SECRET INVASION Episode 1 Breakdown - Every Easter Eggs and Ending Explained !
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Secret Invasion adapts the classic Marvel comics crossover event for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It deals with a harsh reality post blip, as Nick Fury returns to action to fight the Skrulls (who we last saw in Captain Marvel and WandaVision). In this video we break down every MCU reference and hidden detail you missed.
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Written and Hosted by Ryan Arey ( / ryanarey )
Edited by Harriet Lengel-Enright, Randolf Nombrado, Brianna McLarty, and Ethan Lavinksy
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Now this is the kind of mCU we’ve been missing. I love the cosmic stuff, and the multiversal stuff, but the MCU needs a ground level hero to show real human stakes. This is the first regular people storyline we’ve seen since hawkeye-everything else has been gods and the multiverse. So I am very excited to break this spy thriller down, let’s go.
We begin in Moscow, which is a perfect setting for episode 1. It immediately puts us in mind of cold war spy thrillers like James bond-that same genre that this show is emulating. The moscow font is also the same as black widow and captain america civil war: another couple of MCU spy movies. So that sets this series directly in that wing of the MCU.
So we open with former CIA agent Everett Ross, whoo we first met in Civil War, then saw again in black Panther and Wakanda forever. And in the opening scene he is revealed to be a skrull./ the big question is was he a skrull the whole time, or is he a recent plant? I’ve got theories that say he has beena skrull for years, in a video that’s releasing tomorrow, so subscribe to make sure you don;t miss it.
He goes to meet agent Prescod.
Doug: Yeah, why’s he look familiar?
That is Richard Dormer, who played Beric Dondarrion in Game of thrones.
Doug: flaming sword guy, cool. [high five]
Now , as for Ross, we cover this backstory thoroughly in our secret invasion recap video. But quick refresher, in wakanda forever he was arrested for leaking information to the wakandas, but was sent to prison by okoye.
Faux ross says, of Fury [he’s ono Saber]. So we saw saber in the marvels trailer-it’s the floating space headquarters of sword-that’s the government agency that kind of policies everything that happens in outer space. Monica Rambeau is an agent of sword, and we see in wandavision that she was called up to the agency by a skrull, working for fury [clip]. So Skrulls have had an open partnership with humanity-and now, something has changed. I’ve got some theories about that which I’ll talk about in just a bit.
Basically, swords replaced shields after they fell, and they mostly dealt with protecting earth from space. Prescod’s opening monologue hits pretty hard for people living in the real world [imagine a world where information can;t be trusted]. And this is one of the big problems in the world today, no one trusts the news, or what they read on the internet, spreading misinformation is far too easy, so we don;t know who to trust. It;s the perfect setting for a spy thriller, filled with nefarious agents who can change their form. The tagline of the secret invasion comics campaign was even, “who do you trust?” [batman 89 joker, who do you trust]
But this world of misinformation would be even worse in the MCU, where crazy stuff is happening every day-gods, aliens, robots, giant god alien robots sticking out of the ocean.
When we get a good look at Prescod’s newspaper clippings, we see the chain of terrorism that he talks about later. Now all of these events have happened since the blip. Which makes perfect sense. The blip removed half the people in the world, so missing people would be very easy to replace. And three replaced people are skrull agents who sow discord.
Doug: Yeah, what’s their plan?
So the way Prescod spells it out, the skrulls stir up civil unrest in countries. Linkedin wakanda forever, when we learn that the US wants regime change in wakanda [president wants regime change]. We see this clipping of the leader of the columbian rebels gaining popularity with young people. This guy is a skrull, who starts a rebellion that will make him the leader of the nation. An extremist leading a nation of disaffected young rebels is also very similar to what Gravok is doing with the skrulls, so consider this clever foreshadowing. 
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Maria Hill death, it's like Walter White death in Breaking Bad finale. Although maybe Maria Hill coming ressurected in next episode (or in final episode).
