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* EasilyThwartedAlienInvasion: Several times, they've tried to invade mankind. The last time they gave it some serious effort, in ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion'', even after years of planning and infiltration they still got their asses kicked - though it should be noted that that was a desperate remnant after Galactus ate their homeworld and the Annihilation Wave tore apart the rest, and they still came scarily close to succeeding.

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* EasilyThwartedAlienInvasion: Several times, they've tried to invade mankind. The last time they gave it some serious effort, in ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion'', ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion2008'', even after years of planning and infiltration they still got their asses kicked - -- though it should be noted that that was a desperate remnant after Galactus ate their homeworld and the Annihilation Wave tore apart the rest, and they still came scarily close to succeeding.



* SuperSoldier: The Skrull equivalent of this trope, and in ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion'' while faking loyalty to the Skrull invaders (having pretended to vaporise Nova), he declares himself the "first and greatest" of the Super-Skrulls. No one calls him on it.

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* SuperSoldier: The Skrull equivalent of this trope, and in ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion'' ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion2008'' while faking loyalty to the Skrull invaders (having pretended to vaporise Nova), he declares himself the "first and greatest" of the Super-Skrulls. No one calls him on it.



A Skrull royal who was exiled for her fundamentalist views, believing Earth was theirs by divine writ, who managed to take control after Galactus ate the Skrull homeworld. She masterminded the ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion'', disguised as [[ComicBook/SpiderWoman Jessica Drew]].

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A Skrull royal who was exiled for her fundamentalist views, believing Earth was theirs by divine writ, who managed to take control after Galactus ate the Skrull homeworld. She masterminded the ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion'', ComicBook/{{Secret Invasion|2008}}, disguised as [[ComicBook/SpiderWoman Jessica Drew]].



The representation of the Skrull Pantheon. He was the ArcVillain in a crossover between ''ComicBook/SheHulk'' and ''ComicBook/XFactor2006'' that tied into ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion''.

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The representation of the Skrull Pantheon. He was the ArcVillain in a crossover between ''ComicBook/SheHulk'' and ''ComicBook/XFactor2006'' that tied into ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion''.''ComicBook/SecretInvasion2008''.
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* ManipulativeBastard: Give her her due, Veranke is pretty good at this. She manages to fool the Avengers, ComicBook/{{SHIELD}}, ComicBook/NickFury, ComicBook/{{HYDRA}}, and ComicBook/DoctorStrange, getting everyone worked up into a state of rampant paranoia, in-between letting situations she didn't have a hand in come to the boil and do her work for her.

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* ManipulativeBastard: Give her her due, Veranke is pretty good at this. She manages to fool the Avengers, ComicBook/{{SHIELD}}, ComicBook/NickFury, ComicBook/{{HYDRA}}, [[Characters/MarvelComicsHydra HYDRA]], and ComicBook/DoctorStrange, getting everyone worked up into a state of rampant paranoia, in-between letting situations she didn't have a hand in come to the boil and do her work for her.
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* BreakoutCharacter: Easily the most prominent of all Skrulls in the comics, and also appearing in cartoons and video games.

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%%Debuted in the limited series ''ComicBook/MarvelTheLostGeneration.'' A Skrull scout whose ship crashed on Earth in 1947. Marooned on Earth, he assimilated into human society out of necessity and gradually realized [[BecomingTheMask he liked it.]] He became the shapeshifting superhero Effigy, joined the superhero team the First Line, and served with them for decades, never letting on that he was a Skrull. Oh, and as Deep Throat, he helped expose Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal — because, as he insisted up to the end, Effigy was a loyal and patriotic American. He died helping the First Line save the Earth from a Skrull invasion, shortly before the Fantastic Four made their fateful space flight that gave them their powers.
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!!! '''First Appearance''': ''Runaways'' (Vol. 2) #14 (May, 2006)

A Skrull Eternal who later ascended to godhood.

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%%Debuted Debuted in the limited series ''ComicBook/MarvelTheLostGeneration.'' A Skrull scout whose ship crashed on Earth in 1947. Marooned on Earth, he assimilated into human society out of necessity and gradually realized [[BecomingTheMask he liked it.]] He became the shapeshifting superhero Effigy, joined the superhero team the First Line, and served with them for decades, never letting on that he was a Skrull. Oh, and as Deep Throat, he helped expose Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal — because, as he insisted up to the end, Effigy was a loyal and patriotic American. He died helping the First Line save the Earth from a Skrull invasion, shortly before the Fantastic Four made their fateful space flight that gave them their powers.
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!!! '''First Appearance''': ''Runaways'' (Vol. 2) #14 (May, 2006)

A Skrull Eternal who later ascended to godhood.
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* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: He eventually became a Skrull deity, worshipped by his people. It ended up giving him a god's attitude too.
* BigBad: He set off the ''Secret Invasion'' in the Marvel Comics.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He presents himself as an AllLovingHero, but he's actually a vicious conqueror who enslaves the gods of the races his followers destroy.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: He meets his end when the God Squad stabs him with the Demogorge's spine.
* LastOfHisKind: He was the last Skrull Eternal.
* ShapeshifterDefaultForm: Essentially what he's the god of. When he became a god he refused to shapeshift anymore so that he could represent "the you that will always be you"

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* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: DefectorFromDecadence: He eventually became switched allegiances and took to defending Earth as a super hero.
* DyingAsYourself: As he dies, he reverts to his true Skrull form, shocking his teammate [[Characters/TheEternalsEternals Pixie,]] but he assures her that his allegiance is with Earth.
* HeroicSacrifice: He died protecting Earth from
a Skrull deity, worshipped by his people. It ended up giving him a god's attitude too.
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* BigBad: StrandedInvader: He set off the ''Secret Invasion'' in the Marvel Comics.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He presents
was sent here with a team of Skrulls to spy on us and got stranded, and had to disguise himself as an AllLovingHero, but he's actually a vicious conqueror who enslaves human just to survive. Fortunately for Earth, he came to the gods of the races his followers destroy.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: He meets his end when the God Squad stabs him with the Demogorge's spine.
* LastOfHisKind: He was the last Skrull Eternal.
* ShapeshifterDefaultForm: Essentially what he's the god of. When he became a god he refused to shapeshift anymore so
conclusion that he could represent "the you that will always be you"liked humanity and didn't want to see us conquered.


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!!! '''First Appearance''': ''Runaways'' (Vol. 2) #14 (May, 2006)

A Skrull Eternal who later ascended to godhood.
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* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: He eventually became a Skrull deity, worshipped by his people. It ended up giving him a god's attitude too.
* BigBad: He set off the ''Secret Invasion'' in the Marvel Comics.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He presents himself as an AllLovingHero, but he's actually a vicious conqueror who enslaves the gods of the races his followers destroy.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: He meets his end when the God Squad stabs him with the Demogorge's spine.
* LastOfHisKind: He was the last Skrull Eternal.
* ShapeshifterDefaultForm: Essentially what he's the god of. When he became a god he refused to shapeshift anymore so that he could represent "the you that will always be you"
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* CreateYourOwnVillain: The Skrulls have no-one to blame but themselves for the Kree, since it was Emperor Dorrek I who made first contact with early Kree, and who pissed them off enough for the Kree to decide to murder them and steal their ship.



* SpaceColdWar: For a while, their war with the Kree had wound down into a stand-off, but without actual war. Then the Skrulls found some insignificant blue-green planet they'd long passed back in a backwater galaxy. Then the Kree found it as well. Both races running afoul of mankind nearly caused the war to turn hot again.



* CharacterDeath: He dies when Galactus eats the Skrull throneworld.

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* CharacterDeath: He dies when Galactus eats his wife shoots him in the Skrull throneworld.back.



* KlingonPromotion: Sort of, kind of. She did kill her husband to seize power, but he killed her father to seize power first.



* WorthyOpponent: Regarded Captain Marvel as one, even sending a representative to his deathbed to present him with a medal of honor.






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* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: Or Ridiculously Skrullian Robot, as the case may be.
* SuperiorSuccessor: Intended to be one for Kl'rt. But given Kl'rt's still around nw and he's not, it didn't work out that way.



* OldSoldier: Skrulls age much slowly than humans, but he's still considered an older Skrull and remains pretty competent.

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* OldSoldier: Skrulls age much more slowly than humans, but he's still considered an older Skrull and remains pretty competent.



* BackFromTheDead: After a long absencse, she makes her return ironically enough in ''ComicBook/SpiderWoman2020''.

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* BackFromTheDead: After a long absencse, absence, she makes her return ironically enough in ''ComicBook/SpiderWoman2020''.



* NearVillainVictory: The invasion was going extremely well for the most part, her plan was ultimately undone because of handful of small errors all cropping up around the same time which alerted the heroes to the Skrull's presence far too early.

