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Secret Invasion (Comic Book)
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })In the wake of the Civil War, the New Avengers confront the assassin Elektra. But when Elektra is killed in battle, her body turns green revealing her as a shapeshifting alien Skrull. Turns out the Skrulls had perfected a technique that lets them impersonate anyone, undetectable even to telepathy, super senses, and anything else the superheroes can come up with. The Avengers' (and fans') reaction? Oh, Crap!.A Marvel Comics Crisis Crossover for the year 2008, about an invasion of the Skrulls on Earth. It's the conclusion of plot elements introduced by Brian Michael Bendis in multiple Avengers titles since the end of the Civil War crossover. The possibility that anyone in the Marvel Universe could be a shapeshifting impostor woke big interest in fans, who were hoping for the comics equivalent of Battlestar Galactica. No surprise then that when the event itself came to a more drawn out and anticlimactic end than expected, fans found it rather...disappointing. Fandom is divided about whether this story was good or not. It was followed by the Dark Reign and War of Kings events.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })The story involves The Skrulls, an alien race of shapeshifters who have (mostly) played a villainous role in the Marvel Universe. After series of disasters, the Skrull Empire is greatly weakened, and a religious figure, Queen Veranke, convinces them that their destiny is to rule the Earth. With help from an extraordinary Skrull scientist, a process is created that allows the Skrulls to fool all known means of detection- only upon their deaths do they revert to their true form. Over a period of several years, they secretly replace several Marvel characters, with Veranke herself taking the place of Spider-Woman. These Sleeper Agents have even been brainwashed into believing themselves to be the replaced person, until a code phrase ("He Loves You" a reference to the Skrulls' god) awakens their true memories. In addition, the Skrulls have figured out how to duplicate the powers of many of Earth's heroes, and even prepared some agents with multiple powers. As the story begins, the awakened Skrull agents begin undermining the hero groups and organizations capable of defeating them, then invade in force...Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_1'); }) | |
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This Was His True Form: Super-Skrulls return to their Skrull form when they die. | |
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Rasputinian Death | |
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Rasputinian Death: Veranke endured several attacks (including a hand-to-hand with Wolverine and an arrow shot to the head) before being ultimately killed by Norman Osborn. | |
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Tempting Fate | |
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Tempting Fate: In Secret Invasion #7, Spider-man tells Iron Fist that the battle has to be going well, and is overall insignificant because The Watcher hasn't shown up. Guess who shows up? | |
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Dan Browned: An example that also falls under Ass Pull, Mockingbird's being among the rescued heroes. The writers attempted a rather half-assed excuse for how Bobbi could have been seen in Hell in prior arcs that supposedly happened after she'd already been replaced (if a Skrull dies believing they're a person, they're still that person in the afterlife). Though, Bobbi's body WAS destroyed when she died, so it is, maybe possible, but still reeks of retcon. While its portrayal over the years has been inconsistent, for the vast majority of its existence, S.H.I.E.L.D. has been a United Nations organization, and yet at the end of the event, the US president just goes "Pfft, whatever" and dissolves it without any apparent international involvement. | |
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Not-So-Harmless Villain | |
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Not-So-Harmless Villain: The Skrulls have been around for so long, they've suffered quite a bit of Villain Decay / Diminishing Villain Threat over the years. This series (And its buildup) changed all that. Not even Reed Richards was prepared for how sophisticated their new infiltration methods were. And let's not forget their contingency plan in #6... | |
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Punctuation Shaker | |
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Punctuation Shaker: Skrull names tend towards this. Of special note are the Skrull gods Kly'bn and Sl'gur't. | |
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Actually a Doombot | |
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Actually a Doombot: Played with. When they found out that there were Skrulls around, many superheroes thought that they were the puppet masters of the Civil War: the New Avengers thought that Iron Man was a Skrull, and Iron Man that Captain America was a Skrull. So then it would be just to defeat the self-evident bad guys, free the "real" Iron Man/Captain America, and everything would be right again. No! Neither Captain America, Iron Man nor the New Warriors, María Hill or the politicians that wrote and vote the Registration Act were Skrulls. When you saw Captain America and Iron Man fighting to the death for the liberty vs. security dichotomy, or Iron Man creating a Thor clone that killed Goliath, or Captain America leading a guerrilla group, it was exactly what you saw. | |
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Undefeatable Little Village | |