Actually the equinox is at spring and autumn whereas a solstice is at winter and summer
Was it Pedro Pascal? best guess
Edit, Jessica Henwick BAAAAAh
@@Extraamediummy guess was Natalie Portman
is too late SPOILER alert i post it just now
The death of Maria Hill really shocked me. Like you said, she's been in the MCU for 11 years. It also goes to show that this show isn't pulling any punches. I love it
Storytelling 101. Make Fury look even weaker and give him a reason to shave his beard, became a badass again and get some badboy Hollywood music when he wins. Every single trailer for Secret Invasion has said "Fury needs to do this alone!". Now he's got no Avengers and no right hand.
I don't think she's dead dead.
@@ssofft Soren (her previous Skrull imposter) is confirmed dead and Hill didn’t change into a scroll upon her death. She’s dead
@@ssofftthe credits say she’s a special guest. i do not think she’s coming back bro 💀
@@Eli43199
@ethangiesbrecht4865 wasn't saying she was a skrull, just going off the fact its usually 50/50 whether a comic book character is actually dead or not. Also know someone who's seen the second episode and he suggested just as much.
Am I the only one who is like 95% sure that Ryan talks to himself in Doug's voice even when he's not on camera?
Somewhere the idea must’ve sprouted from 😂✌️
Plus there’s a lot of owners I know that like to adjust their voice if they take the “talking for their dog” 😂😂
there are shots of him talking in dougs voice, where there didn't cut to doug
@@tomtommasovaleriano962Where?
@@slendercorn46 In several of Ryan's breakdowns. He messed up the edits and forgets to replace himself voicing doug with the dog.
I can totally see this 😂
Richard Grant played in GoT as Izembaro, General Pryde in Rise of Skywalker, and also played Classic Loki
And the villain in Logan
Dammit..I guessed Jessica Henwick but forgot the marvel netflix shows dont count.
just figured this out. ive been mulling it over for the last 2 hours.
@isaachaney4141 yeah I had to pause this shit for a min to think..thats the best I came up with. But @calebturner15 got that shit!!
Hannah John-Kamen was in GoT in the same year as Grant I believe, was in Force Awakens, and of course, was Ghost, so I think she beats him out due to being in TFA (unless we're counting Logan)
Jessica Henwick was in GOT as Nymeria Sand, a rebel pilot in The Force Awakens, and Colleen Wing in Iron Fist.
Hannah John-Kamen was in GOT as Ornela (a member of the Dosh khaleen), a First Order Officer in The Force Awakens, and in Ant Man & the Wasp as Ghost.
I wish we got more of hill in the MCU ,she was so underused.
Bruh when I saw her death I was shocked like dam didn’t see that coming
@@RiceFarmerEdits Wait she died?
@@tanzenuanchorgreenps7864yeah i was shocked at the end
Wouldn't be surprised if she wasn't dead and is just going deep cover.
She is a spy and that's something they've done before. Captain America: Winter Soldier.
She’s not bad in MSF either when used on the Secret Avenger team. Lol
I'd be very disappointed if Talos is revealed as the big bad. He's the most compelling character so far and it's because his whole race thinks he's weak when he's trying to do the right thing.
That would be a wild twist, but then again Fury needs some Allies no way he can go at this completely alone
Won't be because they are all bad in the cartoon but in the cartoon Maria Hill was the one in charge
Plus that would make Ben Mendelssohn be the bad guy in every single character he plays onscreen.
Makes sense. He didn’t like fury killing the skrull he fought. Also gravik had eyes on him when he took that walk. Only person that knew he was goin on a walk was talos and hill. And I think fury now knows talos is working or the head of the resistance.
@cityoftrees9953 Talos didn't want him to kill that skrull because Talos wanted to prove to himself that he's not weak. It seems that Talos and Fury have a similar burden to overcome this season. Are they both too old, too weak, to be the heroes they need and want to be? Talos was trying to prove he's still got it and Fury took that away from him.
