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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
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Would it?
I mean, the entirety of Civil War was about Cap refusing to sign the Accords (for possibly good reasons) and the fact that others sided with him entirely because of that.
Ok, Bucky was in there as well, but how much easier would things have been if he'd signed earlier?
Now, why wouldn't a Skrull Cap take advantage of that: he knows if he says this is dumb that a lot of people will back him up. Then Bucky comes along and gives him a mission that's too important and forces Tony into a position of bad guy (along with the whole killed the Starks thing).
Now Earth's Mightiest Heroes are scattered all over instead of together, and we've seen how much of an issue that is with Thanos.
One Strip! One Strip!yeah bit of a Gambit Roulette. Bucky being a Skrull would actually be more plausible: real Bucky died when he fell from that train in 1944, the Bucky we know is a Skrull that cooperated with/was brainwashed by HYDRA.
Because his life isn't miserable enough.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."I don't know. I mean, one of the best parts was after the Skrull reveal everybody went back to Civil War and decided that of Steve and Tony, one of them had to be a Skrull. There was no other explanation. But which? And then the big reveal was... neither. No brainwashing, not mind control, no shape-shifting spies; that situation got so out of hand purely because each of them was completely convinced the other was Wrong. And I personally think that's a lot more chilling than finding out one of them was an imposter.
A good idea might be to have one of the Avengers be Skrulls, but have them have been replaced after Civil War (but before Infinity War of course, or maybe even Homecoming in Tony’s case). So someone we know and care about is a Skrull, leaving us wondering their motivations, but not invalidating everything they’ve done.
Except Hawkeye. I really like the idea of Hawkeye having been a Skrull the whole time: the big dramatic reveal being when we find the real Hawkeye, and he has no idea who half the cast is. That instantly tells us all we need to know about how insidiously the Skrulls have taken over their roles: we’ve met Hawkeye’s trusted boss, his closest friend and even his entire family, and none of them could ever tell the difference. It more than any other character we’ve met sells the “anyone could be a Skrull” angle without having to oversell it by having Skrulls he revealed out the wazoo.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Nov 4th 2018 at 3:56:21 AM
This both fascinates me and frustrates me.
It fascinates me because it does work.
It frustrates because it's just more shitting on Hawkeye, and I hate that.
One Strip! One Strip!You know, I want Tony to survive now, just for the joke of everyone immediately assuming he must be a Skrull and trying to shoot him.
Whether he is or not is irrelevant, but if not, I do want him to be annoyed at everyone pegging him as an invading alien.
One Strip! One Strip!Actually, I like the idea that none of them are Skrulls, but they all suspect each other. You could even lampshade it by having one of the enemies sneeringly point out that for the second time, the Avenger fell apart and failed because their own inability to trust each other (referencing the events of Civil War, where the team fell apart the first time).

I don't think that it will be a flashback...though it might involve something from her past coming back to bite her.
But if I had a wish, I would want her to be on some sort of mission and in the end it turns out that it is scrull related.