Comments on: A Few Thoughts on Skrulls

By: Flyndaran

Flyndaran — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 17:31:46 +0000

Why not the idea that the DNA can only split one way. Either you get all the kryptonian chromosomes or all the human ones.
Hey it makes sense for the one mule in recent history that procreated with a horse and donkey respectively. Talk about weird offspring.

By: Dizzy D

Dizzy D — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 17:37:38 +0000

This reminds me of the competing portrayals of Kryptonian descendents. Morrison, for one, seems to prefer that Superman’s descendents retain all his powers, and possibly get even more powerful. I’ve always thought John Byrne’s vision from an Elseworlds Annual was more realistic, where a Kryptonian’s descendents get *less* powerful with each generation, as they’ll have a smaller percentage of Kryptonian genes and a lot more human.

In Morrison’s case though, Superman’s descendants are getting more powerful because they haven’t been procreating with regular humans for the most part, but with beings like 5-D Imps and because Superman himself is empowering them by staying within the sun.

By: Loren

Loren — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 16:08:23 +0000

Judging by “Skrull Kill Krew,” and the folks who developed shapechanging abilities just from eating Skrull-burgers, I’d say that the necessary threshhold of Skrullness is pretty low.

Of course, the folks in that series had certain limitations to their shapeshifting, and also developed terminal neurological diseases, so there was a downside.

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 16:03:34 +0000

There was one FF annual where people gained shape-changing powers (and, more dubiously, if such a thing can be said in comics, the “warlike Skrull mentality”) from drinking milk lactated by Skrulls who’d been hypnotized into transforming into cows.

Then there’s the Skrull Kill Krew ….. Skrull DNA appears to be like a virus.

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 15:50:22 +0000

Thanks, I thought I had read that somewhere, but I couldn't recall which comic. Maybe Skrulls are like Swamp Thing and only have organs because they think they need them (referring to the classic "Anatomy Lesson" story from Saga of the Swamp Thing #21)

By: Chickeninja

Chickeninja — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 15:32:25 +0000

One instance of a Skrull being described as having organs was in anissues of Runaways, where the Skrull character Xavain is able to survive a wound by “shifting [his] organs around”, allowing him to avoid any major organ trauma.