Secret Invasion Episode 1: Aren't The Rebel Skrulls Emitting Radiation? And Other Burning Questions...

Now that we've had a few days to think on the first episode of Disney+'s latest live-action Marvel series, Secret Invasion, at least a few initial burning questions have emerged.

For one: Since the rebel Skrulls have been making camp at a defunct Russian nuclear plant — for the very reason that their bodies can sustain any residual radiation — shouldn't they be giving off detectable amounts of radiation that could help the good guys recognize when they are in the presence of a shapeshifter? Maybe take the nifty infrared-detecting eyeglasses used during the Moscow bomb hunt and upgrade them with a Geiger counter?

Or does the Skrulls' shapeshifting ability — in addition to generating garments and, apparently, playground balls — also "cloak"/diffuse any traces of radiation?

Hit the comments below with your kneejerk take on that query and our other Episode 1 questions, listed below....

The reveal, very early on in Secret Invasion Episode 1 — that the Everett Ross that Agent Prescod was sharing his theories with was a Skrull (and not the good kind, either) — has us wondering for how long in the MCU Martin Freeman been playing Not Everett Ross.

The conventional wisdom is that Ross was absolutely the real deal in the first Black Panther film, since Shuri would have noticed something while treating his internal injuries. But as for the Ross who was revealed to be Valentina Allegra de Fontaine's ex in Wakanda Forever...? It's anybody's guess.

The Ross swap also raises the question of where the real deal is at this time, in the present day MCU. Is/was he in one of the fracking pods at New Skrullos?

Or are shapeshifting targets locked away somewhere after their shells and minds are "taken"? (And if so, will we get to drop in on Ross there, and discover who else is with him/being impersonated?)

Speaking of Agent Prescod....

Is the wildest reveal from Secret Invasion Episode 1 the fact that the name of the agent Not Everett Ross met with (played by Game of Thrones' Richard Dormer) is not the comparatively far-more-common Prescott, but — as confirmed by closed captioning — PRESCOD? (Hat tip to the Ringer-Verse podcast's Mallory and Joanna for an excellent riff on this odd character name.)

Meeting very covertly with Talos, G'iah tipped off her father that the bombs being lugged to the next day's Unity Day festival would have infrared markers. And yet those satchels, once chased down by Talos and Maria Hill, proved to be decoys.

Was G'iah lying to her dad in that alley, and is more in alliance with Gravik than she let on? (Was that even G'iah, or a fellow rebel posing as her?)

Or is someone at New Skrullos wary of Talos' daughter's loyalty, and fed her bad intel?

Consumers of all things MCU, did you hear the one about the community of people that was displaced from their home and now hold a grudge? Because that beef was also at the very heart of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.

In Disney+'s second live-action Marvel series, the Flag Smashers (led by Erin Kellyman's Karli Morgenthau) sought to restore the accepting, open-borders mentality that had set in during the Blip years but was abruptly cast asunder — along with scores of displaced people — when the missing were snapped back into existence.

At least the residents of New Asgard have been chill thus far!

Since that scene at the New Skrullos commissary pointedly revealed that Gravik likes MANY sugar cubes in his coffee, will that trait at some later point flag for us as viewers that a shapeshifted someone is in fact the rebel Skrull leader?

Or, more interestingly, since we saw G'iah observing Gravik there at the cafe, peering over her book, will she be the one to glean that someone she is dealing with in a future episode — say, her father — is in fact Gravik?

One straw being grasped by those devastated to see Maria Hill killed at the end of the finale is the theory that the S.H.I.E.L.D. vet herself — like her assassin, "Fury"/Gravik — was a shapeshifted Skrull at the time.

Even if you don't buy into that cheat (after all, Maria didn't return to Skrull form upon dying), it raises the question:

Does a Skrull know when they are looking at a shapeshifted comrade?

I ask this not knowing a thing about what has been established in the comic books, so it is a sincere query to those who are better versed on canon. On-screen, the Captain Marvel movie only established that a Kree (Jude Law's Yon-Rogg) cannot tell the difference, such as when he was in the cabin with "Vers"/one of Talos' men.

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