![]() ![]() It’s not that the MCU hasn’t tried - Secret Invasion itself is picking up threads from Infinity War and Spider-Man: Far From Home. Ooh, that’s from this other comic, that’s going to be important later!īut it’s also the kind of connective tissue that the setting has sorely lacked since the close of Avengers: Endgame. Seeding Fantastic Four villains - like the Super-Skrull and Namor the Submariner - in current films is exactly the kind of connective tissue that made the Marvel Cinematic Universe such an object of interest for over a decade. It’s expected to begin principal photography this coming January and hit theaters in May 2025 (though the studio has not yet released any casting info). Nominally, sorta? After years of licensing woes, Marvel Studios is finally ramping up a Fantastic Four film set within the MCU. So is Secret Invasion laying track for the Fantastic Four? Image: Marvel Studios ![]() Secret Invasion’s big bad appears to be the Super-Skrull. But what’s Nick Fury going to do about an army of super Skrulls, call in the Avengers? The whole point of Secret Invasion is that the Avengers don’t really exist right now.īut one superpowered Skrull? That seems more like a match. And it seems pretty likely he’ll be giving himself the superpower treatment first. Gravik’s plan is to introduce the MCU’s first super Skrulls right when Earth’s nations are occupied in a global war, and secure Skrull power over humanity on the planet. If they’re talking about “the Super-Skrull,” they mean the specific Skrull villain with the powers of the Fantastic Four. So, if you hear someone referring to “super Skrulls,” they mean Skrulls that have copied the powers of Earth’s heroes. But in latter-day Marvel Comics, the concept has evolved to include a whole class of Skrull spies who are engineered to masquerade as superheroes. ![]() The Super-Skrull began as a singular Marvel Comics villain, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1963, who possessed all the powers of a Skrull and the Fantastic Four simultaneously (shape-shifting, stretching, rocky skin, pyrokinesis, and invisibility). It’s a simple equation: How do you make the Skrulls scarier? Give ’em superpowers. If you’re familiar with Skrull methods from Marvel comics or video games, you probably saw this coming. We already knew he was gunning for a Skrull takeover of Earth, but now we know exactly how he wants to use his mysterious science machine to do it. Maybe the most exciting part of this week’s episode of Secret Invasion is the formal reveal of the big bad plan of our big bad bad guy, Gravik the rebellious Skrull general. ![]()
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