Trivia / Secret Invasion (2008)

• What Could Have Been:
  • The original outline for Secret Invasion had the original ending massively depower The Sentry and killed off Hercules and Jessica Jones and Luke Cage's baby, as well as having Norman Osborn just out of the blue STEAL the Avengers name from the real Avengers. Instead, Wasp was the hero who died, and Norman Osborn killed Skrull Queen Veranke so his Dark Avengers could be legitimate.
    • Erik Larsen had wanted to reveal that Elektra was a Skrull back in 1999, a full eight years before Secret Invasion. However, Larsen says this is because he found the way Marvel resurrected Elektra to be disrespectful to Frank Miller, rather than any attempt at starting a wider Crisis Crossover story involving the Skrulls.
    • The story was almost used as a means of bringing back Gwen Stacy via revealing that it was a Skrull, and not the real Gwen, who perished in The Night Gwen Stacy Died until the idea was vetoed by then publisher Dan Buckley.