Skrull Kill Krew

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The Skrull Kill Krew were a short-lived fictional group from Marvel Comics with their own limited series published in 1995 and collected in one volume in 2006. The characters were created by Grant Morrison, Mark Millar and Steve Yeowell, based on events and persons created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.

1 Plot
2 Membership
3 Trivia
4 Publication
5 External links

[edit] Plot

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The Fantastic Four, at the beginning of their superhero career (in FF#2) defeated a group of Skrull spies and brainwashed them into becoming cows, and retaining that form for life. Though the Skrull-cows at one point had regained their memories, and one was killed, the other three were turned over to the U.S. government and restored to cows in shape and mind.

They were then (apparently by accident) shipped to a slaughterhouse and butchered as beef. Some of the meat eaten by people transferred the Skrull's adaptable DNA code into the human's cells, resulting in a bizarre condition called Skrullovoria Induced Skrullophobia, in which these individuals not only gained shape-shifting powers equal to, or greater than, actual Skrulls, but also developed an intense fear or hatred of Skrulls. Only a small number of humans proved susceptible to this syndrome, and most did not survive the initial stages of infection. But several people who proved somewhat longer-lived (though still dying) were gathered together by a man known only as Ryder, who was himself a victim of the disease, to act out their increasingly irrational impulses to seek out and destroy the ones who did this to them (by "letting" themselves get turned into cows), usually by graphically "blowing away" the Skrulls with high-powered weapons.

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[edit] Membership

Ryder - Leader and founder. In addition to shapeshifting, he can teleport, has enhanced strength and reflexes, and carries lots of firearms. He prefers to animate his hair into snakelike tentacles.

Catwalk - Former fashion model who transforms into a feline humanoid form. In this shape she has enhanced athletic abilities, with claws and fangs.

Dice - Former surfer. He can breathe underwater and transform his limbs into weapons which project explosive blasts.

Riot - Punk Rocker. Turns into an armored insectoid form that resembles a Xenomorph from the film Aliens. In this form she has great strength and sharp spines.

Moonstomp - British Neo-Nazi skinhead. Hates Skrulls so much that he's willing to work with Ryder (a black man) even though he feels like he's compromising his "values" in doing so. He has some shapeshifting powers, but prefers to bash his foes with a normal claw hammer. During the series, his degenerative condition worsens, causing him to develop patches of dark skin, which displeases him immensely.

[edit] Trivia

Note: The concept of DNA from the Skrullcows turning people into shape-shifters had been previously explored in a Fantastic Four arc, in which the population of King's Crossing, a small dairy town, were affected by milk from the cows. (FF Annual #17)