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The Skrulls

In General

The Skrulls

Appearances: Captain Marvel | Spider-Man: Far From Home | WandaVision | Loki | What If...? | Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania | Secret Invasion | The Marvels | Marvel Zombies

A race of warlike shape-shifting aliens.

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• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: The Skrulls had no real threats against their power besides the Kree, whom they were in an Evil Versus Evil conflict against. In the MCU, not only have they lost their home planet as a result of refusing to submit to the Kree, they've been forced to go into hiding on Earth, all while still being hunted down by the Kree.
• Adaptational Heroism: In the comics, the Skrulls are a race of Scary Dogmatic Aliens who use their shapeshifting to invade planets and their war with the Kree is a case of Evil Versus Evil. In Captain Marvel, the Skrulls (or at least the ones that we meet in the film) are refugees from a civilization shattered by brutal Kree imperialism. The premise of Secret Invasion however, shows there are indeed evil Skrulls.
• Adaptational Late Appearance: In the comics, the Skrulls appeared long before the Kree (Fantastic Four issue #2, published 1961, where the Kree didn't show up until Fantastic Four issue #65, in 1967). In the films, it's the other way around, the Kree first appearing in 2014 and the Skrulls not showing up until 2019.
• Adaptational Sympathy: invoked The comics version of the Skrulls has them as an almost perpetually Always Chaotic Evil Reptilian Conspiracy (as seen in Secret Invasion where they almost take over the Earth). In the MCU, the Skrulls are a deeply tragic and sympathetic Not Evil, Just Misunderstood Woobie Species of War Refugees who openly acknowledge that they've done horrible things in their war with the Kree, but more than anything else just want a chance to live their lives far from Kree oppression. Heck, the MCU Skrulls even from an Odd Friendship of sorts with humanity, helping out S.H.I.E.L.D. in Spider-Man: Far From Home and having a personal connection to Monica Rambeau in WandaVision.
• Adapted Out: The Skrulls were deeply religious in the comics, and in fact one of the reasons they attempted to invade Earth was due to their belief that it was their destiny to invade the planet. In the MCU, none of the Skrulls appear to be religious in any way.
• Alien Blood: Their blood is purple.
• Alien Hair: Of the Tenctonese (i.e. hairless) variety. In their default form, Skrulls of both gender lack hair of any kind (unlike in the comics, where Skrull women do have hair).
• Aliens of London: Most Skrulls tend to speak with either British or Australian accents.
• Amazing Technicolor Population: They have green skin with thin stripes.
• Anti-Hero: As they point out, they're living through a hellish war. Those that fight have done some bad things, including occasional assassinations and hiding among civilians knowing their presence will lead to Kree bombings.
• Arch-Enemy: Considering how the Kree had been conducting a genocide of them for at least six years until Captain Marvel performed a Heel–Face Turn and started helping them, it's not that surprising that the Skrulls absolutely hate the Kree.
• Bizarre Alien Biology: Zig-zagged. Aside from their long lifespans, shapeshifting abilities, and immunity to radiation, their general physiology and grasp of technology is about on par with that of humans; i.e. unlike say, the Kree, they are not necessarily any stronger or more durable than a typical human (though as with humans this will vary from individual to individual), can be killed by ordinary bullets the same way humans can, and primarily kill others using bullets and other human-made weaponry in the same fashion (they did have some stereotypical alien technology like blasters, energy batons, and space ships in decades prior, but it seems most of it has been lost since the destruction of their homeworld by the Kree and subsequent settling on Earth). That being said, they have developed technology to access the memories of people who can they shapeshift into to make the disguise more perfect, but in the world of the MCU this isn't the kind of thing that's necessarily along the lines of being too far-fetched for human super scientists (e.g. Tony Stark, Shuri, Leo Fitz, Riri Williams, etc.) either.
• Capture and Replicate: In addition to shapeshifting, they can "sim" people they captured to sift through their memories. The renegades in Secret Invasion use it to enhance their disguises.
• Dark Is Not Evil: The Skrulls are creepy-looking, shapeshifting reptilian aliens who dress in black and have the reputation of being vicious terrorists, but in reality, they are not evil. They are only refugees who wish to live in peace and are maligned by Kree propaganda.
• Decomposite Character: In the Ultimate Marvel comics, it was heavily implied that the Chitauri were an offshoot or extremist faction of the Skrull race. In the MCU, the Chitauri are a completely distinct species and lack the ability to shapeshift like Skrulls, implying there is no common ancestry here.
• Early-Bird Cameo: They were actually established to exist in a prequel comic made for the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie, which had a brief scene showing somebody trying to sell a "Skrull detector" at a market Gamora was passing through.
• Fighting for a Homeland: The Skrulls' motivation for standing against the Kree and searching for Lawson's energy core stems from them wanting to live a place where the Kree can't track and hunt them down.
• Gender Bender: Skrulls are capable of disguising themselves as species of the opposite sex, which they use to their advantage when they land on Earth to try and locate Carol Danvers. Talos briefly uses it to assume the form of a teenage girl on the beach, and Norex uses it to disguise himself as Maria Rambeau to lure Monica away from a potentially dangerous confrontation when Talos appears at the Rambeau household. In Secret Invasion (2023), a female Skrull impersonates James Rhodes.
• Green and Mean: All Skrulls have green skin and can be aggressive if provoked.
• Headbutt of Love: Skrulls greet their loved ones and close friends this way, with Talos doing it with Soren in 1995 when they finally reunite, and with Fury in 2026 when he returns from space.
• Hero Antagonist: During the first act of Captain Marvel, before they're revealed to be Good All Along.
• Humanshifting: While the Skrulls can, in theory, take on any form possible, most of them resort to shapeshifting into humans or similarly humanoid beings. This is Justified for the Earth refugees, since it's the best way they can hide among the people.
• Interspecies Friendship: Zig-zagged. 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 was somewhat friendly in Spider-Man: Far From Home, 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. The events of Secret Invasion begin to destroy this however, as after humanity learns about Gravik's attempt to cause a nuclear holocaust, they begin becoming increasingly xenophobic towards the Skrulls, not helped by President Ritson's public threat to wipe them out.
• Invading Refugees: invoked Deconstructed. This trope is explored by giving the Skrulls Adaptational Heroism and showing them as wishing to avoid being this trope — The only reason they're invading other worlds is because the Kree won't let them resettle on an uninhabited planet and are dogmatically pursuing them as part of a Final Solution because the Skrulls refused to submit to Kree imperialism. The Skrulls are aware that they're a Dying Race and war is an incredibly stupid idea, but the Kree have forced them into a Cornered Rattlesnake stance.
• LEGO Genetics: In Secret Invasion Gravik's faction has been experimenting with bonding Skrulls with the abilities of other races, like Groot, a Frost Beast from Jotunheim, whatever race Cull Obsidian is, and even Extremis, which is already notoriously unstable - and somehow they've succeeded with Gravik himself.
• Lizard Folk: While more humanoid than most other examples, Skrulls are green, scaly, and explicitly referred to as reptilian.
• Long-Lived: Skrulls' lifespans are much longer than humans', as Talos and Soren demonstrate. In Secret Invasion, the former even notes that despite being 136 years old chronologically, he's basically in his forties in human years.
• Marquee Alter Ego: Due to the makeup process needed to become a Skrull, many big-name Skrull characters spend a good chunk of their time in human disguises that conveniently happen to look like the actors portraying them. This is most prominent in Secret Invasion, where main characters Talos, G'iah and Gravik are rarely seen in their Skrull forms, even when they don't have a reason to hide behind a human skin.
• Master of Disguise: They're a race of shapeshifting aliens that can take on the recent memories of those that they disguise themselves as.
• Not of This Earth: A medical examination shows that they aren't carbon-based and are actually made from something not on the periodic table.
• Older Than They Look: At their adulthood, they don't seem to age nearly as much as humans do. This is shown in Spider-Man: Far From Home, where Talos and Soren look exactly as they did back in The '90s, despite it being over three decades since we last saw them. Secret Invasion confirms they live longer than humans, with Talos being considered middle-aged at 140 years old.
• Painful Transformation: A Skrull's process of turning into another shape... doesn't exactly look like it tickles, as evidenced by how Talos and other Skrulls visibly cringe in pain whenever they do so.
• Pointy Ears: They have quite large, pointy ears.
• Purple Is Powerful: The Skrulls are master shapeshifters who have an affinity for purple clothing.
• Radiation-Immune Mutants: Secret Invasion reveals that Skrulls are naturally immune to the effects of radiation. The citizens of New Skrullos take advantage of this by setting up their living quarters near nuclear power plants that are too dangerous for humans to enter without being fatally exposed to the radiation there.
• Remember the New Guy?: They came into contact with Captain Marvel in 1995, but they are never seen or referenced again in-universe (outside the above-mentioned comic) until the events of Spider-Man: Far From Home, nearly thirty years later. Justified because they've been primarily just trying to hide from their Kree persecutors.
• Reptilian Conspiracy: The Skrulls are a race of shapeshifting reptilian humanoids notorious for infiltrating other societies by replacing important individuals in order to manipulate them for their own ends. Unusually for this trope, they're neither malicious nor particularly dangerous for their host society, as their ends are just to escape a brutal, genocidal empire and find a world/culture where they can live in peaceful secrecy.
• Secondary Color Nemesis: They have green skin in their natural state, and the entire species has an apparent fondness for purple. Subverted, because they are not the bad guys. The Kree are imperialist madmen, whereas the Skrulls just want to survive and find a home where they can live in peace.
• Shapeshifting Excludes Clothing: They don't simulate clothes on their own; rather, their clothing is generated by a device implanted on their bodies.
• Silicon-Based Life: A medical examiner studying a dead Skrull says that while Earth life is carbon-based, the Skrulls are something that isn't on the periodic table.
• Space Jews: Played straight to the point of reconstruction when it comes to their backstory. They were unwilling to submit before a mighty empire out to conquer them. As punishment for their defiance, their ancestral home was destroyed, and their people were scattered wide and far, and are now looking for a new place to call home, all while they continue to be the regular victims of a genocidal campaign run by said empire.
• Spot the Imposter: While they have computers that copy the long-term memories of those they shapeshift into, they can only scan recent memories, leading to the Skrulls messing up when someone is probing the history of their current forms.
• Super-Strength: Downplayed. They're strong enough to handily beat a Badass Normal 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 the Chitauri or an asgardian.
• This Was His True Form: When a Skrull impersonating someone else dies or at least gets really injured, they revert back to their natural form.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: Their chief ability is altering their bodies to disguise themselves as others, although Talos does mention that it takes practice and often a certain amount of talent to be able to do it well. They can change into beings of the opposite sex, can shapeshift into children, and even possess the mannerisms of their adopted form to better sell the illusion.

Talos's forces

Leadership

Talos

Talos

"This war is only the beginning."

^{Click here to see him disguised as Director Keller}

Species: Skrull

Portrayed By: Ben Mendelsohn, Samuel L. Jackson ^note Nick Fury form

Voiced By: Ricardo Mendoza (Latin American Spanish dub), Toshihiko Seki (Japanese dub)

Appearances: Captain Marvel | Spider-Man: Far From Home | Secret Invasion

A Skrull commander who who attempts to stage an invasion on Earth in 1995.

