Kree

The Kree are a militaristic race of mostly blue-skinned humanoids from the planet Hala. One of the most technically advanced races in the galaxy, the Kree are skilled in genetic engineering and are responsible for the creation of the Inhumans on Earth. Politically, they are a powerful intergalactic state, controlling a vast fascist empire.

List of Krees: Category:Kree

### History

The Kree are a humanoid race who follow a strict, militaristic lifestyle. They are the rulers of the Kree Empire, a large, interstellar imperial group that encompasses various planets, and features the Sakaaran species as a client race. They are one of the many races encountered by the Asgardians in the Nine Realms and the worlds beyond Yggdrasil. Their relationship with the Asgardians is frosty at best, with the Asgardians viewing the Kree as deceitful and savage.

The Kree have a historical rivalry with the Nova Empire, their rival for political power in the galaxy. The two empires waged a protracted war with each other that lasted a thousand years.
The Kree have been at war almost continuously throughout their history. During one such war, more than five thousand years ago, the odds were heavily stacked against the Kree, leading to division as to how they were to proceed. Two Kree, known as the Reapers, dispatched science teams across different worlds, experimenting on various alien races in order to produce bio-weapons for an army. They had little luck, however, until coming to Earth.
Humans proved the most promising subjects yet. By exposing their altered subjects to the mist produced by Terrigen Crystals, a genetic mutation would be triggered, allowing the subjects to attain unique superhuman abilities. The Kree created special Diviners as containment units for the crystals, designing them so that they would only open to the touch of Inhumans, revealing a map to a city the Kree had built beneath what is now Puerto Rico and used as the base of their operations on Earth.
The Kree Empire eventually discovered the Reapers' illegal operation and sought to put an end to it, but not before one of the Kree's creations would rise against them in rebellion. A Mayan hunter-gather who, following his Terrigenesis, was known as Alveus, or "Hive".. Hive had been intended to command the Kree's Inhuman army, but he rebelled against them instead, leading the Inhumans against their creators and banishing them from Earth, leaving behind the Diviners, the Inhumans, and a corpse of at least one of their kin.
The Kree Imperials resolved that the Inhumans needed to be destroyed, and sought to use a Monolith, an arcane relic that served as a portal to a distant planet, to attain this end.

Centuries later, the Kree that was left behind on Earth during the Inhuman experiments, later dubbed G.H., was discovered dead by residents of a village in Hunan, and eventually fell into the hands of HYDRA, the Strategic Scientific Reserve, and ultimately SHIELD
Kree-Skrull War

For centuries, the Kree waged war against another race called the Skrulls, and created propaganda that fabricated the Skrulls as heartless monsters who use disguise and deception to infiltrate and destroy civilizations from the inside, whilst the Kree themselves are portrayed as selfless and noble heroes. In reality, the Skrulls refused to submit to the Kree Empire, the Kree responded by destroying their home planet Skrullos, and sending its survivors to flee scattered throughout the galaxy.

Eventually, Mar-Vell realized the injustice that her people were doing and decided to help the surviving Skrulls by constructing a Light-Speed Engine that could help them in finding a new home that was completely out of reach of the Kree. However, her betrayal did not go unnoticed and before she could complete her work, she was tracked down by the Starforce and killed by Yon-Rogg, who also abducted and brainwashed Mar-Vell's Terran pupil, Carol Danvers. Danvers was brought into the Starforce under the name "Vers."
The Kree detected Skrull activity on Aphos Prime, but their scout ship was destroyed, so Vers and Minn-Erva were sent to determine the strength of the Skrull force kept there and report back. Vers and Minn-Erva went to Aphos Prime, where they encountered and fought a group of Skrulls before getting dragged under the planet's muddy surface. There, they met a Skrull who helped them escape and brought the Skrull back to Hala, where he was made a prisoner and interrogated.

### Kree-Nova War

The Kree waged a long-time war against the Nova Empire which many members of Starforce felt passionate about. However, the war was draining funds and resources from the Kree's war against the Skrulls, so the Kree began considering ending the war. However, having learned that Peer Kaal's tests on Aphos Prime were successful, they wanted to steal the plans for the weapon she was testing, the Axiom Cannon, from the Nova Corps. They sent Starforce to retrieve the plans, with Vers taking point on the infiltration. Vers found Kaal, who died after giving Vers the data capsule. Vers returned to Starforce with the help of Rhomann Dey and gave over the plans. The war then continued for many more years.

