Quick Looks: Skrull Organs and Broken Bones

February 8th, 2007

Filed under: Comics, Medicine

Pursuant to our discussion of Skrulls and Skrullness a couple of weeks ago: according to the recent Heroes for Hire #3, it takes the transplant of a Skrull organ (any organ) to gain Skrull shapeshifting abilities.

Scene from Heroes for Hire #5
Heroes for Hire #5 written by Gray and Palmiotti, pencils by Portela

Scene from Midnighter #3Scene from Midnighter #3
Midnighter #3 written by Ennis, pencils (in this scene) by Sprouse

I’ve talked about the different types of broken bones before (twice). From Midnighter #3, here is a good example of an open fracture (once called a compound fracture). You’ll notice that the bone in question (a femur in this case) has not only fractured, but also broken through the skin.

That’s a set up for a nasty infection, even if you do have rhino genes.

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5 Responses to “ Quick Looks: Skrull Organs and Broken Bones ”

  1. cube
    February 9th, 2007 at 11:12 am

    Wait, so Skrull organs are just innately comaptible with human ones? Huh, what are the chances of that, we can barely transplant gorilla or pig parts without heavy complications, to the best of my recollection. Shapeshifting indeed.

  2. braincraft
    February 10th, 2007 at 8:00 am

    Well, according to Reed Richards, Skrull cells are like mutant super stem cells and are compatible with everything.

  3. Chris Arndt
    February 13th, 2007 at 6:57 pm

    Braincraft… is right.

    Although I do recall one wierd bit in the Skrull canon… where the New Mutants encountered a bunch of Skrulls who had been locked into their forms at the time… as all Skrulls were in the MU at the time…. but these Skrulls had full Skrull intellect (about average human I imagine)

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  5. Peaches
    June 23rd, 2008 at 10:10 pm

    I know this is a year late, but what did she do to crack her FEMUR right through the skin?!!

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