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Episode 12 - Kree-Skrull War pt.3 - All's Fair in Kree and Skrull

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Episode 12: Kree-Skrull War pt3: All’s Fair in Kree and Skrull

Today we’ll be covering Avengers 95-97, the conclusion to the Kree-Skrull War

Dramatis Personae:

PROTAGONISTS
Anelle
Captain Marvel - Mar-Vell
Carol Danvers
Rick Jones

Avengers:

Captain America - Steve Rogers
Goliath - Clint Barton
Iron Man - Tony Stark
Jarvis
Quicksilver - Pietro Maximoff
Scarlet Witch - Wanda Maximoff
Thor - Thor Odinson
Vision
Wasp - Janet Van Dyne
Yellowjacket/Ant-Man - Hank Pym

S.H.I.E.L.D.:

Dum Dum Dugan
Nick Fury

Rick’s Simpler Heroes:

Captain America - Steve Rogers
Human Torch - Jim Hammond
Namor the Sub-Mariner
Blazing Skull - Mark Todd
The Vision - Aarkus
Fin - Peter Noble
Angel - Thomas Halloway
Patriot - Jeffrey Mace

Inhumans:

Black Bolt
Triton

Kree Empire:

Supreme Intelligence

ANTAGONISTS

H. Warren Craddock
Mandroids

Skrull Empire:

Emperor Dorrek VII
Super-Skrull - Kl’rt

Kree Empire:

Ronan the Accuser
Sentry 459

Inhumans:

Maximus the Mad

Preface:

  • We’ve been covering this story in three parts, this is part two
  • If you’re new, we recommend starting with the prior episode
  • Empyre is coming up and all of that drama starts with the Kree-Skrull War

    • Avengers 95: “Something Inhuman This Way Comes”

    • Best opening splash page in a long time, Triton looks EXCELLENT
    • Unfortunately, he gets chased by a mob
    • Triton arrives at Avengers Mansion as they are fighting the Mandroids
    • Vision has conflicting emotions
    • Flashback of Blackagar and Maximus parents being accidentally killed because MAXIMUS IS EVIL and this, somehow, is how we ended up with Mad Max
    • Vision’s group rejoins the rest of the Avengers to rescue Black Bolt
    • Black Bolt regains the crown
    • Rick Jones is abducted by the Kree

      • Avengers 96: “The Andromeda Swarm”

      • The Avengers, fully reunited, land at a S.H.I.E.L.D. Space Base where Nick Fury gives them a ship to intercept the Skrull Armada
      • Tony tries to gossip about Vision and Wanda but nobody has time for that
      • The Avengers use a trick where their ship visually looks like a whole armada but it ends up only showing as a single ship on radar, so a single Skrull ship investigates
      • Iron Man thirst poses aggressively at the Skrull
      • Thor, Vision, and Iron Man take on the lone ship
      • Meanwhile, Captain Marvel has agreed to work on the Omni-Wave Projector for the King Dorrek VII in order to save Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch
      • Mar is tricksy and instead made a holographic projector, and ambushes the guards. Dorrek panics and orders “Execute Plan Delta”
      • Vision has a TNG: Data moment and nearly beats a guard to death, but Iron Man and Thor pull him off
      • Leather Daddy Clint is the sole Avenger left in a fightercraft so he boards the ship, but runs out of ideas
      • Ronan villain monologues to Rick Jones but Rick is teleported to the Supreme Intelligence
      • Supreme Intelligence explains that it’s been behind everything the whole time…
      • Supreme Intelligence then shunts Rick back to the Negative Zone

        • Avengers 97: “Godhood’s End!”

        • Rick ponders life in the Negative Zone, visually excellent
        • Annihilus attacks
        • Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch buy Captain Marvel time to use the Omni-Wave
        • Anelle tries to convince Dorrek to chill, but he’s never been chill about anything
        • Mar destroys the Omni-Wave
        • Rick escapes the Negative Zone through a portal, the Supreme Intelligence informs that it’s now time for Rick to glow up
        • Ronan, Public Accuser tries to murder Rick and the Supreme Intelligence but Rick summons a ton of old Marvel heroes to fight for him
        • Rick then deus ex machina’s all Kree and Skrull by freezing them all in place
        • G.W. Craddock was a skrull all along and when that is revealed the crowd vents their rage, tearing him limb from limb
        • Supreme Intelligence tells Rick that Rick isn’t important, any ol’ human would have done
        • Captain Marvel thinks about Anelle. This brief moment is the entire basis for Empyre… one sentence… that’s it
        • Supreme Intelligence teleports everyone home, real Craddock clears the Avengers of all charges and… that’s it

          • Creators of these issues:

          Roy Thomas, Neal Adams, John Buscema, Tom Palmer, Sam Rosen, Alan Weiss, Gil Kane, Bill Everett, Stan Lee

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