The Ringer-Verse - ‘Secret Invasion’ Episode 6 Easter Eggs [VIDEO]

Episode Date: July 30, 2023

Jessica Clemons might not be a Mega Super Skrull, but she is our expert when it comes to looking at the biggest easter eggs in Episode 6 of 'Secret Invasion.' Jess takes a look at the Gravik speech (2:50), all the powers that were in The Harvest (4:50) and why President Ritson is actually the worst (9:23). Host: Jessica Clemons Producers: Ronak Nair, Aleya Zenieris and Isaiah Blakely Additional Production Supervision: Richie Bozek and Arjuna Ramgopal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello, I'm Jessica Clements here on The Ringerverse, and I'll be showing up with theories, Easter egg breakdowns, and explainers on all your favorite content. Today I'll be delivering a classic Easter egg breakdown of secret invasions. Finale! It's over! We're done with it. Get out of here. Good riddance. I'll be going scene by scene and order of appearance, pulling things you might have missed, and telling you things you just need to know. This podcast doubles as a video, and if you'd like to watch the amazing work our editors did,

or you're just a visual learner like myself, you can watch the video on Spotify, the ringer.com or on the ringer's YouTube channel. Here's your one and only spoiler warning. I'm spoiling all of secret invasion and diving into things that could potentially spoil stuff down the road in the larger MCU. And you've been warned. You've been warned. Get out if you haven't seen it. Come back if you have.

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All of this sounds like a recipe for disaster, and we open the finale with Priscilla preparing to leave her home and getting a call from Fury. He clearly misses his wife and her voice, but this could also be Gaia, as it's revealed later that she's disguised as Fury. I like to believe that this is the real Nick Fury calling his loved one, just for like one last time in case he dies after this mission. A rig car pulls up at New Scrollos's gate to distract the guards. They're immediately killed by Fury who gives them a little double tap.

The, like, bam, bam. I don't know if I can show guns on YouTube. Pium, fume. Okay, there you go. We're back at the hospital where President Ritson was healing from the scroll ambush. Scroll Rody and the Admiral

discuss how to react to Russia with Rody really pushing for a strike and the Admiral advising not to, even mentioning how the Russian President Vladimir has denied the attacks. During their conversation, a woman walks in and shows Rody her tablet. This woman is the White House aide

we saw in episode one, who could be a scroll because she's casted as an acting double, but we have no hard evidence of this other than the credits. We get a shot of lots of dead scrolls at New Scrolls. This was probably during or after the fight between Gravick and his people in episode 5. It only makes it, like, sadder that this is Gaya's first time seeing them since she's been assassinated.

Okay, this part I'm just personally confused at, is why Gaya, as Fury is actively, like, coughing and hacking, checking the radiation device when no one's around at New Scrollos. Wouldn't she be fine there? Maybe this is just me or just to make sure that Gravick wasn't hiding outside watching for Fury. It would be weird to see Fury just skip into her. a radioactive site with no harm, so I guess she's playing the part outside the ball as well, and she's doing a great job acting. Fury's still coughing and stumbling due to the radiation sickness, finds Grovick in the lab next to the machine.

Fury loses his pills, and I'm sure these are the iodide pills Gravick joked about in the last episode to fight the radiation. Gravick mentions that due to the radiation, Fury will be spending the last 20 minutes with him. Play the clip. You see these tremors? They're natural at this level of exposure. It's once the shaking gets above the elbow close to the upper. That's when you need to be concerned.

You might be wondering, how does that not affect the humans they've already kidnapped? And I assume the humans are protected in their stasis machines, especially in the end when we see these bodies covered in the hexagonal pattern sheets. These are probably anti-radiation. Gravick mentions Fury's invisible cloak and shield. He might be referring to the helicarrier that has the ability to cloak itself and has super high defenses. I do like where Gravick's anger lies, how killing people over and over again negatively

affected him and took a little piece of his heart every time until there is nothing left. Though, with that being said, I don't condone the justification in killing his people or bombing a city. I do hate, though, and I truly, truly, really hate that all of this was said to Gaia disguised us Fury. This is something Fury needed to hear, but instead we have Gaia. It kind of like pissed me off because by the end of the episode, Fury didn't learn anything from this. And a lot could have been taken into consideration from Grovick's monologue. Why give him this monologue just to say to Gaia? Please have him say it again.

