How Captain Marvel Could Secretly Make Thanos A Hero
The greatest saviours require the strongest coincidences.
- Avengers: Infinity War spoilers within -
As the anticipation for Avengers 4 heats up, there are all manner of fan theories doing the rounds. Ranging from those involved in The Snap ending up inside the Spirit Stone to the Quantum Realm having something to do with it, one of the best I've not seen mentioned comes from the Skrulls.
Set to be introduced to the MCU in 2019's Captain Marvel, they're a race of shape-shifting aliens, coming to Earth and body-jacking unwitting individuals as a way to slowly take over the planet. Such an explanation is why Carol Danvers was last seen delivering a screaming haymaker to an old lady on a bus, but what if the Skrulls involvement is far larger than just her solo movie?
What if... we've been watching Skrulls all along, or for a significant portion of other scenes within the MCU?
I posit to you, that the Skrulls infiltrated Earth to such a degree, that many of our beloved heroes were impersonated, without us knowing. The way the Skrulls operate; stealing identities and often kidnapping their victims, means there could be an assortment of superheroes and otherwise loveable individuals stuck somewhere, in need of saving.
Unless Captain Marvel completely wipes out every last Skrull in her solo movie, that's a full twenty years' worth of Skrull activity that went unchecked.
Enter Thanos.
What if the Thanos Snap didn't kill the likes of Spider-Man, Black Panther, Groot etc., but their Skrull counterparts?
WHAT IF, Thanos actually did us a huge favour, and although everything felt suitably apocalyptic at the close of Infinity War, in the long run, we've now got some of our most powerful warriors back, after varying undetermined amounts of time?
Depending on how much the Russos want to mimic the comic storyline of Thanos switching sides to face a greater evil, it could be a way for Captain Marvel's antagonists to carry forward, letting Thanos and The Avengers team up to battle a Skrull army for Avengers 4's big finale.
If that does happen, you heard it here first.