### Betrayed by Carol Danvers

The Kree continued their onslaught on the Skrulls, but Carol Danvers started to learn her true origin and realized the lies that the Kree had fed her for six years, causing her to turn against them and decide to finish what Mar-Vell had started by finding the surviving Skrulls a new home and to put an end to the Kree's war on other races in the galaxy.

### Seeking the Inhumans

A Kree named Vin-Tak came to Earth when he noticed that a Diviner had been activated; believing the Inhumans as abominations, and fearing what would happen if the Empire found out about them, he sought to kill whoever had transformed. He decided to destroy any remaining Diviners first, before seeking his target. Vin-Tak discovered that the six Diviners on Earth buried in Portugal were gone.

He was apprehended by SHIELD and revealed to Phil Coulson, Melinda May, and Skye Johnson the origin of the Inhumans; Sif was there also because of the enmity between their races caused her to investigate his presence on Earth. Upon discovering that Skye Johnson was an Inhuman, Vin-Tak allied himself with Sif to kill her. However, opposition from Bobbi Morse using her battle staves and Leo Fitz using the Destroyer Armor Prototype Gun delayed his progress. Bobbi Morse used his own Truncheon on him to cause him to forget his mission.

Ultimately, the Kree, without memories of his mission, was taken to Asgard by Sif before returning to Hala.

### Summoned by Hive

Hive took Skye Johnson, Alisha Whitley and Hellfire to Union City, in order to create his own army of Inhumans by having Holden Radcliffe help him re-create the original Kree experiment. At first, the experiment failed and Holden Radcliffe assured him that it would work but they needed blood from a living Kree individual. Hive then used a device to emit a radio signal to summon the Kree Reapers which, according to him, were orbiting the solar system ever since the experiment, centuries ago.

The Kree Reapers destroyed the place where the radio orb device was located while a SHIELD strike enforcement team led by Alphonso Mackenzie was inside but evacuated immediately after Director Phil Coulson warned them of the incoming projectile. The Kree Reapers proceeded to hunt down Inhumans; one of them was walking down the streets and was seen by two people at least, eventually finding Alisha Whitley and killing her double and herself once and for all. Then the Kree Reaper found where Holden Radcliffewas working and fought Johnson where she used her powers on the Kree Reaper's spine to kill him.

Holden Radcliffe managed to get some of the Kree Reaper's blood out of its corpse before it was hit by a Splinter Bomb thrown by Alphonso Mackenzie. The other Kree fought with Hive who was almost outperformed by the Kree Reaper, but eventually, Hive used his Inhuman powers to eliminate and absorb the organic matter from the Kree. Meanwhile, the SHIELD strike team and Melinda May were waiting for the perfect chance to take Hive down, but were forced to retreat when Hive proved superior to their tactics and weaponry.

## Characteristic Traits

The Kree are mostly humanoid, with their most distinctive features being their blue skin, mostly purple eyes and, sometimes, pointed ears, such as with the Kree Ambassador. They are stronger than normal humans, though their exact level of strength appears to vary greatly; some can hold their own against Asgardians, while other were overpowered by humans (albeit ones who are highly skilled in hand-to-hand combat, such as SHIELD agents Bobbi Morse, Skye Johnson, and Melinda May). Their physicality is vastly different from humans, having adapted to various environmental characteristics on their home planet.

Kree also possess potent regenerative abilities. Their healing factor is so profound that SHIELD was able to use the blood of one long-dead Kree to save mortally wounded, terminally ill, or even dead agents more than 5,000 years after the Kree had died. Yon-Rogg also resurrected Carol Danvers with a blood transfusion in 1369. However, that transfusion process only works on "simpler" beings like humans; Kree cannot use their own blood to resurrect their own kind. The Kree have an extremely long lifespan, roughly on par with races such as the Asgardians; Ronan described a team composed of other races as mortals.

Kree skin, when overexposed to nitrogen, changes from blue to pink, heightening their resemblance to light-skinned humans. Kree with other skin tones have been shown to exist, such as Korath the Pursuer, Yon-Rogg and Mar-Vell whose skin more closely resembles that of humans.

While Kree serving in governmental and military roles are generally bald, they are capable of growing hair.

### Language

The Kree have their own language and, being a space-faring race from a large empire, are generally fluent in others. Other extraterrestrial races, such as the Asgardians, teach the Kree language to their young. For example, the word *kava* means key.