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aka: MCU Ronan

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Spoilers for all works set prior to the end of Avengers: Endgame are unmarked.

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The Kree

In General

The Kree

Appearances: Guardians of the Galaxy | Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. | Captain Marvel | What If...? | Secret Invasion | The Marvels

A race of mostly blue-skinned aliens with a powerful interstellar empire. Long expansionist, the Kree have waged wars with other races and cultures in the galaxy, particularly the Nova Corps. They also have a history of conducting experiments on alien races to build armies of super-powered beings.

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• Absolute Xenophobe: In the face of Kree expansion and imperialism, other races are given two choices: Submission or extermination.
• Adaptational Villainy: In the comics, the Kree are a paranoid and highly militaristic state who have legitimate grievances with the Skrulls, and have joined forces with the heroes against a common threat quite a few times. In the movies, the Kree are unapologetic imperialists who enslave and slaughter entire populations for their own gain and pursue the Skrulls simply because they won't submit to them.
• Always Chaotic Evil: With very few exceptions, all Kree (at least the military branch) are shamelessly imperialistic, warlike, and just downright brutal bastards.
• Amazing Technicolor Population: Most of the Kree seen are blue, which in the comics is the original base race, though there is a subset with a variety of human-like skin tones such as Yon-Rogg and Korath, which is what allows the Kree to convince the amnesiac human Carol Danvers that she is also a Kree. The blue-skinned Kree also change color to human tones when exposed to nitrogen, which can allow even the blue Kree to infiltrate human society.
• Ambiguous Situation: Guardians of the Galaxy makes a reference to a "Kree Emperor" who signed the Empire's peace treaty with the Nova Corps, while Captain Marvel, set over twenty years earlier, shows the Supreme Intelligence to be the Empire's head of state. Given the Supreme Intelligence's status as a non-corporeal A.I., the time gap between the two films, and Captain Marvel's vow to destroy the Supreme Intelligence, it's not clear if the Supreme Intelligence is the emperor in question, if the Kree underwent a regime change in the interim, or if something else entirely is going on. The Marvels (2023) eventually clarifies that Captain Marvel destroyed the Supreme Intelligence shortly after the events of Captain Marvel, kickstarting a civil war that eventually left Hala a dying world. The Kree Emperor that signed the treaty with the Nova Corps is likely the leader of one of its factions.
• Arch-Enemy: The thousand-year war they had with the Nova Empire that only just ended in 2014 has given both sides a hell of a grudge with the other, to say the least.
• Athens and Sparta: They are the Sparta to the Nova Empire's Athens.
• Badass Creed: Captain Marvel establishes they have one: "For the good of all Kree!"
• Believing Their Own Lies: The Kree truly believe their enemies, such as the Skrulls and Nova Empire to be the bad guys who want to destroy them, despite it being fabricated by the Supreme Intelligence and other high-ranking officials. Of course, Carol ended up discovering the truth.
• Beauty Is Bad: Tend to be easy on the eyes, regardless of the blue skin many of them possess. Doesn't change the fact that they're a genocidal and xenophobic race of conquerors.
• Bizarre Alien Biology: Kree physiology is much more complex than other sentient species, to where their blood can be used to revive other races with simpler physiology (such as with humans). But at the same time, they can't revive each other if their wound is lethal enough to kill them.
• Bystander Syndrome: In Guardians of the Galaxy, they refuse to aid in stopping Ronan when Nova Prime tries to ask for their help, with the Kree Ambassador pretty much stating it wasn't part of their treaty, so why should they care about what he does?
• Character Focus: While Guardians of the Galaxy and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. have them as important parts of the plot/backstory, Captain Marvel is the first work in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to specifically focus on them and their culture.
• Dark Is Evil: They're an empire of imperialistic and genocidal maniacs, and have spaceships/weapons that look like they're carved from either obsidian or coal.
• Dishing Out Dirt: A thematic case, with most of their older spacecraft (such as The Dark Aster used by Ronan the Accuser) looking like they're more carved from coal rather than made in factories. Furthermore, Orbital Bombardment in the form of Colony Drops is one of their favored strategies on the battlefield.
• The Empire: They invade and conquer other planets and races to expand their own territories.
• Enemy Civil War: The Kree ended up in one in the interim since the first film (thanks to Carol killing the Supreme Intelligence and throwing Hala's government into chaos).
• Establishing Character Moment: A species-wide version is given in Guardians of the Galaxy, the head of the Nova Corps, Irani Rael aka Nova Prime, tries to get the Kree to help them deal with Ronan's rampage against her people, practically pleading with them even. However, the Kree Ambassador dismiss their concerns, stating they only agreed to the treaty and what one of their own do is not their problem before cutting her off. Her line after that pretty much sums them up perfectly.
  Irani: Prick!
• Even Evil Has Standards: If Vin-Tak is to be believed, the Kree came to believe that they were wrong to create the Inhumans. However, this ultimately may have less to do with legitimate moral qualms and more to do with the fact that the experiment ultimately blew up in their face thanks to Hive (the first Inhuman the Kree created). In fact, Vin-Tak fears the rest of the Kree might continue their experiments once again should they find out about the existence of the Inhumans.
• Evil Counterpart: To the modern Asgardians, who use their military might benevolently to keep the peace in the Nine Realms and ward off invaders. By contrast, the Kree are only interested in cruel expansion. Though given the reveal of the Asgardians' bloody history of conquest in Thor: Ragnarok, they're Mirroring Factions.
  • With the Nova Empire. The Nova Empire uses the Nova Corps to preserve peace throughout space, and are associated with the color gold, while the Kree Empire is based on ruthless conquest, and associated with black.
• Evil Virtues: They seem to value loyalty, discipline and camaraderie towards their fellow Kree. Of course, they are still very ruthless and smug towards their enemies and non-Kree in general.
• Fantastic Racism: Virtually all Kree hold other races in contempt, particularly the Xandarians and Skrulls.
• Fantasy Counterpart Culture: On the surface, the Kree seem to just be the "Aliens as Nazis" variety of Scary Dogmatic Aliens, what with their Fantastic Racism, neo-fascist policies, and aggressive military expansionism. However, both Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Captain Marvel show them to ultimately be closer to Imperial Japan, what with their fanatical belief in a God-Emperor (here in the form of the Supreme Intelligence), practicing the brutal enslavement of "lesser races", and having long-lasting family dynasties that feel suicide attacks are the only proper penance for cowardice. Even the ancient Kree experiments that eventually resulted in the creation of the Inhumans have their roots in the infamous Unit 731 atrocities.
• Galactic Superpower: Like the comics, they're one of the top dogs in the greater universe, rivaled only by the Nova Empire and (formerly) the Asgardians. By The Marvels, they’re just a shadow of their former self.
• Greater-Scope Villain: Despite being a very prominent threat to the galaxy at large, the Kree Empire doesn't play that big a role in most of its appearances in the MCU, with Captain Marvel and The Marvels being the sole exceptions thus far.
  • In Guardians of the Galaxy, the Kree Empire does little to terrorize the Nova Corps or the aforementioned Guardians directly, with only Ronan being the main threat of the film. That being said, the Empire doesn't exactly dissuade Ronan from carrying out his savage brutality despite it being in their power to do so, even when Irani Rael demands they do something about him in an international call with the Kree Ambassador. The Empire also puts out a bounty for the titular Guardians sometime during the events of Vol. 2 for their involvement in Ronan's death, though it doesn't have any direct effect on the story.
  • In Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., the Kree Empire as a whole has never taken part in the show's events, but the aftermath of experiments a rogue group conducted on Earth, creating the Inhumans, has a massive impact on the series, and a few individual Kree act as major antagonists.
  • HYDRA was created to worship an Inhuman directly created by the Kree, meaning that not only the Kree are Greater-Scope Villains for HYDRA and so the Captain America franchise and a good portion of the MCU in general, but since every villain of the first three seasons of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and many other villains of other seasons are either HYDRA's members or allies, Inhumans or Inhumans hater (Nadeer, the Watchdogs) meaning that most of the bad things that happen in the series are in some way consequence of the Kree's actions. Going even more in-depth, Ratcliffe and Aida wouldn't be so much a treat if they are not allied with the Watchdogs, and Radcliffe join Shield only after the events with Hive, meaning that he wouldn't create Aida in the first place if he had not existed, Talbot becomes Graviton only because of Hydra's and Kree's actions, Sarge gains a body thanks to the energy of the Monoliths that was released by the explosion of a Kree device, leading to Izel's decision to gain herself a body and start her plan, destroying in the process the Chromicon's planet and leading them on their villainous path; that leaves Eli Morrow and Lucy Bauer as the only major villains of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. that are not related with the Kree in the first place.
• Green-Skinned Space Babe: Subverted, as, despite their blue skin and most of them looking attractive on the surface, their neo-fascism just makes them come across as hideous to everyone else.
• Hated by All: Being a racist, imperialistic race of aliens that strive to conquer most of the galaxy, it's no wonder that the rest of the galaxy despises them. In particular, Xandarians, humans, Skrulls, and Asgardians alike have expressed fear and/or hatred towards the Kree Empire over the course of the MCU.
• Healing Factor: They have this advantage in comparison to ordinary humans.
• How the Mighty Have Fallen: As a result of a decades long civil war after the destruction of the Supreme Intelligence, by the mid-2020s their empire and civilization is in ruins, their homeworld is dying and even their sun is going out.
• Laser-Guided Karma: After ages of conquering and subjugating other races, the Kree destroyed their own world in a civil war that erupted after the Supreme Intelligence was destroyed.
• Last Stand: As the Kree consider retreat to be tantamount to dereliction of duty, a Kree warrior that is about to be overrun is expected to make a Last Stand and "die with honor". Some noble lines use a Psycho Serum known as "the Odium", a concoction that will drive the drinker into a berserk fury but will ultimately kill them either way.
• Loophole Abuse: In 2014, the Kree Empire signed a peace treaty with the Nova Corps, which dictated that the Kree shall not deploy any military forces to attack or harm Xandar. However, the Kree Ambassador refuses to do anything about Ronan the Accuser's rogue attacks on Xandarian civilians, as he notes that a lone Defector from Decadence like him doesn't represent the Kree as a whole, and so doesn't count as an attack from them.
• Mad Scientist: A rogue faction of the Kree once experimented on alien races to make an army of super-beings who could assist them in their wars. Most of these were failures, but the experiments on Earth were successful, leading to the Inhumans.
• Misplaced Retribution: The Kree place the whole of the blame for the collapse of their empire and Hala becoming a dying planet entirely on Carol for killing the Supreme Intelligence, conveniently ignoring the fact that all of the actual damage was caused by the Kree themselves when they fought each other in a decades long civil war.
• Moral Myopia: The Kree's overall credo ("Kreedo", if you will) is "For the good of all Kree". What they consider "the good of all Kree" tends to come at the expense of other races, such as the Skrulls.
• A Nazi by Any Other Name: They are a fascist empire that see themselves as the supreme species, commit genocide on those they deem lesser, and lie to their people through constant propaganda. Sound familiar? Hell, the center part of their empire's symbol has enough similarities to be noticeable to a swastika!
• Never My Fault: The Kree place the entire blame for the state of their homeworld and civilization squarely on Carol, even though, by their own telling of the events, all she did to them was kill the Supreme Intelligence. The notion that they might bear some of the responsibility for fighting each other for 30 years in a civil war and destroying their own world doesn’t appear to even cross their minds.
• Planet Looters: The Kree exhausted the resources of their homeworld during the civil war, leaving it with no oceans, minimal atmosphere, and a dying star. Dar-Benn intends to use her bangle to open wormholes and siphon replacements from other planets.
• Proud Warrior Race Guy: The Kree are a very militarized species. In Guardians of the Galaxy, signing a peace treaty with Xandar caused massive discontent within the Kree Empire. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. further establishes that the Kree consider retreat to be the same as abandoning their posts, with Kasius and Sinara exiled for fleeing a losing battle.
• Rubber-Forehead Aliens: Most of them look virtually identical to humans, with the exception of primarily blue skin (though it can actually vary depending on the individual), purple eyes, and pointed ears.
• Scary Dogmatic Aliens: Of the Aliens As Nazis variety with some sprinkles of Imperial Japan. Their main symbol even resembles a swastika for extra points of subtlety.
• Slave Mooks: The Kree use "battle slaves" to supplement the ranks of their forces. Yondu was one such for 20 years.
• Slave Race: The Sakaarans are a client race of the Kree. The Inhumans would have been this, but they had other ideas. In the alternate Bad Future established by Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., it's indicated that the Kree enslaved humanity.
• The Spartan Way: They prefer not to let emotions get in the way of their military discipline.
• Star Killing: The Kree somehow drained their local star of its energy during their civil war, leaving it on the brink of its red giant phase. Dar-Benn intends to siphon off Earth's sun to refuel it. After that plan is foiled, Captain Marvel flies through their star and uses her energy to restore it.
• Strong as They Need to Be: In the films and the first three seasons of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., they have Asgardian levels of strength and durability. In later seasons of the show, however, they are about as vulnerable to conventional weapons as any ordinary human.
• Super-Strength: Enough for them to go toe-to-toe with Asgardians like Lady Sif.
• Super-Toughness: To the point where some can hold Infinity Stones for a limited period of time!
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: The Kree was a civilization that became dependent on an AI for over a millennium to make all of its political and military decisions. So when Carol destroyed the Supreme Intelligence shortly after the events of Captain Marvel (2019), Kree Empire descended into chaos and civil war in a short peroid of time.
• Villain Has a Point: For better or worse, Secret Invasion shows that the Kree's stereotype of the Skrulls being ruthless infiltrators who will try to conquer entire species using their shapeshifting abilities isn't entirely off the mark, as Gravik and his forces end up attempting to create a nuclear holocaust out of resentment for humanity.
• Villainous Legacy: The Kree's actions have left a major impact on the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Not only are they responsible for the creation of the Inhumans, but also the cult that would one day form HYDRA, as well as the war with the Nova Corps and the Skrulls, leaving them responsible for much of the conflicts in the Captain America films, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Guardians of the Galaxy, and Captain Marvel. Not even Thanos has had this much influence on the MCU's background, although their later actions were because of Thanos arriving, and they wanted to make the most of things before Thanos wiped half of them out.
• Villainous Valor: As mentioned in Last Stand above, they tend to choose to go down fighting even when outmatched.
• Won the War, Lost the Peace: While the Kree Empire signed a peace treaty ending their thousand-year war with the Nova Corps, it was massively unpopular among the Kree people, inciting protests and riots. It's implied that the Kree government's refusal to deal with Ronan is because they either don't want to further alienate their people, or they actually agree with him continuing the war on his own. The latter is more likely, as it's mentioned in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 that, after the events of the previous movie (Ronan's death at the hands of the Guardians), elements of the Kree Empire placed a bounty on the Guardians and Yondu. Then again, Captain Marvel shows a good number of regular Kree don't like him, even if they harbor lingering hostility towards the Nova Empire. Eventually The Marvels (2023) revealed that by the time Guardians of the Galaxy the Kree Empire had been in the midst of active civil war for decades as a result of the loss of the Supreme Intelligence, so the riots that resulted from the Kree-Nova Treaty probably escalated said civil war to the point that it collapsed the Empire.
• Written by the Winners: Popular belief amongst the Kree is that they are "noble warrior heroes" who fought against Skrull terrorists who threaten the galaxy with their shapeshifting abilities. The truth, however, is that they were the actual aggressors and committed genocide on the Skrull homeworld simply because they were stronger and better armed than them.
• You Can't Go Home Again: By the events of The Marvels, Hala became a dying world from the devastation unleashed by the Kree Civil War

