Skrull (Deviant)

The **Deviants** of Skrullos, commonly known as just **Skrulls** after wiping out the Eternals and Latents, 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. In the last 100 years, the Skrulls have waged interstellar warfare with the Kree, Badoon, Dire Wraiths, Brood, Xartans, Majesdanians, Xandarians, the Annihilation Wave, and the Builders.

## Deviant Skrull

### Aliases

Changing People, Greenies, Greenskins, Pointy Eared Trolls, Pure-Skrulls, Shapechangers, Skrull Deviants, Skrullian Deviants, Skrullkind, Space-Toads

### Relatives

Prime Skrull, Eternal Skrull, Mutant Skrull

## History

### Genesis

The Skrull race is a species of green skinned humanoids that originate from the planet Skrullos in the Andromeda Galaxy many eons ago.

Their earliest origins and evolution is lost to time. Xorr the God-Jewel has claimed that the Skrulls, along with most other humanoid races are the descendants of the ancient Xorrians. Another group called the Builders have also claimed to be responsible for creating the Skrulls and other races. However these claims are unsubstantiated. Whatever the case, the Skrulls—like many other races in the universe—were selected by the enigmatic Celestials for experimentation, creating three distinct Skrull variants: baseline Skrulls with no inherent abilities but having the capacity for mutation, the neigh powerful Skrullian Eternals, and Skrullian Deviants.

Yet another offshoot developed from the Skrulls, a race of black magic practitioners who became known as the Dire Wraiths, who soon departed Skrullos to inhabit the Dark Nebula and espoused plans for universal domination.

The Deviant of Armechadon known as Tantalus, created by the rogue Celestian known as the Dreaming Celestial, convinced Deviants of all other races to eliminate their baseline and Eternal counterparts, including those of the Skrull race. Whatever the case, millions of years ago, the Deviant Skrulls went to war against the other offshoots of their race, under the command of the warrior princess Sl'gur't until the vast majority of the other Skrull races were wiped out. At the time they believed to had drove the other races to extinction except for a lone Eternal Skrull named Kly'bn.

When Sl'gur't's forces stormed the "Unworthies"'s stronghold in the Valley of the Esul, Kly'bn convinced Sl'gur't not to kill him, as doing so would ultimately mean the death of their race and their greater destiny. Kly'bn spoke of a destiny beyond the stars where the Skrull people would rule over all those who were inferior Skrulls. Accepting this truth, Sl'gur't and Kly'bn were married, and transcended into godhood. This became the foundation of the Deviant Skrull's religion, they formed a religion called the Book of Worlds that was based on a manifest destiny over the entire universe. Sl'gur't and Kly'bn were worshiped as gods to the Skrulls, and over the centuries that followed the religion endured, however many of the Skrulls believed the tales from the Book to be myth, but devout followers endured over the ages. These devout worshipers formed a religion called the Dard'van.

Over the centuries, the worlds invaded by the Skrulls the various pantheon gods of the 978 other worlds were either killed or enslaved. Among those gods, Hadith, Omen-Maker, Path-Ligher the god of the Queega of Quolan, Blessed-of-Litters of the Druff of Ryas, and Ceffyad the Righteous of Idoidea Swarm Collective had been co-opted and enslaved by the Skrull gods. Statues commemorating their fall and assimilation into Skrull culture soon became much of the imagery used in Skrull places of worship. One of the most powerful and longest living Skrulls was Nogor, who was the talisman of the Skrull people and a step below the gods himself. Nogor often was present in the vicinity of Skrull conflicts as a show of approval for the Skrull gods.

### Ancient History

About 10 million years ago, the Skrull became a great technologically advanced empire and a peaceful race for a time, they established colonies all over the Andromeda galaxy, establishing a new throneworld on Tarnax IV. Under the rule of Emperor Dorrek I, the Skrulls sought to share their technological advancement with another race. They discovered the planet Hala home to two distinct races: the blue skinned humanoids known as the Kree and the plant-like Cotati. Unwilling to share their gifts with two races, the Skrulls placed a number of each race on Blue Area of Earth's moon with the challenge to see who could build the most advanced city within a year. When the Skrulls returned they found that the Kree used Skrullian technology to build a massive technological metropolis, while the Cotati managed to breath new life on the surface of the moon, creating a lush forest. The Skrulls ruled in favour of the Cotati, angering the Kree who slaughtered Dorrek and his part. They then reversed engineered Skrull technology to build their own warships and attack the Skrull homeworld. This act of aggression led to the beginning of a the centuries long Kree/Skrull War, the Skrulls abandoned their peaceful ways and became a race of conquerors taking over planets by force and expanding their galactic empire. Around this time, a Skrull ventured into the Citadel of Light and Shadow on a quest to obtain the reality altering device known as the Crystal of Ultimate Vision. The Skrull managed to get to the Crystal and sought to claim it for his own. That quest was in fact a test, a mature species renouncing that power, and the Skrulls therefore failed the test: The Skrulls ended up in an evolutionary dead end and the Skrull who failed the test was turned into a statue that would go on to stand before the Citadel.

Thousands of years ago, the Skrulls were involved in a scientific endeavor to invent the Lifestone Tree a collection of powerful gems that endowed the Chosen Eight of Fate to be guardians of the galaxy, one of their number included a Skrull. The Chosen Eight were active for about 200 years. During this time four members died in battle, two of died of old age, one retired, and the final member's whereabouts became a mystery for centuries. The fate of the Skrull who fought with the Chosen eight is unknown. Ultimately, the gems making up the Lifestone Tree were lost after an attack by space pirates and the gems were lost on Earth well into more modern times. Relatively around this time another Skrull was responsible for creating a Cosmic Cube a powerful device that could alter reality to the whims of the user. When given to the Skrull emperor at the time he used the power of the Cube to make himself a god. However, the Cube gained its power through the realm of the Beyonders and soon developed a megalomaniacal persona that matched its user and laid waste to the entire Skrull empire, destroying many of its world's and reducing the Skrulls to barbarism. Eventually the Cube matured changing itself into the so-called Shaper of Worlds and left to seek those with imagination enough to utilize his power, leaving the Skrulls to rebuild their crippled empire. The Skrulls rebuilt their empire over the centuries and continued age-old war with the Kree and continued to expand their empire. They soon became aware of Earth, a planet that was strategically between the Kree and Skrull galaxies and this world became the focal point of many invasion plots by the Skrulls to gain it as a tactical advantage in their war. Presumably, hostilities between the Kree and the Skrulls cooled around this time, and it is possible that it was at this time the Convention of Fornax was signed which among other probably provisions included a moratorium on torturing prisoners of war.

### Early Interactions with Earth

The earliest known interaction between the Skrulls and the planet Earth dates back to the Spanish Inquisition at some time between the late 1400s or early 1500s. The religious natives who found the corpses believed the Skrulls to be demons and cast their bodies in an inaccessible ravine. While persecuting a group of Inhumans they were tossed into the ravine and were forced to feed off the corpses, infecting their bodies with the highly invasive Skrull DNA which mutated them and caused them to endure for centuries. In the year 1776, A Skrull arrived on Earth and briefly disguised himself as Thomas Jefferson during the writing of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. The Skrull attempted to to affect the writing of the Bill of Rights so that slavery was still allowed in early America so that humans would be prepared for a life of slavery during an eventual Skrull invasion. However this plot was thwarted by the Fantastic Four heroes from the 21st century (Who in future years had been the Skrulls longest enemies) who were searching for a Chronal-Anchor. The FF foiled the plot and their leader Mr. Fantastic used hypnosis to turn the Skrulls into cows, a trick he used on the Skrulls that he used on the aliens the first time he met them a number of centuries in the future.

The next recorded incident of Skrulls active on Earth occurred in the 19th century during the days of the American Frontier. A Skrull invasion party set up operations in the town of Wilcox, Oklahoma. The Skrulls there disguised themselves as famous outlaws in order to steer people away, however the local Apache tribe became aware of their duplicitous nature if not their origins. A chance encounter with outlaws Kid Colt and Arizona Annie uncovered the truth and the two gunslingers fought for their lives, decimating the entire town with dynamite, slaying the Skrulls who lived there. The Skrulls were not reportedly seen on Earth until the early half of the 20th century. By this point, Skrulls living on the planet Kral IV established Slave-Masters who took to abducting aliens from other worlds. They kidnapped mobster Machine Gun Martin as he had escaped from prison. The Skrulls on Kral became highly interested in the styles, mannerisms and society of the prohibition era America through their interactions with Martin, many Skrulls on the planet adopted human forms for formed gangs and adopting the culture. Skrull mobsters such as Boss Barker, Lippy Louie, and others resolved mob disputes with gladiatorial combat between their slaves.

A Skrull scientist at one point stated that he was the earliest attempt at a "super" Skrull, being experimented on in the 1930s. The resulting experiment did not endow him with super-powers but instead a leg encased in stone, which rendered him useless as a soldier. In 1947, the last known prime Skrull survivor attempted to flee capture from the Deviant Skrulls and his ship crash landed on Earth in Roswell, New Mexico. He was quickly captured by t the United States government who experimented on him for years. Another ship, part of an scouting party for an upcoming invasion also crashed on Earth in the American southwest during that year. aboard the ship were Skrull agents Velmax and Zuhn. Exiting their ship Zuhn was shot by a hunter named Jacob Scott who died in a car crash trying to flee the scene. Velmex stole Scott's identity and fled the scene, leaving Zuhn and their ship to be recovered by the government. Velmex used his identity to work his way into the ranks of the CIA to learn what he could about the Earth's defensive capabilities, but soon came to love the Earth and its culture and decided to thwart his master's plans. In the early 1950s, Velmax considered taking up the role of Captain America by decided against it. Velmex was not the only Skrull active on Earth at that time. In 1958, a Skrull spy named Zirksu who came on a infiltration mission. He kidnapped test pilot Chuck Chandler and tried to probe him for answers. Chandler managed to escape and bombarded with strange energy he was transformed into the 3-D Man and imprinted on his brother Hal's glasses, but could be freed at will. Zirksu meanwhile attempted to subvert American society, taking advantage of the Cold War hysteria at the time and posing as Diabolik, a communist agent. However this initial attempt at causing hysteria in America was thwarted by 3-D Man, but Zirksu escaped.