The fact that Cobie Smulders was credited as a guest Star tells everything to me. I'm going to miss her character
martin freeman was also credited as a guest star, so i think they may well both be in just the first episode, even though i don't want hill to be properly dead :(
she had the potential to keep fury level, and also do some serious acting for once. or maybe she wanted to leave, idk.
but also maybe she'll be back, and it's just deception from the credits to not give things away. idk again xD
tbh idk wtf is gonna be happening this series and i LOVE IT
Agreed.
But still, fair play to the actors & characters.
Turn up, Dominate, Bail.
That doesn't mean anything. When she turns up alive in the final episode to save Fury from being shot by Gravic, they can credit her as a guest star again
Thought Hill was a skrull that got caught because of how she responded. Something similar with Fury's diagonal cut sandwich/toast thing. Wasn't expecting that ending.
Same
Only in the Spiderman film
14:30 an Equinox is not the longest and shortest day of the year, it's the two times a year when Days and Night is the same duration, or the first day of Spring and Fall (the Vernal and Autumnal Equinox). The longest and shortest days are known as the Solstice.
And episode 1 of SI came out today on the summer solstice ☀️[cue X-Files theme]
I came to say this :D hahahah
Today June 21st was a great date for this.
But the episode released on the solstice, WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?! 😳😳
Came here to say this, lol
Yeah. Rookie mistake.
If you're paying attention, you can see the art guy that Talos fights is already in the pod things before the scene, so you already know that he's a skrull
I tried to watch for those people later, then i forgot to actually do that.
Yep! Good catch!
Exactly.
This episode kinda explains why Fury only showed up in Tony's funeral in Endgame. I had always wondered why he didn't give a speech or at least tried to contact the superheroes after returning from the Snap. But maybe at that moment he was still overwhelmed by the the fact that even if he had always prepared 3 steps ahead, there is still an enemy that he had never expected.
In alot of the promotion we see “nick fury like you’ve never seen him before” I feel like he’s either going to be going with the flow more or either taking steps completely in the dark that even we can’t see (considering he can’t trust anyone) or a mix of both
Him being ahead def helped even if he doesn’t think so, cuz for the stuff he can’t plan for, that’s what the avengers are for
The reason it is truly hard for me to believe that Maria is really gone is because if she is this is probably the saddest ending any of our MCU regulars have endured... for a character thats been with us since the beginning to go out with no sacrifice for the greater good, no completed character arc, and with her and her best friend to close on somewhat shakey terms, while also even possibly believing he was the one to kill her... not to mention her only action in the episode was her getting beat up by Ni'ah... i refuse to believe the MCU would do that to one of its longest casted heroes.
I have to say that for it's first episode, the build up is well done. It sets the tone for the rest of the series very well. The end was interesting and makes me wonder what is coming next.
I'm almost certain there was a suggestion that Everett Ross Skrull at start was just impersonating him for that short period and that the Ross we know previously is the real one.
At the very least Ross in the first BP film would have been human otherwise Shirt would have noticed when she operated on him.
Hill: 'You can't say that.' Fury: 'No. You can't say that '. The humour in this episode is very intelligent.
There was a spy TV show in the UK called Spooks, but in the US they changed the name to MI5 because of it's use as a slur in the US. I wonder if this is a bit of a nod to that
As well as Fury getting the Avengers for his midlife crisis, which is meta for his acting career, getting recognition from the younger generation with that movie
@@h.scientificgodyup. Exactly. Glad to see other people caught on too!
I immediately got that. But then, my dad was not exactly PC.
19:00 Gia'a (Emilia Clark) setup her father. When she brought the bags to the safe house, he said "thanks to you we have our decoys". So she knew the bags weren't a part of the bombing.
That foot thing with Fury I believe cause he was so long on SABER and had to readjust on earth’s gravity again!
Except SABER clearly has artificial gravity...
@@wallythewondercorncake8657yeah we know, still muscle memory is real.
