Much Ado about SKRULLS.

Above is a picture of a Skrull. They are shape shifting, goblin looking aliens from the Marvel universe. Most recently, they were the big bad behind Secret Invasion, where a good sect of the Marvel universe was replaced by shape-shifting Skrulls.

Thanks to a Toy Fare board game, everyone is surprised how much the pink enemy figures (which people seem to assume are The Avengers baddies, even though we’ve seen video game development videos with Skrulls and everyone was fine with there being a Skrull element in the game but not in the movie) look like Skrulls. 

The question now is: with both the studio and Marvel saying Skrulls are not in the Avengers, and the persistent rumor that Fox somehow owns the film rights to the Skrulls as part of the Fantastic Four package, what kind of backwards PR move is going to explain how these action figures look like Skrulls.

My answers:

1. This means nothing. They are pink Skrulls. For a board game. Because it’s a strategy game, they needed a variety of baddies and - hey - it’s Marvel so let’s use the Skrulls. The Avengers villains will be - whatever - who cares. Until I see something NOT PINK, I’m wary. This could just be like Marvel Clue where they were making a game and blind-plugged Marvel properties into the hero and villain roles. Whatever. Slap Chris Hemsworth’s picture on there and someone will buy it.

2. It’s the Chitauri - or that’s what they’ll call them, but they’ll behave like Skrulls. Who are the Chitauri?

They are the ULTIMATE MARVEL version of the Skrulls, fighting Captain America in WWII and taking on the Ultimate Avengers (whose version of Nick Fury was drawn like Sam Jackson, which is how Sam Jackson got the role, so - yeah - we’re in the Ultimate Universe now). There’s a picture of one of them from the animated ULTIMATES 2 movie. As you can see, they do not look like Skrulls. But in that comic line, it doesn’t really matter. Aliens is aliens and the Chitauri have Skrull-like powers.

Let’s say someone really did screw up and sell off Skrulls with Fantastic Four to Fox. What did they sell? All the storylines with the Fantastic Four? Just the name Skrulls? They couldn’t possibly have taken all Goblin-eared Marvel Characters off the table or Sam Raimi wouldn’t have kept trying the animatronic Green Goblin head for as long as he did.

And the last:

3. Here’s something I really hope they don’t do, but: They could be The Kree (yet another Marvel alien race). The reason I don’t want them to do this is because that would mean making The Kree look like The Skrulls and those two races HISTORICALLY HATE EACH OTHER.

I’m going to hope that when Joss Whedon talks about having respect for The Avengers comics, that he knows not to call The Skrulls “The Kree” just because of some stupid rights issue.

Also, as a Marvel fanboy, if you were going to sell some stuff with Fantastic Four, The Kree would go before the Skrulls and Annihilus would go with them (yes Annihilus hopefuls, I’d downgrade your expectations now)

Here’s the conclusion to my post where I tell you that I already know some stuff that I’m not telling you. 

And because I really really dislike that people needed TOYS to tell them things, maybe I should just spill the beans:

Ok. It’s the Skrulls. And Thanos. And Loki. And the Infinity Guantlet. And a big CGI monster gift from Thanos that Loki controls.

How do I know these things? Because I roll with Latino-Review.com and we’ve been trying to tell you these things for a year now.

Anywho. They’ll be Skrulls. 

Everyone can calm down now.