A collection of official GIFs may have spoiled Emilia Clarke’s Secret Invasion character
Samuel L. Jackson's Nick Fury show may have a surprise comics character stopping by
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[The following may contain spoilers for Marvel’s Secret Invasion.]
Back in September, Marvel released a trailer for Secret Invasion, its upcoming Disney+ series about Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury getting wrapped up in a sci-fi spy thriller where shape-shifting aliens may or may not be infiltrating high-level government positions. The trailer featured Cobie Smulders’ Maria Hill, Don Cheadle’s James Rhodes, and Ben Mendelsohn’s Talos, but it also teased appearances from Olivia Colman and Emilia Clarke, whose characters are still a mystery… though we can make some educated guesses, especially now that a list of seemingly official Secret Invasion GIFs on the Tenor GIF database (via Collider) has apparently revealed who Emilia Clarke is playing.
The GIFs all come from the aforementioned trailer, and they’re all tagged with various relevant things based on what’s happening in them. For example, one that shows Nick Fury saying “Yeah, well…” has “#Yeah-Well” and “#Nick-Fury.” Pretty cut and dry, right? Well, there’s one of Emilia Clarke saying “It’s the beginning” that is tagged “#Its-The-Beginning” and “#Abigail-Brand.” Ergo, Emilia Clarke is probably playing Abigail Brand.
So who is that and why does it matter? Well, in the comics, Abigail Brand is the head of S.W.O.R.D., an organization that does what S.H.I.E.L.D. does but for alien stuff, and she’s not only half-alien herself but also half-mutant. That might be a little much for Secret Invasion, but after Ms. Marvel, we do know that more mutants are coming at some point. Meanwhile, S.W.O.R.D. was previously introduced in the MCU in WandaVision, where the organization’s plan to stop Wanda from terrorizing a small town involved resurrecting her dead robo-husband and sending him in to kill her… which didn’t work out so well.
Secret Invasion premieres on Disney+ at some point next year.
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… which didn’t work out so well.
Any Abigail Brand plan.
She’s missing Abigail’s trademark green hair and bags under her eyes that make it look like she hasn’t slept in 20 years.
That’s what the skrulls want you to think.
Well they could change her into mutant skrull like descendant of Super Skrull. Or her parent was a skrull (one of Talos soldier) and another was a secret mutant. Maria Rambeau could recruit her after she find out about her origin.
There’s a fabulous episode of the Cerebro podcast doing a deep dive on Brand. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-079-abigail-brand-feat-al-ewing/id1529617900?i=1000567360520
I guess someone at Disney noticed. It’s now changed from #Abigail-Brand to #Emilia-Clarke
Something something horses bolting and stable doors something something.
You can’t be half mutant. That doesn’t make any scientific sense. It might be more cumbersome to say that one parent is alien, and one is an Earthling with mutant powers, but it’s still better than 1/3 witch, 1/3 vampire and 1/3 dragon. Or just say she’s a Mary Sue. We’ll get it from that.
An “Earthling with mutant powers” is in fact a Mutant, they are their own race AKA Homo-Superior, same with the Inhumans who are Inhomo Supremis. On top of that she didn’t “Inherit” her powers from her mother she simply was born with the X gene like every other Mutant.Namor also has a hybrid origin being half Mutant and half Atlantean. Also that in no way makes her a “Mary sue” and is a really weird comment to make.
Yeah in the marvel comics you can. Mutants are a different species of human known as Homo superior. So you could be half alien 1/2 Homo superior aka mutant
Yeah in the marvel comics you can be. Mutants are a different species known as homo superior. So you could technically be half alien half Homo superior
Like Charles and Lillandra’s kid.
Well… no. This is the difference between genetics and genealogy. Genetically, you can’t be a half mutant. You either have the X-Gene or you don’t. Genealogically, of course, you can be a nonmutant with mutant parents, so in that sense, you’re half-mutant.
“That doesn’t make any scientific sense.”Wait, Marvel is real?
How about mixbreed between alien and human mutant?
Or just say she’s a Mary Sue. We’ll get it from that.
People on the internet will say that anyway, whether they’re right or not.
She’s half-human mutant and half-alien
Calm down.
From the header photo, I thought maybe she was going to be Dakota North, and I liked it.
Did they take away her green hair since they already have She-Hulk and they really don’t like two characters to have any of the same things if it’s not being a cocky quippy jerk with a heart of gold?
Some things from the comics look ridiculous in live action. Then there’s the things that look ridiculous in both live action and the comics.
From the pic, I thought she was playing the chick from Underworld movies
That “chick” has a name.* *I don’t know what it is, but I’m sure she has one.
Vampy McBiteface?
Sound right.
Spoiler alert: she’s actually a Skrull. Because everyone’s a Skrull.
They removed the tag.