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| 13 | [[center: [- [[Characters/MarvelCinematicUniverse Main Character Index]] > Villainous Organizations > [[Characters/MCUCosmicThreats Cosmic Threats]] > [[Characters/MCUThanosForces Thanos' Forces]] ([[Characters/MCUThanos Thanos]]) | [[Characters/MCURavagers Ravagers]] | '''Kree''' > ([[Characters/MCUTheHighEvolutionary The High Evolutionary]] | [[Characters/MCUEgo Ego]] | [[Characters/MCUHelaOdinsdottir Hela Odinsdottir]] | [[Characters/MCUGorr Gorr]]) -]]] |
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| 15 | !! Spoilers for all works set prior to the end of ''Avengers: Endgame'' are unmarked. |
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| 20 | !The Kree |
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| 22 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 23 | !!''The Kree'' |
| 24 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mcu_kree.png]] |
| 25 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'' | ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' | ''Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}}'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021 What If...?]]'' | ''[[Series/SecretInvasion2023 Secret Invasion]]'' | ''Film/{{The Marvels|2023}}'' |
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| 27 | A race of mostly blue-skinned aliens with a powerful interstellar empire. Long expansionist, the Kree have waged wars with other races and cultures in the galaxy, particularly the Nova Corps. They also have a history of conducting experiments on alien races to build armies of super-powered beings. |
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| 29 | * AbsoluteXenophobe: In the face of Kree expansion and imperialism, other races are given two choices: [[MadeASlave Submission]] or [[FinalSolution extermination]]. |
| 30 | * AdaptationalVillainy: In the comics, the Kree are a paranoid and highly militaristic state who have legitimate grievances with the Skrulls, and have joined forces with the heroes against a common threat quite a few times. In the movies, the Kree are unapologetic imperialists who enslave and slaughter entire populations for their own gain and pursue the Skrulls simply because they won't submit to them. |
| 31 | * AlwaysChaoticEvil: With very few exceptions, all Kree (at least the military branch) are shamelessly imperialistic, warlike, and just downright ''brutal'' bastards. |
| 32 | * AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Most of the Kree seen are blue, which in the comics is the original base race, though there is a subset with a variety of human-like skin tones such as Yon-Rogg and Korath, which is what allows the Kree to convince the amnesiac human Carol Danvers that she is also a Kree. The blue-skinned Kree also change color to human tones when exposed to nitrogen, which can allow even the blue Kree to infiltrate human society. |
| 33 | * AmbiguousSituation: ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'' makes a reference to a "Kree Emperor" who signed the Empire's peace treaty with the Nova Corps, while ''Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}}'', set over twenty years earlier, shows the Supreme Intelligence to be the Empire's head of state. Given the Supreme Intelligence's status as a non-corporeal A.I., the time gap between the two films, and Captain Marvel's vow to destroy the Supreme Intelligence, it's not clear if the Supreme Intelligence is the emperor in question, if the Kree underwent a regime change in the interim, or if something else entirely is going on. ''Film/TheMarvels2023'' eventually clarifies that [[spoiler:Captain Marvel destroyed the Supreme Intelligence shortly after the events of ''Captain Marvel'', kickstarting a civil war that eventually left Hala a dying world. The Kree Emperor that signed the treaty with the Nova Corps is likely the leader of one of its factions.]] |
| 34 | * ArchEnemy: The thousand-year war they had with the Nova Empire that ''only'' just ended in 2014 has given both sides a hell of a grudge with the other, to say the least. |
| 35 | * AthensAndSparta: They are the Sparta to the Nova Empire's Athens. |
| 36 | * BadassCreed: ''Captain Marvel'' establishes they have one: ''"For the good of all Kree!"'' |
| 37 | * BelievingTheirOwnLies: The Kree truly believe their enemies, such as the Skrulls and Nova Empire to be the bad guys who want to destroy them, despite it being fabricated by the Supreme Intelligence and other high-ranking officials. Of course, Carol ended up discovering the truth. |
| 38 | * BeautyIsBad: Tend to be easy on the eyes, regardless of the blue skin many of them possess. Doesn't change the fact that they're a genocidal and xenophobic race of conquerors. |
| 39 | * BizarreAlienBiology: Kree physiology is much more complex than other sentient species, to where their blood can be used to revive other races with simpler physiology (such as with humans). But at the same time, they can't revive each other if their wound is lethal enough to kill them. |
| 40 | * BystanderSyndrome: In ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'', they refuse to aid in stopping Ronan when Nova Prime tries to ask for their help, with the Kree Ambassador pretty much stating it wasn't part of their treaty, so why should ''they'' care about what he does? |
| 41 | * CharacterFocus: While ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'' and ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' have them as important parts of the plot/backstory, ''Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}}'' is the first work in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to specifically focus on them and their culture. |
| 42 | * DarkIsEvil: They're an empire of imperialistic and genocidal maniacs, and have spaceships/weapons that look like they're carved from either obsidian or coal. |
| 43 | * DishingOutDirt: A thematic case, with most of their older spacecraft (such as ''The Dark Aster'' used by Ronan the Accuser) looking like they're more carved from coal rather than made in factories. Furthermore, OrbitalBombardment in the form of {{Colony Drop}}s is one of their favored strategies on the battlefield. |
| 44 | * TheEmpire: They invade and conquer other planets and races to expand their own territories. |
| 45 | * EnemyCivilWar: [[spoiler:The Kree ended up in one in the interim since the first film (thanks to Carol killing the Supreme Intelligence and throwing Hala's government into chaos).]] |
| 46 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: A species-wide version is given in ''Guardians of the Galaxy'', the head of the Nova Corps, Irani Rael aka Nova Prime, tries to get the Kree to help them deal with Ronan's rampage against her people, practically ''pleading'' with them even. However, the Kree Ambassador dismiss their concerns, stating they only agreed to the treaty and what one of their own do is not their problem before cutting her off. Her line after that [[{{Jerkass}} pretty much sums them up perfectly]]. |
| 47 | -->'''Irani:''' ''Prick!'' |
| 48 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: If Vin-Tak is to be believed, the Kree came to believe that they were wrong to create the Inhumans. [[SubvertedTrope However,]] this ultimately may have less to do with legitimate moral qualms and [[PragmaticVillainy more to do with the fact that the experiment ultimately blew up in their face thanks to Hive]] ([[HoistByTheirOwnPetard the first Inhuman the Kree created]]). In fact, Vin-Tak fears the rest of the Kree might continue their experiments once again should they find out about the existence of the Inhumans. |
| 49 | * EvilCounterpart: To the modern Asgardians, who use their military might benevolently to keep the peace in the Nine Realms and ward off invaders. By contrast, the Kree are only interested in cruel expansion. Though given the reveal of the Asgardians' bloody history of conquest in ''Film/ThorRagnarok,'' they're MirroringFactions. |
| 50 | ** With the Nova Empire. The Nova Empire uses the Nova Corps to preserve peace throughout space, and are [[LightIsGood associated with the color gold,]] while the Kree Empire is based on ruthless conquest, and [[DarkIsEvil associated with black]]. |
| 51 | * EvilVirtues: They seem to value loyalty, discipline and camaraderie towards their fellow Kree. Of course, they are still very ruthless and smug towards their enemies and non-Kree in general. |
| 52 | * FantasticRacism: Virtually all Kree hold other races in contempt, particularly the Xandarians and Skrulls. |
| 53 | * FantasyCounterpartCulture: On the surface, the Kree seem to just be the "Aliens as Nazis" variety of ScaryDogmaticAliens, what with their FantasticRacism, neo-fascist policies, and aggressive military expansionism. However, both ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' and ''Captain Marvel'' show them to ultimately be closer to Imperial Japan, what with their fanatical belief in a GodEmperor (here in the form of the Supreme Intelligence), practicing the [[MadeASlave brutal enslavement of "lesser races"]], and having long-lasting family dynasties that feel [[TakingYouWithMe suicide attacks are the only proper penance for cowardice]]. Even the ancient Kree experiments that eventually resulted in the creation of the Inhumans have their roots in the infamous Unit 731 atrocities. |
| 54 | * GalacticSuperpower: Like the comics, they're one of the top dogs in the greater universe, rivaled only by the Nova Empire and (formerly) the Asgardians. [[spoiler:By ''The Marvels'', they’re just a shadow of their former self]]. |
| 55 | * GreaterScopeVillain: Despite being a very prominent threat to the galaxy at large, the Kree Empire doesn't play that big a role in most of its appearances in the MCU, with ''[[Film/CaptainMarvel2019 Captain Marvel]]'' and ''Film/{{The Marvels|2023}}'' being the sole exceptions thus far. |
| 56 | ** In ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'', the Kree Empire does little to terrorize the Nova Corps or the aforementioned Guardians directly, with only [[DefectorFromDecadence Ronan]] being the main threat of the film. That being said, the Empire doesn't exactly dissuade Ronan from carrying out his savage brutality despite it being in their power to do so, even when Irani Rael demands they do something about him in an international call with the Kree Ambassador. The Empire also puts out a bounty for the titular Guardians sometime during the events of ''Vol. 2'' for their involvement in Ronan's death, though it doesn't have any direct effect on the story. |
| 57 | ** In ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'', the Kree Empire as a whole has never taken part in the show's events, but the aftermath of experiments a rogue group conducted on Earth, creating the Inhumans, has a massive impact on the series, and a few individual Kree act as major antagonists. |
| 58 | ** HYDRA was created to worship an Inhuman directly created by the Kree, meaning that not only the Kree are [[GreaterScopeVillain Greater-Scope Villains]] for HYDRA and so the Captain America franchise and a good portion of the MCU in general, but since every villain of the first three seasons of ''Agents of [=S.H.I.E.L.D.=]'' and many other villains of other seasons are either [=HYDRA's=] members or allies, Inhumans or Inhumans hater (Nadeer, the Watchdogs) meaning that most of the bad things that happen in the series are in some way consequence of the Kree's actions. Going even more in-depth, Ratcliffe and Aida wouldn't be so much a treat if they are not allied with the Watchdogs, and Radcliffe join Shield only after the events with Hive, meaning that he wouldn't create Aida in the first place if he had not existed, Talbot becomes Graviton only because of Hydra's and Kree's actions, Sarge gains a body thanks to the energy of the Monoliths that was released by the explosion of a Kree device, leading to Izel's decision to gain herself a body and start her plan, destroying in the process the Chromicon's planet and leading them on their villainous path; that leaves Eli Morrow and Lucy Bauer as the only major villains of ''Agents of [=S.H.I.E.L.D.=]'' that are not related with the Kree in the first place. |
| 59 | * GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: Subverted, as, despite their blue skin and most of them [[TheBeautifulElite looking attractive on the surface]], their neo-fascism just makes them come across as hideous to everyone else. |
| 60 | * HatedByAll: Being a racist, imperialistic race of aliens that strive to conquer most of the galaxy, it's no wonder that the rest of the galaxy despises them. In particular, Xandarians, humans, Skrulls, and Asgardians alike have expressed fear and/or hatred towards the Kree Empire over the course of the MCU. |
| 61 | * HealingFactor: They have this advantage in comparison to ordinary humans. |
| 62 | * HowTheMightyHaveFallen: [[spoiler:As a result of a decades long civil war after the destruction of the Supreme Intelligence, by the mid-2020s their empire and civilization is in ruins, their homeworld is dying and even their sun is going out.]] |
| 63 | * LaserGuidedKarma: After ages of conquering and subjugating other races, [[spoiler: the Kree destroyed their own world in a civil war that erupted after the Supreme Intelligence was destroyed.]] |
| 64 | * LastStand: As the Kree consider retreat to be tantamount to dereliction of duty, a Kree warrior that is about to be overrun is expected to make a LastStand and "die with honor". Some noble lines use a PsychoSerum known as "the Odium", a concoction that will drive the drinker into a berserk fury but will ultimately kill them either way. |
| 65 | * LoopholeAbuse: In 2014, the Kree Empire signed a peace treaty with the Nova Corps, which dictated that the Kree shall not deploy any military forces to attack or harm Xandar. However, the Kree Ambassador refuses to do anything about Ronan the Accuser's rogue attacks on Xandarian civilians, as he notes that a lone DefectorFromDecadence like him doesn't represent the Kree as a whole, and so doesn't count as an attack from them. |
| 66 | * MadScientist: A rogue faction of the Kree once experimented on alien races to make an army of super-beings who could assist them in their wars. Most of these were failures, but the experiments on Earth were successful, leading to the Inhumans. |
| 67 | * MisplacedRetribution: The Kree place the whole of the blame for [[spoiler:the collapse of their empire and Hala becoming a dying planet]] entirely on Carol for [[spoiler:killing the Supreme Intelligence]], conveniently ignoring the fact that all of the actual damage was caused [[spoiler:by the ''Kree themselves'' when they fought each other in a decades long civil war.]] |
| 68 | * MoralMyopia: The Kree's overall credo ([[{{Pun}} "Kreedo"]], if you will) is "For the good of all Kree". What they consider "the good of all Kree" tends to come at the expense of other races, such as the Skrulls. |
| 69 | * ANaziByAnyOtherName: They are a fascist empire that see themselves as the supreme species, commit genocide on those they deem lesser, and lie to their people through constant propaganda. [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany Sound familiar?]] Hell, the center part of their empire's symbol has enough similarities to be noticeable to a swastika! |
| 70 | * NeverMyFault: The Kree place the entire blame for the state of their homeworld and civilization squarely on Carol, even though, by their own telling of the events, all she did to them was [[spoiler:kill the Supreme Intelligence]]. The notion that they might bear ''some'' of the responsibility for [[spoiler:fighting each other for 30 years in a civil war and destroying their own world]] doesn’t appear to even cross their minds. |
| 71 | * PlanetLooters: The Kree exhausted the resources of their homeworld during the civil war, leaving it with no oceans, minimal atmosphere, and a dying star. Dar-Benn intends to use her bangle to open wormholes and siphon replacements from other planets. |
| 72 | * ProudWarriorRaceGuy: The Kree are a very militarized species. In ''Guardians of the Galaxy'', signing a peace treaty with Xandar caused ''massive'' discontent within the Kree Empire. ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' further establishes that the Kree consider retreat to be the same as abandoning their posts, with Kasius and Sinara exiled for fleeing a losing battle. |
| 73 | * RubberForeheadAliens: Most of them look virtually identical to humans, with the exception of [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation primarily blue skin (though it can actually vary depending on the individual)]], purple eyes, and pointed ears. |
| 74 | * ScaryDogmaticAliens: Of the Aliens As Nazis variety with some sprinkles of UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan. Their main symbol [[UsefulNotes/NonNaziSwastika even resembles a swastika]] for extra points of [[SarcasmMode subtlety]]. |
| 75 | * SlaveMooks: The Kree use "battle slaves" to supplement the ranks of their forces. Yondu was one such for 20 years. |
