‘Secret Invasion’ on Disney+: The biggest unanswered questions after 2 episodes of the Marvel series

• Will the Skrulls take over the world in ‘Secret Invasion’ on Disney+?
• In the new Disney+ series, Nick Fury faces the alien threat alone.
• But why is that and why is the Skrulls’ plan so complicated?

Although only two episodes of “Secret Invasion” have appeared on Disney+, for a series with a total of 6 episodes, this is a decent part of the storyline. The Marvel production must not allow much time to answer the following open questions:

Why isn’t Nick Fury asking for help?

“Secret Invasion” puts the spotlight on Nick Fury, which many Marvel fans feel is long overdue. Still, the threat of the Skrull invasion seems too great for one man to face alone. Of course, as a conspiracy thriller, “Secret Invasion” itself provides the answer to why Nick Fury isn’t asking for help: Nobody knows who to trust anymore.

Any person could already have been replaced by a Skrull, including superheroes. However, the “Secret Invasion” event in the comics was a gigantic crossover with countless heroes, so Thor, Captain Marvel or the Guardians of the Galaxy could also have appeared in the Disney+ series. But Disney had other plans and so “Secret Invasion” (so far) does without superheroes and Nick Fury has to cope on his own.

Why is Gravik’s plan so complicated?

Skrull villain Gravik wants to make Earth the new home of the Skrulls, so there’s no place for humans. So he uses his infiltrated Skrull agents to carry out terrorist attacks in order to turn the nations of the world against one another. He also let Skrulls hold high political posts and works on a machine that is supposed to produce Super Skrulls.

But why all this? We know that the Skrulls would be fine with their actions triggering nuclear war, as they don’t mind radioactivity. In that case, the Skrulls could simply turn into the people who have access to the appropriate bombs and fire them themselves. Why control people’s behavior when they could do it all themselves?

aliens on earth

Nick Fury makes it clear to Talos in Episode 2 that humanity is not ready to share the earth with aliens, there is a lack of space and tolerance. However, the MCU has already introduced New Asgard, the new home of the Aesir who settled on Earth after Asgard was destroyed. So countless extraterrestrials live here and nobody cares, New Asgard is even a tourist magnet.

Of course, the peaceful Aesir seem less menacing than the Skrulls, who fuel people’s paranoia with their shape-shifting abilities. But meanwhile the people in the MCU have already seen and experienced so much that Nick Fury shouldn’t fundamentally assume that humanity isn’t fundamentally open to extraterrestrials.