Welcome to the Heavy Spoilers show I'm your host Paul aka Ryan Seacrest Invasion and this
video we're talking about what's going on with Everett Ross.
Heavy Spoilers ahead for Secret Invasion so if you haven't checked out Episode 1 then
check out now.
Everything from this point onwards is going ruin the episode and staying past this point
would be a weird Hill to die on.
Ooop spoiling it with the puns already but yeah we have a lot to talk about.
Now the episode opens with Everett Ross meeting a crazy conspiracy theorist named Agent Prescod.
Finding out that he has damning evidence of the Skrulls plans Prescod lashes out at him
which is when he's killed by the character.
Ross runs off into the night pursued by a shadowy figure and it's from this point that
it all hits the fans.
Falling to his death it's revealed that he's a skrull and chances are that this completely
blew your mind.
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Now I used to be like you.
Not a chump but still someone who didn't know what was going on but the more Ive thought
about it the more it's became clear.
Everyone is asking if he's been a skrull the whole time but there's actually a lot of clues
that that isn't the case.
Now in order to talk about this I have to go into the Skrull immitation ritual that
we see being carried at during the first episode.
This happens in the restricted area of the power plant in which we see a warrior copying
one of the anti-Russian Americans.
Now in order to immitate someone a skrull has to at first see them and this then allows
them duplicate their look.
This was first shown in Captain Marvel when Talos and his forces showed up on the beach.
Two of them looked over and then mimicked a surfer and they had to see her in order
to do this.
It's the same with the soldier here and thus Skrulls have to see someone so that they can
become a copy.
This just gives them a frame of reference and it's like when you're an artist and you
use something to base your own work off.
So Ross at some point would've had to have been a real person so that the Skrull could
copy them in the first place.
Sure they could've grown up as him but at some point they'd have to work their way through
the security sector in order to get to the top.
It's far easier to copy someone whos already in that position instead of playing that person
since birth so you can then get into it.
Now Ross would be the perfect target for a Skrull to immitate as well and it means that
they could just take a short cut when they were copying his look.
Firstly he was high up in American security and also married to Val who herself's a big
name too.
Add to this the fact that he also had an in with Wakanda and this would make him an extremely
valuable target.
This is a guy who has his hand in two of the most powerful countries on earth and thus
I think they sought him out rather than a skrull always being him.
Now Ross has also done something recently that makes him a very valuable asset.
Caught giving secrets to Wakanda he was arrested by Val and carted off to prison.
At this point he was then freed by Okoye and it's from here that he likely had to lie low.
Now this would provide the skrulls with the perfect opportunity to grab him as he's in
a very vunerable position and left out there on his own.
He can't turn to the CIA because they're after him now and thus he couldn't go to them for
help if he found out he'd been copied.
He can however turn to shield but its unlikely that he would because like I said he's just
been sprung from jail.
However a Skrull wouldnt have any qualms about this and they may have captured him and then
took him into the plant.
Copying him from this point is the perfect point to take over and this is something that
we've seen happen in the comics.
The Skrulls tended to mimic someone when they were completely on their own at a point where
they could be swapped out without anyone noticing.
They couldve seen that Ross was struggling on his own and theres plenty of opportunity
with where we last left him.
No one of the big weaknesses of the skrulls is that theyre not perfect copies and they
often get sniffed out because of their poor personalities.
Not slagging you guys off yeah...I'm sure...I'm sure youre really nice but it's something
that's happened to them throughout the comics and movies.
Skrulls had difficulty copying mannerisms and under interrogation they didn't hold up.
For example we see in Captain Marvel how Talos uses the wrong name with Nick and also tries
to bluff his way through conversations about their shared history.
This is something that often alerted the heroes in the comics as Skrulls couldnt really copy
someone down to that level.
Now I will talk about the machine they have in the show but I doubt that a Skrull wouldve
copied Ross back when he was giving Val his own invasion in secret.
What?
Now Val like Fury is someone who has very few friends and she's immediately suspicious
of everyone she meets.
In the comics a Skrull actually took on the form of Val and she and Fury ended up spending
a romantic night together.
The next day Fury was incredibly suspicious and he followed her out when she said she
was getting breakfast.
This took him to an alleyway where she saw her meeting a contact and he instantly realised
that something was off.
Back at their room he then shot and killed her which is when it was revealed that she
was a Skrull.
Now Val is exactly the same as Fury in that she doesnt trust anyone.
Thus i think becoming Ross would be the wrong thing to do if they were in a relationship.
She'd probably sniff him out and realise that something was off and would likely be aware
of Skrulls anyway because of her security clearance.
So I cant see a Skrull immitating him then and I think at the very least they'd wait
until the pair divorced.
We also don't know what kinds of mutants there are knocking about in the MCU and in the comics
these could easily catch Skrulls out as well.
Wolverine has a heightened sense of smell so he could tell if someone was faking it
and Professor X could read minds and deduce it from that as well.
Now again Wakanda is a highly advanced civilsation too and they probably have the tech to sniff
out foreign entities.
Shuri of course operated on Ross after he got shot and it's likely she'd discover he
was a skrull during this time.
So it has to have happened after that in order for things to work and thus Ross couldn't
have been one as recently as that.
Now I personally think that he was likely grabbed after escaping the van as he probably
tried to make his way out of the US.
Wanted in the country he may have done an Edward Snowden which wouldve probbaly taken
him all the way to Russia.
This would allow the Skrulls the perfect chance to grab him and they could then take over
as him and go and work with Shield.
Now the memory machines have also had some upgrades too and we see them possessing far
more power than what they've had before.
They can now hold someone in place and the Skrulls can pull all of their memories out
which will help them fake people better when it comes to these kinds of Agents.
I doubt Hill wouldve just let him in the organisation and he probably had to pass some tests to
at least prove that it was him.
Having these memories though allowed for him to work his way in and this is why she seems
so shocked when she sees him on the ground.
She genuinely believed that this was actually Everett Ross and I was surprised that her
and Fury didnt talk about it at some point.
Potentially theyre all just as confused as we are but it was a weird omission to not
have it brought up.
Now the reason I think it wasn't is because theyre not that alarmed because they dont
think that he's been a skrull this entire time.
Talos probably filled them in and it means that Ross is out there and likely still under
the capture of the Skrulls.
Now I do think that at some point we will see him come back and he's probably someone
they'll rescure later on in the show.
Makes sense to have some characters we care about being held captive by the skrulls as
itll add more emotion to the rescue scene when they finally free them all.
So in the end I think that the Skrulls became aware of Agent Prescod and thus they sent
someone in who could find out what was going on.
Ross seemed like the best fit and thus he was then chosen and this is when Talos got
wise to their plan.
At least that's what I think when we talk about this reveal.
Might be right might be wrong but I'd love to hear your thoughts on it in the comments
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