Kree Empire

Leadership

The Supreme Intelligence

Supreme Intelligence

Concept art of a Deleted Scene in Captain Marvel showing the Supreme Intelligence's true form.

Portrayed By: Annette Bening, Jude Law ^note deleted scene

Voiced By: Maru Guzmán (Latín American Spanish dub), Yoshiko Sakakibara (Japanese dub)

Appearances: Captain Marvel | The Marvels ^note Flashback only

The ruler of the Kree Empire, an artificial intelligence constructed from the minds of the greatest Kree.

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• Adaptational Attractiveness: In the mainstream comics, the Supreme Intelligence is a gigantic, floating, obese green potato head with countless tentacles coming out the top. In Captain Marvel, the Supreme Intelligence takes the form of whomever the individual they're speaking to respects and admires the most. To Carol, they're an older seemingly human woman (whom she later learns to be Mar-Vell), whereas Yon-Rogg sees the Supreme Intelligence as himself. Though their true appearance is not shown, the tentacle-like appendages they use to communicate with others may be a nod to their original design. A brief flashback in The Marvels does show them in their comics form, but it is very brief.
• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: The Supreme Intelligence is imperialist, genocidal, and malevolent, in their quest for the merciless expansion of the Kree Empire.
• Alien Arts Are Appreciated: Despite the Kree Empire's xenophobia and racism, the Supreme Intelligence takes a liking to the Nirvana song "Come As You Are", which they find in Carol's subconscious, even dancing to it for a moment.
• Bad Boss: In a deleted scene, they abuse, threaten, belittle, and mock Yon-Rogg for his failures. In the film proper, they try to psychologically torture Carol with memories of her past failures so she would pass the Despair Event Horizon and return to assisting the Kree.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Before The Reveal, they present themselves as a wise leader who encourages Carol to serve the Kree Empire with honor and dilligence. Eventually, the façade falls away and they're shown to be a ruthless and genocidal maniac.
• Brain Uploading: As noted above, they're created from the minds of the greatest Kree in history.
• Climax Boss: Given how utterly overpowered Carol is, overcoming the Intelligence's control serves as her greatest obstacle before the climax (consisting of her easily Curb-Stomping both Starforce and Ronan's Accusers) can properly begin.
• Dark Is Evil: Frequently associated with darker colors and tones, and has their headquarters on Hala located in what looks like a massive obsidian chapel, though their physical appearance (ironically) tends to have bright green eyes and white hair no matter who sees them, contrasting the darkness.
• Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: While interfacing with Carol, the Supreme Intelligence assumes the appearance of Mar-Vell, a kindly and benevolent figure whose gentle demeanor is retained by the imperialist and genocidal Supreme Intelligence. This is in contrast with their appearance as Yon-Rogg, where they come off looking more sinister than benevolent.
• Fantastic Racism: Shows nothing but utter contempt for the Skrulls, and their war against them has the ultimate goal of them being completely exterminated down to the very last child. They also don't have a high opinion on humanity either, dismissively stating that Carol was "nothing" before the Kree augmented her with their blood, and they were perfectly fine with having Ronan subject the Earth to an Orbital Bombardment in order to wipe out a comparative handful of Skrulls in the bargain. It's implied they also held the same contempt towards Xandarians as well.
• Faux Affably Evil: They're very civil with Carol, and are even downright jovial when describing their planned implementation of a Final Solution against the Skrulls. In dealing with Yon-Rogg, it's much more direct, cruelly mocking and berating him.
• Foil: To Captain Marvel/Carol Danvers herself. First and foremost, their personalities are very contrasting — Carol has a rather brusque demeanor belying a softer & selfless side, while the Supreme Intelligence has a more outwardly matronly and friendly personality that hides the mind(s) of a genocidal lunatic. Furthermore, Carol treats her colleagues with respect and friendship while the Supreme Intelligence is a Bad Boss that utilized Gaslighting to keep Carol in line. Carol also eventually learns to look past her initial prejudices and performs a Heel–Face Turn to save the innocent Skrulls while the Supreme Intelligence is an imperialistic maniac that never lets go of their Fantastic Racism towards the shapeshifters. Additionally, Carol started out within the Kree just as an ordinary soldier while the Supreme Intelligence is the Kree Empire's God-Emperor. Even their powers are appropriately different — Carol has powerful Light 'em Up abilities that make her a beast on the battlefield, while the Supreme Intelligence is a Physical God powers only within the bleak and dark Mental World it inhabits.
• A Form You Are Comfortable With: No one has ever seen the true appearance of the Supreme Intelligence. Instead, it takes a form similar to a person that the person trying to connect with it admires most. When "Vers" sees an image of Mar-Vell — who the Supreme Intelligence is assuming the form of — when the Skrulls explore her memories, this ends up driving her to find out the truth of her past life as Carol Danvers.
• Gaslighting: How they've been successfully manipulating Carol Danvers for roughly six years in the war against the Skrulls.
• God-Emperor: The Supreme Intelligence is the Kree Empire's ruler, and interfacing with it is considered a deeply personal, almost religious experience for the Kree. Its non-corporeal form and subjective appearance emphasize the near-divine status the A.I. holds among its subjects, as does the fact that its headquarters on Hala seems designed to resemble a chapel.
• Greater-Scope Villain: While more prominent than the likes of Thanos in The Avengers, the Intelligence only appears in about two scenes in Captain Marvel and remains relatively uninvolved with the hunt for the Skrulls, only briefly intervening near the end to try to rein Carol back under Kree control. As such, most of the legwork is done by Yon-Rogg and Ronan, the former of whom Carol gains far greater enmity for due to his role in kidnapping her.
• Hate Sink: Their Fantastic Racism towards the Skrulls upon learning that the Skrulls are just innocent War Refugees along with how it gaslights Carol into perpetuating genocide makes them utterly loathsome.
• Hive Mind/Mind Hive: A weird amalgamation of the two. Despite being the amalgamation of countless different Kree minds, the Supreme Intelligence only seems to have one overall personality.
• Mechanical Abomination: A super-intelligent A.I. made from the brightest Kree minds there have ever been, and assumes the appearance of someone whom a certain person holds in great esteem. Among the Kree, meeting the Supreme Intelligence is a quasi-religious experience, and they have god-like control over the Mental World accessed whenever anyone needs to communicate with them. The mechanical tentacles used to communicate with them (and which also lets them brutally Mind Rape anyone who tries to disobey the Empire) also gives them a distinctly eldritch flavor.
• Mind Rape: What they attempt to do to Carol after The Reveal by showing her memories of her past failures and telling her that without the Kree, she is "only human". This backfires spectacularly as it only reminds Carol that she has always been a Determinator, and she proceeds to overload the Restraining Bolt they put on her.
• Mythology Gag: The metallic tentacles they utilize to communicate with their subjects are likely an allusion to the Supreme Intelligence's Combat Tentacles that were part of their true form in the original comics.
• Non-Action Big Bad: The Supreme Intelligence is an A.I. construct, not a warrior. While it can do some harm to those whose minds it interfaces with, in a physical sense, it's all but useless. The Marvels shows that when Carol came to destroy it, the Supreme Intelligence could do nothing to even try and stop her.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: They try to excuse their Final Solution against the Skrulls to Carol by framing them as "terrorists" in the Kree Empire's border territories, but it falls flat when Carol reminds them that the Skrulls have been reduced to desperate refugees by the Kree's heartless expansion efforts and are just trying to survive.
• Oh, Crap!: They start to visibly panic when Carol uses her Heroic Willpower to break free of their torture methods. In particular, their jaw practically hits the floor when a smirking Carol literally snaps off the Restraining Bolt placed on her neck after powering up.
• Playing the Victim Card: The Supreme Intelligence justifies the Kree's continued aggression against the Skrulls by claiming that they are insidious infiltrators who seize control of planets and are an existential threat to Kree society. The reality is that the Kree won their war with the Skrulls, and the Supreme Intelligence only makes such claims to excuse what has become an attempted genocide against a diaspora of desperate refugees.
• Posthumous Character: By the time of The Marvels, the Supreme Intelligence is long dead at Carol's hands, though it's absence has a major impact on the story; the sudden loss of their ruler quickly drove the Kree to a civil war that broke their empire and ravaged Hala to the point of no return, leading to Dar-Benn's plans in the movie's present day.
• Uncertain Doom: Its fate after the events of Captain Marvel remained a mystery for years, as that film was set in 1995, but by the time of the events of Guardians of the Galaxy, set in 2014 the Kree are led by an Emperor. Eventually The Marvels (2023) revealed that shortly after the events of Captain Marvel, Carol made good on her promise and destroyed the Supreme Intelliegence, plunging the Kree Empire into civil war.
• The Un-Reveal: The true form of the Supreme Intelligence has not been revealed yet, but here◊ in a deleted scene's concept art, Carol Danvers was going to face them. Their true form was going to be very faithful to the comics, portraying them as a huge, floating green head with multiple eyes and tentacles emerging from their top.
• White Hair, Black Heart: Their avatars as Mar-Vell and Yon-Rogg both have silver hair, and it's a genocidal Kree A.I..
• Would Be Rude to Say "Genocide": Dismisses the Skrulls as simply insidious shapeshifters that cannot be allowed to live lest they threaten the Kree Empire. In actuality, the only reason they're still pursuing the Skrulls is that they won't submit to them, something the Supreme Intelligence is fully aware of.
• You Cannot Grasp the True Form: Everyone who sees the Supreme Intelligence sees them as the person they admire most. Carol sees them as an older woman (who later turns out to be a silver-haired version of Mar-Vell, who was both her mentor in the United States Air Force and the person who wanted to protect the Skrulls from the Kree Empire). Yon-Rogg, however, sees the Supreme Intelligence as himself.

Starforce

In General

Starforce

From the left: Korath, At-Lass, Carol Danvers, Bron-Char, and Minn-Erva. Not Pictured: Yon-Rogg, their commander.

Appearances: Captain Marvel

A Kree military squadron, and Carol's colleagues.

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• Adaptational Wimp: In the comics, Starforce is a group of super-powered individuals across the Kree Empire who serve as the Supreme Intelligence's Praetorian Guard. In the movies, with the exception of Carol, all of them are simply Badass Normals. This means that once she unlocks her Super Mode, Carol quickly wipes the floor with all of them.
• Space Marine: A team of space soldiers from an intergalactic empire.
• Villainous Friendship: They're generally pretty chummy with one another, trading jokes before a mission. Bron-Char even calls Korath handsome.
• Villainous Valor: Even though they're clearly outmatched, Starforce continues to fight against a fully-powered Carol to the best of their ability.

