Secret Invasion Episode 5 Review - 5 Ups & 4 Downs

9. Down - How Many Characters Does One Man Need To Play?

Over the 15 year history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, across 30+ movies and nine Disney+ series (and counting), the Defenders over on Netflix and other TV series surrounding SHIELD agents, Runaways, Inhumans, and more, there have been literally countless characters introduced.

In this time there have been several actors who have ended up playing more than one of them. Gemma Chan, Mahershala Ali, and even Benedict Cumberbatch among others have played multiple roles, but Secret Invasion may have just introduced the first actor to play three completely separate MCU characters.

In Thor: The Dark World, Tony Curran portrayed Odin's father Bor, in the flashback scene at the start of the movie. Two years later he appeared in an episode of Daredevil as Finn. Now in 2023, the actor played Derrik, the secret Skrull posing as Sonya's boss who was ultimately outed when he was shot in the leg.

This was a small role granted, but surely someone could have been found who hadn't already been in the MCU, let alone twice.