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Summary

• Maria Hill's death in Secret Invasion is made more insulting by Marvel Studios' explanation, which fails to justify killing off an underutilized character.
• The reasoning behind Maria's death was to establish the threat of Gravik and the Skrull insurgents, but Secret Invasion failed to capitalize on this idea.
• Maria's death highlights the overall disappointments of Secret Invasion, which fell short of its potential as a game-changing story in the MCU.

The killing of Maria Hill in Secret Invasion has somehow been made more insulting after Marvel Studios revealed the reasoning behind the shocking plot point. Maria Hill was killed at the end of Secret Invasion episode 1 with the villainous Skrull Gravik taking the form of Nick Fury and using her trusted ally's face to end her life. The development was met with much divisiveness from MCU fans who thought Secret Invasion was the perfect opportunity to further develop a character like Maria who had not received much focus in the MCU's past.
Secret Invasion episode 1 dashed these hopes quickly with Maria being killed and relegated to appearances in future episodes that only served to cruelly reiterate her death. Three months after the controversial decision, Marvel Studios and Secret Invasion writer Brian Tucker has given his reasoning behind the death of Maria Hill. Rather than provide a much-needed justification for the death of an underutilized character, the plot point has only been made more insulting after hearing why Maria was killed off with the reasoning making the overall disappointments felt after Secret Invasion's flat ending that much worse.