Yon-Rogg

Yon-Rogg

Species: Kree

Portrayed By: Jude Law

Voiced By: Luis Daniel Ramírez (Latín American Spanish dub), Toshiyuki Morikawa (Japanese dub), Jean-Pierre Michaël (European French dub), Martin Watier (Canadian French dub)

Appearances: Captain Marvel

A Kree commander and leader of the Starforce.

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• Adaptational Dye-Job: He has auburn hair and blue eyes in the comics but instead has brown hair and yellow eyes in here.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: The Yon-Rogg of the original Captain Marvel comics was a particularly persistent, even obsessive foe of both Mar-Vell and Carol Danvers who started out as Mar-Vell's commanding officer and was later thrilled at any chance to cause him, or Carol, any harm. Here, we see him as a pleasant, tough-but-patient mentor who wants Carol to "be the best version of herself". And then it turns out, while not quite as evil as the original, he really is her ultimate antagonist, as the one who caused Mar-Vell's death, Carol's amnesia, her abduction, and manipulation by the Kree, so he was less a mentor and more of a kidnapper and handler.
• Affably Evil: While he is an agent of the imperialist, fascistic, and genocidal Kree Empire, Yon-Rogg is not without a certain military courtesy, and he even tells Carol that he's proud of her following her victory over Ronan's attack force. His Manipulative Bastard tendencies and Lima Syndrome towards Carol blurs the line between this trope and Faux Affably Evil where she's concerned, however.
• Big Bad: While he serves the Supreme Intelligence, he is the main threat throughout the film and the one who started the conflict by killing Mar-Vell.
• Big Bad Friend: While initially presented as Carol’s mentor, Yon-Rogg is revealed to have killed her actual mentor Mar-Vell, kidnapped her to use as a weapon for the Kree, and serves as The Heavy to the Supreme Intelligence.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Appears as The Mentor for Carol, but is really an Evil Mentor.
• Broken Pedestal: While the Kree as a whole are this to Carol once she finds out their true colors, as her mentor, Yon-Rogg becomes the biggest one to her. It doesn't help that he was responsible for killing her actual mentor and friend, Mar-Vell.
• Co-Dragons: Is effectively the second-in-command to the Supreme Intelligence as far as Carol Danvers is concerned, and a lot more active than it — though Ronan, as the leader of the Accusers, is also in a high position of power.
• Commanding Coolness: He holds the rank of Starforce Commander and is the most skilled fighter among them.
• Composite Character: With Nitro, given he's Mar-Vell's killer.
  • His personality is more in line with the original comics Ronan the Accuser as a officer doing his job as opposed to the Card-Carrying Villain of the source material.
• The Corrupter: A deleted scene shows him educating Kree children with anti-Skrull propaganda.
• Cruel Mercy: Carol spared him to deliver a message from her to his people and to send him back in disgrace.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Rogg thinks he can challenge Carol to a final battle with just hand-to-hand combat, taunting her and goading her to lower herself down to his level to "prove" herself. Carol just blasts him away and then drags him off to a ship. Prior to her awakening her full power, however, he was delivering these to her, though only in physical combat. He was always outmatched when she used her photon blasts.
• Decoy Protagonist: At first he seems to be set up as a Tritagonist to Carol's The Protagonist and Nick's Deuteragonist, but he's really the Big Bad, while Talos is the true Tritagonist.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Downplayed:
  • Carol mentions Yon-Rogg's brother and father while asking who he sees when he interfaces with the Supreme Intelligence, but neither of them show up in the movie, nor are they mentioned by Yon-Rogg himself.
  • Yon-Rogg clearly feels something for "Vers", but the affection he shows her is undermined by his endless gaslighting and the fact that he stole her from her home and family.
• Expy: Not him, but his weapon; it can lift and drop objects from afar using cosmic energy, not dissimilar to the Gravity Gun from Half-Life.
• Final Boss: Subverted. He and Carol seem like they'll have a climactic final duel, but his attempt to fight honorably in a Call-Back to the beginning of the movie leads to Carol easily blasting him off his feet.
• Foil:
  • To Mar-Vell. Mar-Vell is Carol's mentor, Yon-Rogg is her Evil Mentor, and unlike Mar-Vell, who was a scientist willing to betray the Empire to do the right thing, Yon-Rogg is a soldier and staunch nationalist. Their attitudes towards Carol also contrast; the former was friendly and encouraging, earning Carol's admiration, while Yon-Rogg is stern and tries to force her into the model of a Kree soldier.
  • To Ronan. Both are high-ranking officers in the Kree military, willing to go to extremes for the Empire, but they differ strongly in personality, methods, and ideology. Yon-Rogg is a specialist leading an elite team that performs surgical strikes and extraction missions in enemy territory, while Ronan and the Accusers he commands have one solution to any given problem. Yon-Rogg is personable, shows concern for his fellow Kree, and is very loyal to the Empire, whereas Ronan is a callous jerkass who is fine with his erstwhile allies being caught in the crossfire, and eventually betrays the Empire when they make a decision he disagrees with. Their attitudes towards their duties contrast as well: Yon-Rogg believes in My Country, Right or Wrong (in his eyes, the Kree Empire is righteous, and any action taken on its behalf is morally defensible), while Ronan is a Sociopathic Soldier who couldn't care less if his actions are right or wrong. The many contrasts in their personalities mean that, despite working together, Yon-Rogg and Ronan don't particularly like one another.
• Godzilla Threshold: Initially refuses to get the Accusers involved while they recover Vers because they only know how to nuke things from orbit. Then he realizes that Carol is reclaiming who she was and immediately calls Ronan.
• The Heavy: While the main villain of Captain Marvel, he's in service to the Supreme Intelligence.
• Human Aliens: Though it's never brought up in the film, he belongs to a sub-set of the Kree race known in the comics as "Pink Kree" because they have a pinkish skin tone that makes them resemble Caucasian humans rather than the typical blue skin that most of his people have, though his yellow eyes throw off the illusion.
• Hypocrite:
  • Despite trying to drill the mentality of an emotionless soldier into Carol, Yon-Rogg's own emotions get the better of him at least twice: he killed Mar-Vell instead of retrieving her as ordered, and he lied to Ronan to save Carol's life, which ended up giving her the time to learn the truth about her identity.
  • Yon-Rogg insists that Carol needs to learn to beat him without using her powers, yet when push comes to shove, Yon-Rogg has no problem using his own advantages (numbers and technology) to get the better of her.
• Insane Troll Logic: Invoked; by the climax, Yon-Rogg is completely outclassed by a now empowered Carol Danvers, with no hopes to win. He tries to bait her into fighting him without her powers since that would be the only advantage he'd arguably still have. By this point in the story, however, Carol has no interest in "earning" Yon-Rogg's approval and promptly knocks him flat on his ass with another blast.
• It's Personal with the Dragon: As Carol's Evil Mentor, the one who brought her to Hala, and the one who killed her actual mentor, Mar-Vell, Yon-Rogg is a much more personal enemy to Carol than the Supreme Intelligence.
• Knight Templar: Yon-Rogg is a true believer in the righteousness of the Kree, even at the expense of the innocent. He's also happy to exploit others for the Empire's benefit, as seen with Carol.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: When his last tactic (painfully) fails, Yon-Rogg wisely gives up and doesn't resist Carol dragging him back to his ship.
• Let's Fight Like Gentlemen: In the final showdown, Yon-Rogg sheathes his weapons and challenges Carol to single combat; no weapons, no powers. Carol doesn't bite, instead photon-blasting Yon-Rogg into a nearby rock face.
• Lima Syndrome: Despite abducting Carol and turning her into an attack dog for the Kree, Yon-Rogg does seem to have some affection for her, donating his own blood to save her life after taking her back to Hala, preventing Ronan from attacking Earth while Carol is on it, and expressing pride in her abilities in their final confrontation.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: Compared to Ronan The Accuser. Yon-Rogg strongly believes in camaraderie and refuses to abandon a fellow soldier, Carol included, even saving her life when she crash landed. Ronan on the other hand, is a genocidal bastard who treats him and all his other Kree subordinates like shit, and doesn't flinch at mass killings at the Kree's enemies that he doesn't give a damn if even loyal Kree become collateral.
• Loving a Shadow: It's made clear that Yon-Rogg has more affection for Carol than he lets on, but it's implied that his fondness is reserved mostly for "Vers", the Kree soldier he convinced Carol that she was, not the person that Carol truly is. Case in point, he's generally nurturing (by Kree standards) to "Vers", but sneers in derision when Carol breaks from that mold, only showing the real Carol respect to try and goad her into a fight Yon-Rogg thinks he can win.
• Made of Iron: While she wasn't trying to kill or seriously injure him, Yon-Rogg is in pretty good shape after being blasted into a rock face by Carol.
• Manipulative Bastard: While there is some genuine affection for her in the mix, Yon-Rogg's mentorship of "Vers" has him gaslighting her to keep her as a loyal soldier for the Kree. When he knows he's outgunned, he falls back on old tricks, trying to play on her need to prove herself by challenging her to a fistfight, hoping to engage her in a fight he stands a chance of winning. Wise to his mind games, and no longer caring about his approval, Carol responds by photon-blasting him into a nearby rock face.
• The Mentor: To Carol Danvers. The film opens with him training her and giving her advice. He's actually an Evil Mentor.
• Narcissist: Implied. Supreme Intelligence takes a form similar to a person that the person trying to connect with it admires most. A scene cut from the movie revealed that Yon-Rogg sees himself when he communes with the Supreme Intelligence. His general treatment of Carol is a further hint to Yon-Rogg's narcissism; he shows her approval and affection as long as she sticks to the role he wants her in, but forces her to fight for that approval on Yon-Rogg's own terms. His gambit in the finale is also predicated on the ludicrous notion that, with the truth revealed and her full power unleashed, Carol would still care about his approval enough to fight him hand-to-hand instead of just crushing him with her powers.
  Yon-Rogg: [referring to Carol] I have no feelings for her.
  Supreme Intelligence: Yes, we both know your admiration is mostly reserved for yourself.
• Pet the Dog: He seems to have a genuine soft spot for Carol. Not only did he bring her back to Hala even after she destroyed the engine he was after, but Yon-Rogg donated some of his own blood to save her life, serves as her mentor in Starforce, and lies to Ronan to avoid the Accuser devastating Earth while she's on the planet. Unfortunately, this goes out the window when Carol remembers who she originally was, at which point he calls in Ronan. And even then he waited until he thought she was either dead, taken by the Skrulls, or a traitor.
• Shut Up, Hannibal!: On the receiving end of this trope when he tries to coax Carol into a no-powers sparring match. She blasts him across the canyon, clearly sick of his mind games.
  Carol: I have nothing to prove to you.
• So Proud of You: Even knowing how screwed he would be to go up against Carol Danvers with her powers unleashed, he's impressed with her growth as a soldier all the same.
• Straw Vulcan: Frequently rebukes Carol for bringing her emotions into battle; promptly proven wrong by the end of the film.
• Trigger-Happy: A deleted scene reveals that Yon-Rogg was actually assigned to recapture Mar-Vell, but he killed her instead.
• Worthy Opponent: If telling Carol So Proud of You is any indication.
• Would Hit a Girl: Yon-Rogg doesn't hold back his punches when training with Carol, and frequently wipes the floor with her during their sessions.

Vers

See her page.

Minn-Erva

Minn-Erva

Species: Kree

Portrayed By: Gemma Chan

Voiced By: Lourdes Arruti (Latin American Spanish dub), Yōko Hikasa (Japanese dub)

Appearances: Captain Marvel

A Kree Sniper, and member of Starforce. She was previously The Ace of the team, who has been overshadowed by Carol.

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• The Ace: A gifted marksman, Minn-Erva serves as the sniper for her Star Force unit, and was the star player before Carol arrived.
• Adaptational Wimp: Although she may seem much more skilled and powerful as a sniper in the movie than the Kree doctor she was in the comics, she ultimately is this, since her comics equivalent eventually gained Carol Danvers' powerset, making her much stronger in the source material.
• Always Someone Better: She used to be a highly regarded member of Star Force, but she feels threatened by Carol, who is similarly skilled.
• Cold Sniper: Her Establishing Character Moment has her preparing to shoot unarmed (albeit angry) refugees. She has no problem trying to do it again later in the movie.
• Domino Mask: She only wears them when she's sniping.
• The Dragon: To Yon-Rogg.
• Fantastic Racism: She has a very low opinion of Terrans, dismissively referring to Earth as "a real shithole".
• Green-Skinned Space Babe: She's a blue-skinned Kree woman who is also pretty attractive.
• Jerkass: Generally smug and callous, expressing a low opinion of Carol, and cracking a smirk as she prepares to shoot down innocent refugees.
  Carol: You knew [about my true past] this whole time... is that why we never hung out?
  Minn-Erva: No... I just never liked you.
• Psychotic Smirk: She cracks a smirk as she prepares to shoot down the Quadjet, which is full of innocent Skrull refugees.
• Punny Name: Her name is a play on Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom and strategic warfare.
• Secret-Keeper: Unlike the rest of Starforce (who seem to assume that Carol's Heel–Face Turn is due to brainwashing), Minn-Erva was always aware of Carol's true nature and origins, having been present when Yon-Rogg abducted her.

