#kree/skrull alliance

[randomidiocyncrazies]

on the topic of war crime tribunals/transitional justice in the Kree-Skrull Alliance, Scarlet Witch #6 brings up info on a genocide that's "for ruling eyes" only—the resolution of that story is pretty much something you'd expect from a superhero comic book (which is the type of story they set out to tell so it's like. within genre conventions even though I think it's questionable, though it's framed as adequate and effective access to justice and reparation*) but like. imagine if Teddy pushed for information transparency after seeing how much of his people's history is being hidden from them, or if it delved into a legal battle with the perpetrators of genocide instead of physical combat.

It's mentioned that the Skrulls hid this information because they wanted the Blood Skrulls "out of sight, out of mind"; they wanted to divorce their identities from the Blood Skrulls' (which is understandable if imo not the right way to handle it), and imo also because the genocide of other species isn't 'important' enough to be acknowledged. So if Teddy, the Great Uniter and King of Space, pushed for some kind of public acknowledgement of war crimes/crimes against humanity** committed by the two empires he'd inherited, what would the public reaction be? Whose feathers would be ruffled? Who would be supportive because it's the right thing to do, and who'd be supportive because of some other vested interest?

(also, irl there are international laws for crimes against humanity; would be interesting to see an intergalactic version of that, and the drafting of stricter protocols/policy research/establishing agencies and organizations that deal with investigating large-scale genocide and oppression etc... along with the political squabbles about jurisdictions and sovereignty that you see irl at UN and other international organizations)

Also, it seems like the only people in Teddy's court are him, Billy (Court Mage and Prince Consort), Lauri-ell (The Accuser/bodyguard) and Mur-G'nn (???), which seems a bit wack. You can't run a vast empire with so few people, and even if Teddy is mostly concerned with the affairs of Throneworld it's still really weird that there aren't more recurring characters at the Kree-Skrull court... I totally understand why K'lrt isn't serving the inner court—Teddy shouldn't have to see his mother's murderer day in and day out—but like. can we get a few more ministers on the roster????? I wish there's more opportunities to just see what a typical day on Throneworld is like, y'know? I'd kill for a miniseries that features normal citizens of the Kree/Skrull Alliance just living their life and doing their work, and the royal couple's adventures are only alluded to in the background.

(somewhat related, but i'm actually kind of ??? at Teddy being so okay with the fact that it's an empire that he's in charge of; I wish we got more of his thoughts on what he thinks about the natures of empires and monarchies in general, and his thoughts on institutional reforms etc. Struggles about what kind of king he wants to be has been brought up before, and his showdown with his grandma re:the nature of a successful ruler was pretty badass in Empyre... but being king means you have to approve or veto laws and policies, having to deal with paperwork and weighing advice from people who may or may not have the empire's best interest at heart etc etc. It means confronting the concept of absolute power in the hands of a ruling class determined by birth. It's a bit of a shame that they want the empire to be a thing in the worldbuilding, but don't really invest in developing the empire into a viable setting that feels real/lived in)

*tbf since we don't know the domestic laws of the Kree-Skrull Alliance or any intergalactic law regarding genocide/gross violations of the rights of sapient & sentient life, massacring the people responsible may be perfectly legal in the setting (and thus doesn't violate UN guidelines to the right of reparation, which I used as a baseline). It sucks that there wasn't a formal trial establishing the guilt of the responsible parties, though their guilt was informally established/treated as truth due to the nature of the classified info—the situation feels like executing someone without a formal trial, with all the evidence coming from a classified CIA record lmao (and this doesn't get into the issue of possible innocent blood skrulls—are all of them really guilty/responsible for genociding the monastic order in question? Whoooooo knoooooows!)

**they're aliens but you know what i mean

[heckcareoxytwit]

Scarlet Witch meets the mysterious alien woman called Ganymede, who needs help from the Kree/Skrull Alliance to avenge the deaths of her comrades. Then, Scarlet Witch brings her to meet Wiccan and Emperor Hulkling at the throneworld. However, Ganymede rashly attacks Wiccan until Scarlet Witch had to step in to calm them down. As their misunderstanding was cleared up, Emperor Hulkling and Wiccan allow Scarlet Witch to borrow the sword from the former (Hulkling) after briefing her about the enemies who killed Ganymede's comrades.

Scarlet Witch v3 #6, 2023

[yubnubforhire]

[scarlet--wiccan]

There were a couple interesting mentions of Teddy and the Alliance this week, but no direct appearances.

The Alliance has been adressed several times throughout the Sins of Sinister event, as a potential threat or obstacle to a Sinister-infected Krakoa, which has now set its sights on interstellar conquest. I was hoping, since Kieron Gillen is helming this event, that he might actually write Teddy or Billy into a few scenes, but it's seeming less and less likely at this point-- in Immoral X-Men #2, Hope reveals that the Emperor Dorrek has already been killed, and the Alliance destroyed, by year 100 of the SoS timeline.

