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Trailers
- The premise in general. Much like the source material, it's wrought with Paranoia Fuel. Imagine a highly intelligent and cunning alien race with the ability to take on any form at will that can also adapt your memories and persona with perfect mimicry. Now imagine they've infiltrated all manner of your social hierarchy (with no telling how long they've been doing it) and you can't possibly tell who's truly even human anymore. Truly, badass he may be, but this is one fight Nick Fury can't afford to lose.
- Similarly, the trailers imply he'll no longer rely on others to do the heavy lifting for him, but that's likely because he can't rely on them anymore. The only one he can really trust is himself.
- Crosses over with Tear Jerker, but Maria Hill mentions that Nick, her commanding officer and hero, was radio silent on her for three whole years with little to no explanation. And God only knows how she handled being told the Nick Fury on Earth was a disguised Talos (though she may have been aware of that).
- The Twitter promotion
features images of the characters cut up like they went through a paper shredder with glimpses of Skrull features to enhance the possibility that anyone could be a Skrull. However, each image comes with a Twitter notification warning the viewer about the invasion to create the implication that the Skrulls have infiltrated the real world. - The website theinvasionhasbegun.com, which requires a password: RSD3PX5N7S, to access, shows five minutes of the show. It's also here. In these five minutes, a skeptical Everett Ross is listening to a harrowing conspiracy theory by Agent Prescod, who is incredibly erratic from paranoia and stress. Of particular note is that, according to Prescod, the Skrulls are engineering terrorist attacks across the globe while impersonating members of different countries to trigger World War III, meaning while the superheroes are defending the world from public threats, a group has been destabilizing it right under their noses. At the end of the clip, Prescod attacks Ross when the latter states he needs to bring the evidence to Fury, having given into his paranoia that his fellow agent has been compromised. Especially scary, since it isn't clear if Ross really is a Skrull, or he's still Ross.
Episodes
Episode One: Resurrection
- It's revealed that the Everett Ross we saw in the trailer was actually one of the Skrull warriors in disguise, and was only trying to gain the evidence for the Skrull faction. With the episode later revealing the Skrull warriors stealing people's identities (both mentally and physically) and storing the original counterpart in their homebase in South Moscow, this means that the Ross shown in the Cold Open (or heck, possibly even the one shown in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever for that matter alone... or right from the very start) was really just working for the bad guys this whole time – further proving just how deadly the Skrulls can be.
- Normally, an easy way to trip up shapechangers is them making a mistake on the memories of the person they're impersonating. But the renegade faction handles that as not only do they take on the faces of captured humans but a device that lets them take on the memories and personality perfectly. Meaning these Skrulls can infiltrate even better than before and those closest to their victims will have no idea they're not the real thing.
- The Attack on the Unity Parade.
- The dirty bombs that threaten the town centre are marked by infrared power so they can be tracked, but the dropoff happens so fast they have to split up, with Talos and Maria Hill going for one each, desperately wading through the oblivious crowd to get to the target. Maria then makes the horrifying discovery that they were simply decoys.
- Nick Fury is trying desperately to find the other Skrull carrying the dirty bomb but can't see anything through the crowd of celebrating people. However, he spies a young girl - one he saw on his walk the other night - staring at him and enticing him to follow her. She disappears behind a food stall... and changes into the man who insulted him at the bar last night... then he changes into the woman who stared at him the night before. Then a cotton candy vendor's cart passes between her and Fury, and the Skrull turns out to actually be Gravik himself. That's right, Nick Fury was being watched by the Skrull leader the entire time he's been in Moscow. And he was none the wiser. The look of bewilderment and terror on his face is justifiably palpable, considering this is Nick Fury we're talking about.
- Gravik gives Fury a smug Death Glare as he pushes the detonator. And everything around him becomes nothing but fire and rubble as Fury, Hill and Talos try desperately to get to him, but he simply slips into the crowd of terrified pedestrians.