Att-Lass

Att-Lass

Species: Kree

Portrayed By: Algenis Perez Soto

Voiced By: Alberto Bernal (Latin American Spanish), Satoshi Hino (Japanese)

Appearances: Captain Marvel

A member of Starforce, alongside Carol Danvers.

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• Don't Make Me Destroy You: Att-Lass at one point manages to pin Carol down with a gun to her face and pulls this card. Turns out it wasn't as advantageous a position as he thought.
• Guns Akimbo: Seemingly his weapon of choice.
• Punch-Clock Villain: Unlike Yon-Rogg (a devoted nationalist), Minn-Erva (a smug sadist), or Korath (a future extremist), Att-Lass is just doing his job, even trying to get Carol to stand down when he thinks (emphasis on thinks) he has her dead to rights.
• Punny Name: His name is a play on Atlas, a reference to Atlas Comics, which was Marvel Comics' name in the '50s. It is also a play upon "Atlas", the Titan who holds up the sky in Greek and Roman mythology, giving him a similarly derived name as that of Minn-Erva, whom he was directly partnered with in the comics.

Bron-Char

Bron-Char

Species: Kree

Portrayed By: Rune Temte

Voiced By: Erick Selim (Latín American Spanish dub), Hiroki Yasumoto (Japanese dub)

Appearances: Captain Marvel

A member of Starforce, alongside Carol Danvers.

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• Ambiguously Gay: He considers Korath "objectively" handsome.
• The Brute: He is the heaviest set member on the team. As the fight aboard Mar-Vell's ship turns chaotic, he opts for picking up an arcade cabinet and swinging it at Carol.
• Calling Your Attacks: He tends to be fairly reserved, but when he goes all-out against Carol, he really lets lose his inner Screaming Warrior, shouting "INCOOOOOMIIIIING!!" at the top of his lungs as he charges at her.

Korath the Pursuer

Korath the Pursuer

"Who?"

^{Click here to see him in Captain Marvel}

Species: Kree (cybernetically enhanced)

Citizenship: Kree Imperial

Affiliation(s): Kree Empire (formerly), Starforce (formerly), Thanos (formerly), Ronan

Portrayed By: Djimon Hounsou

Voiced By: Salvador Reyes (Latin-American Spanish dub), Iñaki Crespo (European Spanish dub), Kenji Nomura (Japanese dub)

Appearances: Guardians of the Galaxy | Captain Marvel

A former member of the Kree Starforce who became an officer under Ronan.

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• Are These Wires Important?: Drax kills him by ripping out wires that ran along the side of his head.
• Bald of Evil: A bald Kree fanatic.
• Beard of Evil: A graying goatee to compliment the evil baldness.
• BFG: Wields a pretty massive rifle while trying to retrieve the Orb early in the film. A shot from it is powerful enough to blow a hole clear through a temple wall.
• The Brute: Serves as Ronan's main muscle and ultimately comes to blows with Drax.
• Co-Dragons: With Nebula, to Ronan. Of the two, Korath is far more loyal, but gets less screentime.
• The Comically Serious:
  • In Captain Marvel, Korath responds to the rest of Starforce joking around by claiming that he laughs "on the inside". With a perfectly straight face and no semblance of humor.
  • He's initially the only one who takes Peter Quill's self-appointed name of "Star-Lord" seriously.
• Creepy Blue Eyes: They seem to be a racial trait for the Kree.
• Cyborg: Has a couple of cybernetic implants protruding from his head. He didn't have the implants while he was still an agent of the Kree Empire.
• Dies Wide Open: After Drax rips his implants out, Korath falls to the ground, eyes still wide open.
• Dual Wielding: During his time with Starforce, Korath wielded two swords.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Korath balks at Ronan's insistence on challenging Thanos out of fear of the Mad Titan.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Not as much as Ronan, but still pretty deep.
• Evil Wears Black: Like all of Ronan's crew, Korath wears black.
• Former Regime Personnel: He was a member of Starforce, but at some point broke away from the official command structure of the Kree Empire to follow Ronan.
• Human Aliens: Korath belongs to a subset of the Kree, having a human-like skin tone (black, in Korath's case) instead of blue skin like Ronan.
• Lightning Bruiser: He's strong enough to fight Drax on equal terms, and fast enough to catch up to Quill on foot when Quill had rocketed away to safety using his jet boots after shrugging off a double blast to the chest from Star-Lord's quad-blasters.
• Noodle Incident: Prior to Captain Marvel, Korath encountered a Skrull who simmed his appearance, an encounter he found deeply disturbing.
• Race Lift: Is black rather than blue.
• Rogue Agent: Like Ronan, Korath was a member of the Kree military before deserting to join the Accuser in his genocidal crusade.
• Scary Black Man: Or rather, a Scary Black Kree.
• Super-Strength: Strong enough punch through walls and get into a fistfight with Drax.
• Super-Toughness: Able to jump off from buildings to the ground, shrugg off blasts from Quill's guns that punch holes in the Sakaaran soldiers serving him, and remain conscious despite impacting a rock wall hard enough to crater it.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: By the time of Guardians of the Galaxy. In Captain Marvel, he's more of The Stoic and less brutish.
• Undying Loyalty: Implied; he's one of the few actual Kree among Ronan's crew, and refers to the Accuser as "master".
• What Happened to the Mouse?: The 2014 versions of Korath and Ronan notably don't appear among the rest of Thanos's forces at the end of Endgame, making it unclear what happened to them.
• Worthy Opponent: Implied; Korath is the first character to refer to Quill as "Star-Lord" unironically. Quill is pleasantly surprised.

The Accusers

In General

The Accusers

Appearances: Captain Marvel | The Marvels

A group of military police and bombers in the Kree Empire.

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• Death from Above: The Accusers are called upon whenever orbital carpet-bombing is needed by the Kree Starforce, and unleash warheads on planets to eliminate any threats on the planet's surface.
• Evil Wears Black: They wear black armored uniforms.
• Interservice Rivalry: They don't really get along with the Starforce, as Ronan wastes no time pinning the blame for the failure of the Torfa mission on Yon-Rogg's team, while Yon-Rogg has nothing but open contempt for the Accusers' habit of solving every problem with Orbital Bombardment.
• Judge, Jury, and Executioner: They have the authority to judge and execute individuals, or even entire planets, that are considered a threat to the empire. They are kind of like the Judges from Judge Dredd or the Inquisition from Warhammer 40,000.
• Orbital Bombardment: Their MO is to nuke everything from orbit and call it a day.
• State Sec: Like in the comics, they are the military police of the Kree empire.
• There Is No Kill Like Overkill: The Accusers are all about this trope, as their predilection for solving every problem by liberal use of Orbital Bombardment clearly shows. They don't care about the collateral damage, either.

Ronan

Ronan the Accuser

"I don't recall killing your family. I doubt I'll remember killing you, either."

^{Click here to see him in Captain Marvel}
"A cell of Skrulls anywhere is a threat to Kree everywhere."

Species: Kree

Citizenship: Kree Imperial

Affiliation(s): Kree Empire (formerly), Accuser Corps (formerly), Thanos (formerly)

Portrayed By: Lee Pace

Voiced By: Rubén Moya (Latin-American Spanish dub), Juan Fernández Mejías (European Spanish dub), Hiroshi Shirokuma (Japanese dub)

Appearances: Guardians of the Galaxy | Captain Marvel

"They call me terrorist. Radical. Zealot. Because I obey the ancient laws of my people, the Kree, and punish those who do not. Because I do not forgive your people for taking the life of my father, and his father, and his father before him. A thousand years of war between us will not be forgotten!"

A Kree fanatic who insists on staying true to the old ways of his people... particularly their code of vendetta. When the peace treaty between the Kree and Xandar is signed after a millennium of conflict that killed his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, he goes rogue.

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• Achilles' Heel: Ronan is virtually unstoppable. His warhammer, on the other hand, isn't. It also happens to be where he carries the Power Stone.
• Adaptation Origin Connection: In the first movie, Drax seeks revenge on Ronan for murdering his wife and daughter. In the comics, Ronan has nothing to do with the comics as it was Thanos who killed Drax' family directly, while here Thanos was just The Man Behind the Man for Ronan.
• Adaptational Villainy: In the comics, the Accuser is an officially sanctioned Judge, Jury, and Executioner and Ronan carries out his duties as a ruthless By-the-Book Cop at worst — while not exactly a heroic character, he remains loyal to the Kree Empire, only acting under orders or within his legal remit, and even serving as an occasional ally to the heroes if an alliance is in their common interests. Here, he's a savagely brutal renegade and a genocidal terrorist who continues the Empire's war against Xandar despite the peace treaty between them — although it's implied that certain Kree authorities unofficially approve. Ultimate Ronan is closer to this portrayal of the character, but even in Ultimate Marvel, Ronan was loyal to Thanos (who, in that continuity, was his father). Here, Ronan obviously loathes the Mad Titan and turns on him at the earliest opportunity.
• Aggressive Categorism:
  • Ronan hates all Xandarians and wants to eradicate them because they are a disease.
  • He also calls the Skrulls "infestation".
• Amazing Technicolor Population: Like most of the Kree, Ronan has a blue skin color.
• And There Was Much Rejoicing: Once he's dead, Xandar celebrates his demise.
• Arch-Enemy: Serves as this for Drax, since he had his family killed by the Kree warrior. After Ronan's defeat, Drax focuses on fighting Thanos.
• Ax-Crazy: He was very enthusiastic about destroying Xandar, and according to Drax, Ronan laughed as he murdered Drax's family.
• Bad Boss: In Captain Marvel, we see that he is horrid towards his own subordinates, the Starforce, berating and belittling them for their failure that cost them Carol. Usually, he'll end every communication with an Implied Death Threat. In Guardians of the Galaxy, he has his Sakaaran troops become suicide bombers in his attack on Xandar and doesn't react the slightest when Korath is killed or when Nebula disappears from the battle, so it really doesn't matter if you are Kree or not.
• Badass Boast:
  • He delivers one to Drax in their first fight:
    Ronan: I don't recall killing your family. I doubt I'll remember killing you, either.
  • Delivers quite a good one to Thanos after betraying him:
    Ronan: I will unfurl one thousand years of Kree justice on Xandar, AND BURN IT TO ITS CORE! And then, Thanos, I'm coming for you.
  • He delivers a rather terrifying one to the Nova Corps:
    Ronan: Xandar! You stand accused! Your wretched peace treaty will not save you now! It is the tinder on which you burn!
• Badass Longcoat: His ceremonial armor and robes resemble one.
• Bald of Evil: A brief scene near the beginning of Guardians of the Galaxy shows Ronan to be bald.
• Bare-Fisted Monk: Prior to equipping his warhammer with the Power Stone, he only uses it to execute a restrained captive. In his fight with Drax, he shows his unarmed combat expertise by effortlessly pummelling him with only his bare hands.
• Big Bad: Ronan is the main antagonist of Guardians of the Galaxy, with his search for the Orb and goal of destroying Xandar causing him to come into conflict with the main characters.
• Blood Bath: It's implied he regularly bathes in Xandarian blood, and it's how he's introduced.
• Blow You Away: His warhammer can project shockwaves of varying intensity and size, large enough to knock several people off their feet without otherwise harming them or small and powerful enough to cause a Neck Snap. After the warhammer has been imbedded with the Power Stone, it could produce a shockwave powerful enough to completely dismantle the Nova Corps' blockade of the Dark Aster in a single blow.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday: He doesn't quite remember killing Drax's family when they first fight, though he apparently managed to recall it by the time they meet again in the finale, although he may have been lying about remembering in order to taunt Drax. The commentary for Infinity War seems to point to the latter, as it was stated Drax's family was part of the unlucky half. Averted with his encounter with Carol Danvers though. Ronan makes it clear that her shredding his fleet and costing him the battle over Earth was not going to be one of those "forgetable" incidents.
• The Caligula: Ronan's genocidal crusade against the Xandarians has only made him cruel, unhinged and megalomaniacal. Even when he was more rational back when he was the Grand Accuser, he had no regard even for other Kree, and often threatened them with execution should they fail to properly carry out their missions. With the reveal in The Marvels that the Kree Empire was in a state of civil war during Guardians of The Galaxy from the loss of the Supreme Intelligence, it's rather clear Ronan is too delusional to see the bigger picture that his leadership would've run Hala to the ground even further.
• Carry a Big Stick: Much like in the comics, he wields a warhammer known as the "Universal Weapon". However, the ''Official Guidebook To The Marvel Cinematic Universe - Guardians of the Galaxy'' reveals its MCU name as the "Cosmi-Rod".
• Cartoonish Supervillainy: And how. His simple genocidal motives (already done to death in many works of fiction), his unequivocal cruelty to everyone and everything and his ridiculously over-the-top demeanor fit this trope to a tee. However, the MCU successfully plays it for drama, as there is nothing funny or amusing about Ronan and his actions.
• Celebrity Paradox: The Hobbit was referenced in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier by the titular characters. Lee Pace portrayed Thranduil the Elvenking in all three films.
• Characterization Marches On: Captain Marvel reveals that Ronan, while still a genocidal and racist jackass, was far more reasonable and reserved in his methods of serving his Empire and killing those he deems his enemies, a sharp contrast to the megalomaniacal monster he would become in Guardians of the Galaxy. The reveal that the Kree lost Hala in the civil war that broke out after the Supreme Intelligence's demise might have played a role in that.
• Co-Dragons: With Yon-Rogg to the Supreme Intelligence back while he was still the Kree Grand Accuser, and was effectively the Judge, Jury, and Executioner of the Kree Empire.
• The Comically Serious: He's just finishing up his big evil speech and preparing to fulfill his dream of Xandar's destruction when Star-Lord challenges him to a dance-off. This was an... unanticipated event which elicited a genuinely puzzled reaction from Ronan.
• Composite Character: Closer to the prime universe Ronan in appearance, but his villainy and connection to Thanos come from the Ultimate version.
• Cool Starship: Ronan commands the Dark Aster, a massive starship. He uses it as some sort of personal temple to execute the Xandarian at the beginning and, at the climax, he uses it to attack Xandar itself. The ship's similar design to the Accuser warships he command during Captain Marvel (2019), suggesting the ship is a variant of their class. Unlike them, Dark Aster is totally unarmed and appears to be unarmored (at one point the Milano blasts a hole through it with just its small rotary cannon). It seems to act as a mobile base and transport more than a warship, similar to the Chitauri mothership, just much bigger (three miles wide).
• Cop Killer: Ronan's first scene has him using his warhammer to brutally execute a captive Nova officer.
• Create Your Own Hero: Him killing Drax' family is the motivation for the latter to seek revenge on him and join the Guardians in the first place. Furthermore, his actions during the first movie and especially his plan to destroy Xandar are what leads to five outsiders with different backstories and motivations to team-up and become the superhero team Guardians Of The Galaxy, ultimately defeating Ronan.
• Creepy Blue Eyes: They seem to be a common trait for the Kree.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Ronan easily defeats Drax in their "fight" on Knowhere.
• Dark Is Evil: He wears black clothing and black make-up, his soldiers wear black uniforms, Ronan commands the massive, intimidating black warship Dark Aster, and when in possession of the Infinity Stone, his warhammer glows purple. Ronan fulfills this trope like no villain since Darth Vader.
• Deal with the Devil: He made a pact with Thanos, offering to find the Orb in exchange for Thanos wiping out Xandar. As soon as he finds out that the Orb contains an Infinity Stone with the power to do just that, he turns on Thanos the first chance he gets.
• Death from Above: Captain Marvel shows that Ronan's favored method of attack is launching Kree Ballistic Missiles to snuff out and annihilate enemies. Although he didn't have access to those weapons anymore by the time of Guardians of the Galaxy, he instead has Immolation Protocol, wherein kamikaze squadrons dive onto the surface of planets, which are not as powerful as the Kree Ballistic Missiles, but accomplish the same effect.
• Defector from Decadence: Falls somewhere between here and My Species Doth Protest Too Much. He, along with several other members of his race, are not pleased their government is just rolling over after years of lost lives to war with the Xandarians with a mere peace treaty. Rather than just riot like the rest of his disgruntled folk, he takes matters into his own hands and begins violently crusading on his own terms to get his own brand of justice against Xandar.
• Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: Ronan declaring he will kill Thanos is practically daring Thanos to try and stop him. This insolence did not sit well for Thanos in the long run.
• Dirty Coward: Ronan's enormous arrogance and cruelty vanish whenever he's faced with an actual threat as his turning tail and running when Carol plowed through his forces, not caring in the slightest about his men, shows.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Ronan kills the Other just for annoying him. He also hates the Xandarians because his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather died in the Kree Empire's war with them. Ronan's response? Try to commit genocide against the Xandarians and wipe their culture from the face of the galaxy. Ronan does not handle grief well.
• The Dragon: To Thanos, as Ronan is tasked in finding the Infinity Stones for him, though he betrays Thanos and uses the Power Stone to become powerful enough to destroy Xandar.
• Dragon Their Feet: After Carol destroyed the Supreme Intelligence, Ronan outlived his leader by almost 2 decades. The loss of the Kree's leader led them to eventually sign the peace treaty with Xandar, which Ronan did not take well and defected from the empire to embark on a genocidal campaign that ended with his defeat at the hands of the Guardians.
• Dragon with an Agenda: Even before betraying Thanos, he makes it damn clear he only works for the Mad Titan because of his promise to destroy Xandar. He's Thanos's prime agent in hunting the Infinity Stone but he doesn't even speak to him respectfully.
• The Dreaded: No one wants to be on Ronan's bad side. Upon hearing the Accuser's name, the Broker freaks out, kicks Peter Quill out of his store, and refuses to have anything to do with the Orb. It's also part of the reason why the Kree Empire does not want to deal with him — because he's that dangerous. Only Drax, Thanos, and Carol ever directly encounter Ronan without expressing any fear of him. And back when he was the Kree Empire's highest ranking official under the Supreme Intelligence, Kree soldiers would not want to face his wrath if they fail their charge and worse he has no regard even for other Kree.
• Establishing Character Moment: Bathing in Xandarian blood, speaking at length about his adherence to the ancient ways of the Kree and his hatred for the entire Xandarian culture, making it clear that the peace treaty between the Kree Empire and the Nova Corps means nothing to him, before brutally executing a captive Nova Corps officer.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Played with. He mentions having lost his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather to the war with the Nova Empire. But it does not humanize him or make him sympathetic in the slightest, and it's implied that he is justifying his own sadism, and who's to say his relatives weren't as bad as him either?
• Evil Costume Switch: Not that he wasn't evil beforehand, but in Captain Marvel, he wears his traditional green uniform back when he was still the Kree Grand Accuser. By the time of Guardians of the Galaxy, after leaving the Kree Empire, he switches to a black uniform with red marks and adds black warpaint.
• Evil Gloating: Loves doing this. It backfires since it gives Rocket the time to build a weapon to take him out.
• Evil Is Hammy: Ye Celestials is he ever. Every time Lee Pace gets a chance to really let loose with Ronan's evil monologues, particularly after he becomes drunk with power from the Infinity Stone, Ronan eats and chews the scenery with aplomb with unrelentingly bombastic speeches over how he shall destroy Xandar and every living thing on it. Ironically, the one time Ronan is off-guard, he lets the hamminess slip entirely and speaks like a normal, confused guy. To quote Lee Pace's description of his own performance:
  Lee Pace: I kept looking over at James Gunn saying, "Is it too much? Am I over the top? Pull me back whenever you're ready!" and he was just like, "More, more!"
• Evil Is Petty: Ronan killed the Other just for being annoying, and, when betraying Thanos, he recalls the Mad Titan's previous insult (namely, referring to Ronan as "boy"), indicating that he took the relatively minor remark very personally.
• Evil Plan: Destroy Xandar and wipe out its culture because a long war that was supposed to do that has been halted by a peace treaty.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Lee Pace's naturally deep, imposing voice only sounds more intimidating when combined with Ronan's booming, hammy dialogue.
• Evil Versus Evil: Subverted. Ronan sets this trope up when he reneges on his deal to give the Power Stone to Thanos, where he screams at the Mad Titan for belittling him, and states his intent to eliminate him after the destruction of Xandar. However, the titular Guardians of the Galaxy end up defeating Ronan before he can accomplish either of these actions.
• Evil Wears Black: As an agent of Thanos, Ronan, as well as his soldiers, wears black armor.
• Failed Attempt at Drama: Ronan's New Era Speech is abruptly interrupted by Star-Lord challenging him to a dance-off.
• Fantastic Racism:
  • Ronan despises the Xandarians and their culture to the point of regarding both as a disease. When a captive Nova officer defiantly proclaims that Ronan will never rule Xandar, Ronan has a rather brutal response:
    Ronan: No… I WILL CURE IT! [smashes the Nova officer's skull with the Cosmi-Rod]
  • While reporting to Thanos, Ronan dismissively refers to Quill as "some primitive", implying that Ronan doesn't think especially highly of humans, either.
  • And finally, he despises the Skrulls just like the rest of his people.
• Fascist, but Inefficient: Ronan's leadership only ends up making enemies out of his own forces. As far back as Captain Marvel, he looks down on other Kree battalions and units that he's unwilling to cooperate or compromise with them, and any who fail to contain the Kree's enemies will end up becoming collateral damage to Orbital Bombardment, meaning lot Kree have died because of him.
• Felony Misdemeanor: He went rogue because his people and the people of Xandar were going to sign a peace treaty after a millennium of conflict.
• Flat "What": Ronan's reaction to Quill's dance-off challenge. He doesn't say it like an evil alien overlord, as you'd expect him to sound, but like a normal human who's been genuinely caught off guard.
  Ronan: What are you doing?
  Star-Lord: Dance-off, bro! Me and you!
• Foil: To Drax. Both of them are proud and fearsome warriors who seek revenge on those who are responsible for the deaths of their family (Ronan wants to eradicate the Xandarians for killing his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, while Drax wants to kill Ronan for slaughtering his wife and daughter), along with a shared hatred for Thanos. However, Drax relies mainly on his physical strength in combat, while Ronan is a trained military veteran who knows how to fight, and he beats the crap out of Drax without breaking a sweat. When it comes to personality, Drax is open to the opinions of others and can be concerned about the safety of those around him, while Ronan does not even care about what others think of him or if anyone who supports him is in danger. Drax is also able to exact his vengeance by killing Ronan, which in turn prevents Ronan from completing his mission.
• Former Regime Personnel: While the Kree Empire doesn't collapse, Ronan broke away from its official command structure upon the Supreme Intelligence's removal from power to become a rogue agent and terrorist and strike at the Nova Empire on his own.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Outside of Korath the Pursuer, the rest of the Kree Empire treats him with disdain, due to his callous orbital Mad Bomber battle strategies. It's telling that they refuse to associate themselves with the man when he begins going on his genocidal rampage in Guardians of the Galaxy (though they do put a bounty on the titular group after they kill him).
• Freudian Excuse: His father, grandfather, and great-grandfather were all killed in the Kree/Xandarian war. He brings it up twice as a reason for his hatred towards the Xandarians.
• The Fundamentalist: Ronan adheres to "the ancient laws" of the Kree with incredible fervor. He even refers to the impending destruction of Xandar as his victims' "salvation".
• General Ripper: Even in his days with the Kree Empire, his favorite approach was to blow them all up and let the Kree gods sort them out.
• Genre Blind: In the end, Ronan is defeated because he doesn't realize he's in a comedy. He takes himself and his Roaring Rampage of Revenge way too seriously, which allows him to easily be distracted by Peter doing something ridiculous and silly, long enough for the rest of the team to counterattack.
• Green and Mean: Back when he was the Grand Accuser, he and the rest of the Accuser Corps had green uniforms.
• Hated by All: Even by the standards of the Kree Empire, it's rather apparent that nobody likes Ronan. Lesser powers such as Xandar are justifiably terrified of him due to his horrific acts of terrorism against their people, while those more powerful such as Thanos consider Ronan to be little more than an ineffectual Psychopathic Manchild with no redeeming characteristics. Not even the Kree themselves are willing to show Ronan any respect (Korath the Pursuer notwithstanding), with Yon-Rogg expressing disgust at his willingness to carpet-bomb Earth's surface despite their being several Kree agents still on it.
• Healing Factor: While never directly touched upon in the films, the Kree in the MCU are confirmed to have regenerative capabilities. This goes a long way to help explain why he's just so damn resilient.
• Hero Killer: He uses the power of the Infinity Stone to slaughter scores of the Nova Corps during the final battle, including Garthan Saal. He's even responsible for the original Groot's demise, although indirectly, no doubt brought on by his actions on the Guardians.
• The Heavy: Ronan is the most prominent villain and main mover of the plot in the first Guardians of the Galaxy film, although Thanos is a more powerful force of evil.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: He attempts to harness and use the energy of the Power Stone to obliterate Xandar, only for the Guardians to harness and use the energy of the Power Stone to obliterate him.
• Hypocrite:
  • In Captain Marvel, Ronan claims to believe in the Empire's credo of "for the good of all Kree". In practice, he's fine with carpet bombing a planet that has several Kree officers on it, and abandons his fellow Kree without turning an eye when the going gets rough.
  • For all Ronan's insistence that he's acting for "Kree justice" and that he follows the ancient laws of his people, in practice, he doesn't give a damn about loyalty to anything but himself, deserting from the Kree Empire the instant they make a decision that he doesn't agree with.
• I Can Rule Alone: Ronan's deal with Thanos falls through when Ronan decides that, rather than give the Infinity Stone to Thanos in return for the destruction of Xandar, he can keep the stone, destroy Xandar on his own, and then take down Thanos for good measure.
• It's All About Me: He personally hates Xandarians so he sees himself as justified in annihilating the entire race. Further considerations don't really enter into his reasoning. In fact, he's willing to kill off his own people as collateral. The reveal in The Marvels that the Kree Empire had all but collapsed by that point only emphasises Ronan's selfishness; rather than help his people rebuild their ruined homeworld, he embarked on a personal crusade and sneered that (what was left of) his government was shameless for forsaking a war that they couldn't possibly sustain.
• It's Personal: While he shares his people's hate and distrust for the Skrulls, his hatred for Xandar is deeply personal.
• Jerkass: In addition to being a genocidal murderer, Ronan is also just an asshole as seen by his taunting of Drax and his blunt, abrasive demeanor with everyone else. It's clear that Thanos doesn't like him on a personal level and wouldn't work with him if he could avoid it. Captain Marvel shows this isn't a new trend; Ronan has no qualms about laying waste to an entire planet that, as far as he knows, has several loyal Kree still on it, and he departs without a hint of concern for the fates of his erstwhile comrades.
• Judge, Jury, and Executioner: Ronan is an extremely ruthless, tyrannical ex-Accuser of the Kree Empire, willing to kill Xandarians because they are a disease to his people.
• The Juggernaut: He stood up to a beating from Drax with barely a twitch and withstood a missile launch, being rammed with the Milano, and the crash of the Dark Aster without any more than his armor getting burnt. In the end, it takes an Infinity Stone (a weapon that, keep in mind, Ronan was going to use to wipe out a planet) to kill Ronan.
• Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: Captain Marvel shows that while he was always a violent and bigoted nationalist, he was much more reasonable and a lot of his cruelty was more him following standard procedure than wanton sadism. By the time of Guardians of the Galaxy, he's a frothing, genocidal monster who kills for the sheer joy of it and his loyalty to the Kree has degenerated into mindless fanaticism.
• Karmic Death: Ronan sought to burn Xandar with the Power Stone. Moments later, he's killed with the exact amount of overwhelming power he wanted to bring in Xandar.
• Kick the Dog: Ronan is a rather cruel being, to say the least.
  • He orders that the Kyln be "cleansed" so that the Nova Corps would be unable to discover his search for the Orb.
  • His comment towards Drax after defeating him on Knowhere.
    Ronan: I don't recall killing your family. I doubt I'll remember killing you, either.
  • While choking Drax on the bridge of the Dark Aster, he has another one.
    Ronan: I was mistaken; I do remember your family. Their screams were pitiful.
• Knight Templar: Ronan views himself as being in judgment of the Xandarians and all who oppose him. To Ronan, destroying Xandar, murdering everyone on the planet, and obliterating the Xandarian culture isn't genocide, it's curing a disease.
• Know When to Fold 'Em:
  • In Captain Marvel, after Carol Danvers tears one of his ships to pieces, Ronan wisely orders his remaining ships to return to Kree space, although he's clearly taken an interest in Carol.
  • In Guardians of the Galaxy, Ronan heeds Nebula's advice of not further anger Thanos after killing the Other and his initial failure of retrieving the Orb. Averted once he actually gets his hands on it, where Ronan promptly gets Drunk on the Dark Side and threatens to destroy Thanos and his army, even while Korath is desperately begging him not to do so.
• Lack of Empathy: Even by Kree standards, he's brutal towards others, Kree included. As an Accuser, he treated carpet-bombing civilizations as just a day at the office, and once he went rogue, he wrote off his own government as shameless for abandoning a war the Kree's ruined economy couldn't sustain, he callously informed Drax that he didn't even remember killing his family and mockingly doubted he'd remember killing Drax either.
• Large and in Charge: He's played by 6'4" Lee Pace and is the main villain of the first Guardians of the Galaxy film.
• Large Ham: An enormous one, to Asgardian levels. To quote Lee Pace's description of his own performance:
  Lee Pace: I kept looking over at James Gunn saying, "Is it too much? Am I over the top? Pull me back whenever you're ready!" and he was just like, "More, more!"
• Lightning Bruiser: As a Kree, Ronan is fast enough to dodge Drax's attacks and tank the latter's hits before turning the table on the warrior.
• Marquee Alter Ego: Unlike the comic, this Ronan wears traditional warpaint in Guardians of the Galaxy instead of a mask. Even when he was the Grand Accuser, his uniform lacks a mask.
• Mirror Character: To Loki. Both of them are members of a blue-skinned race who end up becoming The Heavy to Thanos while answering to The Other, use a weapon embedded with an Infinity Stone in their respective campaigns, as well as having a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits as their primary oppositions. Despite their mutual fear of Thanos, Loki showed no signs of attempting to betray Thanos and he ended up surviving his fight against the Avengers. Ronan, however, chooses to turn his back on his overlord and ended up getting killed by the Guardians of the Galaxy. Also, while Loki simply wanted conquer the Earth due to his outstanding belief that he deserved a world to rule over, Ronan is an Omnicidal Maniac who wants to destroy Xandar because of his racist hatred towards the planet's species.
• Moral Myopia: Ronan wants to destroy Xandar to avenge the deaths of his father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and further ancestors who died fighting the Xandarians. When he pays any thought to the countless innocents he slaughtered including Drax's family, Ronan's proud of his good work.
• Moral Sociopathy: Ronan sincerely believes half of the things he does genuinely are what Kree law dictates.
• Motive Rant: He delivers one to a captive Nova officer, during his Establishing Character Moment.
  Ronan: They call me terrorist. Radical. Zealot. Because I obey the ancient laws of my people, the Kree, and punish those who do not. Because I do not forgive your people for taking the life of my father, and his father, and his father before him. A thousand years of war between us will not be forgotten!
  Nova officer: You can't do this! Our governments signed a peace treaty!
  Ronan: My government knows no shame. You Xandarians and your culture are a disease.
  Nova officer: You will never rule Xandar.
  Ronan: No… I WILL CURE IT!
• Movie Superheroes Wear Black: Super Villain in this case but the fact remains that his outfit in Guardians of the Galaxy is black as opposed to the traditional green from the comics. Even his previous green uniform in Captain Marvel is pretty muted in color.
• Naked on Arrival: Ronan is first introduced this way because he was bathing in the blood of Xandarians.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: He is Ronan the Accuser, and the mention of his name brings fear to Xandarians.
• Near-Villain Victory: The mission to stop him is actually a failure. Thousands of Nova Corps men and ships are lost, the Dark Aster makes planetfall (albeit on a one-way trip) and causes catastrophic damage both by itself and the ships that plowed into the city before it landed, and Ronan stands with his weapon at the ready to stab it to the ground and eliminate all organic life on the entire planet. The only thing that impedes him is his own Evil Gloating and Quill coming up with a last-ditch distraction that gives Rocket enough time to jury-rig a weapon to destroy his warhammer.
• Neck Lift: Easily lifts Drax (who's massive) by the throat with one hand.
• Never My Fault: Ronan refuses to take any responsibility for losing the Orb to Gamora when he's summoned to appear before Thanos. The Other lampshades this, though Ronan kills him after having enough of him.
• New Era Speech: Ronan starts a pretty hammy one in front of a fearful Xandarian crowd during the climax of the first Guardians of the Galaxy film. He gets interrupted by Quill challenging him to a dance-off.
• Nigh-Invulnerable: Getting punched repeatedly by Drax? Psssht. Getting shot with an improvised BFG? An annoyance. Getting hit by a small starship? A minor inconvenience. Going down with his own ship? A slightly bigger inconvenience. It takes the power of the Infinity Stone, which can destroy a planet, to put him down for good. Even then, it took a few seconds for the stone's power to destroy Ronan, which is a further testament to how tough the guy is; every other victim of the stone, except Quill, was disintegrated almost instantly.
• No-Sell: Exactly one of Drax's blows makes Ronan react. Everything else just doesn't faze him. He then goes on to take a missile to the chest and walks away with dented armor, is rammed by a starship and knocked out for only a minute, and survives his own starship crash-landing with no protection. It takes a concerted discharge from the Infinity Stone to finally destroy him.
• No True Scotsman: Ronan is sickened that his government would sign a peace treaty with Xandar, proudly proclaiming that unlike them, he follows the ancient laws of the Kree and punishes those who don't.
  Ronan: My government knows no shame. You Xandarians and your culture are a disease.
• Not So Similar: Most of the galaxy sees Thanos and Ronan as interchangeable with the exception of Thanos being more powerful. However, while Ronan conquers for revenge, glory, and out of hatred, Thanos sees his actions as Necessarily Evil to ensure stability in the galaxy. However, Endgame reveals that despite Thanos explicitly stating that Ronan's obsession clouds his judgment, both of them might not be too different after all.
• Not So Stoic: Ronan is genuinely baffled when Quill challenges him to a dance-off. His reaction is the only four words in the entire Guardians of the Galaxy that he delivers non-hammily, though he quickly recovers.
  Ronan: What are you doing? ...What are you doing?!?
• Obliviously Evil: Unlike most MCU villains, he believes himself to be the most righteous person in this story, but really, he's a genocidal tyrant, an oppressor who can't look at himself in the mirror.
• Obviously Evil: The black armor, intimidating presence, theatrical brutality, and references to "cleansing" his enemies? Yeah, Ronan's pretty bad.
• Offing the Annoyance: When he got tired of being castigated by the Other instead of being answered by Thanos, Ronan casually snapped the Other's neck to end the emissary's ranting.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • After seeing Captain Marvel tear through his bombs like they were nothing, a visibly horrified Ronan was quick to call for his forces to retreat.
  • This is the reaction Ronan has upon witnessing that the Guardians are able to harness the volatile energy of the Power Stone together.
• Omnicidal Maniac: Ronan's pact with Thanos centers around the Mad Titan destroying Xandar for the Kree renegade. Once he gets his hands on the Power Stone, Ronan's more than happy to do the deed himself. Avengers: Infinity War implicitly confirms that Ronan took part in at least one Thanos's planetary cullings during his service to the Mad Titan; it's explicitly mentioned that Drax's homeworld was decimated by Thanos's forces, and it had already been established that Ronan personally murdered Drax's wife and daughter.
• Psycho for Hire: He was clearly enjoying his task to kill half the populations of many planets under Thanos (Drax even said he laughed when killing his wife and daughter) even though he was ordered by Thanos to do so.
• Psychopathic Manchild: According to Thanos, Ronan has the demeanor of a "pouty child", and he even takes offense to it in a rather childish way. ("YOU CALL ME BOY!") Too bad he has also a hellish lust for revenge against an entire planet and kills people wherever he goes.
• Rank Scales with Asskicking: He's the unquestioned leader of his faction and also the most powerful.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: His black armor features red markings.
• Religion of Evil: It's not fleshed out very much, but Ronan's comments imply that he adheres to a pretty brutal belief system (at the climax, he demands that the Xandarians renounce their "paltry gods" and that his impending genocide is their "salvation").
• The Remnant: He's a remnant of the the Kree regime once headed by the Supreme Intelligence, having lost both its leader and homeworld in a civil war caused by Carol Danvers. Without the Empire's backing, Ronan has to rely on Sakaaran mercenaries and Thanos's resources to carry out his crusade.
• Revenge Before Reason: The Marvels reveals that, following the demise of the Supreme Intelligence, the Kree Empire fell into a civil war that devastated Hala and broke their power, leaving them unable to sustain their past wars of expansion. Despite this, Ronan evidently expected their conflict with Xandar and the Nova Empire to continue regardless, and when it didn't, he forsook his own people and set off on a genocidal crusade.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Ronan hates Xandar and its people after what they did to his people, his father, his grandfather, and his great-grandfather. When the Kree Empire decides to make peace with the Nova Empire, he becomes a renegade and starts to kill every Xandarian he can find along with those who stand in his way.
• Rogue Agent: Ronan deserted after the Kree Empire signed the peace treaty with the Nova Corps, and they consider him a terrorist. But given that much of the Kree population also opposes the peace treaty, they're at least hesitant to openly condemn his galaxy-wide rampage. It's implied that some of the Kree government actually agrees with him. Then again, Captain Marvel shows most Kree actually don’t like him, especially because he indiscriminately carpet bombs planets. He becomes one to Thanos as well. The Marvels reveals the Kree Empire fell into a state of civil war, meaning Ronan’s faction was only one out of several.
• Sadist: He has no problem with committing genocidal destruction. Drax also comments that Ronan laughed as he murdered Drax's family, and Ronan's frequent Evil Gloating thoroughly demonstrates the pleasure he takes in his genocidal campaign.
• Sanity Slippage: While still a genocidal sociopath, Captain Marvel depicts him as being calmer and more collected than the deranged psychopath in Guardians of the Galaxy, but still a complete, callous jerkass to his Kree subordinates.
• Saved by Canon: His appearance in Captain Marvel takes place about two decades before his original appearance in Guardians of the Galaxy, so he obviously has to survive the former.
• Slasher Smile: He sports a wide one when he sees Quill being overwhelmed by the Infinity Stone's power. It disappears quickly when the other Guardians join Quill and they use its power to destroy Ronan.
• The Sociopath: While he's hinted to have cared for his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, his actions clearly show his status as a low-functioning sociopath. Killing families is forgettable for him, he bathes in Xandarian blood regularly, and will Kick the Dog just because. Back in the day, he was more calm and rational about it, but he still had no qualms about bombing the hell out of innocent people in the name of Kree imperialism, even if Kree soldiers are caught in the crossfire.
• Sociopathic Soldier: Ronan was just as much of a monster in service to the Kree as he is while working for Thanos, leading his fellow Accusers in bombing planets back to the Stone Age. The only difference is that in those days, he had the backing of his government. Once he forsook his loyalty to the Empire, he set off on a galaxy-wide rampage.
• Socketed Equipment: As he obtains the Infinity Stone inside the Orb, he is able to insert it into his warhammer, allowing it to amplify his powers.
• The Starscream: Betrays Thanos after he finds out what the Orb actually is.
• The Stoic: Ronan is generally completely serious and straight-faced. Doesn't stop him from being an incredibly Large Ham, though.
• Still Wearing the Old Colors: Even after he abandoned his loyalty to the Kree Empire, Ronan continued to wear his uniform (albeit changing the green color scheme to a black and red one) and refer to himself as an Accuser.
• Strong and Skilled: Not only is he incredibly strong, but he has the fighting skills to make good use of his incredible strength. His fight with Drax pretty much consists of Ronan effortlessly countering and dodging his attacks and ending the fight with a one-handed body slam.
• Suddenly Shouting: Not as much as Rocket, but he has his moments.
  Nova officer: You will never rule Xandar.
  Ronan: No… I WILL CURE IT! [smashes the Nova officer's skull with the Cosmi-Rod]
• Super-Strength: Even before getting the Power Stone, he tosses Drax about like a ragdoll.
• Super-Toughness: Aforementioned nigh-invulnerability aside, Ronan managed the impressive feat of keeping hold of the Power Stone long enough to imbed it in his warhammer without killing himself in the process.
• Tautological Templar: As far as he's concerned, he's acting "For the Good of the Kree" and so anything he does, no matter how horrible it is, is justified by default. Even if it means disregarding the Kree's peace treaty, and directly assaulting Xandar.
• Team Killer: Ronan kills the Other for annoying him during their argument.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: He and Thanos don't get along at all. In the two conversations they have on screen, both feature Thanos making violent death threats and Ronan openly expressing his distaste for the Mad Titan. The only reason they're working together at all is because Ronan depends on Thanos's backing for his army and Thanos relies on Ronan finding the Orb for him. In the end, Ronan betrays and announces his intention to kill Thanos as soon as he has the Power Stone.
• This Cannot Be!: Ronan is in shock when he sees the Guardians harnessing the Infinity Stone's power.
  Ronan: [horrified] You're mortal! HOW?!
• This Means Warpaint: He applies this in his very first scene in Guardians of the Galaxy just before starting his private war against the Xandarians.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Ronan was brutal, heartless, and had no qualms with wiping out innocent lives while he served the Kree Empire, but in those days, he was much calmer and more reasonable, as well as loyal to the Empire. By the time Ronan started working for Thanos, sometime after Hala was unable to support life following a devastating civil war, he became a rabid fanatic with no loyalty to his own fallen government or his new employer.
• Touch of Death: After he obtains the Orb, he can disintegrate objects by touching them with his warhammer.
• The Unfettered: Ronan will go to any lengths to see Xandar destroyed, and he's very single-minded in his pursuit. He's willing to abandon his own government, throw in with Thanos, kill scores of people to keep his mission a secret, betray the most powerful being in the universe, and order his troops to make kamikaze runs, all for the sake of wiping out the Xandarian people.
• The Unfought: In Captain Marvel, the closest Ronan comes to confronting the title character is staring her down from the observation deck of his warship, before choosing to flee.
• Unknown Rival: His attitude to Drax. Drax calls him out and makes a big dramatic You Killed My Father declaration to him... and Ronan turns and walks away, completely uninterested in fighting him. One Curb-Stomp Battle later that has Ronan only putting a minimum amount of effort into, he flatly makes it clear to Drax that he has no idea who the hell he is, doesn't remember killing his family and still won't remember any of them after he's done with him too.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: By threatening and betraying Thanos, he forced the Mad Titan's hand; Thanos no longer sees it fit to trust his own thralls, causing him to go on a bloodthirsty campaign for the Infinity Stones as shown in the post-credits ending of Avengers: Age of Ultron. While the confrontation with Thanos is inevitable, Ronan's actions only sped up the impending threat the Avengers would face in Infinity War.
• Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: Guardians of the Galaxy is light-hearted and fun even by the standards of Marvel films, but whenever Ronan takes the screen the tone shifts dramatically to that of dread and foreboding. His Establishing Character Moment when he literally bathes in the blood of a Xandarian soldier whose skull he crushed shows how great Ronan stands out in an otherwise light-hearted and optimistic film. Guardians of the Galaxy even manages to invoke this against him; when Quill distracts Ronan with an out-of-nowhere "dance-off", Ronan is totally lost and unable to comprehend the goofy antics the Guardians have thrived off up to now, a vulnerability that ultimately lets them destroy him.
• Villain Ball: He never uses the Touch of Death ability, preferring instead to non-lethally blast his opponents several feet away for purposes of gloating.
• Villain: Exit, Stage Left: During the climax of Captain Marvel (2019), Ronan sees Carol destroy all of his missiles, the fighters deployed to kill her, and one of the big ships. Then as she's prepared to attack Ronan's ship too, he orders a retreat but hopes to come back for her someday.
• Villain Has a Point: During his audience with Thanos, Ronan correctly points out that it was Gamora, not him, who caused the Orb to fall into the hands of the Nova Empire, and their intel has confirmed she meant to betray them the whole time. Yet the Mad Titan summons him and is trying to scapegoat the Accuser.
• Villain Takes an Interest: At the end of Captain Marvel after Ronan witnesses the full power at Carol Danvers' fingertips he orders his men to retreat but notes that he will be back for the weapon. When one of his men asks if he is referring to the power source they came to Earth for, itself an Infinity Stone, Ronan clarifies that he meant Carol Danvers herself.
• Villain with Good Publicity: Despite being a genocidal terrorist, Ronan was popular amongst his people (at least the "purist" Kree). Unsurprising, considering who the Kree are. After Ronan's death, the Guardians are declared criminals by the Kree Empire for killing him. However, this does not mean every Kree liked him, as shown when Yon-Rogg in Captain Marvel, showed his disapproval in his carpet bombing tendencies.
• Vocal Evolution: A retroactive example; in Guardians of the Galaxy, Ronan spoke in a very deep, theatrical voice that became savagely guttural when he emoted, while Captain Marvel (set around 20 years prior to Guardians), he spoke in a softer, calmer tone that didn't have the bombastic quality of his first appearance.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: The 2014 versions of Ronan and Korath notably don't appear among the rest of Thanos's forces at the end of Endgame, making it unclear what happened to them. However, Ronan does get a mention by Thanos.
• The Worf Effect: What better way to establish how much of a physical threat Ronan is by defeating Drax, The Big Guy of the Guardians, without breaking a sweat and not being affected by any of his blows.
• Would Hit a Girl: He personally murdered Drax's wife and daughter.
• Would Hurt a Child: He personally murdered Drax's daughter and laughed about it, and it's unlikely that the children of Xandar were going to be spared from his intended genocide. Nova Prime explicitly states that Ronan has been murdering children during his galaxy-wide rampage against the Nova Empire.
• Would You Like to Hear How They Died?: When he finally remembers Drax's family, he starts to gloat to Drax about his family's death. He doesn't finish due to Rocket's ship crashing into him.
• You Have Failed Me: During his communication with Yon-Rogg, he's not happy with his failure to retrieve Carol and letting the Skrulls get away. His passive-aggressive language makes it clear that if he fails, it will not end well for him.
• You Killed My Father: His father, grandfather, and great-grandfather were killed during the Kree/Xandarian Wars, which motivates him to try and kill every living being on Xandar. Considering his people were the aggressors in all their wars, they likely brought it on themselves.