| 76 | * SlaveRace: The Sakaarans are a client race of the Kree. The Inhumans would have been this, but they had [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters other ideas]]. In the alternate BadFuture established by ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'', it's indicated that the Kree enslaved humanity. |
| 77 | * TheSpartanWay: They prefer not to let emotions get in the way of their military discipline. |
| 78 | * StarKilling: The Kree somehow drained their local star of its energy during their civil war, leaving it on the brink of its red giant phase. [[spoiler:Dar-Benn intends to siphon off Earth's sun to refuel it. After that plan is foiled, Captain Marvel flies through their star and uses her energy to restore it.]] |
| 79 | * StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: In the films and the first three seasons of ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'', they have Asgardian levels of strength and durability. In later seasons of the show, however, they are about as vulnerable to conventional weapons as any ordinary human. |
| 80 | * SuperStrength: Enough for them to go toe-to-toe with [[PhysicalGod Asgardians]] like Lady Sif. |
| 81 | * SuperToughness: To the point where some can hold ''Infinity Stones'' for a limited period of time! |
| 82 | * SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: The Kree was a civilization that became dependent on an AI for over a millennium to make all of its political and military decisions. [[spoiler: So when Carol destroyed the Supreme Intelligence shortly after the events of ''Film/CaptainMarvel2019'', Kree Empire descended into chaos and civil war in a short peroid of time.]] |
| 83 | * VillainHasAPoint: For better or worse, [[spoiler:''Secret Invasion'' shows that the Kree's stereotype of the Skrulls being ruthless infiltrators who will try to conquer entire species using their shapeshifting abilities isn't entirely off the mark, as Gravik and his forces end up attempting to create a nuclear holocaust out of resentment for humanity.]] |
| 84 | * VillainousLegacy: The Kree's actions have left a major impact on the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Not only are they responsible for the creation of the Inhumans, but also the cult that would one day form HYDRA, as well as the war with the Nova Corps and the Skrulls, leaving them responsible for much of the conflicts in the Captain America films, ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'', ''Guardians of the Galaxy'', and ''Captain Marvel''. Not even [[BigBad Thanos]] has had this much influence on the MCU's background, although their later actions were ''because'' of Thanos arriving, and they wanted to make the most of things before Thanos wiped half of them out. |
| 85 | * VillainousValor: As mentioned in LastStand above, they tend to choose to go down fighting even when outmatched. |
| 86 | * WonTheWarLostThePeace: While the Kree Empire signed a peace treaty ending their thousand-year war with the Nova Corps, it was massively unpopular among the Kree people, inciting protests and riots. It's implied that the Kree government's refusal to deal with Ronan is because they either don't want to further alienate their people, or they actually agree with him continuing the war on his own. The latter is more likely, as it's mentioned in ''Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2'' that, after the events of the previous movie (Ronan's death at the hands of the Guardians), elements of the Kree Empire placed a bounty on the Guardians and Yondu. Then again, ''Captain Marvel'' shows a good number of regular Kree don't like him, even if they harbor lingering hostility towards the Nova Empire. Eventually ''Film/TheMarvels2023'' revealed that [[spoiler:by the time ''Guardians of the Galaxy'' the Kree Empire had been in the midst of active civil war for decades as a result of the loss of the Supreme Intelligence, so the riots that resulted from the Kree-Nova Treaty probably escalated said civil war to the point that it collapsed the Empire.]] |
| 87 | * WrittenByTheWinners: Popular belief amongst the Kree is that they are "noble warrior heroes" who fought against Skrull terrorists who threaten the galaxy with their shapeshifting abilities. The truth, however, is that ''they'' were the actual aggressors and committed genocide on the Skrull homeworld simply because they were stronger and better armed than them. |
| 88 | * YouCantGoHomeAgain: [[spoiler:By the events of ''The Marvels'', Hala became a dying world from the devastation unleashed by the Kree Civil War]] |
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| 92 | !!Kree Empire |
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| 94 | !!!Leadership |
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| 96 | [[folder:The Supreme Intelligence]] |
| 97 | !!''Supreme Intelligence'' |
| 98 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/euxg60ggdsd41.jpg]] |
| 99 | [[caption-width-right:350:Concept art of a DeletedScene in ''Captain Marvel'' showing the Supreme Intelligence's true form.]] |
| 100 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/AnnetteBening, Creator/JudeLaw [[note]]deleted scene[[/note]] |
| 101 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Maru Guzmán (Latín American Spanish dub), Creator/YoshikoSakakibara (Japanese dub) |
| 102 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}}'' | ''Film/{{The Marvels|2023}}'' [[note]]Flashback only[[/note]] |
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| 104 | The ruler of the Kree Empire, an artificial intelligence constructed from the minds of the greatest Kree. |
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| 106 | * AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the mainstream comics, the Supreme Intelligence is a gigantic, floating, obese green potato head with countless tentacles coming out the top. In ''Captain Marvel'', the Supreme Intelligence takes the form of [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith whomever the individual they're speaking to respects and admires the most]]. To Carol, they're an older seemingly human woman (whom she later learns to be Mar-Vell), whereas Yon-Rogg sees the Supreme Intelligence as [[{{Narcissist}} himself]]. Though their true appearance is not shown, the tentacle-like appendages they use to communicate with others may be a nod to their original design. A brief flashback in ''The Marvels'' does show them in their comics form, but it is ''very'' brief. |
| 107 | * AIIsACrapshoot: The Supreme Intelligence is imperialist, genocidal, and malevolent, in their quest for the merciless expansion of the Kree Empire. |
| 108 | * AlienArtsAreAppreciated: Despite the Kree Empire's xenophobia and racism, the Supreme Intelligence takes a liking to the Music/{{Nirvana}} song "Come As You Are", which they find in Carol's subconscious, even dancing to it for a moment. |
| 109 | * BadBoss: In a deleted scene, they abuse, threaten, belittle, and mock Yon-Rogg for his failures. In the film proper, they try to psychologically torture Carol with memories of her past failures so she would pass the DespairEventHorizon and return to assisting the Kree. |
| 110 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: Before TheReveal, they present themselves as a wise leader who encourages Carol to serve the Kree Empire with honor and dilligence. Eventually, the façade falls away and they're shown to be a ruthless and genocidal maniac. |
| 111 | * BrainUploading: As noted above, they're created from the minds of the greatest Kree in history. |
| 112 | * ClimaxBoss: Given how utterly overpowered Carol is, overcoming the Intelligence's control serves as her greatest obstacle before the climax (consisting of her easily [[CurbStompBattle Curb-Stomping]] both Starforce and Ronan's Accusers) can properly begin. |
| 113 | * DarkIsEvil: Frequently associated with darker colors and tones, and has their headquarters on Hala located in what looks like a massive obsidian chapel, though their physical appearance (ironically) tends to have bright green eyes and [[WhiteHairBlackHeart white hair]] no matter who sees them, [[BrightIsNotGood contrasting the darkness]]. |
| 114 | * FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: While interfacing with Carol, the Supreme Intelligence assumes the appearance of Mar-Vell, a kindly and benevolent figure whose gentle demeanor is retained by the imperialist and genocidal Supreme Intelligence. This is in contrast with their appearance as Yon-Rogg, where they come off looking more sinister than benevolent. |
| 115 | * FantasticRacism: Shows nothing but utter contempt for the Skrulls, and their war against them has the ultimate goal of them being completely exterminated down to the very last child. They also don't have a high opinion on humanity either, dismissively stating that Carol was "nothing" before [[{{Transhuman}} the Kree augmented her with their blood]], and they were perfectly fine with having Ronan subject the Earth to an OrbitalBombardment in order to wipe out a comparative handful of Skrulls in the bargain. It's implied they also held the same contempt towards Xandarians as well. |
| 116 | * FauxAffablyEvil: They're very civil with Carol, and are even downright ''jovial'' when describing their planned implementation of a FinalSolution against the Skrulls. In dealing with Yon-Rogg, it's much more direct, cruelly mocking and berating him. |
| 117 | * {{Foil}}: To Captain Marvel/Carol Danvers herself. First and foremost, their personalities are very contrasting -- Carol has a [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold rather brusque demeanor belying a softer & selfless side]], while the Supreme Intelligence has [[BitchInSheepsClothing a more outwardly matronly and friendly personality that hides]] the mind(s) of a genocidal lunatic. Furthermore, Carol treats her colleagues with respect and friendship while the Supreme Intelligence is a BadBoss that utilized {{Gaslighting}} to keep Carol in line. Carol also eventually learns to look past her initial prejudices and performs a HeelFaceTurn to save the innocent Skrulls while the Supreme Intelligence is an imperialistic maniac that never lets go of their FantasticRacism towards the shapeshifters. Additionally, Carol started out within the Kree just as an ordinary soldier while the Supreme Intelligence is the Kree Empire's GodEmperor. Even their powers are appropriately different -- Carol has powerful LightEmUp abilities that make her a ''beast'' on the battlefield, while the Supreme Intelligence is a PhysicalGod powers only within the [[DarkIsEvil bleak and dark]] MentalWorld it inhabits. |
| 118 | * AFormYouAreComfortableWith: No one has ever seen the true appearance of the Supreme Intelligence. Instead, it takes a form similar to a person that the person trying to connect with it admires most. When "Vers" sees an image of Mar-Vell -- who the Supreme Intelligence is assuming the form of -- when the Skrulls explore her memories, this ends up driving her to find out the truth of her past life as Carol Danvers. |
| 119 | * {{Gaslighting}}: How they've been successfully manipulating Carol Danvers for roughly six years in the war against the Skrulls. |
| 120 | * GodEmperor: The Supreme Intelligence is the Kree Empire's ruler, and interfacing with it is considered a deeply personal, almost religious experience for the Kree. Its non-corporeal form and [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith subjective appearance]] emphasize the near-divine status the A.I. holds among its subjects, as does the fact that [[RuleOfSymbolism its headquarters on Hala seems designed to resemble a chapel]]. |
| 121 | * GreaterScopeVillain: While more prominent than the likes of Thanos in ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', the Intelligence only appears in about two scenes in ''Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}}'' and remains relatively uninvolved with the hunt for the Skrulls, only briefly intervening near the end to try to rein Carol back under Kree control. As such, most of the legwork is done by Yon-Rogg and Ronan, the former of whom Carol gains far greater enmity for due to his role in kidnapping her. |
| 122 | * HateSink: Their FantasticRacism towards the Skrulls upon learning that the Skrulls are just innocent WarRefugees along with how it [[{{Gaslighting}} gaslights]] Carol into perpetuating ''genocide'' makes them utterly loathsome. |
| 123 | * HiveMind[=/=]MindHive: A weird amalgamation of the two. Despite being the amalgamation of countless different Kree minds, the Supreme Intelligence only seems to have one overall personality. |
| 124 | * MechanicalAbomination: A super-intelligent A.I. made from the brightest Kree minds there have ever been, and assumes the appearance of someone whom a certain person holds in great esteem. Among the Kree, meeting the Supreme Intelligence is a quasi-religious experience, and they have god-like control over the MentalWorld accessed whenever anyone needs to communicate with them. The mechanical tentacles used to communicate with them (and which also lets them brutally MindRape anyone who tries to disobey the Empire) also gives them a distinctly [[EldritchAbomination eldritch]] flavor. |
| 125 | * MindRape: What they attempt to do to Carol after TheReveal by showing her memories of her past failures and telling her that without the Kree, she is "[[PunyEarthlings only human]]". [[NiceJobFixingItVillain This backfires spectacularly]] as it only reminds Carol that she has ''always'' been a {{Determinator}}, and she proceeds to overload the RestrainingBolt they put on her. |
| 126 | * MythologyGag: The metallic tentacles they utilize to communicate with their subjects are likely an allusion to the Supreme Intelligence's CombatTentacles that were part of their true form in the original comics. |
| 127 | * NonActionBigBad: The Supreme Intelligence is an A.I. construct, not a warrior. While it can do ''some'' harm to those whose minds it interfaces with, in a physical sense, it's all but useless. [[spoiler:''The Marvels'' shows that when Carol came to destroy it, the Supreme Intelligence could do nothing to even ''try'' and stop her.]] |
| 128 | * NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: They try to excuse their FinalSolution against the Skrulls to Carol by framing them as "terrorists" in the Kree Empire's border territories, but it falls flat when Carol reminds them that the Skrulls have been reduced to desperate refugees by the Kree's heartless expansion efforts and are just trying to survive. |
| 129 | * OhCrap: They start to visibly panic when Carol uses her HeroicWillpower to break free of their torture methods. In particular, their jaw practically hits the floor when a smirking Carol literally ''snaps'' off the RestrainingBolt placed on her neck after powering up. |
| 130 | * PlayingTheVictimCard: The Supreme Intelligence justifies the Kree's continued aggression against the Skrulls by claiming that they are insidious infiltrators who seize control of planets and are an existential threat to Kree society. The reality is that the Kree ''won'' their war with the Skrulls, and the Supreme Intelligence only makes such claims to excuse what has become an attempted genocide against a diaspora of desperate refugees. |
| 131 | * PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler:By the time of ''The Marvels'', the Supreme Intelligence is long dead at Carol's hands, though it's absence has a major impact on the story; the sudden loss of their ruler quickly drove the Kree to a civil war that broke their empire and ravaged Hala to the point of no return, leading to Dar-Benn's plans in the movie's present day.]] |
| 132 | * UncertainDoom: Its fate after the events of ''Captain Marvel'' remained a mystery for years, as that film was set in 1995, but by the time of the events of ''Guardians of the Galaxy'', set in 2014 the Kree are led by an Emperor. Eventually ''Film/TheMarvels2023'' revealed that [[spoiler:shortly after the events of ''Captain Marvel'', Carol made good on her promise and destroyed the Supreme Intelliegence, plunging the Kree Empire into civil war. ]] |
| 133 | * TheUnReveal: The true form of the Supreme Intelligence has not been revealed yet, but [[https://i.redd.it/euxg60ggdsd41.jpg here]] in a deleted scene's concept art, Carol Danvers was going to face them. Their true form was going to be very faithful to the comics, portraying them as a huge, floating green head with multiple eyes and tentacles emerging from their top. |
| 134 | * WhiteHairBlackHeart: Their avatars as Mar-Vell and Yon-Rogg both have silver hair, and it's a genocidal Kree A.I.. |
| 135 | * WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide: Dismisses the Skrulls as simply insidious shapeshifters that cannot be allowed to live lest they threaten the Kree Empire. In actuality, the only reason they're still pursuing the Skrulls is that they won't submit to them, something the Supreme Intelligence is fully aware of. |