Zirksu then changed his modus operandi, deciding to use pop-culture as his weapon to further the Skrulls invasion plans. As the leader of a biker gang he attempted to eliminate any sighting reports of his invasion fleet. Posing as recording studio agent Doc Rock, he attempted to manipulate American youth through the music of up-and-coming rock 'n' roller Vance Rivers. Both plots were foiled by 3-D Man. After failing to free Rivers from prison, Zirksu took on the form of then-Vice President Richard Nixon and assisted in empowering Eric Sinkovitz, who attacked 3-D Man as the communist themed Cold Warrior. When 3-D Man defeated Cold Warrior, Zirksu abandoned his Nixon disguise and has not been seen since. Also in 1958, Velmex tracked his ship to a government facility in Long Island, New York. There he encountered the super-hero team known as the First Line and prevented the ship from falling into communist hands. Exposed to the energies of his ship, Velmax briefly reverted back to his Skrull form, but convinced the heroes that the energies mutated him into a shape-shifter and joined the First Line's ranks. Unknown to Velmax, his commander Zuhn survived the past decade and escaped the facility to resume his mission.

By November 1963, Zuhn had aligned himself with super-powered villains of Earth under the guise of Chimera and attacked a Stark Industries facility in Dallas Texas on the 21st of that year with the super-human known as Lupine. The First Line stopped Chimera from stealing technology he needed to get off planet, and he was slain in the process, although Velmax kept Chimera's true nature a secret from his teammates. Later on July 16, 1969, Skrull invaders attempted to sabotage Apollo 11 moon landing using Earth operatives Lupine, Typhoon, Positron, Blackjack, and Axis, but this attempt was also thwarted by the First Line. With a Skrull invasion impending an President Richard Nixon threatening to dismantle the First Line, Velmax used his inside knowledge to expose the Watergate Scandal, which ended in Nixon's impeachment, and allowing the First Line to continue to operate—if only underground.

On top of their ongoing invasion plans, the Skrulls sent yet more spies to infiltrate Earth society. A group of Skrulls apparently replaced the popular British rock group the Beatles sometime around what music critics called "The British Invasion" with the intention of infiltrating Earth through popular culture. Another group apparently took the places of the group known as Gerry and the Peacemakers as well. However, like the Skrulls of Kral IV, these Skrulls soon came to adopt the culture and continued their music careers. By December 1974 the "Skrull Beatles" went their separate ways, "Skrull John" left to join Captain Boko in the Kree Liberation Army, "Skrull George" going on a pilgrimage into the Dark Dimension with its ruler the dread Dormammu, "Skrull Ringo" sought fame and fortune, while "Skrull Paul" went to see how the Skrull versions of Gerry and the Peacemakers were coming along with their invasion plans. While the Skrull Beatles have since resurfaced the Skrull Peacemakers fate is unknown. By this time the Skrull throne was taken by Dorrek VII who slew his predecessor and married his daughter R'Klll. Their coupling gave them a daughter they named Anelle a born pacifist who sought peace, unlike her warmongering father. Dorrek's brother Prince Dezan a Skrull who sought a peaceful way of life began conspiring with the like minded Zabyk and Myrn. When Prince Dezan's peaceful goals were revealed, Dorrek encased him in an iron mask and had him imprisoned. Zabyk and Myrn pushed their goals underground and continued to operate in Skrull society to further their ends. Shortly after his own rise to power, Dorrek became the target of an assassin named Krimonn. However Dorrek managed to thwart this attempt and as punishment entrapped Krimonn in a device commonly known as a Power Prism. Dorrek sent a Skrull named Zankor was sent to Earth with memory implants that left him to believe that he was merely a human, however his ship crashed causing massive head injuries that submerged his memories so deep that he believed himself to be a human aware of some alien invasion, and frantically tried to warn the authorities. However, the truth was revealed when Zankor was directed to young scientist Reed Richards who deduced that Zankor was really the alien as he was the only one able to decipher the language from the recording device that held his proof and he was turned over to the authorities. Also at this time, the Skrulls managed to find a weak link in the First Line. When First Line member the Yeti was reeling over the death of his teammate and love Rapunzel, they sent a female operative to gain his trust. Ultimately, the Skrulls pushed forward with their invasion plans, and the First Line along with a squad of their allies and enemies opposed them. Despite betrayal from Yeti, and large casualties, the First Line destroyed the Skrull invasion fleet, sacrificing nearly their entire roster in the process to stop it. Meanwhile, Yeti and his Skrullian lover fled to the Himalayas mountains, where she eventually died.

### Modern Age

#### Early Incursions

The Skrulls apparently did not make another attempt to take over Earth until over 10 years ago, shortly after the birth of the Fantastic Four, a new group of super-heroes who ironically had Reed Richards leading the group. Seeing the Four as the only threat to their plans. They sent four of their agents to impersonate the Fantastic Four, committing crimes to discredit the heroes. However the Four managed to escape captivity and uncover their doppelgängers. Richards then forced the Skrulls to take him to their invasion ship and convince the crew that Earth was protected by invincible warriors and giant monsters, using pictures clipped out of comic books. The Skrulls were easily duped and while one of the spies was allowed to return home with the mothership, the remaining three captive Skrulls were forced to shapeshift into cows and were hypnotized into believing that was just what they were.

Soon discovering this deception, Dorrek was furious and invested the entire Skrull Empire's fortune in trying to create an artificial means of giving super-human abilities. Their first tests were on a Skrull named Titannus a weakling Skrull unable to shape-shift. He was given enhanced strength and eventually went on a rampage across the Skrull homeworld and eventually left the Skrull planet to find conquest elsewhere. Dorrek's ambitious plot eventually bore fruit and soon a Skrull warrior named K'lrt was endowed with all the powers of the Fantastic Four, however the source of his power needed to be beamed to him from the Skrull homeworld. As the so-called Super-Skrull, K'lrt clashed with the Fantastic Four on Earth until Reed Richards discovered the source of the Super-Skrull's power and used a jamming device to cut off the energy source. K'lrt was then buried in a dormant volcano.

However, Dorrek had his scientist eventually increase the power to free the Super-Skrull. Seeking revenge against the Fantastic Four, the Super-Skrull abducted Franklin Storm the father of the FF's Invisible Girl and Human Torch. Using his shape-shifting powers, the Super-Skrull took Franklin's place in prison, where he had been serving time for vehicular homicide. Using his powers to break out of prison, the Super-Skrull developed the identity of the Invisible Man to commit crimes and discredit the Fantastic Four in the public eye by making it appear that they were letting the Invincible Man get away with his crimes due to his "family connection" to the Fantastic Four. However, Richards eventually deduced the true identity of their foe and built a weapon that threatened to destroy the Skrull throneworld unless they returned Franklin and took the Super-Skrull away. Dorrek agreed to these terms however his warlord Morrat placed a bomb on Franklin to try and kill the Fantastic Four in a double cross in order to curry Dorrek's favour and win the right to marry Anelle. However, this plan was thwarted when Franklin sacrificed his life to save those of his children. For his failure to defeat the Fantastic Four, the Super-Skrull was punished and forced to carry out menial tasks for the empire as punishment.

Following Franklin's death, the Fantastic Four travelled to the Skrull throneworld to avenge his death. There they clashed with Warlord Morrat, and were easily captured due to their powers failing them on the Skrull planet. By this time, Morrat had grown impatient and sought to use the capture of the Fantastic Four as leverage to oust Dorrek as ruler of the Skrulls. However, Anelle informed her father and he ordered Morrat's execution. The Four managed to break free and restore their powers. When Dorrek's firing squad shot at Morrat, Anelle tried to shield him, but she was in turn shielded by the Invisible Girl and Morrat was killed. In thanks for protecting his daughter, Dorrek allowed the Fantastic Four to return home, offering them the false promise that the Skrulls would no longer attack the Earth. Also around this time the Krellek Council assigned five young Skrulls to impersonate and discredit the young mutant heroes known as the X-Men. They did so by unleashing some of the Mole Man's creatures on the surface. However they grew sympathetic to the X-Men and assisted the group in subduing the creatures before they were reigned in by their superiors. The Super-Skrull was later briefly manipulated by the Fantastic Four's enemy Dr. Doom who used his Emotion Changer device to set a number of super-villains to crash the wedding of Reed Richards and Sue Storm. In the end Super-Skrull and the other attackers were shunted back to where they belonged with no memory of the attack when Reed was given a Time Displacement device by Uatu the Watcher. When the Skrull's detected the approach of the planet eater Galactus, they used a device to shield their world from his view, directing Galactus to the planet Earth, however he was ultimately defeated by the Fantastic Four. About this time, the Super-Skrull was manipulated by the Asgardian trickster god Loki into attacking his half-brother Thor, but was soundly defeated. Yet another Skrull infiltrated Earth society, this time within the FBI, an agent named Baker was replaced by a Skrull. "Agent Baker" then briefly replaced X-Men liaison Fred Duncan. Baker had the X-Men's Beast investigate recent reports of alien sightings before being transferred to another department.

The Skrull crime bosses on Kral IV later sent their Slave-Master to Earth to capture the Thing, the strongest member of the Fantastic Four. The Skrull succeeded in doing so by disguising himself as Reed Richards and catching the Thing off guard and abducting him. Soon, the Thing arrived on Kral IV, where he was forced into the gladiatorial arenas as a slave of Boss Baker and made to train to fight against Lippy Louie's champion the Mekkan warrior Torgo. However, his comrades in the Fantastic Four tracked the Thing down and brought down the Skrull Slave-Master and the Skrull mobsters, freeing Ben and starting a revolution from the slaves, with Torgo as their leader.

