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SKRULLVENGERS ASSEMBLE

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    It makes perfect sense you silly people

    it's not a glitch

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  • TeaSpoonTeaSpoon Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Haven't you guys read Runaways?
    The issue of gender is meaningless when dealing with a race of shapeshifters. If runaways is to believed, gender is chosen by preference or not at all. Xavin (if that's his name) had no problems turning female when the situation called for it and couldn't understand why Shiny-Alien-Runaway-Girl didn't like it when he turned male.

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Thats true

    but really all you need to do is look closely at the ritual for when that Skrull assumed the Pym identity in Mighty Avengers

    and it will make sense

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  • Sars_BoySars_Boy Rest, You Are The Lightning. Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    yeah have they explained what the ritual is yet

    or are they just like

    heres some skin looking stuff lets drape it over your head and now youre like a human

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    they havent gone into explicit detail no

    but the context of the dialouge from during and after the rituals makes it easy to deduce that whatever the actuall process is, one of the end results is assuming the memories/personality of the person.

    They look very religious, I imagine it has a lot to do with those 2 Skrull gods and is probably a science/magic type combo.

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  • FCDFCD Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Balefuego wrote: »
    Yeah I agree

    and those comments you mention only make the reasons why
    she would fuck with him like that
    even more clear.
    Though it also seems possible that Tony was meant to be replaced, but something/someone prevented that from happening and the Skrull Queen just doesn't know that yet.

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    FCD wrote: »
    Balefuego wrote: »
    Yeah I agree

    and those comments you mention only make the reasons why
    she would fuck with him like that
    even more clear.
    Though it also seems possible that Tony was meant to be replaced, but something/someone prevented that from happening and the Skrull Queen just doesn't know that yet.
    the Skrull Queen explictily states in this week's New Avengers that she does not want either Tony Stark or Reed Richards replaced. That she wants to them to suffer and watch as thier world falls around them.

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  • FCDFCD Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Oh, I didn't realize that. My bad.

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  • mattharvestmattharvest Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Balefuego wrote: »
    they havent gone into explicit detail no

    but the context of the dialouge from during and after the rituals makes it easy to deduce that whatever the actuall process is, one of the end results is assuming the memories/personality of the person.

    They look very religious, I imagine it has a lot to do with those 2 Skrull gods and is probably a science/magic type combo.

    Remember, in Marvel, magic is science. More accurately, magic follows laws and rules that are a part of the physical universe, and is just as predictable. Basically every species humanity has encountered has understood this except us.

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  • mattharvestmattharvest Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Balefuego wrote: »
    FCD wrote: »
    Balefuego wrote: »
    Yeah I agree

    and those comments you mention only make the reasons why
    she would fuck with him like that
    even more clear.
    Though it also seems possible that Tony was meant to be replaced, but something/someone prevented that from happening and the Skrull Queen just doesn't know that yet.
    the Skrull Queen explictily states in this week's New Avengers that she does not want either Tony Stark or Reed Richards replaced. That she wants to them to suffer and watch as thier world falls around them.
    I don't have it in front of me, but I thought it was Sue and Reed Richards, not Stark and Richards.

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Balefuego wrote: »
    FCD wrote: »
    Balefuego wrote: »
    Yeah I agree

    and those comments you mention only make the reasons why
    she would fuck with him like that
    even more clear.
    Though it also seems possible that Tony was meant to be replaced, but something/someone prevented that from happening and the Skrull Queen just doesn't know that yet.
    the Skrull Queen explictily states in this week's New Avengers that she does not want either Tony Stark or Reed Richards replaced. That she wants to them to suffer and watch as thier world falls around them.
    I don't have it in front of me, but I thought it was Sue and Reed Richards, not Stark and Richards.

    no, it's Stark

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  • DelduwathDelduwath Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Hey, so, has anyone decoded what the Skrulls are saying during those transformation rituals? If you look at the scenes where they're doing the "I am human. I am male" bit, you can match the English letters to the Skrull symbols, but I haven't taken the time to translate (or transliterate, really) what the Skrulls conducting the rituals are saying. Has anyone done that?

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I definitely like the Skrull font in SI a heck of a lot more than "lol backwards katakana" that the Ultimate Skrulls had.

    It kind of ruins the illusion that it's alien speech in the bubble when you can recognize all the characters.

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  • DreamonDreamon Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Balefuego wrote: »
    Balefuego wrote: »
    FCD wrote: »
    Balefuego wrote: »
    Yeah I agree

    and those comments you mention only make the reasons why
    she would fuck with him like that
    even more clear.
    Though it also seems possible that Tony was meant to be replaced, but something/someone prevented that from happening and the Skrull Queen just doesn't know that yet.
    the Skrull Queen explictily states in this week's New Avengers that she does not want either Tony Stark or Reed Richards replaced. That she wants to them to suffer and watch as thier world falls around them.
    I don't have it in front of me, but I thought it was Sue and Reed Richards, not Stark and Richards.

    no, it's Stark
    Its Sue and Reed. They cant replace Tony because of all the initative shield bla bla systems being directly hooked up to him. And as it had been mentinoned in this weeks new avengers issue, they still didnt managed to crack Stark's system.

