SECRET INVASION Episode 6 BREAKDOWN - Ending Explained +Every Marvel Easter Egg

The finale of Secret Invasion is loaded with ties to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and upsets the balance of power in the MCU. IN this video we explain all of Gi'ah's new powers, and how this show leads directly into Captain America: Brave New World and the Thunderbolts.

Edited by Harriet Lengel-Enright, Randolf Nombrado, Lee Mazzio and Brianna McLarty

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So far the most part, I’m going to keep my opinions to myself about this episode, so we can focus on the breakdown. There is a lot of good to focus on in this episode, and the finale does have very interesting repercussions for the MCU, sets up new teams, and directly sets up Captain america; Brave New world.

In a couple days we will have a review video out, but in the meantime, let's break this episode down.

The episode begins in the aftermath of priscilla and g;iah fighting off the skrulls in the fury home.

Doug: Oh, that fight where the shape shifting aliens broke in loudly through glass windows?

That’s the one. One of the strongest aspects of this show is the relationship between Nick and Varra. Samuel l Jackson and Charlayne woodard are able to imbue these two with an easy, lived in energy, even though we’re mostly hearing about their relationship,and haven;t seen it develop over other movies and shows.

After all, he spent years and years lying to the skrulls,using them.

Doug: But why couldn;t fury find the skrulls at home? Aren't there like, billions of planets in the galaxy?

Well, In this video, we speculated that the reason for that was twofold. One, they needed to find a planet far away from the kree. And two, there would be a lot of anti0 skrull,anti-shaefigint sentiment out in the universe. Think about it–in episode 2, we elated that skrulls were a war-mongering race [clip].

And it's pretty obvious why you woupdn;t want a shape shifting race in your world–they could replace you and take over our world. The skills probably did this for centuries before their disastrous war with the kree.

One cool thing about this show is the focus on Nick fury–wh ois kind of like the mcu’s Batman who has lost his mojo. [fury clip]

Secret Invasion is turning out to be one of my favorite Marvel shows, because it’s so grounded in Nick Fury–who’s kind of like the MCU’s Batman.
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Anyways, Fury calls to tell Varra goodbye, as we start to intercut between our two storylines.

One is Gaia's attack on the compound she used to call home, and the other is the hilarious standoff between Fury, ritson, Sonya, and rhodey.

KNowing that it's giah–and not fury–walking to the base hits a little harder. Gia believes in this place, she trained and recruited soldiers for Gravik's war, sso she knows exactly how to breach the defenses. At first she walks by Beto’s corpse, on the same spot where we saw gravik slit his throat last episode. But then the real heartbreaker for giah is that gravik apparently killed all the skrulls that worked for him.

Dioug: why would he do that?

Well, they staged a coup against him–and this shows that gravik never really cared about the skrull people. They were just tools for him to get what he wanted–ultimate power, and revenge on Fury. Giah also knows where the cameras are in the compound, so she’s careful to keep the old man's fury act, stopping to cough and take iodine pills to protect against the radiation.

Back at the most understaffed hospital on the planet, Sonya tells rhodey that fury is closing in. she does this to panic rhodey so he’ll move the president.

[vertiac]

I'm disappointed Talos didn't get more mention in the finale, particularly during Fury's phone call with Ritson. "A good and trusted friend of mine gave his life to save yours yesterday, and you just signed the death warrant for his people." That would have hit so hard.

[IanElliottCarter]

Rhodes saying "Where exactly have you been this whole time?" To Carol Danvers kind of hits differently now if he was a Skrulls saying that

[clemensprod.]

Not even ScreenCrush had the budget to have Ryan on screen for the Secret invasion finale😂

[keithwoodcrest]

The gun scene, to me, was the most realistic part of the whole episode. I mean, who wouldn't be asking for a gun as your entire security detail is being picked off one by one? The most unbelievable thing for me was them scrolling through all the popular superhero powers and mastering them so quickly. Mantis and Drax arent even that well known to earth, so how would she know to say "Sleep" the same way Mantis does?

