From the moment that the latest Marvel Studios show, Secret Invasion, has played out its six episode run, fans have been wondering how the major reveals were going to affect the MCU, as a whole. We’ve already seen actor Dermot Mulroney’s reaction to learning that Harrison Ford has been tapped to play the U.S. president in Thunderbolts. And Secret Invasion director Ali Selim wants fans to use their Disney+ subscription to go back and revisit all of Don Cheadle’s performances post-Captain America Civil War to determine if Rhodey has been a Skrull that entire time. But when it came to plotting out events that Secret Invasion was able to show (or not show), Selim told CinemaBlend that Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige gave the show only one directive. And it had to do with Nick Fury.
Ali Selim has said that Secret Invasion is not a superhero story, that it is a Nick Fury story, with Samuel L. Jackson getting to explore a haunted side of the S.H.I.E.L.D. leader. But there was one obstacle hanging over the show that was out of Selim’s hands. Fury was seen in the trailer for The Marvels, safe and sound aboard the space base S.W.O.R.D., or Sentient Worlds Observation and Response Department. It looked like this:
