I'm amazed the writer openly said "Maria Hill is the epitome of competence" despite all evidence in the past to the contrary. And here, obviously the Skrulls ready for her.
TBH, I'd rather have a story where nobody seems to be holding the idiot ball, even if it's arguably inconsistent with prior portrayals. Honestly, Maria Hill's characterization history is just a mess anyway: she's been this competent and generally admirable and she's also been the one who kicked off the original superhero civil war by escalating to tranq-guns over a modest political disagreement with CAPTAIN FUCKING AMERICA. Although if that version of Maria Hill shows up in this as a Skrull--"I'm clearly the right Maria! Capture everyone who isn't me! TRANQUILIZERS! NOW!"--I might be amused enough to let it slide.
We can't just say "Well, obviously they'd be ready for that" just because we know that if they didn't have some kind of countermove, there'd be no story. Prior Skrull invasion plots were not ready for that. This approach would have been sufficient to handle those. So North is taking a story subgenre that usually has at least one faction acting like idiots and going, "Okay, but what if competence?" So I'm intrigued.
Because no one ever in the whole history of Skrull infiltration around several galaxies tried blood tests. There's no way they could have prepared for this!
It always worked before, though! I mean, you can say that about almost any simple test humans could come up with, but sometimes the simple weaknesses do get overlooked, and in prior Skrull stories, they did.
After years on Squirrel Girl, Ryan seems to be taking his more thoughtful approach to the "grown-up" Marvel universe, and I'm here for it.
Tony (Sotto Voce): "Maria, I did your job once, and I know I don't remember how I did it,but I at least have the sense when Skrull-spotting to recognise when there is a dead man at the table."
Maria: "There...oh huh! (She shoots Strange) Ya know, my bad. His face just looks so normal I didn't even register he was in the room. I got used to all the knobbly bits and goatee!"
Shouldn’t step one of this plan be to call Emperor Teddy? Who shows up with his husband who could probably do some magic “all Skrulls reveal themselves” trick?
Also, shouldn’t someone like Peter be -way- more concerned about the government having his blood?
Heck, even without Billy along they likely have something to force-revert transformed Skrulls.
The fact that none of these heroes suggest calling Hulkling, Wiccan, or hell even Carol's sister just rings of them all being hot glued to the Idiot Ball.
He’s not referred to by name, but in the previous issue, Maria theorises how these Skrulls are probably working right under Hulkling’s nose and that he wouldn’t approve of what they’re up to.
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No test that a smart enough shapeshifter won't figure their way around.
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We can't just say "Well, obviously they'd be ready for that" just because we know that if they didn't have some kind of countermove, there'd be no story. Prior Skrull invasion plots were not ready for that. This approach would have been sufficient to handle those. So North is taking a story subgenre that usually has at least one faction acting like idiots and going, "Okay, but what if competence?" So I'm intrigued.
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"Oh, is it so? Tranq him and throw him in the stocks!"
-- Reasonable Argumentation, by Maria Hill
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After years on Squirrel Girl, Ryan seems to be taking his more thoughtful approach to the "grown-up" Marvel universe, and I'm here for it.
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Maria: "There...oh huh! (She shoots Strange) Ya know, my bad. His face just looks so normal I didn't even register he was in the room. I got used to all the knobbly bits and goatee!"
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*rimshot*
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so does this take place before his death, or after his resurrection, then?
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Marvel just announced a new series starring him after coming back from the dead.
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Also, shouldn’t someone like Peter be -way- more concerned about the government having his blood?
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The fact that none of these heroes suggest calling Hulkling, Wiccan, or hell even Carol's sister just rings of them all being hot glued to the Idiot Ball.
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"Dammit, Hill!"
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