History Recap / SecretInvasion2023S1E6Home

* EarnYourHappyEnding: Fury mentions that the Kree, after more than three decades, are willing to open peace talks with the Skrulls. Although this is no guarantee that the Skrulls can call Skrullos home again, at least now there's a chance for the two sides to try and end a long period of acrimony and hostility. In Film/TheMarvels2023, [[spoiler:this is {{Subverted}}--the Kree leader, Dar-Benn, had been planning to steal the atmosphere of their new colony, at best intended to assimilate the Skrulls into the Kree Empire and relocate them yet again, though Captain Marvel suspects that the whole thing was a ruse. Ultimately, Dar-Benn uses Captain Marvel's presence as a pretext to wipe out as many of the Skrulls as possible, with the survivors having to relocate to Earth anyway (in New Asgard).]]

* EarnYourHappyEnding: Fury mentions that the Kree, after more than three decades, are willing to open peace talks with the Skrulls. Although this is no guarantee that the Skrulls can call Skrullos home again, at least now there's a chance for the two sides to try and end a long period of acrimony and hostility.

* ContinuitySnarl: When Gravik scans the contents of the Harvest, DNA samples from [[Film/AntManAndTheWasp Ghost]] and [[Film/TheIncredibleHulk Abomination]] are included in it. Fury told Sonya that the Harvest was a collection of DNA from the heroes and villains that took part in [[Film/AvengersEndgame the Battle of Earth]]. However, Abomination was still locked up in the Department of Damage Control's Supermax Prison at the time, Ghost's whereabouts following her last appearance were unknown, and neither of them were shown among the heroes that were summoned to fight Thanos' army.

** The anti-Skrull vigilantes may be seen as the MCU version of the Skrull Kill Krew.

* MythologyGag: Gravik rants at who he believes to be Fury, only to find Fury a lot more combat-capable than he thought. An almost identical scenario plays out in the ''WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021'' episode "[[Recap/WhatIfS1E3WhatIfTheWorldLostItsMightiestHeroes What If… The World Lost Its Mightiest Heroes?]]" between Hank Pym and Loki disguised as Fury, though Loki kept up the ruse for longer than G'iah did.

** As the "Fury" Gravik debates with is revealed to actually be G'iah, it's unclear how much, if any, of the confession that "Fury" gives (that he felt relieved upon being snapped away and gave up on searching for a new Skrull homeworld after a few years) holds true for the real Fury.

* GambitRoulette: Fury's plan to have Gi'ah disguise herself as him so she can deliver the Harvest to Gravik and get the powers it holds was incredibly risky. He had to hope that she wouldn't slip up, that Gravik wouldn't just kick her out of the chamber giving them the powers, and most importantly, that she would be able to beat him even though he got the same powers as well.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Gravik allowing Fury to hang out in the infusion machine, which he knows doesn't affect humans, infuses G'iah with the Harvest and subsequently earns him a fatal NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.

* TorsoWithAView: G'iah kills Gravik with a photon blast through his body, leaving an empty hole in its place.

All hope for humanity rests on Fury's shoulders.

** It's not clear when Rhodey was replaced by Raava; he can't walk without assistance, showing that it was sometime after ''Series/TheFalconAndTheWinterSoldier'', but at what point after his injury he was replaced remains unknown.

** It's not clear when Rhodey was replaced by Raava; he can't walk without assistance, showing that it was sometime after ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', but at what point after his injury he was replaced remains unknown.

* PetTheDog: Varra reveals that the Kree are willing to bury the hatchet with the Skrulls and make peace.

** It's not clear when Rhodey was replaced by Raava; he can't walk without assistance, showing that it was sometime after ''Series/TheFalconAndTheWinterSoldier'', but at what point after his injury he was replaced remains unknown.

** It's not clear when Rhodey was replaced by Raava; he can't walk without assistance, showing that it was sometime after ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', but at what point after his injury he was replaced remains unknown.

* CallBack: G'iah finally and fatally defeats the Extremis- and Harvest-infused Gravik with a powerful energy blast through the torso. Tony Stark, in one of his Iron Man suits, used a Unibeam to the same effect against an Extremis-powered soldier aboard ''Air Force One'' back in ''Film/IronMan3''.

* AllYourPowersCombined: Thanks to the Harvest, both Gravik and G'iah become full-fledged Super Skrulls for the FinalBattle, each harnessing the abilities of different heroes and villains who fought in the Battle of Earth. G'iah alone displays the powers of Captain Marvel, Drax, Mantis, Ghost, and the Hulk. Gravik demonstrates the powers of Ebony Maw and Korg, among others.