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• Accent Relapse: Talos switches between using an American accent when disguised as a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent and Ben Mendelsohn's native Australian accent when in his natural Skrull form. He even switches between the two to taunt Fury when fighting him.
• Action Dad: He's a Skrull general who also has a beloved daughter.
• Actually Pretty Funny: During their unsteady truce, Maria Rambeau 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.
• Adaptational Angst Downgrade: 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 suffers from none of that.
• Adaptational Superpower Change: Lacks the Skrulls' traditional Voluntary Shapeshifting powers in the comics, but has them in the MCU. This is likely because Marvel Studios knew that audiences would find it confusing at best and infuriating at worst to have a member of a shapeshifting species lack those abilities himself.
• Adaptational Wimp: Downplayed. In the comics, Talos has a mutation that granted him incredible Super-Strength powers that allowed him to go toe-to-toe with the Hulk, even if it comes at the cost of being unable to shapeshift into other forms. In the MCU, Talos isn't exceptionally stronger than any other Skrull, but he's still capable of feats beyond what a human can do, such as breaking locks with his bare hands and punching car windows open (albeit with some difficulty).
• Affably Evil: He's polite, A Father to His Men, occasionally cracks jokes with his fellow Skrulls, and even breaks character as the director of S.H.I.E.L.D. to give one of his soldiers in an autopsy chamber last rites. Subverted, in that he really isn't even evil.
• Alien Arts Are Appreciated: He's a fan of William Shakespeare, if his quoting of Henry IV is of any indication.
• Anti-Hero: Despite being Good All Along, he readily admits that he has done plenty of underhanded things in pursuit of his goals.
• Awesome Aussie: He has his actor's natural Australian accent and is Good All Along.
• Badass Longcoat: He's the leader of the Skrulls who make their way onto Earth in Captain Marvel, and he's dressed in a long coat that the other Skrulls don't have.
• Battle Couple: His wife Soren is a badass fighter in her own right, and they get some moments to shine together in Spider-Man: Far From Home while undercover as Nick Fury and Maria Hill.
• Body Double: In Spider-Man: Far From Home, he spends the whole movie impersonating Nick Fury on the latter's orders while he is off on some other business.
• Broken Pedestal: On the receiving end of the trope. He once was a respected general and warrior of the Skrulls, leading them against the Kree. By the time of Secret Invasion, most of the Skrulls have lost their faith and trust in him thanks to him still sticking with Fury after he broke his promise to find them a new planet. That actually allows Gravik to become a new leader figure for most of the Skrulls despite his more radical nature. Even his own daughter abandoned him and joined Gravik's faction before switching sides again.
• Can't Kill You, Still Need You: When Carol frees herself aboard the Skrull ship, Talos prevents his men from just shooting her, as they need the information buried in her subconscious.
• Casting Gag:
  • This is not the first time Ben Mendelsohn plays a character who gets involved in activities that take place in outer space.
  • The same goes in the Japanese dub, as Toshihiko Seki also voiced another character who gets involved in activities that take place in outer space, except he did those activities in a Mobile Suit. Likewise, this is not the first time Seki has voiced another an antagonist character dealing with another character voiced by Nana Mizuki (Carol).
• Celebrity Paradox Star Wars exists in the MCU, and Talos's actor plays Orson Krennic in Rogue One.
• Character Tics: He's got his own spin on the Face Palm where his eyes widen and he shakes his head "no." He uses this to express dry disappointment towards Norex, and later when they're flying towards Mar-Vell's ship.
• Cynical Mentor: To Peter Parker in Spider-Man: Far From Home, largely because Talos is reluctant to admit that he's in over his head and is trying to do what Nick Fury would do in a situation like this. Still, he makes some good points for the lessons Peter needs to learn about the full extent of his power and responsibilities.
• Deadpan Snarker: As characters in the MCU tend to be. At the Rambeau household, after Carol treats Maria's neighbor as if he were Talos in disguise, the real Talos is behind them and chides her: "You should be kinder to your neighbors. Never know when you'll need a cup of sugar." He then waves his arms, remarking that Carol should put her "jazz hands" away so they can talk because he doesn't want to fight.
• Deep Cover Agent: A variant. He's sent alongside his wife Soren to impersonate Nick Fury and Maria Hill respectively in order to keep an eye on Spider-Man and deal with some immediate threats on Earth while the real deals were elsewhere.
• Disc-One Final Boss: Is the antagonist of the first two acts of Captain Marvel — before it's revealed he's actually a good guy.
• Due to the Dead: Talos finds a fallen comrade who is lying on autopsy table being studied by S.H.I.E.L.D. He takes a moment to whisper a prayer.
• Endearingly Dorky: While he can be very dangerous and ruthless when he needs to be — and he needs to be often given his enemies are the Kree — underneath it all he's infectiously likable and jovial if you're on his good side. And while some aspects of Earth customs are lost on him, to others he adapts surprisingly quickly (he doesn't know where a human ass is located, but knows all about borrowing sugar from neighbors). And then there's the blazer he wears over his Skrull uniform (likely taken from the real Director Keller), just because it looks stylin'. In the post-credits for Spider-Man: Far From Home, he's too embarrassed to admit to Nick Fury he was suckered by Mysterio despite his wife's urging to report to Nick about the danger on Earth.
• Enemy Eats Your Lunch: When he infiltrates the Rambeau household, Talos helps himself to one of their soft drinks, slurping away on the straw when he announces his presence. Though, as plot developments moments later reveal, he's not the true enemy, and is actually an ally.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Has a deep, ominous voice with an especially Australian accent.
• Fake American: In-Universe. Talos disguises himself as an American S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, who is also played by Ben Mendelsohn but with an American accent. He drops the fake American accent when his cover's blown.
• A Father to His Men: Talos is shown to truly care about the Skrulls under his command, to the point that he pays his respects to one of his fallen soldiers while disguised as the S.H.I.E.L.D. director at the risk of blowing his cover.
• Fire-Forged Friends: With Carol and Maria, but Nick Fury especially. Talos didn't get along with them at all, and they worked with each other in Teeth-Clenched Teamwork, but Fury eventually regards him as a close ally and even trusts him enough to act as his Body Double in Spider-Man: Far From Home. Talos's death in Secret Invasion is the one that devastates Fury the most.
• Frontline General: He is in the field with the other Skrulls and takes point when negotiating.
• General Ripper: At first, he was the ruthless general of the Skrull refugees who has committed various war crimes to keep his people safe from the Kree Empire. He does later decide to enter an Enemy Mine with Carol by attempting diplomacy to know where Mar-Vell's lab is in order to keep his people safe, softening up his ruthlessness in the process.
• Good All Along: Talos was never a bad guy, but he doesn't deny that he's done terrible things in his life, because he just wanted to find the remnants of his people who were given safe haven by Mar-Vell.
• Good Parents: After he helps Carol recover her memories, they go to Mar-Vell's Imperial cruiser ship not only to get the Tesseract but to reunite with his wife and daughter who are hiding there.
• Gun Struggle: When Nick Fury tries to hide from S.H.I.E.L.D. in the military facility, Talos eventually finds him and points a gun at his head, but Fury quickly grabs it, and the two fight over it. Fury manages to get it and attempts to shoot Talos with it, only to realize that the ammo was pulled out during the brawl.
• Happily Married: He and Soren are devoted to one another. Twenty-nine years later in Spider-Man: Far From Home, they're still very happy together, even if they do have their moments of standard old married couple bickering.
• Headbutt of Love: He does this with his wife and daughter when they reunite after having been separated for six years.
• Hero Antagonist: During the first two acts of Captain Marvel. After it's revealed that the Skrulls are not evil terrorists and just want someplace to live in peace, Talos plays the Tritagonist.
• Hero of Another Story: Alongside his wife, daughter, and at least 20 other Skrulls, Talos 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.
• Hero with Bad Publicity:
  • 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.
  • Gets this from his fellow Skrulls in Secret Invasion, including his own daughter G'iah. His insistence on sticking with Nick Fury and Carol Danvers even after their repeated failings to find them a home have proved to be the Rage Breaking Point for Gravik and his faction of Skrulls, resulting in them deciding to stage an invasion of Earth.
• He's a Friend: When Soren sees Carol Danvers at Mar-Vell's laboratory and freaks out due to her wearing a Kree Uniform, Talos reassures her by saying this.
  Talos: It's okay, it's okay. She's alright. She's a friend.
  • Happens to him again in Secret Invasion, this time amongst his fellow Skrulls. His unwavering loyalty to Nick Fury, even as there showed no signs of finding a new home for them to live on, has angered the likes of Gravik and G'iah, seeing Talos as an out-of-touch coward and a far cry from the ruthless general he used to be.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: He and Fury spend decades working together to build a network of Skrull operatives and defend the Eath, becoming the partner each trusts most in the universe. Learning that Talos has moved a million Skrull onto Earth drives a temporary breakup.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Completely suckered by Quentin Beck in Far from Home, a fact Soren teases him about when he tries to claim otherwise. He later admits that his whole plan to secure a home on Earth for the Skrulls is to reveal themselves to President Ritson, who turns out to be an Absolute Xenophobe against them even after Talos dies saving his life.
• Human Disguise: During his time on Earth, Talos primarily assumed the form of former S.H.I.E.L.D Director Keller, though he occasionally does use other forms, including Nick Fury himself in Spider-Man: Far From Home.
• I Have Your Wife: Implied when Talos meets with Carol, Maria, and Fury. He then draws their attention to Norex impersonating Maria, who's standing with her daughter.
• Impersonating an Officer:
  • He spends a portion of Captain Marvel impersonating Keller, Fury's boss at S.H.I.E.L.D. By the time of Secret Invasion, Keller has essentially become Talos's default human appearance.
  • Exaggerated in Spider-Man: Far From Home, where Talos impersonates Nick Fury himself at the man's request.
• Implied Death Threat: Though he's certainly not talking seriously, after being interrupted several times by some of Peter's entourage while giving information about the Elementals, Talos (disguised as Nick Fury) warns him that the next time it happens, Peter and him are "going to attend another funeral".
• Imposter Forgot One Detail: Talos is able to fool Nick Fury into believing he's actually his boss when he takes on the disguise in Captain Marvel... 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 Last-Name Basis, and gets Talos to further incriminate himself with a test question that he fails.
• It Has Only Just Begun: After they find his family and the other Skrull refugees in Mar-Vell's lab, Talos lets Carol know that their mission is far from over, as there are many other Skrulls out there who need their help.
  Talos: This is just the beginning. There's thousands of us separated from each other... scattered throughout the galaxy.
• Killed Off for Real: Is murdered by Gravik while trying to help Fury rescue President Ritson in Secret Invasion.
• Licked by the Dog: During the final battle, Talos disguises himself as one of the Kree guards who arrest Fury and Maria. However, Goose recognizes him and comes to rub against his legs, as an early hint of his true identity.
• Marquee Alter Ego: Talos spends portions of Captain Marvel and much of Secret Invasion 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 Ben Mendelsohn an excuse to get out of his Skrull costume and show his actual face... Which conveniently happens to look just like a S.H.I.E.L.D. director in 1995.
• Master Actor: He is very skilled at impersonating others, the trait not every member of his shapeshifting species possesses equally. When he takes up the role of impersonating Nick Fury in Spider-Man: Far From Home, he mimicks his personality and mannerisms so well that everyone he meets is fooled, in spite of lacking the real Fury's notorious paranoia.
• Nice Guy: Talos is a polite man who looks out for other Skrulls and deeply loves his wife and kids.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Mysterio's final con of outing Peter Parker as Spider-Man and blaming for the drone attacks probably would not be as damaging to Peter if Fury had issued a report on the subject which would have blamed Mysterio officially. Given that Talos was impersonating Fury, this makes it more of his fault, especially since Peter is unable to use him to clear himself of federal charges.
• No One Gets Left Behind: During the Elemental Fusion attack in London, Quentin Beck tells Talos (disguised as Nick Fury) that he should go to safety, but Talos, who has been warned that Beck is an impostor, declines on the grounds that he doesn't want to abandon his men.
  Talos: I appreciate your concern, but I never leave my men behind.
• Not Helping Your Case: As pointed out by Carol, Talos only wants to reunite with his family and needs her help to find them, but he made a pretty bad first impression on her by kidnapping her, investigating her mind, and attempting to kill her several times, instead of simply trying to talk to her, as he eventually does.
• Not Me This Time:
  • Due to their reputation as terrorists, Carol assumes that the Skrulls are responsible for the ravages in the planet Torfa. However, Talos later reveals to her that it was the Kree Accusers' doing.
  • When Maria's neighbor Tom comes knocking on her door to ask about the Quadjet parked on the road, Carol suspects him to be Talos in disguise and treats him with hostility. Turns out he was just a nosy neighbor, and the real Talos is already inside the house.
• Not Quite Dead: 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 G'iah closer for comfort. Talos doesn't bite it.
• Obviously Not Fine: Just after Yon-Rogg shoots him in the back, 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:
  Talos: Never... better.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: 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 Carol. How he was able to do all this without being detected is not clear, as it entirely happened off-screen.
• Papa Wolf: He is willing to do anything to protect his family. He outright states that his hands are dirty from the war.
• Purely Aesthetic Glasses: He wears a set of glasses while impersonating Keller, outright admitting he doesn't really need them but likes how they compliment his appearance. He ditches them by the time of Secret Invasion.
• Rapid-Fire Interrupting: In Spider-Man: Far From Home, Talos (disguised as Nick Fury) goes to Peter Parker's hotel room and attempts to explain what is going on with the Elementals, but he keeps getting interrupted by a series of people out in the hallway.
  Talos: Another person touches that door, you and I are going to attend another funeral.
• Relative Button: As he grows less tolerant of Gravik's warmongering, his enemies threatening his daughter's safety steadily becomes one. Gravik doing so during their parlay makes him put a knife through his hand, and the Fairbanks Skrull calling her out as a traitor causes him to instantly turn and shoot him.
• Rogues' Gallery Transplant: He has no relation to Carol Danvers in the comics. He debuted as an Anti-Villain in the Peter David era of Hulk comics and was an uneasy ally to Nova and Ronan in Annihilation. The closest he comes to being associated with the name Captain Marvel or Carol Danvers would be during his appearance in Howard the Duck's comic as a villain, during which he came into conflict with an Avengers team which included Monica Rambeau and Kamala Khan, who respectively had carried Carol's titles of Captain Marvel and Ms. Marvel. However, Monica was known as Captain Marvel before Carol was, and was going by the name Spectrum when fighting Talos, and Kamala has only superficial relations to Carol other than the fact that she is a Legacy Character and an Ascended Fanboy of Carol.
• Sacrificial Lion: Gravik kills him to show how powerful his Super-Skrull abilities are and to show how ruthless and monstrous he is.
• Senseless Sacrifice: He gave up his life to protect President Ritson from Gravik's attack in order to give Skrulls a good impression. However, it's in vain due to Ritson declaring war on all Skrulls after the conflict with Gravik is over.
• Something Only They Would Say: After assuming the appearance of a Kree soldier, Talos makes Fury aware of his identity by telling him, "Play it cool. Just like Havana."
• Sour Supporter: After his and Fury's argument on the train in "Promises" he is far more vitriolic toward Fury and open to calling him out. Despite this, his loyalties to his old friend never waver.
• Take a Moment to Catch Your Death:
  • Subverted. When Talos and his family have reached the Quadjet and are about to escape from the Kree, Talos gets shot by Yon-Rogg right as the door is closing. Fortunately, he ultimately survives his wounds.
  • Played straight in Secret Invasion. After being shot in the shoulder by Pagon, Talos uses the rest of his strength to help break President Ritson out of his overturned car. Exhausted, he reverts to his true form and is helped by a British soldier to get him and Fury out of the warzone. Said soldier to turn out to be Gravik, who promptly produces a knife and fatally stabs him in the chest after being exposed by Fury.
• Take Me Instead: As Yon-Rogg arrives to round up (if not even exterminate) the Skrulls cowering in fear, Talos steps forward and defends them.
  Talos: You can see they're not soldiers, let them go! You can have me.
• Technical Pacifist: When it comes to his own people, he doesn't want to have any of them killed, even when they won't spare the same courtesy for him. This does not mean he'll idly stand by, and he happily engages Gravik's loyalists in hand to hand combat. Unfortunately, this trait is disparaged as weakness by Skrulls loyal to Gravik.
• Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Pun unintended, but even though he said he did some unsavory things to help his race survive, he was a kind man who fervently believed in humans and Skrulls coexisting and sadly dies believing this when almost the exact opposite happens by the end of the series. What makes this worse is that Talos dies saving the life of Ritson, who proceeds to outlaw all alien kind.
• Tranquillizer Dart: When he goes to Peter Parker's hotel room to recruit him, Talos (disguised as Nick Fury) shoots a tranquilizer dart at Ned Leeds' neck, knocking him out before he even hits the ground. Believing to have been shot by the real Nick Fury, Ned is surprisingly okay with this experience.
• Trespassing to Talk:
  • In Captain Marvel, 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.
  • Old habits die hard apparently, as Talos does this yet again in Spider-Man: Far From Home. Peter Parker unexpectedly finds him (disguised as Nick Fury) waiting for him in his hotel room in Venice to recruit him on the Elemental case.
• Tritagonist: He's this to Carol's The Protagonist and Nick's Deuteragonist in Carol's solo movie.
• Undying Loyalty: By the time of Secret Invasion, he's one of the few Skrulls who never wavered in loyalty to Captain Marvel and Nick Fury's work to find them a safe home world to inhabit.
• Vocal Dissonance: While taking the form of a surfer girl, Talos talks to his allies in his usual guttural voice.
• Walking Spoiler:
  • In Captain Marvel, he's not the Big Bad at all, but a victim of the Kree's genocidal campaigns, and he just wants to be safe with his family again.
  • In Spider-Man: Far From Home, the fact that he's impersonating Nick Fury while the real Fury is in space is a surprise plot twist.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: He's willing to have one of his men target Monica as a way of making sure that he can speak with Maria, Nick Fury, and Carol Danvers. While he doesn't turn out to be evil, and even insists that he would never have actually ordered Monica to be hurt, this does go to show that he's capable of being ruthless. Later, after he's reunited with his family and Carol apologizes to his people, promising that she will no longer take part in an unjust war against the Skrulls, Talos admits that for all his noble intentions, he's no saint, either.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: He is absolutely terrified of Flerkens (and by extension, ordinary housecats) which is something Carol and Fury use to their advantage to keep him in line during their shaky alliance. As later shown, his fear is very much justified. He's also not a big fan of dogs either, although it's a downplayed example in that case as he merely doesn't understand why humans care so much for a creature that they have to pick up after.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: He never gives up his hope humans and Skrulls can learn to co-exist on the same planet, even as his own daughter and closest friend rebukes him on the point.
• You Are Not Ready: He considers that someone as young and inexperienced as Peter Parker is not ready to receive Stark's E.D.I.T.H. glasses, and doesn't hesitate to tell him so to his face after he accidentally sent a drone after Brad Davis.
  Talos: It's clear to me that you were not ready for this!

