After the broadcast of the first episode of secret invasion on Disney+, the fans have been launched to elaborate, as always, the best theories and ideas about the plot. There are those who have limited themselves to commenting on what was seen in the chapter -right now the feeling on Rotten Tomatoes is quite lukewarm-, those who wonder if this series should have been a movie within the MCU and those who delve deeper into some specific moments you mentioned during the chapter. Among the latter, of course, are those who have already asked themselves the million dollar question: if that character we have seen has ended up being a skrull… how long has it been like this and where is the original?
spoiler alert: from here what you will find are details of what was seen in the first chapter of secret invasion. If you haven’t seen it and don’t want to know what’s going on, don’t read on.
Secret Invasion, a good start
I admit that I am one of those who have come out convinced after the first episode. It is perhaps one of the most serious starts within the MCU that we remember, but that is also appreciated, in order to offer somewhat more mature content and also in line with the plot itself, which is far from precisely comic. The approach is well managed and although it is somewhat slow, it generates interest, and its casting is well chosen, of course with a Samuel L Jackson that he is still a great Nick Fury and with a Emily Clarke whose roots we have already forgotten khaleesi in this new facet.
We will have to see how the mini-series evolves in its next 5 episodes -the next one opens on June 28- but at first glance the story seems promising, and that it doesn’t look like it will adapt as much to the comics as many expected .
Among the most important events that have occurred in this outburst we have a CIA agent who has been uncovered as a skrull. This is Everett K. Ross (played by Martin Freeman), who in the first 15 minutes revealed that he was not really who he claimed to be. The big million dollar question now is: since when has it been like this?
Theories about Ross
Marvel fans have already begun to wonder when the change took place and the agent we know was being run by a skrull. There are three theories about it, according to Slashfilm:
Everett Ross has always been a skrull
The Skrulls have been brooding on Earth for so long over the promise that a new planet would be found for them, that they might as well have been carrying out their secret invasion plan all this time. And what better way to start doing that than with someone in the CIA? For some, the Ross we’ve always known in the UCM he has been a covert skrull, leaking information in favor of his group and pulling his strings behind the scenes, for example, establishing strategic ties with a nation as powerful as Wakanda.
Everett Ross was replaced after the Blip
If there is an event that has transcendentally marked the planet and our protagonists throughout Marvel, that has been the Snap and the Blip. It was a moment of real confusion and also the ideal scenario to be able to do something like…identity theft. Some theorize that Ross was therefore captured and replaced by the Skrulls. taking advantage of the chaos of the situation (and the absence of many superheroes) and that since then has been operating secretly without anyone knowing.
A Ross Skrull is an afterthought at Marvel
Although we love to think that everything in the UCM has been planned for 20 years and that by then someone imagined that a CIA agent could be a Skrull and then take advantage of them in a TV series, the truth is that things in the factory Disney works differently and the planning is not always so perfect or precise.
Some therefore believe that simply the idea arose writing the script of secret invasionseemed like a good fit and maybe at some point it will be found out how long Ross has been replaced or maybe that question won’t even be answered in the miniseries – although it would be pretty weird if it wasn’t.
And you, what theory do you have?