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Undefeatable Little Village: Wakanda, a tiny nation in Africa, defended just by a Badass Normal king and his mutant wife, is attacked by a powerful Skrull armada and their Super Skrulls of composite powers. Poor Skrulls, they never had a chance... | |
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Royals Who Actually Do Something | |
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Royals Who Actually Do Something: Queen Veranke took the most dangerous mission, infiltrating the Avengers, instead of staying in the security of the Skrull base. | |
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Avengers Assemble | |
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Avengers, Assemble!: Invoked by Iron Man to start the Final Battle (the "Avengers" in question being his team, plus the New Avengers, the Young Avengers, Nick Fury's Secret Warriors, the Thunderbolts, Hood's gang, Reed Richards, Captain America, and Thor). | |
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Deal with the Devil | |
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Deal with the Devil: Pete Wisdom lets out some very nasty creatures in order to get to Merlin, and in return, they wipe out the Skrulls that had invaded Britain. | |
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Cordon Bleugh Chef: Skrull tastes, at least by human standards. Crusader actually recognizes that the Hank Pym who's heading up the Initiative is a Skrull based on eating habits. | |
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The Bad Guy Wins | |
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The Bad Guy Wins: Subverted. The story does end with a bad guy winning, but not any of the Skrulls. | |
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Tomato in the Mirror | |
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Tomato in the Mirror: This trope only raises up Paranoia Fuel - some of Skrull agents were brainwashed into believing that they were the people they'd replaced. Which means you can be a Skrull and not even realize it. | |
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Hero with Bad Publicity | |
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Hero with Bad Publicity: Thanks to this event, Iron Man becomes this, as the failure to prevent the invasion is dumped entirely on his shoulders, since he'd been the S.H.I.E.L.D. director at the time. Also, almost everyone still treats Spider-Woman like she's Veranke in disguise, never mind the fact that Norman Osborn putting a round through the Skrull Queen's head on live television is what got him his government position in the first place. | |
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Kick the Dog: A lot of readers, and many of the Initiative students, view 3-D man's shooting of Crusader as this. | |
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Death Is Cheap | |
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Death Is Cheap: Wasp supposedly dies at the climax. She turned up alive four years later. | |
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Defector from Decadence | |
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Defector from Decadence: Hulkling, Crusader, Xavin, John the Skrull, Jaz, Kl'rt the original Super Skrull, or really any Skrull that sides with the Earth heroes. Technically, they didn't defect from decadence, as the Skrull Empire was in shambles and had been taken over by religious fundamentalists, but they still, for assorted reasons, decided they liked Earth enough as it was to not want it assimilated. Of course, Hulkling was raised human and Xavin was never part of this particular faction... | |
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Kill 'Em All | |
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Kill 'em All: The World War Hulk What-If version had this. After the destruction of New York wipes out a huge swath of heroes and civilians, except for Hulk, and the Skrull invasion kills scads more, the Bishop's spy (who turns out to be Wasp) slaughters the last ones left, save Hulk, by hitting a very human Pym with the same bio-bomb serum that had been used on Wasp herself in the original storyline, after having gathered them all together in the guise of a resistance group. Then Hulk, having completely lost all hope, catches a passing Silver Surfer and demands that he bring his master down on the Earth and the Skrulls. Hulk again ends up being the only one to survive the resulting cataclysm, and Galactus names him as a herald as a result. In the Guardians of the Galaxy tie-in, this is Drax the Destroyer's method for figuring out who's a Skrull on Knowhere (granted he made sure the mass death was temporary and only long enough to force the Skrulls to revert to their true forms). | |
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You Shall Not Pass! | |
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You Shall Not Pass!: A very brave case. The female superskrull wanted to attack Broxton, she had just defeated Beta Ray Bill, and someone stood in defiance. Not Thor, but Donald Blake, with the hammer laying between them. He has to take the hammer to turn into Thor, but can he do it before the alien simply kills him with some quicker attack? Volstagg did not want to take any chances, attacked the alien, and gave Donald Blake the second he needed to take the hammer. | |
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Something Completely Different | |
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Something Completely Different: The Guardians of the Galaxy tie-in. Since the team had virtually no activity around Earth, their story focused on panic on Knowhere when a dead Skrull was discovered hiding in the station. It turned out the Skrulls on Knowhere were simply refugees keeping themselves hidden to stay out of the war. | |
