Running MCU thread

Ms. Marvel
Photon
Valkyrie (on Earth)
Star Lord (on Earth)
Daredevil
Hawkeye

The lineup does round out more once you add the Fantastic Four.

 

Depending on when exactly this takes place, Ant-Man and Wasp might be off fighting Kang ... Dr. Strange is in another universe with his third eye ... and nobody knows Spiderman exists.
Missed a few movies, so I'm not sure what the current deal is with New Black Panther, Thor and the Guardians.

 

If you are going by movies though, the Fantastic Four doesn't exist yet.

 

I've enjoyed it, even if we seem to be getting closer to Col. Jules Winfield Fury than I'd like. Gravik, I think, has been a good villain, one that I enjoy despising.

It's incredible to me how many stories they've been able to produce, almost all of which have been enjoyable, if not great. I've grown weary of the Star Wars universe...I'll still watch, of course, but there still seem to be a lot of intereating threads with Marvel.

I thought Gaurdians 3 was really good, even if I didnt like Adam Warlocks portrayal.

I read a decent amount of comics in the late 80s and 90s, with a lot of garbage story arcs there in the 90s. So it's fun to see all this on the screen especially with some continuity taking place between series and movies.

Also, my expectations for this Skrull story weren't very high, so I've been pleasantly surprised.

 

Fury knows Spider-Man exists. He was a major part of Far From Home.

 

But would they be them, or would they be Skrulls? And how could you tell the difference?

 

Shang-Chi

 

How does Fury know Olivia Colman isn't a Skrull?

It's been bad writing all season.

 

The world doesn't know who Peter Parker is, but they are aware of Spider-Man. That was Talos impersonating Fury in Far From Home, but I'm certain Fury at least knows of him. Thor wasn't on Earth at the end of Love and Thunder. Peter Quill is the only one of the Guardians on Earth, but does Fury even know him? You could argue that Ant-Man and Wasp are fighting Kang if you wanted to excuse their absence. The same with Dr. Strange, who leaped into another dimension with Clea.

Skrulls could be impersonating any humans without superpowers. That eliminates Sam Wilson, Hawkeye, and Shang-Chi. Bucky isn't quite human thanks to Zola's experiments and the Skrulls probably couldn't duplicate his metal arm, but it would be tough for Fury to be sure about him, either. They could probably impersonate Daredevil, but that's another character with no history with Fury.

He could try for the Hulk and ask him to bring Skaar and She-Hulk (Skaar was introduced in the She-Hulk series), but Banner doesn't really trust Fury.

The more I think about it, the more easily I can argue that Captain Marvel is the only one who would be answering his call right now. Of course, she would make a huge difference and she has a history with the Skrulls, so it makes very little sense for him not to bring her in. I think they could have spent part of an episode with him trying to connect to some of those heroes. Maybe have Banner tell him to piss off and have him explain to Talos why he can't call the others. All they would have to do is add a line about Carol Danvers being off in space somewhere and the story would have made much more sense.

 

He did have a spy cam on her for a while. You could argue that he got enough intelligence from that to be fairly certain. That's the problem with characters like the Skrulls. How can you ever trust anybody?

 

Yeah, but at the end of No Way Home, Spider-Man's entire life got a reset and nobody knows who he is (or as OOP more accurately pointed out, nobody knows that he is Peter Parker). Not even the other Avengers, Fury, or the Skrulls who were working with him in Far From Home.

 

Such a dumb finale, season and show. And it had such potential.