{"id":1001210,"date":"2008-06-14T19:33:14","date_gmt":"2008-06-15T00:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/?p=1001210"},"modified":"2008-06-15T15:29:08","modified_gmt":"2008-06-15T20:29:08","slug":"whos-a-skrull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/pop-culture\/comic-books\/2008\/06\/14\/whos-a-skrull\/","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s a Skrull?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe I should have been paying more attention to the Avengers over the last few years. The Secret Invasion storyline is actually interesting. So far here&#8217;s who we know to be a Skrull:<\/p>\n<p>Warning: spoilers follow:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Electra<\/li>\n<li>Spiderwoman<\/li>\n<li>Jarvis<\/li>\n<li>Blackbolt<\/li>\n<li>Hank Pym<\/li>\n<li>Jarvis<\/li>\n<li>Dum Dum Dugan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Based on Bendis&#8217;s &#8220;shaky resurrection story&#8221; idea, here are some other likely candidates:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Captain Marvel<\/li>\n<li>Aunt May<\/li>\n<li>Iron Fist<\/li>\n<li>Hellcat (haven&#8217;t noticed her anywhere for a while)<\/li>\n<li>Magneto<\/li>\n<li>Colossus<\/li>\n<li>Norman Osborn<\/li>\n<li>In fact, pretty much any supervillain you care to name<\/li>\n<li>Ben Parker (the clone, not Uncle Ben) but he&#8217;s dead again now<\/li>\n<li>Green Arrow (wait, wrong company)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course the real problem with this story (and every other major universe shattering event&#8211;Civil War, World War Hulk, Annihilation, etc.) is that nothing can be allowed to seriously affect a major, profitable, movie-worthy character. All the confirmed Skrulls are minor, irrelevant characters who&#8217;ve never been able to keep0 a book going on their own. That&#8217;s how we know Tony Stark isn&#8217;t a Skrull (with the sole possible exception if the real Tony Stark is not dead, but in cold storage somewhere to be resurrected later.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe I should have been paying more attention to the Avengers over the last few years. The Secret Invasion storyline is actually interesting. So far here&#8217;s who we know to be a Skrull: Warning: spoilers follow:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comic-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}