#### Resumption of Kree/Skrull War

With the awakening of Kree Sentry #459 the Kree empire renewed its interest in the planet Earth, sending a crew on an information gathering mission, among the crew was decorated Kree soldier Captain Mar-Vell, whose early interactions on Earth were mistaken as a new super-hero calling himself Captain Marvel. The increase in Kree activity on Earth prompted Emperor Dorrek to send the Super-Skrull to learn what the Kree were up to. On Earth, the Super-Skrull clashed with Mar-Vell near Cape Canaveral, Florida. However before the Super-Skrull could probe Mar-Vell's mind and learn his mission, he fell victim to his own hypnotic gaze and was commanded by the Kree soldier to flee the Earth. Not long after this a Skrull device crash landed near Cape Canaveral that was purposely sent there to scan DNA information of Earth warriors. It was collected by Carol Danvers and Mar-Vell, in his alter ego of scientist Walter Lawson. When Danvers touched the device the Skrulls copied her DNA allowing them to assume her form almost perfectly. A Skrull invader then posed as Carol and attempted to kidnap Mar-Vell in an Earth space shuttle launch, but he was thwarted by Danvers who rescued Mar-Vell.

It was around this time that the cosmic entity known as the Grandmaster came into possession of the Power Prism which still had Krimmon imprisoned inside. This device was given to transform Ugandan finance minister Kinji Obatu into Doctor Spectrum, part of the Squadron Sinister a group of powered villains that the Grandmaster created to pit against the heroic Avengers who were pawns of the time traveller Kang in a contest. The Avengers defeated the Squadron, but Obatu retained the power prism.

Meanwhile, the Kree targeted Earth again with their then leader Ronan the Accuser attempting to devolve the human race into primitive cavemen, leading to a clash with Captain Marvel and the Avengers. However Ronan abandoned this plot when the Skrulls resumed full on hostility against his homeworld. It was about this time that the the lone Skrull that escaped the Fantastic Four in their first encounter with the Skrulls began working with the Super-Skrull who had been exiled following his last failure. The pair used a hyper-beam to revive the Skrulls on Earth who were hypnotized into thinking they were cows. They then joined the Super-Skrull in a plan that Kl'rt hoped would win him the favour of his Emperor and win the hand of Anelle in marriage in a bid to gain control of the empire. When the Avenger's battle with Ronan became public knowledge one of the Skrull spies took the place of US Presidential Candidate H. Warren Craddock using his political position to spread xenophobia toward the Kree in general, Mar-Vell in particular and to besmirch the reputation of the Avengers. He also formed the Commission of Alien affairs to begin witch hunts to find aliens hiding among the population. When the Avengers helped Mar-Vell go into hiding this turned the public against them. They were also brought in for questioning by the commission under "Haddock". Meanwhile, the Skrulls captured Mar-Vell and his confidant Carol Danvers as their safe house. The remaining three Skrulls then posed as founding Avengers Captain America, Thor, and Iron Man, and ordered the current roster to disband.

Going to reconvene with Mar-Vell, the Avengers were attacked by the three Skrulls, who then captured the Scarlet Witch and her brother Quicksilver, but the Vision escaped. He brought the real founding members of the Avengers with him later, while the Super-Skrull—posing as Carol Danvers—tried to trick Mar-Vell into building a Omni-Wave Projector a communications device which could also double as a devastating weapon. Mar-Vell saw through the ploy, but this did not stop Kl'rt from knocking him out and escaping the arriving Avengers, who bested the three Skrull spies. The three captured Skrulls were once more forced to resume thinking they were cows, where they eventually ended up in the town of King's Crossing. While the Super-Skrull took Mar-Vell and the prisoners to the Great Refuge of the Inhumans, whom he knew were empowered by the Kree and tried to destroy it, but the city was too well protected. He then took his prisoners to the Andromeda galaxy to deliver to Emperor Dorrek, the Avengers were attacked by "Haddock" using SHEILD Mandroid. While on Tarnax IV where Dorrek subdued the Super-Skrull and he forced Mar-Vell to agree to build an Omni-Wave Projector in exchange for the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver's lives. Back on Earth the Avengers fought free of the Mandroids and assisted Inhuman leader Black Bolt from liberating his people from his mad brother Maximus, but the Avenger's ally Rick Jones was captured by the Kree.

Hostilities by this point had escalated to the point where Dorrek ordered a Skrull armada to destroy the Earth. The Avengers, on their way to rescue their friends intercepted the invasion party and then fought them head on. Mar-Vell meanwhile tricked Dorrek into thinking his was compliant but used the distraction to break free. While on the Kree world of Hala, Rick was imprisoned with the disposed Kree ruler, the Supreme Intelligence who awoken the dormant Destiny Force within Rick. With the Intelligence's guidance, Rick used the Destiny Force to immobilize the Kree and Skrull armies, while the Avengers halted the Skrull's attempt to blow up the Earth, while on Earth the Skrull posing as H. Warren Craddock was reverted to his Skrullian form and beaten to death by an angry mob. In the aftermath of the battle a Skrull Monsteroid crash landed on Earth and was briefly used by both the Puppet Master and Master Khan. The robot was stopped by Spider-Man, the Vision and Iron Fist respectively. With the Kree-Skrull War over for the time being, Captain Mar-Vell met and conspired with Anelle to try to bring peace to their worlds. While a solution was not found, a brief romance between the two impregnated Anelle with a child. When born, Anelle named him Dorrek VIII. Learning of his grandson's mixed heritage, Emperor Dorrek ordered the baby killed, but Anelle managed to smuggle the child to Earth where he spent the coming years unaware of his royal heritage.

Also as a result of the war, Reed Richards, Iron Man, Black Bolt, Sub-Mariner, Professor X, and Dr. Strange form the Illuminati a clandestined group that would monitor and respond on super-human incidents. Their first order of business was to travel to the Skrull throneworld where Dorrek VII was being appraised of their losses in the war, primarily due to Earth's super-human population. The Illuminati provided a stern warning to Dorrek, telling him to no longer invade the Earth or suffer the consequence, and demonstrated this by blowing up a Skrull warship. However, the Skrulls managed to capture the humans and put them through torturous experiments to learn the secrets of their abilities, under Dorrek's orders. The heroes eventually broke out and managed to flee the Skrull homeworld and return to Earth. In the aftermath, Dorrek learned that they completed collecting all the data they knew on human mutation, magic, and technology and ordered his Priests of Science to get to work engineering Skrulls who could mimic all those skills, no matter how long it would take. Dorrek was intent to fullfill the Skrull prophecies that foretold that the Skrull homeworld would be destroyed and that Earth would be theirs to take. Following the attack, Dorrek was confronted by Dard'van priestess Veranke who demanded that Dorrek listen to the prophecies of their religion, warning him that the Skrull Empire was doomed, and that Earth was their destiny.

#### Recovery from the War

The Skrulls were slow to recover from the outcome of the Kree/Skrull War. A number of Skrulls ended up aligning themselves with the mad Titan Thanos, including the Super-Skrull and Skragg. Thanos sought to obtain a Cosmic Cube that was created on Earth and targeted Captain Marvel and his partner Rick Jones to try and obtain it's location. After a failed attempt by Skragg to drive Mar-Vell and Jones mad, they attempted a physical attack by tricking him into fighting the Thing, this also failed and Skragg was slain by Thanos. Ultimately, Thanos stepped in and captured Mar-Vell and Jones. Super-Skrull accompanied him to the moon of Titan where Thanos extracted the location of the Cube and left Super-Skrull in charge. Mar-Vell was freed by Mentor and Starfox of the Eternals of Titan, they defeated Super-Skrull in combat and retook the moon for the Eternals. The Super-Skrull meanwhile was left for dead. Eventually, Thanos gathered an invasion fleet to attack the Earth, many of his troops were Skrulls who were slain when the Avengers thwarted the invasion. The Super-Skrull managed to flee to Earth where he took on the guise of Joshua Plague and took control of a band of raiders calling themselves the Rat Pack, using them to steal experimental serums to heal his injuries from battling Mar-Vell. The group clashed with the feline hero Tigra when they slaughtered a Cheyenne reservation to obtain a mystical object called the Soul-Catcher. This slaughter also brought the hero Red Wolf on their trail as well. The two heroes tracked down the Rat Pack and in the heat of the battle, the Super-Skrull revealed his true identity to them. Unfortunately for the Super-Skrull his plan backfired when he attempted to use the Soul-Catcher against Tiger and found himself sucked into the object instead, trapping him inside. The Soul-Catcher was then turned over to the Fantastic Four for safe keeping.

Around this period, the Fantastic Four were tasked with trying to save Counter-Earth from being consumed by Galactus. To this end the High Evolutionary sent two teams to different worlds suitable for Galactus to consume to ensure they weren't inhabited. One team consisting of the Human Torch and the New Man called Gor found a world where a group of Skrulls were living out fantasies based on Earth's medieval period. The Skrulls dropped their guise and explained their being there after the Human Torch accepted a challenge to battle a dragon. With the last of the dragons on that world destroyed, the Skrulls had no reason to stay and left that world to find new worlds to master. Ultimately the Fantastic Four won the battle when Galactus was seemingly destroyed. But he would eventually return to consume worlds again. Back on Earth, a battle between Spider-Man and the villain called Equinox at the Baxter Building, headquarters of the Fantastic Four, resulted in the Soul-Catcher being knocked loose. This allowed the Super-Skrull to free himself, and he battled both Spider-Man and the Human Torch. The Skrull managed to escape and sought out a power crystal to build a warp drive capable of allowing him to finally escape from Earth. However this attracted the attention of Ms. Marvel who assisted Spider-Man in pursuing the Super-Skrull. The Skrull was defeated when Spider-Man created a jamming device to prevent the Skrull from gaining more power reacted with the power crystal, opening a warp gate that the Super-Skrull was seemingly lost in forever.