It makes me so mad. Even when he grabs Fury's face, like he grabs it and pushes it against the wall, I'm not sure it's how Fury would respond, but I think it's how Gaia would because we can't argue. Gravick isn't speaking facts right now, but at the end of the day, he killed her mom and dad, so that outweighs the 30 years of hiding and being pimped out. His words, not mine. It feels as though every time he had the chance to kill Fury at the bombing or at the ambush, it just wasn't good enough because he needed to confront him like this. It kind of hurts to hear him condemn humanity and also sounding like a hurt 12-year-old boy whose hero let him do. down, he's like killmonger and syndrome from the Incredibles combined. Now, Gaia's Fury admits it's easier to save people than it is to change their minds.

And we're under the impression that Gaia feels this way once it's revealed that she's disguised as Fury the entire time. But there's a possibility that she took his mind before going into their different missions. This would also make sense as to Gaia knowing how Fury felt flaking away during the blip. Gaia's Fury gives Gravick the Harvest, and upon checking it, we see whose DNA is included, along with Carol Danvers. We have Ghost, Captain America, Corvus Glave, Thanos, The Outrider, Proxima Midnight, Gomorra, Mantis, Coal Obsidian, Dracs, Ebony Ma, the Frost Beast, Abomination, Hulk, Corg, Black Panther, the Jatari, Valkyrie, Thor Odinson, Flora Colossus, and the Winter Soldier. That is too many DNAs. The scrolls have helped clean up a lot of the messes, not just the ones in Infinity War and Endgame, so I'm just going to list off all the locations, including. including Infinity War and Endgame, that they might have got the samples from.

The DNA of Carol Danvers, Captain America, Thanos, The Outriders, Gamora, Mantis, Drax, Hulk, Cork, Black Panther, Valky, Thor, Groot, Bucky, Corvus Glave, Proxima Midnight, Coal Obsidian, and Ebony Ma were probably all collected on Earth during the Battle of Endgame. This is all said and done. That's like 30 people, or maybe it's like 15. Goose was working for Shield, and she was continually tested on, so they have her DNA in the system. She also gets injured a lot during Ant Man and the Wasst in San Francisco, so if the scrolls assisted in that cleanup, they could have got it there too. The Frost piece was probably picked off when it was transported to London and Thor the Dark World.

Abomination has lived most of his life since the duel of Harlem in confinement. They had a chance to nab his DNA when he entered the DoD Supermax Prison or fought in the Golden Dagger's Club. Or they could have been patrons at the Summer Twilight Retreat. Go men! The Chitari destroyed New York, all thanks to Loki, and created insane damage that directly affected Cape Bishop. I use Hawkeye the series as an example because Clint uses his arrows on the Chitari, leaving them all dead on the ground. The scrolls likely got the Chadari DNA from cleanup all those bodies in the first Avengers movie. When Gravick uses the samples to turn himself into the mega Super Scroll, it changes Gaia's Fury as well.

Gaia's Fury's arm hoax out and punches Gravick through the building soaring in the air. We see Gravick's right arm resembling Groot's using his abilities. Gaia begins powering up her extremist ability. Gravick's left arm turns into coal obsidian, so he now has the strength of coal obsidian and the limb extensions of Groot. Then Gaia turns her left arm into Draxes covered in the same tattoos. Gaia then uses ghost phasing ability when Gravick throws a car at her. On the right of Gravick's ear is actually Abomination's ear, and it might be the only part of abomination he took.

Then he changes his arm from coal obsidianesions to corgs. Then Gaia changes her hand into the Frostpiece Ice Sword, and her other arm turns into corg's arm. Then Gravick takes on Ebony Ma's powers of telekinesis, along with his dainty arm and jewelry. Then Gravick Spartan kicks Gaia with Hulk's leg and has the ripped shorts included. This is insane.

Then Gaia turns her arm into what I think is the outrider. It has the same charcoal and red texture. Gravick has the same arm and a purple one, which represents Thanos. Then they both start powering up the Captain Marvel ability, illuminating the same colors, beaming light through their eyes. Then Gaia uses Mantis' ability and the little antennas poke out of her head, and she puts Gravick to sleep mid-air. Gaia lands back on the ground in her black widow pose.

