Secret Invasion is one of the MCU’s most anticipated events, and we finally have our first trailer at D23. The Disney+ series has been set up since we saw the post-credits scene of Spider-Man: Far From Home in 2019, but there are implications that: Secret Invasion has been going on for much longer. Still, since Far from homeEveryone has wondered who is a Skrull and who is not.
The Secret Invasion trailer plays like a Cold War spy thriller, reminiscent of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy or the Tom Hanks movie Bridge of Spies. But Secret Invasion really raises the stakes when all the spying is needed and throwing in some shape-shifting aliens. Get ready for the biggest mole hunt of your life!
Nick Fury will finally return to the MCU, a little more shriveled up than before. We’ll see Samuel L. Jackson reprise his role as the man who always has the upper hand in the Marvel universe, even though we’re not so sure this time around. Secret Invasion will pit him against his greatest challenge yet when Fury is the only person who can save planet Earth from an invasion that no one realizes is happening.
Many other familiar faces were also revealed in the trailer, including Cobie Smulders returning as Agent Maria Hill and Martin Freeman as Everett K. Ross. Secret Invasion is going to make a big splash when it hits Disney+. Here’s everything we learned from the trailer.
You can’t trust anyone in a secret invasion
The only thing you can be sure of is that no one is who they say they are. A shot in the trailer shows Talos (Ben Mendelsohn) going to attack Kingsley Ben-Adir’s character, but ten other Kingsley Ben-Adirs get up to stop him. It feels like a real espionage thriller from the 60s combined with a Steven Spielberg movie.
In fact, the first shot in the trailer shows Nick Fury stepping out of a bright light that is eerily similar to: Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Nevertheless, Fury is finally back after spending long years on that huge space station we saw in Spider-Man: Far From Home. Maria Hill accuses him of avoiding Earth and ignoring her cry for help. But Fury tells her, “This is different.”
Secret Invasion will show up crossover with at least one Avenger. In the trailer, Fury sees James Rhodes, aka War Machine (Don Cheadle), confront in a quiet restaurant. Fury asks him how much he knows about his security detail, implying anyone could be a Skrull. But in the extended scene, Rhodes reveals that he’s known about the threat of a Skrull invasion for 15 years.
This means that the government of Rhodes around the time of Iron Man 2 in the MCU timeline. Then War Machine officially got involved in a secret government project. It’s also when Don Cheadle replaced Terrence Howard in the role. Does this mean that Don Cheadle has been a Skrull the whole time? Has Terrence Howard just been locked up somewhere, begging that he is the real war machine? Is Kevin Feige really who he says he is?
Jokes aside, this could be Marvel’s way of acknowledging the change in actors all those years ago, similar to what they did in She-Hulk with Mark Ruffalo and Edward Norton.
Nick Fury’s Personal War
As the tension builds in the trailer, we see Everett K. Ross sneaking down an alleyway when Carmen Ejogo’s character takes a gun out of an envelope. Talos tells Fury, “We have to be very careful now.” There are pictures of Olivia Colman’s character about to torture someone as I hear Fury say:
“This is my war. Alone. I’m the last person standing between them and what they really want.”
After the President’s motorcade is attacked, Talos’s voice comes in and asks why it happened. We then see another reveal of Nick Fury, who wears his eye patch for the first time in the trailer. Strange to see him show up so far with the eye patch. Maybe he’s actually a Skrull too, since we saw Talos impersonating him in a scene after the credits. Or maybe he’s had an adjustment to his eye that allows him to see through a Skrull’s disguise.
There are many questions after seeing this trailer. Like why did Fury want to stay in space all this time? How long have the Skrulls been here? And if Talos helps humanity defeat this Skrull invasion, which people will help the Skrulls? Numerous Marvel government agencies are involved, including the DODC (Department of Damage Control), which we don’t see often. If Agent Ross is there, the CIA knows what’s going on. We can probably assume that both SHIELD and SWORD will appear. And if the president is involved, there’s no telling how high this conspiracy is going.
The thrill is real as we get closer to the Secret Invasion release in 2023.