Appearing in "Secret Invasion (Part III)"
Featured Characters:
- Young Avengers
- Initiative
- Mighty Avengers
- Diamondback (Rachel Leighton)
- Stature (Cassie Lang)
- Gauntlet (Joseph Green)
- Prodigy (Richie Gilmore)
- Taskmaster (Tony Masters)
- Proton (Geldoff) (Death)
- Crusader (Z'Reg)
- Batwing (James Santini)
- Gorilla Girl (Fahnbullah Eddy)
- Red 9 (Wallace Jackson)
- Geiger (Delilah Dearborn)
- Melee
- Sunstreak (Andrea Roarke)
- Annex (Alex Ellis)
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Dard'van
- Skrull Imperial Starfleet
- Skrull Army
- Spider-Woman (Veranke) (Impersonates Jessica Drew) (Revealed as Skrull Queen)
- Yellowjacket (Criti Noll) (Impersonates Dr. Hank Pym)
- Edwin Jarvis (Skrull) (Impersonates Edwin Jarvis)
- Captain Marvel (Khn'nr) (Impersonates Mar-Vell)
- Super-Skrull variants
- Giant-Man Skrull
- "Sinister Six" Skrull
- "Fantastic Four" Skrull
- "Thor" Skrull
- "X-Skrull"
Other Characters:
- S.H.I.E.L.D.
- Maria Hill
- Unidentified agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
- Thunderbolts
- Edwin Jarvis (Mentioned)
- Stephen Colbert (Named only)
- Princess Anelle (Mentioned)
Races and Species
- Humans
- Mutants
- Skrulls
- Skrull-Kree Hybrids
- Synthezoids
- Human-Inhuman Hybrids
- Human-Olympian Hybrids
- Cyborgs
- Symbiotes
Locations:
Items:
Vehicles:
Synopsis for "Secret Invasion (Part III)"
We begin the S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier floating in the ocean in the Bermuda Triangle. Maria Hill and several S.H.I.E.L.D. agents go to the flight deck to survey the damage. There they find Jarvis and some S.H.I.E.L.D. agents already on the flight deck. Jarvis asks Maria Hill if she is ready to offer her full and total surrender.
We cut to Thunderbolts Mountain where we see Captain Marvel beating up Venom. Normon Osborn approaches Captain Marvel and says that Captain Marvel does not act like who he appears to be. Osborn asks if Captain Marvel will have a drink with him and talk things out.
We hop over to Camp Hammond where the members of the Initiative are all being gathered together. Yellow Jacket arrives on the scene and tells everyone that New York is under attack by aliens, but he doesn’t know who they are exactly. Yellow Jacket tells the Initiative members that this is what they have been training for.
We shift to Time Square in New York where the Young Avengers are brawling with the Super Skrulls. Hulkling attempts to talk with the Super Skrulls figuring that the fact that he is half-Skrull might help. The Super Skrulls ignore Hulkling and continue their attack. The Super Skrulls get the upper hand and are beating the Young Avengers. Suddenly, the cavalry arrives on the scene in the form of The Initiative members.
We slide over to the Savage Land where we see Spider-Woman attacking Echo. Echo tells Jessica to stop attacking. Echo says that she is not a Skrull. Spider-Woman responds “I know.” Spider-Woman then blasts Echo and takes her out.
We then see Tony working frantically to try and stop the Skrull virus that is infecting his tech. Spider-Woman walks into the lab and tells Tony that he can relax. That he did it. That his work on Earth is done. Spider-Woman says that Tony will go down in history as the greatest warrior in the Skrull armada. And that Tony will always and forever have the undying love of his queen. Spider-Woman then kisses Tony.
Tony yells “I am not a Skrull!” Spider-Woman explains that that is what Tony was trained to think. Spider-Woman says that she is sorry the truth had to be hidden from Tony. That Tony served the role of turning hero against hero and positioning himself as the world’s most important person.
Spider-Woman calls Tony by his Skrull name “Kr’Ali” and tells him that she praises him and loves him. That his day is well earned.
We cut back to Times Square where the Super Skrulls are laying a beating on both the Young Avengers and the Initiative members. Vision tells the Skrulls that they will not win. That others will come to stop them. The Super Skrulls answer back by blasting Vision’s head into little pieces. We then see the Skrulls killing a member of the Initiative.
The Super Skrulls stand victorious over the bodies of all the fallen heroes. Suddenly, the Super Skrulls begin to vibrate and then explode. We then see that Nick Fury in his S.H.I.E.L.D. uniform and his new Howling Commandos have arrived on the scene.
Solicit Synopsis
Notes
- Skrull alien text can be deciphered with the translations in Secret Invasion #5. Much of it in this issue is gibberish. These are the pieces of dialogue that are coherent:
- page 9: "(alien font)"
- page 18, last two panels, and page 19: "he loves you." (repeated)
- page 21, bottom row panels: "mis ery lo ves", "what the--??", "tell me what that"