| 136 | * YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: Everyone who sees the Supreme Intelligence sees them as the person they admire most. Carol sees them as an older woman (who later turns out to be a silver-haired version of Mar-Vell, who was both her mentor in the United States Air Force and the person who wanted to protect the Skrulls from the Kree Empire). Yon-Rogg, however, sees the Supreme Intelligence as [[{{Narcissist}} himself]]. |
| 137 | [[/folder]] |
| 138 | |
| 139 | !!!Starforce |
| 140 | |
| 141 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 142 | !!''Starforce'' |
| 143 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/captainmarvel_starforce.png]] |
| 144 | [[caption-width-right:350:From the left: Korath, At-Lass, Carol Danvers, Bron-Char, and Minn-Erva. Not Pictured: Yon-Rogg, their commander.]] |
| 145 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}}'' |
| 146 | |
| 147 | A Kree military squadron, and Carol's colleagues. |
| 148 | ---- |
| 149 | * AdaptationalWimp: In the comics, Starforce is a group of super-powered individuals across the Kree Empire who serve as the Supreme Intelligence's PraetorianGuard. In the movies, with the exception of Carol, all of them are simply {{Badass Normal}}s. This means that once she unlocks her SuperMode, Carol quickly wipes the floor with all of them. |
| 150 | * SpaceMarine: A team of space soldiers from an intergalactic empire. |
| 151 | * VillainousFriendship: They're generally pretty chummy with one another, trading jokes before a mission. Bron-Char even calls Korath handsome. |
| 152 | * VillainousValor: Even though [[VillainousUnderdog they're clearly outmatched]], Starforce continues to fight against a fully-powered Carol to the best of their ability. |
| 153 | [[/folder]] |
| 154 | |
| 155 | [[folder:Yon-Rogg]] |
| 156 | !!''Yon-Rogg'' |
| 157 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yonroggcaptainmarvel_3.png]] |
| 158 | !!!'''Species:''' Kree |
| 159 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JudeLaw |
| 160 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/LuisDanielRamirez (Latín American Spanish dub), Creator/ToshiyukiMorikawa (Japanese dub), Creator/JeanPierreMichael (European French dub), Creator/MartinWatier (Canadian French dub) |
| 161 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}}'' |
| 162 | |
| 163 | A Kree commander and leader of the Starforce. |
| 164 | ---- |
| 165 | * AdaptationalDyeJob: He has auburn hair and blue eyes in the comics but instead has brown hair and yellow eyes in here. |
| 166 | * AdaptationalNiceGuy: The Yon-Rogg of the original ''Captain Marvel'' comics was a particularly persistent, even obsessive foe of both Mar-Vell and Carol Danvers who started out as Mar-Vell's commanding officer and was later thrilled at any chance to cause him, or Carol, any harm. Here, we see him as a pleasant, tough-but-patient mentor who wants Carol to "be the best version of herself". [[ZigZaggingTrope And then it turns out]], while not quite as [[CardCarryingVillain evil as the original]], he really '''is''' her ultimate antagonist, as the one who caused Mar-Vell's death, Carol's amnesia, her abduction, and manipulation by the Kree, so he was less a mentor and more of a kidnapper and handler. |
| 167 | * AffablyEvil: While he is an agent of the imperialist, fascistic, and genocidal Kree Empire, Yon-Rogg is not without a certain military courtesy, and he even tells Carol that he's proud of her following her victory over Ronan's attack force. His ManipulativeBastard tendencies and LimaSyndrome towards Carol blurs the line between this trope and FauxAffablyEvil where she's concerned, however. |
| 168 | * BigBad: While he serves the Supreme Intelligence, he is the main threat throughout the film and the one who started the conflict by killing Mar-Vell. |
| 169 | * BigBadFriend: While initially presented as Carol’s mentor, Yon-Rogg is revealed to have killed her actual mentor Mar-Vell, kidnapped her to use as a weapon for the Kree, and serves as TheHeavy to the Supreme Intelligence. |
| 170 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: Appears as TheMentor for Carol, but is really an EvilMentor. |
| 171 | * BrokenPedestal: While the Kree as a whole are this to Carol once she finds out their true colors, as her mentor, Yon-Rogg becomes the biggest one to her. It doesn't help that he was responsible for killing her actual mentor and friend, Mar-Vell. |
| 172 | * CoDragons: Is effectively the second-in-command to the Supreme Intelligence as far as Carol Danvers is concerned, and [[TheHeavy a lot more active than it]] -- though Ronan, as the leader of the Accusers, is also in a high position of power. |
| 173 | * CommandingCoolness: He holds the rank of Starforce Commander and is the most skilled fighter among them. |
| 174 | * CompositeCharacter: With Nitro, given he's Mar-Vell's killer. |
| 175 | ** His personality is more in line with the original comics Ronan the Accuser as a [[MyCountryRightOrWrong officer doing his job]] as opposed to the CardCarryingVillain of the source material. |
| 176 | * TheCorrupter: A deleted scene shows him educating Kree children with anti-Skrull propaganda. |
| 177 | * CruelMercy: Carol spared him to deliver a message from her to his people and to send him back in disgrace. |
| 178 | * CurbStompBattle: Rogg thinks he can challenge Carol to a final battle with just hand-to-hand combat, taunting her and goading her to lower herself down to his level to "prove" herself. Carol just blasts him away and then drags him off to a ship. Prior to her awakening her full power, however, he was delivering these to her, though only in physical combat. He was always outmatched when she used her photon blasts. |
| 179 | * DecoyProtagonist: At first he seems to be set up as a {{Tritagonist}} to Carol's TheProtagonist and Nick's {{Deuteragonist}}, but he's really the BigBad, while Talos is the true {{Tritagonist}}. |
| 180 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Downplayed: |
| 181 | ** Carol mentions Yon-Rogg's brother and father while asking who he sees when he interfaces with the Supreme Intelligence, but neither of them show up in the movie, nor are they mentioned by Yon-Rogg himself. |
| 182 | ** Yon-Rogg clearly feels ''something'' for "Vers", but the affection he shows her is undermined by his endless gaslighting and the fact that he stole her from her home and family. |
| 183 | * {{Expy}}: Not him, but his weapon; it can lift and drop objects from afar using cosmic energy, not dissimilar to the Gravity Gun from ''VideoGame/HalfLife''. |
| 184 | * FinalBoss: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. He and Carol ''seem'' like they'll have a climactic final duel, but his attempt to fight honorably in a CallBack to the beginning of the movie leads to Carol easily blasting him off his feet. |
| 185 | * {{Foil}}: |
| 186 | ** To Mar-Vell. Mar-Vell is Carol's mentor, Yon-Rogg is her EvilMentor, and unlike Mar-Vell, who was a scientist willing to betray the Empire to do the right thing, Yon-Rogg is a soldier and staunch nationalist. Their attitudes towards Carol also contrast; the former was friendly and encouraging, earning Carol's admiration, while Yon-Rogg is stern and tries to force her into the model of a Kree soldier. |
| 187 | ** To Ronan. Both are high-ranking officers in the Kree military, willing to go to extremes for the Empire, but they differ strongly in personality, methods, and ideology. Yon-Rogg is a specialist leading an elite team that performs surgical strikes and extraction missions in enemy territory, while Ronan and the Accusers he commands have [[OrbitalBombardment one solution]] to any given problem. Yon-Rogg is personable, shows concern for his fellow Kree, and is very loyal to the Empire, whereas Ronan is a callous {{jerkass}} who is fine with his erstwhile allies being caught in the crossfire, and [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014 eventually betrays the Empire]] when they make a decision he disagrees with. Their attitudes towards their duties contrast as well: Yon-Rogg believes in MyCountryRightOrWrong (in his eyes, the Kree Empire is righteous, and any action taken on its behalf is morally defensible), while Ronan is a SociopathicSoldier who couldn't care less if his actions are right or wrong. The many contrasts in their personalities mean that, despite working together, Yon-Rogg and Ronan don't particularly like one another. |
| 188 | * GodzillaThreshold: Initially refuses to get the Accusers involved while they recover Vers because they only know how to [[OrbitalBombardment nuke things from orbit]]. Then he realizes that Carol is reclaiming who she was and ''immediately'' calls Ronan. |
| 189 | * TheHeavy: While the main villain of ''Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}}'', he's in service to the Supreme Intelligence. |
| 190 | * HumanAliens: Though it's never brought up in the film, he belongs to a sub-set of the Kree race known in the comics as "Pink Kree" because they have a pinkish skin tone that makes them resemble Caucasian humans rather than the typical blue skin that most of his people have, though his yellow eyes throw off the illusion. |
| 191 | * {{Hypocrite}}: |
| 192 | ** Despite trying to drill the mentality of an emotionless soldier into Carol, Yon-Rogg's own emotions get the better of him at least twice: he killed Mar-Vell instead of retrieving her as ordered, and he lied to Ronan to save Carol's life, which ended up giving her the time to learn the truth about her identity. |
| 193 | ** Yon-Rogg insists that Carol needs to learn to beat him without using her powers, yet when push comes to shove, Yon-Rogg has no problem using his own advantages (numbers and technology) to get the better of her. |
| 194 | * InsaneTrollLogic: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]]; by the climax, Yon-Rogg is completely outclassed by a now empowered Carol Danvers, with no hopes to win. He tries to bait her into fighting him [[GoodOldFisticuffs without her powers]] since that would be the only advantage he'd arguably still have. By this point in the story, however, Carol has no interest in "earning" Yon-Rogg's approval and promptly knocks him flat on his ass with another blast. |
| 195 | * ItsPersonalWithTheDragon: As Carol's EvilMentor, the one who brought her to Hala, and the one who killed her actual mentor, Mar-Vell, Yon-Rogg is a much more personal enemy to Carol than [[GreaterScopeVillain the Supreme Intelligence]]. |
| 196 | * KnightTemplar: Yon-Rogg is a true believer in the righteousness of the Kree, even at the expense of the innocent. He's also happy to exploit others for the Empire's benefit, as seen with Carol. |
| 197 | * KnowWhenToFoldEm: When his last tactic (painfully) fails, Yon-Rogg wisely gives up and doesn't resist Carol dragging him back to his ship. |
| 198 | * LetsFightLikeGentlemen: In the final showdown, Yon-Rogg sheathes his weapons and challenges Carol to single combat; no weapons, no powers. Carol doesn't bite, instead photon-blasting Yon-Rogg into a nearby rock face. |
| 199 | * LimaSyndrome: Despite abducting Carol and turning her into an attack dog for the Kree, Yon-Rogg does seem to have some affection for her, donating his own blood to save her life after taking her back to Hala, preventing Ronan from attacking Earth while Carol is on it, and expressing pride in her abilities in their final confrontation. |
| 200 | * ALighterShadeOfBlack: Compared to [[JudgeJuryAndExecutioner Ronan The Accuser]]. Yon-Rogg strongly believes in camaraderie and refuses to abandon a fellow soldier, Carol included, even saving her life when she crash landed. Ronan on the other hand, is a genocidal bastard who treats him and all his other Kree subordinates like shit, and doesn't flinch at mass killings at the Kree's enemies that he doesn't give a damn if even loyal Kree become collateral. |
| 201 | * LovingAShadow: It's made clear that Yon-Rogg has [[LimaSyndrome more affection for Carol than he lets on]], but it's implied that his fondness is reserved mostly for "Vers", the Kree soldier he convinced Carol that she was, not the person that Carol truly is. Case in point, he's generally nurturing (by Kree standards) to "Vers", but sneers in derision when Carol breaks from that mold, only showing the real Carol respect to try and goad her into a fight Yon-Rogg thinks he can win. |
| 202 | * MadeOfIron: While she wasn't trying to kill or seriously injure him, Yon-Rogg is in pretty good shape after being blasted into a rock face by Carol. |
| 203 | * ManipulativeBastard: While there is some genuine affection for her in the mix, Yon-Rogg's mentorship of "Vers" has him gaslighting her to keep her as a loyal soldier for the Kree. When he knows he's outgunned, he falls back on old tricks, trying to play on her need to prove herself by challenging her to a fistfight, hoping to engage her in a fight he stands a chance of winning. Wise to his mind games, and no longer caring about his approval, Carol responds by photon-blasting him into a nearby rock face. |
| 204 | * TheMentor: To Carol Danvers. The film opens with him training her and giving her advice. He's actually an EvilMentor. |
| 205 | * {{Narcissist}}: Implied. Supreme Intelligence takes a form similar to a person that the person trying to connect with it admires most. A scene cut from the movie revealed that Yon-Rogg sees himself when he communes with the Supreme Intelligence. His general treatment of Carol is a further hint to Yon-Rogg's narcissism; he shows her approval and affection as long as she sticks to the role he wants her in, but forces her to fight for that approval on Yon-Rogg's own terms. His gambit in the finale is also predicated on the ludicrous notion that, with the truth revealed and her full power unleashed, Carol would still care about his approval enough to fight him hand-to-hand instead of just crushing him with her powers. |
| 206 | -->'''Yon-Rogg''': ''[referring to Carol]'' [[BlatantLies I have no feelings for her]].\ |
| 207 | '''Supreme Intelligence''': Yes, we both know your admiration is mostly reserved for yourself. |
| 208 | * PetTheDog: He seems to have a genuine soft spot for Carol. Not only did he bring her back to Hala even after she destroyed the engine he was after, but Yon-Rogg donated some of his own blood to save her life, serves as her mentor in Starforce, and lies to Ronan to avoid the Accuser devastating Earth while she's on the planet. Unfortunately, this goes out the window when Carol remembers who she originally was, at which point he calls in Ronan. And even then he waited until he thought she was either dead, taken by the Skrulls, or a traitor. |
| 209 | * ShutUpHannibal: On the receiving end of this trope when he tries to coax Carol into a no-powers sparring match. She blasts him across the canyon, clearly sick of his mind games. |
| 210 | -->'''Carol:''' I have nothing to prove to you. |
| 211 | * SoProudOfYou: Even knowing how screwed he would be to go up against Carol Danvers with her powers unleashed, he's impressed with her growth as a soldier all the same. |
| 212 | * StrawVulcan: Frequently rebukes Carol for bringing her emotions into battle; promptly proven wrong by the end of the film. |
| 213 | * TriggerHappy: A deleted scene reveals that Yon-Rogg was actually assigned to recapture Mar-Vell, but he killed her instead. |
| 214 | * WorthyOpponent: If telling Carol SoProudOfYou is any indication. |
| 215 | * WouldHitAGirl: Yon-Rogg doesn't hold back his punches when training with Carol, and frequently wipes the floor with her during their sessions. |
| 216 | [[/folder]] |
| 217 | |
| 218 | [[folder:Vers]] |
| 219 | -->See [[Characters/MCUCarolDanvers her page]]. |
| 220 | [[/folder]] |
| 221 | |
| 222 | [[folder:Minn-Erva]] |
| 223 | !!''Minn-Erva'' |
| 224 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/minn_ervacaptainmarvel.png]] |
| 225 | !!!'''Species:''' Kree |
| 226 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/GemmaChan |
| 227 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Lourdes Arruti (Latin American Spanish dub), Creator/YokoHikasa (Japanese dub) |
| 228 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}}'' |
| 229 | |
| 230 | A Kree Sniper, and member of Starforce. She was previously TheAce of the team, who has been overshadowed by Carol. |
| 231 | ---- |
| 232 | * TheAce: A gifted marksman, Minn-Erva serves as the sniper for her Star Force unit, and was the star player before Carol arrived. |
| 233 | * AdaptationalWimp: Although she may seem [[AdaptationalBadass much more skilled and powerful as a sniper in the movie]] than the Kree doctor she was in the comics, she ultimately is this, since her comics equivalent eventually gained Carol Danvers' powerset, making her much stronger in the source material. |
| 234 | * AlwaysSomeoneBetter: She used to be a highly regarded member of Star Force, but she feels threatened by Carol, who is similarly skilled. |
| 235 | * ColdSniper: Her EstablishingCharacterMoment has her preparing to shoot unarmed (albeit angry) refugees. She has no problem trying to do it again later in the movie. |
| 236 | * DominoMask: She only wears them when she's sniping. |
| 237 | * TheDragon: To Yon-Rogg. |
| 238 | * FantasticRacism: She has a very low opinion of Terrans, dismissively referring to Earth as "a real shithole". |
