{"id":558996,"date":"2025-11-09T08:36:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T08:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/558996\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T08:36:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T08:36:15","slug":"one-of-the-mcus-most-powerful-characters-ever-only-appeared-once-will-probably-never-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/558996\/","title":{"rendered":"One of the MCU’s Most Powerful Characters Ever Only Appeared Once (& Will Probably Never Return)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Marvel Cinematic Universe<\/a> is preparing to gather its greatest champions once again. After putting the Avengers on ice for several years, there are now two teams fighting for control of the name, and each one will have its fair share of powerhouses. Sentry is the New Avengers\u2019 enforcer, and Sam Wilson is certainly going to reach out to Thor and Shang-Chi when the events of Avengers: Doomsday kick off. There\u2019s only going to be so much time to bicker, though, as the threat of Doctor Doom looms large. The Fantastic Four and X-Men are also joining the fray, bringing heavyweights along with them, such as Franklin Richards<\/a>, Sue Storm, Magneto, and Professor X.<\/p>\n

With all those mouths to feed, some of the MCU\u2019s strongest characters are seemingly being asked to sit Doomsday out. Captain Marvel and Doctor Strange aren\u2019t part of the roster yet, which is a shock given they both released solo movies in the last couple of years. Another powerful character didn\u2019t make their way to the big screen, getting their moment to shine on Disney+, but, unlike the other characters, there\u2019s no path for their return to the franchise, even at a time when it feels like it\u2019s all hands on deck.<\/p>\n

The MCU\u2019s Most Controversial Show Houses One of Its Strongest Characters<\/p>\n

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The Disney+ era of the MCU has been controversial, to say the least. A lot of the shows feel like homework because they have major ramifications on the franchise, such as WandaVision, which acts as a sequel to Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Agatha All Along. There is one series, though, that the powers that be would rather everyone forget about: Secret Invasion<\/a>. Putting Nick Fury in the lead role, the show puts him in the middle of a conflict between two groups of Skrulls<\/a>. The spy is to blame for a lot of the problems the shape-shifting species faces, and Gravik wants his pound of flesh in return.<\/p>\n

Fury leans on his old buddy Talos for help, but there\u2019s only so much the Skrull can do because he has problems at home. His daughter, G\u2019iah, is a member of Gravik\u2019s group and is threatening to harm the people of Earth if demands aren\u2019t met. Well, at least she\u2019s pretending to because it turns out she\u2019s an undercover agent, hoping to dismantle Gravik\u2019s operation from inside. By the end of Secret Invasion, it\u2019s clear there will be no reasoning with Gravik, so G\u2019iah injects herself with the Harvest<\/a>, a collection of DNA from some of the MCU\u2019s most powerful beings, including Captain Marvel and Thanos, and gets to work. Gravik goes down, and the world is safe once again. However, despite coming out victorious and setting herself up for a heroic career, Marvel Studios has yet to find another spot for her.<\/p>\n

The MCU Doesn\u2019t Know What to Do With OP Characters<\/p>\n

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The easy explanation for G\u2019iah\u2019s absence in the last couple of years is that Secret Invasion is one of the MCU\u2019s worst-reviewed series. Critics and audiences don\u2019t find its story all that interesting, and it features a couple of shocking reveals that retcon important moments. But the truth of the matter is that Secret Invasion\u2018s reception probably has very little to do with cutting G\u2019iah out. What\u2019s getting in her way is the fact that she\u2019s overpowered, so the MCU would struggle to find her an opponent worth her time. Sure, writers can come up with a way to depower her or make her enemy more powerful, but that\u2019s a lot of effort to go to for a character with only one appearance.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s not like G\u2019iah is the only one struggling. Despite Thunderbolts* being all about Sentry\u2019s incredible strength, by the end of the movie, he\u2019s sitting on the sidelines<\/a>. Nerfing him ensures that Doctor Doom and whoever else picks a fight with Earth\u2019s Mightiest Heroes in Doomsday don\u2019t stumble out of the gate. That\u2019s not necessarily fair to a character who\u2019s still trying to find his footing in an ever-expanding franchise, but it comes with the territory.<\/p>\n

What do you think? Leave a comment below\u00a0and join the conversation now in the\u00a0<\/strong>ComicBook Forum<\/strong><\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Marvel Cinematic Universe is preparing to gather its greatest champions once again. After putting the Avengers on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[77,15576,3943,4580,178375,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-558996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-marvel-cinematic-universe","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-regular-feature","12":"tag-secret-invasion","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115518831688685704","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}