Wong may be Sorcerer Supreme now, but that doesn’t mean Stephen Strange won’t continue to play an important role in whatever version of the Avengers exists in Phase 6. The mid-credits scene in The Legend of the Ten Rings hints at a deeper mystery surrounding these artifacts, one that could very well come into play in The Kang Dynasty. Shang-Chi is certainly an asset to Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, now that he controls the mystical Ten Rings. For another, Avengers: The Kang Dynasty is also directed by Destin Daniel Cretton. For one thing, we already saw him summoned by Wong at the end of 2021’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Simu Liu’s Shang-Chi is practically guaranteed to join the Avengers in Phase 6. And when the time comes for the Avengers to assemble once again, you can bet Wong will be right there bringing everyone together again. It’s his job to proactively defend the world from these new, emerging threats. It makes sense that we’ve entered Phase Wong of the MCU, since he’s inherited the mantle of Sorcerer Supreme from Doctor Strange. Wong has appeared in many Phase 4 projects so far, from Spider-Man: No Way Home to Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings to, of course, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. But we will certainly find out in the final two episodes of Secret Invasion.In the absence of Tony Stark and Steve Rogers, it’s fallen on Benedict Wong’s character Wong to become the glue that holds the MCU together in Phase 4. Maybe the entire time that Rhodey has looked like Don Cheadle and not Terence Howard-since 2010's Iron Man 2-he's been a Skrull! Maybe Rhodes really died at the end of Captain America: Civil War and was replaced with a Skrull replica-and the only person who knew about it, Tony Stark, is now dead. Maybe Rhodes was captured and replaced when he was flying through space and time with Nebula in Avengers: Endgame. So if we're following that line of thinking, it could be, essentially, anywhere. Never forget the SHIELD twist in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, when it was revealed that the "good guy" intelligence agency was actually infiltrated and taken over by Nazis long ago. While this still allows for the plotline of Rhodey being a Skrull and getting close to the President of the United States (Dermot Mulroney), it also has minimal impact on any of Rhodey's past in the MCU Kevin Feige and company may not want to mess too much with the past.īut that being said, they haven't been super shy about doing that in the past. The most likely option would be that Rhodes was kidnapped by the Skrulls at some point between his last MCU appearance (either on the big screen in Avengers: Endgame or during his brief appearance in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier ) and the start of Secret Invasion. We don't have a ton of hard evidence pointing in one direction or the other, but we can look at a couple different possibilities. That's right: anyone suspicious of Colonel James "Rhodey" Rhodes had those fears confirmed in Episode 4, "Betrayal," when it was revealed that (this version of) Rhodey is actually working side-by-side with Gravik ( Kingsley Ben-Adir).Īnd now, perhaps, the game will continue to change. Obviously, that's a retcon and wasn't always the plan, but it still forces MCU fans to reconsider everything they've seen before and consider how that revelation changes things.īut as Secret Invasion gets toward its final stretch run, it's also put some major cards on the table: one of our longtime MCU heroes is, in fact, not who they claim to be. No offense to Everett Ross (and we love to see Martin Freeman show up), but it's not exactly the same punch to see him revealed as a Skrull as some of those comic reveals that really managed to get the juices flowing.īut as Secret Invasion continues its run, we're finally starting to get some reveals that manage to change the game both in the present and retroactively. With the scale on Secret Invasion shrinking down for its adaptation into a espionage/spy Disney+ series-an loyal version of the 2008 comic's storyline would have to be an Infinity War/Endgame-level event-its been harder to capture that same tense, paranoid, magic. Hell, even real-life figures like Barack Obama, John McCain, Paris Hilton, and Stephen Colbert were revealed to be Skrulls! Anyone, from Spider-Woman, to Captain America, to Hawkeye, had an equal chance of being exposed as a Skrull All Along. PART OF what made the original Marvel Comics Secret Invasion event-written by Brian Michael Bendis and released back in 2008-so exciting, so engaging, and, really, just so overall good, was the fact that with every page turned, there could be another huge, world-shattering reveal. The following story contains spoilers for Secret Invasion Episode 4, titled "Beloved."
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