History Characters / MCUSkrulls

* TorsoWithAView: [[spoiler:Gi'ah shoots him through the midsection with one of Captain Marvel's energy beams, leaving a gaping hole clean through his stomach. This injury proves to be both too quickly struck and grievous for his Extremis to heal from, and he collapses dead.]]

* ImposterForgotOneDetail: Talos is able to fool Nick Fury into believing he's actually his boss when he takes on the disguise in ''Film/CaptainMarvel''... except for when he calls him Nicholas at one point in the elevator. At that point, Fury immediately becomes suspicious of his identity, since he goes by a LastNameBasis, and gets Talos to further incriminate himself with a test question that he fails.

** In ''Film/CaptainMarvel2019'', Talos sneaks into the Rambeau household and steals a soft drink before revealing his presence to Maria, Carol, and Fury and asking them for help in decoding the coordinates of Mar-Vell's lab.

* TheVoiceless: She is never heard speaking during ''Film/CaptainMarvel''.

* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:While he preaches creating a world where his kind don't have to fear being persecuted anymore, the fact that he's more than willing to kill members of his own species if he thinks they're even remotely an inconvenience to him demonstrates that he cares more about exterminating humanity to satiate his own sadism than actually looking out for his people.]]

* AdaptationalAngstDowngrade: In the comics, Talos had to live with the stigma of being a mutant who did not have the signature Skrull ability to shapeshift, until he learned that the mutation also granted him strength far superior to any Skrull and on par with any of the Super-Skrulls, which enabled him to become a fearsome warrior until a disgraceful defeat, though he redeemed himself in the eyes of his peers by fighting Hulk. Since he has the power of shapeshifting here, he is suffering from none of that. At least not at first.

* HeroOfAnotherStory: Alongside his wife, daughter, and at least 20 other Skrulls, Fury has been working for Fury to help take down terrorists and other Earth-based threats ever since the late 90s, and apparently did a damn good job of it too.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: Kree propaganda publicizes him as a vicious terrorist who invades and takes over other planets. All he wanted is to protect his family and find a new home for his people, even if he did a lot bad things to do so.

* HumanDisguise: [[spoiler:He's actually playing the role of Nick Fury in ''Spiderman: Far From Home''.]]

* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: When Vers frees herself aboard the Skrull ship, Talos prevents his men from just shooting her, as they need the information buried in her subconscious.

* HeroOfAnotherStory: Alongside his wife and at least 20 other Skrulls, Fury has been working for Fury to help take down terrorists and other Earth-based threats ever since the late 90s, and apparently did a damn good job of it too.

* NotQuiteDead: Near the end of ''Captain Marvel'', Talos is shot in the back by Yon-Rogg as he escapes with his family and new allies. He lies on his back and calls his daughter closer for comfort. Talos doesn't bite it.
* ObviouslyNotFine: Just after Talos is shot in the back by Yon-Rogg, Fury comes to see his wound and asks him if he's okay. Despite clearly being badly injured and unable to get up, Talos answers this:

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Shortly after crashing on Earth, Talos managed to infiltrate S.H.I.E.L.D., get to the director Keller and incapacitate him, then tie him up and take his place, allowing him to get information about what he is looking for and send agents after his enemy Vers. How he was able to do all this without being detected is not clear, as it entirely happened off-screen.

* SenselessSacrifice: [[spoiler: He gave up his life to protect the President from Gravik's attack in order to give Skrulls a good impression. However, it was in vain due to the president declaring war on all Skrulls after the conflict with Gravik is over.]]

* DefiantToTheEnd: Even after being shot by Yon-Rogg, he refuses to reveal where Vers is and simply tells him that he is too late.

* CeilingSmash: During the subway fight, he gets slammed into the ceiling of the train car by Vers.
* ColdSniper: Among the four Skrulls who crashed on Earth, he seems to be the sniper of the group, as seen when he uses some kind of Skrull sniper rifle to try to shoot Vers from a rooftop while she is surrounded by S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. He is also much less talkative and more aggressive than his companions.
* HarmlessElectrocution: He receives an electric shock when he touches an antenna on the top of the train and is knocked backward, but he quickly gets back on his feet.
* HarmlessLadyDisguise: In an attempt to hide from Vers on the train, he assumes the appearance of an innocent old woman that he has just bumped into. When Vers notices that something's off with this old lady, the Skrull tries to act his role by making a friendly smile, but she's not fooled and punches him in the face. On the other hand, the passengers of the train really think that he's a poor granny being assaulted and try to stop Vers.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: After failing to shoot Vers from a roof, he decides to run away. She chases him into a nearby train where they have a fight, but he escapes her at the first opportunity.
* NeverMessWithGranny: He maintains his old woman appearance when he fights Vers on the train and does all kinds of fancy stunts.