Subordinates

Norex

Norex

Species: Skrull

Portrayed By: Matthew Maher, Brie Larson ^note Carol Danvers form

Appearances: Captain Marvel

Talos's second-in-command and appointed "Science Guy".

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• All There in the Script: His name is never used during the film and is only revealed in the credits.
• Building Is Welding: When he spends the night making modifications to the Quadjet so that it can travel in space, he is mostly shown welding stuff.
• Decoy Getaway: After Yon-Rogg arrives on Earth, Norex stays behind to lure him away from his friends, impersonating Carol so the others can reach Mar-Vell's lab unimpeded.
• Defiant to the End: Even after being shot by Yon-Rogg, he refuses to reveal where Carol is and simply tells him that he is too late.
• Dying Smirk: After receiving a fatal wound from Yon-Rogg, he taunts Yon-Rogg that he is too late with a smile on his face.
• Epic Fail: Even with the advanced alien technology at their fingertips, Norex somehow failed to figure out that the hiding place of the Skrull refugees wasn't on Earth itself, much to Talos's exasperation.
• Evil Genius: Talos's resident scientist among the few Skrull characters. This is inverted after The Reveal that the Skrulls are the good guys, after which he becomes The Smart Guy.
• Gadgeteer Genius: He's good enough to modify a Quadjet to make it capable of flying in space in just one night, including adding an Artificial Gravity switch to the cockpit.
• Heroic Sacrifice: He remains behind on Earth posing as Carol in order to delay and distract Yon-Rogg and Starforce while the real Carol and co. search for Mar-Vell's lab, which costs him his life when his cover is blown.
• Impostor Forgot One Detail: Carol told him her code and some information so that he could convincingly pose as her to Yon-Rogg. Unfortunately, she forgot to tell him which Kree gave her his blood. When Yon-Rogg asks him about it, Norex is unable to answer, which blows his cover.
• Mauve Shirt: The only other Skrull character besides Talos who has some kind of role at least until Mar-Vell's lab is found, he gets a couple of gags to himself, and stays behind on Earth to keep Yon-Rogg busy at the cost of his life.
• Nerdy Nasalness: He's the "science guy" and speaks with a nasal voice that other voiced Skrulls don't possess.
• Not So Stoic: While Norex is fairly serious for the most part, he can't help but apologetically shrug when Talos berates him for failing to realize that the hiding place of their fellow Skrulls was in Earth's orbit, rather than on the planet itself.
• Number Two: He seems to be Talos's second-in-command.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: He is never called by name during the film and is only referred to as "the science guy".
• Would Hurt a Child: When Talos corners the Main Characters at Maria's house, he has Norex shapeshift into Maria and lead Monica away from them as an unknowing hostage so they would stand down under threat of what would happen to her. Though after Talos reveals his true intentions to them, he makes it clear this was a bluff and it's implied with Norex's position as the comic relief that he wouldn't have gone through with it.
• You Are Too Late: His last words are saying to Yon-Rogg that he is too late to stop his allies.
  Yon-Rogg: What have you done with her?
  Norex: You're too late.

Old Lady Impersonator

Old Lady Impersonator

Species: Skrull

Portrayed By: Adam Hart, Marilyn Brett ^note Old lady form

Appearances: Captain Marvel

One of Talos's enforcers who crashed on Earth alongside him.