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Dropped a Bridge on Him: Wasp, and how. | |
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Becoming the Mask: Captain Marvel. | |
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Xanatos Speed Chess: At the end of The Incredible Hercules tie-in evil god Amatsu-Mikaboshi took control over the army of gods assimilated by the Skrull Pantheon and is preparing to attack on Earth. However, for Athena that's good news. | |
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Badass in Distress | |
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Badass in Distress: Many, but especially Black Bolt, who was considered one of the most powerful people in the Marvel Universe, then was easily caught. When he comes back, he instigated the War of Kings in revenge... | |
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Butt-Monkey | |
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Butt-Monkey: Hank Pym, even in captivity. Why? Because the Skrull impersonating him complains that he got zero respect for impersonating Pym. At one point, Bendis considered having a Skrull taunt Wonder Man by saying that even though he was powerful, the Skrulls all thought he was kinda pathetic and no one wanted to be him (still, there was a Skrull Wonder Man among the ones who landed in Savage Land). | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: In spades. The only person to get anything good out of this in-story is Norman Osborn. | |
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SmugSnake | |
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Smug Snake: The Skrull Queen, Veranke, gets a little bit of this, especially in her speech to Stark in issue #3. The Skrull Pym, initially, is less convinced: in one of the Mighty Avengers tie-ins he talks to the Skrull impersonating Dum Dum Dugan and tells him the invasion won't work because Humans Are Special. | |
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Body Horror | |
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Body Horror: For the sleeper agents who didn't know they were Skrulls, the sudden transformation into their true forms. Wasp being turned into a giant biological bomb against her will. Made all the creepier by her full awareness of the process and who's responsible, and her attempts to flee. It doesn't help (see the Mercy Kill entry below). Reed Richards' utterly horrifying "interrogation" at the Skrulls' hands; it involves his body being stretched grotesquely by various suction devices until he's the size of a soccer pitch. | |
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Let's Get Dangerous! | |
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Let's Get Dangerous!: Hercules and the God Squad takes on the Skrull gods Kly'bn and Sl'gur't. It's not until Herc thinks that Amadeus has been killed that he really cuts loose and lays the smackdown on Kly'bn. | |
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Computer Virus | |
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Computer Virus: After Ultron's actions give the Skrulls crucial information they need, namely that Iron Man's armor is techno-organic via the Extremis nanite system, they use it to infect every piece of digital hardware Stark's company ever made, effectively shutting down a ton of hero-used computer systems and nearly all of S.H.I.E.L.D., and nearly putting Stark himself in a coma. | |
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Enemy Mine | |
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Enemy Mine: Oh, boy... The Mighty & New Avengers start off at each other's throats, but after realising that the Skrulls are invading right now, start working together. The Hood brings his crew of supercriminals to fight alongside the Avengers. Longstanding enemy of the Fantastic Four, The Tinkerer, helps the Human Torch & the Thing escape the Negative Zone. When the Thunderbolts arrive for the final battle, Venom asks Norman Osborn for permission to go after Spider-Man, only to be refused. Twice. | |
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Pragmatic Villainy | |
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Pragmatic Villainy: Enforced just before the final battle. Most certainly Osborn already had his shining moment planned in advance (see Easily Thwarted Alien Invasion): The Red Hood gets one as well, when he sees the news reports of the Skrulls attacking everywhere and knows what needs to be done. He wastes no time assembling his forces. | |
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Something Only They Would Say | |
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Something Only They Would Say: Used very frequently in this story as a way of sussing out Skrulls. Though it's implied that the Skrulls have been on Earth for a long time so even this isn't particularly effective for the most part. | |
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Heel–Face Turn | |
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Heel–Face Turn: When we last saw Merlin, he was plain evil, but here he comes back to being a good guy. | |
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We Have Reserves | |
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We Have Reserves: Apparently, the Skrull Empire had more fighters than the "broken and desperate shell of a former powerhouse" description of them implied, considering they went through over ninety attempts to recreate the original Captain Marvel, and whenever a Skrull Pym broke his programming and protested the invasion's effectiveness, they just killed him and brainwashed a new one. Keeping track of the series, they went through at least five warriors just on that alone, and Skrull Dugan implies there were many more. | |