@@wallythewondercorncake8657 I am sure that you’re correct! But you’ll still feel it! And for a man in his 50 (if I guess correctly)like Fury, he will
Surely feel it in his bones. Plus there is the fact that they dropped him in like a place without a firm soil it looks like a muddy place!
Captain marvel takes place before this
Probly injured then ig
@@MKVlogs-oo7twHow do you know that? It looks more like The Marvels takes place after this, judging by Fury's appearance and his demeanor
I'm pretty sure Ross hasn't been a skrull this whole time.
I think so too, like shuri must’ve noticed when she scanned him/ performed surgery on him
It doesn't change anything if he was
@@FireJachyeah it does, this means the MCU has been hijacked by Skrulls embedded in S.H.I.E.L.D.
Definitely not. The Invasion only began after the blip
Idk it he was one in the first black panther, but the second he very well coulda been. The reason the cia was onto him maybe wasnt just because of wakanda but the activities the skrulls were doing. Also if hes been a skrull even since the second movie, that means wakanda could very well of been infiltrated. And if you think about it wakanda would be the number 1 threat to the skrulls.
Watching episode 1 has reaffirmed my enjoyment of the espionage/intrigue/street-level stories of the MCU. Makes me yearn for more of this. It has been the best of the MCU thus far IMO.
Word, all this multiverse stuff has been like Eddie Brock in Spider-Man 3
🗑️
I liked this episode, good to see the spy theme back. During the episode I was thinking "Hill's been in the MCU since the early days, it's good she's still here" *5 minutes later* "oh"
When Gavrick is trying to escape Fury he walks behind a stand, presumingly ice cream, that says Frozone's on the side of it. Incredibles reference.
It's not. Just checked. It's a food stand and it reads "Pirozhki" which are like little meat pies. No ice cream and no Frozone.
Hill's death may be foreshadowing a new confidant for Fury, who might be Quake (Daisy Johnson) as in the comics. Actually I'm just hoping Quake could return.
You mention that the equinoxes is the longest and shortest days of the year, but those are the solstices. The equinoxes are the days in between which have an equal amount of light and dark.
2 things that you missed:
1. It was obvious to me that Fury is putting on the "old man persona" because as soon as he walks off the spaceship and it flies away, he puts it on and starts to limp as Maria approaches him in the car.
2. Mariah Hill also explicitly stated to Fury in his debrief at the table that Skrulls were immune to radioactivity, hence why they are hiding and living in abounded power plants in Russia.
when watching the intro, I noticed Cobie Smulders and Martin Freeman were not on the cast list... Little foreshadowing there
I noticed too … hurts that she died
In which case, why was Richard Dorner in the opening credits? His character dies even before the other two.
@@DJSinisterMetalHe could return as a Skrull. It's not clear if Talos actually knows about his death.
Me too, they appeared as guest starring at the end of the credit
@@ClassyGameRacerIf Cobie appeared as a guest star , there goes my hope of seeing her again. Still, I’m not cancelling D+ , not yet at least , I will wait if Maria Hill is back.
Just a note, they say in the episode that the Skrulls aren't affected by radiation the same way humans are. Which is why their hold up in the nuclear plants.
and could also foreshadow that their plan to take over the Earth is to cause all out nuclear war. Explains why they're riling up countries against one another and the part about about them being immune to nuclear radiation fits in neatly
Yip
The longest and shortest days are solstices. Equinoxes which are at the beginning of Spring and fall are days of equal daylight and dark.
Jessica Henwick. She was Nymeria Sand in GoT, Jess Pava in Force Awakens and Colleen Wing in Iron Fist/Defenders
But Hannah John-Kamen was ornela in GoT, an unidentified first order officer in force awakens, and ghost in antman and the wasp
Really great first episode, hope it keeps this quality through the whole show, I love how you don’t know anything in this show, you don’t know who’s a skroll, you don’t know if the few skrolls who are on our side are trustworthy, and most importantly we don’t know who is one step ahead skrolls or nick
Or if he is a skrull
I certainly hope Maria Hill will turn out to be alive like Fury did in Winter Soldier.