* TraintopBattle: Has a fight with Vers on top of a moving [[UsefulNotes/LosAngelesMetroRail LA Metro Rail]] Blue line train.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He pretty much disappears from the film after escaping from Vers at the train station, and isn't even mentioned afterward.
* WouldHitAGirl: He tries to shoot Vers with his sniper rifle, and later fights her on a train.

* EscapePod: When Vers causes too much damage during her escape, several Skrulls evacuate their exploding spaceship and travel to Earth through small ships that eject from it. One of them gets his stolen by Vers before he can escape.
* GiantMook: Shortly after taking out a large horde of standard Skrull soldiers in Talos's spaceship, Vers comes face to face with a Skrull who is at least one head taller than the others. This huge Skrull is hardly affected by her blows and easily manages to knock her down, but she eventually frees herself from her shackles and uses her photon blasts to get rid of him.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: During the fight in the spaceship, one of the Skrulls knocked down by Vers falls on his own electric baton and gets shocked.

* KnowWhenToFoldEm: During her escape in Talos's spaceship, Vers enters a room where two Skrulls are watching some scenes from her memories. On seeing her, the two don't even try to fight and immediately raise their arms in surrender.
* {{Mooks}}: They serve as Talos's army of henchmen who get killed in droves by Vers and the other Starforce members. However, it eventually turns out that they are not as bad as they look.

* NoSell: The GiantMook encountered by Vers in Talos ship hardly reacts to her punches to his stomach and head.
* OhCrap: The Skrull technician who was tapping Vers' forehead has this reaction when he notices that her restraints are heating up and realizes she's about to break free.

* PercussiveMaintenance: After capturing Vers, one of the Skrulls starts tapping on her forehead as they are watching her memories. Talos even tells him "that did something, do it again", like they're working with a glitchy old television.

* ScreamingWarrior: They are often growling during their fights. At one point, one of them growls at Vers after punching her, and she responds by growling back at him.

* ThrownOutTheAirlock: By using her photon blasts to break free of her shackles, Vers accidentally blows a large hole through the hull of Talos's ship, causing a large number of Skrulls to be sucked out into space.
* WouldHitAGirl: The Skrull soldiers show no hesitation in fighting against female enemies, such as Vers or Minn-Erva.

The daughter of Talos and Soren, who had grown up in hiding from the Kree in her early years.

* OutGambitted: His final gambit to take the Harvest initially seems to be successful, with Fury acquiescing to his demands with little resistance other than begging him not to destroy humanity. [[spoiler:Then it's revealed G'iah took Fury's place and was empowered as well, and she is able to overpower and kill him before he can take the fight to humanity.]]

* VillainHasAPoint: [[spoiler:In the final episode, he tells off Fury (who is actually G'iah in disguise) for conscripting the Skrulls into fighting his battles for him and then abandoning them. Pretty much anyone would be royally pissed at seeing their own kind being used and discarded by someone claiming to be their friend, even if they wouldn't use as free license to cause further harm like Gravik did.]]

* InformedFlaw: Throughout ''Secret Invasion'' G'iah complains about having to disguise as a human constantly when conversing with Talos or other Skrulls, resenting the fact that she has to wear a skin that isn't her own. This is despite the fact G'iah never assumes her Skrull form over the course of the series, even when she has no reason to hide it. In fact, the only time we see her Skrull form is when she's been shot by Gravik and is close to death's door, and even then she immediately changes back into her human disguise after healing herself.
* InterspeciesFriendship: While their existence wasn't known to humans until the mid-90s (and wasn't public knowledge until the early 2020s at the least), it's implied that the relationship between humans and Skrulls is somewhat friendly in ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'', as Talos and Soren are capable of driving a car in their true forms without concern of being noticed. They also seem to work closely with humanity on government-related matters, as Nick Fury authorized Skrulls to impersonate S.H.I.E.L.D. and FBI agents on Earth (including ''himself''), and Skrulls are seen under his command at a S.W.O.R.D. space station.

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* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Beto only wanted a place where he could live in his natural form, yet is forced into going along with Gravik's radical acts of terrorism.