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• Ceiling Smash: During the subway fight, he gets slammed into the ceiling of the train car by Carol.
• Cold Sniper: 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 sniper rifle to shoot at Carol 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.
• Harmless Electrocution: He receives an electric shock when he touches the train's pantograph and is knocked backwards, but he quickly gets back on his feet.
• Harmless Lady Disguise: In an attempt to hide from Carol on the train, he assumes the appearance of an innocent old woman that he has just bumped into. Carol isn't fooled for a second because she just saw the original old lady getting off the train. The Skrull smiles nervously as he realizes he's been caught, just in time for her to punch 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 restrain Carol.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: After failing to shoot Carol from a roof, he decides to run away. She chases him onto a train, where they have a fight, but he escapes her at the first opportunity.
• Never Mess with Granny: He maintains his old woman appearance when he fights Carol on the train and does all kinds of fancy stunts.
• No Name Given: His name is not known, he is only called "Skrull Spy" in the credits.
• Small Role, Big Impact: He doesn't stay in the film for very long, but Carol retrieving his crystal containing the information from her memory that he dropped on the train is what eventually leads her to discover the truth about her past.
• Traintop Battle: Has a fight with Carol on top of a moving LA Metro Rail Blue line train.
• The Voiceless: He doesn't have a single line of dialogue.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: He pretty much disappears from the film after escaping from Carol at the train station, and isn't even mentioned afterward.
• Would Hit a Girl: He tries to shoot Carol with his sniper rifle, and later fights her on a train.

Phil Coulson Impersonator

Phil Coulson Impersonator

Species: Skrull

Portrayed By: Vinny O'Brien, Clark Gregg ^note Phil Coulson form

Appearances: Captain Marvel

One of Talos's enforcers who crashed on Earth alongside him.

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• Alien Autopsy: After his death, his corpse is taken into S.H.I.E.L.D. custody to be examined. Upon performing the autopsy, the coroner discovers that the Skrull's body is not composed of carbon.
• Choke Holds: During his brawl with Nick Fury inside the car, the Skrull eventually grabs his opponent's neck and starts choking him. Before passing out, Fury manages to crash the car, killing the Skrull right away.
• Exotic Equipment: Implied. After an autopsy is performed on his corpse, Fury and his boss lift the sheet to glance at what lies down below, and they look at each other. Fury then walks away awkwardly.
• Gun Struggle: When Nick Fury realizes that the person sitting next to him is not the real Phil Coulson, and the Skrull realizes that his cover has been blown, he draws a gun on Fury, but Fury grabs his hand, and the two fight over it until their car crashes into a bus, killing the Skrull.
• Impersonating an Officer: He tries to impersonate Agent Phil Coulson in order to infiltrate S.H.I.E.L.D., though he is quickly exposed.
• Mythology Gag: His autopsy scene brings to mind the comic Secret Invasion (2008), which also featured an Alien Autopsy of a Skrull, as proof of an alien infiltration (in that comic, it meant that they could now infiltrate with higher ease than before, in the film it's the proof of their existence). And, also like in the comic, one of the people overseeing the autopsy is also a Skrull in disguise.
• No Name Given: His name is not known, he is only called "Skrull Spy 2" in the credits.
• Small Role, Big Impact: He only appears in two scenes before being killed, but his death is what makes Nick Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D. realize that aliens really exist and that Vers was telling the truth.
• This Was His True Form: After being killed in the car crash while disguised as Coulson, his corpse reverts back to his alien appearance. Fury freaks out when he sees it and puts his coat over it to hide it.
• Villainous Friendship: Talos is shown to be saddened by his death and even calls him "my friend" when he wishes him a safe journey to the afterlife. Subverted, as it's later revealed that the Skrulls aren't actually evil.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: He gets little dialogue, screen time, or development before he's killed in a car crash caused by Nick Fury.

Att-Lass Impersonator

Att-Lass Impersonator

Species: Skrull

Portrayed By: Algenis Perez Soto ^note Att-Lass form

Appearances: Captain Marvel

A Skrull soldier who is killed by Minn-Erva during the battle in Torfa.

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• Gun Struggle: When he realizes that Minn-Erva has figured out who he really is, he promptly draws a gun on her but she grabs it and manages to pull it out of his hands.
• No Name Given: His real name is unknown.
• This Was His True Form: After being gunned down by Minn-Erva, his corpse reverts to its original appearance, confirming that the people on Torfa are Skrulls in disguise.
• Too Dumb to Live: Even though he managed to approach Minn-Erva without her noticing him, rather than killing her by surprise right away, he chooses to pose as Att-Lass, have a little chat with her, and wait until she has realized his imposture to actually attack her. This results in his death.
• Torso with a View: Minn-Erva blows a huge hole in his chest by shooting him with her laser rifle.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: He's a very minor character who isn't even named and appears for less than thirty seconds before he gets shot to death.
• Would Hit a Girl: He is perfectly willing to pull a gun on Minn-Erva and try to kill her.

Others

Species: Skrulls

Appearances: Captain Marvel

The other Skrulls under Talos's command.

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• Escape Pod: When Carol 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 Carol before he can escape.
• Giant Mook: Shortly after taking out a large horde of standard Skrull soldiers in Talos's spaceship, Carol 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.
• Grievous Harm with a Body: When Carol breaks free of the mind-reading machine and starts interrogating Talos, some Skrull soldiers arrive to stop her so she throws Talos at them, knocking them down.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: During the fight in the spaceship, one of the Skrulls knocked down by Carol falls on his own electric baton and gets shocked.
• In the Back: On Torfa, one of the Skrulls disguised as a Torfan suddenly draws a gun at Yon-Rogg, but he is shot from behind by Minn-Erva before he can fire.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: During her escape in Talos's spaceship, Carol 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 Carol and the other Starforce members. However, it eventually turns out that they are not as bad as they look.
• Mythology Gag: Some of the Skrull technicians in Talos's ship are noticeably shorter, with bigger eyes and less human-like features than the regular Skrulls, resembling the Skrulls' look in their very first appearance in the comics◊.
• No-Sell: The Giant Mook encountered by Carol in Talos ship hardly reacts to her punches to his stomach and head.
• Oh, Crap!: The Skrull technician who was tapping Carol's forehead has this reaction when he notices that her restraints are heating up and realizes she's about to break free.
  Skrull Technician: Uh oh...
• One-Hit Polykill: During the battle on Torfa, Minn-Erva uses special projectiles that can change their trajectory to kill several Skrulls in one shot.
• Percussive Maintenance: After capturing Carol, 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.
• Roar Before Beating: On Torfa, most of the Skrulls let out a loud war cry before charging into battle against the Starforce.
• Screaming Warrior: They are often growling during their fights. At one point, one of them growls at Carol after punching her, and she responds by growling back at him.
• Shock Stick: The Skrull soldiers use some sort of cylindrical clubs that can emit electrical discharges. They're powerful enough to harm Carol Danvers herself.
• Thrown Out the Airlock: By using her photon blasts to break free of her shackles, Carol accidentally blows a large hole through the hull of Talos's ship, causing a large number of Skrulls to be sucked out into space.
• Would Hit a Girl: The Skrull soldiers show no hesitation in fighting against female enemies, such as Carol or Minn-Erva.

Mar-Vell's lab refugees

Soren

Soren

"We didn't know what to do. Mar-Vell warned us not to send a signal for any reason or the Kree would find us."

Species: Skrull

Portrayed By: Sharon Blynn (2019), Charlotte Baker ^note Human form, Cobie Smulders ^note Maria Hill form, Catherine Braithwaite (2023)

Appearances: Captain Marvel | Spider-Man: Far From Home | Secret Invasion^note flashback only

The wife of Talos, who was been hidden aboard Mar-Vell's orbiting laboratory cruiser in The '90s alongside their daughter.

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• Action Girl: Despite not being the real Maria Hill, Soren proves that she definitely has her field training narrowed down, as she's capable of using a rocket launcher to destroy several of Mysterio's drones to protect Talos.
• Action Mom: She is the mother of Talos's daughter and can fight alongside her husband.
• Arbitrary Skepticism: In the opening scene of Spider-Man: Far From Home, she expresses disbelief when she's told that some people in Mexico claim to have seen a cyclone with a face, and thinks it was probably a mass hallucination caused by fear. This is coming from a shapeshifting alien who regularly hangs out with superheroes.
• Battle Couple: Soren is a badass fighter in her own right, and she and Talos fight alongside each other throughout Spider-Man: Far From Home while undercover as Maria Hill and Nick Fury.
• BFG: While masquerading as Maria Hill, Soren manages to shoot down a Stark drone using a rocket launcher.
• Body Double: Soren acts as Maria Hill's body double in Spider-Man: Far From Home.
• Bus Crash: She was killed between the events of Spider-Man: Far From Home and Secret Invasion (2023) as the latter series revealed.
• Canon Foreigner: Talos was never married in the comics.
• Cover Innocent Eyes and Ears: On Talos's request, she covers their daughter's eyes when he is about to kill some Kree guards during the battle in Mar-Vell's laboratory.
• Deep Cover Agent: A variant. She's sent alongside her husband Talos to impersonate Maria Hill and Nick Fury respectively in order to keep an eye on Spider-Man and deal with some immediate threats on Earth while the real deals were elsewhere.
• Dropped a Bridge on Her: Soren is said to have been killed by Gravik's forces sometime before the events of Secret Invasion. When Fury returns from Earth, Talos is still mourning her.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • While she understands why he did it, Soren thought Talos went a little too far taking out the then-director of S.H.I.E.L.D. and assuming his form, pointing out that he basically stole his identity.
  • In The Stinger for Spider-Man: Far From Home, she's also unimpressed with Talos trying to justify being completely bamboozled by Mysterio's lies and illusions, and forces him to contact Nick Fury to admit to his mistakes.
• Foolish Husband, Responsible Wife:
  • Well, Soren is wiser than her husband. In Spider-Man: Far From Home, she points out that they are basically kidnapping Peter Parker, has no qualms about hurting Talos's pride when he claims he was always suspicious of Mysterio, calls him out for letting the situation get so far out of hand, and gets him to call the real Nick Fury about this mess.
  • In Secret Invasion, it's heavily implied that Soren knew just how bad Gravik was, and she's stated to have died fighting against his forces offscreen.
• Happily Married: She and Talos are nothing if supportive and loving of each other, even in the direst of circumstances. Twenty-nine years later in Spider-Man: Far From Home, they're still very happy together, even if they do have their moments of standard old married couple bickering.
• Hero of Another Story: Secret Invasion shows that Soren was the first Skrull to accept becoming part of Fury's secret spy network in the mid-90s, and worked for him alongside Talos for decades. She also apparently tried to fight Gravik by herself offscreen, but didn't survive.
• Hypocritical Humor: While eating dinner at the Rambeau household, Soren lightly criticizes her husband for committing identity theft by assuming the form of Nick Fury's boss. She does the exact same thing with Maria Hill nearly 30 years later. Of course, while Talos takes Keller's form without his consent, it's implied that Hill allowed Soren to take hers.
• Jumped at the Call: When Fury offers the Skrulls an arrangement to help protect earth in exchange for helping them find a new world, she's the first to step forward and accept.
• Killed Offscreen: She was murdered offscreen by Gravik at some point between Spider-Man: Far From Home and the beginning of Secret Invasion (2023).
• Mama Bear: She has kept her daughter safe and hidden from the Kree for several years and is willing to protect her from any potential threat. Her Last Words to Talos are even to tell him to find their daughter.
• Took a Level in Badass: In Captain Marvel, Soren was shown hiding amongst her daughter and fellow Skrulls, without any indication that she had any espionage or combat skills. Fast-forward to Spider-Man: Far From Home, where she not only convincingly portrays Maria Hill but is shown to be a damn good fighter who can destroy remotely controlled attack drones with a rocket launcher.
• Undercover When Alone: Strangely enough, Soren calls her husband "Nick" when they go to Mexico disguised as Maria Hill and Nick Fury respectively in Spider-Man: Far From Home, even though no one around knows who they are supposed to be.
  Soren: Nick, this was a tragedy, but it's not why we're here.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: She won't let anyone or anything hurt her husband Talos. When Mysterio sends a drone to assassinate Talos (disguised as Nick Fury), Soren pulls out a rocket launcher and blasts the drone to smithereens!
• Walking Spoiler:
  • In Captain Marvel, Soren and her daughters' existence is what proves to Carol, Fury, and Maria that the Skrulls are desperate refugees instead of brutal terrorists.
  • Soren's presence in Spider-Man: Far From Home at all is a pretty big spoiler, showing that S.H.I.E.L.D. authorizes Skrulls to impersonate their own agents.