| 239 | * GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: She's a blue-skinned Kree woman who is also pretty attractive. |
| 240 | * {{Jerkass}}: Generally smug and callous, expressing a low opinion of Carol, and cracking a smirk as she prepares to shoot down innocent refugees. |
| 241 | -->'''Carol:''' You knew [about my true past] this whole time... is that why we never hung out?\ |
| 242 | '''Minn-Erva:''' No... I just never liked you. |
| 243 | * PsychoticSmirk: She cracks a smirk as she prepares to shoot down the Quadjet, which is full of innocent Skrull refugees. |
| 244 | * PunnyName: Her name is a play on Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom and strategic warfare. |
| 245 | * SecretKeeper: Unlike the rest of Starforce (who seem to assume that Carol's HeelFaceTurn is due to brainwashing), Minn-Erva was always aware of Carol's true nature and origins, having been present when Yon-Rogg abducted her. |
| 246 | [[/folder]] |
| 247 | |
| 248 | [[folder:Att-Lass]] |
| 249 | !!''Att-Lass'' |
| 250 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mcu_att_lass.png]] |
| 251 | %% [[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]] |
| 252 | !!!'''Species:''' Kree |
| 253 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Algenis Perez Soto |
| 254 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Alberto Bernal (Latin American Spanish), Creator/SatoshiHino (Japanese) |
| 255 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}}'' |
| 256 | |
| 257 | A member of Starforce, alongside Carol Danvers. |
| 258 | ---- |
| 259 | * DontMakeMeDestroyYou: Att-Lass at one point manages to pin Carol down with a gun to her face and pulls this card. Turns out it wasn't as advantageous a position as he thought. |
| 260 | * GunsAkimbo: Seemingly his weapon of choice. |
| 261 | * PunchClockVillain: Unlike Yon-Rogg (a devoted nationalist), Minn-Erva (a smug sadist), or Korath (a future extremist), Att-Lass is just doing his job, even trying to get Carol to stand down when he thinks (emphasis on ''[[UnderestimatingBadassery thinks]]'') he has her dead to rights. |
| 262 | * PunnyName: His name is a play on Atlas, a reference to Atlas Comics, which was Marvel Comics' name in the '50s. It is also a play upon "Atlas", the Titan who holds up the sky in Greek and Roman mythology, giving him a similarly derived name as that of Minn-Erva, whom he was directly partnered with in the comics. |
| 263 | [[/folder]] |
| 264 | |
| 265 | [[folder:Bron-Char]] |
| 266 | !!''Bron-Char'' |
| 267 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mcu_bron_char.png]] |
| 268 | %% [[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]] |
| 269 | !!!'''Species:''' Kree |
| 270 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Rune Temte |
| 271 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Erick Selim (Latín American Spanish dub), Creator/HirokiYasumoto (Japanese dub) |
| 272 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}}'' |
| 273 | |
| 274 | A member of Starforce, alongside Carol Danvers. |
| 275 | ---- |
| 276 | * AmbiguouslyGay: He considers Korath "objectively" handsome. |
| 277 | * TheBrute: He is the heaviest set member on the team. As the fight aboard Mar-Vell's ship turns chaotic, he opts for picking up an arcade cabinet and swinging it at Carol. |
| 278 | * CallingYourAttacks: He tends to be fairly reserved, but when he goes all-out against Carol, he really lets lose his inner ScreamingWarrior, shouting "[[IncomingHam INCOOOOOMIIIIING!!]]" at the top of his lungs as he charges at her. |
| 279 | [[/folder]] |
| 280 | |
| 281 | [[folder:Korath the Pursuer]] |
| 282 | !!''Korath the Pursuer'' |
| 283 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/50a9337571d8444caf4d812bf3c6db5c.png]] |
| 284 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"Who?"'']] |
| 285 | [[quoteright:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see him in ''Captain Marvel'']] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/korathcaptainmarvel.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 286 | !!!'''Species:''' Kree (cybernetically enhanced) |
| 287 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' Kree Imperial |
| 288 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Kree Empire (formerly), Starforce (formerly), Thanos (formerly), Ronan |
| 289 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/DjimonHounsou |
| 290 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Salvador Reyes (Latin-American Spanish dub), Iñaki Crespo (European Spanish dub), Creator/KenjiNomura (Japanese dub) |
| 291 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'' | ''Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}}'' |
| 292 | |
| 293 | A former member of the Kree Starforce who became an officer under Ronan. |
| 294 | ---- |
| 295 | * AreTheseWiresImportant: Drax kills him by ripping out wires that ran along the side of his head. |
| 296 | * BaldOfEvil: A bald Kree fanatic. |
| 297 | * BeardOfEvil: A graying goatee to compliment the evil baldness. |
| 298 | * {{BFG}}: Wields a pretty massive rifle while trying to retrieve the Orb early in the film. A shot from it is powerful enough to blow a hole clear through a temple wall. |
| 299 | * TheBrute: Serves as Ronan's main muscle and ultimately comes to blows with [[TheBigGuy Drax]]. |
| 300 | * CoDragons: With Nebula, to Ronan. Of the two, Korath is far more loyal, but gets less screentime. |
| 301 | * TheComicallySerious: |
| 302 | ** In ''Captain Marvel'', Korath responds to the rest of Starforce joking around by claiming that he laughs "on the inside". [[TheStoic With a perfectly straight face and no semblance of humor]]. |
| 303 | ** He's initially the only one who takes Peter Quill's self-appointed name of "Star-Lord" seriously. |
| 304 | * CreepyBlueEyes: They seem to be a racial trait for the Kree. |
| 305 | * {{Cyborg}}: Has a couple of cybernetic implants protruding from his head. He didn't have the implants while he was still an agent of the Kree Empire. |
| 306 | * DiesWideOpen: After Drax rips his implants out, Korath falls to the ground, eyes still wide open. |
| 307 | * DualWielding: During his time with Starforce, Korath wielded two swords. |
| 308 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: Korath balks at Ronan's insistence on challenging Thanos out of fear of the Mad Titan. |
| 309 | * EvilSoundsDeep: Not as much as Ronan, but still pretty deep. |
| 310 | * EvilWearsBlack: Like all of Ronan's crew, Korath wears black. |
| 311 | * FormerRegimePersonnel: He was a member of Starforce, but at some point broke away from the official command structure of the Kree Empire to follow Ronan. |
| 312 | * HumanAliens: Korath belongs to a subset of the Kree, having a human-like skin tone (black, in Korath's case) instead of blue skin like Ronan. |
| 313 | * LightningBruiser: He's strong enough to fight Drax on equal terms, and fast enough to catch up to Quill on foot when Quill had rocketed away to safety using his jet boots after shrugging off a double blast to the chest from Star-Lord's quad-blasters. |
| 314 | * NoodleIncident: Prior to ''Captain Marvel'', Korath encountered a Skrull who simmed his appearance, an encounter he found deeply disturbing. |
| 315 | * RaceLift: Is black rather than blue. |
| 316 | * RogueAgent: Like Ronan, Korath was a member of the Kree military before deserting to join the Accuser in his genocidal crusade. |
| 317 | * ScaryBlackMan: Or rather, a Scary Black Kree. |
| 318 | * SuperStrength: Strong enough punch through walls and get into a fistfight with Drax. |
| 319 | * SuperToughness: Able to jump off from buildings to the ground, shrugg off blasts from Quill's guns that punch holes in the Sakaaran soldiers serving him, and remain conscious despite impacting a rock wall hard enough to crater it. |
| 320 | * TookALevelInJerkass: By the time of ''Guardians of the Galaxy''. In ''Captain Marvel'', he's more of TheStoic and less brutish. |
| 321 | * UndyingLoyalty: Implied; he's one of the few actual Kree among Ronan's crew, and refers to the Accuser as "master". |
| 322 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The 2014 versions of Korath and Ronan notably don't appear among the rest of Thanos's forces at the end of ''Endgame'', making it unclear what happened to them. |
| 323 | * WorthyOpponent: Implied; Korath is the first character to refer to Quill as "Star-Lord" unironically. Quill is pleasantly surprised. |
| 324 | [[/folder]] |
| 325 | |
| 326 | !!!The Accusers |
| 327 | |
| 328 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 329 | !!''The Accusers'' |
| 330 | %%[[quoteright:350:]] |
| 331 | %%[[caption-width-right:350:]] |
| 332 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}}'' | ''{{Film/The Marvels|2023}}'' |
| 333 | |
| 334 | A group of military police and bombers in the Kree Empire. |
| 335 | ---- |
| 336 | * DeathFromAbove: The Accusers are called upon whenever orbital carpet-bombing is needed by the Kree Starforce, and unleash warheads on planets to eliminate any threats on the planet's surface. |
| 337 | * EvilWearsBlack: They wear black armored uniforms. |
| 338 | * InterserviceRivalry: They don't really get along with the Starforce, as Ronan wastes no time pinning the blame for the failure of the Torfa mission on Yon-Rogg's team, while Yon-Rogg has nothing but open contempt for the Accusers' habit of solving every problem with OrbitalBombardment. |
| 339 | * JudgeJuryAndExecutioner: They have the authority to judge and execute individuals, or even entire planets, that are considered a threat to the empire. They are kind of like the Judges from ComicBook/JudgeDredd or the Inquisition from [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 Warhammer 40,000]]. |
| 340 | * OrbitalBombardment: Their MO is to nuke everything from orbit and call it a day. |
| 341 | * StateSec: Like in the comics, they are the military police of the Kree empire. |
| 342 | * ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: The Accusers are all about this trope, as their predilection for solving every problem by liberal use of OrbitalBombardment clearly shows. They don't care about the collateral damage, either. |
| 343 | [[/folder]] |
| 344 | |
| 345 | [[folder:Ronan]] |
| 346 | !!''Ronan the Accuser'' |
| 347 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fdeb4994_1d93_430b_b211_8b66861f69f9.png]] |
| 348 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"I don't recall killing your family. I doubt I'll remember killing you, either."'']] |
| 349 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see him in ''Captain Marvel'']] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/8845a2f1_0bce_4035_bc16_bf455bac05b9.png [softreturn] ''"A cell of Skrulls anywhere is a threat to Kree everywhere."''[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 350 | !!!'''Species:''' Kree |
| 351 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' Kree Imperial |
| 352 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Kree Empire (formerly), Accuser Corps (formerly), Thanos (formerly) |
| 353 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/LeePace |
| 354 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/RubenMoya (Latin-American Spanish dub), Juan Fernández Mejías (European Spanish dub), Creator/HiroshiShirokuma (Japanese dub) |
| 355 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'' | ''Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}}'' |
| 356 | |
| 357 | ->''"They call me terrorist. Radical. Zealot. Because I obey the ancient laws of my people, the Kree, and punish those who do not. Because I do not forgive your people for taking the life of my father, and his father, and his father before him. A thousand years of war between us will not be forgotten!"'' |
| 358 | |
| 359 | A Kree fanatic who insists on staying true to the old ways of his people... particularly their code of vendetta. When the peace treaty between the Kree and Xandar is signed after a millennium of conflict that killed his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, he goes rogue. |
| 360 | ---- |
| 361 | * AchillesHeel: Ronan is [[TheJuggernaut virtually unstoppable.]] His warhammer, on the other hand, isn't. It also happens to be where he carries the Power Stone. |
| 362 | * AdaptationOriginConnection: In the first movie, Drax seeks revenge on Ronan for murdering his wife and daughter. In the comics, Ronan has nothing to do with the comics as it was Thanos who killed Drax' family directly, while here Thanos was just TheManBehindTheMan for Ronan. |
| 363 | * AdaptationalVillainy: In the comics, the Accuser is an officially sanctioned JudgeJuryAndExecutioner and Ronan carries out his duties as a ruthless ByTheBookCop at worst -- while not exactly a heroic character, he remains loyal to the Kree Empire, only acting [[JustFollowingOrders under orders]] or [[InspectorJavert within his legal remit]], and even serving as an occasional ally to the heroes if an alliance is in their common interests. Here, he's a savagely brutal renegade and a genocidal terrorist who continues the Empire's war against Xandar despite the peace treaty between them -- although it's implied that certain Kree authorities unofficially approve. Ultimate Ronan is closer to this portrayal of the character, but even in Ultimate Marvel, Ronan was loyal to Thanos (who, in that continuity, was his father). Here, Ronan obviously loathes the Mad Titan and turns on him at the earliest opportunity. |
| 364 | * AggressiveCategorism: |
| 365 | ** Ronan hates all Xandarians and wants to eradicate them because they are a disease. |
| 366 | ** He also calls the Skrulls "infestation". |
| 367 | * AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Like most of the Kree, Ronan has a blue skin color. |
| 368 | * AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: Once he's dead, Xandar celebrates his demise. |
| 369 | * ArchEnemy: Serves as this for Drax, since he had his family killed by the Kree warrior. After Ronan's defeat, Drax focuses on fighting Thanos. |
| 370 | * AxCrazy: He was very enthusiastic about destroying Xandar, and according to Drax, Ronan laughed as he murdered Drax's family. |
| 371 | * BadBoss: In ''Captain Marvel'', we see that he is ''horrid'' towards his own subordinates, the Starforce, berating and belittling them for their failure that cost them Carol. Usually, he'll end every communication with an ImpliedDeathThreat. In ''Guardians of the Galaxy'', he has his Sakaaran troops become suicide bombers in his attack on Xandar and doesn't react the slightest when Korath is killed or when Nebula disappears from the battle, so it really doesn't matter if you are Kree or not. |
| 372 | * BadassBoast: |
| 373 | ** He delivers one to Drax in their first fight: |
| 374 | --->'''Ronan:''' [[ButForMeItWasTuesday I don't recall killing your family.]] I doubt I'll remember killing you, either. |
| 375 | ** Delivers quite a good one to Thanos after betraying him: |
| 376 | --->'''Ronan:''' I will unfurl one thousand years of Kree justice on Xandar, '''AND BURN IT TO ITS CORE'''! And then, Thanos, I'm coming for ''you''. |
| 377 | ** He delivers a rather terrifying one to the Nova Corps: |
| 378 | --->'''Ronan:''' Xandar! You stand accused! Your wretched peace treaty will not save you now! It is the tinder on which you ''burn''! |
| 379 | * BadassLongcoat: His ceremonial armor and robes resemble one. |
| 380 | * BaldOfEvil: A brief scene near the beginning of ''Guardians of the Galaxy'' shows Ronan to be bald. |
| 381 | * BareFistedMonk: Prior to equipping his warhammer with the Power Stone, he only uses it to execute a restrained captive. In his fight with Drax, he shows his unarmed combat expertise by effortlessly pummelling him with only his bare hands. |
| 382 | * BigBad: Ronan is the main antagonist of ''Guardians of the Galaxy'', with his search for the Orb and goal of destroying Xandar causing him to come into conflict with the main characters. |
| 383 | * BloodBath: It's implied he regularly bathes in Xandarian blood, and it's how he's introduced. |
| 384 | * BlowYouAway: His warhammer can project shockwaves of varying intensity and size, large enough to knock several people off their feet without otherwise harming them or small and powerful enough to cause a NeckSnap. After the warhammer has been imbedded with the Power Stone, it could produce a shockwave powerful enough to completely dismantle the Nova Corps' blockade of the ''Dark Aster'' in a single blow. |
| 385 | * ButForMeItWasTuesday: He doesn't quite remember killing Drax's family when they first fight, though he apparently managed to recall it by the time they meet again in the finale, although he may have been lying about remembering in order to taunt Drax. The commentary for ''Infinity War'' seems to point to the latter, as it was stated Drax's family was part of the unlucky half. Averted with his encounter with Carol Danvers though. Ronan makes it clear that her shredding his fleet and costing him the battle over Earth was ''not'' going to be one of those "forgetable" incidents. |