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  • jkylefultonjkylefulton Squid...or Kid? NNID - majpellRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Dreamon wrote: »
    Balefuego wrote: »
    Balefuego wrote: »
    FCD wrote: »
    Balefuego wrote: »
    Yeah I agree

    and those comments you mention only make the reasons why
    she would fuck with him like that
    even more clear.
    Though it also seems possible that Tony was meant to be replaced, but something/someone prevented that from happening and the Skrull Queen just doesn't know that yet.
    the Skrull Queen explictily states in this week's New Avengers that she does not want either Tony Stark or Reed Richards replaced. That she wants to them to suffer and watch as thier world falls around them.
    I don't have it in front of me, but I thought it was Sue and Reed Richards, not Stark and Richards.

    no, it's Stark
    Its Sue and Reed. They cant replace Tony because of all the initative shield bla bla systems being directly hooked up to him. And as it had been mentinoned in this weeks new avengers issue, they still didnt managed to crack Stark's system.

    Here, read it again.

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    The skrull is saying that she, nameless skrull #whatever, will imitate Sue Storm and kill Reed. Spider-Skrull-Queen says fuck that, Reed and Tony are going to suffer.

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  • ServoServo Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2008
    that IS a little unclear, but i think no she's talking about SUE and reed, not tony and reed.

    edit- because the last two people referenced in the conversation were sue and reed, see? "I can BE sue storm...i can kill richards in his own bed!

    "No. Those two..."


    sue and reed

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  • jkylefultonjkylefulton Squid...or Kid? NNID - majpellRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I suppose it's a little ambiguous, and the Skrulls would have multiple reasons for hating every member of the Fantastic Four.

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  • jkylefultonjkylefulton Squid...or Kid? NNID - majpellRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I still think the "No. Those two...." refers to "And Reed Richards and that $$$$ Tony Stark". We need Bendis! to clarify.

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  • ServoServo Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2008
    I suppose it's a little ambiguous, and the Skrulls would have multiple reasons for hating every member of the Fantastic Four.



    yeah i just assume that for the skrulls, the fantastic four are like a superteam consisting of hitler, pol pot, charles manson, and belle gunness

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Servo wrote: »
    that IS a little unclear, but i think no she's talking about SUE and reed, not tony and reed.

    edit- because the last two people referenced in the conversation were sue and reed, see? "I can BE sue storm...i can kill richards in his own bed!

    "No. Those two..."


    sue and reed

    but they arent talking about killing Sue, they talk are talking about Reed and Tony. "We can kill Reed Richards tonight, I can pretend to be Sue and kill him."

    Not "we can kill Sue Richards and Reed Richards"

    "I can kill Reed by taking Sue's shape"

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  • ServoServo Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2008
    Balefuego wrote: »
    Servo wrote: »
    that IS a little unclear, but i think no she's talking about SUE and reed, not tony and reed.

    edit- because the last two people referenced in the conversation were sue and reed, see? "I can BE sue storm...i can kill richards in his own bed!

    "No. Those two..."


    sue and reed

    but they arent talking about killing Sue, they talk are talking about Reed and Tony. "We can kill Reed Richards tonight, I can pretend to be Sue and kill him."

    Not "we can kill Sue Richards and Reed Richards"

    "I can kill Reed by taking Sue's shape"

    so what, they were just going to let sue go run around somewhere else while they impersonated her and killed her family?

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    no, they'd leave her where she is and replace Reed when they killed him

    thats just how I read it.

    They are talking in that conversation about replacing and killing Reed and Tony, Sue was a throwaway remark.

    you can disagree if you want but thats how I see it.

    Either way the current Tony is the real deal

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  • ServoServo Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2008
    but why would the skrulls care about tony so much that they want him to suffer like reed richards? it only really makes sense if it's sue and reed

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  • jkylefultonjkylefulton Squid...or Kid? NNID - majpellRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Because Tony is one of the Illuminati - Tony showed up and declared war on the Skrulls, and Tony was a participant in the Kree/Skrull War (though he wasn't part of the Avengers/FF Annual story that locked the Skrulls out of their shapeshifting powers for a few years).

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  • ServoServo Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2008
    Because Tony is one of the Illuminati - Tony showed up and declared war on the Skrulls, and Tony was a participant in the Kree/Skrull War (though he wasn't part of the Avengers/FF Annual story that locked the Skrulls out of their shapeshifting powers for a few years).

    that's still pretty flimsy compared to what sue storm has done to them over the years. it seems like they'd be just as likely to go after dr strange and rick jones as iron man, then. still doesn't seem "special" enough to warrant torture next to reed richards.

