Captain Marvel: 9 Things You Need To Know About The Skrulls
5. The Skrulls Fought An Epic War With The Kree
Captain Marvel will also see the retrospective return of the Thanos-defying, Infinity Stone-meddling Ronan the Accuser, who was the main villain of the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie. Ronan was one of the more radical members of the Kree race, and the Kree's history is tightly interwoven with that of the Skrulls'.
The Kree fought a humongous war with the Skrulls, which began in the more peaceful, pre-Celestial times of Skrull occupancy. In this period of history, the Skrulls offered the Kree and their planetary neighbors, the Cotati, an even chance of a seat on the Interplanetary Council.
The Kree lost out and so, like any bad loser, went on an all out killing spree against the Skrull. And so began a galaxy-spanning war which Planet Earth unfortunately found itself tangled up in during the Kree-Skrull War - a seminal Cold War text written by Roy Thomas, and drawn by Sal and John Buscema, as well as Neal Adams.
It wasn't until the Illuminati, a secret superhero group consisting of the more cerebral Marvel Heroes, such as Xavier, Doctor Strange, and Tony Stark, took a firm stance and demanded that both empires leave Planet Earth out of their cosmic scuffles.