| 386 | * TheCaligula: Ronan's genocidal crusade against the Xandarians has only made him cruel, unhinged and megalomaniacal. Even when he was more rational back when he was the Grand Accuser, he had no regard even for other Kree, and often threatened them with execution should they fail to properly carry out their missions. With the reveal in ''The Marvels'' that the Kree Empire was in a state of civil war during ''Guardians of The Galaxy'' from the loss of the Supreme Intelligence, it's rather clear Ronan is too delusional to see the bigger picture that his leadership would've run Hala to the ground even further. |
| 387 | * CarryABigStick: Much like in the comics, he wields a warhammer known as the "Universal Weapon". However, the [[AllThereInTheManual ''Official Guidebook To The Marvel Cinematic Universe - Guardians of the Galaxy'']] reveals its MCU name as the [[AdaptationNameChange "Cosmi-Rod"]]. |
| 388 | * CartoonishSupervillainy: And '''how'''. His simple genocidal motives (already done to death in many works of fiction), his unequivocal cruelty to everyone and everything and his ridiculously [[ChewingTheScenery over-the-top]] demeanor fit this trope to a tee. However, the MCU successfully plays it for drama, as there is ''nothing'' funny or amusing about Ronan and his actions. |
| 389 | * CelebrityParadox: ''Film/TheHobbit'' was referenced in ''Series/TheFalconAndTheWinterSoldier'' by the titular characters. Creator/LeePace portrayed Thranduil the Elvenking in all three films. |
| 390 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: ''Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}}'' reveals that Ronan, while still a genocidal and racist jackass, was far more reasonable and reserved in his methods of serving his Empire and killing those he deems his enemies, a sharp contrast to the megalomaniacal monster he would become in ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}''. [[spoiler: The reveal that the Kree lost Hala in the civil war that broke out after the Supreme Intelligence's demise might have played a role in that.]] |
| 391 | * CoDragons: With Yon-Rogg to the Supreme Intelligence back while he was still the Kree Grand Accuser, and was effectively the JudgeJuryAndExecutioner of the Kree Empire. |
| 392 | * TheComicallySerious: He's just finishing up his big evil speech and preparing to fulfill his dream of Xandar's destruction when Star-Lord challenges him to a dance-off. This was an... unanticipated event which elicited a genuinely puzzled reaction from Ronan. |
| 393 | * CompositeCharacter: Closer to the prime universe Ronan in appearance, but his villainy and connection to Thanos come from the Ultimate version. |
| 394 | * CoolStarship: Ronan commands the ''Dark Aster'', a massive starship. He uses it as some sort of personal temple to execute the Xandarian at the beginning and, at the climax, he uses it to attack Xandar itself. The ship's similar design to the Accuser warships he command during ''Film/CaptainMarvel2019'', suggesting the ship is a variant of their class. Unlike them, ''Dark Aster'' is totally unarmed and appears to be unarmored (at one point the ''Milano'' blasts a hole through it with just its small rotary cannon). It seems to act as a mobile base and transport more than a warship, similar to the Chitauri mothership, just ''much'' bigger (three miles wide). |
| 395 | * CopKiller: Ronan's first scene has him using his warhammer to brutally execute a captive Nova officer. |
| 396 | * CreateYourOwnHero: Him killing Drax' family is the motivation for the latter to seek revenge on him and join the Guardians in the first place. Furthermore, his actions during the first movie and especially his plan to destroy Xandar are what leads to five outsiders with different backstories and motivations to team-up and become the superhero team Guardians Of The Galaxy, ultimately defeating Ronan. |
| 397 | * CreepyBlueEyes: They seem to be a common trait for the Kree. |
| 398 | * CurbStompBattle: Ronan easily defeats Drax in their "fight" on Knowhere. |
| 399 | * DarkIsEvil: He wears black clothing and black make-up, his soldiers wear black uniforms, Ronan commands the massive, intimidating black warship ''Dark Aster'', and when in possession of the Infinity Stone, his warhammer glows [[PurpleIsTheNewBlack purple]]. Ronan fulfills this trope like no villain since [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]]. |
| 400 | * DealWithTheDevil: He made a pact with Thanos, offering to find the Orb in exchange for Thanos wiping out Xandar. As soon as he finds out that the Orb contains an Infinity Stone with the power to do just that, he turns on Thanos the first chance he gets. |
| 401 | * DeathFromAbove: ''Captain Marvel'' shows that Ronan's favored method of attack is launching ''Kree Ballistic Missiles'' to snuff out and annihilate enemies. Although he didn't have access to those weapons anymore by the time of ''Guardians of the Galaxy'', he instead has Immolation Protocol, wherein ''kamikaze squadrons'' dive onto the surface of planets, which are not as powerful as the Kree Ballistic Missiles, but accomplish the same effect. |
| 402 | * DefectorFromDecadence: Falls somewhere between here and MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch. He, along with several other members of his race, are ''not'' pleased their government is just rolling over after years of lost lives to war with the Xandarians with a mere peace treaty. Rather than just riot like the rest of his disgruntled folk, he takes matters into his own hands and begins violently crusading on his own terms to get his own brand of justice against Xandar. |
| 403 | * DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: Ronan declaring he will [[KillTheGod kill Thanos]] is practically ''daring'' Thanos to try and stop him. This insolence did ''not'' sit well for Thanos in the long run. |
| 404 | * DirtyCoward: Ronan's enormous arrogance and cruelty vanish whenever he's faced with an actual threat as his turning tail and running when Carol plowed through his forces, not caring in the slightest about his men, shows. |
| 405 | * DisproportionateRetribution: Ronan kills the Other just for annoying him. He also hates the Xandarians because his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather died in the Kree Empire's war with them. Ronan's response? ''Try to commit genocide against the Xandarians and wipe their culture from the face of the galaxy''. Ronan does ''not'' handle grief well. |
| 406 | * TheDragon: To Thanos, as Ronan is tasked in finding the Infinity Stones for him, though he betrays Thanos and uses the Power Stone to become powerful enough to destroy Xandar. |
| 407 | * DragonTheirFeet: After Carol destroyed the Supreme Intelligence, Ronan outlived his leader by almost 2 decades. The loss of the Kree's leader led them to eventually sign the peace treaty with Xandar, which Ronan did not take well and defected from the empire to embark on a genocidal campaign that ended with his defeat at the hands of the Guardians. |
| 408 | * DragonWithAnAgenda: Even before betraying Thanos, he makes it damn clear he only works for the Mad Titan because of his promise to destroy Xandar. He's Thanos's prime agent in hunting the Infinity Stone but he doesn't even speak to him respectfully. |
| 409 | * TheDreaded: ''No one'' wants to be on Ronan's bad side. Upon hearing the Accuser's name, the Broker freaks out, kicks Peter Quill out of his store, and refuses to have anything to do with the Orb. It's also part of the reason why the Kree Empire does not want to deal with him -- because he's ''that'' dangerous. Only [[FearlessFool Drax]], [[WorldsStrongestMan Thanos]], and [[StoryBreakerPower Carol]] ever directly encounter Ronan without expressing any fear of him. And back when he was the Kree Empire's highest ranking official under the Supreme Intelligence, Kree soldiers would ''not'' want to face his wrath if they fail their charge and worse he has no regard even for other Kree. |
| 410 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: Bathing in Xandarian blood, speaking at length about his adherence to the ancient ways of the Kree and his hatred for the entire Xandarian culture, making it clear that the peace treaty between the Kree Empire and the Nova Corps means nothing to him, before [[YourHeadAsplode brutally]] executing a captive Nova Corps officer. |
| 411 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Played with. He mentions having lost his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather to the war with the Nova Empire. But it does not humanize him or make him sympathetic in the slightest, and it's implied that he is justifying his own sadism, and who's to say his relatives weren't as bad as him either? |
| 412 | * EvilCostumeSwitch: Not that he wasn't evil beforehand, but in ''Captain Marvel'', he wears his traditional green uniform back when he was still the Kree Grand Accuser. By the time of ''Guardians of the Galaxy'', after leaving the Kree Empire, he switches to a black uniform with red marks and adds black warpaint. |
| 413 | * EvilGloating: Loves doing this. It backfires since it gives Rocket the time to build a weapon to take him out. |
| 414 | * EvilIsHammy: Ye ''Celestials'' is he ever. Every time Lee Pace gets a chance to really let loose with Ronan's evil monologues, particularly after he becomes drunk with power from the Infinity Stone, Ronan eats and chews the scenery with aplomb with unrelentingly bombastic speeches over how he shall destroy Xandar and every living thing on it. Ironically, the one time Ronan is off-guard, he lets the hamminess slip entirely and speaks like [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness a normal, confused guy.]] To quote Lee Pace's description of his own performance: |
| 415 | -->'''Lee Pace:''' I kept looking over at James Gunn saying, "Is it too much? Am I over the top? Pull me back whenever you're ready!" and he was just like, "More, more!" |
| 416 | * EvilIsPetty: Ronan killed the Other just for being annoying, and, when betraying Thanos, he recalls the Mad Titan's previous insult (namely, referring to Ronan as "boy"), indicating that he took the relatively minor remark ''very'' personally. |
| 417 | * EvilPlan: Destroy Xandar and wipe out its culture because a long war that was supposed to do that has been halted by a peace treaty. |
| 418 | * EvilSoundsDeep: Lee Pace's naturally deep, imposing voice only sounds more intimidating when combined with Ronan's booming, hammy dialogue. |
| 419 | * EvilVersusEvil: Subverted. Ronan sets this trope up when he reneges on his deal to give the Power Stone to Thanos, where he screams at the Mad Titan for belittling him, and states his intent to eliminate him after the destruction of Xandar. However, the titular Guardians of the Galaxy end up defeating Ronan before he can accomplish either of these actions. |
| 420 | * EvilWearsBlack: As an agent of Thanos, Ronan, as well as his soldiers, wears black armor. |
| 421 | * FailedAttemptAtDrama: Ronan's NewEraSpeech is abruptly interrupted by Star-Lord challenging him to a dance-off. |
| 422 | * FantasticRacism: |
| 423 | ** Ronan despises the Xandarians and their culture to the point of regarding both as a disease. When a captive Nova officer defiantly proclaims that Ronan will never rule Xandar, Ronan has a rather brutal response: |
| 424 | --->'''Ronan:''' No… '''[[SuddenlyShouting I WILL]] ''[[SuddenlyShouting CURE IT]]!''''' [''[[YourHeadAsplode smashes the Nova officer's skull with the Cosmi-Rod]]''] |
| 425 | ** While reporting to Thanos, Ronan dismissively refers to Quill as "some primitive", implying that Ronan doesn't think especially highly of humans, either. |
| 426 | ** And finally, he despises the Skrulls just like the rest of his people. |
| 427 | * FascistButInefficient: Ronan's leadership only ends up making enemies out of his own forces. As far back as ''Captain Marvel'', he looks down on other Kree battalions and units that he's unwilling to cooperate or compromise with them, and any who fail to contain the Kree's enemies will end up becoming collateral damage to OrbitalBombardment, meaning lot Kree have died because of him. |
| 428 | * FelonyMisdemeanor: He went rogue because his people and the people of Xandar were going to sign a peace treaty after a millennium of conflict. |
| 429 | * FlatWhat: Ronan's reaction to Quill's dance-off challenge. He doesn't say it like an evil alien overlord, as you'd expect him to sound, but like a normal human who's been genuinely caught off guard. |
| 430 | -->'''Ronan:''' What are you doing?\ |
| 431 | '''Star-Lord:''' Dance-off, bro! Me and you! |
| 432 | * {{Foil}}: To Drax. Both of them are proud and fearsome warriors who seek revenge on those who are responsible for the deaths of their family (Ronan wants to eradicate the Xandarians for killing his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, while Drax wants to kill Ronan for slaughtering his wife and daughter), along with a shared hatred for Thanos. However, Drax relies mainly on his physical strength in combat, while Ronan is a trained military veteran who knows how to fight, and he beats the crap out of Drax without breaking a sweat. When it comes to personality, Drax is open to the opinions of others and can be concerned about the safety of those around him, while Ronan does not even care about what others think of him or if anyone who supports him is in danger. Drax is also able to exact his vengeance by killing Ronan, which in turn prevents Ronan from completing his mission. |
| 433 | * FormerRegimePersonnel: While the Kree Empire doesn't collapse, Ronan broke away from its official command structure upon the Supreme Intelligence's removal from power to become a rogue agent and terrorist and strike at the Nova Empire on his own. |
| 434 | * TheFriendNobodyLikes: Outside of Korath the Pursuer, the rest of the Kree Empire treats him with disdain, due to his callous orbital MadBomber battle strategies. It's telling that they refuse to associate themselves with the man when he begins going on his genocidal rampage in ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'' (though they do put a bounty on the titular group after they kill him). |
| 435 | * FreudianExcuse: His father, grandfather, and great-grandfather were all killed in the Kree/Xandarian war. He brings it up twice as a reason for his hatred towards the Xandarians. |
| 436 | * TheFundamentalist: Ronan adheres to "the ancient laws" of the Kree with incredible fervor. He even refers to the impending destruction of Xandar as his victims' "salvation". |
| 437 | * GeneralRipper: Even in his days with the Kree Empire, his favorite approach was to [[OrbitalBombardment blow them all up]] and let the Kree gods sort them out. |
| 438 | * GenreBlind: In the end, Ronan is defeated because ''he doesn't realize he's in a comedy.'' He takes himself and his RoaringRampageOfRevenge ''way'' too seriously, which allows him to easily be distracted by Peter doing something ridiculous and silly, long enough for the rest of the team to counterattack. |
| 439 | * GreenAndMean: Back when he was the Grand Accuser, he and the rest of the Accuser Corps had green uniforms. |
| 440 | * HatedByAll: Even by the standards of the Kree Empire, it's rather apparent that ''nobody'' likes Ronan. Lesser powers such as Xandar are justifiably terrified of him due to his horrific acts of terrorism against their people, while those more powerful such as Thanos consider Ronan to be little more than an ineffectual PsychopathicManchild with no redeeming characteristics. Not even the Kree themselves are willing to show Ronan any respect (Korath the Pursuer notwithstanding), with Yon-Rogg expressing disgust at his willingness to carpet-bomb Earth's surface despite their being several Kree agents still on it. |
| 441 | * HealingFactor: While never directly touched upon in the films, the Kree in the MCU are confirmed to have regenerative capabilities. This goes a long way to help explain why he's just so damn resilient. |
| 442 | * HeroKiller: [[spoiler: He uses the power of the Infinity Stone to slaughter scores of the Nova Corps during the final battle, including Garthan Saal. He's even responsible for the original Groot's demise, although indirectly, no doubt brought on by his actions on the Guardians.]] |
| 443 | * TheHeavy: Ronan is the most prominent villain and main mover of the plot in the first ''Guardians of the Galaxy'' film, although [[GreaterScopeVillain Thanos]] is a more powerful force of evil. |
| 444 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: He attempts to harness and use the energy of the Power Stone to obliterate Xandar, only for the Guardians to harness and use the energy of the Power Stone to obliterate him. |
| 445 | * {{Hypocrite}}: |
| 446 | ** In ''Captain Marvel'', Ronan claims to believe in the Empire's credo of "for the good of all Kree". In practice, he's fine with carpet bombing a planet that has several Kree officers on it, and abandons his fellow Kree without turning an eye when the going gets rough. |
| 447 | ** For all Ronan's insistence that he's acting for "Kree justice" and that he follows the ancient laws of his people, in practice, he doesn't give a damn about loyalty to anything but himself, deserting from the Kree Empire the instant they make a decision that he doesn't agree with. |