** Ronan was TheFriendNobodyLikes within the Kree, and became a DefectorFromDecadence due to his selfish desire to avenge his family through destroying Xandar by any means, while Gravik is a high-ranking member of the Skrull Council on Earth, is celebrated by most of his people, and genuinely cares about his species being unwittingly spurned by Fury and Carol.

* AssInAmbassador: When she acts as an envoy from the US to the EU and UK, she is less than gracious, refusing to address their concerns or take them seriously. She also threatens, off-mic at least, to suit up and carpet-bomb Slovakia because their representative is giving him "[[DeathGlare the stink-eye]]". Justified, as she's secretly working for Gravik, and the representatives she's talking to in the room are also Skrulls.

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* StagedPopulistUprising: Played with. [[spoiler:Ostensibly, he's waging a shadow war against humanity in order to claim Earth as New Skrullos, but his actions and private moments heavily imply that he couldn't care less about his fellow Skrulls, and doesn't even really seem care all that much if his plan succeeds–he's doing this primarily to spite Nick Fury, the man he feels betrayed/used him.]]

* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:He's turned himself into a Super Skrull, infusing himself with not only Extremis but also showing the same kind of limb-lengthening abilities as Groot.]]

* StoryBreakerPower: [[spoiler:In the finale of ''Secret Invasion'', she acquires the powers of every hero and villain who fought in the Battle of Earth, including Captain Marvel, Scarlet Witch, and even Thanos. This currently makes her one of–if not ''the''–single strongest characters in the MCU.]]

** He eventually becomes this to G'iah as well. [[spoiler:Having been responsible for the deaths of both her parents and manipulated into serving his end goal despite his growing SanitySlippage, G'iah is simmering with hatred for Gravik, and defects to Fury's side to save humanity and the rest of the Skrull race. It's telling that the final episode has the two of them empowering themselves and brawling to the death, while showing absolutely no mercy towards each other.

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: During their unsteady truce, Maria and Fury ask Talos if he can change into a cat, a file cabinet, or a Venus flytrap. Fury jokes that he'll give Talos fifty dollars to turn into a Venus flytrap. Talos despite himself looks amused.

* SourSupporter: After his and Fury's argument on the train in "[[Recap/SecretInvasion2023S1E2Promises Promises]]" he is far more vitriolic toward Fury and open to calling him out. Despite this, his loyalties to his old friend never waiver.

** [[spoiler:Despite their rocky relationship throughout the show, she's heartbroken by her father's death and grieves him at his last-minute funeral.]]

* AllYourPowersCombined: [[spoiler:In "Home", he successfully empowers himself with the Harvest, giving himself the powers of all the combatants of the [[Film/AvengersEndgame Battle of Earth]]. Throughout his fight with Gi'ah, he demonstrates the powers of Hulk, Abomination, Korg, Captain Marvel, Ebony Maw, and Thanos, along with his already adapted Extremis and Flora Colossus powers.]]

** [[spoiler:He derides Talos as a coward who cannot do what is necessary, but when he believes a Skrull has compromised his mission and must be killed, he's unwilling to do it himself and has Pagon do it while he watches from the seat of his car.]]
** In Episode 5, he derides his followers for the failure of assassinating the President, seeing them as incompetent and screwing up their overall goal. Pagon throws this criticism back in his face by pointing out that Gravik himself has been constantly self-sabotaging his own goals because he fails to take advantage of killing Fury when a good opportunity presents himself.

* OutGambitted: His final gambit to take the Harvest initially seems to be successful, with Fury acquiescing to his demands with little resistance other than begging him not to destroy humanity. [[spoiler:Then it's revealed Gi'ah took Fury's place and was empowered as well, and she is able to overpower and kill him before he can take the fight to humanity.]]

!!Gravik's forces

* SuperStrength: They're strong enough to handily beat a BadassNormal human but weak enough that said Badass Normal can still give them a decent fight. They seem to be on the lower end of MCU super-strength, about the same as Super Soldiers (Captain America excepted) or the Chitauri.

* MarqueeAlterEgo: Talos spends portions of ''Captain Marvel'' in human form, as seen in his S.H.I.E.L.D. agent disguise. This is not only done to showcase the Skrulls' shapeshifting ability but also to give Creator/BenMendelsohn an excuse to get out of his Skrull costume and show his actual face... [[IdenticalStranger Which conveniently happens to look just like a S.H.I.E.L.D. director in 1995.]]