The next will get into huge spoilers for the finale of Secret Invasion, so that you may need to bail out now in the event you haven’t but seen the final episode of the collection.
Marvel’s newest collection, Secret Invasion (which is out there to anybody with the Disney+ subscription), skilled audiences to not belief something they had been being proven. Identities had been mistaken. Crosses had been doubled. And we discovered that two key members of the “Good Guys” within the MCU have been Skrulls for an undetermined period of time: James “Rhodey” Rhodes (Don Cheadle) and Everett Ross (Martin Freeman). These heroes had been being detained in a holding cell with among the smartest folks on the planet, whereas shape-shifting Skrulls pretended to be them.
By the tip of the Secret Invasion finale, Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) had discovered how one can save President Ritson (Dermot Mulroney), whereas Gi’ah (Emilia Clarke) confronted off with Gravik (Kingsley Ben-Adir) in a CGI battle that confirmed off the complete powers of the Tremendous Skrulls. When Rhodey was rescued, nevertheless, it was requested how lengthy he had been detained … however no reply was given. Fortunately, we bought to sit down down with Secret Invasion director Ali Selim, and once we requested him how lengthy James Rhodes had been held captive, he advised us:
Properly, it is no secret – and I do not maintain the key – I do suppose there is a actually robust reference that he is been there since he was kidnapped from Captain America. And after saying that, I feel it is a terrific alternative for followers to revisit each Rhodey second and unpack it in a brand new interpretation that he was really a Skrull in that second. However I do not suppose there’s something definitive. I feel it is simply one thing to discover.
There have been some folks on social media who acknowledged the hospital robe that Don Cheadle was sporting within the scene, saying that he final was seen in a robe in Captain America: Civil Battle.
Hhhhhmmmmm… #Rhodey is sporting a hospital robe. Final we noticed that was in Civil Battle. Curious. #SecretInvasion pic.twitter.com/PkJQRXVNIHJuly 26, 2023
And as some folks identified, if Rhodey has been held captive since then, then that implies that Battle Machine was a Skrull in Avengers: Infinity Battle and Avengers: Endgame. And because of this Rhodes doesn’t know that Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) has died. That higher be an enormous plot reveal that will get explored in an upcoming MCU story transferring ahead. In all probability Armor Wars, which is now going to be a film as an alternative of a collection.
There will probably be different ramifications from the occasions of Secret Invasion enjoying out within the MCU, maybe as early as with The Marvels in November. So tune in then and see who the ripples from the MCU occasion play out.