| 448 | * ICanRuleAlone: Ronan's deal with Thanos falls through when Ronan decides that, rather than give the Infinity Stone to Thanos in return for the destruction of Xandar, he can keep the stone, destroy Xandar on his own, and then take down Thanos for good measure. |
| 449 | * ItsAllAboutMe: He personally hates Xandarians so he sees himself as justified in annihilating the entire race. Further considerations don't really enter into his reasoning. In fact, he's willing to kill off his own people as collateral. The reveal in ''The Marvels'' that the Kree Empire had all but collapsed by that point only emphasises Ronan's selfishness; rather than help his people rebuild their ruined homeworld, he embarked on a personal crusade and sneered that (what was left of) his government was shameless for forsaking a war that they couldn't possibly sustain. |
| 450 | * ItsPersonal: While he shares his people's hate and distrust for the Skrulls, his hatred for Xandar is ''deeply'' personal. |
| 451 | * {{Jerkass}}: In addition to being a genocidal murderer, Ronan is also just an asshole as seen by his taunting of Drax and his blunt, abrasive demeanor with everyone else. [[EveryoneHasStandards It's clear that Thanos doesn't like him on a personal level and wouldn't work with him if he could avoid it]]. ''Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}}'' shows this isn't a new trend; Ronan has no qualms about laying waste to an entire planet that, as far as he knows, has several loyal Kree still on it, and he departs without a hint of concern for the fates of his erstwhile comrades. |
| 452 | * JudgeJuryAndExecutioner: Ronan is an extremely ruthless, tyrannical ex-Accuser of the Kree Empire, willing to kill Xandarians because they are a disease to his people. |
| 453 | * TheJuggernaut: He stood up to a beating from Drax with barely a twitch and withstood a missile launch, being rammed with the ''Milano'', and the crash of the ''Dark Aster'' without any more than his armor getting burnt. In the end, it takes an ''Infinity Stone'' (a weapon that, keep in mind, Ronan was going to use to wipe out a ''planet'') to kill Ronan. |
| 454 | * JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: ''Captain Marvel'' shows that while he was always a violent and bigoted nationalist, he was much more reasonable and a lot of his cruelty was more him following standard procedure than wanton sadism. By the time of ''Guardians of the Galaxy'', he's a frothing, genocidal monster who kills for the sheer joy of it and his loyalty to the Kree has degenerated into mindless fanaticism. |
| 455 | * KarmicDeath: Ronan sought to ''burn'' Xandar with the Power Stone. Moments later, he's killed with the ''exact'' amount of overwhelming power he wanted to bring in Xandar. |
| 456 | * KickTheDog: Ronan is a rather cruel being, to say the least. |
| 457 | ** He orders that the Kyln be "cleansed" so that the Nova Corps would be unable to discover his search for the Orb. |
| 458 | ** His comment towards Drax after defeating him on Knowhere. |
| 459 | --->'''Ronan:''' I don't recall killing your family. I doubt I'll remember killing you, either. |
| 460 | ** While choking Drax on the bridge of the ''Dark Aster'', he has another one. |
| 461 | --->'''Ronan:''' I was mistaken; I ''do'' remember your family. Their screams were ''pitiful''. |
| 462 | %%* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: He kills the Other after getting sick of listening to his annoying yelling. |
| 463 | * KnightTemplar: Ronan views himself as being in judgment of the Xandarians and all who oppose him. To Ronan, destroying Xandar, murdering everyone on the planet, and obliterating the Xandarian culture isn't genocide, it's curing a disease. |
| 464 | * KnowWhenToFoldEm: |
| 465 | ** In ''Captain Marvel'', after Carol Danvers tears one of his ships to pieces, Ronan wisely orders his remaining ships to return to Kree space, although he's clearly taken an interest in Carol. |
| 466 | ** In ''Guardians of the Galaxy'', Ronan heeds Nebula's advice of not further anger Thanos after killing the Other and his initial failure of retrieving the Orb. Averted once he actually gets his hands on it, where Ronan promptly gets DrunkOnTheDarkSide and threatens to destroy Thanos and his army, even while Korath is desperately begging him not to do so. |
| 467 | * LackOfEmpathy: Even by [[AliensAreBastards Kree]] standards, he's brutal towards others, Kree included. As an Accuser, he treated carpet-bombing civilizations as just a day at the office, and once he went rogue, he wrote off his own government as shameless for abandoning a war the Kree's ruined economy couldn't sustain, he callously informed Drax that he didn't even remember killing his family and mockingly doubted he'd remember killing Drax either. |
| 468 | * LargeAndInCharge: He's played by 6'4" Lee Pace and is the main villain of the first ''Guardians of the Galaxy'' film. |
| 469 | * LargeHam: An ''enormous'' one, to Asgardian levels. To quote Lee Pace's description of his own performance: |
| 470 | -->'''Lee Pace:''' I kept looking over at James Gunn saying, "Is it too much? Am I over the top? Pull me back whenever you're ready!" and he was just like, "More, more!" |
| 471 | * LightningBruiser: As a Kree, Ronan is fast enough to dodge Drax's attacks and tank the latter's hits before turning the table on the warrior. |
| 472 | * MarqueeAlterEgo: Unlike the comic, this Ronan wears traditional warpaint in ''Guardians of the Galaxy'' instead of a mask. Even when he was the Grand Accuser, his uniform lacks a mask. |
| 473 | * MirrorCharacter: To Loki. Both of them are members of a blue-skinned race who end up becoming TheHeavy to Thanos while answering to The Other, use a weapon embedded with an Infinity Stone in their respective campaigns, as well as having a RagtagBunchOfMisfits as their primary oppositions. Despite their mutual fear of Thanos, Loki showed no signs of attempting to betray Thanos and he ended up surviving his fight against the Avengers. Ronan, however, chooses to turn his back on his overlord and ended up getting killed by the Guardians of the Galaxy. Also, while Loki simply wanted conquer the Earth due to his outstanding belief that he deserved a world to rule over, Ronan is an OmnicidalManiac who wants to destroy Xandar because of his racist hatred towards the planet's species. |
| 474 | * MoralMyopia: Ronan wants to destroy Xandar to avenge the deaths of his father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and further ancestors who died fighting the Xandarians. When he pays any thought to the countless innocents he slaughtered including Drax's family, Ronan's proud of his good work. |
| 475 | * MoralSociopathy: Ronan sincerely believes half of the things he does genuinely are what Kree law dictates. |
| 476 | * MotiveRant: He delivers one to a captive Nova officer, during his EstablishingCharacterMoment. |
| 477 | -->'''Ronan:''' They call me terrorist. Radical. Zealot. Because I obey the ancient laws of my people, the Kree, and punish those who do not. Because I do not forgive your people for taking the life of my father, and his father, and his father before him. A thousand years of war between us will not be forgotten!\ |
| 478 | '''Nova officer:''' You can't do this! Our governments signed a peace treaty!\ |
| 479 | '''Ronan:''' My government knows no shame. You Xandarians and your culture are a ''disease''.\ |
| 480 | '''Nova officer:''' [[DefiantToTheEnd You will never rule Xandar]].\ |
| 481 | '''Ronan:''' No… '''[[SuddenlyShouting I WILL]]''' '''''[[LargeHam CURE IT]]!''''' |
| 482 | * MovieSuperheroesWearBlack: Super ''Villain'' in this case but the fact remains that his outfit in ''Guardians of the Galaxy'' is black as opposed to the traditional green from the comics. Even his previous green uniform in ''Captain Marvel'' is pretty muted in color. |
| 483 | * NakedOnArrival: Ronan is first introduced this way because he was bathing in the blood of Xandarians. |
| 484 | * NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: He is Ronan ''[[HangingJudge the Accuser]]'', and the mention of his name brings fear to Xandarians. |
| 485 | * NearVillainVictory: The mission to stop him is actually a failure. Thousands of Nova Corps men and ships are lost, the ''Dark Aster'' makes planetfall (albeit on a one-way trip) and causes catastrophic damage both by itself and the ships that plowed into the city before it landed, and Ronan stands with his weapon at the ready to stab it to the ground and eliminate all organic life on the entire planet. The only thing that impedes him is his own EvilGloating and Quill coming up with a last-ditch distraction that gives Rocket enough time to jury-rig a weapon to destroy his warhammer. |
| 486 | * NeckLift: Easily lifts Drax (who's ''massive'') by the throat with one hand. |
| 487 | * NeverMyFault: Ronan refuses to take any responsibility for losing the Orb to Gamora when he's summoned to appear before Thanos. The Other lampshades this, though Ronan kills him after having enough of him. |
| 488 | * NewEraSpeech: Ronan starts a pretty hammy one in front of a fearful Xandarian crowd during the climax of the first ''Guardians of the Galaxy'' film. He [[FailedAttemptAtDrama gets interrupted]] by Quill challenging him to a dance-off. |
| 489 | * NighInvulnerable: Getting punched repeatedly by Drax? Psssht. Getting shot with an improvised {{BFG}}? An annoyance. Getting hit by a small starship? A minor inconvenience. Going down with his own ship? A slightly bigger inconvenience. It takes the power of the Infinity Stone, which can destroy a planet, to put him down for good. Even ''then'', it took a few seconds for the stone's power to destroy Ronan, which is a further testament to how tough the guy is; every other victim of the stone, except Quill, was disintegrated almost instantly. |
| 490 | * NoSell: Exactly ''one'' of Drax's blows makes Ronan react. Everything else just doesn't faze him. He then goes on to take a missile to the chest and walks away with dented armor, is rammed by a starship and knocked out for only a minute, and survives his own starship crash-landing with no protection. It takes a concerted discharge from the Infinity Stone to finally destroy him. |
| 491 | * NoTrueScotsman: Ronan is sickened that his government would sign a peace treaty with Xandar, proudly proclaiming that unlike them, he follows the ancient laws of the Kree and punishes those who don't. |
| 492 | -->'''Ronan:''' My government knows no shame. You Xandarians and your culture are a ''disease''. |
| 493 | * NotSoSimilar: Most of the galaxy sees Thanos and Ronan as interchangeable with the exception of Thanos being more powerful. However, while Ronan conquers for revenge, glory, and out of hatred, Thanos sees his actions as NecessarilyEvil to ensure stability in the galaxy. However, ''Endgame'' reveals that despite Thanos explicitly stating that Ronan's obsession clouds his judgment, both of them might not be too different after all. |
| 494 | * NotSoStoic: Ronan is genuinely baffled when Quill challenges him to a dance-off. His reaction is the only four words in the entire ''Guardians of the Galaxy'' that he delivers non-[[LargeHam hammily]], though he quickly recovers. |
| 495 | -->'''Ronan:''' [[FlatWhat What are you doing]]? ...''What'' are you ''doing''?!? |
| 496 | * ObliviouslyEvil: Unlike most MCU villains, he believes himself to be the most righteous person in this story, but really, he's a genocidal tyrant, an oppressor who can't look at himself in the mirror. |
| 497 | * ObviouslyEvil: The black armor, intimidating presence, [[EvilIsHammy theatrical]] brutality, and references to "[[DeadlyEuphemism cleansing]]" his enemies? Yeah, Ronan's pretty bad. |
| 498 | * OffingTheAnnoyance: When he got tired of being castigated by the Other instead of being answered by Thanos, Ronan casually snapped the Other's neck to end the emissary's ranting. |
| 499 | * OhCrap: |
| 500 | ** After seeing Captain Marvel tear through his bombs like they were nothing, a visibly horrified Ronan was quick to call for his forces to retreat. |
| 501 | ** This is the reaction Ronan has upon witnessing that the Guardians are able to harness the volatile energy of the Power Stone together. |
| 502 | * OmnicidalManiac: Ronan's pact with Thanos centers around the Mad Titan destroying Xandar for the Kree renegade. Once he gets his hands on the Power Stone, Ronan's more than happy to do the deed himself. ''Avengers: Infinity War'' implicitly confirms that Ronan took part in at least one Thanos's planetary cullings during his service to the Mad Titan; it's explicitly mentioned that Drax's homeworld was decimated by Thanos's forces, and it had already been established that Ronan personally murdered Drax's wife and daughter. |
| 503 | * PsychoForHire: He was clearly enjoying his task to kill half the populations of many planets under Thanos (Drax even said he laughed when killing his wife and daughter) even though he was ordered by Thanos to do so. |
| 504 | * PsychopathicManchild: According to Thanos, Ronan has the demeanor of a "pouty child", and he even takes offense to it in a rather childish way. ("YOU CALL ME BOY!") Too bad he has also a hellish lust for revenge against an entire planet and kills people wherever he goes. |
| 505 | * RankScalesWithAsskicking: He's the unquestioned leader of his faction and also the most powerful. |
| 506 | * RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: His black armor features red markings. |
| 507 | * ReligionOfEvil: It's not fleshed out very much, but Ronan's comments imply that he adheres to a pretty brutal belief system (at the climax, he demands that the Xandarians renounce their "paltry gods" and that his impending genocide is their "salvation"). |
| 508 | * TheRemnant: He's a remnant of the the Kree regime once headed by the Supreme Intelligence, having lost both its leader and homeworld in a civil war caused by Carol Danvers. Without the Empire's backing, Ronan has to rely on Sakaaran mercenaries and Thanos's resources to carry out his crusade. |
| 509 | * RevengeBeforeReason: ''The Marvels'' reveals that, following the demise of the Supreme Intelligence, the Kree Empire fell into a civil war that devastated Hala and broke their power, leaving them unable to sustain their past wars of expansion. Despite this, Ronan evidently expected their conflict with Xandar and the Nova Empire to continue regardless, and when it didn't, he forsook his own people and set off on a genocidal crusade. |
| 510 | * RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Ronan hates Xandar and its people after what they did to his people, his father, his grandfather, and his great-grandfather. When the Kree Empire decides to make peace with the Nova Empire, he becomes a renegade and starts to kill every Xandarian he can find along with those who stand in his way. |
| 511 | * RogueAgent: Ronan deserted after the Kree Empire signed the peace treaty with the Nova Corps, and they consider him a terrorist. But given that much of the Kree population also opposes the peace treaty, they're at least hesitant to openly condemn his galaxy-wide rampage. It's implied that some of the Kree government actually agrees with him. Then again, ''Captain Marvel'' shows most Kree actually don’t like him, especially because he indiscriminately carpet bombs planets. He becomes one to Thanos as well. ''The Marvels'' reveals the Kree Empire fell into a state of civil war, meaning Ronan’s faction was only one out of several. |
| 512 | * {{Sadist}}: He has no problem with committing genocidal destruction. Drax also comments that Ronan laughed as he murdered Drax's family, and Ronan's frequent EvilGloating thoroughly demonstrates the pleasure he takes in his genocidal campaign. |
| 513 | * SanitySlippage: While still a genocidal sociopath, ''Captain Marvel'' depicts him as being calmer and more collected than the deranged psychopath in ''Guardians of the Galaxy'', but still a complete, callous jerkass to his Kree subordinates. |
| 514 | * SavedByCanon: His appearance in ''Captain Marvel'' takes place about two decades before his original appearance in ''Guardians of the Galaxy'', so he obviously has to survive the former. |
| 515 | * SlasherSmile: He sports a wide one when he sees Quill being overwhelmed by the Infinity Stone's power. It disappears quickly when the other Guardians join Quill and they use its power to destroy Ronan. |
| 516 | * TheSociopath: While he's hinted to have cared for his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, his actions clearly show his status as a low-functioning sociopath. Killing families is [[ButForMeItWasTuesday forgettable for him]], he bathes in Xandarian blood regularly, and will KickTheDog just because. [[Film/CaptainMarvel2019 Back in the day]], he was more calm and rational about it, but he still had no qualms about bombing the hell out of innocent people in the name of Kree imperialism, even if Kree soldiers are caught in the crossfire. |
