Secret Invasion Episode 6 Ending Explained: What Powers Does G’iah? Why There Is No Post Credit Scene?
Secret Invasion Episode 6 has been available on Disney+ for a few hours and ended up leaving many unanswered questions. Let’s try to explain what happened in the Marvel Cinematic Universe series finale. For starters, James Rhodes is back after being replaced by Skrull. Gi’ah is now inarguably one of the MCU’s strongest characters. Nick Fury accidentally helped precipitate a war between Skrulls and humans. The Marvels now has a setup for some of the conflicts we’ll see in the film and another reason for Carol Danvers to show up to help Fury. Read the report below to know the report of the sixth episode. After a total of 6 episodes on Disney+, the new Marvel Studios series to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe came to an end. Secret Invasion, which promised to be one of the great releases of the study for this year, turned out to have an ending that was not to the liking of all the fans.
With a sixth chapter that was called “Home” and being one of the shortest of the entire season, an end was given to the series that had ups and downs during those few minutes. Although it has not managed to gather many viewers, it is clear that Marvel had high expectations with Secret Invasion. Or, at least, had them at some point. The story arc of the Skrull invasion and the inadvertent replacement of humans by hostile aliens was juicy to play with our perception of what had happened in previous MCU installments, both on the small and big screen. However, what could have been the material for a major movie event lost steam at some point and became a streaming miniseries, considerably expensive in terms of budget outlay, but on a small scale despite the pretensions of an international espionage tale. This has also been its end, which even obviates the possibility of expanding its scope with an easy link with The Marvels, the next film release (November 9) from the House of Ideas.
Secret Invasion does not have a post-credits scene. It is the first series of the MCU that rejects the established tradition in the study of dedicating a brief sequence after the final credit titles, or in between, to advance one of its next productions or leave the door open to a continuation of the present one. Not even Moon Knight (2022), the miniseries further removed from the usual in the MCU, distanced itself from that modus operandi. Secret Invasion had the honor of being the first notch of Phase 5 of the MCU in serial format, but its six-episode run on Disney+ has not enjoyed nearly the same follow-up as previous Marvel Studios titles. Either due to exhaustion among the fandom, because arriving after another eight series in recent years detract from the novelty of the matter, or due to a certain generalized superheroic disenchantment, the truth is that the figures have not accompanied.
ATTENTION: This note contains spoilers for Secret Invasion, if you have not seen the series or its last episode, do not continue reading.
Secret Invasion Episode 6: Summary Recap
Samuel L. Jackson‘s super spy immediately springs into action as the latest episode of Secret Invasion kicks off. Nick Fury said he would end things with Gravik and marched right on to the New Skrullos. Just before breaking down the door, he calls his wife Priscilla to let her know he might not make it out alive. As Fury traverses the nuclear complex, viewers are reminded that he cannot survive the radiation inside. The former director of SHIELD coughs and struggles to speak the entire time.
But it’s not about Fury. It was Gi’ah who was impersonating the spy. She and the Gavik have also gained the powers of every MCU hero they fought in Avengers: Endgame …and beyond. Naturally, the young Skrull deals the decisive blow to Gravik. Fury saves the President from the clutches of the Skrull Rhodey and kills the imposter. However, President Ritson decides to introduce a law making all aliens enemies of Earth. So, all of this is a step back from what was budgeted. Fury heads off to space on a date with Captain Marvel.
Secret Invasion Episode 6 Ending Explained: What Happened in the End?
Finally, in this last chapter, we see Fury go to Russia, to face Gravik, who in the last couple of episodes has killed several Skrulls to fulfill his plans to transform Earth into his new home. With a great monologue from Kingsley Ben-Adir, we see how he takes everything that happened to Fury to task, all this while the agent suffers thanks to the radiation in the place. Fury brought “the harvest” to Gravik, for him to leave and leave Earth alone. Once he verifies that he is indeed a genuine serum, he and Fury enter the chamber created specifically to obtain the powers. In the same chapter, we see how Sonya notifies Rhodey that Fury is coming directly to the Hospital to take the president away. It was all a lie, although the spy did arrive, while one of the guards who were supporting the president was killed shortly.
Here we find out that it wasn’t Fury who was fighting Gravik, but rather G’iah, daughter of Talos, who came to avenge her father and mother. After this great fight, in which we learned that G’iah also obtained the powers, he killed Gravik and saved all the people who were impersonated. After shooting him in the head, President Ritson discovered that General Rhodes was indeed a Skrull. This triggered the president later declared war on the Skrulls and people began to massively kill the people who had been impersonated throughout all these years. Sonya recruits G’iah to ally to protect the other Skrulls and also stop the humans, which gives us small hints of what the future could be like in the MCU for Emilia Clark since with all the powers she has now she can become someone important for the future. All this ends with Nick returning to the SABER space station, although he will not do it alone since Varra will accompany him to have dialogues with the Kree Nation, who are willing to talk with the Skrulls.