Meanwhile, the Secret Invasion miniseries wrapped up this week. Maria Hill and Nick Fury have been struggling against a rogue faction of Skrull dissidents who had launched yet another attempt to infiltrate America's government, military, and intelligence agencies. The day was saved thanks to G'illian Blax'zthor, a Skrull refugee who's been hiding out on Earth since well before the Alliance was formed. The culprits were submitted to Alliance custody, with a brief mention that Teddy has managed to partially reform the Skrull criminal justice system.

The Kree/Skrull unity situation has proven to be... inconsistent, at best. The war is over and the main imperial nations have been united, but these are huge populations with numerous factions, and they are not all on the same page. It seems like Marvel wants to have it both ways by continuing to use Skrulls and, to a lesser degree, Kree, as antagonists-- and they're not interested in actually showing what Teddy's social reform and decolonization efforts look like in practice. That's not a surprise-- I know better than to expect incisive political narratives from Marvel these days. It's disappointing, but on the bright side, there's less overt hypocrisy in the Alliance than there is on Krakoa.

[perfectscninlaw]

“Since the dawn of civilization as we know it! Your conflict created the Star-Sword I hold! Your conflict created me! I am the living embodiment of your war! And today – I call an end to it! By prophecy and destiny – by my decree and your acclaim – the twin empires are one! We are one people – our people! I am Dorrek VIII, the once and future King of Space! I am your emperor – and I say we are no longer Kree or Skrull! We are the Alliance”

[warlockisaslur]

@snkts ~~ from [ here ]

There was still a group chat, him and some of the other young heroes who'd answered the call at the tail-end of the whole Mother fiasco, and it was still pretty lively. Everybody from former Avengers Academy students, X-Men and adjacent, even Franklin and Valeria Richards (when they both didn't get kicked for infodumping on one thing or another, but they always got invited back). Mostly it was just a bunch of young adults memeing about the adult adults in their lives, but there was one little ongoing thread of conversation.

You knew you'd made it as a hero if you got a team-up with Wolverine.

Krakoa had called for aid, and the Court Wizard had answered, bringing a small detachment of both Kree and Skrull troops to help safeguard civilians -- not that they needed help, but it was symbolic. That the Alliance would stand when duty called, regardless of how far-flung the world asking happened to be.

Though -- and if anyone asked, Billy would deny it -- it felt good to do some on-the-ground, honest-to-God hero work for a day, and that coming in the form of a solo adventure with Wolverine?

Brother, he'd made it.

Offering a grim smile, the mage nodded, blue radiating from his eyes and his palms as he prepared his magic. "You got it. Take point, I'll make sure they don't box you in."

[ablinkntime]

It should have been a simple mission. A simple flip of a coin, a bad outcome instead of a good one -- a world overrun by Cotati, and a fledgling empire in need of backup so that their last stand to save the world's heroes would succeed instead of fail. They'd gone in knowing it would be a long one -- the Tallus said that they needed to set up a series of magical portals, enhanced by Clarice's teleportation gars so that, when the time came, the last warm-blooded survivors of the plant-infested world could be transported to safety. It was just the two of them -- Clarice and Victor -- and at first, it had been simple. Prince-Consort Wiccan's portals were easy to set up even for those who'd never experienced a lick of magic. Emperor Hulkling's troops were well trained and took direction well.

Things were going according to plan… until they weren't.

Until Clarice started getting sick.

At first she chalked it up to overwork -- she had been teleporting them in and out, back and forth between the Alliance flagship and their mission locations for weeks. But it was too regular, too predictable… and then Victor snagged her by the arm one morning, stared her down hard. Leaned in close and took a deep inhale of her scent.

"Pup, why didn't you say something?"

"I -- I wasn't sure." She yanked her arm away, hugging herself protectively. "You know what they did to me, Victor. You know about the scars. It never happened with Calvin…" She shrugged helplessly. "What was I supposed to think?"

He couldn't fault her logic. It was true, he knew perfectly well what her relationship with Calvin had been and how rare access to contraceptives was. Hell, according to her Nocturne had come up pregnant at one point too. Given what went on in the labs she'd grown up in, the scars she bore, and the fact that yes, he knew they hadn't exactly been careful… no, she wouldn't assume that she could find herself in this situation. Instead of lecturing her -- and make no mistake, Victor had had a hell of a lecture loaded in the chamber until he'd seen the desolation in her eyes -- he reached out and pulled her close, hugged her tight and tucked her head under his chin.

"I've gotcha, pup. I've gotcha."

The actual work was done before she was really showing -- the portals were set up, concealed, powered up. It was just a matter of waiting for the right moment. Getting all the players into the right positions, quietly evacuating those few holdout populations that had managed to avoid botanical assimilation, took a lot longer. Long enough that those young rulers of the Free Alliance basically gave her no choice but to stop going on the recon missions. Extended an invitation for her to stay, their homeworld was beautiful and welcoming to all -- Skrull, Kree, human, mutant, Inhuman and whoever else was left from Earth, its moon, and Mars. An idyllic world, an expanding galactic empire… a place in their court, should she want it.

She couldn't. She had to get back… her child's father deserved to know.

By the happenstance that ever surrounded this gig, the very day they chose for the great exodus from Earth was the day she begun feeling labor twinges. Mild at first, enough that she could focus on the portals, activate the gars to throw the gateways open and let the flood of humanity through-- Sabretooth led the charge as one by one, the portals were accessed, cleared, and collapsed before the Cotati forces could figure out what was happening. She was on the very last one when a powerful contraction made her double over and cry out -- Wiccan was able to finish the job just in time, slicing a Cotati vine-hulk clean in half as Victor scooped Clarice up in his arms in the exact moment the Tallus on his wrist flared. They were leaving.

They weren't separated. Didn't end up in the Panoptichron, or back in 616 or 295 -- they appeared right on the doorstep of Alpha Flight headquarters, which was flung open in the same moment and Heather appeared. They'd later learn that Cat had been watching the whole time, and called Heather the moment she realized Clarice was in labor. Rerouted the callback signal to send them right where they would be safest.

Heather had her toddler on her hip, but immediately called all hands on deck as soon as she saw them. She passed little Jimmy to Talia as they rushed down to the infirmary -- and chased the medical team out. An obstetrician she might not be, but she was a mother and a Ph.D, she both knew what she was doing and knew that this was no time for Clarice to be surrounded by strangers. The only medic she trusted was Heather.

She had no birth plan, no idea what she was doing -- no way of making her wishes known, she was in so much blinding pain as it progressed fast… but that was why it was a good thing her relationship with Victor had always been open and unashamed. He wouldn't have left her side even if someone asked -- and no one dared, not the way he clutched her tight to his chest as she sobbed through the pains. He sat behind her, let her use him for support -- offered one of his own fingers for her to bite down on as the pain became unbearable, it wasn't like he wouldn't heal from it.

It suddenly dawned on him, as he smoothed sweaty hair back from her brow and listened to her scream in agony, that he hadn't thought to ask who the father was…

A moment later he forgot all about that issue. "The head's out," Heather announced. "One more good push, sweetheart."

"I -- I c-can't…"

"Yes you can, darlin'. You can do anything." Victor took her hand in his, squeezed it tight. "C'mon, let's meet that pup of yours."

There were tears rolling down her cheeks, but she nodded; on the next contraction Heather urged her, and she did, as much as she could -- she felt a horrific pressure as the shoulders rotated, building, burning -- and then it was gone, and she collapsed back against Victor's chest, panting, blackness creeping in on the edges of her vision. She was so exhausted, all she wanted was to rest, to sleep--

The sweetest sound filled her ears and her eyes snapped open. In her gloved hands, Heather was balancing a tiny pink newborn; she saw pink skin and flailing limbs, as her former teammate cut the cord and wrapped the baby up in a cloth before transferring to a table nearby. Clarice's shoulders hitched, her hand outstretched -- Victor gently moved out from behind her, got her comfortable on the cot, before moving over to Heather's side.

"All that can wait," he rumbled, nudging Heather's shoulder. "Give the girl her baby. She needs to see."

Heather hesitated for a moment. There were procedures that needed following, for the baby's health… but she only needed to look in their eyes to know this was entirely to do with the world they'd come from. Nodding, she wound the cloth back around the baby and brought it back to ease into Clarice's arms.

"You have a beautiful, perfect daughter," she said, removing her gloves and brushing a hand over Clarice's cheek. "A sweet baby girl, Clarice."

The absolutely dumbfounded expression on Clarice's face made Victor's heart ache; this was a dream she'd never dared, a fantasy their world had robbed from her. "She's mine?" Clarice whispered, and Heather gave a soft 'mm-hm', as she moved to start cleaning up. There was more to deal with, but it wasn't what anyone was paying attention to.

Those bright green eyes turned up to Victor's, full of tears but starting to shine with something else -- something he'd rarely seen in her eyes. Pride. "Look what I did," she said, brushing her hand over the newborn's tiny scalp. His big hand came down, resting atop hers, and he leaned down to press a kiss on Clarice's crown.

"Look what you did. I told you you could do it."

Clarice could have argued that she didn't know if she could have done it if he hadn't been there, but she kept that thought to herself. Instead, she spent a long moment looking over her baby's face. She'd fallen asleep, seemingly just as exhausted as her mother. After a long beat, she let out a quiet snicker. "She has his nose…"

"Whose, sprout?"

