Secret Invasion’s Disney Plus series is nothing like the comics
Marvel’s latest Disney Plus series has arrived, and it brings with it a world full of alien invaders who can shape-shift and take over the identity of anyone on Earth. But perhaps the biggest mystery for comics fans heading intoSecret Invasion was what exactly this new series has to do with the comics it’s based on. As it turns out, the answer is: not much.
The basic premises of each series are the same: Skrulls, the shape-shifting aliens in the Marvel universe, have been living among humans for years and are slowly infiltrating their systems of government all over the world. But the reasons for this are a little bit different between mediums.
In Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Skrulls are brought to Earth as refugees, but a particularly clever Skrull decides there’s no reason to be a refugee if you can just take over the planet you’re staying on instead — which, yeah, is kind of a weird way to present refugees. The comics, on the other hand, are a little sillier. The Skrulls invade because the hordes of an extradimensional dictator had destroyed hundreds of planets in their empire. They needed new worlds, and they loathed humanity for its wastefulness and hubris. Also, they were just generally ticked off at how superheroes had treated previous Skrull warriors. Like, the first ever Skrulls to appear in the comics were tricked into transforming into cows and then had their minds erased. So a remnant of the empire got mad and decided they should take over Earth as payback.
As for the rest of the story, things are about as different as they could be. Secret Invasion is one of Marvel Comics’ massive crossover events, a huge spectacle that includes just about every team-up and character you can think of. The arc
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