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Will Hulking Unite The Kree and Skrull for Marvel's Empyre?

Published Thu, 19 Dec 2019 08:00:26 -0600

Marvel Comics released a trailer for a new event kicking off in April 2020, dubbed Empyre. In the trailer, courtesy of CB Cebulski's very expressive face, through the blackout blinds we got a glimpse of the word KREE and a writer, AL EWING. That was all.

It was enough to recall this teaser from the upcoming Incoming from Marvel out next week. Which we interpreted as Hulking, a superhero of both Kree and Skrull heritage, holding a sword aloft and looking a bit like Conan.

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While Diabolik looks down on them all. One will unite them? One will unite the Skrull and the Kree? Into, perhaps, an Empyre? Good to know that typos are cosmic.

Created by Allan Heinberg and Jim Cheung in Young Avengers #1 in 2005, Hulkling was originally planned to be a female character. According to Tom Brevoort, "Originally, Allan pitched Hulkling as a female character using her shape-changing abilities to pose as a man. I suspect this was as close as Allan felt he could get to depicting an openly gay relationship in a Marvel comic. But as we got underway… he started to have second thoughts and approached me about maintaining Hulkling and Wiccan as two involved male characters."

Originally his conflicts with the Super-Skrull were to bring Hulkling back to the Skrull Empire so that he may unify his people. However, Kree soldiers arrive to take Teddy as one of their own. A battle erupts between the Kree and the Skrull. Hulking ended the conflict by surrendering himself. It was arranged that he spend half an Earth-year with the Kree and the other half with the Skrull, at which time he would declare his ultimate allegiance. However, the Hulking that left Earth was actually the Super-Skrull in disguise. With Hulking remaining on Earth.

Eventually, a small group of Kree–Skrull hybrids arrive on Earth and kidnap Hulking so that he can assume his position as king and unite the two warring alien races. Hulking gains the Excelsior soul-sword of the prior king and uses it to defeat ghost wizard Moridun but announces that he has commitments to protect Earth and will return to fulfill his destiny if and when he is ready.