| 517 | * SociopathicSoldier: Ronan was just as much of a monster in service to the Kree as he is while working for Thanos, leading his fellow Accusers in bombing planets back to the Stone Age. The only difference is that in those days, he had the backing of his government. Once he forsook his loyalty to the Empire, he set off on a galaxy-wide rampage. |
| 518 | * SocketedEquipment: As he obtains the Infinity Stone inside the Orb, he is able to insert it into his warhammer, allowing it to amplify his powers. |
| 519 | * TheStarscream: Betrays Thanos after he finds out what the Orb actually is. |
| 520 | * TheStoic: Ronan is generally completely serious and straight-faced. Doesn't stop him from being an incredibly LargeHam, though. |
| 521 | * StillWearingTheOldColors: Even after he abandoned his loyalty to the Kree Empire, Ronan continued to wear his uniform (albeit changing the green color scheme to a [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver black and red one]]) and refer to himself as an Accuser. |
| 522 | * StrongAndSkilled: Not only is he incredibly strong, but he has the fighting skills to make good use of his incredible strength. His fight with Drax pretty much consists of Ronan effortlessly countering and dodging his attacks and ending the fight with a one-handed body slam. |
| 523 | * SuddenlyShouting: Not as much as Rocket, but he has his moments. |
| 524 | -->'''Nova officer:''' You will never rule Xandar.\ |
| 525 | '''Ronan:''' No… I WILL ''CURE IT!'' ''[smashes the Nova officer's skull with the Cosmi-Rod]'' |
| 526 | * SuperStrength: Even before getting the Power Stone, he tosses [[TheWorfEffect Drax]] about like a ragdoll. |
| 527 | * SuperToughness: Aforementioned [[NighInvulnerable nigh-invulnerability]] aside, Ronan managed the impressive feat of keeping hold of the Power Stone long enough to imbed it in his warhammer without killing himself in the process. |
| 528 | * TautologicalTemplar: As far as he's concerned, he's acting "For the Good of the Kree" and so anything he does, no matter how horrible it is, is justified by default. Even if it means disregarding the Kree's peace treaty, and directly assaulting Xandar. |
| 529 | * TeamKiller: Ronan kills the Other for annoying him during their argument. |
| 530 | * TeethClenchedTeamwork: He and Thanos don't get along at all. In the two conversations they have on screen, both feature Thanos making violent death threats and Ronan openly expressing his distaste for the Mad Titan. The only reason they're working together at all is because Ronan depends on Thanos's backing for his army and [[OrcusOnHisThrone Thanos]] relies on Ronan finding the Orb for him. In the end, Ronan betrays and announces his intention to kill Thanos as soon as he has the Power Stone. |
| 531 | * ThisCannotBe: Ronan is in shock when he sees the Guardians harnessing the Infinity Stone's power. |
| 532 | -->'''Ronan:''' ''[horrified]'' You're ''mortal! '''HOW?!''''' |
| 533 | * ThisMeansWarpaint: He applies this in his very first scene in ''Guardians of the Galaxy'' just before starting his private war against the Xandarians. |
| 534 | * TookALevelInJerkass: Ronan was brutal, heartless, and had no qualms with wiping out innocent lives while he served the Kree Empire, but in those days, he was much calmer and more reasonable, as well as loyal to the Empire. By the time Ronan started working for Thanos, sometime after Hala was unable to support life following a devastating civil war, he became a rabid fanatic with no loyalty to his own fallen government or his new employer. |
| 535 | * TouchOfDeath: After he obtains the Orb, he can disintegrate objects by touching them with his warhammer. |
| 536 | * TheUnfettered: Ronan will go to any lengths to see Xandar destroyed, and he's very single-minded in his pursuit. He's willing to abandon his own government, throw in with Thanos, kill scores of people to keep his mission a secret, betray the most powerful being in the universe, and order his troops to make kamikaze runs, all for the sake of wiping out the Xandarian people. |
| 537 | * TheUnfought: In ''Captain Marvel'', the closest Ronan comes to confronting the title character is staring her down from the observation deck of his warship, before choosing to flee. |
| 538 | * UnknownRival: His attitude to Drax. Drax calls him out and makes a big dramatic YouKilledMyFather declaration to him... and Ronan turns and walks away, completely uninterested in fighting him. One CurbStompBattle later that has Ronan only putting a minimum amount of effort into, he flatly makes it clear to Drax that he has no idea who the hell he is, [[ButForMeItWasTuesday doesn't remember killing his family]] and still won't remember any of them after he's done with him too. |
| 539 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: By threatening and betraying Thanos, he forced the Mad Titan's hand; Thanos no longer sees it fit to trust his own thralls, causing him to go on a bloodthirsty campaign for the Infinity Stones as shown in the post-credits ending of ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron''. While the confrontation with Thanos is inevitable, Ronan's actions only sped up the impending threat the Avengers would face in ''Infinity War''. |
| 540 | * VileVillainSaccharineShow: ''Guardians of the Galaxy'' is light-hearted and fun even by the standards of Marvel films, but whenever Ronan takes the screen the tone shifts dramatically to that of dread and foreboding. His EstablishingCharacterMoment when he literally bathes in the blood of a Xandarian soldier whose skull he crushed shows how great Ronan stands out in an otherwise light-hearted and optimistic film. ''Guardians of the Galaxy'' even manages to invoke this against him; when Quill distracts Ronan with an out-of-nowhere "dance-off", Ronan is [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness totally lost and unable to comprehend]] the goofy antics the Guardians have thrived off up to now, a vulnerability that ultimately lets them destroy him. |
| 541 | * VillainBall: He never uses the TouchOfDeath ability, preferring instead to non-lethally blast his opponents several feet away for purposes of gloating. |
| 542 | * VillainExitStageLeft: During the climax of ''Film/CaptainMarvel2019'', Ronan sees Carol destroy all of his missiles, the fighters deployed to kill her, and one of the big ships. Then as she's prepared to attack Ronan's ship too, he orders a retreat but hopes to come back for her someday. |
| 543 | * VillainHasAPoint: During his audience with Thanos, Ronan correctly points out that it was Gamora, not him, who caused the Orb to fall into the hands of the Nova Empire, and their intel has confirmed she meant to betray them the whole time. Yet the Mad Titan summons him and is trying to scapegoat the Accuser. |
| 544 | * VillainTakesAnInterest: At the end of ''Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}}'' after Ronan witnesses the full power at Carol Danvers' fingertips he orders his men to retreat but notes that he will be back for the weapon. When one of his men asks if he is referring to the power source they came to Earth for, itself an Infinity Stone, Ronan clarifies that he meant Carol Danvers herself. |
| 545 | * VillainWithGoodPublicity: Despite being a genocidal terrorist, Ronan was popular amongst his people (at least the "purist" Kree). Unsurprising, [[AlwaysChaoticEvil considering who the Kree are]]. After Ronan's death, the Guardians are declared criminals by the Kree Empire for killing him. [[spoiler: However, this does not mean every Kree liked him, as shown when Yon-Rogg in ''Captain Marvel'', showed his disapproval in his carpet bombing tendencies.]] |
| 546 | * VocalEvolution: A retroactive example; in ''Guardians of the Galaxy'', Ronan spoke in a very deep, theatrical voice that became savagely guttural when he emoted, while ''Captain Marvel'' (set around 20 years prior to ''Guardians''), he spoke in a softer, calmer tone that didn't have the bombastic quality of his first appearance. |
| 547 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The 2014 versions of Ronan and Korath notably don't appear among the rest of Thanos's forces at the end of ''Endgame'', making it unclear what happened to them. However, Ronan does get a mention by Thanos. |
| 548 | * TheWorfEffect: What better way to establish how much of a physical threat Ronan is by defeating Drax, TheBigGuy of the Guardians, without breaking a sweat and not being affected by any of his blows. |
| 549 | * WouldHitAGirl: He personally murdered Drax's wife and daughter. |
| 550 | * WouldHurtAChild: He personally murdered Drax's daughter and laughed about it, and it's unlikely that the children of Xandar were going to be spared from his intended genocide. Nova Prime explicitly states that Ronan has been murdering children during his galaxy-wide rampage against the Nova Empire. |
| 551 | * WouldYouLikeToHearHowTheyDied: When he finally remembers Drax's family, he starts to gloat to Drax about his family's death. He doesn't finish due to Rocket's ship crashing into him. |
| 552 | * YouHaveFailedMe: During his communication with Yon-Rogg, he's ''not'' happy with his failure to retrieve Carol and letting the Skrulls get away. His passive-aggressive language makes it clear that if he fails, it will not end well for him. |
| 553 | * YouKilledMyFather: His father, grandfather, and great-grandfather were killed during the Kree/Xandarian Wars, which motivates him to try and ''[[DisproportionateRetribution kill every living being on Xandar]]''. Considering his people were the aggressors in all their wars, they [[AssholeVictim likely brought it on themselves]]. |
| 554 | [[/folder]] |
| 555 | |
| 556 | [[folder:Dar-Benn]] |
| 557 | !!''Supremor Dar-Benn'' |
| 558 | [[quoteright:707:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dar_benn_in_a_vengeful_kree_leader_in_the_marvels_1690303842.jpg]] |
| 559 | !!!'''Species:''' Kree |
| 560 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Zawe Ashton |
| 561 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''{{Film/The Marvels|2023}}'' |
| 562 | |
| 563 | An Accuser and former Starforce member with a personal vendetta against Carol Danvers. |
| 564 | ---- |
| 565 | * AmbiguousSituation: Dar-Benn is leading the Kree (or at least a sizable faction of them) by the mid-2020s, but it's unclear when she took power, and whether or not she could be the unnamed "Kree Emperor" who sanctioned the Kree's treaty with the Nova Empire, or if said Emperor was overthrown by her after ''Guardians of The Galaxy''. |
| 566 | * BaritoneOfStrength: Dar-Benn has a very low voice, and is a powerful and ruthless villainess. |
| 567 | * BigBad: She is the main threat throughout the film and the one who caused Carol, Kamala, and Monica's predicament by tangling their powers with the Quantum Bands. |
| 568 | * CarryABigStick: She wields a Universal Weapon, like Ronan, using its power to charge up the Quantum Band so she can open jump points. She's also able to redirect any energy she's absorbed into it, augmenting the power of its strikes. |
| 569 | * ContrastingSequelAntagonist: To Yon-Rogg and Ronan, all three being high-ranking Kree officers who are committed to extreme measures for their homeworld. |
| 570 | ** Dar-Benn and Yon-Rogg both serve as Carol Danvers' personal nemesis. But the reasons are reversed: Yon-Rogg took Carol from her home and brainwashed her into being a Kree soldier, while Dar-Benn lost her home when Carol's actions caused the Kree civil war that devastated her homeworld to the point that it could no longer support life. |
| 571 | ** Dar-Benn and Ronan are both Accusers that utilize a Universal Weapon augmented by powerful relics, the Power Stone for Ronan and one of the Quantum Bands for Dar-Benn. But Ronan respects Carol as one warrior to another while Dar-Benn outright hates her for ruining Hala. |
| 572 | * TheEmperor: Following the demise of the Supreme Intelligence and the subsequent civil war, Dar-Benn assumed leadership of what remained of the Kree Empire, leading their efforts to restore their ruined homeworld. |
| 573 | * EnergyAbsorption: With the power of the Quantum Band she can absorb the energy of the Marvels' strikes and become a stronger opponent. |
| 574 | * EntitledBitch: Her "peace talk" with the Skrulls is that she expects them to grovel and agree to abandon their refugee world to her, along with her theft of the planets' resources, only demonstrate that she feels that everyone and everything revolves around what she wants, innocent lives be damned. [[spoiler:The fact that she would rather enact petty vengeance on Carol after she offered a more benevolent solution to restoring Hala's sun only shows how entitled she really is.]] |
| 575 | * FantasticRacism: While she seemed willing to sit down and negotiate with the Skrulls, Dar-Benn quickly reveals that she holds them in as much contempt as any other nationalist Kree does, failing to show Emperor Dro'ge the same respect she demands from him, and when her true intentions are revealed, she gladly ruins the refugees' homeworld to both benefit Hala and spite Carol. |
| 576 | * FromNobodyToNightmare: When Carol destroyed the Supreme Intelligence, Dar-Benn was just another soldier she swatted aside without a second look. By the mid-2020s, she's become leader of what's left of Kree society and a major threat to the universe. |
| 577 | * GenderFlip: The Dar-Benn of the comics was a male general, here the character is instead portrayed by the female Zawe Ashton. |
| 578 | * HumanAliens: Dar-Benn is another example of the Kree bearing a human-like skin tone (black in this case) rather than the blues they normally sport. |
| 579 | * {{Hypocrite}}: |
| 580 | ** During her peace talks with Skrull Emperor Dro'ge, Dar-Benn insists on being addressed by her title of Supremor, but doesn't pay Dro'ge the same courtesy. |
| 581 | ** [[spoiler:As much as Dar-Benn preaches about doing all she does for Hala and how absolutely nothing is too much for Hala, ''Dar-Benn herself'' is perfectly willing to actively endanger it both by betraying Carol after she offered to restore Hala's sun to atone for her mistake, and then by using both Quantum Bands to tear open a hole in reality that threatens the entire universe, just so she can kill Carol, despite being told how much danger she's putting her own people in by doing so.]] |
| 582 | * MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler:Dar-Benn's use of the Quantum Band to enable her theft of other worlds' resources destabilizes the jump point network, threatening to tear a whole in the space-time continuum. While she's not ''trying'' to tear the universe a new one, Dar-Benn's concern for the damage she causes begins and ends with Hala, and even that comes second to her personal revenge on Carol. However, it's ultimately Subverted just before her death, as Carol explicitly tells Dar-Benn how much danger she's putting reality in including the Kree, and yet Dar-Benn just keeps going all for the sake of hurting Carol.]] |
| 583 | * MoralMyopia: To heal the damage that civil war inflicted on Hala, Dar-Benn is willing to condemn ''several'' other planets to the same fate. |
| 584 | * TheNeedsOfTheMany: When the possibility of her plans killing her comes up, Dar-Benn insists that if she has to die for her people, then die she will. [[spoiler:As it happens, she ''is'' willing to die, but more to spite Captain Marvel than anything else.]] |
| 585 | * NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: She seeks Hala's restoration using the power of the Quantum Band. [[spoiler:But this requires her to steal what she needs to restore her world from other planets, having no issue with it as she saved Earth's sun for last. She's also deliberately picking planets she knows Carol has a personal connection to, even though there are plenty of other options that won't allow Carol to guess where she's going, showing that ItsPersonal and not just about her planet. And she turns down the chance for Carol to peacefully restart Hala's sun, even though that would've been a lot easier than what she tried to do.]] [[ZigzaggedTrope At the same time]], she is willing to die to achieve her goals, which shows she does have a strong belief in the righteousness of her objectives. Her motivations are real, but tainted by her Kree chauvinism and desire for vengeance. |
| 586 | * PosthumousVillainVictory: [[spoiler:Despite being destroyed by the Quantum Bands, Dar-Benn had already restored Hala's atmosphere and oceans by siphoning them off from the planets inhabited by people that Carol cares about. Even though her attempt to siphon the Earth's sun was thwarted, Hala's sun was still restored via Carol using her powers in its core as atonement for being "The Annihilator", thus saving the Kree people from extinction just as she promised to them.]] |
| 587 | * PsychologicalProjection: As she prepares to steal oxygen from Tarnax, Dar-Benn insists that the Skrulls treat the Kree like vermin, clearly projecting her own racism onto them to try and justify her actions. |
| 588 | * {{Revenge}}: Dar-Benn's motivation. [[spoiler:She holds Carol responsible for the death of the Supreme Intelligence, the ensuing Kree Civil War, and the devastation of Hala.]] |