G'iah

G'iah

"Welcome to New Skrullos."

^{Click here to see her as a child}

Species: Enhanced Skrull

Portrayed By: Emilia Clarke (adult), Auden L. Ophuls, Harriet L. Ophuls (young)

Appearances: Captain Marvel | Secret Invasion

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

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• Adaptational Badass: G'iah never became a Super-Skrull in the comics. Here, she ends up gaining the abilities of nearly every previously-established superhero/villain present at the Battle of Earth.
• Alien Arts Are Appreciated:
  • Mar-Vell has stocked the Skrulls' hideaway with all sorts of human gadgets and toys, such as a Fonzie lunchbox, NERF guns, and Space Invaders arcade game for the young Skrulls to play with in their six years spent in hiding. When Carol and her allies make it clear that they come in peace, G'iah shows off the high scores she earned on Space Invaders while hiding out on the satellite.
  • Inverted in Secret Invasion. G'iah living so much of her life on Earth has caused her to long for the aspects of her homeworld and culture that she's missed, such as drinking Skrull wine or growing the kind of food that used to be on their home planet. It's telling that she has a sense of nationalistic pride for New Skrullos over anywhere else on Earth.
• All Your Powers Combined: After being in Gravik's empowering device when he douses himself with the Harvest, she has the powerset of every participant of the Battle of Earth and a few others besides. Throughout her fight with Gravik, she uses the powers of Drax, Ghost, the Frost Beast, Hulk, Mantis, and Captain Marvel.
• Ambiguously Evil: She seems to have pulled a Heel–Face Turn after being told Gravik's side killed her mother, but the information she gives Fury and co. turns out to be a false end, leading to them chasing decoy bombs. It's not clear if deliberately misled them or Gravik played her as well. The second episode confirms she is still on Gravik's side, but still has building doubts, especially after he executes one of their own. The third episode shows her working against Gravik, but by episode four it's clear that doesn't mean she agrees with her father either.
• Ascended Extra: After only having a very small role in Captain Marvel as a child, G'iah becomes a key player and is significantly more involved in the events of Secret Invasion.
• Characterization Marches On: During her brief appearance in Captain Marvel, G'iah had no issue with Earth's culture and entertainment, and was friendly enough to talk with Monica even as she was unfamiliar with humans. Later on in Secret Invasion, G'iah's most defining characteristic is her Skrull nationalism, showing contempt for Earth and its inhabitants in the process.
• Defiant to the End: When Gravik busts her acting as a mole for Talos, she spends her final moments before he shoots her and leaves her for dead insulting him as an unworthy warmonger of a leader.
• Due to the Dead: She recovers her father's corpse following his murder and disposes of his body on a funeral pyre. While she admits to not knowing the words to the prayer they are meant to say, she bids him farewell in the Skrull's mother tongue.
• Even Bad People Love Their Parents:
  • While G'iah has a rather frosty relationship with her father in the present day, she still loves her mother Soren deeply. When she learns from him that she's died, potentially at the hands of the very man she's working for, she collapses to the ground and quietly sheds tears in private.
  • Despite their rocky relationship throughout the show, she's heartbroken by her father's death and grieves him at his last-minute funeral, and later kills Gravik to avenge him.
• Everyone Has Standards: G'iah may be lost in her rage and bitterness, but she's still got a heart.
  • She's visibly shaken by the news of her mother's death and sheds tears for her in private.
  • She's shown to be uncomfortable with Gravik's more ruthless approach to the war with humanity and it's shown to be contributing to her Heel–Face Turn. She's also highly distraught when he has Brogan executed for revealing information under torture.
  • G'iah is visibly worried when she discovers Gravik's plans to use alien DNA to biologically enhance Skrulls to make them more lethal.
  • Despite her anger towards her father, she's quietly angered by Gravik mocking him as nothing more than a spineless coward whose affection for humans makes him pathetic. She's also distraught when she learns of his murder.
• Foil: To Monica Rambeau. Both of them were young children who were affected by the Kree-Skrull conflict in The '90s, and eventually grew up to become superpowered individuals who care about others. However, while Monica's experience with the Skrulls made her more idealistic about alien relations and exploring space, G'iah became more pessimistic about humans as an adult due to being forced to grow up on Earth. Monica also put others before herself, as demonstrated with her determination to get through to Wanda Maximoff at all costs despite the danger involved, while G'iah prioritizes her own beliefs and the desires of fellow Skrulls, even if it potentially involves others being hurt.
• Gamer Chick: She apparently played Space Invaders quite a lot during the years she spent at Mar-Vell's laboratory. When she meets Carol, she even shows her high score in pride.
• Generation Xerox: Just like her father, she enters into an arrangement with one of Earth's major world powers to provide for them as an operative in exchange for the protection of her people's future.
• Glass Cannon: Despite getting the powers of a lot of characters, that doesn't seem to be reflected in her durability, to the point that she needs to use Ghost's powers to avoid being crushed by a truck that Gravik throws at her, which wouldn't have been a threat to the Hulk, Thanos, or Abomination.
• Going Native: Having spent the majority of her childhood in a laboratory orbiting around Earth, she took a liking to Earth's video games and TV series.
• Healing Factor: She injects herself with Extremis before fleeing the compound, enabling her to survive Gravik shooting her when he catches her.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: She may have sided with Gravik for a number of reasons, mainly because losing trust in her father and for that abandoning him before the events of Secret Invasion, but learning of her mother's death (potentially at Gravik's hands) persuaded her to quietly come back to her father's side again.
• Informed Flaw: 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.
• Innocent Aliens: She's the child of two Skrulls who are just trying to find a home for themselves in the galaxy. Subverted by the time of Secret Invasion, where she's shown to have joined up with Gravik due to her disdain for being on Earth for so long.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: Her eyes are a very dark blue, something that Monica likes the most about her. The latter requests the former not to change them.
• Interspecies Friendship:
  • She's seen having a conversation with the young Monica during a family dinner at the end of Captain Marvel. Notably, her connection with Monica is what inspired her to become an astronaut and become receptive to alien relations in her adult years.
  • Unfortunately, this is subverted by the time of Secret Invasion. Having long become disillusioned with Fury and her father, G'iah performs a Face–Heel Turn and works with Gravik, due to her becoming tired of living on Earth and wanting to live as a Skrull without disguising herself.
• Marquee Alter Ego: Even moreso than her father Talos - she spends nearly the entirety of Secret Invasion in Emilia Clarke's human form, only reverting to her Skrull appearance when she's Faking the Dead to escape from Gravok.
• Meaningful Name: G'iah is phonetically pronounced the same as Gaia, which is the Greek name for the personification of Earth. A fitting name for an alien who's lived much of her life on the planet.
• No Name Given: While Soren is named in the credits, Talos' daughter receives no name in Captain Marvel. Her name is finally given to us in Secret Invasion, which is revealed to be G'iah.
• Parting-Words Regret: G'iah regretted walking away from her father in their last conversation before he was killed by Gravik.
• Related in the Adaptation: G'iah and Talos were not related in the comics. Here, she's the latter's daughter.
• Story-Breaker Power: 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 corporeal characters in the MCU.
• Time-Shifted Actor: G'iah is played by the sisters Auden and Harriet L. Ophuls in Captain Marvel, due to the character being a child at the time. Come Secret Invasion, which is set in the present day, and she's now played by the 32-year old Emilia Clarke.
• Took a Level in Cynic: When we first met her in Captain Marvel, G'iah was perfectly content with Earth and its culture, to the point of playing old arcade games and bonding with Monica when they were children. By the time she grows into an adult though, G'iah has become more than resentful of being stuck on Earth for so long, and joins up with Gravik in part because she wants to experience the culture of her people without having to hide in someone else's skin.
• Trying Not to Cry: She doesn't miss the hint that Gravik intends to kill Brogan for surrendering vital intel to Sonya, and she's visibly trying not to sob as Pagon takes Brogan away to execute him.
• Undercover When Alone: Strangely, despite her vocal frustrations with having to pass as a human for most of her life, G'iah herself almost never is shown in her natural Skrull form, with the one exception being when she's Faking the Dead to fool Gravik into thinking he's killed her.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: We meet her as a little kid who loves video games and gladly socializes with humans. When she grows up, she's a hardened spy and soldier who is willing to kill innocent humans to give Skrulls a homeworld.
• The Voiceless: She is never heard speaking during Captain Marvel.

Others

Species: Skrulls

Appearances: Captain Marvel

The other Skrull refugees in Mar-Vell's lab.

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• Alien Arts Are Appreciated: Aboard Mar-Vell's lab, they have various pop culture memorabilia as entertainment, from a "The Fonz" lunchbox to a Space Invaders pinball game. They're also dressed in human clothing.
• Going Native: Having spent six years in a lab orbiting the Earth, they came to appreciate our culture. They all wear Terran clothing, play pinball games, and watch US television shows.
• Innocent Bystander: As pointed out by Talos, they are innocent people who don't have any fighting skills. Unfortunately, that doesn't stop the Kree from trying to wipe them all out.
• Sole Entertainment Option: During the years they spent in Mar-Vell's lab isolated from everything, it seems that their only form of entertainment was an antique pinball machine.
• Thrown Out the Airlock: Almost happens to them in the climax. After Starforce have stormed Mar-Vell's lab and captured the Skrull refugees, Minn-Erva orders the Kree guards to eject them into space. Fortunately, Talos manages to break out of his cell and kill the guards before helping his people to escape.
• The Voiceless: With the sole exception of Soren, none of them say a single word during the movie.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: While Soren's current whereabouts are revealed in Spider-Man: Far From Home, it's unknown where the others are in the present day.

Skrull Resistance

Leadership

Gravik

Gravik

"I'm not the cause. Cause is home."

^{Click here to see his Skrull Form}
"We go tomorrow and we don't stop until Earth is ours."

Species: Enhanced Skrull

Portrayed By: Kingsley Ben-Adir (adult), Lucas Persaud (child)

Appearances: Secret Invasion

"You ask me, Talos, choice between having my story told in ink and oil paint or having it written in blood, I choose blood all day long."

The leader of a Renegade Splinter Faction of Skrulls on Earth who have grown tired waiting for another planet to live on. He stages a covert invasion on Earth that involves manipulating the global powers on the planet into attacking each other with nuclear weapons.