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* NearVillainVictory: The invasion was going extremely well for the most part, her plan was ultimately undone because of a handful of small errors all cropping up around the same time which alerted the heroes to the Skrull's presence far too early.
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* AllYourPowersCombined: He has all of the F4's powers, plus his natural Skull biology. These powers were not directly taken from the targets, but the result of reverse engineering.

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* AllYourPowersCombined: He has all of the F4's powers, plus Fantastic Four's powers in addition to his natural Skull biology. These powers were not directly taken from the targets, but the result of reverse engineering. He uses them a little more... dangerously... than the Fantastic Four do, though. Such as stretching his arm so thin that it acts like razor-wire and can slice enemies in half.



* ComboPlatterPowers: Kl'rt has all the powers of the Fantastic Four, although he uses them a little more... dangerously. Like stretching his arm so thin that it becomes like razor-wire and then cutting enemies in half with it.

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* ComboPlatterPowers: Kl'rt has all the powers of the Fantastic Four, although he uses them a little more... dangerously. Like stretching his arm so thin that it becomes like razor-wire and then cutting enemies in half with it.



* GreenLanternRing: Kl'rt has all the powers of the Fantastic Four, although he uses them a little more... dangerously. Like stretching his arm so thin that it becomes like razor-wire and then cutting enemies in half with it.
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* NearVillainVictory: The invasion was going extremely well for the most part, her plan was ultimately undone because of handful of small errors all cropping up around the same time which alerted the heroes to the Skrull's presence far too early.


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* WellIntentionedExtremist: Every action taken by Veranke was done to ensure the survival of the Skrull species. Were it not for the fact that she tried to conquer Earth, she would've come off as much more heroic.

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* GreenLanternRing: Kl'rt has all the powers of the Fantastic Four, although he uses them a little more...dangerously. Like stretching his arm so thin that it becomes like razor-wire and then cutting enemies in half with it.

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* GreenLanternRing: Kl'rt has all the powers of the Fantastic Four, although he uses them a little more... dangerously. Like stretching his arm so thin that it becomes like razor-wire and then cutting enemies in half with it.



* SuperSoldier: The Skrull equivalent of this trope.

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* SuperPrototype: While he's since been surpassed for power, no Super-Skrull since has matched his martial ability, with the rest being - at best - brawny thugs who use their powers with brute force, and he demonstrated the difference in ''Secret Invasion''.
* SuperSoldier: The Skrull equivalent of this trope.trope, and in ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion'' while faking loyalty to the Skrull invaders (having pretended to vaporise Nova), he declares himself the "first and greatest" of the Super-Skrulls. No one calls him on it.


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* WeakButSkilled: While later Super-Skrulls are stronger, they're pretty much all brute force, whereas Kl'rt was a supremely experienced and skilled warrior before he got his powers, and has since mastered them. This makes him utterly ''lethal''.
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* MsFanservice: Veranke is very beautiful woman, and she wears nothing but rather [[Stripperiffic revealing but ornate dresses]] or [[MaleGaze skintight supersuits.]]

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* MsFanservice: Veranke is very beautiful woman, and she wears nothing but rather [[Stripperiffic [[{{Stripperiffic}} revealing but ornate dresses]] or [[MaleGaze skintight supersuits.]]
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* BackFromTheDead: After a long absencse, she makes her return ironically enough in ''ComicBook/SpiderWoman2020''.


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* MsFanservice: Veranke is very beautiful woman, and she wears nothing but rather [[Stripperiffic revealing but ornate dresses]] or [[MaleGaze skintight supersuits.]]


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* {{Retcon}}: Veranke was never dead, merely imprisoned by Osborn. Please ignore that time she was spotted in Hell trying to win her resurrection in a game.
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* AnAxeToGrind: Her weapon of choice is some sort of halberd capable of firing energy blasts.
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* TheBusCameBack: After not being seen since ''Annihilation'', barring an alternate universe version popping up in ''ComicBook/NewAvengers2015'', he returns as the Kree-Skrull Alliance ambassador during ''ComicBook/{{SWORD}}''.

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* TheBusCameBack: After not being seen since ''Annihilation'', barring an alternate universe version popping up in ''ComicBook/NewAvengers2015'', he returns as the Kree-Skrull Alliance ambassador during ''ComicBook/{{SWORD}}''.in ''ComicBook/SWORD2020''.

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