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Invasion Planning

2009

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07 17:54:58As I like to do from time to time, here's a bit of thebehind

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scenes planning for the SECRETINVASION crossover, now that sufficient time haspassed. So all you process junkies out there, herecomes your meat!The document I'm about to share represents BrianBendis' initial broad strokes overview for what wasthen six issues. It's difficult to remember for certain,but this would almost certainly have been writtenup and blocked out after Brian had already verballywalked us through the basic concepts of the storyat one of our editorial meetings.Many of theindividual elements weren't entirely in place yet

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but still, the overall shape of it is very much likewhat saw print. For those who're interested, mycopy is dated 5/24/07

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SKRULLS!!

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MINI SERIES ISSUE BREAKDOWN

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BY BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS

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ISSUE 1

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STARK?S SECRET WAREHOUSE

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Tony stark, by

himself, attempts an Elektra Skrull autopsy in an

attempt to create a Skrull detector. He?s close, but he

doesn?t have it.

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AVENGER?S TOWER

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Luke cage and the new

avengers break into the towerand hijack a quinjet.

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SAVAGE LAND

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The mighty avengers ands.h.i.e.l.d. Easily follow the new avengers to thesavage land. Obviously, they wanted to be followed.

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The new avengers touch down and search the ruins of

what was the savage land. no kazar. No zabu. With

doctor strange?s help they find?.

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A ship. A crashed Skrull ship, half buried in the mud.The mighty avengers show up just in time for it to be

opened.

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Tony tries to arrest them, but Luke opens the shipanyway.

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It?s a Skrull ship and the small crew is dead. But notits cargo is not?

ORIGINAL PHOENIX

SPIDEY WITH WEB PITSIRON MAN WITH THE NOSE ARMOR

LUKE CAGE IN SATIN SHIRT AND TIARA

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DISCO DAZZLER

ORIGINAL MS. MARVEL

ORIGINAL VISIONMOCKINGBIRD

HAWKEYEBLUE FURRY BEASTSUE STORMWONDER

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MANCAPTAIN AMERICAEVIL EMMA FROSTAccusations fly, tempers flare and a battle rages high!!

Seventies marvel versus modern marvel. Modern marvel

wins and some of the seventies characters are revealedto be Skrulls but not all!!Mockingbird is back!! Hawkeye and mockingbird areback together. Echo is in a coma.But the savageland fight was only phase one of theground battle. A distraction at best.NEW YORK AND WASHINGTON

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An army of newsuper Skrulls made of every shape and size of hero andvillain attacks New York City.With Tony stark and the avengers a world away, theheroes are without a leader?. But nick fury is back tolead the heroes.ISSUES 3

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NEW YORK AND WASHINGTON

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 Super Skrull army

versus the new avengers, the mighty avengers, the

initiative, the champions, the runaways, the fantasticfour, the x

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men and the hood?s army of super villains.Even Jessica Jones jumps into the mix.The fight is going badly. Until thor shows up, then capshows up, the holy trinity of avengers is back togetherfor the first time in years and the combined andrejuvenated army of marvel heroes attacks.The moment the battle turns is when captain marvel,really a Skrull, sides with the heroes and sacrificeshimself to help defeat the super Skrull army. Marvel boywitnesses this and is inspired to be the new captain

marvel.

The Skrull army is defeated and the Skrull home ship islocated. Captain marvel Skrull, with his dying breath,tries to tell Tony stark how to detect aSkrull, but dies

before he can.

Iron man puts together an all powerhouse team to endthis fight onceand for all.ISSUES 5

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SPACE

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An all powerhouse team of heroes THOR,

HERCULES, IRON

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MAN, SENTRY, BLACK BOLT,NAMOR, ARES, MS. MARVEL, WONDER

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MAN, etc.and takes the fight to them.The battle is intense and victorious. Hercules dies inbattle.The Skrull queen is missing. Thor is able to get a Skrullto tell them how to detect a Skrull as Tony finds a shipthat has more pods in it.

The pods are filled with the real humans that have been

replaced by Skrulls.

Including wonder

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man who is standing right behind Tony.Wonder

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man Skrull almost defeats Tony, but the real

wonder

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man joins in and kills him.

Iron man and the others are horrified to see who is

trapped on this ship. Hundreds of civilians, SPIDER

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WOMAN, NIGHTCRAWLER, WONG, HANK PYM,

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NEW YORK

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The powerhouse team gets the humansback to earth just in time for the spider

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woman Skrull to

reveal herself to be the Skrull queen. This was her

religion. The earth is hers by divine right. This isn?t goodversus bad. This is what her religion believes to be true.Iron man senses a massive energy fluctuation.The Skrull queen is a suicide bomber. Her last hope.Sentry takes her and launches into space.Sentry takes the explosion in the face. It?s massive. Anexplosion meant to wipe out the human race.It massively depowers the sentry.Thor catches sentry and saves him.Jessica Jones sees Wong in the crowd of humanrefugees. That means she left her baby with a Skrullagent.SANCTUM

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When Luke and Jessica rush to doctorstrange?s house, the Wong Skrull has already killedhimself and the baby.NEW YORK

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Iron man and cap and Thor reunite as

friends and iron man says its time to figure out who is an

avenger.

Norman Osborn shows up with the thunderbolts and

announces that they are the avengers. The avengers and

Tony stark are blamed for the invasion, the destructionand Norman WILL find out whom the real Skrulls are.

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More later.

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Tom B

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Seemed really good

I would have loved to see the space battle with the heavy hitters,and the ending seemed much better than having killed The Wasp.Although I would have hated to see Herc die, his very godly naturewould have allowed him to come back later.The Sentry ending being catched by Thor would have been anawesome scene.

Posted by Bladai

on 2009

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07 18:44:00thats cool to see a little behind the scene look at what goes into themaking of a storyline!!!http://c

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trainsentertainmentreviews.blogspot.com/

Posted by cjt0805

on 2009

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07 20:34:10some cool scenes happened in this version that we didn't get, thespace battle would have been cool. but i'm glad we got the versionthat we did.

Posted by ryguyhp

on 2009

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07 21:52:19I think Secret Invasion could have been a really tight six issue seriesinstead of the long eight issues it was

Posted by Maestro

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wow

The Cage's baby was supposed to die? Now that would have beenreal ballsy!!!! It would have made a great emotionnal ending but iguess that after having allready killed Spiderman's baby daughter itwould have definetely marked Marvel as "baby kilers" . Not good.

Posted by baxtos

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08 04:00:26The finished product was a whole lot better than this (especially theending, which feels a whole lot more organic than what goes onhere). Wish they'd kept Dr Strange around for it, though.Interesting that before Hercules got his own ongoing series, therewas a plan to kill him off.Really intriguing that Bendis planned to kill the baby. Was that hisplan for the baby all along since he started that storyline in Alias#28? Why did he change his mind?

Posted by Fetsur

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