Say What?! - Damn, Dirty Skrulls
Marvel's current brouhaha, Secret Invasion is running full throttle as the shapeshifting Skrulls have inserted themselves among the denizens of the Marvel Universe. The question now is who is a Skrull and who can you trust?
As stolen by those cads at Wikipedia, let's look at who's been revealed as Skrull infiltrators already:
* Elektra - revealed in New Avengers #31. Killed by Echo. New Avengers #40 revealed that her name was Siri and was one of the longest infiltrators, sent to examine the defenses of Earth.* Black Bolt - revealed in New Avengers: Illuminati #5. Killed by Namor. In New Avengers #40 it was revealed that this Skrull was the first of the new version of Super Skrulls created, and was the only survivor of the Skrull home world's destruction by Galactus.
* Revolutionary (of the Liberteens) - revealed in Avengers: The Initiative Annual #1.
* Cobalt Man - revealed in Captain Marvel #3. Killed by Captain Marvel.
* Cyclone - revealed in Captain Marvel #4. Killed by Captain Marvel. Skrull identity not public due to destruction of remains.
* Captain Marvel - revealed in Captain Marvel #5. A mistake in the Skrull Khn'nr's conditioning led to Khn'nr's personality being erased and Captain Marvel's remaining, which has caused him to rebel against his species.
* Valentina Allegra de Fontaine - revealed in Secret Invasion Prologue.[30] Two Skrulls have posed as her; the first one was killed by Nick Fury, while the second one posed as her in the Savage Land and then assumed the form of Dum Dum Dugan.
* Dum Dum Dugan - revealed in Secret Invasion Prologue. Has presumably died during a suicide bombing at the S.W.O.R.D. Space Headquarters
* Edwin Jarvis - revealed in Secret Invasion #1.
* Henry Pym - revealed in Secret Invasion #1.
* Invisible Woman - replaced by and revealed as Lyja in Secret Invasion: Fantastic Four #1.
* Spider-Woman - revealed in New Avengers #40; confirmed in Secret Invasion #3.
A pretty scary list, really. And there are others that have been hinted at but not confirmed (in books such as Incredible Hercules). The Skrulls have gained access to some pretty high profile and security sensitive positions. They've ripped teams apart, broken up marriages.
With only three issues of the Secret Invasion book having been released so far and a crapload of tie-ins hitting today, who else do you think is a Skrull? Who's been acting out of sorts lately? Who is in a position to do the most damage?
Goblin
Posted to Say What? on 25 June 2008
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I was actually thinking about Secret Invasion and which aspect of it seemed to be the most compelling. Strangely enough, figuring out who is a Skrull is not one of them. I like the idea of infiltrators more than the actual revelations and I'm much more interested in the repercussions and character dynamics of said reveals. As it is now, the mighty hand of Marvel could randomly pick anyone to be a skrull (with few exceptions) and I would probably not even bat an eyelash. The pervading paranoia sells me on this event, not the whim of editors.
I still expect them to reveal that everyone is a Skrull. It's an entire planet designed to stage the Skrull invasion of Earth, and there are 6+ billion Skrulls running around, some pretending to be human, others pretending to be Skrulls pretending to be humans.
so, where DID all the original people go? that's the question i want answered.
so, where DID all the original people go? that's the question i want answered.
I thought that Dugan was killed by the first Valentina imposter?
I still think Ronin/barton and mockingbird are skrulls. Annnnd that Spider woman is hiding out somewhere D: