Secret Invasion
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Summary
After the confirmation that it is now the MCU ’s scummy rated TV show , it ’s hard not to wonder whereSecret Invasionwent wrong . A Rotten Tomatoes mark of just 57 % ( and a 13 % rating for the last ) intend the Nick Fury - led version of the essential Marvel Comics event is formally the worst MCU TV show , at the ninth time of asking , despite costing a report $ 212 m. It is a frustrating experience , let down by strange decisions - not least theAI credits scenethat gave it such a divisive start - and the comparatively muted chemical reaction to it , even as it cast out massive revelations like the Avengers DNA gimmick , says an amazing lot about it .
adapt from Brian Michael Bendis ' 2008 crossover event , Secret InvasionfollowsCaptain Marvel ’s consequence , X later , pullingSamuel L Jackson ’s Nick Furyback to Earth for " one last fight " . Even that promise was more or less cave byThe Marvelsfeaturing a clearly very - alert Nick Fury as a major fend for presence and promise from Jackson himself that the Captain Marvel subsequence followed it in the complex MCU timeline . Way to undermine any material sense of spectacular tension . And that ’s only one of the problems that turnedSecret Invasioninto a disappointment .
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Secret Invasion’s Finale Was Rushed & Didn’t Matter
The adult issue forSecret Invasion ’s phonograph recording - breaking 13 % Rotten grading finale is that it really does n’t count a great pot . Other than the very likely Revelation of Saint John the Divine thatRhodey has been a Skrull sinceCaptain America : Civil Warand the presentation of G’iah as the most powerful Marvel fiber of all time , Secret Invasion ’s endingreset the show so that Nick Fury could be in the proper place forThe Marvels(i.e . back in space , and very much not dead ) . And in case anyone missed that fact , the show literally started and finish with the same image ( slenderly altered ) of Fury stepping off then stepping back on his starship .
In between those double , Fury was theorize to work the Skrull issue on Earth , stop a human / alien war , atone for his sins and become a better humanity : in real fact , he desert the Skrulls in a high-risk situation than he left them , on the verge of a war between mankind and aliens , completely unaccountable for his sin , and ostensibly unrepentant . At least he got to accommodate with his Skrull wife though , eh ? To arrive at that point , Secret Invasiontried slow - construction , with cliffhanger at every turn , and an try at aWinter Soldierlike anxious tone , which was entirely abandoned as before long as the history shifted into being the Super - Skrull / Avengers DNA narration rather .
Secret Invasion Had HUGE Potential
Bendis ' originalSecret Invasioncomic result was so transformative because of its dewy-eyed , devastating conceit : that anyone could have been exchange by a Skrull impostor , no matter if they were a founding Avenger , like Hank Pym , a top tier up hero like Captain Marvel , the Inhumans loss leader Black Bolt or even a Hollywood icon like Tom Cruise . The horse sense of apprehensiveness and paranoia associated with that variety of no - holds - debar narrative perfectly suited an expansive playground - the more case who were included , the more possible Skrulls there ’d be . The Disney+ answer to the same story went in the opposite direction , close off the Skrulls from 95 % of the existing bomber in the MCU , and willfully ignoring all of that potential .
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The conclusion was second up by an in - creation excuse : this was Nick Fury ’s own narration . Fury had promised the Skrulls that he would be their Jesus Christ , find them a satellite and make certain they were barren to hold out in their own skins in peace . Instead , Fury did what Fury does and exploited the position to his own welfare , utilize a pouch of Skrulls , led by Ben Mendelsohn ’s Talos , as his personal undercover agent who were retrofitted in the MCU as the key to his every success . In doing so , the MCUSecret Invasionnot only throw out its biggest selling point , it also sabotage its own hero . And to top it all off , the finale removed Fury from his own guess " last stand " , leaving G’iah to fight Gravik , and then to lead the Skrulls in the face of even corking persecution , still being " used " by humanity to protect Earth .
Secret Invasion Should Have Been Bigger
Thereveal of the Avengers DNA subplotinSecret Invasionis arguably the biggest missed opportunity of this manner of adaptation . In another universe , that reveal could have add up at the end ofAvengers : Endgamein a post - credits that show a flashbulb of the fresh - up and the ground - shaking reveal that Skrulls were the ones Harvesting the DNA . Phase 4 could then have had aSecret Invasionthrough - line ( rather than it just being a sour look atEndgame ’s radioactive dust ) , teasing Skrull replacements along the means and then culminate in an actual Avengers moving picture as the comic deserved . While it ’s a little unfair to judge things on what they ’re not , rather than what they are , inSecret Invasion ’s shell , it ’s almost unimaginable .
