Secret Invasion’s comic book origins don’t have much to do with the show

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. The biggest question for comic fans going into 2019 is what will happen to the characters. Secret Invasion was what exactly this new series has to do with the comics it’s based on. It turns out that the answer to this question is not very much.

Skrulls are shape-shifting, aliens that have lived amongst humans in the Marvel Universe for many years. They are now slowly infiltrating human governments around the globe. However, the reason for it is different across 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. In contrast, the comics tend to be a bit sillier. Skrulls attack because an extradimensional leader’s hordes destroyed their entire empire. The Skrulls needed to create new planets and hated the human race for their wastefulness and arrogance. Aside from that, they also were enraged at the way superheroes treated earlier Skrulls. The first Skrulls in comic books were made to transform into cows, and their minds then erased. A remnant of the Empire got angry and decided to take over Earth in revenge.

The rest of the tale is as close to a different story as you could get. 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. This eight-issue arc involves Skrulls replacing celebrities and world leaders. All this chaos unfolds over the course of a single day, through several massive battles, until Earth’s heroes ultimately prevail. But the Skrulls still succeed in their baseline goal: destroying Earth’s confidence in its safety and its protectors. (Yeah… Secret InvasionIt is not a The following are some examples of how to use post-9/11 series.)

While there are certainly a few details that could make for compelling and easy crossover material for plot lines in the MCU version of this story, huge elements — from Tony Stark being one of the main characters and Reed Richards solving the problem to the massive battles involving dozens of superheroes and the dinosaurs that intervene halfway through — just aren’t possible to bring over from the comics.

With that in mind, and in the interest of not spoiling anything, we won’t say much about the new series except that it doesn’t have much to do with any of the comic series’ plots. Instead, it’s much more grounded and serious, aiming for more of the espionage-and-intrigue tone of Captain America: The Winter SoldierDisney Plus: the series Falcon and Winter Soldier.

But, even with those differences in mind, it’s still worth reading the comic arc anyway. MCU Fans will enjoy the reminder that comics and MCU are two different things. They can also look forward to some future team-ups or heroes on the way. It is a short series that can be read quickly. However, there are also dozens of wrap-up stories for each character.