Warning! This article contains spoilers for Secret Invasion episode 3.Secret Invasion episode 3 has introduced Super Skrulls to the MCU in a reveal that pays off a seven-year-old prediction from Captain America: Civil War. Throughout Secret Invasion episodes 1 and 2, the hints at Super Skrulls being introduced were prevalent. From Gravik insisting he has a plan to combat the Avengers to the DNA samples being acquired by the Skrulls, many theorized that Super Skrulls would be introduced to the MCU sooner rather than later.

With Secret Invasion episode 3 then, these theories came to fruition. Gravik revealed that the machine and the DNA samples would turn Skrulls into Super Skrulls, superpowered versions of Marvel Studios' green shape-shifting aliens. Through this revelation, specifically the motivation behind Gravik's creation of the Super Skrulls, Secret Invasion pays off a prediction found in 2016's Captain America: Civil War.

Secret Invasion's Super Skrulls Pay Off Vision's Avengers Prediction

Sam Wilson, Vision and Wanda Maximoff seated in Avengers Compound in Captain America Civil War

In Captain America: Civil War, the central conflict surrounded the Sokovia Accords and the Avengers taking sides based on their ideologies. One of the Avengers to side with Iron Man was Vision, who gave his reasoning for ing the Accords in one of the film's best scenes. Vision explained that "Our very strength invites challenge. Challenge incites conflict. And conflict... breeds catastrophe." Vision stated that government oversight should not be dismissed given that it may reduce the conflicts and therefore catastrophe that the Avengers' power brings.

In Secret Invasion, Gravik created the Super Skrulls as a direct means of combating the Avengers. This was hinted at in Secret Invasion episode 2's Easter egg to the Avengers, in which Gravik states he has a plan should the superteam get involved. Secret Invasion episode 3 reveals that this plan is the Super Skrulls, which involves the aliens imbuing themselves with power to match the strength of the Avengers. As Vision predicted in 2016, the Avengers' strength is directly responsible for the creation of the Super Skrulls, which seems to be building to a huge conflict and, as Vision rightly pointed out, catastrophe.

The Avengers Have Created 11 MCU Villains

Avengers Collage Image with Zemo and Ultron Villains

This causality between the Avengers and the antagonists who rose up to challenge them brings to light the number of MCU the Avengers have directly created. Tony Stark/Iron Man is certainly responsible for creating the most villains, beginning with Whiplash from Iron Man 2. While Whiplash's qualms were with Howard Stark, Tony's dismissal of him midway through the film caused Ivan Vanko to team with Justin Hammer and challenge Tony once again. Similarly, Tony's ego and arrogance caused him to disregard Aldrich Killian who became the Mandarin in another of Tony's sins that came back to haunt him.

In Avengers: Age of Ultron, another of Stark's mistakes of the past - that being the sale of Stark Tech to terrorist organizations through Tony's lack of agency within his own company - created Wanda and Pietro Maximoff. The murder of the Maximoffs' parents through Stark weaponry saw them become the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver to seek revenge against Iron Man. Also, the titular villain of Avengers 2 was created directly by Stark, who wished to use AI to create a suit of armor around the world that turned against him and his team.

Finally, Stark also was responsible for the creation of two MCU Spider-Man villains: Mysterio and Vulture. Stark's creation of the Department of Damage Control saw Vulture/Adrian Toomes essentially lose his job, something that came back to bite Stark - and Spider-Man - in Spider-Man: Homecoming. When concerning Mysterio, Quentin Beck was the creator of Civil War's "BARF" technology which Tony took credit for, causing Beck to become Mysterio and combat Spider-Man in Spider-Man: Far From Home.

While responsible for many villains in the MCU, Stark did not create all of them. Abomination, for example, was indirectly created by Bruce Banner whose radioactive blood was used to create his villainous counterpart. Captain America: Civil War's villain, Baron Zemo, was created by the Avengers as a collective due to their unwitting destruction during the Battle of Sokovia. The Flag Smashers from The Falcon and the Winter Soldier were also indirectly created by all the Avengers after the team played a part in bringing every victim from Thanos' snap back to life in Avengers: Endgame.

Finally, linking back to Secret Invasion, the villainous Skrull group led by Gravik was also created by the Avengers. Nick Fury's abandonment of the Skrulls after Avengers: Endgame is what drove Gravik and his insurgents to begin invading Earth in the first place, as Fury had failed to fulfill his promise of finding them a home. As mentioned, the Avengers and their power then caused Gravik to create Super Skrulls, which proves to be yet another villain that the Avengers and their allies have created - albeit indirectly - as of Secret Invasion episode 3.

New episodes of Secret Invasion release every Wednesday on Disney+.

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