Warning: The article contains spoilers for Secret Invasion episode 3.
Even though Secret Invasion’s latest episode confirms very vocal doubts about a beloved hero, the revelation has only brought more theories into existence. Treating every Marvel plot point with suspicion is how the fandom works, but this time, every current and upcoming puzzle put forward by the new Marvel series can be answered by WandaVision.
If you are hoping for a weird roundabout way for me to connect Secret Invasion to the first (canon) Marvel series and explain how Maria Hill is actually alive or how Gravik could possibly be Fury’s son, then you have my apologies in advance. Because this is not what WandaVision taught me.
With its nine episodes, WandaVision painstakingly imparted the wisdom that I desperately need to kill my inner Sherlock Holmes that has been coached by the first three phases of the MCU — that every scene hides a clue and I better not be gullible enough to believe what I see. After weeks of feverish theorizing about how Wanda and her reality are being controlled by someone, how MCU’s own devil Mephisto is on his way, that half of Westview’s population is some or the other nefarious character, etc., I learned the biggest Marvel lesson the hard way…
That, sometimes, Marvel is simply just that OBVIOUS.
In WandaVision, Marvel showed Wanda casting the hex, her being unhinged enough to take an entire town hostage, that the “new” Vision was her creation, etc. There were no lies, no hidden hints, no tricky design that needed to be seen. The series put its cards on the table and all fans had to do was take it at face value. Yes, dearie, the show was good, many don’t like it because it didn’t cater to Marvel fandom’s incessant need to play detective.
What if Marvel is being as painfully simple with Secret Invasion?
If we quit trying to find and add 2+2 together and actually watch the show as a non-Marvel viewer, it is actually pretty straightforward.
- Maria Hill is dead.
- Nick Fury is not a Skrull, just experiencing the suppressed trauma after the Blip he never processed.
- Gravik is actually that ruthless and G’iah is also dead.
Yes, Rhodey is a Skrull, Priscilla/Varra is working with Gravik… so on and so forth.
But I am not here to preach, fellow theorists. In fact, this is me putting forward another theory.