"Her father's." And it was time for Clarice to spill the beans, to explain exactly how she came to have a daughter in the first place. And later, she would laugh and wish she'd had a camera to capture the look on his face when she explained that her beautiful baby girl was the get of Goddamn Wade Wilson.

@mouthymercx0x0

[bulletblade]

Welcome to the Penultimate Part of our Marvel AXIS Wars fighting game roster.

For those unaware, Marvel AXIS Wars is basically a Marvel Injustice Roster I came up with alongside some of you.

For context, here is the base roster, plus the first wave of DLC:

And here is all of the DLC characters:

All right, we've got a lot to cover in terms of reasoning.

Annihulus: Annihulus is here because I learned that Shuma-Gorath is a Conan the Barbarian character and is an alternate option if we can't get him.

Quicksilver/Moon Knight: The ultimate 6160 line needed a villain, and I wanted to keep the number of reps from each comic kind of fair, so Quicksilver took Moon Knight's spot on the Distorted Cosmos section.

From here on out, we'll be covering the Director's Cut Version, which means each pair of characters had a biased reasoning for joining.

Storm and Akuma: I love X-Men vs. Street Fighter, plus Storm, felt like one of those characters I'd get skinned alive for not adding.

Monkey King and Agatha Harkness: These two were from my first and second attempts of this roster way before I got a Tumblr. Monkey King was added as an oddball choice, and Agatha was chosen to return thanks to you.

Hank Pym and Super Skrull: There was an idea back in the early 2020s, where a group of remarkable people would come together to make a pair of fan made cinematic-esque universes. One and Marvel Universe, featuring a more detailed look at some of its classic, more underappreciated characters with Ant-Man as the figurehead. The other DC, because Warner Brothers kept messing up their cinematic universe, where I figured Martian Manhunter would head the franchise. Two friendly rival projects that came together to help each other and eventually would cross over.

However, if you remember, I said Ronan originally held this spot before Super Skrull. Why was that?

Because I figured that before Ant-Man would begin work, a testing ground would be needed to test the creator. Thus, the Kree Skrull Alliance was thought of. If you want an idea of the plot synopsis, it's basically if Romeo's best friend and Juilet's ex went on a buddy cop adventure where they had to save Romeo and Juilet's baby from Shakespeare.

The name of the projects would be called a Fanimated Universe, but has only been an idea floated around by me and a few other people. So tell me...

[queen-of-the-avengers]

Captain Marvel: Part Ten

Pairing: Carol Danvers x Female!Reader

Word Count: ~2.4k

Warnings: canon violence and angst

Author’s Note: For the sake of the rewrite, Howard and Maria Stark dies on December 16, 1997 instead of 1991. Tony is 23 when they die.

x

Maria knows she has to do this with her best friend, so she calls her parents over to take care of her daughter. Maria tries to come up with an excuse as to why she's asking this, and you and Carol are off to the side with Monica.

"Your Mom's lucky. When they were handing out kids, they gave her the toughest one. Lieutenant Trouble," Carol smiles.

"You remembered!"

Carol had a whole life here without you, and seeing her with her other family gives you joy, but it also brings you pain when you think of how she was taken and the fact that she was taken in the first place.

"Is that mine?" Carol asks, noticing the jacket sitting on Monica's lap. The little girl starts to hand it over, but your girlfriend protests. "Oh, no. You hang onto it until I come back. There is something that I need your help with. I can't wear these Kree colors anymore, and since you're obviously the only person around here with any sense of style, why don't you give me a makeover?"

Carol stands and presses a few buttons on her wrist device that changes the colors of her outfit. Monica reaches over to try and goes through possible combinations such as bright red and grey stripes, orange, blue and yellow, black with neon stripes, and white with green stripes. None of them are the one until Carol sees the outfit Monica is wearing.

Red, blue, and gold.

"Well, since we're on the same team, why not those colors?" 

Monica messes with the device once more, and Carol's suit changes to red and blue with a gold star on the front. This is it. This is the suit and colors that best suit her. She kind of reminds you of Steve when he got his suit, but you push back those painful memories of your best friend.

"How do I look?"

"Fresh," Monica smiles.

"We need to get going. Yon-Rogg will be here soon," you say.

Carol and Monica say their final goodbyes before everyone boards the big aircraft. Talos' science guy stays behind to pretend to be Carol to stall Yon-Rogg for however long. He knows he's going to die when he figures it out, but he's willing to risk his life if it means Talos gets home safe.

Since you're such a terrible pilot, Maria and Carol are at the front while you, Fury, Talos, and Goose are in the back. Fury is petting and comforting the animal while Talos stares at him with horror in his eyes.

"You know, you really shouldn't have that thing on your lap."

"Our little alliance with you is tenuous at best. As long as she continues to freak you out," Fury picks up the cat and shoves her in Talos' face, and the Skrull jerks back in fear, "like that, I'm gonna keep giving her all the love and hugs she needs, right?"

