Marvel's Secret Invasion #3 may hold clues to Disney Plus' upcoming adaptation
Secret Invasion #3 presents some big ideas that could hint at hoꦉw the MCU will handle Skrulls going forward

As the MCU heads towards an invasion of Skrulls in its Disney Plus streaming adaptation of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:classic 2008 story Secret Invasion, Marvel Comics is undergoing a new Secret Invasion of its ow🔜n - and the story ideas the new Secret Invasion presents may be a clue as to how the concept may be adapted to the MCU.
January 4's Secret Invasion #3 from writer Ryan North, artists Francesco Mobili and Jordie Bellaire, and l🐲etterer Joe Caramagna follows up on last issue's revelation that multiple Skrulls were hiding in the Avengers - and that Maria Hill's Skrull-seeking team didn't actually catch them all - with some shocking revelations about Iron Man and his relationship with Skrulls that could be a glimpse at how the shapeshifting aliens and their invasion of Earth will be presented in the Disney Plus series.
Spoilers ahead for Secret Invasion #3.
Secret Invasion #3 picks up 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:where Secret Invasion #2 left off, with the revelation that not only is Tony Stark of the Avengers a Skrull, there 🌳are actually mu﷽ltiple Skrulls impersonating him. Following the Stark-Skrull's evasion of Maria Hill's Skrull finding machine last issue, Stark actually calls Maria Hill to his lab, where he reveals his secret - and it's not what readers were likely expecting, to say nothing of Hill herself.
Yes, this means that some previous Iron Man appea💙rances can now be retconned as actually being Skrulls, but according to the story it's always been the real Tony Stark in major moments in his own solo title and alongside the Avengers (and no specific retcons are made here).
Is that all true? Well, Maria Hill is not ෴buying it at first - until she manages to surprise Tony and get a blood sample from his tongue (where no blood pack could be hidden), proving he's human, and that his words are seemingly true.
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But Hill isn't having it, and as Stark♛ tries to explain that he wants to help stop a new invasion by militant Skrulls, she seems to gun them all down as he looks on in horror - and that's where the issue ends.
The big takeaway here might just be the similarity between Stark's employment of Skrulls to be in multiple places at once, and Nick Fury's similar use of Skrull agents in the MCU as seen in Spider-Man: No🌠 Way Home.
Co♔nsidering that Captain Marvel, which introduced the Skrulls to the MCU in the first place, established that nearly the entire population of Skrulls we've met so far are peaceful refugees without any apparent designs on conquest, there may be something to the idea of multiple factions of Skrulls in the upcoming Secret Invasion streaming series, as a way to maintain the innocence of the friendly Skrulls we've met so far and a potentially villainous group of the shapeshifters who are trying to invade Earth.
It's also possible that Nick Fury may be employing more Skr🌞ulls than just his friends Soren and Talos to keep check on any malevolent that may have infiltrated corridors of power on Earth.
Secret Invasion #4 goes on sale February 8. Secret🍰 Invasion the streaming series does not have a debut date yet.
The original Secret Invasion is one of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Marvel events of all time.
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