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Prohibited Hero Saves the Day | |
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Prohibited Hero Saves the Day: In the Secret Invasion crossover for Runaways and Young Avengers, Xavin commands his fellow Runaways to flee New York when the Skrull forces appear, fearing that they'll all be killed. They choose to ignore his commands and end up saving him from his former mentor, who's now become one of the Skrull religious fanatics. | |
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Arc Words | |
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Arc Words: "Accept change" and "He loves you" | |
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NiceJobBreakingItHero | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!: The God Squad succeeds in wiping out the Skrull gods... and thus sets up the subsequent Chaos War crossover event, in which one of their number attempts to destroy the entire universe. | |
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The Magic Versus Technology War | |
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The Magic Versus Technology War: The Skrulls started out using only tech on Britain, then once they'd broken into Avalon and swiped all the artifacts, they were perfectly happy to turn Britain's sources of magic against the country. Too bad for them that Pete Wisdom decided to make a Deal with the Devil. | |
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Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves | |
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Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: By the Skrulls' measure, the torture they give Hulkling and Xavin. On the same count, their execution of John the Skrull. | |
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Finding Judas | |
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Finding Judas: The main interest of the crossover was to guess which one in each team was a skrull. | |
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BFG | |
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BFG: Nick Fury's weapon of choice to fight the Skrulls. | |
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Creepy Crossdresser | |
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Creepy Crossdresser: Seems kind of a no-brainer, since it's common knowledge that the Skrulls are Voluntary Shapeshifters and can turn into male or female independent of their original gender, but the Skrull that posed as Elektra is a notable example since it was his death that kicked off the story. The first Skrull that replaced Hank Pym (they went through a few) first captured him by taking the shape of a female grad student and seducing him after a college lecture. So either a female Skrull was impersonating Hank (and possibly dating Tigra - it's not made clear whether Skrull Hank started sleeping with her before or after the first time they had to replace him), or a male Skrull slept with Hank in female form before impersonating him. | |
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Refusal of the Call | |
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Refusal of the Call: Hulkling. He is the Messiah of the Skrulls, a race in its darkest hour and on the verge of extinction, which fell under the command of religious zealots as a last Hope Spot, and they lost, they are now pariahs in the universe, without a homeworld, and their last ones being traced and killed... and he chooses to stay on Earth. | |
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Villain with Good Publicity | |
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Villain with Good Publicity: Norman Osborn becomes one, thanks to this event. | |
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Back from the Dead | |
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Back from the Dead: Originally subverted, with the realization that the "resurrected" Elektra was a Skrull. Played straight with the ending, which revealed dozens (and probably more) of characters who'd been kept alive by the Skrulls after being replaced by infiltration agents. Elektra was resurrected; she was replaced shortly after that. She was held on one of the Skrull ships. It would have made no sense if it was otherwise, unless the Skrulls either fooled the Hand or the Hand were working with the Skrulls all along, neither of which was likely. Also worth noting is Mockingbird. Turns out she's caught way before that time and the one who's dead is actually a Skrull. | |
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Glamour Failure | |
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Glamour Failure: Exposing the Skrulls becomes a cat and mouse game, with the Earth characters continually having to come up with new methods as the Skrulls keep working around their old ones. | |
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The Bus Came Back | |
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The Bus Came Back: The Fantastic Four tie-in features the return of Lyja, Johnny's ex-wife who just happens to be a Skrull. | |
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Leeroy Jenkins | |