As for MCU, Star Wars and GoT, I think the first to do the hat trick was Richard E. Grant??
Natalie Portman?
Richard E. Grant checks out on my end, good call
Thank you for Doug's Venture Brothers deep cut on the Guild of Calamitous Intent. That show was so awesome and I'm still holding out hope for a new season
I came here to acknowledge this very comment. 🫡
Hope no longer, a feature length ep is on the way!
Look out for “Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart”!
I was just watching Captain America The Winter Soldier right after watching this ep, and I was kinda shook when Pierce says "It's just a matter of time before a dirty bomb goes off in Moscow" in the third act...
I know I'm thinking way too much into this, but it still shook me 😅
Nice catch. I just watched Captain America: The Winter Soldier yesterday, and then I watched this episode today.
Jessica Henwig played in GOT as one the Sands, Jessika in Star Wars and Colleen Wing in the MCU, though I'm not sure if the marvel tv series are a part of the MCU.
Hannah John-Kamen, Ralph Ineson, Spencer Wilding (stunts), and Richard E. Grant also! I went into a rabbit hole after hearing that
After saying Oscar Issac. Your answer is way better
@@coronbrown9238 Oscar Issacs is the GOAT - MCU , Dune , Spiderman , X-men , Star Wars. I was going to say Pedro Pascal , Galactic #1 Daddy but then i realise oh no MCU don't have a role big enough for him!
@@coronbrown9238He wasn't in GOT
Good eyes! I was leaning toward Max von Sydow......
This Was so good as a 1st Ep
Major props for the choreography.
No longer does the audience have to sit through cliche fights of punch,punch, kick, kick.
Instead, we got a double leg takedown, a fireman's carry, and a sweet gator roll.
The equinoxes are when daylight/daytime is equal to the amount of nighttime/dark. You’re thinking of solstices which denote the longest and shortest days (of daylight) every year.
This significantly changes your analysis of the inclusion of that song in the episode.
Tahiti is a magical place🤷🏾♂️ and bring back Coulson🤞
The equinoxes are NOT the shortest and longest days of the year. Equinoxes are when the amount of day and night are...
wait for it....
Equal.
I was just about to go on a rant saying effectively the same thing.
@@markolson1552 He means solstices I'm sure, but this is your F-ing job dude. Like wasn't he a teacher? Doug needs a new hire.
I have a hunch that the real weapon is on SABER, and that everything else was to lure Fury back on earth. If Talos is indeed the bad guy, it would give a whole other meaning to the line “she thought it would take something like this to bring you back down”
first S.H.I.E.L.D then S.W.O.R.D now S.A.B.E.R (just another star wars reference)
The equinox doesn't refer to the shortest and longest days of the year, that's the solstice. But maybe instead of the song representing this being the winter of Fury's life, it's representing the Autumnal Equinox, which marks the end of summer and colder days ahead, to show that he isn't in his prime, but he' still got life. Additionally, Fury is changing, like the leaves during fall.
The green clouds in the credits could be nuclear fallout? The Skrulls are immune.
The Equinoxes are in spring and fall: vernal and autumnal equinoxes mean spring and fall. That's when the day and night are equal length... equinox and equal come from the same root.
One minor point: Equinox means equal day and night. It's not the longest and shortest day of the year but rather the days when day and night are approximately equal length. There is a spring and fall equinox.
Otherwise, great job of recapping, theorizing, and otherwise bringing out important points. Thanks.
19:27 That drunken man is Gravik. It's the form Gravik assumes after his little girl form when he's luring Nick
exactly!!! he showed fury how he was watching him all along
I noticed the art/antiques dealer's body was in the mind scanning devices before we saw him - a bit of a hint for the fight later in the episode!
I’m liking this show so far and I look forward to what this show has in store for us.