"Can I ask you two something?" Maria asks the two shapeshifters on board. "Do you just turn into anything you want?"

"I have to see it first."

"Those are my rules as well."

"Can you all do it?"

"Physiologically, yeah, but it takes practice and dare I say it, talent to do it well."

"Maria, I wasn't born like this. I was given a serum that gave me these powers, so there is only one of me."

"Can you turn into a cat?" Fury asks Talos.

"What's a cat?"

"That's a cat," you point to Goose. 

"That's not a cat."

"What about a filing cabinet?" Maria asks. 

"Why would I turn into a filing cabinet?"

"I don't know about the Skrulls, but I can only turn into living creatures no matter how small or the kind of species. If it's alive, I can turn into them."

"What else can you do?"

"Well, apart from shapeshifting, I am able to control the four main elements. Whatever you want to call it, I can do a lot of pretty awesome stuff."

"A venus fly trap!" Fury exclaims, still on the topic of shifting into things. "I'll give you $50 right now if you turn into a Venus fly trap."

"Switching engines from Scramjet to fusion. Buckle up, folks," Carol advises.

Everyone buckles up in case something goes wrong, and Carol lurches forward at high speeds. Due to the severe altitude, everyone is pushed back into their seats. The plane jerks like how a commercial airplane would.

"Is this normal? Like space turbulence?" Fury asks.

"Pretty much," Carol answers.

Talos grabs Fury's attention and shakes his head to say that this isn't normal. The plane continues to fly upward, and as soon as the plane reaches just outside Earth's atmosphere, the plane stops producing the flames needed in order to fly. Everything inside the plane starts floating due to the lack of gravity. Yours, Carol's, and Maria's hair float along with a few pens that weren't locked down. If you hadn't buckled in when you did, you too, would be floating in mid-air. Similarly, Goose is floating upside down until Fury extends his arm, which Goose eagerly grabs onto. Then, Maria flicks a switch and gravity suddenly turns on inside the plane.

"Locking in the coordinate grid," Carol announces.

However, the only thing in front of you is an empty pad of space. Maybe the coordinates are wrong or maybe the lab moved because it's not here anymore. 

"Where is it?"

"It's here. It's gotta be here," Talos panics. 

"Is it in front of all that nothing or behind it?" Fury asks sarcastically.

There has to be some reason why the coordinates led you to this empty space. Carol presses some buttons on her wrist device, and the process of decloaking begins. If this is where the coordinates are, and there is nothing here, then it must be invisible.

"Decloaking activated," the computer chirps.

Suddenly, a bright light appears from the empty space, and a massive laboratory becomes visible. The title "Mar-Vell's Laboratory, Kree Imperial Cruiser" appears on the screen inside the spaceship. Carol flies closer to the laboratory only to realize there's a loading dock for incoming ships. Once secured inside, you five leave the ship in curiosity.

"Are we alone?" you ask when you walk into the main room. Across the room is the Tesseract connected to a big machine, and you walk closer to it with tears in your eyes. This is what you've been waiting for for almost one hundred centuries. "I can't believe after all this time, it's been here. I thought this was in the ocean."

"Is that it? The core?" Maria asks. 

"In her notes, she called it the Tesseract."

"This thing made me who I am today. This thing gave me my powers. This thing has been a pain in my ass this whole time!" you yell.

"It's okay," Carol whisper and puts her hand on your shoulder for comfort. 

"No, it's not okay, Carol. This thing needs to be destroyed. All this thing is going to cause is pain."

Carol understands where you were coming from, but in order to understand its power, it needed to be saved. She grabs the cube and throws it in the air only to catch it like it was a fucking baseball and not a killing machine. This thing killed your best friend and boyfriend. 

"Whoa. What was Lawson doing with all this kid stuff?" Maria asks and picks up a metal lunchbox.

Carol takes it from her, places the Tesseract inside, and locks it. You look around and take in your surroundings. There is something about this place, something off. On the glass table near the corner of the room is a mug with steaming hot tea in it.

You aren't alone.

"We're not alone."

Talos begins to sing loudly in his native tongue, and a swarm of scared Skrulls appears from their hiding places. An older one into the arms of Talos. If you had to assume, you'd guess that she is his wife, girlfriend, or sibling. 

"Talos!" 

"Soren," he sighs and hugs her tightly. 

"He didn't come for the Tesseract." Soren calls forth a child, probably her own, and the child makes herself known willingly. Talos leans down to get a better look at the child with a huge smile on his face. "This is his family."

"We didn't know what to do. Mar-Vell warned us not to send a signal for any reason or the Kree would find us," Soren explains painfully.

"You did the right thing," Talos whispers.

When the excitement of the family reunion wears off, Soren notices the group Talos came in with. She grabs her child and holds her protectively, even when Talos calms her down.

"It's okay, it's okay. She's alright. She's a friend. They all are."

