Secret Invasion
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Also, its like a six-hour movie.
Its not really fair to blameSecret Invasionfor the inevitable superhero-property hype cycle, of course.
So lets get into it, something the first installment does with blessed economy.
Well, Agent Prescod, then youd have the plot of multiple Captain America and/or Winter Soldier projects.
After giving Ross this information, which Ross promises to pass along to Nick Fury, Prescod attacks him.
And Ross, it turns out, is a Skrull, too.
Thats why he was rejecting Prescods intel: Its real!
The Skrulls are invading!
Secret Invasionis essentially a sequel to thatCaptain Marvelstory line, set 30-something years later.
After the Avengers restored everyones lives, Fury and Carol both left the Skrulls in the lurch.
But those who join Gravik are afforded greater privileges, like leaving the camp.
Shaken, she agrees to feed them intel about the attack.
In the chaos, Gravik, cruelly disguised as Fury, shoots and kills Maria Hill.
Its an information-packed and incident-heavy premiere, not likely to be chased with theAnd thats it?
!reaction that has greeted some of the shorter, less substantial MCU-TV kickoffs.
Director Ali Selim and writers Kyle Bradstreet and Brian Tucker keep things moving at a clip.
But right now, the cloak-and-dagger stuff is coasting on novelty: new information!
New overqualified actors in the MCU!
Maria asks, You sure youre not talking about someone else?
(So she must mean Moon Knight, right?
Nick Fury owes it to Moon Knight?)
So how long was Everett Ross really a Skrull?
and, at one point, a very comfy-looking red sweater.
