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| “ | The species you spent your entire adult life defending, they were condemned to die the day I realized you weren't a man of your word. You know, Fury, you really should have kept your promise. | „ |
| ~ Gravik threatening to kill "Nick Fury" |
Gravik, also known as Super-Skrull, is the main antagonist of the 2023 Disney+ Marvel Cinematic Universe miniseries Secret Invasion.
He was the leader of the Skrull Resistance, an extremist Skrull bent on taking over the Earth. Gravik takes over from Talos as the Skrull leader after he and Nick Fury fail to deliver on their promise to find a world where they can settle in peace.
He was portrayed by Kingsley Ben-Adir. As a child, he was portrayed by Lucas Persaud.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Evil?[]
In General[]
- Despite having multiple chances to kill Fury throughout the series, he leaves him alive constantly to play mind games with him and kills those closest to him to break him emotionally, making him stand out as Fury’s most personal foe.
- Though he claims he does what he does to ensure the safety of his own race, it becomes clear that Gravik is doing it for himself since he has no qualms about murdering his own kind if they oppose him.
- Though he tragically lost his parents during the last stand-off with the Kree and showed sadness over it as a child, he doesn’t seem affected by their deaths in the present and never even mentions them once, implying he got over it.
- While he does have a right to be angry at Fury for failing to make good on his promise, he wrongfully took out his anger on all of humanity just to build a home for himself and believed all humans to be terrible just because Fury broke his promise, preventing him from being sympathetic in any way.
Secret Invasion[]
- When Nick Fury failed to find the Skrulls a new home after decades had passed, Gravik believed Fury abandoned him and started a rogue Skrull faction to get revenge on him, even managing to recruit Talos’ daughter G’iah to his side.
- He planned to incite a world war between the United States and Russia to plunge humanity into extinction.
- He got Talos kicked off of the Skrull Council and later murders his wife just to spite him.
- He kidnapped multiple people for his plans so his subordinates could impersonate them, including several world leaders and government officials.
- After a CIA agent named Prescod had discovered his plans, he sent a Skrull who impersonated fellow government agent Everett Ross to steal Prescod's notes and eliminate him as a loose end.
- He led a raid on a weapons cache in Kazakhstan to steal dirty bombs and launch a major attack against Russia.
- Killed over 2,000 innocent people in a terrorist attack by detonating a bomb during the Unity Day Rally, including Maria Hill, whom he killed by shooting her in the stomach while impersonating Fury, thus framing him for her death and the attack as well as making Hill think the real Fury had just killed her.
- He sent his Resistance to infiltrate a radical terrorist group called Americans Against Russia (AAR) by kidnapping and impersonating their members so that they could attack Russia publicly and frame Americans for it.
- He also had a rebel Skrull named Brogan impersonate AAR's leader Martin Wallace so he could lead the group.
- He took over the Skrull Council by appointing himself as the new Skrull general and seemingly forces anyone to support him.
- Though he allows the Shirley Sagar Skrull to leave the Skrull Council unharmed, this was likely just to save face in front of the other council members. Even this was a genuine moment of honor, it doesn’t matter since it’s implied that Gravik sent a hit squad after her out of spite for refusing to side with him.
- He mocked Talos to G’iah’s face, deriding him as a coward for wanting to live in peace with humans.
- He has Brogan killed for revealing vital information about his plans while under torture from Sonya Falsworth.
- He ordered Varra to kill Fury, knowing the act would hurt both of them due to their marriage.
- He assigned Pagon, Beto, Zirksu and several other Skrulls to infiltrate the Royal Navy in order to launch a missile from the submarine HMS Neptune to destroy a United Nations aircraft and trigger a global war. However, this was just a ruse to catch G'iah as the traitor, later shooting her in the chest and leaving her to die. Unbeknownst to him, G'iah survives thanks to the Extremis serum that she took earlier.
- He ambushed President Ritson’s convoy in an attempt to kill him, even hiring Russian mercenaries to make the United States blame Russia for the attack and incite a global war.
- He disguised himself as a officer to “rescue” Talos before stabbing him to death in front of Fury.
- He brutally kills Pagon by stabbing him with his newly acquired Groot powers for expressing his disapproval of his actions. He then calls the rest of his underlings “faceless” and “nameless”, threatening them that they would suffer the same fate as Pagon if they disobey him.
- He ordered Raava to manipulate Ritson into nuking New Skrullos, endangering everyone there just to blackmail Fury into giving him the Harvest, and even if he didn’t get it, Gravik would still succeed in forcing a war between America and Russia that would wipe out everyone since New Skrullos is on Russian soil.
- He sent hitmen to kill Varra after she refused to kill Fury.
- When Beto and several other Skrulls rebel against him, Gravik remorselessly kills them all, even slicing Beto’s throat in front of the civilians of New Skrullos as an example not to betray him.
- Mocked "Nick Fury" (G'iah in disguise) that there's no one else to help him by crushing his iodide pills.
- He destroyed multiple building during his final fight with G’iah, likely resulting in some Skrull casualties.
- Before dying, he insulted G’iah by calling her “weak”, just like Talos and all of humanity.
- His demise is played for satisfaction, not for sympathy.
- Despite his defeat, thanks to him and the bad Skrulls infiltrating most of the organizations they traumatized former President James Ritson so much, it caused a lot of trust issues for the world and declared not only Skrulls, but other extraterrestrial life off the planet. When Ritson ordered a manhunt for Skrulls, lots of vigilantes have begun terminating humans mistakenly to be Skrulls and doesn't show any remorse or regret.
- While the heinous standards of the MCU are astronomically high, Gravik is able to stand out by trying to exterminate all of humanity and replace them with the Skrulls.
What Prevents Him from Being Pure Evil?[]
- He shows some remorse for killing the man whose face he uses as a disguise, especially after learning the man had a wife and children. Although since he continues to kill humans indiscriminately, who undoubtedly had families, this is a minor prevention.
- He at least trusts his right-hand woman Raava who is currently impersonating James Rhodes/War Machine and is pulling the strings between the Skrull Council and the US governments so they can trigger World War III by improvising.
- In the final episode, he seemed genuinely hurt that Fury broke his promise to provide him and his kind a home, giving a degree of very little sympathy to his mostly flimsy tragedy.
External Links[]
- Gravik on the Villains Wiki
- Gravik on the Marvel Cinematic Universe Wiki
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