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The Phase Four Theory

 'SPOILER ALERT: If you haven't seen Spider-Man: Far From Home'', DO NOT read this. Consider yourself warned.'''

Introduction
So let's start off this blog post with a small something-something from Captain Marvel.

There is a scene just after the train sequence, where Carol Danvers is interrogating Nick Fury to validate whether or not he is a Skrull impostor. In this scene, he talks about his past and names some bizarre facts about himself that Skrulls could not possibly replicate. One of these facts is that he can't eat toast diagonally. Meh. We think it's just played for humorous effect, or just filler dialogue. It's whatever.

Now let's cut back to Age of Ultron. Fury is giving a pep talk to the Avengers at the Farm, and is inspiring them to stand up to Ultron before he nukes the planet. While doing so, he's preparing some toast for himself (as in, a toasted slice of bread, if that wasn't already obvious). Except he's cutting it diagonally.

Seems weird, doesn't it? Well, that's probably because your instinct is right, and something is weird. Ergo, the Phase Four Theory, presented by yours truly.

(and with some inspiration of other internet theories from Reddit/YouTube, that I've mish-mashed into one)

Nick Fury and the Skrulls
In the recent theatrical release of Spider-Man: Far From Home, we learn that Nick Fury, who has supposedly been a supporting character for the entire film's run, is Talos, the infamous Skrull Empire General, who has been asked by Fury to take his place while he is on his own "vacation" in space. The question that should be posed here, is two things: How long has Talos been masquerading as Nick Fury, and... was Fury really on vacation in space, or (and this is a big 'or') is this setting something big for Phase Four?

The Marvel Cinematic Universe is a massive world. In this world, the Earth has been plagued by several extraterrestrial invasions and attacks in its recent history. The Kree; the Skrulls; the Outriders; and most notably, the Chitauri, have all had their go at attacking, infiltrating or setting encampments on Earth in some way, shape or form. The one organization that we know of that is shown to be even remotely qualified in dealing with these extraterrestrial threats is S.H.I.E.L.D., but as we know, in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, that ship had sailed a long time ago. (You know, what with modern day nazis returning and all that)

And just for the sake of the blog post, I'm not going to acknowledge the events of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (at least after Season Five), as it retcons a lot of the movies, and I'm starting to wonder if recent seasons are even canon considering what happens in the films.