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• Agent Provocateur: Played with. 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 to care all that much if his plan succeeds–he's doing this primarily to spite Nick Fury, the man he feels betrayed/used him.
• Aliens of London: Generally speaks with a refined British accent, but goes for a more working class one when ranting and insulting Talos in their meeting.
• All Your Powers Combined: In "Home", he successfully empowers himself with the Harvest, giving himself the powers of all the combatants of the Battle of Earth and a few others besides. Throughout his fight with G'iah, he demonstrates the powers of Hulk, Abomination, Korg, Captain Marvel, Ebony Maw, and Thanos, along with his already adapted Extremis and Flora Colossus powers.
• Arch-Enemy: Gravik may have only just entered the scene, but he's quickly established himself as a very dangerous and personal villain to the heroes of the story.
  • To Nick Fury. Despite taking him in as a child and raising him to be a good soldier and hero to his people, Gravik is embittered to Nick for "abandoning" him and the Skrulls. He murders Maria Hill to spite him and manages to pin the attack on Russia on Nick, leaving him without resources or places to turn. For his part, Fury wants nothing more than to bring Gravik down and avenge Maria and everyone who was killed due to his actions.
  • To Talos. He was part of Talos' refugees who escaped to Earth during the Kree War, but Gravik soon came to see Talos as a coward for his desire to live in peace with humans. He manipulated G'iah into joining his renegade faction and is all but confirmed to be responsible for Soren's death. Talos in turn is disgusted by Gravik's modus operandi, is enraged at his betrayal and manipulation of his daughter; he's now working diligently to stop him in any way he can.
  • He eventually becomes this to G'iah as well. Having been responsible for the deaths of both her parents and manipulated into serving his end goal despite his growing Sanity Slippage, 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.
• Bad Boss: Zig-zagged. He initially portrays himself as a charismatic leader for all the Skrulls to follow, wanting to help them find a real home after being stuck on Earth for so long. He does kill his own kind on occasion, but he does so only when he's discovered that they intend to betray or kill him in some regard. By the time of Episode 5 though, Gravik's determination to destroy Nick Fury has overwhelmed any kind of logic and compassion, and he starts killing his fellow Skrulls for talking out of turn. He's even become willing to put everyone in New Skrullos at risk solely so he can force Fury to hand over the Harvest, and if he doesn't, then he'll still get what he wants by forcing a war between America and Russia that will wipe out everyone.
• Bait the Dog: Initially, Gravik seems willing to forgive Brogan and take him back to camp when he sees he gave information under torture. However, he later stops in the woods and has Pagon execute him for it.
• Big Bad: He's the main antagonist of Secret Invasion, and the one causing all the troubles throughout the series.
• Blood Knight: Freely admits that if it was up to him, all he'd do is fight. Problem is, he doesn't care whose blood is shed in that name, making him totally unsuited for peace, and he looks down on anyone who isn't as bloodthirsty as he is.
• Bond Villain Stupidity: Gravik's sadistic personality is ultimately what causes his plans to unravel. As Pagon points out, his insistence on making Fury suffer as much as possible over actually eliminating him as a threat when he has him cornered only galvanizes Fury and his allies even further.
• Broken Pedestal: His main motivation in the series is that Captain Marvel and Nick Fury broke their promise to find them a new planet. He also admits that he once looked up to Talos, but his inaction motivates him to take his own more radical route in creating a new home for the Skrulls.
• Bullying a Dragon: What Talos warned him about provoking humans. Talos outright tells him that all humans need to put aside all their differences is a common enemy.^note Just ask Thanos.
• Canon Foreigner: Gravik has no comics counterpart.
• Cold Ham: For much of Secret Invasion, Gravik is generally quite stoic, but speaks with self-indulgent grandeur when going over his evil plans or his disgust for humans. He starts to break out into angrier Large Ham characteristics when provoked however.
• Combat Tentacles: He has himself empowered with the genetic information of Groot. This allows him to transform his limbs into long, wooden tentacles for fighting.
• Composite Character: Despite being created exclusively for the show, he is the MCU's first on-screen Super Skrull, a role in most adaptations belongs to Kl'rt. However, he misses the powers of the Fantastic Four and has instead combined powers given to him by Groot's DNA and the Extremis virus.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: To Ronan the Accuser. Both of them are radical extremists of an alien race who attempt to terrorize a specific planet through killing its citizens and bombing its surface. However, they differ greatly in terms of their personality and temperament.
  • Ronan was a Large Ham Psychopathic Manchild who takes massive bites of scenery at any given moment, while Gravik is a cold, quiet Manipulative Bastard who only speaks when absolutely necessary. At first.
  • Ronan frequently waxed lyrical about his singular objective to destroy Xandar, and had no strategy that didn't involve using Attack! Attack! Attack! to get what he wants. By contrast, Gravik uses his wits and intelligence to outsmart his enemies, likes to keep secrets about his multilayered true plans from friend and foe alike, and constantly thinks several steps ahead to keep people out of his reach.
  • Ronan was also a very impersonal villain for Captain Marvel and the Guardians of the Galaxy, who only set out to stop him because his megalomaniacal behavior threatened the safety of the entire galaxy, including them. By contrast, Gravik has a very personal enmity with Nick Fury and Talos, meaning his actions are done purely to spite and wound them as much as he can. Furthermore, Gravik killing Soren and Maria Hill while manipulating G'iah into serving him makes him Fury and Talos' Arch-Enemy.
  • Ronan was The Friend Nobody Likes within the Kree, and became a Defector from Decadence 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. But as Gravik continues to go off the deep end, even his followers begin to question or even outright defy him.
• Dark and Troubled Past: It is revealed in a flashback at the beginning of "Promise" that he had a rough time as a young Skrull. Both his parents were killed during the Kree-Skrull war, and he was forced to escape enemy lines all on his own before he managed to meet up with the other Skrull refugees.
• Dead Person Impersonation: In the final episode of Secret Invasion, Gravik reveals that his primary human appearance that he uses is that of the very first man he killed on Nick Fury's orders.
• Establishing Character Moment: The first time we really get to see Gravik, he's eating completely alone and detached from the rest of his people at his compound's cafeteria, yet seated in no more special circumstances than anyone else. It sets him up as a sort of "everyman" of the Skrulls, but at the same time very cold and aloof, even towards his most loyal henchmen.
• Evil Brit: Speaks with Kingsley Ben-Adir's natural British accent, and is the leader of a group of Skrulls who have sinister plans for humanity.
• Expy: Kingsley Ben-Adir used Manuel from Zero Zero Zero as a point of reference for Gravik, namely incorporating the character's sinister, violent nature and his skill at manipulating others to get what he wants.
• Fatal Flaw: His sadism. Despite having multiple chances to kill Fury, he leaves him alive solely to play mind games with him and kill those closest to him. He had two perfect opportunities to kill him, but instead chose to kill Hill and Talos respectively in those moments with the purpose of demoralizing Fury. He also ordered Varra to kill him, knowing the act would hurt both her and Fury due to their marriage, but this falls through due to her not being able to go through with it. This flaw gets called out by Pagon in the fifth episode with how he keeps leaving Fury alive despite the danger he poses to their plan, which allows him to get away and continue to get in their way.
• Faux Affably Evil: He speaks with a soft and engaging tone and has a charisma that can be hard to deny, but underneath that, he's a cruel, vindictive monster who wants to eradicate humans and overthrow their home world. Even G'iah starts to see the mask slip by "Promises".
• Frontline General: Sees himself as a soldier first, and whatever his other flaws, Gravik isn't afraid to wade in when necessary. Though his Extremis powers mean he's at significantly less risk of dying than his underlings.
• Healing Factor: The first of the superhuman powers he synthesizes into his body is the Extremis drug. The drug's fast-acting healing properties allow him to shrug off crippling injuries and even headshots.
• Hero Killer: The first episode of Secret Invasion ends with him killing Maria Hill to establish how serious of a threat he is. Talos also reveals he and his people were responsible for Soren's death. Then in the fourth episode, he kills Talos personally.
• Hypocrite:
  • He talks of the atrocities that humans befall on themselves and others, but seems completely willing to do those very things himself if it furthers his plans.
  • When meeting with a council of Skrulls undercover in powerful political positions, he responds to their attempts of calling him out on his actions, namely referring to him as a "dog", that he prefers dogs over humans due to them lacking the latter's hypocrisy. As the very presence of this trope in his folder shows, he's probably not in the position to be calling anyone else a hypocrite.
  • Gravik hates what the destruction of Skrullos has done to his race and he claims to be doing what he's doing for the safety and livelihood of his people, but he'll also remorselessly kill his own kind if he feels they're a detriment to him in any way. And as the fifth episode shows, he's even willing to let his people get wiped out if it means advancing his goals.
  • He derides Talos as a coward who cannot do what is necessary, but when he believes Brogan 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 President Ritson, 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.
• It's Personal: "Episode One: Resurrection" implies that Gravik has it out for Nick Fury on a personal level, believing him to have abandoned him and the Skrulls. This is probably why he went out of his way to murder Maria Hill and Talos, two of Nick's closest friends, even killing Talos right in front of Nick.
• Karmic Death: His motives can be summed as feeling abandoned by Fury for not finding them a new planet to inhabit, which compels him to go out of his way to torment him. In the end, he's effectively neglected by Fury for real, who instead sends G'iah disguised as him to confront Gravik while he goes to stop the nuclear launch, with the bonus of Gravik effectively wasting the Motive Rant he intended for Fury on someone else. Plus, there's the obvious fact that he's killed by G'iah, whose parents he killed, and a fellow Super Skrull who tricked him into empowering her.
• Kick the Dog:
  • His murder of Maria Hill is one thing, but to do so in the form of Nick Fury - her closest friend and the man she has admired and followed for decades - screams this trope.
  • He mocks Talos to G'iah's face and insists he is nothing more than a pathetic weakling and a coward. G'iah doesn't retaliate, but she's clearly angered by this.
  • He seems to forgive Brogan for revealing information about his plans, but later takes him out into the woods and has him executed.
  • He reaches a new level of this by murdering Talos right in front of Nick Fury, even taking the time to bring Talos' injured body to him so he could do the deed.
  • After killing Pagon, he yells at his fellow recruits that they are all equally meaningless to him.
• Mad Bomber: Gravik and his forces have apparently been bombing several countries, and when Nick Fury returns from space, he's made plans to set off another one in Moscow. Despite Fury, Talos, and Maria Hill's best efforts, he succeeds.
• Marquee Alter Ego: With the exception of when he's fighting against Beto's coup and when he's fighting G'iah, Gravik is rarely shown in his Skrull form in lieu of using a human form that resembles Kingsley Ben-Adir. This is handwaved in the final episode, where he explains that his human form is that of a man he killed on behalf of Nick Fury, and chooses to remain in the form to mock him.
• Master Actor: His ability to pass himself off as other humans manages to put other Skrulls to shame. In the first episode alone, Gravik manages to disguise himself as various Russian citizens (including a bartender, a small child, and a random woman with a hat) to spy on Nick Fury without him being any wiser to it until it's too late.
• Meaningful Name: His name appears to be based on the words grave, graphic, and havoc. Fitting for a person behind many terrorist attacks.
• Mirror Character: Initially, he's set up to be a Contrasting Sequel Antagonist to Ronan the Accuser. But as the series progresses and more of his motivations are shed upon, he essentially turns out to essentially be the Skrull counterpart to Ronan. Like Ronan, he postures himself as a freedom fighter for his people, citing his personal losses as the source of motivation to reject peaceful options. And much like Ronan, Gravik's supposedly well-intentioned motivations end up being a smokescreen for him to indulge in his bloodlust and prejudices.
• No-Nonsense Nemesis: He's a very quiet and serious character and his final act of Episode One is to casually destroy the town centre of Moscow and murder Maria Hill, without any stereotypical monologuing or Bond Villain Stupidity, just a clear ambition and a little sadism.
• No Social Skills: Even when he was a child in The '90s, Gravik wasn't the most sociable of Skrulls. He notably has trouble making eye contact, and never speaks unless spoken to. He gets a bit better at this when he's an adult, but he's still somewhat shy unless he's furthering his own cause.
• Not So Stoic: After the attempted attack on President Ritson fails in Episode 4, Gravik becomes increasingly irate with his subordinates, even killing Pagon when he dares to speak against him.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: 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. Also, during his final confrontation with Fury (actually G'iah masquerading as Fury), he makes clear that he decided to declare war on humanity after realizing that Fury had broken his promise to find the Skrulls a new home.
• Out-Gambitted: 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. Then he finds out that this whole time, he was actually talking to G'iah, who has become similarly empowered, enabling her to subsequently overpower and kill him before he can take the fight to humanity.
• Pet the Dog: In "Promises" he allows a Skrull council member (the only one who outwardly defies him and refuses to be part of his war) to go free and unharmed with no strings attached. He even commends her for her bravery and spirit.
• Psychopathic Manchild: From his general shyness, to his insane Sinister Sweet Tooth, to his attempts to act Wicked Cultured about a painting, despite not knowing of or choosing not to acknowledge its complete meaning, it is clear that inside, he is just an angry child lashing out.
• Psychotic Smirk: Gives Fury one of these as he triggers the detonator to set off the dirty bombs in Moscow.
• The Quiet One: From what we see of him, he's a man of few words and even when he does speak, it's with a very soft and low tone. Even when he shapeshifts into others, he either doesn't say anything or keeps conversations swift and short. Even when delivering a speech, he's very laid-back and quiet and only speaks when invited to. This is quite different from other MCU villains in recent times.
• Remember the New Guy?: Gravik was apparently once close with both Talos and Fury back in The '90s, but we've never seen him until Secret Invasion.
• Sadist: At his core, he is shown to be this, as he is determined to make Nick Fury suffer.
  • In the last moments of the first episode, Gravik disguises himself as Fury and shoots Maria Hill straight in the stomach while grinning murderously. He then reverts to his usual human form and smirks at Fury, clearly reveling in his actions.
  • Later, in the fourth episode's last moments, Gravik makes a repeat of what he did to Hill by personally killing Talos right in front of Fury, by bringing the injured Talos over to him and then fatally stabbing him.
• Scary Black Man: The most reoccurring human form he takes is that of a black man, and he's a radical Skrull terrorist who wants to take down humanity.
• Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Taken to the disastrous extreme. He declares war on humanity under the pretense that humanity is secretly seeking the Skrulls' subjugation and eventual extermination. The actions of his faction traumatize President Ritson so badly that he demands the eradication of all alien life on Earth. Whoops.
• Sinister Sweet Tooth: When we see him preparing some coffee for himself in the cafeteria, he puts at least four cubes of sugar in it before he's interrupted by Pagon. During his parley with Talos he pours an insanely large amount of sugar into his coffee before jokingly offering Talos some in a manner that lampshades that there'll probably not be enough left for him, and he even jokes that he likes a little espresso with his sugar.
• The Sociopath: Gravik may claim to have noble intentions, but he's really just a ruthless, manipulative, and vengeful Sadist who takes no small amount of satisfaction in subjugating humans for his own benefit. Even as a child, he was oddly aloof and his only response to his parents' deaths was an emotionless "they died a brilliant death". He proves it once again throughout "Promises", initially taking his tortured enforcer "back to camp", only to pull over and have Pagon shoot him with a relaxed stare of cold indifference.
• Stalker without a Crush: He personally keeps a tab on Nick Fury to stay two steps ahead throughout "Resurrection", taking numerous civilian forms to stalk him all throughout the day to his only mild suspicion.
• Strong and Skilled: He is both strong enough to pick a man up one-handed and stick him on a meat hook, and skilled enough in hand to hand and knife combat skill to take an attacker's knife and expertly carve him open with it.
• Super Prototype: The idea of Super-Skrulls is his, but curiously enough he seems to be the only one intentionally imbued with those powers, G'iah having subjected herself to the process on the sly.
• Super-Strength: While all Skrulls have some innate enhanced strength, Gravik is far stronger than the rest. This is because he's a Super Skrull and has enhanced his own biology to unknown levels. Demonstrated in Episode 5, where he manhandles the entire group of rebellious Skrull underlings and maims and kills several of them with ease, even challenging the cowering remaining Skrulls to try usurping him again.
• Took a Level in Badass: He's turned himself into a Super Skrull, infusing himself with not only Extremis but also genetic material from Groot, and later every single alien/metahuman combatant from the Battle of Earth.
• Torso with a View: G'iah shoots him through the midsection with one of Captain Marvel's energy beams, leaving a gaping hole clean through his stomach. As with when we last saw this happen to an Extremis-infused individual, the injury proves to be both too quickly struck and grievous for his Extremis to heal from, and he collapses dead.
• Underestimating Badassery: Gravik is a highly intelligent and skilled operative and terrorist whose plans seem to go off without a hitch even with a Spanner in the Works. However, his core problem as both a villain and a person? He underestimates humans. His views on humanity as a whole are highly misanthropic and he constantly rewrites the positive aspects of humanity to fit his agenda even when presented with evidence contrary to his viewpoint. Worst of all, he underestimates Nick Fury - who has demonstrated time and again that stopping worldwide threats is his day job and he's damn good at it. Talos himself tells him this and warns Gravik that despite what he may think, humans are no pushovers and they're at their most lethal when threatened (the whole Thanos thing), but he refuses to listen. And the series proves that Talos was right and Gravik is learning the hard way to never underestimate Nick Fury.
• Villain Has a Point: 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 that as free license to cause further harm like Gravik did.
• Would Hit a Girl: He murders Maria Hill at the end of the first episode and seemingly does the same to G'iah at the end of the third episode after learning she's the traitor who secretly aided Fury and Talos in aborting the Neptune mission (although unbeknownst to him, she survives thanks to having taken Extremis right before this).
• Xanatos Gambit: His entire plan to hit a plane full of UN representatives with a nuclear strike turns out to have been this. Had it succeeded, it would have kick-started World War III, just as he wants. When it fails, however, he knows that G'iah is the traitor (as the only one not directly involved he talked about it to) and shoots her, taking out a further threat to his organization.
• You Have Failed Me:
  • He has his captured Skrull subordinate executed after his people rescued him under the assumption he ratted out one of his people's safehouses. While he is right that Brogan broke under torture, he got the specifics of what Brogan gave away wrong, making it completely arbitrary he didn't kill a loyal man for nothing.
  • He directs Raava to send a hit squad after Varra once she refuses to follow through on her mission to kill Fury.