The Skrulls later resumed plotting against their age-old enemies the Kree. A lone Skrull infiltrated the Kree empire, posing as "Por-Bat" a member of the Kree Science Council and instigated preparations for a conflict dubbed the War of Three Galaxies. He then tried to trick the Kree into using the Inhumans as soldiers on a supposed "sneak attack" on the Skrulls. However the Skrulls had laid a trap and were prepared to destroy their enemies once and for all. The plan was foiled however when the Science Council was interrupted by Captain Marvel and Black Bolt who held off their opening strike long enough for Mar-Vell to reveal that Por-Bat was really a Skrull spy. The Kree put a halt to their attack plans for the time being. Shortly after this, former ruler of Kral IV, Boss Barker, decided to get revenge against the Thing for ruining his dominion over the planet. To this end, he be-headed the robot Torgo and went after the Thing on Earth. Captain Marvel detected Boss Barker's presence on Earth and came to the Thing's aid. In the end it was the severed head of Torgo who put Barker's threat to an end, when he used the last of his energy to slay Barker before he could finish off the two heroes.

#### The Death of Dorrek VII

Emperor Dorrek then turned his sights to the planet Xandar one of the last worlds in the Andromeda Galaxy that was not already under Skrull rule. The Xandarians sent their ruler Adora to Earth to seek the help of the Fantastic Four. A Skrull assassin (really a robot) followed her, but it was waylaid and left for dead by the FF. Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Girl, and the Thing agreed to help Adora defend her world. As the heroes transported to Xandar the Skrull assassin—having survived—hide himself in the Baxter Building to await the team's return. When the Fantastic Four arrived on Xandar, they drove back the latest wave of Skrull attackers. Emperor Dorrek then became aware of another ship heading to the planet and ordered his troops to destroy it. This ship was formerly owned by the Nova Corpsman Rhomann Dey and was enroute to Xandar from Earth. It happened to be carrying the hero Nova, his allies Powerhouse, the Comet, Crime-Buster and their foes the Sphinx, Dr. Sun, and Diamond Head. This combination of super-humans easily fought off the Skrull armada and continued toward Xandar. Meanwhile the Fantastic Four continued to battle the Skrulls on the planet, but were abducted and brought to the Skrull homeworld. There Emperor Dorrek had them put before a trail by the Jury of Six who sentenced them to death for their "crimes" against the Skrull empire. The three members of the team were then blasted with an ageing ray by the Skrull executioner Jaketch. As the FF broke free and attempted to make their escape, Dorrek's estranged queen R'Klll returned to oversee her husbands attack on Xandar and found that Dorrek was a coward and began aspiring to take over his rule. The Four were rescued from space by Nova and his party and brought back to Xandar and they brought the Human Torch to the planet with them. However the Sphinx absorbed information from the Xandarian Worldmind and fled to Earth. Meanwhile Protector of Xandar led warriors to fight the Skrulls in space. The Fantastic Four then left to find Galactus to help stop the Sphinx, leaving Nova and his newly formed New Champions to defend Xandar from further Skrull attacks. While on the Skrull homeworld, Dorrek had decided to cut his losses but before he could pull his troops back he was murdered by R'Klll, who then took command of the Skrull Empire. He first order was to launch an all out attack on Xandar.

Back on Earth, the Fantastic Four brought Galactus with them to deal with the Sphinx as the effects of the Skrull ageing ray began to reach its fatal conclusion. They were unaware that the Skrull they felled earlier was still alive and plotting against them. After both the Sphinx and Galactus were defeated, the ageing Fantastic Four were forced to be put in stasis with the Human Torch the only member unaffected. The robot Skrull assassin then attacked Johnny while his guard was down, but the Torch destroyed the robot. He revived Reed who used the robots technology to build a device that would reverse the effect of the ageing ray, restoring the stricken Fantastic Four to normal. Meanwhile, the Skrulls continued to launch attacks against Xandar. Another Skrull attempted to manipulate the Avengers into going back in time and collecting the Resurrection Stone for him. However the Avenger known as the Beast smashed the stone and the Skrull was ultimately defeated. A group of Skrulls later attempted to assassinate Reed Richards by crashing their ship into the Baxter Building, but their attempt was stopped by the super-powerful Sentry. Also around this time the Super-Skrull kidnapped both Wolverine and novice X-Man Kitty Pryde taking them into space to examine as part of an invasion plan. The pair were assisted by the arrival of Captain Marvel, who helped the two mutants escape to Earth and foil Kl'rt's plans.

#### Empress R'Klll

One of her first duties as Empress to the Skrull Empire, R'Klll assigned a Skrull named Raksor to act as an ambassador to the Shi'ar who at the time were seeking to persecute Phoenix of the X-Men for the destruction of the D'bari star system. Raksor accompanied the Shi'ar along with Bel-Dann his Kree counterpart to the Blue Area of the Moon where the X-Men were to battle the Shi'ar's Imperial Guard to determine the fate of the Phoenix. Raksor was unimpressed to work alongside a member of the Kree. When Raksor tried to attack the X-Man Wolverine, he was rescued by Bel-Dann. Furious at being saved by a hated enemy the two began to fight among each other deep below the surface of the moon. They would spend the next few months below the surface of the moon fighting, completely oblivious to events that would later unfold. Out in deep space, the Skrulls began working on a matter transference device to boost their war effort. They found the key when their device linked to Reed Richard's similarly designed energy transfer device on Earth. Seeking to obtain Reed's device, and fearing interference from the Kree, the Skrulls sent agents to stop Captain Marvel while sending the best warriors—dubbed the Prime Ten—to Earth. The Prime Ten ambushed the Fantastic Four at their headquarters, but were ultimately defeated by the Four and Mar-Vell. Using the transference device they sent the Skrulls back to their asteroid base causing the device to overload and explode, ruining their plans of ever using it against the Kree. While back out in Skrull space, the Skrulls managed to defeat Protector and his warriors thanks to the assistance of Diamondhead who betrayed his "allies", slaying Crime-Buster in the process. Shunting Protector and his crew into another dimension a Skrull war party disguised themselves as the crew and returned to Xandar to launch an ambush attack. There they were opposed by Nova, Powerhouse and the Spaceknight Rom who was on Xandar trying to learn the location of his homeworld Galador. With the assistance of Rom, the New Champions managed to thwart the Skrull invasion. When it was learned that Captain Marvel was dying of cancer, the Skrulls sent General Zedrao to award their greatest enemy a Skrull medal of valor and pay his respects on behalf of the Skrull Empire. However the duplicitous Skrulls also took advantage of this situation to continue their constant infiltration and spying. Among the gathered heroes come to pay their respects to the dying hero was a Skrull named Bartak who initially infiltrated the gathering posing as the hero known as Devil-Slayer. However upon noticing that the real Devil-Slayer was in attendance, Bartak changed his shape to resemble the Silver Surfer who at the time was exiled and stranded on Earth after betraying his former master Galactus. When the heroes inquired as to how the "Surfer" managed to escape the Earth, Bartak convinced them that Galactus had set him free. His deception a success, Bartak returned to the Skrull homeworld and underwent augmentation to imitate the Surfer's powers and continued to pose as the hero in space while he was still exiled on Earth. The Skrulls soon planned another invasion of Earth, the plans of which were learned by the Shi'ar who sent their agent Gladiator to warn the Fantastic Four. However Skrulls impersonating the X-Men intercepted Gladiator and convinced him that the Fantastic Four had been replaced by Skrulls leading to a battle between the famed group and Gladiator. However with the assistance of Spider-Man and Captain America, the Fantastic Four managed to reveal the Skrull trick and defeated the X-Men imitators. They were then taken into custody of Gladiator who took them into space.

During all this time, the Skrulls who were trapped in the form of cows on Earth were being milked in the town of King's Crossing. When the towns people began ingesting the milk their bodies were infected with the invasive Skrull DNA. These now half-Skrull half-humans became increasingly xenophobic and began shutting off the town while mass producing the Skrull DNA infused milk. When the Fantastic Four's friend Sharon Selleck stumbled upon the town and was forced to stay, she managed to contact the Fantastic Four who came to her rescue. Getting a sample of the tainted milk, Reed Richards managed to develop an antidote and cure the locals and destroy all the tainted milk and crops that were irrigated with it. The Skrull cows however where not located at this time and continued to endure for a time, some of them even began breeding producing Skrull/Cow hybrids. R'Klll was also in talks with the Kree Supreme Intelligence and they made an agreement that the outcome of the Kree/Skrull War would be determined by proxies and selected both Raksor and Bel-Dann on the moon. They had the Watcher gather the two combatants and they agreed that whoever one the one-on-one battle would then determine whose race was the victor in the war. Also around this time a Skrull scholar named Klobok was exiled from the Skrull throneworld for his obsessive research of magic.

#### Destruction of the Skrull Throneworld

The Skrull homeworld soon came under threat of consumption by Galactus when his newest herald Nova who was able to detect the Skrull throneworld even though it was cloaked, as in previous close calls with the world devourer.

Shortly before the arrival of Galactus, a group of X-Men from the near future found themselves transported to the Skrull homeworld by the other-dimension being known as Ejulp. There the group discovered an elaborate training facility that was designed to resemble New York City where Skrulls were training as disguised super-heroes for yet another planned invasion of Earth. These new Warskrulls were designed to be locked into the form of those they impersonated. The X-Men clashed with their spies-in-training who posed as various super-heroes both dead and alive, including some based after the X-Men themselves. The battle raged until suddenly Galactus arrive to consume the planet. The X-Men's leader Professor X then attempted to convince Galactus not to consume the Skrull throneworld, however his efforts were in vein. The X-Men, were then forced to flee the planet in a ship that would pilot them back to Earth, on an extended course that would bring them home in their proper time. Despite their efforts to fight off Galactus, the world devourer succeeded in consuming the Skrull throneworld. Among those slain in the destruction were Empress R'Klll and her daughter Anelle. Reed Richards was ultimately blamed for the destruction of the Skrull throneworld due to the fact that he previously saved the life of Galactus. He was then kidnapped by the Shi'ar who were acting on behalf of the Skrulls at the behest of Prelate Karant Kiar. During the so-call "Trial of Galactus", Karant Kiar sought to have Richards found guilty for the slaughter of his homeworld and executed. However testimony from the Watcher, Asgardian All-Father Odin, the embodiment of the universe known as Eternity and from Galactus himself convinced the court that Galactus was an integral part of the universe and the destruction of the Skrull homeworld was part of a greater destiny, and so Richards was acquitted of all charges and released. Following the destruction of their homeworld, Skrulls that were determined to have mutant abilities were no longer culled, and were used for experimentation and weaponization purposes, although they passed along the legend of Charles Xavier, the man who tried to save the throneworld when none of the Skrull would stand up to the world devourer.

