Secret Invasion Episode 5 Review - 5 Ups & 4 Downs

From the get-go, Gravik has been a strong MCU villain, portrayed wonderfully by Kingsley Ben-Adir, but this was a mixed bag of an episode for the original super Skrull. The actor was certainly not at fault, but the character has come out the back of this week's Secret Invasion episode as a much weaker antagonist than he was before.

To give Gravik his dues, he fought off multiple assailants at once without so much as breaking a sweat, proving himself to be physically unstoppable right now, but his motivations took a hit in Harvest.

When it was his intention to find the Skrulls a new home, taking Earth because his race had been forgotten, you could sympathise with him. He went about it the wrong way, but you could see why he was doing what he was doing. His motivation was compelling, but in killing his own kind, manipulating the President to attack New Skrullos, and directly calling his followers nameless and faceless, he showed that he didn't care about the Skrulls at all. He cares about power.

This is far less of a compelling motivation for an audience because it's been done a million times before. At least previously his cause was one worth fighting for. Now, he is just another selfish, power-drunk villain only in it for himself.