Subordinates

Pagon

Pagon

"All faith is built on risk."

Species: Skrull

Portrayed By: Killian Scott

Appearances: Secret Invasion

A Skrull who serves as the second-in-command of Gravik's forces.

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• The Dragon: To Gravik, for the first couple of episodes, before Gravik increasingly becomes a Bad Boss and decides that You Have Failed Me.
• Killed Off for Real: He gets executed by Gravik while reasonably calling him out on his actions and failure to deliver on the Harvest.
• Number Two: He reports directly to Gravik in the Skrull compound and is the main agent of his will in directing the actions of other subordinates in their organization.
• Undying Loyalty: He is completely loyal to Gravik's orders and doesn't hesitate to execute one of his own kind when he demands it of him. This goes away by the fifth episode, when he openly calls out Gravik's actions in leaving Fury alive despite having the chance to end him, in addition to failing to get the Harvest; sadly, this only gets him executed as well.
• Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Pagon expresses frustration with Gravik's failure to take advantage of opportunities where it would have been very easy to kill Fury, instead choosing to do things to hurt him emotionally instead.

Brogan

Brogan

Species: Skrull

Portrayed By: Ben Peel

Appearances: Secret Invasion

A Skrull who impersonates a member of Americans Against Russia.

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• Accent Relapse: While he sports an American accent whilst impersonating Martin Wallace, he briefly lapses into his actor's Irish accent as he cracks under torture.
• Boom, Headshot!: Pagon shoots him in the head on Gravik's orders.
• False Flag Operation: He assumes the identity of Martin Wallace, a member of Americans Against Russia. He then repeatedly shouts "I'm an American!" as he's being arrested in the aftermath of the Moscow bombing to make it seem like the US were involved in the attack.
• Fingore: Sonya cuts off his right index finger, in order to verify that he's a Skrull, to begin her interrogation of him before proceeding to more Cold-Blooded Torture.
• You Have Failed Me: Gravik orders his death when he's led to believe Brogan cracked and gave up information under torture, although he is incorrect about what specifically Brogan gave up.

Beto

Beto

Species: Skrull

Portrayed By: Samuel Adewunmi

Appearances: Secret Invasion

A Skrull looking for a home who joins up with Gravik out of desperation.

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• Defiant to the End: He growls that Gravik is nothing more than a monster before having his throat sliced open by him.
• Everyone Has Standards: He becomes much more frightened of Gravik's rhetoric, and eventually conspires to try to kill him when he realizes the man is too far gone.
• Token Good Teammate: Alongside G'iah, Beto is by far the kindest Skrull that's part of Gravik's forces. He only even joins up with him because he wanted to live in a place away from the rest of humanity.
• Too Good for This Sinful Earth: 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. When he tries to put a stop to it with force, he's killed.

Everett Ross Impersonator

"Let me take this, and I'll give the information to Fury. Okay?"

Species: Skrull

Portrayed By: Martin Freeman^note Everett Ross form

Appearances: Secret Invasion

A Skrull posing as ex-CIA agent Everett Ross, who's hiding out in Moscow.

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• Alien Blood: Strangely averted. Despite not being human, Skrull Ross's blood is shown to be red as he's dying, as shown with the large gashes on his face as he crawls away from Talos post-fall.
• Dying Smirk: His last moments before he dies and changes into his true form are to stare at the sky and grin malevolently.
• High-Dive Escape: Attempts to do this when Talos is chasing him in the first episode of Secret Invasion, though it ultimately doesn't work.
• Kill and Replace: Appears to have done this to the real Ross, though whether he's actually dead, imprisoned somewhere or hiding out in another part of the world isn't known. The finale reveals Ross to be alive.
• Never Bareheaded: Skrull Ross is shown wearing a gray tuk for most of his screentime, which is only removed after he it falls off at the end of his Chase Scene.
• Out-of-Character Alert: Prescod quickly realizes that the Ross he's speaking to is likely a Skrull when he goes from expressing disbelief at his paranoia regarding the Skrull invasion, to suddenly offering to give the evidence he has to Fury without missing a beat.
• Riddle for the Ages: When did this Skrull kidnap and impersonate the real Everett Ross, and what was he doing in Moscow before Prescod came to him? The show never gives answers to this question before he dies.
• Roofhopping: He attempts to escape a disguised Talos by jumping across several buildings. He ends up missing a jump though and smashes into the pavement, resulting in his death.
• Uncertain Doom: The existence of this Skrull puts the fate of the real Everett Ross into question. He was last seen being broken out of federal detainment by Okoye in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, so whether he's still in hiding somewhere or was captured by the Skrulls to have his identity stolen is unknown. The final episode reveals he's being held at Gravik's compound.

Raava

Raava

"Priscilla. You keep telling me what you're not going to do, I'm going to show you what I am going to do."

^{Click here to see her Skrull form}

Species: Skrull

Portrayed By: Nisha Aaliya, Don Cheadle^note James Rhodes form

Appearances: Secret Invasion

A Skrull posing as James Rhodes/War Machine, using the man's position in the government to get close to President Ritson.