One of the few survivors of the destruction of Throneworld was the son of the Skrull scientist who helped created the Super-Skrull. When Galactus was destroying throneworld, he used his technology to endow his son with enhanced abilities and sent the boy to Earth in the hopes that he would conquer the Earth. However when this Skrull child's ship landed in the American mid-west, he was found by a devoutly religious family, who unaware of his Skrull heritage raised the boy as their own under their Christian values system under the name Ethan Edwards.

#### Skrull Civil War

With the death of R'Klll five then six Skrull governors all vied for control of the empire. These governors included Gorath, Kylor, Yorak, an unnamed overweight female Skrull, S'Byll of Satriani, and Karza. All began their own agendas and the Skrull empire fell into complete chaos, with the governors of each Skrull world claiming the title of emperor or empress. Civil war broke out between the various Skrull worlds claiming more lives than Galactus destroyed in his consumption. This made the Andromeda galaxy ripe for the picking for the space pirate known as Nebula the self-proclaimed daughter of Thanos the Mad Titan and she began raiding world after world, eventually forming an alliance with Skrull governor Gorath. It was during this ensuing chaos that Skrull scientists Myrn and Zybek were reunited, and they began working on a Hyper-Wave Bomb that would change their empire completely. However they were unaware that their entire plan was overheard by Raksor who sought out allies to stop their mad schemes.

With their empire crippled, the Skulls began focusing on other external threats. The Dire Wraiths, offshoots of the Skrull race, were gaining a foothold on Earth and other worlds despite the intervention of the Spaceknight Rom. As such the Skrulls sent a landing party to the town of Clairton West Virginia, a town that was a beachhead in the Wraith invasion of Earth. The Skrull's arrival coincided with the Dire Wraith's final push to wipe out the town and defeat Rom and his ally Starshine, whom the Wraiths banished to a shadow dimension. The Skrulls held off the Dire Wraiths until Rom and Starshine could free themselves and assisted the Spaceknights in wiping out the Wraiths there. Needing to return to their crippled empire, the Skrulls left but their leader—named Supremor warned Rom that if he failed to exterminate the remaining Wraiths on Earth, the Skrulls would destroy the planet. Over the past months, the Super-Skrull had been caught in a hyper-space gateway travelling to the Skrull homeworld. However with the destruction of the planet at the hands of Galactus, the Super-Skrull found himself shunted back to Earth. His return to Earth brought him to the Mount Logan Cosmic Research Station in the Yukon territories of Canada. There he decimated the crew and clashed with the Canadian super-hero known as Sasquatch. When it became determined that Kl'rt had contracted an advanced form of Leukaemia from the months spent travelling unshielded through hyperspace radiation, the Sasquatch agreed to build a device that would transport the Super-Skrull back to Earth. However the hirsute hero was merely waiting for the Skrull to buckle in pain from his illness again to ram him into the partially completed warp-gate, seemingly destroying the Super-Skrull. By this time the battle on the moon between Raksor and Bel-Dann interrupted the wedding of the Inhumans Black Bolt and Medusa. The Inhuman royal family and the Fantastic Four then attempted to stop the hostilities between the two. However learning from the Watcher why the two aliens were fighting the Earthlings attack the two combatants and forced them to work together. With the Earth heroes pretending to be slain, the Watcher declared the battle won, telling the Skrull and Kree that the outcome was that both races need to strive together and they were then teleported away.

At this time General Kalamari of the Skrull high command decided to focus his efforts on destroying the Fantastic Four by placing an impostor into their midsts. With the cost of creating a new Super-Skrull to imitate one of the Four, Paibok suggested that they instead have a Skrull replace one of their closest allies. They selected Alicia Masters a blind woman who was close friends of the Fantastic Four and at the time was dating the Thing. Paibok selected a female Skrull named Lyja as his candidate and she spent months studying to be the perfect imitation of Masters. They then kidnapped the real Alicia and Lyja then took her place. However the plans had to change as the kidnapping of Alicia coincided with the male members of the group being abducted by the omniscient being known as the Beyonder to fight in the so-called Secret Wars. When they returned to Earth, the Thing stayed behind on Battleworld as he could revert back to human form and he was replaced by the She-Hulk. Lyja instead changed her focus from the Thing to his partner the Human Torch and spent the ensuing months romancing him. Meanwhile the Super-Skrull was pulled out of his exile in the Van Allen radiation belt by Master Khan who was plotting against his old foe Iron Fist. Khan cured the Super-Skrull of his Leukaemia and then had him transform into a young boy whom he dubbed Bobby Wright, Khan imprinted false memories into the Super-Skrull of Bobby Wright that were so thorough it could fool his old foe. For months, Super-Skrull posed as a young orphan who believed he gained super-powers (and the ability to transform into an adult version of himself dubbed Captain Hero). Bobby and his alter-ego of Captain Hero became integral in the lives of Iron Fist and his partner Luke Cage.

#### Hyperwave Bomb

In the Andromeda Galaxy, Nebula began acting on the behalf of Governor Gorath in demanding that General Zedrao commit his military fleet to his cause. When Zedrao refused, she sent her minion Captain Marvel to spy on the base, unaware that she was a member of the Avengers. Nebula then used her ship the Sanctuary II to blow up the Skrull base, but Marvel helped the Skrulls escape and alerted her comrades the Avengers who came to assist along with the former herald of Galactus known as Firelord. While they mobilized to deal with Nebula and her forces, the notorious space pirate slew Gorath in her bid to take over the Andromeda galaxy herself. With the aid of the Avengers the Skrulls fought Nebula's forces, but the battle was not truly won when the Beyonder arrived seeking to join the Avengers to learn how to be a hero. In the heat of the battle, he teleported Nebula and her minions away, suddenly ending the fight. At this time the prison planet Klarr were attacked Raksor who freed the long imprisoned Prince Dezan. They then got passage to the Power Asteroid where the Zybek and Myrn were working on the Hyperwave Bomb. They travelled aboard Kral IV's "Big Casino" starship which was fashioned after a 1930s era Zeppelin and piloted by a Skrull calling himself Floyd Donahue. Along the way they intercepted the Avengers who had pledged to assist General Zedrao in capturing Nebula and sought the Power Asteroid's equipment to try and track her. At that same time a female Skrull governess sought to secure herself as the empress of the Skrull empire by destroying the Fantastic Four. To this end, she had one of her minions disguise himself as the Elan creature known as the Infant Terrible to lure the Fantastic Four to the Skrull world under the false pretence that Elan had been decimated by the Skrull. Reed Richards saw through this plot and defeated the Skrull governess on her homeworld and took them prisoner. Reed and the Fantastic Four then brought their prisoners to the Power Asteroid to dispose of.

Meanwhile, Zabyk completed the Hyperwave Bomb just as the Avengers were attacking his fortress. Revealing that the Hyperwave Bomb would erase the Skrulls shape-shifting ability, trapping them in whatever form they were stuck in. Zabyk then slew Myrn and sealed him in what he believed would shield him from the effects of the bomb, which he believed would make him the new ruler of the Skrulls. Despite their efforts, the Avengers and the Fantastic Four were unable to stop Zabyk from unleashing the Hyperwave Bomb. The weapon froze all the Skrulls in whatever form they were in at the moment the bomb went off. Many Skrulls who were on espionage missions found themselves trapped in those forms. These included Al'Arok a spy on Zenn-La; Aptak a male Skrull who was spying on the Waziliah in female form; Nenora who posed as a Kree and was infiltrating her way into the Kree Science Council; A Skrull posing as the Elder of the Universe known as the Contemplator; Bartak the Skrull who was posing as the Silver Surfer. Incidentally, the Super-Skrull, who was still under the guise of Bobby Wright, was still able to change from the child form of Bobby Wright and the adult Captain Hero, likely due to the influence of Khan's magic. Following the incident with the Hyperwave Bomb, General Zedrao and his soldiers then destroyed the Sanctuary II before thanking the Avengers for their help and sending them on their way. It was then greatly accepted by the Skrull Empire as a whole to try to keep the loss of their shape changing powers a secret otherwise it may provide their many enemies with an advantage.

On Earth's Master Khan's manipulation reach fruition. "Bobby Wright" was diagnosed with an illness, that when it came to fruition, as Captain Hero—insane from the pain racking his body—beat Iron Fist to death before he seemingly disintegrated. Not only the Super-Skrull's involvement a mystery, but also the fact hat Iron Fist had secretly been replaced by a H'ylthri impostor. The Super Skrull was not dead, but returned to the hyper-space prison where Khan had pulled him.

#### Renewed Hostilities Against the Kree

In order to keep the loss of their shape-shifting abilities a secret, the Skrulls entered into an alliance with the Elders of the Universe for protection. This however was to benefit the Elders as they were also seeking to destroy Galactus and create a new Big Bang in which the Elders would be the new Galacti of the universe that formed. Unknown to the Elders, their ranks were infiltrated by the Skrull posing as the Contemplator. The Elders convinced the Skrulls to capture Galactus' new herald Nova to force Galactus to destroy Kree worlds only. They then sent the Champion to slay the Silver Surfer on Earth. The Surfer defeated the Champion and learned of Nova's capture. Freeing himself from the barrier that had kept him on Earth for years, the Surfer made a deal to rescue Nova in return for Galactus allowing the Surfer to remain free. The Skrulls prison was no match to keep the Silver Surfer from rescuing Nova and returning her to Galactus.

