Kevin Feige Says Secret Invasion’s Shocking Reveal Was Skrull in Previous MCU Appearances

The newest episode of Marvel’s “Secret Invasion” revealed yet one more main Marvel character as a Skrull, solely Kevin Feige guarantees this acquainted face has been an alien for some time, together with in a few of their earlier Marvel Cinematic Universe appearances.

The newest episode of the collection dropped the largest alien reveal but, and it is a character Marvel’s chief inventive officer Kevin Feige says has been a Skrull for some time. Simply how lengthy will likely be revealed by the top of this six-episode restricted occasion collection.

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Contemplate this your **SPOILER WARNING** as a result of it isn’t going to be attainable to actually discuss how massive of a reveal that is with out revealing who it’s. Suffice to say, it is fairly a shock and will have followers scrambling to dig by prior MCU initiatives to try to analyze all their scenes — the truth is, Feige hopes you do!

This week’s fourth chapter revealed that Gi’ah (Emilia Clarke) didn’t die, however she nonetheless would not agree along with her father, Talos’ (Ben Mendelsohn), peaceable dream of co-existence with people on Earth. On this one, we will need to agree along with her. It stays to be seen if that dream continues to be alive — simply because it stays to be seen if Talos continues to be alive.

As Episode 3 ended with Gi’ah seemingly shot and killed, so did this episode finish with Gravik (Kingsley Ben-Adir) — in all his Tremendous Skrull glory — seemingly executing Talos. As soon as once more, he killed one in all Nick Fury’s (Samuel L. Jackson) closest allies in entrance of the previous colonel, at the same time as Fury was making a fast escape to avoid wasting the president’s (Dermot Mulroney) life.

Talking of the “former” of Fury’s profession, we suppose it is time to handle the elephant (or Skrull, because the case could also be) within the room. After Fury’s spouse Priscilla (Charlayne Woodard) is known as to a church, she is given orders to kill Fury by none apart from the person who simply fired him, Colonel James Rhodes (Don Cheadle).

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That is the one! Rhodey aka Struggle Machine aka Iron Man’s greatest good friend is a Skrull. Priscilla wasn’t in a position to undergo with killing Fury, who knew it was coming as he’d planted a bug (as paranoid ex-spies are susceptible to do), nor may he kill her.

As he’d bugged his spouse, he additionally shortly acknowledged the voice giving her orders. And so, he and Rhodey hade a resort room confrontation, with Rhodes threatening to disclose footage of Gravik-as-Fury killing all these folks within the premiere.

However what gave the impression to be a Fury fail was truly him planting a liquid tracer inside Rhodes, which enabled him and Talos to reach on the presidential caravan in time to avoid wasting the president, as coated above.

So what does this imply that Rhodey is a Skrull? And the way lengthy has he been one? Within the comedian e book universe, a number of heroes have been revealed to have been Skrulls, with a few of them having been changed years in the past, impacting an entire lot of tales.

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It appears to be like just like the MCU is taking a word from the supply materials, as Feige informed Marvel.com that Cheadle has been on board with this plan for fairly some time now.

“When now we have superb actors, like Don, which were with us for therefore a few years, we very a lot deal with them as companions within the inventive collaboration,” Feige stated. “It was very early days once we pitched this idea to Don, and he very a lot was into it and into with the ability to play with completely different sides of Rhodey that we’ve not seen earlier than.”

“We would have liked to have a personality that one wouldn’t count on to be a Skrull,” he stated. Eagle-eared followers did choose up on the truth that Rhodey known as Fury by his first identify earlier on this collection, a element that helped Fury determine a Skrull who was pretending to be Talos.

“No person calls me Nick, Bob,” Fury stated. It is probably he was suspicious of Rhodey from the second that occurred. It is also price noting that Priscill known as him Nick this week, although that could possibly be the intimacy of her being his spouse. We form of like the concept that solely Skrulls name him that, although.

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Whereas Feige has promised that followers will ultimately learn the way lengthy Rhodey has been a Skrull, he additionally stated, “We like the concept of followers going again and watching among the different appearances of Rhodey and realizing that that wasn’t him.” Are there clues baked in that followers missed?

First portrayed by Terrence Howard, James Rhodes made his MCU debut proper from the start, in “Iron Man.” Cheadle took over the position for the sequel — and it could be form of hilarious if that is when he grew to become a Skrull.

He would go on to look in “Iron Man 3,” “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” “Captain America: Civil Struggle,” “Avengers: Infinity Struggle,” “Captain Marvel,” “Avengers: Endgame,” and “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.” He’s set to headline “Armor Wars,” with this new wrinkle elevating every kind of questions and prospects about that collection.

Whereas Rhodey has evidently been an alien for some time now, the identical can’t be stated for Agent Everett Ross, who was revealed to be a Skrull within the premiere. Martin Freeman stated that as far as he is aware of, he was the actual Ross in ever prior expertise.

That stated, he additionally conceded he could also be incorrect about that. “I do not need to imagine he is been a Skrull this complete time,” he stated, “so I do not.”

There are two extra episodes of “Secret Invasion” but to premiere, with new ones dropping each Wednesday on Disney+.