Dar-Benn

Supremor Dar-Benn

Species: Kree

Portrayed By: Zawe Ashton

Appearances: The Marvels

An Accuser and former Starforce member with a personal vendetta against Carol Danvers.

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• Ambiguous Situation: Dar-Benn is leading the Kree (or at least a sizable faction of them) by the mid-2020s, but it's unclear when she took power, and whether or not she could be the unnamed "Kree Emperor" who sanctioned the Kree's treaty with the Nova Empire, or if said Emperor was overthrown by her after Guardians of The Galaxy.
• Baritone of Strength: Dar-Benn has a very low voice, and is a powerful and ruthless villainess.
• Big Bad: She is the main threat throughout the film and the one who caused Carol, Kamala, and Monica's predicament by tangling their powers with the Quantum Bands.
• Carry a Big Stick: She wields a Universal Weapon, like Ronan, using its power to charge up the Quantum Band so she can open jump points. She's also able to redirect any energy she's absorbed into it, augmenting the power of its strikes.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: To Yon-Rogg and Ronan, all three being high-ranking Kree officers who are committed to extreme measures for their homeworld.
  • Dar-Benn and Yon-Rogg both serve as Carol Danvers' personal nemesis. But the reasons are reversed: Yon-Rogg took Carol from her home and brainwashed her into being a Kree soldier, while Dar-Benn lost her home when Carol's actions caused the Kree civil war that devastated her homeworld to the point that it could no longer support life.
  • Dar-Benn and Ronan are both Accusers that utilize a Universal Weapon augmented by powerful relics, the Power Stone for Ronan and one of the Quantum Bands for Dar-Benn. But Ronan respects Carol as one warrior to another while Dar-Benn outright hates her for ruining Hala.
• The Emperor: Following the demise of the Supreme Intelligence and the subsequent civil war, Dar-Benn assumed leadership of what remained of the Kree Empire, leading their efforts to restore their ruined homeworld.
• Energy Absorption: With the power of the Quantum Band she can absorb the energy of the Marvels' strikes and become a stronger opponent.
• Entitled Bitch: Her "peace talk" with the Skrulls is that she expects them to grovel and agree to abandon their refugee world to her, along with her theft of the planets' resources, only demonstrate that she feels that everyone and everything revolves around what she wants, innocent lives be damned. The fact that she would rather enact petty vengeance on Carol after she offered a more benevolent solution to restoring Hala's sun only shows how entitled she really is.
• Fantastic Racism: While she seemed willing to sit down and negotiate with the Skrulls, Dar-Benn quickly reveals that she holds them in as much contempt as any other nationalist Kree does, failing to show Emperor Dro'ge the same respect she demands from him, and when her true intentions are revealed, she gladly ruins the refugees' homeworld to both benefit Hala and spite Carol.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: When Carol destroyed the Supreme Intelligence, Dar-Benn was just another soldier she swatted aside without a second look. By the mid-2020s, she's become leader of what's left of Kree society and a major threat to the universe.
• Gender Flip: The Dar-Benn of the comics was a male general, here the character is instead portrayed by the female Zawe Ashton.
• Human Aliens: Dar-Benn is another example of the Kree bearing a human-like skin tone (black in this case) rather than the blues they normally sport.
• Hypocrite:
  • During her peace talks with Skrull Emperor Dro'ge, Dar-Benn insists on being addressed by her title of Supremor, but doesn't pay Dro'ge the same courtesy.
  • As much as Dar-Benn preaches about doing all she does for Hala and how absolutely nothing is too much for Hala, Dar-Benn herself is perfectly willing to actively endanger it both by betraying Carol after she offered to restore Hala's sun to atone for her mistake, and then by using both Quantum Bands to tear open a hole in reality that threatens the entire universe, just so she can kill Carol, despite being told how much danger she's putting her own people in by doing so.
• Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds: Dar-Benn's use of the Quantum Band to enable her theft of other worlds' resources destabilizes the jump point network, threatening to tear a whole in the space-time continuum. While she's not trying to tear the universe a new one, Dar-Benn's concern for the damage she causes begins and ends with Hala, and even that comes second to her personal revenge on Carol. However, it's ultimately Subverted just before her death, as Carol explicitly tells Dar-Benn how much danger she's putting reality in including the Kree, and yet Dar-Benn just keeps going all for the sake of hurting Carol.
• Moral Myopia: To heal the damage that civil war inflicted on Hala, Dar-Benn is willing to condemn several other planets to the same fate.
• The Needs of the Many: When the possibility of her plans killing her comes up, Dar-Benn insists that if she has to die for her people, then die she will. As it happens, she is willing to die, but more to spite Captain Marvel than anything else.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: She seeks Hala's restoration using the power of the Quantum Band. But this requires her to steal what she needs to restore her world from other planets, having no issue with it as she saved Earth's sun for last. She's also deliberately picking planets she knows Carol has a personal connection to, even though there are plenty of other options that won't allow Carol to guess where she's going, showing that It's Personal and not just about her planet. And she turns down the chance for Carol to peacefully restart Hala's sun, even though that would've been a lot easier than what she tried to do. At the same time, she is willing to die to achieve her goals, which shows she does have a strong belief in the righteousness of her objectives. Her motivations are real, but tainted by her Kree chauvinism and desire for vengeance.
• Posthumous Villain Victory: Despite being destroyed by the Quantum Bands, Dar-Benn had already restored Hala's atmosphere and oceans by siphoning them off from the planets inhabited by people that Carol cares about. Even though her attempt to siphon the Earth's sun was thwarted, Hala's sun was still restored via Carol using her powers in its core as atonement for being "The Annihilator", thus saving the Kree people from extinction just as she promised to them.
• Psychological Projection: As she prepares to steal oxygen from Tarnax, Dar-Benn insists that the Skrulls treat the Kree like vermin, clearly projecting her own racism onto them to try and justify her actions.
• Revenge: Dar-Benn's motivation. She holds Carol responsible for the death of the Supreme Intelligence, the ensuing Kree Civil War, and the devastation of Hala.
• Revenge Before Reason: Dar-Benn could very easily have used the Quantum Band she had acquired to open jump points to uninhabited worlds to restore Hala, or at least picked worlds that Carol has no specific attachments to. Instead, she deliberately targets worlds and people that Carol holds dear just to make her suffer. Worse still, Dar-Benn is willing to render said efforts completely meaningless by using the Quantum Bands to rip a hole in reality that endangers the entire universe, immediately after she betrayed Carol when the latter promised to reignite the Kree sun, for no other reason than so Dar-Benn specifically could have her revenge on Carol.
• Sanity Slippage: Her mental state, while already filled with Kree xenophobia and supremacism, begins to rapidly decay after she gets her hands on the Quantum Band. By the time of the final battle between her and the Marvels, Dar-Benn has been so consumed by hate for Carol that she's willing to throw away all the work she did and knowingly endanger the Kree by opening up a tear in reality that threatens the entire universe, all so she can kill Carol.
• Self-Disposing Villain: When she opts to prioritize revenge on Carol rather than let her re-ignite Hala's sun, her attempt to finish siphoning the energy of Earth's sun with the power of both Quantum Bands ends up being too much for her body to handle.
• Tragic Villain: Her goal of restoring Hala and saving her people from extinction is a heroic one, but she lets her hatred of Carol drive her down a path of self-destruction. Even when Carol promises to reignite Hala's sun with her cosmic powers as atonement for her sins, Dar-Benn still wants Carol dead and abandons her goal of saving Hala for a chance to kill the Marvels, which ultimately leads to her demise.
• Would Hurt a Child: After feigning surrender during the climax, Dar-Benn pins Kamala to the floor and threatens to kill her if Carol and Monica don't back off.