The Skrulls then Ptakr as an emissary to petition Shalla-Bal the ruler of Zenn-La to join the Skrull in their war against the Kree. Shalla-Bal refused to side with the Skrulls, deciding to remain neutral and warned them against attacking her as her planet were now under the protection of the Silver Surfer. After a failed attempt to assassinate the Surfer, Ptakr and his entourage were ejected from Zenn-La. Not long after this the Silver Surfer and the Avengers were involved in a scheme by the Grandmaster to make all the Elders of the Universe immortal, bringing them a step closer to succeeding in their machinations. While the Elders once again sought to destroy the Surfer, Ptakr's crew was attacked by Kree soldiers, but the Skrulls committed suicide before they could be boarded and the secret of their lost shape-shifting abilities could be discovered. Following their bid for immortality, the Elders met with the fake Contemplator among their numbers. The meeting was interrupted by the Silver Surfer and his new ally Mantis who managed to escape destruction. Meanwhile, the Supreme Intelligence of the Kree correctly deduced that the Skrulls lost their shape-shifting abilities. This also coincided with the arrival of the Celestial known as Jemiah the Analyser landed on the Skrull world that was under the rule of Kylor. Kylor ordered Jemiah destroyed, but none of the Skrull weapons were powerful enough to destroy the Celestial. Meanwhile, a Kree spy was sent to confirm the Supreme Intelligence's suspicions, but despite his efforts to disguise himself he was discovered and captured by Skrull authorities.

By this time the Skrull spy Nenora had became a member of the Kree Science Council, who were second to only the Supreme Intelligence. When the Intelligence ordered an attack on a Skrull armada that was passing the Kree world Sandomar II. However the attack was a failure as Nenora alerted Kylor and the Skrull armada withdrew. This however tipped off the Supreme Intelligence to the fact that there was a spy in his midst, but Nenora's cover was so deep that the Supreme Intelligence was led to believe his aid Nullet was the Skrull spy. Kylor's renewed aggression toward the Kree started a feud between himself and another would-be Skrull emperor Yorak. At this time, the Elders of the Universe came to believe that the six Soul Gems had the power needed to destroy Galactus and create a new big bang. Having collected five of the six, they sent the Skrull impersonating the Contemplator to the Kree homeworld where the sixth was under the control of the Supreme Intelligence. The Contemplator was denied the Soul Gem, as Supremor required it to maintain his sanity caused by the racial conflict between the pink and blue skinned Kree minds that made up the part of his collective intelligence. When the Silver Surfer came to warn the Supreme Intelligence to stay away from Zenn-La, the Intelligence used the Soul Gem to trap the Surfer inside the Intelligence. However the Surfer broke free and absconded with the Soul Gem, leaving Supremor insane. The Elders then kidnapped Mantis and Shalla-Bal in order to force the Silver Surfer to turn over the Soul Gem. The Surfer agreed, and the Elders then tried to use them to destroy Galactus, but this plan was thwarted by the Surfer and Nova when Nova destroyed the star which the planets the Elders were using in conjunction with the gems to destroy the world devourer. The resulting black hole swallowed the Soul Gems, as well as the Trader, Possessor and the Astronomer, while the Grandmaster, Gardener, Collector, Champion and Runner were consumed by Galactus, the phony Contemplator escaped and Galactus ordered the Surfer and Nova to apprehend him. While on the planet Hala, Nenora had become the Supreme Leader of the Kree. She then decided to take her ambitions beyond the Skrull empires age old war, and slew her former lover Apatk who came to Hala posing as a Wazilian ambassador.

Meanwhile on Earth, a group of Skrull Slavers disguised themselves as a Kentucky fair in order to collect slaves. Their activities coincided with the arrival of Cannonball, Wolfsbane, Richtor, and Boom Boom of the New Mutants who were visiting Cannonball's family at the time. When they visited the carnival, the Skrulls attempted to make them slaves as well, but the Skrulls proved no match for the young mutants and were forced to flee into space.

While back out in space, the Silver Surfer and Nova with information from Nenora, tracked the Skrull impersonating the Contemplator in the Coal Sack Nebula the home of the real Contemplator. There the fake gained the protection of the space pirate Cap'n Reptyl who briefly managed to capture the Surfer and Nova. During this period he contemplated the Elder known as the Obliterator renewing his sense of purpose after a defeat at the hands of the Surfer. Meanwhile, under orders from governor Karza, Bartak the Skrull posing as the Silver Surfer began attacking Kree outposts to taint the Surfer's reputation. When the Surfer and Nova broke free, Reptyl and his minions retreated back into the Coal Sack. Angered over this defeat, Retyl then seemingly slew the fake Contemplator, consuming his body and leaving his severed head in space to be found by the Surfer and Nova. As Bartak planned, the Kree blamed the real Surfer for the attacks and Ronan the Accuser was sent to eliminate him, but the Surfer bested him in combat. Meanwhile, Nanora now deciding to rule over the Kree Empire, led Kylor and his armada into a Kree trap, leading to their death. With Kylor's death governess S'Byll decided to make her move to become the next Skrull empress and ordered one of her minions to Earth. The Silver Surfer and Nova meanwhile were attacked by Bartak, who defeated the Surfer in combat and trapped Nova. But before he could get away to cause more chaos, he was slain by Ronan the Accuser who upgraded his weapons to be more than a match for the real Surfer. This was apparently Karza's onyl attempts to vie for leadership of the empire as he was never seen or heard from again. Meanwhile, S'Byll's minion arrived on Earth and fired a device into the air before being felled by a pair of hunters

#### Empress S'Byll

This blast reconstituted the Super-Skrull who had no memory of his experience as "Bobby Wright" and was led to believe that Skrull science cured him of his cancer as well as freed him. His return coincided with the arrival of the Silver Surfer to Earth. The two battled but were captured by the Eternals who sought to map the DNA of the Silver Surfer and the Super-Skrull on behalf of the High Evolutionary. Unwilling to let the Eternals force their own ends, the Surfer and the Super-Skrull worked together to free themselves. The Surfer, telling the Super-Skrull what happened and that because he was the only Skrull left who could shape-shift, convinced him to return to his empire to try and restore to the glory it once was in the hopes this would end the current Kree-Skrull war.

The Skrull posing as the Contemplator survived his previous encounter and managed to relocate his severed head to a moon nearby the Coalsack Nebula and awaited Cap'n Reptyl and his crew to land there. Reptyl left his oafish subordinate Clumsy Foulup in charge, and the faux-Contemplator slowly began mentally manipulating him for his own ends. While Nenora continued to intensify her assaults on the Skrulls, but they were soon reunited with the Super-Skrull who had aligned himself with S'Byll and her faction of Skrulls. Meanwhile, Nanora went to Zenn-La to offer her apologies to the Silver Surfer for her empire attacking him previously when Bartak framed him. This visit prompted to Cotati, who had been using their connection to all plants to start hinting to Empress Shalla Bal that Nenora was really a Skrull. Unfortunately for Shalla Bal, Nenora's visit was also to secretly plant listening devices in her home and place a Kree Sentry to capture her if need be.

By this time the Kree empire formed an alliance with the Badoon, causing massive casualties for the Skrulls. S'Byll and the Super-Skrull then tricked the Silver Surfer into defending the Skrull armada from the Badoon, forcing him to ally himself with the Skrulls in order to defend Zenn-La after the attack would be viewed by the Kree as the end of his neutrality in the war. The Skrulls came to the Silver Surfer's aid in fighting off a Kree invasion fleet that was poised to attack Zenn-La. Arriving on the planet's surface, Shalla Bal also accepted the alliance and S'Byll and the Super-Skrull revealed the reason for the entire deception: Duplicating the machine the Eternals used on the Super-Skrull and Silver Surfer, they devised a way to reawaken the shape-changing ability in S'Byll and give the ability to restore that power to the entire empire. The Surfer and the Skrull then pooled their powers to power the device, not only restoring S'Byll's shape shifting abilities but enhancing them to cosmic levels. She then joined the Surfer and Super-Skrull in driving the remaining Kree ships from Zenn-Lavian space. Nenora then led an entire invasion fleet to attack Zenn-La again, forcing the trio to fight a losing battle. That is until the Silver Surfer managed to broker a deal with Nenora: He would leave Zenn-La forever if she agreed to stop attacking his homeworld, and she agreed pulling her forces back. This coincided with the Contemplator impostor moving ahead his plans, manipulating Clumsy Foulup into contacting the Kree and offering them the means of defeating the Skrulls.

Returning to her homeworld of Satriani with the Surfer and Super-Skrull. There she began using her newfound powers to restore the shape shifting abilities of the Skrulls that resided there. This drew the enigmatic Stranger who came to apparently capture S'Byll. However the Stranger returned her when Cap'n Reptyl came to offer his alliance to the Skrulls and offered the Stranger the mutants aboard his crew. Reptyl's addition to the Skrull forces was not without turbulence, when Reptyl started paying too much attention to S'Byll, the jealous Super-Skrull attacked him but was seemingly slain when Reptyl ripped out his throat. The Super-Skrull survived however, his body recovered by the Badoon who attempted to experiment on him. Fully healed, Kl'rt broke free from his captors and escaped. This was all part of a ruse on the part of S'Byll, orchestrated with the intended purpose of making the enemies of the Skrulls believe that the real Super-Skrull was dead and that when the Kl'rt returned they would be led to believe he was merely an impostor. At some point during the conflict, S'Byll's uncle dubbed Talos the Untamed due to the fact that he has superior strength although being born without a shape-shifting ability was defeated and captured by a Kree war party earning him shame among the empire.

