Welcome to the Heavy Spoilers show, I'm your host Paul and this video we're breaking down
Graviks Plan in Secret Invasion.
Episode 2 has just dropped and it reveals a lot of key clues about what's going on with
the Skrulls.
Throughout this video we're gonna be breaking down all the hints and also talking about
what's really going on with their secret invasion.
Now this includes heavy spoilers from the comics so if you haven't had a chance to check
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With that out the way, huge thank you for clicking this, now let's get into Graviks
plan.
So before discussing exactly what's going on we have to look at the comics and why Earth
was their target.
Part of the Skrulls religion prophecised that their home would be destroyed and this is
something that exists in a lot of myths and legends.
Christians believe in the book of revelations and The Asgardians believe in Ragnarok and
so on and so forth.
Apocalypses are built into almost every society but after this also comes a time of rebirth
and regrowth.
The Skrulls believed that one day Galactus would destroy their home world and then from
this point on they'd make their home on a blue planet.
The thing with Galactus came to be and it was taken during the Kree/Skrull war which
then made them believe in the next part of the plan.
In the comics after the Kree Skrull war the Illuminati went to them and warned them to
back off.
Suffering a humiliating defeat at the hands of Captain Marvell and the Earthlings they
were in a bad place and the heroes showing up just added salt into the wound.
They told them that they'd wipe out all the Skrulls if they ever assaulted earth again
but all this did was p**s the Emperor off more.
Capturing the heroes he experimented on them and found ways to mimic their abilities and
copy memories too.
You see one problem that the skrulls had always run into was that the Avengers were stronger
and more powerful than them.
So everytime they tried to attack earth they were inevitably beat because their shape shifting
powers simply weren't a match for weapons.
There was also the fact that the humans were getting better at sniffing them out and under
scrutiny the Skrulls simply didn't hold up.
For example if a character like Professor X read their mind he'd instantly know the
truth so they couldn't infiltrate the X-men or anyone with Telepaths.
Wolverine and people with heightened senses could sniff them out and Spider-mans spider-sense
would be triggered when they got close.
So Skrulls though dangerous weren't that difficult to defeat which is why they realised they
had to up the stakes and put better things in place.
Studying the heroes DNA they managed to start mimicking their powers and on top of this
they came up with ways to get around the telepaths.
Recreating their memories perfectly the Skrulls could convince their own soldiers that they
were actually the people they were betraying so they'd even pass a lie detector if it came
to that.
For all intents and purposes the Skrulls believed that they were the heroes they were playing
and they ended up becoming sleeper cells inserted on earth.
It was only under certain circumstances that things within them triggered and they realsied
that they were actually skrulls sent out to do a mission.
Now those are some of the key parts of the mission that we have in place and I think
a lot of them are also being brought over to Graviks plan as well.
We know that the Skrulls have the ability to copy memories and that Gravik also has
something in place for the Avengers.
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Now what this is is something that we also discover in the entry when Gi'Ah comes across
files containing several key names.
Amongst these are Groot, a Frost Beast and Cull Obsidian as well as some Extremis that
show what he's trying to do.
Now I believe that in the end he's attempting to make Super Skrulls which are a big part
of the comics.
The original Super Skrull mimicked the fantastic fours powers and I don't think its a coincidence
that there's four powers here as well.
Firstly we have groot who's branches were likely found down on Wakanda and we also have
a Frost beast from the end of Thor The Dark World.
Cull Obsidians hand was cut of during Infinity War and Extremis was last seen early in Shang-Chi.
Graviks collected these because they all come with key abilities that if mimicked will help
him create Skrull super soldiers.
Groot can create long branches extremely fast from his arms and this is some that we've
seen Gravik doing in trailers for the show.
The Frost beasts extremely strong as is Cull Obsidian and Extremis will allow him to quickly
heal from wounds.
This should be enough to even the field when it comes to the Avengers and having them out
the way will embolden the Skrulls further.
Now the next part of the plan involves inserting skrulls into powerful positions where they
can influence and control the worlds populace.
In episode 2 we see that this has came to be and that theres Skrulls in almost every
aspect of the world.
The Nato leader, The British PM which....I'll take it over what we've got, Media moguls
and much much more.
This gives them power and influence and it also happened in the comics with us getting
a big splash page where Skrulls replaced a tonne.
