Secret Invasion episode 3 streams on Wednesday on Disney Plus.Marvel fans, assemble! With less than two weeks to go before the long-awaited Avengers: Endgame hits cinemas, the hype is bigger than ever. Those would be welcome cameos for a show that could turn out to be just as consequential for the MCU as Loki is.

Like War Machine and other superheroes that do not have powers built or injected into their DNA. On that note, I’d love to see the Secret Invasion story tell us that some of the Avengers have been Skrulls for years. Marvel should use similar tricks for Avengers references in other shows on top of the occasional cameos. Yet episode 2 tells us that he does, but he’s not ready to act. It would be incredibly annoying not to see Fury consider the Avengers option, given that he formed the group. Just like that, Marvel avoids major Avengers-related Secret Invasion plothole issues. What about actual Avengers in Secret Invasion That’s the Super Skrulls, which Secret Invasion episode 2 teases. But he says he’s already working on a plan for that. He is aware of the looming Avengers threat. Moon Knight is another example.įinally, there’s Gravik (Kingsley Ben-Adir), the leader of the Skrull rebels who want to take over the planet and turn it into their new home. Eternals is the biggest example of that, with a massive threat that shouldn’t have gone unnoticed by the Avengers. It needs lines of dialogue to inform the audience that the Avengers are paying attention to potential world-ending events. Also, hiring top talent from the Avengers movies is an expense Marvel seemingly wanted to avoid.īut, as I explained time and again when looking at the events in the MCU Phase 4, Marvel doesn’t need the actual presence of Avengers heroes in its shows.

Not everything has to be about the Avengers or any other group of superheroes. Marvel went for standalone stories to introduce new heroes and villains, and that’s understandable. I’m referring to the chronology of the MCU timeline here, not the order that movies and shows were released. Marvel has gone out of its way to avoid Avengers Easter eggs and references in TV shows and movies that followed the events in Endgame. Before I explain myself, you should know that spoilers from the new TV show and other MCU Phase 4 titles will follow below.

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