"I'm not gonna hurt you. We're not going to hurt you," Carol says.

"They led me to you."

"I'm so sorry. I didn't know."

"If only I had known," you sniffle.

"Carol, Y/N, this is war. My hands are filthy from it, too, but we're here now. You two found my family. This is just the beginning. There are thousands of us separated from each other. Scattered throughout the galaxy."

Another Skrull child approaches Carol once she knows it's safe and took her hand. She directs her over to a pinball machine in the corner. The child points to the high score in glowing lights and points to herself to say she won that many points.

"If I played the same pinball machine for six years I'd have some high scores too," Fury comments.

Suddenly, the doors to the lab open and Yon-Rogg and his team march through with determination. Upon seeing the Kree, Fury draws his gun but Minn-Erva already had hers directed at him. She gestures to him to drop it and he has no choice but to listen. Talos put his family behind him but Yon-Rogg couldn't care less about them right now. No, he's only interested in you and Carol. Seeing his bitch-ass face makes you see red, and your eyes shine red like fire as your hands glow the same color.

"Fraternizing with the enemy? Don't be stupid, Y/N, you'll kill everyone here," he points out. It's true. If you used your powers, you'll blow this entire ship to pieces. "What did you do to your uniform?"

"They got in her head. Just like we thought," Minn-Erica says. 

"Oh, shut it, bitch," you growl.

"The Supreme Intelligence will set her straight," Korath says. 

"You can see they're not soldiers, let them go. You can have me," Talos tries negotiating.

"And the core?"

"You lied to me," Carol glares. 

"I made you a better version of yourself. What's given can be taken away," Yon-Rogg grins.

Carol tries as hard as she can to light up her fists, but they shortened out as if someone is controlling her powers from a distance. You notice something on her neck, something like a small device that is suppressing her powers. She doesn't know it's there or else she'd have taken it off a long time ago.

You turn to the other Kree and give them a malicious grin.

"I may not be able to use my fire power, but I have other ones."

The air around all of the Kree's heads begins to thin out while the air in the room stays the same. If they can't breathe, they can't fight. All of them gasp for air and fall to the ground, and you have to hold back your laughter. You're too busy focusing on them that you don't see Yon-Rogg sneak up behind you. He stabs something in the back of your neck, eliminating your powers for the moment.

"I've been waiting for this moment since I first saw you," he whispers.

He turns the device on and sends shockwaves down your body. With both you and Carol out of commission, the Kree can finally get what they came here to get.

When you wake up, you're not in Mar-Vell's ship anymore. No, you're in an all too familiar room with endless glossy floors and lights that descend from above. The man with jet-black hair stands in the middle of the room. Why does he look so familiar? When you think back to where you might know him, your head gets fuzzy and you get the worst headache ever.

Someone or something removed those memories from your head.

"There she is. I've got to say, I'm quite disappointed in you," the Supreme Intelligence says.

"There is no honor. The promise you made to me about honor and responsibilities is all a lie."

"Despite that, you performed well. You got us to the enemy. Thanks to you and jazz hands, those insidious shapeshifters will threaten our borders no more."

"I can't believe I ever thought the Kree would have the ability to change their ways. You're just as bad as Ronan. The Skrulls are just fighting for a home. You want to destroy them for what? Not submitting to your rules? Well, Carol and I won't do it."

You run at the man to attack him, but you go flying into the wall behind you with a flick of his wrist. You stick to the wall like glue so you're not going anywhere.

"It's cute how hard you try," he chuckles. "We needed you on this mission so you could lead us to the Tesseract. The power inside your veins wouldn't allow you to stay away. Plus, it is what you were looking for, yeah? You want to learn more about who you are and what Markus put into your body."

"How do you know about Markus?"

You slide through the sticky wall and come out on the other side where you can watch your memories play back in front of you.

"We know more than you think."

Each memory is of when Markus put you through each element trial. Through it all, the evil look on Markus' face never went away.

"You're no better than him," you turn to face the Supreme Intelligence.

"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."

Okay, you're done with this shit. You need to escape or else he will keep you here for as long as he wants. You need to escape if you want to help the Skrulls win this war.

"Do you know what the difference between me and Carol is?" The fire within you heats up slowly, and your skin glows with the embers of a thousand fires. "You've been able to control her through the device you slapped on her neck, am I right? Well, news flash, bitch, you can't control me."

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[theshaddowedsnow]

Know what I should do? Write more House of M fanfic

Not like, super serious fanfic no no

Family fluff and shenanigans. Viv, Billy and Tommy dragging Luna with them on wacky adventures. TJ randomly showing up sometimes. Charles and Erik being in love and married.

David having 0 clue who Tommy is but also Knowing He's a Big Deal and then meeting his family and Panicking because wow his boyfriend is hot AND part of the Mutant Royal Family™️

"Political" marriage between the Kree-Skrull Alliance and Genosha with Teddy and Billy meeting and falling in love and Anelle and Erik discussing and agreeing that they are adorable

Fun stuff!