Agent Falsworth might have been related to two WW2 era Falsworths. John Falsworth, a vampire known as Baron Blood and James Falsworth who was a member of the Howling Commandos in Captain America: The First Avenger but was, in the comics, Union Jack, a member of The Invaders, a superhero team which also included Captain America and Namor
I really like how Marvel is using Thanos' snap to deconstruct and humanize Nick Fury, he's no longer "three steps ahead" and has been brought down to his lowest point. Very grounded.
Maybe he's just pretending to be weak and vulnerable, and that's what makes him ahead, not just 3 steps ahead, but more.
I think we will see Fury is ramping up. He will be full level soon.
Levels within levels. Games pithing games. We won't know the extent until the game is played out...
This was a pretty good first episode. Awsome intro
Ryan's Squirrel moment at 7:27 was great
I'm not sure who the first person to have a role in GoT, Star Wars and the MCU was but Ralph Ineson was Dagmer Cleftjaw in GoT, a ravagers pilot in Guardians of the Galaxy and a First Order Officer in The Last Jedi.
Love the tone of this show!
Missed a good Easter Egg, MI6 HQ is referred to as 'The Circus' which is what the MI6 division was called in the George Smiley spy novels by John le Carré (most famous being Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy), in his novels setting the HQ was a secret base at Cambridge Circus junction in London that was located above a shipping company that served as a front for the agents comings and goings.
Ryan, the more I watch your videos (and that occurs regularly), the more I believe you work with Kevin Fiege. Honesty, your breakdowns are SO good. I imagine you wrote great essays in high school. Thanks for putting in the work! 🙌🏼
He has a team behind and they got to watch this episodes way ahead of us 😂
@@lostintranslation73 I’m not saying that he’s correct with “his” predictions, but some people have early access to episodes before the general audience, for example Netflix sometimes sends codes of early previews to different influencers and youtubers (some channels, like Chris Stuckmann, even have talk about it in his videos)
An equinox occurs in spring and autumn, when day and night are equally long (equi = equal; noctis = night). What you were thinking about is a solstice, which occurs in summer and winter for the longest and shorter day respectively.
I like the fact that Olivia Coleman's character mention her time in the "circus" a call out to John Le Carre's name for MI6 in his books, which are a more grounded depiction of the SIS than Ian Fleming's sensational depiction
Loving this show so far but can we just get even a single line of dialogue explaining WHY Fury and Danvers haven't been able to find them a home in 30 years? Captain Marvel can travel the cosmos.. So tell us why it has taken so long. Are all habitable planets taken, is it a matter of keeping them hidden from the Kree Empire? Just give us something to justify why the promise to the Skrulls is not being kept.
Couldn't Fury just be using them for their tech? Or maybe he realizes how dangerous they are and prefers to have them close where they can be supervised? Remember how Fury had Shield developed weapons using the Tesseract like the Nazis did? And Cap being all mad about it? Fury hides a lot of stuff, I'm not surprised he hasn't find a home for them. Why would he?
@@Silvers617 there's only so much Fury can do. I feel a lot of the blame should be on Captain Marvel.
@@notmephisto1375 The blame is ENTIRELY on Captain Mary-Sue. She became aware of a perfectly suitable and completely uninhabited world at the beginning of Endgame--The Garden. That is the planet where Thanos was living after the Snap.
@@blackpilled7951 you know you're absolutely right. What was her excuse? She said she would help them, but hasn't.
Richard E. Grant played Izembaro, the director of a theater group in Braavos, on "Game of Thrones" and appears in "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" as Allegiant General Pryde. And of course he played "Classic Loki" in "Loki." There you go, the trifecta!
Richard E. Grant was general Pryde in Rise of Skywalker, old Loki in Loki, and Izembaro in Game of Thrones.
- The building the Skrull falls from is named EMIII which is a program used with electron microscopes for the study of protein folding. III is also the third letter of the alphabet, making it EMC, the key pieces to Einstein's equations on special relativity.
- The chessboard in the opening sequence shows the King turning into a Queen (foreshadowing).
- I think the red, white, and blue nesting doll is a bit of a clue. What other nations have RWB flags that could be at the center of the nesting doll?
