Skrulls

Biodata

Background and History

The Kree destroyed the Skrulls’ homeworld and hunted its survivors, leaving them refugees. On Earth, Nick Fury promised to find them a safe new home in exchange for their help. Skrulls assumed human identities and served as spies, informants, and soldiers, but Fury did not fulfill his promise 191 192 360.

Fury later recruited Talos’s people to infiltrate Hydra. Their presence on Earth was far larger than Fury believed: Talos disclosed that approximately one million surviving Skrulls were there. Skrulls had replaced people in positions of influence and kept the displaced humans alive in hibernation pods at their Chernobyl base, New Skrullos. Talos described the operation as a route to legal recognition and a permanent homeland on Earth; Fury demanded that the captives be released and the infiltration end 169 208 209.

Appearance

• True form — Green skin and pointed ears 178 395.
• Disguises — Can reproduce a human’s appearance, voice, and mannerisms; G’iah demonstrated this by copying President Ellis 178 360.

Abilities & Skills

Shapeshifting and infiltration

• Skrulls can impersonate humans closely enough to infiltrate intelligence services, businesses, militaries, and governments 178 360 381.
• Their disguises do not conceal their genes from Vought’s Sentinel scanners 361 406.
• Skrull law forbids taking another Skrull’s appearance, a rule established after disguises were used in civil wars and assassinations 393.

Super-Skrull enhancement

• Gravik’s laboratory fused Homelander’s biological material into five test warriors, granting flight, exceptional speed and strength, heat vision, and the ability to break through thick alloy 356.
• Gravik’s own fusion left him unable to shapeshift: the new genetic arrangement and stabilizers fixed his physical form 357.

Major Arcs

• Division at New Skrullos — When Fury and Talos proposed surrendering to Homelander, Gravik rallied the radicals against them. Roughly two thousand Skrulls, particularly older survivors and families, sided with Talos rather than Gravik’s plan to destroy humanity with nuclear weapons 211 212.
• The Human Federation — Gravik’s followers replaced leaders and officials across the world. Nearly 200,000 Skrulls occupied influential posts as the Human Federation formed; its leadership then suppressed resistance by force 360 366 381.
• Loss of disguise — Skrulls under Talos’s protection were subjected to Vought medical procedures that permanently removed their shapeshifting ability. Talos regarded Fury’s departure during this period as a betrayal 355 356.
• Exposure and purge — G’iah revealed the infiltration to human leaders, and Gravik later confirmed his control of the Federation in a global broadcast. After a deadline for Skrulls to report to a designated zone, Vought deployed genetic-scanning Sentinels that killed Skrulls who remained in cities and pursued others into remote areas 360 387 388 405 406 414.

Relationships

• Nick Fury — Former ally who promised the Skrulls a home and employed them as agents; his broken promise and the later infiltration destroyed that trust 169 208 356 360.
• Talos — Moderate leader who opposed Gravik’s genocidal plan and led Skrulls willing to retreat 211 212.
• Gravik — Radical leader who sought to make Earth the Skrulls’ home through political takeover and force 211 212 381.
• Kree — Enemies responsible for destroying the Skrull homeworld and pursuing its survivors 191 192.
• Vought Group — Provided Talos’s faction a place to survive while removing their shapeshifting; later deployed Sentinels against Skrulls outside the designated zone 356 405 406.

Trivia

• New Skrullos is located in Chernobyl 208 211.
• Some Skrull civilians living quietly on Earth had assumed the identities of people who had already died; they had not joined Gravik’s campaign 405.