No DNA needed for that. And Gravick is barely hanging in there. then the combined powers of Captain Marvel, Col Obsidian, the Outrider and Ghost, she takes out Gravick killing him. They need to nerve her abilities because there is no way in the MCU we can have Gaia be the strongest person

but can also shape shift to look like those people. It's a recipe for disaster, but also just like very unfair for the rest of the MCU. This episode is brought to you by WeatherTech. Everyone knows winter is the MVP and make it a mess. You don't need weather tech floor liners in the summer

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We have Dr. Rosa Dalton, the gallery owner from the first episode, Vassili, Krega's human, the real roadie, Everett Raw. and the UK Prime Minister. Walking past the Prime Minister was the man Xerksu impersonated, and at the end of the hall on the far left is Shirley, who was on the Council of Scrolls, and opening the door to blinding light as Pagan's disguise who was actually in the military. Rody has a hard time walking out of the facility, and he's wearing a white hospital gown. I think this is because he was taken from the hospital in Civil War. After almost dying, I doubt he had time to properly heal standing up in a stasis pod.

He probably needed physical therapy and was just taken straight out of the facility and put in the upright position at new scrollos. So if that's true, Rody didn't experience Infinity War or Endgame, and he might not know Tony's dead yet, which is really sad, and I just don't want to see the realization. During all of this, Ritson, Sonia, Fury, and Skroll Rodey

are having a standoff that ends with Fury shooting Skreroady directly in the head, and Ritson immediately calling off the warhead. This warhead looks like it's in the same underground bunker from the one in Civil War. Now that Ritson is feeling a little bit better, he immediately addresses the United States and basically airs out

the dirty laundry that scrolls are living on earth and how they need to all die. I hate to be this person. Actually, I don't. But isn't it crazy? Just how Priscilla was cool with Vara being a scroll and Fury was cool with all the other scrolls and the president refuses to accept them?

It's almost like, we're mimicking reality. I digress. Sonia finds Gaia and makes a deal with her that they'll be using each other whenever they need one another. In the comics, the British government created M-13 with Captain Britain, and there was also a scroll on the team, John the scroll, which was John Lennon, the scroll,

I talked about this two episodes ago. Before the attack, Skrull Rody recites a Vladimir Lenin quote to President Ritson. Lenin served as head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. He also clarifies that Lenin should not be confused with John Lennon, who in the comics was an actual scroll, a member of the scroll Beatles, and it's beautiful. This time instead of John, it would just be Gaia. This sounds like a great idea until it isn't, right? What happens when Sonia needs Gaia to impersonate Captain Marvel and destroy a city? It just feels like a mistake, but I'm also ultimately Team Saya.

I think they'd make an incredible show, and I can't wait to see all the antics they get into, including what's going on here. We saw this scene in the trailer of everyone in a blue stasis, and we've been waiting for it. It's revealed that this is another spot where they kept humans and stasis, but now Sonia's team, if they want, could connect the faces of these humans and stasis to the scrolls in disguise out in the real world, which again could be good or bad. After Ritz in speech, Fury calls him out and admits it was a horrible idea to condemn the scrolls. He says, that's a real one-term president stuff.

Which could be a nod to President Thunderbolt Ross, taking the mantle and brave new world. Regardless, people around the world are taking the power into their own hands, killing Chris Stearns on TV and the UK Prime Minister. Keep in mind, Chris Turns was a scroll. But the UK Prime Minister wasn't, and she bled red, so that's our indicator. This all just like feels like a mess, right? Ritson is trying to create an all-off-world-born species enemy combatants bill, which is too broad and works against Thor, Loki,

and all the Guardians of the Galaxy but Starlord. Additionally, the grounded crime fighters like Daredevil, Hawkeye, Yelena, Kate Bishop, and Cassie Lang are subject to regular human vigilanteism, which we know from Batman is always skewed and you find yourself beating the wrong ass. So I only see a mess coming for the MCU's future folks on the ground by normal civilians. In the Marvel's teaser trailer, men break into Kamala's home, and these could be normal people playing vigilante now that they're scared. Luckily, the Marvel is mainly in space and Loki has their timeline jumping,

so the next two major projects won't be heavily affected by Ritson's speech. We close the finale with Vara and Fury, both going to Sabre, and Fury asking Vara to help talk to the Cree as they're open to peace talks with the Scrolls. And I'm sure Zalway Ashton's character in the Marvels is completely against this, and Vara's right. It just feels too good to be true. This is the first Marvel Disney Plus show to not have a post-credit scene, but now we wait to see Fury and possibly Vara and the Marvel's in November.

That's it for my Easter Egg video on the finale of Secret Invasion, and we did it! The show is over. We learned so much about the Scrolls and how Fury. collected a lot of important DNA. We met Sonia and we have a new super school in the MCU and I think she's a good guy. I hope she's a good guy.

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