The Netherlands obviously.
that broken glass shape is gotta be the best easter egg ever.
Show is very good. I noticed that people are more nad about Hill dying than they were about Widow or Tony dammit Stark lol. Like she's everyone's favorite character all of a sudden.
Something that was missed was when Olivia Coleman's character refers to peoples time in 'The Circus'.
This was the name for MI6 in the George Smiley (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy) novel series by John le Carré.
Richard E. Grant and Hannah John-Kamen both have also been in GoT, Star Wars, and MCU.
The intro was so cool. Loved how everything was always changing and no imagine ever reached full clarity. It matches the theme of the show in a very artsy way. The AI factor was also interesting. Who can you trust!? 😮
I think Talos says that the Skull are not affected by radiation the 1st episode. That is why they are able to use them as a hide out. Thanks for the video👍🏼
Maria Hill said “agent Ross’ imposter”, suggesting it wasn’t the same Ross from past movies
I think fury is actually Soren in the scene with nick and talios bumping heads. Also explains why Talios is happy to show him (her) the plant, and why they keep hanging out together. Also, talios is being very vague about her "death"
The shownis going to be so good. I loved the first episode.
one of the papers on the wall talks about treadstone, paying homage to the jason bourne film series, mindblowing
Hey @Ryan, did you notice in Age of Ultron Fury cut his toast diagonally. Talos had to be impersonating him already by that point.
Don't they say right in the episode that the skrull of Ross was an imposter? I remember that being answered
I remember it as being phrased by Maria Hill as "Agent Ross' imposter", so I think Ross is still out there with Okoye and this skrull just took advantage of Ross' fugitive status. But who knows tbh 😂
@@serapepe Yep, about 14 mins in, Hill says Ross's imposter. Mystery solved 🤣. Either they just missed it or they needed a theory video 🤣
They don't say since *when* the Skrull was an imposter 😉. Since Wakanda Forever? Since the Blip? Since Civil War? Hopefully they explain some of it, since part of the mystery for me is finding out what happened to the original
The Skrulls need to capture someone and use that machine to take their full memories. Otherwise they can only use recent memories and it would be much harder to maintain cover. So the real Ross is likely still alive and being held captive in their base New Skrullos with all the other prisoners. Also the Invasion only began after the Blip when Talos was removed from the council so Ross had to have been replaced sometime after Endgame
@@culchiefilms1791 Thing is, after Endgame, Ross still appeared in Wakanda Forever, and if he's doing Midnight Angels with Okoye, he should still be out there somewhere. I don't think the Ross we saw in Wakanda Forever was a Skrull, since Val should've easily figured that out. I could be wrong but his imposter might've just used his face like Talos once did with that surfer during his arrival on Earth, which was why Beric Dondarrion and Talos easily figured out that he wasn't the real Ross. Can't wait to figure out what's the deal with us, though. Hopefully the show clarifies that.
I think they show us where the attacks are going to happen in the opening credits, maybe add an explosion to the landmark in the credits if it gets attacked. Moscow was burning this episode, maybe big Ben next or whatever. Just a theory.
Yeah, it seems possible
Plus now there's a dead American intelligence operator at the scene of a Moscow terrorist attack. Maybe Russia will hit the US
I think Nick Fury will, now that Maria Hill is gone, probably take the information somewhere else about and see if they can stop the skrulls, or at least the "bad" skrulls.
This was a GREAT episode. I like how they showed an older Fury with ptsd struggling and isn’t the top dog and pariah he used to be in the MCU
You should look up the definition of pariah
Great breakdown! love the channel! Just remember, solstices are the longest and shortest days of the year, while equinoxes occur when the day and night are equally as long.
I'm a huge fan of yours Ryan!! I think you do the best breakdown and Easter egg videos of anyone I've seen so far. Keep up the awesome work and I love the dog. 😅😅
Reminded me alot of the Zygon Invasion from Doctor Who (Capaldi). You could have made so many references.
