Secret Invasion: What Happened with Nick Fury and Talos in Captain Marvel?
Skrull Talos and former SHIELD director Nick Fury have a long history together as allies, but we only saw a little of it on screen before Secret Invasion arrived.
This article contains Captain MarveL spoilers
A lot has happened since the events of the Marvel Studios blockbuster Avengers: Endgame movie, so a handful of big goodbyes and the entire canon MCU Disney+ TV library have happened since we first met the feisty Carol Danvers.
It’s wild to think of how many new stories Disney+. If you missed Captain Marvel, or have just forgotten certain bits of the movie, we are here to help connect the dots from there to the new show.
In Captain Marvel, we initially catch up with Carol Danvers (Brie Larson) in 1995, when she has amnesia and is working with the extremely powerful Kree race. The Kree are at war with the Skrulls, a race of shapeshifting aliens, so Carol thinks she is, too. But when she is kidnapped by Skrull commander Talos (Ben Mendelsohn), Carol is able to start unlocking memories of once being on Earth, thanks to some savvy Skrull technology. She escapes the clutches of Talos and his Skrulls, and lands on Earth to begin investigating her broken memories.
Security force S.H.I.E.L.D. is still up and running in the 90s, so Carol crash-landing in L.A. alerts their top man Nick Fury (a de-aged Samuel L. Jackson), and he moves to intercept and question her. The pair are both attacked by the Skrulls, who are able to impersonate various humans. Talos pretends to be Nick’s boss and asks him to keep an eye on her. Nick and Carol begin pursuing new leads about her lost human identity, but Talos turns up unexpectedly just as they finally discover how Carol got her superpowers.
In an unexpected twist, it turns out that Talos is not a villain, and neither are his Skrulls. They are refugees who have escaped the brutal Kree race Carol was working for, and they are merely hiding in space close to Earth until they can find a new home. Talos s forces with Nick and Carol to eliminate the Kree threat, and they promise Talos that they will find the Skrulls a new homeworld where they are safe from the Kree. Avengers need help with Thanos a few decades later.
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