, though Sersi's are more pronounced. As such, they want -- sometimes against their better judgment -- to believe that people are good and that right and wrong are simple.

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Sersi walking the streets of London in Eternals

Both characters make life-changing decisions based on their love and compassion for humanity. In Wonder Woman, Diana makes the difficult decision to leave her idyllic home, Themiscyra, because Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) tells her about the horrors of World War I. She can't sit idly by and let people experience all of these terrible things when she believes that she could stop them. Granted, she initially thinks that the war will end if she kills Ares (the god of war) and frees humans from his influence. Still, even after she realizes that won't be enough, she remains devoted to helping people live in a better world.

After Ajak's (Salma Hayek) death, her role as the Prime Eternal (and related ability to talk to the Prime Celestial Arishem [David Kaye]) transfers to Sersi. Sersi then learns that the Eternals' true mission was to help build up the sentient life on Earth, because once the population was large enough, the Celestial in the planet's core could be born. She's understandably terrified, more so when she realizes that she and the other Eternals have facilitated similar events on countless planets in the past. Though she knows it's risky, she sets out to unite the rest of her friends and stop the Celestial's birth to save humankind.

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The consequences of Diana's pro-humankind rebellion are much less significant than the consequences of Sersi's; Diana simply cannot return to her home, although -- as shown in Justice League -- they can still find ways to communicate with her if they absolutely must. On the other hand, Sersi (and Kingo [Kumail Nanjiani] and Phastos [Brian Tyree Henry]) are kidnapped by Arishem so he can judge humankind based on their memories, and their fates are unknown (although it seems likely that they'll come out on top in future films).

Both Diana and Sersi are genuinely good, compassionate characters who try to make the world better in whatever way they can, whether through small acts of kindness or big acts of heroism. They understand that they can and should do good and influence others to do good as well. They also have optimism for the future and fate of humans and society. Especially when contrasted with the cynical and sometimes cruel characters that have become increasingly popular and considered more "realistic" in modern media, characters like Sersi and Diana, who believe in the saving power of love, are vastly important.

To see how Sersi's ideals align with Wonder Woman's, Eternals is now playing in theaters. 

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