The official release date of Marvel’s Secret Invasion is looming, and the potentials for the fresh Disney Plus series are endless.
Trailers for the series, which debuts on June 21, tease a gripping spy thriller based around a quiet, concealed invasion of Earth. The official start of the Skrull invasion is literally days away, and viewers are largely in the dark about just what the show will offer up. One potential storyline, more than any other, tickles the back of my brain when I think of Secret Invasion. And, because I’ve well established myself as We Got This Covered’s resident Deadpool expert, you know it revolves around our boy Wade.
The Deadpool Secret Invasion run is one of the Merc with a Mouth’s best, in my opinion, thanks to the wild and perfectly on-point storytelling contained within. There are quite a few approaches to taking down a covert occupation by a malicious alien force — as I’m sure we’ll see in Secret Invasion — but what this series definitely doesn’t need is to play it safe. Far too many recent Marvel flicks have flopped due to relying on safe, established tropes that have simply run dry. The franchise could use with some crazy twists, and no one does crazy quite like Deadpool.
See, in the Deadpool Secret Invasion comic, Wade joins the fight between the Skrull Empire and Earth — just not on the side of humanity. Instead, after proving himself to be a capable opponent, he joins the Skrull as first a test subject and then as an elite trainer. An army of Skrull, made using Wade’s invulnerable genetic data, is then trained up by one of our planet’s greatest mercenaries — who also so happens to be an absolute crackpot. The one and only Regenerating Degenerate worms his way into the Skrull’s military, helps create an army of perfect, regenerating clones, and then drives them completely bonkers.
This is the storyline I want to see in Secret Invasion. Chances are pretty slim, considering Ryan Reynold’s stacked schedule, and the complete lack of any teasers about his inclusion in Secret Invasion, but wouldn’t it be wild? To secretly slide a Deadpool cameo into a serious, high-stakes series about a stealthy takeover, and flip the entire narrative on its head? Now that’s how you shake up that tired MCU formula.
And I haven’t even gotten to the best part. See, mid-way through Deadpool’s Secret Invasion storyline, he teaches his pupils — those invulnerable Skrull militants — perhaps the best knock knock joke to ever grace Marvel comics, which results in an absolute s*it show, and quite a few Skrull deaths. ‘Pool is then revealed as a double agent, when he calls in to touch base with none other than Nick Fury himself.
As it turns out, Deadpool was working with Fury all along. He purposefully wormed his way into the Skrull fold, took down their army — though the Skrull really did that themselves, by trying to replicate Wade’s tainted DNA — and transferred data back to the good guys… or, at least that was the goal. I won’t spoil the entire story for you here, but Wade’s role as double agent is easily one of the most enticing storylines the MCU could attempt with its Secret Invasion series.
At the end of the day, the actual chances of Ryan Reynolds cropping up as an unexpected cameo in Secret Invasion is quite slim. He’s already working away on Deadpool 3, and the complete lack of so much as a rumor about his involvement likely means that no wild, wacky, Deadpool storylines are poised to crop up in the series.
But, just in case anyone over at Marvel is listening, I have a solid pitch for season two.