The MCU has taken one of the biggest comic Word of God crossovers and turn into a drawing way drama , too tightly focused on Nick Fury when " who can you trust ? " should have been a question leveled at the hearing and not just Samuel L Jackson ’s virtuously ambiguous Avengers founder . Forced through the MCU ’s filter , what could have been huge is now consciously hobble , with familiar storyline regurgitated both from the cartoon strip and the MCU :
Nothing feel as new and wise as it really should have been in an adaptation that consciously presents itself as challenge to expectations . And that problem is something that makingSecret Invasionan Avengers - level consequence spanning multiple projection and tying into one big crossing could have muscled through .
Secret Invasion Is Full Of Plot-Holes & Issues
Secret Invasionwas sell on the idea that it would be a smaller scale , claustrophobic news report , close in genetic science toThe Winter Soldier(which obviously also had a villainous infiltration at its heart ) than toThe Avengers . It was supposed to be an intricately weave narrative , canny and provocative , but looking at it now , the issues in its plotting are impossible to search retiring . Despite being a compelling idea on paper , Gravik ’s plan to take over Earth is illogicalin such a telephone number of ways that he looks bungling . The game also hurtles forth from one winding or cliffhanger to the next , resolving them calendar week to week in a way of life that ’s theoretically good for whipping up agitation , but feels vacuous when it comes to rewatching . And relegate one turn of events , everything ’s just a bit … obvious .
monumental reveals likeRhodey as a Skrull spyand the Avengers DNA wind are volatile , but the former was mishandled and illogical in execution ( because the Skrulls simply do n’t take advantage of supercede Rhodey in any meaningful means ) and the latter feel like it belongs to a bigger story . integral character reference are underused , like Olivia Colman ’s Sonya Falsworth and the entire Skrull Council , despite both being full of potential . Almost every plot twist poses more question than it resolves , with big character like Maria Hill ( RIP ) , Martin Freeman ’s Agent Ross and Rhodey all thrown under the wheels for the sake of striking electric shock . And none of them are view as of import enough to justify even a put forward eyebrow from any of their superhero allies , apparently .
Fundamentally , positioning Nick Fury at the heart of this history was fresh , but it now looks functional rather than originative : an apology to limitSecret Invasion ’s sizing and cost , rather than a mean to boost intrigue . The show has also failed to explicate why Fury is even still around : at first Gravik want him to suffer , then he want him dead ( so why not belt down him on any of the multiple chances that present themselves ) , then we were secernate he needed him alive to bestow him the Avengers DNA . Fury has now been three dissimilar patch gadget in his own narrative , and the final twist presents the tragic realization that had the Avengers been involved and the DNA secret unveiled , Fury ’s part in things would have been infinitely more complex and even more interesting .
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Secret Invasion Is Overshadowed By Its Own Avengers Problem
One of the oldest MCU unfavorable judgment suggests that Marvel movies and television appearance endure because they have to always prompt the consultation that they are MCU dimension , often avoiding introduction or the good ideas in service of The Greater Continuity . Moon Knightmight well be the only exception , and there ’s a very real possibility that it will prove to be a narrative idle - ending as a issue . In a rare variety of pace , Secret Invasionwould have been well if it had just decease full throttle as an MCU crossover case . At least that way it would n’t have to continually justify why the Avengers ca n’t turn up .
At first , the Avengers were leave out because Fury did n’t want the Skrulls to get a hazard to supervene upon any of them , but then it was revealed they had anyway , unwittingly suggestingRhodey was always just a bad Avenger . Then it turned out Fury did n’t want them involved because they ’d belike be pissed he stole their DNA for unknown reasons . Then it at last emerge that Fury believe he was the only one who could save Earth because of his backstory and personal trauma . Apparently , the patch armor give by a rough living can withstand Extremis , topnotch - strength and various other top grade superpower . And then he did n’t even do that , fly Earth towards his own happy close while the Skrulls abide stuck in the centre of topsy-turvydom again .
In the end , Secret Invasiontries too hard to insist that it never needed The Avengers , while attempt to shut the plot - golf hole that they do n’t flex up . But then Nick Fury ’s assassination of Maria Hill is broadcast on global news , the President is almost killed , Earth teeters on the verge of World War 3 , and you begin to wonder if the Avengers just do n’t wish . AllSecret Invasiondid in trying to negociate its Avengers problem was amplify it , prompt everyone what this all could have been .