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  • jkylefultonjkylefulton Squid...or Kid? NNID - majpellRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Well, they also consider Tony a major cockblock to their invasion plans. Also, Bendis! is writing this, so he's probably only aware of the continuity he wrote himself (zing!).

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  • jkylefultonjkylefulton Squid...or Kid? NNID - majpellRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    But yeah, Reed must be public enemy #1 -

    a) Consistently foiled every Skrull invasion plan
    b) Turned the Skrull king's relative into a cow
    c) Inadvertently caused the destruction of the Skrull homeworld - it's his fault Frankie Raye saw the starcharts that pointed her toward their homeworld, and it's Reed's fault for saving Galactus in the first place
    d) Caused the whole 'skrulls can't shapeshift anymore' thing (though it didn't last)

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  • HawkstoneHawkstone Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things. Somewhere outside of BarstowRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    If we are taking a vote, I read it as Sue and Reed. As in the queen was responding to the previous statement.

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  • smokmnkysmokmnky Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I don't get how you all are seeing that. There was never even mention of killing Sue. First she talks about Reed, then Tony. "and Reed Richards and that #$%^ Tony Stark." "We should kill them now, I can be Sue Storm, I can Kill Richards in his Own Bed Tonight"

    Sue's name doesn't come up until after they talk about Tony and Reed. It's pretty clear that they talked about killing Reed and Tony not Sue

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  • ServoServo Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2008
    no, they're gonna kill sue. they fucking hate sue. tony's just some human who's in their way

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  • FaynorFaynor Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    So what if they hate Sue. Tony's a (somewhat) hero to the people, and he basically runs the show when it comes to protecting the Earth. With Sue it may be personal, but they if they can wait this long to invade they aren't going to fuck Sue's shit up until the time is right. Tony is a bigger threat.
    Either way, while Hank Pym's fate is a sort of conclusive (Unless they did some sort of bag and tag and threw him in storage off-panel, but that'd be some dumb cop-out post SI), do you guys think Jessica Drew is dead? It just kind of faded to black on her. I'll also be interested to see the Inhuman crossover, and see if that resolves what happened to Blackbolt. Surely some of the characters being impersonated have to live.

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  • IriahIriah Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I have a pretty naive question

    so here it is

    when a skrull poses as a superhero, do they kill the original or just lock them away in some skrull containment place?

    edit: I haven't read the series, obviously. But it's interesting to watch you guys discuss it.

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  • VirralVirral Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I'm 100% in the Tony and Reed camp

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  • jkylefultonjkylefulton Squid...or Kid? NNID - majpellRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Iriah wrote: »
    I have a pretty naive question

    so here it is

    when a skrull poses as a superhero, do they kill the original or just lock them away in some skrull containment place?

    edit: I haven't read the series, obviously. But it's interesting to watch you guys discuss it.

    Presumably, they lock them up somewhere - Marvel isn't going to kill of IP just willy-nilly.

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  • ServoServo Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2008
    Iriah wrote: »
    I have a pretty naive question

    so here it is

    when a skrull poses as a superhero, do they kill the original or just lock them away in some skrull containment place?

    edit: I haven't read the series, obviously. But it's interesting to watch you guys discuss it.

    we don't really know yet. it appears that at least one might actually be dead, but the others are unclear.


    probably just in skrull jail someplace, though, yeah, because that would be a lot of good supporting characters to kill

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  • DreamonDreamon Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    There is one thing i do not get though...


    Didnt the female ultron stuff happened after the World war hulk. It seems in new avengers #42
    they learned aboot how powerful sentry is after the ultron match up. I mean come on! He torched up at least 6 blokes and almost took out the world war hulk.

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Dreamon wrote: »
    There is one thing i do not get though...


    Didnt the female ultron stuff happened after the World war hulk. It seems in new avengers #42
    they learned aboot how powerful sentry is after the ultron match up. I mean come on! He torched up at least 6 blokes and almost took out the world war hulk.

    Well its hard to say the timeline because that first Mighty Avengers arc was so delayed, but that was the first mission for the Mighty Avengers and they are already a team during World War Hulk, so I'd say it happens first

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  • PantheraOncaPantheraOnca Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Virral wrote: »
    I'm 100% in the Tony and Reed camp

    this

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  • Look Out it's Sabs!Look Out it's Sabs! Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I would probably say Tony and Reed too but I thought it was Sue and Reed at first.

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  • muninnmuninn Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Virral wrote: »
    I'm 100% in the Tony and Reed camp

    this

    Yeah, I thought it was pretty clear.

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