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Leeroy Jenkins: Luke Cage pulls this early on in the story. As the Savage Land copycats come off the ship, Ares notes to fight them is a calculated distraction on the Skrulls' part and that they should retreat back to New York. Cage however punches out Afro!Cage and the heroes bog themselves down in a pretty pointless fight. The battle scatters the heroes and leaves them wandering around for over half the series before Abigail Brand and Reed Richards come to rescue them. The Skrulls themselves suffer from this. Ms. Marvel points out how the super-skrulls were almost eager to die in battle. Their religious devotion made them overconfident in victory and to ignore basic military tactics as pointed out by the Skrull commander who invaded Wakanda and Kl'rt, the original Super-Skrull. | |
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Continuity Nod | |
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In the early stages of the infiltration, when a Skrull clone of Reed Richards was being manipulated into telling the other Skrulls what they wanted to know, Emperor Dorrek walks in and blows his head off, saying "That mud-walker turned a member of my family into a cow." | |
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It's Personal | |
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It's Personal: Skrulls hate Reed Richards for turning few of them into cows. And the Skrull Kill Krew hates them. At the end of this story, Jessica Drew came to really hate Skrulls, as seen in her individual comics which happens after this story. | |
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Flying Brick | |
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Flying Brick: Captain Britain, Sentry, Wonder Man, Ms. Marvel, Iron Man, etc. | |
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Animated Adaptation | |
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Animated Adaptation: The first half of the second season of The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes! received inspiration from these comics, with a bit of foreshadowing throughout the latter half of the first season for good measure. Four episodes make up the main plot: "Who Do You Trust?", "Prisoner of War", "Infiltration" and "Secret Invasion". | |
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Easily Thwarted Alien Invasion | |
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Easily Thwarted Alien Invasion: Many people see the conclusion (one battle in Central Park and Thor taking down the entire damn fleet by himself) as this. The fact that the Super-Skrulls were so easily killed to a point were every tie-in has a kill count in the hundreds didn't help. Another big problem was that one tie-in featured Deadpool discovering the means to kill the Skrull Queen and passing the information on to Norman Osborn (he was supposed to pass that information on to Nick Fury, but Osborn intercepted it). If you read that tie-in, you realized that Osborn had a gun made to those specifications and used it during the final fight to kill the otherwise-invulnerable queen, making himself the hero of the day. If you didn't read the tie-in, it looked like Osborn beat the queen by ... shooting her with a gun. And was lauded as the savior of Earth for happening to be the person who fired the lucky shot. It was never even mentioned during the battle that if anyone other than Osborn had shot her, it wouldn't have killed her. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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Oh, Crap!: Veranke, after her last resort (turning the Wasp into a Bio-Weapon & killing everyone) has failed, and she sees every single superhero, vigilante, and supervillain charging at her. All she can do is repeat "He loves me". | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: Possibly overused, but among a cast full of snark, John the Skrull managed to stand out. | |
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Villain Episode | |
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Villain Episode: Crusader, being a Skrull, is supposed to be a villain, but a good portion of Avengers: The Initiative is actually told from his point of view as he struggles with whether to fight for his birth people or his adopted home. | |
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Assimilation Plot | |
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Assimilation Plot: All Gods worshiped by races conquered by Skrulls become assimilated in their pantheon and turn into mindless slaves of Skrull god Kly'bn. | |
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Shiny New Australia | |
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Shiny New Australia: Invoked by Moonstone, who offers to defect to the Skrulls in exchange for ownership of South America. | |
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New Powers as the Plot Demands | |
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New Powers as the Plot Demands: The way Ms. Marvel single-handly defeated dozens of Super Skrulls at once. Repeatedly. | |
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Neutral No Longer | |
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Neutral No Longer: The Inhumans were trying to keep to themselves, when the Skrulls attacked. In the aftermath they decided they had had enough of being everyone else's punching bags, and decided to take over the Kree empire. | |
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Big Bad Wannabe | |
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Big Bad Wannabe: Quite possibly Veranke. She planned big, manages to capture and impersonate a bunch of powerful heroes... only to have it culminate in an Easily Thwarted Alien Invasion. Then she got stomped/popped/killed by Norman Osborn (being the ox), who uses the power he's handed as a result to cause much bigger problems. | |
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Legacy Character | |