| 589 | * RevengeBeforeReason: Dar-Benn could very easily have [[spoiler:used the Quantum Band she had acquired to open jump points to uninhabited worlds to restore Hala, or at least picked worlds that Carol has no specific attachments to. Instead, she deliberately targets worlds and people that Carol holds dear just to make her suffer. Worse still, Dar-Benn is willing to render said efforts completely meaningless by using the Quantum Bands to rip a hole in reality that endangers the entire universe, immediately after she betrayed Carol when the latter promised to reignite the Kree sun, for no other reason than so Dar-Benn specifically could have her revenge on Carol.]] |
| 590 | * SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:Her mental state, while already filled with Kree xenophobia and supremacism, begins to rapidly decay after she gets her hands on the Quantum Band. By the time of the final battle between her and the Marvels, Dar-Benn has been so consumed by hate for Carol that she's willing to throw away all the work she did and knowingly endanger the Kree by opening up a tear in reality that threatens the entire universe, all so she can kill Carol.]] |
| 591 | * SelfDisposingVillain: [[spoiler:When she opts to [[RevengeBeforeReason prioritize revenge on Carol rather than let her re-ignite Hala's sun]], her attempt to finish siphoning the energy of Earth's sun with the power of both Quantum Bands ends up being too much for her body to handle.]] |
| 592 | * TragicVillain: Her goal of restoring Hala and saving her people from extinction is a heroic one, but she lets her hatred of Carol drive her down a path of self-destruction. [[spoiler:Even when Carol promises to reignite Hala's sun with her cosmic powers as [[TheAtoner atonement for her sins]], Dar-Benn still wants Carol dead and abandons her goal of saving Hala for a chance to kill the Marvels, which ultimately leads to her demise]]. |
| 593 | * WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:After feigning surrender during the climax, Dar-Benn pins Kamala to the floor and threatens to kill her if Carol and Monica don't back off.]] |
| 594 | |
| 595 | [[/folder]] |
| 596 | |
| 597 | !!!Other Kree Empire Officials and Agents |
| 598 | |
| 599 | [[folder:The Kree Ambassador]] |
| 600 | !!''The Kree Ambassador'' |
| 601 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kreeambassador.jpg]] |
| 602 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"We signed your peace treaty, Nova Prime. What more do you want?"'']] |
| 603 | !!!'''Species:''' Kree |
| 604 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/TomasArana |
| 605 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'' |
| 606 | |
| 607 | The imperial representative responsible for the diplomatic affairs between the Kree Empire and Xandar. |
| 608 | ---- |
| 609 | * AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: He is a blue-skinned Kree. |
| 610 | * AssInAmbassador: He is an absolute prick to Nova Prime when she asks him to do something about Ronan's rampage. He declines to so much as consider condemning Ronan's actions, brushing off Nova Prime's outrage at Ronan's murder of innocent people. |
| 611 | * BystanderSyndrome: Essentially his attitude towards Ronan's genocidal anti-Xandar crusade; the Empire signed the treaty with Xandar, thus ending the war, so why should they care if one of their officers didn't bother to stop fighting? He even goes so far as to say that Ronan's destruction of Xandarian outposts is "your problem", passing the buck on to the Nova Corps to deal with the RogueAgent that the Kree couldn't keep in line. |
| 612 | * LackOfEmpathy: The ambassador totally ignores Ronan's war crimes against Xandar, even with Nova Prime all but demanding a response from the Kree government. |
| 613 | * TribalFacepaint: Although not to the extent of Ronan's ThisMeansWarpaint design, he also bears some black face paint during his conversation with Nova Prime. |
| 614 | [[/folder]] |
| 615 | |
| 616 | [[folder:G.H.]] |
| 617 | !!''G.H.'' |
| 618 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gh.png]] |
| 619 | !!!'''Species:''' Kree |
| 620 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Brandon Kolpack |
| 621 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E14TAHITI Episode 14: "T.A.H.I.T.I."]]'') |
| 622 | |
| 623 | The G.H. or Guest Host is a codename for a Kree whose corpse was used by Project T.A.H.I.T.I. to synthesize drugs from his bodily fluids for the purpose of bringing people back to life, particularly fallen Avengers. His corpse was discovered by HYDRA led by General Werner Reinhardt in 1945, and confiscated by S.S.R. when the Allies won UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. The corpse eventually came into possession of S.H.I.E.L.D. to be used for Project T.A.H.I.T.I. |
| 624 | ---- |
| 625 | * AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: He is a blue-skinned Kree. |
| 626 | * AncientAstronauts: His corpse is revealed to have been thousands of years old when discovered. |
| 627 | * BodyHorror: Besides the fact that his lower body is missing, we can see [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/coulson_discovering_gh.png some parts of his intestines / internal organs]]. |
| 628 | * GeneticMemory: Simmons theorizes that the last thing this alien was thinking of before he died was (as they later discover) the unknown city and that people injected with the material taken from the body have fragments of that memory in the form of the city's layout. |
| 629 | * HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: He lost the lower half of his body. |
| 630 | * HumanResources: The G.H. serum is extracted from his mangled body. |
| 631 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His real name is unknown. "G.H." is his CodeName for Project T.A.H.I.T.I., short for "Guest Host". |
| 632 | * PosthumousCharacter: He's been dead for millennia. His corpse even pre-dated the Pyramids of Giza, according to Dr. Goodman. |
| 633 | [[/folder]] |
| 634 | |
| 635 | [[folder:Vin-Tak]] |
| 636 | !!''Vin-Tak'' |
| 637 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/f1749eb3ab52ee698a77f940d0543467.png]] |
| 638 | !!!'''Species:''' Kree |
| 639 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/EddieMcClintock |
| 640 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Carlo Vázquez (''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'', Disney dub), Rubén Trujillo (''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'', Sony dub) (Latin-American Spanish dub) |
| 641 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS2E12WhoYouReallyAre Episode 34: "Who You Really Are"]]'') |
| 642 | |
| 643 | A Kree who comes to Earth to investigate Inhuman activity. |
| 644 | ---- |
| 645 | * AntiVillain: He's only on Earth to actually cover-up the activity of Inhumans since he rightfully views the Kree's past atrocities in creating them as an despicable period in his people's history, and he sincerely wants to prevent them or humanity being bloodily conquered by his own people. |
| 646 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: Bobbi induces memory loss on Vin-Tak with his own truncheon. |
| 647 | * LaserGuidedAmnesia: His truncheon can induce amnesia in anyone he hits with it. He can also reverse the effect in the same manner. |
| 648 | * OldShame: [[invoked]] He regards the Inhuman experiments on Earth as a dark and shameful period in Kree history, and one he wants to make sure ''stays'' history. |
| 649 | * RubberForeheadAlien: The main distinction between him and a human is blue skin and mild forehead ridges. |
| 650 | * SkinToneDisguise: Vin-Tak uses special tech to cover up his blue skin and make himself look like an ordinary human. |
| 651 | * SmugSuper: Every time he fights a human, there's this undercurrent of disbelief that such a puny being thinks they can stop him. |
| 652 | * SuperStrength: As a Kree, his body has more strength than people of Earth. He was able to throw Lady Sif away for some considerable measure with a single hit. |
| 653 | * SuperToughness: Being blown away by the destroyer gun only disorients him. |
| 654 | * TokenHeroicOrc: As of Phase Three, he's one of only ''two'' Kree to make an appearance in the MCU who can be considered heroic. He's not as violent as the others and he only wanted to kill Skye because he sincerely believed that she was too dangerous to let live. |
| 655 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: He only came to Earth to make sure the other Kree wouldn't find out about the Diviner being activated and decide to restart their weapons program. Then, in the end, he only wants to kill Skye because he sincerely believes she's a threat. |
| 656 | [[/folder]] |
| 657 | |
| 658 | [[folder:Mar-Vell]] |
| 659 | !!''[[ComicBook/CaptainMarvelMarvelComics Mar-Vell / Dr. Wendy Lawson]]'' |
| 660 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/supremeintelligencecaptainmarvel_9.png]] |
| 661 | %%[[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]] |
| 662 | !!!'''Species:''' Kree |
| 663 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/AnnetteBening |
| 664 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Maru Guzmán (Latín American Spanish dub), Creator/YoshikoSakakibara (Japanese dub) |
| 665 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}}'' |
| 666 | |
| 667 | A Kree scientist who disguises herself as a high-ranking figure in Project Pegasus, who becomes a mentor to Carol Danvers. |
| 668 | ---- |
| 669 | * AdaptationalIntelligence: The comic version of [=Mar-Vell=] certainly wasn't an idiot, but this version of the character was a brilliant scientist even among a race of technologically-advanced {{Galactic Conqueror}}s. In the backstory of ''Captain Marvel'', when she was restricted to using the considerably-less advanced technology of Earth, she was still able to derive an incredibly advanced form of FasterThanLightTravel through examining the Tesseract/Space Stone, to the point where it could quickly travel through space without being restricted to the PortalNetwork used elsewhere for [=FTL=] in the [=MCU=]. |
| 670 | * AdaptationalWimp: She has none of her comics counterpart's superpowers and strength, having been taken out by a laser blast that Captain Mar-Vell could have shrugged off. |
| 671 | * AdaptationNameChange: Due to the GenderFlip, Mar-Vell's Earth alias is named "Wendy", not "Walter". |
| 672 | * AgeLift: This version of the character is much older than her counterpart in the comics. |
| 673 | * AlienArtsAreAppreciated: If her choice of name for Goose is anything to go by, Mar-Vell is apparently a fan of ''Film/TopGun''. |
| 674 | * TheAtoner: After a life of taking part in the Kree war machine and prosecuting the war of genocide against the Skrulls, she seeks a way to put the surviving Skrull refugees beyond the reach of her former comrades. |
| 675 | * CompositeCharacter: A blond female Kree who is a scientist instead of a warrior, and who is tragically killed by Yon-Rogg? This better describes [=Mar-Vell's=] TokenRomance Una from the original Captain Marvel's origin story rather than comic Mar-vell himself. |
| 676 | * DeadpanSnarker: When a baffled Carol points out that her blood is [[AlienBlood blue]], Mar-Vell responds with a dry "Yeah, but how's my hair?". |
| 677 | * DeathByOriginStory: Unlike in the comics, Mar-Vell doesn't survive the explosion that gives Carol her powers. |
| 678 | * DefectorFromDecadence: She abandoned the Kree in order to research and develop an advanced [=FTL=] engine so refugees from the Kree's cosmic conquest could escape to where the empire could never find them. |
| 679 | * DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: Mar-Vell's death via cancer is one of the most well-known deaths in Marvel Comics. Here, she's instead shot by Yon-Rogg. |
| 680 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: After it's established that the Supreme Intelligence takes the form of an important figure in a person's life, Carol sees her as an older woman wearing a Kree military uniform, but her identity is never revealed. She's later identified as "Dr. Wendy Lawson", which is a name keen Marvel Comics fans would recognize... |
| 681 | * FluffyTamer: Who would even keep a highly dangerous alien cat as a pet? Well, she would. |
| 682 | * GenderFlip: Mar-Vell is a man in the comics, but a woman here. |
| 683 | * HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Just like the comics version, whose silver hair turned golden when he attained enlightenment, the selfless and heroic Mar-Vell has blonde hair. This puts her in direct contrast with the A.I. avatar used by the Supreme Intelligence, which still has silver hair. |
| 684 | * HumanAliens: She is a Kree, but looks indistinguishable from a normal Caucasian human (apart from having the standard blue-colored blood of a Kree). Whether this is her natural appearance (making her a Pink Kree, like Yon-Rogg) or she's a blue Kree using their nitrogen-based disguise is never revealed. |
| 685 | * KindheartedCatLover: A flashback shows that she's Goose's original owner and she's indeed the most kindhearted Kree we've ever seen in the MCU. |
| 686 | * MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: She eventually realized that the Kree's war against the Skrulls was an unjust persecution and began the process of rescuing them, trying to find a way to warp them outside the Kree's FTL jump network so they can't be followed. Unfortunately, her treachery was discovered and she was killed for it. |
| 687 | * SecretIdentity: She hides on Earth under the identity of Dr. Wendy Lawson, a [=US=] military and [=S.H.I.E.L.D.=]-associated scientist. In the comics, she went by ''[[GenderFlip Walter]]'' [[GenderFlip Lawson]]. |
| 688 | * SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: Subverted. While Annette Bening was advertised to be playing the Supreme Intelligence and even got her own character poster, there was nary a ''peep'' about her also playing Mar-Vell, or that the character was even in the movie to begin with. |
| 689 | * TokenHeroicOrc: One of only ''two'' Kree featured in the MCU who isn't a complete asshole and has the best interest of non-Kree in mind. |
| 690 | * WalkingSpoiler: It's pretty much impossible to discuss Mar-Vell in ''Captain Marvel'' without spoiling major plot points, namely that she's ''in'' it, or that she's a woman in the adaptation. |
| 691 | [[/folder]] |
| 692 | |
| 693 | [[folder:Soh-Larr]] |
| 694 | !!''Soh-Larr'' |
| 695 | !!!'''Species:''' Kree |
| 696 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ChukuModu |
| 697 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}}'' |
| 698 | |
| 699 | A Kree scout. |
| 700 | ---- |
| 701 | * ImpersonationExclusiveCharacter: He's dead by the time he makes his on-screen appearance, being impersonated by Talos. |
| 702 | * KillAndReplace: He's killed and impersonated by Talos to lure Starforce into a trap. |
| 703 | * PosthumousCharacter: He solely appears in the film as a disguise employed by Talos, as the real Soh-Larr is already dead. |
| 704 | [[/folder]] |
| 705 | |
| 706 | !!Other Kree Groups |
| 707 | [[folder:The Exolon Monks]] |
| 708 | !!''Exolon Monks'' |
| 709 | !!!'''Species:''' Exolon |
| 710 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Ronan |
| 711 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'' |
| 712 | |
| 713 | Monks of the Exolon race that serve Ronan aboard the ''Dark Aster'' as attendants and pilots. |
| 714 | ---- |
| 715 | * AllThereInTheManual: They are named only in the ''Guidebook to the Marvel Cinematic Universe - Guardians of the Galaxy''. |
| 716 | * CharacterDeath: The ones on the ''Dark Aster'' are killed when Rocket crashes an M-Ship into the bridge. |
| 717 | * InTheHood: They wear black robes similar to those worn by Ronan himself. |
| 718 | * NinjaPirateZombieRobot: They are alien pilot monks. |
| 719 | [[/folder]] |
| 720 | |
| 721 | [[folder:Kree Reapers]] |
| 722 | !!''Kree Reapers'' |
| 723 | !!!'''Species:''' Kree |
| 724 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS3E19FailedExperiments Episode 63: "Failed Experiments"]]'') |
| 725 | |
| 726 | A pair of Kree scientists and warriors tasked with experimenting on humans and later with the destruction of Inhumans. |
| 727 | ---- |
| 728 | * AndShowItToYou: Hive rips out the heart of one of the Reapers. |
| 729 | * HumanResources: Their blood is used to create the Absolution Virus, which turns baseline humans into Primitives. |
| 730 | * SealedEvilInACan: They had spent thousands of years in suspended animation inside a Kree satellite. |
| 731 | * NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: "Reapers" indicates their murderous goal. |
| 732 | * NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Alien scientist warriors and executioners. |
| 733 | [[/folder]] |
| 734 | |
| 735 | [[folder:House of Kasius]] |
| 736 | !!''House of Kasius'' |
| 737 | * [[Characters/MCUCosmic Taryan]] |
| 738 | * [[Characters/MCUTheLighthouse Faulnak]] |
| 739 | * [[Characters/MCUTheLighthouse Kasius]] |
| 740 | [[/folder]] |
| 741 | |
| 742 | [[folder:Kree Watch]] |
| 743 | -->See [[Characters/MCUTheLighthouse this page]]. |
| 744 | [[/folder]] |
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