Secret Invasion #1

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Comments

[beyondthefringe]

Oh please, like the Avengers don't have a way to tell if a Skrull has secretly replaced someone on the team, ever since the last Secret Invasion, where a Skrull replaced someone on almost every team, including Spider-Woman, Hank Pym, and Jarvis.

So who's it gonna be? Steve? Tony? Natasha? Carol? Maya? T'Challa?

I dunno, it would be kind of funny for it to be Maya. Just imagine Skrull imitating Phoenix. Or Skull empowered by Phoenix.

Loved the "1,2,4" joke as it's such a classic example of evoking paranoia in a pranked target.

[mazway_75]

See, you'd think they'd be ready for a Skrull, but then how many times have the X-Men fallen for Mystique posing as one of them for days on end?

[cainofdreaming]

How many times have they fallen for Mystique posing as Mystique and "This time I surely won't stab you in the back, face and your little pinky toes too"?

[goattoucher]

The best part about the X-Men always falling for Mystique is that you can't swing a dead cat on Krakoa without hitting an Omega-level telepath, but her vaguely defined "resistance (not immunity) to telepathy" protects her.

Superman can find someone in a city of millions by listening for their specific heartbeat until the story requires that he... not... do that. If comics made sense, nobody would ever fall for a Skrull ever again, and the Joker would never get out of jail.

But here we are: slaves to the storyline. Reed Richards is only useless until you realize that him actually changing the world with his delicious brains would... you know: change the world, and nobody really wants that.

[arilou_skiff]

Didn't the original Secret Invasion basically say there's a cosntant arms-race between skrull shapechanging/camouflage and various heroes coming up with ways of detecting them?

[dan_ingram]

Nope!

They were just really inspired because the Illuminati nearly spanked them once.

Then Reed disabling their super duper better than ever shapeshifting, because that's what Reed does.

Bendis never bothers with internal logic...

Though after fighting with the Kree for millions of years, you'd think that they had something like that...