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Legacy Character: 3-D Man And Noh-Varr, after announcing himself as the new CAPTAIN MARVEL! After decades of other people taking his codenames, Hank Pym himself finally pulls this after the events of Secret Invasion, taking up his dead ex-wife's codename of Wasp. | |
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge | |
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Clint Barton/Hawkeye/Ronin had an epic exclamation of this after the revelation of Skrull Mockingbird... Black Bolt's reaction after being rescued from this event is basically this trope. | |
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Cassandra Truth | |
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Cassandra Truth: Veranke was warning Skrull Emperor that their homeworld will be destroyed by Galactus, and then the wave will come, and was banished for that. Skrulls were at last smart enough to bring her back, after first part of the prophecy happened.note Curiously, the first Marvel Ultimate Alliance gives you an optional mission of saving the Skrulls from the first part, thus Veranke (only listed as 'Skrull Empress') would never initiate the Invasion and instead strikes an alliance with Earth. The Skrull impersonating Hank Pym gets a little bit of this in one of the Mighty Avengers tie-ins: he meets with the Skrull impersonating Dum Dum Dugan and tells him the invasion won't work because Humans Are Special. For standing out in a crowd, he's reprogrammed and made to fall into line. As it turned out, Skrull Pym was right. | |
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Debate and Switch | |
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Debate and Switch: Invoked. After the end of the Civil War, Luke Cage thought that they should find the Big Bad behind it and the other recent disasters (Secret War, Avengers Disassembled, House of M), and make things right again. And he was happy to discover the Skrull conspiracy, but no: the Skrulls were not behind any of those things. As pointed by Iron Fist, there was no big bad behind, things were screwed simply because they were screwed. | |
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Rescued from the Scrappy Heap | |
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Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: In-universe, Nova managed to overcome the extreme stigma of being a former New Warrior in the eyes of the general public due to how instrumental the Nova Corps was in aiding Earth with the recovery and peacekeeping efforts in the Invasion's aftermath. | |
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Humans Are Special | |
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The Skrull impersonating Hank Pym gets a little bit of this in one of the Mighty Avengers tie-ins: he meets with the Skrull impersonating Dum Dum Dugan and tells him the invasion won't work because Humans Are Special. For standing out in a crowd, he's reprogrammed and made to fall into line. As it turned out, Skrull Pym was right. | |
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Flanderization | |
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Flanderization: Under Bendis, the Skrulls go from your typical jerkass aliens to religious fundamentalists constantly muttering "he loves you", something not really in keeping with their prior depictions (wherein Skrulls had at least two gods, rather than the one). Several characters in the side-stories point out how utterly unlike them this is, with even the Super-Skrull telling Nova he finds the modern jihadism (his words) disturbing. | |
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The Mole | |
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The Mole: Several characters are actually Skrulls. In fact, most of the registered superhero teams have at least one, courtesy of the three biggest Moles, the Skrulls impersonating Hank Pym, Dum Dum Dugan, and Jessica Drew. Out of the aforementioned defectors, Crusader and the Skrull Beatles originally started out as spies. Kl'rt disguises himself as another Skrull when they move in to ambush and kill the Nova Prime. Kl'rt even helps Richard fake his own death before leading the remaining Super Skrulls away from Nova as he recovered. | |
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Mercy Kill | |
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Mercy Kill: Thor kills Wasp, partially to put her out of her misery, and partially to keep her from going critical and taking nearly everyone in Times Square with her. | |
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Alien Invasion | |
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Alien Invasion: A splinter faction of the Skrull empire infiltrated the superhero community. | |
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The Fundamentalist | |
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The Fundamentalist: Veranke was one when she was young, which got her exiled by the Skrull Emperor at the time. Seeing Galactus eat the Skrull homeworld, and the Annihilation Wave destroying their empire just gave her position more support. | |
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Evil Is Petty | |
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Evil Is Petty: In the early stages of the infiltration, when a Skrull clone of Reed Richards was being manipulated into telling the other Skrulls what they wanted to know, Emperor Dorrek walks in and blows his head off, saying "That mud-walker turned a member of my family into a cow." The Inhumans weren't involved with the main event (and given what had just gone down between them and the U.S. government probably wouldn't have bothered getting involved anyway), but the Skrulls still attacked them and kidnapped their prince anyway. | |
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