Meanwhile on Zenn-La, Shalla Bal deduced the secret of Nenora, but her Kree Sentry capture Shalla before she could tell anyone. And on Hala, Clumsy Foulup set the beginnings of a trap for Cap'n Reptyl distracting the Kree enough for the astral form of the "Contemplator" to gain access to the chamber of Supremor. With Shalla Bal prisoner, Nenora had the human named Midnight augmented into a cyborg and launched another attack against the Skrulls. Meanwhile the "Contemplator" began manipulating the pink skinned Kree to further his goals of taking over the Kree empire. In Skrull space, while the Silver Surfer was detracted fighting Midnight, Clumsy Foulup—who had been made Reptyl's second in command after being smuggled back to the moon where he was left prior to his betrayal—seemingly slew Reptyl and made his escape back to the Kree. With the seeming death of Reptyl, the Skrull armada was decimated by the Kree, leaving only S'Byll and the Surfer the sole survivors. They fought their way to Hala where they gained entrance into the Kree palace thanks to Shalla Bal who was freed by the influence of the Cotati. As Clumsy Foulup was being thanked as a war hero by the Kree, they stormed Nenora's throne room. There, under the witness of the Stranger, S'Byll used her powers to restore Nenora's shape shifting ability to slew her. S'Byll then revealed the truth to the Kree and brokered a truce, failing to convince the Kree to declare peace. After she was taken back to her homeworld by the Silver Surfer, the "Contemplator" attempted to put his plan into fruition: With Foulup seen as a hero, especially to the pink skinned Kree, the "Contemplator" would then pose as a "restored" Supreme Intelligence" and have Foulup back him, making the "Contemplator" the secret ruler of the Kree empire. However, Foulup ended up betraying the fake when the Cotati offered Foulup to be the actual ruler of the Kree. When the "Contemplator" attempted to pull his ruse, the Cotati overpowered him with their superior telepathic abilities, obliterating his mind and making it seem like the Supreme Intelligence endorsed Clumsy Foulup's ascension to leadership.

In an unrelated note, a Skrull was prisoner of Captain Orack's slave ship. He was freed by the alien Beta Ray Bill. A Skrull by the name of Kholdsor, trapped in human form due to the Hyper-Wave Bomb, and not yet restored by Empress S'Byll attempted to obtain a copy of Rick Jones' book "Sidekick" in the hopes of learning the secrets of how Rick used the Destiny Force to win the Kree/Skrull War, this mission was a failure.

#### Covers Exposed

Following the end of the most recent Kree/Skrull War, S'Byll was named the new Skrull empress and she ruled from planet Satriani, slowly restoring the Skrulls natural ability to change shape. Her world was briefly invaded by the Impossible Man and his family who made a stop of Satriani from a vacation on Earth to show the Skrulls their vacation slides, much to S'Byll's irritation. Not long after this the Super-Skrull returned to Satriani to a heroes welcome, but was unhappy with the deception as it worked against his honor. However seeking religious guidance from a statue of Sl'gurt. Finding resolve, the Super-Skrull then tracked down Cap'n Reptyle and seemingly slew him. Returning to S'Byll to inform her of what he did, he was stripped of his rank and told to serve under Commander K'Targh's imperial starfleet until further notice. The Super-Skrull however sought to win back the adoration of his leader and so he and a team of Skrulls then returned to Earth in order to capture Rick Jones and harness the Destiny Force as a weapon for the Skrulls. Learning that Rick was currently on a book tour for his new book "Sidekick" they took over the town of Buckport, Utah, and invited him to a phony book signing. They then kidnapped him and tried to torture him into subservience. This failed, and when Rick's allies the Hulk and Betty Ross came to his aid, a battle broke up. Ultimately the Skrull team—including Super-Skrull—were seemingly slain when the energy core of their ship destabilized and exploded.

Despite S'Byll's rule over the Skrull empire there were those who sought to remove her from rule. A rogue Skrull (possibly a rare mutant Skrull)[*citation needed*] named De'Lila attempted to obtain a Skrull Inorganic Technotroid egg to use against the empress however it ended up crashing on Earth. Following it there, De'Lila subdued the Fantastic Four in hopes of using Reed Richard's technology to locate it. However she was followed to Earth by Skrull warriors who took control of the Mole Man's monsters on Monster Isle and used them to search for her, angering the Mole Man for this trespass. Seeking to waylay these monsters from finding her, De'Lila used her telepathic abilities and shape-shifting power to resemble the Invisible Woman to trick Spider-Man, Wolverine, the Hulk, and Ghost Rider into thinking the Fantastic Four were dead and to help her. This New Fantastic Four were sent out to stop the Skrulls. Unable to locate the Technotroid on her own, De'Lila used blackmail and her powers to coerce Reed Richards into helping her, successfully tracking it to Monster Isle. However this also brought them before the other Skrulls, Mole Man and his Moloid army, and the New Fantastic Four, who had formed an uneasy alliance after piecing together De'Lila's deceptions. Learning what De'Lila was after it was a race to see who got to the Technotroid before it hatched as the creature was made to biologically imprint itself to whomever it first saw. A pitched battle between all three parties erupted over the creatures until the original Fantastic Four arrived to stop De'Lila. In the end, the Technotroid imprinted itself to one of Mole Man's creatures who took it as a child. De'Lila fell victim to the Ghost Rider's Penance Stare and was driven made and turned over to the Skrulls. Returning to the surface the Skrulls and the two Fantastic Four groups were attacked by the Mole Man now that they were out of his domain, however Spider-Man convinced the Mole Man of the futility of their continued battle and the Skrulls were allowed to take De'Lila back to the Skrull homeworld for punishment.

Also on Earth, the Super-Skrull survived his encounter with the Hulk and apparently remembering his time as Bobby Wright sought out a new plan to destroy the Earth. At the time Daniel Rand, the hero known as Iron Fist was still believed to be dead. He sought out Ward Meachum the part controller of Rand-Meachum the organization that both men owned. He offered Meachum the hand of the most beautiful woman in the universe and a world to rule if he assisted in drilling into using the Nuwali devices in the Savage Land to destroy the Earth. Meachum agreed in return for the taste of power and a beautiful woman. The Super-Skrull then used his hypnotic powers to make Ward's niece Joy follow their cause. Disguising himself as Daniel Rand, the Super-Skrull convinced the world that Rand was still alive. "Iron Fist's" resurrection brought the suspicions of his former lover Misty Knight who confronted the phony Daniel Rand to learn the truth, but the Super-Skrull researched his role well and thorough convinced her of Rand's apparent "resurrection".

Around this time the Warskrulls program had made many advancements, allowing Skrulls to copy the shapes, powers, memories and personalities of templates that were caught in their Nexus Amplifier devices. To this end they captured the Starjammers and impersonated their members as well as Charles Xavier, former teacher of the X-Men who was travelling with them at the time. Using Xavier's powers they also took telepathic control of disposed Shi'ar empress Lilandra in a bid to take over the Shi'ar throne from her sister Deathbird. They began a campaign of genocide across the Shi'ar galaxy, wiping out many races such as the P!ndyr of Epsilon Seikosha II. Blaming these atrocities on Deathbird, they managed to remove her from the throne and place Lilandra back in her rightful title, albeit a puppet ruler for the Warskrull agenda. This forced Deathbird and teleporter Lila Cheney to seek out the X-Men's aid in freeing the empire. The X-Men initially did not believe Deathbird due to the fact that she did not know the full scope of the Skrull incursion and they sided with "Professor Xavier" and the "Starjammers" in apprehending Deathbird. As key members of the X-Men were slowly being replaced by Warskrulls, the X-Men Gambit and Jubilee stumbled upon part of the truth. Jubilee was captured but Gambit managed to escape. The X-Men arrived on the scene, unaware that their teammate Psylock was replaced as well. However Wolverine detected the truth and slew the Warskrull posing as Xavier. The Skrull posing as Psylock knocked out Wolverine and the rest of the X-Men were teleported away by Lila Cheney and Deathbird to Epsilon Seikosha II. A Warskrull named Prime took the place of Xavier and Wolverine and Jubilee were templated as well. Meanwhile the Warskrulls posing as the Starjammers were sent after the X-Men. The X-Men learned the truth and defeated the Starjammer impostors and returned to the Shi'ar homeworld. During the ensuing battle the real Charles Xavier freed himself and took down the Warskrulls with his telepathic powers. With the primary Warskrulls defeated the X-Men left the Shi'ar galaxy, leaving Lilandra nad her Imperial Guard to weed out any other Warskrulls that might be operating in the area.

When the recently revived Thanos gathered the six Infinity Gems he combined their power into the Infinity Gauntlet and used it to wipe out half the universe as a gift to his lover Death. This included half of the Skrull empire. Unaware of Thanos' involvement, S'Byll suspected that the Kree were involved and called her people to prepare to go to war again. However it appears that this conflict did not happen as a gathering of surviving heroes eventually defeated Thanos and restored the universe to normal.

Around this time on Earth, the Super-Skrull and Ward Meachum were bringing their plans to fruition, meeting with Ka-Zar the ruler of the Savage Land and getting his permission to "mine" in the area. However these activities brought Namor the Sub-Mariner and his niece Namorita to the Savage Land to investigate. Super-Skrull, disguised as Iron Fist easily captured Namor and his allies Namorita, Phoebe Mars, and Carrie Alexander, with the help of Misty Knight who believed that "Rand" was really her former lover. Ka-Zar's wife Shanna the She-Devil rescued Namor and his captives and they launched a counterattack forcing the Super-Skrull to reveal himself. As the Super-Skrull battled Namor, his allies convinced Ward to believe was being betrayed when they had him consider what the "most beautiful woman in the universe" would be interpreted by a Skrull. Meachum then tried to smash the machine but the Super-Skrull burned him alive. However this did not stop Namor from smashing the device and saving the Earth, forcing the Super-Skrull to flee. Not long after the departure of the Super-Skrull another Skrull calling himself Samuel J. Skrull was sent to Earth as part of yet another invasion. His ship crashed in the Savage Land and he was worshipped as a god by the natives. When the Impossible Man and his Impossible Family came back to Earth to search for one of their missing children, they encountered Samuel who had since grown to find the life of a god boring and agreed to become part of the Impossible Family and took on the form of one of their children. He eventually returned with them to planet Poppup when they found their wayward child.

Meanwhile, the Lyja, the Skrull spy posing as Alicia Masters for months was uncovered thanks to the machinations of the Mad Thinker who deduced this situation and orchestrated a situation where Reed needed to do brain scans of those living in their headquarters the Four Freedoms Plaza. When Lyja was revealed as a Skrull she revealed how she infiltrated the group but also admitted that she fell in love with the Human Torch in the process and was pregnant with his baby. The group then went out into space with Lyja to rescue the real Alicia from the Skrull empire. They clashed with Paibok who had used Skrull science to gain super-human abilities. Ultimately, the Fantastic Four managed to rescue the real Alicia. During the conflict Lyja seemingly sacrificed her life to save Johnny from danger and the Four left her body behind as Skull outpost exploded. However, Pablok managed to escape in a life support vessel with the injured Lyja kept in stasis until he could get help.