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• Adaptational Intelligence: Slightly. The Raava of the comics only ever referred to herself in the third person, and was unable to learn how to shape-shift. In the MCU, Raava is a Master Actor capable of fooling the likes of Sonya Falsworth while disguised as Rhodey, and doesn't refer to herself in the third person.
• Adaptational Job Change: Raava is shown to still be part of the Skrull Empire (or at least Gravik's faction) in this series, while the comics show that she turned to piracy after the Skrull Empire killed her family.
• Adaptational Superpower Change: Just like Talos, Raava lacked the ability to shapeshift in the comics (though in her case, it's because she never learned how to do so), to the point where she's referred to as "The Un-Skrulled". In the MCU, she ironically spends most of her screentime disguised as James Rhodes, with her only undisguised scenes being when she's in the shower, and when she's shot dead by Nick Fury.
• Adaptational Villainy: In the comics, Raava was a space pirate who defected from the Skrull Empire after they caused the deaths of her children, and later helped Black Bolt, Absorbing Man and several other characters escape a deep space torture prison. In the MCU, Raava is a Gravik loyalist and mole within the U.S government, and shows little objection towards manipulating and later attempting to assassinate President Ritson.
• All There in the Script: Her true name, Raava, is first revealed in the credits of the fourth episode of Secret Invasion.
• "Ass" in Ambassador: 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 "the stink-eye". Justified, as she's secretly working for Gravik, and the representatives she's talking to in the room are also Skrulls. In the finale, she blatantly insults a British military official trying to persuade Ritson from not nuking the Skrull compound in Russia by quipping she took "a stupid pill for breakfast."
• Berserk Button: In Secret Invasion when she addresses the representatives of the world, she grows disproportionately angry about the Slovakian envoy rolling her eyes at her statements. She at one point threatens a War Machine-delivered carpet-bombing if she keeps it up.
• Boom, Headshot!: Fury kills her in the series finale of Secret Invasion by shooting her through the head.
• By-the-Book Cop: Plays this up while talking with Fury in Episode 2, in order to justify firing him from his job in the government.
• Death by Adaptation: Nick Fury kills her in the finale of Secret Invasion. In the comics, she was last seen alive.
• The Dragon: The main Number Two to Gravik in the final couple of episodes; she's by far the most loyal fellow Skrull he has left, and is placed close to the U.S. president to enact his plan of global thermonuclear war and Mutually Assured Destruction.
• Dies Wide Open: After Fury puts a bullet through her head, she falls to the ground dead with her eyes fully open even as she reverts back to her natural form.
• Drinking on Duty: Raava downs some of the whiskey Fury brings when she thinks they have the upper hand as a celebratory gesture. Unfortunately, this predictably gets her quite drunk, much to President Ritson's concern, and her own embarrassment.
• Establishing Character Moment: When we see her true form for the first time, Raava is seen happily cleaning herself off in the shower, and shows admiration for her natural green skin. She then shapeshifts into her Rhodey form, wearing a much more dour expression on her new face, emphasizing her distaste for the form she has to take in public compared to who she is in private.
• Even Evil Has Standards: She is left openly shocked at Gravik's orders to inform Ritson of New Skrullos' location, even if it is meant to force Fury to hand over the Harvest.
• Fan Disservice: We see Raava show off a bit of her skin when she's showering in Episode 4, though the fact that she's a wholly green, reptilian-like alien doesn't exactly make her all that attractive.
• Flat Character: Aside from a few moments of tension with Gravik, Raava doesn't have much in the way of personality that isn't just impersonating Rhodey. We don't even get to hear her speak in her true voice.
• Gender Bender: Despite impersonating the very male James Rhodes, Episode 4 of Secret Invasion reveals that Raava is actually a woman in her natural form.
• In Name Only: She has nothing in common with her comic book counterpart apart from being a Skrull.
• Modesty Towel: When we're introduced to her Skrull form for the first time, Raava is just finishing up showering in the bathroom, and ends up wearing one of these.
• The Mole: She's Gravik's spy inside the U.S. Government.
• Not So Stoic:
  • During her meeting with the EU representatives in Episode 2 of Secret Invasion, she threatens to carpet-bomb Slovakia due to the representative for the country constantly shooting her Death Glares.
  • In Episode 4, Raava takes some satisfaction in downing some of the whiskey Fury brings when she seemingly has the upper hand on it. She then shows some embarrassment when President Ritson realizes that she's actually drinking on duty, and asks for a breath mint.
• Secret-Keeper: Subverted. In "Promise" Rhodey was supposedly discreetly let into the know about Skrulls and their use in S.H.I.E.L.D. and the American government at some point in his military career. Of course, the fact that Rhodey was replaced by a Skrull means that this is just a manipulative tactic towards Fury.
• Shower of Angst: Inverted. When we see Raava showering in her hotel, she's clearly enjoying herself as she cleans and dries her natural form off, and shows a look of disappointed disgust when she finishes and has to assume her Rhodey disguise again.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Invokes this when confronting Fury, by playing up the real Rhodey's political ambition and disgust for Fury's recklessness.
• Uncertain Doom: Much like with Everett Ross, the revelation that this Skrull has taken Rhodey's place will likely have many viewers wondering what happened to the real deal, and/or how long ago such a high-level Avenger was replaced. The final episode reveals that the real Rhodey is still alive, and — based on the fact that Rhodey was wearing his leg braces in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier — replaced some time after that.
• The Voiceless: Played with. While she certainly is capable of speaking, we only ever hear Raava talk in her Rhodey form. Her real voice is never heard once during the show.
• What the Hell, Hero?: She rebukes Fury's reckless actions for their negative effects on the stability of the world. She also bluntly shuts him down when he attempts to appeal to their shared race, stating that their job is to be better then their "mediocre" predecessors, regardless of race. Of course, this is subverted by the fact that Rhodey is in fact a Skrull loyal to Gravik's cause.

Others

Emperor Dro'ge

Emperor Dro'ge

"The Skrulls have been scattered to every corner of the universe. Made refugees wherever we go. And still, we came into these negotiations in good faith."

Species: Skrull

Portrayed By: Gary Lewis

Appearances: Secret Invasion^note Mentioned only | The Marvels

The emperor of the Skrull refugee colony on Tarnax.

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• Adaptational Heroism: Dro'ge was fanatically loyal to the Skrull Empire and worked to help prepare his race to invade Earth in the comics. Here, he's a Reasonable Authority Figure who just wants peace and safety for his people.
• Adaptational Job Change: In the comics, Dr'oge was the "Head Priests of the Sciences" who conducted experiments on the Illuminati and ultimately helped create a new class of Super-Skrull. In the MCU, he's the ambassador of the Skrull race as a whole, as indicated by his title of Emperor.
• Ambiguous Situation: He has the title of Emperor, but only leads a tiny refugee colony, with the other Skrull refugees living secretely on Earth outnumbering those on Tarnax by several orders of magnitude; so it is not entirely clear if he is the actual de jure ruler of all Skrulls, whose de facto authority isn't acknowledged, or if the title of Emperor only applies to Tarnax.
• Chekhov's Gunman: He was briefly mentioned by Talos in Secret Invasion, before appearing in The Marvels.
• The Ghost: During the Skrull-centric events of Secret Invasion Dro'ge remains entirely uninvolved, even if he is mentioned. He makes his first proper appearance in The Marvels as the leader of the planet Tarnax.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: He only wants what is best for Skrullkind, even if it means entertaining peace offers from the ancestral enemy that destroyed their homeworld.

Skrull Council

Skrull Council

Species: Skrull

Portrayed By: Kingsley Ben-Adir (Gravik), Christopher McDonald (Chris Stearns), Seeta Indrani (Shirley Sagar), Christopher Goh (Jack Hyuk-Bin), Giampiero Judica (Sergio Caspani), Anna Madeley (Pamela Lawton)

Appearances: Secret Invasion

The ruling body of the Skrull population on Earth.

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• Agent Provocateur: Lawton uses her position to stoke the fires against the US following the Moscow bombings.
• Flat Character: The Jack Hyuk-Bin and Sergio Caspani imposters are never given much focus among the council.
• Mole in Charge: Lawton is the UK prime minister, while Caspani is secretary general of NATO. The first is implied to have been in on Gravik's plans from the beginning, while Caspani is pressured into towing the line later.
• Multiple Gunshot Death: On air, the Stearns imposter is attacked by an anti-Skrull vigilante group and mowed down in a hail of automatic gunfire.
• Pompous Political Pundit: Stearns, who hosts a show for the Fox-like FXN news. Stearns' Skrull imposter remains anchoring the show even after Gravik's plans are foiled, at least until he is assassinated by vigilantes, leaving doubts as to what happened to the real Stearns.
• Token Good Teammate: The Shirley Sagar imposter proves to be the only one against Gravik's warmongering and leaves the council when he is inducted as their leader.

Varra

Varra / "Dr. Priscilla Davis"

"I never harbored any illusions about the necessity of you going away. But staying away, that leaves a mark."

Species: Skrull

Portrayed By: Charlayne Woodard

Appearances: Secret Invasion

Nick Fury's wife, a Skrull who assumed the form of a black woman while living on Earth.

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• Action Girl: When a hit squad comes after her in her home she successfully fights off their surprise attack back-to-back with G'iah.
• Adaptational Mundanity: Comic Varra is a member of the Knights of the Infinite, a group of magic space knights. Here, she's simply a bog-standard Skrull with no superpowers, who works as a spy.
• Adaptation Species Change: In the comics, Varra is a Skrull-Kree hybrid. Here she is a full-blooded Skrull.
• Happily Married: She was married to Fury ever since the late 90s, and still loves him deeply to this day, despite being upset that Fury took off into space after the events of Endgame. It's to the point that she's ultimately unable to kill him despite Raava's orders.
• Hero of Another Story: Varra has been working with Fury to counter threats ever since the late 90s, where she helped gather information on General Dreykov and the Red Room, and was active in Paris shortly after the Avengers defeated Loki.
• Interspecies Romance: A Skrull married to a human.
• Kill and Replace: A rare consensual example. Varra came to care for a dying woman named Priscilla Davis who was suffering a heart condition. On her deathbed, Varra asked Priscilla for permission to assume her identity, which she accepted on the condition that Varra bury her at sea, support Priscilla's parents, and keep Fury safe.
• Lost in Character: Varra took on the form of Priscilla Davis to make Fury more comfortable, but her time spent in human form ultimately made her nervous to assume her natural appearance in Fury's presence, fearing that he would be disgusted by her. She further begins answering only to Priscilla because of how used to it she was.
• Related in the Adaptation: Varra has no link to Fury in the comics. Here she is his wife.

FBI Skrull Agent

FBI Skrull Agent

Species: Skrull

Portrayed By: Lori Livingston

Appearances: WandaVision

A Skrull posing as an FBI agent who comes to Westview to contact Monica Rambeau.

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• The Cameo: She only appears in the mid-credit scene of the last episode of WandaVision. She was sent by "an old friend" of Maria Rambeau's to offer Maria's daughter, Monica, a chance to return to space to meet with said friend (implied to be Nick Fury).
• Impersonating an Officer: She is a Skrull who poses as an FBI agent.
• Last Episode, New Character: She doesn't appear until the mid-credit scene of the series finale.
• No Name Given: Her name is unknown. Even in the credits, she is only referred to as "Skrull Agent".

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