Talk of aliens on Earth had persisted for years, but now only half the population believed aliens truly existed.
The Chitauri invasion had only happened in New York, and it had been resolved fairly quickly. Combined with the subsequent information blackout and the impounding of alien items, aside from New York residents still feeling lingering fear, the rest of Earth's population remained half-convinced and half-skeptical. It was like armed conflicts in the Congo in Africa—people heard about them and then forgot. They were too far away and had nothing to do with them.
The Skrulls had caused quite a stir, and the government had issued an official explanation, yet diehards still insisted that the Skrulls were fake! They claimed they were merely people with skin diseases causing trouble, that the alien invasion was just the government making excuses for chemical factories, and that those Skrulls were malformed people who had drunk heavily polluted groundwater!
Government credibility was exceptionally low these days. Even when they told the truth, no one believed them.
This descent of the Celestials was no different. Many believed it was just a super robot created by the Pentagon, a ploy to make ordinary people pay more taxes.
"I saw through it long ago! No hardworking person will fall for this. The White House is full of liars and scoundrels. Tell them for me: don't think they can take one more cent from me!" a bearded farmer shouted at a reporter from n.
"Was it faked by the government? Heh heh, that's a really interesting question. I think they are faking it! They think they can fool us by putting out some robot? The people in the White House aren't even as smart as my dog!" A certain office worker waved his arms and said this after being