What’s Next?
With this final episode, we could finally see how humans realized that there are Skrulls on Earth, which leaves the story of these aliens open for the following MCU projects. Also, since it was not explained to us when General Rhodes is a Skrull, the one who could have been impersonated since the time of the Civil War, this cape was left loose and will surely be taken at another time in the UCM. It should be noted that this only leads us to believe that the character does not know what has happened to Tony Stark and the other Avengers, despite this, this situation is not clear and at the moment they are only fan assumptions. About the possible union of Secret Invasion with The Marvels, this is not too clear, although we know, thanks to the trailers, that the Kree want to conquer the Earth, which would stop all the dialogues they want to have with the Skrulls.
An Invasion In A Glass Of Water
The series led by Kyle Bradstreet (Mr. Robot) and with Ali Selim in the director’s chair has tried to supply an air of international espionage and high-class signings such as Olivia Colman and Emilia Clarke for the appearance of being a second-rate project. Regardless, the threat of the Skrull invasion hasn’t finished feeling like a fearsome event on a global scale at any time. The scenarios have been limited to alleys, warehouses, and roads supposedly located in Russia or anywhere. And in terms of surprise identity reveals, the twists have been limited to second-rate characters like Everett K. Ross (Martin Freeman) or, above all, James Rhodes (Don Cheadle), whose revelation was handled in a perhaps unbalancedly ceremonious way.
Considering that at the end of the series, with the defeat of the villain Gravik (Kingsley Ben-Adir), all the humans that the rogue Skrulls kept in suspension while impersonating them in their daily chores are rescued (including Ross and Rhodes, who had been locked up the longest), few changes of notoriety has implied Secret Invasion for the future of the MCU. Only the death of Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders), the most mistreated, and Talos (Ben Mendelsohn) has been weighty.
What Powers Does G’iah Have (Emilia Clarke)?
Going back to Gravik’s defeat, let’s explain what happens in the final episode of Secret Invasion. As Sonya Falsworth (Colman) and Nick Fury infiltrate the hospital where President Ritson (Dermot Mulroney) is being treated to reveal the true Skrull identity of whom everyone believes to be Rhodes, in the radioactive grounds of New Skrullos ensues a fight to the death between the two most super-powered beings the MCU has ever seen. We refer to Gravik and G’iah (Emilia Clarke), who have completed their transformation into Super-Skrulls thanks to the vial with the DNA of all the Avengers, superheroes, and super-powered creatures that have previously appeared in the Marvel Universe: the Harvest. G’ah has tricked Gravik by posing as Fury to give him the Harvest and take advantage of Gravik’s transformation to acquire the same powers and face him on equal terms.
Thus begins a pitched super battle between the two Super-Skrulls who use powers and abilities very recognizable from other Marvel superheroes. An attractive idea that is also diminished by the scale of Secret Invasion as a series and that if it had had cinematic ambitions, it could surely have become one of the most memorable fights in Marvel. For those who weren’t taking note, these are all the powers that G’iah acquires before confronting Gravik: Captain America, Captain Marvel, Hulk, Thor, the Winter Soldier, Thanos and his minions (Corvus Glaive, Proxima Midnight, Ebony Maw, Cull Obsidian, the Outrider), Abomination, Mantis, Drax, Korg, Groot, Gamora, Valkyrie, Ghost, the Chitauri, the Frost Beast and the Extremis virus, with its instant healing and regeneration power.
In general, super strength and super speed are the most repeated powers among all these characters, but during the fight other abilities such as Groot’s elasticity, Captain Marvel’s binary power, Ghost’s quantum displacement, the Frost Beast’s ice with which G’iah creates an icy sword, telekinesis that allows Gravik to throw debris at G’iah or Mantis’s telepathic powers with which she sleeps him in full fall into the void. Finally, G’iah defeats Gravik with a Carol Danvers-style energy punch and punches through his torso from side to side. Is a wound too blunt for the healing power of Extremis to heal? The script decided that it was so. Now, with the threat of this Super-Skrull already dealt with, what does Marvel plan to do with a character as powerful as G’iah, who could take down any Avenger or Guardian of the Galaxy that gets in his way?
Secret Invasion avoids advancing any kind of answer to this question in a post-credit scene, so we can only stick with Sonya Falsworth’s interest in offering G’iah the protection of the British government (as if he needed it) in exchange for him peacefully leading the good-natured Skrulls left on Earth. Let’s just hope his wires don’t get crossed because right now G’iah seems like a much bigger threat than Thanos or any foe Marvel’s superheroes have had thus far.