- The sheer ease and callousness as Gravik presses the button on the detonator. There's no idling or trading words with Fury as we would expect your typical villain to do. He simply presses the button, killing hundreds if not thousands of people, and moves on. Hell of a way to establish yourself as a No-Nonsense Nemesis...
- Gravik guns down Maria Hill while wearing the appearance of the one and only person she absolutely trusted: Fury himself. Her dying words ("It was you") leave it ambiguous whether she realised what happened or died thinking her boss and friend had genuinely betrayed her.
Episode Two: Promises
- Sonya's Cold-Blooded Torture of one of Gravik's enforcers, Brogan, injecting him with a chemical that makes his blood boil to 160C/320F note . While she certainly gets results, it's quite unnerving to see a seemingly Proper Lady so casually inflict such gross levels of pain upon someone for information. And even when Brogan gives it up, she simply leaves him there, knowing full well that Gravik will kill him for talking.
- G'iah using the main database at the Skrull hideout to discover Gravik's plan: to use genetics to evolve the Skrulls into something far stronger and deadly than they were before. How? By blending the genes of the DNA of creatures beaten or encountered by Earth, including Groot, Frost Beast, Cull Obsidian and even Extremis. The Super Skrull may finally be here, but lord knows Earth is not ready for him.
- The unspoken but obvious fate that awaits Brogan after his supposed "rescue". Though Gravik seemingly lets him off, he drives them out into the middle of the woods and silently beckons his right-hand man to shoot him in the head for his "treachery". G'iah is visibly shocked and upset by his callousness.
Episode Three: Betrayed
- Talos loses his temper when Gravik keeps mentioning G'iah, stabbing him through the palm and threatening to break his neck. After Talos leaves, Gravik pulls his palm out through the knife, splitting his hand in two, only for it to regenerate with the unmistakable Volcanic Veins of Extremis. The Super Skrull isn't just a plan, it's already here. And Gravik waits until Talos has left to do this, so he and Fury are missing a crucial piece of intelligence.
- During the same scene (and in the trailers), the first time Talos loses his temper and attempts to grab Gravik, everyone in the restaurant turns out to be one of his agents and takes on Gravik's form surrounding Talos, just to show the extent of the Skrull invasion and how seamlessly they can replace members of human society without even their own species knowing.
Episode Four: Beloved
- Remember all that stuff we said about Everett Ross in episode 1? Turns out it applies to Rhodey too!
Episode Five: Harvest
- The Harvest. A collection of the DNA of all the Avengers present in the Battle of Earth. And Gravik's apparent intention is make Super-Skrulls with that DNA. Now imagine a bunch of Skrulls with Carol Danvers' powers, Hulk's Super-Strength, Spiderman's abilities, or Thor's Weather Manipulation. Or far worse, a bunch of Skrulls with the Scarlet Witch's powers. Or worst of all, all of them combined.
- Raava (as Rhodey) wasn't bluffing when they said they'd leaked the video implicating Nick Fury in Maria Hill's death. Fury's now the most wanted man in the world and he still has to fight the good fight.
- Gravik shows his loyalists his true colours when he callously murders Pagon simply for speaking up about his questionable choices in the war effort. Later, seeing how Gravik doesn't actually care about them, dozens of Skrulls ambush and attempt to assassinate him. Gravik murders all his attackers, killing dozens more of his own people. It's now perfectly clear Gravik's quest isn't about Skrulls, it's about Gravik.
- Raava (as Rhodey) seemingly convinces the reluctant President Ritson to launch the nuclear strike against the Russian border, which will no doubt trigger World War III as we know it.
Episode Six: Home
- In the aftermath of Gravik's failed attempts to start WWIII, President Ritson takes a nosedive off the slippery slope and declares that the Skrulls are enemies that must be exterminated. This sparks chaos, as vigilantes murder public figures under the suspicion that they might be Skrulls. Emphasis on might, as someone assassinates the Prime Minister of the UK in public thinking she's a Skrull. A chilling cost to victory, and a reminder that the normal people the heroes have sworn to protect are very much capable of being villains themselves.