[merocon]

What annoyed me most about the ritson scene was that Sonya could have just shot the Rhodey skrull like she did with the MI6 president to force her to reveal the skrull skin. I mean she literally knows that's effective

[adang]

The only thing I don’t understand is how the humans who were captured didn’t die from radiation from being there so long.

[IanElliottCarter]

These MCU series really need to be longer because they're always rush it at the end.

[scunit]

Man, Kingsley Ben-Adir absolute KILLED it. That dude can ACT! Olivia Coleman was so, so good too. I wish we could get more Kingsley and I really hope we do get more Olivia!

[salawinborn]

So glad someone else noticed Rhodey’s hospital gown and that he’s been held captive since Civil War. Also hoping that Sonya and G’aih are setting up a Jon Snow/Khaleesi reunion. Can’t wait to see where this finale takes us in Sam’s cap movie

[isaaclopez-ebyg]

There were a lot of missed opportunities with this show and things that could have made it more interesting like that montage scene. I feel things were left unraveled without any opportunity for resolution. The one thing I will love this show for is giving us Sonia. Olivia Colman was just delightful. How this actress can go from acting in prestigious films, play the quee of England but also act with a bit of comedy in the MCU shows her range. I was really worried they would underutilize her talents but they gave a solid character to play

[khonshugodofthenightsky]

I was really hoping the show would end with a Harrison Ford Thunderbolt Ross cameo

[marioq]

This should have been a major game changing event in the MCU. Instead we got a mid tier show that will come and go.

[hoyasfan]

I'm glad that Doug said something about how quickly they were able to use the powers of the Avengers.

[TattedTrooper]

This would be a cool way to introduce the X-Men. The Blip caused a mutation in certain people and they are afraid to admit that they have a mutation. All these crazy people trying to kill someone they believe is a skrull turns out to be a mutant and they use their mutant abilities to protect themselves. People would start to freak out and get paranoid even more and then we have a world like they did in the X-Men the Animated series.

[jordancaruana]

Varra actually wrote a book called Decoding The Superhuman Gene, with the cover on display in she and Fury's house (I believe in episode 4) and on the cover there's a picture of a galaxy but when you zoom in, it's an X with a circle around it. This is a big X-Men easter egg and could set up Varra studying mutants and the X-Gene and possibly meeting/working with Charles Xavier

[nathanbeach]

I have no doubt that Fury had a long conversation with G'aih so she'd know exactly what to say. I believe everything she said was basically Fury's own words/sentiment. It was time for everything to come out.

[kadeenchristie]

If Rhodey was taken after the fight at the airport in civil war that means he’s been locked up underground for 9 years because the events of Civil war took place in 2016 and the MCU’s current time frame is 2025.

[tattedupluv]

Judging by Rhodey wearing a hospital gown and having trouble walking, it would seem they are implying he was taken while still in rehab for his spinal injury.

[notmephisto]

One important thing you missed! Fury's wife is working on studying mutations!

In episode 3 after they fake shoot each other we see the cover of her book framed on the wall and it's titled 'Decoding the "Super Hero" Gene' and the back cover has a X shaped atom of some sort.

What this means is she is studying mutations through out humankind. You probably are already familiar with the fact that Skrulls are a breed of Deviants, and Mutants on Earth share similar Deviant traits.

This is why she says to Fury her work is more important now than ever, because mankind is not only starting to discover more mutations among them, but now that this widespread fear and paranoia has consumed so many people its clear mankind is not ready to embrace the coming age of Mutants.

Think back to what Fury told Talos on the train in episode 2 about humanity not being able to share a planet with another species. It's all to foreshadow Mutants.

[mayabarnes]

I do think Giah’s powers will get downgraded. In that, I think she will get sick/ill due to having too many powers and they’ll reduce it down to like only extremis or something. Bc she’s going to make everyone else look like chopped liver. As Syndrome said, “if everyone’s super…no one will be”.