* WoundedGazelleGambit: Zigzagged, as "Fury" gets Gravik to lower his guard and gloat over him by having serious problems being in the radioactive former nuclear power plant. But then it is revealed that it was G'iah all along, so it was G'iah pretending to be Nick Fury pretending to be ill.

* BookEnds: Fury (with Varra this time around) leaves the series and Earth much the same way as he entered it in the season premiere, on a brightly white-lit transport sent down from the S.A.B.E.R. SpaceStation.

* ShutUpKirk: Upon being called up by Fury and blasted over his AbsoluteXenophobe policies, President Ritson isn't moved in the slightest, telling him to "get [them] off my planet" if he truly cares about the Skrulls. Fury has no response to this, and just heads off back to the S.A.B.E.R. station in space, this time together with Varra rather than on his own.
* ThemeMusicPowerUp: The show's theme tune kicks in right as it's revealed that "Fury" is actually G'iah, and that's she's become a Super Skrull too.

* WoundedGazelleGambit: Zigzagged, as "Fury" gets Gravik to lower his guard and gloat over him by having serious problems being in the radioactive site. But then it is revealed that it was G'iah all along, so it was G'iah pretending to be Nick Fury pretending to be ill.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Gravik rails against (who he thinks is) Fury for having him murder a man who had a wife and children, and accuses him of just using the Skrulls for his own ends, two bits of moral outrage that would probably carry more weight if Gravik hadn't used, abused and outright executed several of his own people for ''his'' own ends, and if his plans for humanity weren't [[KillAllHumans genocidal in nature]].

* {{Foreshadowing}}: During his final conversation with Ritson, Fury warns him that if he stays the course with his current policies, he'll end up a one-term president. Pre-release materials for the upcoming ''Captain America: Brave New World'' and ''Thunderbolts'' films reveal that Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross is President of the United States (POTUS) by then, all but confirming that Ritson [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty loses re-election or is ousted somehow]] for his actions.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Anything that President Ritson decides to declare in the USA while JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope to a FinalSolution has no bearing whatsoever on UK laws and practices, which means that Falsworth is completely free to make whatever mutually beneficial deals that she wishes with G'iah and the other Skrulls. Similarly, other states aren't bound either, so for example, Norway is also free to continue letting the surviving Asgardians live within their territory.

** As the "Fury" Gravik debates with is revealed to be G'iah, it's unclear how much, if any, of the confession "Fury" gives (that he felt relieved upon being snapped away and gave up on searching for a new Skrull homeworld after a few years) holds true for the real Fury.

* BlatantLies: Ritson says that Skrulls can now be detected, [[MythologyGag referencing Reed Richards' Skrull detector]] in the [[ComicBook/SecretInvasion comic-book version of Secret Invasion]], but then a montage of people shooting alleged Skrulls is shown with as many misses as hits -- indicating that no such detection method actually exists, and it's all just random vigilante mob violence.

* CallBack: G'iah finally and fatally defeats the Extremis- and Harvest-infused Gravik with a powerful energy blast through the torso. Tony Stark in his Iron Man suit used a Unibeam to the same effect against an Extremis-powered soldier back in ''Film/IronMan3''.
* CheatedDeathDiedAnyway: Prime Minister Lawton escapes Skrull custody, only to then be senselessly murdered in the midst of a news conference outside 10 Downing Street, by a vigilante who thought that she [[MistakenForAnImposter was her own duplicate]].
* CoolVsAwesome: G'iah and Gravik bring the powers of multiple characters to bear in a knockdown, drag-out brawl between two Super Skrulls.

* FalseFlagOperation: Quoted word-for-word by an admiral, who gets chewed out for it by Rhodey's impersonator.
* FinalSolution: Ritson declares all Skrulls, regardless of whether or not they were in the rebellion, to be enemy combatants and subject to summary elimination.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: During his final conversation with Ritson, Fury warns him that if he stays the course with his current policies, he'll end up a one-term President. Pre-release materials for the upcoming ''Captain America: Brave New World'' and ''Thunderbolts'' films reveal that Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross is President of the United States (POTUS) by then, all but confirming that Ritson [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty loses re-election or is ousted somehow]] for his actions.

