Captain Marvel Makes The MCU Skrulls BETTER Than The Comics

word of advice : SPOILERS forCaptain Marvel .

Themassive box office staff ofCaptain Marvelconfirms it ’s a hit for the MCU , but it may be the Skrulls of the movie that cease up the full-grown victor . After years of being painted as baddie in the comics , General Talos and his shapeshifters are finally getting some justice .

Based on the selling for the movie , the roles of the alien races seemed clearly in demarcation with the comics : Carol Danvers and the Kree = good . gullible and pointy - eared Skrulls = bad . How can you ever bank a shapeshifter , correct ? But by now , Captain Marvel ’s boastful twistis known by most fans : the Skrulls are thevictimsof the Kree , hunted down as refugee to complete a cosmic genocide . One that Carol Danvers of Earth has been agitate from the incorrect side .

Do n’t let anyone narrate you it’schanging theCaptain Marvelcomic history , either . Because the revelation that the universe of discourse is wrong about the Skrulls may be a surprise , but thanks to Marvel Comics , it ’s one long , long overdue . Thank goodness the pic did the correct thing .

Skrulls Didn’t Start The War With The Kree

Since the first thing that an investigating comic book lover would learn about the Skrulls is the same verbal description kick in to Carol by Yon - Rogg , the whirl is going to seem like a retcon , or a change made for the movies . In fact , those viewingCaptain Marvelwith an unfairly vital eye could claim it as a defiance of the Marvel reservoir fabric . But disregardless of whatthe state of war between the Kree and Skrullsbecame , it does n’t change the intentions and aggression of how their conflictbegan . And make no mistake : it was the Kree who shot first , and dedicated themselves to eradicating the Skrulls out of vengeance , not self - preservation or galactic peace - keeping .

In their early origin account , the comics described the Skrulls as an well-informed , peaceful empire intent on spread trade and delicacy to every new , populated world they encounter . What Yon - Rogg describes as deception - Skrulls sweep up the appearing of a native species to penetrate and gather intelligence - served that design , and allowed introductions to run more peacefully . Until they stumbled across the major planet Hala , homeworld of the brutal , war - loving , and primitive race dub the Kree … andtheir peaceful , tree diagram - like neighbors the Cotati .

The Kree Were Born From Hatred & Death

To take which airstream would ally with the Skrulls first , the diplomats put out a challenge to see which species shared their tolerant , productive , and peaceful nature . Given a twelvemonth to plough a lifeless moon into a habitation , the Kree put down to create a home ( admittedly , an telling one ) . But when the Skrulls saw how the Cotati had work spirit to turn their moon into a garden , the choice was clear .

Proving that they were perfectly not the right-hand polish or beau monde the Skrulls were hoping would contribute to their multicultural meshing , the Kree responded by slaughtering the Cotati , as well as the Skrull diplomats who had made first contact . The novel Kree was born , and used the technology of the Skrulls to fake their own conglomerate .

Page 2 of 2:Captain Marvel Finally Gets Justice For The Skrulls

So , why aren’tthe Skrulls of Marvel Comicsbest known as peaceful , unwilling participants in an unjust warfare ? Part of the answer is that by the timethe Avengers take on the Skrullsin the comic Holy Scripture , they were embroiled in warfare with the Kree . As a final result , neither side has been depicted as particularly heroic , or on the " just " side of the conflict . In the comic , it was n’t until centuries after the event that the Skrulls realized what had even happened . To them , an unknown conglomerate began to attack destitute settlement of Skrulls with technology educe from their own .

They would n’t have hazard that this empire was mold to slaughter them for a perceive rebuff , since … who in their correct idea would ? Whatever happen after that , the Skrulls were impel into . Leap forward even more centuries to the modern mise en scene of Marvel ’s cosmos , and hero like the Avengers were oblivious enough to bear that both Skrull and Kree were to blame .

Which seems weird , considering the origins of their conflict leave no doubt : the Skrulls did n’t want a war , and have been ruined by it , while the Kree were made by it . The other rationality comic do n’t make as big a deal about it ? Well … it ’s just easy to make shapeshifters a nerveless antagonistic force , willing to " win at any price . "

The MCU Confirms Kree Are The Wrong Side

gratefully , Captain Marvelprepares for anAvengerscrossoverby choosing not to simply reprize that enfranchisement ’s dissertation - that " war bribe all " - and return to the scratch line , and the true , forgotten origins of this astronomical feud . If there is a ruffian in this story , it ’s the Kree . And if there is an below the belt vilified dupe for Carol Danvers to protect in rebelliousness of her superiors , the Skrull are it . Tragically , the film version of this crisis has shown what would actually have happened if the Skrulls did n’t prefer to sacrifice their peaceful ways to combat the Kree . They are show up to be at far low numbers , and in far more frightening office than the comics ( at least that ’s what the consultation is told ) .

In future films , individual Skrulls may not be as peaceful as Talos and his followers . But as a people , the Skrulls of the MCUpay greater protection to the lawful extraction of their species , even if the moving-picture show itself does n’t explicitly break it down point by point . That may not be the version of the Skrulls best acknowledge to comic sports fan of the Secret Invasion plot line , for instance , but do a lilliputian dig and it seems the motion picture gets justice for the Skrulls - and shows the Kree for their true , terrible nature - more than Marvel ’s comics have in years .