The following story contains some light spoilers for Secret Invasion, through Episode 3, “Betrayed.” PART OF what makes for a good superhero story—or, really, any kind of narrative thrill ride—is a good villain. And one thing that makes a good villain is gradually revealing their motivations, ramping up just how unhinged they are while lowering their commitment to any kind of a personal code, and, if it can be done in an organic way, increasing their powers and abilities to make a truly formidable challenge for our heroes. This gives the developing conflict we’re investing our time into watching (or reading) some seriously tense stakes. In Marvel’s latest Disney+ limited series Secret Invasion, Kingsley Ben-Adir has already been doing a great job playing Gravik, the show’s scornful and powerful shape-shifting Skrull leader. At the end of the show’s first episode, Gravik kills more than 2,000 innocent people after carrying out a terrorist bombing in Moscow. With such a violent and horrific initial act, how could the stakes possibly get raised from there? The show has since proved that this was just the beginning; Gravik’s plan is to turn America and Russia against each other, while increasing the power of the Skrulls. Nick Fury didn’t follow through on his promise to get the Skrulls—refugees of their own world—a planet to call their own home, so his plan is to take Earth as a consolation… Click below to read the full story from Men’s Health
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The New Super-Skrulls Have Been Born in Marvel’s Secret Invasion
