All people needs to rule the world, because the well-known Tears for Fears tune goes, however not everybody does it the identical approach. Whereas earlier MCU entries have featured villains whose schemes contain killing the Avengers in a single kind or one other, Gravik and the Skrulls below his sway appear to have a really completely different method. Why do issues the exhausting approach when you’ll be able to merely match their powers with ones of your individual? Although this has been hinted at within the earlier two episodes, episode 3 lastly name-drops the basic comedian ebook idea of Tremendous Skrulls and confirms that there will likely be lots extra to return within the second half of the season.

However simply how far does Gravik intend to go? Effectively, that sinister-looking cage that Gravik silently observes at their headquarters early on positively evokes comparable units in franchise historical past — the helicarrier cage used to comprise Tom Hiddleston’s God of Mischief Loki (and initially designed to carry a Hulk) and the jail cell that Emil Blonsky (Tim Roth) was held in throughout “She-Hulk” — that might maintain super-powered people down for the depend. When his makes an attempt to impress nuclear conflict inevitably leads to the Avengers swooping in to avoid wasting the day, Gravik explains that the reply “…is to turn into tremendous ourselves.” And for the reason that Skrulls’ ordinary technique of holding common people in stasis whereas they pilfer their reminiscences and appearances clearly would not be possible for enhanced people, properly, that is seemingly the place this formidable-looking construction comes into play.

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In any case, in fact Fury foresaw this actual state of affairs when he shot down the concept of calling within the Avengers within the final episode. We’ll see if he manages to stop this worst-case state of affairs when “Secret Invasion” returns subsequent week.