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Skrulls, Secret Invasion, and the MCU’s Path in the 2020s
During 2017’s San Diego Comic-Con, Marvel Studios announced the reptilian, shapeshifting aliens known as the Skrulls would be the villains of the Captain Marvel movie. The Skrulls, who were created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby for January 1962’s “Fantastic Four” #2, are among the greatest intergalactic powers in the Marvel Comics Universe, and are best known for the 1971 storyline ‘Kree-Skrull War,’ and 2008’s ‘Secret Invasion.’
Captain Marvel looks set to ape the former, introducing Brie Larson’s half-human, half-Kree Carol Danvers as a member of the Kree’s Starforce, who returns to her homeworld Earth when the Skrulls begin infiltrating it. The movie will take place in the ’90s, and reintroduce Guardians of the Galaxy villain Ronan the Accuser (Lee Pace) as Carol’s commanding officer, well before he went rogue and launched a campaign of genocide against the people of Xandar in that film.
We know at some point Captain Marvel will abandon the Kree colors of green-and-black in favor of her classic blue-and-red, and that Ronan will go from stern superior to frothing mad terrorist (likewise jettisoning the Kree dress code). Coupled with comments from actor…