** Sonya approaches G'iah at the end to offer her a deal working for her as the Skrulls had done for Fury. G'iah calls this out specifically, but Sonya insists it will be more like a business transaction than a friendship and that will make their deal work where Fury's did not.

* HopeSpot: Fury mentions that the Kree are willing to open peace talks with the Skrulls. Although this is no guarantee that the Skrulls can call Skrullos home again, at least now there's a chance for the two sides to try and end a long period of acrimony and hostility.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Gravik rails against (who he thinks is) Fury for having him murder a man who had a wife and children, and accuses him of just using the Skrulls for his own ends, two bits of moral outrage that would carry more weight if Gravik hadn't used and abused several of his own people for ''his'' own ends, and if his plans for humanity weren't [[KillAllHumans genocidal in nature]].

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Gravik allowing Fury to hang out in the infusion machine, which he knows doesn't affect humans, infuses G'iah with the Harvest and earns him a fatal NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.

** Digusted and outraged by Ritson's [[AbsoluteXenophobe xenophobic rhetoric]], Nick Fury calls up the president and lambastes him for the needless and excessive carnage that he just inspired. Ritson, for his part, [[ShutUpKirk isn't having it]].
* RedemptionRejection: G'iah, as Fury, offers Gravik the Harvest in exchange for him taking his rebel Skrulls and leaving Earth to find a new homeworld somewhere else; Gravik doesn't even consider it, simply taking the Harvest and going ahead with his plans. It's not clear whether G'iah (or Fury, assuming he knew she'd make the offer) actually thought Gravik might take the deal.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Anything that President Ritson decides to declare in the USA while JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope to a FinalSolution has no bearing whatsoever on UK laws and practices, which means that Falsworth is completely free to make whatever mutually beneficial deals that she wishes with G'iah and the other Skrulls, which means that Norway is also free to let the Asgardians live within their territory.

* TookALevelInJerkass: President Ritson, who started out as a ReasonableAuthorityFigure, delivers a full-blown anti-alien tirade to the American people at the end of the episode and calls for legislation declaring the Skrulls and all other extraterrestrials to be enemies of humankind and thus active combatants (this is despite the fact that Talos, a Skrull, died saving his life a couple episodes earlier). Fury is so disgusted by Ritson's speech that he later calls Ritson directly and tells him this sort of thing is going to make him a one-term President.

* WhamShot: Infused with the Harvest, Gravik attempts to attack Fury with a superpowered punch... only for Fury to [[PunchCatch catch his fist]]. It turns out that he's really a disguised G'iah, who's now an all-powerful Super Skrull just like Gravik.

* TookALevelInJerkass: President Ritson, who started out as a ReasonableAuthorityFigure, delivers a full-blown anti-alien tirade to the American people at the end of the episode and calls for legislation declaring the Skrulls and all other extraterrestrials to be enemies of humankind and thus active combatants (this is despite the fact that Talos, a Skrull, died saving his life a couple episodes earlier). Fury is so disgusted by Ritson's speech that he later calls Ritson directly and tells him this sort of thing is going to make him a one-term President, which [[ForegoneConclusion will turn out to be prescient]], since according to pre-release materials from Marvel, [[RankUp Thaddeus Ross will instead be the POTUS]] by the time of ''Captain America: Brave New World'' and ''Thunderbolts'' later in the MCU's Phase Five.

* HistoryRepeats: Exactly as the dissenting Skrull council member warned earlier in the season, trying to destroy a species will just result in that species trying to eliminate the Skrulls, as it was with the Kree (although they now want peace, ironically) and so it is now with humanity.

* {{Retcon}}: The Harvest is revealed to have [[Film/AntManAndTheWasp Ghost's]] and [[Film/TheIncredibleHulk Abomination's]] DNA in it, indicating that they participated in the Battle of Earth, even if they weren't actually seen by viewers.

* SeriesContinuityError: Ghost and the Abomination's DNA is shown to be part of the Harvest, even though it was previously indicated that the Harvest is only made up of people who's blood was spilled on the Battle of Earth. While Ghost's showing up could be a HandWave, it's flat-out impossible for Emil Blonsky to have been present on the battlefield, since he was still imprisoned in the Cube during ''Endgame'', and would only be freed by Wong after the film's events.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Anything that President Ritson decides to declare in the USA while JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope to a FinalSolution has no bearing whatsoever on UK laws and practices, which means that Falsworth is completely free to make whatever mutually beneficial deals that she wishes with G'iah and the other Skrulls.