warning! This article contains spoilers for Episode 3 of Secret Invasion. Marvel Studios removed the Fantastic Four from their own story in MCU Phase 5, but justified the decision in the best possible way. The Fantastic Four of Marvel’s first family is yet to debut in the Marvel Universe. The reason is that the rights to these characters were originally tied to 20th Century Fox, and Marvel Studios later bought the studio, taking back the film rights to popular Marvel Comics characters like the Fantastic Four and X-Men – and the planned Marvel Universe. for a multiverse story that means these characters will have to wait a while before being introduced.
As a result, Marvel Studios had to create and adapt specific storylines in comic books featuring the Fantastic Four. Marvel’s Fantastic four The film will be released on May 2, 2025. The Fantastic Four faces a turbulent road ahead of its premiere, with original director Jon Watts, best known for directing the People trilogy. Tom Holland’s Spiders, Leaving the Movie and Wanda’s VisionMatt Shackman was brought in. Combined with a series of Marvel release date tweaks, the film’s secret casting process has yet to be finalized, which results in the MCU needing to justify removing the Fantastic Four from the story. Stage 5 of their own.
Secret Invasion removes Fantastic Four from Super Skrull storyline
Marvel Studios is currently broadcasting secret invasion, the Disney+ series finally centered on Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury. The character is summoned back to Earth to help Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders) and Talos (Ben Mendelsohn) stop a group of Skrulls – they’re killing Fury and Carol Denver. He is outraged that his promise to find a new home planet for an alien race after decades has not been fulfilled. – begins with the takeover of the planet. Kingsley Ben Adir’s Gravik radicalized the Skrulls and devised a brilliant plan for these shape-shifting aliens to strengthen Earth’s defenses. He decided to create Super Skrull secret invasion.
As is the case with other comic book adaptations, the Marvel Universe versions of Secret Invasion and Super Skull are significantly different from the comics. In the Marvel comics, the Secret Invasion is much larger, with many Marvel characters taking part in the events of the comics. The most interesting aspect of this story is that any Marvel hero can be revealed to be a Skrull at any point, something the series cannot repeat. The Avengers will almost certainly not stop the Skrulls in the Disney+ series, making Roddy’s Skrull probably the closest movie to the comics.
As for the Super-Skrulls, Marvel replaced the Fantastic Four in The Fantastic Four. secret invasion Create a new origin for the Skrull’s power in the Marvel Universe. In the comics, the first Super-Skrull gained power from a member of the Fantastic Four through a machine that regenerated the group’s abilities so that the Super-Skrull could avenge the Marvel First Family by stopping Skrull Man’s previous attempt at earth domination. In the Marvel series, the Fantastic Four have been replaced by different characters since their debut in the Marvel Universe, with Groot, Obsidian, Frost Beast, and Extremis being the source of the Super Skrull’s powers.
Gravik’s super-skull strength avoids major esper problems
While the Fantastic Four’s absence from the MCU to play a role in the origins of Super Skrull may disappoint comic fans, it could be for the best. secret invasion Gravik didn’t get his powers from Marvel’s First Family for his Super Skull experiments. One of the great abilities Super Skull got from the Fantastic Four in the comics is the ability to fly, which Skull copied from the Human Torch Johnny Storm. Gravik and other Super Skrulls won’t be able to fly secret invasionwhich avoids the superpower problem.
Flying in a superhero project is difficult and due to Marvel’s recent VFX issues, and secret invasionWith a more limited budget than the Marvel movies, the flight of the Super-Skrulls in the series may not look as pleasing, which could distract from the serious alien invasion threat. cause. Another possible issue in the series is the visual reproduction of Mister Fantastic’s stretch, something that has been difficult to achieve on film let alone on Disney+ – something Marvel has shied away from before, and Ms. herself. Marvel gave Ms. Mister Fantastic’s stretching ability. Power based on the energy in her collection. The power of Groot replaces the power of Reed Richards, allowing a different, more ribbed image to take its place.
The Secret Invasion Makes Super-Skrull More Scary
Super-Skrull Kl’rt originally received his powers from the Fantastic Four in the comics through a machine on the planet Skrull that sends beams of light across space to characters on Earth, granting him Super power. While the Super Skull was a formidable adversary to the Fantastic Four, when Reed Richards used his genius intellect to find the source of the enemy’s power, the Fantastic Four severed the link between Beam and Super. Skull. – Skrull, make him impotent. Stop Skrulls secret invasion It was too easy for Nick Fury that way, so the MCU changed that.
The Super Skrulls in the MCU do not receive their powers through space beams sent from another planet, as with the experiments Gravik developed on Earth, any Skrulls that receive their powers from this process will have them permanently, like the machines that made the Super Skrulls. Skrull. Skrulls in the MCU rearrange alien DNA.and secret invasionThe big reveal that there are 1 million Skrulls on Earth and the idea that Gravik can directly give each of them permanent power is scary for the MCU because an army of super Skrulls is worse than a lot of people. .
The absence of the Fantastic Four from the MCU underpinning the Super Skrull’s powers also makes Gravik’s Skrulls all the more terrifying. Gravik appears in secret invasion In the third episode, he went through the process of becoming a Super Skrull, and the power he gained from Extremis gave him an element of wound healing, allowing him to recover from knife wounds. caused by Talos in seconds. visit. Characters like Wolverine and Deadpool are considered some of Marvel’s most enduring characters thanks to their ability to heal themselves, and Super-Skrull was able to follow that path in the MCU, all thanks to the still-yet Fantastic Four Xia. debut.