This was a really good episode. I’ve been excited for this show and I thought the first episode knocked it out of the park. Looking forward to seeing how the rest of it plays out.
With the clocks, I wonder if it is simply an international timezone thing. Most global organisations have multiple clocks with different times noting the time in different parts of the world 🤔
Thanks Ryan. Per usual, great breakdown 👍✌️
She literally explained exactly what it's about.
Little column A, little column B.
Your videos get me so hyped came here right after the first episode. I always look forward to your videos 😊😊
i’ll never stop complaining about them naming thanos’ snap “the blip” when “the snap” is so much better in every way and makes way more sense
It's possible Talos' wife isn't really dead, and she's running an operation in the background without suspicion.
that skrull plant looks a bit like the heart shaped herb from Black Panther, could they be related and a possible source of the superpowers some skrulls have?
Skrull Ross could have gotten it from Wakanda? Hmmm? Hmmmm? 😮 can’t wait to see
I thought it looked like Ego's little plant he put on Earth in gotg2
I’m an Art teacher. Although the SI intro art style was “painterly” I felt the art movement it was referencing was Art Deco (see Tamara de Lempicka fluid but angular high contrast style).
Abstract art styles became prominent after WWI not WWII. Cubism movement (Braque & Picasso), Dada , Surrealism all emerge before WWII. Early forms of Non-Objective art styles (Pollock, Kandinsky, Mondrian) start around the time during and after WWII.
The iron man painting is referencing Jean Michel Basquiat. I didn’t ID the subject matter as iron man but the crown motif (in the top left corner of the painting) clearly points to Basquiat.
As always thanks for the great explainer video.
Yeah I noticed they got the time period for abstract wrong as well.
Looked up your question. Hannah Dominique E. John-Kamen was in the MCU, GOT and SW (although she didn’t have a speaking role in SW).
The first actor to appear in GOT, Star Wars and Marvel is Richard E Grant who played Classic Loki in 'Loki' and he was in Logan, He played Izembaro in S6e5&6 of GOT and General Pride in The rise of Skywalker
I’m pretty sure it’s Peter Dinklage. He played an Ewok in Return of the Jedi
They said the Skrull was an imposter of Ross, so I don't think the Everett Ross we've seen for years has been a Skrull the whole time. I thought Hill would be the next one in charge. She proved to not be a Skrull in the end.
@Screencrush did you notice in the opening credits in the clouds over the white house there were figures which kind of looked like the 4 Horseman of the apocalypse?
I’m just happy to get that level of seriousness from MCU again 👌🏽
14:40 you're talking about the solstice, the equinox is when the day and night is almost equal.
I think you’re right about talos being one of the bad skrulls. He was mad when fury killed the other skrull after the fight. Also how was gravik watching fury before he knew he was there? Only ppl knew he was goin on a walk was talos and Maria.
Thank you for breakdown as always Ryan as always love the first episode the ending Made me angry ,but this I'd the kind of style of show I love.
Ryan’s “very good” after Doug’s singing is so funny to me for some reason 🤣1:39
"I'm gunna grab some lunch, you want some?" (5 seconds later) "Yeah, but I did not bring enough to share." 🤣
I reeeally really enjoyed this first episode, knew this series was gonna be a good one
i loved the ai animated intro. so appropriate with it's morphing/hallucinagenic nature and it always looks so alien and unsettling.
Yes, because it’s done by AI.
any human could have done it to.
@@Eurydium8 humans also worked on it. AI was just a tool used
@@Eurydium well a human used ai as a tool like any other tool like photoshop or davinci resolve... i have not seen a human mimic by hand the hallucinatory morphing style that is a hallmark of ai generated art.
Equinox was a good point. You made buiuuuut Equinox was also a key character from Marvel Comics who turned out to be a skrull in Marvel Secret Wars
A little sad about Maria Hill's death because I would like to see them adapt the "Standoff: Welcome to Pleasant Hill" arc at some point and she had a large role in that story.