Dane Whitman

A curator at the Natural History Museum, and the most normal man in a film about space gods.

Status: Alive
Species: Human
First in print: The Avengers #47 (1967)
On screen: 1 entry

Who they are

Dane works with Sersi, knows nothing, takes the news well, and spends the film being the audience. The tag hands him a family heirloom in a case and a warning not to touch it, which is the closest the MCU has come to a promise it has not yet kept.

Connections

Partner

Sersi
Character

Based at

London
Place

Appearances

Canonical timeline · 1 entry

Notes are veiled until you track what you have watched, or switch spoilers off in the header.

After the Blip

2024

Eternals
2021 · Supporting

The museum, the tube station, and the sword in the case at the end.

Beyond the screen1 speculation · click to open

Where this might be going

Guesses, not canon — reasoning from the comics and from what the films have already set up. None of it has happened on screen.

The Black Knight, eventually

Plausible

In the comics Dane Whitman takes up the Ebony Blade as the Black Knight and joins the Avengers, and the blade carries a curse that gets worse the more it is used. The tag names his uncle and cuts before he touches it; nothing on screen since has followed up, so where that thread resumes is anyone's guess.

Reasoning from the Eternals post-credits scene and the comics history of the Ebony Blade