Deviant Skrulls (Earth-7642)

The Skrulls are a race of green-skinned, humanoid shapeshifters from the Andromeda Galaxy. They are a ferocious warrior race, one which may also be the most devious race in the cosmos and yet in their own way they are also a noble warrior race.

Whom have carved for themselves the oldest interstellar empire in the universe's history. The Skrulls conquered or colonized every suitable world in the Andromeda Galaxy. Dominating a galaxy with millions of inhabited worlds. The Skrulls are a race whom have ravaged a thousand galaxies.

## Biology

### Reproduction

Skrulls are oviparous. Skrull females do not give live birth; instead, they lay eggs like their reptilian evolutionary ancestors. Skrull children are known as "hatchlings". Despite their reptilian evolutionary roots, however, Skrulls have hair and the females have mammary glands and nurse their young. Attempts at reproduction can be more effective at certain times during their reproductive cycle.

### Diseases and Genetic Conditions

#### Shape-Shifting Deficiency

An uncommon birth defect in Skrulls is being born without the ability to shape-shift. Skrulls afflicted with this abnormality include Raze, Titannus, and Talos the Tamed. This genetic defect can also grant upper strength and endurance to some of those afflicted, including Talos the Tamed.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Shapeshifting:** Skrulls are able to alter their forms into that of anything they can imagine, be it organic or inorganic. It must, however, be solid. They can also use their abilities to grow extra limbs. They have no apparent size limit, as they are been seen to assume the form of a common housefly, and shapes many times larger than their normal selves. Skrulls can also use their shape-shifting capabilities to change their sex: males can become females and vice versa.
	+ **Elasticity, Plasticity, Elongation**: Their shape-shifting abilities allow them to alter their bodies in much the same way as Mr. Fantastic, so that they can stretch to great lengths, or form other shapes with their bodies, such as balls, parachutes, or anything else.
		- **Flight:** They are able to fly by shape-shifting a pair of wings onto their back, or turning their arms into wings.
	+ **Size Alteration:** They are also capable of altering their size independently of altering their form, allowing them to grow or shrink while maintaining their current form.
	+ **Mimicry:** Skrulls are cunning spies due to their ability to mimic sounds and voices. This is mainly used in conjunction with the shapes they shift into.
* **Telepathy:** Within the Deviant Skrulls there are a minority that possess telepathic abilities. They have been seen to serve the empire in the imperial court as "Priest of the Mind" and in the armed forces.

### Abilities

**Weapon Formation:** Skrulls are able to use their shapeshifting abilities to form weapons with parts of their bodies. For instance, they can shape their arms into blades or clubs including guns. This ability makes them dangerous hand-to-hand combatants.

### Weaknesses

* **Shapeshifting Limitations:** Skrulls can only take on the appearance of person and none of that person’s characteristics or, in the case of superhumans, their powers. When they imitate an inorganic object, they take on its appearance, but not its properties. The inability to replicate powers does not apply to genetically modified Super-Skrulls.
* There is a limit to the size of the object or person a Skrull can imitate. The average Skrull cannot distend his or her mass any more than 1.5 times as large a volume as his or her original volume, nor can he or she contract his or her mass any more than 0.75 a volume as his or her original.
* Very high decibel sounds have been shown capable of temporarily disabling a Skrull, and in the case of a Super-Skrull, will cause them to lose control of their powers.

## Habitat

**Gravity:** Earth-like

**Atmosphere:** Earth-like

**Population:** Trillions (spread throughout the intergalactic Skrull empire)

### Planets

* **Kral IV** - The highly-unusual Kral system is populated by Skrulls fascinated with the culture of 1930s Earth and who have attempted to duplicate that time period. Skrull inhabitants of Kral maintain human rather than Skrull form.
* **Skrullos** - Original Skrull home-world.
* **Tarnax IV** - Former Skrull Throneworld, consumed by Galactus.
* **Tarnax VII** - Home of Xavin; engaged in a war with the non-Skrull planet Majesdane.
* **Zaragz'na** - Home of the Super-Skrull's son, destroyed by Annihilation Wave.
* **Satriani** - Throneworld under Empress S'Byll and Queen Veranke.
* **Tarnax II** - The new throneworld under Emperor Kl'rt.
* **Tarnax X** - Base of operations for the religious sect Dard'van.