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The Skrulls to be the Villains in the Avengers Movie?

Making for a not-so-secret invasion.

 Hell, maybe the Avengers will be Skrulls, themselves?
 Hell, maybe the Avengers will be Skrulls, themselves?
There’s a rumor floating around at Slashfilm that Skrulls might be the bad guys in the AVENGERS movie. The threat they pose is what will eventually bring Earth’s Mightiest Heroes together, not machinations by Loki. What’s funny is that I figured this was the route they were going to go with, anyway. See, I’m sure the AVENGERS movie is going to be taking more than a few cues from the first volume of ULTIMATES. And you’ll recall that the (pun intended) ultimate bad guys in that were the Chituari (they’re also the villains in that ULTIMATE AVENGERS 2 animated movie.) They're a conspiracy of malignant extra-dimensional aliens who can change their shape at will - - doesn’t that sound a bit like the Skrulls?

What’s interesting about the rumor is that it asserts that the Kree will be involved, adding a little more weight to that other rumor that Kevin Pennington will be actually playing Noh-Varr.  It’d be interesting if that were the case, because it’d seem like they were melding the character with Mar-Vell (who, of course, originally started as Kree sleeper agent.) I was kind of skeptical about Noh-Varr’s inclusion in the movies when I first heard the rumor because... well... the character’s debut had him burning “F*** YOU” into New York City to tell off SHIELD. I suppose all enemies can eventually become friends, though. So why couldn’t Noh-Varr be a SHIELD agent?

The AVENGERS movie, whenever it gets made, is going to need some larger-than-life threat for the team to fight and I doubt it’s going to be mainstays like Loki or Kang or the Masters of Evil. I really do think it’ll be a version of the Skrulls, although the exact details are likely still in the air. Maybe they will be brainwashing the Hulk into their control, as Slash Film speculates?

-- Tom Pinchuk is the writer of UNIMAGINABLE for Arcana Studios and HYBRID BASTARDS! for Archaia. Pre-order the HYBRID BASTARDS! hardcover now on Amazon.com.