Fantastic Four 400 (1995) . Even the Watchers can Die! . Written by Tom DeFalco Penciled by Paul Ryan Inked by Danny Bulanadi Colors by John Kalisz Lettered by Jim Novak . The Fantastic Four and the Fantastic Force ended up in a war between the Celestials and the Watchers. They split the two teams in order to fight Aron, the Rogue Watcher, to save the Milky Way and to aid the Watchers against the Celestials. In the end, Invisible Woman managed to destroy Exciter (Exterminator Celestial), right after it had destroyed the One (main Watcher). She then convinced Uatu to help them defeat Aron, which he did. However, as this violated his sacred Oath, Uatu was banned from the Watchers… . #fantasticforce #fantasticfour #thing #invisiblewoman #aron #uatu #celestial #exitar #watchers #kristoff #humantorch #arishem #huntara #paulryan #psilord #lyja #antman #skrull #90s https://www.instagram.com/p/Cd3G-NJspCS/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
don’t know if this is an unpopular opinion but making the kree skrull “war” really simplified and swapping the antagonist was a dumb choice. i’m all for nice sympathetic skrulls but they are supposed to be a really powerful alien empire making them weak is weird i can’t even fathom them having royalty
still excited for secret wars tho. i just know it’s going to effect the movies in the long run. i hope they do the kree-skrull alliance but would that even work in the mcu if the skrull are supposed to be a metaphor for refugees
That’s not entirely fair. The Skrulls were weak in comparision to other big empires for like 30 years of marvels publication. Their Empire crumbled in 83 and was not restored until 2014 after which they were still at a fraction of their power and Kl'rt literally refers to them as living like refugees to Kamala until they merged with the krees Empire in 2020. With the exception of a brief period were S'Byll ruled the skrulls with seemingly similiar capabilities to her predecessors early on during that period which was then just kinda forgotten and ignored by later writers, the skrulls were pretty much a bunch of factions that could threaten heroes or earth, but they were mostly none factors in galactic politics and hopelessly outmatched against the kree, who were dominant force until their destruction in 92 and then again after 2004 after their restoration. The skrulls are due to this missing from most cosmic marvel events such as the Annihiliation, that wiped out most that remained, Conquest, which only has Super-Skrull, War of Kings or the Realm of Kings.
The Secret Invasion was suggested to essentially be one last ditch effort to take earth because they had no planets from at least a thousand left at that point.
The real problem is that the kree skrull conflict was dumbed down into a simplistic battle of good vs evil, when it was most of the times treated with a lot more nuance and both species have both allied and battled with heroes against greater threats.
Also honestly not expecting much from Secret Invasion for long term effects. I think this is going to be self contained and wrap up within its run with only a few character introductions mattering in the long run. It’s probably going to be the Nick Fury show and that’s the end of it.
