If Secret Invasion’s big bad is teasing a Fantastic future, it may never come

polygon.com:

Maybe the most exciting part of this week’s episode of Secret Invasion is the formal reveal of the big bad plan of our big bad bad guy, Gravik the rebellious Skrull general. We already knew he was gunning for a Skrull takeover of Earth, but now we know exactly how he wants to use his mysterious science machine to do it.

[Ed. note: This piece contains spoilers for Secret Invasion episode 3, “Betrayed.”]

If you’re familiar with Skrull methods from Marvel comics or video games, you probably saw this coming. It’s a simple equation: How do you make the Skrulls scarier? Give ’em superpowers.

The Super-Skrull began as a singular Marvel Comics villain, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1963, who possessed all the powers of a Skrull and the Fantastic Four simultaneously (shape-shifting, stretching, rocky skin, pyrokinesis, and invisibility). But in latter-day Marvel Comics, the concept has evolved to include a whole class of Skrull spies who are engineered to masquerade as superheroes. So, if you hear someone referring to “super Skrulls,” they mean Skrulls that have copied the powers of Earth’s heroes. If they’re talking about “the Super-Skrull,” they mean the specific Skrull villain with the powers of the Fantastic Four.

Gravik’s plan is to introduce the MCU’s first super Skrulls right when Earth’s nations are occupied in a global war, and secure Skrull power over humanity on the planet. And it seems pretty likely he’ll be giving himself the superpower treatment first.

Look, we don’t know for sure. But what’s Nick Fury going to do about an army of super Skrulls, call in the Avengers? The whole point of Secret Invasion is that the Avengers don’t really exist right now.

But one superpowered Skrull? That seems more like a