Kid Kree (episode)

"Kid Kree" is the twenty-first episode of the Disney Channel and Marvel Animation series Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur.
==Synopsis==
Moon Girl's rivalry with a new teenage super-foe, Kid Kree, threatens her budding friendship with his human alter ego, Marvin.
==Plot==
Casey tells Lunella that she is sometimes hard to listen to because she has a habit of doing nerd-speak and that she needs to find someone similar to her. She encounters a strange boy named Marvin Ellis who seems stand-offish. LOS-307 assigns Lunella to lead Marvin around the school, but finds him weird. During PE, she learns that he also likes to get out of participating so that he can focus on science projects, just like her. The two immediately hit it off, by unbeknownst to her, Marvin is really the Kree child Mel-Varr, whose father, Pad-Varr, sent him to earth to capture Moon Girl to prove his worth. He doesn't realize that Lunella and Moon Girl are the same though.
While patrolling with Devil, Lunella encounters Marvin as Kid Kree and the two proceed to battle one another, each fight ending in a draw. Casey continues to push Lunella and Marvin together as "soul-nerds" and they begin to work on a variety of projects together, one of which is a wrist band that creates a shield. While fighting one another, Marvin drops his communication device and Lunella claims it. With Casey's help, they break into it and learn that Marvin is really Mel-Varr and his mission. Angered by this, Lunella answers a call from Pad-Varr and tells him that he "threw [Mel-Varr] to the curb", before leaving to prepare for dinner with Mel-Varr. She invited him before knowing the truth.
The dinner is awkward with Mel-Varr learning that Lunella and Moon Girl are one and the same. He explains that his father has high expectations for him and Lunella realizes she made a mistake. She chases him towards his ship where she and Devil battle Pad-Varr before Mel-Varr stops everyone. He explains that he genuinely likes Lunella and that he does not want to do what his father tells him. Pad-Varr is impressed with his technical skills and decides to let Lunella and Devil go. Lunella and Mel-Varr finally part ways as friends with the latter giving the former a communication device so that they can stay in touch.
==Cast==
*Diamond White as Lunella Lafayette/Moon Girl
*Fred Tatasciore as Devil Dinosaur
*Libe Barer as Casey Calderon
*Xolo Maridueña as Mel-Varr/Marvin Ellis/Kid Kree
*Andy García as Pad-Varr
*Asia Kate Dillon as LOS-307
*Sasheer Zamata as Adria Lafayette
*Jermaine Fowler as James Lafayette Jr.
*Alfre Woodard as Mimi Lafayette
*Gary Anthony Williams as Pops Lafayette
==Songs==
*"Books" by Raphael Saadiq
*"Run It!" by Tony Ferrari
==Trivia==
*This episode loosely adapts Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur #7-12.
*This episode features the first appearance of LOS-307 since "Check Yourself".
*When Casey freaks out about Lunella antagonizing Pad-Varr after she hung up on him, one of her Emojis upon saying “Extraterrestrial” is a sad green alien resembling E.T. from the 1980s Spielberg film.
*In the background on a shelf of Lunella’s workbench is a purple cleaning spray labeled “Snap”, which alludes to Thanos.
*Marvin’s civilian shirt has the planet emblem from the costume of Mar-Vell, the first Captain Marvel. In the comics, the character wanted to leave a mark on Earth due to being inspired by Mar-Vell.
*Loki is mentioned during Lunella’s dinner conversation, with an emoji of the Marvel villain appearing upon being mentioned.
===Comic book comparisons===
*Kid Kree's motivation is different. In the comic, he came to Earth to prove to his father that he can be a warrior by trying to capture Lunella. In the series, his father sends him to do just that as he was kicked out of military school.
*Lunella and Marvin never truly became friends in the comic as Marvin acted uptight around her. They do bond at a LEGO building competition after Lunella learns of his Kree origin.
*Marvin knew full well that Lunella was Moon Girl from the beginning and only revealed his identity to her after he fell in love with her. She promptly rejected him out of disgust and due to them still being underage.
*Marvin and Lunella part on very mixed terms in the comics. Marvin insisted on marrying Lunella, but she tells him that he needed to go home so that they can both grow up.
==Gallery==
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==External links==
*Kid Kree at the Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur Wiki
Category:Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur episodes