[randomidiocyncrazies]

if anyone has canon material or fic/headcanons that explore how the Kree-Skrull Alliance and Teddy's court actually works, please please please hit me up!

I think there's so much story potential for the whole set-up, and there are multiple ways to approach it~

[heckcareoxytwit]

A preview of Captain Marvel #6

CAPTAIN MARVEL #6

BATTLE FOR THE BANDS! It’s a Captain Marvel showdown! With Carol Danvers and her unwitting sidekick Yuna Yang continuing to slip his grasp, Genis-Vell goes after his half brother, Hulkling—and the altered Nega-Bands in his and Wiccan’s wedding rings! Plus, the thread of the Omen’s mystery begins to unravel—only to get tangled in Yuna’s personal life!

LEGACY #190

Written by: Alyssa Wong Art by: Ruairí Coleman Cover by: Stephen Segovia Page Count: 28 Pages Release Date: March 20, 2024

[saintknightley]

thank you so much for your BillyTeddy reading guide! i'm honestly so desperate for worldbuilding and culture on the Kree Skrull Alliance stuff (lol) and really appreciate your comments on the spreadsheets :) Do you have any headcanons about what society is like for the average citizen, and what kind of storylines or themes you'd be interested with the alliance/empire as the setting?

Thank you so much!!! I’m glad it was helpful and you liked my comments. I hope you enjoyed.

Also good question! The Kree and Skrull are both very interesting to me. I think there’s a lot of potential in exploring what the Kree Skrull Alliance would be like like how do two groups who have been at war for thousands of years reconcile… how are the average citizens dealing with the tensions and the cultures are sharing and merging. And the new foods and fashion etc. For the average citizen I think there would be some people who would really embrace the change and the end of the war try to get along, live a more peaceful life. There’d be people who are more distrustful at first too so I guess it would be a process 🤔 I like the idea there’s new holidays and ceremonies too.

I think in general also the Skrull especially would probably embrace their more technological and scientific past… like an age of new discovery and the sharing of technology to make something new :) Stepping away from militarism and the like. I think that’s something Teddy would definitely want to move towards in his ruling and it would be a nice way to continue the legacy of his father rejecting the Kree’s military and the like - trying to make a more accepting civilisation.

From that I do think a book about Teddy dealing with the pressures of ruling and the political intrigue and factions would be interesting. It’s a position he didn’t necessarily want but he’s trying his best at so there’s a lot of personal and emotional conflict there + how Billy helps support him through it. And yeah with this I would also like to see the daily life of the civilians and their concerns. Honestly I think there’s a lot of potential and it’s kind of sad Marvel hasn’t done much with it still like this is such a large change to the status quo of the cosmos there’s so many directions you could take it.

Got a bit long but I’ll leave you with: if you do want some more lore I recommend reading the Kree-Skrull War storyline from the 70s (Avengers #89-97). There’s also early Skrull stuff throughout Fantastic Four and Kree stuff in Captain Marvel vol. 1 if you��re ever curious :)

[scarlet--wiccan]

Hey! Why was Wanda called “the Pretender” during the Krakoa era and how did it even come about? I’m not interested in reading Krakoa era X-Men, but I do like Scarlet Witch. I know it has to do with House of M and all that, but I thought it was put to bed during Uncanny Avengers so I’m a little confused why Wanda and House of M led to her being called the Pretender years later. Plus did Magneto have anything to say about it?

Wanda's treatment regarding the Decimation has never been consistent. Children's Crusade and AvX repaired a lot of the damage that had been done to her character, but she definitely backslid during Remender's run on Uncanny Avengers, and an overall negative perception of her persisted, especially among X-Men fans and writers, for the rest of the decade.

The Decimation became topical again in the early days of Krakoa. With the dawn of mutant resurrection, past genocides and extinction events were a frequent topic of conversation, and living mutants who had been affected by the Decimation were given the option of voluntarily dying so that they could be "restored." At the same time, members of Krakoa's unelected government, such as Exodus and Apocalypse, were focused on shaping culture, and this is where we started to see a more mythologized account of the Decimation, in which Wanda-- a "false mutant"-- is depicted as an insidious "Pretender."

Culty!

So Wanda becomes an enemy of the state, and we see over the next two or so years that everybody on Krakoa hates her and is totally bought into the Pretender narrative. There's a particularly clunky bit of dialogue in Way of X where we see mutants using her name as a slur. It gets so bad that Teddy, as the new leader of Kree-Skrull Alliance, refuses trade negotiations with Krakoa because of the insult to his mother-in-law.

