"I'm Pretty Sure This Is It": Marvel's "Secret Invasion" Seemingly Killed A Character, And It's Devastating
🚨 There are obviously MASSIVE spoilers ahead for Marvel's Secret Invasion Episode 1! 🚨
Marvel's Secret Invasion, the MCU's first TV series in Phase 5, just premiered, and oh my god, we are off to a chaotic start.
Set in the present-day MCU, Secret Invasion follows Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), who has learned about a clandestine invasion of Earth by a faction of shapeshifting Skrulls.
Fury joins forces with Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders), Everett Ross (Martin Freeman), and Talos (Ben Mendelsohn), who has been living on Earth, as they race to stop the imminent Skrull invasion and save humanity.
The series marks the first MCU show since She-Hulk: Attorney at Law in 2022 and is one of the more "traditional drama" series we've gotten so far.
While Secret Invasion introduces a bunch of new actors, like Emilia Clarke and Olivia Colman, to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it also marks the return of some beloved characters, like Maria Hill and Nick Fury.
The first episode does a great job of setting up the stakes for the series, with Hill and Fury trying to hunt down a threat, namely Gravik (Kingsley Ben-Adir), a leader of a group of rebel Skrulls.
This takes Fury and Hill to Moscow, where in the final minutes of Episode 1, Gravik sets off a bunch of explosions and then disguises himself as Fury and SHOOTS Hill.
Now, at this point I was like, "OH MY GOD WHAT?!" But I was secretly thinking this wasn't Maria but was actually a Skrull version of her...but nope...it's not looking like that.
What's even worse is Maria seemingly dies thinking Fury shot her?! When I tell you I was screaming and crying.
And I'm not the only one. Marvel fans flocked to Twitter after the first Secret Invasion episode to talk about how devastating it is that Maria was seemingly (LOL I am gonna live in denial forever) killed:
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Watching the first episode of #SecretInvasion and I was thinking how it’s so nice to finally see some Maria Hill development and then pic.twitter.com/T596sUIUUH
— Mr. Wayne🦇 (@ArkhamNumb) June 21, 2023
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#SecretInvasion ---marvel. i swear. i BETTER see maria hill alive before the show ends. pic.twitter.com/qxK2xfJ1q4
— P | SECRET INVASION (@avengersxwanda) June 21, 2023
@avengersxwanda / A24 / Via Twitter: @avengersxwanda
#SecretInvasion SPOILERS‼️‼️.........maria hill stans creating a reality where maria didn't die in the 1st ep: pic.twitter.com/HYuAMRJwnQ
— sky \⁷ ☁️ | CRYST DAY! 🎉 (@spideykookstay) June 21, 2023
@spideykookstay / Marvel / Disney+ / Via Twitter: @spideykookstay
maria hill and natasha romanoff when they see each other in heaven: pic.twitter.com/6T10gfyDdv
— elo tasha ⧗ ASTEROID CITY (@doraemaynat) June 21, 2023
@doraemaynat / Netflix / Via Twitter: @doraemaynat
Marvel you can’t keep getting away with this!😫😭 #mariahill #SecretInvasion pic.twitter.com/DKrWV1k0cL
— 𝙶𝚒𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚎✖️✖️//💥⏳🥀🐉 (@giselleb1234) June 21, 2023
@giselleb1234 / Marvel / Disney+ / Via Twitter: @giselleb1234
#SecretInvasion ----there is something so foul abt cobie smulders returning as maria hill and talking abt exploring her character more ONLY FOR HER TO DIE IN THE FIRST EPISODE THIS IS SO FOUL THIS IS A CRIME AGAINST ME PERSONALLY
— fiona (@alderaanleias) June 21, 2023
THIS ONE LOL #SecretInvasion https://t.co/e6XEW2wIvt pic.twitter.com/qXjSazGozY
— cal-el 〄 | secret invasion era (@fanboyca) June 21, 2023
@fanboyca / Marvel / Disney+ / Alamy / Via Twitter: @fanboyca
Sif and Maria Hill are funny in the way that both of them have been MIA for years and people got so excited when they finally were announced for a new project that ended up wasting both of themboth are underutilized characters whose only moment to shine was in Agents of SHIELD pic.twitter.com/i5DUCGdCTr
— Josh 🌨️ (@celestialdevils) June 21, 2023
@celestialdevils / Marvel / ABC / Alamy / Via Twitter: @celestialdevils
Daisy will show up in episode 3 to give Maria Hill some of her blood that’s been infused with ancient Kree blood so that she can be brought back through the Tahiti program, in this essay I will #SecretInvasion pic.twitter.com/7mNTOthd92
— ✦ cass • #1 jessluke truther & ceo of quake ✦ (@finnreyswifts) June 21, 2023
@finnreyswifts / Via Twitter: @finnreyswifts
i hate the mcu #SecretInvasion pic.twitter.com/1iUfsMe3kI
— maria (@natashasfanny) June 21, 2023
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