Six Worst Moments in Skrull Invasion History

[Rick Marshall]

Remind me again why everyone is so worried about the Skrulls?

http://www.comicmix.com/news/2008/04/02/comicmix-six-worst-moments-in-skrull-invasion-history/

[Push You Down]

Funny because it's true.

The Skrulls are kind of harmless and STUPID!

[Tobias Drake]

I'm surprised the Skrull cows weren't one of the six.

[gorthon616]

Remind me again why everyone is so worried about the Skrulls?

http://www.comicmix.com/news/2008/04/02/comicmix-six-worst-moments-in-skrull-invasion-history/

Because they might make me laugh while I'm drinking my coffee..... ouch. :mad:

[rwe1138]

I thought Reed showed the Skrulls old issue of the Marvel "monster" comics to scare them away in their first appearance.

[Tobias Drake]

In the horror movies' defense, MU Earth kinda has a plausible case there. Reed can show them Fin Fang Foom, show them Carnage, show them the Mandarin, then say, "This is what we have to put up with on a day to day basis. You SURE you want to move in?"

[Shellhead]

In the horror movies' defense, MU Earth kinda has a plausible case there. Reed can show them Fin Fang Foom, show them Carnage, show them the Mandarin, then say, "This is what we have to put up with on a day to day basis. You SURE you want to move in?"

They weren't movies, they were early silver age monster comics, meaning the style of artwork wasn't even remotely realistic. You would think that a race that was advanced enough to do interstellar travel would be interested in more plausible evidence than artistic renderings.

And yeah, this should have been one of the top two on that list, along with Reed turning those skrulls into cows.

[TotalWorldDomination]

They weren't movies, they were early silver age monster comics, meaning the style of artwork wasn't even remotely realistic. You would think that a race that was advanced enough to do interstellar travel would be interested in more plausible evidence than artistic renderings.

And yeah, this should have been one of the top two on that list, along with Reed turning those skrulls into cows.

see, the cows wasn't there fault though (as far as I understand it). the rest of these things? there fault. totaly there fault.

[Jackob]

They weren't movies, they were early silver age monster comics, meaning the style of artwork wasn't even remotely realistic. You would think that a race that was advanced enough to do interstellar travel would be interested in more plausible evidence than artistic renderings.

And yeah, this should have been one of the top two on that list, along with Reed turning those skrulls into cows.

they were as realistic as the people holding them

[The Deadpool]

Best line:

"On a side note, after discovering that their teammate had been replaced by a Skrull, none of the X-Men freaked out and immediately assumed that the entire Earth was already under invasion. Maybe they're just less paranoid than the Avengers."

Amen...

Also bothers me that Gambit got a Skrull detection device from Sinister during that mess...

[TotalWorldDomination]

Best line:

"On a side note, after discovering that their teammate had been replaced by a Skrull, none of the X-Men freaked out and immediately assumed that the entire Earth was already under invasion. Maybe they're just less paranoid than the Avengers."

Amen...

Also bothers me that Gambit got a Skrull detection device from Sinister during that mess...

well clearly sinister was a skrull, thus the device didn't realy work. Or something like that. I'm tired.

[Jeff-X]

well clearly sinister was a skrull, thus the device didn't realy work. Or something like that. I'm tired.

That would explain how Mystique killed him so easily.

Which brings us to the next argument, if he was a Skrull why didn't he change back into a Skrull when he died? Well, suppose he fell face down and no one turned him over to check.

[Kistler]

That was my bad on the monster movies, guys. In the 90s cartoon adaptation, Reed used monster films rather than comics and for whatever reason that's what came out in my memory when I was typing up the article. My fault. :-)

BTW, the reason the cow scene isn't mentioned is because that wasn't really the Skrulls idea to become cows. This list involved Skrull ideas, schemes and plans. The fact that Reed embarrased them fits into a different category.

[Charles RB]

They weren't movies, they were early silver age monster comics, meaning the style of artwork wasn't even remotely realistic. You would think that a race that was advanced enough to do interstellar travel would be interested in more plausible evidence than artistic renderings.


Did they ever retcon it to have Reed showing them film footage of the giant monsters that really did stomp around the Earth in 50s Marvel?

[Optimus]

"Anyone with me on this plan? No? Screw it, let's just replace Elektra and see if anyone notices."

Bwah ha ha!

[Eumenides]

This article was priceless. It really takes the edge off all the Secret Invasion hype.

You would think that a race that was advanced enough to do interstellar travel would be interested in more plausible evidence than artistic renderings.

But remember H.G. Wells initiated this proud sci-fi tradition of creating dumb super-intelligent invading aliens:

"... as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water."

And yet the Martians, who "calculated their descent with amazing subtlety", with "mathematical learning", and "carried out their preparations with a well-nigh perfect unanimity", never noticed in all the centuries spying us that humans seemed to die from invisible, microscopic creatures in the air and that a vaccine might be useful. And so the Martians arrived in unanimity but without immunity.

So can you really complain about Lee and Kirby, if the daddy of sci-fi screwed up even worse?

[TheAmazingSpidey]

That was fun to read. :)