Announcing themselves to the world over screens across the planet we saw exactly who'd been
taken and replaced with one.
There was Barak Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Tom Cruise and that guy who never hits the thumbs
up buttons.
The heroes had to like the video to even out the odds but even that didn't stop how deep
they'd managed to get in.
Now Gravik has that as well and we also see in the trailer that he attacks the presidential
convoy with Ritson sat inside.
I'm guessing that this is an attempt to potentially swap the President out but either way it's
probably gonna lead to General Ross ending up in charge.
Marvel, marvel, marvel theyve already spoiled a number of things and we know that Ross will
be President for the next Captain America movie.
Nick Fury will also be fine and on Saber by the time we get to Marvels and I do kinda
wish we didn't know so much about the future.
Now though this could be an attempt to grab him so that they can put their own in place
I actually think that they want someone like Ross placed upon the hot seat.
That ties into the main part of Graviks plan which we saw playing out at the end of Episode
1.
Unleashing a dirty bomb in Russia this made world wide tensions flare and it has the potential
to start a world wide war.
I've been working on a breakdown of Terminator 2 and Skynet did the same thing as they knew
the counter attack would take out most of the humans.
Being used in every aspect of military software in the US they launched nukes to hit the Russians
which then caused them to fire back.
Now what I think is that Ritson might be a slightly less tempremental leader and he'll
probably try and sort things out instead of sending the country into all out war with
Russia.
However, if Ross is in charge he'll likely go full steam ahead as this is a guy who refuses
to back down.
He's someone who's stood up to the Hulk and even the Avengers themselves so I doubt he's
gonna take it lying down when it comes to Russia.
Now this will put the entire world on a knifes edge and with the Skrulls in key positions
they could possibly cause more death and destruction.
Sending soldiers to war and destroying vast parts of the planet means that they'd have
several things that would help to destroy humanity.
In the wasteland of war, terrorist attacks and floods of misinformation no one would
know who to trust and who to really turn to.
This is where the Skrulls could come in and posing as people in positions of power they
could easily sway people into falling into line.
Offering salvation even if the groups unearthed this could also cause paranoia and distrust
amongst the people.
Everyone would be so paranoid that they'd be firing on each other simply on the off
chance that they were standing against skrulls.
It's genius when you think about it and it's something that the villains actually did in
the comics.
Due to the heroes becoming aware that the Skrulls could be programmed to be sleeper
cells we also had heroes questioning if they were real.
Nowhere was this seen more than in Tony Stark who at one point was convinced that he was
actually a skrull soldier.
Having a complete psychological breakdown he was easier to manipulate and it allowed
the skrulls to sink their claws in even further.
Now this I think is something that might be brought across to Nick with them potentially
persuading him that he's a skrull too.
When we look at it it shouldn't be that difficult to pull off due to all the things that's going
on in his life.
He's of course married to a Skrull and has had them pose as him before so they might
not even have to work that hard to make it seem the case.
I also think that they might reveal Graviks posing as Nicks son and this could be the
person that they used to base his whole look off.
Skrulls tend to take on the form of a person and they stick with this forever so having
an attachment to Fury would make things hit even harder.
If this is the case then that on top of what we've just mentioned and you could probably
do a compelling argument that nicks not actually human.
I hope elements like that are brought across cos it's such a cool bit in the comics that
even had me question what exactly was going on.
Now there's also the possibility that Graviks not worried about Avengers because he's found
a way to copy them and has his own agents slotted up inside the group.
I'm not sure if they're gonna do that cos the cast would probably be a big promotion
for the show which so far hasnt had a massive audience come into it.
However the Avengers were replaced in the comics so it does make sense but yeah I'm
still unsure whether they're gonna go that way.
So in conclusion here's what I think Graviks plan is.
He wants to start a war between Russia and the US that will take out several key figures
on the planet.
Everyone will be so wrapped up in the war they'll not even be paying attention to what's
really happening and this will allow them to oust the leaders and put Skrulls up in
their place.
Next they'll sew distrust and paranoid which will make people turn on each other so that
they can get the planet.
They'll be able to finally make this their home and anyone who tries to stop them will
be met with the powers of the newly created super skrulls.
Lots of things slotting into place but I'm pretty confident that's what we'll get however
let me know if you agree or disagree with our theories.
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