And, fine, it makes sense that a lot of mutants would have very strong feelings about the Decimation. But it's abundantly clear, throughout this period, that Krakoan leadership is using Wanda as a boogieman figure to cultivate Krakoan nationalism and weird, pseudo-religious fervor about resurrection. All of this feels particularly sinister when you remember that Emma Frost took a psychic testimony from Wanda in Children's Crusade. She and Cyclops, who are both on the Krakoan Council, could have used that information to clear Wanda's name years ago and worked with her to provide restorative justice, something Wanda has repeatedly proven herself committed to doing.

So, what'd Magneto do about it? Not much. Rather than speak up on Wanda's behalf, he allowed his colleagues on the Council to continue dragging her name through the mud and exploiting the collective trauma of the Decimation for political ends. After catching major shade from an Alliance diplomat, he arranged a secret meeting with Wanda and the two of them reconciled in private. Magneto told Wanda about Krakoan resurrection, which, at the time, was a state secret, and Wanda hatched a plan to stage her own, very public death on Krakoa in order to gain access to the resurrection system from inside. This allowed her to enhance the resurrection process in such a way that it became much easier to heal Decimation victims and recover mutants who might have otherwise fallen through the system's cracks. These improvements played a vital role in saving mutantkind and resurrecting the Phoenix during the fall of Krakoa-- and Wanda's stunt played out in such a way that the Council had no choice but to clear her name.

This all happens in a miniseries called Trial of Magneto, whcih came out in 2021. For the rest of the Krakoan era, Wanda had a much better relationship with mutants, and so far, it seems like the Decimation has, actually, finally, been put to rest.

[csolarstorm]

The Secret Invasion Finale, The Bloated MCU, and the Hollywood Strikes

Well, that was the minimum Marvel could have done to close out "Secret Invasion". Because it was a short episode. A short episode ending a short series. But at least the stage is set for Captain America: Brave New World. I mean, The Marvels. Oh, also Armor Wars. And MI-13, I guess?

Why is everything in the MCU setup now?! C'mon Marvel, finish the arc in front of you before you start a new one! You still haven't started Young Avengers after introducing like a dozen potential members!

Sonya Falsworth finally got her moment. She turned out to be...more setup for a future project! *looks it up* MI-13? British Avengers? Why, Marvel Studios?

Should've known. Valentina cameo'd in two projects and played a "role" in Wakanda Forever, and she's still a blank slate. At least Falsworth had a fun scene where she tortured a guy. Wait.

Is the MCU horrible? I mean, like, ethically.

Marvel Studios did a big disservice to this series. This show had a few of the best written scenes in the MCU, and I doubt that these same writers wanted to write scenes like General "I like dogs better" Gravik blaming Fury for making him kill humans, or Fury simply asking Vaara to "take him back" without any explanation after the heartbreaking finality of their shootout in Beloved.

The whole premise of the Skrulls blaming Fury for abandoning them for SABER never worked, because SABER is a space station. Where Fury works with more Skrulls. A breakdown in communication here does not make any sense. This plotline where Fury apparently avoided Talos and the Skrulls counsel makes no sense.

What makes more sense is that Fury and the Skrulls were working for each other's best interests on SABER, and that's how he found out that the Kree were open to peace talks. This show doesn't mesh with the arc it's supposed to continue.

The MCU opted to humanize Skrulls. They wanted to avoid the trope of the sinister bodysnatcher because of its roots in the Red Scare and antisemitism.

The problem is, they also wanted a Secret Invasion project, so they needed to have their cake and eat it too. This show is at it's best when it's completely ignoring the bodysnatcher plot and instead talking with confused, grieving refugees who just want to live as themselves. The writers didn't want to do a bodysnatcher plot. They avoided or discounted almost every convention of the genre. The only instance of a Skrull replacing a main character came at the cost of the characterization of the Skrull themselves.

Honestly, the show should have been about Fury and Rhodey (the real one) falling victim to paranoia, causing them to fear the Skrulls and each other. Just like that Twilight episode where a blackout turns a whole neighborhood against each other. Make it a show about the dangers of xenophobia and how it can destroy friendships and alliances.

There are tons of great alternative pitches for the show like this, but when it came down to it, Marvel Studios clearly wanted a specific story with clear villains and most importantly, an Avenger replaced with a Skrull like in the comics. And I think they cut up what was probably a perfectly good script to make it fit the formula.

Marvel Studios does not have it together. Disney does not have it together. The big studios do not have it together. This show is a perfect example of why we need to support the Writers and Actors strikes. The creative talent should not have to pay for the management blunders of the streaming wars. Support the writers, the actors, and especially the effects teams, even though they're not unionized and can't strike, which is a whole other ethical issue. Support the WGA and the SAG-AFTRA strikes!

The MCU wasn't ready for a Secret Invasion plotline. Marvel Studios wasn't invested in adapting the actual comic. But they still shoehorned it in there for more content, inevitably making headaches for their writers, their effects artists, and probably their actors too. And the intro used AI.

You used to be cool, Marvel Studios.