Other Kree Empire Officials and Agents

The Kree Ambassador

The Kree Ambassador

"We signed your peace treaty, Nova Prime. What more do you want?"

Species: Kree

Portrayed By: Tomas Arana

Appearances: Guardians of the Galaxy

The imperial representative responsible for the diplomatic affairs between the Kree Empire and Xandar.

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• Amazing Technicolor Population: He is a blue-skinned Kree.
• "Ass" in Ambassador: He is an absolute prick to Nova Prime when she asks him to do something about Ronan's rampage. He declines to so much as consider condemning Ronan's actions, brushing off Nova Prime's outrage at Ronan's murder of innocent people.
• Bystander Syndrome: Essentially his attitude towards Ronan's genocidal anti-Xandar crusade; the Empire signed the treaty with Xandar, thus ending the war, so why should they care if one of their officers didn't bother to stop fighting? He even goes so far as to say that Ronan's destruction of Xandarian outposts is "your problem", passing the buck on to the Nova Corps to deal with the Rogue Agent that the Kree couldn't keep in line.
• Lack of Empathy: The ambassador totally ignores Ronan's war crimes against Xandar, even with Nova Prime all but demanding a response from the Kree government.
• Tribal Facepaint: Although not to the extent of Ronan's This Means Warpaint design, he also bears some black face paint during his conversation with Nova Prime.

G.H.

G.H.

Species: Kree

Portrayed By: Brandon Kolpack

Appearances: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (first appears in Episode 14: "T.A.H.I.T.I.")

The G.H. or Guest Host is a codename for a Kree whose corpse was used by Project T.A.H.I.T.I. to synthesize drugs from his bodily fluids for the purpose of bringing people back to life, particularly fallen Avengers. His corpse was discovered by HYDRA led by General Werner Reinhardt in 1945, and confiscated by S.S.R. when the Allies won World War II. The corpse eventually came into possession of S.H.I.E.L.D. to be used for Project T.A.H.I.T.I.

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• Amazing Technicolor Population: He is a blue-skinned Kree.
• Ancient Astronauts: His corpse is revealed to have been thousands of years old when discovered.
• Body Horror: Besides the fact that his lower body is missing, we can see some parts of his intestines / internal organs◊.
• Genetic Memory: Simmons theorizes that the last thing this alien was thinking of before he died was (as they later discover) the unknown city and that people injected with the material taken from the body have fragments of that memory in the form of the city's layout.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: He lost the lower half of his body.
• Human Resources: The G.H. serum is extracted from his mangled body.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: His real name is unknown. "G.H." is his Code Name for Project T.A.H.I.T.I., short for "Guest Host".
• Posthumous Character: He's been dead for millennia. His corpse even pre-dated the Pyramids of Giza, according to Dr. Goodman.

Vin-Tak

Vin-Tak

Species: Kree

Portrayed By: Eddie McClintock

Voiced By: Carlo Vázquez (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Disney dub), Rubén Trujillo (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Sony dub) (Latin-American Spanish dub)

Appearances: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (first appears in Episode 34: "Who You Really Are")

A Kree who comes to Earth to investigate Inhuman activity.

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• Anti-Villain: He's only on Earth to actually cover-up the activity of Inhumans since he rightfully views the Kree's past atrocities in creating them as an despicable period in his people's history, and he sincerely wants to prevent them or humanity being bloodily conquered by his own people.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Bobbi induces memory loss on Vin-Tak with his own truncheon.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: His truncheon can induce amnesia in anyone he hits with it. He can also reverse the effect in the same manner.
• Old Shame: invoked He regards the Inhuman experiments on Earth as a dark and shameful period in Kree history, and one he wants to make sure stays history.
• Rubber-Forehead Alien: The main distinction between him and a human is blue skin and mild forehead ridges.
• Skin-Tone Disguise: Vin-Tak uses special tech to cover up his blue skin and make himself look like an ordinary human.
• Smug Super: Every time he fights a human, there's this undercurrent of disbelief that such a puny being thinks they can stop him.
• Super-Strength: As a Kree, his body has more strength than people of Earth. He was able to throw Lady Sif away for some considerable measure with a single hit.
• Super-Toughness: Being blown away by the destroyer gun only disorients him.
• Token Heroic Orc: As of Phase Three, he's one of only two Kree to make an appearance in the MCU who can be considered heroic. He's not as violent as the others and he only wanted to kill Skye because he sincerely believed that she was too dangerous to let live.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: He only came to Earth to make sure the other Kree wouldn't find out about the Diviner being activated and decide to restart their weapons program. Then, in the end, he only wants to kill Skye because he sincerely believes she's a threat.

Mar-Vell

Mar-Vell / Dr. Wendy Lawson

Species: Kree

Portrayed By: Annette Bening

Voiced By: Maru Guzmán (Latín American Spanish dub), Yoshiko Sakakibara (Japanese dub)

Appearances: Captain Marvel

A Kree scientist who disguises herself as a high-ranking figure in Project Pegasus, who becomes a mentor to Carol Danvers.

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• Adaptational Intelligence: The comic version of Mar-Vell certainly wasn't an idiot, but this version of the character was a brilliant scientist even among a race of technologically-advanced Galactic Conquerors. In the backstory of Captain Marvel, when she was restricted to using the considerably-less advanced technology of Earth, she was still able to derive an incredibly advanced form of Faster-Than-Light Travel through examining the Tesseract/Space Stone, to the point where it could quickly travel through space without being restricted to the Portal Network used elsewhere for FTL in the MCU.
• Adaptational Wimp: She has none of her comics counterpart's superpowers and strength, having been taken out by a laser blast that Captain Mar-Vell could have shrugged off.
• Adaptation Name Change: Due to the Gender Flip, Mar-Vell's Earth alias is named "Wendy", not "Walter".
• Age Lift: This version of the character is much older than her counterpart in the comics.
• Alien Arts Are Appreciated: If her choice of name for Goose is anything to go by, Mar-Vell is apparently a fan of Top Gun.
• The Atoner: After a life of taking part in the Kree war machine and prosecuting the war of genocide against the Skrulls, she seeks a way to put the surviving Skrull refugees beyond the reach of her former comrades.
• Composite Character: A blond female Kree who is a scientist instead of a warrior, and who is tragically killed by Yon-Rogg? This better describes Mar-Vell's Token Romance Una from the original Captain Marvel's origin story rather than comic Mar-vell himself.
• Deadpan Snarker: When a baffled Carol points out that her blood is blue, Mar-Vell responds with a dry "Yeah, but how's my hair?".
• Death by Origin Story: Unlike in the comics, Mar-Vell doesn't survive the explosion that gives Carol her powers.
• Defector from Decadence: She abandoned the Kree in order to research and develop an advanced FTL engine so refugees from the Kree's cosmic conquest could escape to where the empire could never find them.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: Mar-Vell's death via cancer is one of the most well-known deaths in Marvel Comics. Here, she's instead shot by Yon-Rogg.
• Foreshadowing: After it's established that the Supreme Intelligence takes the form of an important figure in a person's life, Carol sees her as an older woman wearing a Kree military uniform, but her identity is never revealed. She's later identified as "Dr. Wendy Lawson", which is a name keen Marvel Comics fans would recognize...
• Fluffy Tamer: Who would even keep a highly dangerous alien cat as a pet? Well, she would.
• Gender Flip: Mar-Vell is a man in the comics, but a woman here.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Just like the comics version, whose silver hair turned golden when he attained enlightenment, the selfless and heroic Mar-Vell has blonde hair. This puts her in direct contrast with the A.I. avatar used by the Supreme Intelligence, which still has silver hair.
• Human Aliens: She is a Kree, but looks indistinguishable from a normal Caucasian human (apart from having the standard blue-colored blood of a Kree). Whether this is her natural appearance (making her a Pink Kree, like Yon-Rogg) or she's a blue Kree using their nitrogen-based disguise is never revealed.
• Kindhearted Cat Lover: A flashback shows that she's Goose's original owner and she's indeed the most kindhearted Kree we've ever seen in the MCU.
• My Species Doth Protest Too Much: She eventually realized that the Kree's war against the Skrulls was an unjust persecution and began the process of rescuing them, trying to find a way to warp them outside the Kree's FTL jump network so they can't be followed. Unfortunately, her treachery was discovered and she was killed for it.
• Secret Identity: She hides on Earth under the identity of Dr. Wendy Lawson, a US military and S.H.I.E.L.D.-associated scientist. In the comics, she went by Walter Lawson.
• Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer: Subverted. While Annette Bening was advertised to be playing the Supreme Intelligence and even got her own character poster, there was nary a peep about her also playing Mar-Vell, or that the character was even in the movie to begin with.
• Token Heroic Orc: One of only two Kree featured in the MCU who isn't a complete asshole and has the best interest of non-Kree in mind.
• Walking Spoiler: It's pretty much impossible to discuss Mar-Vell in Captain Marvel without spoiling major plot points, namely that she's in it, or that she's a woman in the adaptation.

Soh-Larr

Soh-Larr

Species: Kree

Portrayed By: Chuku Modu

Appearances: Captain Marvel

A Kree scout.

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• Impersonation-Exclusive Character: He's dead by the time he makes his on-screen appearance, being impersonated by Talos.
• Kill and Replace: He's killed and impersonated by Talos to lure Starforce into a trap.
• Posthumous Character: He solely appears in the film as a disguise employed by Talos, as the real Soh-Larr is already dead.

Other Kree Groups

The Exolon Monks

Exolon Monks

Species: Exolon

Affiliation(s): Ronan

Appearances: Guardians of the Galaxy

Monks of the Exolon race that serve Ronan aboard the Dark Aster as attendants and pilots.

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• All There in the Manual: They are named only in the Guidebook to the Marvel Cinematic Universe - Guardians of the Galaxy.
• Character Death: The ones on the Dark Aster are killed when Rocket crashes an M-Ship into the bridge.
• In the Hood: They wear black robes similar to those worn by Ronan himself.
• Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: They are alien pilot monks.

Kree Reapers

Kree Reapers

Species: Kree

Appearances: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (first appears in Episode 63: "Failed Experiments")

A pair of Kree scientists and warriors tasked with experimenting on humans and later with the destruction of Inhumans.

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• And Show It to You: Hive rips out the heart of one of the Reapers.
• Human Resources: Their blood is used to create the Absolution Virus, which turns baseline humans into Primitives.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: They had spent thousands of years in suspended animation inside a Kree satellite.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: "Reapers" indicates their murderous goal.
• Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: Alien scientist warriors and executioners.

House of Kasius

House of Kasius

• Taryan
• Faulnak
• Kasius

Kree Watch

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