## Attributes

### 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 gender: 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.
	+ At the moment of death, Skrulls revert to their original form.
	+ The natural shape of a Skrull possesses 18 pressure points that "when properly struck will cause pain and injury, even death."
* Skrull physiology is particularly vulnerable to the Legacy Virus, Skrulls exposed to it, especially the strain created by Hank McCoy to target them exclusively, show symptoms within an hour and die within two days if not treated with the cure which McCoy also created.

## Habitat

### Population

Trillions (spread throughout the intergalactic Skrull empire)

### Planets

* **Aks'lo** - Paradisiacal vacation planet, destroyed by the Annihilation Wave.
* **Hy'lt Minor** - Home of K'eel R'kt, destroyed by the Builders.
* **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 homeworld.
* **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.
* **Skrell** - World dominated by the Skrull Scientist caste, where the organic supercomputer Intelligentsia is located.

## Miscellaneous

### Type of Government

Totalitarian monarchy under a single Emperor or Empress (succession disrupted by destruction of Tarnax IV, death of surviving royal family members, and ensuring civil wars, reinstated with the crowning of the new Emperor, Kl'rt I). Assisting the Emperor are ministers and councils.. The empire itself is administrated by prelates and governors. Throughout the Skrull empire, in every world that is ruled by the Skrulls only one race is permitted to represent the inhabitants of that world, the Skrulls. Worlds that voluntarily joined the Skrull Empire are granted varying degrees of autonomy. It also maintains profitable trading relationships with pacifist worlds that the empire has peace treaties with.

### Level of Technology

Superior to Earth; Advanced warp-drive star-ships, intergalactic subspace FTL (nearly instantaneous), teleportation, force fields, cloaking technology, miniaturization technology, shape-shifting technology, robots, mecha (humanoid and multi-legged), cybernetic technology, planet busting weapons, star killer weapons, genocidal biological weapons, intergalactic FTL subspace communications (nearly instantaneous), intergalactic radar, hyperspace radios, intergalactic sensor grid, intergalactic transportation beam, missiles, space torpedoes, genetic manipulation/engineering (Super-Skrulls), quantum weapons, interdimensional portals,, cloning, and directed energy weaponry (either beam or pulse weapons and either particle, neutrino or photon weapons).

### Cultural Traits

#### Art

Due to the Skrulls' nature as a warrior race, it's hard for them to grasp almost any kind of representational art.

#### Food

Despite being a race that can take on almost any form imaginable, Skrulls apparently don't offer much choice in the way of food. Some examples of Skrull food include:

* T'Manja Berries - A type of berry which, according to Crusader, taste "almost the same" as strawberries mixed with pickles.

#### Honor Code

The Skrulls possess an honor code (ignored by some and considered twisted by others):

* It forbid Skrulls to kill any who saved them.
* It was speculated that they respected one-on-one fights, as only two of them attacked MI13 agents when there were hundred warriors at their disposal.

While the average Skrull will fearlessly and loyally execute any duties, he will also try to find ways to better his own position. A Skrull will betray another Skrull if it is to his own advantage.

#### Languages

The Skrulls speak different languages and dialects, among them "Skrull", Skrullian, "Skrullos", or Skrullkrov, (presumably the same) as well as the Irdu Dialect of the Skrull Thort Language, the Tligi Dialect of the Skrull Language, the Frti dialect, and the T'Keet Dialect of the Skrull language.

The Prime Skrulls seemingly used their own language, extinct along with their kind, save for the last Prime Skrull.

#### Leisure

Some Skrulls like to take vacations on one of the planets of the Kral System, a series of ten worlds that emulate life at different points in Earth's history. Kral IV, whose theme is 1930's America, is particularly popular. The Kral system was viewed alternatively as a carefree vacation spot, an alternative lifestyle choice or an abomination against the "true Skrull way of life". Interestingly, the Skrulls don't have public holidays such as Christmas on Earth.

#### Religion

##### Dard'van

The most well-known and influential Skrull religion is the Dard'van Sect and their "True Faith." The Dard'van primarily worship Kly'bn and Sl'gur't, presented as emperor and empress of their pantheon. The central text of the Dard'van Sect is the Book of Worlds, written an unspecified time ago by Sl'gur't and Kly'bn.

It is unknown if other gods are part of this pantheon (such as Zorr'Kiri), but to at least some the Dard'van, Kly'bn and Sl'gur't are the only true Gods, and considered Odin, Uatu and Galactus as mere "demigods".

Adherents believed that the Skrull Empire was divinely inspired, that it is their "Holy Cause," their sacred duty to colonize Earth in the name of Sl'gur't and Kly'bn, and that the planet is theirs by right. The gods and pantheons of conquered planets were enslaved.

They also associated purity with Skrull DNA, considering blended Skrull/human DNA impure but "still more blessed than human DNA untouched by [their purity]."

##### Deities

	+ Sl'gur't, the Skrull War-God, "Great One", the God of the Infinite Names, Empress of the pantheon, representing war and change.
	+ Kly'bn, the Eternal Skrull, Emperor of the pantheon, representing peace and stability.
* Zorr'Kiri was the Skrull Goddess of Love. Her relation to the pantheon is currently unknown.

#### Society

Slavery was a relatively recent addition to the Skrull culture, and the selling of the 'earther' "Machine-Gun" Martin to Skrulls on Kral IV led to his culture to "infect" the planet. One slave ring posed as a carnival. Warrior Race. The entire Skrull economy is built around its military pushing their tendency to instigate wars and campaigns of conquest. Universal conquest is their goal, to bring peace to the cosmos therefore they must conquer and subjugate every inhabited world in the cosmos. Despite this many Skrulls live peaceful lives. The Skrulls are similar to humans in that they too have ambition, and feel both love and hate. Many of them truly believe in their gods and have immense love for their families. Professor X could sense the goodness and nobility of the teeming mass of billions of Skrulls on Tarnax IV. They are a species, that enjoys art and beauty, in which even it's warriors enjoy listening to the intricate social calls and mournful mating calls of wildlife. Skrulls have a code of honor, though not all follow said code. Warriors have been known to meet enemies in equal numbers (e.g. one on one or a squad vs a team). Respecting and honoring enemies of great valor and skill. They are also known to repay their debts. It is also a race which is known for being vengeful.

## Representatives

* **Emperor Dorrek** - He reigned during the first Skrull contact with the Kree.
* **Emperor Dorrek VII**
* **Prince Dezan** - The younger brother of Dorrek VII, he is a highly-unusual (for Skrulls) pacifist, and as such, was long imprisoned as a traitor to the Empire.
* **Super Skrull (K'lrt)** - He was the first Super-Skrull, and was later crowned new Emperor of the Skrull Empire following the war with the Builders.
* **Anelle** - Princess and daughter of R'Klll and Dorrek VII. Super-Skrull wanted her for his mate. She died along with her mother and Throneworld.
* **Hagar** - The High Judicator, the leader of the Skrull judiciary.
* **Jaketch** - An apprentice executioner who shot Reed, Sue, and the Thing with an accelerated-aging ray. He detests Hagar and yearns for the day he can execute him.
* **R'Klll** - A Skrull Empress. She avenged her father by assassinating her husband, the Emperor Dorrek. Her reign following Dorrek's death was marked by several attempts at peace, the end of the war against Xandar, the treaty ending the war against the Kree, and the destruction of Throneworld. She died along with several billion of her people.
* **Empress S'Byll** - She acclaimed as Empress following successful restoration of shape-shifting abilities to Skrulls, killed in destruction of new Throneworld by Devos the Devastator.
* **Jazinda** - A Super-Skrull who is the daughter of Kl'rt.
* **Ethan Edwards**
* **Flaw** - Warskrull member of the Shi'ar Death Commandos.
* **De'Lila**
* **Talos** - A Skrull who cannot shape-shift due to a birth defect he had. The defect also gave him super-strength.
* **Lyja** the Lazerfist.
* **Paibok** the Power Skrull.
* **Replica** - Member of the Galactic Guardians, power mimicker.
* **Skrull Cows** - A group of Skrulls who initially tried to frame the Fantastic Four, but were eventually turned into Cows and slaughtered.
* **Skrullian Skymaster (Sk'ym'x)** - Member of the Squadron Supreme.
* **Crusader**
* **Titannus** - A Skrull who cannot shapeshift.
* **Xavin** - A Super-Skrull in-training.
* **Cadre K** - A group of Mutant Skrulls.
* **Veranke** - The former Skrull Queen. She posed as Spider-Woman and orchestrated the Secret Invasion.
* **Criti Noll** - One of the Skrulls who posed as Henry Pym during the Secret Invasion. He not only has the abilities matching Henry Pym, he also has the powers of Black Panther, Quicksilver and Vision.
* **John the Skrull** - The last surviving member of the Skrull "Beatles". A member of MI13.
* **Khn'nr** - A Skrull who posed as the original Captain Marvel. He turned against the other Skrulls during the Secret Invasion.
* **Pagon** - A Skrull who posed as Elektra after Siri's demise. Killed by Echo as part of a suicide mission.
* **Pitt'o Nili** - A Skrull who posed as the Captain America (and brainwashed to be him) who came from a downed ship in the Savage Land. Killed by Shanna the She-Devil after being hit by a poisonous dart that has a huge effect on Skrulls.
* **Kreddik** - Skrull Ambassador to the Intergalactic Council.
* **Krimonn** - Conspired against Dorrek VII, failed, was condemned to be imprisoned in a crystalline form. The Grandmaster turned him into Doctor Spectrum's Power Prism.

* The adjective form is both "Skrull" and "skrullian".
* The Deviant branch of their species; it is kind of ironic that they considered Dire Wraiths as a "Deviant branch of Skrullkind", and the Mutant Skrulls "Deviants".